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Elina Bystritskaya

Born 1928-04-04 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine] 20 films

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 Realis…

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Filmography

20 films

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About the difficult fate of a former political prisoner who came in search of his son in the places…

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Eternal Fire

★ 9.0 1964

Renowned scientist Dronov works in Novosibirsk on the creation of ultra-modern engine. He has a bad…

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All Remains to People

★ 4.8 1963

The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a th…

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Russian Souvenir

★ 4.6 1960

Together with hundreds of other boys and girls, Komsomol members Kolya Kaitanov, Slava Ufimtsev, Al…

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The Volunteers

★ 5.5 1958

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the Fi…

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Quiet Flows the Don

★ 6.3 1957

The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person. She…

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Unfinished Story

★ 5.3 1955

The Soviet steamer Bogatyr delivers construction materials and rafts with timber to the earthquake-…

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«Bogatyr» Goes to Marto

★ 7.5 1954

A few days from the life of Soviet submariners - during a regular peaceful time...

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In Peaceful Time

★ 6.2 1950