''Eternal Call'' (russian: Вечный зов, Vechnyy zov) was a Soviet 1973–1983 epic
TV series
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directed by Vladimir Krasnopolsky and Valery Uskov by the eponymous novel of Anatoli Ivanov shot by
Mosfilm
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Plot
The series traces the fates of a Siberian family of Savelyevs since 1906 into 1960s, including three wars,
Russian Revolution
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, establishment of the
Soviet power
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, epoch of
Stalinism
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Tamara Degtyaryova
Tamara Vasilyevna Degtyaryova (; 29 May 1944 – 9 August 2018) was a Russian stage, television and film actress. In 1979, she received the State Prize of the USSR for her role in the television series ''Eternal Call''. In 2005 she was made a Peop ...
as Agatha
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Vladimir Zemlyanikin
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zemlyanikin (russian: Владимир Михайлович Земляникин; 27 October 1933 – 27 October 2016) was a film and theater actor. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1994).Nikolai Ivanov as Ivan
* Nikolai Lebedev as Mitrofan
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Ada Rogovtseva
Ada Rogovtseva (born 16 July 1937) is a Ukrainian-Soviet actress. She has appeared in over 30 films and television shows since 1957. Professor at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, National University of Culture. She won the award ...
Vadim Spiridonov
Vadim Semyonovich Spiridonov (russian: Вадим Семёнович Спиридонов; 14 October 1944 – 7 December 1989) was a Soviet film actor, film director. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984). Winner of the State Prize of the USSR (197 ...
as Fyodor
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Valeri Khlevinsky
Valeri Mikhailovich Khlevinsky (russian: Валерий Михайлович Хлевинский; 14 November 1943 – 7 January 2021) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor and theater teacher. He was awarded the People's Artist of Russi ...
as Anton
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Tamara Syomina
Tamara Petrovna Syomina (russian: Тамара Петровна Сёмина; born 25 October 1938) is a Soviet/Russian film actress. She appeared in more than forty films since 1959. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1978).
Biography
Tamara Petrov ...
as Anfisa
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Oleg Basilashvili
Oleg Valerianovich Basilashvili (russian: Оле́г Валериа́нович Басилашви́ли; ka, ოლეგ ბასილაშვილი, ; born 26 September 1934) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist ...
as Arnold Mikhailovich Lakhnovsky, officer of the tsarist secret police, later an officer of the
Abwehr
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Pyotr Velyaminov
Pyotr Sergeevich Velyaminov (russian: Пётр Серге́евич Вельями́нов; 1926–2009) was a Soviet Russian film and theater actor who was awarded the title People's Artist of the RSFSR. Commander of Order "For Merit to the Fat ...
as Polycarp Kruzhilin
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Zinaida Vorkul
Zinaida Venediktovna Vorkul (russian: Зинаи́да Венеди́ктовна Ворку́ль) (2 May 1909 – 15 December 1994) was a Soviet stage and film actress. She is known for playing character roles, usually as a mother or grandmo ...
as Markovna
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Vladimir Zamansky
Vladimir Petrovich Zamansky (russian: Владимир Петрович Заманский; born 6 February 1926) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989).
Biography
As a boy, Zamansky grew up without a fat ...
as Fyodor Nechayev
* Boris Ivanov as whiteguard general
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Mikhail Kokshenov
Mikhail Mikhailovich Kokshenov (16 September 1936, Moscow – 4 June 2020, Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast) was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of Russia (2002).
Biography
Mikhail Kokshenov wa ...
as Arkady Molchun
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Yefim Kopelyan
Yefim Zakharovich Kopelyan (russian: Ефим Захарович Копелян; 12 April 1912 – 6 March 1975) was a Soviet Union, Soviet actor of theatre and cinema, one of the legendary masters of the Bolshoi Theatre of Drama (BDT) in Leni ...
as Mikhail Lukich Kaftanov
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Vera Kuznetsova
Vera Andreevna Kuznetsova (russian: Вера Андреевна Кузнецова; 6 October 1907 — 11 December 1994) was a Russian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films from 1944 to 1991.
Selected filmography
References
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as Glafira Dementyevna
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Natalya Kustinskaya
Natalya Nikolayevna Kustinskaya (russian: Ната́лья Никола́евна Кусти́нская; 5 April 1938 – 13 December 2012) was a Soviet actress, who was a Meritorious Artist of Russia from 1999.
Kustinskaya was born in Moscow, an ...
as Polina
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Ivan Lapikov
Ivan Gerasimovich Lapikov (Russian: Иван Герасимович Лапиков; 7 July 1922 – 2 May 1993) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1982).
Biography
Lapikov was born in the village of Gorny Balykley, ...
as Pankrat Nazarov
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Rimma Markova
Rimma Vasilievna Markova (russian: Римма Васильевна Маркова; 3 March 1925 – 15 January 2015) was a Russian film actress. She was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1994, whereas her younger brother Leonid Markov was nam ...
Radner Muratov
Radner Zinyatovich Muratov (russian: Раднэр Зинятович Муратов, tt-Cyrl, Раднэр Зиннәт улы Моратов, translit=Radner Zinnät uğlı Moratov; 21 October 1928 – 10 December 2004) was a Soviet and Russian s ...
as Magomedov
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Olga Naumenko
Olga Nikolayevna Naumenko (russian: О́льга Никола́евна Нау́менко; born December 6, 1949, Moscow, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema, and a TV presenter, People's Artist of Russia (2005). Actress o ...
USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, t ...