Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (23 July 1946 — 2 December 1995) was a Soviet actor and film director. His best known roles are in films such as Stalker, At Home Among Strangers, and The Bodyguard. Prior to pursuing an acting career, Kaydanovskiy attended technical college where he trained to become a welder. In 1965 he started studying acting at The Rostov Theatre School and the Shchukin theatrical school in Moscow. Before completing the course he took his first part in the film The Mysterious Wall and upon graduation in 1969, he worked as stage actor, making his debut at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1969. In 1971, he was invited to join the prestigious Moscow Arts Theatre, a rare privilege for a 25-year-old graduate. He made his major film debut in At Home Among Strangers, and over the next few years appeared in some two dozen films, including the satirical comedy Diamonds for Dictatorship of the Proletariat and The Life of Beethoven. At his peak in the '70s Kaidanovsky was among the USSR’s most popular actors, and it was at this point that famed Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, impressed by the looks and the acting technique of Kaidanovsky in Diamonds, invited him to play the title role in his new film, Stalker. The role earned Kaydanovskiy international acclaim. In 1985 he directed A Simple Death, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. In 1993 he directed Just Death, which was about the death of Leo Tolstoy.
Stalker
as StalkerNear a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where...
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Ten Little Indians
as captain Philip LombardA disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers...
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At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
as Поручик ЛемкеFollowing the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers...
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
as Narrator (voice)An animated short film based on the 1877 short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It...
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Anna Karenina
as Jules LandeauThe plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Aleksei...
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New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court
as Sir LancelotThe plane of the American pilot Hank Morgan got lost in time. The pilot falls into temporary...
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Contract
as uncreditedBearded contract employee goes on a "giant bouquet of flowers" planet and prefers friendship...
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A Quiet Day at the End of the War
as SergeantAs WWII comes to a close, a wounded Soviet soldier and a Kazak woman seek refuge in a church. In...
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Pilot Pirx's Inquest
as Tom NovakPirx, an experienced pilot, is hired to go on a top-secret mission to evaluate some 'nonlinears'...
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Two Tickets to India
as uncreditedTwo aliens are landing on the earth. One looks like a Bigfoot, the other has the appearance of a...
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The Gambler
as uncreditedThis lavish Soviet/Czech co-production is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel, The...
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The Fourth
as uncreditedAmerican journalist gets a sensational material but is afraid to publish it...
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The Pass
as Narrator (voice)A starship crashed on an uninhabited planet and its crew had to abandon it. Years later the...
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Fact
as StanislavFacts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis...
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Forward March, Time!
as Reading poem (voice)Soviet animation from Vladimir Tarasov.
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The Bodyguard
as MirzoThe setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties,...
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Tear of the Prince of Darkness
as uncreditedTallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team...
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Story of an Unknown Man
as uncreditedBased on a short story by Anton Chekhov, this drama centers around a desire for revenge and the...
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The Mysterious Wall
as uncreditedThe action takes place in Siberia where a mysterious wall appears from time to time. Scientists...
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The Lost Expedition
as Кирилл Петрович Зимин (бывший царский офицер)An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918.
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A Nest of Gentry
as uncreditedA screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The film...
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The Turning Point
as doctorThe newlyweds return to Moscow after a wonderful sea cruise on the Black Sea. It seems that they...
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The Devil's Breath
as DamianA small family of travelers arrives after a long journey at a village hut, which they claim as...
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The Rescuer
as uncreditedA story about a high school student Asya and her complicated relationship with literature...
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The Mathematician and the Devil
as ЧертA mathematician offers to sell his soul to the devil for a proof or disproof of Fermat's Last...
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The Return
as uncreditedA Space travel comes to an end and before the landing the Cosmonaut falls asleep. He does not...
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Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
as VorontsovIn 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran,...
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Secrets Shared with a Stranger
as KriouchoffIn Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She...
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Rafferty
as ЭймсThe story of the trial of the trade union boss Jack Rafferty. With great force and astute...
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Magic Hunter
as MaximA battle-scarred, has-been Hungarian cop, tormented by his memories of nearly killing an...
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Golden River
as бывший царский офицер Кирилл ЗиминThe continuation of the story started by adventure movie "The Lost Expedition" set in 1923.
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Under the Roofs of Montmartre
as uncreditedA story of three struggling artists: a painter, a poet, and a composer, living in a bohemian...
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Parajanov: The Last Spring
as Himself, Tarkovsky's actorMade in wartime and edited in candlelight, Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his...
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Hound of the Baskervilles
as Джэк СтэплтонWhen a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes...
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Failure of Engineer Garin
as ВольфA Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any...
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I'm Sorry
as PranasPranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the...
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The Fifteenth Spring
as MessengerFifteen years old Sasha is dreaming about adventures, falling in love and doesn't know that WWII...
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The Arrival of a Train
as uncreditedAlmanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of...
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First Love
as uncreditedFirst Love is based on the eponymous novella by Ivan Turgenev set in the first third of the 19th...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
as Джон УортингWhen Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he...
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And I'm with You Again...
as uncreditedThe film illustrates individual episodes showing the life of Alexander Pushkin. The script is...
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That Was in Kokand
as поручик ЗайченкоAbout the formation of Soviet power in Uzbekistan, the fight against the “Kokand Autonomy” and...
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