Ivan Krasko

Acting

Ivan Krasko

Born — Died

1930-09-23 — 2025-08-09

Place of birth

Vartemyaki, Leningradskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

81 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

Secret For a Million poster
NR

«Secret for a Million» is a game show for celebrities. Guest stars win money for disclosing personal secrets. Guest has to answer 10 hardball questions from the host. The last question is the hardest one and a truthful answer will be awarded by 1 million rubles. Only the most honest and brave of the guests dare to answer it telling the ugly truth they hid from their fans for years.

Secret For a Million

2016

Empire is Under Attack poster
7.1

In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.

Empire is Under Attack

2000

Fortress of War poster
7.1

The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.

Fortress of War

2010

KREMEN poster
7.3

An ex soldier comes to visit a military friend and finds trouble right away. It all starts with a rape of a girl by the local thugs in the town. He must use his fighting skills to defeat the thugs.

KREMEN

2012

The Salt of the Earth poster
5.0

The film follows the fate of the Strogov peasant family. The story takes place in Western Siberia in the late 1940s.

The Salt of the Earth

1979

Film credits

2010s · 7 titles

Fortress of War poster
7.1

The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.

Fortress of War

2010

We Are from the Future 2 poster
5.0

Two young Russian historians are going to Ukraine to take part in the reconstruction of the Lvov-Sandomierz operation in July 1944. On sight they fall into conflict with Ukrainian nationalists, and some magical twist of fate, move into the middle of real warfare from more than 60 years. Miraculously avoiding death at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists, caught in the middle of fighting between the Red Army and the Nazis.

We Are from the Future 2

2010

Where Does the Sea Flow? poster
3.0

A mother is trying hard to love her five-years old daughter, but even the child's very presence continuously reminds her about the trauma of rape she survived five years ago. As troubled apparitions, fears and inner disorder of the mother begin to influence the little girl's psyche. Could the sincere affection of the child alleviate her mother's suffering?

Where Does the Sea Flow?

2011

Where Does the Sea Flow? poster
7.2

A conversation between famous politician and a teenager changes both of them...

Where Does the Sea Flow?

2019

The Day Before poster
4.5

Since the morning, the entire population of the planet has been concerned about one news: a red comet is approaching the Earth. A year ago, scientists only assumed this collision, a month ago they tried to establish the exact date - and finally, it was just announced by all communication sources: the end cannot be avoided. Moreover, it will happen tomorrow. There is one day left until... People of different classes, nationalities and faiths in different parts of a large country - each in their own way - are trying to spend this last day of their lives.

The Day Before

2016

The Admirer poster
4.0

A story based on love between Anton Chekhov and a young writer Lidiya Avilova.

The Admirer

2012

Ice poster
NR

Sasha is a young and daring hockey player. After he was kicked out of the team, he and his mother, a doctor, move to another city. Here he and his mother will have to not only become part of their new team, but also build a personal life and find mutual understanding.

Ice

2014

2000s · 7 titles

Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon poster
6.8

Alesha Popovich has to catch Tugarin Zmey and bring back the stolen money with the help of a talking Horse (which talks all the time and has an opinion on everything), a wise granny, a donkey and a beauty Lyubava.

Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon

2004

Little Longnose poster
6.9

When he refused to support power-hungry witch, the good shoemaker's boy, Jacob is transformed into a hunchbacked dwarf with overlong nose. Of their mother no longer recognized, mocked by the people of the city and driven away, Jacob runs one day a goose on the road. Together with the spring animal - in fact the king's daughter Greta enchanted - Jacob is now trying to make the transformation to reverse and put the wicked witch craft.

Little Longnose

2003

Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba poster
5.1

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.

Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba

2009

Dream poster
4.2

События развиваются вокруг лотерейного билета, выброшенного за ненадобностью археологами, которых интересует только их наука. Но оказывается, что билет сулит фантастический выигрыш, в миллион долларов. Стать обладателями огромной суммы хотят двое бомжей, члены племени айсоров, пара подростков и даже сам президент страны. Никто не желает уступать дорогу к осуществлению своей мечты. За счастливым билетом начинается охота.

