Yelena Samarina

Yelena Samarina
Born	16 December 1933 Omsk, Soviet Union
Died	4 May 2011 Madrid, Spain
Other names	Yelena Georgievna Volozhanina
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1958-2004

Yelena Samarina (1933–2011) 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.

Selected filmography

• Let's Make the Impossible! (1958)
• The Balcony of the Moon (1962)
• The Blackmailers (1963)
• Currito of the Cross (1965)
• The House of 1,000 Dolls (1967)
• The Man in Hiding (1971)
• Spaniards in Paris (1971)
• Gone to the Mountain (1974)

Bibliography

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

External links

• Yelena Samarina at the Internet Movie Database