Vera Alentova

Acting

Vera Alentova

Born 1942-02-21 · Kotlas, Arkhangelskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Vera Valentinovna Alentova (February 11, 1942 – December 25, 2025) was a Soviet and Russian actress famous for her leading role in Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980).

Acting credits

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears poster
7.6

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

1980

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Чествование

1993

Flying Days poster
5.3

All the years spent behind the school bench, they were devoted to the dream of flying. And now they are again students, but they are solving completely different problems. Three young daredevils conquer the sky, forgetting about earthly problems and disputes. But the everyday life of test pilots of supersonic fighters is unpredictable and dangerous. A routine training flight overnight can be a harsh test of courage for them. Today, future aces will face a difficult exam, for which life itself will put a mark.

Flying Days

1966

Tomorrow Was the War poster
6.4

This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The main characters of the film are ordinary Soviet high school students. They study in the Soviet school, try to be correct and ideological Komsomol activists. But not always the “correctness” suggested by the teachers coincides with the inner convictions of young souls - it is difficult for them to come to terms with the fact that their relatives and loved ones are suddenly “enemies of the people”.

Tomorrow Was the War

1987

The Zykovs poster
NR

The play “Zykovs” was written in 1912, during a time of confusion and depression in Russian society, a period of pre-war spiritual and moral decline. The state of the world is depicted here with a single phrase: “there was confusion of concepts”... The film-performance based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky, directed by the Moscow Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin.

The Zykovs

1970

Days of Our Life poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Days of Our Life

1971

Forgive Us, Garden poster
8.0

In the years of his Komsomol youth, the first builders of the city laid out a public garden. And now they strongly object to the decision of the city council to divide the garden into garden plots...

Forgive Us, Garden

1989

Happy March 8th, Men! poster
3.5

Anna Berkutova - blonde in the armor of mini-skirts. Her weapons - her beauty, intelligence and absolute confidence in the fact that she knows men. It is an important project in Skolkovo and is going to marry a rich foreigner. But on her birthday, March 8, it is clear, as the financial report, the fate of change: Anna throws groom steal her project of Skolkovo, and she begins to hear the thoughts of men. This ability is first brought her to despair, and then opens wide possibilities ...

Happy March 8th, Men!

2014

What a Mess! poster
6.7

A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.

What a Mess!

1995

The Maid of Pskov poster
NR

Based on the opera of the same name by N. Rimsky-Korsakov and the drama by L. May.

The Maid of Pskov

1969

We Have Children.. poster
NR

Three novels about parenting: "The Snow Maiden", "Zoolog" and "Uncle Sasha". Based on the stories of Vera Chubakova, Mark Burnesov, Nikolai Samokhin.

We Have Children..

1966

Empire V poster
4.7

In modern-day Moscow, disaffected former journalism student Roman follows a cryptic invitation to join “the elite” and finds himself forcibly transformed into a vampire. But not your typical creature of the night. Thanks to a parasitical worm known as the Tongue, Roman (now called Rama) has become part of a ruling class of vampires who exercise an “anonymous dictatorship” over humans based not on a thirst for blood but the hunger for money. As various instructors school him in the ways of their elite breed, and Rama explores his new supernatural abilities, he begins a tentative relationship with another newly turned vampire, Hera. His desire for more knowledge about this intoxicating new world also leads him into potentially deadly conflict with Mithra, his mentor who becomes his nemesis.

Empire V

2023

Odinochestvo lyubvi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Odinochestvo lyubvi

2005

Bondwomen poster
NR

Old husband, young wife. And whether she was bought or went for him by calculation - let them sort it out for themselves. Here they are sorting it out - Eulalia, who is going through a big life school in a short period of time, and Sophia, who has long since finished her family "universities".

Bondwomen

1974

Time of Desires poster
4.0

Svetlana Vasilievna is a young, energetic woman who often changes jobs, accustomed to achieving the goals that she has set for herself in life. Her next desire is to marry a "creative, intelligent" person. After a lengthy search, she chose an elderly, but well-mannered, intelligent official Vladimir Dmitrievich Lobanov. Svetlana believes that with the help of connections and sober calculation, you can achieve everything: well-being, respectability, even personal happiness. She does not notice that the fulfillment of her desires does not at all make the person close to her happy. The payback turns out to be unexpected and terrible.

Time of Desires

1984

One at Home poster
NR

Famous actors and TV presenters Nikolai Fomenko and Ivan Urgant want to celebrate the holiday quietly and calmly, but, having lost their way, they end up in an enchanted house that does not let them out until the heroes believe in the New Year, a real fairy tale and a miracle, immersing themselves in the atmosphere of popular films.

One at Home

2006

The Envy of Gods poster
5.5

Married television editor Sonia meets and begins a passionate affair with Russian translator André. However, they soon part ways as he decides to return to his family in Paris.

The Envy of Gods

2000

To the Question of the Dialectic of the Perception of Art, or Lost Dreams poster
10.0

After a performance, a girl gets behind the scenes and sees without masks all those whom she so feared, loved and hated.

To the Question of the Dialectic of the Perception of Art, or Lost Dreams

1968

No artwork available
1.0

A contemporary story set in a deep Russian province.

Road with no End

2015

Time for Reflection poster
7.0

Alla and Igor decide to get married. It is the second marriage for both of them. Resentment towards her ex-husband, who is busy with science and indifferent to everyday problems, has embittered Alla. She is sure that he and his parents want to take away her child. In her anger she does not notice that she is unfair to her loved ones and makes her son unhappy.

Time for Reflection

1983

When the Saints March poster
5.0

The Leningrad Jazz Club is preparing to celebrate its 30th anniversary and the birthday of the club's founder, Alexei Sokolnikov, the first leader of the jazz band. It has been decided to find all the original members of the band and invite them to the celebration. But this is not so easy to do, and there is also a mystery lurking in the past that led to the band's breakup...

When the Saints March

1990

The Groom from Miami poster
7.0

A young man coming to Moscow from Miami searching for wife.

The Groom from Miami

1992

Sunday poster
3.8

A well-known civil servant from the Mayor's Office in a provincial Russian town receives a note: You'll soon die. He takes no notice, and gets ready for his normal Sunday – family problems, his personal life, work, other matters… But this Sunday turns out very far from normal. From the very start things come crashing down, smiting everything in its path, including all plans, external composure, and even his own life.

Sunday

2019

Crazy Money poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Crazy Money

2010