Mikhail Kuznetsov

Acting

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Born — Died

1918-02-24 — 1986-08-23

Place of birth

Bogorodsk, Russian SFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Known for

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

Ivan the Terrible, Part I poster
7.3

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944

Scarlet Straps poster
NR

A story of a young cadets of Suvorovsky army school.

Scarlet Straps

1980

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

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot poster
7.3

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

1958

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #10 poster
NR

Fighting Film Collection No. 10 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 10) is the tenth issue of Boyevoy kinosbornik series, released in June 1942. It contains two segments: "Bestsennaya golova/A Priceless Head" and "Molodoye vino/Young Wine". Both depict the anti-Nazi resistance, the first in Poland and the second in Romania.

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #10

1942

Film credits

1980s · 8 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

Bagration poster
8.0

About the commander Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration. Mortally wounded in the Battle of Borodino, he slowly dies in the village, at the estate of his aunt. The hero recalls the past, his experiences. Each episode of Bagration's life is a page of Russian history: the military march across the Alps, the capture of the impregnable Devil's Bridge, meetings with Alexander I, the battle of Borodino.

Bagration

1985

Awakening poster
10.0

Reconstructed from archival documents and historical studies, a chronicle of the 1916 popular uprising in the Hungry Steppe and the Jizzakh Steppe.

Awakening

1983

The Circus Boy poster
7.5

This story is about the events of the beginning of the century, the circus, in which the favorite of the troupe Alesha grew up. After the mother - acrobat Maria-Louise died, his childhood was over. Revolutionary events influenced the fate of a small circus - and the boy was left alone. But when in his life appeared Bolshevik Stepan Ratushny, Alyosha again began to perform in the circus.

The Circus Boy

1980

Mr. Student poster
9.0

The adventures of a high school student Igor who is helping Reds during the October Revolution in Russia.

Mr. Student

1985

On His Motherland Service poster
9.0

A historical and adventure political film about the first diplomatic contacts between Russia and Afghanistan. The film recreates the historical events of the 1830s. The prototype of the main character, Russian officer Alexei Nalymov, who took part in the Decembrist movement, is Russian diplomat Yan Vitkevich.

On His Motherland Service

1982

Secret Ballot poster
9.0

The chairman of the Rassvet collective farm, Foma Lukash, lived honestly and fairly. But when his heart began to catch, Lukash went to the hospital. Meanwhile, his deputy began to establish new orders on the collective farm. For example, the working day was moved to a later time. Many people liked it, because it wasn’t war. But Foma, upon leaving the hospital, did not accept the new changes - and demanded early re-election of the chairman...

Secret Ballot

1980

This is Where We Live poster
7.0

Events unfold on the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM), in the survey party and in the village of Kamushki, through which the highway is to pass.

This is Where We Live

1982

1970s · 7 titles

1960s · 6 titles

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 Blue Notebook poster
5.4

In the summer of 1917, Vladimir Lenin leaves Petrograd and shelters in Razliv with fellow revolutionary Grigory Zinoviev. In the weeks that follow, Lenin writes his famous "Blue Notebook" advocating proletarian revolution.

The Blue Notebook

1963

Someone Else's Trouble poster
8.0

Something went wrong with the chairman of a prosperous collective farm, both at home and in the general household. And when they sent a new secretary of the party organization, he got really angry and went to Alexandra. But he continued to worry about the collective farm and therefore always waited for news through her — how were they without him? And he knew that no one would come for him. But one day an accident happened on the collective farm, he was called and Alexandra could not keep him...

Someone Else's Trouble

1960

Game Without Rules poster
10.0

The Second World War is over. The post-war Germany is divided into several responsibility zones. Still many Russian people languish in camps located in the American zone. Though former allies are in no hurry to let them off to the motherland, and even try to enroll some of them. The American intelligence agency gets to know that they've got a daughter of one of the West Germany cities commandant, whose brother is a famous soviet rocket engineering designer. They plan a crafty operation on the discrimination of the Russian colonel and introduction of the niece into the uncles design office. The Russian Intelligence service is also aware of the Americans interest in the designers works. The special department colonel Lartsev is coming from Moscow to Germany to prepare a reciprocal operation.

Game Without Rules

1965

The Salvos of the Aurora Cruiser poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Salvos of the Aurora Cruiser

1965

Silver Coach poster
9.0

Back in the thirties, Anton Lutenko was forced to leave Lviv and seek success abroad. His wife died during the war, and his daughter Tanya went missing. Anton found the job he dreamed of abroad and became a famous coach. Italian Julia became his impresario, friend and wife. One day, Anton was brought a Soviet magazine, on the cover of which was a young gymnast, master of sports Tatiana Lutsenko. Anton is flying to Kiev with a team of Italian gymnasts. Exciting days of happy experiences and meetings are ahead...

Silver Coach

1963

1950s · 15 titles

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot poster
7.3

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

1958

Precious Gift poster
5.2

The inveterate fisherman Karp Trofimovich has his birthday during competition of fishermen so his nephew clings a huge pike to the uncle's hook .

Precious Gift

1956

Maria, the Wonderful Weaver poster
7.2

An old soldier helps a young boy find his mother, who's been kidnapped to the magical underwater kingdom in a remote Russian lake.

