Olga Zhizneva

Acting

Olga Zhizneva

Born 1899-04-17 · Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire

Acting credits

The Foundling poster
6.6

A little girl is lost in Moscow and hits the road making fun (not intentionally) of everybody she meets. She'll be back home soon but she will change the life of at least one man forever...

The Foundling

1939

His Call poster
10.0

The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The film title refers to the Communist party's appeal, after Lenin's death, to enlarge its membership.

His Call

1925

The Property of Republic poster
5.8

Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid Keshka, is stealing a collection of paintings and sculptures from the abandoned estate owners. Hoping to transport her abroad, criminals wander with a circus troupe, and in their wake goes a tireless criminal investigator — Makar Ovchinnikov.

The Property of Republic

1972

A Severe Young Man poster
5.5

A young sportsman Grisha Fokin falls in love with Masha, the wife of an outstanding scientist - Yuliyan Nikolayevich Stepanov.

A Severe Young Man

1935

Admiral Ushakov poster
6.1

Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.

Admiral Ushakov

1953

It Can Not Be Forgotten poster
8.0

The 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

The Ghost That Never Returns poster
5.7

The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his rebel gang. This existential drama disguised as a saga about the proletarian struggle presents a lonely and insecure individual who is challenged to act more heroically than he is prepared to, but who constantly questions his confidence and loyalties.

The Ghost That Never Returns

1930

No artwork available
NR

Tikhov, a lecturer, arrives from the city along a rain-washed road to a construction site. To beat the rain, he stops at a house where a young woman and her child live. The awkwardness of the unexpected guest quickly passes, and Lyuba tries to persuade him not to go to the club, which is surely empty due to the bad weather. But Tikhov leaves, confident that they are waiting for him...

On the Highway

1964

In the Mountains of Yugoslavia poster
5.6

Yugoslav farmer-turned-partisan Slavko Babić starts an uprising against the fascist Germans and their allies.

In the Mountains of Yugoslavia

1946

The Tailor from Torzhok poster
4.2

A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky), bought a lottery ticket and handed it to his landlord, widow Shirinkina (Deykun) who wants to marry him. Petya is a hard-working tailor trying to start his own business. He is also in love with Katya (Maretskaya), whom he wants to marry. He has to survive a cascade of funny situations in the unstable Soviet reality, before his romance with Katya comes to a happy ending.

The Tailor from Torzhok

1925

Ordinary Story poster
7.0

Anya, finding herself in unfamiliar Kyiv, meets casual acquaintances who help her adapt to the new city. One of them, engineer Sasha, accompanies her to the train station and later comes to her city. He persuades Anya to enroll in a Kyiv institute, which she agrees to do.

Ordinary Story

1962

At Any Price poster
8.0

A story of the adventures of two young boys during WWII.

At Any Price

1960

Wind from East poster
NR

A story about a life of a small village in Western Ukraine during 30-ies.

Wind from East

1940

The Case of the Three Million poster
6.1

History of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a religious community.

The Case of the Three Million

1926

Чужая poster
NR

Mrs. von Walz and her daughter Alice live in an old Moscow mansion. A Bolshevik sailor named Ivanov moves into their apartment. When Alice learns that the tenant holds a prominent position and receives a generous ration, she embarks on an adventure and marries the tenant. However, their first child does not bring happiness to the couple. Exhausted by the monotony, the wife starts her own small business and neglects her husband. Ivanov leaves home, settles in a forest village, and soon marries a peasant girl...

Чужая

1927

The Shield and the Sword poster
NR

The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East. The Russian military command suspects hostile intent from Germany and so arranges for its spies to infiltrate ranks of the German military and the SS. Alexander Belov is a Russian spy, who travels from Soviet-held Latvia to Nazi Germany under an alias of Johann Weiss. His mastery of the German language, steel nerves and an ability to manipulate others help him to use his connections in the SS to ascend the ladder of the German intelligence. He uses his position to identify sympathetic Germans, who help him to procure vital intelligence, and to help local resistance movements in their collective fight against Nazism.

The Shield and the Sword

1968

The Nice Life poster
NR

Fred, a young British sailor who accidentually finds himself in the USSR and after a number of comic adventures he, attracted by Soviet youth enthusiazm, goes to take part in Dneprostroy (building of Dnepr power station).

The Nice Life

1932

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

The Labour and Rose poster
9.5

The film is about famous Chechen ballet and folk dancer Mahmud Essembayev's life.

The Labour and Rose

1963

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ladies

1954

The Garnet Bracelet poster
6.8

The story of a sublime unrequited love of a petty official for a young socialite.

The Garnet Bracelet

1965

Belated Flowers poster
4.7

Princess Mariya fell in love with doctor Toporkov, who was treating her, in the recent past the serf of her family. Now he has become a celebrity and is only concerned about buying a new home profitably. He does not notice her love and marries a rich merchant. The princess in love comes to see Toporkov and opens to him. Her strong feeling touches Toporkov’s hardened heart, he leaves his wife and leaves the princess abroad.

Belated Flowers

1970

The House with the Mezzanine poster
4.8

A famous painter lives in idleness in the estate of the landlord Belokurov. Once he meets a family of Volchaninov's living in the neighborhood, in which there are two daughters: the eldest (Lydia), a serious and strict girl with convictions, who tries to help ordinary people and doesn't like the artist very much for his idleness, and the youngest (Zhenya or Misyus), which soon takes a great interest in the artist. The painter also falls in love with Zhenya, but Lydia destroys their happiness ...

The House with the Mezzanine

1961

The Other Woman poster
7.0

Komsomol member Pavel Kudryashov, after seeing his pregnant wife to the village, sheltered a young woman who had fallen behind the train. In Paul's friendly relations with an outside woman, the local philistinism saw a criminal connection. Lost movie.

The Other Woman

1929