Aleksandr Demyanenko

Actor

May 30, 1937 (62 years)

† August 22, 1999

Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR

Biography

Aleksandr S. Demyanenko (May 30, 1937 – August 22, 1999) was a Russian film and theater actor. He was given the honorary distinction of People's Artist of the RSFSR. He began his acting career with the film "Veter" in 1958, and is well known for playing the character Shurik in a number of films, beginning with the 1965 comedy "Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures", and ending with the 1997 film "Old Songs of the Main Things 2".

Filmography

7.6

Fuse

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".

7.0

To Remember

Narrator

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7.5

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

Shurik

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.

N/A

Legends of Cinema

Self (archive footage)

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8.5

When Idols Were Gone

Himself / ArchiveFootage

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5.2

Open Book

дервиш

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7.9

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

Aleksandr 'Shurik' Timofeyev, inventor

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.

7.0

Racket

Gavrila Ivanovich Obozov

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7.7

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

Shurik

Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.

N/A

Old Songs about the Main Thing

Шурик

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6.4

Ugryum-River

Илья Сохатых

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.

5.0

The Salt of the Earth

Семен Васильевич Грибков

The film follows the fate of the Strogov peasant family. The story takes place in Western Siberia in the late 1940s.

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The Tales of the Old Wizard

Людоед

A princess is born to the king and queen of a fairy-tale kingdom. The wicked witch, who resents not having been invited to the princess's birthday party, curses her: on the day the princess turns 16, she will be pricked by the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into eternal sleep. The king orders that all spinning wheels in the kingdom be destroyed and the number 16 be taken out of use. However, a young traveling prince arrives, bringing a curse with him.

6.7

King Lear

Albany (voice)

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

7.6

Obsession

Shurik

Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes.

6.0

Racket

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5.3

Ugryum-River

Ilya Sokhatykh

7.7

The Green Van

Viktor Prokofyevich

Post-revolutionary Odessa. A high school boy dreaming of a career as Sherlock Holmes joins the law enforcement agencies and quickly matures, encountering the brutal cynicism of criminals and examples of courage and self-sacrifice from his comrades.

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The White Robes

Борис Николаевич Порай (дядик Борик)

No description available

5.9

The Bat

Dr. Blind

Eisenstein gets in trouble for shooting a grouse. He is told that he must go to prison for his crime. However, his friend has invited him to an aristocratic ball. Eisenstein, despite being married, wants to go to the ball to meet women. Eisenstein lies to his wife. He tells her that he is going to prison but actually he goes to the ball. His story arises the suspicion of his wife. His wife devises a plot to catch her womanizing husband.