Yuri Volyntsev

Acting

Yuri Volyntsev

Born — Died

1932-04-28 — 1999-08-09

Place of birth

Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

Known for

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

Fuse

1962

Yeralash poster
6.6

The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.

Yeralash

1974

The Secret of the Third Planet poster
7.4

At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zelyony go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to encounter a mysterious conspiracy led by Doctor Verhovtsev against legendary Two Captains Kim and Buran. The only clue is a talking bird Сhatterer [Govorun] that our heroes accidentally took possession of.

The Secret of the Third Planet

1981

Anna Karenina poster
5.4

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

1967

Priklyucheniya porosenka Funtika poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Priklyucheniya porosenka Funtika

1986

Алиса в Зазеркалье poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Алиса в Зазеркалье

1982

Film credits

1990s · 6 titles

There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach poster
5.9

When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.

There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach

1993

The Hat poster
4.4

The story is about how a metropolitan writer, concerned about the “fifth point of his questionnaire,” instead of the noble or, at worst, rabbit fur assigned to him by rank, was given a “medium fluffy domestic cat” at the Literary Fund, and how he, previously quiet and inconspicuous, ventured to a “mutiny on a ship” confidently cutting through the waters of “socialist realism.”

The Hat

1990

The Little Witch poster
6.5

The youngest witch is preparing for the magical exam.

The Little Witch

1991

Dreamers from the Village Ugory poster
NR

Grandfather, Grandson, and two Merry Geese engage in a battle with Baba Yaga, Kashchei the Immortal, and Zmei Gorynich, as well as with the cat Meowcher and the fairy-tale creature Tmutarakanka.

Dreamers from the Village Ugory

1994

Shadow, or Maybe Everything Will Be Fine poster
4.4

The action of the movie takes place in a certain fairy-tale town. The main character - the scientist Christian-Theodore discovers a lot about the inhabitants of the city, about their oddities and peculiarities. The princess of the city has struck the imagination of Christian-Theodore, but he does not notice that he is not indifferent to the kind girl Annunziata. The scientist becomes a victim of palace intrigues and intrigues. His own shadow, which appeared to the hero, pushes him to a cowardly act - the rejection of the princess. The shadow wins the heart of the princess and wants to destroy Christian-Theodore. But, as it is supposed to be in a real fairy tale, everything ends happily. The hero is helped by Annunziata's love and the sympathy of the town's inhabitants for the scientist who wants to make everyone happy.

Shadow, or Maybe Everything Will Be Fine

1991

Free Tyrant poster
NR

A modest earthling, Korneliy Udalov, finds himself on a planet that is a large concentration camp, where the entire population works in prison, and only one tyrant is free.

Free Tyrant

1990

1980s · 21 titles

The Secret of the Third Planet poster
7.4

At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zelyony go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to encounter a mysterious conspiracy led by Doctor Verhovtsev against legendary Two Captains Kim and Buran. The only clue is a talking bird Сhatterer [Govorun] that our heroes accidentally took possession of.

The Secret of the Third Planet

1981

The Dog in Boots poster
7.1

The story about an enamored singing dog who isn't thoroughbred - that's a minus, but honorable - that's a plus.

The Dog in Boots

1981

The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin poster
6.8

Scamper is a little penguin who loves wandering around the Artic where he lives with his parents. Unfortunately his little adventures tend to get he, and his friend Snowflake into trouble, especially when he disobeys his father and goes exploring with seagulls who want to eat him flying above, and men and dogs on the ground with them. One day the adventure goes too far and they float out to sea, only to be caught by men who want to sell them to the zoo. Scamper, Snowflake and their new friend, a macaroni penguin named Louie, must escape and get back to their families to warn them.

The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin

1987

Laughter and Grief by the White Sea poster
7.3

A celebration of the culture of the Pomors who live around the White Sea.

Laughter and Grief by the White Sea

1987

Alice Through the Looking Glass poster
7.3

The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.

