Mykola Hrynko
Date of birth: 1920-05-22
Place of birth: Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Микола Гринько, Гринько Микола Григорович, Николай Гринько, Nikolay Grinko
Biography
Mykola Hryhorovych Hrynko or Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko (Ukrainian: Микола Григорович Гринько; Russian: Николай Григорьевич Гринько) was a Soviet and Ukrainian actor. His film debut was in the role of a rebel in the film "Taras Shevchenko" by Igor Savchenko. He is best known for his roles in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, including: "Ivan's Childhood", "Andrei Rubliov", "Solaris", "Mirror", and "Stalker", as well as Sergei Parajanov's "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors".
Movie Credits
Andrei Rublev
1966-12-16
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R
Solaris
1972-03-20
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death
Mirror
1975-03-07
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell
Stalker
1979-05-25
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the
The Adventures of Buratino
1975-12-31
A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by
Solo
1980-12-01
Lopushansky's second film focuses on a few hours in the life of a soloist musician during the siege
Ivan's Childhood
1962-05-09
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the
The Cities and the Years
1974-01-21
A movie based on the novel of the same name by K. Fedin. The action takes place in Germany and Russi
At the Black Sea
1975-01-01
A young Muscovite spends his vacation in a small Abkhazian village. The joys and sorrows, everyday l
Ring
1973-12-03
Investigating the murder of a cash-collector, Major Isaev, a former boxing champion, comes to the co
The Acolyte
1985-03-01
After losing his parents in the war, the boy ended up in an orphanage, from which he escaped and was
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
1965-10-18
In the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life and death among the Hutsul peo
Singing Russia
1986-10-06
The film tells about the founder of the first Russian peasant choir Mitrofan Efimovich Pyatnitskiy,
Appeal
1986-12-01
During a complex operation in a leading clinic, patient Yakovenko dies. His relatives file a complai
One Day I Came Home
1980-01-01
Cartoon about a drunkard husband.
Pie With a Laughingstock
1980-02-05
Follows the amazing city of Smekhograd. The day of Laughter and Fun came to Smekhograd and a carniva
Having Lied Once
1988-02-02
Set in the Soviet Union, the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his
About You
1985-10-10
The heroine of this not quite serious story was born with extraordinary talent: instead of speaking,
The Adventures of the Electronic
1980-03-23
Professor Gromov constructs a robot called Electronic, which looks exactly like Sergey Syroezhkibn,
Car, Violin and Blot the Dog
1974-06-06
A fantasy story about five-grades - musician and engineer, their friend - the most beautiful girl in
War and Peace
1967-11-04
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
1966-12-31
In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet
Romashkin Effect
1973-06-06
A musical comedy about the adventures of four friends who are trying to film a yogurt commercials.
Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians...
1978-02-13
A third of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.
Only the Statues Are Silent
1962-02-18
Soviet specialists are building a hydroelectric power station in a Middle Eastern country. To contin
Two Long Hoots in the Fog
1981-07-20
In a deserted tundra on the lake, a seaplane makes an emergency landing, on board of which bank coll
One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...
1976-06-06
The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last b
Buryan
1966-12-31
David Motuzka, demobilized Red Army soldier, returns to his native village, hoping to see the change
The Lost Expedition
1975-12-29
An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918.
One Chance in One Thousand
1969-05-29
In German-occupied Crimea during WWII, a group of Russian soldiers employ unusual tactics to steal c
Accidental Passengers
1978-06-06
A truck driver meets a bunch of orphan children during his night trip. Suddenly his life start chang
Dangerous Tour
1969-12-07
Based on the events that took place in Odessa in 1910, when, on the instructions of the Foreign Bure
That's the Game
1977-08-01
A conflict between the football team's coach and its best players, Bushuev and Milenkov, led to the
Starling and Lyre
1974-06-16
Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of t
No Right to Fail
1984-06-06
Based on the stories of G.Seversky. Events taking place in the besieged Sevastopol during the WWII.
Romance for Lovers
1974-11-10
Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania wait
The Order: Do Not Open Fire
1981-06-06
A movie about a Soviet soldiers on the Japanese borders during 1941.
What's There Around the Bend?
1981-01-08
The young schoolboy goes to the village where his grandfather died in battle during the Great Patrio
The Youth of Peter
1981-03-02
The years of the tsar’s adolescence and youth were permeated with deadly danger coming from some of
Timur and His Team
1977-05-01
A story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the year
Equilibrist
1976-01-01
Circus artist Yuri Ostashenko, who lost his arm during World War II, returns to his beloved city and
The Unknown Soldier
1984-06-06
A third part of the adventures of Krosh and his friends.
