Natalya Tenyakova
Birthday: 1944-07-03
Place of Birth: Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Biography: Natalya Tenyakova was a Soviet and Russian actress. Despite some early success as the lead of a few high-profile films, she quickly lost interest in the filmmaking process and focused her attention on live theatre, starring in dozens of plays on stage and television to great acclaim. Her signature roles in film include Lida in Elder Sister (1967) and Shura in Love and Pigeons (1985), where she formed a memorable comic duo with her husband and frequent co-star, Sergei Yursky.
Movies
Love and Pigeons
One of the most favorite Soviet comedies, a screen version of the play of the same name by Vladimir ...
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Uncle's Dream
Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman...
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The Green Carriage
Inspired by the life of Varvara Asenkova, a 19th-century actress who earned great acclaim on St. Pet...
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Forest
Alexander Ostrovsky's textbook comedy in the modern interpretation of Kirill Serebrennikov: about th...
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Outside the System
On the day of the 150th anniversary of Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, an evening dedication "O...
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Elder Sister
A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actre...
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The Cabal of Hypocrites
A play about the life and death of Jean-Baptiste Molière, an artist tired of fighting the world....
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Colonel Chabert
Colonel Chabert, who miraculously survived the battle, returns to his homeland after several years o...
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The Light Shines in the Darkness
A man tries to follow his interpretations and behave accordingly, sacrificing his entire private pro...
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The Widow Steamer
A story about women living in the same communal apartment, which they themselves nicknamed the "Wido...
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Year When I Wasn't Born
The well-being of Stepan Sudakov’s family, which he himself believes in, turns out to be shaky. Prac...
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The Frenchman
In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University....
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Chernov/Chernov
The strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real...
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
A cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry...
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The Gamblers: XXI
A filmed version of Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers", transposed into modern-day Russia and performed ...
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Thunderstorm Over Belaya
The film is set in 1919. The film tells about an episode of the Civil War, when the troops under the...
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Our Friends
After the death of her father, Antonina Staroselskaya has difficulty finding work. A dull life is th...
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Swan Song
Oleg Borisov’s benefit performance. The plot of this televised stage production is based on Anton Ch...
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A Long Cat Tale
In this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective go...
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Fiesta
A stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", first staged for Gorky Bolshoi Drama ...
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The Death of Vazir Mukhtar
A television play chronicling the lead-up to the assassination of diplomat and playwright Alexander ...
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The Chairs
A television version of the award-winning stage adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's tragic farce, mounted...
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The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
A television adaptation of a short comedy of the same name by George Bernard Shaw....
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The Golovlevs
A television play based on Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's satirical family chronicle....
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Version
A television play based on the life and works of Russian poet Alexander Blok performed by the cast o...
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Handmade Clouds
Five stories depicting five different kinds of love, from childhood to old age....
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Ship of the Desert
A porcupine, a jerboa, and a turtle build a wooden ship in the desert....
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White Hair Urgently Required
While on a business trip to Leningrad, engineer Sergei Gushchin meets a young woman and quickly fall...
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Heroines of Ostrovsky's Plays
The film is dedicated to the heroines of Ostrovsky’s plays—wives, cooks, actresses, matchmakers. For...
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The Theater of I.S. Turgenev
On the uniqueness and significance of I.S. Turgenev's theater, and the connection between his dramat...
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The Stove on Wheels
The heroine of the comedy is Frosya, a mother of five children and a calf-maiden, who lives in a run...
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