Evgeni Leonov

Evgeni Leonov

Birthday: 1926-09-02

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Biography: Yevgeny P. Leonov (2 September 1926 – 29 January 1994) was a famous Russian/Soviet actor who played main parts in several of the most famous Soviet films. Called "one of Russia's best-loved actors", he also provided the voice for many Soviet cartoon characters, including Winnie-the-Pooh.

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Dictatorship of Conscience
Dictatorship of Conscience

Performance of the Lenkom Theater based on the play by M. Shatrov....

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Gentlemen of Fortune
Gentlemen of Fortune

Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of ...

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Kin-dza-dza!
Kin-dza-dza!

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dz...

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Afonya
Afonya

The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main charact...

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Karandash on Ice
Karandash on Ice

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Сказки русского леса
Сказки русского леса

The brightest stars of Soviet cinema and pop music on New Year's Eve 1966 for reasons beyond their c...

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Thirty-three
Thirty-three

The dentist of the provincial town of Upper Yamki made an unexpected scientific discovery by finding...

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Mimino
Mimino

Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying...

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Don't Grieve!
Don't Grieve!

Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person w...

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The Passport
The Passport

A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself c...

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Autumn Marathon
Autumn Marathon

Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English lit...

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Nastya
Nastya

A young Russian store clerk has a drab existence in times of shortages and is berated by her ailing ...

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Hopelessly Lost
Hopelessly Lost

Soviet adventure comedy film based on Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn....

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Tears Were Falling
Tears Were Falling

A beautiful man, husband, father and worker Pavel Ivanovich Vasin got into the eye with a shard of t...

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The House That Swift Built
The House That Swift Built

An immaculate, vivid and breathtaking implementation of Swift's romanticism....

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To Kill a Dragon
To Kill a Dragon

Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes ...

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Ordinary Miracle
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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Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh

According to Winnie-the-Pooh himself, bears love honey very much. That's why it always runs out very...

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Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day

Another Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh story. This time the donkey, known from the Pooh stories as Eeyore, i...

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Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting
Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting

The second of the Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh series. This one had Pooh and Piglet visiting Rabbit for a ...

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The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen

The film tells a story about the extraordinary journey of the modest little girl Gerda. She is looki...

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Detective Bureau "Felix"
Detective Bureau "Felix"

Isn't it a great idea for detective agency - to return missing animals to their owners? Especially i...

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Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
Say a Word for the Poor Hussar

The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue...

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Street Is Full of Surprises
Street Is Full of Surprises

Chief accountant Porfiry Petrovich Smirnov-Alyansky, who took a good walk on the anniversary of his ...

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Striped Trip
Striped Trip

A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. On...

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The Elder Son
The Elder Son

Two students are late for the last commuter train and have to spend a night in a strange town. They ...

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The Duenna
The Duenna

A funny musical based on the comedy "The Duenna" by British dramatist Richard B. Sheridan....

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The Road
The Road

A group of semitrailers is moving through a snow storm - and no one doesn't know that there is a spy...

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A Snow Fairy Tale
A Snow Fairy Tale

New Year's Eve. The boy Mitya, who loves to fantasize, jokingly tells his comrades at school that hi...

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Zigzag of Success
Zigzag of Success

Photo studio "Contemporary" in a provincial town lives with its everyday problems. The director is c...

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Shine, Shine, My Star
Shine, Shine, My Star

In 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution, the peoples had to decide between conforming to ...

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September Vacation
September Vacation

Engineer Zilov, having woken up, finds the funeral wreath at his place – his friends' present. This ...

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The Long Recess
The Long Recess

A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of the...

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Byelorussian Station
Byelorussian Station

"Belorussian Station" is a Soviet drama directed by Andrei Smirnov, completed in 1969 and released i...

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The Serf Actress
The Serf Actress

Batmanova, once a serf, sets Paris aflame with her singing and now returns to the court of the Princ...

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The Rumyantsev Case
The Rumyantsev Case

Sasha Rumyantsev, a long-range driver, becomes an unwitting accomplice in a crime committed by the h...

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Funny People!
Funny People!

The movie intertwines the plot lines of the stories "In the Bathhouse", "Tears Invisible to the Worl...

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Racers
Racers

An unpleasant incident on the winter track results in a conflict between two racing drivers: the agi...

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Chatterbox
Chatterbox

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Laughter and Grief by the White Sea
Laughter and Grief by the White Sea

A celebration of the culture of the Pomors who live around the White Sea....

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Step Forward
Step Forward

Five sad and funny romantic stories about love......

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The Fisher Cat
The Fisher Cat

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The Bonus
The Bonus

A small construction team led by Potapov suddenly refuses to receive a bonus payment from their comp...

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Virinea
Virinea

A life of a countryside woman Virineya during the October Revolution in Russia in 1917....

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The Story about Newlyweds
The Story about Newlyweds

A drama about a complications in a newlyweds life....

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American Grandpa
American Grandpa

A certain Kostyleva, who was fired (cut) from her job, threatens to commit suicide. Her colleague su...

