Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Born: 1925-03-28

Innokentiy Smotkunovkiy (born 28 March 1925 – 3 August 1994) was a Soviet film and stage actor. Served during World War II. An acclaimed performer, his portrayal of Hamlet in a 1964 film won him praise overseas, including a BAFTA nomination. One of Smotkunovkiy's best known roles among wider audiences was in a popular Soviet crime comedy Beware of the Car, a satire where he portrayed a thief who stole cars from criminals to donate the money from car sales to orphanages. Other notable roles include dramatizations of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot in Bolshoi Drama Theater (1957) and Tolstoy's Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich in Maly Theatre (1973). Awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1974.


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Mirror

as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
Released: 1975-03-07

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that...

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Beware of the Car!

as Yury Detochkin
Released: 1966-05-22

An insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the...

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Trust

as Nikolai Bobrikov
Released: 1976-08-20

Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical...

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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

as Self
Released: 1980-02-11

This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes,...

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Dark Eyes

as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
Released: 1987-02-01

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

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They Fought for Their Motherland

as surgeon
Released: 1975-11-05

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead...

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Letter Never Sent

as Konstantin Sabinin
Released: 1960-06-27

Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches

as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
Released: 1988-03-12

In addition to the two-part television version of the film, a shorter version was installed to...

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Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram

as Passazhir tramvaya
Released: 1972-08-19

The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins, Part 1

as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
Released: 1988-03-12

The final film of the television series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson." It...

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Dina

as uncredited
Released: 1990-01-04

Dina starts to see ghosts after her father mysteriously disappears...

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Hamlet

as Hamlet
Released: 1964-06-24

Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best...

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Moscow-Cassiopeia

as И. О. О.
Released: 1974-09-23

Start of interstellar expedition equipped by "pioneers"(soviet scouts).

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The Last Road

as uncredited
Released: 1986-09-26

About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a...

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Genius

as Гиля - главарь мафии «Принц»
Released: 1991-05-03

He is overly intelligent... He is genius... And he's just trying to make his life a little bit...

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Primary Russia

as Emperor Justinian
Released: 1986-03-31

The film takes place in pre-Christian Russia, when Ratibor united the East Slavs into one army...

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The Queen of Spades

as Chekalinsky
Released: 1982-11-21

Hermann is an officer of the engineers in the Imperial Russian Army. He constantly watches the...

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The Legend of Till

as Charles V
Released: 1977-04-03

Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and...

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Next to us

as Andrey Korolev
Released: 1957-11-05

The engineer and the reporter arrived at one of the plants of the Altai. They have just...

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Murder on Dante Street

as Molodoy fashist
Released: 1956-06-02

A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII.

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Velvet Season

as Police commissioner
Released: 1978-12-08

In the fall of 1938, three former fighters of the international brigade — russian Shukhov,...

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Naval Cadets, Charge!

as kardinal Fleri
Released: 1988-06-06

Three naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Bestuzhev,...

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Crime and Punishment

as Porfiry Petrovitch
Released: 1970-09-28

Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for...

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Dandelion Wine

as полковник Фрилей
Released: 1998-10-31

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Little Tragedies

as Сальери \ старый барон
Released: 1980-06-30

A feature film based on the three-part adaptation of the poetic and dramatic cycle of Alexander...

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Mysterious Heir

as uncredited
Released: 1987-01-01

The young artist Burtsev goes to Paris about the inheritance left to him by his uncle, who left...

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Black Corridor

as uncredited
Released: 1988-01-01

History teacher Nikolay Echevin on his sixtieth birthday receives an anonymous letter in which...

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Born by the Storm

as Staryy graf
Released: 1981-10-01

Ukraine, 1918. Underground worker Sigismund Raevsky organizes a Komsomol cell and gathers young...

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Ребята с Канонерского

as Михаил (voice)
Released: 1960-08-25

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Restricted Area

as uncredited
Released: 1988-01-01

Central Russia. The deputy chairman of the district executive committee, Tretyakova, was...

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Uncle Vanya

as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
Released: 1970-10-01

Serebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yeléna, visit...

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Nine Days of One Year

as Ilya Kulikov
Released: 1962-03-05

Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov...

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Choice of Purpose

as Roosevelt
Released: 1975-01-01

A story of the creation of the atomic bomb in America, Germany and the USSR.

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Degree of Risk

as Саша
Released: 1968-06-06

A drama based on the daily life of a hospital and its doctors.

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The Days of Surgeon Mishkin

as uncredited
Released: 1976-06-06

A story about a good doctor - surgeon Mishkin who works in a countryside hospital.

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The Cabal of Hypocrites

as uncredited
Released: 1988-01-01

A play about the life and death of Jean-Baptiste Molière, an artist tired of fighting the world.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as uncredited
Released: 1986-06-02

Soviet adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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The Steppe

as uncredited
Released: 1978-04-01

A boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city.

