Roman Tkachuk

Acting

Roman Tkachuk

Born — Died

1932-08-31 — 1994-01-10

Place of birth

Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Yekaterinburg, Russia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 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

Tales of Keshka and His Friends poster
NR

Fun-loving Keshka, fidgety Borka, romantic Sima, businesswoman Anechka and extremely serious Tolyan, suddenly taken up with sports, quite seriously take up the construction of the map.

Tales of Keshka and His Friends

1975

Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge poster
7.4

The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.

Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge

1970

Heart of a Dog poster
7.9

In 1920s Moscow, shortly after the October Revolution, a stray dog named Sharik is taken in by Professor Preobrazhensky, a wealthy and respected surgeon. The professor performs a daring medical experiment on the dog that changes him into a human being. As the newly transformed Sharikov begins to navigate life in the professor’s apartment, his crude behavior and revolutionary ideas turn the household upside down.

Heart of a Dog

1988

The Wizard of the Emerald City poster
6.0

The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города) is a ten-part stop-motion adaptation of the first book in Alexander Volkov's Magic Land series. Produced by Ekran, it is believed to have aired monthly from around December 1973 to September 1974. Because of the wicked Gingema, a young girl named Ellie and her little dog Totoshka are swept away to the Magic Country, where incredible adventures await.

The Wizard of the Emerald City

1973

Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough poster
7.0

Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they're merely a ploy to mislead the Germans so the rest of the army can catch them off guard.

Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough

1970

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 9 titles

Heart of a Dog poster
7.9

In 1920s Moscow, shortly after the October Revolution, a stray dog named Sharik is taken in by Professor Preobrazhensky, a wealthy and respected surgeon. The professor performs a daring medical experiment on the dog that changes him into a human being. As the newly transformed Sharikov begins to navigate life in the professor’s apartment, his crude behavior and revolutionary ideas turn the household upside down.

Heart of a Dog

1988

The Oath of Jantai poster
9.0

Beginning of the 1920s. Jantai and the hero Mergen, residents of one of the mountain villages in Uzbekistan, set off for Moscow to order a monument to Lenin from a capital sculptor with the money collected by the people and to bring it back to their village. They are assisted in fulfilling the order by a homeless boy named Grishka, who has joined them in the capital.

The Oath of Jantai

1985

April Dreams poster
8.0

A funny adventures of a young boy and bear cub traveling together across the USSR.

April Dreams

1980

The Piggy Bank poster
9.0

A musical screen comedy based on the French play La Cagnotte (The Piggy Bank in English) by Eugène Marin Labiche. A group of provincial Bourgeois decide to spend savings they accumulated for a year of playing cards together on a memorable deed. After humorous strategizing and alliance forming, Leonida, the unmarried sister and Blanche, the engaged daughter, of Monsieur Champbourcy, entice the group to spend the money on what they imagine a luxurious journey to a capital city. A very memorable event indeed it was.

The Piggy Bank

1980

Unlucky Folks poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Unlucky Folks

1983

We're Sitting Good! poster
5.8

Five best friends have only one problem to deal with: where to get something to drink...

We're Sitting Good!

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Business Trip to a Sanatorium

1981

Suicide poster
NR

Podsekalnikov is a narrow-minded person, never working anywhere and constantly scandalizing with his wife and mother-in-law, is considering suicide. His neighbor Kalabushkin decides to make money on it ...

Suicide

1989

A Few Drops poster
7.0

Four one-act plays by Viktor Rozov in two parts.

A Few Drops

1983

1970s · 30 titles

Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge poster
7.4

The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.

Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge

1970

Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough poster
7.0

Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they're merely a ploy to mislead the Germans so the rest of the army can catch them off guard.

Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough

1970

Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street... poster
6.4

An omnibus of comical shorts.

Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...

1978

Between Sky and Earth poster
NR

It's time for the reckless guy Simion Cook to join the army. Having joined the airborne troops under the command of petty officer Petro Golovko, who is not indifferent to music, who organizes the vocal trio "Sineva", named after the initial letters of its participants: Moldovan Simeon, Armenian Nerses and Russian Vasily. And now the day has come when a new musical director, who turned out to be a charming girl Sasha, should arrive at the military unit. Who would have guessed that after the service, Simion would return home with a pretty bride...

