Nikolay Burlyaev

Acting

Nikolay Burlyaev

Born 1946-08-03 · Moscow, USSR

Nikolay Burlyaev is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, best known for his title role in Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood.

Acting credits

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

Madmen's Trial poster
5.5

Germany, the 1930s. A young scientist, Professor Johannes Werner discovers rays of life-giving power. The scientist refuses to give up his invention for military use and, breaking the equipment, runs to the USA, where he hides for a long time under the name of Martini. One day, after being invited to a military industrial concern to see a new European invention, Werner meets his former pupil Huber. Huber, a traitor and fascist, has restored the professor's apparatus according to stolen plans and is demonstrating it as his own invention. Werner rejects the proposal for joint cooperation and, at a meeting in the hall of scientific associations, reveals his real name and resolutely reveals the criminal intentions of the revanchists.

Madmen's Trial

1961

The Boy and the Pigeon poster
5.7

The boy wants to have a pigeon, but he can't afford to buy a bird. On the market for a pigeon asking for 100 rubles! Then he decides to buy a bird, bartering it for his father's album with stamps. Having caught a pigeon, the boy releases a bird into the sky. But the pigeon is returning to it's native dovecote, to it's former owner, who again demands money for it. This is a short movie about childhood and dreams, about the first life lessons that everyone has to face in childhood, when society and its laws bring changes into life, sometimes breaking the brightest dreams.

The Boy and the Pigeon

1961

Oblomov poster
6.3

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?

Oblomov

1980

The Blizzard poster
5.8

In the early 19th century a seventeen-year-old girl falls in love with a young officer and, despite her parents’ disapproval, decides to elope with him and beg their forgiveness once the deed is done. Based on the Pushkin short story.

The Blizzard

1964

Szlachetna krew poster
9.0

Grachow, a researcher, is to escort a car to a distant place of the foreign exchange horse Favorite. The driver of Locha drives fast, although he was supposed to not exceed a speed of 30 km per hour. They experience various adventures along the way. Grachow, who drives the car, cannot control the speeding machine, he saves himself at the last moment by jumping out of the cabin. The car with the horse on the platform rolls down to the river ...

Szlachetna krew

1990

Admiral poster
6.2

This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. One day he meets Anna, the love of his life and the wife of his best friend. The revolution in his heart faces the revolution in his own country His destiny is to become the Supreme Ruler of Russia.

Admiral

2008

Заступница poster
NR

In the center of the plot is the Vatican list of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the main Orthodox shrine of Kazan. The film describes four layers of Russian history: the liberation of Moscow by the militia of Minin and Pozharsky, the battle of Poltava, the Patriotic War of 1812 and the Great Patriotic War. During all these events, the Orthodox inhabitants of Tatarstan turned to their protector, the icon of the Kazan Mother of God, for help. It is believed that the icon was carried away in 1611 by the Kazan militia and later helped Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow from the Poles.

Заступница

2022

The Gulf Stream poster
NR

One day in the lives of tenth-grade students unfolds in different ways: some quarrel for the first time, some try to donate skin to people who have been burned, and some rethink their attitude toward an annoying neighbor who plays the piano when they discover that she is blind.

The Gulf Stream

1969

Legenda poster
4.3

Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.

Legenda

1971

Strict Game poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Strict Game

1964

Stove Builders poster
6.7

A literature teacher struggles with a faulty stove, with a village major being called to assist.

Stove Builders

1982

Under a Stone Sky poster
7.1

In the autumn of 1944, contrary to the order of the Nazi command to evacuate to the south, residents of the Norwegian town of Kirkenes took refuge in an abandoned mine. The command of the Soviet Army became aware of the intentions of the Nazis to blow up the old tunnels of the city, but the Soviet soldiers managed to prevent the tragedy.

Under a Stone Sky

1974

The Master and Margarita poster
5.5

The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernatural powers she got from the devil, Woland, who is visiting Moscow.

The Master and Margarita

2011

The Risk poster
6.0

1944. On the Polish front, the fascists are building a secret defensive barrier. The task of obtaining the plans for the structures is assigned to a young intelligence agent, Maria, who must make contact with the frontline intelligence resident, Major Kurtz, behind enemy lines…

The Risk

1971

Mama Got Married poster
5.1

Having worked at a construction site all her life, Zina raised her son alone. Now that her son is almost an adult, Victor has appeared in her life, with whom she feels good and calm. However, her son Boris is too much used to having his mother belong only to him.

