Sergei Bondarchuk Filmography

Bitva Trekh Koroley

Actors: Massimo Gini, Klaudia Kardinale, Ugo Tonyatstsi, Farida Muminova, Fernando Rey

Tikhiy Don

Crew: Director

Actors: Natalya Andreichenko, F. Murray Abraham, Rupert Everett, Delphine Forrest, Ben Gazzara

Sluchay V Aeroportu

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Zafar Kadyrov, Paul Butkevich, Dmitriy Iosifov, Rustam Urazaev

Boris Godunov

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Roman Filippov, Yevgeny Samoylov, Alexandr Solovyov, Vyacheslav Butenko

Synopsis: Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the Terrible had died. At first, things Read More

Krasnye Kolokola II: Ya Videl Rozhdeniye Novogo Mira

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Anatoliy Ustyuzhaninov, Sydne Rome, Sidney Rom, Bogdan Stupka, Alexandr Sayko

Synopsis: Unlike Warren Beatty's Reds, this film by director Sergei Bondarchuk does not create much human dimension to the character of John Reed (1887-1920), the well-known leftist journalist who first gained fame reporting on the Mexican Revolution and eventually wrote 10 Days that Shook the World on the Read More

Krasnye Kolokola I: Meksika v Ogne

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Ursula Andress, Jorge Luke, Blanca Guerra, Eraclio Zepeda

Synopsis: In this, the first of a two-part Soviet-made historical epic, the life of journalist John Reed is chronicled. Much of the story centers around his love affair with a wealthy woman as he endeavors to write about the Mexican labor riots and revolutions from 1910-1915. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Vzlyot

Actors: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Larisa Kadochnikova, Albert Filozov, Yelena Finogenova, Kirill Arbuzov, Vadim Alexandrov, Georgi Burkov

Synopsis: This film won a prize at the Moscow International Film Festival. Director Savva Kulish had previously worked with Mikhail Rom on the renowned documentary film Ordinary Fascism. He went on to make a particularly well-received espionage drama Dead Season. The Takeoff is a drama concerning the famous Read More

Barkhatnyy Sezon

Actors: Juozas Budraitis, Tatyana Sidorenko, Alexander Lazarev, Valentina Ignateva, Sergei Bondarchuk

Otets Sergiy

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Valentina Titova, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Nikolai Gritsenko, Boris Ivanov

Synopsis: Tormented by his many high ideals and equally numerous failures to live up to them, an elderly Russian nobleman reminisces about his life while travelling on a ferryboat, as he listens to his fellow passengers telling stories about their religious faith. When he was a boy, he attended a military Read More

Step

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Oleg Kuznetsov, Vladimir Sedov, Nikolai Trofimov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Ivan Lapikov

Synopsis: Based on a story by Anton Chekhov, this film by renowned director Sergei Bonderchuk (best known for his film War and Peace) basks in the vast and visually magnificent qualities of life on the steppes of southern Russia in the era before the Russian Revolution. The story revolves around the journey Read More

Vrhovi Zelengore

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Josephine Chaplin, Voja Miric

Synopsis: During World War II, in order to enable a wave of Partisans to cross through German lines, a small group of Yugoslav Partisans must gain control of a pass through the mountains. Despite heavy odds and heavier bombardment, these brave individuals hold off the oncoming army just long enough, and Read More

Oni Srazhalis Za Rodinu

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vasili Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Georgi Burkov, Yuri Nikulin

Synopsis: The desperate battles of Soviet troops during the German invasion of Russia are chronicled in this epic film. The effort to defend the country is shown to unify the people and the soldiers, quelling their doubts about the regime. This film won the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1977. Read More

Poshekhonskaya Starina

Actors: Inna Makarova, Erast Garin, Natalya Bondarchuk, Viktor Mamaev, Nikolai Burlyayev

Vybor Tseli

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Georgiy Zhzhenov, Nikolai Volkov, Sr., Irina Skobtseva, Nikolai Burlyayev

Takie Vysokie Gory

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Konstantin Smirnov, Irina Skobtseva, Nikolai Penkov, Vera Enyutina

Sutjeska

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Burton

Synopsis: This Yugoslavian epic depicts the World War II military exploits of Marshall Tito (played here by Richard Burton), who later became the unrivalled ruler of that troubled country. During that war, he was instrumental in resisting Nazi efforts to exterminate the Yugoslav partisans. The film details Read More

Molchaniye Doktora Ivensa

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Zhanna Bolotova, Irina Skobtseva, Leonid Obolensky, I. Kuznetsov

Synopsis: When three peaceful aliens come to call and comment on the state of planet Earth a Soviet research scientist is forced to reevaluate his recent experiments with longevity. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dyadya Vanya

