Alexander KaidanovskyFilmography

Born:: June 23, 1946
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Alexander Kaidanovsky primarily appeared in classic Russian films such as The Golden River (1973) and Nikita Mikhalkov's At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger at Home (1975). Internationally, he is best-known for playing the title role in Andrei Tarkovsky's classic sci-fi/thriller Stalker (1979)....Read More

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Confidences a Un Inconnu

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, William Hurt, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Larisa Guzeyeva, Marina Golovine

Synopsis: This French-Italian drama is set in pre-Revolutionary Russia during 1907 and chronicles the relationship between a cold-hearted, blue-blooded woman and a handsome stranger. The two first meet during a walk in the park. Later, the woman, Natalia's, husband, a dentist, is found murdered in his home. Read More

1995
Svadebnyy Marsh

Actors: Anna Semkina, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Alexei Zhirov

1995
Buvos Vadasz

Actors: Gary Kemp, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Sadie Frost, Ildiko Toth, Peter Vallai, Alexandra Wasscher

Synopsis: Elements of mystery and fantasy are deftly interwoven and presented from a child's perspective in this unique film. The basic plot focuses on a police marksman, Max. Recently Max had accidentally shot a hostage, and now his confidence is shaken. He is offered special bullets by a peer. These Read More

1994
El Aliento Del Diablo

Actors: Alexander Kaidanovsky, Valentina Vargas, Fernando Guillén, Fernando Valverde

Synopsis: Ambiguous symbolism and minimalist storytelling imbue this pantomime-like film with some fine imagery. In the story, a medieval family group has traveled for quite some time when they arrive at a hut on the shores of a mysterious lake. Their arrival is accompanied with omens such as a swarm of Read More

1993
Maestro

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1992
Novembre

Actors: Marine Delterme, Judith Henry, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Michel Vitold

Synopsis: Sara is a medical student who has been experiencing a few problems, lately. She has been having blackouts and occasionally even some fits, but so far she has been able to keep up with her demanding curriculum. She has confided some of her troubles to her classmate, Nowak. However, one evening Read More

1992
Khareba I Gogi

1989
Novye Priklyuchenia Yanki Pri Dvore Korolya Artura

Actors: Sergei Koltakov, Albert Filozov, Yelena Finogenova, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anastasia Vertinskaya

1989
Zhena Kerosinshchika

Crew: Director

Actors: Vitautas Paukshte, Alexander Baluev, Anna Myasoedova, Sergei Veksler, Yevgeny Mironov

Synopsis: Rich imagery and political allegory enliven an already complex story in this late Soviet-era mystery/drama. In the story, a government investigator has come to town to look into the validity of bribery charges that were brought against an official there. In the meantime, we discover that a twin Read More

1988
Desyat Negrityat

Actors: Vladimir Zeldin, Tatyana Drubich, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Alexei Zharkov, Anatoly Romashin

1987
Gost

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nikolai Ispolatov, Levan Abashidze, Levan Pilpani, N. Koundoukhov, S. Panfilova

Synopsis: Nikolai Ispolatov plays the lead character in this story taken from famed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The visitor is a 33-year-old intellectual who moves into a mansion run by a father, a son, and a daughter. The uneducated trio communicates in their own language of unrecognizable sounds Read More

1987
Prostaya Smert

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alisa Freyndlikh, Valeriy Priemykhov, Vitautas Paukshte, Mikhail Danilov, Karina Moritts

1985
Izvinite, Pozhaluysta

Actors: Kostas Smoriginas, Eugeniya Shulgayte, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Niele Ozhelite, Yelena Solovey

1982
I S Vami Snova Ya...

Actors: Alexandr Ponomarev, Irina Kalinovskaya, Alexander Kalyagin, Albert Filozov, Anna Tveleneva

1981
Faktas

Actors: Regimantas Adomajtis, Juozas Budraitis, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Uldis Dumpis, Yelena Solovey

Synopsis: Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers Read More

1981
Rafferti

Actors: Oleg Borisov, Yevgeniya Simonova, Larisa Marevannaya, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Alexander Kaidanovsky

1980
Rasskaz O Neizvestnom Cheloveke

Actors: Yevgeniya Simonova, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Georgi Taratorkin, Lyudmila Zaytseva, Pavel Kadochnikov

Synopsis: Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, this drama centers around a desire for revenge and the tragedy of a star-crossed love. After a general ruins some men under him in punishment for a rebellion, a friend of the broken men vows revenge. The friend, a naval officer, takes a job as a valet in Read More

1980
Telokhranitel

Actors: Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoli Solonitsin, Gulbustan Tashbaeva, Shavkat Abdusalamov, Anvara Alimova

