Oleh Prymohenov

Acting

Oleh Prymohenov

Born 1955-01-16 · Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]

Oleg Primogenov is a Soviet and Ukrainian film and theater actor. Born in the Ukrainian SSR, in the city of Lvov. The future actor spent part of his childhood with his family in the Belarusian city of Gomel. Returning to the Ukrainian SSR, Primogenov graduated from high school, but for a long time he could not decide on his future profession. For some time he worked in the circus, changed several working specialties. After that he became a student of KNUTKiT named after Ivan Karpenko-Karyy. After graduating from the university, he got a job in the troupe of the Ivano-Frankovsk Theater, on the stage of which the first serious roles of Oleg Primogenov were played. He made his film debut in 1989, playing a small role in the Soviet film Inoy (1989). He began to actively act in films already in the 1990s, appearing in such projects as Doloy styd! (1994), Operatsyya 'Kontrakt' (1996), Dve luny, tri solntsa (1998). He also often appears in TV series. During his career, the actor has played more than a hundred film roles. He continues to actively act in film, in parallel he collaborates with the Kiev theater 'Koleso'.

Acting credits

Murder in Winter Yalta poster
2.5

The public prosecution office of Yalta gets the next scheduled case about the murder in the business-circles. This time the victim is an accountant of one of the big businesses. The investigators set out a lot of leads. But the sphere of the alleged criminals is too wide, and the key will be very uncommon and exticiting.

Murder in Winter Yalta

2007

Business as Usual poster
6.0

Forty years old is a perfect age to change ones life. The hero makes a decision to quit the psychotherapist's cabinet, which he is sick and tired of and become a poet. To become a freelance artist. A trifle remained to cope with to persuade the wife.

Business as Usual

2013

Real Santa poster
2.0

In the interweaving of five stories, the New Year's magician himself ceases to believe in miracles, because burdened with life and immersed in work, people completely forget about the holiday. He takes serious action and sells his suit to a simple guy who has long since lost his sense of "New Year's magic". By leaving his position as a magician, Santa deprives people not only of a festive mood, but also of snow that could contribute to this. But contrary to his views on the hopelessness of the modern generation, people notice the changes and become the creators of a real New Year's miracle on their own.

Real Santa

2022

The Guide poster
7.8

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.

The Guide

2014

The Righteous One poster
7.0

An honest and just judge, despite attempts at bribery and threats, dares to pass a fair sentence, and face with dire consequences.

The Righteous One

2021

Elevator poster
NR

Easter. Staircase. The guy is waiting for the elevator, but time and time again misses and does not come. Until the elevator stops, the door opens, and there she is.

Elevator

2017

Exchange poster
6.2

How to repay parental debt on the other side of the front line? Why would a doctor kill and when to believe the enemy? How is the war in eastern Ukraine different from any other war in the world? A war drama about the stories of two families, where adult men took up arms and thus crossed their destinies.

Exchange

2022

Western poster
NR

The heavy hand of Soviet censorship oversees the production of a Western. As a result, instead of exchanging gunfire, the cowboys send each other air kisses, and instead of drinking whiskey, they sit down to read some books.

Western

1987

My Dear Daughter poster
NR

Denis Komarov is a policeman. He is an expert in technical equipment, a top specialist. His wife Natasha is a school coach. The ordinary family with a modest income leads a settled happy life until they get terrible news. Their only lovely child, the 8 year old Olya, is severely ill. Her last chance is a very expensive operation on kidney transplantation. The despaired parents are going to sell their apartments, but suddenly they get an alternative solution.

My Dear Daughter

2008

High Deep Forever poster
NR

An old Ukrainian legend tells of love between an ordinary boy Prut and the daughter of the mountain king Hoverla. Cursed love finds a new form of existence to remain high and deep forever.

High Deep Forever

2021

The Company of Heroes poster
5.4

One hundred soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, led by Michael Duda, fearlessly fighting against the Bolshevics and against the Nazis.

The Company of Heroes

2004

Blood of War poster
4.5

October 1941. German forces have penetrated deep into Russia and are laying waste to everything they see. The Soviet high command takes every chance they get to secure the rear and take anything of historic importance out of harm's way.

