Vladimir Vysotsky

Vladimir Vysotsky

Born: January 25, 1938
Died: July 25, 1980
in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Vladimir Vysotsky was a Soviet poet, singer-songwriter, and actor. In the course of his career, he wrote some 700 songs that were extremely popular in the USSR. He starred in 28 films, gave many concerts, and had a great influence on Soviet and Russian culture. His life has been the subject of many films and books.

Movies for Vladimir Vysotsky...

The End of a Beautiful Epoch
Title: The End of a Beautiful Epoch
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.
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Title: Too Young to Die
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 14, 2012
Type: TV
Those who knew them best describe the sensational lives and premature deaths of iconic actors and musicians whose passing left a void in pop culture.
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The Living Vysotsky
Title: The Living Vysotsky
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Over the years, so much has been said about Vladimir Vysotsky that behind the pile of memories of people who knew him, the living Vysotsky gradually disappears. They say that Vladimir Vysotsky lived the way he wrote and sang his songs! You can create a legend about him as much as you like, make a monument out of him, but there is an absolutely real Vysotsky, whom each of us can recognize and understand. This Vysotsky has been preserved forever in fragments of newsreels, in the lyrics of his songs, in his voice. And that's where he's real…
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Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady. Last Kiss
Title: Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady. Last Kiss
Released: March 4, 2008
Type: Movie
The film tells about one of the most beautiful love stories of the 20th century. According to everyone who witnessed the relationship between the famous French actress Marina Vlady and the great Russian poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, it was that extraordinary love that we usually read about only in books. Marina Vladi herself will share her memories in an exclusive interview. The film contains rare documentary footage with Vladimir Vysotsky.
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Title: Příběhy slavných
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 15, 2000
Type: TV
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Whose Are You, Old People?
Title: Whose Are You, Old People?
Released: November 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A story about two old people living in the abandoned faraway village.
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Владимир Высоцкий. Монолог
Title: Владимир Высоцкий. Монолог
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...
Title: Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...
Character: (singing voice)
Released: February 18, 1985
Type: Movie
Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a newborn baby. Vadim is forced to spend the rest of his day with Anna, helping her untangle herself from unpleasant, dramatic, and even tragic situations – and she and she alone is to blame for all of them. The baby, which Anna stole in order to make an impression on an estranged lover, is finally returned to its parents, but the problems that the theft caused remain.
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I Am Returning Your Portrait
Title: I Am Returning Your Portrait
Character: himself
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Little Tragedies
Character: Дон Гуан
Released: July 1, 1980
Type: TV
How far can a man overcome by a destructive passion go? And does he realize that slavish worship of irrepressible desires always entails retribution?
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Little Tragedies
Title: Little Tragedies
Character: Дон Хуан
Released: June 30, 1980
Type: Movie
A feature film based on the three-part adaptation of the poetic and dramatic cycle of Alexander Pushkin
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Title: The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Character: Глеб Жеглов
Released: November 11, 1979
Type: TV
After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to track down a gang "Chernaya Koshka" (Black Cat) which terrorizes the city. Also, they have to find out who murdered Larisa Gruzdeva. Zheglov believes it was her husband Ivan Gruzdev, but Sharapov has his doubts about it...
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Title: The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Character: Gleb Zheglov
Released: November 11, 1979
Type: Movie
Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand.
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The Two of Them
Title: The Two of Them
Released: January 5, 1978
Type: Movie
Looking for a safe place to live after being harassed by her husband, a depressive and violent man, Juli stays at a women's shelter run by Mária.
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Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding
Title: Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding
Character: Ibrahim
Released: June 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a wealthy boyar. Peter the Great insists the two be married, but Ibrahim goes against the tsar's wishes, refusing to force her to marry him since she doesn't consent. When another man tries to marry her, however, Ibrahim's loyalties and generous nature are put to the test.
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The Only One
Title: The Only One
Character: Boris Ilyich
Released: March 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Kolya Kasatkin, who saw in his wife Tanyusha the ideal of female charm, tenderness, kindness, who loved her to the point of oblivion, was at a loss before the idle conversations of well-wishers about his wife's betrayal. Having found his wife with the choir director, Nikolai demanded a divorce. Continuing to love each other, the former spouses are unhappy in separation. Kasatkin's new hasty marriage did not return his peace of mind. In daily agony, in the pursuit of a past life, he also lost his old dream — to live and work in the Far East, where he served in the army. Both realized too late that love does not forgive hasty decisions, that it must be able to keep and protect.
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Escape of Mr. McKinley
Title: Escape of Mr. McKinley
Character: уличный певец Билл Сиггер
Released: December 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it?
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The Only Road
Title: The Only Road
Character: Šofer Šolodov
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: Movie
Partisans attack a column of hundred german trucks cisterns, that carry fuel to the front. However, their action is difficult, as Germans have chained Soviet prisoners to the driving wheels. The mission is to stop and destroy the column and save the lives of the prisoners.
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The Wizard of Oz
Title: The Wizard of Oz
Character: (voice)
Released: October 18, 1974
Type: Movie
A cartoon about a girl, Ellie, of her little dog Totoshka, who, because of the evil Gingema, ended up in the Magic Country, where incredible adventures awaited them.
