Zhanna Prokhorenko
Acting
Biography
Zhanna Prokhorenko (11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011) was a Soviet actress, best known for her role in Grigory Chukhray's film Ballad of a Soldier. She was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. She was also a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honour and of the Medal "For Labour Valour".
Born: May 11, 1940
Place of Birth: Poltava, USSR (Ukraine)
Known For
Discovery
This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. The events in it are developing in 20 years during the Civil war, when he sent a geologist searching for copper in the coal mines of the merchant Stasova, and in the 70s, when the head of the Institute. His thoughts and actions as if he reconciles his past, revolutionary romanticism 20-h his life's work was the discovery of a new chemical element. He believes in getting it even when the explosion in the laboratory takes the life of his closest friend and colleague, when his grown-up adopted son, becoming also a chemist, suffered during the experiments. Believe when testing on military ground again fail…
Twenty Years Later
About the first Komsomol members.
Two Versions of the Same Collision
An oil tanker flying the Liberian flag is sunk in the open ocean as a result of a collision with a Soviet dry cargo ship. The company sues the Black Sea Shipping Company and insists on a trial in New York. American lawyer Eugene Bogart and Soviet expert Ekaterina Kravchenko manage to find out that the steamship company, which owned the tanker, on the eve of bankruptcy. But it is not only that...
Ballad of a Soldier
During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Lyalka-Ruslan and His Friend Sanka
A story about a two schoolboys who are having a lot of fun and adventures during vacations time.
Mercy Train
Two strangers meet in an ambulance train during WWII.
Newcomer
The love story of Fedor, the village chauffeur and Mari, a local school teacher.
The Red Snowball Tree
A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
If You Are a Man
The main character of the film is an ordinary chauffeur Pavel, whose life is not very successful, despite the fact that he is a very kind and fair person. Finally, fate smiles at Pavel, he meets true love, but more and more tests fall to his lot, as if testing a simple guy for strength.
Close Afar
Sergei Bukreyev arrives with a team of meliorators in another village and immediately draws attention to the director of the farm Anna Talnikova. Her dedication to work scares Sergei, he even wants to persuade her to leave the farm, but understands that Anna will never be happy without her work, and he – without it.
Filmography
as Anna Pozdnyakova
as Anna Pozdnyakova
as дежурная в гостинице
as Клавдия Никитична, жена Парамонова
as Anna Mukhina
as Anna Mukhina
as Darya Lukyanova
as Ozerova
as Тальникова
as Maria Vladimirovna Nesterova
as Irina Tikhomirova (ex-wife)
as Lidiya Gameltova
as Nastya
as Анка
as Alexey's mother
as Anna Petrovna
as Lava Mironova
as Anna
as Mariya
as Nina
as Nastya
as Люба
as Lena
as Капочка Ничкина
as Varya Levchukova
as Katya
as Ksenia Zavyalova
as Shura