Alla Surikova
Alla Ilinichna Surikova is a Soviet and Russian film director, writer, and teacher.
She is a People's Artist of Russia, winner of the Award of the Government of the Russian Federation, and a member of the Russian Union of Cinematographers.
She is best known as the director of the Red Western comedy film A Man from the [Boulevard des Capucines] which starred famous Soviet actors including Andrei Mironov, Aleksandra Yakovleva, Nikolai Karachentsov, Oleg Tabakov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Mikhail Boyarsky and Igor Kvasha.