
Zhanna Prokhorenko
Actor · 1940 – 2011 · Poltava, USSR (Ukraine)
Zhanna Prokhorenko (11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011) was a Soviet actress, best known for her role in Grigory Chukhray's film Ballad of a Soldier. She was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. She was also a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honour and of the Medal "For Labour Valour".
Movies22
Movie8.0DramaRomanceDuring World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Movie7.1CrimeMysteryThe film is set in the 1970s Leningrad, Russia. Fugitive Brunov is a dangerous criminal, who escaped from jail. He is after the treasure that was hidden by him years ago at his former country-house. He is having plastic surgery to hide his identity, while preparing for his next crime. He is trying to kill another man, who is also after the same treasure. Investigators Zarubin, Kromkin and Lebedeva are untangling the case.
Movie4.2WarHistoryThe plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.
Sokolovo
1975 · 8 votes
Movie6.7DramaHistoryChronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Movie7.1DramaA thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
Movie6.7CrimeMysteryWhile investigating a murder KGB detectives discover a criminal group which transfers a stolen artworks abroad .
Movie7.0ComedyFamilyA lyric comedy about eight-graders, their life and first love...
Movie6.8ComedyRomanceMoscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, sees his happiness in marrying a rich bride. Misha images in dreams and fantasies that he is a general or even a king — rich and domineering. In reality, poor Balzaminov is haunted by setbacks.
Movie7.1WarDramaTwo strangers meet in an ambulance train during WWII.
Movie5.4RomanceDramaHigh school students Ksenya and Boris are in love but all the world is against them.
MovieDramaAbout four patients in the same hospital room, about different personalities, different worldviews...
Movie8.0DramaKorney Korneevich Polunin is a career military officer, a retired colonel. His wife died when his son was one and a half years old, Alexey had already grown up, became independent, and they rarely see each other. Unable to stay at home, Polunin goes to the factory as a locksmith - in his old specialty. Friends perceive this as an oddity, and they look at him warily at work. But a group of teenagers comes to the plant's personnel department, and Polunin undertakes to lead this team, instilling in it respect for work and awareness of his need to achieve the final result of work.
Movie7.0DramaThe film tells about the events of one day, lived by the collective farm foreman Fyodor Rozhnov. This day turned out to be filled to the limit with work, worries, joys, sorrows, difficult relationships with people and memories of the war years.
Movie8.0MysteryAn oil tanker flying the Liberian flag is sunk in the open ocean as a result of a collision with a Soviet dry cargo ship. The company sues the Black Sea Shipping Company and insists on a trial in New York. American lawyer Eugene Bogart and Soviet expert Ekaterina Kravchenko manage to find out that the steamship company, which owned the tanker, on the eve of bankruptcy. But it is not only that...
Movie9.0HistoryAdventureStory about one of the leaders of the partisan movement Nestor Kalandarishvili during Russian Civil War in Siberia.
Movie5.7DramaMysteryMoscow militia detectives are investigating a death of a young girl whose body was found in the construction site.
Movie5.7DramaAn important event is taking place in a small provincial town, an elderly rich prince arrives. The local "lioness" Maria Alexandrovna Moskaleva decides to marry him to her daughter Zinochka. But the "noble" Mordassov society is by no means inclined to voluntarily give up its positions: after all, in the head of every mother who has a marriageable daughter, the dream is to get a rich man as a son-in-law.
Movie7.7FamilyAdventureA story about a two schoolboys who are having a lot of fun and adventures during vacations time.
Movie4.7CrimeMysteryThe actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hallucinations) and in the days of Perestroika.
Movie7.0DramaThe happy days of the first love of eighth graders dimmed when they learned that Nadina's mother and Serezha's recently widowed father were going to live together. The youthful maximalism of adolescents hurts parents.
Movie7.0DramaHistoryThe film depicts the adventurous life of the civil war hero Vasil Kikvidze.
Movie5.7FantasyScience FictionAn interstellar expedition is sent to study a strange planet. Despite the fact that creatures from various Earth time periods inhabit the world, the natives possess metal swords, even though they should have no knowledge of such weaponry.
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TV6.3MysteryDramaA Russian mystery miniseries set both in medieval times and in the days of Perestroika.
TV6.0MysteryCrimeThe body of a young woman is found in a construction quarry. The deceased is Vera Topilina, secretary to the head of the Main Directorate, Menshutina. Moscow Criminal Investigation Department inspectors Vasilyev and Losev investigate the causes of the woman's death. Ultimately, the investigation leads the operatives to major players in the shadow economy.
TV6.9War & PoliticsMysteryThe struggle of Soviet and American intelligence agencies during the Cold War era
TVMysteryDramaAn unexpected tragedy befalls ballerina Ekaterina Orlova: her husband is shot in the head before her very eyes.