
Acting
Lidiya Smirnova
Born 1915-02-13 · Tobolsk, Russian Empire [now Tyumen Oblast, Russia]
Acting credits
5.8A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.
The New Moscow
1938
7.5A story about police detectives working on reuniting children and parents who got separated by WWII. Based on Izrail Metter stories.
It Happened at the Police Station
1963
8.0The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Garmash using ideological diversions. In parallel, a story is told about student Rostislav Danchenko who is being recruited by enemy agents. The story is pertinent due to resurgence of ultra-nationalist underground activity in Western Ukraine after World War II.
It Can Not Be Forgotten
1954
NRFour soldiers of different nationalities serve in small garrison on the territory of post-war Germany.
The Last Fort
1972
NRAbout the district officer Fyodor Ivanovich Aniskin, who maintains order and legality in his native collective farm.
A Narym Divorce
1972
NRA cheerful mix-up takes place at a provincial hotel when a newspaper reporter is mistaken for a famous hypnotist.
A Fakir for an Hour
1972
8.0Two officers of the Red Army find themselves in a struggle against foreign intelligence agents.
Two Friends
1941
7.0Semyon Frolov returns to his native village of Krutye Gorki, as chairman of the Kolkhoz. The hero will have to sort out the embezzlement, convince and attract to his side the majority of proprietors, reconicle his feelings for Anna, whom he once loved, and give her the right to decide their future, when Anna's husband unexpectedly returns from prison.
Steep Slides
1956
4.9When Shura's sister dies, Shura starts taking care of her newly orphaned niece. Her fiancee, Grisha thinks the child may be Shura's own, and his suspicions estrange them. This leaves the way clear for a shy neighbor who has loved her from afar to gain points as a potential mate. Stenberg's design is simple and effective - a strongly-colored portrait of the pensive heroine at a table that provides space for the title and limited credits.
My Love
1940
7.6Children rebel against the strict rules and regulations they face during their time in a Communist Young Pioneer camp.
Welcome, or No Trespassing
1964
8.0This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during the Second World War.
A Great Life, Part 2
1946
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Life on a Sinful Earth
1973
6.6A good girl, Luda, under the patronage of her father, works in a trade mission and studies in absentia at the Faculty of Economics of a Siberian university.
The Journey Will Be Pleasant
1983
5.5Thirty years after war's end a man in Kazakhstan contacts an old Russian woman to say he is her long-lost son.
The Son's Return
1977
6.9A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.
Carnival
1981
About the fate of a former prisoner of war, who returns to his homeland, to the Soviet Union.
Nastenka Ustinova
1934
6.0Twenty years ago, Nastya Samokurova left the village in the city to seek happiness. Lived in the city, easy, easy life, engaged in speculation. And now she came to visit her sister Dasha, who continued to live in the collective farm and was universally respected.
Two Lives
1957
5.0Three soldiers make their way into a city occupied by the Nazis.
Native Shores
1943
6.8Screen adaptation of the novel by Yuri Bondarev. The demobilized Sergei Vokhmintsev returns to Moscow and enters the institute. Suddenly, according to the neighbor’s slanderous denunciation, his father is arrested — and Sergei, as the son of an “enemy of the people," is expelled from the party and institute. The guy goes to Kazakhstan, works at a construction site. He has many loyal friends and believes in justice...
Silence
1964
8.0A textile factory worker tries to breathe life into women's fashion.
It's Not Forbidden to Live Nicely
1982
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Разноцветные камешки
1960
6.8The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows soldiers leaving their village for the front; in their absence, the desolate but resolute young women of the village assume responsibility for the business of the farm
We Await Your Victorious Return
1941
9.0After the partisans Julia, Pavel and Sergei went out on a combat mission, the detachment was surrounded and destroyed by punishers. Years later, a document was discovered stating that one of the three was a traitor.
Three Came Out of the Woods
1958
6.8Moscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, sees his happiness in marrying a rich bride. Misha images in dreams and fantasies that he is a general or even a king — rich and domineering. In reality, poor Balzaminov is haunted by setbacks.
The Marriage of Balzaminov
1964