Aleksey Zaytsev

Acting

Aleksey Zaytsev

Born — Died

1939-03-28 — 2018-05-26

Place of birth

USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

Fuse

1962

Silence poster
NR

Demobilized Sergei Vokhmintsev returns to Moscow and enrolls in a university. His father is arrested based on a slanderous denunciation. The hero himself, as the son of an “enemy of the people,” is expelled from the party and the university...

Silence

1992

Bastards poster
5.8

A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin.

Bastards

2006

Bimmer poster
6.2

A black BMW, a symbol of luxury, is racing along the night streets of Moscow in the 90s. Bad luck turns four friends into criminals and they have no way back. Only the black “bimmer” is reliable in this life without rules, taking the friends farther and farther from Moscow, into the crazy and ruthless wilderness of Russian roads… None of them wanted to kill. None of them wanted to die. But they will have to face their destiny in the end.

Bimmer

2003

Funny People! poster
6.0

The movie intertwines the plot lines of the stories "In the Bathhouse", "Tears Invisible to the World", "A Conversation between a Man and a Dog" and others. By the will of the film's creators, the viewer gets to the rehearsals of an unusual choir and gets acquainted with the stories of the singers - diverse, but invariably amusing.

Funny People!

1978

Uncle's Dream poster
7.0

Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary.

Uncle's Dream

1981

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 11 titles

Uncle's Dream poster
7.0

Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary.

Uncle's Dream

1981

Cat Killer Silver poster
6.3

A patient in a psychiatric ward believes he lives in the belly of a whale, where he's transported himself to escape from the vulgarity and haste of the modern world.

Cat Killer Silver

1989

Perfil and Foma poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Perfil and Foma

1985

Under The Steps poster
NR

Yakov Deryabin returns from prison, where he ended up thanks to his wife, and suffers in search of work and housing. No one takes part in the fate of a kind and unfortunate man. And while he sleeps in the entrance of an apartment building under the stairs...

Under The Steps

1989

Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game poster
5.8

Fifteen year old gifted teenager Ruslan Chutko longs to do good and help the police to identify offenses under the pseudonym Plumbum. Plumbum decides in a single provincial town to eradicate the evil. However, in his interest of being a fighter against evil he goes far beyond what is permitted in a children's play and ends up ruthlessly invading people's lives.

Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game

1987

Take Me With You poster
10.0

The village orphan, Dunyasha first sight fell in love with the buffoon-bully Mitrokha. Love was unhappy, because Mitrokha was rude. For that and was expelled from the village. Dunyasha felt sorry for Mitrokha, and she went after her lover…

Take Me With You

1980

The Humble Cemetery poster
5.4

The main character Vorobei is a professional grave digger and alcohol addict, who runs away from hospital to dig graves instead of treating his head broken by his brother. He comes to cemetery and keeps on working, instead of his friends' advice to stay in the hospital. The world of death turns out to be surrounded by corruption, satanic money-making, cemetery mafia and lots of vodka.

The Humble Cemetery

1989

Vasiliy Buslaev poster
4.2

The film is based on Sergei Narovchatov’s poem. Vassily Buslayev is an epic Russian hero who rose to defend the freedom and independence of his people. The strength and power of this son of a Novgorod governor, his friendship with simple folk enraged and scared the rich, fat merchants of the city. When they learned that the young man was setting out on a march to save his native land from the enemy, they couldn’t be more happy: how could he defeat a foe so mighty! But Vassily overcomes all intrigues and brings his expedition to a victorious end. He returns home a hero, and not alone but with a sweetheart. When a threat of enemy invasion again looms over Novgorod, people come and beg Vassily to defend their native land.

Vasiliy Buslaev

1983

Sign of Disaster poster
6.5

A woman defends during World War II her home and her family against Hitler's soldiers.

Sign of Disaster

1987

The Interviewer poster
9.0

While working in Afghanistan, Soviet journalist Aleksei Rusanov witnesses the spread of a strange disease. He manages to find out that the carriers of the dangerous virus are mosquitoes of a previously unknown species. Aleksei goes to Sindabad and penetrates the secret laboratory of Professor Neli, whose work on the elimination of deadly insects is funded by the CIA...

