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”.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Hoffmaniada
2018
The film will be based around three of Hoffmann's tales (Klein Zaches, The Golden Pot and The Sandman), with the main character being Hoffmann himself...

Six Degrees of Celebration 5
2016
This time on New Year, the favourite heroes of “Yolki” perform the usual nonsense and hope for a miracle. Borya needs to somehow restore family happin...

Evgeniy Grishkovets: While the Beer is Being Poured
2016

Viktor
2014
After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's b...

Уходящая натура
2014

Six Degrees of Celebration 2
2011
as Grigory Pavlovich Zemlyanikin
A lot of things happened in the life of "Yolki" hepes during the last year, but here it's again - the New Year's eve...

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010
as Honest accountant
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian offi...

Into the Storm
2009
as Josef Stalin
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the w...

Bury Me Behind the Baseboard
2009
as Granddad
A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to...

They Don't Give Up Loving...
2008
as генерал

Illusion of Fear
2008
Story of a successful businessman, who has to protect his business in difficult conditions. He gets entrapped into the net of law enforcement structur...

White Lilacs
2007
as Zverev
From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer S...

12
2007
as Juror #5
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen a...

The Wave Runner
2007
as Captain Duke
A pianist named Garvey, while traveling on a tour, gets off the train to buy cigarettes, and learns from a salesgirl that the cities imagined by Grin ...

Not by Bread Alone
2005
as Professor Busko
During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arro...
Удар Лотоса 4: Алмаз
2005

Tairov's Death
2004
The film is dedicated to the tragic fate of the outstanding theater director, founder of the famous Chamber Theater Alexander Tairov. Tairov's perform...
Casus Belli
2002
A gentleman hires a female private detective to spy on his wife - and suddenly falls in love.

The Mastermind
2001
as Collector
The Collector is using his massive collection of curiosities and arts to provoke and manipulate people into a different state of mind. The Collector's...

In August of 1944
2001
as генерал Егоров
The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet...

The Black Council
2001
as Bogdan Khmelnitsky
The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be...

Fortune
2000
as Petrovich
Old skipper travels with his old ship called "Fortune" on the Russian river.

Chinese Tea-Set
2000
The film is set in 1913 Russia during the celebrations of the Tricentennial Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. Rich Russian merchants are celebrating...

Listen If It's Raining...
1999
as Юрий Казаков
Follows the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov’s stories intersect. The hero can easily meet with Stalin or dr...

The Barber of Siberia
1998
as General Radlov
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wild...

Agape
1996
"Agape", translated from ancient Greek, means sacrificial, disinterested love, the desire to give everything, without demanding anything in return - F...
It Doesn't Work
1994

Shooting Angels
1994
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 mag...

Candles in the Dark
1993
Candles in the Dark is the story of a girl who comes to visit her father's homeland, the Soviet Republic of Estonia. After she arrives, she finds that...

Presence
1993
A 1993 Russian language drama film directed by Andrei Dobrovolsky, starring Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandra Butorina and Aleksandr Adabashyan. The film s...

Musketeers 20 Years Later
1993
The new adventures of four musketeer friends... Based on Alexandre Dumas père novel "20 Years Later".

Sensation
1993
Forester Yuri Savushkin has been protecting nature and animals for several years now. But “seekers” of zoological rarities (junior children, a scienti...

For What Sake are You in a Tailcoat?
1993

Nalyot
1993
Stepan has a beloved uncle who replaced his parents in childhood. The trouble is that this uncle is the leader of the gang, stubbornly trying to attac...
The Lesson
1992
The lesson shown in the film is an allegory of the relationship between teacher and student, father and children, God and people.

Co-op Politburo, or Will be a Long Farewell
1992
as Boris Sergeevich (dvoynik Stalina)
An entrepreneurial young man organizes an unusual cooperative. Its members are doubles of prominent political figures, each of whom left a noticeable ...

Game for Millions
1991
as Аркадий

Sphinx
1990
Having learned that the empty monastery is facing a thorough reconstruction, the architect decides to capture it alone and prepare design documentatio...

