Elina Bystritskaya
Birthday: 1928-04-04
Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Biography: Elina Bystritskaya is a Soviet and Russian actress best known for her role of Aksiniya in Sergei Gerasimov's epic screening of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1958). Jewish by ethnicity and a native of Kiev, Bystritskaya was chosen to play Aksiniya by Sholokhov himself over several distinguished candidates, notably Nonna Mordyukova. Before that, she co-starred with Sergey Bondarchuk in the Unfinished Story, an archetypal Socialist Realist film. In the 1960's, Bystritskaya turned to theatre work in the Maly Theatre and her appearances on screen grew sporadic. She was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1978.
Movies
Russian Souvenir
The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thu...
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Quiet Flows the Don
Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the Fir...
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All Remains to People
Renowned scientist Dronov works in Novosibirsk on the creation of ultra-modern engine. He has a bad ...
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«Bogatyr» Goes to Marto
The Soviet steamer Bogatyr delivers construction materials and rafts with timber to the earthquake-s...
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In Peaceful Time
A few days from the life of Soviet submariners - during a regular peaceful time......
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Unfinished Story
The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person. She ...
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The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tell...
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Summer Residents
In the focus of the film is the fate of Varvara Basova, whose painfully soulless, philistine-gray ex...
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Seven Days After the Murder
A terrible tragedy occurs in the family of a famous general: one of his daughters is killed. The inv...
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Brave Guys
Four veteran pilots were invited by the leadership of the military unit to perform a special task. A...
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The Volunteers
Based on the novel of the same name in the verses of Yevgeni Dolmatovsky. Together with hundreds of...
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Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
The second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Th...
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Eternal Fire
About the difficult fate of a former political prisoner who came in search of his son in the places ...
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Nikolay Bauman
This film tells about two years of life (1904-1905) of the revolutionary-Leninist, one of the founde...
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Babi Yar
Melodrama about the mass shooting of Ukrainian Jewry at Babi Yar in Kyiv during the Second World War...
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Farewell Tour
Four actresses of the provincial theater are traveling in one compartment on tour to Moscow. They ar...
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Crazy Money
A story about the morals of 19th-century Russian nobility resonates in a striking way with the reali...
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Wolves and Sheep
Ostrovsky and the Maly Theatre tell us an age-old story, as old as the world itself, about how some ...
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The Ostrovsky House
A production of the State Academic Maly Theater. The film, dedicated to the memory of Alexander Niko...
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