Mykola Hrynko

Acting

Mykola Hrynko

Born — Died

1920-05-22 — 1989-04-10

Place of birth

Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

Mykola Hryhorovych Hrynko or Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko (Ukrainian: Микола Григорович Гринько; Russian: Николай Григорьевич Гринько) was a Soviet and Ukrainian actor. His film debut was in the role of a rebel in the film "Taras Shevchenko" by Igor Savchenko. He is best known for his roles in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, including: "Ivan's Childhood", "Andrei Rubliov", "Solaris", "Mirror", and "Stalker", as well as Sergei Parajanov's "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors".

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 21 titles

The Adventures of the Electronic poster
7.0

Professor Gromov constructs a robot called Electronic, which looks exactly like Sergey Syroezhkibn, a 6-grader from one of Odessa (USSR) schools. The robot also acts a lot like a human, and its dream is to become a real man. Electronic escapes from the professor's lab and accidentally meets Sergey, his prototype. Meanwhile, a gang lead by Stump is trying to kidnap Electronic to make him steal pictures from museums. For this purpose they send their hitman Urrie.

The Adventures of the Electronic

1980

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

Two Long Hoots in the Fog poster
6.2

In a deserted tundra on the lake, a seaplane makes an emergency landing, on board of which bank collectors carry a large amount of money. A storm begins and the plane relates to the river delta. An unknown person steals money from an airplane and kills a geologist, an accidental witness. And a few days later the ship departs from the northern port for the last navigation voyage, where a recidivist hides among the motley company of passengers, and the captain begins his own investigation...

Two Long Hoots in the Fog

1981

To proceed with the investigation. Movie 2: Slander poster
NR

For several years, the head of a major construction trust Melnikov was accused of embezzlement, bribe-taking and immoral behavior in anonymous letters. As a result of inspections by numerous commissions, all these “signals” were not confirmed. Melnikov, unable to withstand the attacks and slander, died of a heart attack. Investigator Dzhangirov manages to expose the slanderer ...

To proceed with the investigation. Movie 2: Slander

1986

Smiles of Nechiporovka poster
NR

A long time ago, in a certain village, a tired traveler was resting. His name was Nechipor. And then Nechipor saw in a dream how the girls gave him a box. And along the box there was a treble clef. He became the symbol of Nechiporovka. And the village was named in honor of its creator - Nechiporovka...

Smiles of Nechiporovka

1982

I'm Offering My Hand and Heart poster
8.0

After becoming a widower and retiring, former teacher Nikolai Chmutin moved in with his daughter, who, together with her husband, decided to marry him off. In their search for a suitable candidate, the characters find themselves in comical situations time and time again, until a bride is finally found...

I'm Offering My Hand and Heart

1989

Be My Husband poster
7.0

Natasha, a woman struggling to find housing in a crowded resort town with her young son. She forces a stranger, Viktor, to pretend to be her husband to secure accommodation that bans children, leading to unexpected romantic developments.

Be My Husband

1981

Citizen Lyoshka poster
8.0

The young lumberjack foreman Lyoshka Ignatov bitterly sees for himself that the huge stocks of forest, extracted by hard work, rot on the side of the road due to simple mismanagement. Raising the alarm at the timber industry farm and not receiving support in the area, he flies to Moscow.

Citizen Lyoshka

1981

Deer Hunting poster
5.2

Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves in the occupied territory in the area of operations of the Belarusian partisan detachment. To find the people's avengers, the Nazis decide to use children.

Deer Hunting

1982

Ginger Fairy poster
6.5

11-year-old Minko is forced to move from a decaying village to the city with his father, mother and sick grandfather. New apartment, school and classmates greet the boy with hostility. This only strengthens his desire to return home, where there is a forest and his friends. But what Minko misses the most is Ginger Fairy, a tame moose he once saved and which disappeared the day he left.

Ginger Fairy

1987

To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing poster
10.0

Two men wander a Kazakh forest in search of mushrooms, whilst reflecting on their philosophies and memories.

