Acting
Vladimir Sichkar
Born — Died
1949-08-28 — 2001-11-14
Place of birth
Minsk, Belorussian SSR, USSR
Known for
Acting
Credits
67 titles
Known for
7.7A 'runaway' homeless man, once a renowned athlete, finds himself marooned in the small, snow-covered town of Zarechensk. Victor lands a job at an orphanage, where he soon meets a young teacher who becomes both a compassionate friend and the love of his life. However, fate doesn't play out simply as good or bad; it unfolds in a way that makes the hero realize one cannot run away from oneself. Consequently, it is in Zarechensk that a train carrying a film crew from the capital, on their way back to Moscow, is compelled to delay their journey for a few days. Remarkably, Zarechensk becomes the place where a director finally discovers the perfect actress for his leading role and encounters a man who has fled from her love. Meanwhile, a producer makes the ultimate decision to select this town as the filming location for her upcoming movie.
The Waiting Room
1998
NRA Partisan Saga. Winter of 1942. Ivan Voronetsky, acting as a representative of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus, is assigned a special mission — along with his team of five.
Time Chose Us
1979
6.4From 1917 to the end of the 1980s, Soviet border guards are stationed on the territory of the USSR from the Far East to the western borders.
State Border
1980
NRThe young, talented scientist Konstantin Popov begins a serious romance with the daughter of his academic supervisor. Soon, rumors begin to spread around the department that Popov has made the right choice: the calculation is accurate. Konstantin, a principled and uncompromising man, is used to achieving everything in life on his own. Unable to bear the ridicule of his colleagues, he breaks off the relationship with the woman who loves him...
Personal Scores
1982
6.4In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeying together, they demonstrate their inseparability.
Ivan & Abraham
1993
7.2A military epic based on Ivan Stadnyuk's novel of the same name about the tragic events of the first months of the WWII.
War in the Western Direction
1990
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
NRA wedding violinist falls into a hole, and to avoid being eaten by a huge bear, he starts playing the violin, but the strings break, one after another...
Pit, Dances, Four Strings
2001
6.3After yet another failed attempt at producing gold, the alchemist Sir Lavoie, leaves the capital to seek the advice of a colleague in another city. His house is left to his three servants: the maid Doll, the footman Face and the lackey Satl. They decide to get rich by posing as alchemists and helping people solve their problems, even though they understand nothing of alchemy.
Alchemists
2000
4.5Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. But one day he becomes a real hero...
Tartarin of Tarascon
2002
1990s · 22 titles
6.4In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeying together, they demonstrate their inseparability.
Ivan & Abraham
1993
NRAn animated film based on the Russian folk tale "Teremok" (Little Teremok) tells the story of a little mouse who stumbled upon an old mitten in the forest, turned it into a clean, cozy house, and began to live there happily until some uninvited and unceremonious guests arrived: a frog, a running hare, a little fox, and a little wolf. They settled in, more or less, until a bear came and destroyed the house.
House-Little House
1998
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mother of Hurricane
1990
6.0Very nice young women - Vera, Nadezhda, Lyubov - came to Crimea to relax. They settle in the Eden Hotel and do not know that according to the devil’s plan, everyone who arrives at this hotel must indulge in sinful pleasures on the seventh day, and on the thirteenth - give their soul to Satan...
Hotel "Eden"
1991
NRAn animated film based on an Italian fairy tale about a prince who falls into a state of melancholy, and a wizard who reveals that he can only be cured by three oranges containing hidden happiness.
Ballad of Three Oranges
1996
4.9The beginning of the 30s of the last century. A leak of classified information was found at the Soviet shipbuilding plant. Arriving under the guise of a scientist, the legendary chekist Karotin begins to unravel the threads of the conspiracy of the fascist spy organization. He is helped by inexperienced but active local detectives. Mastering the basics of the counterintelligence, they fall into a situation the other one funnier.
Was There Karotin?
1990
NRA cartoon about a brave knight who feared no one and nothing: neither evil spirits nor villains, except his wife...
About a Knight Who Was Not Afraid of Anyone
1991
NRAn owl must help an ungrateful old man take back his livelihood from an army of greedy mice.
