Zhanna Prokhorenko
Also Known As: Жанна Прохоренко
Biography: Zhanna Prokhorenko (11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011) was a Soviet actress, best known for her role in Grigory Chukhray's film Ballad of a Soldier. She was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. She was also a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honour and of the Medal "For Labour Valour".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Poltava, USSR (Ukraine)
Adult: No
Birthday: May 11, 1940
Age: 85 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 01, 2011
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На новом месте
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-04-01
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You Should Survive
Overview: 1945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls. The last days of the war are coming... In one of the battles, Lieutenant Volynin’s attack aircraft, damaged by a shell fragment, landed in territory occupied by the Germans. Air gunner Shchepov carried the wounded commander out of the burning plane. With the help of the Polish teacher Anna, they managed to get to theirs. And everyday life at the front began again. A few days before the Victory, Dima Shchepov died. Volynin took the death of his friend seriously. But it was even harder for him to learn about the death of Anna, whom he loved and whom he promised to find after the war...
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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Two Versions of the Same Collision
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-07-01
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But What If This Is Love?
Overview: High school students Ksenya and Boris are in love but all the world is against them.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-06-06
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Венский лес
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-05-06
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Ballad of a Soldier
Overview: During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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One Chance in One Thousand
Overview: In German-occupied Crimea during WWII, a group of Russian soldiers employ unusual tactics to steal classified documents from their enemies.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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The Marriage of Balzaminov
Overview: Based on the trilogy of Aleksandr Ostrovsky. Moscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, sees his happiness in marrying a rich bride. Misha images in dreams and fantasies that he is a general or even a king — rich and domineering. And in reality, poor Balzaminov is haunted by setbacks...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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Attack and Retreat
Overview: Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-16
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The Red Snowball Tree
Overview: A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-03-25
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Point, Point, Comma...
Overview: A lyric comedy about eight-graders, their life and first love...
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-06-06
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Point, Point, Comma...
Overview: A lyric comedy about eight-graders, their life and first love...
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-06-06
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Golden Mine
Overview: The film is set in the 1970s Leningrad, Russia. Fugitive Brunov is a dangerous criminal, who escaped from jail. He is after the treasure that was hidden by him years ago at his former country-house. He is having plastic surgery to hide his identity, while preparing for his next crime. He is trying to kill another man, who is also after the same treasure. Investigators Zarubin, Kromkin and Lebedeva are untangling the case.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-06-06
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We Lived Next Door
Overview: The happy days of the first love of eighth graders dimmed when they learned that Nadina's mother and Serezha's recently widowed father were going to live together. The youthful maximalism of adolescents hurts parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-03-24
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Entrance to Labyrinth
Overview: The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hallucinations) and in the days of Perestroika.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-05-01
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Sokolovo
Overview: The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-05-09
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The Incident Which Nobody Noticed
Overview: The modest shop assistant in a grocery shop Nastya dreamed about happiness. She dreamed about miracle, which would have made her beautiful. She dreamed all day and all night. And one day the miracle happened ...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Witches Cave
Overview: An interstellar expedition is sent to study a strange planet. Despite the fact that creatures from various Earth time periods inhabit the world, the natives possess metal swords, even though they should have no knowledge of such weaponry.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Adventure Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Lyalka-Ruslan and His Friend Sanka
Overview: A story about a two schoolboys who are having a lot of fun and adventures during vacations time.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-06-06
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Charlotte Necklace
Overview: While investigating a murder KGB detectives discover a criminal group which transfers a stolen artworks abroad .
