Alla Surikova

{{Short description|Soviet film director}}

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Alla Ilinichna Surikova ({{langx |ru|А́лла Ильи́нична Су́рикова}}; born November 6, 1940, in Kyiv) is a Soviet and Russian film director, writer, and teacher.{{cite web|url=http://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/251142/|title=КиноПоиск.ru - Все фильмы планеты|publisher=}}

She is a People's Artist of Russia (2000),{{Cite web |url=http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?667957 |title=УКАЗ Президента РФ от 06.11.2000 N 1846 |access-date=2016-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107200105/http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?667957 |archive-date=2014-01-07 |url-status=dead }} winner of the Award of the Government of the Russian Federation (2009), 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.