Gennadi Frolov

Acting

Gennadi Frolov

Born — Died

1937-07-20 — 2019-04-10

Place of birth

USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Known for

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil 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

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

1971

Past and Thoughts poster
NR

Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.

Past and Thoughts

1972

Women in a Game Without Rules poster
4.0

The story is about why people's destinies are intertwined, how they influence each other and how this changes the world around us.

Women in a Game Without Rules

2004

Russia Is Young poster
6.5

The Russian Empire, the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, the era of Peter I's reforms. At the center of events are Captain Silvestr Ievlev, Lieutenant of the Customs Troops Afanasy Krykov, and Helmsman Ivan Ryabov. All three are very close to the emperor, who entrusts them with commanding the resistance against the Swedish fleet during the defense of Arkhangelsk. Each of the trio plays an important role in the defense of Arkhangelsk and the capture of the Swedish fleet.

Russia Is Young

1984

Women Who Got Lucky poster
9.0

Plot revolves around the post-war decades and tells about the fate of former participants of the Great Patriotic War - Vera Boglyuk, Nina Verkhovskaya, Dusya Koroleva, Zina Skvortsova and Natasha Druzhinina.

Women Who Got Lucky

1990

Film credits

1980s · 16 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

Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game poster
5.8

Fifteen year old gifted teenager Ruslan Chutko longs to do good and help the police to identify offenses under the pseudonym Plumbum. Plumbum decides in a single provincial town to eradicate the evil. However, in his interest of being a fighter against evil he goes far beyond what is permitted in a children's play and ends up ruthlessly invading people's lives.

Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game

1987

Batallions Ask for Fire poster
5.6

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

Batallions Ask for Fire

1985

Strollers poster
8.0

Pre-Petrine Russia, Semyon Lazarev, one of the instigators of the “Copper Riot”, is forced to flee, as a result of which he ends up in the army of the leader of the peasant uprising Stepan Razin.

Strollers

1989

The Second Attempt of Viktor Krokhin poster
7.0

During the flight, the hero of the film, the boxing champion, recalls his life's journey. The hero’s childhood was in the first post-war years. He grew up without a father, his mother was busy with work, his older brother was in prison, the relationship with the new stepfather did not work out, and the boy was brought up on the street. There he learned to fight, and this led him to the boxing ring. Over time, the stubborn street boy became the champion of Europe.

The Second Attempt of Viktor Krokhin

1987

Echelon poster
NR

The story takes place in the autumn of 1941. On a train slowly heading east, evacuated families of workers and employees from one of Moscow's factories are traveling. Gradually, fear and alienation give way to the warmth of human involvement and solidarity...

Echelon

1988

Five Letters of Farewell poster
9.0

The film is about the last months in the life of a professional revolutionary, the poet Alexander Vermishev.

Five Letters of Farewell

1988

Splashes of Champagne poster
6.0

The film is based on the novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev "Vacation by Wound." The story of the few weeks that young lieutenant Volodya spent in Moscow in the summer of 1942 after treatment at the hospital. Directly from the Rzhev Front with a bandaged hand, in a bloodstained padded jacket and tattered boots, he goes on vacation to his mother in the capital. Here, at the height of the war, almost peaceful life is going on - lines for vodka and beer, restaurants for the aristocracy of nomenclature, parties, girls... It’s another month for Volodya to live an ordinary life in Moscow, in a peaceful city in which everything is alien to him.

Splashes of Champagne

1989

Seraphim Island poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Seraphim Island

1980

Ordinary Circumstances poster
NR

Viktor Mitrofanov, the head of the family, who lived a long and dignified life, helps his loved ones overcome spiritual callousness, selfishness and understand the true meaning of life values.

Ordinary Circumstances

1981

With Obvious Advantage poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

With Obvious Advantage

1987

A Few Drops poster
7.0

Four one-act plays by Viktor Rozov in two parts.

A Few Drops

1983

Right to Choose poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Right to Choose

1984

Every Third poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Every Third

1980

King Mindaugas poster
NR

A historical retelling of the first king of Lithuania, King Mindaugas, taking place in the year 1263. The film was initially created in 1981 but was banned by Soviet authorities due to an emphasis on Lithuanian nationalism and ethnic heritage.

