Valentina Ananina's childhood and family
Valya was born in Moscow.
The family had four children. The mother was at home, running the household, and the father worked as a forestry engineer. With the beginning of the war, they all found themselves evacuated to the city of Tomsk, where Valya went to first grade. She still remembers how military uniforms were brought to school for washing, and the girls tried to grab the cap. There you could find a needle left by some soldier; you needed it to do needlework. Two years have passed in Tomsk. When they returned, they settled not far from the Novodevichy Convent. Her entire childhood was spent near its walls. There was an unfenced cemetery next to the monastery. The children living next door were playing right there. Stanislavsky and Nadezhda Alliluyeva were buried in that cemetery.
At the age of three, the girl knew Gorky’s poems by heart and recited them with pleasure. Having already grown up, when the family lived in the country, they gathered the neighboring children, and they performed plays. At school age, Valentina participated in all productions, she was known in many metropolitan schools, and she performed at almost all Moscow venues. The schoolgirl studied in a dance club and went to a theater studio. According to the actress’s recollections, as a child she often sat on a bench at Stanislavsky’s grave, read about the theater, about it, dreamed of how she would play on stage.
Actress Valentina Ananyina in her youth
Valya was a staunch activist, so she tried to take part in all the events taking place at school. Everything changed when Stalin's personality cult was exposed. Disillusioned with her ideals, Ananina decided that she would not join the party.
After school, she studied for a year to become an economist, but the dream of the stage did not leave her. Having collected the documents, Valentina decided to enter VGIK. During the entrance exams, she read an excerpt from The Young Guard, in particular, poems about Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.
Movies
After receiving a university diploma, Valentina Ananina entered the Film Actor Theater Studio. This theater was practically a branch of the Mosfilm film studio. Almost no performances were staged here, and the members of the troupe mainly acted in films.
The actress's career constantly went smoothly, without sudden jumps or rapid falls. In her youth, she suffered greatly from the lack of leading roles and once even thought about changing her profession, but came to her senses in time. The artist did not have deafening fame, but at the same time Valentina Ananina was constantly among the most sought-after actresses.
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Valentina Ananyina in her filmography has films that are included in the golden fund of Russian cinema. “I’m Walking Through Moscow”, “The Cranes Are Flying”, “Belorussky Station”, “Shadows Disappear at Noon”, “Big Break”, “Carnival”, “Sweet Woman” - this is only a small part of the film masterpieces that were watched and forever loved by millions spectators.
After a short break in the 90s, the cinematic biography of Valentina Ananina continued. This surge in demand occurred after Valentina Georgievna appeared in two commercials. The directors remembered her and began to invite her to their projects quite often. In 2008, Ananina received her first leading role in her film career. She became the heroine Baba Dasha from the action movie “St. John’s Wort.” Later, the actress recreated a significant image in the television series “I’m Going Out to Look for You.”
In the series “Molodezhka” the performer was not afraid to play a heroine who, according to the script, was supposed to die soon. Valentina Ananyina appeared on television in the image of pensioner Larisa Arkadyevna Savelyeva, grandmother of the Titan club hockey player Mikhail Ponomarev. The actress played 2 seasons in the sports series, and in the 159th episode her character died, so Ananina left the project.
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In 2013, Valentina Georgievna appeared in the drama series with elements of mysticism “Vangelia”, based on the biography of the famous fortuneteller Vanga.
Later, Ananina played the role of a grandmother in the mystical thriller “Chernobyl. Exclusion Zone". Another popular project with the actress’s participation was the drama series “Quiet Flows the Don,” a film adaptation of the famous novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, in which Valentina Ananina played the role of Aunt Aksinya.
The beginning of Valentina Ananina's acting career, filmography
When Raisman was filming the film “Life Lesson,” Valentina starred in an episode there.
This became her debut work. In 1955, she took part in the filming of “Soldier Ivan Brovkin” and “Volnitsa”. After graduating from VGIK in 1957, Ananina entered the Film Actor's Theater Studio. The actress hardly played on stage, but was constantly on the set. She received a lot of offers, and almost never refused any roles, although they were all episodic.
Today Valentina Ananina is starring in the TV series Molodezhka. Even in her youth, Valentina was very worried that she did not get leading roles. At that time, they mostly filmed classic beauties. Valentina was beautiful, but she could not be called a classic beauty. As the actress says, there are now many leading and supporting roles in cinema, where actresses with any face can act.
