Acting
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.
Filmography
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Stalker
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal law...
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
The musketeers battle against the all-powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the treacherous Milady.
Ruthless Romance
In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her...
Musketeers Twenty Years Later
In turbulent times for France and herself, the first minister of the Kingdom of France, Cardinal Mazarin, asked...
The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini
Office Romance
Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In...
Adventures of a Dentist
Young dentist Chesnokov has a knack for painless tooth removal, much to the dismay of others, who fear unemploy...
Melodies of the Vera Quarter
This musical is based on old Georgian vaudevilles and plays. The early 20th century. Old Tiflis is in confusion...
Вальс
A TV film about how the hard days of the siege of Leningrad united the residents of a communal apartment. 1941....
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II, mystic Grigori Rasputin holds great influence over the empire. Howeve...
The Straw Hat
Charming womanizer and playboy Leonidas Fadinar wants to quit his bachelor life and marry the daughter of local...
Thawed Carp
Elena Mihailovna, having worked all her life in the only school of a provincial town, lives modestly in retirem...
Striped Trip
A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose mon...
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
Accountant Sergey Ivanovich is retiring. Finally, he will be able to devote all his free time to his family: he...
The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini
After the deaths of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis the Queen Anna of Austria has to ask for help of the...
The Bolshoi
Young and extremely talented dancer Yulya Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a “happy ticket”: she is n...
To Love
Four love stories connected by newsreels of the late 60s. Each short story begins with an epigraph taken from t...
The Secret of the Iron Door
Every one of us dreams of finding a magic wand, matches or, at least, an enchanted flower that would make any w...
Three Years
Alexey visits his seriously ill sister and meets a nice young woman Julia. After a while, Laptev decides to mar...
Blue Puppy
A puppy, born with a strangely light-blue coat, finds himself shunned by all. No one wants to play with him or...
Katya Ismailova
A wife finds her life transformed after a torrid affair in this story of murder. Katia is a rather dull young w...
Family Happiness
The film comprises four novellas: (1) “From Boredom”. A wealthy matron, bored with life, embarks on a romance w...
Strict Regime Parents
Parents lock their son at home for re-education. He is 38 years old. He is the mayor.
The Princess and the Pea
In one of the realms, there was time for the prince to get married, but the bride would have to be a real princ...
My Life
Man is trying to find simple human happiness. He decides for himself the question of what this happiness consis...
Andrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a God
Andrei Tarkovsky is the most famous Russian director, often called a genius during his lifetime. He made relati...
A Room and a Half
A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
Always With Me
The famous scientist, academician and art critic Andrei Ilyin, who survived with the Hermitage staff the harsh...
The City Turns the Lights On
Former front-line intelligence officer, captain Nikolai Mityasov, after being wounded, returns to the destroyed...
The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
The 3rd part of the famous trilogy by Alexandre Dumas about d'Artagnan and his 3 friends Athos, Porthos and Ara...
City and Song
The music film was shot against the backdrop of Leningrad, the Black Sea coast and the birch forest. With the p...
The Executive
The film shows the daily life of an architecture studio, where a young student comes to work on his dissertatio...
Чехарда
The Straw Hat
A musical comedy based on the classic play by Eugène Labiche.
Fro
The 1930s were a time of five-year plans, construction projects, and the development of remote areas of the cou...