Zoya Vasilkova
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 4, 1926
Place of Birth: Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Known For
The Gypsy
Based on the story of the same name by Anatoliy Kalinin. A young village woman, Klavdiya Pukhlyakova, the mother of a newborn girl, finds a gypsy boy at the crushed kibitka under the tanks. Having pity on the child, she takes him home and raises him as her own son. 17 years pass. Once in the village appears a lonely gypsy Budulai, who has experienced a lot. He very quickly gained the sympathy of Pukhlyakova's adoptive son. Suspecting that Budulai is the father of her gypsy boy, Klavdiya fears that the peace of the family will be disturbed...
Big "Wick"
A satirical express train sets off on its way. The driver S. Mikhalkov gives a farewell beep ... On the first carriage an inscription - "Summer cottage". The following are 8 short stories ...
Gentlemen of Fortune
Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to the thief to infiltrate his gang and learn the location of the stolen artifact. He finds the gangsters are unexpectedly similar to his students- they also need love and care.
Fuse
Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".
Children of Don Quixote
A film about the large family of the head of a maternity hospital. Living by very strict moral standards and nicknamed Don Quixote for this, he brings up his sons in the same spirit. And the sons turn out to be worthy of their father, although they often have to overcome various, both serious and comic, difficulties in life.
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.
And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning
A drama based on Boris Lavrenev's play "The Rift", telling about the participation of Baltic Fleet sailors in the Bolshevik coup of 1917.
Do You Remember the Scent of Lilacs...
A lonely old man and a girl in need of peace and genuine feelings become friends. However, after a while, she is accused of murdering the old man.
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality. Based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev.
Your Son and Brother
Based on short stories by Vasiliy Shukshin. About the life and people of the modern Soviet village. Old Yermolai lived all his life in one village. He has four sons, each with their own problems. The youngest foolishly ended up in jail and, three months before his release, greatly missing his family, escaped.
Filmography
as zhena Belovola
as соседка
as Glavvrach
as соседка
as жительница дома с винными подвалами
as мать Никиты
as Lady at the baroness's reception
as teacher
as перекупщица Маргарита Архиповна
as (uncredited)
as мамушка
as Гретхен
as дворник
as Vlas's wife
as Toporkov's wife
as швея
as Dasha
as Mother
as Cafeteria Worker
as аптекарь (нет в титрах)
as Zoya Nikolaevna, Valya's and Andrey's mother
as Kolpakova
as waitress (uncredited)
as пассажирка с чемоданом (новелла «Влип»)
as Лиза
as Придворная в золотом
as apartment owner
as barmaid (uncredited)
as Екатерина II
as Mayakova