Nikita Kukushkin
Also Known As: Никита Кукушкин
Biography: Nikita Andreevich Kukushkin (Russian: Никита Андреевич Кукушкин; born November 14, 1990, Moscow) is a Russian theater and film actor, public figure. One of the leading actors of the Gogol-Center. He studied at a school with a theatrical bias "Class-center". As a teenager, he performed in the Children's Musical Theater of a young actor. Later, he entered the College of Culture in absentia, but took the documents after several months of study. Then he studied in the class of Kirill Serebrennikov at the Moscow Art Theater Studio School, after graduation he continued to work under the guidance of Serebrennikov at the Seventh Studio and the Gogol Center. He plays in most of the theater's performances. In 2019, he staged his first directorial work at the Gogol Center, the play "Bozhenka" based on the play by Valery Pecheykin. For his performance in the movie "Correction Class" he received a Special jury Prize of the Amur Autumn Festival. He starred in supporting roles in the films "Okolofootball", "Harms", "Captain Volkonogov Ran", "Attraction", the television series "Method", "Walking through the Torments", "Call Center". In 2020, he starred in the dystopian web series about Russia of the future "amroN" by the famous theater director Maxim Didenko. Kukushkin often appears in other popular video works, for example, video clips. A volunteer, he is the organizer of a number of charity projects, such as the "Good Box" (assistance to the poor) and "#yavpomosh" (assistance to pensioners during the coronavirus pandemic). Participated in flood relief in the Krasnodar Territory. Together with other famous actors, he recorded a video in support of the defendants in the "Moscow Case". In December 2020, he launched a new charity initiative "Help". As part of the initiative, a mobile application has been created in which the profiles of real people in need of help, as well as their stories, are displayed on the map. Users of the service donate funds, for example, to a consumer basket. The service reports quarterly and annually to users, providing photos and receipts of purchases made.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, USSR (Russia)
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Birthday: November 14, 1990
Age: 34 years old
Gender: Male
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Man Without a Name
Overview: Valeriy Pecheykin's one-man theatrical piece explores and celebrates the life of Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky, an aristocratic 19th-century Russian polyglot. Using inventive mechanical, musical, and acrobatic set devices, the play sketches out boundaries of Odoyevsky's eccentric character by imagining his pursuits across time and place.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-02-26
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Captain Volkonogov Escaped
Overview: Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. Suddenly he turns into an outcast, whom his former colleagues search across the whole city. At night Volkonogov is visited by a messenger from the other world, who warns him that after death he will go hell and be tormented forever. But he has an opportunity to change his fate and get to paradise if he repents, and at least one person forgives him. The Captain embarks on his way to find forgiveness. But he cannot even fathom what tests are awaiting him on this way.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2023-01-05
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Security
Overview: A story of a young girl Claudia who works as a security guard on a slowly dying metal plant.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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The Duelist
Overview: Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-09-29
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Kicking Off
Overview: This movie is about soccer hooligans, the most aggressive and violent soccer aficionados. They are an exclusive group, the elite of all soccer fans. Whoever they may be in their everyday lives—college students, bankers, musicians, or car mechanics—they are a “firm.” It’s easy to get into a firm, but once you’re in, it’s for life. There’s no going back. The movie is based on actual events
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-09-24
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Corrections Class
Overview: Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a "normal" class. Her enervated teachers, however, show absolutely no desire to motivate the students and help them improve; on the contrary, they try to quash right from the start any interest Lena shows in more complex study material. Nevertheless, Lena soon involves herself in the school routine and gets together with classmate Anton. Yet their transparent happiness is not to everyone's liking and repercussions soon follow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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Your Own Alien Sister
Overview: Anna, the young wife of a successful businessman Alexey, accompanies her husband on a business trip. The day of return is coming, but Lyosha does not appear either at home or in the office. His phone is not answering, his work colleagues do not know where the boss has disappeared. In the process of searching for an entrepreneur, interesting information of a piquant nature suddenly pops up. It turns out that Alexey, an exemplary family man, has a woman and an illegitimate daughter Tanya in another city...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-11-10
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Butterflies
Overview: Sleeping area of the city. The body of a seven-year-old girl was found in the river, not far from the house. There are no witnesses to the incident, but there is a strange young man who says he tried to save the girl.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-11-09
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Eternal Cold
Overview: A girl left a young handsome hockey player on the eve of the decisive match. Moreover, she did not go to anyone, but to a museum worker. To support a friend, five hockey players and a goalkeeper go to the museum to explain to the art critic that he did wrong and the woman must be returned. How could the athletes know that the museum is not just a place where statues stand and pictures are hung on the walls. That in giant vaults-storerooms, ancient as the world creatures, which our ancestors described in myths and legends, rest in frozen form. And they are supervised in the image of quiet museum workers by the same immortal humanoid entities…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-07-14
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Vera
Overview: Vera is left in the hospital to look after her sick grandmother. Vera is not ready for such responsibility. She is looking for support in a new acquaintance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-11-16
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Magnetism
Overview: An atheist girl falls in love with a village priest who was a successful businessman a year ago. At the same time, a local criminal authority falls in love with her and tries to achieve her in every way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-11-16
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Kharms
Overview: He considers himself a genius but the publishers refuse to print his works. He loves women but they don’t always understand him. Constantly without money and out of touch with reality. The elegant fop Daniil Yuvachov names himself Kharms- a name just as effective as his appearance. An habitué of unending literary get-togethers and a lover of scandal. Living in society he is completely separate from it. Kharms throws down a gauntlet to his time, audaciously hurling himself into the vortex of reality, just as vague and arbitrary, with the same contradictions, as represented by his spirit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-12-31
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Attraction
