Sergei Yursky

Acting

Sergei Yursky

Born — Died

1935-03-16 — 2019-02-08

Place of birth

Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

86 titles

Sergei Yurievich Yursky was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, author and playwright.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

1990s · 7 titles

Secrets Shared with a Stranger poster
3.2

In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond.

Secrets Shared with a Stranger

1996

Zadoc and Happiness poster
7.0

Small, hunchbacked and unlucky, Zadoc dreams of finding love. Chased from his village, he is propelled towards the unknown.

Zadoc and Happiness

1995

Foma Opiskin poster
NR

A young man arrives in a village to visit his uncle, a retired colonel, and finds the local community "enslaved" by a man who, according to him, "will remain in history." The situation develops into a tragicomedy and takes on elements of phantasmagoria.

Foma Opiskin

1999

The Psychic poster
3.0

Due to a brain injury received in a street fight, Gera Romanov begins to fall into parallel worlds, where he dies painfully every time.

The Psychic

1991

Interpretation of Dreams poster
7.0

Using extensive quotes from several Freudian works still banned by the Soviet censorship at the time, the film interprets the pivotal points of European history of the past century from a psychoanalytical point of view.

Interpretation of Dreams

1990

A Gun with silencer poster
7.0

From the American psychiatric hospital run by two maniac, confident that he was a spy, and a transsexual. Very soon they will want to return to their native madhouse — but it will be too late. Because the third psycho sent them on a secret mission to Russia. Yes, even in a balloon.

A Gun with silencer

1993

Ooh, Train Robbery poster
5.0

A high-crime investigator goes to the scene where corruption and crime have taken on new and sophisticated forms in the mountainous southern region of the country. Under the guise of a random train robbery, individual cars loaded with waste from metallurgical production - and essentially enriched gold ore - are stolen. The kidnappers have all the means at their disposal. They mercilessly kill those who try to stop them from stealing tons of gold...

Ooh, Train Robbery

1991

1980s · 22 titles

Love and Pigeons poster
7.6

In a remote Siberian village, a work injury sends Vasily Kuziakin on a paid trip to a Black Sea resort as compensation. There, he meets femme fatale Raisa Zaharovna and decides to stay with her. Such is the beginning of a new life for him, exciting and strange, but lacking his home, his wife and children, and his pigeons.

Love and Pigeons

1984

Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You poster
6.8

In early 20th-century Azerbaijan, two circus artists travel to a village where one of them was born, unaware of the danger and adventure that await them.

Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You

1981

The Lonely Businessman's Big Score poster
7.5

A movie about a little man - a little funny and a little sad - a Latino businessman, owner of a loss-making shop. And about a big moral problem. A child has fallen down a deep well. He's alive, but it's almost impossible to get him out. What is more dignified: to honestly say that the child is alive but already dead or to repeat for everyone the mantra "he will certainly be rescued now"? And how to live on, if in the heat of an argument, bet on "will not be saved".

The Lonely Businessman's Big Score

1984

This Fantastic World 13 poster
9.5

The consequences of a nuclear war are destruction, hunger. The surviving people have even lost the memory of their former civilization. At the center of the play is the Old Man, the only person who remembers the past, because without the past humanity cannot have a future...

This Fantastic World 13

1987

Doctor Aybolit poster
6.5

A funny comedy about doctor Aybolit and his assistants and patients - all animals.

Doctor Aybolit

1986

The End of Eternity poster
5.9

Directed by Andrei Yermash, and written by Isaac Asimov, Budimir Metalnikov, and Andrei Yermash, «Konets vechnosti» is a 1987 Science Fiction film, starring Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergei Yursky, Gediminas Girdvainis and Boris Ivanov.

The End of Eternity

1987

The Story of One Billiard-Room poster
8.0

The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society.

The Story of One Billiard-Room

1988

Autumn poster
8.0

The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.

