Sergei Yursky
Birthday: Born in 1935-03-16 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Deathday: 2019-02-08
Sergei Yurievich Yursky was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, author and playwright.
TV Credits
Вечерний Ургант
Character: Self
Evening show Ivan Urgant. Movies, sports, new gadgets, art. What is happening in the country and in the world? Actual characters discussing the day's events and new music....
Школа злословия
Character:
A talk show...
Королева Марго
Character:
XVI century. In France, there is a fierce struggle between Catholics and Huguenots. The reign of the Valois dynasty is nearing its end. Conspiracies, the elimination of rivals, the creation of secret and explicit coalitions are part of the daily life of the royal family and close associates. Love stories are woven into the canvas of palace intrigues that will affect the history of the world....
Место встречи изменить нельзя
Character: Груздев
After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to track down a gang "Chernaya Koshka" (Black Cat) which terrorizes the city. Also, they have to find out who murdered Larisa Gruzdeva. Zheglov believes it was her husband Ivan Gruzdev, but Sharapov has his doubts about it......
Чтобы помнили
Character: Narrator
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Товарищ Сталин
Character: Сталин
The last months of Stalin's life....
Чехов и Ко°
Character: старик-писатель
Thirty short stories based on thirty stories by Chekhov....
Чехов и Ко°
Character: Крикунов, инженер
Thirty short stories based on thirty stories by Chekhov....
Дело Сухово-Кобылина
Character:
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Сказки старого волшебника
Character: Хранитель Сказок
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Ищите женщину
Character: Maître Rochet
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Маленькие трагедии
Character:
How far can a man overcome by a destructive passion go? And does he realize that slavish worship of irrepressible desires always entails retribution?...
Отцы и дети
Character: Vasily Bazarov
In 19th-century Russia, two young men start to question their worldview after it gets challenged by people from the older generation....
Тайна Эдвина Друда
Character: Narrator/Dick Datchery
Edwin and Miss Rosa were engaged since childhood. While nothing foreshadows the impending tragedy, the lovers are carefree, the inhabitants of a small English town watch their romance. Edwin Drood and Ne, who arrived from Ceylon, did not help their rivals in the region because of Rosa's mission. Edwin and Rosa decide to remain only friends. However, the conflict with Neville becomes more acute. The rivals go to the lake shore for a decisive conversation. After that, Edwin disappears without a tr...
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The Republic of ShKID
Character: Vicknixor
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The ...
A Long Cat Tale
Character: Detective Sidney Hall
In this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard....
Love and Pigeons
Character: Uncle Mitya
One of the most favorite Soviet comedies, a screen version of the play of the same name by Vladimir Gurkin. Each of us knows the story of Vasily, who went to the resort, succumbed to the charms of a femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, but could not withstand two weeks of urban life, and returned to his family, where he waited for love and pigeons....
A Vintage Detective Story
Character: Slinkton / Auguste Dupin
A two-part television play based on "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Hunted Down" by Charles Dickens....
Star Counter
Character:
Germany in the thirties. Soviet spy Yaroslava Soboleva (aka Sophie Weinert) manages to destroy stocks of a new type of bacteriological weapon at the cost of her own life...
Uncle's Dream
Character: Grishka, servant
Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary....
The Man from Nowhere
Character: Chudak
In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia. The main character is probably based on Yeti....
The Golden Calf
Character: Ostap Bender
A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire....
Korolev
Character:
In the fall of 1938, the NKVD arrested Sergei Korolyov. Under torture, the investigators are trying to extract from him a confession of anti-Soviet activities, each time citing incriminating facts from the biography of the young scientist. Plunging into Korolev's memories, the viewer sees what an extraordinary and enthusiastic person he was, how much creative energy and vitality Sergei Pavlovich gave to the development of world cosmonautics....
Intervention
Character: Masques (Hearts / Diamonds / Clubs / Spades)
The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka....
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Character: Gruzdev
Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand....
The Broken Horseshoe
Character: Jules Ardan
Based on the novel by Jules Verne "Drama in Livonia". French aeronaut Jules Ardan, traveling in a hot air balloon, accidentally finds himself in Reval. Here he meets Dr. Peterson and his daughter Leida. The gendarmes are hunting for Leida's fiance. The banker's son is being murdered in the city. Suspicion falls on Peterson. Jules Ardan takes over the investigation of the crime....
The End of Eternity
Character: Senior Computer Finge
Directed by Andrei Yermash, and written by Isaac Asimov, Budimir Metalnikov, and Andrei Yermash, «Konets vechnosti» is a 1987 Science Fiction film, starring Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergei Yursky, Gediminas Girdvainis and Boris Ivanov....
A Room and a Half
Character: Father
A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972....
