Nikolai Karachentsov Movies
- 1991
In 1987, director Alla Surikova scored enormous success in her home country with Chelovek S Bulvara Kaputsinov, an engaging slapstick comedy about an idealistic film projectionist trying to introduce the Old West to the nascent art of motion pictures. This film, aptly named Choknutye / Crazy People, features another idealist, an Austrian engineer (Ulrich Pleitgen) who comes to 19th century Russia to build the first railroad. A group of aristocrats sees him as a direct threat to their thriving stagecoach business and they employ elaborate schemes to thwart his project. However, with the help of a dashing lieutenant (Nikolai Karachentsov), a double-dealing agent of the secret police (Leonid Yarmolnik), and a mysterious young woman named Maria (Olga Kabo), he manages to get the czar's approval. ~ Yuri German, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ulrich Pleitgen, Nikolai Karachentsov, (more)
- 1988
Koval (Nikolai Karachesnov) is a television reporter who interviews an unwed mother in this satirical political comedy. Nina (Tatiana Mikhalevkina) is a woman about to give birth to the one millionth resident, which would place the city in a more lucrative position to receive more government money. After the publicized interview, Koval learns of Nina's emotional instability as the city prepares to celebrate the birth of her baby. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nikolai Karachentsov, Tatiana Mikhalevkina, (more)
- 1988
The title refers to the deployment of time-honored gangster methods in a brand-new new setting. Otherwise, Deja Vu is chock full of startling surprises. Set in 1925, the storyline moves with ease from Chicago to Russia and back again. A Windy-City hitman is sent to Odessa to kill a mob informant. The victim-to-be is an enterprising soul, taking full advantage of a newly opened shipping line serving Chicago, Odessa and Constantinople. He jealously guards his smuggling operation by hiring his own hitman. The plot device of Mafia tactics being exercised in Russia is disturbingly prescient, given the current mob-controlled activities in the former Soviet Union. This 1989 Deja Vu bears no relation to the 1984 horror film of the same name. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jerzy Sztur, Vladimir Golovin, (more)
- 1987
- R
A small town is turned upside down when Mr. Fest (Andrei Mironov) arrives with a movie projector in this hilarious Georgian comedy western. In an homage to silent-era slapstick comedy, hard-drinking cowboys give up booze for milk when the saloon loses patrons to the picture show. The town bully joins the church choir along with a slew of sultry saloon sirens when they are drawn away from the evils of alcohol and moral depravity. Barroom brawls, Indian attacks, sight gags, and an all-star cast made this the second most popular Soviet film of 1988. Over 40 million people in the USSR paid to see the feature, the last for the popular Andei Mironov. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Andrei Mironov, Alexandra Yakovleva, (more)
