Inna Churikova
Also Known As: Inna Churikova, Инна Чурикова, Inna Tschurikowa, Інна Чурикова
Biography: Inna Mikhailovna Churikova (1943-2023) was a renowned Soviet and Russian actress celebrated for her extensive work in both film and theater. Born in Belebey, Bashkir ASSR, she moved to Moscow in the early 1950s. She studied at the Stanislavsky Theater's drama studio and graduated from the Shchepkin Theater Institute. Churikova gained fame with films like "No Path Through Fire" (1968) and "The Beginning" (1970), directed by her future husband Gleb Panfilov. Over her career, she appeared in more than 80 films. She received numerous prestigious film awards, including the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival and multiple Nika Awards. Her theater career was equally distinguished. She became a leading actress at the Lenkom Theatre. Some of her notable stage roles included Arkadina in Chekhov's "The Seagull," which earned her the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1996. She also received the Stanislavsky Award (2014) for her contributions to theatrical arts. Inna Churikova passed away on January 14, 2023. Titles and Recognitions (by year): - Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1977) - For her contributions to Soviet theatrical art. - People's Artist of the RSFSR (1985) - For her contributions to Soviet theatrical art. - People's Artist of the USSR (1991) - For her significant contributions to Soviet theatrical art. - Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (France) (2010) - Honored for her outstanding contributions to the arts. - Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Major Awards (by year): - Locarno International Film Festival Award (1969) - Best Actress for "No Path Through Fire". - Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival (1984) - For her role in "Wartime Romance". - Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1985) - For her role in the film "Vassa". Nika Award: - Best Actress for "Adam’s Rib" (1991). - Best Supporting Actress for "Bless the Woman" (2004). Golden Eagle Award: - Best Supporting Actress for "The Idiot" (2004). State Prize of the Russian Federation (1996) - For her role in Chekhov's "The Seagull". Stanislavsky Award (2014) - For her outstanding contributions to theater.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belebey, Republic of Bashkortostan, USSR
Birthday: October 05, 1943
Deathday: January 14, 2023
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Gender: Female
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Father Frost
Overview: A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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Thirty-three
Overview: The dentist of the provincial town of Upper Yamki made an unexpected scientific discovery by finding the thirty-third tooth in the patient’s oral cavity, Ivan Sergeyevich Travkin. Travkin, exhausted from pain, was taken to Moscow. Ivan Sergeyevich first becomes a patient of a madhouse (thanks to envious persons), and then — a hero of a scientific international conference and, finally, a patient of a dentist professor Bruk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-04-22
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The Very Same Munchhausen
Overview: A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy, yet very merriment, stories, views and behavior is what sets him apart from others. He becomes alienated from the society that failed to grasp his brilliance. In fact, his brilliance is what underlines the faults with the society itself. It's a beautiful yet tragic story that is filled with dense and intellectual dialogue.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-12-31
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Adam's Rib
Overview: The film is based on the story of Anatoly Kurchatkin "House of Women". A tragicomedy about four women of three generations who lives in a tiny Moscow apartment: a sick grandmother, constantly requiring attention; a mother, very peculiar woman, who still hoping to somehow arrange her personal life; and two daughters, each of whom has a lot of problems.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-09-07
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The Elusive Revengers
Overview: Dan'ka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village has been brutally ended when their father was killed by the White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge they join forces with an intellectual from the city Valerka and jipsy Yashka, but before they get close to their enemy they have to help their village and advancing Red Army.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Casus Belli
Overview: A gentleman hires a female private detective to spy on his wife - and suddenly falls in love.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-22
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Audience
Overview: ...Every Tuesday, at six o'clock in the evening, the Queen of Great Britain gives an audience to the Prime Minister. No one and nothing obliges them to participate in this ritual, but according to the rules of good form, the Prime minister must inform his monarch about events in the country and the world. For six and a half decades, many politicians have replaced each other in the chair of the head of the cabinet, from Sir Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, the world has changed beyond recognition. Only one thing remains unshakable – the report of the Prime minister, whoever it is, is received by Queen Elizabeth II, who has occupied the British throne for the longest time in history.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-04-25
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Overview: The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything has changed and he will have to fight again for his name, for his honor, and for his love.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-05-05
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Walking the Streets of Moscow
Overview: On a stopover in Moscow, a young writer Volodya makes friends with Kolya, who is returning home from a hard night shift. Just as Kolya is about to take a rest, he is met by his old friend Sasha, who wants help getting a deferral from military service so that he can get married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-04-11
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Courier
Overview: Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and works as a courier at a Russian newspaper. Through his job, he meets patronizing Professor Kuznetzov and his rebellious daughter Katya. To annoy the professor, Ivan claims to have an affair with Katya. To his surprise, Katya backs his story up.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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No Path Through Fire
Overview: A talented girl is trying to find happiness amidst the Russian revolution of 1917 and the civil war that split the nation.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-12-25
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Khalif the Stork
Overview: A rich caliph is leading a careless life. One day an evil wizard sells him a magic potion that can turn human into any animal he wants. The only condition: one mustn't laugh.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-02-02
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The Beginning
Overview: A talented girl from the provincial Russian town Pasha Stroganova dreams of becoming an actress. She plays the role of Baba Yaga in the amateur theatre — and does it so organically that the visiting filmmaker offers her the most difficult role in the historical drama about Joan of Arc. She was given not only great acting talent, but the talent of deep, selfless love. A dream comes true: she is invited to the main role, and she begins a completely different life, full of real creative torment, insights and true happiness.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-10-12
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The Delegation
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Peppermint Gingerbread
Overview: "Peppermint Gingerbread" is two stories – two lives. One is extremely sweet and cloying, like a Christmas fairy tale, the second is scary to the point of goosebumps and realistic, like life itself. A life full of children's and adult emotions, experiences and fears, feelings of anxiety and joy. Who is destined to become an orphan with a living mother, and who is ready to find the closest person on earth – mom by faith alone?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2022-02-26
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What a Mess!
