
Acting
Yan Yanakiyev
Born — Died
1926-07-11 — 2021-03-24
Place of birth
Paris, France
Known for
Acting
Credits
33 titles
Known for
7.6Fitil 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
6.6The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.
Yeralash
1974
7.8A Soviet spy is tasked with disrupting the negotiations between Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles taking place in Switzerland, aimed at forging a separate peace between Germany and the Western Allies.
Seventeen Moments of Spring
1973
7.1After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Waterloo
1970
7.2They are neither adults nor kids - somewhere in between, living in their separate boys and girls cozy dorms and doing whatever they love to do - inventors, artists, poets, mechanists, scientists and....just dreamers! These enthusiastic and creative folks enjoy their half-adult, half-childish lifestyles and entertain each other with the different tricks and practical jokes. The main hero stands out of the crowd - while the others try to live the normal life socializing as they can, he can never be rested, always coming up with the different unpredictable and unexpected moves, which always make viewers burst with laugh....
Dunno on the Moon
1997
6.7Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Attack and Retreat
1964
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
7.0The tragic story of the life of revolutionary and romantic Nikolai Bukharin and his failed attempt to refute the charges against him. In parallel with the trial of Nikolai Bukharin, the whole life of this amazing man, who was ready to die for his ideals, flies before us.
Bukharin: Enemy of the People
1991
6.9No synopsis available yet.
Бес в ребро
1990
1980s · 7 titles
4.6This is the story of last years of Leo Tolstoy's life at his mansion in Yasnaya Polyana. He is surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who are coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. But in his sleepless nights he dreams about his happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. And everything ends with his tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.
Lev Tolstoy
1984
7.1"...whoever tells me a story and I say, "It's not true, I don't believe it," will receive half the kingdom as a reward." decided the bored king.
Who Will Tell A Fable?
1982
4.2She is a business, courageous and energetic woman. He is spineless, awkward and also not amenable to “correction.” It goes to divorce. Moreover, an ardent admirer of her beauty suddenly appears on the horizon. However, this circumstance, ultimately, leads to an unexpected result...
Take Care of the Men!
1983
6.4Detective Kostenko is traveling between Moscow and Sukhumi trying to find the responsible for double homicide.
Ogaryova Street, Number 6
1981
NRThe film takes place in a small southern town, the main problem of which is the lack of uninterrupted water supply. The young deputy chairman of the city executive committee proposes to speed up the construction of a water pipeline by passing it through the village of Shanghai, which was arbitrarily built up by people, thereby depriving hundreds of families of shelter...
Secret Graces
1989
NRTurkestan, 1919. The prominent Bolshevik Valerian Kuybyshev is appointed commander of the Turkestan Front. The film tells the story of the establishment of Soviet power in Central Asia.
Authorized by the Revolution
1987
NRThe heroine of the film Karagoz Alimbayeva comes from the village, where she worked as a zoo technician for five years, to the city to enter the veterinary institute. Having brilliantly passed the profile subjects, Karagoz gets a three on the last physics exam and, having failed to get one point, must return to the village.
Additional Questions
1980
1970s · 6 titles
7.1After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Waterloo
1970
5.8Based 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
7.3Zoo inspector Chaplygin, concerned about the death of walruses due to panic caused by airplane flights, destroys the only navigational sign and the flights stop. Having failed to understand each other on the spot, the pilot and the zoo inspector go to Moscow - and will settle their dispute in the State Arbitration.
Счёт человеческий
1978
6.3A lonely journalist in some West European country has a vision about the princess of his city who lived in XII century.
31st of June
1978
6.3The heroes of the film are students of a pedagogical university, those who, after a year or two, have to carry knowledge to schoolchildren, "to sow the rational, good, eternal." In the meantime, student practice. True, the practice is not quite ordinary, because for the first time students leave far from the walls of their own university, for the first time they meet with students in the classroom not in the presence of their teachers, those with whom life encounters them daily at the institute, but with those who have been working for more than a year at school.
We Didn't Learn This
1976
6.6Ivan Sergeevich Kashkin — the bath attendant of the most prestigious metropolitan bath. It’s not easy to get to him: reputable diplomats, well-known footballers, and the heads of the ministry are seeking the honor to steam. But Kashkin himself does not need to achieve anything, everything is at his service — from black caviar to tickets to the conservatory. And the hero’s cloudless life would have flowed, but then his twin brother Sergei fell ill and asked Ivan to replace him in his equally strange work.
