Aleksey Petrenko
Acting
Biography
Ukrainian native Alexei Vasilyevich Petrenko (b. March 26, 1938) has amassed a varied gallery of character and leading roles on Russian stage and screen including the titular “mad monk” in Elem Klimov’s 1981 “Rasputin”, Josef Stalin in BBC II’s docudrama “World War II: Behind Closed Doors”, and General Radlov in Nikita Mikhalkov’s “The Barber of Siberia”.
Born: March 26, 1938
Place of Birth: Chemer, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Known For
Shooting Angels
Once upon a time there lived a crazy sculptor who tried to make a sculpture of God, but the statue lacked something. As it turned out, it lacked a magic eye, which had appeared from some unknown source...
This Fantastic World 4
This episode of the TV almanac dramatized fragments of A. Tolstoy's science fiction novel "Aelita", the stories of Kir Bulychev "The Snow Maiden" and Eric Frank Russell's "I Testify".
Musketeers Twenty Years Later
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...
Not by Bread Alone
During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arrogant "specialness" of genius. Dedicated scientist Lopatkin takes refuge in Moscow with the potty, brilliant old inventor Busko. Lopatkin works tirelessly on his invention, embarking on a roller-coaster of rejection and acceptance, his work vilified, plucked apart and plagiarized by colleagues, particularly by his nemesis Drozhdov. Drozhdov's wife Natasha, alienated from her cold, controlling husband, is increasingly drawn to Lopatkin, whom she knew when they both taught at the same school. Soon she runs away from her husband and happily keeps house for the two absent-minded ex-professors Lopatkin and Busko. Natasha is ready to give Lopatkin her own life, love and faith. Lopatkin is eager to sacrifice his life for the idea, doing the utmost for his motherland.
The Idiot
The Idiot is a costume drama TV series produced by Russia TV Channel in 2003, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same title. The series' script is very close to Dostoevsky's original text, and the series features well-known Russian actors.
A Cruel Romance
In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her three daughters. She maintains an “open house”, hoping to attract gentlemen well-off enough to marry a dowry-less girl for love.
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
Detective television series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Five films about Sherlock Holmes, shot by Igor Maslennikov earlier, were remounted in 2000, a connecting story about Conan Doyle's literary secretary, Mr. Wood, who is preparing an anniversary collection of stories about Holmes for the beginning of the coming XX century. Sir Arthur receives huge mail every day, addressed not to him, but to Sherlock Holmes. And then one day a letter arrives with a plea for help, and Doyle begins an investigation...
The Barber of Siberia
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.
White Lilacs
From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer Serguei Rachmaninov. This film is based on the legend that Rachmaninoff received a bouquet of lilacs from an unknown admirer after every performance. He emigrated to the United States, and after an interval, began to receive the mysterious lilacs again.
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
The struggle of Soviet and American intelligence agencies during the Cold War era
Filmography
as Grigory Pavlovich Zemlyanikin
as honest accountant
as Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин
as Josef Stalin
as Granddad
as генерал
as Joseph Stalin
as Zverev
as Juror #5
as Captain Duke
as Professor Busko
as General Ardalion Ivolgin
as Collector
as генерал Егоров
as Bogdan Khmelnitsky
as Arthur Conan Doyle
as Petrovich
as Vacilii Lukich Dolgopukii
as Юрий Казаков
as General Radlov
as King Charles I
as Boris Sergeevich (dvoynik Stalina)
as Аркадий
as Froim Grach
as Teacher
as Abbot Faria
as Василий Васильевич Пухов
as Roman Romanovich Bryzgin
as Николай Иванович Сарынцев
as Luka Vanchev
as Muller
as Голиаф
as Vladimir Grigoryevich Chertkov
as Пол Дик, американский журналист, собственный корреспондент газеты «Пост»
as Knurov
as судья Игорь Анатольевич Ставрасов
as Стомадор
as Voronzov
as Rasputin
as третий свидетель
as Podkolyosin
as Слава Кулигин
as Stepan Knyazev
as Kirill Alekseevich
as Yuri Stroganov
as Czar Peter I
as Никулин
as Oswald
as капитан-исправник
as waiter