Sergey Bondarchuk

Born: 1920-09-25

Sergei Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved thousands of extras (War and Peace, Waterloo). He often starred star in his films, as well as cast his family, notably his wife, actor Irina Skobtseva (e.g. War and Peace, Vybor Tseli, Molchanie Doktora Ivensa). In late 1980s-early 1990s Bondarchuk started his long-term passion project – an adaptation of an epic novel “And Quiet Flows the Don,” together with the UK and Italy; however, the work couldn't be finished before the actor-director passed away in 1994. His son, actor-director Fyodor Bondarchuk, finished the piece in 2006.


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War and Peace

as Pierre Bezukhov
Released: 1968-04-28

A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess...

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War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

as Pierre Bezukhov
Released: 1966-07-20

In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to...

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War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov

as Pierre Bezukhov
Released: 1967-11-04

As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking...

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The Battle of Neretva

as Martin
Released: 1969-10-07

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great...

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War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

as Pierre Bezukhov
Released: 1966-03-14

The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805,...

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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

as Pierre Bezukhov
Released: 1967-07-21

In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer,...

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Quiet Flows The Don

as General Krasnov
Released: 2006-11-07

With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an...

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Fate of a Man

as Andrey Sokolov
Released: 1959-04-12

The story of a man whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters...

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The Young Guard

as Comrade Valko
Released: 1948-10-11

In 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon...

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They Fought for Their Motherland

as pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev
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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¡Qué Viva México!

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1979-10-01

Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico...

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Dream of a Cossack

as Semyon Tutarinov
Released: 1951-07-09

Soviet filmmaker Yuri Raisman once more combines political dogma with solid entertainment values...

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Story of a Real Man

as uncredited
Released: 1948-10-21

Alexey Meresyev was a fighter pilot during the war. One day he was shot down by Nazis, and...

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Uncle Vanya

as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astrov
Released: 1970-10-01

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

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Boris Godunov

as Boris Godunov
Released: 1986-05-01

Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk...

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One Day of Mosfilm

as uncredited
Released: 1985-01-30

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Escape by Night

as Fyodor Nazukov
Released: 1960-10-07

In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to...

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Drums of Fire

as Selim
Released: 1990-12-21

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Taras Shevchenko

as Taras Shevchenko
Released: 1951-12-17

Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and...

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A Summer to Remember

as uncredited
Released: 1960-08-12

Based on the Vera Panova book about a complicated relationship between an 8-year-old boy and his...

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Silence of Doctor Ivens

as Martin Evans
Released: 1974-04-15

In the surreal aftermath to a plane crash at sea Dr. Iven an eminent scientist is the only...

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The Peaks of Zelengore

as Profesor
Released: 1976-01-01

During the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on...

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Father Sergius

as Stepan Kasatsky / Father Sergius
Released: 1978-09-05

A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The main character of the film...

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Unfinished Story

as Yuri Yershov
Released: 1955-10-17

The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person....

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Woina i Mir

as Self
Released: 1966-05-15

A behind-the-scenes look at the filming of "War and Peace," from conceptual sketches and costume...

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Admiral Ushakov

as Тихон Прокофьев
Released: 1953-04-22

Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor...

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Othello

as Othello
Released: 1955-12-02

Soviet film of the Shakespeare play.

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Attack from the Sea

as Tikhon Prokofiev
Released: 1953-10-04

The historical and biographic movie about the glorified Russian naval commander Ushakov. France...

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The Grasshopper

as Dr. Osip Dymov
Released: 1955-04-01

Osip Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at...

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Take-Off

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1979-08-14

A biographical film about the life of the great Russian scientist, inventor of rocket technology...

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The Golden Gates

as Narrator (Voice)
Released: 1971-03-01

The film-remembrance of the creative fate of the Ukrainian Soviet film director Alexander...

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Life in Bloom

as selectionist (uncredited)
Released: 1949-01-01

About the life of the Russian biologist Ivan Michurin. 1912 year. Having rejected American...

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Choice of Purpose

as Kurchatov
Released: 1975-01-01

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

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Bondarchuk. Battle

as self (archive)
Released: 2021-09-30

The new film about Sergei Bondarchuk is not a traditional description of the life of a famous...

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Thunder Over Rus'

as uncredited
Released: 1992-02-03

Two-part adaptation of A. K. Tolstoy's novel "Prince Serebriany a tale of unrest and intrigue...

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The Gadfly

as Кардинал Монтанелли
Released: 1980-11-11

The movie set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and...

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Profession: Film Actor

as uncredited
Released: 1980-02-01

Vyacheslav Tikhonov's roles are discussed by his colleagues.

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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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Шли солдаты

as Matvey Krylov - soldat
Released: 1959-02-23

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Velvet Season

as Richard Bradbury
Released: 1978-12-08

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

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Stars Meet in Moscow

as uncredited
Released: 1959-08-30

Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about...

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It Can Not Be Forgotten

as Aleksandr Garmash
Released: 1954-07-05

The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert...

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Making 'War and Peace'

as Self
Released: 1969-01-01

Produced in 1969 by Mosfilm, this documentary details the filming and editing of "War and Peace."

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Ivan Franko

as Ivan Franko
Released: 1956-01-01

Historical and biographical film about the life and work of Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko.

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War and Peace

as Pierre Bezukhov
First aired: 1966-03-14

An epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova...

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Quiet Flows the Don

as Krasnov tábornok
First aired: 2006-11-06

With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an...

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Овод

as Cardinal Montanelli
First aired: 1980-11-03

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Ernst Schneller

as General Alexander Simionov Sotow
First aired: 1977-09-11

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