Yuri Volkov

Acting

Yuri Volkov

Born — Died

1927-01-30 — 1994-07-27

Place of birth

Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 12 titles

Maigret at the Minister poster
8.5

One evening at the house of Commissioner Maigret the bell rang. Construction Minister Poan asks the Commissioner to urgently come to his apartment, keeping this request secret from the police authorities. At the meeting it turns out that the report with which Poan was to speak at a government meeting two days later disappeared from the minister's apartment.

Maigret at the Minister

1987

Petrovka Street, Number 38 poster
6.3

Employees of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department - Colonel Alexei Pavlovich Sadchikov, Major Vladislav Nikolaevich Kostenko and Senior Lieutenant Valentin Roslyakov are investigating the impudent robberies carried out by a group wearing dark glasses criminals. The City Savings Bank was robbed. The investigation of the crime indicated the involvement of a teenager, who soon came to the criminal investigation himself. With his help, the robbers who were preparing the next raid were caught. But the most dangerous criminal — "Prokhor" — is still free...

Petrovka Street, Number 38

1980

Snake Catcher poster
4.4

The former director of a large deli Pavel Shorokhov, having returned from prison and not received the expected reception from his wife, who forbade him to see his son, temporarily settles with Kotov, the owner of the lists of participants in the unaccounted goods movement system. Kotov, who is near death, transfers lists to Shorokhov and thereby puts him at risk from former accomplices. But Shorokhov breaks the pledge circle...

Snake Catcher

1986

Speak... poster
NR

The action takes place in the early 1950s. The endless meetings of the rural district party committee occupy almost all of the simple collective farmers' time, preventing them from working and solving their everyday problems...

Speak...

1987

Lev Tolstoy poster
4.6

This is the story of last years of Leo Tolstoy's life at his mansion in Yasnaya Polyana. He is surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who are coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. But in his sleepless nights he dreams about his happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. And everything ends with his tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.

Lev Tolstoy

1984

Lucia di Lammermoor poster
NR

Lovers Edgar and Lucia dream of happiness, but Lucia's brother Henry is preparing her marriage to another man. He forces his sister to sign a marriage contract and enter into an open fight with Edgar.

Lucia di Lammermoor

1980

Costume Designer poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Costume Designer

1988

On the Eve of Departure poster
NR

A test mechanic at a tractor plant resolutely opposes defectors and fulfilling the plan at any cost.

On the Eve of Departure

1986

Big Boy poster
8.5

Follows the famous Oryol trotter, multiple champion of the beginning of the century. Then - in sharp battles on the tracks of hippodromes - the fate of domestic horse breeding was decided. The world of animals and people is shown through the perception of a horse named Big Boy.

Big Boy

1982

Bouquet of Mimosa and Other Flowers poster
7.0

In the life of every working person, one day there comes a difficult moment associated with retirement. And if this is the head of the supply department of a large plant, to whom the heroine of the film devoted her entire life, it is doubly sad.

Bouquet of Mimosa and Other Flowers

1985

Approaching the Future poster
5.8

The hero of the film, academician Sergei Vasilyevich Lunin, director of the Kiev Research Institute of Informatics, is working on the implementation of the Unity project in the enterprises of a single department. According to his calculations, this global information network should significantly reduce the number of intermediate instances and, accordingly, the decision-making time. Lunin has opponents. Despite a sharp deterioration in health, the hero goes to the Novogorsk Tractor Plant and there he finds out the real reason for the downtime, and, consequently, the reason for hiding the data. Knowing that he has only six months to live, Lunin abandons the operation and does everything possible to protect his project.

Approaching the Future

1986

Edge poster
7.5

Patients of the resuscitator Mikhailov are people who tried to commit suicide. Veronika, a young journalist and sociologist, often visits the hospital where the hero works. Natasha, Mikhailov's wife, guesses that her husband is in love with another woman. She is jealous and increasingly feels her loneliness.

Edge

1989

1970s · 17 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

Crime and Punishment poster
6.0

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Crime and Punishment

1970

Kruzhilikha poster
NR

Based on the novel of the same name by Vera Panova. The story takes place at a major defense plant in the final days of the Great Patriotic War and in the first months following the victory. The war has brought together very different people at Kruzhilikha — the name of the plant — united by a common goal: to support the front and do everything they can for the sake of victory.

Kruzhilikha

1975

Black Sun poster
NR

The life and death of Robert Moussombe, the leader of an unnamed African state. Moussombe is a fictionalized portrait of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and the film's events are a pastiche of the Congo Crisis in 1960s.

Black Sun

1971

Starling and Lyre poster
6.0

Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work.

Starling and Lyre

1974

I Give You Life poster
NR

The secretary of the city party committee, Sattarov, is an active, principled person, determined in achieving his goals. His authority and expertise allowed for the accelerated construction of the factory complex. Even though he is seriously ill, he remains just as demanding, yet sensitive to the people around him.

I Give You Life

1975

I Am 11-17 poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

I Am 11-17

1970

The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya poster
6.4

A tavern on Pyatnitskaya street is a meeting place for all kind of criminals. The only way for police to infiltrate the criminals is to send an undercover agent to the tavern.

The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya

1978

The Liberation of Prague poster
5.3

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the Praguers do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of 4th of May people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. On the next day, the 5th of May, the uprising begins.

The Liberation of Prague

1977

Youth with Us poster
NR

Kolosov, a former oil refinery technologist, is appointed director of the research institute, which has long been estranged from real production. The new director energetically takes up the task, and somehow does not pay much attention to the fact that the scientific staff of the institute, headed by Professor Serafima Shuvalova, begins to group against him.

