Andrei Konchalovsky Filmography

To Each His Own Cinema

Crew: Director

Synopsis: At the time of its production, To Each His Own Cinema represented the latest arrival in a tidal wave of internationally oriented omnibus films, with no official relation between them but all produced within a few years of one another. Few could claim a roster of talent comparable to this one Read More

A Film About Mikhail Kalatozov

Synopsis: The career of revered Russian filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov is explored in this documentary film comprised of rare behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with French director Claude Lelouch, and conversations with some of the biggest names in contemporary Russian cinema. Kalatozov's grandson Mikhail Read More

House of Fools

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bryan Adams, Julia Vysotsky, Sultan Islamov, Stanislav Varkki, Vladas Bagdonas

Synopsis: War brings together a disillusioned soldier and a sweet but delusional woman in this romantic comedy-drama from director Andrei Konchalovsky. A small Russian mental hospital near the border of Chechnya is home to a group of eccentric but harmless patients, among them Janna (Julia Vysotsky), a Read More

The Lion in Winter

Crew: Director

Actors: Glenn Close, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Andrew Howard, John Light

Synopsis: An elderly king must come to terms with his past as he plots his nation's future in this historical drama. In 1183, aging monarch King Henry II (Patrick Stewart) decides it is time to pick an heir to his throne, and he must choose one of his three sons -- John (Rafe Spall), Geoffrey (John Light) Read More

The Odyssey

Crew: Director

Actors: Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Utilizing an exceptional international all-star cast and excellent special effects, Hallmark entertainment and American Zoetrope productions created this fun-filled adaptation of Homer's most-famous epic poem. It was originally broadcast as a four-hour miniseries on the NBC network. The story Read More

Lumière and Company

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using the original Cinematographe camera under the conditions endured by the brothers. The result Read More

Kurochka Ryaba

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Inna Churikova, Victor Mikhailkov, Alexandr Surin, Gennadi Iegoritchev, Gennadiy Yegorychev, Gennady Nazarov

Synopsis: This Russian-French comedy examines the effects of capitalism and democracy upon a Russian peasant village. It was filmed in the rural village of Bezvodnoye, the setting of this film's 1967 precursor "Asya's Happiness." The outspoken peasant woman Asya returns in this new episode which begins with Read More

Schneeweissrosenrot

Actors: Paul Getty III, Dennis Hooper, Leonard Cohen

Synopsis: By now, few will remember the tragic kidnapping of the grandson of the man who, in the '60s, was the world's richest man, J. Paul Getty. Getty, a paranoid and miserly man, refused to pay ransom for his handsome, ne'er do well grandson, J. Paul Getty III. He may have believed that the boy Read More

The Inner Circle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Hulce, Lolita Davidovich, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Zbruyev, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.

Synopsis: Andrei Konchalovsky's examination of totalitarianism, and the self-deluded mind-set that allows it to happen, is based on Konchalovsky's meeting with a bureaucratic flunky of Stalin's -- his personal projectionist -- during his early days as a filmmaker. Set during the height of Stalin's rule Read More

Homer and Eddie

Crew: Director

Actors: James Belushi, Whoopi Goldberg, Karen Black, John Waters, Beah Richards, Robert Glaudini

Synopsis: Director Andrei Konchalovsky comes a cropper with this mawkish road movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and James Belushi. Goldberg plays Edwina, an escaped mental patient with a brain tumor and only a month to live. Belushi is Homer, a retarded man abandoned by his parents when he was a child after a Read More

Tango & Cash

Crew: Director

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone tries his luck with his first cop buddy movie in Tango and Cash, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Stallone is Ray Tango, a Los Angeles narcotics cop who dresses in fancy suits, wears wire-rim glasses, and talks to his stockbroker more than he talks to his mother. Kurt Russell is Read More

Shy People

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton, Merritt Butrick, John Philbin

Synopsis: Writer Jill Clayburgh wants to remove her coke-addicted daughter Martha Plimpton from the corruptive environs of Manhattan. When assigned to write an article about family trees, Clayburgh, with daughter in tow, heads to the bayous of Louisiana, there to seek out an elusive great-uncle--and, it is Read More

Duet for One

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Julie Andrews, Alan Bates, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett, Margaret Courtenay

Synopsis: Julie Andrews delivers a virtuoso dramatic performance in Duet for One. Based on a play by Tom Kempinski, the story concerns brilliant concert violinist Stephanie Anderson (Andrews) who is slowly succumbing to the ravages of multiple sclerosis. Stephanie's problems are compounded by her cheating Read More

Runaway Train

Crew: Director

Actors: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle Heffner, John Ryan

Synopsis: Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's second American film may well be the only existential adventure flick in Hollywood history. Two prisoners, Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts), escape from a desolate Alaskan maximum-security facility. They hop aboard a speeding train, making a clean Read More

Maria's Lovers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum, Keith Carradine, Anita Morris

