Boris Novikov

Acting

Boris Novikov

Born — Died

1925-07-13 — 1997-07-25

Place of birth

Rjazhsk, RSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

71 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

Thief poster
10.0

Arriving in Moscow in search of a better life, the naive provincial woman learns the predatory customs of the stone jungle of the big city. Accused by the metropolitan racket of stealing a family relic, she ends up in jail. According to the laws of the genre and “happy” chance, a virtuous lawyer meets her. The girl not only comes out of prison, but also seeks personal happiness.

Thief

1994

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

Return of the "Battleship" poster
4.5

The naive hero, having read clever books, marries a prostitute with the aim of re-educating her and collides with the famous Sergei Eisenstein, ending in the most unexpected and fatal way...

Return of the "Battleship"

1996

A Communal Story poster
NR

Adventures of plumber Vova in a communal apartment inhabited by characters from different eras.

A Communal Story

1993

Blood for Blood poster
7.0

The plot of the movie is based on a real criminal case, when several years ago a gang of criminals killed prominent military leaders in order to steal their military awards. The murder of retired General Gridnev was committed, and his apartment was robbed. Major of police Tagantsev goes to the tipsters bandits. But the thief-recidivist nicknamed Valek manages to outplay the detective. Tagantsev's group will have to work hard to catch the recidivist in the city by the sea Yalta...

Blood for Blood

1991

1980s · 26 titles

The Tale of Tsar Saltan poster
7.1

Tale - this is what is everyone from childhood. Give yourself a chance to once again return to the magical world created by Alexander Pushkin. Adventures brave Tsarevich Guidon, beautiful Swan-Tsar Saltan reminded of that love, loyalty and the spirit always wins!

The Tale of Tsar Saltan

1984

No artwork available
NR

The sad story of stray dogs.

Goodbye, Our Gully

1981

The Door poster
5.9

The residents of a building have found novel ways to enter and exit as their front door is broken. However, once the door is repaired they continue to avoid the door.

The Door

1986

Laughter and Grief by the White Sea poster
7.3

A celebration of the culture of the Pomors who live around the White Sea.

Laughter and Grief by the White Sea

1987

Vacations in Prostokvashino poster
7.5

The continuation of the adventures of Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village.

Vacations in Prostokvashino

1980

Winter in Prostokvashino poster
7.6

A third movie about Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village and their adventures - this time during the winter.

Winter in Prostokvashino

1984

Banquet poster
6.8

A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer.

Banquet

1986

Father and Son poster
10.0

During the formative years of Soviet power, the first commune was organized in a remote Siberian village. The task of the counter-revolutionaries becomes its destruction…

Father and Son

1980

Secret of the Blackbirds poster
6.7

Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.

Secret of the Blackbirds

1983

Citizen Lyoshka poster
8.0

The young lumberjack foreman Lyoshka Ignatov bitterly sees for himself that the huge stocks of forest, extracted by hard work, rot on the side of the road due to simple mismanagement. Raising the alarm at the timber industry farm and not receiving support in the area, he flies to Moscow.

Citizen Lyoshka

1981

Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov poster
3.7

The protagonist of the film, engineer Barkasov, finds himself in ridiculous and anecdotal situations all day. He is a responsible worker, the head of a large institution and is completely exhausted from pressing urgent matters. On the advice of a doctor, his deputy bought two operetta tickets for his boss and ordered secretary Sofochka to accompany Barkasov at an evening performance...

Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov

1983

White Dew poster
6.8

A funny story about Fyodor - the oldest person in the village - and his three sons.

White Dew

1984

Autumn Dreams poster
7.5

A story about an abandoned village with only three people left.

Autumn Dreams

1987

No artwork available
9.0

The little Puppy, on the advice of the crafty Cat, is trying to find out who he is - a hunting dog, a guard dog or a diver? It turns out he doesn't know how to do anything. But he finds a lost slipper for the owner and realizes that he is loved for who he is.

The Puppy and the Old Slipper

1987

Наездники (киноальманах) poster
7.0

Films consisting of: Riders ("Mosfilm"), Theorist ("Mosfilm"), Peacetime of Roman Shmakov (VGIK).

