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Zhanna Bolotova

Acting Born Oct 19, 1941 Chanovsky District, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR 24 credits

Biography

Zhanna Bolotova is a Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s.

In 1977 she became a USSR State Prize laureate and was designated as a People's Artist of Russia in 1985

She debuted on screen while still at school, in The House That I Live In by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel. In 1964 she graduated the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the class of Sergei Gerasimov and Tatyana Makarova, to join the Cinema Actor Studio Theatre.

In 1969 she received her first international award, for The Best Female Role, at the Varna Red Cross film festival, for 24-24 Does Not Return. The Silence of Dr. Evens (1974) earned her another award in the same category, at the Triest Film Festival.

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Known for

Film

The Days of Surgeon Mishkin

1976

Full filmography

  • The Love of Mankind (1973) as Tanya Pavlova
  • Dead Man's Bluff (2005) as преподаватель
  • The Days of Surgeon Mishkin (1976)
  • If You Are Right (1964) as Galya
  • 24-25 Doesn't Come Back (1969) as Mara
  • The Days of Surgeon Mishkin (1977)
  • The Trap (1965)
  • Wings (1966) as Tanya Petrukhina
  • The Journalist (1967) as Nina
  • The Secret Agent's Destiny (1970) as Yulya
  • On the Way to Lenin (1970) as Lena
  • The Orphans (1977) as Alla Konstantinovna
  • A Dangerous Age (1981) as Maria Vasilyevna
  • The First Courier (1968) as Konkordiya Samoilova
  • Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh (1981) as Nadezhda Andreyevna
  • Галина Польских. Под маской счастья (2014) as Self
  • Men and Beasts (1962) as Tanya
  • The Roundabout (1971) as Yuliya Vasilyevna
  • Declaration of Love to G.T. (1971) as Ada
  • And Life, and Tears and Love (1984) as Varvara Dmitriyevna
  • The Flight of Mr. McKinley (1975) as мистер Мак-Кинли
  • Rudin (1977)
  • The Black Triangle (1981) as Роза Штерн
  • Oh, Cinema, Cinema! (1973) as Self