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Stop Potapov!
Title: Stop Potapov!
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A film based on the story of the same name by Grigory Gorin. An employee of a certain SRI Potapov is a liar and an opportunist. But he does not even know that he is committing low things.
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The Duel
Title: The Duel
Character: Фон Корен
Released: December 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...
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The Fourth
Title: The Fourth
Released: December 9, 1972
Type: Movie
American journalist gets a sensational material but is afraid to publish it...
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Sons Go Into Battle
Title: Sons Go Into Battle
Released: September 29, 1971
Type: Movie
The film takes place during the Great Patriotic War. Tolya and Aleksey, the sons of Anna Korzun, became partisans and fought against the invaders in the BSSR.
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White Explosion
Title: White Explosion
Character: Kapitan
Released: December 19, 1969
Type: Movie
1942, the German Wehrmacht is trying to capture the Baku oilfields at the Black sea. Their biggest obstacle are the Caucasian Mountains and few Russians soldiers to stop them. The story revolves around an important Mountain Pass, that is heavily contested by both sides.
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Dangerous Tour
Title: Dangerous Tour
Character: Bengalsky / Nikolai Kovalenko
Released: December 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on the events that took place in Odessa in 1910, when, on the instructions of the Foreign Bureau of the RSDLP, a prominent Bolshevik underground worker arrived in the city under the guise of a French timber merchant, who was to organize the delivery of illegal literature to Russia through the Odessa port. The task can be completed. In Odessa, a variety show theater was created, which, having gained fame, toured Russia and received "theater props" from France...
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The Master of Taiga
Title: The Master of Taiga
Character: Ryaboi
Released: July 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on the story of Boris Mozhayev “The Power of the Taiga”. In the taiga village, where everyone is in sight, almost unbelievable happens — a local store is robbed. One of the rafters of the forest is recognized as a hacker. But some “inconsistencies” haunt the young precinct Vasily Seryozhkin. And in the end, he goes on the trail of the true participants in the crime...
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Two Comrades Were Serving
Title: Two Comrades Were Serving
Character: Поручик Брусенцов
Released: October 21, 1968
Type: Movie
Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day.
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Intervention
Title: Intervention
Character: Мишель Воронов \ Бродский
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: Movie
The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka.
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Brief Encounters
Title: Brief Encounters
Character: Maxim
Released: December 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya's apartment. Valya, who is a member of the local District Committee, does not know that Nadia fell in love with her currently absent husband, a geologist named Maksim, when he had visited Nadia's village during a recent expedition.
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Sasha-Sashenka
Title: Sasha-Sashenka
Character: певец с гитарой
Released: July 24, 1967
Type: Movie
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War Under the Roofs
Title: War Under the Roofs
Character: полицай / вокал, в титрах не указан
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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I Come From My Childhood
Title: I Come From My Childhood
Character: танкист Володя
Released: December 27, 1966
Type: Movie
Life is returning to normal in a half-ruined town of Belorussia at the summer of 1945. The children are undernourished and emotionally scarred. The community displays solidarity and common sacrifice, as they recovered from the ravages of war.
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Vertical
Title: Vertical
Character: Volodya, the radio operator
Released: November 11, 1966
Type: Movie
In the mountains, they stand alone against whatever will happen. For the several days they live in nature, they can rely only on themselves and each other. Elsewhere, there is always a fallback - here one is without a safety. This in itself can bring some to terror - the terror of having to rely on yourself - your own judgment, wits and fortitude. This is also the most incredible feeling of strength and independence. Knowing there is no safety means having to be one's own safety.
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The Cook
Title: The Cook
Character: Andrei Pchyolka
Released: May 23, 1966
Type: Movie
Based on the play of the same name by Anatoly Sofronov. In one of the Kuban collective farms, a new beauty-cook has appeared. Many began to look after her, but the girl was not a timid dozen and quickly gave a turn to the unlucky boyfriends from the gate. However, true love found a way to her heart, and although human envy and stupidity have done many troubles, the lovers still managed to unravel this complex tangle of misunderstandings.
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Our House
Title: Our House
Released: December 7, 1965
Type: Movie
A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life.
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On Tomorrow's Street
Title: On Tomorrow's Street
Released: September 6, 1965
Type: Movie
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Penalty Kick
Title: Penalty Kick
Character: Юрий Никулин
Released: July 4, 1963
Type: Movie
A crafty swindler, appointed to be a coach of an amateur sports team, came up with a cheat plan for victory - secretly recruit a number of professional players to his team.
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Shore Leave
Title: Shore Leave
Released: June 18, 1962
Type: Movie
A sailor spends only one day on a shore but during this day he meets a lot of people and even meets a girl who is going to wait for him.
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713th Asks for Landing
Title: 713th Asks for Landing
Character: американский морской пехотинец
Released: December 31, 1961
Type: Movie
Transatlantic flight 713 is in trouble because the pilot and crew are poisoned while flying above the ocean. Now the passengers have to take control to save their lives.
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Dima Gorin's Career
Title: Dima Gorin's Career
Character: Sofron
Released: June 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Dmitry Gorin is awaiting the post of branch manager of a savings bank. But one day he accidentally gives an extra amount to a person who works in the taiga on the construction of the Siberia-Ural power transmission line. To return the money, Dmitry has to go to the taiga. But he is not in a hurry to return to Moscow. The fact is that he discovers a completely different life, which he likes, and meets the girl he dreamed of