Leonid Parfyonov
Birthday: 1960-01-26
Place of Birth: Cherepovets, USSR [now Russia]
Biography: Russian veteran journalist, news presenter, TV producer and author of many popular documentary TV shows. Parfyonov is best known for his studio work and productions for the NTV (of which he was Producer General between 1997 and 1999) until that TV channel was subdued by the government-owned Gazprom Media. From December 3, 2004 until December 20, 2007 he was an Editor-in-Chief of Russky Newsweek, Russian edition of Newsweek. Parfyonov is currently a member of Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. As the author and narrator of the daily culture news TV show Namedni on NTV, Parfyonov produced the line of popular history TV documentaries which he narrated and hosted on-site of almost each event portrayed. The series achieved great success and were repeatedly broadcast for years after premiere.
Movies
Namedni-2020-2. Tiktok. Beirut. Khabarovsk. Belarus. Karabakh. Morgenstern. Navalny and poison
Events, people, phenomena that determined the way of life. That, without which it is impossible to i...
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Namedni-1921 Capablanca. Hunger in the Volga region. March 8. Youth Theater. Homeless children
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The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mappin...
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Generation P
Set in the ground zero of gangster globalism and driven by a truly manic energy, Generation P is at ...
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Russian Georgians. Part 2
The second part of Leonid Parfyonov's project "Russian Georgians" will begin with a story about Stal...
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And Personally Leonid Ilyich
A famous Russian documentarist Leonid Parfyonov with deep investigation into the life of Leonid Brez...
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Still Waters
Kashtanov, professor of medicine and famous Moscow surgeon, is experiencing midlife crisis. Suddenly...
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Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.
The history of Jewish people in Russia up until the 1917 revolution....
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Eye of God
The «Eye of God» is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. It shows how progressi...
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Gogol the Bird
This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the ...
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Russia in Bloom
A documentary about Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer in color photography of early 20th-century Rus...
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Boris Godunov
Our eternal theme is crime and punishment. In Boris Godunov, the problems of conscience and existent...
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Russian Georgians. Part 1
The film is about the historical role of Georgians in Russian, and later - Soviet politics, culture ...
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Listyev. A New Look
Investigation of the causes of death of Vladislav Listyev. 25 years passed, but the perpetrators of ...
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Zvorykin-Muromets
Parfenov's documentary is about a brilliant scientist and engineer, born in Russia, but only known o...
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Bashlachev. The Flight of Death
A documentary film about the life and early death of Russian singer and songwriter Aleksandr Bashlac...
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He Came to Give Us Freedom
Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom befo...
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In Qvevri Veritas
Leonid Parfyonov travels to Georgia, where he studies how amphorae are made and grapes are crushed w...
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Children of the 20th Congress
In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties....
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The Age of Nabokov
Leonid Parfenov's program “Nabokov's Century” is dedicated to the centenary of the great Russian and...
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