Liya Akhedzhakova

Liya Akhedzhakova

Born: July 9, 1938
in Dnepropetrovsk, USSR (Ukraine)
Liya M. Akhedzhakova (born July 9, 1938, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian theatre and cinema actress. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1970) and People's Artist of Russia (1994). She became famous for her roles in Eldar Ryazanov's films, especially "Office Romance" (1977), "Garage" (1979), "Irony of Fate" (1975) and "Promised Heaven" (1991). She twice received the Nika Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Aunt Fima in "Promised Heaven" and a Japanese restaurant worker in "Portraying the Victim" in 1992 and 2007, respectively.

Movies for Liya Akhedzhakova...

Golden Neighbors
Title: Golden Neighbors
Character: Stepanovna
Released: November 3, 2022
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of the St. Petersburg communal apartment are not relatives, but just neighbors with their habits and dreams. They are given the opportunity to part, and then they understand how much they value each other.
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Halley's Comet
Title: Halley's Comet
Character: Yanga Lvovna Artemieva
Released: December 3, 2020
Type: Movie
34-year-old physicist-astronomer Ignat Halley, fascinated by the stars and work at the mountain observatory, flies to the capital to file for a divorce. In Moscow, under unusual circumstances, Ignat meets a mysterious girl Taisia Artemyev and meets her whole family: mother Yulia, sister Dusya and intelligent, eccentric grandmother Yanga Lvovna. This meeting turns everything upside down in the life of an astronomer. And on New Year's Eve, Ignat will have to make an important decision that will change not only his life, but also his new acquaintances.
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Leto
Title: Leto
Character: Flat's Owner
Released: June 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.
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A Gentle Creature
Title: A Gentle Creature
Character: Human Rights activist
Released: August 16, 2017
Type: Movie
A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
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Mommies
Title: Mommies
Character: Svetlana Semyonovna
Released: March 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Every year on the International Women’s Day telephone networks transfer millions of phone calls and SMS messages. The vast majority of phone calls are addressed to the most important women in lives of everyone - to our mothers. But what would it be if because of enormous number of calls telephone network breaks down? What would we do? Someone would wait until network is rebuilt and would congratulate his mom in the evening or even the next day. But others, like the heroes of our movie, would change their plans to congratulate their moms just today ... personally ... as a kid!..
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Circo Ambulante
Title: Circo Ambulante
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
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Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf
Title: Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf
Character: Баба-Яга (озвучка)
Released: December 29, 2011
Type: Movie
With a cheeky wolf as a travel companion, a prince from a faraway kingdom embarks on a quest to win a princess's heart.
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Lovey-Dovey 3
Title: Lovey-Dovey 3
Character: Elizaveta Nikolaevna
Released: March 3, 2011
Type: Movie
In third part of "Lovey-Dovey" Andrey and Marina are exchanging bodies again - but this time with their parents in law.
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The Book of Masters
Title: The Book of Masters
Character: Baba Yaga
Released: October 29, 2009
Type: Movie
A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a field. It transforms her heart into a stone and puts her under a queer curse. She is to be the evil Countess of Stones and live in a stone tower. If the greatest gem-cutter in the world brings the stone of Alatyr to life, though, she'll become the ruler of the world. The Stone Countess, now cruel and selfish, is fascinated with the idea. She starts searching for the best gem-cutters and forces them to work with Alatyr, so the magical stone would become a living thing. Neither of the gem-cutters succeeds, so she kills them. While being imprisoned in her tower, they work on a large book about the secrets of gem-cutting. Each of them edits the book, so it's later named "the Book of Masters".
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Bankrupt
Title: Bankrupt
Character: Ustinjya Naumovna, svaha
Released: October 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Merchant Samson Silych Bolshov borrowed a large sum of money. And, not wanting to return it, declared bankruptcy. He transferred all his property to the name of the clerk Lazar Podkhalyuzin, for whom - for his own peace of mind - he marries his daughter Lipochka. But Podkhalyuzin has a secret plan...
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Gogol the Bird
Title: Gogol the Bird
Released: March 30, 2009
Type: Movie
This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the unique style of the author Leonid Parfyonov. Documentary shows that the author of "Dead Souls", "The Inspector General" and "Taras Bulba" is not the founder of realism in Russian literature, but a modern and actual avant-garde writer who created works hitherto unprecedented, full of magic and phantasmagoria.
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Four Ages of Love
Title: Four Ages of Love
Released: June 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Four novels: "Spring", "Summer", "Autumn", "Winter" - four very different love stories...
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My Girl's Photo
Title: My Girl's Photo
Released: January 13, 2008
Type: Movie
A romantic story about a photographer Ivan from a small town, a girl Masha from Moscow and a magic camera...