Dream

2007

Peculiarities of the National Hunt in the Winter poster
6.2

Now the peculiarities of the national hunt are investigated during the winter season.

Peculiarities of the National Hunt in the Winter

2000

Urgent Freight poster
NR

Based on the short story of the same name by B. Lavrenev. The drama is about a boy, a boiler cleaner, stuck in the pipe of a steamer. And about the people who, despite all circumstances, have to deliver urgent freight...

Urgent Freight

2005

The Music of Love: Beethoven's Secret Love poster
7.0

The year is 1817. Minon, a five-year-old girl, leaves her aunt Therese of Brunswick, who has raised her like a mother since her birth, to go and live with her parents, the Count and Countess von Stakelberg. One day, Gabrielle, her housekeeper, who is no longer in her right mind, reveals that her real father is the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Twenty years later, still intrigued by this confession, Minon decides to unravel the mystery of her origins. She returns to the place of her early childhood, hoping to find the truth with her aunt, who was for years the faithful friend of the great composer.

The Music of Love: Beethoven's Secret Love

2004

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 18 titles

The Hobbit: The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins poster
6.5

Author J. R. R. Tolkien (Zinovij Gerdt) tells the story of Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and enjoyable hobbit, whose life is turned upside down when he decides to join the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves in an attempt to regain a treasure stolen from the latter. Soviet television movie adaptation of "The Hobbit".

The Hobbit: The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins

1985

Mister Designer poster
6.0

A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.

Mister Designer

1988

Eight Days of Hope poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Eight Days of Hope

1985

Echo of a Distant Explosion poster
NR

In the village of Timokhino, an explosion occurred due to the designers' oversights regarding the gas pipeline, resulting in fatalities, while the designers did not admit any guilt.

Echo of a Distant Explosion

1984

For Those Who Stay to Live poster
10.0

1928. Winter. Unprecedented construction of a giant plant Uralmash is getting under way. Rushing time of first five-year plans, incredible enthusiasm, inconceivable raging imagination, and also sabotages, provocation, suspiciousness, denunciation, famine and unsettled domestic life. And people of that time are the same, straight-out, resolute, goal-oriented, and moving towards the aim regardless of their own health. So is a main character a new head of the plant, a former Red Army cavalryman Alexander Bannikov (V.Gaev). He leads construction works as if he is marches into battle. It is exactly the kind of people of whom people say he lives for his work, and how one cant live for his work if at the height of the construction Moscow sends an order to stop it short.

For Those Who Stay to Live

1982

Passions Will Come poster
7.0

A moment inevitably comes in life when one has to part with childhood and enter another world, the world of adults. The transition from one state to another is very important - it is at this time that the character of the teenager is tested, his whole future life is determined. Eighth-grader Lyonka Buldyryov solves the problem of choosing a future path in life. These few days, full of important events and impressions, become decisive for him.

Passions Will Come

1982

Semyon Dezhnyov poster
8.0

Veliky Ustyug at the beginning of the 17th century. Semyon Dezhnyov falls in love with the daughter of a rich merchant — Avdotya, but the groom is poor. The girl's father sets a condition: Dezhnyov must go to Siberia and get rich — only then will he receive consent to marry. Dezhnyov agrees and leaves for Siberia. Although he passes the test, he does not return to Avdotya. He finds a strait "from a warm sea to a cold one": from the mouth of the Kolyma he swims to the Pacific Ocean and opens the strait between the continents.

Semyon Dezhnyov

1983

Long Memory poster
NR

Set in 1941 during World War II the film involves the lives of Volodya, Vanya, Galya and Nyusha and how this conflict has affected these children, portraying their struggles, resilience, and the enduring memories that shape their lives.

Long Memory

1985

The Last Road poster
4.5

About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel and died when he was 37.

The Last Road

1986

Squadron of Flying Hussars poster
6.4

A story about a colonel Denis Davydov - hero of the 1812 war.

