Alexei Petrenko

Sluga (1988)

Cast: Vadim Abdrashitov Alexei Petrenko Oleg Borisov Irina Rozanova Yuri Belyaev   

Tags: Psychological Drama Political Drama Drama 

Length: 141min

Loyalty is an odd thing which, once earned, is not readily discarded. In this late Soviet-era Russian drama, Andrei Gudionov (Oleg Borisov), was once a powerful man. During his heyday, he had impressed into his service as a driver the talented young...

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12 (2007)

Cast: Nikita Mikhalkov Alexei Petrenko Valentin Gaft Sergei Garmash Sergei Makovetsky   

Tags: Courtroom Drama Melodrama Drama Ensemble Film 

Length: 159min

When a Russian youth is put on trial for the murder of his adoptive father, it's up to a room full of jurors divided by racism and prejudice to determine the boy's ultimate fate in director Nikita Mikhalkov's loose remake of Reginald Rose's 12 Angry...

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Not by Bread Alone (2005)

Cast: Alexei Petrenko Stanislav Govorukhin Viktor Sukhorukov Alexandr Rozenbaum Svetlana Khodchenkova   

Tags: Romantic Drama Drama 

Length: 112min

Set in Russia just after the end WWII, Stanislav Govorukhiun's Not By Bread Alone concerns a love triangle that offers a parable for the conflict between communism and individuality. Viktor Sukhorukov portrays Drozhdoz, a powerful local figure who...

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Den Gneva (1986)

Cast: Alexei Petrenko Juozas Budraitis Svetlana Svetlichnaya Sulambek Mamilov Vladimir Ivashov   

Tags: Creature Film Science Fiction Sci-Fi Horror 

Length: 85min

In an unconvincing, politically slanted adventure nuanced with a slight sci-fi underpinning, a Soviet television journalist is hot on the trail of some strange mystery imbedded in a mountainous region of the U.S. The reporter picks up a trail guide...

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Lev Tolstoy (1984)

Cast: Sergei Gerasimov Alexei Petrenko Borivoj Navratil Viktor Proskurin Tamara Makarova   

Tags: Period Film Family Drama Biopic Drama 

Length: 180min

Director and lead actor Sergei Gerasimov has focused on the last days of Leo Tolstoy's life, and while he has a screen presence as Tolstoy, the three-hour length is a bit long for the amount of story there is to tell. At the end of his life, Tolstoy...

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Fortuna (2000)

Cast: Georgi Daneliya Alexei Petrenko Alexei Kravchenko Vladimir Ilyin Vakhtang Kikabidze   

Tags: Adventure Comedy Screwball Comedy Comedy 

Length: 86min

An Israeli documentary about the effect of maternal abuse and the bond of sisterhood, Fortuna takes its title from the name of the imposing and uncaring mother of the six Dvash sisters, who have survived a good deal of childhood trauma at the hands of...

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A Cruel Romance (1983)

Cast: Alexei Petrenko Eldar Ryazanov Andrei Myagkov Nikita Mikhalkov Andrei Petrov   

Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Drama 

Length: 140min

Slow-paced and in some longer stretches, this period melodrama features the heroine Larisa (Larisa Guzeyeva) and her various, competing suitors. Sergei Paratov (Nikita Mikhalkov) dashes into Larisa's sister's wedding like a knight in shining armor and...

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Sibirsky Tsiryulnik (1999)

Cast: Richard Harris Oleg Menshikov Marina Neelova Daniel Olbrychski Julia Ormond   

Tags: Period Film Epic Romance Romantic Epic 

Length: 176min

Love blooms amidst the backdrop of czarist Russia in Nikita Mikhalkov's The Barber of Siberia. The story opens in 1905 Springfield, MA, when a woman writes a letter to a young man in a military summer-training camp. He is currently being punished by...

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Proshchaniye (1981)

Cast: Elem Klimov Alexei Petrenko Lev Durov Maya Bulgakova Stefaniya Stanyuta   

Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Rural Drama 

Length: 140min

In this visually evocative film about the conflicts between modernity and tradition, human feelings and human progress, a hydro-electric project is about to doom a 300-year-old Siberian village to a watery grave as the dam goes into effect and...

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