Viktor Chekmaryov

Acting

Viktor Chekmaryov

Born — Died

1911-01-30 — 1987-08-22

Place of birth

Astrakhan, Russian Empire

Known for

Acting

Credits

59 titles

Known for

Police Sergeant poster
8.0

A young police officer, Sergeant Nikolai Zakharov, who is simultaneously completing his studies at the University's Law Faculty, is assigned to investigate the assault and robbery committed against Alexei Severtsev, an applicant who has come from a distant city to study at a Leningrad university.

Police Sergeant

1975

Ugryum-River poster
6.4

Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become his own man. He takes his fathers order and goes trough the woods to deliver the furs to the byer in the nearest town. He tries to take the shorter way and get`s lost. At the highest point of this, his fathers servant, Abdulla, who is sent with him to guard him almost shoots him driven by hunger, but comes to the senses and saves his life by continuing to go on.

Ugryum-River

1969

Shot In The Back poster
7.5

First, there was a visit by a famous writer to his old friend, who then, in order to get rid of a random witness, killed him. Envy and money. Isn't that a motive for a crime? The police opened a criminal case, and the search for the perpetrator began. It turned out that there were many witnesses. But the weapon used to kill the writer has not yet been found...

Shot In The Back

1980

The Soul Calls poster
8.0

Two old Leningrad workers, Sukhov and Solyanov, have a long-standing friendship — they worked at the same plant, lived in the neighborhood. Now Solyanov, at the insistence of his son, decides to retire. But it is not so easy to part with his native plant, which, as it turned out, still needs an old personnel officer...

The Soul Calls

1962

The Days of the Turbins poster
8.0

Winter of 1918-1919. The power in the city passes from the hetman to the Directorate of Ukraine, then from Petliura to the Bolsheviks. Turbins and their acquaintances have to make their choice. Colonel Alexei Turbin and his brother Nicholas remain loyal to the White Movement and bravely defend it, without worrying about their lives. Elena's (née Turbin) husband, Vladimir Talberg flees shamefully from the city with the retreating German troops. In this troubled time, the family and close friends gather and celebrate the New Year. A strange and slightly ridiculous person comes to visit them, a distant relative of the Turbins: Larion Surzhansky

The Days of the Turbins

1976

Man in the Passage Yard poster
9.0

Grigory Mikhailovich Yushkov, who was killed in the passage yard, was considered dead during the Great Patriotic War. In those same years, under strange circumstances, the partisan detachment and the entire city underground were destroyed. They were betrayed by a man nicknamed "Centaur", who was never found. What are the motives for the murder of Yushkov and is he a “Centaur”? An investigator from Moscow will have to find out...

Man in the Passage Yard

1972

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

1970s · 14 titles

Crime and Punishment poster
6.0

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Crime and Punishment

1970

The Triple Control poster
8.0

A Soviet officer serves as a counterspy amidst enemies.

The Triple Control

1970

Days of the Turbins poster
6.1

Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guard"), "Days of the Turbins".

Days of the Turbins

1976

The Bronze Bird poster
6.4

Three friends in a summer camp are looking for a treasure hidden in a old mansion.

The Bronze Bird

1975

A Long Path on a Short Day poster
6.5

Based on the novel by Natan Rybak “Soldiers Without Uniforms”. Director of a research institute engaged in research in the field of nuclear physics, Maxim Nerchin is testing a new research method. And although the method did not justify itself, Nerchin with unreasonable confidence began to build a more powerful installation... He uses almost all the institute's funds to create it and is so sure of success that he loudly announced it at a foreign symposium, thereby causing special attention to his institute on the part of those American circles who are primarily interested in creating weapons that bring death and destruction...

