Aleksey Vanin

Acting

Aleksey Vanin

Born 1925-01-09 · Blagoveshchensk, Altai Kray, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Acting credits

Father and Son poster
10.0

During the formative years of Soviet power, the first commune was organized in a remote Siberian village. The task of the counter-revolutionaries becomes its destruction…

Father and Son

1980

The Outskirts poster
6.4

The hero is an ordinary farmer, Philip Safronov, whose peaceful life is aggressively interrupted when his land is appropriated by a mysterious group to exploit its oil resources.

The Outskirts

1998

The Extra Arrives on the Second Path poster
6.0

In the vestibule of one of the train cars Moscow-Dushanbe found the corpse of the passenger. Two random travelers - police officers Denisov and Kurbanov - have to conduct their investigation in very difficult conditions...

The Extra Arrives on the Second Path

1986

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin poster
6.7

As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II, mystic Grigori Rasputin holds great influence over the empire. However, many in St Petersburg begin to regard Rasputin, with his strange practices and mesmerizing qualities, as a liability and plot his assassination. When Rasputin, known to many as the 'Mad Monk', leads Nicholas to embrace an ill-conceived military strategy, a group of determined conspirators set down a plan to eliminate him.

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

1981

I'm Alone poster
7.5

Bandits kill Sergei in front of his wife and son. The son of the murdered man loses the power of speech. Nadezhda, Sergei's wife, is also unable to bear the blow. The murder of her husband literally stands before her eyes day and night. The militia, as it seems to Nadezhda, acts slowly and ineffectively and she passes the sentence herself and decides to execute it...

I'm Alone

1993

Childhood Holidays poster
7.0

The film is based on the early autobiographical stories of Vasily Makarovich Shukshin. A bright, emotionally rich movie about the childhood of a boy from a distant Altai village, about his family — his sister and mother, about work, holidays, joys and troubles of ordinary Russian peasants during the Great Patriotic War...

Childhood Holidays

1981

Afonya poster
7.7

Afonya Borshev is a plumber who drinks a lot, flirts a lot and doesn't care too much about tomorrow. His wife left him, his boss placed him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. When Afonya met Katya at a dance club he didn't pay her much attention, yet she may be the only one who can help him.

Afonya

1975

Gentlemen of Fortune poster
7.8

Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to the thief to infiltrate his gang and learn the location of the stolen artifact. He finds the gangsters are unexpectedly similar to his students- they also need love and care.

Gentlemen of Fortune

1971

Fan poster
6.9

Malysh (Kid), a karate fan in late Soviets, tries hard to beat his way to the top.

Fan

1989

Let's Talk, Brother... poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Let's Talk, Brother...

1979

They Fought for Their Motherland poster
7.0

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

They Fought for Their Motherland

1975

Our Calling poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Our Calling

1984

Where Are You, Bagira? poster
3.5

A family movie about a friendship between girl and dog.

Where Are You, Bagira?

1977

See Our People! poster
8.0

In 1904, the Kazakh wrestler Hajja Mukan, inspired by the successes of the Russian hero Ivan Poddubny, the world champion in French wrestling, decided to perform on the big stage.

See Our People!

1985

Ending Summer Bells poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ending Summer Bells

1979

Call Me from Afar poster
6.2

Grusha's husband has left her and she is now a single parent to her adolescent son Vitya. Her brother Nikolay is determined to hook her up with his friend Vladimir. For Grusha and Vladimir to have privacy to build up their relationship, Nikolay decides his nephew Vitya needs to stay out of the way, so he urges Vitya to come live with his family for a while. However, Grusha's not so sure about the arrangement.

Call Me from Afar

1978

Through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles poster
NR

Two friends, Dimka and Mishka, decide to send a bottle letter.

Through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles

1982

Tryn-grass poster
9.0

The love story of combine harvester Stepan Kalashnikov to his own wife Lydia. A student who has come to practice suddenly intervenes in the relationship of the characters and complicates their already difficult family life...

Tryn-grass

1976

This is Moscow Speaking poster
6.0

A poignant love story against the backdrop of the Great Patriotic War.

This is Moscow Speaking

1986

The Shield and the Sword poster
NR

The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East. The Russian military command suspects hostile intent from Germany and so arranges for its spies to infiltrate ranks of the German military and the SS. Alexander Belov is a Russian spy, who travels from Soviet-held Latvia to Nazi Germany under an alias of Johann Weiss. His mastery of the German language, steel nerves and an ability to manipulate others help him to use his connections in the SS to ascend the ladder of the German intelligence. He uses his position to identify sympathetic Germans, who help him to procure vital intelligence, and to help local resistance movements in their collective fight against Nazism.

The Shield and the Sword

1968

Coming of the Moon poster
8.0

Due to bad weather, gymnast Katya Prokhorova, going to international competitions, ends up in her hometown of Razlelsk and, arriving at the school where she once studied, meets a young singing teacher and falls in love with him. A few days later she leaves, and upon returning from the competition, she confesses to him that she has fallen in love with someone else. Time passes. The singing teacher becomes a famous composer, but does not stop loving and waiting for Katya...

Coming of the Moon

1988

Back to Life poster
8.3

Everything is behind him: fleeing from Nazi-occupied Estonia to Germany, searching for work in foreign cities, and his own crimes.... Everything is realized and decided - it is necessary to return. But when he returned, he found neither home nor relatives. His father's friend, the leader of a gang of nationalists, told him about his difficult past. Joining his gang, the hero decides to take revenge ...

Back to Life

1972

Two Shores poster
8.0

Having fallen in love while still at school, they got married and now have a happy and prosperous family with a young son. One day, Stepan witnesses a robbery. Among the hooligans is a girl who tries to stop them. After subduing the men, he frees her. From then on, this unexpected love becomes a torment for him, his wife Natalia, and his young son Vasya, who tries to protect his mother from misfortune.

Two Shores

1987

The Red Snowball Tree poster
7.1

A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.

The Red Snowball Tree

1974