Vasili Lanovoy
Birthday: 1934-01-16
Place of Birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Biography: Lanovoy came to prominence through playing bold, dashing characters, combining heroic bravado with a sensitivity typical of Russian heroes, a tendency evident in many of his early features, however, he is best known for his roles in iconic 1970s World War II-themed films. In 2000s, Lanovoy appeared primarily in the roles of Soviet-era party bosses, such as Yuri Andropov in the 2005 TV film Brezhnev. In 2013, he played the role of Cardinal Richelieu in Russian movie The Three Musketeers.
Movies
Shares in Murder
Beth Tyson is murdered in her mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell and Detective Philb...
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Hello Doctor
A young surgeon Alexander came to the village for a vacation. He is pleased with himself, everything...
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Battle at the Crossroads
Soviet propaganda film. The first years of the VChK formation. Nurse Yunna Ruzhich and poet Lafar, w...
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War and Peace
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...
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The Leader
The leader of a flock of geese talks about the cruelty of people, but not all of them....
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Tear of the Prince of Darkness
Tallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to...
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Officers
Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20...
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War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high ...
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A Strange Woman
Irina Kupchenko stars in this psychological drama by the renowned director/writer team of Yuli Raizm...
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Scarlet Sails
A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a b...
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Dark Sun
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explo...
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Black Square
While investigating an ordinary homicide a group of detectives suddenly find a connection to a very ...
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Days of the Turbins
Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guar...
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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
In 1812, as Napoleon's army invades Russia, Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, y...
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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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Lady Into Lassie
Based on a famous short story by Pushkin, this film tells of a youthful, innocent and pure love stor...
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The Mystery of Snow Queen
A new interpretation of the most known and beloved fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen - "Snow Que...
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Start Liquidation
Army and police are trying to fight crime in West Belarus during Spring of 1945....
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Defeat
A 4-partmade-for-television feature film. Two young physicists, engaged in the problems of atmospher...
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Ogaryova Street, Number 6
Detective Kostenko is traveling between Moscow and Sukhumi trying to find the responsible for double...
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The Three Musketeers
Young d'Artagnan comes to Paris to be a musketeer. There, he meets three old musketeers, members of ...
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Problem Child
A drama about a high school conflict based on the novel by Liya Geraskina....
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Fifty-Fifty
A Soviet KGB agents are trying to prevent British-American operation of stealing information about a...
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Pavel Korchagin
A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered"....
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Night on the Cordon
A grandfather tells his grandson about the events of 1942 that he experienced as a child....
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The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tell...
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Antony and Cleopatra
The love story of the great Roman commander Anthony and the oriental beauty Cleopatra, the tragic su...
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Comrade Song
The movie-almanac consists of three novellas dedicated to the song. "Song-password". Lieutenant Marc...
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North-West of Berlin
A military unit freed a soldier from captivity. It turned out that his fiancee serves as a nurse in ...
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Solaris
Kris Kelvin joins the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to find its two crew members p...
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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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The Last Moons
Old age knows no national boundaries or geographical limits. She can be peaceful and happy in the ci...
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Thirteenth Chairman
The trial of the collective farm chairman Sagdaev, who deviated from some outdated rules of law in o...
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The Man with the Gun
The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent...
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Martha's Line
Moving to a new place of residence, to an old apartment in the slums of St. Petersburg, Olga and her...
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The Sixth of July
Political thriller based on a story of coup against Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary P...
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The Falling
A detective investigates the sudden suicide of his father who was one of a responsible for hiding Co...
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War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
As 1809 nears its end, Natasha attends her first ball, where Andrei falls in love with her with the ...
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A Chivalrous Romance
The action of the movie is set in the late 11th century Constantinople during the time of the 1st Cr...
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Sea Cadet of Northern Fleet
The screen story of four teenagers, on whom the horrors of war had left an indelible mark. Their rel...
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No Password Necessary
A spy game between Reds and Whites is in full motion during Russian Civil War....
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The Bourgeois Gentleman
A recording of the Vakhtangov Theatre’s production of the play by Jean-Baptiste Molière. "The Bourg...
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Striped Trip
A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. On...
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Going Inside a Storm
Sergei Krylov and Oleg Tulin, are promising young physicists in the field of thunderstorms. They dre...
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Stronger Than a Hurricane
The Soviet training sailing ship Albatross arrived in Jakarta. Having loaded with rice intended for ...
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A Thousand Souls
Based on the eponymous novel by A.F. Pisemsky. A play about the all-powerful influence of money and ...
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Invisible Traveller
At the heart of the picture is a common legend about the last days of Emperor Alexander the First Bl...
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Error of investigation
Retired investigator Klimov comes with his granddaughter to his country house to rest before a compl...
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Brezhnev
A biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that originally aired in four parts on R...
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Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
The second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Th...
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Interviews with Filmmakers: Vasiliy Lanovoy
Actor Vasili Lanovoy, talks about his early encounters with Tolstoy and Russian literature, landing ...
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Three Hundred Years Ago...
In the middle of the 17th century, Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks rose up to fight against the Poli...
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Lyubov Yarovaya
The years of civil war. Teacher Lyubov Yarovaya is on the side of the revolution. Her husband Mikhai...
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Petrovka Street, Number 38
According to the story of the same name by Yulian Semyonov. Employees of the Moscow Criminal Invest...
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Nutcracker. Anniversary Evening of Ballet Legend Galina Ulanova
Anniversary evening of the legend of the Soviet ballet, People's Artist of the USSR Galina Ulanova. ...
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Red Cavalry
The authors, like Isaac Babel, rejected the depiction of battles, the simplification, and varnishing...
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Dedication to Eve
Extraordinary and mysterious events begin very ordinarily: journalist Larsen arrives at the home of ...
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