Boris Smorchkov

Acting

Boris Smorchkov

Born — Died

1944-09-03 — 2008-05-10

Place of birth

Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 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

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears poster
7.5

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

1980

What a Mess! poster
6.7

A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.

What a Mess!

1995

The Hot Snow poster
7.4

In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.

The Hot Snow

1972

Visit to the Minotaur poster
5.7

The detective story is based on the search for Antonio Stradivari’s missing violin. An additional historical storyline takes the viewer back to the 17th century and focuses on the life of the Master and his work on the violin.

Visit to the Minotaur

1987

The Interceptor poster
4.1

The film tells a story of an agent betrayed by his partner when transporting new psychic weapon. Believed to be dead, he escapes and takes new identity so he can live in peace far away. But later he is forced to return to Moscow to confront a secret organization, led by his former partner, that attempts to use the dangerous weapon in order to take control over the country. Now he is a key figure in the battle between forces of darkness and light.

The Interceptor

2009

Film credits

1980s · 18 titles

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears poster
7.5

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

1980

Planet Parade poster
5.5

A rare astronomical phenomenon — the parade of planets — has a strange effect on several men. The heroes of the film — an astrophysicist, locksmith, salesman, architect, loader, trolley bus driver — are called up for military training, which ends ahead of time. There is a strange pause in their life — no one knows where they are, no one is waiting for them, and they themselves can not rush anywhere. This short respite in a hasty and busy life gives the heroes the opportunity to experience strong and very important feelings for them.

Planet Parade

1984

Tears Were Falling poster
6.3

A beautiful man, husband, father and worker Pavel Ivanovich Vasin got into the eye with a shard of the mirror of an evil wizard. And the world for him appeared in a gloomy light. He began to insult and offend everyone at home and at work. Anger and suspicion overwhelmed Vasin's heart.

Tears Were Falling

1983

According to the Laws of War poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

According to the Laws of War

1983

Fathers poster
7.5

Second half of the 1960s. Novikov, an employee of the apparatus, is a charming and successful functionary, married to the daughter of a former party leader. His life is a success — he has a status, a family, two children, as well as a young mistress — student Tanya, for whom he will never divorce... During the conflict at a youth construction site in Siberia, which he must repay, Novikov shows himself as an experienced dodger and a provocateur. Tanya's father, a war veteran and an honest worker, Ivan Dronov considers himself entitled to punish this scoundrel...

Fathers

1989

Night Accident poster
5.8

A resident of Magadan, Ukladova, was robbed in a Moscow alley. She claims that she was hit on the head with a hammer and robbed of a large amount of money by a taxi driver. The investigator finds a taxi driver who has already been imprisoned for hooliganism. All the facts are against the suspect, but he does not confess. People who knew him convince him that the guy is not capable of such a crime. Ukladova, however, recognizes the taxi driver in a confrontation.

Night Accident

1980

I'm All Right poster
NR

The story is about a marriage swindler of all-Union scale, who once decided to get married, and at the same time to check the profitability of his home filing cabinet, was convinced of its disorder. Upset by the failure, Gvozdev meets Zina in a bar and unwittingly finds himself drawn into the circle of misfortunes of a former variety show dancer (as she introduced herself to him).

I'm All Right

1989

No artwork available
NR

A film about production conflicts at an automobile factory.

The Testers

1987

People in the Ocean poster
5.0

Far East. Military unit. The days of the border guards are filled with ordinary human concerns and joys. But the habitual rhythm of life is often disturbed, because near the border and the ocean, concealing the danger of a tsunami ...

People in the Ocean

1980

There Was Pyotr poster
NR

A story about an extremely honest and straight man.

There Was Pyotr

1984

Zina-Zinulya poster
7.6

Being such an amazingly honest, straightforward person like Zina unfortunately means making your life very difficult. But what can you do—it's her nature! Faced with fraud at work, the film's heroine tries with all her might to defend the truth. The culprit decides to take revenge on her...

Zina-Zinulya

1986

One True Love poster
7.0

The story is about old village residents who, due to the expansion of the collective farm, have to leave their huts and their homes.

One True Love

1983

Start Liquidation poster
5.2

Army and police are trying to fight crime in West Belarus during Spring of 1945.

Start Liquidation

1983

Remember Me This Way poster
5.4

A son comes to Leningrad on the birthday of his mother. He is the director of a large Siberian construction, twice married, happy in work, and in family life. His second wife Lida is also here. She brought her son and daughter with her. The youth of the mother of the family fell on the 30s. Life practically did not change its principles and beliefs. And it's not clear to her children, and even more so grandchildren, for whom her ideals do not mean anything.

Remember Me This Way

1988

From the Sky to Earth poster
8.0

The late stages of World War II, Soviet Army began rolling into some vital cities which occupied by Germany. Kolya Isaev, a paratrooper is sent to take part the offensives in the Eastern Europe. Autobiographical story by director Yakov Segel about a young man who went to the front of the Great Patriotic War at a young age and reached Berlin.