To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing

1987

The Youth of Peter poster
6.8

The years of the tsar’s adolescence and youth were permeated with deadly danger coming from some of the Boyars, the rebellious Streltsy and Tsarevna Sophia who aspired for power. But already at that early time Peter demonstrates a profound, bright intellect, a strong will and the sense of purpose, which help him disarm both his open and secret enemies.

The Youth of Peter

1981

How I Was a Prodigy poster
NR

Seva, a young schoolboy, is fighting his parents and especially grandmother who want to make child prodigy out of him.

How I Was a Prodigy

1983

The Wedding Is Accused poster
5.2

The wedding turns into a crime scene. The wedding is like the apotheosis of meaninglessness, a metaphor for society. The story of the generation of the eighties with a tragic ending. The film uses the true facts of the criminal case.

The Wedding Is Accused

1986

A Million in a Wedding Basket poster
6.2

In the densely populated slums live large but poor family of charming and talented signor Leonido Popogatto. Under the guise of an important person he enters the secular parties and steals drinks and food from the tables.

A Million in a Wedding Basket

1985

A Mystery Known to All poster
6.0

Children from in a summer camp decided to invite a group of famous actors to visit them.

A Mystery Known to All

1981

My Sister Lucy poster
6.0

The film is a recollection of an adult about the unforgettable days of the first post-war year. Klava, who lost her husband at the front, with her 12-year-old daughter Lyusya sheltered Aygul with a seven-year-old boy in her house. Aygul's son - the main character, now became a pilot, recalls his childhood in a small Kazakh city, which fell on a difficult post-war time. Flying high above the Earth, he thinks of the Russian girl Lyusya, from his distant past.

My Sister Lucy

1985

Behind the Old Fence poster
NR

Based on Galina Demykina’s story “The Girl Got Lost.”

Behind the Old Fence

1982

Having Lied Once poster
4.3

Set in the Soviet Union, the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.

Having Lied Once

1988

The Acolyte poster
8.0

After losing his parents in the war, the boy ended up in an orphanage, from which he escaped and was taken in by a village teacher. Following in the footsteps of his tutor, Valya Kandaurov graduated from the Pedagogical Institute and began working in a rural school. And then a girl from the city where he was studying came to Vale and invited him to follow her. But neither his career nor the joys of a comfortable life brought him satisfaction and he returned to his homeland.

The Acolyte

1985

The Last Game poster
8.0

After a long absence, Igor Balagura returns to his hometown. After learning about the suicide of his friend Stas Olenich, a promising scientist and talented tennis player, the hero begins his own investigation...

The Last Game

1982

1970s · 25 titles

Stalker poster
8.1

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

Stalker

1979

Solaris poster
7.8

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

Solaris

1972

Mirror poster
7.9

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

Mirror

1975

Afonya poster
7.7

Afonya Borshev is a plumber who drinks a lot, flirts a lot and doesn't care too much about tomorrow. His wife left him, his boss placed him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. When Afonya met Katya at a dance club he didn't pay her much attention, yet she may be the only one who can help him.

Afonya

1975

The Adventures of Buratino poster
6.7

A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise.

The Adventures of Buratino

1976

Twenty Days Without War poster
6.6

War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.

Twenty Days Without War

1976

Romance for Lovers poster
5.2

A Marine's presumed death leads his fiancée to marry another, only for him to return, leading to a tragic, symbolic end for him despite his physical survival.

Romance for Lovers

1974

Starling and Lyre poster
6.0

Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work.

Starling and Lyre

1974

The Feast of the Baked Potato poster
6.4

Drama about Aleksandra Avramovna Derevskaya (1902-1959), who, between the two wars - the Civil and Great Patriotic War, raised 48 orphan children of different nationalities. After her death, each birthday, her large family gathers at the table, to preserve the tradition of serving baked potatoes, which was a favorite dish of the household head.

The Feast of the Baked Potato

1978

Black Sun poster
NR

The life and death of Robert Moussombe, the leader of an unnamed African state. Moussombe is a fictionalized portrait of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and the film's events are a pastiche of the Congo Crisis in 1960s.