Between Sky and Earth

1976

Cipollino poster
5.5

In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic produce, Cipollino fights the unjust treatment of his fellow vegetable townsfolk by the fruit royalty (Prince Lemon and the overly proud Lord Tomato) in the garden kingdom.

Cipollino

1973

We Didn't Learn This poster
6.3

The heroes of the film are students of a pedagogical university, those who, after a year or two, have to carry knowledge to schoolchildren, "to sow the rational, good, eternal." In the meantime, student practice. True, the practice is not quite ordinary, because for the first time students leave far from the walls of their own university, for the first time they meet with students in the classroom not in the presence of their teachers, those with whom life encounters them daily at the institute, but with those who have been working for more than a year at school.

We Didn't Learn This

1976

You to Me, Me to You poster
6.6

Ivan Sergeevich Kashkin — the bath attendant of the most prestigious metropolitan bath. It’s not easy to get to him: reputable diplomats, well-known footballers, and the heads of the ministry are seeking the honor to steam. But Kashkin himself does not need to achieve anything, everything is at his service — from black caviar to tickets to the conservatory. And the hero’s cloudless life would have flowed, but then his twin brother Sergei fell ill and asked Ivan to replace him in his equally strange work.

You to Me, Me to You

1977

Almanzor's Rings poster
7.0

The queen of a magic kingdom is trying to marry her two daughters...

Almanzor's Rings

1977

Foam poster
NR

A play staged by the Moscow Academic Theater of Satire based on S. Mikhalkov's play of the same name. The hero of the play - the head of one of the scientific institutes Makhonin, surrounding himself with sycophants, becomes on the dishonorable path of "buying" the finished dissertation....

Foam

1977

Bumbarash poster
5.8

Private Bumbarash, considered lost in the First World War, suddenly returned to his native village, where no one recognizes, because the money for the memorial service a long time ago employed for other purposes. In a country already in full raging civil war in the tiny village of power is changing every half: red, white, anarchists, gangsters, again red and white for them again, and so on to infinity ... Amid all this chaos Bumbarash tries to arrange his life and personal happiness.

Bumbarash

1972

The Golden Gates poster
6.5

The film-remembrance of the creative fate of the Ukrainian Soviet film director Alexander Dovzhenko, shot on his diaries. It has his statements about his work, about the role of the artist in society, his plans and sources of inspiration, his artistic style and the peculiarities of his worldview. Used excerpts from his films and documentary footage taken during the director's life, as well as filmed fragments of the unfinished scripts " The Death of the Gods” and “Tsar”.

The Golden Gates

1971

Three of Us and Dog from Petipas poster
7.3

The summer holidays are approaching and the children are bragging about all the exciting places they are going to visit during the long-awaited two months of summer. Only Tonda is not looking forward to staying in Prague over the holidays. He brightens up after his father announces that the boy can visit some friends of the family in the village of Petipas.

Three of Us and Dog from Petipas

1972

Vlak do stanice Nebe poster
7.3

The last winter of the Second World War in the Beskids. To escape the bombing, eight-year-old Dagmar is taken by her mother from Prague to a mountain village. From there, they take the narrow-gauge railroad to school...

Vlak do stanice Nebe

1972

Tales of Keshka and His Friends poster
5.8

Fun-loving Keshka, fidgety Borka, romantic Sima, businesswoman Anechka and extremely serious Tolyan, suddenly taken up with sports, quite seriously take up the construction of the map.

Tales of Keshka and His Friends

1974

The Ballad of Bering and His Friends poster
5.8

The story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering.

The Ballad of Bering and His Friends

1970

Aniskin and Fantomas poster
5.4

A second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.

Aniskin and Fantomas

1973

One Times One poster
7.0

Having lived for his pleasure most of his life, floor polisher Ivan Karetnikov, on the threshold of his 60th birthday, did not for the first time leave his next wife himself, but she abandoned him, moreover, in public. In addition to these troubles, he was fired from his job, replaced by a mechanical polisher. In this difficult moment, Karetnikov remembered the first wife, and then the second and third. But turning to each of them, he seems to begin to lose hope of seeing compassion for himself.

One Times One

1975

Escape from the Palace poster
NR

A family drama about life of a few children in Ukraine during thirties.

