
Acting
Leonid Mozgovoy
Born 1941-04-17 · Tula, USSR
Leonid Mozgovoy was born on April 17, 1941 in Tula. In 1961-1965 he studied at the Leningrad state Institute of theater, music and cinematography (LGITMiK) at the faculty of dramatic art (course of Professor B. V. Zona). His fellow students were Olga Antonova, Lev Dodin, Viktor Kostetsky, Sergei Nadporozhsky, Natalia Tenyakova, Vladimir Tykke. About his teacher and the learning Process L. Brain recalls in detail in the book "School of Boris". Lessons of acting and directing" (St. Petersburg., 2011.). From 1965 to 1970 he worked at the Leningrad theatre of musical Comedy. In 1967 he became a Laureate of the Leningrad competition of artists-readers[4]. He is well known as an actor of literary variety, for many years he successfully works in " Lenkontsert "(now - "Petersburg-concert"). Popular is his one-man show "Funny" by F. M. Dostoevsky in the St. Petersburg classical theater. His debut work in film was the role of A. p. Chekhov in the film "Stone" by Alexander Sokurov[5]. He became a favorite actor of the Director, starring in his paintings "Moloch" (Hitler) and "Taurus" (Lenin).
Acting credits
6.6A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
Faust
2011
7.2A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
Russian Ark
2002
5.6Contemporary Russia. Sasha, a beautiful, young photographer, finds her lover, a successful artist, murdered. The police suspect her and the killers want to silence her. She goes on the run from all as she tries to solve this mystery.
Pure Art
2016
NRBased on famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
Thumbelina
2007
6.2In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics.
Moloch
1999
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Memorabilia Collections
2001
7.0From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer Serguei Rachmaninov. This film is based on the legend that Rachmaninoff received a bouquet of lilacs from an unknown admirer after every performance. He emigrated to the United States, and after an interval, began to receive the mysterious lilacs again.
White Lilacs
2008
NRThe first attempt in the history of Russian documentalism to understand what was the historical moment in which Anatoly Sobchak appeared in the political arena what his role in the history of the country was and, finally, why he suffered as a politician collapse. Perhaps his ideas were too advanced for his time?
Sobchak. Woe from Wit
2018
5.1The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse.
The Border
2007
4.8A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
Rasputin
2013
6.0The plot begins with them and ends with humanity. This author wanted to show continuity: the first love and the supposed last is an indivisible whole of one eternal Love.
Last Love
2017
5.8Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.
Taurus
2001
6.5Elliot, a 25-year-old British boy, discovers that he has a secret half-brother, Fyodor in Saint Petersburg. Elliot travels to the city, meets his brother and falls in love with Anya, Fyodor's girlfriend.
Saint Petersburg
2014
7.1At a time when most females in Asia possess little or no power over their lives, headstrong Kurmanjan Datka defies her family's authority -- and ultimately becomes the ruler of her native Kyrgyzstan region.
Queen of the Mountains
2014
6.4In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate the goings-on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants. His tween daughter Ira is enrolled at a school for gifted children which has been taken over by the mutants, who have grown to despise ordinary humanity.
The Ugly Swans
2006
4.7Garpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate about the matches they play on the streets. They hatch a scheme to buy a playing field. But World War I has already begun and soon their lives and dreams will be shattered.
Garpastum
2005
5.1A young night watchman at the Anton Chekhov museum in Yalta encounters a mysterious, weary intruder who appears to be the playwright himself, returned from the dead. Over the course of a single night, the two share a series of quiet, existential interactions within the preserved rooms of the estate.
Stone
1992
Leonid Pavlovich Mozgovoy (born 1941) is a Soviet and Russian actor of theater, cinema and literary variety, Honored Artist of Russia (2002), winner of the Nika Prize (2001), winner of the Golden Aries, Petropavlovsk, The Bronze Horseman, Listopad, master of the acting course in SPbGIKiT since 2015.
DIALOGUES AT THE FACTORY. The 5th meeting. Leonid Mozgovoy
2017
6.3In revolutionary Russia, a brilliant actor takes on the greatest role of his life: that of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt... even when the play of the life he writes heads towards a tragic finale.
The Role
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arventur
2015
1.0Lev Nikolaevich, Levanka, Levochka, as his many friends call him, is a successful, glamorous, Moscow photographer. He's smart, good-natured. And he is an absolutely cynical person who can be rude to people. He lives in a world where talent, success and fame are valued above all else. At the same time, he is very childish, but does not realize this. The childhood fears are still inside him.
Snowstorm
2014
4.5Famous actors and ordinary people from all walks of life read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.
Reading Book of Blockade
2009
NRThe story of a famous actress who had an incomprehensible attack on the set somewhere in the countryside and was urgently sent to a rural hospital. There she spends a sleepless night in complete obscurity and decides that she is leaving this world. The actress calls all the close people with whom she talks very openly, believing that they should find out the truth.
Night Visitors
2007
NRPoetic portrait of a filmmaker. The famous director reflects on creativity and love. His friends and associates take part in the film: artist Vladimir Shinkarev, engineer Vladimir Nikolaev, actress Elena Kramer (Spiridonova), director, film critic Oleg Kovalov, necrorealist directors Yevgeny Yufit, Igor Bezrukov.
Sokurov
2006