King Mindaugas

1984

Matvey's Joy poster
7.0

The action takes place at the end of the 19th century in the Russian North, near the White Sea. Orphan Matvey is still 12 years old. His abilities are noticed by the master shipbuilder Quake and takes to his artel. While studying carpentry, Matvey saves money, dreaming of being a pilot on his own ship...

Matvey's Joy

1986

1970s · 15 titles

And Then I Said No poster
7.0

A group of boys are growing up in a small Russian town during the first years after WWII.

And Then I Said No

1973

The Poacher Hunter poster
9.5

Schoolboy Vasya and his little sister Klasha live on the shore of a picturesque lake, in which trout are bred. With the help of their friends, the dogs of the Quiver and the horse Strelka, the guys detain the poachers.

The Poacher Hunter

1975

A Wedding is Just a Wedding poster
NR

The entire story unfolds during a wedding. The characters of the play, looking at the happy faces of the newlyweds, recall their own love and weddings. The action gradually unfolds on three levels, in three different time periods, covering the youth and lives of three generations, alongside which the author’s own life has passed.

A Wedding is Just a Wedding

1974

The Ballad of Bering and His Friends poster
5.8

The story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering.

The Ballad of Bering and His Friends

1970

The Star Hour poster
NR

Based on the play by Estonian playwright Hans Luik. The action takes place in Petrograd on the eve of the October Revolution.

The Star Hour

1973

Fourth Height poster
NR

Real story of the young legendary actress of Soviet cinema Gulya Korolyova, who started acting in films at the age of four. In May 1942, having barely finished school, Gulya voluntarily went to the front and soon died heroically in a battle near Stalingrad.

Fourth Height

1977

Caesar and Cleopatra poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Caesar and Cleopatra

1979

Comrade Nikanorova Awaits You poster
6.3

Fate has repeatedly deceived Katya Nikanorova — however, she is still destined to wait for a meeting with her happiness. However, far from immediately she was able to discern her prince in the closed, sometimes ridiculous and ridiculous, nondescript veterinarian Dyozhkin. And he saw a kind and sensitive woman in the keen and stormy Katerina. But before this happens, the heroes of the melodrama will survive many curious situations...

Comrade Nikanorova Awaits You

1979

Rain in a Foreign City poster
7.0

Based on the novel of the same name by Daniil Granin. Engineer Chizhegov often travels on business to a small town, where he meets a woman who reciprocates his feelings. The protagonist faces a difficult problem: he is married, and his family lives in Leningrad. Unable to make a final decision and afraid of losing his beloved, he commits a despicable act. His remorse comes too late—Chizhegov loses the woman who was truly dear to him forever.

Rain in a Foreign City

1979

An Autumn Story poster
7.0

An aspiring journalist travels to his hometown after receiving a letter from a respected teacher who claims that she has been forced to retire from her job.

An Autumn Story

1979

No artwork available
4.0

Pyotr Ivanovich, an experienced site foreman, was urged for a long time to take the position of chief engineer of the trust. They finally talked him into it. But a year later he returned to his construction site, half-jokingly insisting that a foreman is not a position, but a profession.

It won't take a year...

1974

Just Three Weeks... poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Just Three Weeks...

1971

No artwork available
NR

A seriously ill patient is brought to the clinic of a research institute. Young doctor Falko, a resident at the institute, insists on an urgent operation, but his supervisor Druz believes that in this case therapeutic treatment will be more effective and, moreover, will not be associated with risk. Professor Shostenko nevertheless undertakes to operate on the patient. The successfully completed operation confirms the diagnosis made by Falko. Parallel to the events in the clinic, the action unfolds in the house of the director of the institute Shostenko, where his son Igor returns after a three-year absence. The complicated relationship between Igor and his wife, the love story of Shostenko's daughter and Druz - the canvas of the second plot of the film.

Second Wind

1971

Lot poster
7.5

Young hockey player try his best to become success goal-keeper.

Lot

1974

You Wrote to Me... poster
7.0

Yuri Zvyagin - a psychologist and host of TV show decides to help one of the watchers and flies to her remote town.

You Wrote to Me...

