Alisa Freyndlikh
Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (Russian: Али́са Бру́новна Фре́йндлих, born 8 December 1934 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the Soviet Union. Alisa Freindlich was born into the family of Bruno Freindlich, a prominent actor and People's Artist of the Soviet Union. She is of German and Russian ancestry. Her father and paternal relatives were ethnic Germans living in Russia for more than a century. In her childhood years, Alisa Freindlich attended the drama and music classes of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. During the Second World War she survived the 900-day-long Siege of Leningrad and continued her school studies after the war. In the 1950s she studied acting at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema, graduating in 1957 as actress. From 1957 to 1961 Alisa Freindlich was a member of the troupe at Komissarjevsky Theatre in Leningrad. Then she joined the Lensovet Theatre company, but in 1982, she had to leave it following her divorce from the theatre's director, Igor Vladimirov. Thereupon director Georgy Tovstonogov invited her to join the troupe of BDT in which she works to this day. Although Freindlich put a premium on her stage career, she starred in several notable movies, including Eldar Ryazanov's enormously popular comedy Office Romance (1977), the long-banned epic Agony (1975) and Tarkovsky's sci-fi movie Stalker (1979). Another notable role was the Queen Anne of Austria in the Soviet TV series D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) and its later Russian sequels, Musketeers Twenty Years Later (1992) and Queen Anne's Secret or Musketeers Thirty Years Later (1993). On her 70th birthday, Freindlich's apartment in St. Petersburg was visited by Vladimir Putin, who awarded her with state decoration of the Russian Federation. She also received a Nika Award in 2005.
Stalker
as Stalker's WifeNear a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where...
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Office Romance
as Людмила Прокофьевна КалугинаAnatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics...
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The Bolshoi
as BeletskayaYoung and extremely talented dancer Yulya Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a “happy...
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Katya Ismailova
as Irina DmitrievnaA wife finds her life transformed after a torrid affair in this story of murder. Katia is a...
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Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
as VyrubovaRussian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual...
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Melodies of the Vera Quarter
as uncreditedThis musical is based on old Georgian vaudevilles and plays. The early 20th century. Old Tiflis...
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The Secret of the Iron Door
as MotherEvery one of us dreams of finding a magic wand, matches or, at least, an enchanted flower that...
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A Cruel Romance
as OgudalovaIn the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange...
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Striped Trip
as Pomoshnitsa Shuleykina v bufete tsyrkaA Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet...
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The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini
as uncreditedAfter the deaths of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis the Queen Anna of Austria has to ask...
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Voices
as herselfThe film is about what children and teenagers of besieged Leningrad survived. 14 surviving...
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A Dangerous Age
as Lilia Ivanovna RodimtsevaA relations between man and woman become complicate after 20 years of marriage.
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A Room and a Half
as MotherA semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into...
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Thawed Carp
as Людмила Борисовна (соседка Елены)Elena Mihailovna, having worked all her life in the only school of a provincial town, lives...
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The Straw Hat
as uncreditedA musical comedy based on the classic play by Eugène Labiche.
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To Love
as Anya, tram conductorFour love stories connected by newsreels of the late 60s. Each short story begins with an...
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The Secret of the Snow Queen
as Snow QueenWhen the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay, his best friend...
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Serafima Glyukina's Weekdays and Weekends
as Serafima GlukinaA woman living a difficult life suddenly finds love.
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Success
as Zinaida Nikolayevna ArsenyevaA drama about a complicated life of a director in a small provincial theater.
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Strict Regime Parents
as матьParents lock their son at home for re-education. He is 38 years old. He is the mayor.
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The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
as Queen AnnaThe 3rd part of the famous trilogy by Alexandre Dumas about d'Artagnan and his 3 friends Athos,...
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A Simple Death
as uncreditedA Soviet film adaptation of Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich.'
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Alisa: Excitement
as SelfThe plot revolves around the rehearsal of the play “Excitement” in which Freindlikh is to play a...
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Forgive Me
as uncreditedHow can change your life if someone tells you that your husband is cheating on you?
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Adventures of a Dentist
as uncreditedThis is story about a dentist with the talent of painlessly extracting teeth, and what happens...
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Martha's Line
as Марья ПетроваMoving to a new place of residence, to an old apartment in the slums of St. Petersburg, Olga and...
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12 chairs
as Эллочка-ЛюдоедочкаWho was the first to bring the great novel "12 Chairs" to the screen? You say "Leonid Gaidai" -...
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On Upper Maslovka Street
as Анна БорисовнаA story about a friendship between eighty years old sculptor and a way younger theater director.
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Blue Puppy
as Blue Puppy (voice)Blue Puppy is a 1976 Soviet animated film. The lyrics and screemplay were written by Yuri Entin,...
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Immortal song
as uncredited1920 year. Having been wounded, the Red Armyman Yusalov arrives in the Kuban village and...
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The Executive
as uncreditedThe film shows the daily life of an architecture studio, where a young student comes to work on...
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Musketeers 20 Years Later
as uncreditedThe new adventures of four musketeer friends... Based on Alexandre Dumas père novel "20 Years...
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The Princess and the Pea
as QueenIn one of the realms, there was time for the prince to get married, but the bride would have to...
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Family Happiness
as uncreditedOmnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov
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Always with me
as uncreditedThe famous scientist, academician and art critic Andrei Ilyin, who survived with the Hermitage...
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The Story about Newlyweds
as uncreditedA drama about a complications in a newlyweds life.
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Separated
as uncreditedA brother and sister are pulled apart by rich oligarchs named The Three Fat Men.
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The City Turns the Lights On
as PichikovaBased on the novel by Viktor Nekrasov “In the Hometown”. Former front-line intelligence...
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Quartet
as uncreditedFormer opera celebrities live in a nursing home. Four former idols whose lives were once filled...
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A Canary Cage
as Olesya's MotherThe film follows the chance encounter between two teenagers in crisis - Olesya and Victor. They...
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Anna and Commander
as AnnaResearching for a script about a famous scientist who tragically passed away, a writer meets his...
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BDT Digital: Excitement
as uncreditedAccording to Vyrypaev’s idea, “Excitement” is a play about the “Author”. The action takes place...
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Aleksandr Volodin. Gloomy Marathon
as uncreditedAn almost unknown girl Frida accompanied Aleksandr Volodin to the front. When he returned, he...
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Fifth Decade
as uncreditedA tired, naive librarian in her fourties, has experienced hard labor, chores, and failed love....
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Three Years
as uncreditedAlexey visits his seriously ill sister and meets a nice young woman Julia. After a while, Laptev...
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An Old-Fashioned Comedy
as Lidiya VasilyevnaBased on the play of the same name by Aleksei Arbuzov. The meeting between the chief physician...
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D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
as Queen Anne of AustriaThe musketeers battle against the all-powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the treacherous Milady.
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Musketeers Twenty Years Later
as Queen Anna of AustriaIn turbulent times for France and herself, the first minister of the Kingdom of France, Cardinal...
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The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini
as Queen Anne of Austria