Yuri Chekulayev

Acting

Yuri Chekulayev

Born 1926-08-08 · Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR

Acting credits

War and Peace poster
7.6

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

War and Peace

1968

Merry Magic poster
8.0

Funny adventures of a young girl Katya and her friends in a land of magic.

Merry Magic

1976

A Tale of Lost Times poster
6.2

Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to their real age.

A Tale of Lost Times

1964

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova poster
7.2

As 1809 nears its end, Natasha attends her first ball, where Andrei falls in love with her with the intent of marriage. However, as her father demands they wait, the prince travels abroad, leaving Natasha in desperate longing. But she meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets Andrei. Part two of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

1966

Wake Mukhin Up! poster
7.0

During lectures on literature, evening student Sasha Mukhin, a subway driver, sleeps and dreams. In approximate accordance with the subject of the lectures, he either tries to prevent Pushkin’s duel with Dantes, either intervenes in the events of Spartak’s rebellion, or is present at Galileo’s abdication, then meets a person from the future and learns from him his future fate.

Wake Mukhin Up!

1968

War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky poster
7.6

In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against General Napoleon Bonaparte. Part one of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.

War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

1966

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

Mariya Magdalina poster
NR

The dissolute way of life of Mariya Egorova, nicknamed "Magdalene", abruptly ends - her friend, driving her into debt and putting her "on the counter", taking her passport, through a pimp she knows, offers her to work as a prostitute. During the conversation, Mariya breaks the pimp's head, ends up in the police station, from where she escapes. Now bandits and the police are looking for her, and she urgently needs to find money to buy a passport and leave the city with her daughter.

Mariya Magdalina

1990

Help Me, Bros! poster
7.6

Boyars are trying to marry their tsar in a country of far far away.

Help Me, Bros!

1989

Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka poster
7.2

The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.

Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka

1961

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

Aladdin and His Magic Lamp poster
6.7

A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he's granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of Baghdad and her father fight off an evil sorcerer who's trying to take over the kingdom.

Aladdin and His Magic Lamp

1966

Upright Magic poster
5.3

A young girl Marina suddenly meets an evil witch so adventures start...

Upright Magic

1975

Kidnapping of the Century poster
7.0

Two car mechanics friends decide to holiday on the Black Sea coast. The news of the arrival of the "famous masters" excited the residents of the southern town, followed by adventures, misunderstandings and the abduction of one of them.

Kidnapping of the Century

1982

This Solid Ground poster
NR

The test pilot arrived in his native village disappointed, emotionally traumatized, and physically exhausted. Meeting with people dear to him, visiting places close to his heart, and touching his native soil revived him and restored his strength and self-confidence.

This Solid Ground

1967

Mishka, Seryoga and I poster
6.0

Three friends are bored in eighth grade but everything changes after a new teacher arrives to the class.

Mishka, Seryoga and I

1961

Passenger from the 'Equator' poster
5.6

Young boy traveling on the ship called "Equator" suddenly witnesses the activity of the spy and helps to catch him.

Passenger from the 'Equator'

1970

Clean Ponds poster
8.0

Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events.

Clean Ponds

1965

The Tale of Tsar Saltan poster
6.8

Driven from the court by her sisters' scheming, the young Tsarina is thrown into the sea in a cask with her infant son. Surviving the storm-tossed voyage, the mother and her now magically-adult son land on a remote island where he falls in love with a Swan Princess in human form, and longs for reunion with his estranged father, Tsar Saltan. Merchants come to the island with news of the tsar, and the prince sends word back to him, but the sisters continue their campaign of lies and trickery to keep them apart.

The Tale of Tsar Saltan

1967

How Many Years, How Many Winters! poster
8.0

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How Many Years, How Many Winters!

1966

The Princess and the Pea poster
5.2

In one of the realms, there was time for the prince to get married, but the bride would have to be a real princess. A sign was put up on the gates: “ A Princess Wanted”. But in response to it there appeared only a small girl, wet to the bones after the rain and bearing no resemblance to nobility. So the prince was obliged to venture off to other lands in search of a suitable match. Henceforth the prince’s adventures unfold. In one kingdom, he met a fat king, in another – a hospitable king. He also visited the kingdom of arts. He saw enough princesses, beautiful and clever. And yet, the real princess, the only one he longed for, proved to be the girl who had knocked at their door during a rainstorm…

The Princess and the Pea

1976

Hurricane in the Valley poster
NR

The head of a large Jahongir collective farm has been dreaming for many years of relocating fellow countrymen from gornogokishlak to the fertile lands of the valley...

Hurricane in the Valley

1973

Case No. 306 poster
6.1

While investigating a regular traffic accidents detectives find evidence of foreign intelligence involvement.

Case No. 306

1956

Three Days of Viktor Chernyshyov poster
6.6

Mid 20th century. Industry is developing rapidly and the need for workers in factories is growing. After graduating from the tenth year, Viktor Chernyshyov, now a city dweller, did not bother to continue his education and went to the plant as a turner. He considered it quite normal that the guys enthusiastically listened to the stories of his peer Kolya, a lounger who boasted of victories over women, and participated in his dubious amusements. Only one of them, Pyotr — a real worker, a doctor, tried to reason with Kolya and the others.

Three Days of Viktor Chernyshyov

1968