Aleksey Petrenko
Birthday: 1938-03-26
Place of Birth: Chemer, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Biography: Ukrainian native Alexei Vasilyevich Petrenko (b. March 26, 1938) has amassed a varied gallery of character and leading roles on Russian stage and screen including the titular “mad monk” in Elem Klimov’s 1981 “Rasputin”, Josef Stalin in BBC II’s docudrama “World War II: Behind Closed Doors”, and General Radlov in Nikita Mikhalkov’s “The Barber of Siberia”.
Movies
12
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men mus...
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King Lear
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their ...
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Experiment 200
Based on K.Bulychev's story "Jubilee-200" about the humanization of chimpanzees....
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The Prisoner of If Castle
A Russian version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those je...
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Into the Storm
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided hi...
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Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversio...
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Six Degrees of Celebration 5
This new year, the beloved characters of Yolki continue to do silly things and hope for a miracle. B...
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Casus Belli
A gentleman hires a female private detective to spy on his wife - and suddenly falls in love....
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of ...
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The Mastermind
The Collector is using his massive collection of curiosities and arts to provoke and manipulate peop...
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The Wave Runner
A pianist named Garvey, while traveling on a tour, gets off the train to buy cigarettes, and learns ...
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In August of 1944
The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days ...
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A Cruel Romance
In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriag...
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The Servant
Multiple-value and tangled relationships between servant and boss... Imperceptible displacement of r...
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The Barber of Siberia
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, expe...
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Bury Me Behind the Baseboard
A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emot...
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The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrent...
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Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding
Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his win...
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Mr. Student
The adventures of a high school student Igor who is helping Reds during the October Revolution in Ru...
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Six Degrees of Celebration 2
Everything goes wrong for several people based in different Russian cities on New Year's eve. To fix...
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Tairov's Death
The film is dedicated to the tragic fate of the outstanding theater director, founder of the famous ...
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Viktor
After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to u...
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Agape
"Agape", translated from ancient Greek, means sacrificial, disinterested love, the desire to give ev...
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Art of Living in Odessa
The plot of the movie is based on books of Isaak Babel about Jewish criminals in city of Odessa befo...
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Farewell
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is...
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Musketeers 20 Years Later
The new adventures of four musketeer friends... Based on Alexandre Dumas père novel "20 Years Later"...
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Not by Bread Alone
During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with...
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Sphinx
Having learned that the empty monastery is facing a thorough reconstruction, the architect decides t...
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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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Illusion of Fear
Story of a successful businessman, who has to protect his business in difficult conditions. He gets ...
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The Key That Should Not Be Handed On
AKirill Sergeyevich, a retired Army officer, becomes the new school Headmaster. Used to a strict and...
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Twenty Days Without War
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels t...
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The Black Council
The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Uk...
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Listen If It's Raining...
Follows the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov’s stories int...
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Davydov and Goliath
Seventh-grader Vitya Davydov is sent to a factory for practical training. His mentor, a worker nickn...
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Day of Wrath
Dr. Fiedler, in a secret underground laboratory located in the reserve, is working on experiments to...
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This Fantastic World 4
This episode of the TV almanac dramatized fragments of A. Tolstoy's science fiction novel "Aelita", ...
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The Light Shines in the Darkness
A man tries to follow his interpretations and behave accordingly, sacrificing his entire private pro...
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Dead Souls
In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title o...
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Marriage
Based on the comedy of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. Succumbing to the persuasion of his friend K...
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Candles in the Dark
Candles in the Dark is the story of a girl who comes to visit her father's homeland, the Soviet Repu...
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White Lilacs
From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in ...
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Lev Tolstoy
The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final ...
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Ruf
French pianist Marie Lamballe-Bulatova married a Soviet diplomat in the 30s, went to the USSR with h...
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Trouble
A weak but kind man is gradually drawn into drunkenness, losing his job and family only to eventuall...
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Incredible Bet, or True Event That Ended Happily Hundred Years Ago
A young student and a rich banker make a bet for two million rubles. On the condition of the wager, ...
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The Rooks
Victor Grach and Leonid Osadchy are dangerous criminals. Considering himself a strong and independen...
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Our Armoured Train
The events of the film take place in the first days of May 1966. Nikolai Kuznetsov, a distinguished ...
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Hoffmaniada
The film will be based around three of Hoffmann's tales (Klein Zaches, The Golden Pot and The Sandma...
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Everyday Matters
It consists of three short stories united by the theme of war: "Where Are You, Lyubov Dunyashova?", ...
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A Portrait with Rain
Misfortune brings Anatoly, a lonely sailor, to meet Claudia, who comes to his house to help bury his...
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Yuliya Vrevskaya
The film is based on a true dramatic story of the fate of a wonderful Russian woman - Countess Yulia...
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Co-op Politburo, or Will be a Long Farewell
An entrepreneurial young man organizes an unusual cooperative. Its members are doubles of prominent ...
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A Day of Sun and Rain
Two 7th graders, a hooligan Mukhin and a good student Kronov do not like each other. They decide to ...
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Only You, My Heart
The title of the film is taken from the popular Bulgarian song. This is a film about the life of a c...
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Shooting Angels
Once upon a time there lived a crazy sculptor who tried to make a sculpture of God, but the statue l...
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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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Sensation
Forester Yuri Savushkin has been protecting nature and animals for several years now. But “seekers” ...
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Presence
A 1993 Russian language drama film directed by Andrei Dobrovolsky, starring Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksa...
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Islands in the Stream
TV version of a play based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel....
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The Lesson
The lesson shown in the film is an allegory of the relationship between teacher and student, father ...
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The Taming of the Shrew
A performance by the Leningrad State Academic Theater named after The Lensoveta based on Shakespeare...
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Kovalyova From the Provinces
Based on the play by Ignatiy Dvoretsky. Television version of the play by the Lensovet Leningrad Aca...
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