Twenty Days Without War
1976-11-08
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels t
Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches
1975-11-05
A young boy grapples with first love and his ambitions as a drummer during an eventful summer holida
Meetings and Partings
1973-01-01
Uzbek young man Rustam, a helicopter co-pilot, is participating in the construction of a high-voltag
Adventures in the City which Doesn't Exist
1974-06-01
Young schoolboy Slava Kurochkin suddenly finds himself in a town where books characters live.
Good luck!
1974-12-16
The film is based on the story "Hunter's Smiles" by writer Ostap Vishnya. Once a year, it would see
Be My Husband
1981-06-06
A single mother arrives at a Black Sea resort with her young son but can’t find a place to stay—land
The Liberation of Prague
1977-05-06
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germa
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
1983-01-01
Based on the works of Nikolai Gogol - 'The Old World Landowners', 'The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Qu
Subject for a Short Story
1969-10-06
The film tells about Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. October 17, 1896. On the facade of the Alexandrinsky T
The Commissars
1971-07-01
This ideologically charged film as a typical sample of Soviet version of history portrays the events
Meaning of Life
1987-12-01
Follows the construction of the Fergana Canal, which employed 170 thousand people, and Usman Yusupo
Smiles of Nechiporovka
1982-06-01
A long time ago, in a certain village, a tired traveler was resting. His name was Nechipor. And then
Birthday
1984-01-01
Follows the grandson minds his own business, forgetting about his grandmother.
Behind the Old Fence
1982-06-01
Based on Galina Demykina’s story “The Girl Got Lost.”
Last Hunt
1979-06-01
1920s. A schooner manned by foreign pirates reaches the coast of Northern Ocean near Russian Eastern
Two Knew the Password
1985-12-16
The 1920s. Count Kabardin, who emigrated to France, sends Colonel Lavrov to Russia with the aim of b
A Dream
1964-12-12
Poetic treatment of the early life of Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko. A biopic made on
Funny Stories
1962-05-22
Funny stories about four friends and their adventures in a big city.
Vesenniye perevyortyshi
1974-10-21
A story of a thirteen year old boy who lives in North Russia and is forced to make some difficult de
Under a Stone Sky
1974-10-25
In the autumn of 1944, contrary to the order of the Nazi command to evacuate to the south, residents
We, The Russian People
1966-01-16
Based on a novel by Vsevolod Vishnevsky. January 1917. The workers and peasants of Russia, hunted by
A Million in a Wedding Basket
1985-06-06
In the densely populated slums live large but poor family of charming and talented signor Leonido Po
How I Was a Prodigy
1983-04-20
Seva, a young schoolboy, is fighting his parents and especially grandmother who want to make child p
A Mystery Known to All
1981-06-01
Children from in a summer camp decided to invite a group of famous actors to visit them.
Vesnukhin's Fantasies
1976-09-01
A first-grader dreams to perform with his cat in the circus.
A Great Road Ahead
1963-04-27
About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First Wor
Who Will go to Truskavets?
1978-05-26
The casual acquaintance of the heroes did not portend any feelings. They are not very interested in
While the Dream is Mad
1978-07-01
Yura Otvertkin, a romantic from Tsarevo-Kokshaisk, is obsessively in love with aeronautics. In St. P
Only Three Nights
1969-01-01
The love story in the remote village. Lyuba has a child, Nikolai has a wife. Nikolay, having become
Here is your front
1984-02-06
During the Second World War a big plant in Urals region gets an order from the State Defence Committ
Commissioner Berlach's Last Case
1972-08-05
The last months of Police Commissioner Berlach's life are devoted to tracking down the war criminal,
Peace to Him Who Enters
1961-09-04
The time is World War II. Lidiya Shaporenko plays a pregnant German woman, trapped behind Russian li
Housewarming
1974-09-23
The story of the life of the Podolsk village and what the inhabitants of the village had to go throu
Night Motorcyclist
1972-12-28
The investigation of a complex, complicated case of the murder of an engineer, a former prisoner of
The Sea in Flames
1972-02-22
The film recreates the heroic epic of the defense of Sevastopol in 1941-1942. The fall of 1941. Havi
Deer Hunting
1982-05-15
Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing o
I'm Offering My Hand and Heart
1989-02-06
After becoming a widower and retiring, former teacher Nikolai Chmutin moved in with his daughter, wh
Pavel Korchagin
1956-06-06
A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".
