Yuri Medvedev

Acting

Yuri Medvedev

Born — Died

1920-04-01 — 1991-07-19

Place of birth

Mytishchi, Moskovskaya guberniya, Soviet Russia

Known for

Acting

Credits

70 titles

Known for

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil 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

Yeralash poster
6.6

The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.

Yeralash

1974

Приключения Петрова и Васечкина poster
9.0

The story revolves around two young schoolboy pioneers, Petya Vasechkin and Vasya Petrov, as they navigate their attempts at self-discovery and their shared affection for their friend, Masha Startseva.

Приключения Петрова и Васечкина

1984

The Adjutant of His Excellency poster
7.7

Yuri Solomin in the military-adventure film about the fate of red scout Koltsov, who in 1919 was sent with the special sssignments into Denikin's army headquarters, where he became adjutant of the commander. The film not only tells about the operations brilliantly conducted by Koltsov, but also reveals the complex inner world of characters who lived in the controversial and tragic time.

The Adjutant of His Excellency

1970

Past and Thoughts poster
NR

Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.

Past and Thoughts

1972

Moscow-Cassiopeia poster
6.4

Several children go on a lifelong space mission to Cassiopeia because they don't want to go to school.

Moscow-Cassiopeia

1974

Film credits

1980s · 18 titles

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines poster
7.1

Mr. Johnny First goes to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph, and the lives of everyone in the frontier town of Santa Carolina change as a result of this.

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines

1987

Along Unknown Paths poster
7.1

Going to vacation at his grandmother’s in a village, the boy Mitya could never imagine that he would become a participant of the extraordinary adventures in a fairy-tale land.

Along Unknown Paths

1982

Zudov, You're Fired! poster
8.0

About rural projectionist Nikita Zudov, a passionate film lover who makes amateur films that expose and ridicule bureaucrats, parasites and bribe-takers.

Zudov, You're Fired!

1984

Treasure poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Treasure

1985

One Hundred and First poster
9.0

A story of young serving in the Soviet Army boy and his adventures during WWII.

One Hundred and First

1982

Heart Is Not a Stone poster
7.5

According to the play of the same name of A. N. Ostrovsky. The merchants already possess the big equities. Money "runs the show". The world of feelings and hearts is degraded.

Heart Is Not a Stone

1989

Speak... poster
NR

The action takes place in the early 1950s. The endless meetings of the rural district party committee occupy almost all of the simple collective farmers' time, preventing them from working and solving their everyday problems...

Speak...

1987

In a Busy Place poster
NR

In a bustling location, Vukol Ermolayevich Bessudny set up his inn: by day, a hospitable host, by night – a robber and thief. He welcomes wealthy merchants, drugs them with a sleep potion, and robs them on the forest road. Meanwhile, his wife, Yevgeniya Mironovna, waits for her lover, the handsome landowner Milovidov, whenever Vukol goes off on his nightly raids. Vukol's sister, Annushka, is also in love with the young nobleman. The dense forests, harsh customs, merchant bravado, and jealous women… Trouble is brewing!

In a Busy Place

1986

We're Sitting Good! poster
5.8

Five best friends have only one problem to deal with: where to get something to drink...

We're Sitting Good!

1986

The Trial in Ershovka poster
NR

In the village club of Ershovka, a trial is underway against Yakov Vorobyov, who is accused of intentionally setting fire to the forest. Gradually, the trial turns into a public gathering, where the villagers openly discuss the rampant alcoholism that plagues their community.

The Trial in Ershovka

1987

Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Both Usual and Unbelieveable poster
7.6

Best friends and mischievous third-graders Vasya Petrov and Petya Vasechkin, despite their differences, share a love for adventures. Romantic Vasya falls for his serious, excellent classmate Masha and writes her an anonymous love note. However, the quick-witted Masha identifies Vasya due to his errors and rejects him harshly. Upset, Vasya confides in Petya, who then devises a cunning plan to win Masha over.

Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Both Usual and Unbelieveable

1983

26 Days of Dostoyevsky's Life poster
5.0

Brief imaginary period in the famed Russian writer's life that encapsulates one of his darker moments in 1866. At that time he was still a relatively unknown writer whose first widely acclaimed work, Crime and Punishment, was just on the horizon. His life was at a very low ebb as he struggled with debts he could not pay, and as he fought depression over the loss of his wife to tuberculosis, and the death of his brother, who was very close to him. His first literary journal had to be scrapped because of political reasons, and the second venture needed funding.

