Alexander Vladimirovich Galibin (, born 27 September 1955) is a
Soviet
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Russia
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n actor noted for playing the Master in the
miniseries
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The Master and Margarita
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'' (2005).
His acting career spans over four decades and includes such memorable roles as
Tsar Nicholas II
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Gleb Panfilov
Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov (; 21 May 1934 – 26 August 2023) was a Russian film director noted for a string of mostly historical films starring his wife, Inna Churikova.
Biography
In the 1980s Panfilov, a chemist by profession, moved to thea ...
Leningrad
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Russian SFSR
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,
Soviet Union
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. He first started his acting career as a theater actor at the Theater of Youth Creativity directed by Matvey Dubrovin. From 1973 to 1977, he studied acting at the Faculty of LGITMiK. His film debut was in the 1976 film '' ...And Other Officials''.
From 1977 to 1979, he was an actor of the Komissarjevsky Theatre. He played in the performances: "The Legend of the Dunce's Hat" (King Philip), "Five Evenings" (Glory), "Bumbarash" (Lyovka), "Tsar Boris" (the shadow of Tsarevich Dmitry, Chechen, Fyodor Godunov), "Ten unopened letters" (builders of BAM) and others.
Filmography
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The Pilot. A Battle for Survival
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'' (2021) as surgeon
*'' Deadly Illusions'' (2020) as Pyotr Istomin
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Wolf
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'' (2020) TV series as General Sukhodeev
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Whirlpool
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'' (2020) TV series as Stavkevich
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Shadows over Balkan
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The Road to Calvary
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'' (2017) TV series as
Boris Savinkov
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* '' Doctor Richter'' (2017) TV series as Dr. Kalinin
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Raid
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Leonid Arkayev
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Demons
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Pavel Tsitsianov
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*'' Adel'' (2008) as Zakharov
*'' Friend or Foe'' (2007) TV series as Vitaly Petrovich Ilyukhin, Colonel
*'' 40'' (2007) as Mikhail
*'' He, She and Me'' (2007) as Dmitry Belyavsky
*'' Konservy'' (2007) as Valery Astrakhantsev
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The Master and Margarita
''The Master and Margarita'' () is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published posthumously in ''Moscow (magazine), Moscow'' magazine in ...
'' (2005) TV mini-series as
Master
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*Schoolmaster or master, presiding office ...
Tsar Nicholas II
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The Life of Klim Samgin
''The Life of Klim Samgin'' () is a four-volume novel written by Maxim Gorky from 1925 up to his death in 1936. It is Gorky's most ambitious work, intended to depict "all the classes, all the trends, all the tendencies, all the hell-like commotio ...
'' (1986) TV series as Diomidov;
Nicholas II of Russia
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Start Liquidation
''Start Liquidation'' () is a 1983 Soviet crime action film directed by Boris Grigoryev.
Plot
The film takes place in the spring of 1945 in Western Belarus, where the brutal gang of Boleslav Kruk creates chaos. They kill, rob and set fire to co ...
We Weren't Married in Church
''We Weren't Married in Church'' () is a 1982 Soviet historical romance film directed by Boris Tokarev.
Plot
The film tells about the daughter of a clergyman who fictitiously marries a revolutionary. Over time, a real love arises between them, ...
The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya
''The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya'' () is a 1978 Soviet crime film. The picture is a screen adaptation of the eponymous novel by Nikolai Leonov.
The film became was one of the leading pictures at the 1978 USSR box-office (5th place), it was seen by 54. ...
'' (1978) as Pashka-America (Pavel Antonov)
*'' ...And Other Officials'' (1976) as Yuri Konstantinovich Ivanov
Awards
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Merited Artist of the Russian Federation
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(1991)
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People's Artist of the Russian Federation
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