Over time, Ananyina began to appear in so many episodes that she began to be called the master of the episode. She turned out to be one of the most sought-after actresses. Most often she could be seen in the role of a cleaner, saleswoman or cook, always in the background.
During the Soviet period, there were many films about the village, where Ananina was often invited to play the role of village women. Valentina Georgievna believes that many of those films were not of particular value, with the exception of only a few.
Among the actress’s works, the most significant are “Belorussky Station”, “I Walk in Moscow”, “Station Warden”, “Carnival”, “Old Walls” and others. Valentina Georgievna could have had many more interesting and bright roles, but the modesty of the actress did not allow her to look for roles herself and offer her candidacy for this or that film.
Actress Valentina Ananyina played the roles of village women in films
The actress said in one of her interviews that there was a moment in her life when she doubted the correctness of her chosen profession. She never went anywhere to ask for a role, she was ashamed. Because of this, she worked with those who offered.
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In the photo: Ananina in the film “Life Lesson”
The lack of leading roles in films upset the actress at first; sometimes unsuccessful expectations of serious work drove her to despair, and one day Valentina Georgievna even thought about changing her profession, but did not dare.
"Cranes are Flying"
The actress was invited to such famous films as “Communist”, “Girl without an Address”, “The Cranes Are Flying”, “The Ballad of a Soldier”, “I Walk Through Moscow”, “Belorussky Station”, but all her characters were supporting characters. According to the actress, this was due to the fact that she did not have a bright appearance and a punchy character.
“Few films were made back then, and the roles in them were mainly for men. Women had little choice: either you are the heroine or the main character’s friend. I fell into the second category. And it was almost impossible to cross this barrier,” says Valentina Georgievna.
Despite the fact that Ananina never played a single leading role, she was able to become a recognizable actress.
"Belorussky Station"
Valentina Georgievna did not disdain any roles and was almost constantly involved in the filming process, and her heroines turned out to be ordinary Russian women - collective farmers, saleswomen, cleaners, cooks.
There were periods in Valentina Ananina’s career when she did not act – one of them was in the mid-nineties, but at that time many actors suffered from lack of work. Then Ananina went to visit friends in America, where she lived for two years.
She made a name for herself by starring in two commercials for a famous milk producer, and directors again began to invite her to their projects.
Despite her age, Valentina Georgievna continued acting in the new millennium, and the number of her works can only be envied.
"Shadows disappear at noon"
The actress actively appears in TV series, and her work helps her stay active and not become isolated in her problems.
“I’m filming TV series, and in each there are a huge number of characters: both main and secondary. And, importantly, now you can play any role with any person. There are beautiful actresses, there are ugly ones, it doesn’t matter,” says Valentina Ananina.
And yet she was lucky enough to play the only leading role in her creative biography, and this happened when the actress was seventy-five years old - she starred in the role of Baba Dasha in the TV series “St. John’s Wort.”
During her career, Valentina Ananyina starred in more than two hundred films and is rightfully considered an outstanding master of the episode.
In the film "Carnival"
Valentina Georgievna can be seen not only in such light youth series as “Molodezhka”, in which she played the grandmother of one of the young hockey players, “Milkmaid from Khatsapetovka”, but also in the serious multi-part project “Quiet Don”, in which her aunt became her character Aksinyi.
“I very rarely refuse work, I act almost everywhere I’m invited, and it’s not about the money. I just really love my profession,” says Valentina Georgievna.
In addition to filming, there is another important part in the actress’s life - she is a frequent guest at the Sunday school at the Novodevichy Convent.
The absence of Valentina Ananina’s own children is compensated by communication with strangers - she stages performances with them and prepares festive events. Together with her charges and their parents, the actress visited many holy places.
In the photo: Valentina Ananina in the TV series “Molodezhka”
Valentina Ananina currently
Ananina did not act in film for some time.
The role she played in a commercial helped her return to cinema. She appeared before the audience in the role of a grandmother pouring milk for children. So she appeared on television again and began to receive filming offers. True, in 1997 the actress appeared in the film “The Thief”, where she played the mother of a prisoner. Since 2000, the actress has been actively filming, as if making up for lost time, despite her age. She managed to appear in more than forty films during this period of time.