26 Days of Dostoyevsky's Life

1981

Volodka's Life poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Volodka's Life

1984

This is the Music... poster
4.3

A young graduate of a Musical teacher's training school, having got an allocation to one of the collective farms of Nonblack Soil Zone, she goes there with one desire return to city as soon as possible and continue her career of pop singer. Villagers are rejoiced by arrival of a new club head, and do all their best to make her stay: give good lodging, telephone, color TV-set, and even accordion. And the farms head (B.Nevzorov) is not intended to let her go before the set date, moreover, he falls in love with her. A skeptical modern city girl, mixing with villagers and step-by-step delving into their routine life and chores, gets filled with local beauties and engulfing feeling towards a young farms head, starts hesitating.

This is the Music...

1981

The Right People poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Right People

1986

After the Rain, on Thursday poster
6.7

A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is.

After the Rain, on Thursday

1986

A Continuing Dialogue poster
NR

Alexei hadn’t seen his father since he divorced his mother. Before enrolling in the literary institute, the son decided to visit his father—and regretted the time he’d lost. At the time, his father flatly refused to understand him. Disheartened, Alexei left and didn’t enroll in the institute until his fourth year. Before starting his studies, the son came to visit his father again...

A Continuing Dialogue

1981

The Deputy's Hour poster
9.0

The eternal “housing question” in Russia is taken on by Serafimov, a young and principled city council deputy, who is determined to help his constituents. In the end, he manages not only to secure a new building for the veterans of the brick factory—made from the very bricks they once produced—but also to have them all housed under one roof, so they wouldn’t feel the pain of separation after leaving their crowded communal apartments.

The Deputy's Hour

1981

1970s · 14 titles

Moscow-Cassiopeia poster
6.4

Several children go on a lifelong space mission to Cassiopeia because they don't want to go to school.

Moscow-Cassiopeia

1974

Crime and Punishment poster
6.0

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Crime and Punishment

1970

12 Chairs poster
7.6

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.

12 Chairs

1971

Red Bees poster
6.0

In 1922, in a small town, the boys formed a pioneer squad and named it "Red Bees."

Red Bees

1972

A Declaration of Love poster
4.7

The main character is a talented, but timid writer of the Filippok experiencing with his country the difficult years of revolution, devastation and war. Adversity helps him overcome the unrequited and faithful love for the widow of Commissioner Zinochka, who bossily manages his career, not hesitating to start novels with other men. Filippok will describe the story of his life in a book that at the end of days will be presented by a terminally ill, but still dearly beloved wife, with gratitude for the experience.

A Declaration of Love

1978

A Bride from the North poster
6.4

Artak has served his military service in the Russian countryside where he meets Valya. But Valya's mother refuses to send her only daughter to “these far highlands, where earthquakes happen all the time”. Artak is forced to ask his contrasting and numerous relatives –Armenian villagers– to visit a remote Russian village to bring a bride to Armenia.

A Bride from the North

1975

The Duel poster
6.0

Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...

The Duel

1973

Mother-in-Law poster
8.0

Claudia Ivanovna is concerned about her daughter's future and the development of her career as a scientist. In accordance with her own ideas of happiness, she is trying to build a girl's personal life, unceremoniously destroying her relationship with her driver Sasha.

Mother-in-Law

1973

The Poacher Hunter poster
9.5

Schoolboy Vasya and his little sister Klasha live on the shore of a picturesque lake, in which trout are bred. With the help of their friends, the dogs of the Quiver and the horse Strelka, the guys detain the poachers.

The Poacher Hunter

1975

Black Rusks poster
8.0

The November Revolution of 1918 in Germany, famine and social upheaval evoke a response from the young Soviet government in Russia. To provide food assistance, trains with bread are being formed. One of them, on the personal instructions of V.I. Lenin is accompanied by the young revolutionary Tatyana . On the way, she meets a former German prisoner of war, Kurt . A romantic relationship arises between them. The train with bread, despite all the difficulties, was delivered. In a clash with a detachment of counter-revolutionary German troops, Tatyana was wounded. She returns to Moscow, and Kurt goes to Berlin to continue the revolutionary struggle.

Black Rusks

1972

We Were in the First Grade... poster
NR

Based on the story of Galina Galakhova "The Singing Reed".

We Were in the First Grade...

1978

Identification Marks None poster
8.0

Drama about the period of F. Dzerzhinsky's activity in 1902-1905, when he, having escaped from the Viluysk prison, lived in Poland.

Identification Marks None

1979

Underage poster
10.0

Eugene returned from the army, and his friend Kostya Sila — from the penal colony. Having met, heroes decided to leave the city: one didn't wait for the beloved girl, another doesn't want to see sympathetic views of former acquaintances. But the meeting with the police major — a talented teacher — changed their intent. All summer heroes devoted to wrest from the influence of the bully the group of boys.

Underage

1977

Three Funny Sessions poster
7.0

A family comedy about a funny adventures of the children in a summer camp during three summer sessions.

Three Funny Sessions

1978

1960s · 19 titles

Father Frost poster
6.2

A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.

