
Acting
Stefaniya Stanyuta
Born — Died
1905-04-30 — 2000-11-06
Place of birth
Minsk, Russian Empire
Known for
Acting
Credits
51 titles
Known for
NRA Partisan Saga. Winter of 1942. Ivan Voronetsky, acting as a representative of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus, is assigned a special mission — along with his team of five.
Time Chose Us
1979
7.0After failing to get into college, Sergei Krasheninnikov goes to visit his grandfather in a small town and starts working on a road construction crew. While working, the builders discover a soldier’s grave. Sergei is tasked with identifying the deceased. He begins his search.
Unknown Soldier
1985
8.5Based on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.
Exile
1992
8.0The villagers dreamed of the happy days to come, but the war came and the men went to defend their land.
Spring
1982
6.0A sequel to the well-known story about a Little Red Riding Hood (Krasnaya Shapochka). This time, a family of a slain wolf decides to avenge his death. So they falsely inform Little Red Riding Hood that her grandma is sick and prepare to eat her on her way.
About the Little Red Riding Hood
1977
NRA film about the Belarusian publisher and educator Francis (Georgy) Skaryna, who lived in the first half of the 16th century, the founder of the first Belarusian printing house in Vilnius and the author of fundamental research in the field of linguistics.
Me, Francysk Skaryna
1970
Film credits
1990s · 5 titles
8.5Based on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.
Exile
1992
5.5Alexandre is a young medical student who is holidaying at his uncle's country home for the summer. He begins a lustful love affair with his cousin Sonia, but his attentions quickly rift towards her beautiful Polish friend, Nathalie.
Summer of Love
1994
6.2Adaptation of 'Prince Serebrenni' by A. K. Tolstoy.
Tsar Ivan the Terrible
1991
8.0The hero of the film witnesses the suicide of his double. Trying to find out the reasons for this act, the hero finds himself in another world that exists very close, but hitherto unknown to him: the world of other people, views and values.
A Silhouette in the Window Across the Street
1993
NRThe action takes place in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the First World War. The plot - twists and turns of life's journey of the traveler, adventurer, traveling actor and philosopher Ivan Kalita.
Tales about Ivan
1991
1980s · 26 titles
8.0The villagers dreamed of the happy days to come, but the war came and the men went to defend their land.
Spring
1982
6.3Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.
Farewell
1983
5.2Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves in the occupied territory in the area of operations of the Belarusian partisan detachment. To find the people's avengers, the Nazis decide to use children.
Deer Hunting
1982
6.3Elem Klimov's tribute to his late wife, director Larisa Shepitko, killed in a car accident a year earlier. Features excerpts from all of her films, and archival audio of her discussing life and art.
Larisa
1980
6.8A funny story about Fyodor - the oldest person in the village - and his three sons.
White Dew
1984
Anna loses her son and husband to war. Her grief-stricken life undergoes a sudden change when three children, tasked with helping the elderly in the city, begin visiting her.
Sail Away, Little Ship...
1983
10.0After fifteen years of wandering, Ivan Shalnev returned to his native village for the summer. Autumn arrived quickly. He hadn't managed to accomplish everything he had planned. But he realized where his happiness lay, and he stayed forever...
A Family Affair
1980
NRA poetic psychological drama about the adolescence of the Ukrainian-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol filmed for Soviet television at A. Dovzhenko Film Studion in 1988. Based on the short story "Gogol-gimnazist" by Vasili Avenarius.
Dress Rehearsal
1989
8.0Based on Alexander Pushkin's novel "The Queen of Spades." The modern situation is projected onto the plot of "The Queen of Spades."
These... Three True Cards...
1988
NRRetired army general decides to return to his home land and help people to build a better future.
There is No Third
1980
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Wisdom Meter
1988
7.5The film's heroine, the director of a large scientific and industrial association, one day comes to the conclusion that her personal life has not worked out…
The Only Man
1981
8.5Six years old Gosha and his babysitter are trying to reunite Gosha's family by bringing his father back home.