A Long Path on a Short Day

1972

Wait for the «John Grafton» poster
NR

At the beginning of the summer of 1905, representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Krasilnikov and Elkonen turned to Captain Zhanis Trautman, a Latvian political emigrant living on the outskirts of London, with a proposal to lead a steamer with a cargo of weapons to the shores of Russia. Having recruited a team of old and tried comrades, Trautman changes the crew of an English cargo ship bought by the front men. In the course of the squabble that arose on this occasion, a sailor of the old crew, David Blake, was stabbed. The wounded Blake and the veterinarian Gruber, who accompanied the cargo of anthrax drugs, are forced to leave on board. On the high seas, weapons and explosives were loaded on board. The steamer headed for the Oresund Strait, where a messenger was to meet him.

Wait for the «John Grafton»

1979

Man in the Passage Yard poster
10.0

Grigory Mikhailovich Yushkov, who was killed in the passage yard, was considered dead during the Great Patriotic War. In those same years, under strange circumstances, the partisan detachment and the entire city underground were destroyed. They were betrayed by a man nicknamed "Centaur", who was never found. What are the motives for the murder of Yushkov and is he a “Centaur”? An investigator from Moscow will have to find out...

Man in the Passage Yard

1972

Privalov's Millions poster
6.7

A young heir of a big fortune Sergey Privalov is coming back to his native town after a long absence. Having visited his owned plants, he breaks out with the idea to rebuild the industrial processes, improve the life of workers, and build schools and hospitals. Though, his interests collide with the interests of local big wigs, to whom the existing situation suits perfectly

Privalov's Millions

1973

The House is Being Built poster
9.0

The plot is based on a conflict that arose at the architectural design institute.

The House is Being Built

1978

Find Me, Lenya! poster
6.0

A story of a friendship between a boy and a girl during a pre-revolutionary times in Russia.

Find Me, Lenya!

1971

Atonement for Others' Sins poster
NR

A priest from a Carpathian village who sheltered an orphan teenager, Bogdan Chichura, sends him to a theological seminary. After graduating from the seminary with honors, the young man enters the Gregorian University, becomes a doctor of theology and returns to his village. Here he learns that his beloved Ruzhena, deceived by the bishop's letter, has gone to a monastery. And her father, a Rusyn, is being persecuted by the authorities and the church for his leftist beliefs. Bogdan embarks on a difficult struggle for the honor of his loved ones. But the Second World War begins.

Atonement for Others' Sins

1978

Unfinished Conversation poster
NR

The driver hit the motorcyclist and fled the scene without providing assistance to the victim. Traffic police officers promptly found the driver who committed the accident and his accomplices: a fellow passenger and a car mechanic who repaired the damaged car.

Unfinished Conversation

1977

No artwork available
NR

The TV movie is based on several dramatic episodes from the life of the red diplomat Leonid Krasin.

The Red Diplomat

1971

The Steepness poster
8.0

For a long time, the chairman of the collective farm, Andrei Spirya, has been dreaming of moving the village, which lies in a lowland and is often flooded by floods, to the mountain. Some of the collective farmers are against resettlement. Suddenly, a severe flood occurred, which caused a lot of destruction.

The Steepness

1971

1960s · 27 titles

The Soul Calls poster
8.0

Two old Leningrad workers, Sukhov and Solyanov, have a long-standing friendship — they worked at the same plant, lived in the neighborhood. Now Solyanov, at the insistence of his son, decides to retire. But it is not so easy to part with his native plant, which, as it turned out, still needs an old personnel officer...

The Soul Calls

1962

Ugryum-River poster
5.2

Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become his own man. He takes his fathers order and goes trough the woods to deliver the furs to the byer in the nearest town. He tries to take the shorter way and get`s lost. At the highest point of this, his fathers servant, Abdulla, who is sent with him to guard him almost shoots him driven by hunger, but comes to the senses and saves his life by continuing to go on.

Ugryum-River

1969

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin poster
5.0

A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin

1965

The Worker's Settlement poster
3.8

Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.

The Worker's Settlement

1966

The Little Runaway poster
3.0

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow.

