Antonina Maksimova

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.3968

Gender

Female

Birthday

25-Oct-1916

Age

(110 years old)

Place of Birth

Tula, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Also Known As
  • А. Максимова
  • A. Maksimova

Antonina Maksimova

Biography

Antonina Mikhailovna Maksimova (25.10.1916, Tula — 7.10.1986, Moscow); her mother was a housewife and her father worked at the Tula Arms Factory. She had two brothers, both of whom went on to become engineers. From a young age, she dreamed of a career in acting; she performed in amateur productions and was an excellent singer, dancer, and reciter. After finishing school, she was accepted into drama school at first attempt. In 1938, she graduated from the State Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS). Whilst studying at GITIS, she made her film debut and, in the latter half of the 1930s, she rose to widespread fame following leading roles in the films Dawns of Paris, in which she played the French revolutionary Catherine Millard, and The Sailors, where she portrayed Senior Lieutenant Galina Zorina, commander of a seaplane squadron. From 1938, she was an actress at the Moscow Comedy Theatre. From 1940, she worked at the Saratov Drama Theatre named after Karl Marx; her roles included Katya in The Barbarians; Katerina in In the Steppes of Ukraine; and Smelskaya in Talents and Admirers. Between 1941 and 1943, she served in the Great Patriotic War as a radio operator. She was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class (1985). From 1943 to 1946, she was an actress with the 1st Front Theatre of the All-Russian Theatre Society (VTO); her roles included Liza in Wait for Me; Varya in Frol Skobelev; Maria in The Taming of the Tamer. In 1946, she performed with the drama collective of the Central House of Culture for Railway Workers (Tsentral'nyy Dom Kul'tury Zheleznodorozhnikov), playing Polina in the production of The Stepmother and Nina Alexandrovna in the play Mashenka. From 1947 to 1986, she was an actress at the Film Actors’ Studio Theatre; her roles included: Pamela in The Island of Peace, Alena Dmitrievna in Three Soldiers, Anna in Sofya Kovalevskaya, Klavdiya in Vanyushin’s Children, Feny in The Director, Marfa Petrovna in Russian People, Kabanikha in The Storm. She also acted at the Mosfilm film studio. Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1969). After the war, she mainly played supporting roles on screen. In 1955, she played Iago’s wife Emilia in the film adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, directed by Sergei Yutkevich.