Blood of War

2012

Stepne poster
5.2

A story of a mature man who comes back home from the city to take care of his dying mother. The mother’s passing, together with a meeting with his brother and a woman he loves, makes him reflect on the life he’s had and choices he’s made along the way. And then, just before her death, the mother tells Anatolii about a treasure she has buried inside the shed…

Stepne

2023

Josephine the Singer and the Mice People poster
5.2

The mice people live in an enormous theatre, expectantly awaiting the ambiguous show by Josefina.

Josephine the Singer and the Mice People

1994

The Bomber poster
5.6

During World War II, a soviet aircraft crashes on Nazi-occupied territory. But the pilot Grivtsov and his beloved radio operator Katya miraculously survive. Another survivor is flight navigator Linko, who ejected from the plane. Each of them has to find his way and perform military tasks, return to his own forces and simply to stay alive. The situation becomes more complicated because of an act of sabotage, which has been committed before their take-off at the aerodrome. Honest Grivtsov gets on the bad side of the colonel of SMERSH by defending his friends. Instead of being granted a medal "Star" for his 100th flight, he is pronounced a traitor and is to be executed.

The Bomber

2011

The Red Lotus poster
NR

The shooting of a prosperous and influential businessman leaves the residents of a small provincial town in a state of shock. While the initial investigation indicates that a woman may have been involved in the murder, the crime scene has been left clean, and detectives have very little evidence to go on. However, with the culprits still at large and the crime unsolved, the sudden death of this local celebrity is frightening the entire town. Fortunately, the investigator from the central prosecutor's office happens to be in town on vacation and steps in to head the murder investigation.

The Red Lotus

2009

Now I Gonna Love You poster
7.0

This Christmas comedy tells a story of how on Christmas Eve, a beautiful wife goes from prosperous restaurateur Michel. Trying to immediately restore the lost happiness, he gets into a vortex of tragicomic love triangle.

Now I Gonna Love You

2015

Down With Shame! poster
NR

The times of NEP. Nineteen-year-old Maria comes from a provincial town to the capital to be with those who are building a bright future. She gets a job, changes her name to a more romantic one - Bianca - and looks forward to meeting the great and pure love about which she has read a lot...

Down With Shame!

1994

Trouble for 5 Bucks poster
5.3

The page tells about Max and Zenik, the founders of the startup 5BAKSIV.NET, who get into trouble. They call on their con friend Homyak for help and, trying to get away, become the epicenter of a fight between unknown law enforcers and local authority.

Trouble for 5 Bucks

2019

Noble Tramps poster
7.2

A funny story of Lviv batiars (noble tramps) who live with the slogan: "To love Lviv, women, and jokes". To make their lives bright, they resort to various adventures, while remaining positive heroes. Unexpectedly, the batiars become guardians of a young beauty, and their adventures are gaining new momentum. The film's events take place in Lviv in 1938-1939.

Noble Tramps

2018

Toloka poster
6.2

There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine's hut is on the hill...". It is about a rescue of Catherine's lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine's history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine's redemption, but also about Ukraine's survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.

Toloka

2020

PTSD poster
NR

Inspired by true story. A breathtaking story about one promise have been kept.

PTSD

2013

No artwork available
NR

Based on Mykola Khvylovyi’s novel I Am (Romance). The protagonist of this unsettling film, a man with the strange surname Hlavkoverkh, is obsessed with a romantic ideal of freedom, for which he does not stop even at the execution of his own mother.

I Am the One Who Is...

1990

The Russian Triangle poster
5.1

A big Russian city- not necessarily Moscow, but the kind that is bustling with all types of life including criminal so the police are not without business. A young agent by the name of Nikolay, whose ancestors on his mother's side are Georgian, walks into the department which is busy with the investigation of a murder committed by a mysterious blind killer. His intuition leads him to a group of people whose destiny was broken by the Chechen War. This peaceful town finds its sinister inside, and Nikolay's noble impulses runs into the cruel and corrupt reality.

The Russian Triangle

2007