Don't Forget to Turn Off the TV
1986
8.3After a long prison sentence, former Nazi collaborator Shishkovich returns to the village, guilty of the deaths of his fellow villagers. Ivan, whose sister and mother were killed, cannot calmly accept his return.
I'll Take Your Pain
1981
7.3In 1943 a group of children are forced to join the partisan detachment in the forests of Belarus.
Mama, I'm Alive
1985
NRThe young landowner Astakhov comes to check the affairs of his distant estate. He meets his neighbors and among them two young girls. The arrival of Astakhov destroys the calm of the usual estate life.
Calm
1981
9.0The film takes place in 1938 in Western Belarus, which was part of Poland. A young peasant woman, Alesya, wants at all costs to win back a house and farm that does not belong to her for the sake of happiness with her beloved Impol, from whom she is expecting a child. Her brother Mitya, a poet, writes freedom-loving poems, for which he is summoned for interrogation and brutally beaten.
The Alienated Motherland
1983
6.7A funny story based on Nikolai Nosov novels for children.
Living Rainbow
1985
NRBased on L. Yelisieieva’s short story "Far Away". In the 1920s–30s, a girl named Liolia grows up in poverty after her father is killed in the so-called “Civil War.” Her mother’s new marriage brings fear and violence into the home, so Liolia is sent to live with her grandmother, where she finds peace—though only briefly.
Primrose
1986
NRThe action takes place during the Great Patriotic War in Belarus. The village in which the boy Kastus lived was located in the partisan zone. He soon made friends with the partisans, who became close people to him. The loss of his older friends was unexpected and difficult for Kastus...
Cold at the Spring's Beginning
1985
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Impatience of the Soul
1987
7.0The heroine of this not quite serious story was born with extraordinary talent: instead of speaking, she sings - sings always, everywhere and at all.
About You
1983
NRIvan returns to his village after many years and meets his first love.
Radunitsa
1984
9.0No synopsis available yet.
High Water
1981
NRMariia lost her husband and three children in the war. Having lost all her loved ones, she decided to help other victims of the bloodshed. Adopting three orphans, she moves far away from the places that awaken the pain of her lost family in her heart, and raises her new charges under a peaceful sky...
Bow to the Ground
1986
NRNikolai, together with his wife, whom he loves dearly, comes to the village to visit his mother. After a series of events, Nikolai decides to stay in the village and work on a collective farm...
I Want to Make a Confession
1989
1970s · 12 titles
6.0A sequel to the well-known story about a Little Red Riding Hood (Krasnaya Shapochka). This time, a family of a slain wolf decides to avenge his death. So they falsely inform Little Red Riding Hood that her grandma is sick and prepare to eat her on her way.
About the Little Red Riding Hood
1977
NRA film about the Belarusian publisher and educator Francis (Georgy) Skaryna, who lived in the first half of the 16th century, the founder of the first Belarusian printing house in Vilnius and the author of fundamental research in the field of linguistics.
Me, Francysk Skaryna
1970
NRIn the beginning of WWII a group of five brave children are fighting the Nazis in Belarus.
Five Brave
1971
6.51922 The Far East is still occupied by the White Guard troops and the Japanese invaders. But in the region there are red partisan detachments. At this time, the Red Army is preparing a decisive offensive to clear the Far Eastern region from the whites and the Japanese.
Let's Talk, Brother...
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Memory...
1978
7.0The prince kidnaps the beautiful bride of the blacksmith Masheka. Masheka and his squad are trying to to take revenge.
The Lion's Grave
1972
NRThe war is ending. In the Belarusian village of Pokolyubichi, liberated from the Germans, there are only women and old people, so teenagers have to work on an equal basis with adults. The boys Sanka and Ivan are constantly drawn to feats. When there were rumors in the village that some kind of ghoul was hiding in the forest, the guys decided to catch him and become famous for it. It's good that the district police officer came to their aid in time. After all, Afonka, a former policeman armed with a German machine gun, turned out to be a ghoul...
