Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov

Acting

Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov

Born — Died

1939-01-31 — 2012-04-15

Place of birth

Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

77 titles

Known for

Battle of the Psychics poster
6.6

Battle of the Psychics (Bitva Extrasenov) is a Russian-language TNT TV show based on Britain’s Psychic Challenge. Each season starts with 8-13 participants selected for their superior psychic abilities, but tries to expose them as frauds. Tasks in the beginning of the series are relatively simple, such as revealing the contents of a sealed box or what lies behind an impenetrable screen, and progressively become more difficult. One participant judged to be worst is eliminated each week, but all participants advance to the next round if the panel is unable to come to a decision.

Battle of the Psychics

2007

Cadetship poster
4.7

Boys of fourteen years old find themselves in the Suvorov school – someone thanks to family tradition, someone for the sake of high ideals, and someone not even of their own free will. Having entered Suvorovskoye, the guys at first do not represent the full extent of the load, and most importantly, the responsibility that will have a profound impact on their subsequent life.

Cadetship

2006

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

1971

Empire is Under Attack poster
7.1

In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.

Empire is Under Attack

2000

Black Room poster
6.2

The black room. Enclosed space. The action unfolds as if slowly. You understand that every word, every gesture of the heroes have a special, secret, as yet absolutely incomprehensible meaning. But you feel: you can't miss a single nuance. There are two or three heroes in each novel. There is a real drama between them, which ends with an explosion. Sometimes figuratively, and sometimes literally. Time is continuous: there is no yesterday and tomorrow.

Black Room

2000

Авантюристка poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Авантюристка

2006

Film credits

2000s · 12 titles

Spy Games: The Black Wolf Hunt poster
NR

Retired Colonel Matveev takes on an unofficial assignment to revenge his friend's death and catch one of the most dangerous terrorists who managed to escape to America during a failed operation in Chechnya.

Spy Games: The Black Wolf Hunt

2006

Lotus Strike 2: Bitter-Sweet Wormwood poster
NR

Retired General Pelevin has nothing left but a small piece of ancestral land, granted to his forefathers by the royal family long ago. But now even this last possession is under threat — targeted for the construction of an ultra-modern shopping center. Mafia networks, in collusion with a corrupt local prefect, trick the general into going on an overseas tourist trip, and in his absence, they move a city landfill onto his property.

Lotus Strike 2: Bitter-Sweet Wormwood

2002

Under the North Star 2 poster
NR

The film takes place in the seventies of the XX century, in a real country of the USSR and with real Soviet people of various levels: from workers to the leaders of the country. This is a patriotic film, with love (the authors especially insist on this) telling about our homeland, about our people, about the generation of our fathers, about their achievements and defeats, everyday life and holidays, joys and sorrows.

Under the North Star 2

2002

The Right to Hope poster
NR

At a party with friends, student Kristina meets Ivan, a graduate student from her university. She brings him home with her. The next morning, Ivan meets Kristina’s mother, Nadezhda.

The Right to Hope

2008

Spy Games: Illegal poster
7.0

A Russian man Sergey Matveev is sent on a business trip to New York to deliver an important package to a local businessman. As soon as he arrives in a hotel, he finds himself entrapped by the FBI. They know he used to be a GRU agent and threaten to imprison him if he would not reveal the secret information regarding "the mole". But Matveev escapes right from the hotel room and finds himself on the streets of an unknown city and enters New York city subway to hide away from the FBI. On his way home, he would have to face greedy federal agents and local criminal gangs.

Spy Games: Illegal

2004

The White She-Bear poster
NR

Vadim Golikov, a successful boxing promoter, travels to the taiga to visit his old friend Platoshin, a former boxing champion of the Soviet Union. There, due to a misunderstanding, he is knocked down by Platoshin’s granddaughter, Sasha. Immediately recognizing her fighting talent, Golikov invites her to Moscow, but Sasha initially refuses. After some thought, she decides to make the trip to the capital. Ahead of her lies a tough road to success and fame as Russia’s very own "Million Dollar Baby".

