Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Birthday: 1925-03-28
Place of Birth: USSR
Biography: Innokentiy Smotkunovkiy (born 28 March 1925 – 3 August 1994) was a Soviet film and stage actor. Served during World War II. An acclaimed performer, his portrayal of Hamlet in a 1964 film won him praise overseas, including a BAFTA nomination. One of Smotkunovkiy's best known roles among wider audiences was in a popular Soviet crime comedy Beware of the Car, a satire where he portrayed a thief who stole cars from criminals to donate the money from car sales to orphanages. Other notable roles include dramatizations of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot in Bolshoi Drama Theater (1957) and Tolstoy's Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich in Maly Theatre (1973). Awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1974.
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Moscow-Cassiopeia
Several children go on a lifelong space mission to Cassiopeia because they don't want to go to schoo...
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Teens in the Universe
Interstellar expedition equipped by "pioneers"(soviet scouts) reached Alpha Kassiopea and found that...
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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 Winter of Our Discontent
A television play from John Steinbeck's novel, performed live for Leningrad Television....
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Big Boy
Follows the famous Oryol trotter, multiple champion of the beginning of the century. Then - in sharp...
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Born by the Storm
Ukraine, 1918. Underground worker Sigismund Raevsky organizes a Komsomol cell and gathers young peop...
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How He Lied to Her Husband
Young poet Henry Epjohn is passionately in love with Aurora, the wife of aristocrat Teddy Bompas. Au...
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Dark Eyes
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian....
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Beware of the Car!
An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief steals cars various crooks and never from the commo...
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Soldiers
Set in Russia during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War. The war is shown through the ...
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, ...
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Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for mon...
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Hamlet
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen ...
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Murder on Dante Street
A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII....
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First Encounter - Last Encounter
The story concerns the events in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War. Private detecti...
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Daughters-Mothers
The young girl Olga Vasilyeva grew up in an orphanage. She never knew her mother and wants to find h...
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The Queen of Spades
Hermann is an officer of the engineers in the Imperial Russian Army. He constantly watches the other...
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The Living Corpse
According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not w...
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They Fought for Their Motherland
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of ...
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The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
A story about a good doctor - surgeon Mishkin who works in a countryside hospital....
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A Trap for Lonely Man
Daniel Corban reports his wife Elizabeth missing to the police. A priest arrives and says he has fou...
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Tchaikovsky
The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the l...
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Taming of the Fire
About Russian space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s...
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Genius
He is overly intelligent... He is genius... And he's just trying to make his life a little bit bette...
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Nine Days of One Year
Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are ...
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Road to Eternity
Based on Anna Ahmatova's translation of Korean poem about eternal love....
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Hercules and Admetus
Admetus, king of Feres, makes an agreement with the Fates to postpone the date of his death, in exch...
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Little Tragedies
Based on Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" ("The Miserly Knight", "Mozart and Salieri", "The Stone Guest"...
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Gold
When gold is discovered in a remote location, a variety of different groups descend on the spot to s...
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Romance for Lovers
Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania wait...
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Discovering Hamlet
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and d...
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The Little Prince
Based on the classic novella, "Le petit prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupery....
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On Thursday and Never Again
On the eve of his wedding, a young doctor leaves Moscow to see his mother who lives in a nature rese...
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The Revelation of John the Foreprinter
Historical drama about the engineer of the first printing press built in Muscovite Rus' and his comp...
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Naval Cadets, Charge!
Three naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Bestuzhev, a v...
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Bells of Autumn
A musical fairytale based on the poem "The Tale of the Dead Princess" by Alexander Pushkin....
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The Barrier
In this picture, the barrier epitomizes the line between reality and dreams, the pattern of harmony ...
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The Cabal of Hypocrites
A play about the life and death of Jean-Baptiste Molière, an artist tired of fighting the world....
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The Princess and the Pea
In one of the realms, there was time for the prince to get married, but the bride would have to be a...
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The Murderer
A tragic accident happens during the shooting of a movie about Jesus Christ. An actor who plays Jesu...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Soviet adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jeky...
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Phenomenon
One soviet programmer has problems in his job. He is laughed at by women, they think he is too awkwa...
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This Fantastic World 7
The main characters of this edition of the popular television almanac are the heroes of the fantasti...
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Anna and Commander
Researching for a script about a famous scientist who tragically passed away, a writer meets his wif...
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Mozart and Salieri
Leningrad State Drama Theatre's staging of Pushkin's play Mozart and Salieri....
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Gray Ural
A film about the Northern Urals and its nature, as well as about the life of a local forester and hi...
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Mozart and Salieri
Film version of the Rimsky Korsakov opera from the Pushkin story. Motsart i Salyeri (Mozart and Sali...
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Theft
Theft takes place in Washington, DC. Howard Knox is a well-intentioned Congressman crusading for ref...
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Dead Souls
Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obta...
