Leonid Parfyonov
Also Known As: Leonid G. Parfënov, Леонид Парфёнов, Leonid Parfenov, Леонид Парфенов
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cherepovets, USSR [now Russia]
Birthday: January 26, 1960
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Gender: Male
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Namedni-2020-2. Tiktok. Beirut. Khabarovsk. Belarus. Karabakh. Morgenstern. Navalny and poison
Overview: Events, people, phenomena that determined the way of life. That, without which it is impossible to imagine us, is even more difficult to understand. Another year - another series. What do you remember about the second half of 2020? Protests in Khabarovsk. Rallies in Minsk. Clip of the rap group "Kasta". Second wave of coronavirus. War in Karabakh. Legendary Morgenshtern Dust. Russian brands - "Sputnik V" and "Novichok". Navalny survived and called. And also Tik-Tok and Danya Milokhin with Baskov. All this is in the information and analytical review by Leonid Parfyonov.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-05-31
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Namedni-1921 Capablanca. Hunger in the Volga region. March 8. Youth Theater. Homeless children
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-03-01
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Namedni-2020-1. Covid. Remote. Resetting. Traffic accident with Efremov. Screenlife
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-05-01
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Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
Overview: The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir Putin had just settled into the Kremlin for his third term. The original experimental format of “documentary bulletins,” which were published daily online, allowed for wide-ranging content; in the feature film version, however, the filmmakers focused solely on the members of various opposition groups. Nevertheless, the work’s neutral position remains and viewers have to interpret the objectively presented situations for themselves. The main characteristics of this strongly authentic movie include close contact with the protagonists, precise editing, and an effectively controlled release of information.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-07-09
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Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Generation P
Overview: A chronicle of Russia's transition from communism to capitalism.
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-04-14
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Russian Georgians. Part 2
Overview: The second part of Leonid Parfyonov's project "Russian Georgians" will begin with a story about Stalin's design of the Russian patriotic upsurge in the Patriotic War, after which it will capture the post-war period - the Stalinist Russian style and the short-lived tandem of Beria and Malenkov. Then it will take us to the "thaw". The period of new heroes - a poet with a guitar Bulat Okudzhava and film directors Mikhail Kalatozov (Katalozishvili), Marlena Khutsiev (Khutsishvili) and Georgy Danelia. The journey will end with the stories of post-Soviet stars - Tsereteli, Tsiskaridze, Leps (Lepsveridze), Tutberidze and Akunin (Chkhartishvili).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2022-02-24
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And Personally Leonid Ilyich
Overview: A famous Russian documentarist Leonid Parfyonov with deep investigation into the life of Leonid Brezhnev.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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Still Waters
Overview: Kashtanov, professor of medicine and famous Moscow surgeon, is experiencing midlife crisis. Suddenly he decides to leave everything and escape to the countryside in order to spend some time with old friends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-06-06
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Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.
Overview: The history of Jewish people in Russia up until the 1917 revolution.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-04-14
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Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948.
Overview: Second part of Documentary project
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-03-23
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Eye of God
Overview: The «Eye of God» is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. It shows how progressive and pro-West Russians can be, when it comes to comprehending the essence of beauty. Ivan Tsvetayev, a village priest's son, the founder of the museum, wanted the new generation of "Ivans" to understand that we are Europe, while Antiquity is our mutual cradle.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-05-31
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Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
Overview: Third movie in the series.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-09-21
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Gogol the Bird
Overview: This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the unique style of the author Leonid Parfyonov. Documentary shows that the author of "Dead Souls", "The Inspector General" and "Taras Bulba" is not the founder of realism in Russian literature, but a modern and actual avant-garde writer who created works hitherto unprecedented, full of magic and phantasmagoria.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-03-30
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Russia in Bloom
Overview: A documentary about Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer in color photography of early 20th-century Russia.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-10-08
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Boris Godunov
Overview: Our eternal theme is crime and punishment. In Boris Godunov, the problems of conscience and existential choice are linked to the history of the country. Pushkin says that these things are woven into a mysterious knot or pattern. The choice of each of us is also the choice of our own history. An incorrect individual choice or a karmic mistake can lead to a chain of fatal events. If a person finds himself in power, it can become a problem for the whole people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-09-20
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Russian Georgians. Part 1
Overview: The film is about the historical role of Georgians in Russian, and later - Soviet politics, culture and science. The heroes of the film are Bagration and Shevardnadze, Pirosmani and Danelia, Balanchine and Andronikov.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-02-20
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Leaves. A New Look
Overview: Investigation of the causes of death of Vladislav Listyev. 25 years passed, but the perpetrators of the highest-profile contract murder in Russia in the 1990s were not found. Or didn’t you want to? Or found, but silent? Rodion decided to conduct his investigation. He wants to know the name of the customer. Six months of work, dozens of interviews with colleagues, friends and relatives of Listyev, investigators who conducted the case. And everyone answers the main question: who killed Vlad Listyev?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-02-25
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Zvorykin-Muromets
Overview: Parfenov's documentary is about a brilliant scientist and engineer, born in Russia, but only known on the other side of the ocean. The invention of modern television changed the history of mankind. The invention has an author, who is almost unknown in his homeland. Vladimir Zworykin, born in Murom, a Russian American, was the person who created distant wireless transmission of images.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-03-15
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Bashlachev. The Flight of Death
Overview: A documentary film about the life and early death of Russian singer and songwriter Aleksandr Bashlachev through the eyes of his friends, family members and other representatives of rock music scene.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-02-17
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He Came to Give Us Freedom
Overview: Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom before becoming General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and giving this freedom to the people.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-03-02
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In Qvevri Veritas
Overview: Leonid Parfyonov travels to Georgia, where he studies how amphorae are made and grapes are crushed with bare feet, and learns why orange wine is slowly conquering the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-05-29
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Children of the 20th Congress
Overview: In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-06-01
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The Age of Nabokov
Overview: Leonid Parfenov's program “Nabokov's Century” is dedicated to the centenary of the great Russian and American classic. These are, first of all, the stories of people who knew the writer closely: Elena Vladimirovna Nabokova-Sikorskaya - “the favorite sister of the favorite brother”, as Vladimir Vladimirovich called her, and Nabokov's son Dmitry Vladimirovich. Nabokov, who became a genius of two languages and two literatures, is an exceptional case. The film crew visited America, where Nabokov, an American professor of Russian literature, taught at Cornell University for a long time. The viewer will also see the St. Petersburg mansion and the house in Rozhdestvensko estate, where the happy childhood of the future writer took place, his apartment in the hotel in the Swiss town of Montreux, where Nabokov lived the last sixteen years of his life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1999-04-22
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