Maksim Matveev

Acting

Maksim Matveev

Born

1982-07-28 (44)

Place of birth

Svetly, Kaliningrad region, USSR (Russia)

Known for

Acting

Credits

69 titles

Maksim Matveev is a Russian film and theater actor. He was born in town Svetly in 1982. In 2002, Maksim Matveyev graduated from the theater department of the Saratov State Conservatory (V. Ermakova course). In 2006 he was accepted into the troupe of Moscow Art Theatre, where he made his debut in the play "The Piemonte Beast", playing the role of a knight there Joffrey. He played in many films and TV series, including the famous in Russia “Trigger”, “Hipsters”, “MosGaz” and “The New Year's Rate Plan”.

Known for

Trigger poster
7.8

Artem is 35 years old. He’s a psychologist, he uses this provocative methodology successfully until one of his clients commits suicide. The one who Artem tried to heal from a suicidal mood by taking him to the roof and telling him that suicide was the right course of action. Artem is condemned to 8 years of colony, the psycholo- gist’s license is taken away, his wife Dasha (32) leaves him, his friends turn their backs on him. With the help of his best friend, Artem gets out of jail. All he is looking for is justice. He believes in his method and wants to prove that it’s actually working and the blame of the patient’s death is not on him. Each episode is a sep- arate case, Artem is brilliantly solving other people seemingly im- possible problems. But will he be able to save himself?

Trigger

2020

Investigator Tikhonov poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Investigator Tikhonov

2016

Mata Hari poster
5.3

A sex icon becomes a spy during one of the most important wars of the 20th century. To survive, Margaret becomes an exotic dancer after her husband leaves her. When the world stands on the edge of WWI, she becomes Mata Hari, a spy with unprecedented access to the European elite.

Mata Hari

2017

Sex. Before and After poster
5.4

About what leads to sex, and what happens immediately after it. In one of the novels, a guy agrees to have a child with his best friend, unaware of her insidious plan. In another, a casual acquaintance makes a vegan wonder if sex contradicts her beliefs. And the dispute between two strangers about feminism is resolved in bed, where a woman is not going to remain in debt to a man. The heroes of the stories tell not about sex, but about what surrounds it.

Sex. Before and After

2023

Trotsky poster
6.0

The life pages of a man who changed the world but paid back everything he had. Leon Trotsky is being interviewed in Mexico city of the year 1940 by Canadian journalist Frank Jackson. During eight days they have eight interview sessions revealing the true face of Comrade Trotsky.

Trotsky

2017

Pranker poster
NR

Anton is a professional prankster. He believes that he is doing justice by tricking and then leaking secret information about corrupt officials and big shots. But one day, Anton himself finds himself drawn into a conflict between business competitors, in which the life of the prankster's sister is at stake.

Pranker

2026

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Pranker poster
NR

Anton is a professional prankster. He believes that he is doing justice by tricking and then leaking secret information about corrupt officials and big shots. But one day, Anton himself finds himself drawn into a conflict between business competitors, in which the life of the prankster's sister is at stake.

Pranker

2026

Red Silk poster
6.8

1927. Trans-Siberian Express. Secret documents that will determine the future of the USSR and China are being transported across Russia. Under the guise of ordinary passengers, foreign intelligence officers and real thugs are hiding, ready to do anything for the sake of documents. A young Red Army soldier and a former Tsarist agent have to team up to uncover a common enemy.

Red Silk

2025

The Legion poster
6.2

Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his slowly dying men.

The Legion

2020

Black Silk poster
NR

A sequel to the spy thriller Red Silk.

Black Silk

2027

Trigger poster
4.6

Artyom Streletski, a therapist known for his non-conventional approach to solving patients' problems, has lost almost everything: his family, his friends, his practice, and the ability to trust the people around him. In a desperate attempt to escape from everything that hurts he moves away and settles on the outskirts of the country, in a small town filled with his sweet childhood memories. He starts a brand new career and finds new love but the past is catching up with him, and to regain the happiness Artyom has to face his troubles and stop running away from them once and for all.

Trigger

2023

Healthy poster
NR

Oleg, who is bent on health, faces a deadly threat which turns his system of values upside down.

Healthy

2026

I Love You — Je t'aime poster
4.0

Russian musical performers, and with them familiar movie characters, began to speak and sing in a romantic language in the style of the French pop of the 60s and 70s.

