Aleksandr Vokach

Acting

Aleksandr Vokach

Born 1926-03-21 · Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Acting credits

The Sparkling World poster
5.4

In the circus of the city Zurbagan a mysterious stranger with the ability to fly. Many present at this performance, however, few people think about what is happening.

The Sparkling World

1984

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin poster
6.7

As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II, mystic Grigori Rasputin holds great influence over the empire. However, many in St Petersburg begin to regard Rasputin, with his strange practices and mesmerizing qualities, as a liability and plot his assassination. When Rasputin, known to many as the 'Mad Monk', leads Nicholas to embrace an ill-conceived military strategy, a group of determined conspirators set down a plan to eliminate him.

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

1981

The Committee of 19 poster
7.5

UN's The Committee of 19 sends six scientists to investigate a biological outbreak in Africa.

The Committee of 19

1972

Rally poster
5.6

During an international rally two contestants find a hidden painting in the door of their car. In order to not get removed from the track riders do not report to their team management.

Rally

1978

The Red Cadets poster
NR

A film-play based on the works of Arkady Gaidar, depicting the heroic struggle of cadets from the Ninth Command Courses of the Red Army against the Petliurists.

The Red Cadets

1972

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

Cancan in an English Park poster
7.0

A Ukrainian poet visiting his emigre cousin is threatened into working for the CIA's operations through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Cancan in an English Park

1985

The Nightingale poster
6.6

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes.

The Nightingale

1980

Two Hussars poster
NR

Drama on the novel of the same name L. N. Tolstoy. Two hussars - father and son - two morals, two worldviews. And although older Turbin frivolous in love, but reliable in friendship and principled in matters of honor. Junior Turbines do not stand up to comparison with his father - he is calculating, shallow and selfish "hussars of the new generation".

Two Hussars

1984

King Lear poster
6.7

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

King Lear

1970

Star Counter poster
NR

Germany in the thirties. Soviet spy Yaroslava Soboleva (aka Sophie Weinert) manages to destroy stocks of a new type of bacteriological weapon at the cost of her own life

Star Counter

1987

Vladivostok, Year 1918 poster
3.7

1918 year. The ships of the military mission of the Entente countries are ready to begin an armed intervention against the Land of Soviets. Faced with betrayal and constant provocations, in extremely difficult conditions the first Council of workers, soldiers and peasants' deputies, headed by Konstantin Sukhanov, works here.

Vladivostok, Year 1918

1982

Two Chapters from the Family Chronicle poster
7.0

Before leaving for the USSR, a West German journalist meets his father, who was in Russia in 1922, where he met, fell in love with and lost forever a Russian translator. Sixty years later, the son follows his father's route...

Two Chapters from the Family Chronicle

1983

Dress Rehearsal poster
NR

A poetic psychological drama about the adolescence of the Ukrainian-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol filmed for Soviet television at A. Dovzhenko Film Studion in 1988. Based on the short story "Gogol-gimnazist" by Vasili Avenarius.

Dress Rehearsal

1989

This Fantastic World 6 poster
10.0

Screen adaptation of two works by science fiction writers: “Noise Level” by Raymond Jones and “Shadow of the Past” by Ivan Efremov.

This Fantastic World 6

1981

My Dearly Beloved Detective poster
3.8

The conceit is that Sherlock Holmes is, as in reality, a fictional creation of Arthur Conan Doyle, but that the place where his office would be is maintained by the brilliant detective Shirley Holmes, who both solves crimes and maintains a museum for people who think Sherlock Holmes is real -- accompanied by a phonograph playing music from the Livanov series which had not long ended. She is accompanied, as might be expected, by a woman Watson, and must fight off the affections of both a Scotland Yard inspector an a parody Latin lover from Spain.

My Dearly Beloved Detective

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Свадьба старшего брата

1985

Cargo With No Markings poster
4.4

The assistant captain of a foreign merchant ship, Chief, contacts an international drug cartel. He agrees to transport a large shipment of drugs in unmarked containers. The markings will be added later, only at the shipper's request. Unexpectedly, the ship has to call at a Soviet port to refuel.

Cargo With No Markings

1984

Big Volodya, Small Volodya poster
7.0

The action takes place in a backwater small town. The story of the life of a married couple - Colonel Yagich and his wife Sophia Lvovna, a young woman, and their friend - a military doctor, who is called, like Sonechka's husband, Vladimir. Partly to spite Volodya the little man who once did not reciprocate her feeling, Sonechka married Yagich, who is thirty years older than she is. Soon the longing came - she did not love her husband. Soniechka rushes back to Volodya the little, and they begin a stormy romance...

Big Volodya, Small Volodya

1985

The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce poster
7.5

A West German concern is conducting secret negotiations on the production of an atomic bomb with an interested state. The son of the head of the concern, realizing the monstrosity and scale of his father's activities, interrupts the negotiations and returns home with the intention to publicize his father's activities.

The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce

1977

Was There Karotin? poster
4.9

The beginning of the 30s of the last century. A leak of classified information was found at the Soviet shipbuilding plant. Arriving under the guise of a scientist, the legendary chekist Karotin begins to unravel the threads of the conspiracy of the fascist spy organization. He is helped by inexperienced but active local detectives. Mastering the basics of the counterintelligence, they fall into a situation the other one funnier.

Was There Karotin?

1990

Dombey & Son poster
NR

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.

Dombey & Son

1974

The Kiss poster
5.4

Lieutenant Ryabovich was accustomed to the monotonous life of an officer, but he found another life—society—difficult: ritual conversations, cards, billiards, chance encounters with random women. One of these women kisses Ryabovich in the house of a provincial landowner, and now the officer’s thoughts are consumed by her half-imaginary image. Meanwhile, the frivolous Lieutenant Lobytko teases his gentle friend, unaware of the danger.

The Kiss

1983

Kreutzer Sonata poster
6.4

A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name.

Kreutzer Sonata

1987

Behind the camera