Larisa Zhvaniya
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Larisa Zhvaniya.
Born: May 20, 1949
Place of Birth: Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Known For
The Twelve Months
A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.
Bury Me Behind the Baseboard
A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to "shelter" her beloved grandson at all cost.
An Independent Life
This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.
A Fire in the Outhouse, or a Feat in the Ice
Denis Korablyov and Mishka Slonov help to catch an eagle that has flown away from a living corner. And when the guys are late for the lesson, they do not believe them.
The Twelve Months
A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.
Hello, Andrey!
Guests are invited to the studio to have conversations with Andrey Malakhov, where they talk about their personal and professional successes, as well as anything else that interests them. Through these open discussions on air, viewers get a complete impression of the guest's life and their perspective on various issues.
Filmography
as Self
as kons'yerzhka
as Софья Аркадьевна
as Queen
as Королева