Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (23 July 1946 — 2 December 1995) was a Soviet actor and film director. His best known roles are in films such as Stalker, At Home Among Strangers, and The Bodyguard.
Prior to pursuing an acting career, Kaydanovskiy attended technical college where he trained to become a welder. In 1965 he started studying acting at The Rostov Theatre School and the Shchukin theatrical school in Moscow. Before completing the course he took his first part in the film The Mysterious Wall and upon graduation in 1969, he worked as stage actor, making his debut at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1969. In 1971, he was invited to join the prestigious Moscow Arts Theatre, a rare privilege for a 25-year-old graduate.
He made his major film debut in At Home Among Strangers, and over the next few years appeared in some two dozen films, including the satirical comedy Diamonds for Dictatorship of the Proletariat and The Life of Beethoven. At his peak in the '70s Kaidanovsky was among the USSR’s most popular actors, and it was at this point that famed Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, impressed by the looks and the acting technique of Kaidanovsky in Diamonds, invited him to play the title role in his new film, Stalker. The role earned Kaydanovskiy international acclaim.
In 1985 he directed A Simple Death, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. In 1993 he directed Just Death, which was about the death of Leo Tolstoy.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.033 |
Birthday | 1946-07-23 |
Place of Birth | Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR |
Also Known As | Александр Кайдановский, Aleksandr Kaydanovsky, Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Кайдановский Александр Леонидович, Alexander Kaidanovsky, |
1979
Stalker
8.16/2066
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent ano...
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Stalker
1993
The Devil's Breath
5.5/4
A small family of travelers arrives after a long journey at a village hut, which they claim as home. The family consists of Damian, a mute but skilled...
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The Devil's Breath
1974
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
6.544/45
Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he...
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At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
1977
Golden River
4.8/6
The continuation of the story started by adventure movie "The Lost Expedition" set in 1923.
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Golden River
1975
The Lost Expedition
4.6/12
An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918.
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The Lost Expedition
1988
The Pass
6.4/21
A starship crashed on an uninhabited planet and its crew had to abandon it. Years later the survivors and their children try to return to the ship and...
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The Pass
1988
New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court
4.7/12
The plane of the American pilot Hank Morgan got lost in time. The pilot falls into temporary loop and finds himself at the era of the glorious King Ar...
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New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1980
The Rescuer
4.8/8
A story about a high school student Asya and her complicated relationship with literature teacher Larikov.
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The Rescuer
1979
Pilot Pirx's Inquest
5.8/33
Pirx, an experienced pilot, is hired to go on a top-secret mission to evaluate some 'nonlinears' (an experimental model of android) for use as crewmem...
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Pilot Pirx's Inquest
1973
Failure of Engineer Garin
5.3/6
A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the he...
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Failure of Engineer Garin
1994
Magic Hunter
5.1/7
A battle-scarred, has-been Hungarian cop, tormented by his memories of nearly killing an innocent woman in his custody, enters into a Faustian pact in...
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Magic Hunter
1972
The Mathematician and the Devil
8/9
A mathematician offers to sell his soul to the devil for a proof or disproof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Based on "The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur...
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The Mathematician and the Devil
1979
The Turning Point
5.5/7
The newlyweds return to Moscow after a wonderful sea cruise on the Black Sea. It seems that they will have a happy life ahead, their beloved job, but...
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The Turning Point
1976
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
3.5/6
In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transp...
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Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
1974
Дети Ванюшина
5.5/4
Feature film.
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Дети Ванюшина
1972
The Fourth
5.3/7
American journalist gets a sensational material but is afraid to publish it...
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The Fourth
1971
The Fifteenth Spring
4.5/6
Fifteen years old Sasha is dreaming about adventures, falling in love and doesn't know that WWII is approaching...
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The Fifteenth Spring
1985
Contract
5.875/8
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Contract
1996
Secrets Shared with a Stranger
1/2
In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the s...
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Secrets Shared with a Stranger
1975
Under the Roofs of Montmartre
5.7/6
A story of three struggling artists: a painter, a poet, and a composer, living in a bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. They help a poor flower gir...
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Under the Roofs of Montmartre
1971
Hound of the Baskervilles
5.8/6
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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Hound of the Baskervilles
1993
Tear of the Prince of Darkness
4/4
Tallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to find Tear of the Prince of Darkness, a legendary...
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Tear of the Prince of Darkness
1981
And I'm with You Again...
0/0
The film illustrates individual episodes showing the life of Alexander Pushkin. The script is based on the testimonies of contemporaries, as well as o...
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And I'm with You Again...
1970
A Quiet Day at the End of the War
5/12
As WWII comes to a close, a wounded Soviet soldier and a Kazak woman seek refuge in a church. In this holy place, they take time to rest and appreciat...
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A Quiet Day at the End of the War
1971
And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning
7/1
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And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning
1978
Who Will go to Truskavets?
4.5/3
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Who Will go to Truskavets?
1977
Forward March, Time!
6.4/7
Soviet animation from Vladimir Tarasov.
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Forward March, Time!
1967
The Mysterious Wall
5.1/9
The action takes place in Siberia where a mysterious wall appears from time to time. Scientists are dispatched to study it and some of them believe th...
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The Mysterious Wall
1980
Rafferty
4.6/4
The story of the trial of the trade union boss Jack Rafferty. With great force and astute critical insight, corruption and crime are exposed, accompan...
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Rafferty
1982
Kafedra
0/0
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Kafedra
1975
Следую своим курсом
6/1
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Следую своим курсом
1996
The Arrival of a Train
5/3
Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema.
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The Arrival of a Train
1992
Parajanov: The Last Spring
5.2/5
Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Parajanov who was imprisoned...
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Parajanov: The Last Spring
1980
The Return
4.2/5
A Space travel comes to an end and before the landing the Cosmonaut falls asleep. He does not hear signals from the Earth. The disaster approaches. Wh...
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The Return
1979
The Bodyguard
4.3/7
The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially) "full...
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The Bodyguard
1976
Мое дело
0/0
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Мое дело
1980
Story of an Unknown Man
3.8/5
Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, this drama centers around a desire for revenge and the tragedy of a star-crossed love. After a general ruins...
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Story of an Unknown Man
1970
Drama on the Hunt
0/0
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Drama on the Hunt
1976
The Importance of Being Earnest
0/0
When Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
1967
Anna Karenina
5.8/20
The plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Aleksei Vronsky. Anna leaves the family in search of happines...
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Anna Karenina
1969
A Nest of Gentry
5/8
A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The film portrays the life of Russian landed gentry in the 1840s. A...
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A Nest of Gentry
1982
I'm Sorry
7/1
Pranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the airport and driven to his native village by a childhood...
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I'm Sorry
1992
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
6.892/60
An animated short film based on the 1877 short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is n...
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
1969
First Love
0/0
First Love is based on the eponymous novella by Ivan Turgenev set in the first third of the 19th century. It follows a 16-year old boy who becomes inf...
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First Love
1981
Fact
4.5/4
Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of...
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Fact
1987
Мой дом - театр
0/0
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1972
The Gambler
2/2
This lavish Soviet/Czech co-production is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel, The Gambler, which tells the story of a Russian living in German...
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The Gambler
1977
That Was in Kokand
0/0
About the formation of Soviet power in Uzbekistan, the fight against the “Kokand Autonomy” and the Basmachi.
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That Was in Kokand
1988
Ten Little Indians
7.6/66
A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts...
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