Owl
1998
7.0The daughter of a king, who also is a wizard, helps her beloved to outwit her father.
A Tale About the Blue Cloak
1997
4.7Five stories all related to alcohol and it's affectation on people lives.
Enchanted
1994
5.7Parents of thirteen years old Lena just got divorced. Lena wants to prove that they live nicely even with her mother alone and that she is independent. The girl goes to work at post office utilizing there her resourcefulness and charm. At work everyone talks about a serial killer who keeps the entire region in terror. One night a stranger defends Lena from some hooligans and as Lena thinks, he continues assisting her incognito. The girl is ready to believe and convince others that her protector is that horrible maniac. At first, these relationships with her odd admirer seem as a gamble for Lena, but then she gets convinced that this game became deadly dangerous...
The Admirer
1999
NRAn animated film based on Vladimir Korotkevich's fairy tale "The Devil's Treasure" about how a visiting guide and a bear helped a man get rid of the devil.
Who Does the Devil Rock Children to Sleep
1992
7.0When winter comes, it is hard for those who try to escape from the colds alone, relying only on themselves. The heroes of one of the most famous folk tales come to this conclusion. The tale became the literary basis of the film. The age-old folk wisdom is embodied here in a simple story.
Animals' Winter
1999
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Demons
1992
7.0The beautiful Franka, the daughter of a Polish official, marries a peasant Pavel and cannot accept her happy fate: before her marriage, she had to be a laundress in rich houses and a prostitute. And now Franka's restless soul longs for repentance.
Franka — The Wife of Kham
1991
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Red Island
1991
7.0"Let us part - while we‘re good," Bagrat says to the peasants who have sheltered him, bleeding, from his pursuers. Let's part before any of you betray me... Love and hatred, meanness and courage, betrayal and self-sacrifice - everything that a romantic, adventurous plot requires (and that is also found in everyday life!).
Let's Part - While We're Good
1991
6.8A talented surgeon becomes a target of various forces after inventing a new organs transplantation technique.
Contract with Death
1998
NRA schoolboy Karim, who is fond of electronics, unexpectedly finds himself in a fairyland, in the laboratory of the wizard Ogima, who has been looking for a capable student for a long time. Ogima comes up with dreams - sweet and funny, being sure that he is doing good for ordinary people. It turns out that more than two people need to stand in a circle around a magic mirror and hold hands — then everything you dream about will come true. But the ruler makes the last move — she has released all dreams, people can sleep for 100 years.
The Dreamseller
1990
3.7Two noblemen from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania clash because one refuses to free his servant - a girl. The second joins a peasant revolt and takes over the castle.
Grey Legend
1991
NRBased on the Belarusian folk tale about the struggle of the hero Pokatygoroshek, born from a swallowed pea, with various kinds of evil spirits.
Ride the Pea
1990
8.0The hero of the film witnesses the suicide of his double. Trying to find out the reasons for this act, the hero finds himself in another world that exists very close, but hitherto unknown to him: the world of other people, views and values.
A Silhouette in the Window Across the Street
1993
1980s · 26 titles
NRThe young, talented scientist Konstantin Popov begins a serious romance with the daughter of his academic supervisor. Soon, rumors begin to spread around the department that Popov has made the right choice: the calculation is accurate. Konstantin, a principled and uncompromising man, is used to achieving everything in life on his own. Unable to bear the ridicule of his colleagues, he breaks off the relationship with the woman who loves him...
Personal Scores
1982
NRSergeant Shlykov is training young men he will have to fight alongside in Afghanistan. He is meticulous and strict, because he knows that in war, any small detail can cost a life. On his first combat mission to defuse a mine, the sergeant, unwilling to put a young soldier in danger, sends him to get water. Shlykov is killed by a Dushman lying in ambush — and the guys suffer their first combat loss, which is impossible to come to terms with.
Sergeant
1988
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The Blue Carbuncle
1980
4.7Adventures of a boy and his older friend during the time of October Revolution in Belarus.
The Sails of My Childhood
1982
7.0Woman meets a man during a difficult post-WWII time...
