
Emma Popova
Acting
Known For

A stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", first staged for Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater and later reworked for Leningrad Television.
Fiesta

In the winter of 1918, a provincial Russian town is faced with a shortage of food, firewood, and medicine. Discontent is brewing in the Red Army regiment stationed in the town, as former Tsarist officers sow seeds of discord in an attempt to organize a counter-revolutionary rebellion.
Storm

Tired of watching the total collapse of the army on the fronts of World War I, left without his scattered squad, Lieutenant Reshetov goes to Petrograd to kill the main culprit of the tragedy of Russia Lenin ...
On the Same Planet

The love triangle: wife, husband and his mistress, amusingly crumbles because the loving writer is fleetingly infatuated with a third woman, young and inexperienced, rightly believing that an artist needs a muse every day, not a wife and mistress.
Eccentrics

The film is set in 1919. The film tells about an episode of the Civil War, when the troops under the command of M. V. Frunze took the city of Ufa away from the White Guards.
Thunderstorm Over Belaya

Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life.
Conscience Doesn't Forgive

Television performance, tragicomedy based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky by the Leningrad BDT named after M. Gorky (first staged in 1966).
The Philistines

The film takes place between two revolutions - 1905 and 1917. There is no agreement in the family of the Kolomiytsev brothers, bankrupt nobles. The elder brother Yakov is mortally ill. The youngest, Ivan, a gendarme colonel, is completely confused and does not know how to get out of the situation created in the family.
Before the Storm

Two strangers meet in an ambulance train during WWII.
Mercy Train

Several episodes from the Life of the Dutch Painter Harmens van Rijn Rembrandt. Based on the eponymous work by Dmitry Kedrin.
Rembrandt

A satirical account of the rise and fall of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
Prince Napoleon

A television adaptation of a short comedy of the same name by George Bernard Shaw.
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

A documentary on the staging of Georgi Tovstonogov's acclaimed production of The Three Sisters at the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater, from the first table read to the opening night.
The Premiere is Tonight

Based on a play by Ivan Turgenev.
A Month in the Country
March 9, 1918. After the German army violated the terms of the Brest Peace, Petrograd is filled with refugees from the front. Leaders of the young Soviet country are urgently and in complete secrecy moving from Petrograd to Moscow.
Train to Tomorrow's Day
A TV play based on Y.P. German's trilogy about the doctor Vladimir Ustimenko. Aglaya is Vladimir's aunt. The play is about her work as an underground fighter during the war.