Rufina Nifontova
Known For & Full Filmography37 Titles
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Ренёва
A production of the State Academic Maly Theater. The film, dedicated to the memory of Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, includes fragments of plays based on the playwright's plays: "We'll settle accounts with our own people", "Thunderstorm", "Wolves and Sheep", "The Abyss", "The Snow Maiden", "The Heart is not a Stone", "It Shines but Doesn't Warm", "Mad Money", "The Truth is Good, but Happiness is Better", and "It's not all for naught".
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as мадам Токарчук, налётчица
The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A television play based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Ruta Yanson
In the fall of 1944, a fearless intelligence officer is captured by the Nazis.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Svetlana
On this day, Svetlana, a textile worker, turned 30. She is waiting for the arrival of friends and relatives. But here comes a man whom she did not expect. This happened several years ago. Svetlana was a student, Vladimir was a graduate. They got married and had a son. But soon Svetlana realized that this marriage was a mistake of youth.
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • as комиссар
A female commissar is sent to the naval detachment, led by the anarchist Vozhak, on behalf of the Party Central Committee. She is tasked with subordinating the sailors to the cause of the revolution.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as тетушка Руца
On the edge of a Moldovan village lives a wise old and infinitely lonely Aunt Ruta. She is always eager to help her fellow villagers, to cheer them up, to give them useful advice. It was not easy for her to forgive a long-standing offense, but she finds the strength to forget it and visits her dying relative to ease the last hours of his life.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Based on the eponymous play by A. Ostrovsky and N. Solovyov, directed by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR.
Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Former front-line soldier Ivan Ivanovich Klimov, a responsive and obliging man, works as a carpenter in a collective farm. Forty years after the end of the war, he receives the well-deserved award. Ivan is proud and happy. However, he is deeply hurt by the fact that a former policeman, Grishka, still lives and prospers in the village.
Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Ekaterina Semyonovna - mother of Miklouho-Maclay
The film tells the life story of the famous Russian scientist, researcher, traveler and pioneer Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay. The film shows the most interesting moments from the life of a scientist and his travels. Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay was the first to land in New Guinea, getting acquainted with the aborigines, their customs. Among the natives of New Guinea, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay lives for several years. The scientist also falls in love with the daughter of the Vice President of Australia, the film shows the relationship between Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay and his lover.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Comtesse Evelina Hanska
It is a story of the relationship of A French writer and a beautiful duchess Ganskaya. The events take place in a picturesque estate of the aristocrat on the Ukrainian land, which is under the power of Polish landowners. Ganskaya is considered to be the most important woman in Balzac’s life.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A history student is preparing an article about WWII veteran as her professional test before graduation.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Елена Ивановна
Based on the novel of the same name by Leonid Leonov. Young Polya comes to Moscow: she wants to find her father, Professor Vikhrov, and try to understand why her mother broke up with him. Vikhrov is a prominent scientist who has defended the forest from barbaric destruction all his life. The war begins. Professor Vikhrov continues to lecture, proving to students the need to protect the forest. Polya is trying to find out the reasons for the long-standing feud between her father and academician Gratsianskiy. Now, when Vikhrov is already not young and lonely, the professor mentally returns to the past...
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as герцогиня де Шеврез
Based on the second part of Alexandre Dumas’ trilogy about the king’s musketeers, “The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or Ten Years Later.”
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Ksenia Ivanovna
About four patients in the same hospital room, about different personalities, different worldviews...
