Margarita Terekhova
Also Known As: Margarita Terekhova, Margarita Borisovna Terekhov, Маргари́та Бори́совна Те́рехова, Margareta Terechova
Biography: Margarita Borisovna Terekhova (Russian: Маргари́та Бори́совна Те́рехова; born August 25, 1942 in Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 1996. From 1959 she studied at the physics and mathematics faculty at the Tashkent State University from 1959 until 1961. After that she went to Moscow and tried to get into VGIK but her application was declined. After that she enrolled to study at the school-studio of Yuri Zavadsky at the Mossovet Theatre. After her graduation in 1964 she worked for many years as an actress of the Mossovet Theatre. From 1983 to 1987 she acted in the theatre group "The Puppet Show" organized by her and Igor Talkov. Terekhova's acting debut was in 1965 in the film Hello, That's Me!. Margarita became particularly popular in the late 1970s, after the release of a costumed musical TV films The Dog in the Manger and D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers. At first she played the capricious Countess Diana de Belflor, in the second - the treacherous Milady. Leading roles followed in films made by directors including Andrei Smirnov and Ilya Averbakh (Monologue, 1972) as well as the dual-role in Andrei Tarkovsky's acclaimed Mirror (1975). And more international co-productions came after, including George Cukor's The Blue Bird (1976) and Konrad Wolf's Mama, I'm Alive (1977). Terekhova's subsequent work in film proved her high level of acting expertise but did not attain the success as her earlier work. Margarita Terekhova worked and was friends with Igor Talkov. They had a close relationship and worked for some time together at the musical theatre collective "Balaganchik". In 2005 she made her debut as a director, shooting the film The Seagull based on the work of Anton Chekhov. Since then, Terekhova has retired from acting and almost never gives interviews due to her struggle with Alzheimer's disease. She rarely appears in public and hardly ever attends public events
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Turinsk, Sverdlovsk region, USSR [now Russia]
Adult: No
Birthday: August 25, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Female
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Overview: Rikki is a young mongoose who is adopted by a human family after nearly drowning in the river. He returns the favour by protecting them from two murderous cobra.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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Mirror
Overview: A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-03-07
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Trust
Overview: Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and the Soviet Union. In December 1917, the Finnish delegation, composed of Chairman of the Senate Finance Department P.E. Svinhufvud (Vilho Siivola), Senator Carl Enckell (Yrjö Tähtelä) and State Secretary Gustaf Idman (Yrjö Paulo) arrive in St. Petersburg to meet V.I. Lenin (Kirill Lavrov) to gain recognition for the country's independence.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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My Life
Overview: Man is trying to find simple human happiness. He decides for himself the question of what this happiness consists of - wealth, high social status, or something else.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-08-07
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Санта Эсперанса
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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Childhood. Boyhood. Youth
Overview: In this three-part series, Nikolai Irteniev reminisces and reflects on his life; he is eager to find answers to the most important questions of life. "How to be? how to do the right thing? What goals to strive for?" Based on Lev Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Зелёный огонь козы
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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Our Father
Overview: A young Jewish woman, having received an order from the occupation authorities to report to the assembly point, goes into town with her son. They approach the ghetto, but realizing what awaits them, they leave. They wander around the city, not daring to visit their friends. Night falls. Huddled together, mother and son fall asleep on a bench. And in the morning, soldiers indifferently throw their frozen bodies into the back of a truck.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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The Dog in the Manger
Overview: A musical comedy based on classical play by Félix Lope de Vega.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-12-01
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Dissident
Overview: Once upon a time there lived a young man who served where “enemy voices” were suppressed, wrote, and wanted to make a film. It seemed to him that complete freedom was needed in order not to let his abilities die out, so that there were no obstacles to creativity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-07-01
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Marta the Pious Woman
Overview: A musical comedy based on the classic play by Tirso de Molina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-06-06
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Monologue
Overview: Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. He raises his granddaughter, feeling a great affection for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-09-03
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Chayka
Overview: Новая экранизация знаменитой пьесы Антона Павловича Чехова. Действие фильма разворачивается в российской усадьбе на берегу озера в конце XIX века. Приезд в дом известного писателя Тригорина трагически меняет судьбы его обитателей.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-06
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Daylight Train
Overview: Two old friends living in Moscow and St. Petersburg are hoping to get their children married.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-06-06
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Byelorussian Station
Overview: "Belorussian Station" is a Soviet drama directed by Andrei Smirnov, completed in 1969 and released in 1971 after censorship delays due to its critical portrayal of post-war Soviet society and veterans' challenges. The film revolves around four former soldiers who reunite 25 years after World War II. They come together to mourn the death of a friend and reflect on their shared past and their personal struggles. "Belorussian Station" poignantly explores themes of friendship, memory, and the enduring impact of war on ordinary people's lives, eventually gaining significant acclaim for its heartfelt narrative and strong performances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-04-30
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The Wave Runner
Overview: A pianist named Garvey, while traveling on a tour, gets off the train to buy cigarettes, and learns from a salesgirl that the cities imagined by Grin really exist. Forgetting about his tour, he goes to one of these cities, where he meets the captain of “The Waverunner”…
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-06-07
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Hello, It's Me!