The White She-Bear

2008

Successor poster
NR

In the late 1980s, a high-ranking party official, Iona Petrovich, suddenly left his prestigious post, abandoned his family, and emigrated. His wife died, unable to bear the betrayal. Their son, Andrei, grew up without parents. Time passed, circumstances changed, and Iona Petrovich returns to his homeland.

Successor

2001

Day of Dependence poster
NR

Boris works as a medical officer in a private clinic specializing in plastic surgery. When he becomes friendly with one of the patients, Ilya, he discovers that Ilya has been mysteriously placed under the private care of the chief doctor who owns the clinic. During one of their conversations, Ilya hints to Boris that the doctor is running an illegal business from the clinic, but Boris does not take this information seriously until Ilya is found dead the next morning. The doctor declares the cause of death to be an overdose, however, Boris begins to suspect foul play after he is thrown out of the hospital for asking too many questions. As Boris prepares to leave the city, he bumps into Oleg and his friend Katya who are carrying Ilya's body to their car. Convinced that the doctor played a part in Ilya's death and is now trying to cover his tracks, Boris returns to the hospital determined to discover the truth.

Day of Dependence

2008

Spy Games: Without Cover poster
NR

A daring assassination attempt is made on a prominent businessman and public figure. As the investigation unfolds, it becomes clear that a deeply covert militant organization is operating in the country, made up of intelligence agency personnel. Matveev's old friend, General Sokolovsky, asks him to infiltrate the organization.

Spy Games: Without Cover

2007

Right to Choose poster
NR

This is a modern story of a prosperous family, in whose harmonious way of life a young man, a former partner of her husband in creating a computer network, breaks into. Involving his wife in a love affair, he pretends to be a messenger from Shambhala. At some point, she is ready to believe him, despite her husband's convictions that her chosen one is crazy. The psychologically tense action is set off by episodes of the hero's fantasies, in which the intrigue is given a comic effect, so there is no reason to assume a tragic ending.

Right to Choose

2000

Playing Modern poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Playing Modern

2003

Offending Women Is Not Recommended poster
6.3

After her father dies Vera is forced to become a president of his company and continue the business.

Offending Women Is Not Recommended

2000

1990s · 7 titles

The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment poster
7.0

A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. A bunch of vagabonds lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated, then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake an adequate actions against the scoundrels - prevented by the superior chief of the local police, who is the dad of one of the scumbags. The case is closed. The girl's granddad tired of an endless circumlocution decides to take revenge in his own hands.

The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment

1999

Drums of Fire poster
6.1

In 1568, Saadi prince Abdelmalek is exiled from Morocco by his brothers, an event that is only the beginning of his adventures: fighting the Spanish Inquisition, taking part in the Battle of Lepanto, being incarcerated in Alicante prison, and assist in the Conquest of Tunis. Eventually, he returns to Morocco to fulfill his destiny.

Drums of Fire

1990

Tax Collector poster
8.0

It is hard to know the future. It is even more difficult to feel its inevitability. He is a tax collector. He has an inexplicable, supernatural gift to foresee the future. He is sent to where the impossible is needed. And he does not fail, until - she does not appear. Love is expensive. Give the Gift and love or continue to live an invulnerable wolf. But what he will choose - only God knows.

Tax Collector

1997

Destroy the Thirtieth! poster
5.5

When a man is forced to return to a secret Russian training camp, he decides to plan his escape, not knowing who to trust.

Destroy the Thirtieth!

1992

Khagi – Tragger poster
5.7

According to ancient legend, the artist found a mineral that can revive any inanimate thing. To hide the mineral, he inserts it into a doll named Hagi. A century later, Hagi falls into the hands of a puppeteer, and he with horror discovers that the old doll is alive. Moreover, she also has a nasty character. Criminals try to take possession of it in order to use it for mercenary purposes. But they do not know the secrets of this doll - no one can take possession of it, but it has a destructive effect on any person who falls within its influence.

Khagi – Tragger

1994

Human Target poster
5.0

A detective goes undercover in a small Russian town.