Mama Got Married

1969

Tryn-grass poster
9.0

The love story of combine harvester Stepan Kalashnikov to his own wife Lydia. A student who has come to practice suddenly intervenes in the relationship of the characters and complicates their already difficult family life...

Tryn-grass

1976

Blue Blood poster
6.0

During jockey's absence, the authorities decide to send his horse to the stud farm.

Blue Blood

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Supports of the Earth

1981

The Theft poster
6.0

An ancient blade with diamonds is stolen from the museum where Alexei Gurov works as a restorer. Soon an old icon is stolen from Gurov's apartment. Head of the crime investigation is the police colonel Georgy Arefyev. Everyone knows that Gurov is obsessed with collecting rarities, so suspicion falls heavy on him.

The Theft

1970

Counterstrike poster
6.3

November 1943. The army of general Vatutin is preparing to cross Dnepr river.

Counterstrike

1985

Introduction to Life poster
5.3

A boy from Leningrad has his world turned upside down by his parent's separation and World War II. He leaves town amidst the fighting and returns to find a friend in his step-brother.

Introduction to Life

1962

Mishka, Seryoga and I poster
6.0

Three friends are bored in eighth grade but everything changes after a new teacher arrives to the class.

Mishka, Seryoga and I

1961

Behind the camera

My God! I Feel Your Presence Approaching! poster
NR

The film can be called Andrei Tarkovsky's prayer to the Creator. The picture tells about the spiritual, religious essence of the creative ministry of the master, each film of which is a confession before the Lord and people. The basis of the film is the confessional diaries of Andrei Tarkovsky and Nikolai Burlyaev, who played the main roles in the films Ivan's Childhood and Andrei Rublev.

My God! I Feel Your Presence Approaching!

2023

My God! I Feel Your Presence Approaching! poster
NR

The film can be called Andrei Tarkovsky's prayer to the Creator. The picture tells about the spiritual, religious essence of the creative ministry of the master, each film of which is a confession before the Lord and people. The basis of the film is the confessional diaries of Andrei Tarkovsky and Nikolai Burlyaev, who played the main roles in the films Ivan's Childhood and Andrei Rublev.

My God! I Feel Your Presence Approaching!

2023

My God! I Feel Your Presence Approaching! poster
NR

The film can be called Andrei Tarkovsky's prayer to the Creator. The picture tells about the spiritual, religious essence of the creative ministry of the master, each film of which is a confession before the Lord and people. The basis of the film is the confessional diaries of Andrei Tarkovsky and Nikolai Burlyaev, who played the main roles in the films Ivan's Childhood and Andrei Rublev.

My God! I Feel Your Presence Approaching!

2023

Old Times in Poshekhonye poster
NR

The film consists of three short stories: 'The Unhappy Matryonka', 'Brother Fedos' and 'Vanka-Cain'.

Old Times in Poshekhonye

1977

Old Times in Poshekhonye poster
NR

The film consists of three short stories: 'The Unhappy Matryonka', 'Brother Fedos' and 'Vanka-Cain'.

Old Times in Poshekhonye

1977

Nikita poster
NR

A documentary about the spiritual and personal life of Nikita Mikhalkov. The plot covers 66 years of friendship between him and the author - Nikolaev Burlyaev. The film uses unique archival materials.

Nikita

2025

Lermontov poster
2.0

A film about the life of Mikhail Lermontov.

Lermontov

1986

Lermontov poster
2.0

A film about the life of Mikhail Lermontov.

Lermontov

1986

No artwork available
NR

The Golden Knight Film Forum was born in the "dashing 90s". The film presents to the audience the chronicle history of the wanderings of the "Golden Knight" through the cities and towns of the Slavic world torn to pieces. At the moment of the devastating turning point of our country, the Film Forum declared its motto: "For moral ideals. For the elevation of the human soul" and remained faithful to him for 30 years.

One in the Field is a Warrior

2022

Huntsman poster
NR

A screen adaptation of the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

Huntsman

1973

Everything is Ahead poster
3.0

An adaptation of the novel by the famous soil writer Vasily Belov, raising the problems of the harmful influence of Western civilization on the Russian mentality.

Everything is Ahead

1991

Everything is Ahead poster
3.0

An adaptation of the novel by the famous soil writer Vasily Belov, raising the problems of the harmful influence of Western civilization on the Russian mentality.

Everything is Ahead

1991