Squadron of Flying Hussars

1981

What Would You Choose? poster
7.0

Four third-grader friends live in an old Leningrad house, study in the same class and try to understand their parents and teachers.

What Would You Choose?

1981

The Truth of Lieutenant Klimov poster
3.7

Naval officer Klimov returns from a deployment only to discover that his wife has been unfaithful—with Lieutenant Zvyagin. Shocked and disoriented, Klimov strikes his rival in public, during duty hours and on military grounds—a serious breach for which he pays the price. Refusing to explain the cause of the altercation, Klimov is demoted and transferred to the Northern Fleet. There, he must work to restore his reputation as a composed and confident commander…

The Truth of Lieutenant Klimov

1982

Got Snow Maiden? poster
6.0

New Year's Eve. An actor was invited to one of the families to play the role of Santa Claus. But the actor got sick and asked his friend to replace him. The friend agreed with joy, because it was his ex-wife who invited the actor. She forbids him to meet the children. Also, the failed father meets the sweet Snow Maiden, who is going through her own personal drama.

Got Snow Maiden?

1985

Action Scene poster
9.0

Petr Konstantinovich is the powerful Director of Petrochemical Industry, which is being built from scratch in a small Siberian town.

Action Scene

1983

Murder on the 31st Floor poster
8.5

Police officer Jensen orders the evacuation of a leading media group's office building after a bomb threat is made. There won't be any explosion, however, the media group sustains big losses because of the work stoppage and the management requires investigation of the case. Officer Jensen identifies six suspects, then finds out that he is being followed himself, especially when he gets involved in the obscure activities of the mysterious 31st department.

Murder on the 31st Floor

1981

Old Debts poster
NR

After returning from the war, Andrei Petrovich Kochnev became a metallurgical engineer. Passionate about his work, he immediately took an active part in managing the plant—and soon became its director. While installing equipment to implement his long-standing idea, Kochnev suffered a heart attack. This circumstance forced the patient's wife to call two women who meant a lot to him...

Old Debts

1980

Investigation Held by Bychkov's Team poster
NR

Follows the persistent, but not always noticeable battle for the moral foundations of the individual, for the future of young people.

Investigation Held by Bychkov's Team

1983

Customs poster
4.7

When vigilant Soviet customs officers find smuggled gold on a ship named Amur, they conduct an investigation to find the culprit and learn about a murder.

Customs

1982

1970s · 9 titles

The Prince and the Pauper poster
5.5

A poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.

The Prince and the Pauper

1972

Red Bees poster
6.0

In 1922, in a small town, the boys formed a pioneer squad and named it "Red Bees."

Red Bees

1972

The Siege: The Luga Defense Line poster
5.3

In June 1941, the Extraordinary Defense Headquarters of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov forced units of the front to withdraw, and on July 9, Pskov was also abandoned. The battles in the Luga direction held back the enemy. The first attacks of the Germans, intending to cross the Luga line on the move, were repulsed with heavy losses for them.

The Siege: The Luga Defense Line

1974

No artwork available
NR

Based on stories by Yuri Trifonov. The film consists of three novellas about sports life: "Alesha's Acquaintance," "The Telegram," and "Victory is Awarded..."

What the Stands Won't Know

1975

Blokada: Pulkovo Meridian poster
8.0

Autumn 1941. German tank troops are making another attempt to break through to the Uritsk and Pulkovo Heights. During heavy fighting, Soviet troops managed to stop the offensive of fascist tanks one and a half kilometers south of the Pulkovo Observatory. The 900 days of the blockade and the incredible courage of the Soviet people were approaching ...

Blokada: Pulkovo Meridian

1975

Blue Hares, or a Musical Journey poster
NR

Young clown Sasha is having trouble performing his act with his donkey Gena. After another failure, he decides to go on a journey with Gena. After traveling across the country, the friends return to their hometown and perform for the audience once again.

