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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1940-05-11

Place of Birth

Poltava, USSR (Ukraine)

Zhanna Prokhorenko

Biography

Zhanna Prokhorenko (11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011) was a Soviet actress, best known for her role in Grigory Chukhray's film Ballad of a Soldier. She was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. She was also a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honour and of the Medal "For Labour Valour".

Known for

Sokolovo

Sokolovo

The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.

Golden Mine

Golden Mine

The film is set in the 1970s Leningrad, Russia. Fugitive Brunov is a dangerous criminal, who escaped from jail. He is after the treasure that was hidden by him years ago at his former country-house. He is having plastic surgery to hide his identity, while preparing for his next crime. He is trying to kill another man, who is also after the same treasure. Investigators Zarubin, Kromkin and Lebedeva are untangling the case.

TASS Is Authorized to Declare...

TASS Is Authorized to Declare...

The struggle of Soviet and American intelligence agencies during the Cold War era

Ballad of a Soldier

Ballad of a Soldier

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.

Entrance to the Maze

Entrance to the Maze

A Russian mystery miniseries set both in medieval times and in the days of Perestroika.

Loop

Loop

The body of a young woman is found in a construction quarry. The deceased is Vera Topilina, secretary to the head of the Main Directorate, Menshutina. Moscow Criminal Investigation Department inspectors Vasilyev and Losev investigate the causes of the woman's death. Ultimately, the investigation leads the operatives to major players in the shadow economy.

A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun

An unexpected tragedy befalls ballerina Ekaterina Orlova: her husband is shot in the head before her very eyes.

Authorized by the Revolution

Authorized by the Revolution

Turkestan, 1919. The prominent Bolshevik Valerian Kuybyshev is appointed commander of the Turkestan Front. The film tells the story of the establishment of Soviet power in Central Asia.

Charlotte Necklace

Charlotte Necklace

While investigating a murder KGB detectives discover a criminal group which transfers a stolen artworks abroad .

Attack and Retreat

Attack and Retreat

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

Ward

Ward

About four patients in the same hospital room, about different personalities, different worldviews...

Point, Point, Comma...

Point, Point, Comma...

A lyric comedy about eight-graders, their life and first love...

Point, Point, Comma...

Point, Point, Comma...

A lyric comedy about eight-graders, their life and first love...

The Red Snowball Tree

The Red Snowball Tree

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. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.

No Foreign Land

No Foreign Land