
Acting
Nikolay Kryuchkov
Born — Died
1911-01-05 — 1994-04-13
Place of birth
Moscow, Russian Empire
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Known for
7.6Fitil 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
8.0During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Ballad of a Soldier
1959
7.1Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.
Autumn Marathon
1979
5.9In January 1942, Adolf Hitler appoints Fedor von Bock to command Army Group South and supervise Operation Blau. The German forces advance in the south of Russia, scattering the Soviets and approaching Stalingrad, that seems on the verge of falling to the enemy's hands. The movie ends with Vasily Chuikov assuming command of the 62nd Army at September.
Stalingrad: Film 1
1990
7.1A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier, but complications ensue when her real identity is revealed.
Ballad of a Hussar
1963
3.8May 1945. On the outskirts of Prague, ordinary people meet Soviet soldiers-liberators with tears of joy in their eyes. In the early days of the lull, someone sadly recalls a pre-war life; someone unexpectedly meets his love; someone is returning from enemy dungeons looking hopefully into the future; and someone, having moved from a tank into a Czech tram, warmly recalls his craft as a car driver... These days, all those who survived the Great War fire swear an oath to keep peace on Earth forever, honoring the memory of those who gave their lives for simple human happiness.
May Stars
1959
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
5.9In January 1942, Adolf Hitler appoints Fedor von Bock to command Army Group South and supervise Operation Blau. The German forces advance in the south of Russia, scattering the Soviets and approaching Stalingrad, that seems on the verge of falling to the enemy's hands. The movie ends with Vasily Chuikov assuming command of the 62nd Army at September.
Stalingrad: Film 1
1990
6.2Adaptation of 'Prince Serebrenni' by A. K. Tolstoy.
Tsar Ivan the Terrible
1991
1980s · 5 titles
NRThe 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
5.7The story concerns the events in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War. Private detective Petya Chukhontsev, a law student who has not completed his studies, investigates the case of the murdered inventor Kuklin. He was murdered exactly as he predicted during a New Year's visit to Chukhontsev. While investigating the Kuklin case, Petya soon realizes that the central figure in this case is the German Scholz, the owner, who cheaply buys up the inventions of Russian craftsmen and hands them over to the spy Siegfried Gay, an advisor to the German embassy. . However, Petya will soon understand that it is better to mind his own business...
First Encounter - Last Encounter
1987
NRThe film tells about the main stages of the history of the country's largest studio "Mosfilm", about the work of the creative team, introduces the viewer to the outstanding masters of Soviet cinematography, with such unique groups such as the Theater-Studio of Film Actors, with the workshops of the studio.
One Day of Mosfilm
1985
7.0Strategical factory should be evacuated. The movie shows how destinies of those working on the factory and their families are being broken. And yet - they have no choice, but to live.
Particularly Important Task
1981
10.0The film is a fantasy about how the destinies of Sergei and Varya Lukonin, a brave tanker and theater actress, could have turned out.
I Believe in Love
1987
1970s · 6 titles
7.1Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.
Autumn Marathon
1979
9.0Mashenka, a young typist during WWII, flees her occupied town with her boss, the senior cashier of a bank,along with a sack of jewelry and gold they hope to deliver to the Red Army.
Gold
1970
5.3Antarctic station "Vostok" threatens conservation due to lack of fuel. Volunteer squad is called to take fuel, but will soon begin "Polar autumn" in Antarctica. No one has walked this way, when the temperature drops below 71 degrees Celsius and freezes fuels.
72 Degrees Below Zero
1977
5.3Six-graders Tosha and Kostya are trying to deliver the WWII telegram they accidentally find.
Telegram
1972
7.0In the fall of 1938, three former fighters of the international brigade — russian Shukhov, frenchman Henri and american Liz — fall into a resort town on the border of Spain and France. Having met a nurse who is supposed to send Spanish children to Corsica, they decide to help her. However, a fascist rebellion suddenly breaks out in the city, and the children are held hostage to criminals.
Velvet Season
1978
6.5During the WWII, veteran Panas Petrovich Baida lost his son. Many years passed, and Panas Petrovich came to terms with his loss, hiding his grief deep in his heart. But one day, he heard news about children who had been saved by soldiers from the military. All the boys who did not remember their names were named Ivan Immortal. They are still alive today, but fate has scattered them to different corners of the country. Panas Petrovich sets out to visit each of them, hoping to recognize his son among them.
Your Home Address
1973
1960s · 18 titles
7.1A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier, but complications ensue when her real identity is revealed.
Ballad of a Hussar
1963
6.8Two KGB agents are fighting against foreign spies before and during WWII.
On Thin Ice
1966
6.6A group of young motivated people are trying to convert old "Oduvanchik" restaurant in to a youth club.
Give Me a Complaints Book
1965
6.0An adventures of a young boy in a fishermen village on a sea coast.
What Is It, the Sea?
