Elina Bystritskaya
Elina Bystritskaya is a Soviet and Russian actress best known for her role of Aksiniya in Sergei Gerasimov's epic screening of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1958). Jewish by ethnicity and a native of Kiev, Bystritskaya was chosen to play Aksiniya by Sholokhov himself over several distinguished candidates, notably Nonna Mordyukova. Before that, she co-starred with Sergey Bondarchuk in the Unfinished Story, an archetypal Socialist Realist film. In the 1960's, Bystritskaya turned to theatre work in the Maly Theatre and her appearances on screen grew sporadic. She was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1978.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5207 |
| Birthday | 1928-04-04 |
| Place of Birth | Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine] |
| Also Known As | Э. Быстрицкая, E. Bystritskaya, |
1960
Russian Souvenir
4.6/5
The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thunderstorm and makes an emergency landing in the Ba...
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Russian Souvenir
1957
Quiet Flows the Don
6.282/39
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 t...
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Quiet Flows the Don
1963
All Remains to People
4.8/5
Renowned scientist Dronov works in Novosibirsk on the creation of ultra-modern engine. He has a bad heart, he was afraid not to have time to finish th...
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All Remains to People
1954
«Bogatyr» Goes to Marto
7.5/2
The Soviet steamer Bogatyr delivers construction materials and rafts with timber to the earthquake-stricken city of Marto. However, foreign intelligen...
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«Bogatyr» Goes to Marto
1950
In Peaceful Time
6.25/4
A few days from the life of Soviet submariners - during a regular peaceful time...
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In Peaceful Time
1955
Unfinished Story
5.3/10
The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person. She is lonely, although she is cared for by a confiden...
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Unfinished Story
2004
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
0.5/1
The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tells the story of pagan Rus' during the time of Princ...
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The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
1967
Summer Residents
7/2
In the focus of the film is the fate of Varvara Basova, whose painfully soulless, philistine-gray existence, devoid of ideals and moral content. Relev...
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Summer Residents
1992
Seven Days After the Murder
5.5/4
A terrible tragedy occurs in the family of a famous general: one of his daughters is killed. The investigator leading the case understands that an out...
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Seven Days After the Murder
1993
Brave Guys
9.5/2
Four veteran pilots were invited by the leadership of the military unit to perform a special task. And it does not matter that they haggle in the mark...
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Brave Guys
1958
The Volunteers
5.5/6
Based on the novel of the same name in the verses of Yevgeni Dolmatovsky. Together with hundreds of other boys and girls, Komsomol members Kolya Kait...
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The Volunteers
2004
Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
0/0
The second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". The film depicts the life and reign of Prince Vladim...
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Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
1964
Eternal Fire
9/1
About the difficult fate of a former political prisoner who came in search of his son in the places where he served his sentence.
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Eternal Fire
1967
Nikolay Bauman
7/1
This film tells about two years of life (1904-1905) of the revolutionary-Leninist, one of the founders of the newspaper "Iskra" Nikolai Ernestovich Ba...
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Nikolay Bauman
1985
Guilty Without Guilt
0/0
A story based on a classic play by Alexander Ostrovsky.
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Guilty Without Guilt
2002
Babi Yar
0/0
Melodrama about the mass shooting of Ukrainian Jewry at Babi Yar in Kyiv during the Second World War.
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Babi Yar
1992
Farewell Tour
0/0
Four actresses of the provincial theater are traveling in one compartment on tour to Moscow. They are connected by their love for one person, the dire...
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Farewell Tour
1978
Crazy Money
0/0
A story about the morals of 19th-century Russian nobility resonates in a striking way with the realities and ethical values of our own time. Emotions...
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Crazy Money
1973
Wolves and Sheep
0/0
Ostrovsky and the Maly Theatre tell us an age-old story, as old as the world itself, about how some people are destined to be simple and meek, like sh...
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Wolves and Sheep
1974
The Ostrovsky House
0/0
A production of the State Academic Maly Theater. The film, dedicated to the memory of Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, includes fragments of plays ba...
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