You to Me, Me to You
1977
1960s · 6 titles
6.7Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Attack and Retreat
1964
5.9School is over, final exams are behind — and Dima was the first to think of waving away from home. The convictions of his elder brother Viktor about a serious attitude to the future life only more “warmed up” the four friends, and for the first time they went to Tallinn for the first time without the bored care of adults...
My Younger Brother
1962
8.5The end of the 1940s. Test pilot Aleksei Kolchin was commissioned for the first time to fly the first Soviet jet fighter. The tests are successful, but it is necessary to improve the aircraft. When performing a test flight, Kolchin dies, his last words are recorded on tape. Having studied them, Kolchin's friend Sergei Sharov makes a new attempt and completes the test of the aircraft.
They Conquer the Skies
1963
6.3Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to their real age.
A Tale of Lost Times
1964
8.0No synopsis available yet.
How Many Years, How Many Winters!
1966
8.0The 1950s. The construction of the Karakum Canal is underway in Turkmenistan. The fate of this large construction site is closely linked to the fate of many of the film's characters: correspondent Koryshev, who reveals the lies of his colleague Zurabov's ostentatious, slanderous articles; talented young engineer Karabash, whose advanced construction methods are supported by the construction site chief Ermasov; embittered old engineer Khorev, who, out of envy for Karabash, writes denunciations to the Central Committee of the party against him and Ermasov..
Quenching the Thirst
1968
1950s · 6 titles
6.1Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.
Admiral Ushakov
1953
8.01919 year. There is a civil war in Siberia. Taking advantage of the complete confusion, Admiral Kolchak wants to export part of the country's gold reserves abroad. At the very last moment the Bolsheviks find out about it. They decide to intercept the train, but do not have time to properly prepare the operation... The girl Nadya, in whom the head of the train is passionately in love, can save the situation. Several kilometers of railway tracks to the border become a battlefield between white and red.
The Golden Echelon
1959
5.2Osip Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist. From nine o'clock in the morning and in the forenoon accepts patients, then goes to open corpses. But its income is hardly enough for a covering of expenses of the wife mad about talents and celebrities in the art and artistic environment whom it daily accepts in the house.
The Grasshopper
1955
5.4Comedy about brothers Vesnushkin, Sasha and Vasya, who are playing for one team in a National Soccer Competition. However, Sasha falls in love with a beautiful girl and loses his confidence just before the final game, so his brother has to take the lead on the field in order to save the game.
The Boys from Leningrad
1954
8.0Three kids from a coastal village in the Far North discover an old rifle in a cave. They learn about a national hero Guriy Gagarka and organize an expedition to gather more info on him.
Mysterious Find
1954
4.8An unfinished film by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, the film is a political lampoon based on the book entitled The Truth about US Diplomats, written in 1949 by the American writer Annabel Bukar. It exposes the underhanded actions of US Embassy personnel in Moscow at the onset of the Cold War. Dovzhenko managed to shoot only a half of the film, mainly the scenes that take place in the American Embassy.
Farewell, America!
1951
Series credits
7.6Fitil 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
6.6The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.
Yeralash
1974
7.8A Soviet spy is tasked with disrupting the negotiations between Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles taking place in Switzerland, aimed at forging a separate peace between Germany and the Western Allies.
Seventeen Moments of Spring
1973
7.2They are neither adults nor kids - somewhere in between, living in their separate boys and girls cozy dorms and doing whatever they love to do - inventors, artists, poets, mechanists, scientists and....just dreamers! These enthusiastic and creative folks enjoy their half-adult, half-childish lifestyles and entertain each other with the different tricks and practical jokes. The main hero stands out of the crowd - while the others try to live the normal life socializing as they can, he can never be rested, always coming up with the different unpredictable and unexpected moves, which always make viewers burst with laugh....
Dunno on the Moon
1997
8.0A fantasy love story between an artist living in the 21st century and a princess of the kingdom of Perador, during the reign of King Arthur.
31 июня
1978
6.0In an ordinary industrial Soviet town, notable only for presence of a radio-telescope, people start behaving strangely, in a robotic manner, while assuming geometry-inspired aliases and organizing into a new hierarchy. The phenomenon spreads via a device of alien origin, called “the mediator”, capable of implanting extraterrestrial minds into human bodies. The aliens are bound by limitations of the terrestrial technology, having to use the means at the disposal of humans to prepare the grounds for the full-scale invasion. With “the mediator" being unable to subdue minds of children, lunatics, geniuses, and rebels, a struggle over the fate of the town and the human civilization ensues.
The Mediator
1990