Human Target

1990

Woyzeck poster
7.1

Woyzeck ekes out a miserable existence sweeping train tracks, running errands for a bullying army captain and acting as a human guinea pig for a local doctor with ideas about free will. When his common-law wife begins an affair with a local cop, Woyzeck's pocket Bible and near-starvation diet point him on a downward spiral of twisted redemption.

Woyzeck

1994

1980s · 16 titles

The Testament of Professor Dowell poster
5.4

For many years, a prominent scientist had been striving to solve the problem of immortality. He shared the results of his daring and risky experiments with his colleagues. But one day something happened that no one could have foreseen: the professor had disappeared. The best student and follower of Professor Dowell tries to use the results of his scientific research for criminal purposes.

The Testament of Professor Dowell

1984

Two Long Hoots in the Fog poster
6.2

In a deserted tundra on the lake, a seaplane makes an emergency landing, on board of which bank collectors carry a large amount of money. A storm begins and the plane relates to the river delta. An unknown person steals money from an airplane and kills a geologist, an accidental witness. And a few days later the ship departs from the northern port for the last navigation voyage, where a recidivist hides among the motley company of passengers, and the captain begins his own investigation...

Two Long Hoots in the Fog

1981

Cancan in an English Park poster
7.0

A Ukrainian poet visiting his emigre cousin is threatened into working for the CIA's operations through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Cancan in an English Park

1985

Fiasco of Operation Terror poster
7.0

The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals.

Fiasco of Operation Terror

1981

Heiress in a Straight Line poster
2.7

A story about a teenage girl who loves poetry and thinks of herself as A.S. Pushkin heiress.

Heiress in a Straight Line

1982

Don't Leave Your Lovers poster
6.2

Sometimes divorce process could be really painful. This is exactly the case for the heroes of this romantic drama.

Don't Leave Your Lovers

1980

Chief Designer poster
8.5

A story about the creation of T-34 tank in Soviet Union during WWII.

Chief Designer

1980

Moon Rainbow poster
5.0

After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?

Moon Rainbow

1983

Until the Snow Fell poster
7.5

Preparing for a meeting of former classmates, a woman recalls her school years and her first love.

Until the Snow Fell

1984

Return from Orbit poster
5.3

An accident occurs on an orbital space station, as a result of which the ship's commander is seriously injured. He must be urgently delivered to Earth and testing must be continued. It can only be done by the crew of Kuznetsov-Mukhin.

Return from Orbit

1984

No artwork available
8.7

Varya Berezina has just graduated from high school. My parents are getting divorced, my beloved grandmother is pestering me about the meaning of life. Mishka is a good guy — he loves Varka very much, but he doesn't understand a lot. Having not received the documents, she leaves for the city to her sister. My sister has a big new apartment, a good husband and a dear family friend — neighbor Vissarion Arkadyevich. He is a doctor and everyone loves him. He helps Varka to enter the institute, but she has neither documents nor knowledge. My sister is very worried. And Varka gets a job in a hospital, where he can often see a doctor and be with people. When Vissarion Arkadyevich is transferred to Leningrad, Varka returns to the village.

A Twig in the Wind

1980

86400 Seconds of Police Duty Work poster
7.0

Based on real events in 1974 in Riga: the robbery of collectors and the murder of the driver. The personnel of the Gorky, Odessa regional executive committees and the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Latvian SSR took part in the film.

86400 Seconds of Police Duty Work

1988

No artwork available
6.5

Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War. It takes place in representative centers of power, in the courts of Vienna, Berlin and Moscow. In parallel, it develops the fate of the Czech archivist, who will take part in the Serbian anti-Austrian branch.

Evropa tančila valčík

1989

The White Horse Is Not My Grief poster
NR

About a young geography teacher, Aleksandr Arsenyevich, who tries to approach school problems in a new way.

The White Horse Is Not My Grief

1986

This Fantastic World 14 poster
NR

A completely ordinary person, Kolenkin, is experimentally injected into his blood with a drug that makes him unusually accurate when throwing a ball. Having received such opportunities, he gets into the basketball team and participates in important competitions...