Padeniye Kondora
Character: Dictator
A military dictator in a fictional country, modeled on early-1970s Chile, has risen from butcher to junta leader but now, isolated and distrustful, confides only in his guard Manuel. Manuel, who once shared the dictator’s humble origins, betrays him without hesitation when a popular uprising topples the regime and personally kills him....
Look for a Woman
Character: Maître Rochet
The story begins when Alice Postique, who had to stay late at work, discovers her boss Roche with a knife in his back. When the police detective arrives, Alice recognizes him as her old friend....
A Lonely Businessman's Score
Character: Ludwig
A movie about a little man - a little funny and a little sad - a Latino businessman, owner of a loss-making shop. And about a big moral problem. A child has fallen down a deep well. He's alive, but it's almost impossible to get him out. What is more dignified: to honestly say that the child is alive but already dead or to repeat for everyone the mantra "he will certainly be rescued now"? And how to live on, if in the heat of an argument, bet on "will not be saved"....
The Story of One Billiard-Room
Character: portret Velikogo kapitana (as S. Yurskiy)
The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society....
Little Tragedies
Character: Импровизатор
Based on Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" ("The Miserly Knight", "Mozart and Salieri", "The Stone Guest", "A Feast in the Time of Plague")....
Diary in a Marble
Character: Apfelbaum
A story about the life of a woman, two men of her life and her son, Janek Garbus, seen through the eyes of the latter - "conceived by an NKVD uncle on the night after the Soviet army entered"....
The Gift to Stalin
Character: Stalin (voice)
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik a Polish doctor. The Soviet militia harasses the poor peasants and Vera suffered the harassment of a bully cop: Bulgabi. Finally Vera accepts the marriage proposal of Ezhik but the jealous Bulgabi tries to prevent the ma...
Secrets Shared with a Stranger
Character: First inspector
In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond....
Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You
Character: Chief of Police
In early 20th-century Azerbaijan, two circus artists travel to a village where one of them was born, unaware of the danger and adventure that await them....
The Story about Newlyweds
Character: Danila
A drama about a complications in a newlyweds life....
Monsieur Lenoir, Who...
Character: Adolphe
After Monsieur Lenoir commits a terrible crime, his family members gather together to discuss their damage control options....
Eugene Onegin
Character:
The first and second chapters of "Eugene Onegin" performed by Sergei Yursky, filmed live for Leningrad Television....
Conscience Doesn't Forgive
Character:
Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life....
King Stag
Character: Tartaglia
A story of court intrigues, love, and betrayal. A vain king is turned into a stag and only true love can save him...
One Fine Day
Character: director of the scientific research institute (novell «V odin prekrasnyj den'»)
A film almanac consisting of two short stories, united by a common idea of the need to maintain harmony between private and public interests: “Suite” and “One Fine Day”. The hero of the story ”Suite" is a lifeguard on the shore. The events taking place at sea do not bother him at all. To the music of Bizet, he dreams of Carmen, her exploits, valor and strong love... The hero of the short story “One Fine Day”, a promising researcher, one morning saw a spaceship from his balcony. Do this a little ...
The Psychic
Character: The Master
Due to a brain injury received in a street fight, Gera Romanov begins to fall into parallel worlds, where he dies painfully every time....
The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!
Character:
About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate....
This Fantastic World 13
Character: Old Man
The consequences of a nuclear war are destruction, hunger. The surviving people have even lost the memory of their former civilization. At the center of the play is the Old Man, the only person who remembers the past, because without the past humanity cannot have a future......
The Painting
Character: The Guest
An engineer's hotel stay is interrupted by a visit from a stranger....
Don't Think About White Monkeys
Character:
A young businessman believes that money and fortune are the most important things in the world. One day he loses all his money and faces the necessity to reconsider and change his life....
About Sidorov Vova
Character: Narrator / Others (voice)
A screen adaptation of the satirical poem by Eduard Uspensky. Vova Sidorov is the only child in a big family, growing up without a father. Everything he cherished, but a summons from the recruitment office turns everything on its head!...
Fairy-Tales of an Old Magician
Character: Keeper of Tales
A princess is born to the king and queen of a fairy-tale kingdom. The wicked witch, who resents not having been invited to the princess's birthday party, curses her: on the day the princess turns 16, she will be pricked by the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into eternal sleep. The king orders that all spinning wheels in the kingdom be destroyed and the number 16 be taken out of use. However, a young traveling prince arrives, bringing a curse with him....
The Master and Margarita
Character: Berlioz (voice)
The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernatural powers she got from the devil, Woland, who is visiting Moscow....
Rasmus and the Tramp
Character: Lif
The action takes place in Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century. Rasmus is a boy who lives in a shelter. Not content to stay under the strict discipline of the orphanage, he escapesand joins a tramp, nicknamed "Oscar Tumbleweed. They begin to travel the country together, but Oscar is constantly trying to find parents for the boy. Rasmus harassing Oscar, does not want to leave him. During their journeys they are able to solve a crime and recover the valuable painting of missis Frou Hetbert....