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Children of the Sun
A story from the life in the beginning of XX century based on the theater play by Maxim Gorky....
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The Night Guest
Late one summer evening, another guest arrives at a cottage on the shore of a beautiful lake, where ...
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Velvet Season
In the fall of 1938, three former fighters of the international brigade — russian Shukhov, frenchman...
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Uncle Vanya
Serebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yeléna, visit their co...
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Ladies Tailor
The last twenty-four hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor and his family just prior to their deport...
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Primary Russia
The film takes place in pre-Christian Russia, when Ratibor united the East Slavs into one army again...
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Death Line
A factory worker leads a double life. In that other reality, he's a "killer" doing his dirty work. R...
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At the End of the Night
On the night of June 22, 1941, a fire breaks out on a German passenger ship. The Soviet tanker "Casp...
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On the Same Planet
Tired of watching the total collapse of the army on the fronts of World War I, left without his scat...
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Last Month of Autumn
An older couple have four children who left them long ago. Tired of waiting for letters which never ...
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Fulfillment of Desires
A young philologist works in his teacher's archive, and he manages to decipher Pushkin's priceless a...
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Heart Is Not a Stone
According to the play of the same name of A. N. Ostrovsky. The merchants already possess the big equ...
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The Steppe
A boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city....
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A Leap Year
On the streets of the regional city, a cheerful holiday bustle reigns. The apartment of the Kupriyan...
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Two Under One Umbrella
Juggler Dan is beautiful and carefree and not too eager to become the circus main star. However, th...
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Gold
Mashenka, a young typist during WWII, flees her occupied town with her boss, the senior cashier of a...
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Khalif the Stork
A rich caliph is leading a careless life. One day an evil wizard sells him a magic potion that can t...
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Late love
According to the play of the same name A. N. Ostrovsky. About fidelity and cunning, about purity of ...
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The Last Road
About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel ...
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Next to Us
The engineer and the reporter arrived at one of the plants of the Altai. They have just completed th...
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Without Sun
“Without the Sun” is the first name that Gorky himself gave to his play and which most closely match...
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The Siege of Venice
Venice, eighteenth century. The young Rosanna, widowed on her wedding day, discovers that she is the...
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White Feast
Knowing that he will soon pass on, elderly Valentin Grack hires private detective Stanislav to follo...
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Mysterious Heir
The young artist Burtsev goes to Paris about the inheritance left to him by his uncle, who left for ...
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Restricted Area
Central Russia. The deputy chairman of the district executive committee, Tretyakova, was instructed ...
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My Sister Lucy
The film is a recollection of an adult about the unforgettable days of the first post-war year. Kla...
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Black Corridor
History teacher Nikolay Echevin on his sixtieth birthday receives an anonymous letter in which he is...
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The Legend of Till
Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their...
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Until Next Spring
For Vera — a student of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute, first love instead of joy and happiness...
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Letter Never Sent
Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome j...
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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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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1
The final film of the television series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson." It is ba...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
This film version was released before the premiere of the full two-part television version (The Adve...
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I want to go to America
The spicy story of a modest Russian guy drawn into the incessant sexual marathon by the will of riva...
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The Case
A film adaptation of A. Sukhovo-Kobylin’s work “The Case,” which reproduces the details of the autho...
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I Am Flying to You as a Memory...
The film is based on the drawings and manuscripts of A.S.Pushkin....
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With You I Am Again...
The second part of a trilogy of films based on Pushkin's drawings, poems and letters....
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My Favorite Time
A full-length animated film based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin, which includes all three picture...
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Mother
The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly ...
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Storm
In the winter of 1918, a provincial Russian town is faced with a shortage of food, firewood, and med...
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First Love
First Love is based on the eponymous novella by Ivan Turgenev set in the first third of the 19th cen...
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Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on th...
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Talking Hands of Travancore
Many centuries ago, on the southwest coast of India, in Travancore, the art of kathakali dance arose...
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Evgeniy Urbanskiy
About the Soviet actor of theater and cinema, Honored Artist of the RSFSR - Evgeny Yakovlevich Urban...
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Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director
A film about the life and work of the famous film director Mikhail Romm....
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Traveling With a Double
In his unpublished main work, The Boards of Fate, Velimir Khlebnikov discovered the Law of Time, acc...
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My Heart Is in the Highlands
Screen version of William Saroyan's play about a family of Armenian immigrants during the Great Depr...
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Little Tragedies
Leningrad State Drama Theater television staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous...
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A Joke?!...
A young woman takes a job as a laboratory assistant at a research institute. The established relatio...
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At the Origins of Mankind
Animals and humans are part of a single chain of all living things, two poles of the living world. ...
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To Be Hamlet
Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the par...
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The Idiot
This film-concert is a ballet based on the novel "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, set to the music ...
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In Memory of Dostoevsky
The film is based on excerpts from the works of the great Russian thinker Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoe...
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