This Fantastic World 14

1989

Primrose poster
NR

Based on L. Yelisieieva’s short story "Far Away". In the 1920s–30s, a girl named Liolia grows up in poverty after her father is killed in the so-called “Civil War.” Her mother’s new marriage brings fear and violence into the home, so Liolia is sent to live with her grandmother, where she finds peace—though only briefly.

Primrose

1986

1970s · 19 titles

For Better and for Worse poster
5.8

In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revolution against the autocratic and tyrannical Czar Nikolai I in the wake of his not honoring the drafting of a constitution for the Russian people. The revolution failed miserably and the conspirators (known as the Decembrists) were weeded out by the czar himself. One by one, each of the conspirators confess and are systematically exiled to the harsh winters of Siberia, slated to work and wither in a prison/mine. The wives of the conspirators are faced with the prospect of leaving the bosom of wealth and family (including their own children) to be with their husbands in the brutal Siberian locale. If they agree to this, they face having their illustrious social stations stripped away and certain disdain from everyone around them...

For Better and for Worse

1975

At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own poster
6.6

Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov was entrusted with is stolen, initially by a group of assassins and then by a group of bandits. In tracking the gold’s whereabouts, Shilov’s motives are questioned and he is suspected of treason, in part because his brother was a devoted White. In an effort to clear his name, Shilov locates the gold, but he also discovers rampant greed and corruption.

At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own

1974

The Battle after the Victory poster
4.8

A third part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.

The Battle after the Victory

1972

Captain Nemo poster
6.5

For several years as a terrible sea monster drowns ships of the Navy. In a small number of ships that managed to survive, in the sides were found huge holes triangular shape. Now any exit to the sea is deadly, so America sends a special frigate called Blue Star. His goal is to find and destroy the terrible monster. One of the participants of the punitive expedition is a famous Professor from France – Pierre Aronnax. He has a deep knowledge of the mysteries of the deep sea. The search for the monster continues for more than three months, but in the end, the frigate still detects it and immediately starts the attack mode. After an unsuccessful battle with the monster ship goes to the bottom, and the Professor, his servant Conseil and whaler Ned Land get on a submarine and make an amazing journey under water.

Captain Nemo

1975

The City Accepted poster
7.7

38 Petrovka Street. Here, in the operations room, information about incidents in Moscow flows in. By pure chance, police captain Stanislav Tikhonov and forensic expert Margarita Ushakova meet on duty after six years of separation. In the cycle of accidents, in the tense waiting for a call they will try to understand why their relationship did not work out.

The City Accepted

1979

Ring poster
6.0

Investigating the murder of a cash-collector, Major Isaev, a former boxing champion, comes to the conclusion that the killer is a boxer. To catch the criminal, Peter Isaev takes an unconventional decision. He applies to participate in the city's boxing championship, hoping that the criminal will probably come to watch the former champion fight. Isayev has to overcome each stage of the championship with difficulty: it has been five years since he left the ring...

Ring

1973

A Quiet Day at the End of the War poster
5.5

As WWII comes to a close, a wounded Soviet soldier and a Kazak woman seek refuge in a church. In this holy place, they take time to rest and appreciate the beauty of their surroundings, as the interior of the building is lined with ornate works of art. A group of Nazi soldiers eventually disrupts this moment of peace, as they enter the church and defile the sacred works within. Undetected, the original occupants witness this atrocity and the proud Russian feels compelled to fight in an effort to preserve his country’s history.

A Quiet Day at the End of the War

1970

Let's Talk, Brother... poster
6.5

1922 The Far East is still occupied by the White Guard troops and the Japanese invaders. But in the region there are red partisan detachments. At this time, the Red Army is preparing a decisive offensive to clear the Far Eastern region from the whites and the Japanese.

Let's Talk, Brother...

1979

And You Will See the Sky poster
6.0

About the fifteen-year-old hero of the World War II, military pilot, cavalier of the Order of the Red Banner and two orders of the Red Star - Arkady Kamanin.

And You Will See the Sky

1978

The Polynin Case poster
5.0

A story about a love between a Soviet Army officer and an actress set during the WWII.

