Zhanna Bolotova
Also Known As: Zhanna Bolotova, Жанна Болотова
Biography: Zhanna Bolotova is a Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s. In 1977 she became a USSR State Prize laureate and was designated as a People's Artist of Russia in 1985 She debuted on screen while still at school, in The House That I Live In by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel. In 1964 she graduated the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the class of Sergei Gerasimov and Tatyana Makarova, to join the Cinema Actor Studio Theatre. In 1969 she received her first international award, for The Best Female Role, at the Varna Red Cross film festival, for 24-24 Does Not Return. The Silence of Dr. Evens (1974) earned her another award in the same category, at the Triest Film Festival.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chanovsky District, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR
Adult: No
Birthday: October 19, 1941
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Female
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Dead Man's Bluff
Overview: Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-05-26
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Wounded Game
Overview: A story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-06-20
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Wings
Overview: After WWII, a Soviet pilot returns to civilian life and struggles in her roles as school principal and mother, and with her memories of the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-08-15
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Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Overview: Two reserved people, almost resigned to their loneliness, found each other at the Soviet-era sea resort on the late autumn. Long dinners with senceless conversations transform into a love story.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-05-18
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The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
Overview: A story about a good doctor - surgeon Mishkin who works in a countryside hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-06-06
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A Dangerous Age
Overview: A relations between man and woman become complicate after 20 years of marriage.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-10-20
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24-25 Doesn't Come Back
Overview: In the experimental clinic, a batch of valuable drug was stolen. Major Grigast suspects that someone from the clinic is involved in this. He entrusts this complex matter to a young investigator Mara. An investigation leads her to a distant border town in the south of the country, where the offender intended to ship the drug abroad.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1969-04-28
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And Life, and Tears and Love
Overview: The life of the inhabitants of the veterans' house was boring and monotonous. Everything changed with the arrival of the new head physician, Varvara Dmitriyevna. Her kindness and sensitivity began to work miracles. After all, Varvara Dmitriyevna tries not only to treat the ailments of the elderly, but also to return to them their lost interest in life, the belief that one can still love and be loved...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-08-20
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Escape of Mr. McKinley
Overview: A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it?
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-15
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The Roundabout
Overview: Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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If You Are Right
Overview: Having lost her parents during the war, Galya was brought up in an orphanage. When the grandfather was rehabilitated, they began to live together. Galya often called Alyosha to repair the phone. After walking around Moscow at night, they realized that they loved each other. Once, after another call, Aleksei was slandered. The boss, not wanting to delve into the essence of the client's complaint, invited Aleksei to apologize. The guy refused — and he was fired from his job. Friends helped him find another job, but he could not convince Galya that he was right. The girl reproached him for cowardice — and the heroes quarrelled...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-03-19
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The Love of Mankind
Overview: A film about young architects who are building a new city in Siberia (Norilsk), their anxieties, concerns, and victories. Story of subtle psychology of love and personal happiness experienced men and women, behind the shoulders of which the pain of the past
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-12-01
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The Black Triangle
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Genres: Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-10-13
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If You Want To Be Happy
Overview: Andrei and Tanya love each other, which is why frequent partings are so difficult for them: Andrei is a test pilot, and Tanya works on television, and both are constantly on business trips. They have two sons — twins. For eight years of marriage, they cannot count a total of three when they were together. And yet they are happy...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-04
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On the Way to Lenin
Overview: A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way to Lenin wake up again.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-04-15
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The Journalist
Overview: A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of the situation and the measure of responsibility to those whom he was obliged to protect...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-09-23
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Rudin
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-10-24
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Sergey Ivanovich Retires
Overview: Accountant Sergey Ivanovich is retiring. Finally, he will be able to devote all his free time to his family: he will help his daughter Natalya with the housework, raise his granddaughter, visit his sons who live in different cities... But it turns out that adult children do not need parental care, and Sergei Ivanovich feels uneasy at work...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-04-20
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Declaration of Love to G.T.
Overview: Dr. Gisa Tonius, a physicist in her thirties who has a nearly adult stepdaughter, cherishes the desire to have her own child. Suddenly, a big interdisciplinary research project threatens to significantly change Gisa′s life. Uncertain whether to look for professional or private fulfillment she asks her family and friends for their opinions. They all have different views on the point at issue. While her husband is afraid of losing her to her profession, her professor thinks that because of her talent she has an obligation towards science. In the end, Gisa reaches a decision: She wants to have a baby as well as take on the research project.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-02
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The First Courier
Overview: The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian Social Democrats, began to appear. The Russian conspirator Konkordiya arrives from Munich at the railway station of the Bulgarian port city Varna. She meets the Bulgarian Ivan Zagubanski and gives him two suitcases with false bottoms, which contain a secret consignment of the latest issue of a newspaper. About the young, courageous revolutionary Ivan Zagubanski, who was one of the first couriers to bring Iskra from abroad. The film showed an ideological, moral clash of people preparing a revolution with the guardians of the royal order.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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Harsh Kilometers
Overview: In the Siberian wilderness, on one of the car depots, bad stories occur. It all starts with theft, and leads to murder. And neither the police nor the leadership of the base can put things in order. Moreover, the main character, Alexei, seems that he is completely alone in search of the truth.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-10-12
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Meeting on a Distant Meridian
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Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Restricted Area
Overview: Central Russia. The deputy chairman of the district executive committee, Tretyakova, was instructed to organize work to eliminate the consequences of a tornado that suddenly hit the village. She has to come to terms with the indifference of summer residents from a neighboring village, untouched by the disaster. Relying on her own experience and the will of the victims, Tretyakova will do her best...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The House I Live In
Overview: 1935. Two families — Davydov's with three children and the newlyweds Lida and Dmitri Kashirin's — enter the new house on the outskirts of Moscow into a common communal apartment. The children grow up, and they and the adults around them are looking for their place in life, looking for answers to the questions of who to be and what to be, quarreling, making peace, building relationships, destroying them. Six years later, the peaceful lives of characters, with their joys and misfortunes, quarrels and reconciliations, and complex personal relationships, are blown up by a war that connects everyone at once, forcing them to see the meaning of their days, their attitudes to each other and their life values in a different way. For some of them, war is a fatal trait.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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The Secret Agent's Destiny
Overview: After Tulyev's arrest, Soviet counterintelligence continues the radio game with the enemy, sending encryptions signed "Nadezhda" to the Western intelligence center. KGB officer Sinitsyn, friendly towards Tulyev, tries to persuade him to take his side — he arranges a meeting to a scout with Mariya and her son, whom he has never seen before. In addition, Mikhail learns that his father didn't die of his own death, but was most likely killed. Meanwhile, a young Soviet scientist Borkov, who spoke at an international conference about his innovative work, finds himself in the spotlight of the Western security services.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-08-10
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Men and Beasts
Overview: The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-05-21
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