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Soviet and Russian film actor. He became a People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1976.
Kuravlyov was born in Moscow into a working-class family. His father Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Kuravlyov (1909–1979) worked as a locksmith at the Salyut Machine-Building Association and his mother Valentina Dmitriyevna Kuravlyova (1916–1993) was a hairdresser. In 1941 with the start of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War) his mother was arrested on false report, accused of counter-revolutionary activity (Article 58) and exiled to Karaganda, Kazakh SSR to work at the local plant. In five years she was freed without a right to live in Moscow and sent to Zasheyek, Murmansk Oblast in the Russian far north where she continued working as a hairdresser. In 1948 she managed to get a permission to see her son who spent a year with her at Zasheyek, and in 1951 she finally returned to Moscow.
In 1955 Kuravlyov entered VGIK to study acting under Boris Bibikov. He graduated in 1960 and joined the Theater Studio of Film Actors. He made his first movie appearances while still a student. In 1960 he was noted by Vasily Shukshin and took part in his diploma film Reported From Lebyazhye. In 1961 they both starred in the popular melodrama When the Trees Were Tall, and in 1964 Shukshin gave him the leading role in his comedy movie There Is Such a Lad which brought Kuravlyov true fame and which he considered to be the start of his successful movie career. He also acted in Your Son and Brother (1965) and felt so grateful for what the director did for him that he later named his son after Shukshin.
The role of Shura Balaganov in Mikhail Schweitzer’s comedy The Little Golden Calf based on the book by Ilf and Petrov was one of his first successful roles: he managed to create an image of a brash yet charming petty thief. His other notable roles of that period include Khoma Brut in one of the first Soviet horror movies Viy (1967), antagonist Sorokin in a psychological melodrama Not Under the Jurisdiction (1969), Robinson Crusoe in Stanislav Govorukhin’s Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1972), a Nazi officer Kurt Eismann in Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) and Lavr Mironovich in Pyotr Todorovsky’s The Last Victim (1975).
In the 1970s he appeared in three to four films per year. Even though Kuravlyov was adept at playing serious dramatic roles, he is still best known for his leading roles in top-grossing comedy movies such as Afonya (1975) by Georgiy Daneliya (11th highest-grossing Soviet film, highest grossing film of the year, 62.2 mln viewers), Leonid Gaidai’s Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973, 17th highest-grossing film, 60 mln viewers) and It Can’t Be! (1975, 46th highest-grossing film with 46.9 mln viewers), The Most Charming and Attractive (1985) by Gerald Bezhanov (the highest-grossing film of 1985, 44.9 mln viewers) and others.
During the late 1990s he hosted a popular TV programme The World of Books with Leonid Kuravlyov where he talked about new book releases. In two years it was closed and then relaunched with new hosts. In 2012 he was awarded the IV class Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”.
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02 April 1985
Alexander Demin and Vassa Druzhinina fell in love with each other in their school years. In the thirties, due to the unjust arrest of her father, Vassa left a small Volga town.
11 October 1976
The rich merchant widow Yuliya Tugina is practically ruined by her lover, impoverished nobleman Vadim Dulchin, who loves only himself and gambling.
18 March 1983
A witty comedy, that has fun and philosophy in one. Inspired by short stories of O`Henry.
27 November 1967
A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights.
17 September 1973
A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
25 August 1969
In a training flight, the Il-28 plane crashes. Shooter-radio operator Sorokin without an order leaves the plane, lands first and writes a denunciation to the pilot Yegorov.
01 January 1989
The first private enterprises are started in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. A gang of bad guys, owners of a private restroom, kidnap a good guy - owner of a toy store.
01 January 1979
About the dramatic fate of provincial actress Larisa Dobrynina. The death of a friend, betrayal of her lover, failures on stage and heart disease caused her premature death.
17 February 1969
Sasha Larionov, is in the eighth grade and still doesn't know that his mother has left the family. Sasha's father, a decent and very honest person, was used to telling people only the truth.
30 December 1986
Two kings: Fedot and Amphibrachiy have been adjoining peacefully for many years. But once Amphibrachiy disappeared, and it became difficult for queen to cope with affairs.
05 November 1971
In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin, and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.
01 December 1989
The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Town".
25 December 1988
After the concert, the popular singer, having boarded the train, discovers that her jacket is missing, and with it her passport, according to which she must go abroad on tour.
08 June 1969
The first post-war years. Serafim Frolov visits a girl he knows by correspondence. But she still remembers and loves her fiance, who died at the front.