Black Sun

1971

Last Hunt poster
7.3

1920s. A schooner manned by foreign pirates reaches the coast of Northern Ocean near Russian Eastern Siberian Community that cheaply buys expensive furs and gold from locals.

Last Hunt

1979

Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches poster
6.5

A young boy grapples with first love and his ambitions as a drummer during an eventful summer holiday.

Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches

1975

Ring poster
6.0

Investigating the murder of a cash-collector, Major Isaev, a former boxing champion, comes to the conclusion that the killer is a boxer. To catch the criminal, Peter Isaev takes an unconventional decision. He applies to participate in the city's boxing championship, hoping that the criminal will probably come to watch the former champion fight. Isayev has to overcome each stage of the championship with difficulty: it has been five years since he left the ring...

Ring

1973

100 grams for Bravery poster
5.9

Three short stories that share a common satirical theme: alcoholism and drunkenness.

100 grams for Bravery

1977

Commissioner Berlach's Last Case poster
5.9

The last months of Police Commissioner Berlach's life are devoted to tracking down the war criminal, Nazi doctor-examiner Emenberger. Hiding under a false identity, he continues to carry out cruel experiments on human beings even in peaceful days. The terminally ill Berlach manages to expose the criminal and break him, forcing him to confess to what he has done

Commissioner Berlach's Last Case

1972

One-Two, Soldiers Were Going... poster
7.1

The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.

One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...

1976

Yuliya Vrevskaya poster
4.5

The film is based on a true dramatic story of the fate of a wonderful Russian woman - Countess Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya, one of the first Petersburg beauties. The events of the movie take place during the Russian-Turkish war for the liberation of the Bulgarian people from the Turkish yoke. An early widowed baroness, having left Petersburg, and having invested all her money in organizing a volunteer sanitary detachment, she becomes a sister of mercy on the front of the Bulgarian war with the Ottoman Empire of 1878.

Yuliya Vrevskaya

1977

Who Will go to Truskavets? poster
4.5

The casual acquaintance of the heroes did not portend any feelings. They are not very interested in each other and seem to want to quickly get rid of each other. But when she leaves for Truskavets, the hero does everything to meet her there at the station.

Who Will go to Truskavets?

1978

Timur and His Team poster
5.9

A story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the years before WWII.

Timur and His Team

1977

Housewarming poster
5.0

The story of the life of the Podolsk village and what the inhabitants of the village had to go through during the years of Soviet power. Through the fate of the heroes, the film tells about the events of collectivization in the village, where for centuries, everyone used to work only on his own farm, about the war years, when many quiet people showed miracles of heroism, and universal favorites became nazi puppets.

Housewarming

1974

The Lost Expedition poster
5.4

An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918.

The Lost Expedition

1975

Lada from the Berendeyev Country poster
NR

A simple girl named Lada finds herself in the kingdom of Magnum IV, where a singing competition is being held, the victory in which is already assured for the king's "gifted" daughter, Princess Moggot.

Lada from the Berendeyev Country

1971

Car, Violin and Blot the Dog poster
6.2

A fantasy story about five-grades - musician and engineer, their friend - the most beautiful girl in the world, her brother who dreams to turn all cats into monkeys, his dog Klyaksa and a lot more stuff…

Car, Violin and Blot the Dog

1974

The Retired Colonel poster
8.0

Korney Korneevich Polunin is a career military officer, a retired colonel. His wife died when his son was one and a half years old, Alexey had already grown up, became independent, and they rarely see each other. Unable to stay at home, Polunin goes to the factory as a locksmith - in his old specialty. Friends perceive this as an oddity, and they look at him warily at work. But a group of teenagers comes to the plant's personnel department, and Polunin undertakes to lead this team, instilling in it respect for work and awareness of his need to achieve the final result of work.

The Retired Colonel

1977

Vesnukhin's Fantasies poster
4.3

A first-grader dreams to perform with his cat in the circus.