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The thirty-year-old decathlete leaves the big sport and becomes a stunt performer in the cinema. About how the movie is shot, and about the development of personal relationships between the main characters.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A young man discovers that his father behaved dishonourably during wartime.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Stella and Sid, seaside dancers, perform a dangerous circus act. After a conversation with an old entertainer, Stella is afraid to jump, requiring a decision.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The plot is based on the fate of Vera Sergeyevna Kolosova, the deputy chairman of the city executive committee.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Tanechka's mother
Two high school kids meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because of that, the boy's mother is very jealous and tries to separate them. The only person that tries to help them is their teacher who has relationship problems of her own.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Mod Mokrydzh
Robert and Freda Caplan are entertaining guests at their country retreat. A chance remark by one of the guests ignites a series of devastating revelations, revealing a hitherto undiscovered tangle of clandestine relationships and dark secrets, the disclosures of which have tragic consequences...
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The conflict between the young school teacher Studentsov and the head teacher Lukyanova divided the residents of the village of Zhukovka into two parts. The eighth graders supported their teacher, who was genuinely worried not so much about the fate of each pupil as for the future of the hopeless village.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Pavla Panova
The years of civil war. Teacher Lyubov Yarovaya is on the side of the revolution. Her husband Mikhail is a White Guard officer. Mikhail fiercely fights against Soviet power. The struggle in the woman's soul between her love for her husband and her revolutionary duty ends with the victory of the latter. She passes a harsh and merciless sentence on Mikhail...
Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as Katya
The third film in the trilogy ("The Sisters", "The Eighteenth Year", "The Gloomy Morning") based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy "The Road to Calvary". About the fate of the Russian intelligentsia against the background of the collapse of the Russian Empire and the civil war, which turned the lives of all the heroes of the film narration. Defending Tsaritsyn, the red commander Telegin was seriously wounded. At the hospital, he meets Dasha. After his recovery, the young spouses go together to the Red Army.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Valya Chernysheva
Agronomist Valya Chernysheva fell in love with the new chief agronomist of the MTS Savitsky, a widower with two small daughters. During the illness of one of the daughters, whom Valya was nursing, he realized that she had become a close person for him. But the girl left to work in another distant collective farm.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Katya
Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Mrs.Conway
Action takes place in England during the 20 years between the two wars. The film explores the relationship in the once wealthy bourgeois family, whose members, in their own way, are experiencing the collapse of their plans and hopes.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Aleksandra Kollontay
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Katya
Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as народный судья по бракоразводным процессам
Sometimes divorce process could be really painful. This is exactly the case for the heroes of this romantic drama.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Drama of the life of a peasant family, who came to work in the fisheries of Astrakhan. The film is set in the late XIX - early XX centuries.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Based on the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Varvara Mikhailovna Basova
In the focus of the film is the fate of Varvara Basova, whose painfully soulless, philistine-gray existence, devoid of ideals and moral content. Relevant today, the picture sounds like a verdict to all who are mired in vulgarity, who have exchanged life for petty pleasures, profit, empty philosophizing.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Jenny von Westphalen
The film takes place in Europe in the 19th century. The film shows the popular uprisings that took place there, as well as the search for truth and the confrontation of Karl Marx and opponents of the revolution.
Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A courageous journalist is looking for a witness in a very important corruption case. She's hidden in the clinic, and the journalist needs to get to her and take a statement, but there it turns out to be a cover for the psychological experiments of the sinister doctor.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Nadezhda Pavlovna
Once upon a time, young scientists Kalitin and Danilov were friends, but a quarrel separated them. The circumstances of the quarrel remained unclear to everyone until the end. But everyone thought they were right. Years have passed. Professor Kalitin’s son, working under his leadership, moves to the institute headed by Danilov. Kalitin learns about this decision of Igor on the day of the arrival of his friend and colleague Vasin. On this occasion, old friends gather at the professor’s house, including Luzgin, Kalitin’s boss. Reflections on his life help the professor understand his son’s choice, oppose the unprincipled careerist Luzgin and make peace with Danilov.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
About the initial period of the revolutionary activity of the Russian revolutionary Joseph Dubrovinsky (1877-1913, Innokenty is one of the underground nicknames of the Bolshevik), about the years of active propaganda work, a duel with the "king of the Okhrana" Zubatov, exile and the resumption of work underground.