
Acting
May 27, 1952
Kohtla-Järve, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Sergei Parshin
Acting
Biography
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (10.31.1988). People's Artist of Russia (8.01.1999). At school, he took an active part in the activities of the drama circle. In 1973 he graduated from the acting department of LGITMiK (workshop of Vasily Merkuryev and Irina Meyerhold). Actor of the Academic Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin (Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg). He made his film debut in 1973 in the movie Smart Things. In the role of a soldier, Ivan Varezhkin was the host of the popular children's program "Tale after Tale" of Leningrad television. Actively engaged in dubbing. Since 2008, he has been Chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia.
Feature Films (52)

Fedot the Shooter is sent by the Czar to find some special food for the foreign ambassador's visit. During the hunt Fedot meets his love Marusya - the magical bird-woman. Evil Czar and his no-less-evil sidekick General with the help of the local witch Yaga try to eliminate Fedot by giving him more and more complex quests and to take Marusya to Tsar's palace. Marusya helps Fedot to solve the quests successfully.
The Tale of Fedot, the Shooter

Petr Konstantinovich is the powerful Director of Petrochemical Industry, which is being built from scratch in a small Siberian town.
Action Scene

Fencer Maria, having learned that the coach inclines girls from her team to cohabit, decides to openly defend the honor of her friends, but does not find support. Their fear of not going abroad to prestigious competitions is stronger.
Happy Stay!

Based on a short story Room number 6 by Chekhov. A doctor taking particular interest in his mental health patients ends up institutionalized himself.
Ragin

Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected...
Shadowboxing

"Makarov" both a popular Russian name, and also slang for the word "gun," serves as a metaphor for the brutal reality of life in a post-totalitarian society. The story's protagonist, Makarov, embodies this struggle as he becomes more mechanical and less spiritual upon acquiring a gun.
Makarov

A new screen version of the play of the same name, written by Aleksandar Ostrovski. After a long time spent traveling abroad, the aging landowner Aleksandar Ashmetev returns to his mansion. He soon informs his spouse Maria Petrova (whom he doesn't love) that intends to leave again for Paris, away from dull provincial life. In despair, Maria thinks up a cunning plan. She introduces Aleksandar to Varya Zubareva, a young beauty from the neighboring mansion, in the hope that she will keep him there for longer. But, the mock intrigue takes a serious turn when it becomes obvious that Aleksandar has become seriously interested in Varya. Aleksandar now begins to think about how he can turn his passion into a real romance with the young temptress.
A Savage

Few months before collapse of USSR. Villages and collective farms are facing with problem: young and working age people leaving countryside for better life in cities. Same problem in collapsing collective farm near Moscow - the only mechanic and harvester driver decides to leave his native village because he feels deeply offended for being severely punished for breakdown harvester. But his countrymen disagree with his decision and try to prevent his escape.
Until the Thunder Strikes

The story of the Siberian Zavarzin family, which has long lived by bee trade. After an incomprehensible virus entered the hives one day, accusations between two neighboring farms reached the intensity of a real war. After all, if there are no bees, then there is no life, and you have to go to the city. The village began to empty before our eyes. The disintegration also occurs within the Zavarzin family: the eldest son gets drunk, the middle one is going to emigrate, the younger one goes crazy, the uncle rages with fat, not knowing where to put his money. And nothing can unite the once strong family anymore.
Swarm

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.
The Dream of Russia

Former prisoners captured plane. But on the way there was a failure, and to alleviate the weight of the aircraft, they throw overboard box with three hostages. The hostages managed to land safely. Now they have to stick together. And around a foreign land with a strange unknown language.
Plane's Flying to Russia

The lieutenant Suvorov and his small group of soldiers come to an abandoned village where only few people are left, and among them there is a schoolteacher with children. Suvorov is quite sure that the front line soon will be here. The lieutenant and his soldiers stay in the village and start their first fight with Nazis, giving time the others to leave…
Lieutenant Suvorov
Television & Series (16)

Soviet live-action film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, aired once in 1991 by Leningrad Television and then thought lost. It was rediscovered in 2021. It includes scenes of Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-wight omitted from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
The Keepers

A former policeman Pozhivaev once notices a leaflet on a post - "A dog has disappeared ...". After a couple of meters, he stumbles upon another ad - about finding a dog. It turns out that it was about the same dog. Pozhivaev decides to help deliver the dog to the owner, who turns out to be his neighbor... So the hero comes up with the idea to create a Service for the search and rescue of pets. It includes a self-taught mechanic Vitya Burkin, an avid computer scientist Garik and Mikhalych, a young authority on the bird market...
Abduction of the Sparrow

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a series of five films produced by Lenfilm for the Soviet Central Television, split into eleven episodes, starring Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson. They were directed by Igor Maslennikov and filmed in Russia (the then Soviet Union) between 1979 and 1986, and the series was one of the most successful in the history of Russian television.









