Date of birth: 1938-03-26
Place of birth: Chemer, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Aleksei Petrenko, Alexej Vasilievič Petrenko
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”.
2007-06-06
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men mus
1970-12-15
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their
1987-01-01
1986-01-01
Based on K.Bulychev's story "Jubilee-200" about the humanization of chimpanzees.
1989-02-01
A Russian version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those je
2009-05-31
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided hi
1981-09-01
Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversio
2016-12-22
This new year, the beloved characters of Yolki continue to do silly things and hope for a miracle. B
2002-06-22
A gentleman hires a female private detective to spy on his wife - and suddenly falls in love.
2010-04-22
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of
2001-06-06
The Collector is using his massive collection of curiosities and arts to provoke and manipulate peop
2007-06-06
A pianist named Garvey, while traveling on a tour, gets off the train to buy cigarettes, and learns
2001-05-04
The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days
1984-06-06
In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriag
1988-12-01
Multiple-value and tangled relationships between servant and boss... Imperceptible displacement of r
1998-11-11
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, expe
2009-03-20
A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emot
1976-06-06
Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his win
1989-11-06
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrent
1985-01-10
The adventures of a high school student Igor who is helping Reds during the October Revolution in Ru
2011-12-15
A lot of things happened in the life of "Yolki" hepes during the last year, but here it's again - th
2004-06-08
The film is dedicated to the tragic fate of the outstanding theater director, founder of the famous
2014-09-04
After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to u
1996-06-14
"Agape", translated from ancient Greek, means sacrificial, disinterested love, the desire to give ev
1990-07-02
The plot of the movie is based on books of Isaak Babel about Jewish criminals in city of Odessa befo
1994-07-02
1983-02-23
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is
1993-01-01
The new adventures of four musketeer friends... Based on Alexandre Dumas père novel "20 Years Later"
2005-11-24
During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with
1990-11-01
Having learned that the empty monastery is facing a thorough reconstruction, the architect decides t
2000-01-03
The film is set in 1913 Russia during the celebrations of the Tricentennial Anniversary of the Roman
2008-09-01
Story of a successful businessman, who has to protect his business in difficult conditions. He gets
1977-05-10
AKirill Sergeyevich, a retired Army officer, becomes the new school Headmaster. Used to a strict and
1976-11-08
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels t
2001-03-01
The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Uk
1999-11-20
Follows the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov’s stories int
2005-01-01
1985-01-02
Seventh-grader Vitya Davydov is sent to a factory for practical training. His mentor, a worker nickn
2016-09-17
1985-09-09
Dr. Fiedler, in a secret underground laboratory located in the reserve, is working on experiments to
1981-05-02
This episode of the TV almanac dramatized fragments of A. Tolstoy's science fiction novel "Aelita",
1988-09-05
A man tries to follow his interpretations and behave accordingly, sacrificing his entire private pro
1969-12-10
In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title o
1978-05-22
Based on the comedy of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. Succumbing to the persuasion of his friend K
1993-12-03
Candles in the Dark is the story of a girl who comes to visit her father's homeland, the Soviet Repu
2007-06-22
From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in
1984-10-26
The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final
1989-04-06
French pianist Marie Lamballe-Bulatova married a Soviet diplomat in the 30s, went to the USSR with h
1978-03-13
A weak but kind man is gradually drawn into drunkenness, losing his job and family only to eventuall
1984-12-13
A young student and a rich banker make a bet for two million rubles. On the condition of the wager,
1984-04-19
Victor Grach and Leonid Osadchy are dangerous criminals. Considering himself a strong and independen
1988-12-31
The events of the film take place in the first days of May 1966. Nikolai Kuznetsov, a distinguished
2018-10-11
The film will be based around three of Hoffmann's tales (Klein Zaches, The Golden Pot and The Sandma
1977-08-01
It consists of three short stories united by the theme of war: "Where Are You, Lyubov Dunyashova?",
1978-03-06
Misfortune brings Anatoly, a lonely sailor, to meet Claudia, who comes to his house to help bury his
1977-10-02
The film is based on a true dramatic story of the fate of a wonderful Russian woman - Countess Yulia
1992-03-01
An entrepreneurial young man organizes an unusual cooperative. Its members are doubles of prominent
1968-03-01
Two 7th graders, a hooligan Mukhin and a good student Kronov do not like each other. They decide to
1987-02-16
The title of the film is taken from the popular Bulgarian song. This is a film about the life of a c
1994-04-12
Once upon a time there lived a crazy sculptor who tried to make a sculpture of God, but the statue l
2014-07-21
1987-09-19
“Without the Sun” is the first name that Gorky himself gave to his play and which most closely match
1993-01-01
Forester Yuri Savushkin has been protecting nature and animals for several years now. But “seekers”
1991-05-31
1983-12-31
2008-12-28
2000-02-26
Old skipper travels with his old ship called "Fortune" on the Russian river.
1993-06-10
A 1993 Russian language drama film directed by Andrei Dobrovolsky, starring Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksa
1978-11-25
TV version of a play based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel.
1993-01-01
1993-01-01
Stepan has a beloved uncle who replaced his parents in childhood. The trouble is that this uncle is
1992-04-05
The lesson shown in the film is an allegory of the relationship between teacher and student, father
1973-12-10
A performance by the Leningrad State Academic Theater named after The Lensoveta based on Shakespeare
1970-11-05
1980-11-01