Yelena Izmailova
Actor · 1920 – 2005 · Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipro, Ukraine]
Movies12
Movie4.7HistoryMusicThe young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.
Movie5.7AdventureFamilyA classic movie based on a famous "Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen" novel by Jules Verne.
Movie10.0DramaHaving helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
MovieDramaTV MovieBased on the eponymous novel by A.F. Pisemsky. A play about the all-powerful influence of money and the morals of the bureaucratic world that destroy everything honest, good, and humane.
Movie4.5DramaPilot Losev, who lost his family during the war, learns that his daughter Aurika was saved during the bombing, and sets off in search of her. The former pilot will survive many fates and stories before a familiar chorus of a lullaby helps him to recognize his daughter in a random fellow traveler.
Movie5.7AdventureDramaAccording to the story by Jack London. The history of the wild wolf, who picked up the boy and raised an Indian. After falling to the evil man - the owner of the bar, White Fang turned into a ferocious evil beast, coming out victorious from all the dog fights, which suited his enterprising owner. But once it strangled, snatched from the jaws of the bulldog engineer Weedon Scott. His kindness has transformed the beast.
Movie5.6ThrillerWarSoviet agent Fedotov is air-dropped into Nazi occupied land. He changes over into Mr. Ekhert, a German entrepreneur wishing to take advantage of eastern worker slave labor in occupied Ukraine. Ekhert (Fedotov) enters into a partnership with a German entrepreneur who's son, Willie, is a high ranking Nazi. Together they go to Vinnitsa, Ukraine and start a factory. Fedotov begins seeking contacts with headquarters, but faces problems when a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator manages to infiltrate the Soviet partisans.
Movie7.5WarActionThe film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbass and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.
Movie4.8Science FictionAdventureAt the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, an explosion occurred, as a result the underwater vegetation started to grow rapidly in size and a part of the coast was flooded by a tsunami.
- Movie6.0Drama
Armenians living in Chicago decide to leave the capitalist United States and emigrate to Soviet Armenia after World War II. Unfinished movie.
Movie6.0FantasyTheatric version of fairy tale based on Evgeniy Shvarts' play.
MovieTV MovieComedyA recording of the Vakhtangov Theatre’s production of the play by Jean-Baptiste Molière. "The Bourgeois Gentleman" is a brilliant, sparkling comedy by the great French literary classic Jean-Baptiste Molière. The attempts of an uneducated, ignorant, and coarse man with a great deal of money to present himself as a refined nobleman are nothing short of laughable.