Наездники (киноальманах)

1987

Still Love, Still Hope poster
3.8

A story about a man who keeps loving the only woman, against all odds. He maintains his profound feeling thru the years and puts up with the fact that she's got married and eventually become a mother of grown-ups. He is contented with the status of "just" a devoted friend.

Still Love, Still Hope

1984

The Imp With A Bushy Tail poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

The Imp With A Bushy Tail

1985

Who Should Live in Russia poster
10.0

After the war ended, Bachurin returned home with awards, where his family and a huge garden, which he had loved since childhood, were waiting for him. But a decree was issued on the taxation of fruit trees in private estates. And Bachurin ruined the garden, scalding the apple trees with boiling water. So he got his first big term ...

Who Should Live in Russia

1989

It's Not Forbidden to Live Nicely poster
8.0

A textile factory worker tries to breathe life into women's fashion.

It's Not Forbidden to Live Nicely

1982

The Trust That Has Burst poster
6.4

A witty comedy, that has fun and philosophy in one. Inspired by short stories of O`Henry.

The Trust That Has Burst

1983

No artwork available
NR

The boy gets acquainted with the fighting youth of his grandfather, a hero of the Civil War.

Grandfather's Binoculars

1982

Porridge Made from an Axe poster
NR

A soldier was returning from the war. On the way, he stopped by a certain old woman Melanya and her little old man. The old woman turned out to be greedy and, citing a complete lack of food, refused to feed the soldier. Then the experienced soldier offered to cook porridge from an axe.

Porridge Made from an Axe

1982

Alien in the Cabbage poster
NR

There lived a grandfather and a woman, and they had a goat - but there was no grandson. The grandfather went to look for his grandson and found him in the cabbage.

Alien in the Cabbage

1989

Prince Udacha Andreyevich poster
5.8

Two young boys are trying to prevent a massive antiquities theft.

Prince Udacha Andreyevich

1989

Миссис Уксус и мистер Уксус poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Миссис Уксус и мистер Уксус

1985

I Promise To Be! poster
8.5

The story is about a factory guy, a young worker Volodya Kalinin, who decided to get a summer job at a pioneer camp as a counselor to "earn some money", and at the same time to relax. But the new case required a lot of effort from him, pedagogical imagination, skill, in short, there was no time for rest. As a result, mutual understanding and true friendship with the guys arose.

I Promise To Be!

1983

1970s · 9 titles

Red Sun poster
NR

Young Venka investigates the cause of death of a fellow villager during the Great Patriotic War - in the process uncovering a traitor who has been murdering witnesses to his own inglorious past.

Red Sun

1972

Everybody Knows Kadkin poster
NR

The returning soldier Kuzma Kadkin on the train tells how well he lived before the war, and that everyone in the area knows him. An accidental fellow traveler, a young mother, leaves her child, a one and a half year old boy, Kadkin, to run away at the junction for water, but lags behind the train. Kuzma has no choice but to bring the baby home...

Everybody Knows Kadkin

1977

Uncle Misha Bear poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Uncle Misha Bear

1970

Three from Prostokvashino poster
7.3

Little Fedor brings a cat to home despite his mother's distaste for cats. He runs away with his talking cat, to make more friends on the way.

Three from Prostokvashino

1978

Funny People! poster
6.0

The movie intertwines the plot lines of the stories "In the Bathhouse", "Tears Invisible to the World", "A Conversation between a Man and a Dog" and others. By the will of the film's creators, the viewer gets to the rehearsals of an unusual choir and gets acquainted with the stories of the singers - diverse, but invariably amusing.

Funny People!

1978

Such Stories poster
NR

Three Novels from the Life of the Factory.

Such Stories

1974

Nylon 100% poster
5.7

An adventures of a 100% nylon "fur" coat traveling between various people.

Nylon 100%

1973

Live in Joy poster
5.4

A kolkhoz machine-operator is a local inventor who has tensions with his wife over his hobby. He invents a useful appendage for a grain harvester combine and an article about his invention is printed in a local paper. Kolkhoz chairman then entrusts him with a mission to get equipment from a nearby city for building a bridge, but the machine-operator is duped by crooks.

