Evgeny Tsyganov

Acting

Evgeny Tsyganov

Born 1979-03-15 · Moscow, USSR (Russia)

Yevgeny Eduardovich Tsyganov (Russian: Евгений Эдуардович Цыганов; born 15 March 1979; Moscow) is a Russian stage and film actor, director, screenwriter and composer. Yevgeny Tsyganov was born in Moscow in the family of employees of the Moscow Research Institute. Yevgeny graduated from the music school in the piano performance class. Starting from the age of nine, he spent four years playing various roles at the Taganka Theatre, where he participated in productions created especially for young viewers. From 1993 until 1997 he performed with the youth rock band A.S. Afterwards he created a new group with his friends, Grenki, and played with friends at various clubs in and around Moscow. The band released one album and by 2004 disbanded, but again reunited in 2009. In 1996 he entered the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, but studied there for only one year and eventually decided to change his major to film direction. In 1997 he entered the directing department Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, from which he graduated in 2001, where he met Pyotr Fomenko, who some time later invited Yevgeny to work together on some joint projects. In 2000, Tsyganov played a role in the play One Absolutely Happy Village and a year later joined Pyotr Fomenko Studio Theater. In 2001, Yevgeny played a title role in the film Collector (2001) by Yuri Grymov, which was his first film role. His debut was very successful and soon the actor began to appear in various Russian films. He got a prize at the film festival Kinotavr (2002, for his role in the film Let’s Make Love). The movie Mermaid (2007), in which he played a major role, was selected as the Russian entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, but was not nominated.

Acting credits

Battle for Sevastopol poster
7.3

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

Battle for Sevastopol

2015

The Master and Margarita poster
6.8

A struggling writer in 1930s Soviet Moscow finds his life transformed when a mysterious professor arrives with his bizarre entourage, including a wisecracking trickster, a deadly assassin, a vampire maid, and a giant talking black cat, turning the city upside down while exposing the hypocrisy of those in power.

The Master and Margarita

2024

The Man who Laughs poster
NR

Dmitriy is a popular actor, a star of action films. The public loves him for his image of a macho with an impenetrable face. One day, Dmitriy receives an offer from a stern but very rich businessman from Siberia, Sergey, to star in a crime drama about the 90s in the lead role of a cold-blooded killer. Sergey offers Dmitriy's agent a fee 10 times higher than usual. They agree. During the filming, Dmitriy is accidentally wounded by a shot. After a simple operation, he is ready to return to the frame, but faces an unexpected side effect: now he constantly smiles, and any emotions are expressed with laughter. Dmitriy has no chance to stop filming and "upset" Sergey, who clearly knows firsthand what he is making a movie about.

The Man who Laughs

2026

Fortress of War poster
7.1

The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.

Fortress of War

2010

A Rough Draft poster
5.1

Young Muscovite Kirill is a talented designer of computer games. One day, he is completely erased from the memory of everyone he knew and loved. Kirill learns that he has been chosen for an important and mysterious mission: to become a customs officer between parallel worlds, of which there are dozens in the universe. Will Kirill unravel the mystery of these worlds and who controls them? And is our Earth really just an imaginary "draft" -- a parallel world -- which in reality does not exist ...

A Rough Draft

2018

Ailing Angel poster
6.0

Love is longer than life, memory is stronger than death.

Ailing Angel

2018

Piter FM poster
6.7

Masha, who works for a radio station, and Maxim, a street sweeper with an architectural degree, cross paths with each other when they are at an indecisive point in their lives.

Piter FM

2006

The Ninth poster
6.3

Petersburg at the end of the 19th century was embraced by a massive enthusiasm for the occult sciences and esotericism. British medium Olivia Reed arrives in the capital of the Russian Empire on tour and gathers crowds of people at her public spiritualistic sessions. At this time, a series of ritual mysterious murders takes place in the city. Girls are abducted on the streets, their mutilated bodies are found in various parts of the city. The investigation is carried out by a young police officer Rostov and his assistant Ganin. With each new victim, things are becoming more confused. Suspicion leads Rostov to Olivia, and he decides to turn to her in the hope that her genuine or imaginary ability to summon the spirits of the dead can help to get on the trail of the killer.

The Ninth

2019

About Love. Adults Only poster
5.5

The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.

