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Elena Alexandrovna Maksimova (23.11.1905—23.09.1986) was born in Moscow to a grocer father (he sold non-perishable goods) and a housewife mother, who was often ill. Apart from her, there were two other daughters in the family. Following her father's death in 1920, her mother was forced by poverty to send all three daughters to Orphanage No. 55, located in the Sokolniki district. Shortly after, in 1922, her mother also passed. Thus, at the age of 17, she was left completely orphaned.
From an early age, Elena Maximova had dreamed of becoming an actress. When she finished schooling in 1925, she immediately went to the film studio attached to ‘Moskprofobor’ (Москпрофобр) to sit her entrance exams. There was only one free place available, and it went to Elena – as the most talented of all the applicants. From 1925 to 1927, she trained under the guidance of renowned film masters Vladimir Gardin and Konstantin Eggert. Alongside her studies at the film studio, Elena Maksimova had to work as a press operator at a button factory.
She worked in film since 1927, appearing in productions by various film studios in Moscow and Leningrad. Between 1940 and 1964, she was an actress at the Soyuzdetfilm studio (now the Gorky Film Studio).
Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (30 September 1958). The characters she portrayed were distinguished by their realism and attention to everyday detail. Her heroines were most often active, energetic and impetuous, yet she was equally at home with gentle, lyrical roles. She served Soviet cinema for nearly fifty years, and her work was modest and selfless — rarely in supporting roles, but more often in small cameos.
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10 October 1980
First, there was a visit by a famous writer to his old friend, who then, in order to get rid of a random witness, killed him.
12 December 1931
Killing to Live is a 1931 Soviet documentary directed by Vladimir Korolevitch.
06 November 1935
A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government.
09 February 1939
Don Cossack Stepan Razin vowed to take revenge on the boyars for his tortured friends. Having led the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of an entire army.
21 March 1965
A story about the beginning of life. Having lost their parents early, Alyosha and Nadya were not left alone - the father’s friend and the people around them helped the children remain kind and open in this difficult world of adults .
19 October 1959
Czechoslovakia, May 9, 1945. The end of the war has already been announced. Nikolai Savelyev dreams of returning to his hometown and teaching children history again.
30 December 1974
Writer Pavel Snegirev comes to the village where during the war there was an orphanage where he spent his childhood, and meets his old friend Klim Avilov.
08 September 1929
A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van.
26 October 1957
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.
18 March 1957
Agronomist Valya Chernysheva fell in love with the new chief agronomist of the MTS Savitsky, a widower with two small daughters.
25 March 1974
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.
08 November 1981
A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city.
26 April 1962
The Soviet boys, Vadik and Yura, together with the mischievous little girl Tosha, are children with a kind heart and good life philosophy.
26 August 1974
Three Soviet prisoners of war escape from a fascist concentration camp at the end of the war. One of the guards helps them and runs with them.
08 April 1930
During the agrarian collectivization process in the Soviet Union, Vasyl, a peasant member of the youth division of the Communist Party, gets a tractor with the help of a local party organization and plows private boundaries on kulak fields.
08 April 1941
The house manager, Sinichkin, is obsessed with his plan to turn the courtyard into a place for cultured recreation.
01 February 1959
Sasha and Katya love each other. The wedding has already been scheduled, Sasha is just about to go on a business trip.
01 January 1961
An elderly man takes in his orphaned niece after the death of his younger brother. On the way home, on the train, in communication with various people, the true traits of his character are revealed.
29 October 1973
In the years following the end of WWII, test pilots and designers risk their lives to master new jet technologies.
22 August 1983
The fifth film in a Mosfilm "youth" anthology series comprising three short stories. The first story, 'Vizit' (The Visit), directed by filmmaker turned politician Yevgeni Gerasimov, tells the story of a rural boy visiting his former village girlfriend, now living in Moscow.
07 January 1977
After the death of her husband, Tamara gave her daughter Olya to an orphanage and left for the North.
29 October 1984
Once a famous singer Valentin Ozernikov, returning from another tour, thinks about his fast flowing life and tried to formulate his criteria for figs further existence.
01 April 1955
Osip Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist.
03 April 1961
On the outskirts of the provincial town, Yevdokim and Yevdokiya live, raising foster children. Yevdokim works at a factory, Yevdokiya is a housewife.
02 June 1965
An experienced intelligence officer arrives in the USSR as a tourist. The staff of the State Security Committee manages to find out the real reason for Miss Luster's visit, to reveal all her numerous connections with agents of foreign intelligence, to expose and eliminate the criminals.
