Nina Alisova

Acting

Nina Alisova

Born 1915-12-15 · Kiev, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Ukraine]

Acting credits

The New Moscow poster
5.8

A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.

The New Moscow

1938

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

The Long Milky Way poster
NR

1944. To provide aid to the famine-stricken regions of liberated Donbass, it was decided to drive cattle from Kazakhstan. This story tells how a group of livestock handlers took upon themselves a human and civic duty to undertake a long and extremely difficult journey along the roads of a war that was not yet fully over.

The Long Milky Way

1983

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

Lady with the Dog poster
5.6

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

Keep Your Eyes Open! poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

Keep Your Eyes Open!

1982

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

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

Trans-Siberian Express poster
6.1

An espionage thriller set aboard the train of the title. A group of agents try to thwart the Japanese-Soviet trade agreement by assassinating a Japanese businessman.

Trans-Siberian Express

1977

Dursun poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dursun

1940

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

Iriston's Son poster
NR

After getting expelled from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts for his free-thinking ideas, young artist Kosta Khetagurov returns to his homeland of Iriston, known in Russian as Ossetia. Despite financial troubles and governmental persecution, he tirelessly advocates for the Ossetian people while honing his craft as a poet, playwright, and artist.

Iriston's Son

1959

No artwork available
NR

A film about production conflicts at an automobile factory.

The Testers

1987

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

The Girls Sowed Flax poster
5.0

The manager of the Belarusian collective farm Naideika Krasovich, inspired by the award at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition for the high flax harvest, gives her word to double the harvest. Many fellow villagers doubt her success, and only Grigory Pavlovich, the new director of MTS, who left his family in the city and came to the village at the call of the party, provides Nadeika with all kinds of support and excessive attention, because he loves and, it seems, is loved. In parallel to this story, a plot develops about the love of the tractor driver Zosya for the forester Yanka, who unrequitedly suffers for Nadeyka.

The Girls Sowed Flax

1956

Makar Nechay poster
NR

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

Makar Nechay

1940

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

Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram poster
5.0

The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on the feuilletons and notebooks of famous writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov…

Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram

1972

Without Dowry poster
6.2

Larisa Ogudalova, unlike her sisters, refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry

Without Dowry

1937

Let Him Perform poster
NR

A group of thieves plans a daring heist to steal a valuable diamond from a wealthy businessman.

Let Him Perform

1981

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

Lyubov Yarovaya poster
4.8

The years of civil war. Teacher Lyubov Yarovaya is on the side of the revolution. Her husband Mikhail is a White Guard officer. Mikhail fiercely fights against Soviet power. The struggle in the woman's soul between her love for her husband and her revolutionary duty ends with the victory of the latter. She passes a harsh and merciless sentence on Mikhail...

Lyubov Yarovaya

1970

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