Alla Demidova

AKA: Alla Demidova, Алла Демидова
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1936-09-29

Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Biography

Crew Roles

Gogol Online: Akhmatova. A Poem Without a Hero
Stage Director
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {56}

Lisa

1975-03-07 7.955

Mirror

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Actress Nina Sergeyevna

1973-12-03 7

Courtesy Call

Four parallel stories: "Ship", "Port", "Pompeia" and "Theater" are connected with the fate of the captain of a training warship Andrei Glebov, who visited a foreign port city. ...
Genre :Drama

1965-12-15 0

Comesc

Formerly a squadron commander, the hero worked at the small airfield for many years. Komesk - as his colleagues call him in a friendly manner - is now retired. Every day with his little granddaughter ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Sorceress

1978-08-25 5.625

The Scarlet Flower

A merchant is living in a fairytale Russia of hundreds of years ago. When he is making a journey to market, his three daughters each ask for a present to be brought back... ...
Genre :Family, Fantasy, TV Movie

Anna Sergeyevna

2004-09-06 6.4

The Tuner

A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Arkadina

1970-12-31 4.1

The Seagull

Based on the play of the same name by Anton Chekhov. About the searches and doubts of the Russian intelligentsia at the end of the 19th century. Events unfold on the estate of Pyotr Sorin, which bro ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Commissar

1968-10-21 6.6

Two Comrades Were Serving

Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The firs ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History, War

1988-06-06 4.5

Autumn, Chertanovo...

The heroine of the film is a young attractive woman whose motto is “you need to become depraved to feel like a saint.” She is convinced that men who love her should easily accept her for who she is. B ...
Genre :Drama

2006-06-06 0

Russian Money

The mistress of a once prosperous, but now frustrated estate, wants to improve her affairs at the expense of neighboring possessions belonging to the rich widow Evlampia Kupavina. The lady hatches an ...
Genre :Comedy, History

Voice

1982-11-21 5.6

The Queen of Spades

Hermann is an officer of the engineers in the Imperial Russian Army. He constantly watches the other officers gamble, but never plays himself. One night, Tomsky tells a story about his grandmother, an ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Zhenya

1968-06-06 3.2

Degree of Risk

A drama based on the daily life of a hospital and its doctors. ...
Genre :Drama

Liza

1969-07-11 4.7

The Living Corpse

According 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 choos ...
Genre :Drama

2004-06-08 1

Tairov's Death

The film is dedicated to the tragic fate of the outstanding theater director, founder of the famous Chamber Theater Alexander Tairov. Tairov's performances "Princess Brambilla", "Phaedra", "Love under ...
Genre :Drama

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

1979-08-25 6.7

A Glass of Water

When a small state is threatened with capture by a much stronger one, only one thing can save it: the emergence of a competitor comparable to the invader. In a graceful and witty play by Scribe, hosti ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1983-04-02 0

Road to Eternity

Based on Anna Ahmatova's translation of Korean poem about eternal love. ...
Genre :Animation

2013-01-02 5.1

Eternal Homecoming

A woman is paid a surprise visit by her long-forgotten classmate, who needs her advice: should he choose a wife or a lover? An outrageously burlesque mise-en-scène is repeated many times but each time ...
Genre :Drama

2016-05-01 0

Gogol Online: Akhmatova. A Poem Without a Hero

From Alla Demidova's book "Akhmatova Mirrors": "When I began to decipher the "Poem without a hero", the more I found doubles in it, which, in turn, bifurcated and so on — to infinity (the same thing h ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Miss Minchin

1997-06-06 1

The Little Princess

The film is set in 1890s London. Sarah lived happily in India with her father, but when he was drafted into military service he placed Sarah in a boarding school in London. Sarah was lonely, but she m ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Anna

1984-11-26 5.8

Rest Time from Saturday Until Monday

A drama from the life of two generations of a big family from Leningrad. Loosely based on a novel by Yuriy Nagibin. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Svetilnikova

1976-01-01 6

Story of an Unknown Actor

Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev is not that young of an actor. For many years he plays in the provincial theater in leading roles. The director of a play based on a play that was written for Goryaev takes the ...
Genre :Drama

Мать Елена

1986-04-02 0

Tester

The young hero's father, a famous test pilot, dies in an airplane crash. But comes the first deep feeling for the girl Tanya - and the hero finds the courage to overcome this seemingly intolerable gri ...
Genre :Drama

Yulia von Meck

1970-08-31 4.875

Tchaikovsky

The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, of his friendship with Baroness von Meck, an outstandin ...
Genre :Drama, Music, History

потаскушка

1975-12-15 4.1

The Flight of Mr. McKinley

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 o ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Lesya Ukrainka

1970-12-31 6.5

I'm Coming to You...