Escape from the Palace

1975

Somebody Else's Tracks poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Somebody Else's Tracks

1971

A Step from the Roof poster
7.0

Funny adventures of fifth-grader Vitka Paramonov across different times and places.

A Step from the Roof

1970

Lev Gurych Sinichkin poster
5.2

The old actor dreams of a leading role for his young talented daughter. However, she is opposed by a powerful diva of the troupe with a terrible character and great connections. After a series of efforts of the characters and hilarious misunderstandings, the old man's dream come true.

Lev Gurych Sinichkin

1974

Smart Things poster
6.0

There is a noisy bazaar inconspicuous shop with a sign "Smart Things". And the goods in it completely wonderful no ordinary thing to find. Anyone who would go to the store, they can buy there thing and pay high seller does not require. That's just not everyone will be able to such curiosities to really take advantage of.

Smart Things

1973

No artwork available
6.0

The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do with their lives. The first "Poet", an aspiring author, publishes his first poem, while the sporting career of the second "Rep", a national table tennis player, is disrupted by a maths repartee. The last "Beaver Grizzly" is a tramp more used to solitude, yet he starts a pioneer troop...

Maturita za školou

1973

Mad Day or Figaro Wedding poster
4.8

The servant of Count Almaviva, the jolly and joker Figaro, is going to marry the maid of the Countess Rosina - Susanne. But the count wants to upset the wedding and make the girl his lover.

Mad Day or Figaro Wedding

1974

No artwork available
NR

Incredible comedy about the adventures of Oleg Popov, the Sun Clown

Sun in the String Bag

1979

Navy Officer poster
NR

About the heroism and endless devotion to the Motherland of military sailors in Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War.

Navy Officer

1970

Romashkin Effect poster
5.5

A musical comedy about the adventures of four friends who are trying to film a yogurt commercials.

Romashkin Effect

1973

Aniskin Again poster
5.3

Third and final part of the comedies about the funny adventures of countryside cop named Aniskin.

Aniskin Again

1977

Andro and Sandro poster
NR

Andro and Sandro are two old men living in a small Ossetian village. They are also veterans of the local collective farm and best friends, helping each other in almost everything.

Andro and Sandro

1974

Slap in the Face poster
NR

The conflict between Professor Shcheglov and Doctor Skuratov, which began with a slap in the face.

Slap in the Face

1976

1960s · 7 titles

Schweik in World War II poster
NR

Based on the satirical anti-war comedy of the same name by B. Brecht.

Schweik in World War II

1969

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

Deary poster
NR

A story of a woman trying to find her happiness through a difficult life.

Deary

1966

Katerina Izmailova poster
4.6

Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolitan Opera debut did not occur until 1994.

Katerina Izmailova

1966

The Village Detective poster
6.2

Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate.

The Village Detective

1969

Two Comrades Were Serving poster
6.9

Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day.

Two Comrades Were Serving

1968

Two Comedies of Branislav Nušić poster
NR

Teleplay based on comedies by Serbian playwright Branislav Nušić and combined with songs by Andrey Mironov

Two Comedies of Branislav Nušić

1969

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

Tales of Keshka and His Friends poster
NR

Fun-loving Keshka, fidgety Borka, romantic Sima, businesswoman Anechka and extremely serious Tolyan, suddenly taken up with sports, quite seriously take up the construction of the map.

Tales of Keshka and His Friends

1975

The Wizard of the Emerald City poster
6.0

The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города) is a ten-part stop-motion adaptation of the first book in Alexander Volkov's Magic Land series. Produced by Ekran, it is believed to have aired monthly from around December 1973 to September 1974. Because of the wicked Gingema, a young girl named Ellie and her little dog Totoshka are swept away to the Magic Country, where incredible adventures await.

The Wizard of the Emerald City

1973

Bumbarash poster
NR

Private Bumbarash, considered lost in the First World War, suddenly returned to his native village, where no one recognizes, because the money for the memorial service a long time ago employed for other purposes. In a country already in full raging civil war in the tiny village of power is changing every half: red, white, anarchists, gangsters, again red and white for them again, and so on to infinity ... Amid all this chaos Bumbarash tries to arrange his life and personal happiness.

Bumbarash

1972

Aniskin and Fantomas poster
NR

A second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.

Aniskin and Fantomas

1974