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Thumbelina
Title: Thumbelina
Character: Mouse
Released: December 27, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
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White Lilacs
Title: White Lilacs
Character: Anna Sergeevna
Released: June 22, 2007
Type: Movie
From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer Serguei Rachmaninov. This film is based on the legend that Rachmaninoff received a bouquet of lilacs from an unknown admirer after every performance. He emigrated to the United States, and after an interval, began to receive the mysterious lilacs again.
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Potapov, to the Board!
Title: Potapov, to the Board!
Character: Biology Teacher
Released: June 7, 2007
Type: Movie
A story about a school friends, their adventures, fantasies and first love...
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Andersen. Life Without Love
Title: Andersen. Life Without Love
Character: Гадалка
Released: December 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Drama based on life and love of a famous Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.
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The Funeral Party
Title: The Funeral Party
Character: Marya Ignatyevna
Released: December 14, 2006
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Booker Prize Winner Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party is set in August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN?
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Playing the Victim
Title: Playing the Victim
Character: Waitress in Japanese restaurant
Released: June 8, 2006
Type: Movie
A young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.
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Weird Christmas
Title: Weird Christmas
Released: June 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Действие фильма начинается в сумасшедшем доме, куда новоявленные опекуны привозят свою мачеху Ольгу Самойлову на кануне Рождества. Вдова алкогольного магната Самойлова поставила целью своей жизни осуществлять чужие заветные мечты за собственные деньги. И трое ее приемных детей сочли эту идею чистым безумием. И потому...
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Казароза
Title: Казароза
Character: Maja Antonovna
Released: February 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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Old Hags
Title: Old Hags
Character: Lyubov
Released: March 3, 2000
Type: Movie
Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia.
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Dandelion Wine
Title: Dandelion Wine
Character: Лина Ауфман
Released: October 31, 1998
Type: Movie
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Московские каникулы
Title: Московские каникулы
Released: June 30, 1995
Type: Movie
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Бездна, круг седьмой
Title: Бездна, круг седьмой
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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I Wanted to See Angels
Title: I Wanted to See Angels
Released: April 21, 1992
Type: Movie
Twenty-year-old Bob rides 1000 km to Moscow on his vintage motorbike to collect a bad debt for his boss; the city chews up and spits out this naive country boy, whose head is full of Easy Rider dreams.
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Seven-Forty
Title: Seven-Forty
Character: Tkachuk
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
The group of immigrants who depart to the United States, by chance finds itself in a deserted forest. Cut off from the civilized world, they begin to build their "own America".
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Sons of Bitches
Title: Sons of Bitches
Character: Ella Ernestovna
Released: July 8, 1991
Type: Movie
The story about actors who will never agree to betray their theatre even if they will have to burn themselves. And other instructions how to behave if a whiskered man breaks into your house and wants you to leave it.
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Promised Heaven
Title: Promised Heaven
Character: Fima
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...
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The Hedgehog Must Be Prickly?
Title: The Hedgehog Must Be Prickly?
Character: Mother hedgehog (voice)
Released: June 8, 1990
Type: Movie
A cozy house in the forest lives a family of hedgehogs. All of them are good, but only one of their children has no thorns, instead of them were soft curls.
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Pretty Face
Title: Pretty Face
Released: June 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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In the Footsteps of the Bambr
Title: In the Footsteps of the Bambr
Character: Мышь
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Bambr, Hermit, Bird, Cat and Mouse - already familiar from the film Ferocious Bambre, are faced with the insidious Hunter, who planned to turn Bambre into a hunting dog. But friendship and mutual assistance win this time as well.
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Допинг для ангелов
Title: Допинг для ангелов
Character: Nina Pavlovna
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Sofia Petrovna
Title: Sofia Petrovna
Character: Maria Erastovna Kiparisova
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Sofya Petrovna, a typist from a publishing house in Leningrad, has her only son repressed. In her publishing house, managers and ordinary employees were repressed. And Sofya Petrovna begins walking around the offices, trying to explain that a mistake has occurred.
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Nomad Bus
Title: Nomad Bus
Character: Зина (администратор)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Travels from village to village broken old bus with a small troupe of actors to give a day two or three performances in front of a small audience. In the troupe — people, each of them in his own way in love with the theater…
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Ай-ай-ай!
Title: Ай-ай-ай!
Released: December 31, 1988
Type: Movie
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Sinner
Title: Sinner
Character: Zinaida Maslova
Released: August 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The story of a turner and locksmith, whose talented work did not fit into the system of the planned economy and the mentality of the Soviet Union. A turner with golden hands works at a factory, where he is disliked by colleagues and the boss for exceeding the norm. A film about a talented person who wants to work and create, but the system forces him to blend in and be like everyone else.
