Lidiya Smirnova

Acting

Lidiya Smirnova

Born — Died

1915-02-13 — 2007-07-25

Place of birth

Tobolsk, Russian Empire [now Tyumen Oblast, Russia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

59 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 7 titles

Carnival poster
7.0

A 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

One Day of Mosfilm poster
NR

The film tells about the main stages of the history of the country's largest studio "Mosfilm", about the work of the creative team, introduces the viewer to the outstanding masters of Soviet cinematography, with such unique groups such as the Theater-Studio of Film Actors, with the workshops of the studio.

One Day of Mosfilm

1985

It's Not Forbidden to Live Nicely poster
8.0

A textile factory worker tries to breathe life into women's fashion.

It's Not Forbidden to Live Nicely

1982

Loan for a Marriage poster
4.7

The reason for serious reflection by the staff of one of the typical enterprises in the country was the lack of powder necessary for production and the money to purchase it. The employees came up with a reason to get money from the director’s fund. Having issued a loan for a fictitious marriage between the only man in the department and an unmarried employee, the team thereby organized a completely happy marriage...

Loan for a Marriage

1988

I Believe in Love poster
10.0

The film is a fantasy about how the destinies of Sergei and Varya Lukonin, a brave tanker and theater actress, could have turned out.

I Believe in Love

1987

The Journey Will Be Pleasant poster
6.6

A 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

No artwork available
9.0

Sergeant Nikolai Gorovoy returns to his native village after serving in the Army and, overcoming all sorts of difficulties, raises the collective farm amateur art organization to a proper height. His intentions, persistence and enviable patience were not in vain: when the TV group "Hello, we are looking for talents" came to the village, a bright musical spectacle unfolded in front of the TV cameras.

Calm is Cancelled

1983

1970s · 11 titles

The Last Fort poster
NR

Four soldiers of different nationalities serve in small garrison on the territory of post-war Germany.

The Last Fort

1972

Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram poster
5.0

The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on the feuilletons and notebooks of famous writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov…

Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram

1972

A Fakir for an Hour poster
NR

A 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

Life on a Sinful Earth poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Life on a Sinful Earth

1973

Aniskin and Fantomas poster
5.4

A second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.

Aniskin and Fantomas

1973

Foam poster
5.4

Makhonin buys dissertations from people who sell their knowledge and intellect, preparing candidate and doctoral dissertations for false scientists, because to defend themselves, you need connections, and they do not have them. Journalist Prosov exposes a group of adventurers from science.

Foam

1979

Rudin poster
6.1

In the house of Daria Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, former beauty and lioness of the capital, who even far from civilization still organizes her salon, a certain Baron, erudite and expert in philosophy, who promised to introduce his scientific research, is waiting. Instead of the expected celebrity arrives Dmitri Nikolaevich Rudin, whom the Baron instructed to deliver his article. Rudin charms everyone with his erudition, originality and logical thinking. Lasunskaya is determined to make the ornament of his salon. During the two months that Rudin spends at Lasunskaya's, he becomes indispensable to her. But Rudin's misfortune is that while he inflames others, he himself remains as cold as ice, never thinking that his words "may confuse and destroy a young heart".

Rudin

1977

Country House poster
5.5

Having saved money for a summer cottage and having chosen a suitable house, the couple of Petrovs decided without hesitation to enter into ownership rights. Right from the savings bank, the wife goes to the garden plot, and the husband has to pay the owners in Moscow. However, a thick bundle of money disappears from his pocket ...

Country House

1973

A Narym Divorce poster
NR

About the district officer Fyodor Ivanovich Aniskin, who maintains order and legality in his native collective farm.

A Narym Divorce

1972

Aniskin Again poster
5.3

Third and final part of the comedies about the funny adventures of countryside cop named Aniskin.

Aniskin Again

1977

The Son's Return poster
5.5

Thirty 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

1960s · 12 titles

Welcome, or No Trespassing poster
7.6

Children rebel against the strict rules and regulations they face during their time in a Communist Young Pioneer camp.

Welcome, or No Trespassing

1964

Silence poster
6.8

Screen 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

Uncle's Dream poster
5.7

An important event is taking place in a small provincial town, an elderly rich prince arrives. The local "lioness" Maria Alexandrovna Moskaleva decides to marry him to her daughter Zinochka. But the "noble" Mordassov society is by no means inclined to voluntarily give up its positions: after all, in the head of every mother who has a marriageable daughter, the dream is to get a rich man as a son-in-law.