Live in Joy

1979

Diamonds for Mariya poster
6.5

Mary and Ivan are working on a diamond factory. The wedding day is already set. But Ivan has a secret: during his stay in prison, the leader of the gang gave him a bag of diamonds for safekeeping. Return the "stones" factory — means to Express itself as a partner in crime, throw — sorry, but left for Mary — to destroy love. Soon the "friend" made itself felt and demanded to repay the debt…

Diamonds for Mariya

1976

1960s · 14 titles

Road to the Sea poster
7.0

Twin sisters Asya and Slavka dream of enrolling in a nautical school. After the first refusal, the girls go to Transbaikalia, get a job at the fur farm, make real friends, fall in love, experience all kinds of adventures and still dream of the sea.

Road to the Sea

1966

Shot poster
5.8

After receiving a slap in the face, Officer Silvio challenges the offending Count to a duel. However, urgent circumstances force the officer to leave, leaving the right to shoot. After many years, on the eve of the Count’s wedding, Silvio returns to demand retaliation.

Shot

1966

Sovershenno seryozno poster
6.9

An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.

Sovershenno seryozno

1961

The Tale of the Golden Rooster poster
6.4

A satirical fairy tale about an old tsar Dadon and a golden cockerel who guarded the borders of his kingdom.

The Tale of the Golden Rooster

1967

Seven Old Men and One Girl poster
5.9

Lara Velichko is a young coach who's dreaming about coaching world champions but suddenly she's forced to train a group of a very grumpy old men.

Seven Old Men and One Girl

1968

My Friend, Kolka! poster
5.8

Pupils of the ordinary high school organize a “secret society” under the motto “Help the offended and weak, avenge widers and upstarts!” The new pioneer leader supports the children, and soon he manages to make the school life of the children truly fascinating.

My Friend, Kolka!

1961

Pavlukha poster
8.0

Twelve-year-old Pavlukha lives on a fishing farm with his mother. His father left his family long ago, in which, apart from Paulukha, he has two other children. To help his mother somehow, the boy goes to town to earn money...

Pavlukha

1962

Probation poster
6.4

In 1923 two young guys with different personality traits go on probation to work with newly formed Soviet Union Criminal Investigation Department.

Probation

1960

Unusual Town poster
NR

Mayhem breaks out when newcomer Oblaposhkin is put temporarily in charge as deputy of the weird City of Durov, inhabited by animals that work in the city as firefighters, barbers, secretaries, teachers, hotel managers and everything else.

Unusual Town

1963

A Tale of Don poster
5.0

Wife of the Red cossack Yakov Shibalok turns out to be a spy of the Whites, as she confesses to him during childbirth. Now Yakov is faced with a difficult choice between revolutionary duty and love for his wife. Based on short stories by Mikhail Sholokhov.

A Tale of Don

1964

The Life and Ascension of Yuras Bratchik poster
7.2

In ancient times of famine and Tatar raids, the satirist Yuras Bratchik appears to the people in the guise of Christ, and the people believe in a miracle. The cunning monk Bosyatsky decides to use this event. Arrested by order of the Cardinal, Yuras and his friends - "apostles", disguised and dressed in appropriate clothes, are brought to the people. The hungry people begin to beg for bread, and Yuras leads the crowd to the bins of the rich. Having escaped from the Cardinal, Yuras and his friends take refuge in a convent. With the help of the people they defeat both the attacking Tatars and the Cardinal's army.

The Life and Ascension of Yuras Bratchik

1967

Only the Statues Are Silent poster
NR

Soviet specialists are building a hydroelectric power station in a Middle Eastern country. To continue the work, it is necessary to carry out an explosion... But no one even suspects that an old German ammunition depot is hidden nearby, underground. An accidental explosion would suit the British company that lost the order to the Russians. Weber, Greerson, and Gedda are faced with a problem: they need to warn the Russians about the danger. Each of them has had encounters with Soviet people in their lives...

