Jelena Knyaseva-Shmal
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Nurse, Star City
When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to Earth, only to discover key pieces of her life—including her young daughter—have changed.
Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes • as Irina Kusnezowa
Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Natalia
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former East German spy resolves to find out who betrayed her and why — and use her lethal skills to exact revenge.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Medina Dumarova
Berlin, post-Corona. Anton is getting his life off the ground: apprenticeship, his own place with his girlfriend, no drugs, nothing dodgy. But then Anton gets a “yellow letter” in which he’s accused of a serious breach of the peace and resisting arrest. It all happened two years ago and the images come flooding back: the 1st May demo, his arrest. Anton has to get reinvolved in the life he was hoping to put behind him. The naive, good-natured boy feels burning hatred when he realizes he’s not the culprit, but the victim.
Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Swetlana Valentinowa
This outstanding and sensitive drama series tells a young and family audience the stories of children who lived through a most difficult era in recent history - and who grew with its challenges.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
How to understand - where is good and where is evil? Who can be trusted, and who needs to be circumvented per kilometer. Elder Ivan, who was revered as a saint, turns out to be a murderer. And the city beauty Adelaide with strange habits is a ray of light in the village kingdom. Ordinary residents, peasants and serfs of the 19th century faced a difficult choice - is everything really, as they see it, or is there something more hidden behind obvious things?
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Maria
In 1990 Kazakhstan, Alexander’s family receives an acceptance letter to Germany, but his son Georg marries Russian Lena, who becomes pregnant. They move to Germany, facing harsh conditions in a reception camp. Their honeymoon is spent in a gymnasium with other late repatriates. Georg struggles, while Lena, a former Komsomol member, faces fatal consequences in the market economy.