Boris Plotnikov


Boris Grigoryevich Plotnikov was a Soviet and Russian film actor.
His film debut was as Sotnikov in The Ascent, the acclaimed final film of Soviet director Larisa Shepitko. Plotnikov appeared in more than seventy feature films and television series.

Biography

Early life

Boris Plotnikov was born on 2 April 1949, in the city of Nevyansk, Sverdlovsk Oblast. His father worked as a mechanic and his mother as an engineer-technologist. A few years later, the Plotnikov family moved to Novouralsk.
He graduated from school No. 57 in Novouralsk. He graduated from the Sverdlovsk Theater School and the Philological Faculty of the Ural State University.

Career

From 1970 to 1978, Plotnikov served in the Sverdlovsk Youth Theater.
He made his debut in 1976 in Larisa Shepitko's internationally renowned film The Ascent, which brought him all-union fame. He played the role of Dr. Bormental in the film Heart of a Dog by Vladimir Bortko.
In 1992, Plotnikov portrayed the prisoner Danilov in the mystery play of composer Alexey Rybnikov, Liturgy of Catechumens.
He appeared in the drama television series Empire Under Attack, where he portrayed Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. In the musical melodrama Cricket Behind the Fire, Plotnikov received the leading role of the Cricket, the keeper of the home.
He appeared in the role of Dr. Dmitri Ivanovich in the action movie Shadowboxing and in the crime drama Experts, where he played a forensic medical worker.
In 2006, director Natalya Bondarchuk invited Plotnikov to play the Chief of the Gendarmes of the Secret Chancellery, Leonti Dubelt, in the drama Pushkin. The Last Duel.
Boris Plotnikov also participated in the military themed series Everyone has his Own War, Snipers: Love under Sight, Fighters, The Last Battle.

Death

He died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia.

Filmography

The Ascent as SotnikovWaiting for Premiere as Andrey LaguninPugachev as iconographerThe Wild Hunt King Stach as Andrew BeloretskiyForest as Gennadiy NeschastlivtzevTwo Сhapters from Family History as ManfredDoubler Starts Working as KostinThe Accusation as ButenkoIona or Artist at Work as IonaTransaction as MigelPeter the Great as Tsarevich AlexeiLermontov as Yurii Petrovich Lermontov / PushkinSons Time as Aleksandr KordinGobseck as VerbrestFirst Encounter - Last Encounter as Kuklin, an inventorCold Summer of 1953 as Nikolai Starobogatov's sonHeart of a Dog as Dr. Ivan Arnoldovich BormentalGambrinus as MishaGame of Death, or Outsider as Vlad VoikuSukhovo-Kobylin Case as Anton ChekhovScaffold Walk as NektoA Host of White Princesses as Nicholas II of RussiaThe Split as Peter StruveEmpire under Attack as Sergei AlexandrovichAvalanche as doctorCricket Behind the Hearth as CricketShadowboxing as dr. Dmitri IvanovichPushkin: The Last Duel as Leontiy DubeltWolf Messing: Who Saw through Time as Sigismund FreudEmpire Wings as Pyotr Kirsanov-DvinskyGodunov as Patriarch Job of Moscow