
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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
To Remember
1993
5.8A talk show
The School for Scandal
2002
7.0Evening 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
NRGuests 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
NRThirty short stories based on thirty stories by Chekhov.
Chekhov and Co.
1998
5.9XVI 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
Film credits
2020s · 1 titles
2010s · 4 titles
6.0The film tells the story of a member of the Polish underground who acted as a courier during World War II and whose most prominent mission was to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust.
Karski & The Lords of Humanity
2015
5.5The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernatural powers she got from the devil, Woland, who is visiting Moscow.
The Master and Margarita
2011
NRFive stories depicting five different kinds of love, from childhood to old age.
Handmade Clouds
2015
No synopsis available yet.
Геннадий Хазанов. Лицо под маской
2018
2000s · 5 titles
4.5Sashka is a normal boy from a small provincial of Koshkin whose dream is to become special. One day he notices that everyone around him have started to behave strangely. As he finds out that he is the "special" one not affected by Uncle Tolik's mind control device, he realizes that only he can stop the evil from happening.
Special
2006
6.3A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
A Room and a Half
2009
No synopsis available yet.
Георгий Жжёнов. Агент надежды
2009
NRFree variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.
Regarding the Bald Singer...
2009
7.0A documentary-fiction hybrid film based on the works of Joseph Brodsky.
A Cat and a Half
2003
1990s · 7 titles
3.2In 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
7.0Small, hunchbacked and unlucky, Zadoc dreams of finding love. Chased from his village, he is propelled towards the unknown.
Zadoc and Happiness
1995
NRA 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
3.0Due 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
7.0Using 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
7.0From 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
5.0A 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
7.6In 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
6.8In 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
7.5A 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
9.5The 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
6.5A funny comedy about doctor Aybolit and his assistants and patients - all animals.
Doctor Aybolit
1986
5.9Directed 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
8.0The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society.
The Story of One Billiard-Room
1988
8.0The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.
Autumn
1982
8.0A 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
7.0Energized 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
7.2After 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
NROn 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
NRA 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Али-Баба и сорок разбойников
1983
NRAn engineer's hotel stay is interrupted by a visit from a stranger.
The Painting
1989
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
5.8A cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1983
6.0The second part of a trilogy of films based on Pushkin's drawings, poems and letters.
With You I Am Again...
1980
NRAbout 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
6.8A 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
NRAfter Monsieur Lenoir commits a terrible crime, his family members gather together to discuss their damage control options.
Monsieur Lenoir, Who...
1984
NRTwo ordinary boys, brothers Paul and Peter, rescue two little dogs from the evil Kaspar Schlich.
Plyukh and Plikh
1984
1970s · 9 titles
8.1Summer 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
8.5A 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
5.4A 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
5.5A 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
7.5French 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
8.0A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons.
Choice of Purpose
1975
7.5On 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
5.5A 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
5.2The 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
5.3The 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
5.7The 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
NRA television adaptation of Alexander Ostrovsky's play "Crazy Money," directed by Alexander Belinsky, the most prolific director of Leningrad television.
Crazy Money
1968
6.0The 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
8.0A 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
NRRealizing 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
NRIn 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
6.7The 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
NRA young boy in Cuba finds himself in mortal peril as his fishing village gets infiltrated by malign forces.
Black Gull
1962
NRA television adaptation of a short comedy of the same name by George Bernard Shaw.
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
1966
NRBased 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
NRA 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
To Remember
1993
5.8A talk show
The School for Scandal
2002
7.0Evening 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
NRGuests 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
NRThirty short stories based on thirty stories by Chekhov.
Chekhov and Co.
1998
NRThirty short stories based on thirty stories by Chekhov.
Chekhov and Co.
1998
5.9XVI 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
8.2After 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
6.0Edwin 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
6.0Based on Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" ("The Miserly Knight", "Mozart and Salieri", "The Stone Guest", "A Feast in the Time of Plague").
Little Tragedies
1980
NRIn 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
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.
Look for a Woman
1983
No synopsis available yet.
Пятый ангел
2003
NRThe last months of Stalin's life.
Comrade Stalin
2011
Behind the camera
NRFree variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.
Regarding the Bald Singer...
2009
NRFree variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.
Regarding the Bald Singer...
2009
NRA filmed version of Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers", transposed into modern-day Russia and performed by an all-star cast.
The Gamblers: XXI
1992
NRA filmed version of Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers", transposed into modern-day Russia and performed by an all-star cast.
The Gamblers: XXI
1992
6.5The 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
6.5The 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
NRA 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
NRA 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
NRA 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
NRThe first and second chapters of "Eugene Onegin" performed by Sergei Yursky, filmed live for Leningrad Television.
Eugene Onegin
1967
NRA live reading of Alexander Pushkin's humorous poem for Leningrad Television.
Count Nulin
1965
