
Zinaida Kirienko
Acting
Biography
Zinaida Kirienko is a recognised Soviet actress, who played vivid roles in the films Poem of the Sea, The Fate of a Man and others. She gained all-Union fame after playing the role of Natalia in the film of her teacher Sergei Gerasimov, Quiet Don.
Born: July 9, 1933
Place of Birth: Makhachkala, Dagestanskaya ASSR, RSFSR, USSR
Known For

Love You. Waiting. Lena
The former paratrooper, and now the worker of the geological party Sergey Krutov, hurries to the station to meet a stranger girl and take a note from her for his friend - Having delivered the cherished message, he gladly learns about the arrival of the one he was thinking about, saving someone else's love.

Fate of a Man
The story of a man whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory...

Pigeon's Milk

Heaven is With Me
Test pilot Ivan Gribov was seriously wounded in battle, captured, and escaped from the camp. He returned to his city after the war and found out that his wife had buried him, got married and was living well. He stopped flying, got married, and tried not to think about the sky...

To Remember

Two Captains
A passionate pilot dedicates his life to the search for a polar expedition.

Quiet Flows the Don
Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.

Destiny
A war comes to the life of the heroes of "Earthy Love" (1975).

The Slowest Train
Spring, 1943. A military train is heading from a city, just liberated from the fascists. A special carriage with divisional printing-works is hitched to the train. Manager of the printing-works and correspondent expects he will travel alone, and even makes a prudent sign on the door - mines. But gradually the carriage starts to get filled with uninvited fellow travelers. The first were an injured soldier with a girl, then - a pregnant woman with escort, two communist party members, an actress, aunt Pasha, and others. The correspondent has nothing but to put up with it, because he cant turn out people, who suffer from the war, each in his/her own way.

Earthy Love
A life of a few people during the years before WWII before the events shown in "Destiny" (1977).
Filmography
as Народная артистка РСФСР
as Sofya Raevkskaya Sr.
as Maria
as Зинаида Георгиевна Широкова, прокурор
as Narrator
as Александра Коргачева - начальник торга
as Nastasya Merkulovna
as Aleksandra Peregonets
as Rashida Ramazanova
as Efrosinya Deryugina
as Aksinya Feodorovna
as Efrosinya
as Клавдия
as Данка Крилюк
as Katya Vaulina
as Vera - Kolya's Mom
as Mother
as Капа Подгорная
as Maryana
as Monika
as Irina
as Aneta
as Katerina
as Наталья