Aleksei Petrenko

Alexei Petrenko
Born	(1938-03-26) 26 March 1938 Chemer, Chernihiv Oblast, USSR
Occupation	actor
Years active	1961–present

Alexei Vasil’yevich Pyetryenko (Template:Lang-ru) (born March 26, 1938, a village of Chemer, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine) is a Soviet / Russian film and stage actor. He played Joseph Stalin in the BBC Two documentary World War II: Behind Closed Doors.

Petrenko (right) greeting President Vladimir Putin in 2001

Selected filmography

• King Lear (1971)
• In Agony by Elem Klimov, Petrenko, played the role of Grigori Rasputin, released in 1982 in the West and in 1985 in the USSR.
• Farewell (1983)
• The Servant (1989)
• Luna Park (1992)
• World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West (2008)
• The Barber of Siberia (1998)
• Memoirs on Sherlock Holmes (2000)
• 12 (2007)
• Into The Storm (2009)
• Viktor (2014)

External links

• Aleksei Petrenko at IMDb