Faina Ranevskaya

Old Masters (1983)

A film about outstanding actors of the Soviet stage: Angelina Stepanova, Mark Prudkin, Igor Ilyinsky, Faina Ranevskaya, Veriko Andzhaparidze and others. ...

The Rest Is Silence (1978)

TV version of the acclaimed stage production of Viña Delmar's script for the film Make Way for Tomorrow. ...

Karlson Returns (1970)

The Kid didn't have to miss Carlson for long - one day he landed in his room again. This means that there will be new adventures and pranks! With Carlson's help, the harsh and bossy Freken Bock will be re-educated and become very kind. And then the friends ...

New Attraction Today (1966)

A new girl becomes circus star despite her husband objective. ...

An Easy Life (1964)

A chemist by training, Alexandr Bochkin manages a Moscow dry-cleaning operation, but lives a very comfortable life, taking orders on the side for his speculative "private enterprise," run in conjunction with "Queen Margot". But when his old friend from the ...

Be Careful, Grandma! (1961)

Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her grandmother and her 'old guards'. Look out Lena's enemies. Here's ...

Drama (1960)

A famous writer's long-awaited nap is interrupted by a visit from an aspiring playwright who wishes to show him her latest drama. ...

A Girl with Guitar (1958)

A romantic story about the girl working in the musical instruments store. ...

They Have a Motherland (1949)

The Great Patriotic War is over, but Major Sorokin and Colonel Dobrygin still have a lot to do for their homeland. They must go to West Germany in order to find and return the children who were taken out of the Soviet Union by the Nazis and are now kept in ...

Meeting on the Elbe (1949)

Soviet and American soldiers are meeting on the shores of the Elbe river in Germany in 1945. ...

Spring (1947)

A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness. ...

Cinderella (1947)

In the fairy kingdom live stepmother, her evil daughters — Anna and Maryana, a limp husband-forester and his daughter from his first marriage — Cinderella. The stepmother exploits the poor girl as a housekeeper. With the help of her godmother-fairy, Ci ...

Private Aleksandr Matrosov (1947)

The film is about the exploit of a nineteen-year-old soldier of the Great Patriotic War - Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of the enemy's bunker with his body. ...

The Sky Slow-Mover (1946)

Three pilots are best friends and good fighters. During the WWII they are taking an oath to refrain from love until the end of the War. But soon they meet three women-pilots. One by one they give up the oath, and all three fall in love. ...

An Elephant and a Rope (1945)

All the girls of one of the Moscow houses can tirelessly jump over a skipping rope. But little Lida did: can't learn to jump. Once in a dream a wise elephant gives her a piece of advice: to learn how to jump, you must first do a good deed... ...

Wedding (1944)

According to the eponymous vaudeville by A.P. Chekhov. Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov, who has been caring for Dasha all summer, has dined every day with them ...

The New Adventures of Schweik (1943)

The New Adventures of Schweik adopted to the WWII reality. ...

Dream (1943)

In search for a better life, Anna leaves her Ukrainian village for a big city. Three years later, she finds herself working two jobs and spending most of her days in a rooming house inhabited by broken people. ...

Native Shores (1943)

Three soldiers make their way into a city occupied by the Nazis. ...

The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1943)

The story is about three sisters. The youngest is chosen by Tsar Saltan to be his wife. He orders the other two sisters to be his royal cook and weaver. They become jealous of their younger sister. When the tsar goes off to war, the tsaritsa gives birth to ...

Aleksandr Parkhomenko (1942)

About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Parkhomenko. In 1918, capturing Ukraine, the German occupiers sought to use the Haidamaks, the White Guards and the Greens in their ...

How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich (1941)

The Beloved (1940)

Friends and family are trying to bring together newlyweds who separated immediately after the wedding. ...

The Foundling (1939)

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... ...

Engineer Kochin's Error (1939)

Engineer-designer of the Moscow aviation plant Cochin took the secret blueprints home. He didn't know that foreign intelligence had long been hunting for these blueprints... ...

Man in a Shell (1939)

The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a case, on the principle: "no matter what happens". By this principle, he literally "terrorized" the gymnasium an ...

The Ballad of Cossack Golota (1937)

The story of three young Russsian adventurers against the background of post-revolutionary skirmishes in the Ukraine. The boys get mixed up with a wounded commissar and a marauding White Russian officer. They find themselves in all sorts of predicaments be ...

Boule de Suif (1934)

A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A group of French bourgeois leaves in a stagecoach from Rouen occupied by Prussian troops. Along with them ...