I Love You — Je t'aime

2023

Shurale poster
3.0

Aysha is preparing for the wedding, but suddenly learns that her brother Timur has disappeared. In search of her brother, the girl returns to her native village, where she encounters not only her own past, but also a secret hidden in the depths of the forest.

Shurale

2026

(Not)Random Stories poster
NR

A movie almanac of five short stories about happy accidents.

(Not)Random Stories

2020

Living Memorials. Fathers and Children poster
NR

The film almanac is a travelogue that immerses the viewer in Russia's past. It comes to life in the personal recollections of both prominent and little-known public and cultural figures. The heroes of the new part are: Vasily Perov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Tamara Petkevich, Sergei Durylin, Sergei Konenkov and Aleksandr Vertinsky. Their recollections were voiced by: Yevgeny Mironov, Maxim Matveyev, Yulia Snigir, Yevgenia Simonova, Dmitry Lysenkov, Yevgeny Tkachuk and Nikolay Chindyaykin.

Living Memorials. Fathers and Children

2025

2010s · 22 titles

About Love. Adults Only poster
5.5

The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.

About Love. Adults Only

2017

August. Eighth poster
6.0

August Eighth - story of an ordinary young woman. Ksenia's life is not too happy. Problem at work, problem in personal life, problem with mother, a baby requiring constant cares... Ksenia want to spend a few days in Sochi with new boyfriend, and mom sends her son Artem to the boy's father on Caucasus. But Georgia started war and she must overcome fear, overcome circumstances, she must save her child...

August. Eighth

2012

Sheep & Wolves: Pig Deal poster
6.5

The united town of sheep and wolves lives a peaceful and quiet life until two unexpected guests turn up - a polar fox and a tiny ewe. No one ever expected them to bring a deadly danger, which can be overcome only if they work together. Only teamwork can solve big problems and deal with serious challenges - as there is strength in unity.

Sheep & Wolves: Pig Deal

2019

Union of Salvation poster
6.2

Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - position, wealth, love, life ... and the country itself.

Union of Salvation

2019

A Lucky Buy poster
5.5

Near future. Human-like robots are in open market. Sveta acquires a nice Robot to solve her personal problems. Robot is tuned up automatically to fit the owner's character. But she is on her way to know who she truly needs.

A Lucky Buy

2010

Anna Karenina. Vronsky's Story poster
5.6

There is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path. Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her choice, leaving her son Sergei to grow up struggling to understand why his mother took such a tragic and terrible path, and Count Vronsky haunted by the memory of the woman for whose death he still blames himself 30 years later. In 1904, in the aftermath of one of the battles of the Russo-Japanese war, Sergei Karenin and Alexei Vronsky find themselves thrown together in a remote Manchurian village, where fate offers them a chance to return to the events long past and, finally, to find the answers both have long been seeking.

Anna Karenina. Vronsky's Story

2017

Mommies, Happy New Year! poster
5.1

A continuation of a famous Russian comedy "Mamy" ("Mommies").

Mommies, Happy New Year!

2012

Fort Ross: In Search of Adventure poster
3.4

A group of journalists are traveling through the different places and different times trying to solve historical mystery.

Fort Ross: In Search of Adventure

2014

Likes or Dislikes poster
5.4

Aleksey must decide what's better for him - a regular life with his fiancé Alyona or adventurous life with a famous journalist Irina.

Likes or Dislikes

2014

Matter poster
NR

This is an in-depth exploration by a man searching for a better understanding of his inner self and the world around him. The main character, Mark, undertakes a phantasmagoric inward journey through his own subconscious mind.

Matter

2018

Contribution poster
5.9

Perm, Siberia, 1918. the central Siberian White guard corps under the command of a young general Anatoliy Pepelyaev have taken the city. the army is exhausted and running short on supplies. the General tasks the Permian merchants with collecting the money needed for the survival of the army much to their dismay. madame chagina, a rich widow answers the call and presents general with a massive diamond... only to have it mysteriously disappear the next day. recently sentenced to death red Army investigator Andrei murzin is brought in to nd the precious contribution. murzin must nd the diamond in exchange for a chance to save his life.

