Oleg Menshikov
Also Known As: Олег Меньшиков, Oleg Jewgenjewitsch Menschikow, オレグ・メンシコフ
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov (born 8 November 1960) is a Soviet and Russian entertainer. He is a film and theatre actor, singer and director. He started his film career in the early 1980s playing in the comedy Pokrovskie vorota and in Nikita Mikhalkov's Rodnya. In 1993, Menshikov collaborated again with Mikhalkov in their most famous film, Burnt by the Sun. Portraying a manipulative and suicidal NKVD agent during Stalin's Great Purge, Menshikov's performance brought him to the attention of a wide international audience. The film won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Menshikov appeared in Régis Wargnier's 1999 film, East-West with Sandrine Bonnaire and Catherine Deneuve. Menshikov played the hero of Mikhalkov's 1998 The Barber of Siberia, with Julia Ormond playing his mistress. He appeared as Erast Fandorin in the 2005 film The Councillor of State. He filled the role of Ostap Bender in the 2006 Russian mini-series based on The Little Golden Calf. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oleg Menshikov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Birthday: November 08, 1960
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Gender: Male
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Big Volodya, Small Volodya
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-09-15
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What Men Talk About
Overview: Four old friends - Kamil, Lesha, Sasha and Slava - all well-to-do professionals in their late 30s embarking on a two days road trip from Moscow to Odessa. They wish to escape the metropolis and the everyday routine of work, family and girlfriends to relax in a nightclub run by Slava's friend and to see the popular band B-2 show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-03-04
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East/West
Overview: June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-01
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The Pokrovsky Gates
Overview: Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Khobotov's new fiancé. All these people live in one apartment and their lives constantly touch each other's.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-02-11
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Overview: Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in the front-lines. His daughter, Nadia, who survived a rape attempt by Nazi soldiers, is now a nurse risking her own life to save others. In the war-torn nation even former enemies are fighting together to defend their land. People stand up united for the sake of victory. Written by Steve Shelokhonov
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-04-22
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Overview: The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything has changed and he will have to fight again for his name, for his honor, and for his love.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-05-05
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Burnt by the Sun
Overview: Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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The Barber of Siberia
Overview: Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-11-11
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The Stairway
Overview: Having his life come to a dead end, Vladimir is thinking about suicide. He is saved by a girl and spends the night at her home. The next morning, Vladimir wants to leave, but finds himself trapped by the house: the staircase seems to have no end, again and again it brings him to the same floor.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-11-11
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Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Overview: On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-10-04
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Moonsund
Overview: Captain of a Russian battleship "Novik" Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady Klara who is a German spy. They cannot be together because of the war and their professions. But they are in such love that all the war battles and battleships do not stop them, only their duties do.
Genres: War Drama History Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-12-01
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Kin
Overview: The story follows Maria Konovalova who travels from her rural village to visit her daughter Nina in the city. Maria's arrival exposes the stark contrasts between rural and urban lifestyles and reveals deep-seated family tensions. Interestingly, Родня (Rodnya) in Russian sounds very similar to the word Родина (Rodina), which means "Motherland." The film features three generations of women — Maria, her daughter Nina, and her granddaughter Irina — symbolizing three different Russias: one from the past, one modern, and one representing the future.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-12-06
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Prisoner of the Mountains
Overview: Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1996-03-15
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These... Three True Cards...
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The State Counsellor
Overview: Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation...