Alice Through the Looking Glass

1982

The Big Brother's Wedding poster
NR

A love “triangle” has formed in the Polozov family. The older brother, Boris, has a beloved girlfriend, Nadya, whom the younger brother, Kostya, is in love with first, with pure love. He took an active interest in the girl’s fate when it seemed that a breakup between Nadya and Boris was inevitable...

The Big Brother's Wedding

1985

The Girl and the Bear poster
10.0

About how the girl Masha managed to find a good beginning even in a rude and cruel Bear.

The Girl and the Bear

1980

The Elusive Foontic poster
7.1

A little piglet named Foontic ran away from his owner, Mrs. Belladonna, because he didn't want to deceive children. Mrs. Belladonna is determined to find him.

The Elusive Foontic

1986

These Are miracles poster
NR

The plot is based on the creation of a folk dance ensemble in the Palace of culture.

These Are miracles

1982

Welcome poster
6.2

A friendly moose lets an insect hitch a ride on his antlers. But the moose is soon taken advantage of, as more and more forest creatures (including a bear!) take up residence in his antlers. How can the moose get rid of these unwanted guests? Based on a Dr. Seuss story.

Welcome

1986

The Kreutzer Sonata poster
6.4

A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name.

The Kreutzer Sonata

1987

The First Autograph poster
NR

About how animals tried to get an autograph from the Olympic bear.

The First Autograph

1980

Foontic and the Detectives poster
6.9

About how the evil and greedy owner of the department store "Tears of a Child" Mrs. Belladonna tried to steal away escaped Foontic from the clown Fokus-Mokus.

Foontic and the Detectives

1986

Foontic at the Сircus poster
6.7

Foontic and his new friends once again outwit the evil Mrs. Belladonna, who, under the influence of sleeping pills, is taken in the middle of the night in their car to the Three Roads roadside hotel and handed over to her old friend, an equally greedy and cynical businessman named Durillo. When she regains consciousness, Belladonna resumes her pursuit of Foontic, who, together with the kind-hearted clown Mokus, the clever monkey Bambino, and the hippopotamus Chocolate, is preparing to put on a grand circus show in the city.

Foontic at the Сircus

1988

Foontic and the Old Woman With a Mustache poster
6.7

Dressed in a men's costume, Belladonna tries to kidnap Foontic. She is assisted by the dim-witted police chief Foxtrot and the fussy detectives Dober and Pincher.

Foontic and the Old Woman With a Mustache

1987

The Snowmen poster
7.0

About the miracles that happen on the eve of the new year.

The Snowmen

1986

Richard III poster
10.0

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.

Richard III

1982

What Sound Does a Mosquito Make? poster
NR

How the king of animals decided to learn the mosquito language, but then convinced himself that everyone in the forest spoke the same language - lion. Based on the fairy tale by R. Baumgol.

What Sound Does a Mosquito Make?

1989

Valuable Parcel poster
NR

About how a grumpy crow found a book of rules of good manners and, teaching them to the inhabitants of the forest, became polite herself.

Valuable Parcel

1986

Nevermind The Grief poster
5.5

A soldier served a long time service. He took as a reward an old drum and went where his eyes were looking. He walked for a long time, and went to the hut, and in it the small girl was crying, because the fierce witch has destroyed her parents.

Nevermind The Grief

1983

Two Tickets to India poster
NR

Two aliens are landing on the earth. One looks like a Bigfoot, the other has the appearance of a tiger. The problem is that they landed one in the USSR, the other in India. Soviet pioneers help them meet.

Two Tickets to India

1985

1970s · 22 titles

Byelorussian Station poster
6.7

Four former soldiers reunite 25 years after the war. Last time they saw each other on the Byelorussian railway station in the summer of 1945. Now they've come together to mourn the death of a friend.