1976

1960s · 9 titles

Business Trip poster
7.5

Agricultural machinery design engineer Mikhail Shcherbakov goes to the countryside instead of taking a vacation. The tractor designed by him does not work in one of the collective farms. Circumstances force him to stay much longer than he expected. Here he meets Klava, who works in the apiary. And far from being on official business, the engineer remains on the collective farm.

Business Trip

1962

I've Bought Myself a Father poster
7.0

A story about five years old Dimka who decided to buy himself a father.

I've Bought Myself a Father

1963

The Man Who Doubts poster
7.5

A police detective arrives in a Siberian town to reopen the investigation of the murder of a schoolgirl, as he has some doubts about the culpability of the man who was convicted.

The Man Who Doubts

1963

Gulya Korolyova poster
NR

Since childhood, Gulya Korolyova cultivated willpower, the ability to overcome difficulties, and reach her heights. The main test of her short life was the war. In the Battle of Stalingrad, under fire, Gulya carried out wounded soldiers and, being wounded herself, found the strength to lead the detachment on the offensive. She took her fourth height, which became her last.

Gulya Korolyova

1968

Meeting at the Crossing poster
8.0

The war is over. Demobilized soldier Chepurnov goes to his fiancée Vara Karpova, whom he knows by correspondence. On the way on the ferry Chepurnov gets acquainted with the carrier Klavdia. The young woman knows his fiancée and knows that Valentina wrote not only to Chepurnov. But she keeps silent about it - she likes the thoughtful soldier, and she does not want to upset him. And the soldier likes Klavdia, and he already knows everything about her and knows that she is raising her son alone. But he goes to Valentina because he promised. Chepurnov won't stay there long.

Meeting at the Crossing

1964

Man Without a Passport poster
8.0

A group of Soviet counterintelligence officers manage to neutralize spies sent to the territory of the country to obtain secret information about the construction of a large military-industrial complex in Priozersk.

Man Without a Passport

1966

A Bridge is Being Built poster
5.0

The plot is based on the construction of a highway bridge across the Volga River in Saratov. A Moscow correspondent comes to this construction site.

A Bridge is Being Built

1965

Silver Fox poster
NR

The play tells about the children, their school affairs, friendship, and relationships with adults. But the most important thing here is the problem of trust in a growing person.

Silver Fox

1968

A Sinful Angel poster
9.0

Fourteen-year-old Vera Telegina sees the sea, which she had dreamed of since childhood. She is here only because her parents were repressed and she is left alone. The police chief Stavridi, having learned about the girl's misfortune, places her in a boarding school. Vera has to go through a lot. But with the concernment of new friends and sympathy of adults Vera survives until the spring of 1953, when the long-awaited telegram from her parents arrives.

A Sinful Angel

1963

Series credits

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil 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

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

1971

Past and Thoughts poster
NR

Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.

Past and Thoughts

1972

Women in a Game Without Rules poster
4.0

The story is about why people's destinies are intertwined, how they influence each other and how this changes the world around us.

Women in a Game Without Rules

2004

Russia Is Young poster
6.5

The Russian Empire, the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, the era of Peter I's reforms. At the center of events are Captain Silvestr Ievlev, Lieutenant of the Customs Troops Afanasy Krykov, and Helmsman Ivan Ryabov. All three are very close to the emperor, who entrusts them with commanding the resistance against the Swedish fleet during the defense of Arkhangelsk. Each of the trio plays an important role in the defense of Arkhangelsk and the capture of the Swedish fleet.

Russia Is Young

1984

Women Who Got Lucky poster
9.0

Plot revolves around the post-war decades and tells about the fate of former participants of the Great Patriotic War - Vera Boglyuk, Nina Verkhovskaya, Dusya Koroleva, Zina Skvortsova and Natasha Druzhinina.

Women Who Got Lucky

1990

Batallions Ask for Fire poster
7.3

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

Batallions Ask for Fire

1985

Such a Short Long Life poster
5.0

The story of several families, starting from the pre-war years and ending in the 1960s.

Such a Short Long Life

1975

The City Above the Head poster
NR

The famous engineer Sergey Volgin developed the project for the Moscow Metro. His design was rejected by the Tsarist officials. However, the project didn't get lost among the millions of other proposals.

The City Above the Head

1985