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.
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Movies (41)
Интервью
2024
Золотой век Зои Богуславской
as Self
2024
Emelianenko
as self
2023
Invasion
as General Lebedev
2020
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
2018
Gogol. The Beginning
as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
2017
Attraction
as Colonel Lebedev
2017
Yankovsky
2015
Legend No. 17
as Tarasov
2013
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
as Dmitriy Arsentyev
2011
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
as Mitya Arsentyev
2010
What Men Talk About
as Himself
2010
Игроки
as Утешительный
2006
Doctor Zhivago
2006
The State Counsellor
as Erast Petrovich Fandorin
2005
Woe From Wit
as Александр Андреевич Чацкий
2000
East/West
as Aleksei Golovin
1999
Mommy
as Lyonchik Yuryev
1999
The Barber of Siberia
as André Tolstoi
1998
Prisoner of the Mountains
as Sacha Kostylin
1996
Burnt by the Sun
as Dimitri (Mitya)
1994
Dyuba-Dyuba
1992
The Hole
1990
Limited Life
1989
The Stairway
as Владимир Пирошников
1989
Splashes of Champagne
as Sergei
1989
These... Three True Cards...
1988
Moonsund
as Sergey Artenev
1987
Speak...
1987
My Favorite Clown
as Сергей Синицын
1986
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
as Korolkov
1986
The Legend of Salieri
1986
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
1985
Obstacle Course
as Vladimir
1984
Капитан Фракасс
as Барон де Сигоньяк
1984
The Kiss
as Merzlyakov
1983
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
as Alisa's Friend
1983
The Pokrovsky Gates
as Костик
1982
Kin
as Kirill
1981
The Birthday of Teresa
as Хосе
1980
I Wait and Hope
1980
TV Shows (9)
Charm
as Леонид Максимович
2024
Your Honor
as Mikhail Romanov
2021
Psycho
as Igor
2020
Gogol'
as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
2019
Burnt by the Sun 2
as Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник
2011
Doctor Zhivago
as Yuri Zhivago
2006
The Golden Calf
as Ostap Bender
2006
The State Counsellor
as Erast Petrovich Fandorin
2005
Prime Suspect
as Milan Lukic
1991