Igor Klass

Acting

Igor Klass

Born — Died

1939-11-26 — 2022-03-13

Place of birth

Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

56 titles

Known for

Lenin's Testament poster
9.0

The author of The Kolyma Stories and many other works spent 17 years in the terrible GULAG camps on Kolyma. The term that Varlam Tikhonovich received in 1929 was for distributing Lenin's letter to the congress, in which he criticized Stalin. Nowadays, this letter is called the "testament of Lenin"…

Lenin's Testament

2007

The Limit of Possible poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Limit of Possible

1984

Unknown Soldier poster
7.0

After failing to get into college, Sergei Krasheninnikov goes to visit his grandfather in a small town and starts working on a road construction crew. While working, the builders discover a soldier’s grave. Sergei is tasked with identifying the deceased. He begins his search.

Unknown Soldier

1985

Savage Hunt of King Stakh poster
5.7

A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends…

Savage Hunt of King Stakh

1979

A Slave of Love poster
6.2

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.

A Slave of Love

1976

Teheran '43 poster
6.4

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.

Teheran '43

1981

Film credits

1990s · 8 titles

Back in the USSR poster
5.0

A vacationing American and a sultry Russian thief lead police and smugglers on a deadly chase through Moscow.

Back in the USSR

1992

American Spy poster
7.0

A Soviet warship is on a friendly mission in the United States. A young officer Nikolai Korenev meets an American girl, Mary. A romance begins between them...

American Spy

1991

Thy Will, O Lord! poster
NR

The film's characters are Pavel, a successful rake journalist who writes on acute Perestroika topics, and an intelligent but free woman (a doctor by profession) who is trying to escape from unnecessary love. A chance acquaintance becomes the beginning of their long difficult relationship on the way to love and mutual understanding.

Thy Will, O Lord!

1993

And the Wind Returns... poster
4.0

The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films.

And the Wind Returns...

1992

Far Away from St. Petersburg poster
8.2

Iwan Rabcynski, born in St. Petersburg (Florida), writes Russian melodramas under the pseudonym "John F. Romanoff. He gets his inspiration in Brooklyn, his chosen home. His new novel, which is meant to be autobiographical, begins with his Russian great grandfather in St. Petersburg in 1882 and follows three generations as they survive the country's political upheavals.

Far Away from St. Petersburg

1993

Swindlers poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Swindlers

1990

White Feast poster
6.6

Knowing that he will soon pass on, elderly Valentin Grack hires private detective Stanislav to follow him around for an entire day and write down everything that he does. It is a cold day and during Grack's travels he encounters a younger woman who addresses him as professor. He then meets a prostitute who turns out to be his daughter, and finally he meets an old woman, his worried wife who has been searching eight days for him. In between meeting the women, Grack finds himself in some almost surreal situations and having flashbacks about his youth.

White Feast

1996

The Eastern Corridor, or Racket in the Style of... poster
7.2

In an old castle, the residence of a criminal authority, turned into a torture chamber for «knocking out» money from intractable businessmen, a representative from Moscow is waiting. The purpose of his visit is to pave the way for the territorial redistribution of zones of influence of bandit groups.

The Eastern Corridor, or Racket in the Style of...

1990

1980s · 14 titles

Teheran '43 poster
6.4

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.

Teheran '43

1981

Battle of Moscow poster
NR

The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.

Battle of Moscow

1985

Pirates of the 20th Century poster
6.1

A Soviet cargo ship carrying medical opium gets attacked by pirates of an unknown nationality. The crew is left to die on a sinking ship but they manage to escape and now must fight the pirates for survival.

Pirates of the 20th Century

1980

Tender Age poster
7.0

Kir Lopukhov and Alyosha Mamykin are classmates who have just received a certificate of maturity. The war began and the guys, without hesitation, also act together in the same artillery special school. They are given just three days to visit the front, for which there is so much to be done! Say goodbye to your Sokolniki. Find classmates. And Kira - by all means learn about the fate of her beloved girl Olya. True, she was evacuated, but according to rumors, she returned to the capital to go to university.

Tender Age

1983

A Secret Walk in the Woods poster
5.5

Niyole, a Red Army spy is sent behind the enemy lines in order to hunt German general.

A Secret Walk in the Woods

1985

Trial on the Road poster
7.1

Shot in 1971 but banned until 1986, this distinctly Russian war story takes place in 1942 behind enemy lines. A regiment of partisans captures former Red Army lieutenant Lazarev who is dressed in a German uniform. He’s a Nazi defector and collaborator but now desires to switch back and fight with Russian partisans.

Trial on the Road

1986

Fathers and Sons poster
7.0

At the age of 43, landowner Kirsanov is visited by his son Arkady, a recent university graduate, accompanied by the self-assured young doctor, Yevgeny Bazarov. Kirsanov's older brother, Pavel Petrovich, and Bazarov quickly develop mutual dislike. A few days later, Arkady introduces Bazarov to the young, beautiful, and wealthy widow Odintsova, who immediately captures Bazarov's interest.

Fathers and Sons

1984

Password "Hotel Regina" poster
10.0

The task of the Chekists fighting the Turkestan counter-revolutionary gang is to eliminate the conspiracy of the TMO (Turkestan Military Organization), uniting former tsarist officers, Basmachi and British interventionists. The chekist Rasul Khusanbekov, disguised as the millionaire Kurbasov, who hates the Soviet government, gains the confidence of General Krasovsky and enlists in his detachment...

Password "Hotel Regina"

1984

The Limit of Possible poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Limit of Possible

1984

No artwork available
8.0

Pavel Nabatnikov, who fought in Afghanistan, returns to his village, determined to build a new house on his parents' ashes as the first step towards revitalizing the abandoned village.

