14 best films and TV series with Yuri Borisov

The best films with Yura Borisov

1. Has anyone seen my girl?

• Russia, 2020.
• Drama, biography.
• Duration: 100 minutes.
• "KinoPoisk": 6.5.

Leningrad student Kira falls in love with one of her lecturers - Sergei Dobrovolsky. Their rather contradictory and complex relationship begins like a fairy tale, but ends tragically. Many years later, Kira, having made a good career, suddenly realizes that she is not able to be happy without a loved one. But this realization comes to her too late.

The film is based on the lyrical memoirs of Karina Dobrotvorskaya “Has anyone seen my girl? 100 letters to Seryozha ”, but the names of the participants in the events were changed, just in case. The result was ambiguous: those who knew the characters personally, the picture made very angry with its interpretation of their relationship. Critics saw in the film an insult to the memory of an outstanding colleague. But at the same time, glossy melodramatism and a beautiful love story fell in love with many viewers.

Yura Borisov played the young lover of the adult Kira-Karina, who, like her first husband, is also called Seryozha - however, in life this hero had a different name. And his on-screen duet with Victoria Isakova turned out to be very sensual.

2. Gerda

• Russia, 2021.
• Drama.
• Duration: 116 minutes.
• "KinoPoisk": 6.6.

The young provincial Lera attends lectures at the university during the day and conducts opinion polls in the apartments of the townspeople. And at night she dances striptease under the stage name Gerda in a local club. This is how she earns money for a mother suffering from sleepwalking.

In the film by Natalia Kudryashova, who conquered "Kinotavr", Borisov is assigned a rather unusual, but very suitable role for him. He plays the heroine's friend - artist, who in his spare time works as a gravedigger at the city cemetery.

3. Bull

• Russia, 2019.
• Drama, crime.
• Duration: 99 minutes.
• "KinoPoisk": 6.7.

90s. A young guy Anton Bykov, nicknamed Bull, has recently been released from prison. He needs to feed his mother, sister and brother, and the police threatens the hero with another term. Suddenly, the crime boss Moses appears on the horizon. He can help, but in return asks Anton for a dangerous favor.

Criminal the drama "Bull", which received the main prize of "Kinotavr", is similar at the same time to all the cult films of the 90s: "Boomer", "Brigade" and "Brother". In it, Yuri played a young criminal vaguely reminiscent of Danila Bagrov.

Moreover, on the set, the actor tried to emphasize this similarity and deliberately imitated the intonation of Sergei Bodrov, Jr. For this, before the takes, Borisov wheezed and strained his throat in every possible way to speak in a low voice.

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4. Crystal

• Belarus, Germany, USA, Russia, 2018.
• Drama, comedy.
• Duration: 95 minutes.
• "KinoPoisk": 7.0.

In 1996, a girl-DJ named Velia is trying to get an American visa to leave her native Minsk for Chicago. She brings a fake certificate from her place of work and indicates in it the first phone number she comes across. But the embassy is going to check the information, and now the heroine will have to prove that she really serves at the crystal factory.

The debut film of the Belarusian director Daria Zhuk was a great success. He was even nominated for an Oscar, but the ribbon did not make it to the short list, losing to “Eike"And a number of other works.

In "Khrustal" Borisov played a very bright role of Veli Alik's friend, a DJ with a drug addiction. To better match the character's image, the actor used eye drops on the set to dilate the pupils.

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5. Petrovs in the flu

• Russia, France, Switzerland, Germany, 2021.
• Drama, fantasy.
• Duration: 145 minutes.
• "KinoPoisk": 7.2.

New Year's Eve, Yekaterinburg. Auto mechanic and comic book writer Petrov falls ill. Soon, his wife, a librarian, and his son, a schoolboy, show similar symptoms. After that, their lives are filled with madness, fantasy and surrealism.

Movie maze Kirill Serebrennikov turned out to be even more complicated and darker than the original novel by Alexei Salnikov. In "Petrovs" you can see the modern encyclopedia of Russian life, or you can see the insane inner world of one particular person. And the film also brought together many wonderful actors, including Yura Borisov, who tried on the beard of Santa Claus.

6. Red ghost

• Russia, 2020.
• Thriller, history, military.
• Duration: 98 minutes.
• "KinoPoisk": 7.2.

Great Patriotic War, winter 1941. A detachment of partisans miraculously finds a surviving Red Army soldier. Together, they wander into an abandoned hut, where they encounter a platoon of Nazis. They are looking for the elusive Soviet sniper, nicknamed the Red Ghost, who managed to become their main nightmare.

Director Andrei Bogatyryov could have filmed a typical patriotic military movies, of which there are a lot. But instead, he delivered a talented postmodern western with humor in the spirit of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. And Yura Borisov in it got, if not the main, but memorable role of the freezing young Red Army soldier.

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7. Silver skates

• Russia, 2020.
• Melodrama, adventure, drama.
• Duration: 136 minutes.
• "KinoPoisk": 7.3.

Petersburg, late 19th century. The poor son of a lamplighter, Matvey, is an excellent skater and works as a courier. One day the hero is late due to the blockage of the streets, and he is fired from service. Then the guy decides to become a thief. During one of his sorties, he meets the daughter of a wealthy official, Alice, and falls in love with her. But the careerist Arkady Trubetskoy is already wooing her.