Contribution

2016

The Lenin Factor poster
5.7

Having dedicated his life to the preparation of the revolution in the Russian Empire, Vladimir Lenin, living in exile in Switzerland, desperately seeks a way back to Russia to take control. Options are few when Lenin receives an offer from Alexander Parvus, the most infamous of political opportunists, who has made a deal with Germany to sponsor the revolution under Lenin’s command and smuggle Lenin and his comrades into Russia. Aware that making a deal with 2 devils could cost him everything, Lenin knows he must outsmart and outmaneuver Parvus and the Germans at any cost...

The Lenin Factor

2019

Fairy Tale. There Is poster
2.6

A set of novels about children and their parents.

Fairy Tale. There Is

2012

Ded Moroz Always Calls... Thrice! poster
NR

This story occurred in an ordinary Moscow family, in one of the streets, in one of the houses on the New Year night...

Ded Moroz Always Calls... Thrice!

2011

Weekend poster
4.2

Igor Lebedev is the finance director of large corporation. He commits murder of the accountant who knew about his dirty frauds and tried to restore justice.

Weekend

2013

The Bremen Town Robbers poster
2.5

A modern take on a classical tale about the musicians from the town of Bremen.

The Bremen Town Robbers

2016

Morning Sex poster
9.3

Parable of men's promises and torments of conscience. The main character is time to finish with a drink. In the morning, a whistle suddenly appears on his neck, and an unknown girl in bed. And everything would be fine, but the wife will be any minute.

Morning Sex

2019

Captains poster
NR

This is the story of two lonely and somewhat similar humans, although one young and one old. First is a thief loser who breaks into the dark and, as he thinks, abandoned apartment on New Year's Eve. And the second one exactly at this time tries to hung himself because of his feelings of loneliness and uselessness.

Captains

2010

I 'm not Telling poster
5.1

No synopsis available yet.

I 'm not Telling

2010

Brides in Exchange poster
4.3

A famous supermodel can’t convince her celebrity boyfriend to have a normal relationship, so she marries an ordinary bank clerk to make him jealous.

Brides in Exchange

2011

On the Hook! poster
5.2

Rita, a figure skating coach, wants to prevent her school bankruptcy and closing by trying to push the famous millionaire to fall in love with her.

On the Hook!

2011

No artwork available
NR

The love story of a Red Army girl and a captured White Guard lieutenant who survive on a desert island in the middle of the Aral Sea.

Forty-First. Opus Posth

2012

2000s · 6 titles

Hipsters poster
6.5

In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew.

Hipsters

2008

The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion poster
5.2

Maxim Kammerer fights for his love and freedom. He leads a rebel movement challenging the five greedy rulers. One of the rulers, Strannik, knows how dangerous Maxim can be. He makes up his mind to stop the young man at any cost. The last close fight will decide everything.

The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion

2009

The New Year's Rate Plan poster
6.4

Performing the traditional New Year's call on the unknown phone number Andrey didn't even suspected, that just after his return to Moscow, he had bought a magic starting pack of cellular communications operator. Getting through to the deserted in New Year's eve Alyona, Andrey almost falls in love with her, but there exists a temporal problem. Alyona is celebrating coming 2008 year and Andrey is going to meet 2009. Trying "to set a contact" with Alyona's «future variant» he comes to know the terrible truth about the events, that appended in the end of 2008. Now the main goal of Andrey and all his friends - to prevent the awful tragedy and to turn into reality the meeting of Alyona and Andrey...

The New Year's Rate Plan

2008

Vice poster
3.9

The film follows Denis, a young aspiring DJ who, although poor, has everything else in his favor: a calling in life as a musician, good friends and a faithful companion. Denis's fall from grace begins with a drug deal, which he agrees to out of the need for money. The decision leads to deadly consequences for almost everyone else around him, as Denis is subsequently forced to work as a drug dealer for a mafia boss and as an informer for the police chief of his city. Despite his attempts to “work off his sins”, Denis cannot escape the world of drugs and violence...

Vice

2007

Спасибо за любовь! poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Спасибо за любовь!

2007

The Last Sacrifice poster
NR

Based on the play by Alexander Ostrovsky.

