Vera Tschechowa
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Vera Wilhelmowna Rust[1] (22 July 1940 – 3 April 2024), known as Vera Tschechowa, was a German producer, director, screenwriter, and actress of Russian descent. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1957 and 1996. She was widely known as Elvis Presley's companion, particularly in connection with his Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccine (OPV) public booster-advocacy and which they both undertook during Presley's first year in Germany with the U.S. Army (1959).
Her mother, Ada Tschechowa, was the daughter of Michael Chekhov (nephew of the Russian playwright and short story writer, Anton Chekov) and Olga Chekhova. Vera's name appeared, on 6 June 1971, as one of 28 women under the banner "We've had abortions!" ("Wir haben abgetrieben!") on the cover page of the West German magazine Stern. In that issue, 374 women publicly stated that they had had pregnancies terminated, which at that time was illegal.[2]
Vera Tschechowa died in Berlin on 3 April 2024, at the age of 83.[3]
Selected filmography
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- Widower with Five Daughters (1957)
- The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958), as Tamara
- Angel in a Taxi (1958), as Camilla
- The Muzzle (1958)
- Template:Ill (1958)
- My Ninety Nine Brides (1958)
- And That on Monday Morning (1959), as Monika
- Template:Ill (1960), as Lisa Roth
- The Young Sinner (1960), as Carola
- The Bread of Those Early Years (1962), as Ulla Wickweber
- Love at Twenty (1962)
- The Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964), as Feder-Lissy
- Template:Ill (1966), as Vera Paterny
- Liebe und so weiter (1968), as Nina Michel
- Template:Interlanguage link multi (1970), as Kristina
- The First Circle (1973), as Clara
- Template:Interlanguage link multi (1975), as Corinna
- Euridice BA 2037 (1975), as Eurydice
- Erika's Passions (1976, TV film), as Franziska
- The Rider on the White Horse (1978), as Vollina Harders
- Panic Time (1980), as Frau Dr. Wunder
- Desperado City (1981), as Hilke
- The Confessions of Felix Krull (1982, TV miniseries), as Maria Pia
- Dies rigorose Leben (1983), as Salka
- Template:Ill (1984), as Victoria
- Template:Ill (1984, TV film), as Gisela
- Tarot (1986), as Charlotte
- Ein Heim für Tiere (1987–1991, TV series, 19 episodes), as Dr. Julia Gessner
- The Post Office Girl (1988, TV film), as Clara van Boolen
- Frei zum Abschuss (1989, TV film), as Marthe Ruben
- Template:Ill (1991), as Elsa's Mother
References
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- 1940 births
- 2024 deaths
- German people of Russian descent
- German film actresses
- German television actresses
- Actresses from Berlin
- Best Actress German Film Award winners
- Berlin University of the Arts alumni
- 20th-century German actresses
- Film people from Berlin