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Oleg Yankovsky was
born in Kazakhstan (23.01.1944), where his parents
were sent in 30-s. After they moved in Saratov.
The elder brother Rostislav has become an actor
and worked in Minsk. Oleg spent few years with him
and even took part in theatre plays being
teenager. Then he came back to Saratov, here
finished school and entered the theatre collage,
which graduated in 1965. Yankovsky worked in
Saratov drama theatre together with his wife, L.
Zotova. That time he was a husband of a famous
actress, but soon everything changed. The first
role in film of V. Basov "A shield and a
sword" has brought him popularity. Since 1968
year Yankovsky
grew more and more famous. He got the leading
roles in the theatre, new films appear in his
professional list. After the work with Yankovsky
in "Racers"
Evgeny Leonov recommended him to the Mark Zakharov,
the main director of Lenkom theatre. O. Yankovsky
moved to Moscow in 1973 and since that time that
theatre became his native home. Aristocratic look,
deep psychologist, high level professional skills
and incredible gift, all this has made O.
Yankovsky one of the brightest stars of the Soviet
movie. The best directors offered him leading
roles in their films. There was not only theatre
or movie work, but organization of cinema
festivals. Every person, who had pleasure to see
this actor in a movie, never would forget him.
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A shield and a sword.
Director: V. Basov. Starring: S. Liubshin, V. Titova, Martiniuk, O. Yankovsky, V. Dvorzhetsky,
Y. Budraitis et al. A Soviet intelligence officer has managed to win confidence of the German
military command during several years of his service in Abver. His transfer to SS provides him
an access to the extremely secret documentation…
© “Mosfilm” studio with the participation of “Defa” (GDR) studio and T/O “Start” (PNR),
1967-68. 181 min., 144 min.
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Mirror
Director: A. Tarkovsky. Starring: Ì. Terekhova, O. Yankovsky, A. Solonitsin, A. Demidova, N.
Grinko, Y. Nazarov et al. The film is autobiographical in many aspects. It is a narration about
the generation to whose lot there fell severe war years, a difficult post-war period and the
time of the Stalin repressions. The film director devoted it to his mother who had to find great
courage to bring up two children alone…The Prize of “David di Donatello” as the best foreign
film demonstrated in Italy, 1980.
© “Mosfilm”, 1974, 102 min.
Strange
letters
Screenplay: Nataliya Ryazantseva, Director: Ilya Averbakh. Starring: Irina Kupchenko, Svetlana
Smirnova, Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Yankovsky, Maya Bulgakova, Sergei Kovalenkov. A psychological
drama. A young teacher takes an active part in the fate of a sixteen-year old girl who is her
pupil. She takes this girl who was brought up in difficult conditions to her place and tries to
learn her to be sincere and kind. The girl becomes very attached to the teacher in her own way,
and makes the teacher’s life unbearable.
© “Lenfilm”, 1975, 93 minutes, color film.
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My affectionate and tender
animal
Director: E. Lotyanu. Starring: G. Belyaeva, O. Yankovsky, K. Lavrov, L. Markov, S. Toma et al.
Having met a slender girl in the forest, count Karneev could not even imagine the complex
peripetias they would be involved into by the will of such a fascinating creature. Love,
jealousy and murder – this is the scheme of the events of the film based on A. P. Chekhov’s
story “Drama at Hunting”.
© “Mosfilm”, 1978, 104 min.
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Director: Ì. Zakharov. Starring: O. Yankovsky, I. Churikova, Å. Koreneva, I. Kvasha, A.
Abdulov, L. Yarmolnik, S. Farada, L. Bronevoi et al.
A comical fantasy about the life, love and death of baron Miunhgauzen. The film is not a screen
version of the famous novel of R. E. Raspe but an absolutely original work of art created by our
talented contemporaries.
© USSR Gosteleradio, 1979. “Mosfilm” production, 135 min.
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The Hound Of The Baskervilles (2 parts)
After A. Conan Doyle’s story of the same name. Director: I. Maslennikov. Starring: V. Livanov,
V. Solomin, R. Zelyonaya, I. Kupchenko, N. Mikhalkov, A. Demidova, O. Yankovsky et al. A film of
the popular national TV serial about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson.
© “Lenfilm”, 1981, 147 min. |
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Director: Sergei Mikaelyan. Starring: Oleg Yankovsky, Evgeniya Glushenko, and Vsevolod
Shilovsky. A film comedy. Life brought two people together quite by accident. A former
sportsman, a fascinating young man and a plain but warm-hearted woman-librarian conclude an
engagement concerning the following: they are going to fall in love with each other by the help
of autotraining. That’s the beginning of the film.
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Kreitser’s
sonata (2 parts)
Directors: Ì. Shveitser è S. Milkina. Starring: O. Yankovsky, A. Trofimov, I. Selezniova, A.
Demidova, L. Fedoseeva-Shukshina, A. Kaliagin, Ì. Gluzsky et al.
This dramatic tragedy is taken from the short story by Leo Tolstoy. Vasili
(Oleg Yankovsky) recalls his past love affair and marriage with Lisa (Irina Selezneva). When a piano-playing
gypsy gives Lisa music lessons, her husband becomes enraged and tries to kill him. Lisa is
accidentally murdered, and the court acquits the distraught and lonely husband for his crime
of passion.
The complex moral problems raised by a family life before the heroes keep the film in harmony
with the time of the story creation and with the present. Different time periods come into
collision both in the screen version and in the literary original. The plot is thrilling,
dynamic, interesting and original from the point of view of its cinematographic solution.
©
“Mosfilm”, 1987, 150 min.
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Filmography:
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Once there served two friends 1968 |
The Assassin of the Tsar 1991 |
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Racers 1973 |
Come
to have a look at me... 2000 |
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Star of Fascinating Happiness 1975 |
The Lover 2002 |
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Ordinary miracle 1978 |
Poor Poor Pavel 2003 |
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The House That Swift Built 1983 |
Nostalghia 1983 |
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Oleg Ynakovsky complete filmography |
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