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Tatiana Yevgenyevna Samoylova (Russian: Татья́на Евге́ньевна Само́йлова; b. 4 May, 1934) is a Russian film actress who starred in The Cranes Are Flying (1957) and Anna Karenina (1968).

Evgeny Samoilov's only daughter, she was born in Leningrad, but her father moved to Moscow to work with Vsevolod Meyerhold later that year. Samoilova was propelled to stardom in 1957, when she played the lead role of Veronika in The Cranes Are Flying. The film was a tremendous success, winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes and a special prize for Samoilova. She received many offers to continue her career in the West, but declined in the face of mounting pressure from the establishment of the day.

In the 1960s, Samoilova's career in the Soviet cinema stagnated. Her only memorable role was Anna Karenina in a 1968 Soviet version of Tolstoy's novel. She appeared in the movie alongside her former husband Vasily Lanovoy (as Count Vronsky) and Maya Plisetskaya (as Karenina's friend Betsy). After Samoilova performed...

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• The Cranes are Flying
  1956

  The Cranes are Flying (Russian: Летят журавли, Letyat zhuravli) is a Soviet film about World War II. It depicts the cruelty of war and the damage suffered to the Soviet psyche as a result of World War II (known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War). It was directed at Mosfilm by the Georgian-born Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov in 1957 and stars Aleksey Batalov and Tatiana Samoilova. It was the second of two Soviet films to win the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The film depicts a Soviet family of the professional class. The head of the family, Fyodor Ivanovich, is a doctor and lives with his son, Boris, and daughter, Irina. His mother and nephew Mark also live with the family. The film centers on Boris's girlfriend, Veronika, and her experiences in wartime. She is nicknamed "Belka" ("squirrel"). The call to war sounds, and the country responds with great patriotic fervor. Boris volunteers to defend his homeland from the attackers, much to Veronika's sadness....,
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• Tatiana Samoylova's Birthday
  1933

  Tatiana Samoylova was born