From the Sky to Earth

1987

Whose Are You, Old People? poster
NR

Kasian Nefedovich decides to convey his last wish, of burying him beside his wife's grave, to his daughter Zinke and spend some time with her. But she doesn't allow him to stay with her family.

Whose Are You, Old People?

1982

The Secret Agent's Return poster
5.9

After returning from the USSR, Tulyev was subjected to rigorous verification of his former "owners". He continues his work in Western intelligence, but already as a Soviet intelligence officer through the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. In a new capacity, he establishes the whereabouts of Hitler’s criminal Hoffmann, who was once sentenced to death, and helps the authorities arrest him. However, as a result of the conflict within NATO intelligence, Charlie Brighton, Hoffman's assistant, begins to hunt for him. At the same time, Tulyev manages to establish the identity of the murderer of his father, Karl Brockmann, with whom they crossed in the service of mercenaries somewhere in hot countries. He wants revenge, but, by an evil irony of fate, he must help prepare Brockmann for being cast as a spy in the Soviet Union.

The Secret Agent's Return

1982

How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea poster
4.3

In this farcical dark comedy/melodrama, Lena manages to lose her place at college by virtue of throwing a minor hissy-fit when she catches her erstwhile boyfriend in bed with another girl. Instead of penalizing the boy for his behavior, Lena gets stuck with a court appearance and must pay a small fine, in addition to losing a boyfriend, her college career, and an apartment. Lena belongs to a film club which occasionally hands out awards, and the membership of it decides to send her into the Russian hinterlands to hand out an award to an obscure filmmaker. Throughout the film, Lena has been associated with a bizarre con man named Stepanych who, when his cons fall through, comes to her in the distant town she has gone to seeking her help in committing suicide.

How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea

1989

1970s · 12 titles

The Hot Snow poster
7.4

In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.

The Hot Snow

1972

Troublemaker poster
4.0

A graduate of the village school Pyotr Gorokhov from the village of Dyadkovo comes to Moscow to enter a prestigious economic university; he succeeds, albeit literally by a miracle. However, Petya was always helped out by chance and mysticism. Compared to other students (mostly Muscovites and residents of other big cities), this guy from the province stands out sharply — both in manners, in reprimand, and in behavior. Accustomed to defend their principles to the end of Gorokhov was called Balamut (Troublemaker). Nevertheless, in the student community, he quickly mastered and became a leader. Everything would be fine, but he has two problems — unrequited love for the dark-skinned beauty from Cuba and English...

Troublemaker

1979

The City Accepted poster
7.7

38 Petrovka Street. Here, in the operations room, information about incidents in Moscow flows in. By pure chance, police captain Stanislav Tikhonov and forensic expert Margarita Ushakova meet on duty after six years of separation. In the cycle of accidents, in the tense waiting for a call they will try to understand why their relationship did not work out.

The City Accepted

1979

Funny People! poster
6.0

The movie intertwines the plot lines of the stories "In the Bathhouse", "Tears Invisible to the World", "A Conversation between a Man and a Dog" and others. By the will of the film's creators, the viewer gets to the rehearsals of an unusual choir and gets acquainted with the stories of the singers - diverse, but invariably amusing.

Funny People!

1978

Such Stories poster
NR

Three Novels from the Life of the Factory.

Such Stories

1974

The Lost Expedition poster
5.4

An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918.

The Lost Expedition

1975

Disappearance poster
7.0

Student Rodik Samarkin, grandson of the famous scientist-archaeologist, goes with friends to Kozary in search of ancient scythian graves. Not believing in the effectiveness of the expedition, the guys come back, leaving Rodik alone…

Disappearance

1978

The Fight in the Taiga poster
5.7

Komsomol member Zorik arrives at the distant taiga station Suetikha. He manages to attract the guys to his side and organize a youth squad. Having contacted the partisans, they stop and disarm the enemy armored train.

The Fight in the Taiga

1978

Golden River poster
5.7

The continuation of the story started by adventure movie "The Lost Expedition" set in 1923.

Golden River

1977

Clever poster
NR

The king married an intelligent and beautiful peasant girl, but he was not very smart himself, and his wife's superiority offended him. He sent his wife away, however, allowing her to take with her what she holds most dear. She gave the king a sleeping drink, and when he fell asleep, she took him to her hut: he was the most precious to her. Touched, the king returned his wife to the palace.

Clever

1971

Balalaykin and K poster
5.0

The performance of the Sovremennik Theater directed by G. A. Tovstonogov.

Balalaykin and K

1973

Eciton Burchellii poster
NR

Scientist Derevushkin is going to make a parachute jump on his 60th birthday. Having learned about this, his family is concerned: if Derevushkin dies, then who will get the inheritance.

Eciton Burchellii

1978

Series credits