Zhanna Bolotova

Zhanna Bolotova

Birthday: 1941-10-19

Place of Birth: Chanovsky District, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR

Biography: Zhanna Bolotova is a Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s. In 1977 she became a USSR State Prize laureate and was designated as a People's Artist of Russia in 1985 She debuted on screen while still at school, in The House That I Live In by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel. In 1964 she graduated the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the class of Sergei Gerasimov and Tatyana Makarova, to join the Cinema Actor Studio Theatre. In 1969 she received her first international award, for The Best Female Role, at the Varna Red Cross film festival, for 24-24 Does Not Return. The Silence of Dr. Evens (1974) earned her another award in the same category, at the Triest Film Festival.

Movies

Dead Man's Bluff
Dead Man's Bluff

Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed....

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The Orphans
The Orphans

A story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II....

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Wings
Wings

After WWII, a Soviet pilot returns to civilian life and struggles in her roles as school principal a...

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Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh

Two reserved people, almost resigned to their loneliness, found each other at the Soviet-era sea res...

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The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin

A story about a good doctor - surgeon Mishkin who works in a countryside hospital....

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A Dangerous Age
A Dangerous Age

A relations between man and woman become complicate after 20 years of marriage....

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24-25 Doesn't Come Back
24-25 Doesn't Come Back

In the experimental clinic, a batch of valuable drug was stolen. Major Grigast suspects that someone...

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And Life, and Tears and Love
And Life, and Tears and Love

The life of the inhabitants of the veterans' house was boring and monotonous. Everything changed wit...

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The Flight of Mr. McKinley
The Flight of Mr. McKinley

A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky t...

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The Roundabout
The Roundabout

Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with ...

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If You Are Right
If You Are Right

Having lost her parents during the war, Galya was brought up in an orphanage. When the grandfather w...

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The Love of Mankind
The Love of Mankind

A film about young architects who are building a new city in Siberia (Norilsk), their anxieties, con...

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The Black Triangle
The Black Triangle

Soviet television feature film of 1981, a three-part historical detective. In January 1918, one of t...

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If You Want To Be Happy
If You Want To Be Happy

Andrei and Tanya love each other, which is why frequent partings are so difficult for them: Andrei i...

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On the Way to Lenin
On the Way to Lenin

A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home,...

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The Journalist
The Journalist

A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written com...

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Rudin
Rudin

In the house of Daria Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, former beauty and lione...

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Sergey Ivanovich Retires
Sergey Ivanovich Retires

Accountant Sergey Ivanovich is retiring. Finally, he will be able to devote all his free time to his...

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Declaration of Love to G.T.
Declaration of Love to G.T.

Dr. Gisa Tonius, a physicist in her thirties who has a nearly adult stepdaughter, cherishes the desi...

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The First Courier
The First Courier

The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian So...

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Harsh Kilometers
Harsh Kilometers

In the Siberian wilderness, on one of the car depots, bad stories occur. It all starts with theft, a...

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Meeting on a Distant Meridian
Meeting on a Distant Meridian

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Restricted Area
Restricted Area

Central Russia. The deputy chairman of the district executive committee, Tretyakova, was instructed ...

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The House I Live In
The House I Live In

1935. Two families — Davydov's with three children and the newlyweds Lida and Dmitri Kashirin's — en...

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The Secret Agent's Destiny
The Secret Agent's Destiny

After Tulyev's arrest, Soviet counterintelligence continues the radio game with the enemy, sending e...

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Men and Beasts
Men and Beasts

The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having be...

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Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!

A report from the set of the movie "To Love a Man" directed by S. A. Gerasimov....

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The Trap
The Trap

A dramatic story of a progressive journalist in America, whose professional honor depends entirely o...

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