Pyotr Petrovich Zaychenko (Russian: Пётр Петрович Зайченко; 1 April 1943 – 21 March 2019)[2] was a Soviet-born Russian film and theater actor.[3]
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| Born | Pyotr Petrovich Zaychenko 1 April 1943 |
| Died | 21 March 2019 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1971–2019 |
Career
editFame in cinema brought Zaychenko the role of Sgt. Ivan Pukhov in Vadim Abdrashitov's Planet Parade (1984). Later, the actor starred in two more films by this director: Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game and Armavir.
In 1990, Zaychenko played Ivan Shlykov in Pavel Lungin's Taxi Blues.
He was director of the Volgograd branch of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.[4]
Selected filmography
edit- Planet Parade (1984) as Ivan Pukhov
- Attempted Electrification (1985) as Shcherbakov
- Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game (1987) as druzhinnik
- Taxi Blues (1990) as Shlykov[5]
- The Tale of the Outstanding Moon (1990) as Vasily Vasilievich
- Armavir (1991) as Arthur
- Lost in Siberia (1991) as investigator
- Stalin's Testament (1993) as general, presidential candidate
- Krapachuk (1993) as Chelorek
- Concerto for Fats (1995) as Pronin
- Crusader (1995) as drug trafficker Tosha
- A Moslem (1995) as Pavel Petrovich
- The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone (1998) as Igor, businessman
- Wolfhound (2006) as Fitela
- Free Floating (2006) as Elderly man from brigade
- Last Slaughter (2007) as Anatoly
- Taras Bulba (2008) as Metelitsa
- Home (2011) as Alexey Shamanov
- Siberia, Monamour (2011) as grandfather Ivan[4]
- Leningrad 46 (2014) as the old man near the temple
- Sophia (2016) as Philip I, metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia
Awards
edit- Medal "For Labour Valour" (1986)
- Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (1998)[6]
- Order of Friendship (2014)[7]
References
edit- ^ «Все говорят — актёр, а для меня он дедушка»: Пётр Зайченко очень хотел вернуться домой из больницы (in Russian)
- ^ Скончался волгоградский артист Пётр Зайченко (in Russian)
- ^ Пётр Зайченко: «Волгоград – трудно-театральный город» (in Russian)
- ^ a b Пётр Зайченко сыграл старика ценой собственного здоровья (in Russian)
- ^ Festival de Cannes, Awards 1990
- ^ Награждён указом президента России № 80 от 26 января 1998 года Archived 2010-12-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25 декабря 2014 года № 810 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»
External links
edit- Pyotr Zaychenko at IMDb
- Пётр Зайченко at the rusactors.ru
- Pyotr Zaychenko on KinoPoisk