Zhanna Bolotova

Zhanna Bolotova

Born: October 19, 1941
in Chanovsky District, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR
Zhanna Bolotova is a Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s.

In 1977 she became a USSR State Prize laureate and was designated as a People's Artist of Russia in 1985

She debuted on screen while still at school, in The House That I Live In by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel. In 1964 she graduated the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the class of Sergei Gerasimov and Tatyana Makarova, to join the Cinema Actor Studio Theatre.

In 1969 she received her first international award, for The Best Female Role, at the Varna Red Cross film festival, for 24-24 Does Not Return. The Silence of Dr. Evens (1974) earned her another award in the same category, at the Triest Film Festival.

Movies for Zhanna Bolotova...

Dead Man's Bluff
Title: Dead Man's Bluff
Character: teacher
Released: May 26, 2005
Type: Movie
Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head.
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Restricted Area
Title: Restricted Area
Character: Третьякова
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Central Russia. The deputy chairman of the district executive committee, Tretyakova, was instructed to organize work to eliminate the consequences of a tornado that suddenly hit the village. She has to come to terms with the indifference of summer residents from a neighboring village, untouched by the disaster. Relying on her own experience and the will of the victims, Tretyakova will do her best...
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And Life, and Tears and Love
Title: And Life, and Tears and Love
Character: Varvara Dmitriyevna
Released: August 20, 1984
Type: Movie
The life of the inhabitants of the veterans' house was boring and monotonous. Everything changed with the arrival of the new head physician, Varvara Dmitriyevna. Her kindness and sensitivity began to work miracles. After all, Varvara Dmitriyevna tries not only to treat the ailments of the elderly, but also to return to them their lost interest in life, the belief that one can still love and be loved...
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A Dangerous Age
Title: A Dangerous Age
Character: Maria Vasilyevna
Released: October 20, 1981
Type: Movie
A relations between man and woman become complicate after 20 years of marriage.
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The Black Triangle
Title: The Black Triangle
Character: Роза Штерн
Released: October 13, 1981
Type: Movie
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Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Title: Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Character: Nadezhda Andreyevna
Released: May 18, 1981
Type: Movie
Two reserved people, almost resigned to their loneliness, found each other at the Soviet-era sea resort on the late autumn. Long dinners with senceless conversations transform into a love story.
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Сергей Иванович уходит на пенсию
Title: Сергей Иванович уходит на пенсию
Released: April 20, 1981
Type: Movie
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Rudin
Title: Rudin
Released: October 24, 1977
Type: Movie
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Wounded Game
Title: Wounded Game
Character: Alla Konstantinovna
Released: June 20, 1977
Type: Movie
A story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II.
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Meeting on a Distant Meridian
Title: Meeting on a Distant Meridian
Character: Руфь Крэйн
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
Title: The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
Released: June 6, 1976
Type: Movie
A story about a good doctor - surgeon Mishkin who works in a countryside hospital.
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Escape of Mr. McKinley
Title: Escape of Mr. McKinley
Character: мистер Мак-Кинли
Released: December 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it?
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If You Want To Be Happy
Title: If You Want To Be Happy
Character: Tatyana Rodionova
Released: November 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Andrei and Tanya love each other, which is why frequent partings are so difficult for them: Andrei is a test pilot, and Tanya works on television, and both are constantly on business trips. They have two sons — twins. For eight years of marriage, they cannot count a total of three when they were together. And yet they are happy...
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The Love of Mankind
Title: The Love of Mankind
Character: Tanya Pavlova
Released: December 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A film about young architects who are building a new city in Siberia (Norilsk), their anxieties, concerns, and victories. Story of subtle psychology of love and personal happiness experienced men and women, behind the shoulders of which the pain of the past
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Declaration of Love to G.T.
Title: Declaration of Love to G.T.
Character: Ada
Released: June 2, 1971
Type: Movie
Dr. Gisa Tonius, a physicist in her thirties who has a nearly adult stepdaughter, cherishes the desire to have her own child. Suddenly, a big interdisciplinary research project threatens to significantly change Gisa′s life. Uncertain whether to look for professional or private fulfillment she asks her family and friends for their opinions. They all have different views on the point at issue. While her husband is afraid of losing her to her profession, her professor thinks that because of her talent she has an obligation towards science. In the end, Gisa reaches a decision: She wants to have a baby as well as take on the research project.
