Yuriy Kuzmenkov

Acting

Yuriy Kuzmenkov

Born — Died

1941-02-16 — 2011-09-11

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 4 titles

What a Mess! poster
6.7

A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.

What a Mess!

1995

Hunting for a Pimp poster
5.5

Двое приятелей Вова и Боб ограбили квартиру Нины - любовницы директора рынка. Всю вину молодчики свалили на бывшего любовника и сутенера Нины Стаса Шапкина. Шеф не стал впутывать в эту историю милицию, он поручил заняться этим делом своим людям. Бандиты пытают Стаса, требуют отдать пропавшую сумму. В конце концов, бедняге приходится занять деньги у всех своих проституток и отдать вымогателям.

Hunting for a Pimp

1991

Until the Thunder Strikes poster
9.0

Few months before collapse of USSR. Villages and collective farms are facing with problem: young and working age people leaving countryside for better life in cities. Same problem in collapsing collective farm near Moscow - the only mechanic and harvester driver decides to leave his native village because he feels deeply offended for being severely punished for breakdown harvester. But his countrymen disagree with his decision and try to prevent his escape.

Until the Thunder Strikes

1991

Hostage poster
5.7

A story about complicated relationships between escaped refugee and a young girl he took hostage.

Hostage

1990

1980s · 12 titles

Traffic Officer poster
6.7

A comic drama about a permanently going duel between Traffic Officer and powerful businessman.

Traffic Officer

1982

The Stove on Wheels poster
NR

The heroine of the comedy is Frosya, a mother of five children and a calf-maiden, who lives in a run-down village and doesn't want to leave her native home, her "stove on wheels." The lead role is played by Natalia Tenyaeva. The true city dweller is remarkably natural in the role of a simple village girl. The actress borrowed her manner of speech from a local villager whose house was near the summer house Tenyaeva rented.

The Stove on Wheels

1985

Victory poster
8.3

30 years after the end of World War II, a Soviet and an American journalist meet again for realizing post war paths of their countries.

Victory

1985

Male Portraits poster
10.0

Alexei Yuryev chose the profession of literature teacher largely under the influence of his uncle, the actor Alexander Vasnetsov. The difficulties he faced at the vocational school could find their resolution when he met with his uncle, with whom he corresponded. However, the meeting brought only disappointment. All the truths of the actor turned out to be just elements of the game. The idol is debunked, the bride leaves Yuryev to the artist, and the teacher himself on the verge of collapse. But a student appears, believing in the high ideals of her teacher - and life begins to make sense.

Male Portraits

1987

My Eternal Love poster
8.0

A movie novel about the life of the village. Having devoted his life to his native village, Mikhail Petrovich Zubov has become somewhat coarse and even embittered by the end of his chairmanship. About this honestly and openly tells him the young party leader of the collective farm. But no matter how difficult it is for the chairman to understand the fairness of criticism, his love for the land helps Zubov to change his relations with people.

My Eternal Love

1981

A Major Conversation poster
7.0

The hero of the film is Mikhail Stepchak, the foreman of a construction crew, a man with character. He wants to work in a way that is both beneficial and enjoyable. And all around there are notes and cheating. Only Stepchak won't stand it: he has a big conversation with his superiors ahead of him...

A Major Conversation

1981

Burn poster
7.0

The protagonist of the film - Vasily Derzhakov - is a skilled worker. Accustomed to "double morality" as the norm of life, he succumbs to the persuasion of Anna's mistress to hide the stolen things, and becomes an accomplice in crime. After the pre-trial detention, Vasily is released from prison ... Thus, life itself warned him against further mistakes, to which the immoral "norms" of existence inevitably lead.

Burn

1989

Honest, Smart, Unmarried... poster
7.0

After serving in the army, working at BAM and earning himself the authority and fame of a pioneer, the hero took a leave of absence and came home to his friends and beloved. But at home he could not find anything to do and, without waiting for the end of his vacation, he left again for BAM...

Honest, Smart, Unmarried...

1981

Parents are not Chosen poster
8.0

Nikolai Burlakov was raised by his grandmother in the village. His mother always promised to take him with her, but she always broke her promise. His first love, Masha, didn't even promise to wait for him to return from the army and left with her best friend for the North. After completing his military service, Nikolai also left for the North and began working on an oil rig. Upon learning that his mother had given her daughter to an orphanage, Nikolai took his little sister and returned with her to the village. After the tragic death of her husband, Masha also returned to the village with her son...

