Yuriy Yakovlev

Acting

Yuriy Yakovlev

Born April 25, 1928 · Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Died November 30, 2013 · aged 85

Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev (Russian: Ю́рий Васи́льевич Я́ковлев; 25 April 1928 – 30 November 2013) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.

Known For

Ballad of a HussarBallad of a Hussar · 1963
Ballad of a Hussar
★ 7.11963
MovieComedyWar
A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier, but complications ensue when her real identity is revealed.
Ballad of a SoldierBallad of a Soldier · 1959
Ballad of a Soldier
★ 8.01959
MovieDramaRomance
During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Kin-dza-dza!Kin-dza-dza! · 1986
Kin-dza-dza!
★ 7.71986
MovieComedyScience Fiction
Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His ProfessionIvan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession · 1973
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
★ 7.91973
MovieComedyScience Fiction
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.
The Great Warrior SkanderbegThe Great Warrior Skanderbeg · 1953
The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
★ 6.41953
MovieActionHistory
A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades.
StarsStars · 1959
Stars
★ 7.41959
MovieDramaWar
Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter – a German Wehrmacht sergeant and artist – lives in almost idyllic distance from the war. Then a transit camp is set up for Jews arriving from Greece. When Ruth, one of the internees, asks Walter to help a pregnant woman, the two form an unlikely bond.
The Blue BirdThe Blue Bird · 1970
The Blue Bird
★ 5.01970
MovieAnimationAdventure
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
The Irony of Fate: ContinuationThe Irony of Fate: Continuation · 2007
The Irony of Fate: Continuation
★ 4.82007
MovieComedyRomance
Thirty years have passed since Zhenya and Nadya met—they broke up, and Nadya moved to Leningrad. The friends still go to the bathhouse, and now they are joined by Konstantin, Zhenya's son. Uncle Pasha and Uncle Sasha persuade Kostya to arrange a New Year's miracle for his father and send him to St. Petersburg. Nadya's daughter lives at that very address, and on the same day, her fiancé, Irakli, is planning to propose to her.

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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! · 1976
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
★ 7.21976
MovieTV MovieComedy
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...

Hippolytus Georgievich