Nikita Kukushkin
Birthday: Born in 1990-11-14 in Moscow, USSR (Russia)
Deathday: Alive
Nikita Andreevich Kukushkin (Russian: Никита Андреевич Кукушкин; born November 14, 1990, Moscow) is a Russian theater and film actor, public figure. One of the leading actors of the Gogol-Center. He studied at a school with a theatrical bias "Class-center". As a teenager, he performed in the Children's Musical Theater of a young actor. Later, he entered the College of Culture in absentia, but took the documents after several months of study. Then he studied in the class of Kirill Serebrennikov at the Moscow Art Theater Studio School, after graduation he continued to work under the guidance of Serebrennikov at the Seventh Studio and the Gogol Center. He plays in most of the theater's performances. In 2019, he staged his first directorial work at the Gogol Center, the play "Bozhenka" based on the play by Valery Pecheykin. For his performance in the movie "Correction Class" he received a Special jury Prize of the Amur Autumn Festival. He starred in supporting roles in the films "Okolofootball", "Harms", "Captain Volkonogov Ran", "Attraction", the television series "Method", "Walking through the Torments", "Call Center". In 2020, he starred in the dystopian web series about Russia of the future "amroN" by the famous theater director Maxim Didenko. Kukushkin often appears in other popular video works, for example, video clips. A volunteer, he is the organizer of a number of charity projects, such as the "Good Box" (assistance to the poor) and "#yavpomosh" (assistance to pensioners during the coronavirus pandemic). Participated in flood relief in the Krasnodar Territory. Together with other famous actors, he recorded a video in support of the defendants in the "Moscow Case". In December 2020, he launched a new charity initiative "Help". As part of the initiative, a mobile application has been created in which the profiles of real people in need of help, as well as their stories, are displayed on the map. Users of the service donate funds, for example, to a consumer basket. The service reports quarterly and annually to users, providing photos and receipts of purchases made.
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Погружение
Character: Ваня
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Метод
Character: Fyodor Yashin
After graduation our main character Yesenia dreams about work- ing with Rodion Meglin. He is a mysterious, secretive man, a lone investigator with little known about his methods. When Yesenia turns into his trainee she begins to realize that the essence of his method is that Meglin himself – that of a maniac. He feels them instinctively. He is allowed to eliminate some of them, look after others and save their lives. Our heroine who was never meant to work alone will go alone, facing the most ho...
Карамора
Character: Brem
A young anarchist Karamora and his lover, Alina are caught–up in a confrontation with members of a powerful organization which costs Alina her life. Devastated, Karamora wants vengeance but this ancient secret order’s tentacles are everywhere, with depth and reach far beyond human capabilities. Karamora uncovers classified information that goes right to the heart of this arcane organization only to find out that real power lies elsewhere. Who are they, and will Karamora find peace once the truth...
Идентификация
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A refrigerator truck with naked bodies of four females is found on the border of Finland. Each of the girls share the same neck tattoo that resembles a house. The identities of the the girls are yet to be found. Three years later, the police arrest Valeria Mazyane, an orphaned girl and a recent Islam convert who lives in Moscow in a Kyrgyz immigrant community. The police believe she killed her husband’s brother. It turns out that Valeria is not an orphan after all, and her past is as mysterious ...
Кадетство
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Boys of fourteen years old find themselves in the Suvorov school – someone thanks to family tradition, someone for the sake of high ideals, and someone not even of their own free will. Having entered Suvorovskoye, the guys at first do not represent the full extent of the load, and most importantly, the responsibility that will have a profound impact on their subsequent life....
Колл-центр
Character: Client
Moscow. High rise. Here, on the 12th floor, is the office of the call center "Online Store for Adults". One morning, twelve people who are in the office suddenly find out that there is a bomb in the room. The voices of the unknowns who introduced themselves as Dad and Mom threaten to blow it up at any time if the hostages do not follow their instructions. While the countdown is going on, they will have to experience the absolute power of invisible sadists and learn something about each other’s l...
Хождение по мукам
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Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them....
Алиса
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Five taxi drivers fall into funny, touching and creepy stories in the company of the Alice's on-board computer. Stories unfold from Alice’s perspective - she learns something new about herself in this crazy world of gender-fluid love, a stand-up on the verge of a foul and a DIY horror....
Квартет
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They are the most talented students of the provincial music school. There are four of them, they are a Quartet, and their common dream is to win an international music competition. But their life is not a series of lessons and rehearsals, their life is a constant struggle with their fears, manias and the world around them. Meet. First violin, Andrey is a kleptomaniac, unable to cope with his pernicious passion, which destroys his life. Polina, the second violinist, is madly devoted to music, and...
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Man Without a Name
Character: Vladimir Odoevsky / Ludwig von Beethoven / Man Without a Name
Valeriy Pecheykin's one-man theatrical piece explores and celebrates the life of Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky, an aristocratic 19th-century Russian polyglot. Using inventive mechanical, musical, and acrobatic set devices, the play sketches out boundaries of Odoyevsky's eccentric character by imagining his pursuits across time and place....
Captain Volkonogov Escaped
Character: 'Kiddo' Veretennikov
Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. Suddenly he turns into an outcast, whom his former colleagues search across the whole city. At night Volkonogov is visited by a messenger from the other world, who warns him that after death he will go hell and be tormented forever. But he has an oppor...
