Sergey Makovetskiy
Known for: Acting
Born: June 13, 1958
Place of birth: Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
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”.
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Filmography
102 movies · 25 TV shows, newest first
NR
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
2027
NR
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 3
2026
0.9
Three Bogatyrs and the Light with a Wedge
2025
6.5
Volchok
2025
4.5
My Pet Dragon
2025
9.0
Dear Willie
2025
4.2
Three Heroes. Daily Tales 2
2025
10.0
Zhvanetsky
2025
NR
Три богатыря. Ни дня без подвига
2024
7.2
Three Heroes. Daily Tales
2024
6.3
Three Heroes and the Navel of the World
2023
8.4
Bodyguards
2023
7.7
Operation Neman
2023
7.3
Tzadik
2023
NR
The Art of Death
2022
NR
Layer
2022
5.5
Horse Julius on the Throne and Three Heroes
2021
6.0
Liver, or Story of a Startup
2021
5.1
Horse Julius and Big Horse Racing
2020
7.3
Wolf
2020
6.2
The Terrible
2020
5.0
Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down
2020
3.6
Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
2020
4.7
Odessa Steamboat
2019
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The Foundling
2019
2.1
To Paris!
2019
6.8
Three Heroes: The Heiress to the Throne
2018
8.0
Bad Weather
2018
5.9
Godunov
2018
NR
Знакомство
2018
NR
Uncle Vanya From Moscow’s Vakhtangov Theater
2018
5.8
Three Heroes and the Princess of Egypt
2017
5.2
Green Cats
2017
7.0
Трасса смерти
2017
NR
The Black Monk
2017
5.9
Three Heroes and the King of the Sea
2016
4.5
The Day Before
2016
4.8
And Quiet Flows the Don
2015
6.3
New Russians
2015
5.2
B/W
2015
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Родина
2015
6.3
Three Heroes and Julius Caesar
2015
1.0
Умельцы
2014
8.0
Verpackungen
2014
7.7
Demons
2014
7.0
Ilfipetrov
2013
5.3
Eternal Homecoming
2013
5.7
Three Heroes on Distant Shores
2012
4.5
The Girl and Death
2012
8.6
Life and Fate
2012
1.0
Burnt by the Sun 2
2011
4.8
Trouble in Store
2011
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Peter the Great: The Testament
2011
4.2
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
2011
6.2
Three Heroes and the Shamakhan Queen
2010
7.0
The New Year's Mystery
2010
4.7
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010
2.3
Isayev
2009
4.8
The Miracle
2009
6.1
The Priest
2009
4.1
2-Assa-2
2008
5.1
Live and Remember
2008
6.7
Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber
2007
7.9
Liquidation
2007
5.1
Duska
2007
6.2
The Russian Game
2007
5.2
Gloss
2007
NR
Temptation
2007
6.6
12
2007
6.4
The Slacker
2007
2.0
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
2007
5.3
It Doesn't Hurt Me
20061.0
Happy birthday, Your Majesty
2006
7.0
Dobrinya and the Dragon
2006
NR
Неверность
2006
6.7
Dead Man's Bluff
2005
5.9
The Fall of the Empire
2005
6.8
Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon
2004
NR
72 Meters
2004
6.2
72 Meters
2004
10.0
Третий вариант
2003
3.2
A Key to the Bedroom
2003
NR
Amphitryon
2003
8.0
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2002
4.8
Mechanical Suite
2002NR
Just the Two of Us
2001
7.1
Brother 2
2000
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How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
2000
3.9
Russian Riot
2000
6.2
An Essay for Victory Day
1999
6.5
Of Freaks and Men
1998
8.5
Retro Threesome
1998
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He Didn't Tie His Shoelaces
1997
6.2
Three Stories
1997
7.0
Rothschild's Violin
1996
5.5
The Arrival of a Train
1996
5.4
Operation 'Happy New Year'!
1996
8.0
Summerfolk
19955.5
Trofim
1995
9.0
The Black Veil
1995
5.6
A Play for a Passenger
1995
7.0
Round Dance
1994
6.0
Trotsky
1994
10.0
Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer
1993
5.0
Makarov
1993
8.0
A Child by November
1992
2.7
Moscow Parade
1992
7.0
Apnoe
1992
10.0
Наш американский Боря
1992
4.8
Patriotic Comedy
1992
4.4
Sons of Bitches
1991
4.6
Mother
1990
6.5
Chernov/Chernov
1990
4.6
The Initiated
1990NR
The Brest Peace
1989
7.0
The Life of Klim Samgin
1988
8.0
American Artichokes
1987
7.0
The Will
1986
NR
Tevye the Milkman
1985NR
Malva
1984
4.3
Obstacle Course
1984
7.0
I, Son of the Working People
1983
5.5
The Crew of a Battle Vehicle
1983
NR
The Flood
1983
NR
Take Alive
1982
NR
The Belkin Tales: The Shot
1981
NR
Trivial Of My Life
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