''Brezhnev'' (Russian: ) is a 2005 biographical TV movie about Soviet leader

Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 190610 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev, his death in 1982 as w ...

. It originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One. The movie was an expensive

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partly filmed in the

Kremlin The Moscow Kremlin (also the Kremlin) is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia. Located in the centre of the country's capital city, the Moscow Kremlin (fortification), Kremlin comprises five palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Mosco ...

. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev.

Cast

Sergey Shakurov Sergey Kayumovich Shakurov (, ; born 1 January 1942) is a Soviet and Russian actor of theater. He has appeared in more than ninety films since 1967. Life and career Sergey Shakurov was born in Russian-Tatar family in Moscow. His father was Mis ...

* Artur Vakha as Leonid Brezhnev (young) * Svetlana Kryuchkova as

Viktoria Brezhneva Viktoria Petrovna Brezhneva (, ; [], ; 11 December 1907 – 5 July 1995) was the wife of Soviet people, Soviet politician and longtime General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. She was the ...

* Marina Solopchenko as Viktoria Brezhneva (young) *

Sergei Garmash Sergei Leonidovich Garmash (; born 1 September 1958) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He is a People's Artist of Russia. In 2013 he was a member of the jury at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival. Biography Early life and edu ...

as Stepan Kandaurov *

Valeri Zolotukhin Valeri Sergeevich Zolotukhin (, 21 June 1941 – 30 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian stage and cinema actor who performed at the Taganka Theatre which he also headed between 2011 and 2013. He was named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1987. B ...

as huntsman Igor *

Vasily Lanovoy Vasily Semyonovich Lanovoy (16 January 193428 January 2021) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russia, Russian actor who worked in the Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow. He was also known as the President of Artek (camp), Artek Festiv ...

Yuri Andropov Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov ( – 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from late 1982 until his death in 1984. He previously served as the List of Chairmen of t ...

* Vadim Yakovlev as

Andrei Gromyko Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko ( – 2 July 1989) was a Soviet politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957–1985) and as List of heads of state of the So ...

Igor Yasulovich Igor Nikolayevich Yasulovich (; 24 September 1941 – 19 August 2023) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, film director and pedagogue. Biography Yasulovich was born in the village of Reinsfeld (now Zalesye) in Koshkinsky District ...

Mikhail Suslov Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (; 25 January 1982) was a Soviet people, Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union#Secretariat, Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Sovi ...

* Valery Ivchenko as

Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov ( – 1 June 1997) was a Soviet Russian-Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1980 to 1985, and as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, ...

* Yuriy Kuzmenkov as

Nikolai Podgorny Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny ( – 12 January 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1977. Podgorny was born to a Ukrainian working-c ...

Vladimir Menshov Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov (; 17 September 1939 – 5 July 2021)Умер Владимир Ме� ...

Dmitry Ustinov Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (; 30 October 1908 – 20 December 1984) was a Soviet politician and a Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as a Central Committee secretary in charge of the Soviet military–industrial comple ...

Lev Prygunov Lev Georgievich Prygunov (; born 23 April 1939, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR) is a Russian actor, painter, People's Artist of Russia (2013). His son is a Russian film director . After graduation, he studied for two years at the biological faculty of t ...

Yevgeniy Chazov Yevgeniy Ivanovich Chazov (; 10 June 1929 – 12 November 2021) was a physician of the Soviet Union and Russia, specializing in cardiology, Chief of the Fourth Directorate of the ministry of health, academic of the Russian Academy of Sciences an ...

Aleksandr Filippenko Aleksandr Georgievich Filippenko (; born September 2, 1944) is a Soviet and Russian actor, People's Artist of Russia (2000). Biography He was born in Moscow. His parents moved to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan where he graduated from high school. Later ...

as Georgy Tsinyov *

Vyacheslav Shalevich Vyacheslav Anatolievich Shalevich (; 27 May 1934 – 21 December 2016) was a Soviet-Russian film, theatre actor and a People's Artist of the RSFSR. Biography Vyacheslav Anatolievich Shalevich was born in Moscow in 1934.Alexei Kosygin Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (–18 December 1980) was a Soviet people, Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980 and, alongside General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, was one of its most ...

* Afanasy Kochetkov as

Konstantin Chernenko Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko ( – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1984 until his death a year later. Born to a poor family in Siberia, Chernenko jo ...

* Sergei Losev as

Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Premier of the Soviet Union, Chai ...

Igor Ivanov Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov (; born 23 September 1945) is a Russian politician and diplomat who was Foreign Minister of Russia from 1998 to 2004 under both the Yeltsin and the Putin administrations. Early life Ivanov was born in 1945 in Moscow t ...

as Alexander Shelepin * Igor Chernevich as Andrey Alexandrov-Agentov * Valery Bychenkov as

Dmitry Polyansky Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky (; – 8 October 2001) was a Soviet statesman who was First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1965 to 1973. From 1958 to 1962 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ru ...

* Gennadi Bogachyov as

Nikolai Shchelokov Nikolai Anisimovich Shchelokov ( – 13 December 1984) was a Soviet statesman and army general who served sixteen years as Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union), Minister of Internal Affairs from 17 September 1966 to 17 December 1982. He w ...

* Nikolai Kuznetsov as

Frol Kozlov Frol Romanovich Kozlov (; – 30 January 1965) was a Soviet politician and a member Secretariat from 1960–1964. He was a Hero of the Socialist Labour (1961). Biography Kozlov was born in the village of Loshchinino (), Kasimovsky Uyezd of Ry ...

* Boris Sokolov as Georgy Tsukanov * Vadim Lobanov as

Nikolai Ogarkov Nikolai Vasilyevich Ogarkov (; 30 October 1917 – 23 January 1994) was a prominent Soviet military personality. He was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1977. Between 1977 and 1984, he was Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Union, ...

* Alexander Semchev as

Aleksandr Bovin Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Bovin (, 9 August 1930 – 29 April 2004) was a Soviet and Russian journalist, political scientist and diplomat, notable for being the first Soviet, and then Russian ambassador to Israel after the re-establishment of Sovi ...

* Oleg Volku as

Vladimir Medvedev Vladimir Timofeyevich Medvedev (, born 22 August 1937) is a retired Soviet KGB general and bodyguard who was responsible for personal security of Soviet leaders including Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev. Biography Medvedev was born in vil ...

, deputy chief of the Brezhnev's guard *

Maria Shukshina Maria Vasilievna Shukshina (; born 27 May 1967) is a Russian actress. Her film credits include ''Burnt by the Sun 2, Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus'' (2010), ''Bury Me Behind the Baseboard'' (2009) and ''American Daughter'' (1995). Her television cr ...

as the nurse * Andrey Krasko as the barber Tolik *

Andrei Zibrov Andrei Yurievich Zibrov (; 5 July 1973, Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian actor. He has acted on stage on Lensovet Theatre. On the night of Friday, April 23 to Saturday, April 24, 2010, at the house No. 11 on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, Zibrov wa ...

as Konovalchuk, sergeant-major * Sergei Barkovsky as

Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served a ...

* Vadim Volkov as Gromyko's assistant

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0456862, Brezhnev Channel One (Russia) original programming 2005 television films Russian political television series Films shot in Moscow Cultural depictions of Leonid Brezhnev Cultural depictions of Mikhail Gorbachev Cultural depictions of Nikita Khrushchev 2005 Russian television series debuts 2005 Russian television series endings Russian television films Moscow Kremlin in fiction