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

Waterloo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna

Synopsis:
This lavishly costumed historical epic had an estimated $100 million price tag. Spectacularly photographed battle action contrasts with often plodding individual scenes that bog down the plot. Fearing his growing power, European monarchs force Napoleon Bonaparte (Rod Steiger) to abdicate as Read More

Bitka na Neretvi

Actors: Yul Brynner, Hardy Kruger, Franco Nero, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Originally released as The Battle of the Neretva, this sprawling epic is a tribute to the Yugoslav partisan fighters of World War II. Yul Brynner stars as a guerilla leader whose mission in life is to eradicate all Nazis from his homeland (recently revealed instances of Yugoslav collaboration are Read More

Zolotye Vorota

Actors: Roman Tkachuk, Nikolai Grinko, Pyotr Shcherbakov, Valentina Telichkina, Nikolai Gubenko

War and Peace

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Lyudmila Savelyeva, Sergei Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Viktor Stanitsyn, Kira Ivanova-Golovko

Synopsis: Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk's epic version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (Voyna i Mir) was the most expensive European film ever made for many years. It certainly had one of the longest gestation periods, with Bondarchuk spending seven years filming the project (the actors noticeably age Read More

Era Notte a Roma

Actors: Giovanna Ralli, Sergei Bondarchuk, Leo Genn, Peter Baldwin, Renato Salvatori

Synopsis: In keeping with his previous film Generale Della Rovere, filmmaker Robert Rossellini pursues a wartime theme in his 145-minute "personal epic" Era Notte a Roma. The story concerns three Allied POWS, who escape from their camp and hide out in Rome. The trio is given shelter by a beautiful young Read More

Seryozha

Actors: Borya Barkhatov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Natasha Chechetkina, Serezha Metelitsyn

Synopsis: Originally titled Seryozha, the Russian A Summer to Remember was co-adapted by Vera Panova from her own short story. War and Peace director Sergei Bondarchuk plays the new stepfather of young Seryozha (Borya Barkhatov). So close do the stepfather and the boy become in the months following their Read More

Destiny of a Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Zinaida Kirienko, Pavlik Boriskin, Yuri Averin

Synopsis: Russian filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk is both director and star of this melancholy wartime fable. Bondarchuk portrays Andrey Sokolov, a World War II-era Soviet citizen who is captured by Nazis. He goes through hell, but is sustained by the possibility that someday he'll be reunited with his loved Read More

Shli Soldaty

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Andrei Petrov, Erast Garin, Ella Lezhdey, Mikhail Ulyanov

Neokonchennaya Povest

Actors: Elina Bystritskaya, Sergei Bondarchuk, Sofya Giatsintova, Yevgeny Samoylov, Yevgeny Lebedev

Poprygunya

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yevgeny Teterin, Anatoliy Aleksin

Synopsis: The Russian-made Grasshopper is based on a story by Anton Chekhov. The characters are divided into two camps: A group of artistically inclined "butterflies," and a team of stone-serious scientists. The film tries to prove that the phrase "Wasted Time" is relative. The artistic types squander their Read More

Otello

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov, Vladimir Soshalsky, Yevgeny Vesnik

Synopsis: Famed Russian director Serge Bondarchuk steps before the cameras in this Soviet adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. The Russian landscape provides a surprisingly effective backdrop for this tale of love, hate and jealousy in 16th century Venice. Andrei Popov is a suitably cunning Iago, while Read More

Korabli Shturmuyut Bastiony

Actors: Ivan Pereverzev, Gennadiy Yudin, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Anatoliy Alekseev, Vladimir Balashov

Admiral Ushakov

Actors: Ivan Pereverzev, Boris Livanov, Nikolai Svobodin, N. Chistyakov, Gennadiy Yudin

Kavaler "Zolotoy Zvezdy"

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Anatoliy Chemodurov, Kira Kanaeva, Boris Chirkov, Kalyu Komissarov

Synopsis: Soviet filmmaker Yuri Raisman once more combines political dogma with solid entertainment values in Dream of a Cossack (aka Cavalier of the Golden Star). The title character, played by future director Sergei Bondarchuk (and billed for obscure reasons as Semyon Bondarchuk), is an ex-soldier who Read More

Taras Shevchenko

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Vladimir Chestnokov, Nikolai Timofeyev, Gnat Yura, Alexei Konsovsky

Molodaya Gvardiya

Actors: Tamara Makarova, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Gurzo, Nonna Mordyukova, Vladimir Ivanov

Synopsis: In 1949, distinguished Soviet filmmaker Sergei Gerasimov made a visit to New York City, where he railed against the immoralities of Hollywood movies. Be that as it may, Gerasimov's The Young Guard managed to secure bookings in Manhattan. Based on a best-selling novel by Alexander Fadeyev, the film Read More