Blue Hares, or a Musical Journey

1974

The Pier on the Other Side poster
6.0

Aleksey Klimov, years after the war, cannot forget the girl Marusya, whom he met at the front as a young lieutenant. But then the war separated them. Many years later, having found Marusya, he comes to visit her. They realize that they still love each other. But they have families, and their happiness now can take place only at the cost of the misfortune of loved ones.

The Pier on the Other Side

1971

Avalanche poster
7.0

The story of the enthusiasts of the 1930s - the pioneers of the Khibiny and conquerors of the icy tundra.

Avalanche

1975

The Incredible Yehudiel Chlamydia poster
NR

About the beginning of M. Gorky's literary activity. Arriving in the provincial town of Samara, Alexey Peshkov publishes one after another incriminating feuilletons under the pseudonym Yehudiel Chlamydia. Acquires enemies, friends, becomes a famous writer and leaves for Moscow.

The Incredible Yehudiel Chlamydia

1970

1960s · 12 titles

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Way Home

1967

Ships in Lissa poster
NR

A television play based on stories by Alexander Grin. Five sailing ships are blocked in the port of Lissa by an enemy privateer. The captains of four of these ships gather around a hotel table, pondering how to set sail and outsmart the privateer's vigilance...

Ships in Lissa

1965

In the Town of S. poster
5.5

A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.

In the Town of S.

1967

Crash poster
7.5

Driver Panachuk, who took «left» passengers, is in a hurry to Gorsk. Panachuk tells the policeman who stopped him that he saw a murdered doctor in a crashed «Moskvich» car on the way.

Crash

1965

Life of Galileo poster
NR

A televised play based on the work of Bertolt Brecht.

Life of Galileo

1965

Baltic Skies poster
5.8

The end of August 1941. At night, a truck rushes along the last road not yet occupied by the enemy to Leningrad. In the back of two — civil aviation pilot Lunin and commissar of the air division Uvarov. Lunin, a man no longer young, experienced, but had not yet been in battle, was sent to the legendary squadron of fighter pilots under the command of Captain Rassokhin. This squadron fought from the first day of the war and has already lost most of its composition.

Baltic Skies

1960

Russian Pioneers poster
4.4

1918. Workers from Petrograd come to Altai region to establish the first agricultural commune. In spite of the hostility of the local White Army cossacks the workers build houses, cultivate land. The poor peasants are turning towards the commune. However, White Army cossacks take vengeance on the members of the commune.

Russian Pioneers

1967

Conscience Doesn't Forgive poster
NR

Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life.

Conscience Doesn't Forgive

1964

Kyukhlya poster
NR

A television play based on the life and death of Russian poet and Decembrist Wilhelm "Kyukhlya" Küchelbecker.

Kyukhlya

1963

Peer Gynt poster
NR

Based on the dramatic poem of the same name by Henrik Ibsen. Music by Edvard Grieg. The poem takes place in the first half of the 19th century and is set in Norway, on the Moroccan coast of the Mediterranean, in the Sahara Desert, and in a madhouse in Cairo. The main character is Peer Gynt, the son of Jon Gynt, who was once wealthy and respected, but later became an alcoholic and lost all his money.

Peer Gynt

1968

A Span of Land poster
NR

Based on the play of the same name by Boris Rymar.

A Span of Land

1968

Envy poster
NR

Performance based on the novel of the same name by Yuri Olesha with the participation of actors from the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater of M. Gorky.

Envy

1967

Series credits

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

Secret For a Million poster
NR

«Secret for a Million» is a game show for celebrities. Guest stars win money for disclosing personal secrets. Guest has to answer 10 hardball questions from the host. The last question is the hardest one and a truthful answer will be awarded by 1 million rubles. Only the most honest and brave of the guests dare to answer it telling the ugly truth they hid from their fans for years.

Secret For a Million

2016

Empire is Under Attack poster
7.1

In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.

Empire is Under Attack

2000

KREMEN poster
7.3

An ex soldier comes to visit a military friend and finds trouble right away. It all starts with a rape of a girl by the local thugs in the town. He must use his fighting skills to defeat the thugs.