Overview: In post-war Armenia, physicist Artyom buries himself in work, haunted by the loss of his wife in WWII, unable to let go of the past. Meanwhile, young Tanya refuses to accept her stepfather, still waiting for her real father, missing in action for years. Their parallel journeys explore memory, loss, and the weight of history—both personal and national. As Artyom grapples with the dilemma of remembering versus forgetting, the film becomes a meditation on identity, time, and the inescapable pull of the past. Partially based on the life of prominent Soviet-Armenian scientist Artem Alikhanyan, Hello, It’s Me! is a deeply reflective exploration of history’s grip on both individuals and nations.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1966-03-26
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Mama, I’m Alive
Overview: In a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII agree to pose as Red Army soldiers. Are they patriots or traitors, heroes or opportunists? Although they go to the frontlines, their new Russian comrades are initially unsure whether to trust them. Three of them then accept a mission behind German lines, but they are unprepared to fire upon their countrymen and it ends up costing the life of a Russian soldier. In the meantime, the fourth man has fallen in love with Russian radio operator Svetlana. After being criticized by the other Russians, he too agrees to participate in the mission..
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-02-24
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Angel Pavement
Overview: Twig and Darsingham's offices were in Angel Street, London. The company's business is going badly, but suddenly a sales representative shows up in the office. With his arrival, the company began to prosper and the people who worked there had high hopes for the future. However, they were not destined to come true. Golspie's agent turned out to be a fraud who bankrupted the company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Trail
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Ordinary Children
Overview: Four years ago, Igor, Olya's father, fell in love with another woman, Tatyana, and left his wife. Tatyana has a son, Dima, whom Igor is adopting. And one day Igor can not meet Olya, and sends Dima instead. Children get acquainted. There is a paradox. Olya hates Dima and his mother, he is friendly. Children have to cross the line of love and hate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-06-03
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One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Overview: A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The title of the film is a play on the title of Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-15
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Schedule for the Day After Tomorrow
Overview: A literary teacher Antonina Sergeevna goes to work at an elite physical and mathematical lyceum from a regular school. She is surprised to see how respectful the students are here - as to full-fledged creative personalities. Soon she begins an affair with a young school principal - a talented physicist, candidate of science. But the euphoria of the first months of communication with students is replaced by disappointment - her pets turn out to be cold, rational people, almost indifferent to the beautiful ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-04-29
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Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
Overview: Phone conversation between an abandoned husband and his friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-05-05
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Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Overview: In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-06-21
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The Fourth
Overview: American journalist gets a sensational material but is afraid to publish it...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-12-11
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The Blue Bird
Overview: Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-30
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Primary Russia
Overview: The film takes place in pre-Christian Russia, when Ratibor united the East Slavs into one army against the nomadic Khazars.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-03-31
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While the Mountains Still Stand...
Overview: The plot of the film, which tends more towards a psychological drama than a sports and adventure film, is based on a mountain climbing trip, where the essence of everyone will soon manifest itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-04-01
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Сергеев ищет Сергеева
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Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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In the Middle of the World
Overview: Documentary about Arseniy Tarkovsky, poet and father of Andrei Tarkovsky.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-03-13
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Who Will go to Truskavets?
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-05-26
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За синими ночами
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
Overview: Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the years Tarkovsky spent in Italy, personal accounts of friends and professionals, the shooting locations of his films, to what degree his works reflects his personal life. The film brings us closer to the man to whom contemporary filmmaking owes so much.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-04-04
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Family Happiness
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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For Crazies Only
Overview: A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful married Russian nurse taking care of him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1991-02-18
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Players
Overview: The play is about the Game, about creativity, which this time turned into the form of a brilliant speck. Skillfully, talentedly and artistically, the victim of the same players as himself, Ikharev does not suffer a catastrophe, because his "Adelaide Ivanovna" remains with him. Tool and mascot of his game. His secret manuscript ...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-08-10
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Everything Could Have Been Otherwise
Overview: Growing up in an orphanage, Florin is trying to find his mother Dorina, whom he has not seen for 15 years. His beloved Liza is very jealous of Florin's plans. Having met his mother, an already adult son is trying to understand the person who gave him life and abandoned him. But can a son forgive his mother, who deprived him of a happy childhood?
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-12-20
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Overview: In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, and Edwin fights Neville Landles, who is in love with Rose, leading to his disappearance.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-09-15
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The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut
Overview: The nobleman des Grieux falls in love with the mysterious and attractive girl of humble origin Manon Lescaut. The girl seems to love the young man, but at the same time commits unworthy acts, seducing rich noblemen and involving des Grieux himself in a dissolute life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-12-31
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I Don't Want to Be Unhappy
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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It
Overview: The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Town". In a metaphorical and grotesque form, the film conveys the history of Russia from the calling of the Varangians until the end of the 20th century. The film traces the change of the “chiefs” of the county town of Glupov, which differ in varying degrees of tyranny and the corresponding total number of “killed” city residents. The heads of the city easily guess the former heads of the Russian state and the USSR.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-02-05
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Let's Get Married
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-04-30
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Broken Light
Overview: An art film about the life of Soviet creatives in the late 1980s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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The Forbidden Fruit
Overview: The film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are reawakened by an unexpected development.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1994-10-28
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Islands: Georgy Rerberg
Overview: A short documentary about the life and career of cinematographer Georgy Rerberg.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Achisai
Overview: Lost among the mountains is the small town of Achisai with a mine - the embodiment of the ideal Stalinist paradise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-02-17
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