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Happy Flight
Happy Flight

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A Tale of Don
A Tale of Don

A drama about Cossack life based on the short stories by Mikhail Sholokhov....

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On This Festive Evening
On This Festive Evening

A musical film review. On the festive evening of May Day 1959, viewers will join the film's creators...

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A Long, Long Case...
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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Phenomenon
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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Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky

The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the l...

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Between the High Crops
Between the High Crops

A story about a young man who's leading sometimes funny sometimes sad life in the village....

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Marriage
Marriage

Based on the comedy of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. Succumbing to the persuasion of his friend K...

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A Unique Spring
A Unique Spring

Immediately after their wedding, a young family of archaeologists comes to Central Asia for excavati...

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Losyonok
Losyonok

How the guys saved and raised an orphan calf....

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The Little Tiger on the Sunflower
The Little Tiger on the Sunflower

Taiga tale about a tiger cub who warmed the seed of sunflower....

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Welcome
Welcome

A friendly moose lets an insect hitch a ride on his antlers. But the moose is soon taken advantage o...

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Vasilisa the Beautiful
Vasilisa the Beautiful

Young prince meets a talking frog who turns out to be a beautiful but cursed princess. To remove the...

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A Friend in Court Is Better...
A Friend in Court Is Better...

Director of Museum of local lore Ivan Bazhanov, being an enthusiast of the business, went treasure h...

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The Roundabout
The Roundabout

Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with ...

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Literature Lesson
Literature Lesson

A young literature teacher does not like his job. He feels he has to change something in his life. A...

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Short Stories
Short Stories

Miniatures of writers from Russia and foreign countries....

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The Magician
The Magician

In a small provincial town, the magician Viktor Mikhailovich Kukushkin performed in a student dormit...

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Mister Pronka
Mister Pronka

A rich American comes to Russia with a task from the government to convert some Russians to the "Ame...

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Under a Stone Sky
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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Circus in the Circus
Circus in the Circus

To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and a...

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He's All That
He's All That

The story takes place in one of the Siberian timber enterprises, where investigator Prokhorov from M...

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Chunya
Chunya

A young piglet in trouble....

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Hard Happiness
Hard Happiness

A young Gipsy boy is growing up in a Russian village during the Civil War....

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Cherry Town
Cherry Town

Lida Baburova, a tour guide of an architectural museum, unexpectedly receives a warrant for a two-ro...

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Зареченские женихи
Зареченские женихи

A famous country lover finally decides to get married and sends matchmakers to the bride, but gets t...

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Хочу бодаться!
Хочу бодаться!

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Cherished Dream
Cherished Dream

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The First Courier
The First Courier

The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian So...

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By Faith and Honor
By Faith and Honor

The question is what to build — palaces designed to last for centuries, or cheap concrete blocks tha...

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Memorial Prayer
Memorial Prayer

The action takes place in pre-revolutionary Russia, during the period when persecution of Jews began...

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Time and the Conways
Time and the Conways

Action takes place in England during the 20 years between the two wars. The film explores the relati...

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Marine Hunter
Marine Hunter

The action takes place during the Second World War in the battle zone over the Black Sea coast. Sovi...

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Adventures of Vasia Kurolesov
Adventures of Vasia Kurolesov

A comic mystery about Vasia Kurolesov who is trying to become a detective....

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The Legend of Till
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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Proizvedenie iskusstva
Proizvedenie iskusstva

Dr. Ivan Nikolayevich received a bronze candelabrum as a gift from Sasha Smirnov, who was grateful f...

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For the Matches
For the Matches

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some m...

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Arkhangelsk Stories
Arkhangelsk Stories

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Pomor True Story
Pomor True Story

Andrian and Ivan are two brother-sailors who worked in Arkhangelsk as a carved artists. And so, at t...

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Не любо - не слушай
Не любо - не слушай

A series of cartoons based on the stories of northern fairy tales by the writer Stepan Pisakhov. Tal...

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Southern Cross is Above Us
Southern Cross is Above Us

In a small seaside town lived two friends—the feisty Fedka Boiko and the thoughtful, quiet Vovka. On...

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Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
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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An Unusual Friend
An Unusual Friend

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Give Me Back My Rex
Give Me Back My Rex

The doctor hides the death of the dog from Serezha and gives the boy a new friend. A poignant story ...

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Evgeniy Urbanskiy
Evgeniy Urbanskiy

About the Soviet actor of theater and cinema, Honored Artist of the RSFSR - Evgeny Yakovlevich Urban...

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Carrier Fish
Carrier Fish

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Come and Be Our Guest
Come and Be Our Guest

A Squirrel, a Bear cub and a Hare were sitting under a tree and looked at the pictures in the book. ...

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Fantik
Fantik

Animated cartoon about a little baby elephant Fantik and by the evil of Shtush-Kutush....

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How Donkey Got Sick with Sadness
How Donkey Got Sick with Sadness

Once there lived a very hardworking donkey. Everyone loved him, including the girl whom he drove to ...

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The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin
The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin

Scamper is a little penguin who loves wandering around the Artic where he lives with his parents. Un...

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