Zhanna Bolotova

Zhanna Andreevna Bolotova (Russian: Жанна Андреевна Болотова; October 10, 1941, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR) is a Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s. She is a USSR State Prize laureate (1977) and was designated The People's Artist of Russia in 1985. She is married to the actor and theatre/film director Nikolai Gubenko.^[1][2]

Biography

Zhanna Bolotova was born in the Siberian resort Karachi Lake nearby Novosibirsk, on October 19, 1941. She debuted on screen while still at school, playing plucky Galya Volynskaya in The House That I Live In by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel. In 1964 she graduated Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the class of Sergei Gerasimov and Tatyana Makarova, to join the Cinema Actor Studio Theatre. As a first year student she married Nikolay Gubenko; the pair soon divorced but re-united several years later.^[2]

Among Zhanna Bolotova's best-known films were Humans and Animals (1962) and To Love Somebody (1972), both by Sergei Gerasimov. In 1969 she's got her first international award, at the Varna Red Cross film festival, for 24-24 Does Not Return (best female role). Another award in the same category brought her the Silence of Dr. Evens (1974), at the Triest Film Festival. She also starred in several films by her husband Nikolai Gubenko, among them Wounded Game (1977), Scenes from the Life of Resort Visitors (1980), Life, Tears and Love (1984). In 1977 Bolotova received the USSR State Prize for her part in The Flight of Mister McKinley. In 1985 Bolotova was awarded the title The People's Artist of Russia.^[2]

All in all Zhanna Bolotova appeared in 28 films. In the 1990s her film career virtually ended. Only in 2005, after 17 years' pause she appeared in the small role of a University professor in Zhmurki.^[2]

Filmography

• The House that I Live In (Dom v kotorom ya zhivu, 1957), the leading role
• People and Animals (Lyudy i zvery, 1962), the leading role
• If You Are Right (Yesli ty prav, 1963), the leading role
• The Trap (Zapadnya, 1965), the leading role
• Wings (Krylya, 1966)
• The Journalist (Zhurnalist, 1967)
• The First Courier (Pervy kuryer, 1967), the leading role
• 24-25 Doesn’t Return (24-25 ne vozvrashcayetsa, 1968), the leading role
• Tough Kilometers (Surovye kilometry, 1969)
• Carousel. From Stories and Notes by A.P.Chekhov (Karusel. Iz rasskazov i zapisnykh knizhek A.P.Chekhova)
• Approaching Lenin (Na puti k Leninu, 1970)
• The Fate of a Resident (Sudba rezidenta, 1970)
• The Town in the Caucasus (Gorod na Kavkaze, 1972)
• To Love Somebody (Lyubit tcheloveka, 1972)
• The Silence of Dr.Evens (Molchaniye doktora Ivensa, 1973), the leading role
• If You Want to Be Happy (Yesli khochesh byt schastlivym, 1974), the leading role
• The Flight of Mister MacKinley (Begstvo mistera Mak-Kinly, 1975), the leading role
• The Days of Mishkin the Surgeon (Dni khirurga Mishkina, 1976), the leading role
• Wounded Game (Podranki, 1976)
• Rudin (1976)
• Meeting at a Far Meridian (Vstrecha na dalyokom meridiane, 1977)
• A Scene of the Resort Visitors (Iz zhizny otdykhayushchikh, 1980), the leading role
• Sergey Ivanovich Retires (Sergey Inavovich ukhodit na pensiyu, 1980)
• Dangerous Age (Opasny vozrast, 1981)
• The Black Triangle (Tchyorny treugolnik, 1981)
• Who’s Knocking At My Door (Kto stuchitsa v dver ko mne, 1982)
• Life, Tears and Love (I zhyzn i slyozy i lyubov, 1984)
• Forbidden Zone (Zapretnaya zona, 1988)
• Dead Man's Bluff (Zhmurki, 2005)

References

External links

• Zhanna Bolotova at the Internet Movie Database