Parents are not Chosen

1983

The White Horse Is Not My Grief poster
NR

About a young geography teacher, Aleksandr Arsenyevich, who tries to approach school problems in a new way.

The White Horse Is Not My Grief

1986

The Widow Steamer poster
NR

A story about women living in the same communal apartment, which they themselves nicknamed the "Widow Steamer". Everyone has their own story and their own grief. In 1943, Anfisa Gromova came back here from the frontlines…

The Widow Steamer

1989

Bounce poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bounce

1986

1970s · 23 titles

The Love of Mankind poster
6.0

A film about young architects who are building a new city in Siberia (Norilsk), their anxieties, concerns, and victories. Story of subtle psychology of love and personal happiness experienced men and women, behind the shoulders of which the pain of the past

The Love of Mankind

1973

The Battle after the Victory poster
4.8

A third part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.

The Battle after the Victory

1972

Domestic Circumstances poster
7.4

Multiply love stories are going around the young family including the newlyweds parnts and even... a grandmother.

Domestic Circumstances

1977

By the Lake poster
5.4

The film is a reflection on the responsibility of man to other people, native nature and the world around us, the problem of preserving Lake Baikal, on the banks of which a large construction project has unfolded. The first half of the 60s of the XX century, the story of the love of young Lena Barmina to an adult respectable person, bearing on his shoulders a heavy burden of responsibility for the activities of a huge enterprise. Construction engineer Chernykh and Lena, the daughter of a scientist, are doing everything to save the lake from harmful and unjustified plums. A difficult relationship develops between them and soon Lena realizes that she is in love. But after learning that Chernykh is married, the girl leaves...

By the Lake

1970

No artwork available
NR

The mining town of Donetsk with specifically difficult mining and geological conditions. To the new chief engineer Marat Zhukov, the mine directorate sets the task to close the dangerous lava, where the Dotsenko team works - one of the best mines has ceased to fulfill the plan. Having made the calculations, Marat discovered the possibility of reaching the normal layer and he was able to convince the authorities that it was not necessary to disband a friendly team.

Everyday of Life

1974

100 grams for Bravery poster
5.9

Three short stories that share a common satirical theme: alcoholism and drunkenness.

100 grams for Bravery

1977

The Long Recess poster
7.3

A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.

The Long Recess

1972

A Minute of Silence poster
7.0

A young man Sergey is trying to find a truth about the abandoned tomb of the soldiers suddenly discovered during the building of a highway.

A Minute of Silence

1971

Autumn poster
5.8

In their youth, they loved each other, but broke up. Ilya got married, became a doctor, Sasha learned to become an engineer, got married. And now they are together again, at a small, deaf station. They introduced themselves as husband and wife. In fact, while he is married to another, and she has the experience of a failed marriage. For eight days they will be in a remote stop where no one knows them and no one will interfere with love...

Autumn

1974

The Forest You'll Never Enter poster
NR

Tenth-graders from one of the city schools came for a two-week internship at a neighboring timber industry enterprise. At first the guys felt like tourists. But participation in forest planting under the leadership of forester Yuri, a true enthusiast of his work, awakened in them a feeling of love for their native nature.

The Forest You'll Never Enter

1978

Underage poster
10.0

Eugene returned from the army, and his friend Kostya Sila — from the penal colony. Having met, heroes decided to leave the city: one didn't wait for the beloved girl, another doesn't want to see sympathetic views of former acquaintances. But the meeting with the police major — a talented teacher — changed their intent. All summer heroes devoted to wrest from the influence of the bully the group of boys.

Underage

1977

Waiting for a Miracle poster
10.0

On the advice of his teacher, young mathematician Sasha Shmagin went to Moscow to show the solution of an interesting and difficult problem to scientists. However, the boy did not make it to the professorship.

Waiting for a Miracle

1975

Two Sisters poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Two Sisters

1971

Because I Love poster
6.0

Fighter pilot Nikolai Muravyov is experiencing a personal drama: his wife and son left for the mainland - they are tired of life beyond the Arctic Circle. Colonel Belyy, thinking that his wife will return to her husband if he serves on the mainland, sends Nikolai on a business trip. In the new unit, Muravyov meets his fellow student Yevgeni Shelest. Friends have to fly in pairs.

Because I Love

1974

I, Shapovalov T.P. poster
6.2

The film traces the path of the hero (formerly an ensign and a Knight of St. George, and then a talented commander of the Red Army) from the Civil War to the Great Patriotic War.

