Lila Kedrova

Lila Kedrova

Born: October 8, 1918
Died: February 16, 2000
in Petrograd, Russia (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
Lila Kedrova (October 9, 1918 – February 16, 2000) was a Russian-born French actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Zorba the Greek (1964), and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the same role in the musical version of the film.

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Next Time the Fire
Title: Next Time the Fire
Released: February 4, 1993
Type: Movie
The study of semantics has convinced Amedio (Jean Rochefort) that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable. So it seems, because while on an Italian holiday with his family, he conceives the idea that his aging wife (Marie-Christine Barrault) should assume the role of his mother, and his daughter (Jacqueline Lustig), who has an infant son, should assume the role of his wife and lover. His real mother (Lila Kedrova), an elderly invalid, dies just as this conceit begins to take form, and, inexplicably, the women placidly go along with this odd notion for a time, but eventually return to their former roles.
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A Star for Two
Title: A Star for Two
Character: Simone
Released: August 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Love between a man and a woman that endures the ravages of time.
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Some Girls
Title: Some Girls
Character: Granny
Released: September 9, 1988
Type: Movie
While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.
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Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Title: Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Character: Lady of Lyonesse
Released: August 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle.
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Blood Tide
Title: Blood Tide
Character: Sister Anna
Released: September 24, 1982
Type: Movie
An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.
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Tell Me a Riddle
Title: Tell Me a Riddle
Character: Eva
Released: December 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
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Womanlight
Title: Womanlight
Character: Sonia Tovalski
Released: August 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
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The Sewers of Paradise
Title: The Sewers of Paradise
Character: Charlotte
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won the nickname, "the great drain robbery," and this romanticized cinematic retelling of the true story stars Francis Huster as Spaggiari.
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The Skirt Chaser
Title: The Skirt Chaser
Character: Olga
Released: January 17, 1979
Type: Movie
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama.
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The Paradise of Riches
Title: The Paradise of Riches
Character: Camille Chevallier
Released: September 12, 1978
Type: Movie
During a trip organized by a municipality to cheer up the loneliness of the elderly in summer, seven "little old men" visit Orly airport and decide to leave one day for Tahiti. Penniless, they get organized by living in the same apartment and stealing from stores to finance their future tropical adventure. But a private detective is on their trail, hired by the local shopkeepers who are fed up with the repeated petty thefts. The "gang" make him disappear and decide to leave for Tahiti.
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Widows' Nest
Title: Widows' Nest
Character: Mother
Released: December 1, 1977
Type: Movie
The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Carmen and Elvira, as their presence stirs up unwelcome memories.
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Stop Calling Me Baby!
Title: Stop Calling Me Baby!
Character: Countess de Tocqueville
Released: October 26, 1977
Type: Movie
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.
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The Tenant
Title: The Tenant
Character: Madame Gaderian
Released: May 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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Trotsky is Dead
Title: Trotsky is Dead
Character: Natasha
Released: March 13, 1976
Type: Movie
'It's as if the revolution was here again. They are storming the Winter Palace on my own doorstep.' In Palmerston Road, Reading, there is a crisis ...
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The Night Child
Title: The Night Child
Character: Contessa Cappelli
Released: April 22, 1975
Type: Movie
The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.
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Footprints on the Moon
Title: Footprints on the Moon
Character: Mrs. Heim
Released: February 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?
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Eliza's Horoscope
Title: Eliza's Horoscope
Character: Lila
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A young woman arrives to Montreal to find love. A fortune teller tells her that a wealthy man meant for her is right around the corner so she goes looking even among her odd rag tag group roommates.
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To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
Title: To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
Character: Contessa Mafalda
Released: August 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Count Fernando, called Didino, a shy and sexually repressed man, lives under the oedipal authority of countess Mafalda, his bloodsucking and over-controlling mother, until their family hires a new young maid that changes his life.
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Title: Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Character: Madame Grenier
Released: January 24, 1974
Type: Movie
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.
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Escape to the Sun
Title: Escape to the Sun
Character: Sarah Kaplan
Released: October 31, 1972
Type: Movie
Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and tortured, which spurs them to make an escape attempt that could cost them their lives
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Rak
Title: Rak
Character: David's mother
Released: April 7, 1972
Type: Movie
David learns that his mother has cancer and only two months to live. He decides not to let her know.
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A Time for Loving
Title: A Time for Loving
Character: Madame Olga
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.
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The Kremlin Letter
Title: The Kremlin Letter
Character: Madam Sophie
Released: February 1, 1970
Type: Movie
When an unauthorized letter is sent to Moscow alleging the U.S. government's willingness to help Russia attack China, former naval officer Charles Rone and his team are sent to retrieve it. They go undercover, successfully reaching out to Erika Kosnov, the wife of a former agent, now married to the head of Russia's secret police. Their plans are interrupted, however, when their Moscow hideout is raided by a cunning politician.
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The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
Title: The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
Character: Yolanda's Mother