Byelorussian Station

1971

Funny People! poster
6.0

The movie intertwines the plot lines of the stories "In the Bathhouse", "Tears Invisible to the World", "A Conversation between a Man and a Dog" and others. By the will of the film's creators, the viewer gets to the rehearsals of an unusual choir and gets acquainted with the stories of the singers - diverse, but invariably amusing.

Funny People!

1978

The Roundabout poster
5.7

Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".

The Roundabout

1971

The Magic Ring poster
7.8

Vanya has no money at all, and he gave away his last piece of clothing to save some poor animals. Now he has a cat, a dog, and a snake living in his house. But it turns out that the snake is the king's daughter, so she gave him a magic ring as a gift for saving her. Now Vanya can wish for anything he wants, and his wish will come true!

The Magic Ring

1979

Nylon 100% poster
5.7

An adventures of a 100% nylon "fur" coat traveling between various people.

Nylon 100%

1973

Red Cavalry poster
NR

The authors, like Isaac Babel, rejected the depiction of battles, the simplification, and varnishing of reality, instead conveying the dramatic tension of the post-revolutionary years: the explosion of awakened human energy and the tragic collisions of destinies.

Red Cavalry

1975

Circus in the Circus poster
5.1

To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend, the poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.

Circus in the Circus

1976

Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man poster
4.8

TV version of the Vakhtangov's Theater play. The plot makes fun of secular society and shows what can turn cynical attempts to deceive people if they want to get to power and money.

Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man

1971

A Thousand Souls poster
NR

Based on the eponymous novel by A.F. Pisemsky. A play about the all-powerful influence of money and the morals of the bureaucratic world that destroy everything honest, good, and humane.

A Thousand Souls

1971

The Paradise Apples poster
1.0

Political pamphlet based on the story of the Finnish writer Martti Larni "Socrates in Helsinki". Spring of 1944. In the paradise, which has long been settled by the philosopher Socrates, a fired soldier Vittori Virten arrives. The philosopher respected the newcomer with great respect, and they even became friends. Once having distinguished himself before God, the heroes get a vacation on Earth and go on a journey: the soldier decides to visit his family in Laconia, and the sage just wanted to see the world — did he think it once, and decided to join the soldier...

The Paradise Apples

1974

Fearless Ataman poster
9.0

A biographical novella based on I. Vsevolzhsky's novel "Hutor's Team".

Fearless Ataman

1973

The Flight of Mr. Mc.Kinley poster
4.4

A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it?

The Flight of Mr. Mc.Kinley

1975

Ladies and Hussars poster
NR

The action takes place on the estate of a major, where his friends, inveterate bachelors, and the sisters of the major, who came to marry him with his niece, meet. But the niece has long loved Lieutenant Edmund, and then a plan matures to persuade the major to marry, at the last moment, replacing him with the lieutenant. To do this, the ladies have woven insidious intrigues. At the end of the play, the mutual rejection of the ladies and the hussar develops into sympathy and even love ...

Ladies and Hussars

1976

The Bourgeois Gentleman poster
NR

A recording of the Vakhtangov Theatre’s production of the play by Jean-Baptiste Molière. "The Bourgeois Gentleman" is a brilliant, sparkling comedy by the great French literary classic Jean-Baptiste Molière. The attempts of an uneducated, ignorant, and coarse man with a great deal of money to present himself as a refined nobleman are nothing short of laughable.

The Bourgeois Gentleman

1977

About a Puppy poster
5.3

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

About a Puppy

1979

The Rain poster
NR

In one of the Russian cities, where local tailors have long sold their fabrics and clothes from it on the market, there were overseas merchants who arrived on an expensive and beautiful boat. Quite quickly, they settled in the shopping aisles and began to attract customers and lure them with their goods.

The Rain

1978

A Trip Through the City poster
6.0

The TV film consists of two short stories. "Love Under a Pseudonym": A comedy about a modern Don Juan, in which the funny and the sad intertwine, forcing the characters to reflect on life... "A Trip Through the City": A comedy about people's responsibility for their actions... If driver Petrov hadn't driven his rattling luggage through the city at night, it's unlikely that anyone would have thought of causing one scandal after another in the middle of the night...