The Last Sacrifice

2007

Series credits

Trigger poster
7.8

Artem is 35 years old. He’s a psychologist, he uses this provocative methodology successfully until one of his clients commits suicide. The one who Artem tried to heal from a suicidal mood by taking him to the roof and telling him that suicide was the right course of action. Artem is condemned to 8 years of colony, the psycholo- gist’s license is taken away, his wife Dasha (32) leaves him, his friends turn their backs on him. With the help of his best friend, Artem gets out of jail. All he is looking for is justice. He believes in his method and wants to prove that it’s actually working and the blame of the patient’s death is not on him. Each episode is a sep- arate case, Artem is brilliantly solving other people seemingly im- possible problems. But will he be able to save himself?

Trigger

2020

Investigator Tikhonov poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Investigator Tikhonov

2016

Mata Hari poster
5.3

A sex icon becomes a spy during one of the most important wars of the 20th century. To survive, Margaret becomes an exotic dancer after her husband leaves her. When the world stands on the edge of WWI, she becomes Mata Hari, a spy with unprecedented access to the European elite.

Mata Hari

2017

Sex. Before and After poster
5.4

About what leads to sex, and what happens immediately after it. In one of the novels, a guy agrees to have a child with his best friend, unaware of her insidious plan. In another, a casual acquaintance makes a vegan wonder if sex contradicts her beliefs. And the dispute between two strangers about feminism is resolved in bed, where a woman is not going to remain in debt to a man. The heroes of the stories tell not about sex, but about what surrounds it.

Sex. Before and After

2023

Trotsky poster
6.0

The life pages of a man who changed the world but paid back everything he had. Leon Trotsky is being interviewed in Mexico city of the year 1940 by Canadian journalist Frank Jackson. During eight days they have eight interview sessions revealing the true face of Comrade Trotsky.

Trotsky

2017

Demons poster
7.9

At the end of the 19th century, a series of mysterious murders occur in the provincial city of N. Metropolitan investigator Goremykin arrives at the crime scene. The search for the perpetrators leads to an unexpected conclusion – a revolutionary circle within the city, which consists of two young men recently returned from Switzerland.

Demons

2014

Pelagia and The White Bulldog poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pelagia and The White Bulldog

2009

MosGaz poster
7.3

A crime series about MosGaz - Valdimir Ionesyan, one of a firsts Russian serial killers caught in 1962 in Moscow.

MosGaz

2012

Union of Salvation. Time of Anger poster
6.8

By overthrowing Napoleon, the Russian army changed the world. The time has come to change Russia itself. But the winners were divided. The authorities are slow, and a conspiracy is brewing among the young officers of the military elite. The opportunity to negotiate is decreasing every day. Their own become enemies. There comes a time of anger.

Union of Salvation. Time of Anger

2022

Теория вероятности poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Теория вероятности

2021

Midday poster
7.5

The earth has become the epitome of a humanistic utopia. Rudolf Sikorsky, the head of the Commission for Contacts with Extraterrestrial Civilizations, instructs Maxim Kammerer to find Lev Abalkin, a progressive who mysteriously disappeared after contact with the supercivilization of the Wanderers. Abalkin's group explored the planet Nadezhda, which perished as a result of a monstrous experiment conducted there by the Wanderers. After contacting them, Abalkin kills his partner and flies to Earth to start a process similar to the one that destroyed Nadezhda. Kammerer manages to get on Abalkin's trail, but he is always one step ahead of him.

Midday

2026

MosGaz. Case No. 9: Cherkasov's Last Case poster
8.2

1981. Cherkasov investigates a complicated case. And, as always, his superiors are dissatisfied with him. They reprimand him at meetings and threaten to remove him from his position. It is quite difficult for Cherkasov to imagine himself in retirement. But he understands that he has started to tire quickly and miss important information. In short, he is getting old. Then a young investigator appears who knows how to work with the new computers and brings a lie detector to the department. Ivan Petrovich decides to give in. But in his last case, he must put an end to it himself.

MosGaz. Case No. 9: Cherkasov's Last Case

2023

Maadness poster
NR

While everyone is sitting at home, the Moscow director and several famous artists have to rehearse the new performance remotely. However, not everything goes according to plan, because relationships, sex and parents are now also online. And the play itself adds insanity, because the main role - a real sheep.

