Aleksandr Afanasev

Acting

Aleksandr Afanasev

Born 1917-03-23 · Palkino, Chikhachevskoye rural settlement, Bezhanitsky rayon, Velikoluksky okrug, RSFSR, USSR

Acting credits

Anathema poster
8.0

It is year 1900 in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and Deacon Olympius begins to take interest in secular literature. When he stumbles upon a book by Tolstoy, he is humbled and inspired to lead a just life. Based on a story by Aleksandr Kuprin.

Anathema

1960

Life in Your Hands poster
8.0

The film is based on authentic events that took place in 1957 in Kursk. Fifteen years after the war, the sappers will have to clear away the ammunition depot left by the German's. The town rebuilt with such difficulty is under threat of explosion...

Life in Your Hands

1959

Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin poster
6.8

In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin, and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.

Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin

1971

The Rescued Generation poster
5.0

Antonina Vasilyevna, as a member of the bureau of the district committee of the party, was instructed to save the Leningrad children, whom the war overtook in the suburban camps. She took them to the Kirov region. After twelve days of hard travel, the children arrived in the village of Supryadki...

The Rescued Generation

1960

The Sannikov Land poster
6.1

A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to deal with all the consequences.

The Sannikov Land

1973

Man with Future poster
8.0

At first, everyone treated Ivan Kondakov, a young inventor, with irony. But a mine is a mine. And so his absent-mindedness, tardiness, and other frivolous behavior were often ridiculed in the miners' newspaper. His school friend Lelia, who had graduated from medical school, no longer understood the fanatic. Only Nina, a newcomer to the mine, supported and defended Kondakov...

Man with Future

1961

Afrikanych poster
NR

Afrikanych lived his whole life in the village with his wife Katerina in love and harmony. Katerina gave birth to his sixth child, and then fell ill. Afrikanych decided to go away to find work, but on the way he realized that he could not live without Katerina and his home.

Afrikanych

1971

I Love You, Life poster
7.0

Timofej Korneev is a fresh member of the Communist Party. He works as an engineer for Leningrad candy factory. Since most of its colleagues are young girls he soon finds himself in a love triangle. Moreover, there's a third girl trapped by a scheming Jehovah Witnesses sect. Will Timofej be able to stop the brainwashing?

I Love You, Life

1961

The Snow Queen poster
6.4

The film tells a story about the extraordinary journey of the modest little girl Gerda. She is looking for her friend Kai, who was kidnapped and taken to her kingdom by the powerful evil Snow Queen. In search of her beloved friend, Gerda ends up in the castle to the cunning, insidious and at the same time funny king, meets forest robbers. On the way, the girl will have many obstacles before the decisive battle with the Snow Queen. But Gerda’s faithful heart will overcome all adversity...

The Snow Queen

1967

Private Life of Kuzyayev Valentin poster
6.2

A high-schooler named Valentin Kuzyayev is invited to appear on a TV show about youth. When he is given a questionnaire, Valentin finds himself unable to answer the simplest questions. To sort himself out, he starts to keep a diary.

Private Life of Kuzyayev Valentin

1968

No artwork available
NR

A decade after having been reported missing, war veteran Vladimir goes back to his village. Now back home, he finally realizes how much his family and country mean to him.

Motherland

1975

After the Wedding poster
NR

After the wedding, the young worker is sent to the village. A year later, he is given the opportunity to return to Leningrad. Feeling needed by the collective farm, he stays in the village...

After the Wedding

1963

1 Newton Street poster
4.7

Timofey Suvernev comes to Moscow from a distant island to study. Tim successfully passes the exams at the institute, and immediately plunges into a turbulent student life. Through hard work and study, he achieves brilliant success, his student work, which he wrote together with his classmate Galtsov, receives a gold medal at the competition.

1 Newton Street

1963

Fro poster
7.0

The 1930s were a time of five-year plans, construction projects, and the development of remote areas of the country. Frosya's husband leaves her and goes to the Far East. Unable to cope with her loneliness, Frosya sends her husband a telegram informing him that she is seriously ill. Fedor arrives and enthusiastically tells his wife about the country's construction projects, then leaves, leaving her alone with thoughts about the need to study and live for the sake of universal happiness...

Fro

1964

The Lark poster
5.4

Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that death is near, the brave Russians run amok and tear down German monuments before heading out to a field where female slave laborers are working.

The Lark

1964

How Many Years, How Many Winters! poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

How Many Years, How Many Winters!

1966

The Cloud Collector poster
NR

A young boy who loves watching clouds in the sky joins a waste paper collection campaign, treating old newspapers like a bank of white clouds.

The Cloud Collector

1964

Blue Hares, or a Musical Journey poster
NR

Young clown Sasha is having trouble performing his act with his donkey Gena. After another failure, he decides to go on a journey with Gena. After traveling across the country, the friends return to their hometown and perform for the audience once again.

Blue Hares, or a Musical Journey

1974

A Circle poster
5.4

Police captain Alyoshin is investigating a case related to the theft of opium at a chemical factory warehouse and everything suggests that the offender must be sought among the employees. One of them is familiar to Alyoshin in another matter but despite being confident in his honesty, Alyoshin suspects something is wrong.

A Circle

1972

The Siege: Operation "Iskra" poster
5.3

"Iskra" is the codename for the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of Leningrad. In January 1943, the blockade of Leningrad was broken. A corridor 8-11 km wide was formed between Lake Ladoga and the front line.

The Siege: Operation "Iskra"

1977

The Scouts poster
5.0

WWII, 1945. There are fights for the city on the Danube. The river is mined by the Germans, and this fetters the action of our troops. In addition, a city with a million people was left without food. And downstream are Soviet food barges. The command instructs the reconnaissance group a difficult and dangerous operation — to obtain from the enemy a map of the mined sections of the river, which requires penetrating into the city captured by the Germans.

The Scouts

1968

Daylight Train poster
6.4

Two old friends living in Moscow and St. Petersburg are hoping to get their children married.

Daylight Train

1976

Drama from the Old Life poster
8.7

A love story between a barber and a serf actress who find themselves in an environment that combines savagery with a veneer of enlightenment.

Drama from the Old Life

1971

Blokada: Pulkovo Meridian poster
8.0

Autumn 1941. German tank troops are making another attempt to break through to the Uritsk and Pulkovo Heights. During heavy fighting, Soviet troops managed to stop the offensive of fascist tanks one and a half kilometers south of the Pulkovo Observatory. The 900 days of the blockade and the incredible courage of the Soviet people were approaching ...

Blokada: Pulkovo Meridian

1975