Anastasiya Nemolyayeva Movies
- 2006
As America and the Soviet Union become unlikely allies during World War II, a brief window of romantic opportunity opens between a handful of Russian men and American women in this historical comedy-drama from filmmaker Alexander Rogozhkin. Yurchenko (Alexei Serebryakov) is the commander of a Soviet air force base in northeastern Siberia; alcohol and the emotional ravages of war have made him a terror to work with, and most of his charges go out of their way to keep him out of the loop and away from the other men. Second-in-command Captain Lisnevsky (Danill Strakhov) takes care of most of the responsibilities at the base and offers comfort to Irina (Anastasia Nemolyaeva), Yurchenko's understandably unhappy wife. One day, a fleet of American fighter planes on their way to the Eastern Front stop at the base, and while a visit from their Yankee allies is novel enough, Lisnevsky and his men are pleasantly surprised to discover the bombers are piloted by a team of female USAF officers. Lt. Dana Adams (Sarah Bulley), Lt. Mary McClain (Caterina Innnocente), Lt. Tippy Kaufmann (Sarah Rutley) and Lt. Jackson (Anna Marina Bensaud) soon find themselves wooed by a number of lonely and hopeful Russian soldiers at the base, though their attempts to charm the ladies are muted by the fact they can't speak English, and the women don't understand Russian. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Danill Strakhov, Uri Orlov, (more)
- 1989
Tatyana (Yelena Yakovleva) works as a nurse in a hospital in Leningrad. However, she has wants that her salary cannot provide for her, and sometimes she earns some hard currency by sleeping with foreign tourists. One of these is an uninspiring Swedish man, who offers to marry her. She is tempted, because she believes that the material aspect of life in Sweden is infinitely superior to that in Russia. Overcoming the resistence of the bureaucracy to her marriage, she succeeds in moving to Sweden with her new husband. Alas, she is soon bored with her new existence, and returns to her old hooking habits. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Yelena Yakovleva, Tomas Laustiola, (more)
- 1987
Ivan (Fedor Dunaevsky) is a teenager who is suffering through the acrimonious divorce of his parents. His sympathies are all with his father, who has taken up with a younger woman, and he has nothing but scorn for his mother, who won custody of him. He tries to set his mother's apartment on fire, but fortunately enough, he fails. He also fails at getting accepted into the university in a subject chosen by his mother. Ivan is not a deep thinker and basically only wants an easy existence with enough money to enjoy some of the good things of life. Since he has graduated from high school, he has to do something, so his mother sets him up with a job as a messenger. While on his first assignment (which he messes up), he makes friends with professor's daughter Katya (Anastasiya Nemolyayeva, the daughter of the film's cinematographer Nikolai Nemolyaev), a member of Moscow's social elite. He sets his heart on winning her, even though he is a homely and uneducated housing-project bumpkin with nothing to recommend him except his persistence, engagingly bad manners and a certain originality. Despite being thrown out of the girl's apartment many times by her father (Oleg Basilashvili), he keeps coming back and eventually wins the older man's grudging respect. Kuryer first became popular as a story published in the mid-1980s. The story was humorous and addressed the real-life situations and problems that young people would face, as opposed to ideologically heavy, Party-sponsored books that dominated the market at that time. That's what made Kuryer so appealing and fresh. As it often happens, when Karen Shakhnazarov adapted his own story for the screen, some of the magic was lost in the transition. However, the film was a popular success and also received a Special Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1987, along with the Jury Prize at the Tbilisi Film Festival, a State Prize of the Russian Federation, and, finally, was voted the "Best Film of the Year" by the readers of the film magazine Sovetsky Ekran. ~ Yuri German, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fedor Dunayevsky, Anastasiya Nemolyayeva, (more)