Released: September 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.
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Le canard en fer blanc
Title: Le canard en fer blanc
Character: Rosa
Released: April 22, 1967
Type: Movie
In South America, airplane pilot François Cartier is searching for treasure for a group of political exiles who helped him escape the death penalty. But the members of the group are being murdered one by one. Having managed to get his hands on the loot, François will use it to exchange it for a beautiful revolutionary with whom he has fallen in love. But the return flight proves particularly perilous.
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Maigret at the Pigalle
Title: Maigret at the Pigalle
Character: Rose
Released: December 30, 1966
Type: Movie
Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle.
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Penelope
Title: Penelope
Character: Princess Sadaba
Released: November 10, 1966
Type: Movie
When James met Penelope at a club, it took all of three weeks before they were married. But after the marriage, other women became attracted to James and he kept getting promoted, which took him away from Penelope. So Penelope puts on a disguise and robs her husband's bank. Her psychiatrist, Greg, believes that this condition is caused by James being over worked and under romantic with Penelope. She also tells Greg that she robs the business associates of James. But Greg is in love with Penelope - in fact everyone likes her. The problem is when she confesses to her crimes, no one believes her.
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Torn Curtain
Title: Torn Curtain
Character: Countess Kuchinska
Released: July 15, 1966
Type: Movie
During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
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A High Wind in Jamaica
Title: A High Wind in Jamaica
Character: Rosa
Released: May 1, 1965
Type: Movie
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
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Zorba the Greek
Title: Zorba the Greek
Character: Madame Hortense
Released: December 14, 1964
Type: Movie
An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
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Death of a Killer
Title: Death of a Killer
Character: La mère de Massa
Released: April 1, 1964
Type: Movie
When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria. Feeling doubly betrayed because of his unhealthy adoration for Maria, Massa is determined to get back at Luciano and ends up in a deadly game of roulette.
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Gypsy Law
Title: Gypsy Law
Character: Kirvi
Released: May 24, 1963
Type: Movie
The idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged marriage to a member of her tribe. Away from the safety of her people, she encounters bigotry against her kind. A little girl feels sorry for the missing gypsy beauty and searches for a magic root that can cure the wandering gypsy from her wanderlust and bring her home again. Music, dance, ancient gypsy rituals, and colorful European scenery highlight this feature which takes a decidedly jaundiced view of the racial indignities suffered by the heroine.
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My Pal the Gypsy
Title: My Pal the Gypsy
Released: December 2, 1959
Type: Movie
The "Védrines", whose head of family is a publisher, are well established in Paris. The "Pittuiti", on the other hand, are gypsies camping out in the suburbs. Young Zita belongs to the tribe and meets Théo Védrines, the publisher's son, a wild seducer. Zita is soon forced to tell her family that she is expecting a child. A scandal for the Pittuiti family, who instruct Zita's brother to apply the law of retaliation, Bruno must in turn seduce the pleasant Gisèle Védrines. And why not? But while Théo gradually becomes an anarchist, Bruno becomes more and more embourgeoise as Védrines discovers in him a real talent for writing. Still, Bruno and Gisèle will be as happy as Théo and Zita ever were.
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A Woman Like Satan
Title: A Woman Like Satan
Character: Manuela
Released: February 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.
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The Lovers of Montparnasse
Title: The Lovers of Montparnasse
Character: Anna Zborowsky
Released: April 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.
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This Pretty World
Title: This Pretty World
Character: Léa
Released: September 27, 1957
Type: Movie
Pépito runs a gang of thugs with authority. He has a natural son, Gaston, a professor of literature in Aix-en-Provence, whom he has hardly ever seen. Gaston announces himself for Christmas, and Pépito decides to make him look good by moving into his headquarters: a château where the crooks will be able to exercise their talents as composers.
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Until the Last One
Title: Until the Last One
Character: Marcella Bastia
Released: March 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He has indeed double-crossed his gang by keeping part of the product of a robbery for himself. Thanks to his sister Marcella, Fernand has taken refuge in a small circus where she works. There, he falls in love with Gina but also arouses the jealousy of Quedchi, a fairground stall-holder who has seen him hiding the stolen money. After a while, Fredo Riccioni, the boss of the gang and his men, manage to trace him...
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Main Street
Title: Main Street
Character: Pepita
Released: October 26, 1956
Type: Movie
A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.
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People of No Importance
Title: People of No Importance
Character: Mme Vacopoulos
Released: February 15, 1956
Type: Movie
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair, even though Jean is already married and is old enough to be Clothilde’s father. Things take a turn for the worse when Jean loses his job and his wife finds out about his affair. But Clothilde’s predicament is even more distressing...
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School for Love
Title: School for Love
Character: Mme. Dimate - mère de Sophie
Released: April 25, 1955
Type: Movie
At the Conservatory of Vienna the students only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter.
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Razzia
Title: Razzia
Character: Léa, la toxicomane
Released: April 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.
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The Ragpickers of Emmaus
Title: The Ragpickers of Emmaus
Released: February 23, 1955
Type: Movie
The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bringing together a cross-section of the underprivileged: unemployed truck drivers, former paratroopers, young people leaving prison, etc., and underprivileged families. The "ragpickers" manage to make a bit of money by practicing the art of "chine", while the abbé tries his hand at winning radio games. The accident and death of one of them will unite the Emmaus companions even more.
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No Way Back
Title: No Way Back
Character: Ljuba
Released: November 6, 1953
Type: Movie
A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Ultimatum
Title: Ultimatum
Character: Irina
Released: October 27, 1938
Type: Movie
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.