
Acting
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Born — Died
1937-05-30 — 1999-08-22
Place of birth
Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Known for
Acting
Credits
72 titles
Aleksandr S. Demyanenko (May 30, 1937 – August 22, 1999) was a Russian film and theater actor. He was given the honorary distinction of People's Artist of the RSFSR. He began his acting career with the film "Veter" in 1958, and is well known for playing the character Shurik in a number of films, beginning with the 1965 comedy "Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures", and ending with the 1997 film "Old Songs of the Main Things 2".
Known for
7.6Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".
Fuse
1962
7.0No synopsis available yet.
To Remember
1993
8.5No synopsis available yet.
When Idols Were Gone
2005
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Legends of Cinema
2016
7.5The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
1965
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Open Book
1980
Film credits
1990s · 7 titles
5.4No synopsis available yet.
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
1997
The group of immigrants who depart to the United States, by chance finds itself in a deserted forest. Cut off from the civilized world, they begin to build their "own America".
Seven-Forty
1992
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Racket
1992
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Game for Millions
1991
5.5An unofficial sequel to the movie "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession". The events take place on New Year's Eve 1997-1998, 24 years after the events of the movie. According to the plot, the main characters (Shurik, Bunsha, Zina and Ulyana Andreyevna) are going to celebrate New Year's Eve, and the engineer Alexander Sergeyevich Timofeev (Shurik) decides to present his recreated (and modernized) time machine to the guests. Having gone to the XVI century, they find there an aged Georges Miloslavsky, who has been sitting as regent for 25 years instead of Ivan the Terrible, who has run away; the Tsar was so inspired by the profession of Zina and Yakin that he decided to try his hand at filmmaking and went to "Mosfilm" instead of the Tsar's chambers. In an effort to correct the disruption of the course of history, the heroes re-engage the time machine and travel back to the 1970s in search of the Tsar, who dreams of becoming an actor.
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
1998
6.0In an ordinary city prison the unbelievable happens: the wall of the building collapses. The management of the city and the prison is forced to urgently find new apartments for their wards, and they honorably get out of this difficult situation in a very original way - criminals are moved in with persistent non-payers for the apartment.
The Catalyst
1990
9.0What do the head of a secret file cabinet, students who don’t shy away from a glass, a police lieutenant colonel, and a prisoner’s wife have in common? All these people turn out to be the heroes of one story, which began with two friends who decided to earn extra money. In pursuit of a long ruble, they come to the Volkovo cemetery in St. Petersburg. As it turned out, this detective story began in the distant past, when we were all part of the same System, sacredly looking after its own interests and not leaving alone any of those who once touched the terrible secret. The lazy students don’t even suspect that they are already on the verge of death...
Ticket to Red Theater, or Death of Coffin-Digger
1992
1980s · 14 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
I Don't Want to Be Unhappy
1983
7.0Varvara and Pavel Zhdanov did not live long together. The war broke out and Pavel went to the front, and a hard, exhausting job at a metallurgical plant fell on the shoulders of a young woman...
Varvara's Day
1983
5.4He considered his family life perfect. Normal, and sometimes big wages quite satisfied a beautiful and gentle wife. The child didn't cause much trouble. All that was needed for his happiness was available. But the wife is gone. She left not to another, but left, so as not to be unhappy.
The Wife Has Left
1980
5.0After a high-school teacher gets hospitalized, her ex-husband is left in charge of their teenage daughter.
Tamara Aleksandrovna's Husband and Daughter
1988
NRThe test pilot of a new fighter gets into an accident and is disabled. The management assigns Evgeny Fetisov to conduct the final ten flights, and thus rejects his request for a long—awaited vacation.…
Three Percent of Danger
1985
NRIn the village of Timokhino, an explosion occurred due to the designers' oversights regarding the gas pipeline, resulting in fatalities, while the designers did not admit any guilt.
Echo of a Distant Explosion
1984
6.6Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes.
