
Acting
Jun 12, 1923
Rameshki, RSFSR, USSR
Mikhail Pugovkin
Acting
Biography
Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Пу́говкин; 13 July 1923 — 25 July 2008) was a Soviet and Russian comic actor named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1988.
Feature Films (96)

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
The First Day of Freedom

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

The movie takes place during Russia's civil war between the Reds (Bolsheviks) and the Whites (Mensheviks). Andrejka and Yarinka are a young betrothed couple in the village of Malinovka, caught between the battle lines. Gritsian is the leader of a Menshevik band who are planning to attack the village. Yarinka appeals to the local Bolshevik commander for his faction's help. The Bolsheviks quickly come up with a plan to save the village... but the plan requires Yarinka to enter into a pretend marriage with Gritsian.
Wedding in Malinovka

One day, King Yeremei decides to go on a long hike in order to consider all his areas and compile their register. A well appears on his way home, but as soon as the sovereign bent over him, he was seized by the underwater king Chudo-Yudo and demanded an unusual ransom for his release — that which is in the state of Yeremei, but which he does not know about. The tsar is forced to agree to these conditions, because he thinks that each blade of grass was taken into account in the inventory — he still does not suspect that in his absence the Queen gave birth to him an heir.
Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair

A graduate of the culinary technical school of the cook, Tosya Kislitsyna, a naive and eccentric girl, came to the village lost in the northern forests. She sticks her nose in all affairs, seeks to help everyone. She met Ilya on the day of arrival: the "first guy in the village" fell upon her indignantly, and in the evening, to brighten up an unpleasant meeting, she decided to "make happy" with an invitation to a dance and was refused. Not accustomed to refusals, Ilya argues with Filya that during the week he will fall in love with Tosya...
The Girls

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 cheerful mix-up takes place at a provincial hotel when a newspaper reporter is mistaken for a famous hypnotist.
A Fakir for an Hour

A musical movie about an uncompromising struggle against the construction of a new road through a beautiful orchard located on the territory of a kindergarten. The heroes of the movie are on opposite sides of the barricades in the battle against rampant bureaucracy for the rights of children.
Special Approach

On the wedding day, the groom has a fire. The house in which the young people were supposed to live and all their property burns down. In difficult times, Gosstrakh comes to the rescue by paying large monetary compensation to the injured newlyweds...
In Difficult Times

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
12 Chairs

Vlad (Dimitry Shevelyov) is an outsider, laughed at by some of his classmates. His sister, meanwhile, sticks up for him, trying to tell the class his ideas. Vlad, you see, is a talented engineer, at the tender age of about 12 years, but he can't persuade people to listen to him, and accept that his civil engineering ideas are valid. In his mind, he sees himself as a young Leonardo Da Vinci, and puts himself in Da Vinci's place.
There's an Idea!

Lena, a fantasist and dreamer, a soloist of the ice ballet, dreams of staging a fairy-tale magic performance. One day the heroine meets Yura, a dreamer like herself, and leaves him a phone number without giving her name...
Silver Revue
Television & Series (6)

The detective story is based on the search for Antonio Stradivari’s missing violin. An additional historical storyline takes the viewer back to the 17th century and focuses on the life of the Master and his work on the violin.
Visit to the Minotaur

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".
Fuse

The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.