17 July 1978
A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.
18 May 1998
Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies.
25 January 1990
A love story between a mythical Russian minister and an opportunist TV series actress.
07 April 2011
The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation.
23 October 1975
The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
06 June 1977
Local Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik.
19 November 1981
Moscow mid-XIX century. Middle-aged provincial businessman Savva Gennadievich Vasilkov falls in love with local beauty Lidiya Yuryevna Cheboksarova.
06 June 1984
Stuck due to bad weather at a tiny Far Eastern airport, several random travel companions become witnesses of an amazing meeting.
31 December 2004
The second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". The film depicts the life and reign of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich of Kiev, known in legends as Vladimir the Red Sun.
03 September 1973
In the seventeenth century, Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on a desert island and is the only survivor.
18 January 1980
In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household.
13 October 1975
Afonya Borshev is a plumber who drinks a lot, flirts a lot and doesn't care too much about tomorrow. His wife left him, his boss placed him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it.
18 December 1991
A Russian agent is sent to a mission in Chile as a punishment. While there, he continues his adventures in a massage parlor where he meets Paola - a young prostitute he falls in love with.
01 January 1973
About the adventures of the good doctor Aibolit and the evil robber Barmalei.
01 January 1992
A strange object falls to the ground from space. His fall is accompanied by a strong explosion, which creates chaos on Earth.
10 November 1969
The court undeservedly passes a harsh sentence on a young worker Volodya Kharlamov. His girlfriend Valya, whom Volodya once saved from hooligans, and the people's assessor Mitrokhin actively insist on a review of the case.
01 January 1987
Martynko, while in the guardhouse, found a deck of magic cards with which he could easily beat anyone! He made a quick career to the customs minister, robbing all foreigners to the skin right at the border crossing.
29 October 1979
A comedy about a civil registry official whose job is to register newlyweds and who just discovered that her husband has been cheating on her for 3 months, her daughter met a guy she doesn't approve of, and her life has suddenly become a fuss of the fusses.
17 May 1987
A 4-part made-for-television feature film. Two young physicists, engaged in the problems of atmospheric electricity and the study of thunderstorm phenomena, both disciples of Professor Dankevich, a talented, straightforward, incorruptible man, unwavering in his principles.
10 October 1983
Vitya Glushakov is a perfect high school student. He even writes a novel about the Apache tribe. But suddenly he becomes friend with the old drinking man Arkady.
15 January 1970
Father and son exchange the bodies using the help of two student fairies.
13 November 1992
There are two heroes in the film: militia captain Zabrodin, who is striving to become a deputy at any cost and by any means, and the confused intellectual Shaludkin, who is trying to decently support his own family.
11 November 1998
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia.
01 April 1987
This film version was released before the premiere of the full two-part television version (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
19 March 1988
In one of the developing countries, local and Soviet geologists discovered a tantalum ore deposit. Having learned about this, the CIA now intends to draw the country into the American sphere of influence: to incite discontent among religious communities, organize student unrest and provoke a severance of diplomatic ties with the USSR.
24 October 2016
Discouraged after a series of unsuccessful relationships, young Muscovite Polina meets an unlikely match in a visiting foreign movie star and discovers that the recipe of her grandma's jam could be a key to her happiness.
30 March 1995
A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.
30 November 1988
At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new country, totally unknown to him but that will bring him a new life.
29 October 2009
A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a field.
25 December 1961
The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work.
01 January 1973
A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.
13 February 1976
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus.
20 March 1972
Life in a distant south town become to difficult for the young girl Ksana from Moscow...
01 December 1991
Love overtook the famous conductor in Russia, which he had once abandoned. But the young beloved, old enough to be his daughter, the pianist Lizaveta, apparently really is his daughter.
08 July 1968
A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.
26 March 1971
She is smart, surrounded by parental attention and therefore not completely independent, and he is one of those who cannot imagine himself without creation, since he is a builder.
14 June 1965
Masha Barashkina has extraordinary organizational skills. She helped open a children's hospital, a stadium, and an atelier.
06 June 1983
A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism.
11 November 1989
Having his life come to a dead end, Vladimir is thinking about suicide. He is saved by a girl and spends the night at her home.
03 August 1982
The amusing adventures of sixth-grader Anton Murashov and his father, who were convinced that being someone else was very easy —much easier than being yourself.
01 January 1987
A crew of builders in charge of demolition of old buildings in Moscow find hidden treasure inside one of the houses scheduled for demolition.
