Nina Alisova

Acting

Nina Alisova

Born — Died

1915-12-15 — 1996-10-12

Place of birth

Kiev, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Ukraine]

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 7 titles

1960s · 7 titles

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors poster
7.5

In the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life and death among the Hutsul people are as they’ve been since time began. Ivan is drawn to Marichka, the beautiful young daughter of the man who killed his father. But fate tragically decrees that the two lovers will remain apart.

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

1965

Torrents of Steel poster
10.0

The victorious path of the Taman army through areas occupied by the white army in the last days of the civil war.

Torrents of Steel

1967

Lady with the Dog poster
5.8

On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair.

Lady with the Dog

1960

To the Attention of Citizens and Organizations poster
NR

Eight-year-old Kirill has big problems: he struggles at school, his parents are boring, and he has nowhere to put his lame stray dog. In short, he is at odds with the whole world. Then he meets journalist Vadim, who is easy to get along with and interesting. Vadim's interest is genuine — after all, Kirill is named after his deceased friend.

To the Attention of Citizens and Organizations

1966

A Spring for the Thirsty poster
7.1

A parable centering on an old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs. His wellspring, once a source of joy and hope for thirsty passersby, is now rarely used. No longer able to find comfort in his memories, he turns all his photographs to face the walls.

A Spring for the Thirsty

1965

Comrade Song poster
NR

The movie-almanac consists of three novellas dedicated to the song. "Song-password". Lieutenant Marchenko is sent to the Nazi-occupied city to pass a purse with fuses to the underground scouts through the liaison. The password song helps the scouts to find each other. "Song about the mother." Working in distant Africa, pilots Igor and Victor once recorded on a tape recorder a song about his mother. Soon Igor dies during an epidemic. And Victor, in memory of his friend, gives his mother the tape they recorded. "Song at Dawn". Student Sergei dedicated to his favorite girl Valya composed by him "Song at Dawn". Valya then did not understand Sergei's feelings and married his friend. Sergei leaves. Years pass. Valya's personal life did not go well. And now she often remembers Sergei's sweet song.

Comrade Song

1966

An Extraordinary Assignment poster
6.5

The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.

An Extraordinary Assignment

1966

1950s · 2 titles

1940s · 6 titles

Military Secret poster
7.7

The Second World War. A new L-2 heavy duty gun is being supplied to the Soviet Army. German intelligence needs to seize a new secret weapon.

Military Secret

1945

Diamonds poster
NR

Young geologist Sergei Nesterov, having returned from the army, intends to continue his work, interrupted by the war, on exploring industrial deposits of Ural diamonds. His enthusiasm surprises his boss, puts his fiancée Varvara in an awkward position, and gives other geologists a perfect excuse to mock him. But he is warmly supported by the district committee secretary Salomatov. Sergei steadfastly pursues his goal and, in the end, finds the richest diamond deposits.

Diamonds

1947

Dursun poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dursun

1940

Makar Nechay poster
NR

The struggle of an honest, innovative plant breeder against bureaucrats.

Makar Nechay

1940

Rainbow poster
5.0

The German conquerors are above nothing, not even the slaughter of small children, to break the spirit of their Soviet captives. Suffering more than most is Olena, a Soviet partisan who returns to the village to bear her child, only to endure the cruelest of arbitrary tortures at the hands of the Nazis.

Rainbow

1944

Ivan Pavlov poster
9.0

Russia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov’s dismay, he orders the destruction of a beautiful apple orchard. 1894: Experimenting on dogs, Pavlov tries to comprehend the interaction between nerves and external signals governing digestion. In 1904, he formulates the principles of conditional reflexes. When Zvantsev, an opponent of Pavlov’s materialist worldview, leaves the laboratory, the scientist hires Varvara Ivanova who becomes his most reliable assistant. 1912: Pavlov receives an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University. 1917: Despite Pavlov’s political scepticism, the Bolshevik administration treats him with great respect.

Ivan Pavlov

1949

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