Leonid Brezhnev
Known for Acting · 36 credits
- Born
- 1906-12-19
- Died
- 1982-11-10
- Place of birth
- Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslavskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
- Also known as
- Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev · Леонид Ильич Брежнев · Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв · Леонид Брежнев · Леонід Брежнєв · Léonid Brejnev
Biography
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, born in Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslav governorate, Russian Empire - Soviet statesman, politician and party figure who held the highest leadership position in the CPSU for 18 years (from 1964 until his death in 1982). First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in 1964-1966 and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee from 1966 to 1982. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976). Four times Hero of the Soviet Union (1966, 1976, 1978, 1981), Hero of Socialist Labor (1961). Candidate member of the Presidium of the Central Committee (1952-1953; 1956-1957), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1952-1953; 1956-1960, 1963-1964). In 1960-1964 - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR from 1964 to 1966. Deputy of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (3rd-10th convocations, 1950-1982). Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Cavalier of eight Orders of Lenin. Laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace Among Nations" (1973) and the Lenin Prize for Literature (1979). In 1978 he was awarded the Order of Victory (in 1989 this award was cancelled by decree signed by the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev as being contrary to the statute of the order). In total, Brezhnev had 117 Soviet and foreign state awards. He participated in the Great Patriotic War and the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945 (political officer of the combined regiment of the 4th Ukrainian Front).
Known For
Legends of Cinema
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Код доступа
2017
as Self
Palme
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Disco and Atomic War
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
2016
as Self (archive footage)
TV Shows (5)
Movies (31)
Palme
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Disco and Atomic War
2009
as Self (archive footage)
O Sport, You Are Peace!
1981
as Self - Opens the Olympics
Going to Hell
2019
as Self (archive)
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
2019
as Self (archive footage)
The Society of the Spectacle
1974
as Self (archive footage)
1979: Big Bang of the Present
2019
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Agnelli
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Czechoslovakia 1968
1969
as Self (archive footage)
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
1991
as Self (archive footage)
:03 from Gold
2002
as Self (archive footage)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
2010
as Self (archive footage)
The Story of the Communist
1976
as Himself
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Аркадий Райкин. Королю дозволено всё
2020
as Self (archive footage)
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Case of Joseph Brodsky
1991
as Self (archive footage)
Георгий Бурков. Гамлет советского кино
2008
as Self
Burden of the Gypsies
2016
as Himself (archive)
The Helsinki Effect
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979
as Self (archive footage)
A Time For Peace
1973
as Self
Venceremos, solidaridad
1973
as Self (archive footage)
Red Star Over Khyber
1984
as Self
Karpov Plays with Karpov
1980
as Self
Kyiv Symphony
1982
as Self (archive footage)
Space Sailors
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Urho Kekkonen - valtiomies, presidentti
1967
Memory of the People
1982
as (archive footage)
Incendiaries from the Celestial Empire
1979
as Self (archive footage)
About Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, born in Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslav governorate, Russian Empire - Soviet statesman, politician and party figure who held the highest leadership position in the CPSU for 18 years (from 1964 until his death in 1982). First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in 1964-1966 and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee from 1966 to 1982. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976). Four times Hero of the Soviet Union (1966, 1976, 1978, 1981), Hero of Socialist Labor (1961). Candidate member of the Presidium of the Central Com… With 36 credits spanning from 1967 to 2025, Leonid Brezhnev has appeared in 31 films and 5 TV shows.
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- Palme (2012) — as Self (archive footage)
- Disco and Atomic War (2009) — as Self (archive footage)
- O Sport, You Are Peace! (1981) — as Self - Opens the Olympics
- Going to Hell (2019) — as Self (archive)
- The Spy Who Fell to Earth (2019) — as Self (archive footage)
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