Life of Dzhemma Firsova may become a plot for a thriller. She was a student of
Dovzhenko, as well as film director, actress and poetess. She was a woman of
extraordinary, remarkable, almost celestial beauty. She was a unique person both on the
screen and off-screen. She played part in such different films as «Scarlet Sails», «War
and Peace», «A Long Ordeal», «That Sweet Word: Liberty!», «The White Bird Marked with
Black». It was a revelation when it turned out that her real vocation was to shoot
documentaries. For her film «Winter and Spring in 1945», she was given the State
Award of the USSR, film epic «The Great Patriotic War» brought her the Lenin Award. In
Ivanovo Dzhemma Firsova will be present both in person and on the screen, and her new
film will be shown.