A Trip Through the City
1979-07-02
The TV film consists of two short stories. "Love Under a Pseudonym": A comedy about a modern Don Jua
The Golden Gates
1971-03-01
The film-remembrance of the creative fate of the Ukrainian Soviet film director Alexander Dovzhenko,
Black Sun
1971-04-05
The life and death of Robert Moussombe, the leader of an unnamed African state. Moussombe is a ficti
Yuliya Vrevskaya
1977-10-02
The film is based on a true dramatic story of the fate of a wonderful Russian woman - Countess Yulia
Ginger Fairy
1987-09-22
11-year-old Minko is forced to move from a decaying village to the city with his father, mother and
Death of the Squadron
1966-02-21
Summer 1918. There is a danger of ships being captured by Germany in the Black Sea Fleet. The Soviet
From Bug to Vistula
1981-02-12
The Soviet war film tells the story of the last raid by the Ukrainian partisan division named after
To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing
1987-04-01
Two men wander a Kazakh forest in search of mushrooms, whilst reflecting on their philosophies and m
Colonel Shaligin's Waiting
1982-08-16
Summer 1944, Belarus. A group of Soviet soldiers was tasked with urgently delivering our scout from
The Bodyguard
1979-01-01
The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when t
Avdotya Pavlovna
1966-12-31
The first postwar years. The Director of a small breeding station Avdotya Pavlovna is not immediatel
Citizen Lyoshka
1981-02-09
The young lumberjack foreman Leshka Ignatov bitterly sees for himself that the huge stocks of forest
The Wedding Is Accused
1986-07-21
The wedding turns into a crime scene. The wedding is like the apotheosis of meaninglessness, a metap
To proceed with the investigation. Movie 2: Slander
1986-05-25
For several years, the head of a major construction trust Melnikov was accused of embezzlement, brib
The Retired Colonel
1977-02-07
Korney Korneevich Polunin is a career military officer, a retired colonel. His wife died when his so
Space for Maneuver
1982-01-01
A new manager comes to the design bureau, he thinks outside the box, rejects routine...
Some Guy
1956-07-13
Lada from the Berendeyev Country
1971-03-05
A simple girl named Lada finds herself in the kingdom of Magnum IV, where a singing competition is b
My Sister Lucy
1985-01-02
The film is a recollection of an adult about the unforgettable days of the first post-war year. Kla
Afonya
1976-01-01
The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main charact
100 grams for Bravery
1977-05-23
The movie consists of three short stories that share a common satirical theme: alcoholism and drunke
I'm Staying with You
1981-12-31
The last years of writer Arkady Gaidar's life.
One of Us
1971-01-18
April 1941. According to intelligence received by the Chekists, a fascist sabotage group plans to bl
Rudobel Republic
1972-03-20
Former Wachmister Alexander Solovey receives a task from the Bobruisk Revolutionary Committee to org
Each Evening After Work
1974-01-14
School of working youth. A new teacher of Russian language and literature comes here. Soon, Yelena N
Quiet Odesa
1968-06-24
After the Bolshevik coup Alexei Tolmachev comes to enter the university. However, he becomes a cheki
No Unknown Soldiers
1965-12-01
A story about a few days during the defense of Kiev at the beginning of WWII.
Teheran '43
1981-07-08
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the actio
Happiness of Nikifor Bubnov
1983-11-30
Peasant Nikifor Bubnov goes to the mining regions of Donbas to earn money for a horse. People workin
It's Not Always Summer in Crimea
1988-06-01
The film is dedicated to Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, the younger brother of V.I. Lenin, a professional re
The Last Game
1982-02-01
After a long absence, Igor Balagura returns to his hometown. After learning about the suicide of his
The Feast of the Baked Potato
1978-02-13
Drama about Aleksandra Avramovna Derevskaya (1902-1959), who, between the two wars - the Civil and G
On the Heights
1986-10-02
About the establishment of Soviet power in Ukraine and the struggle of Chekists against nationalist
Dress Rehearsal
1989-04-01
A poetic psychological drama about the adolescence of the Ukrainian-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol fil
At the Beginning of Glorious Days
1981-04-13
The Tale of Ptashkin
1965-05-22
A simple firefighter, Yasha Ptashkin, dreams of heroism, but no one takes his made-up stories seriou
Bounce
1986-03-01
Accusation
1984-01-01
Dragon
1984-11-01
Based on the short story by Ray Bradbury. Two knights travel across desolate lands to face the Drago
The Deputy's Hour
1981-02-13
The eternal “housing question” in Russia is taken on by Serafimov, a young and principled city counc