Sergei Nikonenko

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Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko ({{langx|ru|Серге́й Петрович Никоненко}}; born 16 April 1941 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actor, a film director and a screenwriter. He was awarded with People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991).

He performed in more than eighty films since 1961.{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|place=US|ISBN=978-0-8108-6072-8|pages=486–488}}

Selected filmography

1967
The Red and the White (Звёзды и солдаты) as Cossack Officer
The Journalist (Журналист) as Reutov
1969 White Explosion (Белый взрыв) as Kolya Spichkin
1970 Crime and Punishment (Преступление и наказание) as Nikolai
1972 Liberation (Освобождение) as Sashka Golubev
1973 The Sky Is Beyond the Clouds (За облаками — небо)
1974 ''Birds over the City (Птицы над городом) as Vishnyakov
1977 An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино) as Yashka, the footman
1978 Father Sergius (Отец Сергий) as episode
1979 The Theme (Тема) as Sinitsyn
1980 Do Not Part with Your Beloved (С любимыми не расставайтесь) as Shumilov
1981 Gipsy Happiness
1984 Planet Parade (Парад планет) as Vasily Afonin
1985 Winter Evening in Gagra (Зимний вечер в Гаграх) as Valentin Fomenko, choreographer
1987
Tomorrow Was the War (Завтра была война) as school director
Lilac Ball (Лиловый шар) as Horse-eater
1988 Tree Sticks! (Ёлки-палки!) as Nikolai Nikolayevich Knyazev
1989
Stalingrad (Сталинград) as General Aleksandr Rodimtsev
The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin (Пиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным) as Kliment Voroshilov
1991 Viva Gardes-Marines! (Виват, гардемарины!) as Count Piotr Grigoryevich Chernyshev
1992 Encore, Once More Encore! (Анкор, еще анкор!) as Ivan Kryukov
1994 The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита) as Stepan Bogdanovich Likhodeev
1998 Composition for Victory Day (Сочинение ко Дню Победы) as Nechiporenko
1998 Classic (Классик) as Gorsky
2003 And in the Morning They Woke Up (А поутру они проснулись)
2005 The Fall of the Empire (Гибель империи) as Paul von Rennenkampf
2006 Soviet Park (Парк советского периода) as Divisional Commander Chapayev
2009 Attack on Leningrad (Ленинград) as captain of artillery
2010 What Men Talk About (О чём говорят мужчины) as captain of the ship
2018 The Crimean Bridge. Made with Love! (Крымский мост. Сделано с любовью!) as Talib Nazirovich
2021 The Crying Steppe as Filipp Goloshchyokin

Honours and awards

Order of the Badge of Honour (1971)
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974)
Lenin Komsomol Prize (1976) – the incarnation of images in contemporary cinema
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991) – for his contribution in the development of Soviet cinema
Prize at the Constellation / Sozvezdie film festival in Tver (1999) for the best male lead in "Classic"
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (2001) – for outstanding contribution to the development of national cinema
Main prize of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for the best diploma director's work - the movie "Petruhina name"
International literary award named after Sergei Yesenin "On Russia, wave your wings ..." in the "Film, Theatre, Television" (2010)
Order of Honour (2011) – for outstanding contribution to the development of national cinema
Order of Alexander Nevsky (2017) – for great contribution to the development of national culture and art, media, and many years of fruitful activity
Stanislavsky Award (2021) – for conquering the heights of acting and loyalty to the principles of the school of K. S. Stanislavski