Galina Alexandrovna Polskich

Galina Alexandrovna Polskich ( Russian Галина Александровна Польских ; born November 27, 1939 in Moscow ) is a Russian actress. She has appeared in around 120 films since 1962.

Life

Polskich was born in a poor family. Her father died during World War II and her mother died of typhoid a few years later. At the age of eight she was sent to an orphanage where she had spent a few months. After that, she grew up with her grandmother. In 1960 she was admitted to the Moscow Film School and trained by Sergei Gerasimow and Tamara Makarova .

Galina Polskich made her film debut in 1962 in the internationally successful film Das Mädchen Tanja in the leading role of Tanja. In the 1960s she appeared in productions by the directors Georgi Danelija ( Stopover in Moscow , 1964), Grigori Chuchrai ( Once Upon a Time An Old Age Lived With His Old One , 1965) and Sergei Gerasimow ( The Journalist , 1967). She played in two DEFA films: in Konrad Wolf's I Was Nineteen (1968) a Red Army soldier and in Kurt Maetzig's Januskopf (1972). Since the late 1960s, Polskich was also seen in television films. She took on important roles in the war films Front Without Flanks (1975) and Front Behind the Front Line (1978). In 1979 she was honored with the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR .

Filmography (selection)

• 1962: The girl Tanja ( Дикая собака динго )
• 1963: stopover in Moscow ( Я шагаю по Москве )
• 1965: Loyalty ( Верность )
• 1965: Once upon a time an old man lived with his old woman ( Жили-были старик со старухой )
• 1967: I was nineteen ( Мне было девятнадцать )
• 1967: The Journalist ( Журналист )
• 1968: The Commissioner's Ballad ( Баллада о комиссаре )
• 1970: Signs along the way ( Znaki na drodze )
• 1970: There is no way back ( Обратной дороги нет )
• 1972: The shadows give way at noon ( Тени исчезают в полдень )
• 1972: Januskopf ( Двуликий Янус )
• 1975: When it comes to September ( Когда наступает сентябрь )
• 1975: Front without flanks ( Фронт без флангов )
• 1975: I'm looking for my fate ( Ищу мою судьбу )
• 1975: My house is a theater ( Мой дом театр )
• 1975: car, violin and the dog blob ( Автомобиль, скрипка и собака Клякса )
• 1976: The days of the surgeon Mishkin ( Дни хирурга Мишкина )
• 1976: I don't want to be a goal post anymore ( Додумался, поздравляю )
• 1978: Front behind the front line ( Фронт за линией фронта )
• 1978: fellow students ( Однокашники )
• 1979: Man, stay on the carpet ( Суета сует )
• 1979: Family Stories ( По семейным обстоятельствам )
• 1980: A happy load ( За спичками )
• 1982: A wife for grandfather ( Отцы и деды )
• 1982: The foreign fur ( Отставной козы барабанщик )
• 1982: The reminder
• 1983: White Dew ( Белые росы )
• 1983: Unexpected and unexpected ( Нежданно-негаданно )
• 1984: The Hourglass ( Песочные часы )
• 1985: Make the Clown Laugh ( Рассмешите клоуна )
• 1986: Kassensturz ( От зарплаты до зарплаты )
• 1987: The Man from Capuchin Boulevard (Человек с бульвара Капуцинов)
• 1987: Growing too fast ( Акселератка )
• 1988: The Friend ( Друг )
• 1993: Alaska Kid ( Аляска Кид )

Web links

• Galina Polskikh in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography and filmography at kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
• Яцко В. Искусство четвёртой степени