Ananina worked at the Film Actor Theater for forty-three years, but played very little on stage, mostly acting in films. Her most notable role was “The Box,” which she performed on stage in the production of “Dead Souls.”
Actress Valentina Ananyina works a lot in TV series today
Valentina Georgievna herself believes that she has never played a significant, noticeable, fateful role. Everything was more or less “smooth”, but she was never upset or worried about it. The actress was not focused only on cinema, she did not live only by it. Family interests and public interests occupied a large place in her life.
The actress’s latest works were the roles she played in the films “St. John’s Wort”, “Curious Varvara”, “Molodezhka”, “Vangelia”. Her most recent role to date was in the film “A Year in Tuscany.” Now Ananina works with such actors as Vlad Kanopka, Alexander Sokolovsky, Makar Zaporozhsky and others.
Ananina Valentina Georgievna
Ananyina Valentina Georgievna Born on May 18, 1933.
Valentina Ananina was born in Moscow. Her father Georgy Sergeevich Ananin was a forestry engineer. Mother Evgenia Pavlovna Folomeeva is a housewife. They had four children, of whom Valentina was the middle child. The older brothers later became physicists and mathematicians, and the younger sister became an economist.
While studying at school, Valentina constantly participated in amateur performances, danced at the House of Culture and attended a literary circle at the House of Pioneers. However, after graduating from school in 1951, together with her friends she entered the industrial department of the Moscow Economic and Statistical Institute, from where, after studying for one year, she took her documents and entered the acting department of VGIK, in the workshop of Yuli Raizman.
After graduating from the institute in 1957, Valentina Ananyina was accepted into the staff of the Mosfilm film studio and the Film Actor Studio Theater, where she worked until January 1990. On its stage she was engaged in several performances: “Carrying in Itself” by L.P. Sukharevskaya (2nd woman), “The Adventures of Chichikov, or Dead Souls” and “For Dead Souls” based on the novel by N.V. Gogol (Korobochka), “Barbarians” by M. Gorky (Styopa), “Glory” by V.M. Guseva (nurse), “Daring Earthlings” by G.A. Semenikhin and Yu. Malashev (mother) and others. She also, like most full-time artists, worked in dubbing.
Valentina Georgievna played her first significant film role, an unscrupulous housekeeper, with her teacher Yuli Raizman in “Life Lesson”. Subsequently, Ananyina became one of the most filmed actresses, with more than 200 roles in her track record. The actress mainly plays small roles as friends, neighbors, work aunts, mothers, wives of the main characters, grandmothers, and housekeepers. Among the notable works: Frosya (“Communist”), Dasha (“The Cranes Are Flying”), Dasha (“House with a Mezzanine”), Nyusya (“Our Mutual Friend”), fisherman (“Varvara the Beauty, Long Braid”), Vasilyevna (“Fakir for an Hour”), Anna Nikitichna (“Old Walls”), cashier Popova (“Aniskin and Fantomas”), Lyudmila (“Fatherlessness”), Matveevna (“Smoke of the Fatherland”), Glushkova (“Under the Sign of the Red Cross” ), Egorovna (“Dubrovsky”), nanny Pronya (“Childhood of Tyoma”), Klavdia Stepanovna (“Nine Months”), housekeeper Nikitichna (“Milkmaid from Khatsapetovka”).
Now Valentina Georgievna lives alone. Her husband Anatoly Andreevich Baranov, who worked as a cameraman at Teleprestorgreklama, died in 1977; the couple had no children. The actress is still in demand and appears in many films and TV series.
