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# Alisa Freindlich

Actor. Born 8 December 1934 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 December 1934, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
- **Also known as:** Alisa Freyndlikh, Alisa Frejndlih, Alissa Freundlich, Alissa Brunowna Freindlich, Алиса Бруновна Фрейндлих, Алиса Фрейндлих

## Fi1m on Alisa Freindlich

> Alisa Freindlich makes strong-willed women feel recognisable, in comedy as well as drama. We value her directness: in *Stalker*, a wife’s objection gives us more to care about than some of the philosophical talk.

The wife objects to the guide’s work in *Stalker* (1979), and Alisa Freindlich makes us take her seriously. She makes that objection count without turning it into another discussion of belief. We felt her frustration because she gives it a practical force that the more philosophical exchanges sometimes lack. This is where we find her most persuasive: playing someone whose feelings deserve attention even when the film has other things it wants to discuss.

Her film work became prominent in the mid-1970s, building on substantial theatre experience. Eldar Ryazanov’s *Office Romance* (1977) gives her a leading comic role as Lyudmila Prokofyevna Kalugina, drawing on her timing and authority. It is worth keeping that performance in mind when approaching the solemnity of Andrei Tarkovsky’s *Stalker*. The everyday realism associated with her acting has a use in both kinds of film, and her comic work deserves attention alongside the demanding drama.

There are limits to what she can help with in *Stalker*, where Anatoly Solonitsyn’s Writer and Mykola Hrynko’s Professor sometimes keep talking after a point has been made. The writing can leave them with a subject but too little sense of why either man needs to discuss it. Freindlich cannot cure that heaviness. She does give us a reason to question the guide’s commitment without adding another philosophical exchange. She is one reason we warmly recommend the film, though its longer discussions still try our patience.

She worked with Ryazanov again as Ogudalova in *Ruthless Romance* (1984), his adaptation of Ostrovsky, while theatre remained central to her work. Later screen appearances became occasional alongside her continuing stage career. Her standing as a theatre actress should not make those screen parts seem like incidental work. Start with *Stalker* if its slow pace appeals, then try *Office Romance* for her comic timing.

## Biography

Alisa Freindlich is a Russian actress. Born on 8 December 1934 in Leningrad, she is the daughter of actor Bruno Freindlich.

She trained at the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema, graduating in 1957. Her stage career began at the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre (1957–1961) before she joined the Lensovet Theatre. In 1983 she moved to the Bolshoi Drama Theater in Saint Petersburg, where she has remained a leading actress.

Freindlich is known for film roles including Lyudmila Prokofyevna Kalugina in *Office Romance* (1977), Stalker's Wife in Andrei Tarkovsky's *Stalker* (1979), Queen Anne of Austria in *D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers* (1979) and Ogudalova in *Ruthless Romance* (1984). She was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1981.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stalker* (1979), Fi1m 86, as Stalker's Wife — [page](https://film.one/film/stalker.md)

## Also known for

- *Office Romance* (1977), Людмила Прокофьевна Калугина
- *Striped Trip* (1961), episode
- *D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers* (1979), Queen Anne of Austria
- *Ruthless Romance* (1984), Ogudalova
- *The Bolshoi* (2016), Beletskaya
- *Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin* (1981), Vyrubova

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