Youth with Us

1979

A Long Path on a Short Day poster
6.5

Based on the novel by Natan Rybak “Soldiers Without Uniforms”. Director of a research institute engaged in research in the field of nuclear physics, Maxim Nerchin is testing a new research method. And although the method did not justify itself, Nerchin with unreasonable confidence began to build a more powerful installation... He uses almost all the institute's funds to create it and is so sure of success that he loudly announced it at a foreign symposium, thereby causing special attention to his institute on the part of those American circles who are primarily interested in creating weapons that bring death and destruction...

A Long Path on a Short Day

1972

No artwork available
NR

March 9, 1918. After the German army violated the terms of the Brest Peace, Petrograd is filled with refugees from the front. Leaders of the young Soviet country are urgently and in complete secrecy moving from Petrograd to Moscow.

Train to Tomorrow's Day

1970

The Fight in the Taiga poster
5.7

Komsomol member Zorik arrives at the distant taiga station Suetikha. He manages to attract the guys to his side and organize a youth squad. Having contacted the partisans, they stop and disarm the enemy armored train.

The Fight in the Taiga

1978

Comrade General poster
NR

1941. Army commander Kapitonov takes the brunt of the German forces, striving to Rostov. Well aware of the tactics of the German General Leynts, Kapitonov brilliantly conducting an operation that was incorporated into the history of the war under the name "Dyakovo defense."

Comrade General

1974

No artwork available
4.7

Set in the Soviet Union in the 70's. The plot is based on real industrial conflicts in the life of the country's largest metallurgical plant, where there are many acute problems. Modernization of Soviet metallurgical industry causes a clash between old style Communist bosses and the new generation of engineers and managers.

You Will Gain In Battle

1975

Improbability Theory poster
NR

The hero of the play, physicist Anosov, after a failed scientific experiment, goes to the “country” of his childhood - Blagush, once a suburban district of Moscow. Memories help the hero find the strength to continue working.

Improbability Theory

1972

Time and the Conways poster
NR

The action takes place in one of the provincial towns of England. The First World War ended. Every member of the Conway family dreams of fulfilling their hopes. However, it turns out that their mother's financial condition is extremely upset...

Time and the Conways

1974

1960s · 14 titles

The Rockets Should Not Fly Up poster
9.0

Germany, 1944. A group of international soldiers are trying to prevent Germans from finalizing research and development of FAU-2 rockets.

The Rockets Should Not Fly Up

1964

Torrents of Steel poster
10.0

The victorious path of the Taman army through areas occupied by the white army in the last days of the civil war.

Torrents of Steel

1967

Strong with Spirit poster
6.8

The true story of the Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov, who, behind enemy lines in Ukraine, infiltrated Hitler's headquarters, kidnapped the commander of the punitive troops and executed the imperial adviser.

Strong with Spirit

1967

The Alive and the Dead poster
6.0

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man.

The Alive and the Dead

1964

Introduction to Life poster
5.3

A boy from Leningrad has his world turned upside down by his parent's separation and World War II. He leaves town amidst the fighting and returns to find a friend in his step-brother.

Introduction to Life

1962

Killed at Dawn poster
NR

A film about Alexander Ulyanov (1866-1887), the organizer and leader of the “Terrorist Faction” of the Narodnaya Volya party, the older brother of Vladimir Lenin, participant in the preparation of the assassination attempt (03/01/1887) on Alexander III. Alexander Ulyanov was executed by hanging in the Shlisselburg fortress.

Killed at Dawn

1965

Justification of Paganini poster
NR

About the great violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini.

Justification of Paganini

1969

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

Third Time poster
5.0

The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team of Soviet prisoners of war, former "Dinamo". It happened in Kiev on June 22, 1942. Anticipating the possibility of losing, the Germans made a condition — defeat or death. If the Germans won, the Soviet footballers were promised freedom...

Third Time

1963

Executed at the Dawn poster
9.0

About Lenin's brother Alexander Ulyanov and his comrades' fight against the Russian autocracy.

Executed at the Dawn

1965

Night Without Mercy poster
NR

Based on a story by K. Zandner. An American air base is located in the mountainous desert of a Middle Eastern country. Henry Davis (Alexander Belyavsky) dreamed of being an art historian, but became a military pilot. His work is associated with risk, but the hero is satisfied with a decent income. Performing a reconnaissance flight, Henry invades the airspace of the Soviet Union and comes under fire from border anti-aircraft guns. Davis barely manages to make it to the base. He is presented with an award and offered to prepare to fly a new super-fast airplane.

Night Without Mercy

1962

No Password Necessary poster
7.7

A spy game between Reds and Whites is in full motion during Russian Civil War.

No Password Necessary

1967

They Were Known Only By Their Faces poster
6.7

Explosions are raging in one of the ports in the territory occupied by the German fascist invaders. An old and experienced military leader, Admiral Reinhardt, arrives to investigate these emergencies. Together with the head of the Gestapo, SS Standartenfuehrer Hübe, he takes all measures to suppress the activity of the partisans, raids and arrests, but all in vain. Underwater sabotage continues. A detachment of fighters with experience of submarine warfare is sent from Italy to fight the demolitions.

They Were Known Only By Their Faces

1967

Tenth Step poster
10.0

After the end of the Civil War, nurse and intelligence officer Anna Dzyuba returns to her hometown with her commissar husband. Here she has to make a difficult choice between ideological associates who establish Soviet power and childhood friends associated with the anti-Soviet underground.

Tenth Step

1967

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