In this wonderful tale that captivated Russian and Western audiences, Borisov played the pragmatic robber Alex. His hero is not only charming, but also educated: he reads Marx and believes that he is fighting class injustice.

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8. Kalashnikov

• Russia, 2020.
• Biography, history.
• Duration: 104 minutes.
• "KinoPoisk": 7.6.

1941 year. The tank commander, senior sergeant Mikhail Kalashnikov, is seriously wounded in battle. The hero is sent to the reserve, but he wants to remain useful. And then he decides to develop an automatic submachine gun for the early victory of the Red Army. But for the invention to be adopted, the guy will have to compete with the leading designers of the Soviet Union.

Borisov's acting piggy bank includes not only indie-dramas, but also military-patriotic projects aimed at the mass audience (Avanpost, Union of Salvation). One of these was Konstantin Buslov's Kalashnikov, where Yuri played the main role.

Preparing for filming, Borisov paid attention not only to the bright moments of his biography Kalashnikov, but also negative memories of the constructor of those who knew him closely. In addition, the actor was lucky enough to personally see the inventor one day. Thanks to all this, the image of Kalashnikov turned out to be surprisingly honest and voluminous.

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9. Compartment number 6

• Finland, Estonia, Russia, Germany, 2021.
• Drama, melodrama.
• Duration: 107 minutes.
• "KinoPoisk": 8.1.

In the late 90s, a Finnish student Laura came to Moscow to study at the archaeological faculty. But because of unhappy love, the heroine decides to leave the capital and go to Murmansk. In the train compartment, she meets the uncouth miner Lyokha. Together they will have to understand the intricacies of the national mentality and get very close.

The film co-produced by Finland and Russia won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and simply won the critics with its fabulousness and warmth. Yura Borisov played an archetypal Russian hard worker and at the same time got too used to the role. He wanted to really extract his tooth so he could spit through the hole. But, fortunately, he changed his mind.

The best TV series with Yura Borisov

1. Father's coast

• Russia, 2017.
• Drama, melodrama.
• Duration: 1 season.
• "KinoPoisk": 7.4.

The family saga tells about the life of the Morozov brothers and sisters. Relatives will have to go through the millstones of the Great Patriotic War and Stalinist repression, and also find out what inconsolable grief and long-awaited happiness are.

Borisov played in the series Stepan - one of the main characters, who got so confused in life that he went into crime. The story as a whole turned out to be so melodramatic that it can be safely recommended to all lovers of sentimental short stories.

2. Young guard

• Russia, 2015.
• War drama.
• Duration: 1 season.
• "KinoPoisk": 7.7.

1942 year. The Germans occupy the city of Krasnodon and publicly kill local partisans. Then Viktor Tretyakevich, together with his schoolmates Seryozha Tyulenin and Vanya Zemnukhov, created a detachment of people's avengers "Young Guard". They are looking for saboteurs throughout the city, but to no avail, because the Nazis have no idea who is opposing them.

Telenovella tells the true story of the Young Guard, which Alexander Fadeev once described in his famous novel "Young Guard". The 1948 film adaptation by director Sergei Gerasimov is considered a classic. But the new version, due to the inconsistency with the canon and the abundance of fiction, did not appeal to all spectators.

Yura Borisov played the role of a young underground worker Sergei Tyulenin in the series. Moreover, the actor was found just three days before filming.

3. Moths

• Ukraine, 2013.
• Drama.
• Duration: 1 season.
• "KinoPoisk": 7.9.

High school graduate Alya, together with her older sister Maryana, are going from Kiev to Pripyat to visit their loved ones. On the way, they witness an explosion on Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The girls decide to stay in the danger zone to help people. And in these difficult circumstances, Alya meets a conscript soldier Pasha, who was sent to extinguish a burning reactor.

"Moths" became the most famous Ukrainian project about the Chernobyl accident. It can hardly be called ideal, but the play of Yura Borisov and his partner on the court, Maria Poezzhaeva, is striking in sincerity.

4. Peace! Friendship! Gum!

• Russia, 2020 - present.
• Drama, comedy, crime.
• Duration: 2 seasons.
• "KinoPoisk": 7.8.

In the early 90s, four teenagers - Sanka, Vovka, Ilyusha and their friend Zhenya - got involved in a brawl with their peers. At the same time, the heroes also manage to anger the local bandits. As a result, the family of one of the guys is owed to the Caucasian mafia.

The creators of the series caught the era of the 1990s, when they themselves were still children. Therefore, the result of their work was a project that perfectly shows that time through the eyes. millennials. Borisov turned out to be a real find: he perfectly played the charming Alik, a veteran of the Afghan war.

5. Everyone has their own war

• Russia, 2010.
• War drama, history.
• Duration: 1 season.
• "KinoPoisk": 8.0.

An ordinary boy Robka, whose father did not return from the war, is going to quit school and go to work to help his family. But the fate of the hero changes dramatically after his older brother Boris returns from prison.

The script for his own story was written by Eduard Volodarsky. The series perfectly reflects the realities of the post-war era in the USSR and the details of the communal life of that time. And the main character was played by a very young and very touching Yura Borisov.