Maadness

2020

Lenin: Revolution Chronicles poster
6.6

The year is 1915. Europe is engulfed in the flames of the First World War. At this time, the revolutionary theorist, political emigrant and adventurer Alexander Parvus is holding talks with the German Foreign Minister, Gottlieb von Jagow. The negotiations end with unexpected success. The German government personally allocates "a lot of money" to Parvus, which should go to the revolution in Russia. This is the beginning of a story that tells not only about the life of this extraordinary man and his role in the historical events that ended in October 1917.

Lenin: Revolution Chronicles

2017

Spoiler poster
NR

In the upcoming elections in the non-existent Kuibyshev region, businessman Andrei Obolensky, at the suggestion of the country's leading political strategist, becomes the spoiler candidate of the current governor Koretsky. The spoiler's task is to pull votes from Morozov's main competitor and withdraw from the election in favor of Koretsky. But the further the game goes, the more Obolensky gets into the taste. It is no longer clear who is playing against whom, and most importantly, what is at stake for everyone.

Spoiler

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Anna Karenina poster
4.0

In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. An eight part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" from Vronsky's point of view.

Anna Karenina

2017

Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles poster
7.6

This mystery thriller throws a Russian spin on one of the world’s most famous characters, the series follows the esteemed detective from London to stunning St Petersburg, on the trail of a suspected serial murderer. Sherlock Holmes (Maxim Matveyev) is on the hunt for Jack the Ripper. The infamous killer left a bloody trail in London and fled to the Russian Empire, with Sherlock on his tail. With new characters, Dr Kartsev and Sophia supporting Sherlock, and a new nemesis in Znamensky, this is an exciting, glossy action series.

Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles

2020

Fandorin. Azazello poster
6.3

The October Revolution hadn't happened, and the Bolsheviks had never risen to power. The year is 2023, and the rule over the Russian Empire is divided between tzar Nikolai III and a forward-thinking PM, Dmitry Orlov. Erast Fandorin, a 20-year-old police servant, has just been hired in the criminal investigations unit at the Petrograd Metro. His job is not that exciting, but the latest news is: right at the heart of the capital, a young and wealthy oil company tycoon has just shot himself in front of dozens of men. His suicide was captured on the patrol robot cameras. Fandorin can't help but suspect that this case is far more complicated than it looks and takes on his very first major investigation

Fandorin. Azazello

2023

Other People's Money poster
7.6

The brilliant cashier Alexey Voronov goes on the run. Fearing persecution, he decides to plant a "drop" instead of himself, Yura Afanasyev, a provincial loser, like two drops of water similar to Voronov himself. However, the ideal plan gets out of control: Voronov gets shot in the head, and Afanasyev is saved by Alexei's guards, mistaking him for his boss.

Other People's Money

2025

Военный госпиталь poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Военный госпиталь

2012

MosGaz poster
NR

A crime series about MosGaz - Valdimir Ionesyan, one of a firsts Russian serial killers caught in 1962 in Moscow.

MosGaz

2012

Home Base poster
5.0

When the provincial football club Krasny Yastreb remains without a coach before the start of the season in the Russian Premier League, its CEO Anton Danin, bypassing sponsors, appoints Elena Volkova, a talented Muscovite who led her Saiga team to the Champions League, to this position. Now she is the first female coach in men's sports. But Elena will get a cold reception in the city. Because football here is an exclusively male world.

Home Base

2022

Hostage poster
5.0

Moscow, 2014. Maxim Pozharsky, a successful financial analyst, helps already well-off people get rich. Without asking unnecessary questions, he just takes his course. But everything in his world changes when the only person close to him, Nina's sister, disappears in the Middle East and ends up in captivity.

Hostage

2026

Зоннентау poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Зоннентау

2012

Love For Love poster
NR

The story of Lieutenant Aleksandr Grigoryev.

Love For Love

2013

Контрибуция poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Контрибуция

2018

Ялта-45 poster
7.0

Yalta-45 mini series

Ялта-45

2011

Tulskiy Tokarev poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Tulskiy Tokarev

2010

No artwork available
NR

Spring of 1914. The eve of the First World War. The Uhlan regiment, in which Lieutenant Alexander Grigoriev serves, stands in a small Russian town. Officers languish from boredom, spend time off duty in a shabby tavern. They drink, they play cards, and without that, a small salary. One day, the city pharmacist introduced the lieutenant to the local rich man of commerce, councilor Stakhovsky, whose niece Nina, at a chance meeting, captivated Grigoriev with her beauty.

Love for Love

2013

Behind the camera