Nikolai Karnaukhov

Acting

Nikolai Karnaukhov

Born 1930-11-17 · Vyzheles, Ryazanskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR

Acting credits

The Man With the Accordion poster
9.0

Dmitry Gromtsev was a volunteer to go the front where he was wounded. He couldn't get back to his beloved profession of musician. The movie tells us about difficult destiny of a person who couldn't become an artist because of war.

The Man With the Accordion

1985

The Children of Iron Gods poster
5.2

The films hero is a metal worker named Ignat who is as strong and tough as the steel that his sprawling factory produces in the Ural Mountains. Its a great cheerless environment; life is arduous and dangerous; conditions at the plant are nearly subhuman. The only excitement in the grimy industrial town is provided by robbing a train at gunpoint or stealing sheep from the Bashkiri tribe. The most renowned diversion, however, is the annual fist fight between the strongest metal worker and the strongest miner from the region. Against his better judgment, but with the support of his co-workers, Ignat decides to take part in this perilous venture.

The Children of Iron Gods

1993

Twins poster
5.3

A funny comedy about a lost twins and a lot of good people who are involved in a search for twins' parents.

Twins

1945

The House and the Host poster
8.5

Egor is a peasant by vocation, a family man. But in search of earnings, he leaves both his land and his family. Both breakups are hard for him, it's even hard to figure out which is bigger.

The House and the Host

1968

Messenger Boy poster
7.4

Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and works as a courier at a Russian newspaper. Through his job, he meets patronizing Professor Kuznetzov and his rebellious daughter Katya. To annoy the professor, Ivan claims to have an affair with Katya. To his surprise, Katya backs his story up.

Messenger Boy

1986

Formula of Love poster
7.5

A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a buzz in high society with his "magic", he decides to ask the Count to bring the statue to life...

Formula of Love

1984

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

How to Become Happy poster
4.2

Once on New Year's Eve, Gosha met a strange old man who called himself an inventor. He kept his last invention in a suitcase and willingly determined with the help of this device the area and degree of giftedness of each person. He predicted the career of a clown to Gosha, but Gosha did not believe it and, contrary to the recommendations, became a journalist.

How to Become Happy

1986

Article poster
NR

The head of the regional inspectorate of architectural and construction control, Veprev, writes a critical article to the central newspaper about shortcomings in local construction, thereby causing dissatisfaction with the regional leadership. They find an excuse to release Veprev from his post. But the intervention of one of the journalists in the case helps to restore justice.

Article

1988

No artwork available
NR

Based on the play of the same name by Ion Druta. The play tells the story of the villagers Calin Ababia, whose hard life was spent in a Moldovan village, and Mihai Gruia, who made a brilliant career in the city.

The Holy of Holies

1989

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained poster
6.7

The thirty-year-old decathlete leaves the big sport and becomes a stunt performer in the cinema. About how the movie is shot, and about the development of personal relationships between the main characters.

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

1977

Limited Life poster
4.6

A story about young girl Masha who is living in abandoned house and surrounded by the very strange company...

Limited Life

1989

Steps poster
NR

The action takes place during the years of the Civil War in the Urals. It is difficult for the young woman Nadia Korneeva to make sense of the events unfolding around her. Having endured much grief and gone through numerous trials, she decides to join a Red Guard unit.

Steps

1973

You Remember poster
7.0

A tragical story of love between two young people during WWII.

You Remember

1979

Nerves... Nerves... poster
6.0

The misadventures of a cheerful inventor begin when he crashes his motorcycle into a long pipe being carried by workers.

Nerves... Nerves...

1972

Citizen Lyoshka poster
8.0

The young lumberjack foreman Lyoshka Ignatov bitterly sees for himself that the huge stocks of forest, extracted by hard work, rot on the side of the road due to simple mismanagement. Raising the alarm at the timber industry farm and not receiving support in the area, he flies to Moscow.

Citizen Lyoshka

1981

Duel poster
7.0

1896. The regiment, stationed in a small town, is bored, drunk, languishing in soullessness. Lieutenant Romashov falls in love with the captain's wife Shurochka. Society is abuzz on the subject. A quarrel arises between the captain and the lieutenant.

Duel

1957

Start All Over Again poster
5.2

Bard Nikolai Kovalyov is recognized and loved by young people, but music officials remain deaf to the poet's creativity. A new phase in his life begins with an unexpected meeting.

Start All Over Again

1985

A Small Giant of Big Sex poster
6.0

Based on the story "Oh, Marat!" by Fazil Iskander. The main character of the movie, Marat, lives in a coastal town near the Black Sea, he works as a photographer at the beach and is an editor at the local newspaper. But he is known for an entirely other reason: no woman can resist him. Making love is a serious thing for Marat, although his adventures will make the viewers die with laughter...

A Small Giant of Big Sex

1993

The Legend of Thyl poster
5.8

Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere." First part: "The Ashes of Claes". XVI century. The freedom-loving and cheerful people of the Netherlands under the rule of the Spanish king: persecution, torture, bonfires of the Inquisition, encouraging scammers. The fearless Thyl Uhlenshpiegel and his faithful girlfriend Nele have to go through many trials. Second part: "Viva Beggars!". The people of the Netherlands, tormented by cruel royal decrees, taxes, heresy, torture and executions, began a war of liberation against Spanish rule. Many feats will be performed by the national hero Tilbert (Thyl) Ulenspiegel and his friend Lamme Gudzak before peace returns to their homeland.

The Legend of Thyl

1977

The Old Man's Case poster
NR

A television play by Konstantin Antropov, staged by the 'School of Contemporary Drama' theater, based on the stories by Vasily Shukshin: 'Grief,' 'How the Old Man Died,' and 'Uncle Yermolai.'

The Old Man's Case

1989

Three Fat Men poster
7.1

A fairy tale film about the clever tightrope walker Tibule, who fights alongside the armorer Prospero and all the working people against the tyrants, the three Fat Men, who rule the state until the young heir Tutti comes of age. The freedom fighters are aided by the kind Dr. Gaspar and the brave acrobat girl Suok, who has to pretend to be a doll to sneak into the palace and free Prospero.

Three Fat Men

1966

Do Not Shoot at White Swans poster
5.3

Egor Polushkin (Stanislav Lyubshin) is a kind-hearted, nature loving, artistic family man who is living in a small village. To his neighbors and even his wife (Nina Ruslanova) he is a walking disaster, so they frown at him and call him Bedonosec (engl. misfortune bearer). Only Egors son (Viktor Anisimov) shares his enthusiasm for the beautiful things of live. As Egor becomes the new forest ranger, this new position brings him not only joy, but it is also the source of great suffering to come, as his fondness for the living nature and especially the newly acquired white swans is in conflict with the interests of others...

Do Not Shoot at White Swans

1980

Winter Evening in Gagry poster
6.3

A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as step became unpopular he lost everything. He hates even this word - 'chechotka' (step dance). But somehow the young man convinces him to become his coach and manager.

Winter Evening in Gagry

1985