
Sofia Rotaru
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 7, 1947
Place of Birth: Marshyntsi, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Known For

Songs of a Happy Land
The film tells the story of folk and pop songs from Bukovyna in the mid-1960s.

Red Ruta
Oksana (played by Sofia Rotaru) is a young and beautiful Carpathian girl. On the "Donetsk-Verkhovyna" train she becomes acquainted with a young miner from Donetsk called Boris. The travellers fall in love, but are parted when they arrive at their destination. In the Carpathian mountains their paths diverge, but Boris (played by Vasyl Zinkevych, soloist of the instrumental band "Smerichka") discovers where she is staying. The couple meet again and rekindle their love. Their friends invite them to perform in a concert for vacationers at a mountain resort, where they sing about their feelings for each other.

Goldfish
A musical and slightly updated version of the old "Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" by Pushkin. The old man and the old woman want an enviable groom for a girl, a "noble and glamorous" handsome man. But Maryushka loves Ivanushka the Fisherman and she will find her happiness only thanks to the Goldfish.

Snow Queen
The New Year's musical film has everything that Andersen described in his famous fairy tale "The Snow Queen", but with the attributes of the modern world. The Snow Queen is a powerful woman who charms the young man Kai and promises to make a pop star out of him.

Sorochyntsi Fair
The rich peasant Solopii Cherevyk goes to the Sorochyntsi fair to sell wheat. His quarrelsome wife Khivria and daughters Paraska, Horpyna and Motria go with him. At the fair, Paraska meets a guy named Hrytsko and falls in love with him. But her stepmother Khivria is against their wedding. In parallel, the events related to the mysterious story about the "red scroll" develop.

Old Songs About the Main Thing

The Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro
The day before his wedding, handsome and merry Figaro learns of the bride Susanna, but he has a rival - voluptuous Count Almaviva. Count intends to use the old right of the first night in his possessions and to steal from the lovers their happiness. The case becomes more complicated as another lover - Marceline claims her love for Figaro as well, requiring a considerable amount of money to return and marry her.

Little Red Riding Hood and Everyone
Mom sends her daughter to grandma's with pies and she meets a wolf on a forest path. However, the beast fails to deceive the girl. The heroes ride motorcycles, speak exclusively in youth slang, and the Wolf communicates with his "old rocker" dad via e-mail.

Soul
A famous singer is going through the dark period of her life...

Chervona Ruta. Ten Years Later
In 1971, at the Ukrtelefilm studio, director Roman Oleksiv made the musical film Chervona Ruta in the town of Yaremche (Carpathians). 10 years later, a follow-up film was released with the same performers.
Filmography
as Spaniard
as queen / participant from Ukraine
as Diva
as singer on TV
as "Zina Timofeeva"
as gypsy
as Flower Fairy
as Marceline
as Marcela - music teacher
as Oksana