
Acting
Feb 20, 1942
Kotlas, Arkhangelskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Vera Alentova
Acting
Biography
Vera Valentinovna Alentova (February 11, 1942 – December 25, 2025) was a Soviet and Russian actress famous for her leading role in Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980).
Feature Films (29)

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Alla and Igor decide to get married. It is the second marriage for both of them. Resentment towards her ex-husband, who is busy with science and indifferent to everyday problems, has embittered Alla. She is sure that he and his parents want to take away her child. In her anger she does not notice that she is unfair to her loved ones and makes her son unhappy.
Time for Reflection

Dina’s mother moves to live with her daughter and almost immediately tension and conflicts arise between her and her son-in-law Pasha. Mother is trying to open Dina’s eyes on her husband, but she does not want to listen to anything. Mother decides to go to the country and asks her son-in-law to help transport things. But she immediately returns and admits that by accident ... she killed Pasha. Now Dina and mother live in constant fear that everything will open. And at the same time, they gradually learn more and more unpleasant and mysterious details about Pasha. And when it is not known why the mother is dying, and Vedernikov’s operas come to the apartment, Dina is already on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Love as a Motive

A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.
What a Mess!

The Leningrad Jazz Club is preparing to celebrate its 30th anniversary and the birthday of the club's founder, Alexei Sokolnikov, the first leader of the jazz band. It has been decided to find all the original members of the band and invite them to the celebration. But this is not so easy to do, and there is also a mystery lurking in the past that led to the band's breakup...
When the Saints March

After a performance, a girl gets behind the scenes and sees without masks all those whom she so feared, loved and hated.
To the Question of the Dialectic of the Perception of Art, or Lost Dreams

This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The main characters of the film are ordinary Soviet high school students. They study in the Soviet school, try to be correct and ideological Komsomol activists. But not always the “correctness” suggested by the teachers coincides with the inner convictions of young souls - it is difficult for them to come to terms with the fact that their relatives and loved ones are suddenly “enemies of the people”.
Tomorrow Was the War

Anna Berkutova - blonde in the armor of mini-skirts. Her weapons - her beauty, intelligence and absolute confidence in the fact that she knows men. It is an important project in Skolkovo and is going to marry a rich foreigner. But on her birthday, March 8, it is clear, as the financial report, the fate of change: Anna throws groom steal her project of Skolkovo, and she begins to hear the thoughts of men. This ability is first brought her to despair, and then opens wide possibilities ...
Happy March 8th, Men!

Based on materials from real criminal cases, it follows the trial of the trade mafia.
The Trial
Television & Series (3)

The story of several families, starting from the pre-war years and ending in the 1960s.
Such a Short Long Life

The "Big Difference" is created not only for the audience, but also for those who became the hero of the parody - TV presenters and actors. A guest who comes to the studio seems to see himself through a magnifying glass, because all the details are taken into account in the parody: the character's manner of dressing, speaking, diction features, plastic, makeup, hairstyle. The uniqueness of the project is that in addition to entertainment, the program also has a developmental function. After all, our guest, who is being parodied, has a chance to look at himself from the outside, to see his shortcomings and advantages. Some people like themselves, and some don't. But the main thing is that no one remains indifferent.
Big Difference

Moscow, the 1970s. Vera, who has come to the capital on a limited work permit, meets the love of her life. But what can she do when their feelings are opposed by her lover’s influential, high-ranking family and her own surroundings? Vera’s pregnancy only makes the already tangled web of circumstances and contradictions even more complicated. Young, naïve, and far from home, she finds herself facing it all alone. Will she be able to survive in a big, hostile city with a child, prove her innocence, and defend her right to love? What will happen to Rita — the daughter of Vera and Vadim — whom he refused to believe was his for many years? And what fate awaits the girl when she is left completely alone?..