Films and roles:
1955: “Volnitsa” (Lyuba), “Soldier Ivan Brovkin” (girl), “Life Lesson” (housekeeper Nyura); 1956: “Dear Immortality” (Daria), “Start in the Stratosphere”, film (Nadya); 1957: “Girl without an address” (Komarinsky’s secretary), “Communist” (Frosya), “The Cranes Are Flying” (Dasha), “Incident at Mine Eight” (teacher); 1958: “The Case of the “Motley”” (worker (prisoner’s wife); 1959: “Ballad of a Soldier” (woman in the village), “It All Starts with the Road” (welder), “People on the Bridge" (painter), “Strict Woman "(Mariyka); 1960: "House with a Mezzanine" (Dasha), "Beyond the City Lines" (driver), "Heirs" (Svetlana), "Coeval of the Century" (postman); 1961: "Academician from Askania" (secretary) , “At the beginning of the century” (Vasena Baskakova), “On the way”, TV, film (train passenger), “Ivan Rybakov” (ep.), “Dima Gorin’s career” (worker), “Our mutual friend” ( Nyusya); 1962: “Pavlukha” (crane operator), “Court” (woman in the courtroom), “Shore Leave” (housekeeper Nyura), “Cunning Mechanics”, TV (Natasha); 1963: “Without fear and reproach” (woman with a stroller), “The Return of Veronica” (Toska), “An Uninvented Story” (installer), “Regional Committee Secretary” (collective farmer), “Colorful Dreams” (Dima’s mother), “The Man Who Doubts” (Vovochka’s mother, victim ), “I'm walking around Moscow” (ice cream maker); 1964: “They were walking east” (partisan); 1965: “Time, forward!” (team member), “Don Quixote's children” (woman in labor), “They're walking past the windows trains" (teacher), "Black business" (witness); 1966: “Loyalty to the Mother” (witness), “Wild Honey” (traffic controller), “Darling”, TV (city dweller), “Lost” (neighbor), “Royal Regatta” (spectator), “Moonlit Nights” (wife), “The Elusive Avengers” (ep.), “Alone” (woman), “Journey” (saleswoman), “Grey Disease” (nurse), “Heart of a Friend” (Natasha); 1967: “House and Master” (Nastya, neighbor), “Zarechensky Grooms”, TV, film (Klasha, woman at the well); 1968: “Crane” (farm worker), “People like rivers”, TV (Galina, postman), “Our acquaintances” (Katya), “Transitional age” (Oksana Evdokimovna), “Shield and Sword” (nurse); 1969: “Waltz”, TV (woman on the train), “Varvara the beauty, long braid” (fisherman), “Gold” (Varvara, milkmaid); 1970: “Belarusian Station” (Katyusha, housekeeper), “In Moscow, passing through...” (gas girl), “Green Chains” (Mishka’s mother), “Integral” (daughter-in-law), “Cross the Threshold” (postal worker), “Train tomorrow” (shell-shocked); 1971: “Only three weeks” (Alexandra, milkmaid), “The End of the Lyubavins” (peasant woman), “Shadows disappear at noon”, TV (Mironovna), “Fakir for an hour”, TV (Vasilievna); 1972: “Big Change”, TV (ep.), “Peter Ryabinkin” (Vasyatka’s mother), “Fifth Day of the Autumn Exhibition”, film (Anisya), “The Very Last Day” (participant of gatherings), “Station Agent” , TV (brewer's wife); 1973: “Near these windows” (atelier client), “Two on the way”, TV (nurse), “Affairs of the heart” (road worker), “Kalina Krasnaya” (guest), “Old walls” (Anna Nikitichna); 1974: “Aniskin and Fantomas”, TV (cashier Popova), “The Great Confrontation”, TV (Sima’s mother), “Sky with Me” (guest), “The Last Summer of Childhood”, TV (Vitka Burov’s mother), “Romance of lovers" (neighbor), "Consider me an adult" (mother), "Such high mountains" (wife of Lost); 1975: “Townspeople” (taxi company worker), “Peasant’s son” (Poklonova), “From dawn to dawn” (fellow soldier), “Last victim” (merchant’s wife), “We didn’t go through this” (English teacher), “Yaroslav Dombrovsky "(ep); 1974-77: “Walking through torment”, TV (peasant woman); 1976: “Fatherless” (milkmaid), “Here is my pier”, TV (cashier), “My business”, TV (Alla Yuryevna), “Minors” (passerby), “Refutation”, TV (collective farmer), “Memory of the Earth ", TV (Zelenskaya), "Crime" (hotel duty officer); 1977: “Portrait with Rain” (ep.), “You sometimes remember” (Alevtina Petrovna, nurse), “Collar for the Marquis” (teacher), “I