Venyamin Smekhov

Venyamin Smekhov

Born: August 10, 1940
in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Movies for Venyamin Smekhov...

Title: Казанова в России. Тайная миссия
Character: Брагадин
Released: December 12, 2022
Type: TV
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Aeterna: Part One
Title: Aeterna: Part One
Released: January 20, 2022
Type: Movie
The legitimate heir to the throne in exile and the son of a murdered rebel — what do they have in common? Everyone has their own goal: one dreams of taking the throne and restoring his family to its former glory, the other - to take revenge on the murderer of his father, who serves the usurpers. Young men enter into a large-scale struggle for power and honor, in which those who seemed to be friends can betray, and former enemies can turn into allies. In order to achieve the goal, both the prince and the rebel's son will have to risk the most valuable and make the main choice in their lives — to go the preordained way or to oppose fate itself.
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Title: Passengers
Released: December 24, 2020
Type: TV
Andrey drives a cab, but he’s no ordinary Taxi driver. All his passengers are dead. His job is to deliver them to the Afterlife, but it’s never straightforward. Andrey’s passengers come from all walks of life and each has a story, they can’t reach their destined afterlife until they face-up to and atone for something from their past. But it’s a rare soul who wants to hold a mirror up to their faults, they need a guide, some encouragement, and so they turn to the only other presence in the taxi, Andrey. Andrey himself is an enigma, a taciturn driver who exists only in the present, and a reluctant guide for lost souls. Each time Andrey successfully delivers a lost soul from limbo, a mysterious number on the taxi-meter counts down one by one. And with each soul’s story a little bit more of Andrey’s past is revealed. Are the Passengers the only souls seeking redemption?
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Elsa's Land
Title: Elsa's Land
Released: September 15, 2020
Type: Movie
Two people meet and fall in love. According to all around them, their love is improper and inconvenient, as our heroes are past 70. Elsa is recently widowed and should be in mourning, even for the husband she never loved. But Elsa and Leonid not only do not hide their love, they’re also going to get married and go travelling to find their own land — Elsa’s Land. Their love story sounds particularly up-to-date as it refers to the elder audience who took the biggest hit of the global pandemic. It encourages them to live and love no matter what.
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Iran Conference
Title: Iran Conference
Released: March 30, 2020
Type: Movie
Representatives of the Danish and world intellectual elite, the best minds of our time are going to a conference in Copenhagen to discuss the urgent "Iranian problem" — violation of rights and freedoms, daily executions, torture and military conflicts in the middle East. An orientalist, theologian, political scientist, military journalist, the wife of the Prime Minister (formerly a well-known TV presenter), writer, priest, famous conductor and Iranian poet — winner of the Nobel prize in literature take turns on the stage.
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Margarita's Worlds
Title: Margarita's Worlds
Character: himself
Released: June 15, 2019
Type: Movie
A fantasy film about the great actress of the national cinema Margarita Terekhova. The transience of human life is like a dream in which reality and art are intertwined, personal joys and dramas with the feelings and emotions of the characters played.
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Title: The Bones
Character: Виталий Дейкевич
Released: January 11, 2016
Type: TV
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Mafia: Survival Game
Title: Mafia: Survival Game
Character: Luka Sergeevich
Released: January 7, 2016
Type: Movie
A twist on the classic game of Mafia. 12 competitors take part in a game of life and death where the innocent must take out the Mafia in order to win the cash prize. Those that are voted out must face their biggest fears in a computer simulation.
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Spiral
Title: Spiral
Character: Yakob
Released: February 27, 2014
Type: Movie
The beginning of a new life in Moscow is going well for Alexey - until he gets into a lot of troubles...
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Prodavets igrushek
Title: Prodavets igrushek
Released: January 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Nicolas Bersen is a Frenchman with Russian roots. He lives in Paris and works as a toy seller. Neither the mother nor the French bride - the daughter of the Parisian confectionery "king" - disapprove of Nicolas's extravagance, because the Sorbonne education allows him to make an excellent career in business. Before Christmas, Nicolas travels to Russia to learn more about her background. Who could have imagined that this trip would change his life? In Russia, he is going to get the adventure, family treasures, and ... true love.
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Title: Evening Urgant
Character: Self
Released: April 16, 2012
Type: TV
Evening show Ivan Urgant. Movies, sports, new gadgets, art. What is happening in the country and in the world? Actual characters discussing the day's events and new music.
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Title: The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini
Character: Athos
Released: March 10, 2012
Type: TV
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The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini
Title: The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini
Character: Athos
Released: February 5, 2009
Type: Movie
After the deaths of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis the Queen Anna of Austria has to ask for help of the heroes' sons. They, however, cannot fulfill her request on their own. The original musketeers have to literally return to live and embark on a new adventure.
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A Room and a Half
Title: A Room and a Half
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 23, 2009
Type: Movie
A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
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Title: Монтекристо
Character: Ilya Nikolaevich Orlov
Released: July 14, 2008
Type: TV
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Suddenly the magician will arrive
Title: Suddenly the magician will arrive
Released: June 6, 2008
Type: Movie
Vera is a beautiful young woman who can’t get a job in any way, because beauty only disturbs her, because at every new job she receives indecent offers from her boss. Vera’s girlfriend, Katya, who works in the theater, makes Vera “ugly” with the help of makeup. And then luck is smiling at the girl, she settles in a rich house, a nanny for a little boy.
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Title: Projectorparishilton
Released: May 17, 2008
Type: TV
Four hosts discuss some current news and comment on different issues in politics and economics, similar to 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe. The show's name is a reference to the 80s TV program "Прожектор Перестройки" - a program that was discussing current events on Soviet television during the times of Perestroika - and American socialite Paris Hilton, who, according to Svetlakov, symbolizes lack of taste. Thus, the name of the show implies that this is a current events program that shouldn't be taken seriously.
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Title: To Remember
Character: Narrator
Released: December 9, 1993
