Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#75396
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Klara Rumyanova works on emotional range rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Klara Rumyanova appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Klara. Andrei Rublev is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are emotional range, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for family, animation, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Roman Kachanov, Boris Stepantsev, Konstantin Ershov and others, Klara Rumyanova helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Andrei Rublev (1966) as Duke's children (voice) · Gena the Crocodile (1969) as Cheburashka (voice) · Junior and Karlson (1968) as Junior [Malysh] (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #75396 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1965–1969
Career length
4 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Andrei Rublev
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Andrei Rublev
Most frequent director
Boris Stepantsev
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Boris Stepantsev
Most common genre
Family
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 3m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1960s
6.9 average MV
The 1960s are where the work and the material meet. Gena the Crocodile, Junior and Karlson, Viy — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1960s
6.9
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1960s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Gena the Crocodile, Junior and Karlson, Viy.
Most productive era
1960s
5 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1960s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 7.12 films |
| Horror | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1965Vovka in the Kingdom of Far Far Away
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Vasilisa (voice).
Highest rated performance
1966Andrei Rublev
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak · Most recent film
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Cheburashka (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
5 of 5 films
as Cheburashka (voice)
Directed by Roman Kachanov
as Duke's children (voice)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
as Junior [Malysh] (voice)
Directed by Boris Stepantsev
as Vasilisa (voice)
Directed by Boris Stepantsev
as Pannochka (voice)
Directed by Konstantin Ershov
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Cheburashka (voice)
Gena the Crocodile (1969)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Cheburashka (voice) gives Klara Rumyanova a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Duke's children (voice)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Performance score7.3
Andrei Rublev asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Duke's children (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Junior [Malysh] (voice)
Junior and Karlson (1968)
Performance score7.1
Junior and Karlson asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Junior [Malysh] (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vasilisa (voice)
Vovka in the Kingdom of Far Far Away (1965)
Performance score7.1
Vovka in the Kingdom of Far Far Away asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vasilisa (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Cheburashka (voice)
Start here. Gena the Crocodile is the clearest statement of what Klara Rumyanova does — accessible, 20 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Klara at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Vovka in the Kingdom of Far Far Away (1965)
Keeps the family register of Gena the Crocodile but asks for a colder reading of it.
Andrei Rublev (1966)
A deliberate change of key after Vovka in the Kingdom of Far Far Away — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Viy (1967)
Keeps the drama register of Andrei Rublev but asks for a colder reading of it.
Junior and Karlson (1968)
A deliberate change of key after Viy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Boris Stepantsev
Director
2 films together
Notably Junior and Karlson
Andrei Tarkovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Andrei Rublev
Konstantin Ershov
Director
1 film together
Notably Viy
Roman Kachanov
Director
1 film together
Notably Gena the Crocodile
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Boris Stepantsev
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Junior and KarlsonAndrei Tarkovsky
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Andrei RublevRoman Kachanov
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gena the CrocodileKonstantin Ershov
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ViySix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Andrei Rublev
as Duke's children (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Andrei Rublev
as Duke's children (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Andrei Rublev
as Duke's children (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Andrei Rublev
as Duke's children (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Gena the Crocodile
as Cheburashka (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Klara Rumyanova has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Family Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in family, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Andrei Rublev
as Duke's children (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Viy
as Pannochka (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Andrei Rublev
as Duke's children (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Vovka in the Kingdom of Far Far Away
as Vasilisa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Andrei Rublev
as Duke's children (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Junior and Karlson
as Junior [Malysh] (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Andrei Rublev
as Duke's children (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Viy
as Pannochka (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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