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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.
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.
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.
08 January 1990
As Soviet Russia enters the era of the New Economic Policy, Semyon Podsekalnikov decides to stop looking for a job.
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.
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.
21 November 1965
The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.
01 December 1989
The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Town".
30 May 1981
Anna Pozdnyakova is already over 30 years old and, despite the fact that she is kind and pretty, she cannot find herself a man with whom she could find family happiness.
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.
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.
01 June 2008
The plot focuses on an ordinary family living in one village in the taiga. Father works as a driller and mother as a nurse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
25 January 1990
A love story between a mythical Russian minister and an opportunist TV series actress.
16 April 1973
Based on the novel of the same name by V. Kozhevnikov. The film is about the heroism of Soviet workers, clearly manifested during the WWII.
01 January 1979
A kolkhoz machine-operator is a local inventor who has tensions with his wife over his hobby. He invents a useful appendage for a grain harvester combine and an article about his invention is printed in a local paper.
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.
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.
04 January 1966
A story about Pashka, a really decent, honest guy, even though he lies a lot, who is looking for happiness and love.
16 September 1985
A young astronomer is becoming more of administrator instead of concentrating on science.
30 June 1980
Based on Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" ("The Miserly Knight", "Mozart and Salieri", "The Stone Guest", "A Feast in the Time of Plague").
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 July 1978
Yura Otvertkin, a romantic from Tsarevo-Kokshaisk, is obsessively in love with aeronautics. In St. Petersburg, disguised, he pretends to be the ace Ivan Piramida.
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.
04 July 1966
Based on the story by A. Kleshchenko "You can't stop the case". A kind and brave soul Valka Burmakin once saved from death a man - poacher Kanyukov, who was almost trampled by a moose.
31 January 1990
Aboard a steamship, a priest tells his fellow passengers his life story, which he admits is the story of a great sinner.
19 November 1981
Moscow mid-XIX century. Middle-aged provincial businessman Savva Gennadievich Vasilkov falls in love with local beauty Lidiya Yuryevna Cheboksarova.
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.
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.
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.
01 January 1994
In one of the American States committed a major Bank robbery, which killed two guards. Jim Conley, a Bank employee, is charged with the murder.
25 December 1961
The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work.
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.
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.
17 December 1973
An adventures of a 100% nylon "fur" coat traveling between various people.
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.
11 November 1979
Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life.
01 January 1961
Olga, who was taken to the West by Hitler's invaders, works as a switchman at a railway station. Echelons with prisoners of war - convicts - pass by her every day.
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 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.
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.
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.
16 July 1984
An international geological expedition led by a Russian engineer works in an inaccessible area of one of the Latin American countries.
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.
