Igor Ilyinsky
Birthday: Born in 1901-07-23 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Deathday: 1987-01-13
TV Credits
Фитиль
Character: Zaveduiushchy
Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government"....
Фитиль
Character:
Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government"....
Фитиль (киножурнал)
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Movie Credits
Aelita: Queen of Mars
Character: Kravtsov - amateur sleuth
A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope....
The Tailor from Torzhok
Character: Petya Petelkin - Tailor
A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky), bought a lottery ticket and handed it to his landlord, widow Shirinkina (Deykun) who wants to marry him. Petya is a hard-working tailor trying to start his own business. He is also in love with Katya (Maretskaya), whom he wants to marry. He has to survive a cascade of funny situations in the unstable Soviet reality, before his romance with Katya co...
Мелодии Дунаевского
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Volga - Volga
Character: Byvalov
Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad....
Carnival Night
Character: Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov
It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports...
Ballad of a Hussar
Character: Field Marshal Kutuzov
A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier, but complications ensue when her real identity is revealed....
Sometimes in summer
Character: Teleskop / professor Sen-Verbuda
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A Kiss from Mary Pickford
Character: Goga Palkin
Goga is a Russian man who has no luck with women. He has a chance meeting with Mary Pickford, and after she kisses him on the cheek, he becomes as irresistible as her....
Miss Mend
Character: Tom Hopkins - Clerk
Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR....
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
Character: Nikodim Mityushin, bookkeeper
As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells cigarettes on the sidewalk, and he frequently buys cigarettes from her even though he does not smoke. One day, a film crew uses Zina as an extra in an outdoor scene, and the cameraman, Latugin, falls in love with her. Latugin soon arranges an acting job for Zina. To compl...
Surgery
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A short movie based on Anton Chekhov novels....
На всякого мудреца довольно простоты
Character: Krutitsky
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St. Jorgen's Day
Character: Frants Shults
The priests, stock market officials, and police conspire to squeeze income out of pilgrims come to see relics of a Christ like figure. A pair of con men try to pass of a resurrected saint....
Old Masters
Character: Self
A film about outstanding actors of the Soviet stage: Angelina Stepanova, Mark Prudkin, Igor Ilyinsky, Faina Ranevskaya, Veriko Andzhaparidze and others....
Stars Meet in Moscow
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Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum....
These Different, Different, Different Faces
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Igor Ilyinsky reads Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s stories “The Death of an Official”, “Over Salted”, “The Orator”, “The Night Before the Trial”, “The Daughter of Albion”, “Boots”, “Chameleon”, as much as performing a wide variety of characters....
An Old Acquaintance
Character: Серафим Иванович Огурцов
The continuation of the adventures of Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov after the events of the Carnival Night......
The House That Jack Built
Character: Narrator
Story about the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built....
Volki i ovtsy
Character: Appolon Murzavetsky
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The Forest
Character: Schastlivtsev
Mrs. Gurmyzhskaya, meets old age in his estate, in a remote province. Her estate comes nephew, half-educated pupil and mistress, boredom, decides to have an affair with him... Anyone willing to meet a rich aunt "reciprocity"....
Dinner Party
Character: Петр Петрович
A man invites people to a dinner party, but a dream and his forgetfulness get in the way....
Преступление и наказание
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Concert for the Front
Character: Self
A musical film dedicated to the soldiers fighting at the front line....
The Doll with Millions
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The rich widow Madame Collie leaves the fortune to her lost niece Maria Ivanova. Two cousins of Maria go from Paris to Moscow in order to search her. They have to find a 17 year old girl with the birthmark on her right shoulder. The documents of the heiress are hidden in her doll....
Crazy Day
Character: Zajtsev
A funny comedy about a kindergarten manager who tries to make all the preparations before the start of a school year....
When The Dead Awaken
Character: Nikeshka Vonmiglasov
The movie takes place in one of the Russian provincial cities during the Civil War. A local priest, together with the ex-estate manager buries count's treasures and disguises it as his nephew's funeral. And when his nephew Nikeshka Vonmiglasov, a former Wrangelian, suddenly appears, he understands that he can profit on his magical "resurrection"....
The Case of the Three Million
Character: Тапиока
History of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a religious community....
Ivan Ivanych Has Fallen Ill...
Character: Narrator
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Too Salty
Character: Narrator / Passenger Gleb Smirnov (voice)
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