Mikhail Kononov
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (04.17.1989). People's Artist of Russia (11/22/1999). In 1963 he graduated from the Shchepkin Theater School and was accepted into the troupe of the Maly Theater. From August 1, 1963 to April 16, 1968 - actor of the Academic Maly Theater. Since 1968 - actor of the Gorky film studio. The actor played his first role, while still a student, in 1961 he made his debut in the film by Ivan Pyryev "Our mutual friend", where Kononov got the role of Vitka. The type played by him for a long time determined the role of the actor - "a guy from the people", charming and unsophisticated. Kononov did not work out with the theater. After graduating from the Shchepkin College in 1963, Mikhail Kononov came to the Maly Theater. At first, he seemed to fit into the theatrical environment. However, in the future, the attitude of the leadership of the Maly Theater to the young actor changed - there were rumors that the masters did not like that Kononov was making a career in cinema. Five years later, the actor left the theatrical stage forever. In 1969, the actor married a girl named Natalya. The couple lived 38 years in marriage, they did not have children. Natalia passed away in 2011. In 1997, Mikhail Ivanovich had to sell an apartment in the center of Moscow in order to buy a house in the Istra district, in the village of Butyrki (near Mozhaisk). For eight years, the building was being renovated at the end of the 19th century. So the Kononovs lived all this time, one might say, at a construction site and for the money from the sale of vegetables grown in his garden. A year before the death of Mikhail Kononov, they returned to Moscow. Since the late 1980s, the actor has appeared less and less on the screen. Often refused offers, with the new generation in the cinema he was not fundamentally friendly and rarely appeared in public. After returning to Moscow, he worked as the head of the marketing department. He wrote scripts, and in his own words, "looked for himself." The actor did not like those works that brought him popularity among the audience - “The Head of Chukotka”, “Big Break” or “Guest from the Future”. “If we talk about recognition in professional circles,” said the actor, “then Thomas’s small role in the film“ Andrei Rublev ”brought me greater success. One of his last works is that of Gleb Panfilov’s film“ In the First Circle ”(2006). he was filming when he was already very sick. "Misha said there so that his every word pierced his heart, but, unfortunately, none of the film critics noticed or noted this," says Inna Churikova, of whom Kononov was a partner in such legendary films like “Beginning” and “There is no ford in the fire.” Before his death, he wrote a book that he had nothing to publish. Despite his grave condition, in the last days of his life, the popularly beloved actor tried not to lose his presence of spirit. Mikhail Ivanovich Kononov He died on July 16, 2007 at 10:10 in the cardiopulmonary resuscitation unit of Moscow Clinical Hospital No. 20. "My friends and I raised a small amount to buy medicine for Mikhail Ivanovich," Kononova’s neighbor in the ward says. But it was too late, we were unable to save him. "The actor was buried in the columbarium of the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow (plot No. 1).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 12.102 |
Birthday | 1940-04-25 |
Place of Birth | Moscow, RSFSR, USSR |
Also Known As | Михаил Иванович Кононов, Михаил Кононов, |
1966
Andrei Rublev
8/785
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuou...
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1982
Station for Two
7.365/63
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1979
Siberiade
7.218/39
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Siberiade
1987
First Encounter - Last Encounter
5.2/9
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1984
Alone and Unarmed
2.5/4
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Alone and Unarmed
1967
No Path Through Fire
5.833/20
A talented girl is trying to find happiness amidst the Russian revolution of 1917 and the civil war that split the nation.
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No Path Through Fire
1970
The Beginning
6.4/30
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1972
The Long Recess
7.5/35
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The Long Recess
1989
The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
3.6/7
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other h...
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1969
At War as at War
6/14
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1975
Finest, the Brave Falcon
5.7/13
This fairy tale film is dedicated to the memory of the great film director Alexander Row, the founder of the genre. Once upon a time there lived a bra...
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1975
Captain Nemo
6.067/15
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Captain Nemo
1972
Hello and Goodbye
4.8/4
A love story between a country policeman and a recently separated from her husband woman with three kids.
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Hello and Goodbye
1964
Goodbye, Boys!
5.2/8
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1963
The First Trolleybus
5.7/4
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1990
The Royal Hunt
3.3/5
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1976
Twenty Days Without War
6.9/26
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Twenty Days Without War
1976
72 Degrees Below Zero
3/3
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1977
Vasilisa the Beautiful
5.8/6
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Vasilisa the Beautiful
1969
The White Weathervane
0/0
A story about the adventures of two teenage brothers helping ChK during twenties.
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The White Weathervane
1991
Memento Mori
0/0
Teenagers whose company broke up after the absurd death of one of their friends are afraid to tell their parents about his death and want to bury thei...
