Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
1946 - 1995Prior to pursuing an acting career, Kaydanovskiy attended technical college where he trained to become a welder. In 1965 he started studying acting at The Rostov Theatre School and the Shchukin theatrical school in Moscow. Before completing the course he took his first part in the film The Mysterious Wall and upon graduation in 1969, he worked as stage actor, making his debut at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1969. In 1971, he was invited to join the prestigious Moscow Arts Theatre, a rare privilege for a 25-year-old graduate.
He made his major film debut in At Home Among Strangers, and over the next few years appeared in some two dozen films, including the satirical comedy Diamonds for Dictatorship of the Proletariat and The Life of Beethoven. At his peak in the '70s Kaidanovsky was among the USSR’s most popular actors, and it was at this point that famed Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, impressed by the looks and the acting technique of Kaidanovsky in Diamonds, invited him to play the title role in his new film, Stalker. The role earned Kaydanovskiy international acclaim.
In 1985 he directed A Simple Death, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. In 1993 he directed Just Death, which was about the death of Leo Tolstoy.
Сталкер
Andrei Tarkovsky
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
Stalker
Дети Ванюшина
Yevgeni Tashkov
Nina Zorskaya, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Внешне в семье Ванюшиных все благопристойно — жизнь течет, как во всех купеческих домах. Но глубокая, непреодолимая пропасть отделяет родителей от детей, такая же пропасть лежит и между самими детьми. Откровенный разговор с младшим сыном заставляет главу семьи Александра Егоровича Ванюшина посмотреть правде в глаза.
Дети Ванюшина
Сон смешного человека
Aleksandr Petrov
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
An animated short film based on the 1877 short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing to live for in the world, and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl changes his mind.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Ten Little Indians
Stanislav Govorukhin
Vladimir Zeldin, Tatyana Drubich
A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.
Ten Little Indians
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Nikita Mikhalkov
Yuri Bogatyryov, Nikita Mikhalkov
Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov was entrusted with is stolen, initially by a group of assassins and then by a group of bandits. In tracking the gold’s whereabouts, Shilov’s motives are questioned and he is suspected of treason, in part because his brother was a devoted White. In an effort to clear his name, Shilov locates the gold, but he also discovers rampant greed and corruption.
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Собака Баскервилей
Antonina Zinovieva
Nikolai Volkov Ml., Lev Kruglyy
К Шерлоку Холмсу обращается доктор Джеймс Мортимер, сельский врач прихода Гримпен в английском графстве Девоншир. Его пациент, баронет сэр Чарльз Баскервиль, некоторое время назад умер при загадочных обстоятельствах. В роду Баскервилей, издавна живших в родовом поместье Баскервиль-Холл вблизи Гримпенской трясины, обширной, сильно заболоченной местности, из поколения в поколение передаётся семейная легенда о призрачной собаке, которая преследует всех Баскервилей на болотах Гримпенской трясины по ночам.
Собака Баскервилей
Parajanov: The Last Spring
Mikhail Vartanov, Sergei Parajanov
Sergei Parajanov, Mikhail Vartanov
Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the peak of his artistic power". Vartanov takes us back with the scenes from his censored 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land where Paradjanov is at work on his suppressed chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - and contrasts it with the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from the Soviet prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's striking last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession. A monumental wordless montage - the entire sixth reel - concludes Vartanov's acclaimed documentary, which, despite the prohibitive conditions it was created in, won the admiration of many of cinema's greatest artists, including Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.
Parajanov: The Last Spring
Рассказ неизвестного человека
Vytautas Žalakevičius
Yevgeniya Simonova, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, this drama centers around a desire for revenge and the tragedy of a star-crossed love. After a general ruins some men under him in punishment for a rebellion, a friend of the broken men vows revenge. The friend, a naval officer, takes a job as a valet in the general's son's house. While he plots his revenge, the son has an affair with a woman whom the valet begins to love. She is discarded after becoming pregnant, and the valet has his own troubles; he has contracted tuberculosis. Sick and unable to follow through on his plans for vengeance, he leaves for France with the pregnant woman hoping to declare his love and seek a cure for his illness.
Story of an Unknown Man
Сад
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Chin Go Pin, Vitautas Paukshte
Soviet film based on Borges' "Garden of Forking Paths." The film tells about the events that occurred on the eve of the British offensive in Saint-Montauban on July 24, 1916. A screen version of the short story of the famous Argentine classic Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). Course work by Alexander Kaidanovsky, as a director, at the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors at VGIK. "Pavilion" for filming was chosen a room in a communal apartment on Vorovskogo street, where Alexander Kaidanovsky lived.
The Garden
Поворот
Vadim Abdrashitov
Irina Kupchenko, Oleg Yankovskiy
The newlyweds return to Moscow after a wonderful sea cruise on the Black Sea. It seems that they will have a happy life ahead, their beloved job, but chance rudely cuts off all dreams: Viktor doesn't have time to slow down and knocks down an elderly woman with his Zhiguli. His desire to evade responsibility is replaced by repentance and a decision to accept the burden of guilt upon himself.
The Turning Point
Kafedra
Ivan Kiasashvili
Rostislav Yankovsky, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Профессор Завалишин, известный ученый, заведующий кафедрой института, однажды начинает понимать, что в преклонном возрасте уже ничего нового привнести в науку не может. Он все более отходит от научной работы. Личные переживания, связанные с кончиной любимой жены, заставляют его оставить и преподавательскую работу. После смерти Завалишина на его место назначается профессор Флягин. Новый заведующий искренне хочет улучшить работу кафедры. Однако, он лишен дара руководить людьми. Осознав это, Флягин отказывается от занимаемой должности.
Kafedra
Faktas
Almantas Grikevičius
Regimantas Adomaitis, Donatas Banionis
Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context.
Fact