KREMEN

2012

The Salt of the Earth poster
5.0

The film follows the fate of the Strogov peasant family. The story takes place in Western Siberia in the late 1940s.

The Salt of the Earth

1979

10 самых... poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

10 самых...

2016

Return from the Stars poster
9.0

Soviet miniseries based on Stanislav Lem's book "Powrót z gwiazd" (Return from the Stars). After 9-year interstellar expedition to Fomalhaut, the astronauts returned home. On Earth 127 years had passed and everything had changed. The Earth no longer has wars, and the society is a safe and comfortable place to live, due to betrization prodcedure that turns off natural aggressive instincts at birth. But the humanity has last something more. In this Uttopian society people don't need deep emotions, a strong character, the ability to overcome oneself and win at incredible odds. Before the main character there is a choice: to accept the new norms of society, or to be seen as a savage. Or maybe to leave the Earth again on another expedition?

Return from the Stars

1989

Makar - Pathfinder poster
9.0

A story about the adventures of a few young kids during the Russian Civil War.

Makar - Pathfinder

1984

Работа над ошибками poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Работа над ошибками

2024

Ivan Babushkin poster
NR

The series is based on the novel by A. Borshchagovsky "Sechen". About the life and work of the professional revolutionary, Bolshevik Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin.

Ivan Babushkin

1986

Russia Is Young poster
6.5

The Russian Empire, the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, the era of Peter I's reforms. At the center of events are Captain Silvestr Ievlev, Lieutenant of the Customs Troops Afanasy Krykov, and Helmsman Ivan Ryabov. All three are very close to the emperor, who entrusts them with commanding the resistance against the Swedish fleet during the defense of Arkhangelsk. Each of the trio plays an important role in the defense of Arkhangelsk and the capture of the Swedish fleet.

Russia Is Young

1984

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

Peter the Great: The Testament poster
NR

Peter the Great: The Testament is a Russian TV series, made in 2011 and based on the novel by Daniil Granin's "Evenings with Peter the Great". The film was produced by Studio 2-B-2 entertainment and was shown on Rossiya 1, the Russian TV channel.

Peter the Great: The Testament

2011

The White Horse poster
3.3

The White Horse is a Russian TV serial broadcast in 1993. The film, in 10 episodes, was directed by Gelii Ryabov. It presents the Russian civil war in Siberia from 1917–1920 and the struggle of the White Russians under the command of Admiral Alexander Kolchak against the Bolshevik forces, until his final defeat.

The White Horse

1993

Realtor poster
NR

They are charming. They are lucky. They're devilishly resourceful. They are real professionals. This couple skillfully changes their appearance and styles, enters the image with great artistry and leaves no traces behind.

Realtor

2005

To the Coming Century poster
10.0

An adaptation of Georgy Markov's novel of the same name – the final part of the trilogy about several generations of the Strogov family.

To the Coming Century

1985

Иванов и Рабинович poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Иванов и Рабинович

2004

Kingdom of Crooked... poster
8.0

Journalist Alexander Vetrov is a sensation hunter. His specialty is mysterious incidents and murders. Each of his materials is the result of an independent investigation. Every now and then Alexander gets involved in dangerous adventures that can cost him his life. But even that doesn't stop the resourceful stringer. Alexander will have to solve the mystery of the return to the Sablinsky caves of the legendary strangler from the distant 50s, find the werewolves terrorizing the city, expose the criminals involved in organ transplantation, unravel the almost mystical case of the cursed apartment...

Kingdom of Crooked...

2005

Зоннентау poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Зоннентау

2012

Yurka's Sunrises poster
NR

A story about the working life of rural youth in the 1970s. About the conflict between young specialist Yuri Khmel and the chairman of the collective farm, and his young wife Zhenya with her mother-in-law.

Yurka's Sunrises

1975

Deti Blokady poster
NR

A documentary series directed by Alla Chikicheva that tells the story of children's lives during the Siege of Leningrad.

Deti Blokady

2008