Synopsis: Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's first American film is a romantic tale about an American war veteran whose dreams of his childhood sweetheart are countered by a less sunny reality. John Savage stars as Ivan Bibic, who has returned home to a small town in Pennsylvania, having suffered a Read More

Split Cherry Tree

Crew: Director

Sibiriada

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vladimir Samoylov, Vitaliy Solomin, Natalya Andreichenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, Pavel Kadochnikov

Synopsis: Sibiriada was controversial in the Soviet Union, but it received the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, the second most prestigious prize after the Palme d'Or. After making this film, director Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky moved to the West. In the story, the lives of two Siberian families lives are Read More

Raba Lyubvi

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Yelena Solovey, Alexander Kalyagin, Rodion Nakhapetov, Oleg Basilashvili, Konstantin Grigoryev

Synopsis: Nikita Mikhalkov examines the plight of the filmmaker operating in an uncertain political climate in his irony-laden seriocomedy Slave of Love. The time is 1918, at the height of the Bolshevik revolution. A small group of filmmakers are hurriedly trying to complete a silent melodrama while the Read More

Romans O Vlyublyonnikh

Crew: Director

Actors: Yevgeny Kindinov, Yelena Koreneva, Irina Kupchenko, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Yelizaveta Solodova

Synopsis: This Russian romance, with a story reminiscent of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, was very popular at the time of its release. It was well-acted, and did not particularly extol the virtues of the Soviet system. Throughout the film, the storyline is punctuated with shots of a trumpeter (Innokenti Smoktunovsky Read More

Lyutyi

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kambar Valiev, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Aliman Dzhangorozova, Karaganbay Sataev, Nurzhuman Ikhtimbaev

Synopsis: This visually stunning Kazakh movie tells a tragic tale of absent and misplaced compassion. A young orphan rescues an orphaned wolf cub and lavishes considerable affection on it. His uncle, believing that this "softness" will result in the boy's being unable to endure the rigors of life on the Read More

Bez strakha

Crew: Screenwriter

Dyadya Vanya

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Kupchenko, Irina Miroshnichenko, Vladimir Zeldin

Synopsis: In this drama, an adaptation of Chekhov's play, a rural doctor falls in love with an unavailable beauty while plying his trade. It is frustrating for the old man, because he realizes that his devotion to medicine has caused him to miss out on many of life's pleasures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Nest of the Gentry

Crew: Director

Actors: Irina Kupchenko, Leonid Kulagin, Beata Tyshkevich, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Tamara Chernova, Viktor Sergachev, Vasily Merkuryev

Synopsis: After suffering artistically at the hands of Russian censors (his Asya's Happiness wound up being shelved for two decades for a variety of obscure political reasons), director Andrei Konchalovsky briefly played safe with a brace of elegiac literary adaptations. The first of these was A Nest of Read More

Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy

Crew: Director

Actors: Iya Savvina, Alexandr Surin, Lyubov Sokolova, Gennadiy Yegorychev, Ivan Petrov

Synopsis: Andrei Konchalovsky produced this movie as his vision of his own country. His use of realism juxtaposed with personal flourishes renders what would otherwise be a simple love triangle into a political statement. The story of a young lame girl who has become pregnant by an essentially inept and Read More

Andrei Rublev

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anatoli Solonitsin, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Sergeyev, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Burlyayev, Irma Raush

Synopsis: Widely recognized as a masterpiece, Andrei Tarkovsky's 205-minute medieval epic, based on the life of the Russian monk and icon painter, was not seen as the director intended it until its re-release over twenty years after its completion. The film was not screened publicly in its own country (and Read More

Pervy Uchitel

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Natalya Arinbasarova, Bolot Beyshenaliev, Darkul Kuyukova, Idris Nogaybaev, Kasym Zharkinbaev

Synopsis: Dyuishen (Bolot Beishenaliev) is assigned to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Central Asia by the Young Communist League after he is discharged from the Red Army. It is 1923 and the Civil war has ended. The former soldier becomes a teacher, bringing the Leninist doctrine to the remote Moslem area Read More

Ivanovo Detstvo

Actors: Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeny Zharikov, Nikolai Grinko, Valentina Malyavina, Stepan Krylov

Synopsis: This debut feature-length wartime drama by noted Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky was a remarkable introduction to a remarkable career. The poetic touch of Tarkovsky's hand and his measured pace is already evident as the tale of the young, twelve-year-old Ivan (Nikolai Burlyayev) evolves. Ivan is Read More

Malchik i Golub

Crew: Director

Steamroller and the Violin

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamansky, Marina Adzhubey, Yura Brusser, Slava Borisov

Synopsis: Katok i Skripka (The Steamroller and the Violin) was the last short Andrei Tarkovsky directed before moving on to his first feature. The film tells a very simply story of friendship between an artistic, sensitive seven-year-old violinist named Sasha and a physical, blue-collar steamroller Read More