Autumn

1982

The Fall of Condor poster
8.0

A military dictator in a fictional country, modeled on early-1970s Chile, has risen from butcher to junta leader but now, isolated and distrustful, confides only in his guard Manuel. Manuel, who once shared the dictator’s humble origins, betrays him without hesitation when a popular uprising topples the regime and personally kills him.

The Fall of Condor

1982

Uncle's Dream poster
7.0

Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary.

Uncle's Dream

1981

The Road to One's Self poster
7.2

After coming into conflict with the administration of his research institute, engineer Krylov files his resignation and starts working as a stuntman.

The Road to One's Self

1986

The Theater of I.S. Turgenev poster
NR

On the uniqueness and significance of I.S. Turgenev's theater, and the connection between his dramaturgy and prose.

The Theater of I.S. Turgenev

1986

Dragon's Cave poster
NR

A parable about an evil dragon who has captured the “magic light”, without which people are forced to live in darkness. Mother Earth gives birth to three sons-heroes, who one by one set out to bring light to people. But the insidious dragon exposes the heroes to temptations, from which they themselves turn into monsters...

Dragon's Cave

1982

Али-Баба и сорок разбойников poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Али-Баба и сорок разбойников

1983

The Painting poster
NR

An engineer's hotel stay is interrupted by a visit from a stranger.

The Painting

1989

Fairy-Tales of an Old Magician poster
6.6

A 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

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves poster
5.8

A cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

1983

With You I Am Again... poster
6.0

The second part of a trilogy of films based on Pushkin's drawings, poems and letters.

With You I Am Again...

1980

To Live, to Think, to Feel, to Love... poster
NR

About the work of Georgy Alexandrovich Tovstonogov — People's Artist of the USSR, professor, laureate of the State and Lenin Prizes, and chief director of the Maxim Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater.

To Live, to Think, to Feel, to Love...

1988

About Sidorov Vova poster
6.8

A screen adaptation of the satirical poem by Eduard Uspensky. Vova Sidorov is the only child in a big family, growing up without a father. Everything he cherished, but a summons from the recruitment office turns everything on its head!

About Sidorov Vova

1985

Monsieur Lenoir, Who... poster
NR

After Monsieur Lenoir commits a terrible crime, his family members gather together to discuss their damage control options.

Monsieur Lenoir, Who...

1984

Plyukh and Plikh poster
NR

Two ordinary boys, brothers Paul and Peter, rescue two little dogs from the evil Kaspar Schlich.

Plyukh and Plikh

1984

1970s · 9 titles

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed poster
8.1

Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand.

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

1979

One Fine Day poster
8.5

A film almanac consisting of two short stories, united by a common idea of the need to maintain harmony between private and public interests: “Suite” and “One Fine Day”. The hero of the story ”Suite" is a lifeguard on the shore. The events taking place at sea do not bother him at all. To the music of Bizet, he dreams of Carmen, her exploits, valor and strong love... The hero of the short story “One Fine Day”, a promising researcher, one morning saw a spaceship from his balcony. Do this a little restlessly to his mother-in-law, neighbors, acquaintances, boss and, finally, to a psychiatrist...

One Fine Day

1977

The Darvish Detonates Paris poster
5.4

A famous botanist, Monsieur Jordan is a guest in Garabagh to Hatamkhan Agha. Hatamkhan Agha's nephew wants to go to France with Jordan in order to study. His family and lover try to discourage him and consult to Darvish Mastali Shah. Mastali Shah decides to use magic and explode Paris.

The Darvish Detonates Paris

1976

King Stag poster
5.5

A story of court intrigues, love, and betrayal. A vain king is turned into a stag and only true love can save him

King Stag

1970

The Broken Horseshoe poster
7.5

French aeronaut Jules Ardan, traveling in a hot air balloon, accidentally finds himself in Reval. Here he meets Dr. Peterson and his daughter Leida. The gendarmes are hunting for Leida's fiance. The banker's son is being murdered in the city. Suspicion falls on Peterson. Jules Ardan takes over the investigation of the crime.

The Broken Horseshoe

1973

Choice of Purpose poster
8.0

A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons.

