Alisa Freyndlikh

Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (Russian: Али́са Бру́новна Фре́йндлих, born 8 December 1934 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the Soviet Union. Alisa Freindlich was born into the family of Bruno Freindlich, a prominent actor and People's Artist of the Soviet Union. She is of German and Russian ancestry. Her father and paternal relatives were ethnic Germans living in Russia for more than a century. In her childhood years, Alisa Freindlich attended the drama and music classes of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. During the Second World War she survived the 900-day-long Siege of Leningrad and continued her school studies after the war. In the 1950s she studied acting at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema, graduating in 1957 as actress. From 1957 to 1961 Alisa Freindlich was a member of the troupe at Komissarjevsky Theatre in Leningrad. Then she joined the Lensovet Theatre company, but in 1982, she had to leave it following her divorce from the theatre's director, Igor Vladimirov. Thereupon director Georgy Tovstonogov invited her to join the troupe of BDT in which she works to this day. Although Freindlich put a premium on her stage career, she starred in several notable movies, including Eldar Ryazanov's enormously popular comedy Office Romance (1977), the long-banned epic Agony (1975) and Tarkovsky's sci-fi movie Stalker (1979). Another notable role was the Queen Anne of Austria in the Soviet TV series D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) and its later Russian sequels, Musketeers Twenty Years Later (1992) and Queen Anne's Secret or Musketeers Thirty Years Later (1993). On her 70th birthday, Freindlich's apartment in St. Petersburg was visited by Vladimir Putin, who awarded her with state decoration of the Russian Federation. She also received a Nika Award in 2005.

Cast

Stalker

(Stalker's Wife)

Office Romance

(Людмила Прокофьевна Калугина)

My Life

Three Years

Extraordinary Sunday

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

(Vyrubova)

The Straw Hat

(баронесса де Шампиньи)

The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later

(Queen Anna)

A Cruel Romance

(Ogudalova)

Aleksandr Volodin. Gloomy Marathon

Success

(Zinaida Nikolayevna Arsenyeva)

Katya Ismailova

(Irina Dmitrievna)

A Room and a Half

(Mother)

Great Cold

Strict Regime Parents

(мать)

The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini

The Princess and the Pea

(Queen)

Musketeers 20 Years Later

To Love

(Anya, tram conductor)

A Dangerous Age

(Lilia Ivanovna Rodimtseva)

The Secret of the Snow Queen

(Snow Queen)

A Canary Cage

(Olesya's Mother)

The Secret of the Iron Door

(Mother)

The Story about Newlyweds

Memorial Train

Separated

Fifth Decade

Вместе с Дунаевским

Anna and Commander

(Anna)

Quartet

An Old-Fashioned Comedy

(Lidiya Vasilyevna)

Blue Puppy

(Blue Puppy (voice))

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Two Voices

The Bolshoi

(Beletskaya)

The Executive

Thawed Carp

(Людмила Борисовна (соседка Елены))

On Upper Maslovka Street

(Анна Борисовна)

Martha's Line

(Марья Петрова)

The City Turns the Lights On

(Pichikova)

Adventures of a Dentist

Вальс

Striped Trip

(Pomoshnitsa Shuleykina v bufete tsyrka)

Forgive Me

Sergey Ivanovich Retires

Melodies of the Vera Quarter

Always with me

Immortal song

Serafima Glyukina's Weekdays and Weekends

(Serafima Glukina)

Voices

(herself)

Talents and Admirers

BDT Digital: Excitement

12 Chairs

(Эллочка-Людоедочка)

Family Happiness

Alisa: Excitement

(Self)

A Simple Death

(Praskovya Fyodorovna Golovina)

Фро

First Visitor

(Tanya)

Yesterday, Today and Always

The Music of Life

(Self (archive footage))

D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers

(Queen Anne of Austria)

To Remember

(Narrator)

Musketeers Twenty Years Later

(Queen Anna of Austria)

The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini

(Queen Anne of Austria)