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 appeared as Erast Fandorin in the 2005 film The Councillor of State. He filled the role of Ostap Bender in the 2006 Russian mini-series based on The Little Golden Calf. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oleg Menshikov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
What Men Talk About
(Himself)
East/West
(Aleksei Golovin)
The Pokrovsky Gates
(Костик)
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
(Mitya Arsentyev)
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
(Dmitriy Arsentyev)
Burnt by the Sun
(Dimitri (Mitya))
The Barber of Siberia
(André Tolstoi)
The Stairway
(Владимир Пирошников)
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
(Alisa's Friend)
Moonsund
(Sergey Artenev)
Kin
(Kirill)
Prisoner of the Mountains
(Sacha Kostylin)
These... Three True Cards...
The State Counsellor
(Erast Petrovich Fandorin)
Mommy
(Lyonchik Yuryev)
Legend No. 17
(Tarasov)
My Favorite Clown
(Сергей Синицын)
Yankovsky
Limited Life
Doctor Zhivago
Obstacle Course
(Vladimir)
Attraction
(Colonel Lebedev)
The Hole
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
(Korolkov)
The Kiss
(Мерзляков)
Золотой век Зои Богуславской
(self)
Dyuba-Dyuba
Gogol. The Beginning
(Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator)
Игроки
(Утешительный)
Woe From Wit
(Александр Андреевич Чацкий)
Invasion
(General Lebedev)
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
(Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator)
I Wait and Hope
Splashes of Champagne
(Sergei)
Капитан Фракасс
(Барон де Сигоньяк)
Attraction 3
The Legend of Salieri
The State Counsellor
(Erast Petrovich Fandorin)
Your Honor
(Mikhail Romanov)
Prime Suspect
(Milan Lukic)
The Golden Calf
(Ostap Bender)
Charm
(Леонид Максимович)
Gogol'
(Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator)
Burnt by the Sun 2
(Дмитрий Андреевич Арсентьев - полковник)
Doctor Zhivago
(Yuri Zhivago)
Psycho
(Igor)
Spoiler