The Little Runaway

1966

Bonivur's Heart poster
5.8

A young Komsomol member Vitaly Bonivur is fighting for Soviet power in the Far East and Primorye. Red underground workers are not the first day want to arrange an escape of their fellow prisoners. And the brave Bonivur takes part in the organization of the getaway, but for counterintelligence he remains elusive. Vitaly Bonivur's aspiration for justice, heroism and determination — courage and bravery of a young man who fights for a bright future.

Bonivur's Heart

1969

Two Lives poster
7.0

In the center of the film - two lives, two destinies. A simple, illiterate soldier Vostrikov of the Tsar's Army during the years of Soviet power grew into a devoted fighter of the revolution, he became a general of the Soviet Army, respected by all. A guards officer, a brilliant prince Naschyokin, who fought against Soviet power, emigrated from his native country and eventually became a lackey in a port restaurant.

Two Lives

1961

Artist From Kohanovka poster
7.0

Andrey Yarchuk, the foreman of the collective farm construction team, leaves for the city after Marinka, who was sent by the collective farm to study at an agricultural institute. After learning that the villagers are mocking Andrei, Marinka is transferred to the correspondence department and returns to the village. However, pride does not allow Andrey to return. Lovers will have to go through many adventures before they meet in their native Kohanovka.

Artist From Kohanovka

1961

Noah's Ark poster
NR

Based on the play of the same name by Isidor Shtok. The author described this work as a prehistoric documentary drama, while audiences recognized it as a comedy. Isidor Shtok wrote Noah’s Ark as a continuation of his Divine Comedy. This production preserves a good-natured tone, which at times shifts into satire through numerous parallels with contemporary life.

Noah's Ark

1967

War Under the Roofs poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

War Under the Roofs

1967

The Search poster
8.3

The young architect Severin Sereda receives a telegram with a message about his father’s serious illness. But he does not intend to go. Zhenya, his beloved girl, is outraged by such callousness, however, Severin explains that he gave the word to his deceased mother to never see his father who left her. Nevertheless, Zhenya manages to persuade Severin. He goes, but he doesn’t catch his father alive ...

The Search

1967

Василий Докучаев poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Василий Докучаев

1962

Roll Call poster
6.5

General Zhuravlev fought on the fronts of World War II, and is now designing spacecraft. Sending a rocket with astronaut Borodin on the flight, he recalls the namesake of the astronaut - a young tankman whom he had the chance to meet on the roads of war ...

Roll Call

1966

Mercy Train poster
7.1

Two strangers meet in an ambulance train during WWII.

Mercy Train

1965

Wait For Me, Anna poster
7.5

A love story during wartime.

Wait For Me, Anna

1969

Caught Monk poster
NR

Teleplay on "The Debauchees, Or The Jesuit Caught" by Henry Fielding.

Caught Monk

1960

The White Weathervane poster
9.0

A story about the adventures of two teenage brothers helping ChK during twenties.

The White Weathervane

1969

A Hard Day's Monday poster
NR

Having very skillfully organized the food production of "worse quality, but more quantity", the Tonap share partnership began to gain power. Khristoforov, the underground organization's head, is concerned about the spoiled products' sale, and he developed an operation to get closer to the city industrial council: asked for a meeting, and by Monday he ordered Stryapkov to find a gift. However, an incident occurred: the crown from the gold watch of Evlampius Kokin, a master of the sausage shop, was found in the sausage. Kokin, who had long been tormented by fear, without consulting with the leadership, came to the police himself.

A Hard Day's Monday

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

The Sinner poster
9.0

About the fate of a young girl who, under the influence of great love, left a religious sect where her parents brought her.

The Sinner

1962

Twelve Companions poster
9.0

Plane crashes in Caucasus mountains and the rescue-workers search for the passengers stuck in inaccessible glaciers of a Caucasus peak.

