Oleg Zhakov

Acting

Oleg Zhakov

Born — Died

1905-03-30 — 1988-05-04

Place of birth

Sarapul, Russian Empire

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg poster
6.4

A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades.

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg

1953

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

Hostile Whirlwinds poster
5.5

Observing the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky from 1918-1925; in July 1918, as a result of a revolt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, German ambassador Mirbach is killed. Feliks Dzerzhinsky alone goes to the headquarters of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Anarchists, he manages to persuade ordinary soldiers and sailors, participants in the rebellion, who are now cracking down on their leaders.

Hostile Whirlwinds

1956

The Road to Berth poster
4.4

In search of real life 15-year-old Vaska goes to the Arctic, where he gets a job on a marine rescue tug "Cola". It is not easy to build a relationship with the naive kid crew — "sea wolves". Once the team receives a task — to tow the ship "Polotsk" broken during the war from the New Earth»…

The Road to Berth

1962

They Conquer the Skies poster
8.5

The end of the 1940s. Test pilot Aleksei Kolchin was commissioned for the first time to fly the first Soviet jet fighter. The tests are successful, but it is necessary to improve the aircraft. When performing a test flight, Kolchin dies, his last words are recorded on tape. Having studied them, Kolchin's friend Sergei Sharov makes a new attempt and completes the test of the aircraft.

They Conquer the Skies

1963

Bracelet-2 poster
9.0

Bracelet-2 is a grey trotter at a Russian race track stable. Daily beatings from a cold-hearted trainer turns him into an unreliable emotional wreck, and in race after race he breaks his trot and finishes at a gallop, resulting in disqualification. To the trainer Bracelet is worthless, so when World War II breaks out and Soviet Army representatives come to the track to requisition horses for the front, the trainer is only too happy to be rid of him. Now, instead of a racing sulky, Bracelet is forced to pull heavy carts and sleighs laden with munitions. Gradually he resigns to his fate...

Bracelet-2

1967

Film credits

1970s · 15 titles

By the Lake poster
5.4

The film is a reflection on the responsibility of man to other people, native nature and the world around us, the problem of preserving Lake Baikal, on the banks of which a large construction project has unfolded. The first half of the 60s of the XX century, the story of the love of young Lena Barmina to an adult respectable person, bearing on his shoulders a heavy burden of responsibility for the activities of a huge enterprise. Construction engineer Chernykh and Lena, the daughter of a scientist, are doing everything to save the lake from harmful and unjustified plums. A difficult relationship develops between them and soon Lena realizes that she is in love. But after learning that Chernykh is married, the girl leaves...

By the Lake

1970

Front Without Flanks poster
5.5

A first episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazi occupation of Russia during WWII. The film is set in August of 1941, when the Nazi forces invaded and occupied the European part of Russia. Major Mlynsky is in charge of the special group of partisans. His group is absorbing other small groups of Russian soldiers, who managed to survive from the attacks of the overwhelming Nazi forces. The Nazi Armies are advancing to Moscow. Major Mlynsky is organizing the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazis, behind the enemy lines.

Front Without Flanks

1975

Front Beyond the Front Line poster
5.4

A second episode in the trilogy about the partisans fighting against the Nazis during the WWII on the territory of Russia. Film is set in the winter of 1943-1944. Major Mlynsky is the commander of the partisan group, that is fighting behind the Nazi's front-lines. Major Mlynsky is invited to the Chief of Staff, where he is promoted to Lt.-Colonel for his courage. Now Mlynsky is in charge of the new partisan's operation.

Front Beyond the Front Line

1978

Seventh Skies poster
7.0

Life in a distant south town become to difficult for the young girl Ksana from Moscow...

Seventh Skies

1972

Day of Admittance on Personal Matters poster
7.0

One of the days in a life of a department manager...

Day of Admittance on Personal Matters

1974

Memory poster
NR

A story about the first post-war years in Leningrad. The film's protagonist, Maria, a Leningrad native, was left a widow with three children after the war. Life is hard and difficult, and suddenly the family is struck by new grief—the death of her eldest son, Sergei... And when Igor, who has recently returned from the front, wants to offer help and care to Maria and her children, a conflict erupts in the family: her daughter Marina does not want to come to terms with forgetting the memory of her father...

Memory

1975

Land, Poste Restante poster
4.0

Based on a true story about Soviet spy Lev Manevich. He lives in Italy and operates in the Nazi Germany and Austria. Manevich, who is posing as a businessman, collects information about the latest German airplanes made by Messerschmitt for Luftwaffe. On his spying trip to Berlin, Manevich noticed that a stranger was following him. Now his life is in danger, but he must do something to complete his mission...

Land, Poste Restante

1973

Night Motorcyclist poster
7.0

The investigation of a complex, complicated case of the murder of an engineer, a former prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp. The criminal, one of the executioners of this camp, did not escape retribution.