Overview: After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-01-26
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Molodogvardeytsev 32
Overview: The story of three guys from Chelyabinsk who decided to Rob a local grocery store. During the attack, everything goes awry: an unknown creature appears in the back room of a merchant's shop...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-12-06
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That Is Not Me
Overview: The young man doesn't remember how he spent last night, but finds at home an evidence that he murdered a girl. Attempt to understand what happened leads him to new crimes.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-04-16
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Theatre Affair
Overview: In the spring of 2017, the Investigation Committee conducted the first searches in the criminal case, which everyone now knows as the “Serebrennikov case”, “the Seventh Studio case” or “The Platform case”. Six people, among whom is a world-famous director, are accused of having stolen more than one hundred million rubles allocated for staging performances from the state. And for this they can go to jail for 10 years. Journalists Katerina Gordeeva and Roman Super tried to figure out the essence of this matter. We talked to people who know what theater is, including in terms of money. Studied financial documents. Communicated with those with whom no one had ever succeeded. They understood why the applause of the audience and the compliments of the Ministry of Culture turned into arrests. And of course, went to all court sessions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-08-29
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The Net
Overview: A young man arrives in a village on the White Sea. He comes in search of a girl who ran away from the city without saying goodbye. An old man from among the locals offers to show him the way. Neither the young man nor the old imagine what trials await them along the way.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-09-20
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Icaria
Overview: 2027. A medical corporation launches a TV show to promote its revolutionary invention - the human head transplant. A group of young thrill-seekers gather on an island to play a dangerous game. The rules are simple: win or perish.The prize is priceless - immortality.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
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Quiet Life
Overview: Quiet life ends when the engine of a tank starts up. And trying to fire a shot, whether it is for real or for training purposes, can lead to irreversible consequences. Sometimes these consequences become the beginning of someone’s personal life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-06-09
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The Chosen Ones
Overview: The film is based on a dialogue between young and older generations about life, profession, fame, love, the mission of art, the destiny of man, heroism and the ideals of our time. Conversations of outstanding figures of Russian culture with actors who have recently started their professional path and have already clearly declared themselves in art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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Yuha
Overview: The 'Yuha' a story of obsession and despair, two fillings interlinked with true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-10-17
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Hope
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-05-18
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Fuel
Overview: A man goes to search fuel for a broken-down tractor. But all around there is only the desert, grass and wind. To get the tractor to work, the hero starts a fight with an indifferent nature. When an energy source is found, the 20th century begins.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-08-27
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The Chief Accountant. The History of One Company
Overview: Three short stories about Faith, Hope and Love. Three time periods of our country through the eyes of one firm. Three stories about people who tried to run their business against the background of changes in Russia.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-04-22
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Gogol online: Brothers
Overview: Filmed theatre play based on 'Rocco and his brothers"
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-03-29
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Gogol online: Kharms. Myr
Overview: A small but powerful orchestra with strict melodies and rhythms in the spirit of “Avia” unleashes a mechanical frenzy: artists under a thick layer of make-up are throwing replicas from Harms' stories and notebooks. Ultimately, this plotless musical by Maxim Didenko with the artists of the Gogol Center claims to incarnate (literally, from the word “flesh”) the universe of a unique writer, the demiurge of a dislocated reality.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-04-19
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The North Wind
Overview: The matriarchal clan led by gorgeous Margarita enters a turbulent period when her son loses his beloved fiancée. Using the structure of a repetitive ritual, the action spans years but takes place mostly during the annual gatherings of Margarita's extraordinary family in their mansion on New Year's Eve. Margarita believes in the magical 13th hour that can break the eternal circle of repetition, defeat death and bring her much-awaited love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-02-11
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High-Rise
Overview: 24-year-old Platon is not quite clear about what to do with his life. Because of his parents’ connections, he ends up as junior employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After less than a week, he receives an absurd — and almost impossible — task from his eccentric boss. To his help comes Pasha, his friend and flatmate. The young lads understand that for an unusual problem they need an unusual solution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-09-13
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Rastorhuev
Overview: On July 30, 2018, documentary filmmaker Alexander Rastorguev was killed in the Central African Republic. He left a unique mark on Russian cinema, but managed to do much less than he could. "Rastorguev" - a portrait of one of the brightest and most free filmmakers of our time; direct speech and fragments of films, forming a single statement about the meaning of art, homeland and pain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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Help Doc
Overview: Maybe you've seen or heard these phrases on Instagram, in a coffee shop, at an event, from friends, maybe you even use the app and already provide your grandparents with food baskets every month. Just six months ago, no one knew about "Help" and how easy it really is to help. But thanks to a group of people who have decided that they will talk about helping others in the language of technology and modern media, we are increasingly seeing a circle held by two brackets in different cities of the country. This film contains a brief history of "Help" for those who do not know anything about it, an introduction to the team that is mad in its bravery, as well as the cycle of events that is happening with "Help" now. A trip to Sasha Gudkov's hometown, a trip and a performance of the team at the Avaz festival in Kazan, where they work in a car, on a boat, walking around the city, coming to concerts and talk a lot about "Help".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-06-14
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Caught Stealing
Overview: Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player, is unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of '90s New York City.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-08-27
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