Aleksei Kolesnik

Acting

Aleksei Kolesnik

Born 1950-03-28 · Karlovka, Poltavskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Acting credits

Collapse poster
4.9

1986, Chornobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.

Collapse

1990

State Border: Vol. 8. On the Far Border poster
8.7

At the southern border outpost the Soviet border guards managed to neutralize a spy from one of the Western intelligence services and discover an electronic unit recording data about secret strategic military facilities located on the territory of the USSR.

State Border: Vol. 8. On the Far Border

1989

One's Own Happiness poster
NR

Alexander Pavlovich Reznikov is short of two hundred rubles (in the 1970s, about one and a half months’ salary for an office worker) to pay for the travel vouchers. His neighbor, a moonlighting contractor named Yura, offers Reznikov a way to earn the money in a single day. To do this, Alexander Palych must be present at the demolition of an old wooden house in the role of a foreman, while Yura will bring in students for the job. He will pay them ten rubles each, while they themselves will receive two hundred and fifty apiece. Reznikov agrees.

One's Own Happiness

1979

Counterstrike poster
6.3

November 1943. The army of general Vatutin is preparing to cross Dnepr river.

Counterstrike

1985

The Cold Summer of 1953 poster
7.3

In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them.

The Cold Summer of 1953

1988

Edelweiss Hotel poster
5.0

Alex is a millionaire who wants to be a billionaire. To achieve this goal, he embarks on a risky adventure. At once, he learns about a hotel in the mountains, which allegedly contains a huge amount of gold. The businessman comes up with a simple plan to arrive at the scene, make friends with the owner of the hotel, enchant his daughter, marry her, and become those who will eventually get all the gold. This flawless plan turned out to have several weaknesses. Other adventurers know about the gold, and the daughter of the hotel owner is engaged.

Edelweiss Hotel

2019

Lost City poster
NR

The film tells of a small expedition that decides to track down the lost city in the exclusion zone, where there are extraordinary things.

Lost City

2015

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9.0

A made-for-TV film about a guard dog named Ruslan.

Faithful Ruslan: History of the Guard Dog

1992

The Gadfly poster
5.1

The movie set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.

The Gadfly

1980

Firecrosser poster
6.0

The Hero of the Soviet Union becomes a GULAG prisoner and then an Indian Chief.

Firecrosser

2012

Knight's Castle poster
NR

14th century. On the border of the possessions of Veliky Novgorod and the Livonian Order, a detachment of soldiers led the defense of the brave Vseslav. During a cross-border skirmish, Vseslav is captured and ends up in the castle of Knight Romuald - Neuhausen. The owners treat the prisoner as a guest. Soon, the castle is visited by the Teutonic knight Ewald, in love with Emma, the wife of Romuald. He dreams of taking possession of both the castle and its mistress ...

Knight's Castle

1990

The First Step in the Clouds poster
NR

Three men, whose neglected lifes seem like poor existence, created for themselves an entertainment: to peep per couples who solitude in the forest. They having fun to watch and then to scare them. And this time they decided to act the same way again, but they found something another, not like they used to...

The First Step in the Clouds

2012

The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe poster
6.5

Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the nobility in England was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows the Saxon protagonist, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who is out of favor with his father for his allegiance to the Norman king Richard the Lionheart. The story is set in 1194, after the failure of the Third Crusade, when many of the Crusaders were still returning to their homes in Europe. King Richard, who had been captured by Leopold of Austria on his return journey to England, was believed to still be in captivity.

The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe

1983

The Legend of Princess Olga poster
6.7

The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olha of Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rusʹ) at the start of the 11th century. Inspired by chronicles and folk legends this is a story of a common girl Olha who married Prince Ihor and became his successor on the throne after his murder and one of the most remarkable political leaders in early medieval European history. She converted to Christianity and brought her realm into Europe.

The Legend of Princess Olga

1984

The Enticement of Don Juan poster
6.7

Based on Lesya Ukrainka's drama "The Stone Master". Without the permission of the king, in Seville, under the pretext of meeting his fiancée Dolores, returns the disgraced Don Juan, a thunderstorm of husbands and grooms. The loveable protagonist gained fame as a ladies man and a wild tempest of female reputations. But for Don Juan there are no barriers to the desired goal. This time he laid eyes on the lovely Donna Anna. Obsessed with a passion for her, the hero protects her ancestral castle from the Portuguese invading the country ...

The Enticement of Don Juan

1986

Ermak poster
6.0

The story of Ermak Timofeevich, whose campaign for the Ural mountains served to annex the Siberian lands to the Moscow kingdom, in the second half of the 16th century.

Ermak

1997

Rain in a Foreign City poster
7.0

Based on the novel of the same name by Daniil Granin. Engineer Chizhegov often travels on business to a small town, where he meets a woman who reciprocates his feelings. The protagonist faces a difficult problem: he is married, and his family lives in Leningrad. Unable to make a final decision and afraid of losing his beloved, he commits a despicable act. His remorse comes too late—Chizhegov loses the woman who was truly dear to him forever.

Rain in a Foreign City

1979

Warmth of the Chilly Earth poster
NR

The foreman Chernykh and drilling foreman Marich carry out the most rational transportation of equipment in the extreme conditions of the North, introducing new progressive drilling technology.

Warmth of the Chilly Earth

1984

We Were Led by Youth... poster
NR

About the guys from a working-class village who formed a combat unit to help the Red Army. The action takes place during the Bolshevik coup in Kuban.

We Were Led by Youth...

1986