Vera Vsevolodovna Baranovskaya (; 1885 – 7 December 1935) was a Russian and Soviet actress. She performed in more than twenty films between 1916 and 1935.
Biography Baranovskaya was born in 1885 Saint Petersburg, Russia. She studied acting at the Moscow Art Theatre, where her teacher was Konstantin Stanislavsky. She became member of the Moscow Art Theater troupe in 1903. In 1915, she began to perform independently in theaters in Kharkov, Odessa, Tiflis, Kazan, and other cities.
Baranovskaia’s screen debut was in The Thief-Benefactor (1916), an Anton Chekhov adaptation.
In 1922, she founded the artistic-theatrical workshop ("Mastbar") in Moscow.
In the 1920s, she worked in Germany and Czechoslovakia.
In 1926, Vsevolod Pudovkin cast her as Nilovna, the heroine of his revolutionary tragedy Mother, an adaptation of Maksim Gorky’s 1906 novel. Baranovskaia, who was 40 at the time of shooting, portrayed a much older woman who is devoted to her son and ultimately accepts the inevitability of class struggle. Pudovkin also cast Baranovskaia as the harsh worker’s wife who undergoes a transformation in The End of St. Petersburg (1927). One of her last roles in Soviet cinema was in Abram Room’s social drama Pits (1928).
In 1928, Baranovskaia left the USSR for Czechoslovakia, Germany, and later France, where she continued acting. Sometimes she played parts of proletarians, as in Mikhail Dubson’s Poison Gas (1929) and Carl Jung-hans’s Such Is Life (1929). Her last part, was of a duchess in Max Neufeld’s adaptation of a Viennese operetta, Eternal Waltz (1935).
She died in 1935 in Paris.
Selected filmography + Film Year Title Role Notes 1926MotherPelageya Nilovna Vlasova 1927The End of St. Petersburg Bolshevik worker's wife 1929 Revolt in the Reformatory Fritz's Mother 1929 Such Is Life Washerwoman 1929 Misled Youth Witwe Kröger 1929 The Age of Seventeen 1929 Poison Gas 1930 Tonka of the Gallows 1930 St. Wenceslas1931Reckless Youth 1932 The Night at the Hotel 1932Monsieur AlbertLa duchesse1934 At the End of the World
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