The Darvish Detonates Paris
Character: Monsieur Jordan
A famous botanist, Monsieur Jordan is a guest in Garabagh to Hatamkhan Agha. Hatamkhan Agha's nephew wants to go to France with Jordan in order to study. His family and lover try to discourage him and consult to Darvish Mastali Shah. Mastali Shah decides to use magic and explode Paris....
A Country House for One Family
Character:
On the seashore, the mother and father decided to build a country house where their three sons, daughter, daughters-in-law and grandchildren could gather together. But neither the sons nor the daughter can find time to visit and help their parents. Only the eldest son understands his father and mother......
A Gun with silencer
Character:
From the American psychiatric hospital run by two maniac, confident that he was a spy, and a transsexual. Very soon they will want to return to their native madhouse — but it will be too late. Because the third psycho sent them on a secret mission to Russia. Yes, even in a balloon....
Time, Forward!
Character: Margulies
The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of t...
The Lion Ran Away from the House
Character: Hunter
A musical fairy tale about a lion who got bored living in the zoo and goes wandering around the city of Baku, where he met and became friends with a boy Rustam....
The Constellation of Love
Character: Emir
Bek's men kidnap Farukh's fiancee. He goes on a quest, thus violating the warnings of the good Fairy. Farukh and his friend the Fool overcome all difficulties on the way to love, understanding the power of friendship, justice, good and evil....
Plyukh and Plikh
Character: Narrator (voice)
Two ordinary boys, brothers Paul and Peter, rescue two little dogs from the evil Kaspar Schlich....
Chernov/Chernov
Character: Arnold
The strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real day in the life of the real Moscow architect Alexander Petrovich Chernov, his mental crisis; and the other is Chernov’s fiction. There is a different fate, a different country, a different life. It is into this very life that Chernov strives to get into - and for the sake of a trip to Spain he will have to commit betrayal. There, for a moment, the doubles will be nearby and both will be on the ve...
Dostigayev and Others
Character:
July-December 1917, the country is undergoing a revolution. "The pillars of society" are alarmed by the looming on them menacing events. Some of them are ready to fight with the revolution, others — among them industrialist Vasily Dostigaev trying to "adapt»...
Regarding the Bald Singer...
Character: Captain
Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco....
The Way to Yourself
Character: Илья Сергеевич Котов
An employee of the Research Institute, engineer Krylov, who came into conflict with the administration, resigns from the institute. Being an athlete, Krylov starts working as a stuntman. But even here, meeting with different people, he gets into difficult situations......
Black Gull
Character: José Guillermotell
A young boy in Cuba finds himself in mortal peril as his fishing village gets infiltrated by malign forces....
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Character: Dick Datchery
In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, and Edwin fights Neville Landles, who is in love with Rose, leading to his disappearance....
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Character: Касым
A cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry....
Kyukhlya
Character: Wilhelm Küchelbecker
A television play based on the life and death of Russian poet and Decembrist Wilhelm "Kyukhlya" Küchelbecker....
Faithful Robot
Character: Robot
A runaway robot obsessed with an idea of creating a perfect human becomes a household property of a writer through deception....
The Gamblers: XXI
Character:
A filmed version of Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers", transposed into modern-day Russia and performed by an all-star cast....
A Cat and a Half
Character: Father (voice)
A documentary-fiction hybrid film based on the works of Joseph Brodsky....
I Am Flying to You as a Memory...
Character: Narrator (voice)
The film is based on the drawings and manuscripts of A.S.Pushkin....
With You I Am Again...
Character: Narrator (voice)
The second part of a trilogy of films based on Pushkin's drawings, poems and letters....
Autumn
Character: Narrator (voice)
The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts....
My Favorite Time
Character: Narrator (voice)
A full-length animated film based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin, which includes all three pictures of Andrey Khrzhanovsky's Pushkin trilogy: "I Am Flying to You as a Memory..." (1977), "With You I Am Again..." (1980) and "Autumn" (1982)....
School of Fine Arts. Juniper Landscape
Character: Narrator (voice)
Blending drawings, paintings, filmed interviews, and recorded testimony, this animation-documentary hybrid tells of the tragic fate of the Estonian artist Ülo Sooster....
Street Is Full of Surprises
Character: passerby in a yellow hat (uncredited)
Chief accountant Porfiry Petrovich Smirnov-Alyansky, who took a good walk on the anniversary of his colleague cashier Ivan Zakharovich Vodnev, climbs into the traffic controller's booth and disrupts traffic on one of the streets of Leningrad. However, the guard Vasiliy Shaneshkin mistakenly delivers to the police station not an escaped offender, but a quite decent cashier. In addition, Vodnev, offended by the police, turns out to be the father of the bride Shaneshkin — Katya. Vasiliy admits his ...