Fruza
1981
7.2Paleographer and writer Anton Glebovich Kosmich finds in the binding of an ancient book a parchment with encrypted information about treasures hidden in the dungeon of the castle. It gradually becomes clear that the last scion of the family of the Olshansky princes, who collaborated with the Nazis during the war, is also looking for the treasure. In the dungeon of the castle, along with treasures of the 17th century, materials from the SD archive are also hidden. The spaceman is in mortal danger.
The Black Castle Olshansky
1984
4.2Falling Star is based on three stories by the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Astafyev and centers on a young soldier on the front lines who is wounded and taken to the hospital. Once there, he muses about his childhood and a little girl he had loved - someone who could easily have grown up to be the nurse that is attending to him now. As he recuperates, he and the nurse fall in love and he very much wants to marry her. At this point, the nurse's mother comes for a visit and advises him against such an action because if they were to marry and he were subsequently killed or maimed in action - the fighting is still close to the hospital - the nurse would suffer much more than if he just left her alone. Now it is up to the soldier to make a decision one way or the other.
Falling Stars
1981
NRThe mother leaves the house. The career of his father, a famous boxer, is collapsing. The son helps his father overcome despair and return to sports.
Dad
1985
4.0A girl named Venya Ryzhik, living in an orphanage after parents abandoned her as an infant, creates "The test tube babies' league" with her orphan peers, declaring their refusal to find the foster family and protesting the apathy of their neglectful parents
Homunculus
1988
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Wisdom Meter
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Stepan Sergeich
1989
NRA fairy tale about how the little hunter Nikita and the puppy Bobik helped Zubrenok find his mother.
Don't Be Afraid of Me
1985
7.3A sad and funny story based on Hans Christian Andersen tales.
Fairies' Autumn Gift
1984
7.5A simple Russian woman, having lost her husband and son, found herself in another family and raised someone else's child... Maria has been living with the Alimov family for over thirty years. Fate once brought her together with Larisa Alimova, who, due to illness, could not raise her son, Petya.
Aunt Marusya
1985
5.5A dying woman’s wish sends her son on a train journey from the steppes of Uzbekistan to the Russian hinterland in search of his father’s grave. Just as the traveler’s home city of Samarkand is situated on the border between East and West, Khamraev balances his film on the edge of two cultures, evoking the soul of Russia and the crumbling beauty of what was once the Silk Road.
I Remember You
1986
7.0Follows the construction of the Fergana Canal, which employed 170 thousand people, and Usman Yusupov was given a very specific task - in 45 days, a 270-kilometer-long canal should provide water to the cotton fields.
Meaning of Life
1987
6.0On instructions from Polish intelligence, a group of bandits dress up in Red Army uniforms and attack a Soviet border town.
State Border: Vol. 2. Peaceful Summer of '21
1981
7.6Being such an amazingly honest, straightforward person like Zina unfortunately means making your life very difficult. But what can you do—it's her nature! Faced with fraud at work, the film's heroine tries with all her might to defend the truth. The culprit decides to take revenge on her...
Zina-Zinulya
1986
NRLate at night, the main stage of the old theatre welcomes the Spirit of Theatre, who is keen on keeping ancient traditions alive.
Night at the Theatre
1989
7.0The film is set during the Civil War. The Red Army, with the support of the people, is fighting the Basmachi band led by Kurbashi Rajabbek.
Meeting in the Gorge of Death
1980
NRAccording to the stories of I.Kasafutdinov. Grigory has been working as a diver in the Sea of Okhotsk for many years. He misses his six-year-old son Dimka very much and decides to return to his hometown to invite his ex-wife Katya to try to somehow establish a life together. When he arrives, he finds out that Katya has a new husband, and she is expecting a child from him. Grigory asks to give him his son in exchange for all the money earned in the north, and Katya, after a brief hesitation, agrees. Grigory takes Dimka away, but the police overtake them at the train station. At the police station, Grigory learns that his ex-wife has filed a complaint about the abduction of her son...
Everyone Loves Someone...
1988
NRThe young landowner Astakhov comes to check the affairs of his distant estate. He meets his neighbors and among them two young girls. The arrival of Astakhov destroys the calm of the usual estate life.