Night Motorcyclist

1972

King of the Mountains and Others poster
10.0

The film consists of three short stories: “King of the Mountains” - about a giant bear; “Loyalty” is a touching love story between two storks; “The Loop” is about a proud deer.

King of the Mountains and Others

1970

Schedule for Tomorrow poster
NR

Old school principal suddenly finds a love poem addressed to mysterious N.

Schedule for Tomorrow

1976

Armed and Very Dangerous poster
5.5

America’s Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed here in pursuit of enrichment. Among them was Gabriel Conroy, a man absolutely helpless in the world of business. When fountains of oil started gushing on his plot of land, the local moneybags Peter Damphy decided to appropriate the land, and succeeded in it by blackmailing Conroy’s wife and his former mistress Julie...

Armed and Very Dangerous

1978

Mission in Kabul poster
NR

On the formation of young Soviet diplomacy and the struggle of the mission in Kabul with the internal reaction and representatives of the Western powers for the signing of the Cooperation Agreement. A Russian diplomatic mission was sent to Kabul. The friendly relations between Afghanistan and the young Soviet republic became a real threat to traditional British rule in the East.

Mission in Kabul

1971

No Margin for Error poster
6.5

A criminal story which happened in a small Russian town.

No Margin for Error

1975

The Most Beautiful Horse poster
7.0

A serious passion for equestrian sports helped the F student become one of the best in the class.

The Most Beautiful Horse

1977

Ippodrom poster
9.5

After one horse racing Sunday the body of a jockey is found on the racetrack. Was it an accident or a murder connected to bet fixing?

Ippodrom

1979

1960s · 15 titles

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

The Road to Berth poster
4.4

In search of real life 15-year-old Vaska goes to the Arctic, where he gets a job on a marine rescue tug "Cola". It is not easy to build a relationship with the naive kid crew — "sea wolves". Once the team receives a task — to tow the ship "Polotsk" broken during the war from the New Earth»…

The Road to Berth

1962

They Conquer the Skies poster
8.5

The end of the 1940s. Test pilot Aleksei Kolchin was commissioned for the first time to fly the first Soviet jet fighter. The tests are successful, but it is necessary to improve the aircraft. When performing a test flight, Kolchin dies, his last words are recorded on tape. Having studied them, Kolchin's friend Sergei Sharov makes a new attempt and completes the test of the aircraft.

They Conquer the Skies

1963

Bracelet-2 poster
9.0

Bracelet-2 is a grey trotter at a Russian race track stable. Daily beatings from a cold-hearted trainer turns him into an unreliable emotional wreck, and in race after race he breaks his trot and finishes at a gallop, resulting in disqualification. To the trainer Bracelet is worthless, so when World War II breaks out and Soviet Army representatives come to the track to requisition horses for the front, the trainer is only too happy to be rid of him. Now, instead of a racing sulky, Bracelet is forced to pull heavy carts and sleighs laden with munitions. Gradually he resigns to his fate...

Bracelet-2

1967

The Seven Cervi Brothers poster
6.9

The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World War 2.

The Seven Cervi Brothers

1968

Weeds poster
7.0

David Motuzka, demobilized Red Army soldier, returns to his native village, hoping to see the changes caused by the revolutionary events. But he cannot see no improvement. The village is ruled by the kulaks and David's childhood friend Kornii Matiukha helps them.

Weeds

1967

Early in the Morning poster
8.0

A story about the beginning of life. Having lost their parents early, Alyosha and Nadya were not left alone - the father’s friend and the people around them helped the children remain kind and open in this difficult world of adults ...

Early in the Morning

1965

The Very First poster
5.0

After a test flight, pilot Sergei Sazonov was invited to a group of astronauts. Intensive preparation begins for the flight into space: classes in the weightlessness chamber, constant study. Sergei decides that he does not have the right to meet with a cheerful student Natasha, whom his friends accuse of frivolity. But their telephone conversation ends up asking him to marry him.

The Very First

1962

Yelena's Bay poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yelena's Bay

1964

State Offender poster
5.8

A young detective is trying to find a hiding Nazi collaborationist who is responsible for deaths of a hundreds of people during WWII.

State Offender

1964

The Judgment poster
7.3

Three of them hunted a bear, but a man was accidentally killed instead. The investigation must determine which of the hunters is responsible for this death. However, there is also a judgment of conscience — the most difficult judgment, because a compromise with one's own conscience never leads to good.

The Judgment

1962

Operation Cobra poster
5.2

About the Soviet border guards who declassified Operation Cobra, organized by foreign intelligence for the purpose of daily photographing a military facility. Participants of the "Cobra": a trained dog and an old watchman of the local hospital, Yusup. He is also the snake charmer Harun Baba, and the German spy Otto Grieg, already known from old sorties.

Operation Cobra

1960

Krinitsy poster
8.0

New teacher arrives to the remote village Krinitsy and not everybody are happy about what he's doing.