11 May 1965
When peasant Georgy Makharashvili hears that his soldier son is lying wounded in a hospital, he sets out to visit him.
13 January 1970
The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's concert.
22 April 1953
Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.
09 October 1932
An American engineer, consulting on a Soviet construction project, inspires a backward and timid new foreman to learn better about his job, assert himself, solve problems and inspire his own men to bring the job in ahead of schedule.
19 August 1974
Andryusha and his fifth-grade comrades in a pile of scrap raw materials found poorly bound typewritten pages with the inscription "Attack.
12 January 1952
A young woman is going to the village to start working as doctor.
08 February 1966
A female poet and author faces the harsh realities of a besieged Leningrad. Based on Olga Berggolts' memoir of the same name.
01 January 1954
Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island.
13 July 1967
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.
01 June 1959
Khrystyna Zhalyuk, the chairman of the village council, has had many difficulties from the very first days of her work.
17 December 1982
After returning from the USSR, Tulyev was subjected to rigorous verification of his former "owners". He continues his work in Western intelligence, but already as a Soviet intelligence officer through the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR.
30 April 1973
The hero of the film, the world record holder in the high jump, after a car accident according to the conclusion of doctors, should forever leave the sport.
27 April 1957
For the construction of the plant comes a team of ironworkers, they will carry out the installation of the blast furnace according to the new method.
28 May 1964
The war is over. Demobilized soldier Chepurnov goes to his fiancée Vara Karpova, whom he knows by correspondence.
13 December 1960
Rodka Gulyaev is a pupil of the Gumniskii rural secondary school. One day on the bank of the river he digs out the darkened old icon.
18 November 1968
13-year-old boy Ivan loses all loved ones to World War II. His father was killed, and his mother died during the bombing.
11 March 1978
Soldier Armenak is given an extraordinary task: to transport an elephant from Germany to the Yerevan Zoo.
24 April 1932
The best bell-ringer of the church Fedor Kuzmich Shtukov becomes the foreman of production at the shipyard.
06 June 1966
Engineer Martyanov fights corruption and old methods of working at his institute after electing the secretary of the party committee.
10 May 1983
A man reconnects with the people he grew up with in a Soviet orphanage.
20 June 1966
Olga and Butkevich, the head of the convoy, meet at a roadside cafe. They hadn't seen each other since the beginning of the war.
03 August 1964
About a young girl who came to a distant land for geological practice.
01 October 1929
From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as is the case with "Chiny I Lyudi" ( Ranks And People ) (1929) in which three short stories by Chekhov, "Anna On The Neck", "Death Of A Petty Official" and "Chameleon" were assembled for the silent screen.
21 October 1957
The farm's chairman took the late secretary's teenage son into his house.
25 August 1965
Brother and sister Danya and Valya move with their mother to a northern seaside town and immediately become participants in an exciting but dangerous adventure.
28 September 1964
Demobilized sailor Silaev marries his beloved girlfriend Natasha. Soon he learns that his wife's family lives on unearned income, and categorically refuses to participate in their speculative schemes.
16 January 1956
The young machine operator Fyodor Soloveikov marries Stesha from a neighboring village and moves to live with her parents in a house.
11 July 1962
Three of them hunted a bear, but a man was accidentally killed instead. The investigation must determine which of the hunters is responsible for this death.
20 October 1958
Together with hundreds of other boys and girls, Komsomol members Kolya Kaitanov, Slava Ufimtsev, Alyosha Akishin, Lyolya and Masha came to the construction of the first stage of the Moscow metro.
04 October 1965
After graduating high school Ira Yegorova starts working in the construction...
22 June 1967
In the first days of the Second World War, a young woman with three children is evacuated from the front-line zone to the Urals.
05 February 1937
1773. The film tells the story of one of the most devastating events in the history of the Russian Empire—the Cossack uprising led by Emelyan Pugachev, which escalated into a civil war for the imperial throne, with Pugachev proclaiming himself Peter III.
05 February 1976
A story about a group of children and their life set at the small Russian seashore town in the year of 1913.
31 December 1973
Three cynical and emotionally detached aliens arrive on earth on New Year's eve with the mission of exploring and studying human behaviour but inevitably get pulled into a hillarious, nonsensical plot which makes them realize just how wonderful earth life can be with all its quirks, drama and humour.
07 September 1981
A good guy from a prosperous family Gena Rusanov studies at the institute, loves a girl and is ready to get married.
