Oleg Yankovskiy
Birthday: 1944-02-23
Place of Birth: Bolshoy Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhskaya SSR, USSR
Biography: Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky (Russian: Оле́г Ива́нович Янко́вский; February 23, 1944 – May 20, 2009) was a Soviet/Russian actor who has excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectuals. In 1991, he became, together with Alla Pugacheva, the last person to be named a People's Artist of the USSR.
Movies
Nostalgia
A Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-...
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Mirror
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
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Dictatorship of Conscience
Performance of the Lenkom Theater based on the play by M. Shatrov....
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The First Love
Based on the story of the same name by I. Turgenev. A story about the romantic feeling of falling i...
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Trust
In December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek reco...
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The Theater Is My House
A.N. Ostrovsky recalls the first period of his creative work (1849–1859), when he began collaboratin...
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Wrath
Historical drama about the Tatarbunar uprising in southern Bessarabia in September 1924. The plot is...
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The Musicians from Bremen
The classic story about a musicians from Bremen is told in not so classical way....
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The Passport
A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself c...
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Ordinary Miracle
A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his serva...
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The Very Same Munchhausen
A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy,...
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The House That Swift Built
An immaculate, vivid and breathtaking implementation of Swift's romanticism....
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To Kill a Dragon
Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes ...
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Tsar
In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a...
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My Tender and Affectionate Beast
An aristocrat falls for a young woman who brings him ruin. Based on Chekhov's story. AKA A Hunting A...
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Hipsters
In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracin...
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Alissa
The son of an editor discovers that one of his father's writers is a former criminal from the Easter...
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Two Hussars
Drama on the novel of the same name L. N. Tolstoy. Two hussars - father and son - two morals, two wo...
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Two Comrades Were Serving
Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula...
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The Lover
This is a remarkably subtle film–a character study that focuses on Mitya’s attempts to cope with eac...
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Come Look at Me
The movie is about an old disabled lady who lives with her spinster daughter. The lady desperately w...
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The Captivating Star of Happiness
In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent an...
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Flights in Dreams and in Reality
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has ...
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Other People's Letters
Zina is sixteen. She is a manipulative schoolgirl living in a small Russian town among sincere and s...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Hol...
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A Ballad of Love
Leningrade. Galina works as a restorer at Catherine Palace; she is a sculptor as well and takes her ...
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Chinese Tea-Set
The film is set in 1913 Russia during the celebrations of the Tricentennial Anniversary of the Roman...
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Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...
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The Fatal Eggs
Based on the motifs of M. Bulhakow's story with the same title. The thing about the scientist-zoolog...
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A Long, Long Case...
A murder just happened and it seems the answer is simple on who and how did it. But a casual talk be...
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Assassin of the Tsar
A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiariti...
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Dark
This story of the beginning of the century about a terrorist and a prostitute combined the inhumanit...
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Love by Request
Two people: Igor, an ex-athlete living aimlessly and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, a dowdy l...
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A Sweet Woman
A story about life and love of a young girl Anna who moves from her village to a big city....
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Racers
An unpleasant incident on the winter track results in a conflict between two racing drivers: the agi...
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Guard Me, My Talisman
The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. ...
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Mado, poste restante
In this gentle comedy, Mado (Marianne Groves) is the letter-carrier for her small town, and she is c...
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Bed of Procust
The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the...
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Poor, Poor Pavel
Lenfilm's most recent major production spins a kind of historical fantasy based on real incidents th...
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We, the Undersigned
The main events unfold in the train. The acceptance committee from Moscow, revealing deficiencies in...
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The Bonus
A small construction team led by Potapov suddenly refuses to receive a bonus payment from their comp...
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Yankovsky
This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a re...
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Birds of Paradise
The events of the film take place in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. It is forbidden to listen ...
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Kreutzer Sonata
A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name....
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The Dream of Russia
Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across ...
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Белая земля
Operation Holtsauga was a Nazi plan to destroy Soviet ships and aircraft approaching Murmansk, which...
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Crusader
At the filming movie about the crusaders, in Turkey, with one of the stunts died in accident. Death ...
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72 Degrees Below Zero
Antarctic station "Vostok" threatens conservation due to lack of fuel. Volunteer squad is called to ...
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The Spy
1916: on the verge of being evicted from his apartment, unable to find a job, with a desperate wife ...
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Ivan & Abraham
In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes fr...
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Evenings on a farm near Dikanka
A fantasy film on the theme of the early works of Nikolai Gogol, tightly interwoven with his persona...
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The Hat
The hero of the movie is a popular composer and jazz performer. He is certainly a gifted man. Howeve...
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Loser
Initially, all the events take place in Moscow, where the main character Dima accidentally ends up i...
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The Turning Point
The newlyweds return to Moscow after a wonderful sea cruise on the Black Sea. It seems that they wil...
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The Kiss
Lieutenant Ryabovich was accustomed to the monotonous life of an officer, but he found another life—...
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Speech for the Defence
Valya supported her lover, denied herself everything, devotedly and sincerely loved him. He answered...
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Mute Witness
When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dila...
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My Twentieth Century
A tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison ...
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Under a Stone Sky
In the autumn of 1944, contrary to the order of the Nazi command to evacuate to the south, residents...
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Feedback
The film raises acute issues in construction, where, back in the 1970s, all the social shortcomings ...
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Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the...
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Police Sergeant
Alexey Severtsev, who came to enroll at Leningrad University from Siberia, is cleverly deceived by e...
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Those Who Kept the Fire
The movie takes place in the first years after the Bolshevik coup in Donbas. Bandits blow up the bri...
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The Man Who Cried
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a...
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Balakirev the Jester
Pyotr's jester Ivan Balakirev is caught up in complicated family relations of Russian emperor and pa...
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The Belkin Tales: The Shot
Feeling taunted by the success of an inordinately fortunate nobleman, an officer decides to challeng...
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Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
A poetic and intimate scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia'....
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Marriage
About the hapless bridegroom Podkolesin, who escaped from the bride through the window, and the pick...
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Guilty Without Guilt
In a small provincial town, a famous actress comes on tour, who once fled from here from the shame o...
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The Retired Colonel
Korney Korneevich Polunin is a career military officer, a retired colonel. His wife died when his so...
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Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt grew up a handsome guy, girls peered at him, and he dreamed of becoming a king and getting...
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A Sentimental Romance
The film is set in the 1920s. Shura Sevastyanov is an aspiring journalist in a small newspaper, with...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Ho...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2
The second part of the Soviet TV adaption....
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Revizorro
An adaptation of the play by Ukrainian playwright Mykola Gogol, set in Tsarist Russia during the 19t...
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Me, Francysk Skaryna
A film about the Belarusian publisher and educator Francis (Georgy) Skaryna, who lived in the first ...
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The Trustees
A television play based on A.N. Ostrovsky's play *"The Last Victim"*, filmed for the 180th anniversa...
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Lad from Our Town
The young officer Sergei Lukonin faced severe trials: the war in Spain, an injury, escape from capti...
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