Alla Sokolova is a Soviet and Russian actress, who also gained fame as a playwright and screenwriter. She has scored dozens of successful roles, stage and screen productions.
Early biography
Alla Sokolova was born on February 2, 1944 in the small town of Kovrov in the Ivanovo Region. From an early age she showed a desire to become an actress. After school, she successfully entered the correspondence department of GITIS, and after graduating, she began performing in theaters in Dushanbe and Liepaja. In 1967, Alla joined the troupe of the Riga Russian Drama Theater, in which she performed until 1973. Then the place of her work was the Theater. Lenin Komsomol, also known as the "Baltic House".
It was during this period that Sokolova discovered her talent for drama. She began to write her own plays, and one of them under the title “Faryatyev’s Fantasies” was staged with deafening success in the country's leading theaters. Hundreds of people came to the Bolshoi Drama Theater, as well as to Sovremennik and the theater of the Soviet Army to watch this distinctive performance. It is worth noting that on the Leningrad stage this production became the directorial debut of the famous Soviet artist Sergei Jurassic in the future.
Further career
In 1979, the film adaptation of the play "Fantasy Faryatyev", which was directed by Ilya Averbakh, was released on the movie screens. The main roles in the film were played by Andrei Mironov and Marina Neyolova. The successful combination of acting, directorial skills and amazing music by Alfred Schnittke brought tremendous success to the tape, and the audience began to become more and more interested in the work of Alla Sokolova. She created dozens of plays, most of which, including “Who is this Dizzy Gillespie?”, “Eldorado” and “The Demon of Happiness”, became widely known not only in the USSR, but also abroad.
In 1976, Alla Sokolova first appeared in a movie. It was the movie "It Doesn't Concern Me". She also starred in the drama "Random Waltz", released in 1989. Subsequently, she played small roles in the television series Return of Mukhtar. Already at the sunset of life, in 2014, the actress and playwright starred in the short film "Come Not Today." The film unexpectedly won the Best Short Film award at the 2015 Moscow Film Festival.
