Personal Info
Birth date
1941-03-12 (84 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Also known as
Андрей Смирнов
Andrei Smirnov
Andrey Smirnov
Biography
Andrei Sergeyevich Smirnov (Russian: Андpeй Сepгeeвич Смирнов; born March 12, 1941) is a Soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker who is known for directing the films Belorussian Station (1971), Autumn (1974) and A Frenchman (2019). He was a member of the jury at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival in 1988.
Filmography
Fuse
7.6
Overview:
Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".Gangster's Petersburg
9.1
Overview:
A Russian detective series, based on 8 works of Andrei Konstantinov ("lawyer", "Justice / Attorney-2", "The Thief / Journalist-2", "Writer", "Inventor / Writer-2", "The prisoner "," Cop "," Scavenger ") and four works by other writers.The Murderer's Diary
NYR
Overview:
Graduate students in the Historical Museum find a diary dated 1919. In the diary, the author confesses to the murder of five people. The terrible deeds of the past are the key to unraveling a number of crimes committed in our day.The Optimists
4.6
Overview:
The early 1960s. The Soviet Union is experiencing a bright Khrushchev-era, full of hope. A group of young diplomats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs come face to face with world-changing global events. Before long, these wide-eyed idealists find themselves deep in the breathtaking world of spy games, mortal dangers, and brilliant political maneuvering.The Idiot
7.552
Overview:
The Idiot is a costume drama TV series produced by Russia TV Channel in 2003, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same title. The series' script is very close to Dostoevsky's original text, and the series features well-known Russian actors.The Thaw
6.643
Overview:
The series is set in 1961. Cameraman Viktor Khrustalyov is in a difficult situation; he is suspected of being involved in the death of his friend, talented screenwriter Kostya Parshin, who committed suicide during a drinking-bout. The authorities try to put Khrustalyov in prison by any means. Viktor needs to shoot the comedy "The Girl and the Brigadier" in order to get permission to make the film "Shards" after the wonderful scenario left from his deceased screenwriter friend. Young director Yegor Myachin wants to adаpt this screenplay. Khrustalyov arranges him as a trainee to the venerable director Krivitsky for a comedy. In the same film act Khrustalev's ex-wife Inga and his young sweetheart Maryana, with whom Yegor Myachin is also in love.Dinosaur
9.5
Overview:
The elderly criminal authority Semyon Timofeevich Babushkin, about whose thieving talent legends were made up at the time, has not left prison for the last 35 years, preferring it to freedom, where he has no friends or relatives left.Chimera
8.8
Overview:
In 2012, the security forces won a large-scale war against drug trafficking. The largest shipments were intercepted and supply corridors from Afghanistan and Europe were paralyzed. But in just one year, a new one was created on the ruins of the largest underground market in Europe. And now modern technology and young geniuses have come here, turning the drug trade into a high-tech industrial industry.Vertinsky
8
Overview:
Biography of the most famous Russian chansonnier of the twentieth century. The story of the artist who left Russia in 1919 and returned to the USSR in 1943, in the midst of World War II. Vertinsky lived, sang and was popular in Constantinople, Paris, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Harbin, Shanghai and Moscow. He was loved by beautiful women, he was applauded by royalty and thieves. He was a bohemian man, light and cheerful. However, this picture is primarily about his kindness. About the ability not to judge, but to regret, to sympathize with anyone. And for this, fate gifted him with great success and late family happiness. This is a story about how a songbird, an artist, a frivolous creature can live a life that causes both envy and respect.Apostle
6.423
Overview:
At the beginning of the war, the Germans throw their saboteur into the USSR. The landing is unsuccessful - the spy is captured by the NKVD. When trying to escape, a saboteur who turned out to be a Russian thief in law, accidentally remaining in the occupied territory, dies. In order to find the other spies involved in the operation, the security officers have to turn to the criminal's twin brother, a rural teacher. He takes the place of the deceased in the German intelligence network and enters into a deadly game...Black Cats
5.333
Overview:
1947 Hunger and devastation reign in the war-drained country. Bread is worth its weight in gold, and the cost of human life is zero. Cities are controlled by criminal gangs: like black cats, they come undetected under the cover of darkness and easily disappear from the crime scene. A gang operating in Rostov-on-Don is robbing a food warehouse, but OBB Major Yegor Dragun suspects that this is not the work of ordinary criminals..Caviar
NYR
Overview:
1979. In a seaside town, in a fishing port, Mikhail Fedorov, an investigator of the OBKhSS, dies under mysterious circumstances. His best friend and colleague Alexander Kostenko learns that Fedorov's death was not an accident. He was about to take up the investigation himself, but suddenly, without explanation, he was suspended. In search of justice, Kostenko flies to Moscow for an appointment with the Prosecutor General. At Sheremetyevo Airport, he becomes an unwitting witness to the illegal transportation of a large amount in foreign currency. Vigilant Kostenko initiates the detention and arrest of the "currency courier" - a senior employee of the Ministry of Fisheries Arkady Lipman. With his professional acumen, rare integrity and meticulousness, Kostenko attracts the attention of not only the leadership of the General Prosecutor's Office of the USSR, but also party officials and the leadership of the Ministry of Fisheries, who are directly related to the currency scandal…Once There Was a Woman
6
Overview:
The painful fate of a woman and a country. A TV version of Andrei Smirnov's tragic epic about a Tambov peasant woman.Fathers and Sons
NYR
Overview:
In 19th-century Russia, two young men start to question their worldview after it gets challenged by people from the older generation.The First Circle
6.25
