Rostislav Yankovsky

Acting

Rostislav Yankovsky

Born — Died

1930-02-05 — 2017-06-26

Place of birth

Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Known for

Waterloo poster
7.1

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

Waterloo

1970

The State Counsellor poster
5.0

A special train from St. Petersburg to Moscow. General Khrapov is stabbed in his compartment. A mysterious "BG" mark was found on the handle of the bloody blade - the sign of an elusive terrorist group. Only Fandorin can neutralize it. Prince Pozharsky, who is also investigating the case, stands in his way. A deadly duel begins.

The State Counsellor

2005

Olga Sergeevna poster
6.0

The story of Olga Sergeevna, a renowned oceanographer. Throughout her life, Olga Sergeevna loved only one man, with whom she was never destined to find happiness.

Olga Sergeevna

1975

The Limit of Possible poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Limit of Possible

1984

The Ultimate Reason for Kings poster
8.0

The plot centers on a large-scale conspiracy by a group of US military personnel, led by General James Scott, against the current President Jordan Lyman. Further events show that the President, who sent his closest aides and friends to investigate, easily and almost indifferently accepts the news of their deaths, because he is only interested in his own person.

The Ultimate Reason for Kings

1986

Anomaly poster
6.5

Based on Clifford Simak's story "All Flesh is Grass". In the small settlement strange things lately are created, and soon the settlement is cut off from the outside world by an insuperable wall. The scientist Alexander Kartin tries to investigate the unusual phenomenon.

Anomaly

1993

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

1990s · 11 titles

Anomaly poster
6.5

Based on Clifford Simak's story "All Flesh is Grass". In the small settlement strange things lately are created, and soon the settlement is cut off from the outside world by an insuperable wall. The scientist Alexander Kartin tries to investigate the unusual phenomenon.

Anomaly

1993

A Friend of the Deceased poster
5.2

Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.

A Friend of the Deceased

1997

Love in Russian 2 poster
5.1

No synopsis available yet.

Love in Russian 2

1996

Ghost poster
NR

The unexpected death of his brother, a fishery inspector, changes the life of a drunken former athlete who was predicted to have a brilliant career. Suspecting local poachers, he decides to take revenge...

Ghost

1991

Love in Russian 3: Governor poster
5.8

Former farmer V.P. Mukhin became governor. His enemies are trying to prevent him from signing an agreement with Belarus on the construction of a bridge. He is given 7 days to think about it. Alone and unarmed, the old man goes to a meeting with representatives of the criminal world...

Love in Russian 3: Governor

1999

Forgive Us Mother Russia poster
NR

A criminal story about how a KGB investigator tries to rehabilitate an innocent-convicted Red Army soldier and when she manages to prove his innocence - the power in the country changes and it is removed from further investigation.

Forgive Us Mother Russia

1991

Adam's Rib poster
5.4

The film is based on the story of Anatoly Kurchatkin "House of Women". A tragicomedy about four women of three generations who lives in a tiny Moscow apartment: a sick grandmother, constantly requiring attention; a mother, very peculiar woman, who still hoping to somehow arrange her personal life; and two daughters, each of whom has a lot of problems.

Adam's Rib

1990

Eternal Husband poster
7.0

Unexpectedly, Trusotsky, with whom they communicated nine years ago, comes to Velchaninov. It turns out that recently Trusotsky's wife died, leaving him with a 9-year-old daughter.

Eternal Husband

1990

You Burn with Mad Passion for Me poster
NR

Lilliputian worked in the circus in the same act with the famous illusionist. Despite the fact that he was surrounded by a wide variety of people, he felt terribly alone. Beneath the bustle of the circus there was emptiness. And no one could fill it. A bright longing for perfection, a premonition of deep and strong passions one day pushed him into a relationship with an ordinary woman - the illusionist's wife...

You Burn with Mad Passion for Me

1992

The Sin of Acting poster
NR

From the backstage life of theatrical bohemia.

The Sin of Acting

1991

A Man from the Black 'Volga‎' poster
4.8

A murderer is using every possible trick in his efforts to escape from justice. He is extremely crafty in his ways of infiltrating the government. He becomes a politician with growing status and influence and an official immunity from prosecution.