Calm
1981
6.0A few kids are kidnapped and transferred to the Magic Kingdom where they must fight the monsters and evil sorcerers.
Flight to the Monster Country
1986
After his marriage, the young and talented Murad joined the institute, which was headed by his wife's uncle Yuldashev. The young designer soon realized that the pseudo-scientific activities of the institute were aimed only at improving Yuldashev's worthless projects. The hero rebelled — and was immediately fired. Having got a job as an adjuster at another company, the designer secretly continued to design until the end of the eighties.
On the Second Round
1988
NRStepan Astashonok, a graduate of the orphanage, came to the factory and seemed to have found his business. He soon got married, but he lived few happy days. When the war began, the Germans stole his wife and children to Germany. Having reached Berlin, the hero did not lose hope of finding them. Stepan learned about the death of his daughter, son and wife in the last days of the war. But the soldier continued to fight and tried to be human.…
Last Step
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Personal Interest
1986
1970s · 9 titles
9.0Batov, the foreman of the steelworkers of one of the ural plants, is looking forward to waiting for Yuri’s son from the army - he dreams of showing him a new device, which he came up with the chief engineer Komarov. The son is returning, the device does not bother him - he wants to become an actor. Having failed in exams, the son of the honored team leader goes to the factory - and there he feels quite comfortable
Who If Not You...
1976
6.51922 The Far East is still occupied by the White Guard troops and the Japanese invaders. But in the region there are red partisan detachments. At this time, the Red Army is preparing a decisive offensive to clear the Far Eastern region from the whites and the Japanese.
Let's Talk, Brother...
1979
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Merry Kaleidoscope
1974
5.4A story of a crime which was committed and solved during one night only.
One Night Only
1977
NRInvestigator for especially important cases, police lieutenant colonel Andrei Basov arrives from Moscow to investigate the case of a cash register robbery.
The Investigator
1973
10.0A drama about tragical events which happened in remote village and were caused by jealousy.
Sunday Night
1977
No synopsis available yet.
Time of Her Sons
1976
6.0Fighter pilot Nikolai Muravyov is experiencing a personal drama: his wife and son left for the mainland - they are tired of life beyond the Arctic Circle. Colonel Belyy, thinking that his wife will return to her husband if he serves on the mainland, sends Nikolai on a business trip. In the new unit, Muravyov meets his fellow student Yevgeni Shelest. Friends have to fly in pairs.
Because I Love
1974
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Black Birch
1977
Series credits
7.7A 'runaway' homeless man, once a renowned athlete, finds himself marooned in the small, snow-covered town of Zarechensk. Victor lands a job at an orphanage, where he soon meets a young teacher who becomes both a compassionate friend and the love of his life. However, fate doesn't play out simply as good or bad; it unfolds in a way that makes the hero realize one cannot run away from oneself. Consequently, it is in Zarechensk that a train carrying a film crew from the capital, on their way back to Moscow, is compelled to delay their journey for a few days. Remarkably, Zarechensk becomes the place where a director finally discovers the perfect actress for his leading role and encounters a man who has fled from her love. Meanwhile, a producer makes the ultimate decision to select this town as the filming location for her upcoming movie.
The Waiting Room
1998
NRA Partisan Saga. Winter of 1942. Ivan Voronetsky, acting as a representative of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus, is assigned a special mission — along with his team of five.
Time Chose Us
1979
6.4From 1917 to the end of the 1980s, Soviet border guards are stationed on the territory of the USSR from the Far East to the western borders.
State Border
1980
7.2A military epic based on Ivan Stadnyuk's novel of the same name about the tragic events of the first months of the WWII.
War in the Western Direction
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Друзей не выбирают
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The White Robes
1992
NRThe story of Elam Harnish, a gold prospector and adventurer nicknamed Time-Won't-Wait, who "was a gambler by nature, and life seemed to him to be a most exciting game." In the course of this game for wealth and power, he becomes cynical and heartless. Having become a successful businessman, he lives and acts according to the laws of the jungle. A change comes over him after he meets stenographer Did Mason. Based on the novel of the same name by Jack London.
Time-Doesn't-Wait
1976