Overview:
The story is set in a relatively comfortable Stalin-era prison in the town of Marfino where a community of prisoners with highly technical skills do research for the state. Based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.Elena
7.18
Overview:
Elena is a woman of a certain age, living in a chic Moscow apartment with her wealthy businessman husband Vladimir. While Vladimir is estranged from his daughter, he does not mask his contempt for Elena's own child, who seems to be in constant need of financial assistance. When Vladimir suddenly falls ill and his volatile, nihilistic daughter comes back into the picture, Elena must hatch a plan for her own survival.The White Sun of the Desert
7.221
Overview:
The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his wife, only to be caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander, Rahimov, "convinces" Sukhov to help, temporarily, with the protection of abandoned women of the Basmachi guerrilla leader Abdullah's harem. Leaving a young Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with the task, Rahimov and his cavalry unit set out to pursue fleeing Abdullah.Sukhov and women from Abdullah's harem return to a nearby shore town. Soon, looking for a seaway across the border, Abdullah and his gang come to the same town...War and Peace
7.577
Overview:
A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.Once There Was a Woman
4.25
Overview:
A chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country.His Wife's Diary
5.184
Overview:
A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid Gurov. A work of great honesty and piercing psychology.Gisele's Mania
2.333
Overview:
A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle. It was Giselle who immortalized her name in 1924. It was "Giselle" that caused the psychic catastrophe in 1942.The Frenchman
6.1
Overview:
In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional one, but the underground one as well. During his year in Russia’s capital Pierre lives an entirely different life than what he’s used to. But the internship and the experience of the Soviet people’s way of life are not the only things Pierre is after. He’s searching for his father, White officer Tatishchev, who was arrested in the 1930s.How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home
6.961
Overview:
Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, and he was left to grow up in an orphanage. Years later, his errant dad returns, now a disabled felon, and Viktor discovers a timely legacy is in the offing – his father’s apartment. The documentation for securing dad’s move into an old people’s home is signed in a flash. Nevertheless, the only one that can take him is miles away and, what’s more, the invalid starts to recuperate during the journey, which is when their real problems begin.War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
7.574
Overview:
The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.Autumn
5.7
Overview:
In their youth, they loved each other, but broke up. Ilya got married, became a doctor, Sasha learned to become an engineer, got married. And now they are together again, at a small, deaf station. They introduced themselves as husband and wife. In fact, while he is married to another, and she has the experience of a failed marriage. For eight days they will be in a remote stop where no one knows them and no one will interfere with love...Nine Days of One Year
6.643
Overview:
Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.Acting
2025Минута тишины (10 Episodes) as Николай Королёв
2023Empire V as Osiris
2022Love Story as Unknown
2022Chimera (10 Episodes) as Unknown
2021Vertinsky (8 Episodes) as отец Мозжухина
2018Dinosaur (30 Episodes) as криминальный авторитет Семен Тимофеевич Бабушкин
2018The Tolstoy Defence as Apollon Kolokoltsev, general
2018Caviar (8 Episodes) as Matvey Petrovich Orlov, member of Politburo
2017How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home as Platon - vor v zakone
2017The Optimists (13 Episodes) as Georgy Mikhailovich
2014Black Cats (12 Episodes) as Grandpa Varrava
2013The Thaw (12 Episodes) as Khrustalyov Sr.
2011Two Days as Андрей Сергеевич, министр
2011Elena as Vladimir
2010Sodankylä Forever as Self
2008Fathers and Sons (4 Episodes) as Pavel Kirsanov
2008Apostle (12 Episodes) as Arkadiy Andreevich Istomin, of Peter and of Pavel father
2007Keep Forever as Unknown
2006The First Circle (10 Episodes) as Bobynin
2005Persona non grata as psychiatrist
2004The Music of Love: Beethoven's Secret Love as Doorman
2003The Idiot (10 Episodes) as Afansiy Totskiy
2002The Murderer's Diary (12 Episodes) as Ivan Alekseevich Ilyin
2000His Wife's Diary as Ivan Bunin
2000Gangster's Petersburg (10 Episodes) as Unknown
1995Gisele's Mania as George Brown
1994Khagi – Tragger as Unknown
1993To Remember (1 Episode) as Narrator
1993Idiot Dreams as Unknown
1993The Delegation as Unknown
1990Chernov/Chernov as Unknown
1987The Red Arrow as Karandin
1986My Favorite Clown as doctor
1985Идущий следом as Unknown
1969The White Sun of the Desert as бандит (нет в титрах)
1968War and Peace as Staff Officer
1966War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky as Staff Officer
1965The Girl and the Bugler as Unknown
1962Nine Days of One Year as tall bearded physicist
1960North Rainbow as Unknown
Production
2023Here's to You and Us! ... Producer
2019The Frenchman ... Producer
2011Once There Was a Woman ... Producer
2002The School for Scandal (35 Episodes) ... Producer
Directing
2023Here's to You and Us! ... Director
2019The Frenchman ... Director
2015Once There Was a Woman (5 Episodes) ... Director
2011Once There Was a Woman ... Director
2011Bedouin ... Assistant Director
1979By Faith and Honor ... Director
1974Autumn ... Director
1971Byelorussian Station ... Director
1967Beginning of an Unknown Era ... Director
1966A Joke ... Director
1964A Span of Land ... Director
1963Эй, кто-нибудь! ... Director
1962Fuse (2 Episodes) ... Director
1961Yurka, the Pantsless Team ... Director
Writing
2023Here's to You and Us! ... Writer
2019The Frenchman ... Screenplay
2011Once There Was a Woman ... Screenplay
1986I Have Done Everything I Could ... Screenplay
1986A Sentimental Trip to Potatoes ... Screenplay
1974Autumn ... Writer
1966A Joke ... Writer
1963Эй, кто-нибудь! ... Screenplay
1961Yurka, the Pantsless Team ... Screenplay
Creator
2015Once There Was a Woman ... Creator