Yekaterina Georgievna Gradova (Russian: Ð•ÐºÐ°Ñ‚ÐµÑ€Ð¸Ì Ð½Ð°
Ð"ÐµÐ¾Ì Ñ€Ð³Ð¸ÐµÐ²Ð½Ð° Ð"Ñ€Ð°Ì Ð´Ð¾Ð²Ð°; born October 6, 1946) is a
popular Russian film actress who has appeared in two Soviet
blockbuster films Seventeen Moments of Spring and The Meeting Place
Cannot Be Changed.Gradova played her first notable role at the
beginning of 1966 in the Boris Yashin's drama Autumn Weddings. Later
she starred in films rather infrequently, preferring theater to
cinema. She was an actress in the Theater of Satire until the 1980s.
Also at the Mayakovsky Theatre, Gradova played a major role in the
play Talents and Admirers, which was made into a film in 1971.Her most
significant success was the role of pianist (clandestine
radio-operator) Kate of Soviet spy Standartenfuhrer von Stierlitz in
the Soviet blockbuster TV serial Seventeen Moments of Spring (1968)
directed by Tatyana Lioznova. This serial was about the life of the
Soviet spy Maksim Isaev, operating in Nazi Germany under the name Max
Otto von Stierlitz, played by the leading Soviet film star Vyacheslav
Tikhonov. The serial immediately brought immense popularity for the
main actors. Later she acknowledged that for those who starred in the
serial: This was not just a movie, this was like a destiny. Indeed,
for many years each of the stars of the serial received tremendous
attention and were often invited to various conferences, asked for
interviews, etc.In 1979 she played a small but significant role
(Svetlana Volokushina) in another Soviet blockbuster The Meeting Place
Cannot Be Changed (starring another great Soviet film star and bard
Vladimir Vysotsky).
Ð"ÐµÐ¾Ì Ñ€Ð³Ð¸ÐµÐ²Ð½Ð° Ð"Ñ€Ð°Ì Ð´Ð¾Ð²Ð°; born October 6, 1946) is a
popular Russian film actress who has appeared in two Soviet
blockbuster films Seventeen Moments of Spring and The Meeting Place
Cannot Be Changed.Gradova played her first notable role at the
beginning of 1966 in the Boris Yashin's drama Autumn Weddings. Later
she starred in films rather infrequently, preferring theater to
cinema. She was an actress in the Theater of Satire until the 1980s.
Also at the Mayakovsky Theatre, Gradova played a major role in the
play Talents and Admirers, which was made into a film in 1971.Her most
significant success was the role of pianist (clandestine
radio-operator) Kate of Soviet spy Standartenfuhrer von Stierlitz in
the Soviet blockbuster TV serial Seventeen Moments of Spring (1968)
directed by Tatyana Lioznova. This serial was about the life of the
Soviet spy Maksim Isaev, operating in Nazi Germany under the name Max
Otto von Stierlitz, played by the leading Soviet film star Vyacheslav
Tikhonov. The serial immediately brought immense popularity for the
main actors. Later she acknowledged that for those who starred in the
serial: This was not just a movie, this was like a destiny. Indeed,
for many years each of the stars of the serial received tremendous
attention and were often invited to various conferences, asked for
interviews, etc.In 1979 she played a small but significant role
(Svetlana Volokushina) in another Soviet blockbuster The Meeting Place
Cannot Be Changed (starring another great Soviet film star and bard
Vladimir Vysotsky).
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