Acting

Mikhail Kirilyuk

Born

1954-10-02 (72)

Place of birth

USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

9 titles

Known for

The Guard poster
4.6

​Young soldiers in the Soviet Internal Troops are subjected to systematic abuse during their dedovshchina (hazing). The plot unfolds primarily aboard a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.

The Guard

1990

Peculiarities of the National Hunt poster
6.8

A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting party. His flamboyant companions include an Army general, with more than a passing resemblance to Aleksander Lebed, a police detective, local forest ranger (a devotee of Zen Buddhism) and some big-city types from St. Petersburg. Inevitably, their good intentions soon give way to endless drinking, visits to local farm girls and much else besides.

Peculiarities of the National Hunt

1995

Operation 'Happy New Year'! poster
5.4

A comedy about a New Year Eve celebration in one very funny hospital.

Operation 'Happy New Year'!

1996

Woman's Own poster
5.0

A student is trying to build a career in theater using not his talent but looks and sexuality.

Woman's Own

1999

Boldino Autumn poster
NR

Sisin, a forty-year-old writer, gets on the train and goes out of town. In the car, he is surrounded by strange passengers, some of whom resemble famous Russian writers: Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kuprin... Surreal visions, hidden desires, fears, and anxieties arise in Sisin's imagination. Love, career, and life itself seem stupid and meaningless to him.

Boldino Autumn

1999

Living With an Idiot poster
4.0

The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first sight a silly man, and takes him home. His wife is at first not very happy with this choice. Vova says and does nothing at all. Then he becomes an aggressive man, who terrorises the house and bashes everything to pieces. After she is raped by Vova, the wife gets sexually dependant on the Idiot. Vova isn't interested anymore, when she gets pregnant and doesn't keep the baby. The idiot goes now to the intellectual for his sexual needs. The wife can't take this anymore and forces her man to take a choice: Vova out, or she will go.

Living With an Idiot

1993

Film credits

2000s · 1 titles

1990s · 6 titles

The Guard poster
4.6

​Young soldiers in the Soviet Internal Troops are subjected to systematic abuse during their dedovshchina (hazing). The plot unfolds primarily aboard a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.

The Guard

1990

Peculiarities of the National Hunt poster
6.8

A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting party. His flamboyant companions include an Army general, with more than a passing resemblance to Aleksander Lebed, a police detective, local forest ranger (a devotee of Zen Buddhism) and some big-city types from St. Petersburg. Inevitably, their good intentions soon give way to endless drinking, visits to local farm girls and much else besides.

Peculiarities of the National Hunt

1995

Operation 'Happy New Year'! poster
5.4

A comedy about a New Year Eve celebration in one very funny hospital.

Operation 'Happy New Year'!

1996

Woman's Own poster
5.0

A student is trying to build a career in theater using not his talent but looks and sexuality.

Woman's Own

1999

Boldino Autumn poster
NR

Sisin, a forty-year-old writer, gets on the train and goes out of town. In the car, he is surrounded by strange passengers, some of whom resemble famous Russian writers: Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kuprin... Surreal visions, hidden desires, fears, and anxieties arise in Sisin's imagination. Love, career, and life itself seem stupid and meaningless to him.

Boldino Autumn

1999

Act poster
4.5

The film tells about the misadventures of an ordinary person who happened to have a suitcase with a lot of money... It turns out that it is not at all easy to find a worthy use for such money, and in the final it turns out a simple truth — “happiness is not in money ...”

Act

1993

Behind the camera