Lidiya Shtykan
Actor · 1922 – 1982 · Petrograd, Russia
Movies22
Movie3.9DramaWarThe film tells the story of those who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, which became a turning point in the Great Patriotic War. For five months, the city resisted the Nazi offensive. Surrendering Stalingrad to the enemy would have meant losing the war, but holding on to the city seemed almost impossible.
Movie3.5ComedyDramaIn "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."
Movie5.6RomanceDramaMilitary doctor Vladimir Ustimenko is a man of duty and honor, committed to the cause he serves, and one single love that he carries through his whole life: Varvara Stepanova is a whimsical girl who dreamed of becoming a great actress but eventually became a geologist. The war will cruelly interfere in the fate of the heroes and confuse their relationship even more.
Movie5.1DramaHaving worked at a construction site all her life, Zina raised her son alone. Now that her son is almost an adult, Victor has appeared in her life, with whom she feels good and calm. However, her son Boris is too much used to having his mother belong only to him.
Movie5.5DramaHistoryA portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.
Movie5.3DramaTV MovieVera Kasatkina, in her youth, experienced an emotional trauma: her husband left her and their child. She is 27 years old and has long given up on the idea of personal happiness. When she meets Volodya Chizhov, who is younger than her, she sincerely offers to help him prepare for his university entrance exams. Deep feelings begin to develop between them. Vera's mother is adamantly against this relationship, and Vera's colleagues have already figured it out and are making fun of her. Volodya, an open and persistent young man, tactfully takes the initiative — he helps Vera overcome her fears and find happiness.
MovieComedyTV MovieBased on the play of the same name by Isidor Shtok. The author described this work as a prehistoric documentary drama, while audiences recognized it as a comedy. Isidor Shtok wrote Noah’s Ark as a continuation of his Divine Comedy. This production preserves a good-natured tone, which at times shifts into satire through numerous parallels with contemporary life.
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Based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov.
MovieTV MovieDramaBased on a play by Ivan Turgenev.
Movie6.2ComedyRomanceFive sad and funny romantic stories about love...
Movie6.0DramaShirokov, an engineer and inventor at an electromechanical plant, becomes a victim of street chaos and is hospitalized for an extended period. Upon learning of the incident, his colleagues do everything they can to ensure that Shirokov's latest invention becomes a part of his beloved plant.
Movie5.0DramaAccording to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he does not have the courage to fight it, and he chooses the third way — to stage suicide.
Movie5.7FamilyDramaWoven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.
Movie5.4HistoryDramaSaint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.
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 MovieA television play from John Steinbeck's novel, performed live for Leningrad Television.
Movie9.0DramaThe front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. These searches began his friend before the war, in remote taiga places. Yevdokiya Perevalova — the widow of a deceased friend decides to help Nesterov get to those deaf places...
MovieDramaChronicle dramatic scenes of Germany under the rule of fascism.
Movie8.0WarActionYoung railroad worker, seemingly accommodating to Nazi overlords at a captured rural depot, secretly spearheads acts of sabotage against the evil occupying forces.
MovieScience FictionTV MovieA runaway robot obsessed with an idea of creating a perfect human becomes a household property of a writer through deception.
Movie8.0WarDramaSoviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.
Movie8.0FamilyTwo 7th graders, a hooligan Mukhin and a good student Kronov do not like each other. They decide to have a peace day together, which changed their attitude both towards each other and towards the world around them...