Sergei Makovetsky
Sergei Vasilevich Makovetsky was born on June 13, 1958, in Darnitsa, a suburb of Kiev, Ukraine. Though he excelled at swimming and water polo and had aspirations to join the Soviet Olympic Team, his single mother encouraged him to pursue a more creative line of expression. When his application to study acting at Kiev Theatrical College was denied, Makovetsky moved behind the scenes working as a set decorator in Kiev before relocating to Moscow. Rejection from several Moscow theater schools and acting companies was bolstered by a more welcome rejection from the Soviet Army after Makovetsky gave a performance of imaginary illness symptoms so convincing that Army medical examiners excused him from military service. Accepted to the Shchukin Theatrical School at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow, Makovsky graduated in 1980 and became a member of Vakhtangov Theatre’s company. For nearly three decades Sergei Makovetsky has earned critical praise, audience loyalty, and multiple awards (including the title of People’s Artist of Russia) in a variety of stage roles highlighted by a 9 season run as the title character in Moliere’s “Amphitrion” and as Trigorin in Chekhov’s “The Seagull”. His film work includes the eponymous role in Dutch director Jos Stelling’s “Duska” and an appearance alongside Nikita Mikhalkov in Aleksei Balabanov’s 2005 violent black comedy “Blind Man’s Bluff”.
Acted in
Zhvanetsky
2024
as self
Three Heroes. Not a Day Without a Feat
2024
as Князь
Three Heroes and the Navel of the World
2023
Bodyguards
2023
as отец адвоката Александр Акрапович
Operation Neman
2023
Tzadik
2023
as Reuben Yankel
The Art of Death
2022
Layer
2022
Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes
2021
as Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
Liver, or Story of a Startup
2021
Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing
2020
as Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
Wolf
2020
as Уманский
The Terrible
2020
as Ivan Grozniy
Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down
2020
as Self
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
2020
as Wolf Karlovich Leibe
Odessa Steamboat
2019
as Kapitan parokhoda
The Foundling
2019
To Paris!
2019
as Stoletov
Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne
2018
as the prince, voice acting
Bad Weather
2018
as Ярослав Александрович («Яр-Саныч») Куделин
Godunov
2018
as Иван Грозный
Знакомство
2018
Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt
2017
as Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
Green Cats
2017
as Eduard
Трасса смерти
2017
The Black Monk
2017
as Andrey Kovrin
Three Heroes and the King of the Sea
2016
as Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
The Day Before
2016
as Павел Евгеньевич Грушевский (министр культуры)
And Quiet Flows the Don
2015
as Пантелей Прокофьевич Мелехов
New Russians
2015
as ("Verpackungen")
B/W
2015
as Алхан
Родина
2015
as Mikhail Volskiy
Homeland
2015
Three Heroes and Julius Caesar
2015
as Prince Kievskiy (voice)
Verpackungen
2014
Demons
2014
as Павел Дмитриевич Горемыкин
Ilfipetrov
2013
as Narrator / Ilya Ilf (voice)
Eternal Homecoming
2013
Three Heroes on Distant Shores
2012
as Knyaz Kievskiy (voice)
The Girl and Death
2012
as Old Nicolai
Life and Fate
2012
as Shtrum
Burnt by the Sun 2
2011
as Лунин - капитан
Trouble in Store
2011
as Georgiy Berkutov
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011
as Lunin
Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen
2010
as Prince of Kiev (voice)
New Year detective
2010
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010
as SMERSH officer
Isayev
2009
as Леонид Иванович Никандров, литератор
The Miracle
2009
as Kondrashov
The Priest
2009
as отец Александр Ионин
12
2008
2-Assa-2
2008
as Pyotr
Live and Remember
2008
Ilya and the Robber
2007
as Kniaz' Kievskiy (voice)
Liquidation
2007
as Фима Петров (Полужид)
Duska
2007
as Duska
The Russian Game
2007
as Shvokhnev
Temptation
2007
12
2007
as Juror #1
Gloss
2007
The Slacker
2007
as Semyonych
It Doesn't Hurt Me
2006
as Doctor
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
2006
as Кабачков Сергей Сергеевич (директор ДК)
Happy birthday, Your Majesty
2006
as Edward
Nikitich and The Dragon
2006
as Prince of Kyiv (voice)
Неверность
2006
Dead Man's Bluff
2005
as Koron
The Fall of the Empire
2005
as Nesterovskiy
Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon
2004
as Prince (voice)
72 Meters
2004
72 Meters
2004
as Chernenko
Третий вариант
2003
A Key to the Bedroom
2003
as Ivanitsky
Amphitryon
2003
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2002
as Dr. James Sheppard
Mechanical Suite
2002
as Plyuganovsky
Just the Two of Us
2001
as Vasily
Brother 2
2000
as Belkin
How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
2000
as self
Russian Riot
2000
as Alexey Shvabrin
An Essay on Victory Day
1999
as Chichevikin
Of Freaks and Men
1998
as Yohan
Retro Threesome
1998
as Sergey
He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces
1997
Three Stories
1997
as Tikhomirov
Rothschild's Violin
1996
as Shostakovich
The Arrival of a Train
1996
Operation 'Happy New Year'!
1996
as Hopelessly Sick
Summerfolk
1995
as Сергей Басов
Trofim
1995
as Трофим
The Black Veil
1995
as Синев Пётр Дмитриевич
A Play for a Passenger
1995
Хоровод
1994
Trotsky
1994
as Лев Седов, сын Троцкого
Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer
1993
Makarov
1993
A Child by November
1992
as Lyosha (husband Nadya)
Moscow Parade
1992
Наш американский Боря
1992
Patriotic Comedy
1992
Sons of Bitches
1991
as Borya Sinyukhaev
Mother
1990
Chernov/Chernov
1990
The Initiated
1990
as Леха
The Life of Klim Samgin
1988
as Dmitry Samgin - Klim's Brother
The Will
1986
Tevye the Milkman
1985
as Мотл
Malva
1984
Obstacle Course
1984
Я, сын трудового народа
1983
Экипаж машины боевой
1983
as Гриша Чумак, заряжающий
Take Alive
1982
as Alexander Proletkin, scout, Odessa
Tales of Belkin. Shot
1981
as Officer
