Aleksandr Demyanenko

Acting

Aleksandr Demyanenko

Born 1937-05-30 · Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR

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".

Acting credits

Grown-Up Children poster
6.6

Anatoli 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

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures poster
7.5

The 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

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style poster
7.6

Shurik, 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

Not a Word about Football poster
7.0

Thirteen year old Slavik has always wanted to play football, but in order to play on the children's team he lies and pretends to be 12 years old. When they win, his life could not be better. But when his little sister finds out what he's done and threatens to send a letter to the losing team, his deception is revealed.

Not a Word about Football

1973

In the Enemy's Den poster
6.4

Russia, 1919. A young soldier of the First Cavalry Army, Aleksei Mikhalyov, is sent to work in the provincial Cheka. Here in the south of the country there is a large White Guard underground led by the elusive Markov. Aleksei gets into the gang, where he is mistaken for his own. The day of the operation to eliminate the white underground is appointed. But unforeseen circumstances destroy the plans of the Chekists.

In the Enemy's Den

1964

Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique... poster
4.5

Vadim, 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

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession poster
7.9

A 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

The Wind poster
7.5

Filmed in the context of the fortieth anniversary of the creation of the Komsomols, the League of Young Communists, tells the story of three youth delegates from the League in 1918, who must make the dangerous journey to Moscow during the civil war to participate in League’s congress.

The Wind

1959

Mission in Kabul poster
NR

On the formation of young Soviet diplomacy and the struggle of the mission in Kabul with the internal reaction and representatives of the Western powers for the signing of the Cooperation Agreement. A Russian diplomatic mission was sent to Kabul. The friendly relations between Afghanistan and the young Soviet republic became a real threat to traditional British rule in the East.

Mission in Kabul

1971

Emperor's Steps poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Emperor's Steps

1991

No artwork available
10.0

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

The First Trolleybus poster
6.0

Svetlana, 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

Racket poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Racket

1992

Ugryum-River poster
5.3

Story 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

A Trip to the Caucasus Mountains poster
NR

The story of six-year-old Bobka, a kind and cheerful man who lives in Leningrad and desperately dreams of unexpectedly visiting his dad, who serves in the distant Caucasus Mountains. This is his most cherished dream, and it will certainly come true, but only after some adventures that are quite normal for this tomboy.

A Trip to the Caucasus Mountains

1982

When They Become Adults poster
NR

Volodya 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

Pages From The Autobiography poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pages From The Autobiography

1968

Peace to Him Who Enters poster
5.9

Pregnant 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

Meeting at the End of Winter poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Meeting at the End of Winter

1978

Game for Millions poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Game for Millions

1991

No artwork available
7.0

On the eve of 1917 in Turkestan, the son of a Tajik landowner, Kamol Abdullaev, is preparing to marry the daughter of a Russian general, Olga Poddubtseva…

My Love Is Revolution

1982

The Year of the Active Sun poster
6.5

The plot is based on the fate of Vera Sergeyevna Kolosova, the deputy chairman of the city executive committee.

The Year of the Active Sun

1982

The Adventures of a Little Dad poster
6.0

A little girl is dreaming about what would happen if her dad would be her age...

The Adventures of a Little Dad

1979

Tomorrow, on April 3rd... poster
5.0

A 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