Andrey Dudarenko

Acting

Andrey Dudarenko

Born — Died

1930-10-10 — 2022-12-28

Place of birth

USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

24 titles

Known for

The Waiting Room poster
7.7

A 'runaway' homeless man, once a renowned athlete, finds himself marooned in the small, snow-covered town of Zarechensk. Victor lands a job at an orphanage, where he soon meets a young teacher who becomes both a compassionate friend and the love of his life. However, fate doesn't play out simply as good or bad; it unfolds in a way that makes the hero realize one cannot run away from oneself. Consequently, it is in Zarechensk that a train carrying a film crew from the capital, on their way back to Moscow, is compelled to delay their journey for a few days. Remarkably, Zarechensk becomes the place where a director finally discovers the perfect actress for his leading role and encounters a man who has fled from her love. Meanwhile, a producer makes the ultimate decision to select this town as the filming location for her upcoming movie.

The Waiting Room

1998

Bread poster
NR

Set around the Volga river, the story begins around 1900, when Russian peasants are let free and allowed to own their farmlands. But soon they suffer from losses during the 1917 Russian Revolution and the following Civil War. Then, the major national catastrophe is started by Stalin: his communist government kills millions of farmers and steals all their food supplies, causing the longest and deadliest famine all over central Russia during the 1920s and 1930s.

Bread

1988

Three People on a Highway poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Three People on a Highway

1983

My Friend Ivan Lapshin poster
6.7

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985

Autumn poster
5.8

In their youth, they loved each other, but broke up. Ilya got married, became a doctor, Sasha learned to become an engineer, got married. And now they are together again, at a small, deaf station. They introduced themselves as husband and wife. In fact, while he is married to another, and she has the experience of a failed marriage. For eight days they will be in a remote stop where no one knows them and no one will interfere with love...

Autumn

1974

The Cold Summer of 1953 poster
7.4

In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them.

The Cold Summer of 1953

1988

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 13 titles

Three People on a Highway poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Three People on a Highway

1983

My Friend Ivan Lapshin poster
6.7

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985

The Cold Summer of 1953 poster
7.4

In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them.

The Cold Summer of 1953

1988

Evil Spirit poster
7.0

A junior employee of the Forest Research Institute is sent to collect mushrooms. In the forest, he meets a strange old woman, receives a silver horn and a magic club as a gift from her, and after some time ends up in prison as a counterfeiter. His connections with the mysterious old woman do not end there.

Evil Spirit

1989

Ivan the Great poster
6.0

The film, based on the war stories by Andrei Platonov, centers on the story of a soldier Ivan Vladyko. The war is over and Ivan begins to search for his son, who disappeared after their native village burned down. During the search he meets a woman with three children who takes a lively part in his fate.

Ivan the Great

1987

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

The Comic Lover, or The Amorous Adventures of Sir John Falstaff poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Comic Lover, or The Amorous Adventures of Sir John Falstaff

1984

In the Shooting Solitude poster
6.5

1918. A Red Army soldier Fyodor Krohov, authorized to withdraw farmers corn surpluses, comes to a small village, where White Guard can show up any day. He must persuade peasants to hand over the surpluses. But men are hesitating, some lend an ear to a wealthy peasant Mokey Zhlobin, unwilling to give away his hided corn. The only one person, backing up Fyodor is a local self-made inventor, living in the outskirts with his beloved beauty-wife, having equipped his house with electricity, power-saw bench and other gimmicks. The inventor takes him as a close friend and his young wife falls in love with Fyodor. The love triangle appears, but their ideals are above all. Together they manage to find the hidden corn and survive in uneven battle with bandits who rushed into a village.

In the Shooting Solitude

1986

Our Armoured Train poster
8.0

The events of the film take place in the first days of May 1966. Nikolai Kuznetsov, a distinguished veteran of the Great Patriotic War and former camp guard, accidentally meets one of his former prisoners. This encounter leads to new meetings—and new insights into the years that have passed...

Our Armoured Train

1988

Olga and Konstantin poster
7.0

A Georgian truck driver falls in love with Olga. The film follows their adventures and misadventures as they try to overcome the obstacles of distance, culture, and bureaucracy to be together.

Olga and Konstantin

1984

Walruses Are Swimming poster
NR

When Nina Klementyevna, a young scientist, created her laboratory, Zoya became her loyal and devoted assistant. Many years later, having raised three children, Zoya Dmitrievna, a laboratory assistant, meets San Sanych, a kind but weak-willed and drinking man. And the relationship with Nina Klimentievna is collapsing...

Walruses Are Swimming

1981

Old Letters poster
3.0

Upon returning from the front, Ivan Lukich discovered that his wife had been unfaithful to him. He left her and their daughter. Later, Ivan attempted to locate them, but was unsuccessful. Years passed. He now has another family, grown children, and a grandson. Quite by chance, he encounters Lisa, his daughter, who is convinced that her father died at the front.

Old Letters

1981

At the End of Summer poster
NR

An old man in need of care and attention moves to his son in the city. But soon the son and his wife send the old man to a shelter for the elderly. However, the grandson, who loved his grandfather and understood the cruelty of what is happening, leaves his parents and takes the old man to his future wife.

At the End of Summer

1980

1970s · 2 titles

Series credits