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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Золотой век Зои Богуславской
2024
as self
A film about a unique woman, Zoya Borisovna Boguslavskaya - a writer, playwright, public figure and the wife of the Soviet poet Andrei Voznesensky, wh...
Invasion
2020
as General Lebedev
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...
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
2018
as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Soon after Gogol's death, Binh names him guilty for the deaths of the Cossacks and the young women at the hands of the Dark Horseman, since he was the...
Gogol. The Beginning
2017
as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
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...
Attraction
2017
as Colonel Lebedev
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...
Yankovsky
2015
This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his pe...
Legend No. 17
2013
as Tarasov
Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011
as Dmitriy Arsentyev
The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly esc...
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010
as Mitya Arsentyev
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian offi...
What Men Talk About
2010
as Himself
Four old friends - Kamil, Lesha, Sasha and Slava - all well-to-do professionals in their late 30s embarking on a two days road trip from Moscow to Ode...
Игроки
2006
as Утешительный
Игроки
2006
Director
Doctor Zhivago
2006
Russian TV miniseries of Boris Pasternak's classic novel.
The State Counsellor
2005
as Erast Petrovich Fandorin
Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khra...
Woe From Wit
2000
as Александр Андреевич Чацкий
Woe From Wit
2000
Director
East/West
1999
as Aleksei Golovin
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician a...
Mommy
1999
as Lyonchik Yuryev
After Polina, a mother of six, loses her husband, who went to jail for stealing charcoal and was killed when he tried to escape, she stays behind with...
The Barber of Siberia
1998
as André Tolstoi
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...
Prisoner of the Mountains
1996
as Sacha Kostylin
Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remo...
Burnt by the Sun
1994
as Dimitri (Mitya)
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 othe...
Dyuba-Dyuba
1993
Andrei's ex-girlfriend Tania (Anzhela Belyanskaya) has been constantly in danger of going to jail since he knew her. Their breakup was not his doing, ...
The Hole
1990
A few days from the life of average brothel in early XX century Russia. Based on the classical novel by Aleksandr Kuprin.
Limited Life
1989
A story about young girl Masha who is living in abandoned house and surrounded by the very strange company...
The Stairway
1989
as Владимир Пирошников
Having his life come to a dead end, Vladimir is thinking about suicide. He is saved by a girl and spends the night at her home. The next morning, Vlad...
Splashes of Champagne
1989
as Sergei
The film is based on the novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev "Vacation by Wound." The story of the few weeks that young lieutenant Volodya spent in Moscow...
These... Three True Cards...
1989
Moonsund
1987
as Sergey Artenev
Captain of a Russian battleship "Novik" Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady Klara who is a German spy. They cannot be together because of the wa...
My Favorite Clown
1986
as Сергей Синицын
Film is based on the eponymous book by V. Livanov. About a boy, who is adopted by the divorced man.
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
1986
as Korolkov
Vasily Muravin, 50, a teacher at the Moscow Institute of Management, is experiencing a crisis. At work, the place of the head of the department is rep...
The Legend of Salieri
1986
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
1985
The action takes place in a backwater small town. The story of the life of a married couple - Colonel Yagich and his wife Sophia Lvovna, a young woman...
Obstacle Course
1984
as Vladimir
After a demobilization Vladimir starts working in a little porcelain shop as a repairer - but soon gets involved in criminal activity - so he desperat...
Капитан Фракасс
1984
as Барон де Сигоньяк
The Kiss
1983
as Мерзляков
The film is based on the short story by Anton Chekhov. Gentlemen invited to tea by the local landowner, a retired major-General von Rebbeca.. Lieutena...
The Pokrovsky Gates
1983
as Костик
Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady...
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
1982
as Alisa's Friend
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 ...
Kin
1981
as Kirill
The story follows Maria Konovalova who travels from her rural village to visit her daughter Nina in the city. Maria's arrival exposes the stark contra...
I Wait and Hope
1980
1942 The Great Patriotic War is in full swing. The German command begins an intensified struggle with partisan detachments. One of these detachments, ...