Security
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A story of a young girl Claudia who works as a security guard on a slowly dying metal plant....
The Duelist
Character: young sergeant
Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercena...
Kicking Off
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This movie is about soccer hooligans, the most aggressive and violent soccer aficionados. They are an exclusive group, the elite of all soccer fans. Whoever they may be in their everyday lives—college students, bankers, musicians, or car mechanics—they are a “firm.” It’s easy to get into a firm, but once you’re in, it’s for life. There’s no going back. The movie is based on actual events...
Corrections Class
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Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a "normal" class. Her enervated teachers, however, show absolutely no desire to motivate the students and help them improve; on the contrary, they try to quash right from the start any interest Lena shows...
Your Own Alien Sister
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Anna, the young wife of a successful businessman Alexey, accompanies her husband on a business trip. The day of return is coming, but Lyosha does not appear either at home or in the office. His phone is not answering, his work colleagues do not know where the boss has disappeared. In the process of searching for an entrepreneur, interesting information of a piquant nature suddenly pops up. It turns out that Alexey, an exemplary family man, has a woman and an illegitimate daughter Tanya in anothe...
Eternal Cold
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A girl left a young handsome hockey player on the eve of the decisive match. Moreover, she did not go to anyone, but to a museum worker. To support a friend, five hockey players and a goalkeeper go to the museum to explain to the art critic that he did wrong and the woman must be returned. How could the athletes know that the museum is not just a place where statues stand and pictures are hung on the walls. That in giant vaults-storerooms, ancient as the world creatures, which our ancestors desc...
Kharms
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He considers himself a genius but the publishers refuse to print his works. He loves women but they don’t always understand him. Constantly without money and out of touch with reality. The elegant fop Daniil Yuvachov names himself Kharms- a name just as effective as his appearance. An habitué of unending literary get-togethers and a lover of scandal. Living in society he is completely separate from it. Kharms throws down a gauntlet to his time, audaciously hurling himself into the vortex of rea...
Attraction
Character: Ruslan (Rus)
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 the aliens leave Earth....
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Character: Grabitel 1
The story of three guys from Chelyabinsk who decided to Rob a local grocery store. During the attack, everything goes awry: an unknown creature appears in the back room of a merchant's shop......
That Is Not Me
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The young man doesn't remember how he spent last night, but finds at home an evidence that he murdered a girl. Attempt to understand what happened leads him to new crimes....
The Net
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A young man arrives in a village on the White Sea. He comes in search of a girl who ran away from the city without saying goodbye. An old man from among the locals offers to show him the way. Neither the young man nor the old imagine what trials await them along the way....
Icaria
Character: Makar
2027. A medical corporation launches a TV show to promote its revolutionary invention - the human head transplant. A group of young thrill-seekers gather on an island to play a dangerous game. The rules are simple: win or perish.The prize is priceless - immortality....
Quiet Life
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Quiet life ends when the engine of a tank starts up. And trying to fire a shot, whether it is for real or for training purposes, can lead to irreversible consequences. Sometimes these consequences become the beginning of someone’s personal life....
Yuha
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The 'Yuha' a story of obsession and despair, two fillings interlinked with true love....
Hope
Character: Evgeny
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Fuel
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A man goes to search fuel for a broken-down tractor. But all around there is only the desert, grass and wind. To get the tractor to work, the hero starts a fight with an indifferent nature. When an energy source is found, the 20th century begins....
The Chief Accountant. The History of One Company
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Three short stories about Faith, Hope and Love. Three time periods of our country through the eyes of one firm. Three stories about people who tried to run their business against the background of changes in Russia....
Gogol online: Brothers
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Filmed theatre play based on 'Rocco and his brothers"...
Gogol online: Kharms. Myr
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A small but powerful orchestra with strict melodies and rhythms in the spirit of “Avia” unleashes a mechanical frenzy: artists under a thick layer of make-up are throwing replicas from Harms' stories and notebooks. Ultimately, this plotless musical by Maxim Didenko with the artists of the Gogol Center claims to incarnate (literally, from the word “flesh”) the universe of a unique writer, the demiurge of a dislocated reality....
The North Wind
Character: Professor Flagellum
The matriarchal clan led by gorgeous Margarita enters a turbulent period when her son loses his beloved fiancée. Using the structure of a repetitive ritual, the action spans years but takes place mostly during the annual gatherings of Margarita's extraordinary family in their mansion on New Year's Eve. Margarita believes in the magical 13th hour that can break the eternal circle of repetition, defeat death and bring her much-awaited love....
Rastorhuev
Character: self
On July 30, 2018, documentary filmmaker Alexander Rastorguev was killed in the Central African Republic. He left a unique mark on Russian cinema, but managed to do much less than he could. "Rastorguev" - a portrait of one of the brightest and most free filmmakers of our time; direct speech and fragments of films, forming a single statement about the meaning of art, homeland and pain....
Help Doc
Character: self
Maybe you've seen or heard these phrases on Instagram, in a coffee shop, at an event, from friends, maybe you even use the app and already provide your grandparents with food baskets every month. Just six months ago, no one knew about "Help" and how easy it really is to help. But thanks to a group of people who have decided that they will talk about helping others in the language of technology and modern media, we are increasingly seeing a circle held by two brackets in different cities of the c...
Caught Stealing
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Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player, is unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of '90s New York City....