
Ivan Matveyev
Known For & Full Filmography36 Titles

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Soldier
Hearing about the revolution in the hospital, the sailor Gulyavin goes to Petrograd, and from there with a detachment of Ukrainian volunteers he is sent to Ukraine. The troop is joined by cavalrymen under the command of the anarchist Lelka. The chief of staff, Stroyev, reproaches Gulyavin with negligence - you cannot take an untested detachment. However, the desperate courage of Lelka in battle with the White Guards gives Gulyavin not only respect for her, but love...

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Khomenko
David Motuzka, demobilized Red Army soldier, returns to his native village, hoping to see the changes caused by the revolutionary events. But he cannot see no improvement. The village is ruled by the kulaks and David's childhood friend Kornii Matiukha helps them.

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Mechanisation specialist
A film story about everyday life of people in the countryside, their work in the collective farm and their attitude to their work. Unlike those who fulfil their duties according to the commands of the party leadership, milkmaid Praskovya Likholetova belongs to those people who do not pass by mismanagement and injustice. She has always been a truth-seeker, principled, honest, convinced of her rightness, and this has often led to conflicts. Having worked almost 40 years on the farm, Praskovya was forced to retire. But before leaving, she said that now she has a lot of time, and she will take care of their affairs...

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as episode
Based on the story of the same name by Anatoliy Kalinin. A young village woman, Klavdiya Pukhlyakova, the mother of a newborn girl, finds a gypsy boy at the crushed kibitka under the tanks. Having pity on the child, she takes him home and raises him as her own son. 17 years pass. Once in the village appears a lonely gypsy Budulai, who has experienced a lot. He very quickly gained the sympathy of Pukhlyakova's adoptive son. Suspecting that Budulai is the father of her gypsy boy, Klavdiya fears that the peace of the family will be disturbed...

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
About spiritual sensitivity and human solidarity. A graduate of a medical school is assigned to a fishing collective farm in Glubokoe town.

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as болельщик
Post-war reconstruction. New residents turn on their first television in their new apartment—a bulky bandura with a tiny screen. On the screen are Tarapunka and Shtepsel, who promise a real revue — more precisely, a tour of Kyiv. But how can you do a tour if you can't see anything from here, Tarapunka reasonably asks. They decide to climb the radio transmission tower.

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
This film is war parabola with expressive visual style. This not typical point of view about the war for Soviet cinema.

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Just before the arrival of the commission, the Hole punch in charge of the 1st department of the Zarya state farm found a cow half-dead from exhaustion in his farm and ordered it to be immediately sent to the meat processing plant. But they didn't take the skinny cow there. And then the Puncher threw it to his neighbor's Knee in the 3rd compartment. While the Hole Punch and the Knee were arguing, trying to get rid of the poor cattle, the milkmaid Lucy Prokopenko picked it up...

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Gritsko
On a small island is a lighthouse. The lighthouse keeper, the old boatswain Yemelyan Leleka, lives here with his wife and daughter. The boat that delivers supplies is the only guest from the big world. Over time, the girl feels romantic feelings for the boat captain - Igor.

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
About cheerful adventures of popular perfoming artists Shtepsel and Tarapunka, with elements of various acts interludes ,and the mechanic car invented by them.

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Тихон (продавец, связной)
About the struggle between criminal investigators and the criminal world. Based on real events and documents, the film recreates the atmosphere of 1920s Russia, which was swept by a wave of violence... At the heart of the story is the fate and career of a young man who, together with his comrades, is about to make history in Soviet criminal investigation...

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as episode
Summer 1947. The World War II has just died down. Unexpectedly and incognito a stranger shows up in a small village in Transcarpathia, situated near the very frontier. For some purpose he gets into a well in an oldmans Atanas yard, and when Atanas comes out, it turns out that he is not a stranger, he is Bogdan Susik (Ye.Vesnik), a former butler of a local count. He tries to understand why a former butler got into a well, and reveals a terrible secret to Atanas, on the honor to keep silence and assist him in everything. The fact is that when in 1944 the counter escaped overseas, Susik helped him to hide a chest. He is sure that the counters riches were hidden inside of the chest, and that the map with the chest location was put in the well. Now they have to find it

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
About the harsh and courageous work of fishermen, about love for the sea.