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Memento Mori
1981
Adventures of Vasia Kurolesov
7.5/11
A comic mystery about Vasia Kurolesov who is trying to become a detective.
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1966
The Chief of Chukotka
5.5/13
Young patriotic young man ends up in the on Chukotka right after the civil war, where he intends to spread ideas of justice and equality among the nat...
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The Chief of Chukotka
1979
Taiga Story
6.1/7
A hunter, returning to the Taiga forest, finds a dying girl in his cabin. He stoically nurses her back to life, but the differences between them may...
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1996
Tsarevich Aleksey
6.5/2
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1971
The Fifteenth Spring
4.5/6
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1987
She Has a Broom, He Has a Black Hat
5/2
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1987
Broken Circle
8/2
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1977
Almanzor's Rings
0/0
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Almanzor's Rings
1969
Boys
6/1
Two stories about the life of a young boxer Sasha and his friends in Leningrad during a first years after WWII.
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1997
Dunno on the Moon
7.5/34
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Dunno on the Moon
1986
Old Times Pranks
0/0
A bride decides to check her fiancé feelings by staging the kidnapping of herself.
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1978
Love and Fury
8.5/1
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1978
Comedy of mistakes
6/1
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1990
Здравия желаю! или Бешеный дембель
2/1
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1971
Hold on to the Clouds
5/1
In 1919, in Petrograd, a pilot Sevastyanov was asked to help in training flight personnel for the young Hungarian republic, together with a Hungarian...
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Hold on to the Clouds
1979
Catch the Wind
7/1
A family of a private stud-farm head takes cover from a Civil War in a forsaken estate in Urals steppe. Once an old family friend Victor, lieutenant o...
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Catch the Wind
1983
Streak of Luck
5.5/4
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1962
Наш общий друг
5/1
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1976
Story of an Unknown Actor
6/1
The of an actor in a provincial theatre.
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1980
Investigation
8.3/3
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1981
Andrey and Evil Wizard
7/1
Young guy Andrey tries to save the daughter of Sun from the evil wizard.
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1981
Vasily and Vasilisa
4.5/2
Was have Vasily and Vasilisa seven children. They lived together, the village respected the working family. But one day something happened to the owne...
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Vasily and Vasilisa
1973
Discovery
10/1
This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. The events in it are developing in 20 years during t...
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Discovery
1993
Beautiful stranger
0/0
Strangers on a train. Late in 1916, a brave and idealistic Russian officer in his 20s comes to his superiors' attention when he stands up to Rasputin...
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Beautiful stranger
1982
For No Apparent Reason
7/1
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1983
Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov
2/2
The protagonist of the film, engineer Barkasov, finds himself in ridiculous and anecdotal situations all day. He is a responsible worker, the head of...
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1962
Come Tomorrow...
6.8/16
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1971
Шутите?
3/2
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1994
Ryaba, My Chicken
5/14
In Soviet days an old peasant woman's hen begins to lay golden eggs. Of course, everyone agrees that she should share the wealth like a good citizen.
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1972
Красные пчёлы
6/1
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1983
Burn, Burn Bright
0/0
Match factory repairman Parfen Loktionov is offered to become a shift foreman. The new position, on the one hand, is associated with increased respons...
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Burn, Burn Bright
2000
Витрина
1/1
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1984
Guest from the Future
7.693/70
6-grader Kolya Gerasimov discovers a time machine in a basement of an old house in Moscow and gets transferred into the 21st century. There he is allo...
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Guest from the Future
1997
The Night Before Christmas
6/1
"The Night Before Christmas" is a Russian puppet cartoon that was created by director Ekaterina Mikhailova at the studio "AnimaFilm" of the Moscow Chi...
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The Night Before Christmas
2007
1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
5/45
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1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
1992
The Inner Circle
5.721/34
Life changes for a Moscow worker when he's made Stalin's personal film projectionist but cannot tell his bride.
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The Inner Circle
1986
Over the Rainbow
5/5
Very dreamy boy who is also a young poet, met a fairy who gave him the ability to do good in PE (specifically high jumping) with a condition that he w...
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Over the Rainbow
2022
The Film That Went Wrong
0/0
In 1993, Nikita Mikhalkov made a feature film “Remembering Chekhov”. After the footage was edited, he realized that the film went wrong. thus he made...
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The Film That Went Wrong
1963
Pavlik Morozov
0/0
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Pavlik Morozov
1964
Port Arthur
0/0
Based on the play of the same name by I. Popov and L. Stepanov, staged by the State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR.
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Port Arthur
1974
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
7.257/109
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1994
Pages of Russian History. The Land of the Ancestors
0/0
The history of Rus' since inviting of the Varangians, led by Rurik, to converting of Princess Olga to Christianity.
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