Overview: The story starts in a Siberia where world's biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may not only pay off the enormous national debt, but also allow every Russian citizen to move to the Canary Islands. However, Mafia plans to steal the massive gem but a notorious thief, Vasia, ruins their plans. Mafia and militia begin chasing him, but soon Vasia learns that he has brothers as between the chase he runs into well known Jewish conductor and a gypsy baron who are triplet brothers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-06-06
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Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
Overview: The author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original. Festive mess in the same House of Culture, where they celebrated the New Year 50 years ago. Now the institution is named after Ogurtsov and is headed by Mr. Kabachkov. A young enthusiast Alyona Krylatova and a young man Denis Kolechkin work in the recreation center. Alyona, as she can, opposes the "arts" of the bureaucrat and opportunist Kabachkov, and Denis helps her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The Cook
Overview: Based on the play of the same name by Anatoly Sofronov. In one of the Kuban collective farms, a new beauty-cook has appeared. Many began to look after her, but the girl was not a timid dozen and quickly gave a turn to the unlucky boyfriends from the gate. However, true love found a way to her heart, and although human envy and stupidity have done many troubles, the lovers still managed to unravel this complex tangle of misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-05-23
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The Year of the Dog
Overview: Former criminal Sergei meets Vera - an elderly unhappy woman who lives in a dormitory. After Sergei commits another crime, they run together and along the way they accidentally get into a zone contaminated by radiation. Sergei decides to stay there, but Vera does not leave him. At that moment three looters come to the territory.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-02-01
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Hamlet
Overview: TV performance of the famous work of Shakespeare.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-08-01
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Lie for Salvation
Overview: The action of the play has been transferred to our time. Can a lie be a salvation? Is it possible to save a person by lying?
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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Aquitaine Lioness
Overview: A TV play in two acts based on the play "The Lion in Winter" by James Goldman. King Henry II, in his declining years, must announce the name of the heir to the throne. For the sake of this event, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves her prison for a while. On Christmas Day 1183, three royal sons gather. The atmosphere of conspiracies, intrigues, insidious alliances between family members explodes with open hostility...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-08-01
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Bless the Woman
Overview: Tiny Soviet village by the sea, in the years before the Second World War... A very young girl, Vera, falls madly in love with an older military officer who is visiting from out of town. She leaves her home and family to live with him in various military posts where he serves with the army. Through the difficulties of army life, and years of war, her love for this older man survives, and she gives herself completely without reservation. This film is about friendship, loss, survival, loyalty, and the wonderful gift of unconditional love, which is only given to a few.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-09-04
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Patient No. 1
Overview: The end of the Soviet empire. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. "The power is only taken, it is never given away," he repeats. And it is convenient for both the elites and the secret services -- while the "body" is alive, various groups are scoring their political points. The General Secretary is "sentenced to life". A young nurse Sasha looks after him. Small, fragile and invisible, she bears a heavy burden of responsibility for the life of the country's top official. Meanwhile, the old man is waging a war in Afghanistan, has a nuclear button and can take the entire world to the grave with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Valentina
Overview: A drama about an affair between 18 years old dinning-room waitress and much older police investigator.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-06-06
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I Wish to Speak
Overview: The mayor of a village sees her son killed in a gun accident. A successful, dedicated bureuacrat, she must reconcile her desire to build a bridge - and the new housing that will come with it - with the reality of resistance from the townspeople and her own grief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-11-29
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Mother
Overview: The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). In the story, "the mother" (Inna Tchourikova) has no other recourse than to watch her decent, kindly husband turn into an animalistic, drunken brute as a result of working in the inhuman conditions of a steel mill in the town of Sormovo. When he begins to express his suppressed rage by beating her, she is defended by her teenaged son Pavel (depicted Viktor Rakov as an adult, Sacha Chichonok as a boy). After his father's death, Pavel is forced to go to work in the same factory. However, Pavel and his friends begin investigating Marxism and socialist thought, and work to organize their fellow workers.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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Elder Sister
Overview: A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-03-06
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The Cat Who Walked by Herself
Overview: Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, and the Cat comes into the room to keep him company. The child grabs her tail, and the Cat angrily reminds him that they agreed a thousand years ago that he would not do that. Upon seeing that the child doesn't remember, the Cat sighs and decides to tell him the story from the beginning. The story starts when the planet was young and life on Earth is starting with dinosaurs.