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The Roundabout
Title: The Roundabout
Character: Yuliya Vasilyevna
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".
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The Secret Agent's Destiny
Title: The Secret Agent's Destiny
Character: Yulya
Released: August 10, 1970
Type: Movie
After Tulyev's arrest, Soviet counterintelligence continues the radio game with the enemy, sending encryptions signed "Nadezhda" to the Western intelligence center. KGB officer Sinitsyn, friendly towards Tulyev, tries to persuade him to take his side — he arranges a meeting to a scout with Mariya and her son, whom he has never seen before. In addition, Mikhail learns that his father didn't die of his own death, but was most likely killed. Meanwhile, a young Soviet scientist Borkov, who spoke at an international conference about his innovative work, finds himself in the spotlight of the Western security services.
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On the Way to Lenin
Title: On the Way to Lenin
Character: Lena
Released: April 15, 1970
Type: Movie
A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way to Lenin wake up again.
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Harsh Kilometers
Title: Harsh Kilometers
Released: October 12, 1969
Type: Movie
In the Siberian wilderness, on one of the car depots, bad stories occur. It all starts with theft, and leads to murder. And neither the police nor the leadership of the base can put things in order. Moreover, the main character, Alexei, seems that he is completely alone in search of the truth.
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24-25 Doesn't Come Back
Title: 24-25 Doesn't Come Back
Character: Mara
Released: April 28, 1969
Type: Movie
In the experimental clinic, a batch of valuable drug was stolen. Major Grigast suspects that someone from the clinic is involved in this. He entrusts this complex matter to a young investigator Mara. An investigation leads her to a distant border town in the south of the country, where the offender intended to ship the drug abroad.
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The First Courier
Title: The First Courier
Character: Konkordiya Samoilova
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian Social Democrats, began to appear. The Russian conspirator Konkordiya arrives from Munich at the railway station of the Bulgarian port city Varna. She meets the Bulgarian Ivan Zagubanski and gives him two suitcases with false bottoms, which contain a secret consignment of the latest issue of a newspaper. About the young, courageous revolutionary Ivan Zagubanski, who was one of the first couriers to bring Iskra from abroad. The film showed an ideological, moral clash of people preparing a revolution with the guardians of the royal order.
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The Journalist
Title: The Journalist
Character: Nina
Released: September 23, 1967
Type: Movie
A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of the situation and the measure of responsibility to those whom he was obliged to protect...
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Wings
Title: Wings
Character: Tanya Petrukhina
Released: August 15, 1966
Type: Movie
After WWII, a Soviet pilot returns to civilian life and struggles in her roles as school principal and mother, and with her memories of the war.
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If You Are Right
Title: If You Are Right
Character: Galya
Released: March 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Having lost her parents during the war, Galya was brought up in an orphanage. When the grandfather was rehabilitated, they began to live together. Galya often called Alyosha to repair the phone. After walking around Moscow at night, they realized that they loved each other. Once, after another call, Aleksei was slandered. The boss, not wanting to delve into the essence of the client's complaint, invited Aleksei to apologize. The guy refused — and he was fired from his job. Friends helped him find another job, but he could not convince Galya that he was right. The girl reproached him for cowardice — and the heroes quarrelled...
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Men and Beasts
Title: Men and Beasts
Character: Tanya
Released: November 2, 1962
Type: Movie
The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.
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The House I Live In
Title: The House I Live In
Character: Galya Volynskaya
Released: December 23, 1957
Type: Movie
1935. Two families — Davydov's with three children and the newlyweds Lida and Dmitri Kashirin's — enter the new house on the outskirts of Moscow into a common communal apartment. The children grow up, and they and the adults around them are looking for their place in life, looking for answers to the questions of who to be and what to be, quarreling, making peace, building relationships, destroying them. Six years later, the peaceful lives of characters, with their joys and misfortunes, quarrels and reconciliations, and complex personal relationships, are blown up by a war that connects everyone at once, forcing them to see the meaning of their days, their attitudes to each other and their life values in a different way. For some of them, war is a fatal trait.