Sergey Bondarchuk
Sergey 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.
War and Peace
as Pierre BezukhovA seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess...
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The Battle of Neretva
as MartinIn 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 BezukhovThe 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 II: Natasha Rostova
as Pierre BezukhovIn 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 BezukhovAs Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking...
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Fate of a Man
as Andrei SokolovThe story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife...
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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
as Pierre BezukhovIn 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer,...
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They Fought for Their Motherland
as pvt. Ivan ZvyagintsevIn July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead...
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Boris Godunov
as Boris GodunovPraised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk...
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Quiet Flows The Don
as General KrasnovWith World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an...
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Uncle Vanya
as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich AstrovSerebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yeléna, visit...
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Bondarchuk. Battle
as self (archive)The new film about Sergei Bondarchuk is not a traditional description of the life of a famous...
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Life in Bloom
as selectionist (uncredited)About the life of the Russian biologist Ivan Michurin. 1912 year. Having rejected American...
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The Peaks of Zelengore
as ProfesorDuring the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on...
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Que Viva Mexico!
as Narrator (voice)Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico...
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Story of a Real Man
as uncreditedAlexey Meresyev was a fighter pilot during the war. One day he was shot down by Nazis, and...
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Taras Shevchenko
as Taras ShevchenkoGrowing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and...
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The Steppe
as uncreditedA boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city.
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The Grasshopper
as Dr. Osip DymovOsip Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at...
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Escape by Night
as Fyodor NazukovIn Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to...
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Take-Off
as Narrator (voice)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)The film-remembrance of the creative fate of the Ukrainian Soviet film director Alexander...
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The Young Guard
as Comrade ValkoIn 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon...
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Attack from the Sea
as Tikhon ProkofievThe historical and biographic movie about the glorified Russian naval commander Ushakov. France...
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Admiral Ushakov
as Тихон ПрокофьевHistorical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor...
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A Summer to Remember
as uncreditedBased on the Vera Panova book about a complicated relationship between an 8-year-old boy and his...
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Velvet Season
as Richard BradburyIn the fall of 1938, three former fighters of the international brigade — russian Shukhov,...
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Profession: Film Actor
as uncreditedVyacheslav Tikhonov's roles are discussed by his colleagues.
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Father Sergius
as Stepan Kasatsky / Father SergiusA film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The main character of the film...
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Silence of Doctor Ivens
as Martin EvansIn the surreal aftermath to a plane crash at sea Dr. Iven an eminent scientist is the only...
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It Can Not Be Forgotten
as Aleksandr GarmashThe story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert...
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Choice of Purpose
as KurchatovA story of the creation of the atomic bomb in America, Germany and the USSR.
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Dream of a Cossack
as Semyon TutarinovSoviet filmmaker Yuri Raisman once more combines political dogma with solid entertainment values...
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Ivan Franko
as Ivan FrankoHistorical and biographical film about the life and work of Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko.
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The Gadfly
as Кардинал МонтанеллиThe movie set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and...
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Unfinished Story
as Yuri YershovThe local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person....
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Woina i Mir
as SelfA behind-the-scenes look at the filming of "War and Peace," from conceptual sketches and costume...
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Thunder Over Rus'
as uncreditedTwo-part adaptation of A. K. Tolstoy's novel "Prince Serebriany a tale of unrest and intrigue...
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Making 'War and Peace'
as SelfProduced in 1969 by Mosfilm, this documentary details the filming and editing of "War and Peace."
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Quiet Flows the Don
as Krasnov tábornokWith World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an...
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War and Peace
as Pierre BezukhovAn epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova...
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