
Acting
Boris Plotnikov
Born 1949-04-02 · Nevyansk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Boris Grigoryevich Plotnikov (b. April 2, 1949, Nevyansk, Sverdlovsk province, Soviet Union (now Russia)) was a Russian film actor. His film debut was as Sotnikov in The Ascent, the acclaimed final film of Russian director Larisa Shepitko. Description above from the Wikipedia article Boris Plotnikov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
NRA painter lives with his wife and four children in a studio. Due to creative frustrations and the irritation of admirers and hangers-on he becomes increasingly reclusive, finally sealing himself away in the attic. Based on an Albert Camus story.
Jonah, or the Artist at Work
1984
7.9During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
The Ascent
1977
7.0Gobsek the richest and most stragity usurer of Paris. The Countess by Anastasi lays will Gobseck family diamond my husband, for the sake of debt her beloved Maxim. This rash act she reveals to her husband her love affair.
Gobseck
1987
7.9In 1920s Moscow, shortly after the October Revolution, a stray dog named Sharik is taken in by Professor Preobrazhensky, a wealthy and respected surgeon. The professor performs a daring medical experiment on the dog that changes him into a human being. As the newly transformed Sharikov begins to navigate life in the professor’s apartment, his crude behavior and revolutionary ideas turn the household upside down.
Heart of a Dog
1988
5.2A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends…
Savage Hunt of King Stakh
1979
9.0Ancient English legend. The early Middle Ages: Lady Godiva was a noblewoman, who according to the legend, took pity on the people of Coventry, who were suffering grievously under her husband's oppressive taxation, and rode naked through the streets of Coventry, in England, in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants.
The Legend of Lady Godiva
2004
NRBased on the play of the same name by M. Saltykov-Shchedrin. A young liberal-minded official named Bobyrev arrives in St. Petersburg from the provinces. He hopes to build a career under the patronage of his former schoolmate Klaverov, who has become a general. The general gladly assigns Bobyrev to his office and is already making plans to use Bobyrev’s beautiful wife, Sofia, to wage a successful campaign against his opponents and influence the pleasure-seeking Minister Tarakanov...
Shadows
1991
7.0Two Christmas-themed stories: about the night of Christ's birth, and about a good deed that is remembered many decades later. Adapted from texts by Sasha Chyornyy and Archpriest Dimitriy Gavrilovich Bulgakovskiy.
Christmas Stories
1994
6.5Based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
Little Match Girl
1996
5.4Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected...
Shadowboxing
2005
5.6Two people in love will find a hut in the woods that they decide to sleep in. The cottage is located on the shore of a lake and beautiful views is just a shadow of an ax stuck in the executioner's block of wood near the house. When they wake up one morning, they see a peacock and the cottage has been transformed into a beautiful palace...
Walking Down the Place of a Skull
1992
NROn April 8, 1894, a young princess from the Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, to the great joy of the heir to the Russian throne, Nicholas, finally agrees to convert to Orthodoxy and become his wife. So begins the story of the family of the last Russian emperor. Their letters, diary entries, drawings, photographs and documentary films of the pre-revolutionary years create a kind of family chronicle.
A Host of White Princesses
1992
4.3An almost detective story that could lead to terrible injustice. But good is strong, although sometimes naive. Wise Cricket will not allow "to go out of focus." Do not forget that Christmas is about to enter. And on Christmas night, what miracles do not happen!
Cricket Behind the Hearth
2001
2.0A woman admits that she is 300 years old, and yet, she looks incredibly young and attractive. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s play “The Makropulos Affair” for Faberlic.
Elixir of Youth
2017
5.0Don Cossack Emelyan Pugachev says goodbye to his wife and children and goes to run. The elder Filaret blesses him to lead a rebellion under the name of Peter III of Russia. The insurgents dealt with the feudal lords cruelly. Queen Catherine the Great directs troops against the rioters. Traitors betray Emelyan, and now he is being transported across Russia in an iron cage.
Pugachev
1979
7.3In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them.
The Cold Summer of 1953
1988
6.0"Tale of the Star Child" is a two-part television film, based on the works of Oscar Wilde. Like the earlier film, The Star Boy (1958), The Tale of the Star Boy, was based on two tales from Wilde's collection "A House of Pomegranates" - The Star-Child (1891) and The Birthday of the Infanta (1888) . However, the plot, in contrast to the first screen version, made more significant changes: in particular, added science-fiction elements and completely eliminated magic.
Tale of the Star-Child
1983
5.2Dulcinea seeks an eternal dream of justice, chivalry, protection of the wronged in real, everyday life but all her dreams fail to come true. All men to whom she turns for setting the out-of-joint time right fall short of her expectations because they are too small for the task. She is mocked, exposed and disappointed. So what to do? Somebody has to take Don Quixote's place.
Dulcinea of Tobossa
1980
7.0Before leaving for the USSR, a West German journalist meets his father, who was in Russia in 1922, where he met, fell in love with and lost forever a Russian translator. Sixty years later, the son follows his father's route...
Two Chapters from the Family Chronicle
1983
Our funny, difficult, and absurd life unfolds in front of the viewer as if in two layers: in the squabbles of a large, densely populated communal apartment, and Sergei Sovkov's quiet, detached dwelling. By chance, his neighbor Tanya appears in the apartment, who, on the contrary, is immersed in the battle for a place in the sun. And Sergei's former serene existence is no longer possible...
Hermit
1992
NRBerlin, the 1920s, a boarding house where Russian immigrants live. One of the characters in the film, waiting for his wife's arrival, shows her photo to a neighbor at the boarding house, who recognizes her as his first love, Masha.…
Mashenka
1991
7.0A long-distance Chaco driver once agrees to transport a passenger across the border under the guise of a partner for a decent amount of money. Miguel, the leader of the democratic movement, managed to escape from prison and hide abroad. And now he is returning to his homeland to continue the fight. Chaco is not interested in politics, and from the very beginning of the trip he makes it clear to his partner.
Deal
1986
9.8In a car accident, the boy loses his parents and is confined to a wheelchair. Becoming the creator of his world and his destiny, the young hero overcomes personal tragedy.
Falling Upwards
1998
The last days of the life of the Russian writer A.S. Griboedov. Romance and marriage to Nina Chavchavadze. Assignment to Tehran. Death.
The Griboyedov's Waltz
1995