The Polynin Case

1970

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Смерть чиновника

1977

Catch the Wind poster
7.5

A family of a private stud-farm head takes cover from a Civil War in a forsaken estate in Urals steppe. Once an old family friend Victor, lieutenant of White Guard, shows up in the estate and claims that he wants to come out of action and live according to the laws of God. The old man marries his daughter and Victor, but that is the end of peace in this house, taking into account that the white Cossacks are getting nearer

Catch the Wind

1979

Jarosław Dąbrowski poster
10.0

A film biography of Jarosław Dąbrowski, a Russian officer, Polish independence activist, and communist.

Jarosław Dąbrowski

1976

Family Circle poster
NR

The divorce proceedings of the aging Medvedev couple, handled by Tatyana Mikhailovna Somova, make her reflect on her own loneliness, her conflict with her grown-up children, and her separation from her husband.

Family Circle

1979

Risk Strategy poster
5.0

A story about an oil worker who went from the head of a geological exploration expedition to the chief geologist of the trust.

Risk Strategy

1978

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat poster
4.2

In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

1976

Barrier poster
NR

On the progress of the police investigation into the railway robbery.

Barrier

1976

The Man Who Was Lucky poster
8.0

The life story of gifted geologist Vladimir Ishutin, as seen through the eyes of his sons.

The Man Who Was Lucky

1978

Chaotic Flight poster
8.0

Sea elements are fraught with many secrets. No crew is safe from emergencies that may occur at sea when they enter the open sea. The film tells a story that happened with the crew of an old tugboat "Dolphin". The ship fell into a terrible storm and, unable to overcome weather conditions, stood on stones. The crew led by the captain promptly leaves the ship, only the engineer Samokhin remains on the ship.

Chaotic Flight

1978

1960s · 5 titles

Series credits

Battle of the Psychics poster
6.6

Battle of the Psychics (Bitva Extrasenov) is a Russian-language TNT TV show based on Britain’s Psychic Challenge. Each season starts with 8-13 participants selected for their superior psychic abilities, but tries to expose them as frauds. Tasks in the beginning of the series are relatively simple, such as revealing the contents of a sealed box or what lies behind an impenetrable screen, and progressively become more difficult. One participant judged to be worst is eliminated each week, but all participants advance to the next round if the panel is unable to come to a decision.

Battle of the Psychics

2007

Cadetship poster
4.7

Boys of fourteen years old find themselves in the Suvorov school – someone thanks to family tradition, someone for the sake of high ideals, and someone not even of their own free will. Having entered Suvorovskoye, the guys at first do not represent the full extent of the load, and most importantly, the responsibility that will have a profound impact on their subsequent life.

Cadetship

2006

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

1971

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

1971

Empire is Under Attack poster
7.1

In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.

Empire is Under Attack

2000

Black Room poster
6.2

The black room. Enclosed space. The action unfolds as if slowly. You understand that every word, every gesture of the heroes have a special, secret, as yet absolutely incomprehensible meaning. But you feel: you can't miss a single nuance. There are two or three heroes in each novel. There is a real drama between them, which ends with an explosion. Sometimes figuratively, and sometimes literally. Time is continuous: there is no yesterday and tomorrow.

Black Room

2000

Авантюристка poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Авантюристка

2006

Bourgeois's Birthday poster
4.4

Vladimir Kovalenko is one of those businessmen who "made themselves." He has everything you can only dream of: a well-established business, a beautiful lover, fame. But he does not know his real name and surname: he is a foundling, he received the nickname "Bourgeois" back in the orphanage - for knowing the value of money since childhood.

Bourgeois's Birthday

2000

Captain Nemo poster
7.0

A Soviet three-part television miniseries directed by Vasily Levin loosely based on the novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Captain Nemo

1976

Wayward Children poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wayward Children

2009

Слепой poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

Слепой

2004

Risk Strategy poster
NR

A story about an oil worker who went from the head of a geological exploration expedition to the chief geologist of the trust.

Risk Strategy

1978

Lucrative Contract poster
6.5

An artist named Nikitin, who had come to Odessa to shoot a film, was the victim of a completely brazen attack. Only the intervention of a police sergeant who happened to be passing by saved him from certain death.

Lucrative Contract

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Talent

1978

Behind the camera