Ooh, Train Robbery
Character: Professor Lebedev
A high-crime investigator goes to the scene where corruption and crime have taken on new and sophisticated forms in the mountainous southern region of the country. Under the guise of a random train robbery, individual cars loaded with waste from metallurgical production - and essentially enriched gold ore - are stolen. The kidnappers have all the means at their disposal. They mercilessly kill those who try to stop them from stealing tons of gold......
Osobennyy
Character: Uncle Tolik (voice)
Sashka is a normal boy from a small provincial of Koshkin whose dream is to become special. One day he notices that everyone around him have started to behave strangely. As he finds out that he is the "special" one not affected by Uncle Tolik's mind control device, he realizes that only he can stop the evil from happening....
The Death of Vazir Mukhtar
Character: Alexander Pushkin
A television play chronicling the lead-up to the assassination of diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov, dubbed “vazir mukhtar” in his position as Russia's ambassador to Tehran....
The Hare's Tail
Character: Narrator (voice)
The hare has lost its magnificent tail - everyone is suspected....
Everything for Everyone
Character: Narrator (voice)
Based on a poem by Julian Tuwim....
Koriolan
Character: Caius Marcius Coriolanus
The noble patrician Gaius Marcius became famous for his military exploits and victories over the enemies of the Romans, the Volscians. However, his hatred of the plebeians and thirst for power led to Coriolanus being condemned to eternal exile from Rome. Then he decided to betray his homeland and take command of the Volscian army....
The Serf Actress
Character: Prince Nikita Baturin
Batmanova, once a serf, sets Paris aflame with her singing and now returns to the court of the Prince in 19th-century Russia. The Prince wants Batmanova for himself, but she loves a young nobleman who is technically still a serf because his papers have been lost....
Choice of Purpose
Character: Robert Oppenheimer
A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons....
The Chairs
Character: le Vieux
A television version of the award-winning stage adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's tragic farce, mounted in 1994 for Moscow's School of Contemporary Plays Theatre and revived for television in 2009....
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
Character: The Man
A television adaptation of a short comedy of the same name by George Bernard Shaw....
Prince Napoleon
Character:
A satirical account of the rise and fall of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte....
Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson: Life is a Novel
Character: Roman Jakobson (voice)
A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson....
The Little House in Kolomna
Character:
A television play based on the eponymous poem, letters, and other works by Alexander Pushkin....
Woe to Wit or Eisenstein and Meyerhold: a Two-fold Portrait in the Interior of the Epoch
Character: Vsevolod Meyerhold (voice)
The film is about the complex, passionate and at the same time deeply respectful relationship between two genius directors, a teacher (Meyerhold) and a student (Eisenstein). In the most difficult conditions of the totalitarian regime, adherence to eternal values helped both defend their art and themselves in it, preserve honor and dignity. Their relationship, creative and everyday actions are not only an artistic, but also a moral testament to future generations....
The Magic Bells
Character: Miraklyus the Alchemist (voice)
A good tale about the inhabitants of a magical city who were shamelessly robbed by the villain Miraclus. He stole their smiles - sly, playful, tender, affectionate - and melted them into golden bells! The Miracle dungeon was filled with a quiet, clear ringing sound, fresh and transparent, like a forest spring. He enjoyed this music, but the people in the city looked at each other with sad eyes and thought that joy had left them forever. But one day a cheerful company came to this city - a kind w...
Handmade Clouds
Character: Old Man (voice)
Five stories depicting five different kinds of love, from childhood to old age....
Dragon's Cave
Character: Narrator (voice)
A parable about an evil dragon who has captured the “magic light”, without which people are forced to live in darkness. Mother Earth gives birth to three sons-heroes, who one by one set out to bring light to people. But the insidious dragon exposes the heroes to temptations, from which they themselves turn into monsters......
Doctor Aybolit
Character: Doctor Aybolit (voice) (uncredited)
A funny comedy about doctor Aybolit and his assistants and patients - all animals....
Interpretation of Dreams
Character: Sigmund Freud (voice)
Using extensive quotes from several Freudian works still banned by the Soviet censorship at the time, the film interprets the pivotal points of European history of the past century from a psychoanalytical point of view....
Don Quixote Takes Up the Fight
Character: Don Quixote / Narrator
Realizing that his quest for knowledge is quixotic, a Russian polar explorer prepares for a doomed expedition to the Arctic. A live performance for Leningrad Television....
Taiga
Character: Narrator (voice)
After a mail plane crashes in the Siberian taiga, two rivals set off along untrodden paths in search of missing money....
Zadoc and Happiness
Character: Sheremetieff
Small, hunchbacked and unlucky, Zadoc dreams of finding love. Chased from his village, he is propelled towards the unknown....
Count Nulin
Character:
A live reading of Alexander Pushkin's humorous poem for Leningrad Television....