
Ravshana Kurkova
Acting
Biography
Ravshana Bahramovna Kurkova (Uzbek: Ravshana Bahromovna Kurkova, Russian: Равшана Бахрамовна Куркова; born August 22, 1980) is an Uzbek-Russian actress of theater, film and dubbing, and producer. She appeared in more than thirty films since 2003. Ravshana Matchanova was born in Tashkent in an Uzbek acting family. She starred in the arthausal philosophical drama of Rashid Malikov "Kirk Kulok Siri", filmed at the film studio "Uzbekfilm" in 1992. In the eighth grade, her parents transferred her to another Tashkent lyceum, a branch of the University of London, where all subjects were taught in English. In the late 1990s, Ravshana moved to Moscow, where she entered the philological faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical University. After receiving the diploma of higher education she worked on television as an editor of the talk show, an assistant to the director. She listened to the course of lectures in the framework of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors and studied acting skills under the guidance of Tatyana Pyshnova, of the teacher of the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School. Ravshana Kurkova is also known as a theatrical actress. She was busy in the play - plastic drama "Ungiers" by Oleg Glushkov, premiered in 2010. Performed the main roles in theatrical productions of Ivan Vyrypaev "Unbearably long embrace" and "Illusion" in the Moscow theater "Practice". From 2014 to 2016, Ravshana cooperated with the well-known brands Intimissimi and Calzedonia. As the official envoy of Calzedonia, Ravshana Kurkova annually represented Russia at the Calzedonia Summer Show in Verona. In the 12-episode series And we have in the yard ... directed by Olga Muzaleva (Channel One Russia), Ravshana performed the role of Mavlyuda, a doctor, a resident of Samarkand, the mother of three children who came to Moscow to look for the missing husband and forced to work as a janitor. According to journalist Andrei Arkhangelsky, "For the first time on the screen was created the image of a migrant - not a hero sketch, not a comic ornament, but a full-fledged hero." In 2016, the premiere of the immersion thriller Maxim Didenko "Black Russian" took place on the motives of the novel "Dubrovsky" by Alexander Pushkin, where Ravshana played the main female role - Masha Troyekurova. The role of Dubrovsky was performed by the former husband of actors Artyom Tkachenko. Ravshana Matchanova, the first spouse of the actor was photographer Semyon Kurkov, after the divorce, Ravshana Kurkova kept his surname. She was in her second marriage to Russian actor Artyom Tkachenko from 2004 to 2008.
Known For

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.
Chernobyl: Abyss

Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army of mercenaries. Fighting alongside Henry is Jimmy, who is Henry's only hope to make it through the day. Hardcore Henry takes place over the course of one day, in Moscow, Russia.
Hardcore Henry

About what leads to sex, and what happens immediately after it. In one of the novels, a guy agrees to have a child with his best friend, unaware of her insidious plan. In another, a casual acquaintance makes a vegan wonder if sex contradicts her beliefs. And the dispute between two strangers about feminism is resolved in bed, where a woman is not going to remain in debt to a man. The heroes of the stories tell not about sex, but about what surrounds it.
Sex. Before and After

After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.
Balkan Line

Summer 1980. While the Olympics held in the USSR, strange and horrible things are happening in a run-of-the-mill pioneer camp. It turns out pioneer vampires exist not only in horror stories. Smart beyond his years, independent, sensitive and determined to go all the way for the right reasons, main hero Valerka, arrives at summer camp ‘Thunderbird’ for 3 weeks of carefree recreation. Little brave boy secretly aim to discover the reason behind his brother death. Harmless and eternal journey begins to turn around when he soon discovers that one of his roommates is actually sucking the blood. Now, the independent hero must team up to find out how the vampires ended up in a Soviet summer camp, how to destroy them, and who actually killed his brother. Upon the way, Valerka learn how to trust, meet friends and sacrifice himself to the one he truly fell in love. The cost of everyone`s freedoms turned him into a vampire. Has he turned into a monster forever?
Kitchenblock

