Vitaliy Leonov

Acting

Vitaliy Leonov

Born 1926-10-02 · Sverdlovsk, RSFSR, USSR

Acting credits

I Wanted to See Angels poster
6.6

Twenty-year-old Bob rides 1000 km to Moscow on his vintage motorbike to collect a bad debt for his boss; the city chews up and spits out this naive country boy, whose head is full of Easy Rider dreams.

I Wanted to See Angels

1992

My Destiny poster
7.0

Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...

My Destiny

1974

Vacancy poster
7.0

The shortcomings of the era of stagnation are criticized in a grotesque manner - it takes place at a train station and on a train.

Vacancy

1989

We Didn't Learn This poster
6.3

The 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

Аварийное положение poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Аварийное положение

1973

Siberiade poster
7.1

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.

Siberiade

1979

Grafinya poster
4.5

Удивительная романтическая история случилась под Новый год в старинной графской усадьбе, в которой расположился сегодня Дом Творчества. Здесь работает писатель над романом. В покои, где когда — то обитала красавица графиня, поселилась молодая женщина с детьми, удивительно похожая на бывшую хозяйку. Но старые стены хранят память о былом и хозяйка является сюда из прошлого… Так кто же эта женщина, в которую влюбляется писатель?

Grafinya

1991

They Fought for Their Motherland poster
7.0

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

Driver for One Trip poster
7.0

Driver Mikhail meets Sofia, a distinguished collective farm worker who has come to Moscow. He helps her buy a car and agrees to deliver it to her collective farm. He is a widower, and she has separated from her husband. At Sofia's request, he agrees to take her, her daughter, and son-in-law back home. Mikhail develops deep feelings for Sofia, but her daughter is against it.

Driver for One Trip

1981

Not Every Comet Dies Down poster
10.0

The film recounts a meeting between veterans of the WWII at the site of former battles.

Not Every Comet Dies Down

1982

White Bim Black Ear poster
7.1

A touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hunting and nature, took a puppy to live with him, despite the dog's black ear being a "shame of nature" to his breed. The man always took his dog, whom he called Bim or Bimka, to hunting in country. Later, however Ivan Ivanovich began to have problems with heart and when the disease became worse was taken to a hospital. His dog couldn't bear waiting for the only person that ever cared for him and set out to find his master. Thus began the story of a homeless dog and his many breathtaking and exciting adventures, encounters of many people, kind and evil, and leads to an unexpected and heart-rending end.

White Bim Black Ear

1977

It Can't Be! poster
7.3

The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.

It Can't Be!

1975

Storm on the Land poster
9.5

A story about a group of children and their life set at the small Russian seashore town in the year of 1913.

Storm on the Land

1976

Three People on a Highway poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Three People on a Highway

1983

Risk Strategy poster
5.0

A story about an oil worker who went from the head of a geological exploration expedition to the chief geologist of the trust.

Risk Strategy

1978

Promised Heaven poster
5.4

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...

Promised Heaven

1991

About Businessman Foma poster
5.3

Foma, a kolkhoz employee, decides to build a pay toilet in his village. Bit not all the villagers like the idea...

About Businessman Foma

1993

Men Wanted poster
7.0

Alexey Veryaskin, a new employee, joins the team of concrete carpenters, who left his prosperous family to take an active part in the construction of a large hydroelectric power station.

Men Wanted

1983

According to Lopotukhin... poster
5.0

A movie about very strange events which happened in the ordinary school after Vasya Lopotukhin got late to a math lesson because of his meeting with aliens.

According to Lopotukhin...

1984

The Gambler poster
5.7

The story of a player who entered the environment of professional gamblers in the hope of breaking a big jackpot.

The Gambler

1989

Desire for Love poster
NR

A young governess arrives from Moscow to an ancient Russian city. She is invited to the house of one of the richest people in Russia to raise his daughter. While still on the train, the girl falls in love with engineer Alarin. And now the owner of the house has a passionate feeling for her.

Desire for Love

1993

In the Stremine of the Frenzied River poster
NR

“We are all from the same trust,” the old peasant replies to the driller’s foreman when he, justifying himself for the wounds inflicted on the ground, refers to the neighboring trust. “And we have no other.”

In the Stremine of the Frenzied River

1980