Twelve Companions

1962

While a Person is Alive poster
6.0

Shirokov, an engineer and inventor at an electromechanical plant, becomes a victim of street chaos and is hospitalized for an extended period. Upon learning of the incident, his colleagues do everything they can to ensure that Shirokov's latest invention becomes a part of his beloved plant.

While a Person is Alive

1965

One Line poster
NR

In the north of the Urals, the construction of a chemical plant has begun. Construction manager Pyotr Musatov appoints Anton Kitaev, the husband of his sister, a direct and honest man, a former front-line soldier, as a deputy. Anton soon realizes that Peter is a typical careerist, pursuing only selfish goals. Kitaev sharply criticizes the leadership. As a result, he breaks up with his wife, who supports her brother in everything. Moreover, rivalry in love is added to the confrontation in the work - Peter and Anton are in love with one woman ...

One Line

1960

Red House Novellas poster
NR

During WWII, the film's protagonist, Maxim, retreats with his troops and leaves a red house in one of Ukraine's villages. Years later, Maxim, now no longer a soldier but an agronomist, returns and settles in the same house. He falls in love with a girl named Dusya, whom he recognizes as the girl who brought milk during the war.

Red House Novellas

1964

The Guardian poster
NR

A young subordinate of a general pays him a visit with the purpose of asking for the hand of his niece.

The Guardian

1967

I Want to Believe poster
NR

Young journalist is investigating some tragic moments from the history of WWII.

I Want to Believe

1965

Eternal Fire poster
9.0

About the difficult fate of a former political prisoner who came in search of his son in the places where he served his sentence.

Eternal Fire

1964

1950s · 9 titles

Virgin Soil Upturned poster
6.2

The movie is based on the the same name novel of the Nobel Prize In Literature Winner Mikhail Sholokhov. The action is taken place in 20-30-s years of the XX century in the Russian countryside going through an uneasy process of collectivization.

Virgin Soil Upturned

1959

The Rumyantsev Case poster
6.5

Sasha Rumyantsev, a long-range driver, becomes an unwitting accomplice in a crime committed by the head of the motor depot where he works. The honest guy is accused of stealing a car of a hard-to-find product. The collective of the motor depot amicably stands up to protect their comrade and helps the investigator, Colonel Afanasyev, to find and expose the true criminals.

The Rumyantsev Case

1956

Life in Your Hands poster
8.0

The film is based on authentic events that took place in 1957 in Kursk. Fifteen years after the war, the sappers will have to clear away the ammunition depot left by the German's. The town rebuilt with such difficulty is under threat of explosion...

Life in Your Hands

1959

Our Correspondent poster
6.0

The journalist of the village newspaper Tatyana Nikitina was published in a large metropolitan newspaper, but no one from the villagers believes her, because the article itself was published under her creative pseudonym. Tatyana, offended at everyone, packed her things and left for Moscow, where she was willingly hired for a job in a central newspaper. Traveling throughout the country, she writes feuilletons and notes, finds friends and enemies, finds and does not lose loved ones...

Our Correspondent

1959

The Whirligig of Life poster
7.0

Ransie Bilbrough and his “other half” came to see Magistrate Binaj Widdep. The couple wanted a divorce. For the judge, this was a long-awaited event, since the judge did not have a penny. And the divorce process happened. But what could have happened that the next day the couple were ready to begin the wedding ceremony? And all this cost them a five dollar bill...

The Whirligig of Life

1958

A Friend in Court Is Better... poster
5.0

Director of Museum of local lore Ivan Bazhanov, being an enthusiast of the business, went treasure hunting, taking with him a few accidentally encountered people. They understand in pursuit of the treasure that sincere friendship is priceless.

A Friend in Court Is Better...

1959

The Volunteers poster
5.5

Together with hundreds of other boys and girls, Komsomol members Kolya Kaitanov, Slava Ufimtsev, Alyosha Akishin, Lyolya and Masha came to the construction of the first stage of the Moscow metro. They are united by the romance of the feat, the desire to always be on the most difficult and dangerous site.

