Tatyana Pelttser, Soviet actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1960) and People's Artist of the USSR (1972), was born on this day in 1904.
She was best known for her roles in the films Soldier Ivan Brovkin (1955), Formula of Love (1984), and The Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase (1970).
September Vacation, directed by Vitaly Melnikov, starring Oleg Dal, Irina Kupchenko, and Yuri Bogatyryov, was released in the Soviet Union on this day in 1979.
Sagdi Tabibullaev, Soviet actor, People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1948), was born on this day in 1906.
He was best known for his roles in the films The Crash of the Emirate (1955) and The Old Master’s Testament (1972).
My Apprenticeship (1938), dir. Mark Donskoy
Viy (1967), dir. Konstantin Yershov and Georgi Kropachyov
Could One Imagine? (1981), dir. Ilya Frez
Andrei Rublev (1966), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Kakhi Kavsadze, Soviet and Georgian actor, People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1981), was born on this day in 1935.
He was best known for his roles in the films White Sun of the Desert (1970), The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho (1988), and Repentance (1984).
Konstantin Stepankov, Soviet and Ukrainian actor, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1974) and People's Artist of the USSR (1977), was born on this day in 1928.
He was best known for his roles in the films How the Steel Was Tempered (1973), Zakhar Berkut (1972), and The White Bird Marked with Black (1971).
Murder on Dante Street, directed by Mikhail Romm, starring Yevgeniya Kozyreva and Mikhail Kozakov, was released in the Soviet Union on this day in 1956.
Stanislav Chekan, Soviet actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR 1955, was born on this day in 1922.
He was best known for his roles in the films Post in the Mountains (1953), The Wrestler and the Clown (1957), and The Diamond Arm (1968).
The best Soviet films of 1959, as voted by readers of Soviet Screen magazine:
1. Fate of a Man, dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
2. Gloomy Morning, dir. Grigori Roshal
3. Extraordinary Accident, dir. Viktor Ivchenko
4. Ballad of a Soldier, dir. Grigory Chukhrai
5. Eugene Onegin, dir. Roman Tikhomirov
6. The Sun Shines for All, dir. Konstantin Voinov
7. The Day the War Ended, dir. Yakov Segel
8. Cruelty, dir. Vladimir Skuybin
9. The Last Inch, dir. Nikita Kurikhin and Teodor Vulfovich
10. Fatima, dir. Semyon Dolidze
No Path Through Fire, directed by Gleb Panfilov, starring Inna Churikova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, and Mikhail Kononov, was released in the Soviet Union on this day in 1967.
Happy Birthday to actress Evgeniya Simonova! 71 years old today.
She was laureate of the USSR State Prize in 1984 and is best known for her roles in the films Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1973), Afonya (1975), and Ordinary Miracle (1978).