During a spur-of-the-moment trip to St. Petersburg, chief financial officer Elena unexpectedly meets the man of her dreams – and then, equally unexpectedly, loses him again. She has nothing to go on, so she breaks out everything she's got to hunt him down: logical deduction, supernatural forces, her friends' help, a new guy she's met, a retreat, and much more. Since she was a little girl, Elena has always "taken life at a march," climbing the career ladder with frankly alarming determination, never letting herself get waylaid by romance or relationships. She's always been like that – right up until this weird, accidental, incredibly lucky meeting. In the new episodes, Elena gets back to hunting down the one that got away, using every aboveground (or underhand) method available to her. She rushes headlong into it, makes mistakes, falls down, but keeps going, making the difficult journey toward love and affection, and, most importantly, finding herself.
Tenderness

A young girl Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going against the authorities to find his father, Abby learns that her city is actually full of magic. And she discovers in herself extraordinary magical abilities.
Abigail

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Братаны

The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.
The White Crow

The main character is the star of a popular TV series about doctors, actor Yegor Rumyantsev. Having achieved great success, he becomes an egoist and does not notice the feelings and experiences of those around him: he does not come to the shooting, leads a promiscuous sex life and deceives people. One day, Egor finds out that he has HIV. Rumyantsev's brother Lev is a mediocre and unlucky actor who runs a program about useful handicrafts on the cable channel "Ant-TV". Leo has a pregnant wife with two young daughters. He has no prospects for making money and moving up the career ladder until he gets a chance to replace his brother Yegor in the series
Call DiCaprio!

A story about a juvenile inspector who was left by his wife and now is raising a teenage daughter alone. In order to establish a better relationship with her, he decides to stalk her using a social media account that actually belongs to a young man he has been working with. This ‘fathers and sons’ story about today’s teenagers and the midlife crisis.
Contact

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Seagulls

Konstantin Inozemtsev is a ladies' man and a popular writer in the past. He continues to live in a big way, getting more and more into debt. Fate presents Kostya with a chance to restart his career by heading a fading glossy magazine. In a month, he has to release the first issue of the magazine under a new name, bring back the sweetheart of his life and prove to everyone that he is still worth something.
First Issue

A group of thirteen tourists, including Lisa and Andrew, arrives to an Asian country, but instead of exotic travel they get into ordeal. Shipwrecked, they must survive ona desert island.
Island of the Unwanted

The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.
About Love. Adults Only

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Officers 2

Future. People have the opportunity to choose in which of the worlds to live — in the real or in the virtual. In an alternate reality called the Darknet, there is everything — drugs, sex, arms and human trafficking, and even death. However, even in this world, people remain themselves, with their values and weaknesses.
Darknet

In an Albanian town known for drug production and trafficking an elite group of cops set out to end the war waged against the local police.
The Brave

Shy and sometimes naive schoolboy Sashka lives with his grandmother and confides his secrets to a smart speaker because he has no friends. But Sashka has a special power - faith in miracles, thanks to which he gets into a whirlpool of extraordinary events. In the company of a witty genie from a jug and a smart speaker that has come to life, Alisa, Sashka sets off on a dangerous journey across half the world to find his parents, who after a sandstorm in Uzbekistan ended up in a magical city, captive to Shah Zaman. Sashka and company will face the machinations of the evil sorcerer Yusuf, battles on flying carpets, hot air balloon trips, chases across endless steppes, crossing the desert and meeting people who are ready to help the boy find his family again.
Magic Lamp

Blending dramatic situations with a documentary-influenced visual style, Happy Birthday looks in at a typical day in a Russian maternity hospital. The patients range from a middle aged woman pleased if surprised by her current pregnancy to a Muslim woman whose marriage to a Russian has blighted her relationship with her family. No matter what their situations, the women draw strength and support from each other as they share their common experience.