Art of Living in Odessa
1990
as Froim Grach
The plot of the movie is based on books of Isaak Babel about Jewish criminals in city of Odessa before and after the Russian revolution.

The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
1989
as Stalin
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other h...

Ruf
1989
French pianist Marie Lamballe-Bulatova married a Soviet diplomat in the 30s, went to the USSR with him, was repressed together with her husband and sp...

The Prisoner of If Castle
1989
as Abbot Faria
A Russian version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spe...

Our Armoured Train
1988
as Василий Васильевич Пухов

The Servant
1988
as Roman Romanovich Bryzgin
Multiple-value and tangled relationships between servant and boss... Imperceptible displacement of recognizable reality... Metaphysical dimension of o...

The Light Shines in the Darkness
1988
as Николай Иванович Сарынцев
A man tries to follow his interpretations and behave accordingly, sacrificing his entire private property and living for the poor.

Without Sun
1987
“Without the Sun” is the first name that Gorky himself gave to his play and which most closely matches its essence. For this work is not about the "da...

Only You, My Heart
1987
as Luka Vanchev
The title of the film is taken from the popular Bulgarian song. This is a film about the life of a common Bulgarian worker. The action focuses on his ...

Women's Club
1987

Experiment 200
1986
Based on K.Bulychev's story "Jubilee-200" about the humanization of chimpanzees.

Day of Wrath
1985
as Muller
Dr. Fiedler, in a secret underground laboratory located in the reserve, is working on experiments to create bestial creatures endowed with human intel...

Mr. Student
1985
The adventures of a high school student Igor who is helping Reds during the October Revolution in Russia.

В. Давыдов и Голиаф
1985
as Голиаф

Incredible Bet, or True Event That Ended Happily Hundred Years Ago
1984
as Banker
A young student and a rich banker make a bet for two million rubles. On the condition of the wager, the student was to spend 15 years in solitary conf...

Lev Tolstoy
1984
as Vladimir Grigoryevich Chertkov
The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see...

A Cruel Romance
1984
as Knurov
In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her three daughters. She maintains an “open...

The Rooks
1984
as судья Игорь Анатольевич Ставрасов
Victor Grach and Leonid Osadchy are dangerous criminals. Considering himself a strong and independent person, who is allowed everything, Victor wants ...

Человек из страны Грин
1983
as Стомадор

Farewell
1983
as Voronzov
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a...

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
1981
as Rasputin
Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome ass...

This Fantastic World 4
1981
as третий свидетель
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 ...

Islands in the Stream
1978
TV version of a play based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel.

Marriage
1978
as Podkolyosin
Based on the comedy of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. Succumbing to the persuasion of his friend Kochkaryov, a middle-aged court adviser Podkolyosin...

Trouble
1978
as Слава Кулигин
A weak but kind man is gradually drawn into drunkenness, losing his job and family only to eventually commit a crime.

A Portrait with Rain
1978
Misfortune brings Anatoly, a lonely sailor, to meet Claudia, who comes to his house to help bury his mother. Although he sees her as a calculating per...

Yuliya Vrevskaya
1977
as Stepan Knyazev
The film is based on a true dramatic story of the fate of a wonderful Russian woman - Countess Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya, one of the first Petersburg b...

Everyday Matters
1977
It consists of three short stories united by the theme of war: "Where Are You, Lyubov Dunyashova?", "You Have Me", "Everyday Matters".

The Key That Should Not Be Handed On
1977
as Kirill Alekseevich
AKirill Sergeyevich, a retired Army officer, becomes the new school Headmaster. Used to a strict and orderly routine, he at first finds the chaotic bu...

Twenty Days Without War
1976
as Yuri Stroganov
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the kille...

Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding
1976
as Czar Peter I
Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having ...

The Taming of the Shrew
1973
A performance by the Leningrad State Academic Theater named after The Lensoveta based on Shakespeare's play. One of the daughters of a venerable resi...

King Lear
1970
as Oswald
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youn...

Dead Souls
1969
as капитан-исправник
In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carrie...

A Day of Sun and Rain
1968
as waiter
Two 7th graders, a hooligan Mukhin and a good student Kronov do not like each other. They decide to have a peace day together, which changed their att...

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