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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1937-05-30

Place of Birth

Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR

Aleksandr Demyanenko

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".

Known for

Fuse

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".

To Remember

To Remember

When Idols Were Gone

When Idols Were Gone

Old Songs about the Main Thing

Old Songs about the Main Thing

Racket

Racket

Seven-Forty

Seven-Forty

The group of immigrants who depart to the United States, by chance finds itself in a deserted forest. Cut off from the civilized world, they begin to build their "own America".

Legends of Cinema

Legends of Cinema

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

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.

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.

The First Trolleybus

The First Trolleybus

Svetlana, young pretty girl, works as a trolleybus driver in a small town and almost all her permanent passengers are at least a little bit in love with her.

The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth

The film follows the fate of the Strogov peasant family. The story takes place in Western Siberia in the late 1940s.

Open Book

Open Book

Ugryum-River

Ugryum-River

Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become his own man. He takes his fathers order and goes trough the woods to deliver the furs to the byer in the nearest town. He tries to take the shorter way and get`s lost. At the highest point of this, his fathers servant, Abdulla, who is sent with him to guard him almost shoots him driven by hunger, but comes to the senses and saves his life by continuing to go on.

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

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.

Emperor's Steps

Emperor's Steps