
Natalya Tenyakova
Actor · 1944 – 2025 · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
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.
Movies11
Movie7.6ComedyRomanceIn a remote Siberian village, a work injury sends Vasily Kuziakin on a paid trip to a Black Sea resort as compensation. There, he meets femme fatale Raisa Zaharovna and decides to stay with her. Such is the beginning of a new life for him, exciting and strange, but lacking his home, his wife and children, and his pigeons.
Movie7.3DramaMusicInspired by the life of Varvara Asenkova, a 19th-century actress who earned great acclaim on St. Petersburg stage before her death at the age of 24.
MovieDramaTV MovieAbout the complicated relationship of spouses.
Movie6.5DramaThe strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real day in the life of the real Moscow architect Alexander Petrovich Chernov, his mental crisis; and the other is Chernov’s fiction. There is a different fate, a different country, a different life. It is into this very life that Chernov strives to get into - and for the sake of a trip to Spain he will have to commit betrayal. There, for a moment, the doubles will be nearby and both will be on the verge of death. Who will die in the spring of 1978?
Movie8.0DramaWarThe film is set in 1919. The film tells about an episode of the Civil War, when the troops under the command of M. V. Frunze took the city of Ufa away from the White Guards.
Movie5.9HistoryDramaIn 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional one, but the underground one as well. During his year in Russia’s capital Pierre lives an entirely different life than what he’s used to. But the internship and the experience of the Soviet people’s way of life are not the only things Pierre is after. He’s searching for his father, White officer Tatishchev, who was arrested in the 1930s.
MovieComedyTV MovieA television adaptation of a short comedy of the same name by George Bernard Shaw.
MovieComedyTV MovieIn this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard.
Movie6.8AnimationA riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer.
Movie9.0DramaTV MovieBased on the works of Alexander Pushkin ("Roslavlev", "The Tales of I.P. Belkin", "We Spent the Evening at the Country Estate...", "A Novel in Letters", "A Duel", etc.).
Movie5.8TV MovieMusicA cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry.
Series4
TV7.0Documentary
TV7.6MysteryDrama
TVDramaComedyThirty short stories based on thirty stories by Chekhov.
TVDramaIn 19th-century Russia, two young men start to question their worldview after it gets challenged by people from the older generation.