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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov (born 8 November 1960) is a Soviet and Russian entertainer. He is a film and theatre actor, singer and director. He started his film career in the early 1980s playing in the comedy Pokrovskie vorota and in Nikita Mikhalkov's Rodnya. In 1993, Menshikov collaborated again with Mikhalkov in their most famous film, Burnt by the Sun. Portraying a manipulative and suicidal NKVD agent during Stalin's Great Purge, Menshikov's performance brought him to the attention of a wide international audience. The film won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Menshikov appeared in Régis Wargnier's 1999 film, East-West with Sandrine Bonnaire and Catherine Deneuve. Menshikov played the hero of Mikhalkov's 1998 The Barber of Siberia, with Julia Ormond playing his mistress. He...
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Prime SuspectSeries • 1991
InvasionMovie • 2020
AttractionMovie • 2017
The Barber of SiberiaMovie • 1998
PsychoSeries • 2020
Gogol. The BeginningMovie • 2017
Gogol. A Terrible VengeanceMovie • 2018
Burnt by the SunMovie • 1994
KinMovie • 1982
Burnt by the Sun 2: ExodusMovie • 2010
Burnt by the Sun 2: CitadelMovie • 2011
East/WestMovie • 1999
Flights in Dreams and in RealityMovie • 1983
The Pokrovsky GatesMovie • 1983
The State CounsellorMovie • 2005
Prisoner of the MountainsMovie • 1996
MommyMovie • 1999
Legend No. 17Movie • 2013