Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

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.

  • Title : Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
  • Popularity : 3.164
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1946-07-23
  • Place of Birth : Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
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  • Also Known As : Александр Кайдановский, Aleksandr Kaydanovsky, Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Кайдановский Александр Леонидович, Alexander Kaidanovsky
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Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy Movies

  • 1979
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    Stalker

    Stalker

    8.148 1979 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    Мой дом - театр

    Мой дом - театр

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1993
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    The Devil's Breath

    The Devil's Breath

    5.5 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own

    At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own

    6.585 1974 HD

    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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  • 1975
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    The Lost Expedition

    The Lost Expedition

    4.6 1975 HD

    An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918.

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  • 1977
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    Golden River

    Golden River

    4.8 1977 HD

    The continuation of the story started by adventure movie "The Lost Expedition" set in 1923.

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  • 1988
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    New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    4.7 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    The Pass

    The Pass

    6.3 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1980
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    The Rescuer

    The Rescuer

    4.8 1980 HD

    A story about a high school student Asya and her complicated relationship with literature teacher Larikov.

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  • 1979
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    Pilot Pirx's Inquest

    Pilot Pirx's Inquest

    5.8 1979 HD

    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...

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  • 1996
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    Secrets Shared with a Stranger

    Secrets Shared with a Stranger

    1 1996 HD

    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...

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  • 1973
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    Failure of Engineer Garin

    Failure of Engineer Garin

    5.3 1973 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    The Gambler

    The Gambler

    2 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    That Was in Kokand

    That Was in Kokand

    1 1977 HD

    About the formation of Soviet power in Uzbekistan, the fight against the “Kokand Autonomy” and the Basmachi.

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  • 1994
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    Magic Hunter

    Magic Hunter

    5.1 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    Ten Little Indians

    Ten Little Indians

    7.6 1988 HD

    A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark...

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  • 1972
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    The Mathematician and the Devil

    The Mathematician and the Devil

    8 1972 HD

    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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  • 1978
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    The Turning Point

    The Turning Point

    5.667 1978 HD

    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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  • 1985
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    Two Tickets to India

    Two Tickets to India

    1 1985 HD

    Two aliens are landing on the earth. One looks like a Bigfoot, the other has the appearance of a tiger. The problem is that they landed one in the...

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  • 1976
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    Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

    Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

    3.5 1976 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    Дети Ванюшина

    Дети Ванюшина

    5.5 1974 HD

    Feature film.

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  • 1972
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    The Fourth

    The Fourth

    5.3 1972 HD

    American journalist gets a sensational material but is afraid to publish it...

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  • 1971
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    The Fifteenth Spring

    The Fifteenth Spring

    4.5 1971 HD

    Fifteen years old Sasha is dreaming about adventures, falling in love and doesn't know that WWII is approaching...

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  • 1985
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    Contract

    Contract

    5.9 1985 HD

    Bearded contract employee goes on a "giant bouquet of flowers" planet and prefers friendship with the robot because all inhabitants are creepy...

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  • 1971
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    Hound of the Baskervilles

    Hound of the Baskervilles

    5.8 1971 HD

    When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

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  • 1975
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    Under the Roofs of Montmartre

    Under the Roofs of Montmartre

    5.7 1975 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Tear of the Prince of Darkness

    Tear of the Prince of Darkness

    4 1993 HD

    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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  • 1981
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    And I'm with You Again...

    And I'm with You Again...

    1 1981 HD

    The film illustrates individual episodes showing the life of Alexander Pushkin. The script is based on the testimonies of contemporaries, as well as...

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  • 1970
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    A Quiet Day at the End of the War

    A Quiet Day at the End of the War

    5.2 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1978
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    Who Will go to Truskavets?

    Who Will go to Truskavets?

    4.5 1978 HD

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  • 1971
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    And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning

    And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning

    7 1971 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Mysterious Wall

    The Mysterious Wall

    5.6 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Forward March, Time!

    Forward March, Time!

    6.4 1977 HD

    Soviet animation from Vladimir Tarasov.

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  • 1980
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    Rafferty

    Rafferty

    4.6 1980 HD

    The story of the trial of the trade union boss Jack Rafferty. With great force and astute critical insight, corruption and crime are exposed,...

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  • 1982
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    Kafedra

    Kafedra

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1975
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    Следую своим курсом

    Следую своим курсом

    6 1975 HD

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  • 1996
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    The Arrival of a Train

    The Arrival of a Train

    5 1996 HD

    Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema.

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  • 1992
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    Parajanov: The Last Spring

    Parajanov: The Last Spring

    5.2 1992 HD

    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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  • 1979
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    The Bodyguard

    The Bodyguard

    4.3 1979 HD

    The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially)...

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  • 1980
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    The Return

    The Return

    4.2 1980 HD

    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....

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  • 1976
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    Мое дело

    Мое дело

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1980
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    Story of an Unknown Man

    Story of an Unknown Man

    3.8 1980 HD

    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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  • 1970
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    Drama on the Hunt

    Drama on the Hunt

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    1 1976 HD

    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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  • 1967
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    Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    5.8 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1969
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    A Nest of Gentry

    A Nest of Gentry

    5.6 1969 HD

    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....

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  • 1982
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    I'm Sorry

    I'm Sorry

    7 1982 HD

    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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  • 1992
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    The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

    The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

    6.9 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 1969
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    First Love

    First Love

    1 1969 HD

    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...

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  • 1981
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    Fact

    Fact

    4.5 1981 HD

    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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  • 1970
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    A Simple Death

    A Simple Death

    4.2 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    A Simple Death

    A Simple Death

    4.2 1970 HD

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  • 1989
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    Kerosene Salesman's Wife

    Kerosene Salesman's Wife

    4.6 1989 HD

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  • 1989
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    Kerosene Salesman's Wife

    Kerosene Salesman's Wife

    4.6 1989 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alphaville: For a Million

    Alphaville: For a Million

    8 1970 HD

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  • 1983
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    The Garden

    The Garden

    7 1983 HD

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  • 1987
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    The Guest

    The Guest

    4.5 1987 HD

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  • 1987
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    The Guest

    The Guest

    4.5 1987 HD

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  • 1984
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    Jonah, or the Artist at Work

    Jonah, or the Artist at Work

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1984
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    Jonah, or the Artist at Work

    Jonah, or the Artist at Work

    1 1984 HD

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  • 1971
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    Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

    Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

    7.1 1971 HD

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  • 1993
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    To Remember

    To Remember

    7 1993 HD

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