Type: TV
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Breakfast with a View to the Elbrus Mountains
Title: Breakfast with a View to the Elbrus Mountains
Character: Король
Released: August 17, 1993
Type: Movie
After a painful break up a journalist is traveling to the Elbrus mountains where he meets another woman.
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The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
Title: The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
Character: Athos
Released: June 6, 1993
Type: Movie
The 3rd part of the famous trilogy by Alexandre Dumas about d'Artagnan and his 3 friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
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Musketeers 20 Years Later
Title: Musketeers 20 Years Later
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
The new adventures of four musketeer friends... Based on Alexandre Dumas père novel "20 Years Later".
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Title: Musketeers Twenty Years Later
Character: Athos
Released: December 31, 1992
Type: TV
In turbulent times for France and herself, the first minister of the Kingdom of France, Cardinal Mazarin, asked Queen Anne of Austria to give him the names of four friends who successfully helped her in the fight against Cardinal Richelieu. Under pressure from Mazarin, Queen Anne calls the name D'Artagnan, lieutenant of the royal musketeers. Mazarin calls D'Artagnan and orders him to find Athos, Porthos and Aramis in order to attract them to his service...
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The Key
Title: The Key
Released: July 1, 1992
Type: Movie
St. Petersburg. Winter of 1917, the eve of the February Revolution. The maid finds in the room the corpse of the murdered tenant. In his pocket, a hotel account was found in the name of Karl Fischer, a well-known banker. An investigation is beginning. In the list of suspects - an agent of the secret police...
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The Idiot
Title: The Idiot
Character: Benzhamen Borever
Released: December 10, 1991
Type: Movie
A free-spirited, guileless and amoral young woman, who works as a maid in the home of one of the most prominent and influential families in France was discovered in her bedroom, naked and unconscious, with the body of her Spanish lover Miguel across the room and the gun that killed him by her side. As the movie begins, she is being brought before the Examining Magistrate to determine if there is enough evidence to take her to trial where, under the French legal system she will be considered guilty unless proven innocent...
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Assassin of the Tsar
Title: Assassin of the Tsar
Released: October 2, 1991
Type: Movie
A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...
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A Trap for Lonely Man
Title: A Trap for Lonely Man
Character: Maximin, the false cure
Released: December 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Daniel Corban reports his wife Elizabeth missing to the police. A priest arrives and says he has found her. When he brings her in, Corban insists she is not his wife. When several other people arrive and verify she is Elizabeth, Daniel feels he is losing his grip on reality.
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Претендент
Title: Претендент
Released: August 4, 1987
Type: Movie
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Seven Screams Across the Sea
Title: Seven Screams Across the Sea
Released: June 23, 1986
Type: Movie
A fantastical fable based on a play by Alejandro Casona.
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The Story of the Voyages
Title: The Story of the Voyages
Character: Don Quixote
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: Movie
In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake Saint Nick because the little boy is blessed with the ability to locate gold. A kindly, wise philosopher-type by the name of Orlando joins Marta in her search, and together they survive a gigantic sleeping dragon and imprisonment in a tower with no clear means of escape. They overcome that hurdle, but later on, Orlando succumbs to the evils of The Plague (an all-consuming woman!) and Marta continues on her search alone. Eventually, she does find her brother -- but that only introduces problems she had never considered.
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Title: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Character: Мустафа
Released: January 10, 1983
Type: Movie
A cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry.
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Monsieur Lenoir, who...
Title: Monsieur Lenoir, who...
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Teleplay based on the play by Armand Salacrou.
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Title: D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
Character: Athos
Released: December 25, 1979
Type: TV
The musketeers battle against the all-powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the treacherous Milady.
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Please Accuse Klava K. of My Death
Title: Please Accuse Klava K. of My Death
Character: Uncle Seva
Released: September 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Klava and Seryozha (Sergey) have been together since preschool. He, one of the smartest kids in school, has always been in love with her but considered her more of just a pretty face rather than an intelligent person. He let her copy his homework and gave her his parents' things as gifts. When they are teens, Klava rejects his love because she knows that he doesn't value her for her, and instead is attracted to Lavrik, another intelligent boy from school. Klava likes him because for the first time she feels like someone is really interested in her as a person. Seryoszha, being very dramatic and wanting Klava's/everyone else's sympathy, writes a suicide note, "Please blame Klava K. for my death," but can he really commit suicide? Eventually he realizes that he is being too shallow and that while he makes such a drama out of such small problems, the people around him have real problems, but never said a thing.
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Adventures of Captain Vrungel
Title: Adventures of Captain Vrungel
Character: admiral (voice)
Released: June 6, 1979
Type: Movie
An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.
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Середина жизни
Title: Середина жизни
Released: July 17, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: Adventures of Captain Vrungel
Character: Адмирал (голос)
Released: March 22, 1976
Type: TV
An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.
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Smoke and Shorty
Title: Smoke and Shorty
Released: December 26, 1975
Type: Movie
A musical movie based on Jack London novels.
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What the Hell Do You Want?
Title: What the Hell Do You Want?
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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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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Late Child
Title: Late Child
Released: February 11, 1971
Type: Movie
A boy suffers from excessive care of his family, cause he wants them to reckon with him as an adult, just like his older sister's groom.
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Touches on the V. I. Lenin's Portrait
Title: Touches on the V. I. Lenin's Portrait
Released: October 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Life and works of V.I. Lenin during the difficult period for the country of 1918.