The Nightingale
1980
4.5Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a newborn baby. Vadim is forced to spend the rest of his day with Anna, helping her untangle herself from unpleasant, dramatic, and even tragic situations – and she and she alone is to blame for all of them. The baby, which Anna stole in order to make an impression on an estranged lover, is finally returned to its parents, but the problems that the theft caused remain.
Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...
1985
6.8Militia Colonel Kornilov is leading a complex investigation related to multiply carjackings.
Missing among the Living
1981
6.6A princess is born to the king and queen of a fairy-tale kingdom. The wicked witch, who resents not having been invited to the princess's birthday party, curses her: on the day the princess turns 16, she will be pricked by the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into eternal sleep. The king orders that all spinning wheels in the kingdom be destroyed and the number 16 be taken out of use. However, a young traveling prince arrives, bringing a curse with him.
Fairy-Tales of an Old Magician
1984
8.0In an ordinary Soviet apartment, where an ordinary Soviet family lives, suddenly ... the donkey breaks in. All attempts to expel the animal end in vain. Neither the police, nor the veterinary service, nor even the local hooligan can help. And only the ubiquitous film-goers, who needed an animal for filming a movie, manage to put the donkey out of the apartment.
Never Guessed and Didn't Expect
1982
NRVolodya Kuznetsov, a factory worker, entered the institute. Hoping to have more free time to study, he went to work as a master-mentor in a vocational school. Soon Volodya realizes how responsible and interesting his work is. He can no longer think of himself without his students.
When They Become Adults
1985
9.0About the initial period of the revolutionary activity of the Russian revolutionary Joseph Dubrovinsky (1877-1913, Innokenty is one of the underground nicknames of the Bolshevik), about the years of active propaganda work, a duel with the "king of the Okhrana" Zubatov, exile and the resumption of work underground.
Comrade Innokenti
1981
6.5It is 1920. After three years of the Russian Civil War, communist government is finally established in Odessa. Young Alyosha Patrikeyv, who dreams of being a detective like Sherlock Holmes, joins the newly forming Odessa Criminal Police. He is assigned to fight illegal booz production in a small village of Severinovka. When he goes on a chase after a horse thief Krasavchik, Alyosha finds himself up against Cherven - the most dangerous criminal in Odessa.
The Green Van
1983
1970s · 21 titles
7.9A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
1973
6.8King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
King Lear
1970
6.0A little girl is dreaming about what would happen if her dad would be her age...
The Adventures of a Little Dad
1979
6.4An omnibus of comical shorts.
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
1978
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Of Those I Remember And Cherish
1974
5.2A music teacher is trying to organize a choir in the school he works in.
A Teacher of Singing
1972
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Meeting at the End of Winter
1978
6.7A young heir of a big fortune Sergey Privalov is coming back to his native town after a long absence. Having visited his owned plants, he breaks out with the idea to rebuild the industrial processes, improve the life of workers, and build schools and hospitals. Though, his interests collide with the interests of local big wigs, to whom the existing situation suits perfectly
Privalov's Millions
1973
6.4Kolya Kasatkin, who saw in his wife Tanyusha the ideal of female charm, tenderness, kindness, who loved her to the point of oblivion, was at a loss before the idle conversations of well-wishers about his wife's betrayal. Having found his wife with the choir director, Nikolai demanded a divorce. Continuing to love each other, the former spouses are unhappy in separation. Kasatkin's new hasty marriage did not return his peace of mind. In daily agony, in the pursuit of a past life, he also lost his old dream — to live and work in the Far East, where he served in the army. Both realized too late that love does not forgive hasty decisions, that it must be able to keep and protect.
The Only One
1976
5.9Eisenstein gets in trouble for shooting a grouse. He is told that he must go to prison for his crime. However, his friend has invited him to an aristocratic ball. Eisenstein, despite being married, wants to go to the ball to meet women. Eisenstein lies to his wife. He tells her that he is going to prison but actually he goes to the ball. His story arises the suspicion of his wife. His wife devises a plot to catch her womanizing husband.