1964
5.2As a rule, a person’s life is a swimming flowing from one to another. Radically changes the direction of this size. In an ambulance, he was riding a bus and met a beautiful stranger. They turned out to be Alexandra Nikolaevna, he - Alexander Nikolaevich, lost in the crowd. The outstanding geophysicist, the husband of Alexandra Nikolaevna, did not go on another expedition, stayed at home with his wife, arranged for himself “a day of happiness,” and lost his job ...
A Day of Happiness
1964
5.7An important event is taking place in a small provincial town, an elderly rich prince arrives. The local "lioness" Maria Alexandrovna Moskaleva decides to marry him to her daughter Zinochka. But the "noble" Mordassov society is by no means inclined to voluntarily give up its positions: after all, in the head of every mother who has a marriageable daughter, the dream is to get a rich man as a son-in-law.
Uncle's Dream
1967
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Spring Chores
1964
9.0October 1941. The young surgeon Vera Treshnikova is forced, in the name of saving many lives, to become the head of a German hospital for civilians, where she continued her underground struggle against the Germans. And now, after the liberation of the city, she is suspected of aiding and abetting the Nazis.
Doctor Vera
1968
8.0A satirical express train sets off on its way. The driver S. Mikhalkov gives a farewell beep ... On the first carriage an inscription - "Summer cottage". The following are 8 short stories ...
Big "Wick"
1964
7.2Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
Come Here, Mukhtar!
1964
NRWithout waiting for a friend, the painter Lenya Penkin gives his ticket to Lucy Korableva, who wins the piano in the lottery draw at the end of the match. Leni's friend, having found out about this, tries to persuade him to take away Lucy's piano, sell it and buy himself a motorcycle. Without persuading Lenya, he still acts in his own way. Lucy and Lenya quarrel, but soon realize that they love each other...
No and Yes
1967
NRAbout the scout girl "Bereza", her dangerous work behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Twenty years later, a journalist is looking for the heroine and interviews her...
I Am Bereza
1964
8.0Spring of 1944. The war is nearing its end. Thousands of concentration camp inmates were brought to the Normandy coast to repair the defenses damaged by Allied aircraft. On one of the islands, a small group of prisoners, led by Colonel Zakharov, prepares an uprising. The course of events was accelerated by an action taken by French prisoners of war. They barricaded themselves in the bunker and were ready, sacrificing themselves, to undermine the fortress.
Far to the West
1969
5.5Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alyonka Muratova is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alyonka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.
Alyonka
1962
6.5Alexei Kovalchuk, who dreams of distant voyages, currently serves on the rescue ship Gremuchiy and annoys the entire crew with his lack of discipline. The captain and sailors desperately try to reform him. But it is only when battling the elements to rescue the stricken ship Belogorsk that Alexei shows composure and determination — and ultimately decides to stay on the Gremuchiy.
I'm Coming to You!
1961
NRAbout spiritual sensitivity and human solidarity. A graduate of a medical school is assigned to a fishing collective farm in Glubokoe town.
The Town Is But a Street
1964
6.8Moscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, sees his happiness in marrying a rich bride. Misha images in dreams and fantasies that he is a general or even a king — rich and domineering. In reality, poor Balzaminov is haunted by setbacks.
The Marriage of Balzaminov
1964
5.2In this provocative Soviet drama, an aged couple are left homeless after their farm burns down, and they head off to live with their impoverished daughter. When they arrive, they are appalled to learn that she has abandoned her child and husband to run away with a married man. The husband is now an alcoholic, so the grandparents stay on to support their son-in-law in his time of need and to help care for their grandson. Later, the errant daughter is dumped by her lover and returns. Many fights ensue until the grandfather banishes his troublesome daughter from their lives.
There Was an Old Couple
1965
1950s · 13 titles
8.0During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Ballad of a Soldier
1959
3.8May 1945. On the outskirts of Prague, ordinary people meet Soviet soldiers-liberators with tears of joy in their eyes. In the early days of the lull, someone sadly recalls a pre-war life; someone unexpectedly meets his love; someone is returning from enemy dungeons looking hopefully into the future; and someone, having moved from a tank into a Czech tram, warmly recalls his craft as a car driver... These days, all those who survived the Great War fire swear an oath to keep peace on Earth forever, honoring the memory of those who gave their lives for simple human happiness.
May Stars
1959
6.0Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin.
Poet
1956
5.7In the old Russian city of Novgorod, the merchants are feasting in a gorgeous palace and Sadko is bragging that he can bring to their land a sweet-voiced bird of happiness. They laugh at him, but he is offered help by the Ocean King's daughter, who is mesmerized by Sadko's singing and is in love with him. The hero is destined to visit many lands in his search of the bird.
Sadko
1953
7.7Dedicated to the development of the oil industry of Soviet Azerbaijan in the background of the first half of the twentieth century, including their selfless work in strengthening the economic and military might of the USSR.
