Brezhnev (film)

Brezhnev
Directed by	Sergey Snezhkin
Produced by	Sergey Melkumov
Written by	Leonid Brezhnev (story) Valentin Chernykh
Starring	Sergey Shakurov
Production company	Slovo
Distributed by	Channel One Russia
Release dates	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)
• Vasili Lanovoy as Yuri Andropov
• Vadim Yakovlev as Andrei Gromyko
• Igor Yasulovich as Mikhail Suslov
• Valery Ivchenko as Nikolai Tikhonov
• Yuri Kuzmenkov as Nikolai Podgorny
• Vladimir Menshov as Dmitry Ustinov
• Lev Prygunov as Yevgeniy Chazov
• Aleksandr Filippenko as Georgy Tsinёv
• 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
• Gennady Bogachev as Nikolai Shchelokov
• Nikolai Kuznetsov as Frol Kozlov
• Boris Sokolov as Georgy Tsukanov
• Vadim Lobanov as Nikolai Ogarkov
• Alexander Semchev as Alexander Bovin
• Oleg Volku as Vladimir Medvedev, deputy chief of the Brezhnev's guard
• Mariya Shukshina as the nurse
• Andrey Krasko as the barber Tolik

References

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.

External links

• Brezhnev at the Internet Movie Database