A Man from the Black 'Volga‎'

1990

1980s · 12 titles

Battle of Moscow poster
NR

The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.

Battle of Moscow

1985

Cancan in an English Park poster
7.0

A Ukrainian poet visiting his emigre cousin is threatened into working for the CIA's operations through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Cancan in an English Park

1985

Tale of the Star-Child poster
6.0

"Tale of the Star Child" is a two-part television film, based on the works of Oscar Wilde. Like the earlier film, The Star Boy (1958), The Tale of the Star Boy, was based on two tales from Wilde's collection "A House of Pomegranates" - The Star-Child (1891) and The Birthday of the Infanta (1888) . However, the plot, in contrast to the first screen version, made more significant changes: in particular, added science-fiction elements and completely eliminated magic.

Tale of the Star-Child

1983

Time and the Conways poster
9.0

Action takes place in England during the 20 years between the two wars. The film explores the relationship in the once wealthy bourgeois family, whose members, in their own way, are experiencing the collapse of their plans and hopes.

Time and the Conways

1984

Big Volodya, Small Volodya poster
7.0

The action takes place in a backwater small town. The story of the life of a married couple - Colonel Yagich and his wife Sophia Lvovna, a young woman, and their friend - a military doctor, who is called, like Sonechka's husband, Vladimir. Partly to spite Volodya the little man who once did not reciprocate her feeling, Sonechka married Yagich, who is thirty years older than she is. Soon the longing came - she did not love her husband. Soniechka rushes back to Volodya the little, and they begin a stormy romance...

Big Volodya, Small Volodya

1985

Copper Angel poster
6.0

An international geological expedition led by a Russian engineer works in an inaccessible area of one of the Latin American countries. Scientists are held hostage by a nearby gang that trades in the drug trade. Geologists are in mortal danger ...

Copper Angel

1984

The Limit of Possible poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Limit of Possible

1984

No artwork available
NR

General Stepan Ivanovich Chaly, a hero of three wars, is working on a book of military memoirs. In the course of his work, he learns that his friend Andrei Lukich Trembovetsky, a former nobleman and White Army officer, then a desperately brave Red Army commander, is alive. He is accused of abuse of office and is under investigation. The old general rushes into battle for his friend's fate to prove his innocence...

Saber Without Scabbard

1987

Race of the Century poster
6.0

Russian film transplanting the tragic tale of Donald Crowhurst into then-contemporary anti-capitalist thought.

Race of the Century

1986

Take Alive poster
NR

On the fate of a soldier Vasily Romashkin, yesterday's tenth grader, who went through all the trials of the WWII and ended his combat journey as an intelligence officer.

Take Alive

1982

Bounce poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bounce

1986

Kafedra poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kafedra

1982

1970s · 12 titles

Waterloo poster
7.1

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

Waterloo

1970

Me, Francysk Skaryna poster
NR

A film about the Belarusian publisher and educator Francis (Georgy) Skaryna, who lived in the first half of the 16th century, the founder of the first Belarusian printing house in Vilnius and the author of fundamental research in the field of linguistics.

Me, Francysk Skaryna

1970

Safe Person poster
7.0

Doctor Vera Pavlovna Zanemonets has recently been working at the Genetics Research Institute and is thinking about her dissertation. Her life is quite prosperous: her favorite job, family. One day, on an urgent call, Vera goes to her sister, who lives in the village and needs urgent surgery after an accident. But there is no surgeon in the village hospital, and Vera decides to urgently operate on her sister.

Safe Person

1976

Olga Sergeevna poster
4.0

The film tells the story of Olga Sergeevna, a renowned oceanographer. Throughout her life, Olga Sergeevna loved only one man, with whom she was never destined to find happiness.

Olga Sergeevna

1975

Meeting at the End of Winter poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Meeting at the End of Winter

1978

Exercise with Three Unknowns poster
7.2

Criminal investigation is investigating the case of robbery of the factory cashier. At the checkpoint of the factory of precision mechanics and optics, two criminals attack the cashier. Criminals manage to escape by the car, waiting for them around the corner. At the scene of the crime, criminal investigation officers arrive Major Dorokhov and Lieutenant Matushkin. They interview witnesses, but they did not remember properly any attackers or machine numbers, but noticed that one prevented the other from firing.