The Fires of Baku
1958
6.9An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
The Forty-First
1956
6.2The movie is based on the the same name novel of the Nobel Prize In Literature Winner Mikhail Sholokhov. The action is taken place in 20-30-s years of the XX century in the Russian countryside going through an uneasy process of collectivization.
Virgin Soil Upturned
1959
8.5The nine-year-old Prague boy Pepiček flies to Moscow as an involuntary stowaway on an airplane. Together with the Soviet pioneer Mischa, he pursues an alleged agent in the hustle and bustle of the World Festival and is flown back to Prague in the evening.
Six O'Clock at the Airport
1958
6.5Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ...
The Frigid Sea
1955
7.5The Soviet steamer Bogatyr delivers construction materials and rafts with timber to the earthquake-stricken city of Marto. However, foreign intelligence is preparing a sabotage operation on the Bogatyr...
«Bogatyr» Goes to Marto
1954
5.8A black child rescued from by Russian sailors, whom they name Maksimka, having overcome his fear of white people, turns out to be an unusually smart and kind little boy. The rude drunken sailor Ivan Luchkin was especially attached to the boy. Once it was Maksimka who managed to save Luchkin from foreign recruiters of labor. For resourcefulness and courage, the young hero is enlisted in the team of the corvette and becomes the cabin boy of the Russian fleet.
Maximka
1952
8.0The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Garmash using ideological diversions. In parallel, a story is told about student Rostislav Danchenko who is being recruited by enemy agents. The story is pertinent due to resurgence of ultra-nationalist underground activity in Western Ukraine after World War II.
It Can Not Be Forgotten
1954
6.5Sasha Rumyantsev, a long-range driver, becomes an unwitting accomplice in a crime committed by the head of the motor depot where he works. The honest guy is accused of stealing a car of a hard-to-find product. The collective of the motor depot amicably stands up to protect their comrade and helps the investigator, Colonel Afanasyev, to find and expose the true criminals.
The Rumyantsev Case
1956
1940s · 9 titles
4.0A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad.
The Battle of Stalingrad
1949
5.0In the summer of 1932, Sergei Lukonin, a young man from Saratov, leaves his hometown for the distant city of Omsk to attend tank school. His fiancée, Varenka, who soon became an actress, remained in Saratov. In 1936, Sergei went to fight in the Spanish Civil War. He was wounded, taken prisoner, escaped, and returned to training battles, with June 1941 looming ahead.
Lad from Our Town
1942
9.7Kotovsky, who went a long revolutionary way and became the recognized military commander of the cavalry troops: commander, brigade commander, commander. Six times he escaped from prison, was sentenced to death, and again escaped to become one of the most ardent warriors of the revolution. His famous equestrian brigade fought with the enemy near Kiev and the Belaya Tserkov, at Nikolaev and Odessa, and did not know defeat anywhere.
Kotovsky
1943
8.0Story on the life and work of the first chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov.
Yakov Sverdlov
1940
4.8In the 1930s, during Collectivization, we follow Alexandra Sokolova, who having joined a kolkhoz, is promoted by the Party to the management of the farm: she becomes chairman of the kolkhoz, courageously coping with the difficulties of collectivization, the distrust of some fellow villagers, and family conflict.
Member of the Government
1940
5.0The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
In the Name of the Motherland
1943
6.5During the Winter War three Soviet soldiers perform a risky recon mission.
In the Rear of the Enemy
1941
8.8No synopsis available yet.
Brother of a Hero
1940
Directed by Sergey Vasilev and Georgi Vasilyev.
Front
1943
1930s · 7 titles
6.4Two men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm, where they work on its fishing boats and woo the young woman leading the fishermen.
By the Bluest of Seas
1936
8.5In 1932, thousands of Komsomol members set off for the Far East to build the "city of youth" — Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Among the builders is a saboteur. Soon, fuel depots explode at the new factories in Komsomolsk.
Komsomolsk
1938
6.3In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
Outskirts
1933
5.8Film deals with Stakhanovite movement. Old miners try to sabotage young man's plan to renew methods of getting coal.
A Night in September
1939
4.9The story takes place in a Soviet placed in what is now Ukraine. A mechanic arrives in the Soviet, lead by a young independent woman driving tractors and, between many comedy sketches and propaganda mottoes, a love comes to light.
Tractor Drivers
1939
7.0The film takes place in 1921 on the Soviet-Finnish border. Shyutskorov detachments broke into Karelia, killed Soviet activists, burned houses ... In the rear of the enemy with a special task - to destroy the headquarters of the White Finns on the Kimas Lake - a detachment of Soviet cadets under the command of Toivo Antikainen (Oleg Zhakov) was sent.
For the Soviet Motherland
1937
7.5The Soviet Far East and Manchukuo are separated by a border river, on one side of which Russian White Guards have settled in a small Manchurian village, while on the opposite bank lives the Vlasov family. Wanting to destroy the Vlasovs, the White Guards break into their house. A detachment of soldiers led by border guard commander Captain Tarasov comes to their aid. A long and exhausting battle ensues.
Soviet Border
1938