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Chameleon Games
Title: Chameleon Games
Character: Ирма
Released: April 25, 1987
Type: Movie
Paris, 1955. Fraudster Georges de Valera, hiding from the police, with the help of a correspondent for the reactionary newspaper Sibilo, poses as Minister Dubov, who allegedly escaped from the Soviet Union. Sibilo's daughter explains to Georges the purpose of the planned action: to slander progressive journalists with the help of the false Dubov. De Valera, not wanting to become a participant in the provocation, goes into hiding. But instead they find another candidate for the role of Dubov...
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Another Life
Title: Another Life
Character: Roza
Released: February 16, 1987
Type: Movie
Psychological drama about a university dean who leads a double life.
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Ara, bara, pooh!
Title: Ara, bara, pooh!
Released: September 7, 1986
Type: Movie
The film is about a child's fantasy that can create a wonderful world of imagination. In an original artistic form, he introduces children to the alphabet in visible, visual images, touching on education, touches on the problem of relationships between adults and children.
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Boy Is A Boy
Title: Boy Is A Boy
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
While in the country on a trip with his mother, a young boy winds up playing with some of the local wildlife, and he soon turns into a rabbit himself. In fact, he has the ability to turn himself into various animals, which causes no end of trouble for his family.
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Повод
Title: Повод
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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A Small Favor
Title: A Small Favor
Released: October 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Once a famous singer Valentin Ozernikov, returning from another tour, thinks about his fast flowing life and tried to formulate his criteria for figs further existence.
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Copper Angel
Title: Copper Angel
Character: Росита
Released: July 16, 1984
Type: Movie
An international geological expedition led by a Russian engineer works in an inaccessible area of one of the Latin American countries. Scientists are held hostage by a nearby gang that trades in the drug trade. Geologists are in mortal danger ...
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Fairies' Autumn Gift
Title: Fairies' Autumn Gift
Character: Fairy of Sadness
Released: July 12, 1984
Type: Movie
A sad and funny story based on Hans Christian Andersen tales.
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Talisman
Title: Talisman
Character: Grandmother
Released: July 20, 1983
Type: Movie
A high school student becomes a talisman for everybody...
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Koe-chto iz Gubernskoy Zhizni
Title: Koe-chto iz Gubernskoy Zhizni
Released: June 6, 1983
Type: Movie
Ироническая комедия, которая соединила в себе ранние рассказы A.П.Чехова "Предложение", "Свадьба", "Юбилей" и другие. Целая плеяда ведущих актеров советского кинематографа позволяет с легкостью окунуться в чеховские времена и смеяться от души над жизненными ситуациями.
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Alice in the Land in the Other Side of the Mirror
Title: Alice in the Land in the Other Side of the Mirror
Character: The White Queen (voice)
Released: January 31, 1982
Type: Movie
The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.
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Vacation at Your Own Expense
Title: Vacation at Your Own Expense
Character: Irina
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A young girl from the Siberian province arrives in Moscow for her beloved, whom she met during his business trip. He is a test designer for buses and will be on a business trip to Hungary. It was at this point that Katya set her vacation time. But it seems that they didn’t really wait for her... However, a meeting with László changes all her plans...
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Uncle's Dream
Title: Uncle's Dream
Released: November 12, 1981
Type: Movie
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Kuda Ischez Fomenko?
Title: Kuda Ischez Fomenko?
Released: November 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Поняв, что Фоменко сбежал от унылой жизни, семья и товарищи иначе взглянули на отношения между собой...
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We will not see you
Title: We will not see you
Released: September 10, 1981
Type: Movie
Journalist Lopatin always remembers those with whom his roads of war brought him together. Memories of them are an integral part of Lopatin’s thoughts about duty, honor, courage, and camaraderie.
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Eighth World Wonder
Title: Eighth World Wonder
Character: Julia Jermolina
Released: February 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The heroines of the film are Soviet basketball players who take part in international competitions for the Hera Cup. Exciting basketball matches, the nobility of a Soviet athlete who saved the life of a Greek basketball player, the anxiety of first love-all these and other events make up the plot of the film.
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Title: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Character: Club Director Olga Pavlovna
Released: February 11, 1980
Type: Movie
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...
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Hurry to Do Good
Title: Hurry to Do Good
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
The film-play tells about a teenage girl with a difficult fate, who by chance ended up in someone else's family, about difficult relationships with the people who sheltered her.
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Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
Title: Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
Character: модистка Лулу
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will eventually be defeated by the nobility, loyalty and love.
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Zigzag
Title: Zigzag
Character: Vika the doctor (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Not as she would like, a young woman’s New Year’s evening is taking place: the appointed date did not take place, and the whole night ahead. By chance, a stranger appears in her house. The good prince takes her far to the sea, and the plot of the Christmas tale repeats. But here the heroine is again alone, although still in the grip of memories of the past day.
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The Garage
Title: The Garage
Character: Malayeva
Released: November 23, 1979
Type: Movie
An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...
