Zhanna Bolotova
Born: 1941-10-19
• Chanovsky District, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR
Zhanna Bolotova is a Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s.
In 1977 she became a USSR State Prize laureate and was designated as a People's Artist of Russia in 1985
She debuted on screen while still at school, in The House That I Live In by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel. In 1964 she graduated the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the class of Sergei Gerasimov and Tatyana Makarova, to join the Cinema Actor Studio Theatre.
In 1969 she received her first international award, for The Best Female Role, at the Varna Red Cross film festival, for 24-24 Does Not Return. The Silence of Dr. Evens (1974) earned her another award in the same category, at the Triest Film Festival.
Filmography
Dead Man's Bluff
Restricted Area
And Life, and Tears and Love
A Dangerous Age
The Black Triangle
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
Rudin
The Orphans
Meeting on a Distant Meridian
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
If You Want To Be Happy
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
The Love of Mankind
Declaration of Love to G.T.
The Roundabout
The Secret Agent's Destiny
On the Way to Lenin
Harsh Kilometers
24-25 Doesn't Come Back
The First Courier
The Journalist
Wings
The Trap
If You Are Right
Men and Beasts
The House I Live In