1980
Spasatel

Actors: Tatyana Drubich, Vasiliy Mishchenko, Sergei Shakurov, Olga Belyavskaya, Vyacheslav Kononenko

1980
Stalker

Actors: Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoli Solonitsin, Nikolai Grinko, Alisa Freyndlikh, Natasha Abramova

Synopsis: Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, an allegorical science fiction film like his earlier Solaris, was adapted from the novel Picnic by the Roadside by brothers Boris Strugatsky and Arkady Strugatsky. The film follows three men -- the Scientist (Nikolai Grinko), the Writer (Anatoliy Solonitsyn Read More

1979
Povorot

Actors: Oleg Yankovsky, Irina Kupchenko, Oleg Anofriev, Natalya Velichko, Alexander Kaidanovsky

1978
Zhizn Betkhovena

Actors: Pavel Kadochnikov, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Algimantas Masiulis, Albert Filozov, Zinoviy Gerdt

1978
Test Pilota Pirxa

Actors: Sergei Desnitsky, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Tynu Saar, Alexandr Belyavsky, Zbigniew Lesien

Synopsis: In this sci-fi drama, humanoid robots and real astronauts are sent on a mission by an electronics company. Based on the science-fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, this film tells the story of a mixed group of superhuman robots ("finite non-linears") and humans who venture into space under the Read More

1978
Zolotaya Rechka

Actors: Boris Smorchkov, Alexander Abdulov, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Vladlen Paulus, Viktor Sergachev

1976
Propavshaya Ekspeditsiya

Actors: Nikolai Grinko, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Yevgeniya Simonova, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Boris Smorchkov

1975
Moy Dom - Teatr

Actors: Alexander Kaidanovsky, Valentina Malyavina, Galina Polskikh, Oleg Yankovsky, Oleg Anofriev

1975
Brillianty Dlya Diktatury Proletariata

Actors: Vladimir Ivashov, Algimantas Masiulis, Yekaterina S. Vasilyeva, Lev Durov, Alexander Kaidanovsky

1975
Deti Vanyushina

Actors: Boris Andreyev, Nina Zorskaya, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Valentina Sharykina

1973
Krakh Inzhenera Garina

Actors: Oleg Borisov, Alexandr Belyavsky, Vasiliy Korzun, Nonna Terenteva, Vladimir Tatosov

1973
At Home Among Strangers, A Stranger Among His Own

Actors: Yuri Bogatyrev, Anatoli Solonitsin, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexander Porokhovshchikov

Synopsis: Russian films made in the 1970s which deal with the Civil War (1918-21) there often have qualities which make them resemble American westerns. Nikita Mikhalkov is one of the better-known of the post-Soviet filmmakers; he won an Oscar for his 1994 film Burnt By The Sun. This very popular 1973 film Read More

1973
Chetvertyy

Actors: Vladimir Vysotsky, Margarita Terekhova, Sergei Shakurov, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Sergei Sazontev

1972
Igrok

Actors: Nikolai Burlyayev, Tatyana Ivanova, Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Vasily Livanov

Synopsis: This lavish Soviet/Czech co-production is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel, The Gambler, which tells the story of a Russian living in Germany, in a gambling resort. This film is set at the turn of the century, and was filmed in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia. Played by Nikolai Burlyayev Read More

1972
Pyatnadtsataya Vesna

Actors: Raymundas Banionis, Tatyana Drubich, Olya Shvedova, Volodya Kolesnikov, Nikolai Volkov, Jr.

1972
I Byl Vecher, I Bylo Utro...

Actors: Mikhail Golubovich, Boris Kudryavtsev, Svetlana Zhgun, Yuri Solomin, Kira Golovko

1971
Spokoynyy Den V Kontse Voyny

Actors: Natalya Arinbasarova, Sergei Nikonenko, Irina Demina, Lev Durov, Alexander Kaidanovsky

1970
Pervaya Lyubov

Actors: Vadim Vlasov, Irina Pechernikova, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Nadezhda Fedosova, Yelizaveta Solodova

1968
Anna Karenina

Actors: Tatiana Samoilova, Nikolai Gritsenko, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Anastasia Vertinskaya

Synopsis: After several previous attempts by foreign directors who miss the mark, this Russian film version of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel Anna Karenina most accurately follows the Tolstoy novel and remains superior to all other versions to date. It concerns the struggle of a woman to find her place in Read More

1967
Tainstvennaya Stena

Actors: Lev Krugly, Tatyana Lavrova, Irakliy Uchaneyshvili, Andrei Mironov, Valentin Nikulin

1967

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