Krinitsy

1965

The First Date poster
5.6

Alexey and Valentina met in the tourist camp on Seliger, and after two weeks they celebrated their wedding. Returning to the family, the young couple faced the first difficulties. Both parents didn't like the willfulness of the young - and there were problems with housing. They started a constant quarrels. The young soon agreed that their wedding was premature ...

The First Date

1960

The Wave Runner poster
5.4

A pianist named Garvey, while traveling on a tour, gets off the train to buy cigarettes, and learns from a salesgirl that the cities imagined by Grin really exist. Forgetting about his tour, he goes to one of these cities, where he meets the captain of “The Waverunner”…

The Wave Runner

1967

1950s · 7 titles

1940s · 7 titles

The Precious Seed poster
9.0

A young journalist is sent to the region to prepare her thesis. Here the heroine will have to independently publish several issues of the newspaper, meet people, understand their actions and herself...

The Precious Seed

1948

Private Aleksandr Matrosov poster
9.0

The film is about the exploit of a nineteen-year-old soldier of the Great Patriotic War - Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of the enemy's bunker with his body.

Private Aleksandr Matrosov

1947

The White Fang poster
5.9

According to the story by Jack London. The history of the wild wolf, who picked up the boy and raised an Indian. After falling to the evil man - the owner of the bar, White Fang turned into a ferocious evil beast, coming out victorious from all the dog fights, which suited his enterprising owner. But once it strangled, snatched from the jaws of the bulldog engineer Weedon Scott. His kindness has transformed the beast.

The White Fang

1946

The Invasion poster
6.6

A Russian village struggles through the German occupation during World War II in this tense drama from the Soviet Union. As the town doctor finds his home has been taken by German troops, his daughter becomes involved in the anti-Axis resistance, and his son -- confined to a mental hospital -- escapes to fight the invading armies.

The Invasion

1945

March-April poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

March-April

1944

The Murderers Are Coming poster
5.4

Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. Nazi antisemitism is depicted in several of the sketches, including "the Physicist", "Judicial Process", and "the Jewish Wife".

The Murderers Are Coming

1942

The Girl from Leningrad poster
6.6

Set during the 1939–1940 Winter War, the film follows a group of young women from Leningrad who volunteer for service at the front. Working as nurses in hospitals and on the battlefield, they devote themselves to saving the lives of wounded soldiers, while also taking up arms alongside the men in combat. Through hardship and sacrifice, their courage forges bonds of friendship and love that endure amid the trials of war.

The Girl from Leningrad

1941

1930s · 10 titles

No artwork available
NR

Lost movie.

Wind in the Face

1930

Baltic Deputy poster
4.6

A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.

Baltic Deputy

1937

For the Soviet Motherland poster
7.0

The film takes place in 1921 on the Soviet-Finnish border. Shyutskorov detachments broke into Karelia, killed Soviet activists, burned houses ... In the rear of the enemy with a special task - to destroy the headquarters of the White Finns on the Kimas Lake - a detachment of Soviet cadets under the command of Toivo Antikainen (Oleg Zhakov) was sent.

For the Soviet Motherland

1937

We Are from Kronstadt poster
5.0

In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment made up of communist Reds defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces

We Are from Kronstadt

1936

My Motherland poster
8.0

In 1929, the Chinese are preparing an attack on the CER, recruiting soldiers to their gang. Among them there is a resident of a lodging house Van. Having recovered after a sudden attack on a Soviet border village, the Red Army squad goes on the offensive. Wang is among the prisoners. Wang and another prisoner go on the run. But on the road between the fugitives there is a conflict and young Chinese Wang begins to realize who his true enemy is...

My Motherland

1933

Peat-Bog Soldiers poster
4.2

This story of the Nazi prison camps in the 1930s deals with the attempts of the Nazi guards to break the spirit of the Communists in concentration camps.

Peat-Bog Soldiers

1938

The Brave Seven poster
4.5

Six polar explorers arrive to a remote island in Arctic for a year-long scientific expedition. When their ship departs, they unpack only to find a young stowaway, who romanticized Arctic heroes, and tried to join them on multiple occasions finally succeeding. That's how six became seven. Life of polar explorers is tough, and full of danger. During one year they are largely isolated from the mainland, and should survive using their resourcefulness, smarts, knowledge, and existing supplies with occasional unreliable radio communications. The Seven are resilient, cheerful, they forged a true friendship. Now they are ready to face the unforgiving Arctic.

The Brave Seven

1936

Do I Love You? poster
8.0

A comedy about the life of a young married couple—Soviet students. Film has not survived.

Do I Love You?

1934

Youth of the Poet poster
7.0

Biographical film "Youth of the poet", dedicated to Pushkin-Lyceum student. At the 1937 world exhibition in Paris, the film was awarded a gold medal. The Director managed to accurately recreate the historic era, to convey the atmosphere of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in the years of the formation of the poetic genius of Pushkin.

Youth of the Poet

1937

Great Citizen poster
4.6

A biography drama about Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.

Great Citizen

1938