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Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1960-11-08

Place of Birth

Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Oleg Menshikov

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oleg Menshikov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Prime Suspect

Prime Suspect

Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.

Invasion

Invasion

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?

Attraction

Attraction

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.

The Golden Calf

The Golden Calf

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.

Gogol

Gogol

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.

Your Honor

Your Honor

Mikhail Romanov is a judge in the Primorsky city District court. Romanov is famous for his 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.

Psycho

Psycho

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.

Charm

Charm

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.

Burnt by the Sun 2

Burnt by the Sun 2

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…

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

Russian TV miniseries of Boris Pasternak's classic novel.

Emelianenko

Emelianenko

Valeria Guy Germanica's documentary "Emelianenko", dedicated to MMA fighter Alexander Emelianenko.

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

The attempted murder of a high-society lawyer draws Yuri Zhivago, a naive young doctor, into a world of passion and intrigue.

Spoiler

Spoiler

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.

Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun

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...

Flights in Dreams and in Reality

Flights in Dreams and in Reality

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...