Choice of Purpose

1975

A Country House for One Family poster
7.5

On the seashore, the mother and father decided to build a country house where their three sons, daughter, daughters-in-law and grandchildren could gather together. But neither the sons nor the daughter can find time to visit and help their parents. Only the eldest son understands his father and mother...

A Country House for One Family

1978

The Lion Ran Away from the House poster
5.5

A musical fairy tale about a lion who got bored living in the zoo and goes wandering around the city of Baku, where he met and became friends with a boy Rustam.

The Lion Ran Away from the House

1977

Rasmus and the Tramp poster
5.2

The film takes place in Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century. Rasmus is a boy who lives in a shelter. Unwilling to stay in the orphanage, he escapes and joins a tramp nicknamed Oscar Tumbleweed.

Rasmus and the Tramp

1979

1960s · 12 titles

Time, Forward! poster
5.3

The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...

Time, Forward!

1965

Intervention poster
5.7

The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka.

Intervention

1968

Crazy Money poster
NR

A television adaptation of Alexander Ostrovsky's play "Crazy Money," directed by Alexander Belinsky, the most prolific director of Leningrad television.

Crazy Money

1968

Koriolan poster
6.0

The noble patrician Gaius Marcius became famous for his military exploits and victories over the enemies of the Romans, the Volscians. However, his hatred of the plebeians and thirst for power led to Coriolanus being condemned to eternal exile from Rome. Then he decided to betray his homeland and take command of the Volscian army.

Koriolan

1968

The Golden Calf poster
8.0

A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.

The Golden Calf

1968

Don Quixote Takes Up the Fight poster
NR

Realizing that his quest for knowledge is quixotic, a Russian polar explorer prepares for a doomed expedition to the Arctic. A live performance for Leningrad Television.

Don Quixote Takes Up the Fight

1968

A Long Cat Tale poster
NR

In this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard.

A Long Cat Tale

1965

The Republic of ShKID poster
6.7

The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.

The Republic of ShKID

1966

Black Gull poster
NR

A young boy in Cuba finds himself in mortal peril as his fishing village gets infiltrated by malign forces.

Black Gull

1962

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets poster
NR

A television adaptation of a short comedy of the same name by George Bernard Shaw.

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

1966

Noah's Ark poster
NR

Based on the play of the same name by Isidor Shtok. The author described this work as a prehistoric documentary drama, while audiences recognized it as a comedy. Isidor Shtok wrote Noah’s Ark as a continuation of his Divine Comedy. This production preserves a good-natured tone, which at times shifts into satire through numerous parallels with contemporary life.

Noah's Ark

1967

The Premiere is Tonight poster
NR

A documentary on the staging of Georgi Tovstonogov's acclaimed production of The Three Sisters at the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater, from the first table read to the opening night.

The Premiere is Tonight

1965

Series credits

To Remember poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

To Remember

1993

The School for Scandal poster
5.8

A talk show

The School for Scandal

2002

Evening Urgant poster
7.0

Evening show Ivan Urgant. Movies, sports, new gadgets, art. What is happening in the country and in the world? Actual characters discussing the day's events and new music.

Evening Urgant

2012

Hello, Andrey! poster
NR

Guests are invited to the studio to have conversations with Andrey Malakhov, where they talk about their personal and professional successes, as well as anything else that interests them. Through these open discussions on air, viewers get a complete impression of the guest's life and their perspective on various issues.

Hello, Andrey!

2017

Chekhov and Co. poster
NR

Thirty short stories based on thirty stories by Chekhov.

Chekhov and Co.

1998

Chekhov and Co. poster
NR

Thirty short stories based on thirty stories by Chekhov.

Chekhov and Co.

1998

Queen Margot poster
5.9

XVI century. In France, there is a fierce struggle between Catholics and Huguenots. The reign of the Valois dynasty is nearing its end. Conspiracies, the elimination of rivals, the creation of secret and explicit coalitions are part of the daily life of the royal family and close associates. Love stories are woven into the canvas of palace intrigues that will affect the history of the world.