want to see you”, GDR (Lushka); 1978: “Meeting at the end of winter” (Praskovya Mikhailovna), “Live in joy” (baba), “The Reapers” (ep.), “Napoleon III undersand” (physical education teacher), “Last year’s quadrille”, TV (Praskovya), “Last Chance” (Ershov’s mother), “Sibiriyada” (woman), “The investigation is being conducted by experts. Until the third shot”, TV (Mukhin’s mother), “Salt of the Earth”, TV (Valyusha, wife of beekeeper Platon Ermolaich); 1979: “Rain in a foreign city”, TV (Anna Petrovna), “Steep Field” (Glafira), “Accept a telegram on credit” (trader); 1980: “Smoke of the Fatherland” (Matveevna), “Flight with an astronaut” (saleswoman), “Light in the window”, TV (Irina Petrovna, coach); 1981: “The Commander’s Daughter” (Valya), “Carnival” (woman in line for a taxi), “Blizzard”, TV (Alena’s mother), “Courage”, TV (Sergei Golitsyn’s mother), “Front behind enemy lines” (elderly nurse); 1982: “Everything could have been different” (Vera), “Inspector Losev”, TV (knitting factory worker), “Seven Soldiers” (Aunt Frosya), “Date” (Maria); 1983: “The Bus Driver”, TV (veteran’s wife), “Burn, Burn, Clear”, TV (Faina), “A Cage for Canaries” (station worker), “The Man at the Stop Station”, TV (ep.); 1984: “Small Favor”, TV (information desk worker); 1985: “Shores in the Fog” (wife of a staff captain), “For the Coming Century”, TV (teacher), “Legitimate Marriage” (nurse), “We’ll wait and see”, TV (Maria Nikiforovna, Alexei’s mother); 1986: “Time of Sons” (Tanya’s mother), “Zina-Zinulya” (watchwoman in the hostel); 1987: “Dodgers” (dispatcher), “Under the sign of the Red Cross”, TV (Glushkova); 1988: “Civil Lawsuit”, TV (neighbor), “Dubrovsky”, TV (Egorovna), “Forbidden Zone” (teacher), “Pass it on” (woman with cucumbers); 1989: “From the life of Fyodor Kuzkin” (Nastya-Ryabukha), “Crazy”, film (neighbor), “Under the circus dome”, TV (conductor), “Under the steps”, TV (Aprosinya Stepanovna), “It was by the sea" (cleaning lady); 1990: “Lawyer”, TV (village resident); 1991: “Theme’s Childhood”, TV (nanny Pronya), “Maestro with a thread” (wife); 1992: “Smoke”, TV (nanny), “Dyuba-Dyuba” (hostess of the shelter), “The Adventures of Chichikov”, TV (Korobochka); 1997: “The Thief” (relative of the prisoner Mikola); 2002: “Turetsky’s March 2. The Last Marshal”, TV (concierge), “Turetsky’s March. New appointment. Sheriff in law,” TV (commandant), “The investigation is being conducted by experts. Ten years later. A pound of gold”, TV (Baushkina); 2003: “The Return of Mukhtar. Cartel of Beggars", TV (elderly woman), "Women's Logic 3", TV (Anna Tikhonovna); 2004: “Viola Tarakanova. In the world of criminal passions. Three bags of tricks”, TV (woman in the yard), “Evlampia Romanova 2. The investigation is conducted by an amateur. Constellation of greedy dogs", TV (Glasha), "Private investigation lover Dasha Vasilyeva 2. Lady with Claws", TV (mother of sisters), "Don't forget" (Gavrichenko, grandmother), "Full speed ahead!" (ep.), “Narrow Bridge”, TV (neighbor); 2005: “Gorynych and Victoria”, TV (Lomakova), “Nine Months”, TV (Klavdia Stepanovna), “Lola and the Marquis”, TV (lifter), “Private Investigation Lover Dasha Vasilyeva 4. Hobbies of the Ugly Duckling”, TV ( neighbor of the Kayurovs), “Meluzga” (old woman); 2006: “Housing Issue”, TV (Valentina Mefodievna, teacher), “My General”, TV (Mistress of the House), “Last Confession”, TV (Baba Marusya), “Seventh Heaven”, TV (Ekaterina Ivanovna), “Flash .ka" (old woman in the village of Moshkino); 2007: “The Milkmaid from Khatsapetovka”, TV (housekeeper Nikitichna), “And yet I love”, TV (dormitory watchman), “We met strangely” (Anna Aleksandrovana), “Snow Angel” (Semyonovna), “Experts. Sunny Side”, TV (Baba Tonya); 2008: “Father”, TV (Matryona), “Invasion” (Maria Pavlovna), “Defense”, TV (Morozov’s mother), “St. John’s wort”, TV (Baba Dasha), “Bride to order” (Maxim’s grandmother); 2008-2009: “One day there will be love”, TV (Aunt Masha); 