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Mother

as uncredited
Released: 1990-12-01

The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is...

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Big Boy

as uncredited
Released: 1982-08-01

Follows the famous Oryol trotter, multiple champion of the beginning of the century. Then - in...

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Dead Souls

as Plushkin
Released: 1984-11-19

Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to...

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On the Same Planet

as uncredited
Released: 1966-10-31

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Ivanov

as uncredited
Released: 1982-03-13

Based on the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

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Soldiers

as Farber
Released: 1956-12-06

Set in Russia during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War. The war is shown through...

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Without Sun

as uncredited
Released: 1987-09-19

“Without the Sun” is the first name that Gorky himself gave to his play and which most closely...

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Late love

as uncredited
Released: 1983-04-18

According to the play of the same name A. N. Ostrovsky. About fidelity and cunning, about purity...

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Phenomenon

as Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
Released: 1983-09-06

One soviet programmer has problems in his job. He is laughed at by women, they think he is too...

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Discovering Hamlet

as Hamlet (archive footage)
Released: 2011-11-01

Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors...

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Talking Hands of Travancore

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1981-08-03

Many centuries ago, on the southwest coast of India, in Travancore, the art of kathakali dance...

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Heart Is Not a Stone

as uncredited
Released: 1989-01-02

According to the play of the same name of A. N. Ostrovsky. The merchants already possess the big...

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The Heron and the Crane

as Narrator (Voice)
Released: 1974-01-01

Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane.

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Daughters-Mothers

as Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev
Released: 1975-03-27

The young girl Olga Vasilyeva grew up in an orphanage. She never knew her mother and wants to...

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Teens in the Universe

as И. О. О.
Released: 1974-11-05

Interstellar expedition equipped by "pioneers"(soviet scouts) reached Alpha Kassiopea and found...

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Khalif the Stork

as Khalif / халиф
Released: 1981-02-02

A rich caliph is leading a careless life. One day an evil wizard sells him a magic potion that...

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The Barrier

as Antoni Manev
Released: 1979-11-11

In this picture, the barrier epitomizes the line between reality and dreams, the pattern of...

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A Trap for Lonely Man

as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
Released: 1990-12-01

Daniel Corban reports his wife Elizabeth missing to the police. A priest arrives and says he has...

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First Visitor

as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Released: 1966-10-31

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Fulfillment of Desires

as uncredited
Released: 1974-05-13

A young philologist works in his teacher's archive, and he manages to decipher Pushkin's...

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First Encounter - Last Encounter

as Member of counter-intelligence
Released: 1987-06-06

The story concerns the events in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War. Private...

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The Cherry Orchard

as uncredited
Released: 1976-05-10

Based on the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

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The Revelation of John the Foreprinter

as Ivan the Terrible
Released: 1992-04-01

Historical drama about the engineer of the first printing press built in Muscovite Rus' and his...

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The Case

as Muromsky
Released: 1991-12-31

A film adaptation of A. Sukhovo-Kobylin’s work “The Case,” which reproduces the details of the...

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The Siege of Venice

as uncredited
Released: 1991-11-14

Venice, eighteenth century. The young Rosanna, widowed on her wedding day, discovers that she is...

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About a Puppy

as The Puppy (voice)
Released: 1979-02-08

The puppy learns from animals and birds why you need to bite.

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Until Next Spring

as Aleksei
Released: 1961-04-29

For Vera — a student of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute, first love instead of joy and...

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Hercules and Admetus

as uncredited
Released: 1986-02-09

Admetus, king of Feres, makes an agreement with the Fates to postpone the date of his death, in...

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The Murderer

as Investigator
Released: 1993-01-01

A tragic accident happens during the shooting of a movie about Jesus Christ. An actor who plays...

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I want to go to America

as uncredited
Released: 1993-01-01

The spicy story of a modest Russian guy drawn into the incessant sexual marathon by the will of...

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Two Under One Umbrella

as Тиль
Released: 1983-12-20

‎Juggler Dan is beautiful and carefree and not too eager to become the circus main star....

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The Night Guest

as uncredited
Released: 1958-11-11

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Enemies

as uncredited
Released: 1978-12-18

Drama based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky.

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Bells of Autumn

as uncredited
Released: 1979-02-01

A musical fairytale based on the poem "The Tale of the Dead Princess" by Alexander Pushkin.

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Taming of the Fire

as Tsiolkovski
Released: 1972-04-12

About Russian space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the...

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The Princess and the Pea

as King
Released: 1976-11-01

In one of the realms, there was time for the prince to get married, but the bride would have to...

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Death Line

as теневой мафиози Луковецкий
Released: 1991-01-01

A factory worker leads a double life. In that other reality, he's a "killer" doing his dirty...