The Bat
1979
8.7A love story between a barber and a serf actress who find themselves in an environment that combines savagery with a veneer of enlightenment.
Drama from the Old Life
1971
6.3A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the time of the October Revolution. The age-old foundations are crumbling, the process of social stratification is underway and, as a result, some people go to defend the revolution, and others - to fight against it. The main hero is the young Cossack Roman Ulybin. At first, this carefree daredevil is preoccupied only with one problem: whether his sweetheart, Dashutka, is to marry him or a merchant’s son, Alyoshka. Roman is killing time fist-fighting with his rival. But little by little, the young man realizes that the world around him has changed, that people are fighting for equality and social justice, and, being a real Cossack, he can’t remain on the sidelines…
Dauria
1972
9.0A team of pop artists arrives in a small resort town and hopes to make money easily. But the guest performers are not given a provincial reception. Vacationing students of the theater university expose the hacks and declare a boycott against them...
The Last Days of Pompeii
1973
6.4The young Soviet biologist is forced to contend with ... agents of imperialist intelligence. But, as befits a Soviet citizen, he steadfastly fights against the machinations of the enemy and emerges victorious.
Castling in the Long Side
1970
5.2A funny musical comedy about an adventures of children and adults in a summer camp.
Breakfast on the Grass
1979
5.6A love story between a country policeman and a recently separated from her husband woman with three kids.
Hello and Goodbye
1972
NRAbout student riots in the West in 1968.
These Restless Students
1974
6.2The basis of the film story is the creation of a talented football team by a coach, its participation in a qualifying match, and preparation for the World Cup.
Eleven Hopes
1976
NRAbout the beginning of M. Gorky's literary activity. Arriving in the provincial town of Samara, Alexey Peshkov publishes one after another incriminating feuilletons under the pseudonym Yehudiel Chlamydia. Acquires enemies, friends, becomes a famous writer and leaves for Moscow.
The Incredible Yehudiel Chlamydia
1970
6.8After his wife left him for another man, Andrey unsuccessfully tried to found a new woman. Meanwhile, he found an orphan which was looking for his mother.
Crane in the Sky
1978
5.8No synopsis available yet.
These Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams
1977
1960s · 17 titles
7.5The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
1965
7.6Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
1967
6.0Svetlana, young pretty girl, works as a trolleybus driver in a small town and almost all her permanent passengers are at least a little bit in love with her.
The First Trolleybus
1963
5.2Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become his own man. He takes his fathers order and goes trough the woods to deliver the furs to the byer in the nearest town. He tries to take the shorter way and get`s lost. At the highest point of this, his fathers servant, Abdulla, who is sent with him to guard him almost shoots him driven by hunger, but comes to the senses and saves his life by continuing to go on.
Ugryum-River
1969
4.8Based on the story of the same name by Sergei Antonov. The young journalist of the central newspaper Sirotkin came to the Siberian timber industry to write an essay about the glorious driver Khromov. But soon Sirotkin’s inquiring mind calculated the trick of Khromov, who, noting one kilometer in the vouchers, traveled a short route he knew only, draining the remaining gasoline from the curbside. Having revealed yet another fraud, in which the director was also involved, Sirotkin realized that he would not write an essay, but that he would be lucky with materials for the trial. This was announced by the authorities of the timber industry. Khromov himself took the journalist on the return trip...
A Trip Without a Load
1963
7.0While Dresden is in ruins in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, over two thousand paintings by artists including Rembrandt, Raphael, Rubens, Giorgione, and Vermeer have disappeared from the city’s Old Masters Picture Gallery. Red Army captain Leonov and his soldiers are ordered to recover the lost paintings.
Five Days, Five Nights
1961
5.9Pregnant German woman is trapped behind Russian lines. When she goes into labor, three Soviet soldiers deliver her to a field hospital: a newly graduated officer, an affable truck driver, and a soldier shell-shocked into muteness. The dangerous trip to the hospital ends up a rite of passage for all concerned.