Credits

Петербургская ночь Петербургская ночь (1934) Character: Nihilistic student (uncredited)
A loose Communist adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel. The serf Egor Efimov, a talented violinist, dreams of true art. Released by his landlord, he goes to the capital. But cold, bureaucratic St. Petersburg quickly destroys his illusions.
Любушка Любушка (1961) Character: N/A
Bandits took away a beautiful horse from peasant Nikita Lykov and left him a nag instead. The peasant began to nurse the horse, which turned out to be a famous Oryol trotter named Lyubushka.
На диком бреге На диком бреге (1967) Character: N/A
The story of the confrontation between chief engineer Petin, a careerist and a fraudster, and Litvinov, an experienced construction supervisor, a solid, direct and generous man.
Интеграл Интеграл (1971) Character: N/A
The film portrays the passengers of a compartment on a long-distance train — people from different social backgrounds — who engage in conversations, argue about various issues, reflect on important and thought-provoking topics, and share memories from their own lives.
Секретарь парткома Секретарь парткома (1971) Character: Zadorozhnaya
Collective farmer is unanimously elected secretary of the party committee by her fellow villagers.
Երկրորդ քարավան Երկրորդ քարավան (1950) Character: N/A
Armenians living in Chicago decide to leave the capitalist United States and emigrate to Soviet Armenia after World War II. Unfinished movie.
Суд чести Суд чести (1949) Character: N/A
The movie tells about the life of Soviet scientists. Professor Dobrotvorsky, together with his colleague Losev, is on his way to completing a scientific work of great importance in medicine. Professor Dobrotvorsky's friend Academician Vereisky learns from a foreign journal that important data about this work has fallen into the hands of American businessmen.
Всё могло быть иначе Всё могло быть иначе (1982) Character: Yekaterina Ivanovna
Growing up in an orphanage, Florin is trying to find his mother Dorina, whom he has not seen for 15 years. His beloved Liza is very jealous of Florin's plans. Having met his mother, an already adult son is trying to understand the person who gave him life and abandoned him. But can a son forgive his mother, who deprived him of a happy childhood?
День народження День народження (1984) Character: N/A
Follows the grandson minds his own business, forgetting about his grandmother.
Поздний ребенок Поздний ребенок (1971) Character: N/A
A boy suffers from excessive care of his family, cause he wants them to reckon with him as an adult, just like his older sister's groom.
Почтовый роман Почтовый роман (1970) Character: N/A
The plot is based on the story of the complex relationship between Peter Schmidt and Zinaida Rizberg, with whom he corresponded after a chance meeting on the train.
Мальчики Мальчики (1972) Character: Vera Ivanovna
Zhenya Prokhorov, a pupil of an orphanage, draws the attention of the director of the capital's choir school. The professor strongly advises Zhenya to study. Having become a soloist in the boys' choir, Zhenya does not refuse from "left" concerts organized by the enterprising Victor Victorovich - and one day tears his voice. The young hero bears the first loss with dignity, and after graduating from the school enters the conservatory at the faculty of composition.
მაიაკოვსკი იწყებოდა ასე მაიაკოვსკი იწყებოდა ასე (1959) Character: Lyudmila
Based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian Futurist poet of the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in 1893, into a Russian Cossack family in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, then part of Russian Empire. There he spent his childhood and boyhood attending a grammar school in Kutaisi. Mayakovsky moved to Moscow at the age of 14, after his father's death. He became a poet, an artist, an actor, a writer/director and public speaker.
У неділю рано зілля копала У неділю рано зілля копала (1968) Character: N/A
Based on the novel by Olha Kobylyanska.
Похождения зубного врача Похождения зубного врача (1967) Character: N/A
Young dentist Chesnokov has a knack for painless tooth removal, much to the dismay of others, who fear unemployment and start to challenge Chesnokov.
Концерт для двух скрипок Концерт для двух скрипок (1975) Character: Andrei's mother
The main characters are two graduates of a music school, gifted violinists. Andrei is ambitious, able-bodied, absorbed in the desire to achieve recognition. The other is Ladya Bragin, simple and reckless. On the day of the exam at the conservatory, he meets a girl who works as a clown, and immediately decides to stay in the circus. The creative successes of the heroes do not immediately and not simply take shape. Their will, their conviction of a calling, are severely tested. And yet both come to understand what happiness music can give and how much it demands from a musician...
Прощайте, голуби! Прощайте, голуби! (1960) Character: N/A
Genka Sakhnenko, a seventeen-year-old boy, has been passionate about pigeon breeding since childhood. But he begins to make a living, falls in love with the girl Tanya and realizes that it is time to leave his childhood hobbies.
Зори Парижа Зори Парижа (1936) Character: Catherine Millard
"Paris Commune," 1870-1871. Poor working class in Paris rises up against their oppressors as France is defeated by Germany in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian war.
Суд Суд (1962) Character: N/A
Three of them hunted a bear, but a man was accidentally killed instead. The investigation must determine which of the hunters is responsible for this death. However, there is also a judgment of conscience — the most difficult judgment, because a compromise with one's own conscience never leads to good...
Берегись автомобиля Берегись автомобиля (1966) Character: актриса народного театра
An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood.
Отелло Отелло (1955) Character: Emilia
Othello, a celebrated Moorish general, secretly marries Desdemona, angering her noble father and inciting the envious Iago’s hatred. Sent to Cyprus, Othello’s victories are overshadowed by Iago’s manipulations: he frames Desdemona as unfaithful with Othello’s lieutenant Cassio. Consumed by jealousy, Othello murders his wife. Discovering Iago’s treachery too late, Othello kills himself as Cyprus learns the bitter truth.