A Trip Through the City

1979

Ilya Muromets and Highwayman Nightingale poster
7.2

This is the second story from a series of adventures of the brave warrior Ilya of Murom. This time he is moving towards the city of Kiev and on the way accomplishes his great and small feats. Arriving at the gates of Chernigov city, Illya discovers that black vorogs are circling around the city. Having settled with them, Ilya Muromets meets the locals, who offer him the honorary position of governor. But the hero refuses the offer, because he needs to move towards Kiev and fight with evil spirits.

Ilya Muromets and Highwayman Nightingale

1978

The Man with the Gun poster
NR

The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades.

The Man with the Gun

1977

Clever poster
NR

The king married an intelligent and beautiful peasant girl, but he was not very smart himself, and his wife's superiority offended him. He sent his wife away, however, allowing her to take with her what she holds most dear. She gave the king a sleeping drink, and when he fell asleep, she took him to her hut: he was the most precious to her. Touched, the king returned his wife to the palace.

Clever

1971

Comrade General poster
NR

1941. Army commander Kapitonov takes the brunt of the German forces, striving to Rostov. Well aware of the tactics of the German General Leynts, Kapitonov brilliantly conducting an operation that was incorporated into the history of the war under the name "Dyakovo defense."

Comrade General

1974

How Mushrooms Fought Against Peas poster
6.2

A satire on human nature projected on mushrooms and peas, based on a Russian fairy tale.

How Mushrooms Fought Against Peas

1977

1960s · 11 titles

Anna Karenina poster
5.4

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

1967

Time, Forward! poster
5.3

The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...

Time, Forward!

1965

The Secret Agent's Blunder poster
6.9

In the spring of 1961, KGB officers received information that an experienced intelligence officer Mikhail Zarokov, son of the Russian emigrant Count Tulyev, with extensive international experience and knowledge in various operations was abandoned on the territory of the Soviet Union. He is sent to Russia to carry out a very difficult and risky task, which is directly related to the nuclear industrial complex and transfer the collected information abroad...

The Secret Agent's Blunder

1968

Devil With a Briefcase poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Devil With a Briefcase

1966

Battle on the Way poster
7.5

He was appointed as the new chief engineer of a tractor factory. The presence of this man, direct, hard and uncompromising, creates a lot of conflict - primarily between him and the director of the plant. However, clashes in the production are nothing compared with the pain that causes the loss of the beloved hero ...

Battle on the Way

1961

Kremlin Courier poster
NR

Bolshevik Mravin, under the name of engineer Pyotr Ivanovich Lednev, risking his life, takes V.I. Lenin’s “Letter to the American Workers” to America. With the help of John Reed, he publishes it in one of the newspapers.

Kremlin Courier

1967

Across Rus' poster
7.0

Based on Maxim Gorky's early autobiographical short stories "One Day in Autumn", "Konovalov", "Twenty Six and One", "My Companion", "The Conclusion", "On the Salt", "Woman".

Across Rus'

1968

Fate Plays with a Man poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fate Plays with a Man

1968

Under the Chestnut Trees of Prague poster
NR

The last days of the Second World War in Prague.

Under the Chestnut Trees of Prague

1965

A Span of Land poster
6.0

The film is about the hot war summer of 1944. A group of several gun crews defends a tiny bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester. The fates of the main characters: the front-line soldier-battalion commander Babin, the young lieutenant Motovilov, the nurse Rita Tamashova and the rank-and-file gunners, soldiers, among whom are brave people, faint-hearted and scoundrels, unnoticed heroes, are shown in a setting of several hours of peaceful life before another violent attack of the enemy, after which not everyone will survive...

A Span of Land

1964

Faust poster
5.8

A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.

Faust

1969

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