Oleg Menshikov

Oleg Menshikov

Born: November 8, 1960
in Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
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Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov (born 8 November 1960) is a Soviet and Russian entertainer. He is a film and theatre actor, singer and director. He started his film career in the early 1980s playing in the comedy Pokrovskie vorota and in Nikita Mikhalkov's Rodnya. In 1993, Menshikov collaborated again with Mikhalkov in their most famous film, Burnt by the Sun. Portraying a manipulative and suicidal NKVD agent during Stalin's Great Purge, Menshikov's performance brought him to the attention of a wide international audience. The film won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Menshikov appeared in Régis Wargnier's 1999 film, East-West with Sandrine Bonnaire and Catherine Deneuve. Menshikov played the hero of Mikhalkov's 1998 The Barber of Siberia, with Julia Ormond playing his mistress. He appeared as Erast Fandorin in the 2005 film The Councillor of State. He filled the role of Ostap Bender in the 2006 Russian mini-series based on The Little Golden Calf.

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Title: Spoiler
Released: April 18, 2024
Type: TV
In the upcoming elections in the non-existent Kuibyshev region, businessman Andrei Obolensky, at the suggestion of the country's leading political strategist, becomes the spoiler candidate of the current governor Koretsky. The spoiler's task is to pull votes from Morozov's main competitor and withdraw from the election in favor of Koretsky. But the further the game goes, the more Obolensky gets into the taste. It is no longer clear who is playing against whom, and most importantly, what is at stake for everyone.
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Title: Charm
Character: Леонид Максимович
Released: January 18, 2024
Type: TV
A 25-year-old Gypsy car thief lives in a provincial town, the center of which is a precious metal processing plant. 20 years ago, his father died at this factory, allegedly involved in the theft of gold bars. The investigation has slowed down the case, so the Gypsy is eager to find the killer and avenge his father, whom he does not really remember. When the former director of the plant and the unspoken owner of the city Leonid Maksimovich is announced in the city, it is necessary to combine efforts to get to the truth and bring justice — everyone understands it differently.
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Attraction 3
Title: Attraction 3
Released: January 1, 2024
Type: Movie
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Title: Your Honor
Character: Mikhail Romanov
Released: December 2, 2021
Type: TV
Mikhail Romanov is a judge in the Primorsky city District court. Romanov is famous for his integrity and integrity: law and justice are above all for him. One day he finds out that his son Anton is in trouble. He took a car without asking and hit a motorcyclist on it, after which he fled the scene of the crime.
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Title: Psycho
Character: Igor
Released: November 5, 2020
Type: TV
It is not easy to make an appointment with the in-demand 40-year-old Moscow psychotherapist Oleg. To his clients, he seems to be a successful and independent family man, while passions are raging inside him, he himself needs qualified help from a specialist, and his wife went missing a little over a year ago.
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Invasion
Title: Invasion
Character: General Lebedev
Released: January 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?
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Title: Gogol'
Character: Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Released: March 25, 2019
Type: TV
The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.
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Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
Title: Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
Character: Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Soon after Gogol's death, Binh names him guilty for the deaths of the Cossacks and the young women at the hands of the Dark Horseman, since he was the one who ordered them to be hidden in the barn. Bomgart is unable to perform a post-mortem analysis on the Gogol's body, while Vakula's daughter Vasilina (who secretly has magic abilities) proclaims denial about Gogol's demise.
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Gogol. The Beginning
Title: Gogol. The Beginning
Character: Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Released: August 31, 2017
Type: Movie
The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.
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Attraction
Title: Attraction
Character: Colonel Lebedev
Released: January 26, 2017
Type: Movie
After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.
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Yankovsky
Title: Yankovsky
Released: February 19, 2015
Type: Movie
This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his personal life. Although it's all in the film: a dramatic fate, unknown pages of biography. Like any great actor, he possessed a secret - he did not tell both in the movies and in life. But his main gift was not even acting. Yankovsky was talented at making people fall in love with him. I wanted to look at him again and again: that's why they loved him and still love him.
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Legend No. 17
Title: Legend No. 17
Character: Tarasov
Released: April 17, 2013
Type: Movie
Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death
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Title: Burnt by the Sun 2
Released: December 5, 2011
Type: TV
Former commander Kotov, unjustly convicted in the 30s as an enemy of the people, miraculously survived and was sent to war by an ordinary ordinary soldier of the penal battalion. He fought like everyone else: in mud, cold and hunger, without looking into the future for more than one day, and even that he had to be able to live. To live and survive in the hell that was the military front line. His faith saved him. Faith in his country, faith in God and the faith of his daughter Nadia that the father is alive…
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Title: Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
Character: Dmitriy Arsentyev
Released: May 5, 2011
Type: Movie
The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything has changed and he will have to fight again for his name, for his honor, and for his love.