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The Little Prince

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1966-12-06

Based on the classic novella, "Le petit prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

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A Leap Year

as Gennadiy Kupriyanov
Released: 1961-12-25

On the streets of the regional city, a cheerful holiday bustle reigns. The apartment of the...

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White Feast

as uncredited
Released: 1996-04-01

Knowing that he will soon pass on, elderly Valentin Grack hires private detective Stanislav to...

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With You I Am Again...

as voice
Released: 1980-01-01

The second part of a trilogy of films based on Pushkin's drawings, poems and letters.

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На исходе ночи

as uncredited
Released: 1988-05-16

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My Sister Lucy

as (Narrator)
Released: 1985-01-02

The film is a recollection of an adult about the unforgettable days of the first post-war year. ...

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Tchaikovsky

as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
Released: 1970-08-31

The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of...

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Theft

as uncredited
Released: 1982-03-20

Theft takes place in Washington, DC. Howard Knox is a well-intentioned Congressman crusading for...

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Ladies Tailor

as Isaak
Released: 1990-05-09

The last twenty-four hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor and his family just prior to their...

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I Am Flying to You as a Memory...

as Voice acting
Released: 1977-01-01

The film is based on the drawings and manuscripts of A.S.Pushkin.

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Золото

as uncredited
Released: 1970-05-04

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Caesar and Cleopatra

as Цезарь
Released: 1979-12-31

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Romance for Lovers

as Trumpeter
Released: 1974-11-10

Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania...

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The Living Corpse

as Ivan Petrovich the genius
Released: 1969-07-11

Based on the play of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. According to Fyodor Protasov, the...

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Shtorm

as Muromtsev
Released: 1957-10-15

The film is about the dramatic events of the early years of the Bolshevik Revolution. Based on...

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Mozart and Salieri

as Mozart
Released: 1962-11-19

Film version of the Rimsky Korsakov opera from the Pushkin story. Motsart i Salyeri (Mozart and...

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Gold

as uncredited
Released: 1992-06-06

When gold is discovered in a remote location, a variety of different groups descend on the spot...

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This Fantastic World 7

as капитан
Released: 1982-01-07

The main characters of this edition of the popular television almanac are the heroes of the...

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Vozmozhnaya vstrecha

as Johann Sebastian Bach
Released:

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On Thursday and Never Again

as Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather
Released: 1977-01-01

On the eve of his wedding, a young doctor leaves Moscow to see his mother who lives in a nature...

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Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director

as Himself
Released: 1985-01-24

A film about the life and work of the famous film director Mikhail Romm.

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First Love

as Father
Released: 1969-02-09

First Love is based on the eponymous novella by Ivan Turgenev set in the first third of the 19th...

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Anna and Commander

as Dramatist
Released: 1975-11-28

Researching for a script about a famous scientist who tragically passed away, a writer meets his...

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Last Month of Autumn

as uncredited
Released: 1966-06-13

An older couple have four children who left them long ago. Tired of waiting for letters which...

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Зима тревоги нашей

as uncredited
Released: 1963-01-01

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Как он лгал её мужу

as uncredited
Released: 1956-02-03

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On the Road of Immorality

as Юлиус Фучик
Released: 1957-09-07

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My Favorite Time

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1987-01-01

Soviet full-length animated film based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin directed by Andrey...

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Fantasia

as uncredited
Released: 1976-11-26

A TV movie inspired by Ivan Turgenev's Torrents of Spring.

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Evgeniy Urbanskiy

as Himself
Released: 1968-06-03

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Road to Eternity

as uncredited
Released: 1983-04-02

Based on Anna Ahmatova's translation of Korean poem about eternal love.

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A Night for Reflection

as uncredited
Released: 1972-12-29

A film about reflection, where the hero argues with himself.

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Gray Ural

as Narrator
Released: 1984-01-01

A film about the Northern Urals and its nature, as well as about the life of a local forester...

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Traveling With a Double

as Narrator
Released: 1992-06-28

In his unpublished main work, The Boards of Fate, Velimir Khlebnikov discovered the Law of Time,...

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Naval Cadets, Charge!

as kardinal Fleri
First aired: 1988-01-01

Three naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Bestuzhev,...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
First aired: 1980-03-22

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a series of five films produced by Lenfilm...

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Memories of Sherlock Holmes

as Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger
First aired: 2000-04-03

Detective television series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Five films about Sherlock...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins

as Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister
First aired: 1988-03-12

The fifth and final part of the cycle of Soviet television feature films, filmed by director...

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Dead Souls

as Плюшкин
First aired: 1984-11-19

Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to...

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Little Tragedies

as Сальери/Барон
First aired: 1980-07-01

How far can a man overcome by a destructive passion go? And does he realize that slavish worship...

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Гамлет

as Hamlet
First aired: 1964-12-03

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Вино из одуванчиков

as uncredited
First aired: 1998-11-28

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