I, Shapovalov T.P.

1973

Three Days in Moscow poster
7.7

A romantic comedy about young provincial policeman Ivan Fedotov's advenures in Moscow.

Three Days in Moscow

1975

Taimyr Calls You poster
5.1

A few hotel guests are constantly getting into various funny situations.

Taimyr Calls You

1971

Gentlemen Who Were Unlucky poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gentlemen Who Were Unlucky

1977

Vasiliy Tyorkin poster
NR

Based on the eponymous poem by A. Tvardovsky, directed by the State Academic Theatre of the Moscow Soviet.

Vasiliy Tyorkin

1973

Main Day poster
5.7

A film about the friendship between the workers of the Uzbek collective farm 'Leningrad' and the city of Lenin. This friendship has grown stronger and developed over more than four decades. The film takes us back to the distant and difficult 1920s, when the farmers of Fergana sent a wagon of fruits to the workers of the Putilov factory. In return, the workers gifted the collective farm two tractors and sent their representatives to help set up the new machinery.

Main Day

1974

Fiery Childhood poster
5.5

A small railway station in the Kuban is captured, but the wounded commissar Sabbutin miraculously manages to escape.

Fiery Childhood

1976

Arrival Day is a Departure Day poster
NR

Psychologists Petrov and Burtseva come from Moscow to a small town at the request of the plant director to find out the reasons for the tense situation at the enterprise and the increasing number of workers' layoffs.

Arrival Day is a Departure Day

1979

Trust poster
7.0

Problems of modern villages and economic use of land.

Trust

1972

1960s · 12 titles

Flying Days poster
5.3

All the years spent behind the school bench, they were devoted to the dream of flying. And now they are again students, but they are solving completely different problems. Three young daredevils conquer the sky, forgetting about earthly problems and disputes. But the everyday life of test pilots of supersonic fighters is unpredictable and dangerous. A routine training flight overnight can be a harsh test of courage for them. Today, future aces will face a difficult exam, for which life itself will put a mark.

Flying Days

1966

Chapay's Eaglets poster
10.0

Adventures of a group of children during Civil War in Russia.

Chapay's Eaglets

1969

Our House poster
6.5

A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life.

Our House

1965

The Journalist poster
5.7

A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of the situation and the measure of responsibility to those whom he was obliged to protect...

The Journalist

1967

Week poster
NR

About one of the most difficult weeks after the Civil War in a small Ural city in the spring of 1921, in which the situation was very serious. Famine is on the agenda; if seeds are not delivered to the general sowing, then not only the city, but the entire region will starve. To deliver them by rail, fuel is needed, which is also not available, and twelve miles from the city there is a forest where firewood can be prepared for the trains. In addition to all this, there is an unsolved counter-revolutionary conspiracy in the city...

Week

1968

Originally From Here poster
5.0

A young driver from the village went to work in the capital. He comes to his Steshitsy only on weekends: “to dance” and, not having settled down in the city, he tries to improve relations with Volka, with whom he has a child...

Originally From Here

1969

The Trap poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Trap

1966

425 Calls poster
7.5

The events take place during the Great Patriotic War in Belarus. The commander of the special forces detachment "Thunder" Fedor was sent to the German rear to carry out special missions...

425 Calls

1967

Arrival Day... Departure Day! poster
8.0

This simple and therefore especially touching story took place in one town, where four men arrived, each on his own business. They met by chance, but this did not stop them in two short days from taking part in the fate of each of them with good advice, and, more importantly, with a good deed...

Arrival Day... Departure Day!

1966

The Pointsman poster
NR

Ivan Perepasov has been serving at the railway station as a pointsman for twenty-two years. It seemed to him that all he could do was run along the arrows, give signals, light lanterns. The shift was coming to an end, Ivan hurried home, where his wife and eight children were waiting for him. Suddenly it seemed to him that he had forgotten, after the passage of a freight train, to throw the switch lever onto the main track, along which the postal train was now rushing. Ivan, in despair, rushes onto the adjacent track and falls under a maneuvering locomotive...

The Pointsman

1968

Revolt poster
NR

1920. The enemy of Soviet Russia is not broken everywhere. Basmachi gangs are rampaging through Turkestan. A group of kulaks, with the support of local merchants and warriors, incites the Red Army soldiers to counter-revolutionary rebellion...

Revolt

1968

Two Comrades Were Serving poster
6.9

Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day.

Two Comrades Were Serving

1968

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