Acting
Boris Plotnikov
Born April 2, 1949 · Nevyansk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Died December 2, 2020 · aged 71
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Boris Grigoryevich Plotnikov (b. April 2, 1949, Nevyansk, Sverdlovsk province, Soviet Union (now Russia)) was a Russian film actor. His film debut was as Sotnikov in The Ascent, the acclaimed final film of Russian director Larisa Shepitko. Description above from the Wikipedia article Boris Plotnikov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wik…
Known For
On the Eve of the Premiere · 1978On the Eve of the Premiere
★ 7.01978
MovieDrama
The Ascent · 1977The Ascent
★ 7.81977
MovieDramaWar
During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Tale of the Star-Child · 1983Tale of the Star-Child
★ 6.01983
MovieFamilyScience Fiction
"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.
Jonah, or the Artist at Work · 1984Jonah, or the Artist at Work
1984
MovieDrama
A painter lives with his wife and four children in a studio. Due to creative frustrations and the irritation of admirers and hangers-on he becomes increasingly reclusive, finally sealing himself away in the attic. Based on an Albert Camus story.
La Vie de Berlioz · 1983La Vie de Berlioz
★ 9.01983
MovieHistoryDrama
Miniseries on the life and work of the outstanding composer Hector Berlioz.
Savage Hunt of King Stakh · 1979Savage Hunt of King Stakh
★ 5.41979
MovieThrillerDrama
A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends…
Cricket Behind the Hearth · 2001Cricket Behind the Hearth
★ 4.32001
MovieMusic
An almost detective story that could lead to terrible injustice. But good is strong, although sometimes naive. Wise Cricket will not allow "to go out of focus." Do not forget that Christmas is about to enter. And on Christmas night, what miracles do not happen!
Shadows · 1991Shadows
1991
MovieDramaTV Movie
Based on the play of the same name by M. Saltykov-Shchedrin. A young liberal-minded official named Bobyrev arrives in St. Petersburg from the provinces. He hopes to build a career under the patronage of his former schoolmate Klaverov, who has become a general. The general gladly assigns Bobyrev to his office and is already making plans to use Bobyrev’s beautiful wife, Sofia, to wage a successful campaign against his opponents and influence the pleasure-seeking Minister Tarakanov...
Movies
On the Eve of the Premiere · 1978On the Eve of the Premiere
★ 7.01978
MovieDrama
The Ascent · 1977The Ascent
★ 7.81977
MovieDramaWar
During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Tale of the Star-Child · 1983Tale of the Star-Child
★ 6.01983
MovieFamilyScience Fiction
"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.
Jonah, or the Artist at Work · 1984Jonah, or the Artist at Work
1984
MovieDrama
A painter lives with his wife and four children in a studio. Due to creative frustrations and the irritation of admirers and hangers-on he becomes increasingly reclusive, finally sealing himself away in the attic. Based on an Albert Camus story.
La Vie de Berlioz · 1983La Vie de Berlioz
★ 9.01983
MovieHistoryDrama
Miniseries on the life and work of the outstanding composer Hector Berlioz.
Savage Hunt of King Stakh · 1979Savage Hunt of King Stakh
★ 5.41979
MovieThrillerDrama
A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends…
Cricket Behind the Hearth · 2001Cricket Behind the Hearth
★ 4.32001
MovieMusic
An almost detective story that could lead to terrible injustice. But good is strong, although sometimes naive. Wise Cricket will not allow "to go out of focus." Do not forget that Christmas is about to enter. And on Christmas night, what miracles do not happen!
Shadows · 1991Shadows
1991
MovieDramaTV Movie
Based on the play of the same name by M. Saltykov-Shchedrin. A young liberal-minded official named Bobyrev arrives in St. Petersburg from the provinces. He hopes to build a career under the patronage of his former schoolmate Klaverov, who has become a general. The general gladly assigns Bobyrev to his office and is already making plans to use Bobyrev’s beautiful wife, Sofia, to wage a successful campaign against his opponents and influence the pleasure-seeking Minister Tarakanov...
Gobseck · 1987Gobseck
★ 7.01987
MovieDrama
Gobsek the richest and most stragity usurer of Paris. The Countess by Anastasi lays will Gobseck family diamond my husband, for the sake of debt her beloved Maxim. This rash act she reveals to her husband her love affair.
Two Chapters from the Family Chronicle · 1983Two Chapters from the Family Chronicle
★ 7.01983
MovieDrama
Before leaving for the USSR, a West German journalist meets his father, who was in Russia in 1922, where he met, fell in love with and lost forever a Russian translator. Sixty years later, the son follows his father's route...
Walking Down the Place of a Skull · 1992Walking Down the Place of a Skull
★ 5.61992
MovieThrillerFantasy
Two people in love will find a hut in the woods that they decide to sleep in. The cottage is located on the shore of a lake and beautiful views is just a shadow of an ax stuck in the executioner's block of wood near the house. When they wake up one morning, they see a peacock and the cottage has been transformed into a beautiful palace...