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When I Will Become a Giant
Title: When I Will Become a Giant
Character: Dzhulietta Ashotovna
Released: August 8, 1979
Type: Movie
Eight-grader Petya Kopeikin, despite his short stature and nondescript appearance, is constantly in the spotlight. Petya is noble, witty, well versed in literature, he writes wonderful poems. Kopeikin has long been secretly in love with his classmate Masha Goroshkina, and she is passionate about the new student from 9 "A" Kolya Kristallov. Masha tells Petya about her feelings and asks him to hand over a note to Kolya. Deeply worried from unrequited love, Petya not only doesn't stand in the way of a happier rival, but even helps him win Masha's heart. He wants to prove that courage and honor were not only inherent in the times of “musketeer” novels, but exist in our time. Petya chooses to follow the example of the hero of the famous play Edmond Rostan and in his actions copies Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Квакша
Title: Квакша
Character: (voice)
Released: February 13, 1979
Type: Movie
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The Black Wizard's Gift
Title: The Black Wizard's Gift
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
When Vasilisa was still small, the black sorcerer brought her mother an ominous gift - a chest with an enchanted wedding dress. Putting it on, Vasilisa could make a wish, and it would certainly be fulfilled. Once the girl was jealous of the blacksmith Ivan, and his eyes stopped seeing. Vasilisa had to pass the tests and strictly fulfill the sorcerer's order in order to restore sight to Ivan.
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The Pretty Man
Title: The Pretty Man
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A story about a married man who suddenly decides to leave his wife and marry rich woman.
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Office Romance
Title: Office Romance
Character: секретарша Верочка
Released: October 26, 1977
Type: Movie
Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..
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Crane in the Sky
Title: Crane in the Sky
Character: Роза Козодоева
Released: June 24, 1977
Type: Movie
After his wife left him for another man, Andrey unsuccessfully tried to found a new woman. Meanwhile, he found an orphan which was looking for his mother.
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Title: Dunno in Sunny City
Released: March 23, 1977
Type: TV
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Two Maples
Title: Two Maples
Character: (voice)
Released: February 11, 1977
Type: Movie
About how Baba Yaga turned the children of Vasilisa the worker into two maples and about maternal love that defeated evil forces.
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Secret, for All the World Only
Title: Secret, for All the World Only
Character: Yelizaveta Nikolayevna
Released: January 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Based on the book of Viktor Dragunsky "Deniskin's Stories". Once upon a time there lived in Moscow the 1950's an October school student Deniska Korablyov. Every day he was terribly busy with the most ordinary children's activities: he did not prepare lessons, quarreled and put up with classmates, helped around the house and dabbled. He also planned a real murder, crossed paths with the criminal Fantômas, exposed the adult liars and thieves, participated in the selfless rescue of man...
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Пошехонская старина
Title: Пошехонская старина
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
The film consists of three short stories: 'The Unhappy Matryonka', 'Brother Fedos' and 'Vanka-Cain'.
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Twenty Days Without War
Title: Twenty Days Without War
Character: Woman with clocks
Released: November 8, 1976
Type: Movie
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.
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Ph.D
Title: Ph.D
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
Title: The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
Character: Таня, подруга Нади
Released: December 31, 1975
Type: Movie
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...
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Ivan and Marya
Title: Ivan and Marya
Character: Princess Agrafina
Released: July 28, 1975
Type: Movie
Between the king and the soldier Ivan a serious dispute occurs. A seasoned soldier, of course, takes precedence over the quarrelsome sovereign. But until then happen in the Kingdom a lot of unusual and fun…
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У самого Чёрного моря
Title: У самого Чёрного моря
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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Tanya
Title: Tanya
Character: Dusya
Released: November 13, 1974
Type: Movie
The story of a couple chasing their dreams amid the challenges of life in the postwar Soviet Union. Based on Aleksei Arbuzov's play.
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Looking for a Man
Title: Looking for a Man
Released: June 10, 1973
Type: Movie
At the heart of the movie - true stories about separations and meetings, about search of relatives, the proceeding many years after war.
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Late Child
Title: Late Child
Released: February 11, 1971
Type: Movie
A boy suffers from excessive care of his family, cause he wants them to reckon with him as an adult, just like his older sister's groom.
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The Blue Bird
Title: The Blue Bird
Character: Voice
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Two peasant children are taken by a fairy one night to a different world where they can see what lies behind ordinary household things, animals, and feelings. 1970's animation feature "The Blue Bird" is the only film, directed by cult Soviet actor Vasiliy Livanov. Based on a piece by Maurice Maeterlinck, this movie combines different techniques - from classic drawn animation, to cut-outs and stop-motion, creating a unique cinematic experience.
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Return
Title: Return
Character: Petrushka
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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Title: Пятый ангел
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV