Nikolai Gritsenko

Acting

Nikolai Gritsenko

Born — Died

1912-07-24 — 1979-12-08

Place of birth

Yasinovataya, Ekaterinoslavskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

Mykola Hrytsenko was a Soviet Ukrainian theater and film actor. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1942 and 1978.

Known for

Anna Karenina poster
5.4

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

1967

Me, Francysk Skaryna poster
NR

A film about the Belarusian publisher and educator Francis (Georgy) Skaryna, who lived in the first half of the 16th century, the founder of the first Belarusian printing house in Vilnius and the author of fundamental research in the field of linguistics.

Me, Francysk Skaryna

1970

The Sannikov Land poster
6.3

A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to deal with all the consequences.

The Sannikov Land

1973

Two Captains poster
6.8

A passionate pilot dedicates his life to the search for a polar expedition.

Two Captains

1977

The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce poster
7.5

A West German concern is conducting secret negotiations on the production of an atomic bomb with an interested state. The son of the head of the concern, realizing the monstrosity and scale of his father's activities, interrupts the negotiations and returns home with the intention to publicize his father's activities.

The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce

1977

Intern poster
6.0

Muscovite Sasha Trofimov returns home after serving in the army. In the absence of his father, his uncle, who works as a photographer, helps him decide on his profession. He takes the boy on as an intern, meaning that he will follow in his footsteps. Sasha, who has shown a great interest in photography, does not like his mentor's way of life very much, and he seriously thinks about "what to do?".

Intern

1977

Film credits

1970s · 26 titles

Me, Francysk Skaryna poster
NR

A film about the Belarusian publisher and educator Francis (Georgy) Skaryna, who lived in the first half of the 16th century, the founder of the first Belarusian printing house in Vilnius and the author of fundamental research in the field of linguistics.

Me, Francysk Skaryna

1970

The Sannikov Land poster
6.3

A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to deal with all the consequences.

The Sannikov Land

1973

The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce poster
7.5

A West German concern is conducting secret negotiations on the production of an atomic bomb with an interested state. The son of the head of the concern, realizing the monstrosity and scale of his father's activities, interrupts the negotiations and returns home with the intention to publicize his father's activities.

The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce

1977

Intern poster
6.0

Muscovite Sasha Trofimov returns home after serving in the army. In the absence of his father, his uncle, who works as a photographer, helps him decide on his profession. He takes the boy on as an intern, meaning that he will follow in his footsteps. Sasha, who has shown a great interest in photography, does not like his mentor's way of life very much, and he seriously thinks about "what to do?".

Intern

1977

Princess Turandot poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Princess Turandot

1971

Father Sergius poster
3.4

Prince Stepan Kasatsky is an officer, an ardent, proud young man, and a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky.

Father Sergius

1978

A Man in Civilian Clothes poster
7.0

Intelligence officer Sergei arrives in Berlin to establish contact with the staff of the General Staff and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany under the name of the Hungarian Baron Perenyi de Kiralgaze. He finds those who, not accepting the ideas of nascent fascism, seek connections with the USSR. Having met the Gestapo Doris Scherer, who dreams of marrying a Hungarian aristocrat, Sergei transmits the first information about military orders to his homeland... The film is based on real events that took place in Germany in the 30s.

A Man in Civilian Clothes

1973

Cheerful Frogscreamers poster
2.0

The film tells the story of the life and customs of a Ukrainian village in the distant past. After a heavy drinking binge, the village elder, having lost track of the days, decides to drink every second day instead of every day. Angry that no one was tearing leaves off the calendar, he forbids the youth to gather in the evenings for festivities. But it id in the evening that Alyonushka and Timish's first date is to take place. The clever boys and girls decide to help the lovers and get the foreman drunk enough to make him forget about his ban.

Cheerful Frogscreamers

1973

Docker poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Docker

1974

Denouement poster
4.8

Young KGB agents investigate a complex murder case with several suspects.

Denouement

1970

Martin Iden poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Martin Iden

1976

Talents and Admirers poster
NR

Negina, a popular but poor actress, receives lessons from her fiancé Meluzov. Prince Dulebov, intending to take advantage of the girl's dire circumstances, suggests sponsorship, gets refused and becomes spiteful. Despite the latter's intrigues, Negina's benefice performance is triumphant and she receives a large sum of money, part of which Dulebov himself has to provide to keep his face. Still, the entrepreneur refuses to prolong her contract. One after another ecstatic admires come to her expressing their affection, among them Narokov, Naluzov and Velikatov. She leaves honest but dull Meluzov and goes away with rich Velikatov, motivated not by greed but by the desire to work on stage, the only thing she is really in love with.

Talents and Admirers

1973

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Time of Her Sons

1976

Red Cavalry poster
NR

The authors, like Isaac Babel, rejected the depiction of battles, the simplification, and varnishing of reality, instead conveying the dramatic tension of the post-revolutionary years: the explosion of awakened human energy and the tragic collisions of destinies.

Red Cavalry

1975

Enemies poster
10.0

Drama based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky.

Enemies

1978

Black Prince poster
6.1

In the second movie colonel Zorin is trying to find a stolen "Black Prince" diamond.

Black Prince

1973

All Day Long poster
NR

A day in the life of the factory director Druyanov, who transformed a once backward enterprise into one of the leading companies in the industry.

All Day Long

1978

Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man poster
4.8

TV version of the Vakhtangov's Theater play. The plot makes fun of secular society and shows what can turn cynical attempts to deceive people if they want to get to power and money.

Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man

1971

My Heart Is in the Highlands poster
7.3

Screen version of William Saroyan's play about a family of Armenian immigrants during the Great Depression.

My Heart Is in the Highlands

1976

A Thousand Souls poster
NR

Based on the eponymous novel by A.F. Pisemsky. A play about the all-powerful influence of money and the morals of the bureaucratic world that destroy everything honest, good, and humane.

A Thousand Souls

1971

Crime: Deception poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Crime: Deception

1976

Crime: Intolerance poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Crime: Intolerance

1976

Family Happiness poster
5.5

The film comprises four novellas: (1) “From Boredom”. A wealthy matron, bored with life, embarks on a romance with her children’s romantic tutor. (2) “Nerves”. Haunted by tales of the supernatural, Vak­s­in can’t sleep and is found in the morning napping on the governess’s chest. (3) “The Avenger”. A husband plans to kill his unfaithful wife but abandons the plot when he dreads the punishment to come. (4) “The Proposal”. A tragicomic matchmaking tale of landowner Lomov wooing his neighbor’s daughter.

Family Happiness

1970

Anna's Happiness poster
5.3

Communist Anna Dronova, a participant in the civil war, returns to her native village. Having become the chairman of the village council, Anna rallies the poor around her and fiercely fights with the kulaks for a new life. Meanwhile, a gang of Pantelei Lychkov successfully operates in the vicinity. By killing his own brother Yakov, who took Anna's side, he makes it clear to everyone and especially Anna that nothing wouldn't stop him.

Anna's Happiness

1971

The Man with the Gun poster
NR

The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades.

The Man with the Gun

1977

The Golden Depths poster
NR

The play of the same name by Mamin-Sibiryak, staged by the Vakhtangov State Academic Theater. At the center of the play is the daughter of a bankrupt gold miner, who, faced with cruel morals, herself becomes a predator.

The Golden Depths

1978

1960s · 14 titles

Anna Karenina poster
5.4

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

1967

The Barrier of Uncertainty poster
6.5

The beautiful woman and the brave man disembark the train at the tiny station in the desert. He is the test pilot of the hypersonic nuclear-powered plane called Cyclone, and she is the physicist studying the strange phenomenon encountered by the first flier of the Cyclone jet, named Kazantsev.

The Barrier of Uncertainty

1961

Interview with Spring poster
NR

Announcer Aza Likhitchenko interviews the heroes of this season's premiere performances.

Interview with Spring

1962

Wind of Freedom poster
NR

The port town of one of the small southern countries. After the Nazi occupiers left, the port's berths were empty, the steamers did not smoke, cargo cranes stood. Fearing retaliation for collaborating with enemies, port owner Georg Stan fled the city. After waiting a while and securing the support of local authorities, Stan nonetheless returns - and loading operations begin in the port. While loading oranges, the sailor Yango and the beautiful Stella are preparing for the wedding. Suddenly, Stan makes a proposal to the girl and tricks her into agreeing. Upon learning of the deception, the girl runs away to Yango. Having discovered weapons intended to support fascism in the drawer of the hold, the heroes do everything possible to make the boxes fall to the bottom of the sea.

Wind of Freedom

1961

The Russian Forest poster
7.0

Young Polya comes to Moscow: she wants to find her father, Professor Vikhrov, and try to understand why her mother broke up with him. Vikhrov is a prominent scientist who has defended the forest from barbaric destruction all his life. The war begins. Professor Vikhrov continues to lecture, proving to students the need to protect the forest. Polya is trying to find out the reasons for the long-standing feud between her father and academician Gratsianskiy. Now, when Vikhrov is already not young and lonely, the professor mentally returns to the past.

The Russian Forest

1964

There Lived Once a Man poster
7.5

Old village doctor Ruben Azaryan is going to operate a sick child, although he feels bad. Perhaps this is the last operation in his life. He remembers his youth, the institute, the student Maro in love with him, the war, the front and the first love - nurse Svetlana, who died during a raid on their hospital. Then marriage to Maro, a difficult job as a village doctor. One day he refuses to have an abortion for one widow. The widow commits suicide from shame. Her death still torments Azaryan. But hundreds of people he saved are also remembered, which means that life was not lived in vain ...

There Lived Once a Man

1968

The Places Here Are Quiet poster
7.0

Based on the novel of the same name by Grigory Svirsky. 1942 year. The Great Patriotic War. The navigator Bratnov was shot down during the war, was captured, fled, returned to his people, was demoted and sent to serve in the construction battalion. His old front-line comrade Major Kabarov accidentally met him and took him to his unit. Kabanov, knowing about the lack of experienced navigators, is seeking to transfer Bratnov to his air force in the Northern Fleet, in the Arctic, to a tiny rocky island — "to the ends of the world."

The Places Here Are Quiet

1967

Gooseberry poster
NR

Three interlocutors are having a sedate conversation in a cozy hallway...

Gooseberry

1967

Mother and Stepmother poster
8.5

Once, in search of an easy life, Katerina abandoned her daughter, giving her upbringing to an orphanage. Now, many years later, kind and conscientious, she returns to her native village and appears in the house where her daughter grew up ...

Mother and Stepmother

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 Little Crane poster
5.6

About the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and post-war life. After the war, those few who survived at the front returned to their native village. But Marfa's husband, whom she had been waiting for for so many years, would never return. Marfa, a beautiful and proud woman, remains true to her only love.

A Little Crane

1969

A Hard Day's Monday poster
NR

Having very skillfully organized the food production of "worse quality, but more quantity", the Tonap share partnership began to gain power. Khristoforov, the underground organization's head, is concerned about the spoiled products' sale, and he developed an operation to get closer to the city industrial council: asked for a meeting, and by Monday he ordered Stryapkov to find a gift. However, an incident occurred: the crown from the gold watch of Evlampius Kokin, a master of the sausage shop, was found in the sausage. Kokin, who had long been tormented by fear, without consulting with the leadership, came to the police himself.

A Hard Day's Monday

1964

No artwork available
NR

A gentleman and his friend attended an exhibition of new art where modernist artists exhibited their ridiculous works. Among them is a dead rat on a tray. The gentleman buys the "work" and invites the authors to his house for dinner, warning that it will be as original as their painting. The assembled guests intend to honor the invited modernists by smearing them with raspberry jam. The artists run around the room and finally hide under the table. After apologizing to themselves, they leave the reception.

Крыса на подносе

1963

Two Years above the Abyss poster
7.7

A drama about an underground war in the occupied Kyiv during WWII.

Two Years above the Abyss

1967

1950s · 12 titles

Gloomy Morning poster
7.5

The third film in the trilogy ("The Sisters", "The Eighteenth Year", "The Gloomy Morning") based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy "The Road to Calvary". About the fate of the Russian intelligentsia against the background of the collapse of the Russian Empire and the civil war, which turned the lives of all the heroes of the film narration. Defending Tsaritsyn, the red commander Telegin was seriously wounded. At the hospital, he meets Dasha. After his recovery, the young spouses go together to the Red Army.

Gloomy Morning

1959

A Big Family poster
5.9

The characters of the picture are a large family of hereditary shipbuilders. Three generations of the Zhurbin live under one roof: grandfather Matvei, his son Ilya, three sons of Ilya — Aleksei, Anton and Viktor. In a short time, representatives of the fourth generation are born. The share of the youngest son of Aleksei fall the most severe life tests. The background for family conflicts is the reorganization of production. All Zhurbin's have to change their profession to move on.

A Big Family

1954

The Safety Match poster
5.9

A man of big status disappears in a small provincial town. An old bored investigator and his young hyperactive assistant are on a trail of a bloody murderer.

The Safety Match

1954

Hostile Whirlwinds poster
5.5

Observing the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky from 1918-1925; in July 1918, as a result of a revolt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, German ambassador Mirbach is killed. Feliks Dzerzhinsky alone goes to the headquarters of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Anarchists, he manages to persuade ordinary soldiers and sailors, participants in the rebellion, who are now cracking down on their leaders.

Hostile Whirlwinds

1956

The Road poster
6.6

A group of semitrailers is moving through a snow storm - and no one doesn't know that there is a spy between the drivers.

The Road

1955

The Night Before Christmas poster
6.6

Based on the work of Nikolay Gogol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress for the slippers that he can present his sweetheart.

The Night Before Christmas

1951

Furtuna poster
4.2

Story depicting the national liberation struggle of the Albanian people against the Italian and German invaders during World War II.

Furtuna

1959

Dream of a Cossack poster
5.6

Soviet filmmaker Yuri Raisman once more combines political dogma with solid entertainment values in Dream of a Cossack (aka Cavalier of the Golden Star). The title character, played by future director Sergei Bondarchuk (and billed for obscure reasons as Semyon Bondarchuk), is an ex-soldier who returns home to the Kuban region, there to take up life as a farmer. Instead, he galvanizes the local citizenry into participating in a massive construction project, which will result in a new power station and canal. Thus does Raisman offer an prime example of Russian collectivism while making it seem as though it had sprung from individual initiative. Dream of a Cossack is based on a popular novel by S. Babayefsky.

Dream of a Cossack

1951

Marina's Destiny poster
5.0

Terenty leaves the collective farm and goes to the city to study to become an agronomist. Marina works hard and looks forward to her husband's return. When her husband returns home, he reproaches his wife for being uneducated, asks for a divorce and leaves for the city. Left with her daughter, Marina devotes herself entirely to her studies and work.

Marina's Destiny

1954

The Year 18th poster
6.3

Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.

The Year 18th

1958

The Sisters poster
6.5

Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.

The Sisters

1957

Farewell, America! poster
4.8

An unfinished film by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, the film is a political lampoon based on the book entitled The Truth about US Diplomats, written in 1949 by the American writer Annabel Bukar. It exposes the underhanded actions of US Embassy personnel in Moscow at the onset of the Cold War. Dovzhenko managed to shoot only a half of the film, mainly the scenes that take place in the American Embassy.

Farewell, America!

1951

1940s · 2 titles

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