The Volunteers

1958

Andreyka poster
9.0

The July days of 1917 in Petrograd. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets, including the elderly and children. They are marching with red banners, singing songs. And suddenly, machine gun fire is heard from the attic. The dead and wounded fall to the pavement. And immediately detachments of mounted Cossacks poured out of the alleys... Andreika, the son of a St. Petersburg worker, miraculously survived this altercation. But little Elena's mother was killed. That's how Andreika got a little sister. The Provisional Government issues a decree on Lenin's arrest. There are spies all over Petrograd. One of them, Ensign Kolokov, disguised as Uncle Vitya's janitor, settled not far from Andreika's house.

Andreyka

1958

Dominated by Gold poster
NR

In the house of goldmaker Tikhon Kondratievich Molokov, carnival is celebrated noisily, on a grand scale, with gypsies. Everyone drank pretty, and when the mayor tried to “seduce” the owner’s daughter Anisya, the girl’s father broke his nose. Frightened by the consequences of this incident, Tikhon Kondratievich decided to flee the city.

Dominated by Gold

1957

Series credits

Police Sergeant poster
8.0

A young police officer, Sergeant Nikolai Zakharov, who is simultaneously completing his studies at the University's Law Faculty, is assigned to investigate the assault and robbery committed against Alexei Severtsev, an applicant who has come from a distant city to study at a Leningrad university.

Police Sergeant

1975

Ugryum-River poster
6.4

Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become his own man. He takes his fathers order and goes trough the woods to deliver the furs to the byer in the nearest town. He tries to take the shorter way and get`s lost. At the highest point of this, his fathers servant, Abdulla, who is sent with him to guard him almost shoots him driven by hunger, but comes to the senses and saves his life by continuing to go on.

Ugryum-River

1969

The Days of the Turbins poster
8.0

Winter of 1918-1919. The power in the city passes from the hetman to the Directorate of Ukraine, then from Petliura to the Bolsheviks. Turbins and their acquaintances have to make their choice. Colonel Alexei Turbin and his brother Nicholas remain loyal to the White Movement and bravely defend it, without worrying about their lives. Elena's (née Turbin) husband, Vladimir Talberg flees shamefully from the city with the retreating German troops. In this troubled time, the family and close friends gather and celebrate the New Year. A strange and slightly ridiculous person comes to visit them, a distant relative of the Turbins: Larion Surzhansky

The Days of the Turbins

1976

Man in the Passage Yard poster
9.0

Grigory Mikhailovich Yushkov, who was killed in the passage yard, was considered dead during the Great Patriotic War. In those same years, under strange circumstances, the partisan detachment and the entire city underground were destroyed. They were betrayed by a man nicknamed "Centaur", who was never found. What are the motives for the murder of Yushkov and is he a “Centaur”? An investigator from Moscow will have to find out...

Man in the Passage Yard

1972

Wait for the «John Grafton» poster
8.0

At the beginning of the summer of 1905, representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Krasilnikov and Elkonen turned to Captain Zhanis Trautman, a Latvian political emigrant living on the outskirts of London, with a proposal to lead a steamer with a cargo of weapons to the shores of Russia. Having recruited a team of old and tried comrades, Trautman changes the crew of an English cargo ship bought by the front men. In the course of the squabble that arose on this occasion, a sailor of the old crew, David Blake, was stabbed. The wounded Blake and the veterinarian Gruber, who accompanied the cargo of anthrax drugs, are forced to leave on board. On the high seas, weapons and explosives were loaded on board. The steamer headed for the Oresund Strait, where a messenger was to meet him.

Wait for the «John Grafton»

1981

The Bronze Bird poster
9.3

Three friends in a summer camp are looking for a treasure hidden in a old mansion.

The Bronze Bird

1975