Vesnukhin's Fantasies

1976

1960s · 13 titles

Ivan's Childhood poster
7.8

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

Ivan's Childhood

1962

Andrei Rublev poster
7.9

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

Andrei Rublev

1966

War and Peace poster
7.6

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

War and Peace

1968

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors poster
7.5

In the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life and death among the Hutsul people are as they’ve been since time began. Ivan is drawn to Marichka, the beautiful young daughter of the man who killed his father. But fate tragically decrees that the two lovers will remain apart.

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

1965

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 poster
7.6

In 1812, as Napoleon's army invades Russia, Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the armies' impending confrontation. As the Battle of Borodino rages, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Part three of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

1967

Avdotya Pavlovna poster
8.0

The first postwar years. The Director of a small breeding station Avdotya Pavlovna is not immediately convinced of the anti-science of the official Lysenkov direction in biology. But making sure leaving the farm as an ordinary agriculturist, where he works on breeding new wheat varieties on the basis of the persecuted Lysenkova chromosome theory of heredity.

Avdotya Pavlovna

1967

One Chance in One Thousand poster
4.3

In German-occupied Crimea during WWII, a group of Russian soldiers employ unusual tactics to steal classified documents from their enemies.

One Chance in One Thousand

1969

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

Peace to Him Who Enters poster
5.9

Pregnant German woman is trapped behind Russian lines. When she goes into labor, three Soviet soldiers deliver her to a field hospital: a newly graduated officer, an affable truck driver, and a soldier shell-shocked into muteness. The dangerous trip to the hospital ends up a rite of passage for all concerned.

Peace to Him Who Enters

1961

Dangerous Tour poster
6.2

Based on the events that took place in Odessa in 1910, when, on the instructions of the Foreign Bureau of the RSDLP, a prominent Bolshevik underground worker arrived in the city under the guise of a French timber merchant, who was to organize the delivery of illegal literature to Russia through the Odessa port. The task can be completed. In Odessa, a variety show theater was created, which, having gained fame, toured Russia and received "theater props" from France...

Dangerous Tour

1969

Only Three Nights poster
5.8

The love story in the remote village. Lyuba has a child, Nikolai has a wife. Nikolay, having become a projectionist, now, once a week, brings cinema to the village of Babino, where Lyuba lives. Once they loved each other, but Nikolai, unexpectedly for everyone, married another and since then tried not to be in this village. And now feelings have surged again, and both are unable to resist this love.

Only Three Nights

1969

No Unknown Soldiers poster
9.0

A story about a few days during the defense of Kiev at the beginning of WWII.

No Unknown Soldiers

1965

Only the Statues Are Silent poster
NR

Soviet specialists are building a hydroelectric power station in a Middle Eastern country. To continue the work, it is necessary to carry out an explosion... But no one even suspects that an old German ammunition depot is hidden nearby, underground. An accidental explosion would suit the British company that lost the order to the Russians. Weber, Greerson, and Gedda are faced with a problem: they need to warn the Russians about the danger. Each of them has had encounters with Soviet people in their lives...

Only the Statues Are Silent

1962

Series credits

To Remember poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

To Remember

1993

The Adventures of the Electronic poster
7.1

A Soviet scientist creates a brilliant robot. This is a boy who is able to solve any mathematical problems, he writes the best essays and sings perfectly! And he is also an exact copy of schoolboy Seryozha Syroezhkin. A clever boy quickly shifts all his duties to an electronic double. He does his homework for him, goes to school and does household chores that his parents entrust to Syroezhkin...

The Adventures of the Electronic

1980

The Adventures of Buratino poster
7.2

A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise

The Adventures of Buratino

1975

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

The Underground Regional Committee Is Active poster
1.0

About the partisan movement in Ukraine.

The Underground Regional Committee Is Active

1979

Proceed to the Investigation. Film 2: Slander poster
NR

For several years, the head of a major construction trust Melnikov was accused of embezzlement, bribe-taking and immoral behavior in anonymous letters. As a result of inspections by numerous commissions, all these “signals” were not confirmed. Melnikov, unable to withstand the attacks and slander, died of a heart attack. Investigator Dzhangirov manages to expose the slanderer ...

Proceed to the Investigation. Film 2: Slander

1988