
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Acting
Biography
Aleksandr S. Demyanenko (May 30, 1937 – August 22, 1999) was a Russian film and theater actor. He was given the honorary distinction of People's Artist of the RSFSR. He began his acting career with the film "Veter" in 1958, and is well known for playing the character Shurik in a number of films, beginning with the 1965 comedy "Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures", and ending with the 1997 film "Old Songs of the Main Things 2".
Born: May 30, 1937
Place of Birth: Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Known For

Drama from the Old Life
A love story between a barber and a serf actress who find themselves in an environment that combines savagery with a veneer of enlightenment. Based on Nikolai Leskov's short story "The Toupee Artist".

Как уходили кумиры

How Many Years, How Many Winters!

Everything Begins with Hitting the Road
On the eve of departure to the Siberian shock construction site, the famous builder and installer Stepan Bobkov throws his wife. However, on the train he meets Annushka, a young concrete worker who also travels to Siberia on a Komsomol ticket. Sympathy arises between the heroes, which is also reinforced by the coincidence of the so-called “production interests”.

Open Book
The protagonist of the film is a female microbiologist and inventor of penicillin. The discovery of this life-saving drug was preceded by many years of scientific research, which Dr. Lebedev conducted in his laboratory in a small provincial town at the beginning of the century... Tanya, a girl from the neighborhood, accidentally finds herself in the doctor's house, where she first encounters the mysterious world of science...

Seven Crosses in a Notebook

The Wind
Filmed in the context of the fortieth anniversary of the creation of the Komsomols, the League of Young Communists, tells the story of three youth delegates from the League in 1918, who must make the dangerous journey to Moscow during the civil war to participate in League’s congress.

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.

The Green Van
Post-revolutionary Odessa. A high school boy dreaming of a career as Sherlock Holmes joins the law enforcement agencies and quickly matures, encountering the brutal cynicism of criminals and examples of courage and self-sacrifice from his comrades.

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Himself / ArchiveFootage
as Шурик
as Шурик
as Gavrila Ivanovich Obozov
as Orvo (voice)
as Narrator
as Борис Николаевич Порай (дядик Борик)
as Narrator
as командир полка
as Роман Зыков
as доктор Справченко
as Slava, Valera's Friend
as Иванов
as отец Мити (озвучание - Юрий Саранцев)
as Semyonov
as Людоед
as Солдатов
as Катасонов
as Viktor Prokofyevich
as Виктор Прокофьевич
as слесарь Коля
as Andre Lyokyor - inspektor politsii
as Sidor Naumovich
as Professor
as Yury Belyanchikov, сaptain of militia
as Anya's stepfather
as дервиш
as Big Daddy
as Семен Васильевич Грибков
as администратор сборной Николай Мартынов
as старший пионервожатый Сергей Павлович
as Stepan
as Dr. Blind
as Андрей Заболотный
as Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)
as Кудрявый
as пациент Володя
as scientist
as Член бригады
as озвучивание однополчанина Юры Колтуна
as (voice)
as продавец
as Aleksandr 'Shurik' Timofeyev, inventor
as Nadya's & Slava's father
as Valery Sergeevich, Tamara's fiance
as председатель колхоза
as informer
as commandant Smykov
as Albany (voice)
as Илья Сохатых
as Ilya Sokhatykh
as Narrator (voice)
as Shurik
as Павел
as Radetskiy
as студент, сосед Рябова по купе в мирное время
as Shurik
as Runge
as Андрей Поликанов
as Mikhalyov
as Sergei
as Yan
as Sirotkin
as Митька
as Igor
as Шура Ивлев
as Dmitry (Dima) Gorin
as Митя