
Acting
May 29, 1937
Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Acting
Biography
Aleksandr S. Demyanenko (May 30, 1937 – August 22, 1999) was a Russian film and theater actor. He was given the honorary distinction of People's Artist of the RSFSR. He began his acting career with the film "Veter" in 1958, and is well known for playing the character Shurik in a number of films, beginning with the 1965 comedy "Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures", and ending with the 1997 film "Old Songs of the Main Things 2".
Feature Films (103)

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

A team of pop artists arrives in a small resort town and hopes to make money easily. But the guest performers are not given a provincial reception. Vacationing students of the theater university expose the hacks and declare a boycott against them...
The Last Days of Pompeii

A sports drama about a Soviet girl, a natural-born swimmer, who easily sets world records in training but cannot overcome her fear of competing in international competitions in front of packed stands.
Everything Is Decided in a Moment

Follows the preschooler Slavka and his father, a researcher, an avid fan of the lottery "Sport Lotto". One day Slavka brought home a hedgehog, which he exchanged with a friend for a lottery ticket from his dad.…
Hedgehog

Varvara and Pavel Zhdanov did not live long together. The war broke out and Pavel went to the front, and a hard, exhausting job at a metallurgical plant fell on the shoulders of a young woman...
Varvara's Day

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

A chronicle-poetic film about St. Petersburg-Leningrad from the Italian television documentary series "Cultural Capitals of Europe" (seventh film).
Leningrad

After being demobilized from the army, journalist Pavel Tyurin returned to his hometown, where his beloved girlfriend was no longer waiting for him. In addition, his room was given to another tenant. Pasha joined the newspaper's editorial office, where he worked before the army, and began to actively fight for social justice...
Sleep in Your Hand, or a Suitcase

A film based on the biography of the famous Russian balalaika player Vasili Vasilevich Andreev (1867-1918), a self-taught virtuoso musician, who brought balalaika to the concert stage.
Silver Strings

Volodya Kuznetsov, a factory worker, entered the institute. Hoping to have more free time to study, he went to work as a master-mentor in a vocational school. Soon Volodya realizes how responsible and interesting his work is. He can no longer think of himself without his students.
When They Become Adults
Television & Series (12)

Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become his own man. He takes his fathers order and goes trough the woods to deliver the furs to the byer in the nearest town. He tries to take the shorter way and get`s lost. At the highest point of this, his fathers servant, Abdulla, who is sent with him to guard him almost shoots him driven by hunger, but comes to the senses and saves his life by continuing to go on.
Ugryum-River

Post-revolutionary Odessa. A high school boy dreaming of a career as Sherlock Holmes joins the law enforcement agencies and quickly matures, encountering the brutal cynicism of criminals and examples of courage and self-sacrifice from his comrades.
The Green Van

The film follows the fate of the Strogov peasant family. The story takes place in Western Siberia in the late 1940s.









