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 brought him to the attention of a wide international audience. The film won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Menshikov appeared in Régis Wargnier's 1999 film, East-West with Sandrine Bonnaire and Catherine Deneuve. Menshikov played the hero of Mikhalkov's 1998 The Barber of Siberia, with Julia Ormond playing his mistress. He appeared as Erast Fandorin in the 2005 film The Councillor of State. He filled the role of Ostap Bender in the 2006 Russian mini-series based on The Little Golden Calf. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oleg Menshikov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Attraction | Colonel Lebedev | 2017-01-26 |
Movie | Gogol. The Beginning | Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator | 2017-08-31 |
Movie | Legend No. 17 | Tarasov | 2013-04-17 |
Movie | Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel | Dmitriy Arsentyev | 2011-05-05 |
Movie | What Men Talk About | Himself | 2010-03-04 |
Movie | Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus | Mitya Arsentyev | 2010-04-22 |
Movie | Doctor Zhivago | 2006-04-01 | |
Movie | The State Counsellor | Erast Petrovich Fandorin | 2005-04-21 |
Movie | Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness | Milan Lukic | 2004-04-18 |
Movie | Mommy | Lyonchik Yuryev | 1999-03-31 |
Movie | East/West | Aleksei Golovin | 1999-09-01 |
Movie | The Barber of Siberia | André Tolstoi | 1998-11-11 |
Movie | Prisoner of the Mountains | Sacha Kostylin | 1996-03-15 |
Movie | Burnt by the Sun | Dimitri (Mitya) | 1994-05-01 |
Movie | Dyuba-Dyuba | 1993-11-28 | |
Movie | The Hole | 1990-08-16 | |
Movie | Limited Life | 1989-06-06 | |
Movie | The Stairway | Владимир Пирошников | 1989-11-11 |
Movie | Moonsund | Sergey Artenev | 1987-12-01 |
Movie | My Favorite Clown | Сергей Синицын | 1986-10-09 |
Movie | Mikhaylo Lomonosov | Дмитрий Виноградов | 1986-11-11 |
Movie | Obstacle Course | Vladimir | 1984-06-01 |
Movie | The Pokrovsky Gates | Костик | 1983-02-11 |
Movie | The Kiss | Мерзляков | 1983-10-22 |
Movie | Flights in Dreams and in Reality | Alisa's Friend | 1982-10-04 |
Movie | Kin | Kirill | 1981-12-06 |
Movie | I Wait and Hope | 1980-01-01 |
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