Nina Menshikova

Acting

Nina Menshikova

Born — Died

1928-08-08 — 2007-12-26

Place of birth

Moscow, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Known for

Ballad of a Soldier poster
8.0

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.

Ballad of a Soldier

1959

Visit to the Minotaur poster
5.7

The detective story is based on the search for Antonio Stradivari’s missing violin. An additional historical storyline takes the viewer back to the 17th century and focuses on the life of the Master and his work on the violin.

Visit to the Minotaur

1987

The Girls poster
7.5

A graduate of the culinary technical school of the cook, Tosya Kislitsyna, a naive and eccentric girl, came to the village lost in the northern forests. She sticks her nose in all affairs, seeks to help everyone. She met Ilya on the day of arrival: the "first guy in the village" fell upon her indignantly, and in the evening, to brighten up an unpleasant meeting, she decided to "make happy" with an invitation to a dance and was refused. Not accustomed to refusals, Ilya argues with Filya that during the week he will fall in love with Tosya...

The Girls

1962

Seraphim Polubes and Other Inhabitants of the Earth poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Seraphim Polubes and Other Inhabitants of the Earth

1984

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Переполох

1955

The School Waltz poster
5.8

Ten-graders Gosha and Zosya are in love with each other. The last school waltz has been played and it seems nothing stands any longer in the way of the young people being together. However, getting the news that he’s going to be a father soon, Gosha chooses a free life.

The School Waltz

1979

Film credits

1990s · 2 titles

1980s · 12 titles

Seraphim Polubes and Other Inhabitants of the Earth poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Seraphim Polubes and Other Inhabitants of the Earth

1984

The Sixth poster
6.6

The Civil War in Russia has just finished. The sixth chief of militia came to a small town in the south. Five Glodov’s predecessors had been killed by a gang of elusive Vakhromeyev. Now Glodov and his crew are going to have a mortal combat with the smart gangsters…

The Sixth

1982

The Secret Agent’s End poster
5.7

Operation "Resident", which lasted 15 years, is coming to an end. But the indestructible agent of "Nadezhda" has one important mission left. Agent Carl Brockmann, who intends to steal the work of Academician Nikolai Nesterov in the defense sector, has been abandoned in the USSR. KGB leadership asks Mikhail Tulyev to return to the Soviet Union to find the spy. Meanwhile, Brockmann recruits former fascist collaborator Mikhail Kutepov for involvement in a dangerous operation.

The Secret Agent’s End

1986

My Anfisa poster
NR

The love of brigadier-painter Anfisa and the student of philology Nicholas resulted in a storm of indignation of his parents. Separation followed. And for separation - and the search for lost love ...

My Anfisa

1981

Open Heart poster
9.0

A film about the all-encompassing maternal love that lives in every woman. One day, out of the kindness of her heart, Lyuba sheltered a pregnant woman.

Open Heart

1983

Night Witches poster
4.3

Film will be based on the female flying unit that fought in the Battle of Moscow. They were dubbed "Night Witches" by the frightened German soldiers because of the deadly stealth of their light planes.

Night Witches

1981

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

Mr. Student poster
9.0

The adventures of a high school student Igor who is helping Reds during the October Revolution in Russia.

Mr. Student

1985

And All the Love poster
7.0

Agricultural technical school graduate Valya Didenko, having become a production leader and then a people's deputy, fell in love with her patron - the chairman of the collective farm. However, happiness was not destined to happen. Having deliberately violated long-outdated instructions, the chairman was accused of fraud and brought to trial.

And All the Love

1989

Steep Field poster
NR

Stepan Kochkarin, the chairman of one of the leading Altai collective farms, a former front-line soldier, intends to unite the machinery and personnel of the neighboring backward farms into a single complex on the central farmstead, but not everyone supports him. A number of issues, including his re-election, are postponed until the fall. The harvesting season arrives and the chairman carries out the harvesting in the most difficult natural conditions without losses.

Steep Field

1980

A Trip to the Caucasus Mountains poster
NR

The story of six-year-old Bobka, a kind and cheerful man who lives in Leningrad and desperately dreams of unexpectedly visiting his dad, who serves in the distant Caucasus Mountains. This is his most cherished dream, and it will certainly come true, but only after some adventures that are quite normal for this tomboy.