Don't Forget to Look Back

1988

Organized Trip to the Theatre‎ poster
10.0

A lot of funny stuff is going on in a far way village located between forests and lakes.

Organized Trip to the Theatre‎

1982

Bread, Gold, Gun poster
5.2

The Civil War. A foster home teacher is delivering grain for the starving children. Her accidental co-travelers are Chekist Gorbach, sailor Sasha, and stationmaster Zaytsev, who came into possession of three gold nuggets. And around them are the Reds, the Whites and the bandits.

Bread, Gold, Gun

1981

The Last Inspection poster
NR

The film takes place in 1927 in Uzbekistan. A group of Central Investigation officers has been sent from Moscow to Tashkent to assist the local police in the fight against banditry. At the same time, they participate in the fight against the remnants of the Basmachi and the White Guard underground.

The Last Inspection

1985

Bounce poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bounce

1986

1970s · 18 titles

Savage Hunt of King Stakh poster
5.7

A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends…

Savage Hunt of King Stakh

1979

A Slave of Love poster
6.2

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.

A Slave of Love

1976

The Lion's Grave poster
7.0

The prince kidnaps the beautiful bride of the blacksmith Masheka. Masheka and his squad are trying to to take revenge.

The Lion's Grave

1972

Honeymoon in October poster
NR

A story about newlyweds Natasha and Gleb, who are spending their honeymoon on a hiking trip.

Honeymoon in October

1977

Treasure Island poster
5.4

When old pirate Billy Bones moved into the Admiral Benbow Inn, young Jim Hawkins had no idea that his life was about to change dramatically. But he was lucky enough to discover a map of Treasure Island in the sea vagabond's chest. And so Jim, accompanied by Dr. Livesey, Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, ship's cook John Silver, and his talking parrot, sets off on a long and dangerous journey...

Treasure Island

1971

A Legendary Life poster
NR

In an attempt to earn money for a bride dowry, a young man unwittingly embarks on a globe-trotting journey that takes him from his homeland of North Ossetia all the way to Alaska.

A Legendary Life

1970

Contraband poster
6.0

Borders guard are trying to catch a group of smugglers using the cruise ship to move a contraband.

Contraband

1975

Love and Fury poster
9.2

At the beginning of the First World War, Alexander Dragovich went to the front as a teenager. The October Revolution caught the hero in captivity in Russia. Like many of his countrymen, Alexander defected to the revolution. After becoming a chekist, Dragovich was sent to Turkestan. The film tells about the heroic struggle of a special purpose unit with gangs of Basmachi, spies of various stripes and saboteurs, about the adventures of the anarchist Kolya and the tragic love of Mushtari and Dragovich.

Love and Fury

1978

Artyom poster
NR

About the life and work of the professional revolutionary Bolshevik F.A. Sergeev (1883-1921), known under the pseudonym Artyom. The film takes place in the period from 1905 to 1921 in Kharkov.

Artyom

1978

Cement poster
10.0

About the restoration of a cement plant destroyed during the Civil War.

Cement

1974

The Boy and the Moose poster
7.0

A teenager finds a moose lost in the city and decides to help the animal.

The Boy and the Moose

1975

Fiery Childhood poster
5.5

A small railway station in the Kuban is captured, but the wounded commissar Sabbutin miraculously manages to escape.

Fiery Childhood

1976

The Road Home poster
8.0

A story about the fate of a woman who has traveled a thorny path from unrequited love to family happiness.

The Road Home

1970

I Don't Want to Make You Wait poster
NR

The film is dedicated to the poet Komsomol member Sergei Chekmarev, who tragically died in 1933.

I Don't Want to Make You Wait

1973

Destiny poster
6.6

A war comes to the life of the heroes of "Earthy Love" (1975).

Destiny

1977

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

In a New Place poster
NR

Inspector Sergey Baev arrives at a fishing collective farm for a new job and begins to fight poaching. This does not please both poachers and the head of the artel Fetisov. Having failed to reach a compromise solution, Fetisov sends the Ermakov brothers to "deal" with the new inspector. But the intervention of the police stops the fight, and the criminals receive the punishment they deserve.

In a New Place

1979

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Port

1976

1960s · 7 titles

Boy and Girl poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Boy and Girl

1969

The Conspiracy of Ambassadors poster
8.0

Summer 1918. As revolutionary Russia remains locked in turmoil, British mission chief Robert Lockhart plots against the Bolshevik government. Seeking to strengthen the conspiracy, he attempts to win the support of the Latvian Riflemen by bribing Bērziņš, commander of the Artillery Division of the Latvian Riflemen. His efforts draw the Latvian soldiers into a dangerous web of political intrigue, loyalty and betrayal.

The Conspiracy of Ambassadors

1966

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Way Home

1967

Arrival Day... Departure Day! poster
8.0

This simple and therefore especially touching story took place in one town, where four men arrived, each on his own business. They met by chance, but this did not stop them in two short days from taking part in the fate of each of them with good advice, and, more importantly, with a good deed...

Arrival Day... Departure Day!

1966

Don't Shoot on the 26-th poster
7.0

1943. Soviet intelligence Saeed Islambek, "26th", manages to infiltrate as an instructor in the SS special school, where defectors from Central Asia study. Loyal to his assistants become a scout-Uzbek Nadia, Secretary of the chief of the special school, and Deputy chief of the Gestapo Berg. When one of the most important military tasks are dying, sacrificing himself, Nadia and Sayid.

Don't Shoot on the 26-th

1967

Sons of the Fatherland poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

Sons of the Fatherland

1969

Beginning of an Unknown Era poster
5.8

Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era: 'Angel' (Olesha) speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, and 'The Homeland of Electricity' (Platonov) captures its haunting grotesquery.

Beginning of an Unknown Era

1967

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