2009: “Boomerang from the Past”, TV (Baba Zoya), “The General’s Granddaughter”, TV (Shemyakina, Drozdova’s neighbor), “City of Temptations”, TV (Sofia, actress), “Milkmaid from Khatsapetovka. Challenge to Fate”, TV (Nikitichna), “First Attempt”, TV (Natalya Mikhailovna, editorial guard); 2010: “The Courtyard”, TV (Zoya Fedorovna), “St. John’s Wort 2”, TV (Baba Dasha), “Old Men”, TV (Zhanna’s mother); 2011: “The Milkmaid from Khatsapetovka 3”, TV (Nina Nikitichna), “St. John’s Wort 3”, TV (Baba Dasha), “Heiress”, TV (Elzhbeta Yanovna Pototskaya-Shostnaya), “Let Them Talk”, TV (Baba Glasha), “The best movie 3-de” (grandmother Sanya); 2012: “Cornflowers”, TV (Baba Nyura), “Always say “always” 9”, TV (Polina Evgenievna), “Angel on Duty 2”, TV (Ekaterina Nikitichna), “Curious Varvara”, TV (Sofya Markovna); 2013: “Vangelia”, TV (Olga), “Serious Relationships”, TV (Katya’s grandmother); 2013-2014: “Molodezhka”, TV (Larisa Arkadyevna Savelyeva); 2014: “Queen of the Bandits 2”, TV (Baba Dasha), “Hugging the Sky”, TV (Ulyana), “Chernobyl. Exclusion zone", TV (granny); 2020: “A Year in Tuscany”, TV (Baba Dasha).
Personal life of Valentina Ananina
Valentina Georgievna got married after falling in love with a cameraman during the filming of her next film.
They lived together for twenty happy years. They had no children. When Ananina was a little over forty, she suffered from a stroke. It was very difficult to recover. The desire to live helped her get back on her feet. Her husband died in 1979. These events led the actress to faith. Now, in addition to working on film sets, she teaches at Sunday school. The children she works with have become almost like family to her. The actress traveled a lot with them and their parents to holy places. On New Year's Eve, Valentina Georgievna and her students prepare real theatrical performances for the holiday.
It was not easy for Ananina, like many actors, during perestroika. Then they almost stopped filming. For two years, Valentina Georgievna lived with friends in America, where she was invited by English and American filmmakers because of her “Russian” face. In addition, upon returning, she did not refuse a single offered episode, starred in advertising, in other words, took on any job within the profession. This helped her survive in those difficult conditions.
Career and creative life
After graduating from the institute, Ananina was sent to the Cinema Actor Theater, which, in fact, was a branch of Mosfilm. Performances were rarely staged there; films were mostly filmed. Valentina began acting and currently has more than 200 film projects in her treasury. However, it is worth noting that she never played the main role in any of them. The actress was very worried about this and even thought about leaving the profession.
Her career, although not brilliant, was quite stable and successful. Among the films with Ananyeva’s participation are many films included in the golden fund of cinema: “The Cranes Are Flying,” “Belorussky Station,” “Carnival,” “I Walk Through Moscow” and many others.
In the difficult 90s of the last century for cinema, Ananyeva’s career experienced a downtime, but then, after successful filming in advertising, she was again invited to work. 2006 was a very busy year for her in terms of work.
Valentina Georgievna is actively working to this day. Among her latest works, it is worth highlighting such projects as “Always Say Always”, “Molodezhka”, “Turkish March”, “Vangelia”.
It is worth noting the actress’s participation in the TV series “Quiet Don”, where she played Aksinya’s aunt.
Now the actress is starring in the comedy musical film “Dancing on Heights,” where she plays the grandmother of one of the main characters.
In addition to filming activities, Valentina Georgievna actively works with children in the Sunday school at the Novodevichy Convent. There she happily helps organize Christmas trees and other children's parties.
