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.
Escape of Mr. McKinley
Dead Man's Bluff
Wounded Game
Wings
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
The House I Live In
24-25 Doesn't Come Back
Men and Beasts
A Dangerous Age
The Journalist
On the Way to Lenin
And Life, and Tears and Love
The Roundabout
If You Are Right
The Love of Mankind
Declaration of Love to G.T.
The Black Triangle
If You Want To Be Happy
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