The Interviewer

1987

The Only Man poster
7.5

The film's heroine, the director of a large scientific and industrial association, one day comes to the conclusion that her personal life has not worked out…

The Only Man

1981

1970s · 11 titles

Funny People! poster
6.0

The movie intertwines the plot lines of the stories "In the Bathhouse", "Tears Invisible to the World", "A Conversation between a Man and a Dog" and others. By the will of the film's creators, the viewer gets to the rehearsals of an unusual choir and gets acquainted with the stories of the singers - diverse, but invariably amusing.

Funny People!

1978

12 Chairs poster
7.6

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.

12 Chairs

1971

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat poster
4.2

In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

1976

Wind of Wandering poster
8.7

Two young children are traveling through all the USSR in order to meet their father who is wounded in the hospital.

Wind of Wandering

1978

The Wise Gudgeon poster
4.6

On the motives of Saltikov-Shedrin’s fairy tale, the film derides aimless and senseless being.

The Wise Gudgeon

1979

Lone Wolf poster
5.3

Based on one of Turgenev's Hunter's Sketches: the Lone Wolf of the title is a forest caretaker for a flippant aristocrat. Though he lives in absolute misery in a hut deep in the woods with two small children to take care of, he's feared for his merciless stalking of the starving serfs who sneak in to cut firewood.

Lone Wolf

1977

White Circle poster
8.0

About the struggle of steelworkers and residents of the city of Mariupol against the German fascist invaders during World War II.

White Circle

1974

Black Prince poster
6.1

In the second movie colonel Zorin is trying to find a stolen "Black Prince" diamond.

Black Prince

1973

No artwork available
NR

Based on the short story of the same name by M. Gorky.

Solo

1970

Shake-Up poster
NR

About a little boy apprentice of an icon workshop who dreamed of becoming a circus clown.

Shake-Up

1970

Fire poster
NR

About the 1930s—the early years of the Stakhanovite movement. The heroes of the film are steelworkers, who were among the first participants in the socialist competition.

Fire

1974

1960s · 6 titles

A Hero of Our Time poster
5.7

After the death of Bela, Pechorin was unwell for a long time, and then left the fortress and Maxim Maximych and left for Georgia. Since then, the headquarters captain had no news of his friend, often recalled and carefully carried his diaries in his wanderings. Five years have passed... Once at a post station near Vladikavkaz, Maxim Maximych with delight learns that Grigory Pechorin also came here. The long-awaited meeting brings an unbearable pain and bitterness of disappointment to the old warrior. In his hearts, he mercilessly parted with the travel notes of the ensign. And his random companion finds on the yellowed pages the story of the soul of an amazing, extraordinary person who brings misfortune to others all his life.

A Hero of Our Time

1967

Peace to Him Who Enters poster
5.9

Pregnant German woman is trapped behind Russian lines. When she goes into labor, three Soviet soldiers deliver her to a field hospital: a newly graduated officer, an affable truck driver, and a soldier shell-shocked into muteness. The dangerous trip to the hospital ends up a rite of passage for all concerned.

Peace to Him Who Enters

1961

High Water poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

High Water

1963

Sorcerer Island poster
8.0

Brother and sister Danya and Valya move with their mother to a northern seaside town and immediately become participants in an exciting but dangerous adventure.

Sorcerer Island

1965

A Span of Land poster
6.0

The film is about the hot war summer of 1944. A group of several gun crews defends a tiny bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester. The fates of the main characters: the front-line soldier-battalion commander Babin, the young lieutenant Motovilov, the nurse Rita Tamashova and the rank-and-file gunners, soldiers, among whom are brave people, faint-hearted and scoundrels, unnoticed heroes, are shown in a setting of several hours of peaceful life before another violent attack of the enemy, after which not everyone will survive...

A Span of Land

1964

Alyosha's Love poster
5.2

Summer of 1960. A detachment of exploration geologists is working in the steppe region, and among them is Alyoshka, a guy who, before entering the geological exploration institute, decided to walk with geologists. Unskillful and messy in everyday life, he becomes the object of their jokes and practical jokes, which are not always harmless. However, his persistent character, his timid and pure love for the switchwoman Zinka, who lives with her grandfather on a crossing lost in the steppe, makes the guys from the squad take a different look at this inconspicuous guy and at his relationship with each other.

Alyosha's Love

1960

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