Only the Statues Are Silent

1962

The Cossacks poster
5.2

Junker Olenin, a representative of St. Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he falls in love with the beautiful Maryana and is ready to marry her, but she loves the Cossack Lukashka and is not going to exchange him for the master.

The Cossacks

1961

История с пирожками poster
8.0

A funny story about a middle-aged man who ran into a store, bought two pies and ate them while standing in line. When it was his turn to pay, he got into trouble - no one had seen how many pies he had eaten. The head of the section invites the customer to go to the head of the department, and the latter, in turn, addresses the store director. The director suggests that the customer wait until the store closes, when the goods will be removed.

История с пирожками

1961

1950s · 6 titles

Quiet Flows the Don poster
6.3

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.

Quiet Flows the Don

1957

The Captain's Daughter poster
5.5

A tale based on a classic novel by Alexander Pushkin.

The Captain's Daughter

1958

The Blue Arrow poster
4.2

An officer accidentally leaks information about the first test of a new aircraft model. When spies get hold of this classified information, the development of the new airplane is under threat.

The Blue Arrow

1959

A Girl with Guitar poster
5.3

A romantic story about the girl working in the musical instruments store.

A Girl with Guitar

1958

Unpaid Debt poster
9.0

Winter. At a small station where passing trains stop for only one or two minutes, Marushkin, the driver, meets a new agronomist, Lyusya Krechetova, who has arrived from Leningrad. At first, she looks curiously at her new life, which has neither comfort nor basic amenities. But soon this incomprehensible life, where only the truly passionate live and work, begins to annoy her. Unable to withstand the trials of selfless work, Lucy says goodbye to her new friends and returns home...

Unpaid Debt

1959

On the Count's Ruins poster
7.7

The film takes place during the civil war. Tolya Dergach, having lost his parents, falls under the influence of bandits looking for hidden treasure in the ruins of the estate. The boy, of course, will understand his new friends — and together with old friends will help the security officers to neutralize criminals.

On the Count's Ruins

1958

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

Yeralash poster
6.6

The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.

Yeralash

1974

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

1971

Legends of Cinema poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Legends of Cinema

2016

The Adjutant of His Excellency poster
7.7

Yuri Solomin in the military-adventure film about the fate of red scout Koltsov, who in 1919 was sent with the special sssignments into Denikin's army headquarters, where he became adjutant of the commander. The film not only tells about the operations brilliantly conducted by Koltsov, but also reveals the complex inner world of characters who lived in the controversial and tragic time.

The Adjutant of His Excellency

1970

Three from Prostokvashino poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Three from Prostokvashino

1978

The Adventures of Prince Florisel poster
8.0

A mostly comical tale of all-powerful and wealthy Bavarian prince adventures that started when prince was seeking to deal with the boredom. Joining the Club of Suicide society, he uncovered the mastermind criminal behind it, and vowed to get rid of him by any means necessary, following deaths of several servants when dreaded president of club makes dashing escape. During that point, story changes into nearly second movie, as prince has to uncover yet another crime.

The Adventures of Prince Florisel

1981

Пришелец Ванюша poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Пришелец Ванюша

1990

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

Shadows Disappear at Noon poster
5.9

The story of a small village Zeleny Dol, lost in the taiga wilderness, became a reflection of the fate of a huge country. A wide panorama of people's life unfolds before the viewer: from the defeat of Kolchak's White gangs to the first tractor furrow on the collective farm meadow, from the first elections to the Supreme Soviet to the send-off of Zelenodol residents to the fronts of the WW2, from the labor feat of women's hands in the rear to Victory Day, to the first post-war bread.

Shadows Disappear at Noon

1972

The Trust That Has Burst poster
6.5

The film is set in the United States in the early 20th century. Andy Tucker and Jefferson Peters are noble crooks. They do not engage in violent theft of valuables from citizens. Jeff's principle is to always give something in return for the money received, "be it a fake gold medallion, garden flower seeds, ointment for a gunshot wound, stock certificates, flea powder, or at least a slap." They devise scams to earn money and fulfill their dreams. Andy Tucker wants to open a library, and Jeff Peters wants to return to his home state of Utah and meet his first love.

The Trust That Has Burst

1983