Father Frost

1965

Ugryum-River poster
5.2

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

Wings poster
6.8

Former fighter pilot turned provincial schoolmistress Nadezhda Petrovna struggles to adapt to peacetime, having internalised military ideals of service and obedience.

Wings

1966

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

Amphibian Man poster
6.8

People living at a seashore town are frightened by reports of an unknown creature called "the sea devil". Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiander can live under water. This gives him certain advantages, but also creates a lot of problems.

Amphibian Man

1962

Lady with the Dog poster
5.8

On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair.

Lady with the Dog

1960

Wind of Freedom poster
NR

The port town of one of the small southern countries. After the Nazi occupiers left, the port's berths were empty, the steamers did not smoke, cargo cranes stood. Fearing retaliation for collaborating with enemies, port owner Georg Stan fled the city. After waiting a while and securing the support of local authorities, Stan nonetheless returns - and loading operations begin in the port. While loading oranges, the sailor Yango and the beautiful Stella are preparing for the wedding. Suddenly, Stan makes a proposal to the girl and tricks her into agreeing. Upon learning of the deception, the girl runs away to Yango. Having discovered weapons intended to support fascism in the drawer of the hold, the heroes do everything possible to make the boxes fall to the bottom of the sea.

Wind of Freedom

1961

The Tale of the Golden Rooster poster
6.4

A satirical fairy tale about an old tsar Dadon and a golden cockerel who guarded the borders of his kingdom.

The Tale of the Golden Rooster

1967

Penalty Kick poster
7.0

A crafty swindler, appointed to be a coach of an amateur sports team, came up with a cheat plan for victory - secretly recruit a number of professional players to his team.

Penalty Kick

1963

Devil With a Briefcase poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Devil With a Briefcase

1966

A Sleepless Night poster
7.3

Young engineer Pavel Kaurov goes to his first destination — to the port city of Sibirsk. He is appointed to lead a group of cranes: gantry and floating. After several troubles Pavel mastered the port work and received a serious assignment. Meanwhile, his fiancee Nina, an architect by profession, is arriving in Siberia. However, besides Pavel, fellow students came to the station to meet her — Petunin's brother and sister, in whose house she is staying. Soon Annushka, who has long loved Pavel, arrives. From that day on, he had trouble after trouble. After a crane accident, which happened through his fault, the hero pulls himself together and does everything to regain the confidence of the brigade...

A Sleepless Night

1960

In the Town of S. poster
5.5

A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.

In the Town of S.

1967

Our House poster
6.5

A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life.

Our House

1965

The Cat That Walked by Himself poster
8.3

The story about the wild creatures of the wild forest and one impudent Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

The Cat That Walked by Himself

1968

Big "Wick" poster
8.0

A satirical express train sets off on its way. The driver S. Mikhalkov gives a farewell beep ... On the first carriage an inscription - "Summer cottage". The following are 8 short stories ...

Big "Wick"

1964

Sasha-Sashenka poster
NR

A young painter Sasha is dreaming to become an actress...

Sasha-Sashenka

1967

In Death's Noose poster
9.0

A biographical film about the famous Russian pilot Sergei Utochkin, about the first conquerors of the sky who paved the way for Russian aviation.

In Death's Noose

1963

Funny Stories poster
7.6

Funny stories about four friends and their adventures in a big city.

Funny Stories

1962

We Are Men poster
NR

A film-play based on three stories by Australian writers John Morrison and F. Hardy.

We Are Men

1967

1950s · 6 titles

Series credits

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil 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

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil 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

Yeralash poster
6.6

The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.

Yeralash

1974

Приключения Петрова и Васечкина poster
9.0

The story revolves around two young schoolboy pioneers, Petya Vasechkin and Vasya Petrov, as they navigate their attempts at self-discovery and their shared affection for their friend, Masha Startseva.

Приключения Петрова и Васечкина

1984

The Adjutant of His Excellency poster
7.7

Yuri Solomin in the military-adventure film about the fate of red scout Koltsov, who in 1919 was sent with the special sssignments into Denikin's army headquarters, where he became adjutant of the commander. The film not only tells about the operations brilliantly conducted by Koltsov, but also reveals the complex inner world of characters who lived in the controversial and tragic time.

The Adjutant of His Excellency

1970

Past and Thoughts poster
NR

Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.

Past and Thoughts

1972

Proceed to the Investigation. Film 1: Version poster
NR

Several old friends—employees of the USSR Prosecutor's Office and Ministry of Internal Affairs, whom fate scattered across different republics of the Union—gather once a year to commemorate their deceased comrade and share unusual cases from their practice.

Proceed to the Investigation. Film 1: Version

1986

Ugryum-River poster
6.4

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

Берегите женщин poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Берегите женщин

1981

End of the World with Symposium to Follow poster
NR

Millionaire commissions a play addressing the threat of nuclear war.

End of the World with Symposium to Follow

1987