''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.
Plot
The series traces the fates of a Siberian family of
Savelyev Savelyev, also spelled as Savelev, Saveliev, or Saveljev (russian: Савельев), or Savelyeva (feminine; Савельева), is a Russian surname that is derived from the male given name Savely and literally means ''Savely's''. Notable people ...
s since 1906 into 1960s, including three wars,
Russian Revolution
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, establishment of the
Soviet power, epoch of
Stalinism
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, etc.
Cast
;Savelievs
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Pyotr Lyubeshkin as Silanty Savelyev, head of the family
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Vladimir Borisov
Vladimir Borisovich Borisov (; 15 July 1902 – 30 June 1941) was a Red Army major general.
A veteran of the Russian Civil War, Borisov served in command positions at military schools during the 1920s and in the late 1930s rose to division comman ...
as Semyon
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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 as Grigory
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Nikolai Ivanov as Ivan
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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 ...
as Anna (nee Kaftanova)
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Aleksei Serebryakov as Dima
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Vadim Spiridonov 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
;Others
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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 as Arnold Mikhailovich Lakhnovsky, officer of the tsarist secret police, later an officer of the
Abwehr
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Pyotr Velyaminov 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
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Boris Ivanov as whiteguard general
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Mikhail Kokshenov as Arkady Molchun
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Yefim Kopelyan 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
Extern ...
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 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 na ...
as Vasilisa
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Andrey Martynov as Kiryan Inyutin
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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 ...
as Varya
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Leonid Kharitonov as Yegor
Awards
The series was awarded the
USSR State Prize in the field of literature, art, and architecture.
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References
External links
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Encyclopedia of Russian cinema
Soviet television miniseries
1970s Soviet television series
1980s Soviet television series
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Family saga television series
Mosfilm films
Russian-language television shows
Television series set in the 1900s
Television series set in the 1910s
Television series set in the 1920s
Television series set in the 1930s
Television series set in the 1940s
Television series set in the 1950s
Television series set in the 1960s
Russian Revolution films
Soviet epic films
Historical television series
Films based on Russian novels
Films set in Siberia
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