Acting

Nikolai Volkov

Born — Died

1926-05-06 — 2012-12-27

Place of birth

Kishinyov, Moldavian ASSR, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Known for

Dersu Uzala poster
7.9

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

Dersu Uzala

1975

Sunday, Half Past Six poster
9.0

Young lawyer Sergei Krasheninnikov is assigned to a case involving the death of a young woman. As he questions people who saw her on the day she died, Sergei begins to realize that there is much more to the story than meets the eye.

Sunday, Half Past Six

1988

The Late Berry poster
7.2

The life of Pavla Brus, a middle-aged, modest but principled woman, suddenly changes with a crush on a drilling foreman. Unable to restrain her feelings, she decides to cheat on her husband, divorce and leave the family. But her youngest son Kuzma, a teenager with an intelligent and piercing look at the world around him, stops her from a rash act, which is shaped by observation of Siberian nature. A philosophical attitude towards banal life processes allows the mother to reconsider her feelings for her husband Tikhon and the failed lover Nikolai.

The Late Berry

1979

They Fought for Their Motherland poster
6.9

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

They Fought for Their Motherland

1975

The Siege: Operation "Iskra" poster
5.5

"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

Battle of Moscow poster
NR

The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.

Battle of Moscow

1985

Film credits

1980s · 21 titles

Battle of Moscow poster
NR

The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.

Battle of Moscow

1985

Twice Born poster
4.5

Events take place in the White Sea, 1942. New recruit Andrei Bulygin is assigned as an assistant machine gunner on a small ship that delivers soldiers and weapons to the front line. On the way back, German fighters sink the ship, leaving only Andrei alive. Having got out on the ice, he enters into an unequal battle with the cold and the German pilot von Bettger attacking him from the air...

Twice Born

1984

The First Lad poster
NR

Young agronomist Viktor Nozhov makes an extraordinary decision - he leaves a successful state farm and becomes the chairman of a backward collective farm in his native village...

The First Lad

1986

Mystery of the Ship Clock poster
6.0

The chain of adventures of a young ten-year-old Baku boy Alik who ran away from home led him to Odesa. Here, the boy made friends with his peers and many other people, and learned his first life lessons. He returned home accompanied by his father and mother, for whom their son's escape became a test of the family's strength.

Mystery of the Ship Clock

1983

Every Tenth poster
7.0

Five Red Army soldiers, who found themselves in the rear of the Kolchak troops, captured an enemy armored car and captured an intelligence officer. From him they learn that soon a steamer with weapons and ammunition for the upcoming white counteroffensive is due to pass along the river. How to stop the ship, capture it, and then transport such a valuable cargo through ambushes and cordons of Kolchak troops entrenched on both sides of the river?..

Every Tenth

1984

Insult poster
6.8

The saleswoman of the village store Pasha Nikitina generously distributed all the money from the proceeds to the villagers in debt, when they were left without a salary through the fault of the Chairman. The audit appeared suddenly — and Pasha began to demand money back. Not having received debts, the heroine turned for help to her brother, who immediately responded to her misfortune: he sent money and came himself…

Insult

1987

Through the Grass Barefoot poster
9.0

After the army, Nikolai returned to his native village. Not wanting to put up with the fact that people are leaving their homes, the hero goes to teach at a technical school that trains tractor drivers for the village.

Through the Grass Barefoot

1987

Anxiety of the First Birds poster
8.0

1944 Sergeant Vasily Kalina returns to his native village of Pastoron after the hospital. But he does not find the village: retreating, the Germans burned all the houses and mined the fields. The restoration of the economy is led by the former commander of the partisan detachment Grigory Gorovoy. He appoints Vasily as the chairman of the collective farm. Soon Kalina learns that Claudia, whom he loved before the war, considering him dead, married Gorovoy. The current situation is not an easy test for all three...

Anxiety of the First Birds

1986

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World poster
4.5

The second part of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk's epic biography of John Reed. It is October 1917 and the American journalist has found himself and his wife, Louise Bryant, in Petrograd on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution.

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

1982

Wormwood is a Bitter Herb poster
7.0

After the war, Trofim returned to his native village from Germany with a girl who had lost her memory in a concentration camp. The care and compassion of the villagers helped the girl to return to a full-blooded life.

Wormwood is a Bitter Herb

1982

Stove Builders poster
6.7

A literature teacher struggles with a faulty stove, with a village major being called to assist.

