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Brezhnev (film) 
Summary
Brezhnev (Russian: Брежнев) is a 2005 biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. It originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One.[1]
| Brezhnev | |
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| Written by | Sergey Snezhkin Valentin Chernykh |
| Directed by | Sergey Snezhkin |
| Starring | Sergey Shakurov |
| Country of origin | Russia |
| Original language | Russian |
| Production | |
| Producer | Sergey Melkumov |
| Running time | 208 minutes |
| Production company | Slovo |
| Original release | |
| Release | March 28, 2005 |
The movie was an expensive period piece partly filmed in the Kremlin. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev.[2]
Cast edit
- Sergey Shakurov as Leonid Brezhnev
- Artur Vakha as Leonid Brezhnev (young)
- Svetlana Kryuchkova as Viktoria Brezhneva
- Marina Solopchenko as Viktoria Brezhneva (young)
- Sergei Garmash as Stepan Kandaurov
- Valeri Zolotukhin as huntsman Igor
- Vasily Lanovoy as Yuri Andropov
- Vadim Yakovlev as Andrei Gromyko
- Igor Yasulovich as Mikhail Suslov
- Valery Ivchenko as Nikolai Tikhonov
- Yuriy Kuzmenkov as Nikolai Podgorny
- Vladimir Menshov as Dmitry Ustinov
- Lev Prygunov as Yevgeniy Chazov
- Aleksandr Filippenko as Georgy Tsinyov
- Vyacheslav Shalevich as Alexei Kosygin
- Afanasy Kochetkov as Konstantin Chernenko
- Sergei Losev as Nikita Khrushchev
- Igor Ivanov as Alexander Shelepin
- Igor Chernevich as Andrey Alexandrov-Agentov
- Valery Bychenkov as Dmitry Polyansky
- Gennadi Bogachyov as Nikolai Shchelokov
- Nikolai Kuznetsov as Frol Kozlov
- Boris Sokolov as Georgy Tsukanov
- Vadim Lobanov as Nikolai Ogarkov
- Alexander Semchev as Aleksandr Bovin
- Oleg Volku as Vladimir Medvedev, deputy chief of the Brezhnev's guard
- Maria Shukshina as the nurse
- Andrey Krasko as the barber Tolik
- Andrei Zibrov as Konovalchuk, sergeant-major
- Sergei Barkovsky as Mikhail Gorbachev
- Vadim Volkov as Gromyko's assistant
References edit
- ^ Слава Тарощина (2012-11-13). "Дорогой Леонид Ильич Брежнев снова с нами". Новая газета. Archived from the original on 2016-10-09. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
- ^ Boele, Otto (2011). "Remembering Brezhnev in the new millennium: Post-Soviet nostalgia and local identity in the city of Novorossiisk". The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 38: 3–29. doi:10.1163/187633211X564157. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
External links edit
- Brezhnev at IMDb