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Title: Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Character: Mitya Arsentyev
Released: April 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in the front-lines. His daughter, Nadia, who survived a rape attempt by Nazi soldiers, is now a nurse risking her own life to save others. In the war-torn nation even former enemies are fighting together to defend their land. People stand up united for the sake of victory. Written by Steve Shelokhonov
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What Men Talk About
Title: What Men Talk About
Character: Himself
Released: March 4, 2010
Type: Movie
Four old friends - Kamil, Lesha, Sasha and Slava - all well-to-do professionals in their late 30s embarking on a two days road trip from Moscow to Odessa. They wish to escape the metropolis and the everyday routine of work, family and girlfriends to relax in a nightclub run by Slava's friend and to see the popular band B-2 show.
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Игроки
Title: Игроки
Character: Утешительный
Released: October 12, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: Doctor Zhivago
Character: Yuri Zhivago
Released: May 25, 2006
Type: TV
The attempted murder of a high-society lawyer draws Yuri Zhivago, a naive young doctor, into a world of passion and intrigue.
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Doctor Zhivago
Title: Doctor Zhivago
Released: April 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Russian TV miniseries of Boris Pasternak's classic novel.
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Title: The Golden Calf
Character: Ostap Bender
Released: January 30, 2006
Type: TV
The history of Bender's hunt for the underground millionaire Koreiko develops in the 1920s. Bright characters, adventurous adventures and a light veil of a bygone era in a new version of the classic work of Soviet literature.
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Title: The State Counsellor
Character: Erast Petrovich Fandorin
Released: December 26, 2005
Type: TV
A special train from St. Petersburg to Moscow. General Khrapov is stabbed in his compartment. A mysterious "BG" mark was found on the handle of the bloody blade - the sign of an elusive terrorist group. Only Fandorin can neutralize it. Prince Pozharsky, who is also investigating the case, stands in his way. A deadly duel begins.
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The State Counsellor
Title: The State Counsellor
Character: Erast Petrovich Fandorin
Released: April 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation...
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Woe From Wit
Title: Woe From Wit
Character: Александр Андреевич Чацкий
Released: January 2, 2000
Type: Movie
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East/West
Title: East/West
Character: Aleksei Golovin
Released: September 1, 1999
Type: Movie
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
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Mommy
Title: Mommy
Character: Lyonchik Yuryev
Released: March 31, 1999
Type: Movie
After Polina, a mother of six, loses her husband, who went to jail for stealing charcoal and was killed when he tried to escape, she stays behind without any support. To be able to survive, Polina and her family start a folk group. But soon she understands that her children deserve a better fate, and she takes the desperate decision to steal a plane and go abroad... Fifteen years later, Polina is released from prison and finds out that fate has scattered her children all over the country: one is in the army, another is a miner in the Donbass, and the oldest, Lyonchik, who used to be in a mental institution, now pretends to be insane. Polina gathers all of her sons to free their older brother from the psychiatric hospital...
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The Barber of Siberia
Title: The Barber of Siberia
Character: André Tolstoi
Released: November 11, 1998
Type: Movie
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
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Prisoner of the Mountains
Title: Prisoner of the Mountains
Character: Sacha Kostylin
Released: March 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.
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Burnt by the Sun
Title: Burnt by the Sun
Character: Dimitri (Mitya)
Released: May 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
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Dyuba-Dyuba
Title: Dyuba-Dyuba
Released: November 28, 1993
Type: Movie
Andrei's ex-girlfriend Tania (Anzhela Belyanskaya) has been constantly in danger of going to jail since he knew her. Their breakup was not his doing, and he is determined to keep her out of jail. Andrei (Oleg Menshikov) has a notion that, if he can raise enough money, he can smuggle her out of Russia into New York, where all will be well. While Andrei's grasp on reality may be tenuous, his ability to maneuver and scheme is unimpaired. He is a student filmmaker, and the kind of money he needs to save Tania with doesn't grow on trees. He begins raising funds by mugging men at public toilets, and graduates to stealing the drug money accumulated by more serious gangsters. After he has raised the money to accomplish his goal, his girl, the light of his life, confesses that she despises him, and then goes out and gets arrested.
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Title: Prime Suspect
Character: Milan Lukic
Released: April 7, 1991
Type: TV
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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The Hole
Title: The Hole
Released: August 16, 1990
Type: Movie
A few days from the life of average brothel in early XX century Russia. Based on the classical novel by Aleksandr Kuprin.