Stove Builders

1982

The Land of My Childhood poster
9.0

More than twenty years ago, the village of Luzhnoye was declared unpromising and the floodplain meadows were plowed. But there were people who wanted to revive the fertile lands and the abandoned village...

The Land of My Childhood

1987

Sunday, Half Past Six poster
6.0

A rookie detective is investigating a young girl death

Sunday, Half Past Six

1988

Squadron of Flying Hussars poster
6.4

A story about a colonel Denis Davydov - hero of the 1812 war.

Squadron of Flying Hussars

1981

It's Not Always Summer in Crimea poster
10.0

The film is dedicated to Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, the younger brother of V.I. Lenin, a professional revolutionary, doctor and creator of the first Soviet sanatoriums and rest homes in the Crimea.

It's Not Always Summer in Crimea

1988

Tender Age poster
7.0

Kir Lopukhov and Alyosha Mamykin are classmates who have just received a certificate of maturity. The war began and the guys, without hesitation, also act together in the same artillery special school. They are given just three days to visit the front, for which there is so much to be done! Say goodbye to your Sokolniki. Find classmates. And Kira - by all means learn about the fate of her beloved girl Olya. True, she was evacuated, but according to rumors, she returned to the capital to go to university.

Tender Age

1983

Start Liquidation poster
5.2

Army and police are trying to fight crime in West Belarus during Spring of 1945.

Start Liquidation

1983

Appeal poster
9.0

At a meeting of the bureau, under pressure from the first secretary of the district committee of the party, the agronomist of the collective farm Boris Kholmovoy was dismissed and expelled from the party for allegedly arbitrary actions. Disagreeing with the decision of the district committee, Kholmovoy files an appeal. The secretary of the regional party committee Plotnikov, wanting to understand this complicated matter, goes to the collective farm.

Appeal

1987

Here, on My Own Land poster
7.0

A large-format movie about the life of the scientist and breeder Academician I.P.Lugovenko. Academician-breeder Lugovenko created a variety of wheat, which is not afraid of the vagaries of nature and gives high yields. The academician recalls his life, how he came here as a young man and stayed forever, how a young trainee became his wife, how their son was killed by an enemy shell. His friends and comrades-in-arms did not leave him in a difficult moment, and now, at the moment of his victory, they are also by his side.

Here, on My Own Land

1980

Gu-Ga poster
4.0

A story about the soldiers of Soviet punishment battalion during WWII. Month of service in a punishment battalion was equated to ten years in prison...

Gu-Ga

1989

Unfamiliar Song poster
NR

On Tanker's Day, Ivan Panasyuk, a former tanker and trackman, unexpectedly left for the city to visit his front-line comrade, Kolya Kravchenko, on his wife's day. For the first time since the war, Ivan hadn't received a congratulatory message from his friend on their shared holiday, and he became worried. He couldn't find Kolya—his old house had been demolished. Ivan spent the entire day in the city, witnessed the celebratory fireworks, and accidentally met an elderly colonel, with whom, it turned out, he had fought together in the battles for the liberation of a small Hungarian town.…

Unfamiliar Song

1983

1970s · 9 titles

Dersu Uzala poster
7.9

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

Dersu Uzala

1975

The Late Berry poster
7.2

The life of Pavla Brus, a middle-aged, modest but principled woman, suddenly changes with a crush on a drilling foreman. Unable to restrain her feelings, she decides to cheat on her husband, divorce and leave the family. But her youngest son Kuzma, a teenager with an intelligent and piercing look at the world around him, stops her from a rash act, which is shaped by observation of Siberian nature. A philosophical attitude towards banal life processes allows the mother to reconsider her feelings for her husband Tikhon and the failed lover Nikolai.

The Late Berry

1979

They Fought for Their Motherland poster
6.9

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

They Fought for Their Motherland

1975

The Siege: Operation "Iskra" poster
5.5

"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

Grandmother's Grandson poster
7.0

A story of a young boy David who recently moved from Erevan to Leningrad.

Grandmother's Grandson

1979

The Orphans poster
5.9

A story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II.

The Orphans

1977

Pugachev poster
5.0

Don 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

The Siege: Leningrad Metronome poster
7.7

A story about the tragic events in the life of besieged Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1943.

The Siege: Leningrad Metronome

1977

Territory poster
6.8

Discovery of gold by a group of tough people in the far Northeast of Russia.

Territory

1979

1960s · 2 titles

Series credits