Personal Info
Birth date
1940-08-10 (84 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Also known as
Venyamin Smekhov
Вениамин Смехов
Veniamin Smekhov
Weniamin Borissowitsch Smechow
Venyamin Smekhov
Biography
We dont have a biography for Venyamin Smekhov
Filmography
Evening Urgant
7.211
Overview:
Evening show Ivan Urgant. Movies, sports, new gadgets, art. What is happening in the country and in the world? Actual characters discussing the day's events and new music.D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
7.283
Overview:
The musketeers battle against the all-powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the treacherous Milady.Passengers
7.7
Overview:
Andrey drives a cab, but he’s no ordinary Taxi driver. All his passengers are dead. His job is to deliver them to the Afterlife, but it’s never straightforward. Andrey’s passengers come from all walks of life and each has a story, they can’t reach their destined afterlife until they face-up to and atone for something from their past. But it’s a rare soul who wants to hold a mirror up to their faults, they need a guide, some encouragement, and so they turn to the only other presence in the taxi, Andrey. Andrey himself is an enigma, a taciturn driver who exists only in the present, and a reluctant guide for lost souls. Each time Andrey successfully delivers a lost soul from limbo, a mysterious number on the taxi-meter counts down one by one. And with each soul’s story a little bit more of Andrey’s past is revealed. Are the Passengers the only souls seeking redemption?Projectorparishilton
6.2
Overview:
Four hosts discuss some current news and comment on different issues in politics and economics, similar to 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe. The show's name is a reference to the 80s TV program "Прожектор Перестройки" - a program that was discussing current events on Soviet television during the times of Perestroika - and American socialite Paris Hilton, who, according to Svetlakov, symbolizes lack of taste. Thus, the name of the show implies that this is a current events program that shouldn't be taken seriously.Adventures of Captain Vrungel
7.923
Overview:
An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.Musketeers Twenty Years Later
8.2
Overview:
In turbulent times for France and herself, the first minister of the Kingdom of France, Cardinal Mazarin, asked Queen Anne of Austria to give him the names of four friends who successfully helped her in the fight against Cardinal Richelieu. Under pressure from Mazarin, Queen Anne calls the name D'Artagnan, lieutenant of the royal musketeers. Mazarin calls D'Artagnan and orders him to find Athos, Porthos and Aramis in order to attract them to his service...Mafia: Survival Game
4.466
Overview:
A twist on the classic game of Mafia. 12 competitors take part in a game of life and death where the innocent must take out the Mafia in order to win the cash prize. Those that are voted out must face their biggest fears in a computer simulation.Please Accuse Klava K. of My Death
6.882
Overview:
Klava and Seryozha (Sergey) have been together since preschool. He, one of the smartest kids in school, has always been in love with her but considered her more of just a pretty face rather than an intelligent person. He let her copy his homework and gave her his parents' things as gifts. When they are teens, Klava rejects his love because she knows that he doesn't value her for her, and instead is attracted to Lavrik, another intelligent boy from school. Klava likes him because for the first time she feels like someone is really interested in her as a person. Seryoszha, being very dramatic and wanting Klava's/everyone else's sympathy, writes a suicide note, "Please blame Klava K. for my death," but can he really commit suicide? Eventually he realizes that he is being too shallow and that while he makes such a drama out of such small problems, the people around him have real problems, but never said a thing.The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini
3.1
Overview:
After the deaths of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis the Queen Anna of Austria has to ask for help of the heroes' sons. They, however, cannot fulfill her request on their own. The original musketeers have to literally return to live and embark on a new adventure.A Trap for Lonely Man
6.3
Overview:
Daniel Corban reports his wife Elizabeth missing to the police. A priest arrives and says he has found her. When he brings her in, Corban insists she is not his wife. When several other people arrive and verify she is Elizabeth, Daniel feels he is losing his grip on reality.A Room and a Half
6.3
Overview:
A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.Spiral
4.556
Overview:
The beginning of a new life in Moscow is going well for Alexey - until he gets into a lot of troubles...Suddenly the Magician Will Arrive
NYR
Overview:
Vera is a beautiful young woman who can’t get a job in any way, because beauty only disturbs her, because at every new job she receives indecent offers from her boss. Vera’s girlfriend, Katya, who works in the theater, makes Vera “ugly” with the help of makeup. And then luck is smiling at the girl, she settles in a rich house, a nanny for a little boy.The Story of the Voyages
6.2
Overview:
In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake Saint Nick because the little boy is blessed with the ability to locate gold. A kindly, wise philosopher-type by the name of Orlando joins Marta in her search, and together they survive a gigantic sleeping dragon and imprisonment in a tower with no clear means of escape. They overcome that hurdle, but later on, Orlando succumbs to the evils of The Plague (an all-consuming woman!) and Marta continues on her search alone. Eventually, she does find her brother -- but that only introduces problems she had never considered.Breakfast with a View to the Elbrus Mountains
