Roman Tkachuk
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 31, 1932
Place of Birth: Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Yekaterinburg, Russia]
Known For
The Piggy Bank
A musical screen comedy based on the French play La Cagnotte (The Piggy Bank in English) by Eugène Marin Labiche. A group of provincial Bourgeois decide to spend savings they accumulated for a year of playing cards together on a memorable deed. After humorous strategizing and alliance forming, Leonida, the unmarried sister and Blanche, the engaged daughter, of Monsieur Champbourcy, entice the group to spend the money on what they imagine a luxurious journey to a capital city. A very memorable event indeed it was.
April Dreams
A funny adventures of a young boy and bear cub traveling together across the USSR.
Heart of a Dog
"Heart of a Dog" is a Soviet film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic novella. Set in 1920s Moscow, it tells the satirical and darkly humorous story of a stray dog named Sharik, who is transformed into a human by Professor Preobrazhensky through a daring medical experiment. The resulting man, Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, embodies the social and ideological tensions of early Soviet society. With its sharp critique of class struggle, human nature, and the perils of radical change, the film is celebrated for its faithful adaptation, brilliant performances, and rich allegorical depth.
Fuse
Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".
Three of Us and Dog from Petipas
The summer holidays are approaching and the children are bragging about all the exciting places they are going to visit during the long-awaited two months of summer. Only Tonda is not looking forward to staying in Prague over the holidays. He brightens up after his father announces that the boy can visit some friends of the family in the village of Petipas.
A Few Drops
Four one-act plays by Viktor Rozov in two parts.
One Times One
Having lived for his pleasure most of his life, floor polisher Ivan Karetnikov, on the threshold of his 60th birthday, did not for the first time leave his next wife himself, but she abandoned him, moreover, in public. In addition to these troubles, he was fired from his job, replaced by a mechanical polisher. In this difficult moment, Karetnikov remembered the first wife, and then the second and third. But turning to each of them, he seems to begin to lose hope of seeing compassion for himself.
Liberation: Breakthrough
Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they're merely a ploy to mislead the Germans so the rest of the army can catch them off guard.
Two Comrades Were Serving
Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day.
We Didn't Learn This
The heroes of the film are students of a pedagogical university, those who, after a year or two, have to carry knowledge to schoolchildren, "to sow the rational, good, eternal." In the meantime, student practice. True, the practice is not quite ordinary, because for the first time students leave far from the walls of their own university, for the first time they meet with students in the classroom not in the presence of their teachers, those with whom life encounters them daily at the institute, but with those who have been working for more than a year at school.
Filmography
as Nikolai - Shveitsar v Griboedove
as Франсуа Таржи
as Rashid
as Nikolai Nikolayevich Persikov
as Иванов Пётр Ерофеевич
as Константин Григорьевич Сусляков
as The dog (voice)
as Корденбуа
as Doctor
as Pantyukhov
as Антон Антонович (новелла «Урок»)
as Aldebaran
as Полудушкин
as Arkadiy Sergeyevich Skuratov
as Mitya's father
as Dumchenko
as камердинер Борзикова
as Antonio
as царь
as Mastino
as Strasheela (voice)
as Василий Васильевич Ромашкин
as Геннадий Паздников (заведующий клубом)
as комиссар Заплатин
as комиссар Заплатин
as Badger / Hedgehog (voice)
as God / Peasant
as Селянин
as General Aleksey Epishev
as Gennady Pozdnyakov
as Belogvardeyskiy ofitser
as Volsky
as Village Drunk