Yakov Stepanov
Acting
Biography
He graduated from Vyborg school number 14. He played the first role in the film "Singing Teacher" (1972). The picture was shot at his school and Jacob, along with some schoolchildren, was selected for filming. In 1979 he graduated from LGITMiK, course of Z. Ya. Korogodsky. Known for his work in the films “The Life of Klim Samghin” (Ivan Dronov), “Mirror for the Hero” (Sashka the Tankman), and “Feast of Neptune” (Bear). He worked at the Leningrad Theater of Young Spectators. Tragically died on June 16, 1991 in Leningrad, having fallen out of a window of the 11th floor.
Known For
The life of the intellectual Samgin, depicted against the backdrop of the grand panorama of Russian life from 1877 to 1917.
The Life of Klim Samgin
Vasily Kutuzov, the namesake of the famous commander, ends up in a mental hospital because of his talent for making up jokes. Everyone in his family had this gift, and many suffered because of it. The authorities didn't like that the Kutuzovs were bothering people. Vasily's neighbors in the ward are all famous people who left a mark in history. So he amuses them until the doctors decide to cure him of this "disease"...
Jokes
The first secretary of the regional committee, Makhonin, sums up after the meeting of the party's general secretary with the regional economic and party activists. At the same time, he reports to those who allowed themselves critical speeches at this meeting. Central television accidentally records this “debriefing”, finding the material interesting send the film to Moscow by plane. Makhonin finds out about this and, frightened of the consequences, decides to return the plane and destroy the film at all costs...
Braking in the Heavens
Sergei and Andrei are walking through a city park and see that a film shoot set just post World War II is taking place . They climb over the park fence to get a better view but hit some cable lying on the ground and find themselves in the past - on May 8, 1949, a day which they seem doomed to relive over and over again.
Mirror for a Hero
A story of a Moscow's apartment building that is slowly falling apart, literally. First, the hot water has been cut off by an old man from Asia, who could not stand it being wasted. Then the roof is starting to collapse. Finally, the electricity has been cut off. All the tenants of the building, no matter how different they were, find themselves in the same situation.
The Fountain
Two lovers, Sergei and Masha, have to face their losses several years after the war has ended.
Descended from Heaven
A music teacher is trying to organize a choir in the school he works in.
A Teacher of Singing
Lithuania, 1941. German tanks and motorized columns broke into the border military town. Seven Soviet soldiers were cut off from the garrison. Without food and weapons, they went through the occupied territory to the location of the Red Army units.
The Squad
The head of the Pervomaiskaya Railway, at the first stage of perestroika, having accidentally learned that they want to fire him from his job, decides to carry out an experiment he had long planned - to put a super-heavy train on the tracks...
Without A Uniform
A group of Swedish tourists are on the way to a Russian village to witness the so called 'Festivity of Neptunus', in which the inhabitants take a dive in a hole in the ice. This tradition, however, does not exist at all. The inhabitants try to make a good impression by starting the 'tradition' to please the tourists.
Neptune's Feast
The life story of two fellow villagers in the period 1920–50s.
Decease
An old man lives in memories of the war — of that morning on June 22, 1941, when a Nazi soldier spared his life. Many years later, he is taken from the home his son abandoned. Around him, life goes on: people fall in love, laugh, dance. But for him, the war is not over.
The Iron Rain
Patients of an insane asylum, the last refuge of genuine feelings and, it seems, hopes that come true..