Brezhnev (film)

Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Directed by	Sergey Snezhkin
Written by	Sergey Snezhkin; Valentin Chernykh
Produced by	Sergey Melkumov
Starring	Sergey Shakurov
Production; company	Slovo
Distributed by	Channel One Russia
Release date	March 28, 2005;
Running time	208 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Brezhnev (Russian: Брежнев) is a 2005 biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. It originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One.

The movie was an expensive period piece partly filmed in the Kremlin. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev.^[1]

Cast

Sergey Shakurov as Leonid Brezhnev
Artur Vakha as Leonid Brezhnev (young)
Svetlana Kryuchkova as Viktoria Brezhneva
Marina Solopchenko as Viktoria Brezhneva (young)
Sergei Garmash as Stepan Kandaurov
Valeri Zolotukhin as huntsman Igor
Vasily Lanovoy as Yuri Andropov
Vadim Yakovlev as Andrei Gromyko
Igor Yasulovich as Mikhail Suslov
Valery Ivchenko as Nikolai Tikhonov
Yuriy Kuzmenkov as Nikolai Podgorny
Vladimir Menshov as Dmitry Ustinov
Lev Prygunov as Yevgeniy Chazov
Aleksandr Filippenko as Georgy Tsinyov
Vyacheslav Shalevich as Alexei Kosygin
Afanasy Kochetkov as Konstantin Chernenko
Sergei Losev as Nikita Khrushchev
Igor Ivanov as Alexander Shelepin
Igor Chernevich as Andrey Alexandrov-Agentov
Valery Bychenkov as Dmitry Polyansky
Gennadi Bogachyov as Nikolai Shchelokov
Nikolai Kuznetsov as Frol Kozlov
Boris Sokolov as Georgy Tsukanov
Vadim Lobanov as Nikolai Ogarkov
Alexander Semchev as Aleksandr Bovin
Oleg Volku as Vladimir Medvedev, deputy chief of the Brezhnev's guard
Maria Shukshina as the nurse
Andrey Krasko as the barber Tolik
Andrei Zibrov as Konovalchuk, sergeant-major
Sergei Barkovsky as Mikhail Gorbachev

References

^ Boele, Otto (2011). "Remembering Brezhnev in the new millennium: Post-Soviet nostalgia and local identity in the city of Novorossiisk". The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 38: 3–29. Retrieved 3 January 2014.

External links

Brezhnev at IMDb

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[1] Boele, Otto (2011). "Remembering Brezhnev in the new millennium: Post-Soviet nostalgia and local identity in the city of Novorossiisk". The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 38: 3–29. Retrieved 3 January 2014.

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