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-12-20
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Fear of the Height
Overview: On the day of a brilliant dissertation defense, a young scientist unexpectedly dies. Investigation of the facts indicates an accident. However, the discrepancy in the testimonies of colleagues leads the investigator to think about the uncleanness of the hero, who simply used the unpublished results of other people's work.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-03-19
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Непридуманная история
Overview: Feature film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-04
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Loop
Overview: Moscow militia detectives are investigating a death of a young girl whose body was found in the construction site.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-03-11
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Farewell
Overview: Spring, 1944. The Great Patriotic war. The German fascists are still in Sevastopol. A fierce combat is taking place there. At the same time in Yalta, which has already been freed, life goes on peacefully. People believe that the war has left them, that it is far away and no longer dangerous… But the torpedo motor-boat squadron stationed in Yalta is still having a hard time. Every day Soviet marines undertake dangerous sorties towards the German-occupied Sevastopol.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-12-06
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Uncle's Dream
Overview: An important event is taking place in a small provincial town, an elderly rich prince arrives. The local "lioness" Maria Alexandrovna Moskaleva decides to marry him to her daughter Zinochka. But the "noble" Mordassov society is by no means inclined to voluntarily give up its positions: after all, in the head of every mother who has a marriageable daughter, the dream is to get a rich man as a son-in-law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-02-06
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If You Are a Man
Overview: The main character of the film is an ordinary chauffeur Pavel, whose life is not very successful, despite the fact that he is a very kind and fair person. Finally, fate smiles at Pavel, he meets true love, but more and more tests fall to his lot, as if testing a simple guy for strength.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-05-29
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Mercy Train
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-02-22
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Deadly Enemy
Overview: Based on the Don stories by Mikhail Sholokhov. Soviet power was only established on the Don, and a conflict broke out in the first commune: the wife of the commune’s leader Arseniy Klyukvin, having believed the promises of the white officer, fell in love and went to live with him with the child. She doesn't want to hide her feelings, but unable to withstand the bestial attitude of a white officer, she returns back to the Bolshevik.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-12-08
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Newcomer
Overview: The love story of Fedor, the village chauffeur and Mari, a local school teacher.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-12-04
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Going Inside a Storm
Overview: Sergei Krylov and Oleg Tulin, are promising young physicists in the field of thunderstorms. They dream of weather control. But later their ways in science parted - Oleg is ready to tradeoff his standpoints for personal success, but Sergei knows that the truth is more critical.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-11-15
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Discovery
Overview: This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. The events in it are developing in 20 years during the Civil war, when he sent a geologist searching for copper in the coal mines of the merchant Stasova, and in the 70s, when the head of the Institute. His thoughts and actions as if he reconciles his past, revolutionary romanticism 20-h his life's work was the discovery of a new chemical element. He believes in getting it even when the explosion in the laboratory takes the life of his closest friend and colleague, when his grown-up adopted son, becoming also a chemist, suffered during the experiments. Believe when testing on military ground again fail…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-06-22
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Door Without Lock
Overview: Peter married and was immediately appointed captain of the ship. In his first flight, the hero went with his wife — really wanted to introduce her to her mother. But mother offended on him…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-02-13
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From Dawn Till Sunset
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Retired Colonel
Overview: Korney Korneevich Polunin is a career military officer, a retired colonel. His wife died when his son was one and a half years old, Alexey had already grown up, became independent, and they rarely see each other. Unable to stay at home, Polunin goes to the factory as a locksmith - in his old specialty. Friends perceive this as an oddity, and they look at him warily at work. But a group of teenagers comes to the plant's personnel department, and Polunin undertakes to lead this team, instilling in it respect for work and awareness of his need to achieve the final result of work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-02-07
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They Were Actors
Overview: The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of the city of Simferopol entered the underground group Sokol. The activities of the underground members were diverse: they put up leaflets with information from Soviet Information Bureau, compiled maps showing the strategic objects of the enemy, and supplied the partisans with medicines. On April 10, 1944, 3 days before the liberation of Simferopol, the underground members died from enemy bullets — they were shot on the outskirts of the city.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-12-12
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Close Afar
Overview: Sergei Bukreyev arrives with a team of meliorators in another village and immediately draws attention to the director of the farm Anna Talnikova. Her dedication to work scares Sergei, he even wants to persuade her to leave the farm, but understands that Anna will never be happy without her work, and he – without it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-10-22
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Любовь Серафима Фролова
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-06-08
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Двадцать лет спустя
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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There is no Stranger's Land
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Антрацит
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-01-17
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