A Trip to the Caucasus Mountains

1982

Nikolai Podvoysky poster
8.0

On the life and activities of N.I. Podvoysky (1880-1948), a professional revolutionary and commander of the Red Army.

Nikolai Podvoysky

1987

1970s · 10 titles

The School Waltz poster
5.8

Ten-graders Gosha and Zosya are in love with each other. The last school waltz has been played and it seems nothing stands any longer in the way of the young people being together. However, getting the news that he’s going to be a father soon, Gosha chooses a free life.

The School Waltz

1979

One Hundred Days After Childhood poster
6.5

Pioneer leader Serge, a sculptor, decides to work in a new plastic material, among creatively gifted children in a camp located in an old mansion. Pioneer Lopukhin is so in love with his classmate Ergolina that he does not notice how fascinated Sonya Zagremukhina is with him. Showing their emotions and moods helps their participation in the production of the play "Masquerade" by Lermontov, and the play itself imperceptibly turns into a drama with unexpected confessions, insults, jealousy, and outbursts.

One Hundred Days After Childhood

1975

Waiting for a Miracle poster
10.0

On the advice of his teacher, young mathematician Sasha Shmagin went to Moscow to show the solution of an interesting and difficult problem to scientists. However, the boy did not make it to the professorship.

Waiting for a Miracle

1975

The Poseidon Rushes to Help poster
7.5

About young graduates of the maritime academy and their first voyage at sea. About the difficult test of professional and human endurance that had to be endured by both the crew of the trawler "Kaira," which suffered a disaster during a storm, and the crew of the rescue ship Poseidon under the command of Captain Chigrinov, where the film's hero, Slavka Chigrinov, served, demonstrating resourcefulness, courage, and bravery in times of danger.

The Poseidon Rushes to Help

1977

No Return poster
6.2

According to the story of the same name by Anatoli Kalinin. The love story of Antonina and the battalion commander Nikitin, whom she sheltered after a severe wound. Antonina Kashirina is wanted to be excluded from the party, accusing the Don Cossack woman living in the territory occupied by the Germans during the war. They don't believe that she hid and treated a wounded Soviet officer. Unable to withstand insulting suspicions, she leaves the party committee bureau. On the way home, Tonya recalls how she picked up a bleeding artillery — the battalion commander Nikitin, she hid him and treated him as she fell in love...

No Return

1974

Your Rights? poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Your Rights?

1975

The Return of the Violin poster
6.0

During the WWII a group of children are trying to save Stradivarius violin from Nazis.

The Return of the Violin

1973

A Man at His Place poster
5.8

A story about young man who is trying to turn his village into an agricultural center.

A Man at His Place

1973

Farm in the Steppe poster
NR

Young friends participate in the Odessa Bolshevik underground's activity in the pre-revolutionary years (1910-1912).

Farm in the Steppe

1971

Storm on the Land poster
9.5

A story about a group of children and their life set at the small Russian seashore town in the year of 1913.

Storm on the Land

1976

1960s · 13 titles

The Girls poster
7.5

A graduate of the culinary technical school of the cook, Tosya Kislitsyna, a naive and eccentric girl, came to the village lost in the northern forests. She sticks her nose in all affairs, seeks to help everyone. She met Ilya on the day of arrival: the "first guy in the village" fell upon her indignantly, and in the evening, to brighten up an unpleasant meeting, she decided to "make happy" with an invitation to a dance and was refused. Not accustomed to refusals, Ilya argues with Filya that during the week he will fall in love with Tosya...

The Girls

1962

Where Are You Now, Maxim? poster
8.0

A story of a young man who is returning to his home town after being evacuated as a boy during WWII.

Where Are You Now, Maxim?

1965

Clean Ponds poster
8.0

Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events.

Clean Ponds

1965

Adults and Children poster
NR

Several short stories tell the story of the complex relationships between difficult children and their parents.

Adults and Children

1963

A Summer to Remember poster
5.7

Based on the Vera Panova book about a complicated relationship between an 8-year-old boy and his new stepfather.