Exercise with Three Unknowns

1979

Peace to the Huts, War to the Palaces poster
2.0

A Soviet propaganda film about the Bolshevik coup in 1917-18. Along with the portrayal of fictional characters, the film recreates the images of historical figures from this period.

Peace to the Huts, War to the Palaces

1971

Land, Poste Restante poster
4.0

Based on a true story about Soviet spy Lev Manevich. He lives in Italy and operates in the Nazi Germany and Austria. Manevich, who is posing as a businessman, collects information about the latest German airplanes made by Messerschmitt for Luftwaffe. On his spying trip to Berlin, Manevich noticed that a stranger was following him. Now his life is in danger, but he must do something to complete his mission...

Land, Poste Restante

1973

The Sea in Flames poster
7.0

The film recreates the heroic epic of the defense of Sevastopol in 1941-1942. The fall of 1941. Having broken through the defense at Perekop and seized Crimea, the fascist troops begin the siege of Sevastopol. The Soviet fleet is withdrawn to Novorossiysk. For the defense of Sevastopol remained only guns of ships, coastal batteries and several detachments of marines, the defense is led by General Petrov.

The Sea in Flames

1972

The Cutlass poster
6.6

A Red Army officer Polevoy possesses a navy dirk with a secret message encrypted in its handle. The second part of a message belongs to a White army officer Nikitskiy. It's up to three young friends of Polevoy to uncover the mystery.

The Cutlass

1974

Вся королевская рать poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Вся королевская рать

1971

The Ruins Are Firing… poster
6.0

The plot centers on the people who began to form underground groups from the very first days of the occupation of Minsk: oil engineer Isa Kazinets, soldier Ivan Kabushkin, student journalist Vladimir Omelianuk, medical professor Yevgeny Klumov, party and Soviet worker Sergey Blagorazumov, and others. Their main weapon was their hatred of the occupiers. Soon, the underground fighters managed to establish contact with the partisans, and they began to plan joint operations.

The Ruins Are Firing…

1971

Series credits

The State Counsellor poster
5.0

A special train from St. Petersburg to Moscow. General Khrapov is stabbed in his compartment. A mysterious "BG" mark was found on the handle of the bloody blade - the sign of an elusive terrorist group. Only Fandorin can neutralize it. Prince Pozharsky, who is also investigating the case, stands in his way. A deadly duel begins.

The State Counsellor

2005

Olga Sergeevna poster
6.0

The story of Olga Sergeevna, a renowned oceanographer. Throughout her life, Olga Sergeevna loved only one man, with whom she was never destined to find happiness.

Olga Sergeevna

1975

The Limit of Possible poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Limit of Possible

1984

The Ultimate Reason for Kings poster
8.0

The plot centers on a large-scale conspiracy by a group of US military personnel, led by General James Scott, against the current President Jordan Lyman. Further events show that the President, who sent his closest aides and friends to investigate, easily and almost indifferently accepts the news of their deaths, because he is only interested in his own person.

The Ultimate Reason for Kings

1986

Eternal Husband poster
2.0

The drama of Eugene Markovsky is based on the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky's “Eternal Husband”.

Eternal Husband

1990

Kortik poster
8.8

A Red Army officer Polevoy possesses a navy dirk with a secret message encrypted in its handle. The second part of a message belongs to a White army officer Nikitskiy. It's up to three young friends of Polevoy to uncover the mystery.

Kortik

1974

In June 1941 poster
2.7

No synopsis available yet.

In June 1941

2008

In June 1941 poster
2.7

No synopsis available yet.

In June 1941

2008

Peace to the Huts, War to the Palaces poster
NR

A Soviet propaganda miniseries about the Bolshevik coup in 1917-18. Along with the portrayal of fictional characters, the film recreates the images of historical figures from this period.

Peace to the Huts, War to the Palaces

1971