Yelena Samarina

Yelena Samarina (16 December 1927 – 4 May 2011) was a Russian-born actress who settled in Spain. She was originally selected to play the lead in Wim Wenders' historical The Scarlet Letter (1973), but the film's financial backers insisted on the casting of the better-known Senta Berger.[1]

Yelena Samarina
Born	16 December 1927 Omsk, Soviet Union
Died	4 May 2011 (aged 83) Madrid, Spain
Other names	Yelena Georgievna Volozhanina
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1958-2004

Selected filmography

• Cuéntame (2004)
• Antivicio (2001)
• La duquesa roja (1997)
• Don Juan in Hell (1991)
• The Tunnel (1988)
• Lulú de noche (1986)
• Coarse Salt (1984)
• Cervantes (1981)
• Madrid al desnudo (1979)
• Trout (1978)
• La Carmen (1976)
• Gone to the Mountain (1974)
• The Man in Hiding (1971)
• Spaniards in Paris (1971)
• The House of 1,000 Dolls (1967)
• Currito of the Cross (1965)
• The Blackmailers (1963)
• The Balcony of the Moon (1962)
• Let's Make the Impossible! (1958)

References

1. Palmer p.35

Bibliography

• R. Barton Palmer. Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

External links

• Yelena Samarina at IMDb