About Love. Adults Only

2017

Not Like Dad 2: Granddad poster
6.4

On the verge of divorce, Max comes to his ex Irina's to pick up his son Dima for the autumn holidays, but then it turns out that the child has run away from home. The worried parents set off in search in the car of family psychologist/Irina's part-time boyfriend Vlad. Learning that Dima ran away to the village to Max's father, Bata, Max recalls, on the drive, how his parents, during their divorce, sent him to the village, about their life together, his first love and childhood friends.

Not Like Dad 2: Granddad

2025

The Blonde poster
NR

Ira is 27 years old. And from the point of view of her mother, the director of the school, Ira lives absolutely wrong: she plays in the troupe of a small theater, earns money by washing windows and is in love with an unreliable creative person Leo, an aspiring director. She ignores "normal" men and does not even want to dye her hair blonde, which, according to her mother, is an easy way to success in her personal life. This state of affairs could continue for a long time, but the theater is on the verge of closing, and Lev suddenly disappears.

The Blonde

2023

Noise of Time poster
NR

A biopic about Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich.

Noise of Time

2026

Happy Ending poster
3.6

The private part of a young man leaves the owner and starts his own adventure...

Happy Ending

2010

Brothel Lights poster
5.0

In the 1950s Odessa a charming woman is running an underground brothel. She's tired of the business hassles and is dreaming about having a family. Finally the destiny gives her a chance, but there's no way out.

Brothel Lights

2011

Scenes of Friendly Ties poster
6.5

One winter day and one night in the lives of thirty-year-old friends, former classmates. They must overcome everyday difficulties to meet and see off Sasha, who is leaving Moscow for an extended period.

Scenes of Friendly Ties

2026

The Land of OZ poster
6.0

In Yekaterinburg over the Christmas period, shop assistant Lenka Shabadinova experiences a number of incredible events and unexpected meetings.

The Land of OZ

2015

1993 poster
5.0

1993 - the story of one family suddenly turns out to be the history of the whole country. The relationship of painfully and inextricably linked husband and wife, emergency workers, and the growing up of their daughter against the backdrop of global change.

1993

2023

Stray poster
4.8

Igor is ready for anything for the sake of Polina’s happiness, and in order to compensate for the loss of her son, the couple opens up to a new child. But instead of an ordinary boy from a shelter, a mystical creature that can recreate the memories gets into their family ... There has not yet been found a recipe for centuries of suffering, but perhaps the key to salvation in selfless love for each other ... Open your heart! Let her in ...

Stray

2019

Luck poster
NR

Petr, a recently discharged officer, arrives in a tiny mining town in the remote Siberian taiga to hunt for gold. When he finds it, the other prospectors cannot forgive his luck.

Luck

2005

Reptile poster
NR

A 7-year-old boy named Tema notices ominous metamorphoses in his father: a man working at a chemical plant is gradually becoming a reptile, a transformation that is incompatible with life. The father wants to give his son a future outside the cursed city, but the boy's mother sees his life under the care of the family. After losing her daughter Olya, she is not ready to let her son go.

Reptile

2025

Star Pile poster
5.8

A parody film about space directed by members of NOM.

Star Pile

2012

Самая лёгкая лодка в мире poster
NR

A feature film based on the novella by Yuri Koval, recounting a whimsical and humorous journey aboard a homemade boat through the Vologda region. The picture consists of two parallel storylines. The first follows the adventures of the novella’s protagonist, whose absurd escapade unexpectedly transforms into a mystical experience amidst the rivers, marshes, and villages of the countryside. The second centers on a theatrical production based on Koval’s book — staged by a group of students — which reveals the backstory: how the book’s hero came to yearn to break free from Moscow and retreat far away from everyone — including his friends — deep into the heart of nature.

Самая лёгкая лодка в мире

2026

I'm Going to Change My Name poster
4.7

Based on the Armenian ‘Sharakan’, a nine-part song that brings us gradually closer to meaning, Maria Saakyan’s new film further develops the poetic invention apparent in her first feature, The Lighthouse. Focusing on the world of a 14-year-old girl, Evridika, who is experiencing the first extremes of adolescent emotion, it makes effective and imaginative use of her private world centred on internet chat rooms and mobile phone recordings.

I'm Going to Change My Name

2012

Семейное cчастье (Semeynoe schaste) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Семейное cчастье (Semeynoe schaste)

2025

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