The main motive of the film - a tragic love of Lesya Ukrainka to Marxist revolutionary Sergei Merzhinskiy. The film is about the poetess' trip to her beloved, in the literal and metaphorical sense at ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Maria Spiridonova

1968-10-14 5.8

The Sixth of July

Political thriller based on a story of coup against Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party in Moscow on 6–7 July 1918. They assassinate German ambassador in Moscow in hope of gaining pub ...
Genre :History, Drama, Thriller

Марья Тимофеевна Лебядкина

1992-05-27 5

Demons

Genre :Drama

1985-08-31 1

Children of the Sun

A story from the life in the beginning of XX century based on the theater play by Maxim Gorky. ...
Genre :Drama

Laura Lyons

1981-07-25 8.1

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles

When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskervi ...
Genre :Crime, Adventure, Mystery, TV Movie

1987-07-22 5.9

Kreutzer Sonata

A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Witch

2017-06-27 4.857

The Bottomless Bag

Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove, story takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his bedroom a metaphysical story about a 13th century prince ...
Genre :Drama

Katya

1971-10-25 6.2

You and Me

Two middle-aged doctors and longtime friends reunite after a long separation and find themselves in a love triangle. Pyotr, Sasha, and Katya feel that life has passed them by. They seek spiritual salv ...
Genre :Drama

Pashenka

1978-09-05 2.5

Father Sergius

A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The main character of the film is Prince Stepan Kasatsky, an officer, an ardent, proud young man — a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is g ...
Genre :Drama

ученый-физик

1964-01-15 1

What is the Theory of Relativity?

In a compartment of the Moscow-Novosibirsk train, a young physicist meets famous film actors. The conversation accidentally comes to Einstein, and the woman begins to explain to her fellow travelers w ...
Genre :Documentary

1967-10-28 6

Стюардесса

Genre :Romance

herself

2018-08-29 5

Theatre Affair

In the spring of 2017, the Investigation Committee conducted the first searches in the criminal case, which everyone now knows as the “Serebrennikov case”, “the Seventh Studio case” or “The Platform c ...
Genre :Documentary

Lida's Mother

1981-12-16 3.8

Falling Stars

Falling Star is based on three stories by the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Astafyev and centers on a young soldier on the front lines who is wounded and taken to the hospital. Once there, he mus ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

countess Orlova

2023-10-05 3

Naval Cadets 1787. Peace

Crimea, 1787. Despite the Manifesto of the Russian Empress Catherine and the Kuchuk-Kainardzhi peace treaty, which forever united Crimea with Russia, Europe continues to weave intrigues, trying to bre ...
Genre :Adventure

1998-12-24 6

Invisible Traveller

At the heart of the picture is a common legend about the last days of Emperor Alexander the First Blessed. ...
Genre :

1976-06-06 0

Always With Me

The famous scientist, academician and art critic Andrei Ilyin, who survived with the Hermitage staff the harsh trials of the Leningrad blockade, returned to his hometown after many years. The whole li ...
Genre :Drama

2002-10-12 4.5

Letters to Elsa

Charming young Olga marries a successful businessman. It is surrounded by luxury and well-being. A wealthy husband is ready to fulfill any whim of a beautiful wife. Olga is an airy woman who is fond o ...
Genre :Drama

Olga Berggolts

1966-02-08 0

The Stars of the Day

A female poet and author faces the harsh realities of a besieged Leningrad. Based on Olga Berggolts' memoir of the same name. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Katheline

1977-04-03 4.7

The Legend of Till

Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere." First part: "The ...
Genre :Adventure, History, TV Movie

Анна

1971-08-28 0

Вся королевская рать

Genre :Drama

Laura Lyons

1981-07-25 7.3

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock ...
Genre :Mystery, Adventure, Crime, TV Movie

Laura Lyons

1981-07-26 7.4

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2

The second part of the Soviet TV adaption. ...
Genre :Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure

Narrator (voice)

1987-12-01 6

School of Fine Arts. Juniper Landscape

Blending drawings, paintings, filmed interviews, and recorded testimony, this animation-documentary hybrid tells of the tragic fate of the Estonian artist Ülo Sooster. ...
Genre :Animation, History, Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1990-01-01 0

School of Fine Arts. Return

The second part of the duology on the famous Estonian artist Ülo Sooster continues his life story, paying homage to many other great artists who were spiritually consonant with his work. ...
Genre :Animation, History, Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1990-12-01 0

School of Fine Arts

An animated film in two parts, about the tragic fate of Estonian artist Ülo Sooster and about his work. ...
Genre :Animation, History, Documentary

Self

2021-08-31 0

What Beat You Nothing

Alla Demidova ranks among the greatest actresses to have graced the Russian-language stage over the past six decades, as well as screens big and small. She's famous for her tragic characters. Perhaps ...
Genre :Documentary, Drama

Narrator

1980-03-15 0

Pushkin and Pushchin

Poushkin's and Pouschin's friendship began when they were students in the Tsarskoye Selo Lycee, whose alumni during the era of Alexander I and Nicholas I included government officials, royalists, rebe ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Jane

1975-12-21 0

Choice of Purpose

A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Elsa Triolet (voice)

2009-07-01 0

Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson: Life is a Novel

A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson. ...
Genre :Documentary

Laura Lyons

1980-03-22 7.8

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a series of five films produced by Lenfilm for the Soviet Central Television, split into eleven episodes, starring Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Mystery, Crime

Laura Lyons

2000-04-03 7.2

Memories of Sherlock Holmes

Detective television series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Five films about Sherlock Holmes, shot by Igor Maslennikov earlier, were remounted in 2000, a connecting story about Conan Doyle's ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Laura Lyons

1981-07-25 7

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles

The third part of the Soviet TV series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. The events of the film take place in 1889. The country doctor Mortimer comes to Sherlock Holmes a ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Mystery, Crime

Angelika Bucher

1968-08-19 6.6

The Shield and the Sword

The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East. The Russian military command suspects hostile inten ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, War & Politics, Drama