Peace to Him Who Enters
1961
10.0Young musicologist Marina Gabrielyan arrives in Leningrad with the aim of finding and restoring the first symphony by renowned composer Sergei Kornilov. Despite the composer's active resistance, she manages to find individual parts of the symphony and, with the help of young composer Gurov, restore the music.
Returned Music
1965
6.6Anatoli Kuzmich retired and received a separate apartment in a new house. He and his wife are happy and make bright plans for the future: how they will go to theaters, museums, read their favorite books. But their daughter Lyusya suddenly gets married. Not wanting to part with her, Korolyovs persuade the young spouses to live with them in a new apartment. Soon a child is born, and gradually life together becomes unbearable.
Grown-Up Children
1961
5.0A group of high school students, after all the lies on April 1st, decide to do a Day of Truth on April 3rd.
Tomorrow, on April 3rd...
1969
6.9During WWII a troop train is stuck at a small railway station. A young lieutenant gets close to a local girl, then the war separates them. Twenty years later he happens to arrive at the same station and finds out that she'd waited for him for many years.
Don't Forget... Lugovaya Station
1966
5.8A young detective is trying to find a hiding Nazi collaborationist who is responsible for deaths of a hundreds of people during WWII.
State Offender
1964
7.5Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes.
Obsession
1965
NRSoviet specialists are building a hydroelectric power station in a Middle Eastern country. To continue the work, it is necessary to carry out an explosion... But no one even suspects that an old German ammunition depot is hidden nearby, underground. An accidental explosion would suit the British company that lost the order to the Russians. Weber, Greerson, and Gedda are faced with a problem: they need to warn the Russians about the danger. Each of them has had encounters with Soviet people in their lives...
Only the Statues Are Silent
1962
6.6Volkhov Front in 1942. The young political instructor of the counter-propaganda department of the headquarters of the division Rusanov is torn to the forefront. Together with an experienced warrior — captain Shaternikov — the hero gets to the forefront and transmits from the sound transmission programs addressed to German soldiers. And in the hours of calm passes several kilometers in order to see Katya, the signal woman of a neighboring sector of the front.
While Defending the Front Line
1965
9.0No synopsis available yet.
War Under the Roofs
1967
5.4A traveling musician falls in love with a princess who is betrothed to a dictator planning to defeat his enemies with the help of an exploding mutant mosquito.
Cain the XVIII-th
1963
Series credits
7.6Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".
Fuse
1962
7.0No synopsis available yet.
To Remember
1993
8.5No synopsis available yet.
When Idols Were Gone
2005
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Legends of Cinema
2016
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Open Book
1980
5.0The film follows the fate of the Strogov peasant family. The story takes place in Western Siberia in the late 1940s.
The Salt of the Earth
1979
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Old Songs about the Main Thing
1995
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Racket
1995
6.4Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become his own man. He takes his fathers order and goes trough the woods to deliver the furs to the byer in the nearest town. He tries to take the shorter way and get`s lost. At the highest point of this, his fathers servant, Abdulla, who is sent with him to guard him almost shoots him driven by hunger, but comes to the senses and saves his life by continuing to go on.
Ugryum-River
1969
NRA princess is born to the king and queen of a fairy-tale kingdom. The wicked witch, who resents not having been invited to the princess's birthday party, curses her: on the day the princess turns 16, she will be pricked by the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into eternal sleep. The king orders that all spinning wheels in the kingdom be destroyed and the number 16 be taken out of use. However, a young traveling prince arrives, bringing a curse with him.
The Tales of the Old Wizard
1985
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The White Robes
1992
7.5Post-revolutionary Odessa. A high school boy dreaming of a career as Sherlock Holmes joins the law enforcement agencies and quickly matures, encountering the brutal cynicism of criminals and examples of courage and self-sacrifice from his comrades.
The Green Van
1983