We Are Tenacious Lads
1974
8.0Claudia Ivanovna is concerned about her daughter's future and the development of her career as a scientist. In accordance with her own ideas of happiness, she is trying to build a girl's personal life, unceremoniously destroying her relationship with her driver Sasha.
Mother-in-Law
1973
5.0A Few Amusing Episodes from the Life of the Village of Golodranka One day, a young peasant named Stepan lost his mare, who ran off pulling a cart full of hay. Stepan spent the whole day scouring the forest roads in search of her—only to find the stubborn beast calmly standing in his own yard. Furious, he swore to chop her to pieces with an axe. Another fellow, Artyom, ran away from home to escape his quarrelsome wife. He climbed down into the deepest village well and flatly refused to come out until his wife swore never to scold or hit him again. But what truly amused the villagers—both men and women—was Roman Sotsky’s antics. With a straight face, he assured a frightened constable that the strange man who had appeared in the village was "clearly a pure-blooded Sicilist."
Funny Yet Tragic
1973
10.0A drama about tragical events which happened in remote village and were caused by jealousy.
Sunday Night
1977
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Великое противостояние
1975
8.2A small Belarusian town, where Olga, a vivacious and able to stand up for herself and her daughter, lived, was occupied by the Germans. It was she who was approached by the underground with a request to ransom a man from a prisoner-of-war camp. The young woman was shocked by what she saw in the camp - and not finding the man she was looking for, Olga ransomed the young man, calling him her husband. The soldier, as soon as he got stronger, began to rush into battle. And when he died, Olga joined the fight against the Nazis.
The Merchant and the Poet
1979
1960s · 4 titles
5.0Based on the real letters of Veronika, a young girl in partizans squad during WWII.
Letters for the Living
1965
8.5Egor is a peasant by vocation, a family man. But in search of earnings, he leaves both his land and his family. Both breakups are hard for him, it's even hard to figure out which is bigger.
The House and the Host
1968
6.0The young teacher Lobanovich, who has just graduated from the seminary, comes to the remote Polessky village of Telshino to teach the peasant children to read and write. In the heads of seminarians persistently hammered into the idea that the Tsar-father endlessly cares about the common people, and the people respond to him sincere filial gratitude. Arriving in the village, the teacher saw a different picture. The Poleshuk people are beaten down, driven, living in mud, darkness, tightly entangled in a network of prejudices and superstitions....
First Trials
1960
NRThe film consists of three novellas that tell about the happy and joyful lives of Soviet children.
Little Dreamers
1963
1950s · 2 titles
NRReturning to his native village at the end of his military service, Victor (Yuri Sarantsev) brought his bride into the house - and soon they got married. Victor works on the collective farm with great enthusiasm, he is appointed a foreman, but the happiness of old Danila, Victor’s father, is overshadowed by dirty gossip - as if Victor’s father is not he, but Shandybovich, whose unseemly deeds were recently exposed by Victor.
Happiness Must Be Protected
1958
5.0Khrystyna Zhalyuk, the chairman of the village council, has had many difficulties from the very first days of her work. The first session of the village council is disrupted due to the fault of the collective farm chairman Spyridon Zhilinka, who pretended to be sick and did not show up at the meeting. Khristina's daughter Yulka is accused of calf death and suspended from work. Makar Shulga, the former chairman of the village council, who has now settled in the district center, is weaving intrigues against Khristina. Zhalyuk discovers that Zhilinka and Shulga were engaged in eyewash, overestimating the yields of some crops.
Strict Woman
1959
Series credits
NRA Partisan Saga. Winter of 1942. Ivan Voronetsky, acting as a representative of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus, is assigned a special mission — along with his team of five.
Time Chose Us
1979
7.0After failing to get into college, Sergei Krasheninnikov goes to visit his grandfather in a small town and starts working on a road construction crew. While working, the builders discover a soldier’s grave. Sergei is tasked with identifying the deceased. He begins his search.
Unknown Soldier
1985