Queen Margot

1996

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed poster
8.2

After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to track down a gang "Chernaya Koshka" (Black Cat) which terrorizes the city. Also, they have to find out who murdered Larisa Gruzdeva. Zheglov believes it was her husband Ivan Gruzdev, but Sharapov has his doubts about it...

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

1979

The Mystery of Edwin Drood poster
6.0

Edwin and Miss Rosa were engaged since childhood. While nothing foreshadows the impending tragedy, the lovers are carefree, the inhabitants of a small English town watch their romance. Edwin Drood and Ne, who arrived from Ceylon, did not help their rivals in the region because of Rosa's mission. Edwin and Rosa decide to remain only friends. However, the conflict with Neville becomes more acute. The rivals go to the lake shore for a decisive conversation. After that, Edwin disappears without a trace. The trail of Edwin disappears, and the suspect in his murder is Neville. Released from prison for lack of a straight street, he leaves the city. Edwin's guardian Jasper continues his independent search for the killers. At the moment, a "lonely bachelor living on his own means" comes to town. He also conducts his own investigation. The investigation of Jasper and the mysterious stranger is coming to an end, but...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

1980

Little Tragedies poster
6.0

Based on Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" ("The Miserly Knight", "Mozart and Salieri", "The Stone Guest", "A Feast in the Time of Plague").

Little Tragedies

1980

Fathers and Sons poster
NR

In 19th-century Russia, two young men start to question their worldview after it gets challenged by people from the older generation.

Fathers and Sons

2008

The Tales of the Old Wizard poster
NR

A 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

Look for a Woman poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Look for a Woman

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Пятый ангел

2003

Comrade Stalin poster
NR

The last months of Stalin's life.

Comrade Stalin

2011

Behind the camera

Regarding the Bald Singer... poster
NR

Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.

Regarding the Bald Singer...

2009

Regarding the Bald Singer... poster
NR

Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.

Regarding the Bald Singer...

2009

The Gamblers: XXI poster
NR

A filmed version of Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers", transposed into modern-day Russia and performed by an all-star cast.

The Gamblers: XXI

1992

The Gamblers: XXI poster
NR

A filmed version of Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers", transposed into modern-day Russia and performed by an all-star cast.

The Gamblers: XXI

1992

Chernov/Chernov poster
6.5

The strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real day in the life of the real Moscow architect Alexander Petrovich Chernov, his mental crisis; and the other is Chernov’s fiction. There is a different fate, a different country, a different life. It is into this very life that Chernov strives to get into - and for the sake of a trip to Spain he will have to commit betrayal. There, for a moment, the doubles will be nearby and both will be on the verge of death. Who will die in the spring of 1978?

Chernov/Chernov

1990

Chernov/Chernov poster
6.5

The strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real day in the life of the real Moscow architect Alexander Petrovich Chernov, his mental crisis; and the other is Chernov’s fiction. There is a different fate, a different country, a different life. It is into this very life that Chernov strives to get into - and for the sake of a trip to Spain he will have to commit betrayal. There, for a moment, the doubles will be nearby and both will be on the verge of death. Who will die in the spring of 1978?

Chernov/Chernov

1990

The Chairs poster
NR

A television version of the award-winning stage adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's tragic farce, mounted in 1994 for Moscow's School of Contemporary Plays Theatre and revived for television in 2009.

The Chairs

2010

Fiesta poster
NR

A stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", first staged for Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater and later reworked for Leningrad Television.

Fiesta

1971

Fiesta poster
NR

A stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", first staged for Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater and later reworked for Leningrad Television.

Fiesta

1971

Eugene Onegin poster
NR

The first and second chapters of "Eugene Onegin" performed by Sergei Yursky, filmed live for Leningrad Television.

Eugene Onegin

1967

Count Nulin poster
NR

A live reading of Alexander Pushkin's humorous poem for Leningrad Television.

Count Nulin

1965