8 Movies Starring Vladimir Mashkov

The Thief

The Thief

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-07-17

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Russia, France

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (3560 Reviews)

Director:

Pavel Chukhray

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a play for her. She accepts. Posing as a married family, the soldier finds them a rooming house where he becomes everyone's favorite through his good looks and generosity. Meanwhile he gives the boy, Sanya, lessons in life: to fight back, to win at all costs. The child's mother, Katya, is head-over-heels in love with Tolyan, the soldier, but the relationship becomes rocky when Tolyan's true plans for the rooming house become clear. It starts them on a treadmill of flight that risks Katya's life, Tolyan's liberty, and Sanya's trust.

Tycoon: A New Russian

Tycoon: A New Russian

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-08-02

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Russia, France, Germany

Runtime:

123 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1487 Reviews)

Director:

Pavel Lungin

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Yuliy Dubov (novel)

Aleksandr Borodyanskiy (screenplay)

Pavel Lungin (screenplay)

Yuliy Dubov (screenplay)

Fullplot:

During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.

Daddy

Daddy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-06-26

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (579 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Aleksandr Galich (novel)

Vladimir Mashkov

Ilya Rubinshteyn

Fullplot:

Based on A. Galych's play "Matrosskaya Tishina", "Papa" tells a story of a Jewish father who dreamed of seeing his son perform on a stage in front of huge audiences, he dreamed of seeing him as the greatest violinist of his time. To achieve the goal he taught his son Dodik how to play the violin from the yearly age. When Dodik grew up he left the small town he and his father lived in to study in the Moscow Conservatory leaving his past behind. But one day he has to choose either to loose his father or everything he has achieved.

The State Counsellor

The State Counsellor

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-04-21

Languages:

Russian, Japanese, French

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

191 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (1873 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaCrime

Cast:

Writer:

Boris Akunin (novel)

Boris Akunin (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation...

Piranha

Piranha

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-04-06

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

167 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (1088 Reviews)

Director:

Andrey Kavun

Cast:

Writer:

Aleksandr Bushkov (novel)

Dmitriy Zverkov (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Agent of special department "Piranha" Kirill Mazur and his colleague Olga go to the far north with the assignment to liquidate an underwater secret weapon lab in the guise of a mutual vacation. All of a sudden, they find themselves in the world where civilization laws are forgotten, and this deadly weapons are kept by gangsters who are controlled by a new "master of taiga" Prohor, whose leisure time is spent hunting at humans. Mazur didn't know that he would have to trade his familiar gun for a hand-made bone knife, and save his companion and himself instead of saving the world. For them, this safari in northern forests would be no less dangerous as for the live targets.

Liquidation

Liquidation

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-12-02

Languages:

Russian, Ukrainian

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

45 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.6 (929 Reviews)

Fullplot:

The Ghost

The Ghost

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-11-13

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

104 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (954 Reviews)

Director:

Karen Oganesyan

Genres:

Thriller

Fullplot:

In Moscow, Anton is out of ideas for his "Ghost" novels about a hit man, based on old news accounts. At a book signing, a man buys Anton's latest; then, on a street below, Anton sees the man murder a witness in an upcoming trial. Days later, the killer chats up Anton at a cafè, offering ideas for plots. Anton accepts and his writing improves. Meanwhile, he has a troubled relationship with Mika: she's forgiving, but his drinking and late-night writing sessions drive her away. Plus, he spends precious little time with his son, who's in an institution. Slowly, the hit man raises the ante with Anton: how far will a writer go to understand his fictional character?

The Edge

The Edge

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-09-23

Languages:

Russian, German

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

124 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (2187 Reviews)

Director:

Aleksey Uchitel

Cast:

Writer:

Aleksandr Gonorovskiy (story)

Aleksandr Gonorovskiy

Fullplot:

The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.

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