Maria, the Wonderful Weaver

1959

The Frigid Sea poster
6.5

Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ...

The Frigid Sea

1955

Sailor Chizhik poster
8.0

Having been wounded during the exercises, the sailor Fedos Chizhik is sent as a orderly to the house of Captain Luzgin. The captain's wife - a young, beautiful, and spoiled woman - is very hard on the orderly.

Sailor Chizhik

1955

In the Silence of Steppe poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

In the Silence of Steppe

1959

Extraordinary Accident poster
5.6

The crew of a soviet cargo falls prey to an act of piracy in waters between China and Taiwan, and are taken to Taiwan where they are pressured into stating they chose to go into the free world.

Extraordinary Accident

1958

The Missing Person poster
10.0

A story about injured Soviet Army officer who joins resistance group in Slovakia during WWII.

The Missing Person

1957

Marina's Destiny poster
5.0

Terenty leaves the collective farm and goes to the city to study to become an agronomist. Marina works hard and looks forward to her husband's return. When her husband returns home, he reproaches his wife for being uneducated, asks for a divorce and leaves for the city. Left with her daughter, Marina devotes herself entirely to her studies and work.

Marina's Destiny

1954

Viburnum Grove poster
10.0

After working for twenty years in the village of Kalinovaya Roscha, the once energetic chairman of the collective farm, Ivan Romanyuk, "broke down" and became a bureaucrat. Natalya Kovshik, the glib-tongued chairman of the village Council, and Karp Vetrovoy, a former Black Sea sailor, join the fight with him.

Viburnum Grove

1954

The Ship Commander poster
4.8

Andrei Vysotina, who has just graduated from the Naval Academy, is appointed commander of the ship Derzhavny. The hero challenges the commander of another ship in the Black Sea Fleet, whose wife he was once in love with.

The Ship Commander

1954

Taras Shevchenko poster
4.8

Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet Taras Shevchenko in the years of study clearly identifies the meaning of true art, which is to serve the interests of the people. The poems of Shevchenko are imbued with love for the common people. Fiery freedom-loving creativity of Taras Shevchenko is known throughout Russia. Nicholas I exiles the poet to the distant Caspian fort where he is to serve as an ordinary soldier and is banned from writing or drawing. In the poet's difficult days he has the support of Ukrainian soldier Skobelev, Polish revolutionary Sierakowski, captain Kosarev and the commandant of the fortress, Uskov. For the sake of his release Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov are hard at work. And so, the sick and aged Shevchenko is finally free. Together with Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov, he dreams of a bright future of the motherland, when the Russian and Ukrainian peoples throw off the chains of slavery.

Taras Shevchenko

1951

Bountiful Summer poster
4.3

The war is over. The Red Army soldier Pyotr tries to find himself in a peaceful life. He takes the place of an accountant, and long-time friend Nazar, who has already grown to the post of the head of a collective farm, helps him in this. Together they achieve high performance indicators of their wards, skillfully solving controversial issues and emerging from confused situations.

Bountiful Summer

1951

Rains poster
NR

The construction plan for a small bridge has been disrupted by two weeks of heavy rains and a shortage of sand and gravel. The construction manager and Valentina Georgievna, his devoted secretary, long for good weather and wait for changes. And change is indeed coming.

Rains

1958

Adventure in Odessa poster
9.0

Group of youngsters find a sunken sailboat used by guerrillas during WWII, raise it, repair it, and sail out to sea for adventure.

Adventure in Odessa

1953

1940s · 11 titles

Ivan the Terrible, Part I poster
7.3

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #10 poster
NR

Fighting Film Collection No. 10 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 10) is the tenth issue of Boyevoy kinosbornik series, released in June 1942. It contains two segments: "Bestsennaya golova/A Priceless Head" and "Molodoye vino/Young Wine". Both depict the anti-Nazi resistance, the first in Poland and the second in Romania.

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #10

1942

It Happened in the Donbass poster
7.5

The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbass and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.

It Happened in the Donbass

1945

Actress poster
5.4

Zoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hospital. There she meets the wounded major Peter Nikolayevich Markov.

Actress

1943

The District Secretary poster
4.7

A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII.

The District Secretary

1942

Our Girls poster
10.0

One of the anthology films about Soviet citizens resisting the Nazi invaders during World War II, the feature consists of two stories, one about a teenage woman telephone operator who sacrifices herself, the other about a farm girl tending a sick pig who deals with two paratroopers seeking shelter.

Our Girls

1942

Mashenka poster
5.7

Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.

Mashenka

1942

Air Taxi poster
5.7

A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.

Air Taxi

1943

Our Heart poster
6.5

A story about a creation of a new Soviet Jet during WWII.

Our Heart

1947

Private Aleksandr Matrosov poster
9.0

The film is about the exploit of a nineteen-year-old soldier of the Great Patriotic War - Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of the enemy's bunker with his body.

Private Aleksandr Matrosov

1947

In the Name of Life poster
7.0

Three friends, three young surgeons, returning from war, begin working on a complex medical problem. Their hard work does not yield the desired results, and two of them lose faith in success...

In the Name of Life

1946

Series credits