Попрыгунья Попрыгунья (1955) Character: Zvonkovskaya
Osip Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist. From nine o'clock in the morning and in the forenoon accepts patients, then goes to open corpses. But its income is hardly enough for a covering of expenses of the wife mad about talents and celebrities in the art and artistic environment whom it daily accepts in the house.
Баллада о солдате Баллада о солдате (1959) Character: Katerina, Alyosha's Mother
During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Ленин в Париже Ленин в Париже (1981) Character: Laura Lafargue
1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associations, this time is intertwined with the events of the Paris Commune, the October Revolution and the political struggles of the post-revolutionary years.
Трясина Трясина (1978) Character: villager
The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. Peasant Matryona Bystrova loses her husband at the front, then her eldest son goes missing. Matryona decides to save the youngest son at all costs and shelters him from being drafted into the army in the attic of the house until the end of the war. But it turns out that saving her son, she condemns him to spiritual death, and herself to torment of conscience. A private story about the mother of a deserter grows to epic proportions...
Великий укротитель Великий укротитель (1974) Character: Savva's Mother
In one small provincial town lives Savva Kulikov. In ordinary life, he is an exemplary Soviet citizen and an up-and-coming economist, but Kulikov has an unusual hobby — he trains his own pets, teaching them many amusing stunts. Among the "pupils" Savva already have a dog, a cat and even a parrot. One day the chimpanzee gets into Savva's hands. The animal was easy to train, with dexterity performing all the tricks of Kulikov, and he decided that his hobby should go to a new, more serious stage - performance in public. Circus friends help Savva break into the circus arena. The main character performs with his monkey in a local circus and the show was an incredible success, breaking a storm of applause from a grateful public.
Это мы не проходили Это мы не проходили (1976) Character: Galina Petrovna
The heroes of the film are students of a pedagogical university, those who, after a year or two, have to carry knowledge to schoolchildren, "to sow the rational, good, eternal." In the meantime, student practice. True, the practice is not quite ordinary, because for the first time students leave far from the walls of their own university, for the first time they meet with students in the classroom not in the presence of their teachers, those with whom life encounters them daily at the institute, but with those who have been working for more than a year at school.
Приходите завтра... Приходите завтра... (1962) Character: Natasha
"Come Tomorrow" (1963), directed by Yevgeny Tashkov, is a much-loved comedy about Frosya Burlakova, a talented young woman from a remote Siberian village who comes to Moscow with dreams of becoming a professional singer. The film explores themes of hope, talent, perseverance and the pursuit of dreams, while also highlighting the contrast between the practical city dwellers and the idealistic villagers, suggesting that wisdom and truth can be found in both perspectives.
Твой современник Твой современник (1968) Character: Елизавета Кондратьевна
Vasily Gubanov, the son of the film “The Communist”’s hero, arrived in Moscow not on call or for a business trip. Instead, he came to raise the issue with government authorities about halting the construction of a chemical plant. Despite being the author of the project, which was in full swing, millions of state funds had been spent, and thousands of people’s lives were tied to its completion.
Тайна двух океанов Тайна двух океанов (1957) Character: Olga Ivanovna Bystrykh, doctor of the Pioneer submarine
The enemy agents from an unknown nation have secret automated facilities set up in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for the purposes of sinking ships. The super submarine "Pioneer" and it's intrepid crew is dispatched to find the source of these mysterious sinking's...Unknown to the captain, his chief engineer is working for the bad guys, intent on stopping their efforts, at any cost...It seems the real chief had a twin brother who was a circus acrobat who murdered and replaced him.
Леон Гаррос ищет друга Леон Гаррос ищет друга (1961) Character: Antonina Petrovna Stepanova
During World War II, the Frenchman Léon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from the Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Léon, who became a journalist, and his friends came to the USSR to make a report and find Boris in the meantime. In Moscow he doesn't found, and for the sake of meeting with a friend, Garros has to travel around the country by car... The foreigners are accompanied by Nikolai, the translator, who, in turn, is looking for his brother's runaway bride, Natasha.
Моряки Моряки (1939) Character: N/A
1941 year. The flagship of the head detachment of the Black Sea Fleet gives an order to one of the submarines to remove the crew from the damaged torpedo boat. An enemy cruiser discovers a Soviet submarine and bombards it with bombs. Submarine forced to lie down. But the task will be completed - and the enemy will take flight.
Каток и скрипка Каток и скрипка (1961) Character: Sasha's mother
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.
Ofiţer în rezervă Ofiţer în rezervă (1972) Character: N/A
About the concerns of the reserve officer, and now the secretary of the district committee Kirill Buzhor.
Воздушная почта Воздушная почта (1939) Character: N/A
The medications need to be delivered to the settlement in the Far North. Pilot Nastya Koroleva, despite the storm, is planning to fly...
Как закалялась сталь Как закалялась сталь (1973) Character: мать Павки Екатерина Михайловна
The path of a young revolutionary during the formation of Soviet power during the Bolshevik coup.
Răsai, soare Răsai, soare (1972) Character: N/A
Young Venka investigates the cause of death of a fellow villager during the Great Patriotic War - in the process uncovering a traitor who has been murdering witnesses to his own inglorious past.



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