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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Mommy
Overview: After Polina, a mother of six, loses her husband, who went to jail for stealing charcoal and was killed when he tried to escape, she stays behind without any support. To be able to survive, Polina and her family start a folk group. But soon she understands that her children deserve a better fate, and she takes the desperate decision to steal a plane and go abroad... Fifteen years later, Polina is released from prison and finds out that fate has scattered her children all over the country: one is in the army, another is a miner in the Donbass, and the oldest, Lyonchik, who used to be in a mental institution, now pretends to be insane. Polina gathers all of her sons to free their older brother from the psychiatric hospital...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1999-03-31
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Legend No. 17
Overview: Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-04-17
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My Favorite Clown
Overview: Film is based on the eponymous book by V. Livanov. About a boy, who is adopted by the divorced man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-10-09
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Yankovsky
Overview: This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his personal life. Although it's all in the film: a dramatic fate, unknown pages of biography. Like any great actor, he possessed a secret - he did not tell both in the movies and in life. But his main gift was not even acting. Yankovsky was talented at making people fall in love with him. I wanted to look at him again and again: that's why they loved him and still love him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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Limited Life
Overview: A story about young girl Masha who is living in abandoned house and surrounded by the very strange company...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-06-06
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Doctor Zhivago
Overview: Russian TV miniseries of Boris Pasternak's classic novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-04-01
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Obstacle Course
Overview: After a demobilization Vladimir starts working in a little porcelain shop as a repairer - but soon gets involved in criminal activity - so he desperately needs help from army friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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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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The Hole
Overview: A few days from the life of average brothel in early XX century Russia. Based on the classical novel by Aleksandr Kuprin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-08-16
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Through Main Street with an Orchestra
Overview: Vasily Muravin, 50, a teacher at the Moscow Institute of Management, is experiencing a crisis. At work, the place of the head of the department is replaced by the more pragmatic, but limited person Valentin Romanovsky. At home, his wife Lida, who earns at work more than her husband, habitually reproaches him for indecision. It’s hard for Muravin to come to terms with his established attitude to himself, but he is most worried when his wife shows disrespect for his main hobby - playing the guitar. Once, unable to bear the bullying, Muravin suddenly leaves the family (wife and daughter) and from work.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-05-12
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The Kiss
Overview: The film is based on the short story by Anton Chekhov. Gentlemen invited to tea by the local landowner, a retired major-General von Rebbeca.. Lieutenant ryabovich lost in the darkness, in the rooms of the old house, suddenly kissed a stranger.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-10-22
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Золотой век Зои Богуславской
Overview: A film about a unique woman, Zoya Borisovna Boguslavskaya - a writer, playwright, public figure and the wife of the Soviet poet Andrei Voznesensky, who celebrates her 100th birthday this year.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2024-08-25
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Dyuba-Dyuba
Overview: Andrei's ex-girlfriend Tania (Anzhela Belyanskaya) has been constantly in danger of going to jail since he knew her. Their breakup was not his doing, and he is determined to keep her out of jail. Andrei (Oleg Menshikov) has a notion that, if he can raise enough money, he can smuggle her out of Russia into New York, where all will be well. While Andrei's grasp on reality may be tenuous, his ability to maneuver and scheme is unimpaired. He is a student filmmaker, and the kind of money he needs to save Tania with doesn't grow on trees. He begins raising funds by mugging men at public toilets, and graduates to stealing the drug money accumulated by more serious gangsters. After he has raised the money to accomplish his goal, his girl, the light of his life, confesses that she despises him, and then goes out and gets arrested.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-11-28
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Gogol. The Beginning
Overview: The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.
Genres: Mystery Adventure Thriller Horror
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-08-31
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Игроки
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-10-12
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Woe From Wit
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-01-02
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Invasion
Overview: Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-02-27
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Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
Overview: Soon after Gogol's death, Binh names him guilty for the deaths of the Cossacks and the young women at the hands of the Dark Horseman, since he was the one who ordered them to be hidden in the barn. Bomgart is unable to perform a post-mortem analysis on the Gogol's body, while Vakula's daughter Vasilina (who secretly has magic abilities) proclaims denial about Gogol's demise.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-08-30
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I Wait and Hope
Overview: 1942 The Great Patriotic War is in full swing. The German command begins an intensified struggle with partisan detachments. One of these detachments, operating in Polissya, is surrounded by enemy troops. There is only one way out of this situation - it is necessary to disorient the enemy and break through the cordon. But how to do that?
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Splashes of Champagne
Overview: The film is based on the novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev "Vacation by Wound." The story of the few weeks that young lieutenant Volodya spent in Moscow in the summer of 1942 after treatment at the hospital. Directly from the Rzhev Front with a bandaged hand, in a bloodstained padded jacket and tattered boots, he goes on vacation to his mother in the capital. Here, at the height of the war, almost peaceful life is going on - lines for vodka and beer, restaurants for the aristocracy of nomenclature, parties, girls... It’s another month for Volodya to live an ordinary life in Moscow, in a peaceful city in which everything is alien to him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-02-23
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Капитан Фракасс
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Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-03-22
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The Legend of Salieri
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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