Oleg Yankovskiy

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Feb 23, 1944 (81 years old)
Death date
May 20, 2009

Oleg Yankovskiy

Known For

Yankovsky
1h 11m
Movie 2015

Yankovsky

This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his personal life. Although it's all in the film: a dramatic fate, unknown pages of biography. Like any great actor, he possessed a secret - he did not tell both in the movies and in life. But his main gift was not even acting. Yankovsky was talented at making people fall in love with him. I wanted to look at him again and again: that's why they loved him and still love him.

Anna Karenina
0h 50m
TV Show 2013

Anna Karenina

The film adaptation of the famous novel by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy. The story of the illegal and tragic love of a married lady Anna Karenina for a brilliant officer Vronsky.

Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
0h 54m
Movie 2012

Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky

Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the years Tarkovsky spent in Italy, personal accounts of friends and professionals, the shooting locations of his films, to what degree his works reflects his personal life. The film brings us closer to the man to whom contemporary filmmaking owes so much.

Memories of Sherlock Holmes
0h 52m
TV Show 2000

Memories of Sherlock Holmes

Detective television series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Five films about Sherlock Holmes, shot by Igor Maslennikov earlier, were remounted in 2000, a connecting story about Conan Doyle's literary secretary, Mr. Wood, who is preparing an anniversary collection of stories about Holmes for the beginning of the coming XX century. Sir Arthur receives huge mail every day, addressed not to him, but to Sherlock Holmes. And then one day a letter arrives with a plea for help, and Doyle begins an investigation...

Assassin of the Tsar
1h 38m
Movie 1991

Assassin of the Tsar

A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...

The Passport
1h 43m
Movie 1990

The Passport

A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.

Hamlet
3h 0m
Movie 1989

Hamlet

TV performance of the famous work of Shakespeare.

Dictatorship of Conscience
2h 14m
Movie 1988

Dictatorship of Conscience

Performance of the Lenkom Theater based on the play by M. Shatrov.

The Spy
1h 23m
Movie 1987

The Spy

1916: on the verge of being evicted from his apartment, unable to find a job, with a desperate wife and a sick child, a man wrestles with his conscience about whether to turn police informer for money.

Kreutzer Sonata
2h 38m
Movie 1987

Kreutzer Sonata

A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name.

Biography

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 of the USSR.

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