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as episode
A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life, and the difficult love to a Russian woman.

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Grandpa Goldebik
Three stories about the people who live in small village in Belarus.

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The eternal “housing question” in Russia is taken on by Serafimov, a young and principled city council deputy, who is determined to help his constituents. In the end, he manages not only to secure a new building for the veterans of the brick factory—made from the very bricks they once produced—but also to have them all housed under one roof, so they wouldn’t feel the pain of separation after leaving their crowded communal apartments.

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
1986, Chornobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A television film based on the stories by Ivan Turgenev from the "Notes of a Hunter" collection.

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as дед Алексей
Yesterday's schoolgirl has a cherished dream - to devote her life to the sea. But she is not accepted into the nautical school. Then she, with the help of her friends, secretly enters the training ship "Comrade" and, together with all the cadets, undergoes practical training at sea.

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as collective farmer
Collective farmer is unanimously elected secretary of the party committee by her fellow villagers.

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Сушков
In this WWII drama, Russian soldiers take a break at a scenic farm in Poland, and the unit is able to escape the horrors of war during their brief respite. A Polish farm girl and a Russian officer feel a mutual and unspoken attraction towards each other.

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as матрос корвета "Богатырь"
A black child rescued from by Russian sailors, whom they name Maksimka, having overcome his fear of white people, turns out to be an unusually smart and kind little boy. The rude drunken sailor Ivan Luchkin was especially attached to the boy. Once it was Maksimka who managed to save Luchkin from foreign recruiters of labor. For resourcefulness and courage, the young hero is enlisted in the team of the corvette and becomes the cabin boy of the Russian fleet.

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Successful film director Dmitry Pavlovich must fly by plane to Moscow and then to Rome. But the phone rings in his house and he is told that his old mother, who lives in Melovatka, his native village, has fallen ill. Dmitry Pavlovich hires a taxi and begins his “autumn journey to his mother.”

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Pyotr Lastochkin
A young Komsomol member Vitaly Bonivur is fighting for Soviet power in the Far East and Primorye. Red underground workers are not the first day want to arrange an escape of their fellow prisoners. And the brave Bonivur takes part in the organization of the getaway, but for counterintelligence he remains elusive. Vitaly Bonivur's aspiration for justice, heroism and determination — courage and bravery of a young man who fights for a bright future.

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Conscript Andrey Vorobey dreams of serving in the army. However, to his disappointment, the medical commission declares Andrey unfit for military service. Nevertheless, he is determined to test himself in challenging conditions and goes to a southern state farm, where he volunteers for the hardest jobs...

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as бедный мужик
1918. A group of Russian aviators who had been training in France return to Russia and join the White Army. However, two pilots soon switch sides and fight in the Red Army's first aviation unit.

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as дед с лошадью
Story of 38-years-old Rita whose fiance didn't show up at their wedding.

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Bourgeois in Palace
The story is about a brave boy who never takes off his hat.

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as дед Слава
Four friends go to an amusement park, where they discover an unusual attraction that works like a time machine and takes everyone back in time to the scenes of old vaudeville shows...

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The wedding turns into a crime scene. The wedding is like the apotheosis of meaninglessness, a metaphor for society. The story of the generation of the eighties with a tragic ending. The film uses the true facts of the criminal case.

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A life of a few people during the years before WWII before the events shown in "Destiny" (1977).

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as житель хутора Сорочий
Problems of modern villages and economic use of land.

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In the Siberian wilderness, on one of the car depots, bad stories occur. It all starts with theft, and leads to murder. And neither the police nor the leadership of the base can put things in order. Moreover, the main character, Alexei, seems that he is completely alone in search of the truth.

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Иван Никитич
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