Little Match Girl · 1996Little Match Girl
★ 6.51996
MovieAnimation
Based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
The Cold Summer of 1953 · 1988The Cold Summer of 1953
★ 7.31988
MovieActionCrime
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 Legend of Lady Godiva · 2004The Legend of Lady Godiva
★ 9.02004
MovieAnimationFantasy
Ancient English legend. The early Middle Ages: Lady Godiva was a noblewoman, who according to the legend, took pity on the people of Coventry, who were suffering grievously under her husband's oppressive taxation, and rode naked through the streets of Coventry, in England, in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants.
Mashenka · 1991Mashenka
1991
MovieTV MovieDrama
Berlin, the 1920s, a boarding house where Russian immigrants live. One of the characters in the film, waiting for his wife's arrival, shows her photo to a neighbor at the boarding house, who recognizes her as his first love, Masha.…
Pugachev · 1979Pugachev
★ 5.01979
MovieDramaHistory
Don Cossack Emelyan Pugachev says goodbye to his wife and children and goes to run. The elder Filaret blesses him to lead a rebellion under the name of Peter III of Russia. The insurgents dealt with the feudal lords cruelly. Queen Catherine the Great directs troops against the rioters. Traitors betray Emelyan, and now he is being transported across Russia in an iron cage.
Dulcinea of Tobossa · 1980Dulcinea of Tobossa
★ 5.21980
MovieRomanceDrama
Dulcinea seeks an eternal dream of justice, chivalry, protection of the wronged in real, everyday life but all her dreams fail to come true. All men to whom she turns for setting the out-of-joint time right fall short of her expectations because they are too small for the task. She is mocked, exposed and disappointed. So what to do? Somebody has to take Don Quixote's place.
Elixir of Youth · 2017Elixir of Youth
2017
MovieDramaRomance
A woman admits that she is 300 years old, and yet, she looks incredibly young and attractive. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s play “The Makropulos Affair” for Faberlic.
Heart of a Dog · 1988Heart of a Dog
★ 7.91988
MovieDramaComedy
In 1920s Moscow, shortly after the October Revolution, a stray dog named Sharik is taken in by Professor Preobrazhensky, a wealthy and respected surgeon. The professor performs a daring medical experiment on the dog that changes him into a human being. As the newly transformed Sharikov begins to navigate life in the professor’s apartment, his crude behavior and revolutionary ideas turn the household upside down.
A Host of White Princesses · 1992A Host of White Princesses
1992
MovieDocumentaryHistory
On April 8, 1894, a young princess from the Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, to the great joy of the heir to the Russian throne, Nicholas, finally agrees to convert to Orthodoxy and become his wife. So begins the story of the family of the last Russian emperor. Their letters, diary entries, drawings, photographs and documentary films of the pre-revolutionary years create a kind of family chronicle.
Deal · 1986Deal
★ 7.01986
MovieThriller
A long-distance Chaco driver once agrees to transport a passenger across the border under the guise of a partner for a decent amount of money. Miguel, the leader of the democratic movement, managed to escape from prison and hide abroad. And now he is returning to his homeland to continue the fight. Chaco is not interested in politics, and from the very beginning of the trip he makes it clear to his partner.
Falling Upwards · 1998Falling Upwards
★ 9.81998
MovieDrama
In a car accident, the boy loses his parents and is confined to a wheelchair. Becoming the creator of his world and his destiny, the young hero overcomes personal tragedy.
Christmas Stories · 1994Christmas Stories
★ 7.01994
MovieAnimation
Two Christmas-themed stories: about the night of Christ's birth, and about a good deed that is remembered many decades later. Adapted from texts by Sasha Chyornyy and Archpriest Dimitriy Gavrilovich Bulgakovskiy.
Shadowboxing · 2005Shadowboxing
★ 5.42005
MovieActionDrama
Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected...
TV Shows
Empire is Under Attack · 2000Empire is Under Attack
★ 7.32000
SeriesMysteryDrama
In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.
Black Room · 2000Black Room
★ 7.72000
Series
The black room. Enclosed space. The action unfolds as if slowly. You understand that every word, every gesture of the heroes have a special, secret, as yet absolutely incomprehensible meaning. But you feel: you can't miss a single nuance. There are two or three heroes in each novel. There is a real drama between them, which ends with an explosion. Sometimes figuratively, and sometimes literally. Time is continuous: there is no yesterday and tomorrow.
Godunov · 2018Godunov
★ 5.92018
SeriesDrama
The TV show is about the Godunov family, which covers the period from the reign of Ivan the Terrible to the accession of Mikhail Romanov to the throne.
Peter the Great · 1986Peter the Great
★ 7.91986
SeriesDrama
Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.
The Heritage · 2008The Heritage
2008
SeriesDramaMystery
The Days and Years of Nikolai Batygin · 1987The Days and Years of Nikolai Batygin
★ 5.01987
Series