7.3
Overview:
After a painful break up a journalist is traveling to the Elbrus mountains where he meets another woman.The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
4.4
Overview:
The 3rd part of the famous trilogy by Alexandre Dumas about d'Artagnan and his 3 friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis.Assassin of the Tsar
5.682
Overview:
A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...The Wizard of Oz
4
Overview:
A cartoon about a girl, Ellie, of her little dog Totoshka, who, because of the evil Gingema, ended up in the Magic Country, where incredible adventures awaited them.Candidate
NYR
Overview:
Based on novel "The Great Man" by Al Morgan. Ted Stevens receives a task to prepare a TV special about his colleague Tony Bradley, recently died in car accident. But the further he studies this case, the more suspicious this accident is becoming.Elsa's Land
7
Overview:
Two people meet and fall in love. According to all around them, their love is improper and inconvenient, as our heroes are past 70. Elsa is recently widowed and should be in mourning, even for the husband she never loved. But Elsa and Leonid not only do not hide their love, they’re also going to get married and go travelling to find their own land — Elsa’s Land. Their love story sounds particularly up-to-date as it refers to the elder audience who took the biggest hit of the global pandemic. It encourages them to live and love no matter what.The Idiot
10
Overview:
A free-spirited, guileless and amoral young woman, who works as a maid in the home of one of the most prominent and influential families in France was discovered in her bedroom, naked and unconscious, with the body of her Spanish lover Miguel across the room and the gun that killed him by her side. As the movie begins, she is being brought before the Examining Magistrate to determine if there is enough evidence to take her to trial where, under the French legal system she will be considered guilty unless proven innocent...The Key
3.5
Overview:
St. Petersburg. Winter of 1917, the eve of the February Revolution. The maid finds in the room the corpse of the murdered tenant. In his pocket, a hotel account was found in the name of Karl Fischer, a well-known banker. An investigation is beginning. In the list of suspects - an agent of the secret police...Iran Conference
NYR
Overview:
Representatives of the Danish and world intellectual elite, the best minds of our time are going to a conference in Copenhagen to discuss the urgent "Iranian problem" — violation of rights and freedoms, daily executions, torture and military conflicts in the middle East. An orientalist, theologian, political scientist, military journalist, the wife of the Prime Minister (formerly a well-known TV presenter), writer, priest, famous conductor and Iranian poet — winner of the Nobel prize in literature take turns on the stage.Aeterna: Part One
4.667
Overview:
The legitimate heir to the throne in exile and the son of a murdered rebel — what do they have in common? Everyone has their own goal: one dreams of taking the throne and restoring his family to its former glory, the other - to take revenge on the murderer of his father, who serves the usurpers. Young men enter into a large-scale struggle for power and honor, in which those who seemed to be friends can betray, and former enemies can turn into allies. In order to achieve the goal, both the prince and the rebel's son will have to risk the most valuable and make the main choice in their lives — to go the preordained way or to oppose fate itself.Acting
2022Казанова в России. Тайная миссия (12 Episodes) as Брагадин
2022Aeterna: Part One as Valter Pridd
2020Passengers (8 Episodes) as Unknown
2020Elsa's Land as Unknown
2020Iran Conference as Unknown
2019Margarita's Worlds as himself
2016The Bones (12 Episodes) as Виталий Дейкевич
2016Mafia: Survival Game as Luka Sergeevich
2014Spiral as Yakob
2013Prodavets igrushek as Unknown
2012Evening Urgant (1 Episode) as Self
2012The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini (4 Episodes) as Athos
2009The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini as Athos
2009A Room and a Half as Narrator (voice)
2008Монтекристо (117 Episodes) as Ilya Nikolaevich Orlov
2008Suddenly the Magician Will Arrive as Unknown
2008Projectorparishilton (1 Episode) as Unknown
2005The Musketeers: The Fate of Four as Unknown
1994The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later as Athos
1993To Remember (1 Episode) as Narrator
1993Breakfast with a View to the Elbrus Mountains as Король
1993Musketeers 20 Years Later as Unknown
1992Musketeers Twenty Years Later (4 Episodes) as Athos
1992The Key as Unknown
1991The Idiot as Benzhamen Borever
1991Assassin of the Tsar as Unknown
1990A Trap for Lonely Man as Maximin, the false cure
1987Candidate as Unknown
1986Seven Screams Across the Sea as Unknown
1983The Story of the Voyages as Don Quixote
1983Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves as Мустафа
1983Monsieur Lenoir, who... as Unknown
1980Adventures of Captain Vrungel as admiral (voice)
1980Adventures of Captain Vrungel (13 Episodes) as admiral/radio announcer/reporter (voice)
1979D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (3 Episodes) as Athos
1979Please Accuse Klava K. of My Death as Uncle Seva
1976Середина жизни as Unknown
1975Smoke and Shorty as Unknown
1975What the Hell Do You Want? as Unknown
1974The Wizard of Oz as (voice)
1971Late Child as Unknown
1967Touches on the V. I. Lenin's Portrait as Unknown
Directing
1982Джентльмены из конгресса ... Director