Genres: Drama Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Yankovsky
Overview: This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his personal life. Although it's all in the film: a dramatic fate, unknown pages of biography. Like any great actor, he possessed a secret - he did not tell both in the movies and in life. But his main gift was not even acting. Yankovsky was talented at making people fall in love with him. I wanted to look at him again and again: that's why they loved him and still love him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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You Youth!
Overview: A story about high school students preparing for New Year's Eve and what can happen if the wrong person takes over...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Clouds Over Borsk
Overview: Tenth grader Olya Ryzhkova can't find understanding among the people around her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-02-25
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War-Time Romance
Overview: This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl's father having been killed at the front.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-11-07
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Because It's Me
Overview: The cycle consists of four short stories ("Record", "Havana", "Close Embrace", "Uncle from Chicago") connected by a common idea - to present different portraits of a modern Russian woman. It is planned to add some more interesting stories. All the short stories are shot by different directors, and each of them shows the viewer His Own Woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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No Borders
Overview: Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-10-22
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Александр Абдулов. Роман с жизнью
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-05-27
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The Land of OZ
Overview: In Yekaterinburg over the Christmas period, shop assistant Lenka Shabadinova experiences a number of incredible events and unexpected meetings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-06-10
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The Best Day Ever
Overview: For a successful Road Patrol Service officer time to start a family, but he lives with his mother. When Petia decides to propose Olya marriage, his official car crashes into drunken pop star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-12-24
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Dead Souls
Overview: Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small provincial town and begins to proposition the local landowners. These landowners are revealed to be so petty and avaricious that not even Chichikov’s amazing offer can be worked to his advantage on them. Some stall, some refuse for no obvious reasons, some promise and then renege, and others want “in on the deal.” In the end, Chichikov, having concluded that the landowners are a hopeless lot, leaves for other regions.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-11-19
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Where Are You Now, Maxim?
Overview: A story of a young man who is returning to his home town after being evacuated as a boy during WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-06-14
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Ryaba, My Chicken
Overview: In Soviet days an old peasant woman's hen begins to lay golden eggs. Of course, everyone agrees that she should share the wealth like a good citizen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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Save My Speech
Overview: This is the story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, recreated at the intersection of the arts and genres: puppet theater, design, computer graphics, documentary. The rebellious spirit of Mandelstam's poetry sounded a challenge to the authorities, and their author was destroyed by a state machine - he died in a transit camp. Much of what he wrote could not have been preserved had it not been for her husband Nadezhda, who taught his works by heart, copied manually-in anticipation of times when they could be published.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-10-22
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Keep Forever
Overview: Diplomat Volodin is going to work in the States for a responsible job. But, having crossed the ocean, he immediately went over to the Americans. And not empty-handed: he calls the American embassy from a pay phone and gives the appearance of a Soviet intelligence officer. The traitor is sure that he will not be identified “by the phone's strangled voice. There can be no such technology. But, on the instructions of the Chekists, such a technique was developed in Marfino's "sharashka" near Moscow by convict engineers and scientists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Marriage
Overview: About the hapless bridegroom Podkolesin, who escaped from the bride through the window, and the picky bride Agafya Tikhonovna, who can not choose the right one, Mark Zakharov saw the story of a man who wants to change something in his life, but is not capable of doing anything.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-04-22
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Guilty Without Guilt
Overview: In a small provincial town, a famous actress comes on tour, who once fled from here from the shame of unhappy love. Many years ago, she was forced to leave her illegitimate son to raise strangers. Therefore, when a talented and reckless young actor appears on the way of a now rich and famous woman, she certainly wants to help him. The actress begins to take an active part in the fate of the young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-10-05
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Vassa
Overview: Screen adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky "Vassa Zheleznova". Saga of the death of a merchant family. For many years, Vassa Zheleznova has been leading the family business and, despite the inconspicuous children, her dissolute husband, alcoholic brother, and revolutionary daughter-in-law, is trying to maintain at least the appearance of a normal family... 1913 is coming, and everything that was dedicated to her life is wrecked.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-09-12
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The Theme
Overview: In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that here people live very differently than in the world familiar to him. By chance, he witnesses someone else's love drama - intellectual Sasha and dissident Andrei who is leaving for America. He is shocked by this complex conflict and fictitious problems, where there is no place for either melancholy or depression. In this situation, the hero decides to go to Moscow...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-01-09
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I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman
Overview: This glasnost-era documentary, which incorporates footage from films from the 1920s through the 1980s, looks at the history of women in Russian cinema through the eyes of Russian women directors, actors, and scriptwriters. The film’s title refers to a WWII slogan about women doing the work of absent men in the fields and at home. Featuring Kira Muratova, Natalia Ryazantseva, Inna Churikova, Nonna Mordyukova, and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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Autumn Memories
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-03-08
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