A Summer to Remember

1960

The Grey Illness poster
6.0

One day, doctors Speransky and Nikulin made an outstanding scientific discovery: they discovered the bacillus of indifference and ignorance. To describe its action, one of them selflessly instills it in himself.

The Grey Illness

1966

The Man Who Doubts poster
7.5

A police detective arrives in a Siberian town to reopen the investigation of the murder of a schoolgirl, as he has some doubts about the culpability of the man who was convicted.

The Man Who Doubts

1963

Mother's Loyalty poster
7.5

The film covers the period from 1900 to 1917. Historical events—the Russo-Japanese War, January 9, and others—are shown through the eyes of a mother who begins to realize that her children have many like-minded followers, and thanks to this, she comes to believe in the feasibility of the ideals for which her eldest son sacrificed himself. Only the awareness that his cause is not hopeless, that it is achievable and close to victory, gives her the courage to endure separation from her loved ones and wandering.

Mother's Loyalty

1967

A Mother's Heart poster
7.3

Family drama centering on the childhood of Vladimir Lenin, then Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, in the city of Simbirsk, and his relationship with his mother.

A Mother's Heart

1966

We'll Live Till Monday poster
7.5

A respected history teacher, Ilya Semenovich Melnikov, decides to quit his job due to distressing rumors about a colleague who is in love with him. His final week is disrupted when a student's controversial essay on happiness sparks a classroom conflict. Melnikov's intervention in the situation ultimately causes him to reconsider his decision to resign.

We'll Live Till Monday

1968

Battle on the Way poster
7.5

He was appointed as the new chief engineer of a tractor factory. The presence of this man, direct, hard and uncompromising, creates a lot of conflict - primarily between him and the director of the plant. However, clashes in the production are nothing compared with the pain that causes the loss of the beloved hero ...

Battle on the Way

1961

Miraculous One poster
8.0

Rodka Gulyaev is a pupil of the Gumniskii rural secondary school. One day on the bank of the river he digs out the darkened old icon. Unfortunately for him his grandmother Avdotya, an overbearing and cunning old woman, spreads a rumor that the icon is miraculous, and her grandson is a saint.

Miraculous One

1960

The First Date poster
5.6

Alexey and Valentina met in the tourist camp on Seliger, and after two weeks they celebrated their wedding. Returning to the family, the young couple faced the first difficulties. Both parents didn't like the willfulness of the young - and there were problems with housing. They started a constant quarrels. The young soon agreed that their wedding was premature ...

The First Date

1960

1950s · 7 titles

Ballad of a Soldier poster
8.0

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.

Ballad of a Soldier

1959

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Переполох

1955

The Day the War Ended poster
7.0

The film tells the story of Soviet soldier Mikhail Platonov, who died in a small German town in the first peaceful days of 1945.

The Day the War Ended

1959

Gloomy Morning poster
7.5

The third film in the trilogy ("The Sisters", "The Eighteenth Year", "The Gloomy Morning") based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy "The Road to Calvary". About the fate of the Russian intelligentsia against the background of the collapse of the Russian Empire and the civil war, which turned the lives of all the heroes of the film narration. Defending Tsaritsyn, the red commander Telegin was seriously wounded. At the hospital, he meets Dasha. After his recovery, the young spouses go together to the Red Army.

Gloomy Morning

1959

The Memory of the Heart poster
7.0

The story of an English pilot who crashed in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, and whose life is saved by a woman and a boy - two partisans near the enemy lines, Long afterwards in England he remembers the Russians with affection, tells his friends about his experiences, and resolves to go back to find the two partisans his heart remembers.

The Memory of the Heart

1958

The Man from Planet Earth poster
10.0

Biographical film story about the first Russian space explorer, inventor scientist, rocket-maker K. E. Tsiolkovsky.

The Man from Planet Earth

1959

Annushka poster
6.5

The main character, Anna Denisova, is a simple Russian woman, on whose shoulders all the hardships of wartime fell. Like all her compatriots, Annushka did everything in her power to bring Victory Day closer. In this war, she lost her husband, Pyotr, but managed to save the lives of her three children — Sasha, Nina and Granata. The trials of Annushka didn't end with the end of the war. In the first years of peace, all survivors had to survive the famine and spend their last strength on rebuilding the country.

Annushka

1959

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