Uncle's Dream

1967

Midshipman Panin poster
5.4

It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasily Panin, a junker of a school of naval engineers, is one of those entrusted with this dangerous task.

Midshipman Panin

1960

The Marriage of Balzaminov poster
6.8

Moscow, 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

It Happened at the Police Station poster
7.5

A 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

Разноцветные камешки poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Разноцветные камешки

1960

Secretary of the Regional Committee poster
7.0

The vacation ends, and the secretary of the regional committee, Vasily Denisov, assumes his former duties. On this day, I had to delve into the very difficult case of the old communist Chernogus, the head of the museum, who was prosecuted for possession of weapons.

Secretary of the Regional Committee

1964

The Village Detective poster
6.2

Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate.

The Village Detective

1969

In the Name of the Revolution poster
9.0

1918. After the death of the mother, the father decides to take the children to Moscow to see a distant relative. On the way, the guys experience a raid by a White Guard gang on a train, the death of their father, and meet the homeless child Yashka, who brings a plan to Lenin - how to destroy all the bourgeoisie and all the counter-propaganda in one day. The boys become involved in revolutionary events, and ahead is Moscow, a chance meeting and conversation with Lenin and Dzerzhinsky, the fight against counter-revolution...

In the Name of the Revolution

1964

Заблудший poster
8.0

In the difficult post-war years, Evsei did not want to work in the ruined collective farm and, leaving his family, went to the city. However, after many years the hero began to agonize over the separation from his native place and decided to establish relations with his first family.

Заблудший

1966

Остров Ольховый poster
4.5

Many years ago, the geologist Ilya, together with his friend Peter, came to the island of Olkhovy near Sakhalin. Here they were searching for iron ore. Peter died during the prospecting work, while Ilya successfully continued the search.

Остров Ольховый

1962

1950s · 6 titles

1940s · 12 titles

A Great Life, Part 2 poster
8.0

This 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

We Await Your Victorious Return poster
6.8

The 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

Lad from Our Town poster
5.0

In the summer of 1932, Sergei Lukonin, a young man from Saratov, leaves his hometown for the distant city of Omsk to attend tank school. His fiancée, Varenka, who soon became an actress, remained in Saratov. In 1936, Sergei went to fight in the Spanish Civil War. He was wounded, taken prisoner, escaped, and returned to training battles, with June 1941 looming ahead.

Lad from Our Town

1942

My Love poster
4.9

When 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

Two Friends poster
8.0

Two officers of the Red Army find themselves in a struggle against foreign intelligence agents.

Two Friends

1941

No Greater Love poster
5.8

The first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler son die before her eyes. She and the other villagers leave to go into the woods. Pasha leads the villagers to fight some German troops. Coming out victories, the partisans become a feared opponent of the Germans, with the leadership of Comrade P.

No Greater Love

1943

No Greater Love poster
5.8

The first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler son die before her eyes. She and the other villagers leave to go into the woods. Pasha leads the villagers to fight some German troops. Coming out victories, the partisans become a feared opponent of the Germans, with the leadership of Comrade P.

No Greater Love

1943

Native Shores poster
5.0

Three soldiers make their way into a city occupied by the Nazis.

Native Shores

1943

Incident on a Volcano poster
6.3

Andrei Latonin had jumped with a parachute many times before, but on the day of the holiday he got scared and stayed in the cockpit of the plane. Deeply upset by his failure, Latonin decides to leave his homeland forever and joins a steamship as a sailor. On the way, Andrei meets an expedition group heading for the crater of an active volcano and joins the scientists.

Incident on a Volcano

1941

Naval Battalion poster
8.0

Soviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.

Naval Battalion

1946

New Home poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

New Home

1947

The Road Home poster
6.5

In one of the regions of Latvia occupied by the Nazis, the Germans arrest a peasant boy named Janis. His first escape ends in another arrest. This time, he is detained by his younger brother, who has become a policeman. After his next escape, his wife Ilga and daughter are sent to a concentration camp. Now Janis is ready to do anything to save them.

The Road Home

1946

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