Oleg Yankovskiy

Oleg Yankovskiy

February 23, 1944 · 82 years old

Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky (Russian: Оле́г Ива́нович Янко́вский; February 23, 1944 – May 20, 2009) was a Soviet/Russian actor who has excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectuals. In 1991, he became, together with Alla Pugacheva, the last person to be named a People's Artist…

Known For

11 titles
1
Mirror

Mirror

1975 · 1h 47m · Movie

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

7.9
2
Nostalghia

Nostalghia

1983 · 2h 5m · Movie

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.

7.9
3
The Man Who Cried

The Man Who Cried

2000 · 1h 40m · Movie

A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.

6.1
4
Mute Witness

Mute Witness

1995 · 1h 35m · Movie

A mute make-up artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder, and must escape capture.

6.7
5
Hipsters

Hipsters

2008 · 2h 10m · Movie

Young people struggle to do things their way in the 1950s.

7.0
6
Tsar

Tsar

2009 · 1h 56m · Movie

A historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.

6.8
7
My Twentieth Century

My Twentieth Century

1989 · 1h 44m · Movie

Two twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of the luxurious Orient-Express.

7.1
8
The Shooting Party

The Shooting Party

1978 · 1h 45m · Movie

A romantic drama in which a beautiful but poor young woman has to choose between three suitors: an old widower, a decadent nobleman and a handsome but poor young man.

7.3
9
Tsareubiytsa

Tsareubiytsa

1991 · 1h 44m · Movie

Over seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin. Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event.

6.8
10
Patul lui Procust

Patul lui Procust

2002 · 1h 58m · Movie

George Ladima, a poet and renowned journalist, loves Emilia, an actress whom he helps in her career, but who takes advantage of him. He commits suicide and in his pocket is found a love note to a Mrs. T.

7.5
11
O-Roshiya-koku suimu-tan

O-Roshiya-koku suimu-tan

1992 · 2h 3m · Movie

The journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. It is based on a book of the same name by Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue.

7.0