Raisa Puzhnaya

Raisa Puzhnaya was born on Aug 16, 1907 in Russian Empire [now Russia]. Raisa Puzhnaya's big-screen debut came with Women of Ryazan directed by Ivan Pravov in 1927. Raisa Puzhnaya is known for And Quiet Flows the Don directed by Ivan Pravov, Nikolay Podgorny stars as Pantelej Prokofievich Melekhov and Andrei Abrikosov as Grigori Pantelejevich Melekhov. The upcoming new movie Raisa Puzhnaya plays is And Quiet Flows the Don which will be released on Mar 18, 1932.

Raisa Puzhnaya had a somewhat brief, but stellar career as a film actress in the early Soviet cinema 1927 - 1934, when she starred in main roles in some of the Soviet Russian prestige project films of the time. She was a graduate from GIK (Gosudarstvennyy institut kinematografii), so this was in the years 1930 - 1938. After her career in front of the cameras, she worked as a senior editor in the film department at a documentary film studio.