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The Stairway
Title: The Stairway
Character: Владимир Пирошников
Released: November 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Having his life come to a dead end, Vladimir is thinking about suicide. He is saved by a girl and spends the night at her home. The next morning, Vladimir wants to leave, but finds himself trapped by the house: the staircase seems to have no end, again and again it brings him to the same floor.
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Limited Life
Title: Limited Life
Released: June 6, 1989
Type: Movie
A story about young girl Masha who is living in abandoned house and surrounded by the very strange company...
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Splashes of Champagne
Title: Splashes of Champagne
Character: Sergei
Released: February 23, 1989
Type: Movie
The film is based on the novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev "Vacation by Wound." The story of the few weeks that young lieutenant Volodya spent in Moscow in the summer of 1942 after treatment at the hospital. Directly from the Rzhev Front with a bandaged hand, in a bloodstained padded jacket and tattered boots, he goes on vacation to his mother in the capital. Here, at the height of the war, almost peaceful life is going on - lines for vodka and beer, restaurants for the aristocracy of nomenclature, parties, girls... It’s another month for Volodya to live an ordinary life in Moscow, in a peaceful city in which everything is alien to him.
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These... Three True Cards...
Title: These... Three True Cards...
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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Moonsund
Title: Moonsund
Character: Sergey Artenev
Released: December 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Captain of a Russian battleship "Novik" Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady Klara who is a German spy. They cannot be together because of the war and their professions. But they are in such love that all the war battles and battleships do not stop them, only their duties do.
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My favorite clown
Title: My favorite clown
Character: Сергей Синицын
Released: October 9, 1986
Type: Movie
Film is based on the eponymous book by V. Livanov. About a boy, who is adopted by the divorced man.
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Through Main Street with an Orchestra
Title: Through Main Street with an Orchestra
Character: Korolkov
Released: May 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Vasily Muravin, 50, a teacher at the Moscow Institute of Management, is experiencing a crisis. At work, the place of the head of the department is replaced by the more pragmatic, but limited person Valentin Romanovsky. At home, his wife Lida, who earns at work more than her husband, habitually reproaches him for indecision. It’s hard for Muravin to come to terms with his established attitude to himself, but he is most worried when his wife shows disrespect for his main hobby - playing the guitar. Once, unable to bear the bullying, Muravin suddenly leaves the family (wife and daughter) and from work.
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Big Volodya, Small Volodya
Title: Big Volodya, Small Volodya
Released: September 15, 1985
Type: Movie
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Obstacle Course
Title: Obstacle Course
Character: Vladimir
Released: June 1, 1984
Type: Movie
After a demobilization Vladimir starts working in a little porcelain shop as a repairer - but soon gets involved in criminal activity - so he desperately needs help from army friends.
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Капитан Фракасс
Title: Капитан Фракасс
Character: Барон де Сигоньяк
Released: March 22, 1984
Type: Movie
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The Kiss
Title: The Kiss
Character: Мерзляков
Released: October 22, 1983
Type: Movie
The film is based on the short story by Anton Chekhov. Gentlemen invited to tea by the local landowner, a retired major-General von Rebbeca.. Lieutenant ryabovich lost in the darkness, in the rooms of the old house, suddenly kissed a stranger.
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The Pokrovsky Gates
Title: The Pokrovsky Gates
Character: Костик
Released: February 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Khobotov's new fiancé. All these people live in one apartment and their lives constantly touch each other's.
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Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Title: Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Character: Alisa's Friend
Released: October 4, 1982
Type: Movie
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...
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Kin
Title: Kin
Character: Kirill
Released: December 6, 1981
Type: Movie
One of the most popular movies tells, in an ironic manner, about complicated relationships between close people. Among the film’s achievements is not only splendid acting, but also the fact that “Kinfolk” remains as contemporary and topical as before. The relations between a son-in-law and a mother-in-law are as everlasting a theme as love itself. Especially when the role of the son-in-law Stasik is brilliantly played by Yuri Bogatyryov, and that of the mother-in-law by the incomparable Nonna Mordyukova. Marusya Konovalova, a kind, simple-hearted country woman, comes to Moscow to visit her only daughter (Svetlana Kryuchkova) and tries to help “glue together” her broken-up family. Acting with best intentions, she cannot understand why her interference provokes a stormy protest… Ruscico.com
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I Wait and Hope
Title: I Wait and Hope
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
1942 The Great Patriotic War is in full swing. The German command begins an intensified struggle with partisan detachments. One of these detachments, operating in Polissya, is surrounded by enemy troops. There is only one way out of this situation - it is necessary to disorient the enemy and break through the cordon. But how to do that?