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Igor Maslennikov

Igor Maslennikov

Director · 1931–2022 · Gorky, RSFSR, USSR

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Biography

Igor Fyodorovich Maslennikov (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Масленников; 26 October 1931 – 17 September 2022; Nizhny Novgorod) was a Soviet and Russian film director. Maslennikov was born in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1954 he completed his education in the department of journalism of the Leningrad University and worked as an editor, script writer, and cameraman on Leningrad television. In 1965 he entered the Higher Directors' Courses of Lenfilm (Grigori Kozintsev's workshop), at end of which he became the director of this motion picture studio. In the cinema, Maslennikov made his debut at the end of the 1960s with a film about a senior pupil: the Personal Life of Kuzyaev Valentin. He directed children's films (Tomorrow and 3 April), movies about sports (Racers), historical costume-dramas (Yaroslavna, the Queen of France). He worked on the joint Soviet-Norwegian picture Under a Stone Sky, which narrates the sad events which occurred in one of the Norwegian towns during the Nazi occupation. He filmed Vera Panova's autobiographical Sentimental novel. Enormous success came to Maslennikov when he directed a cycle of films about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. The successful selection of the actors, among whom there were Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Boryslav Brondukov, Rina Zelyonaya, Nikita Mikhalkov and the outstanding talent of the director ensured audience's love of the film. In 1985 Maslennikov presented the melodrama Winter Cherry. The movie became one of the greatest blockbusters of the decade and gained Yelena Safonova a wide reputation. The special feature of this everyday melodrama was that for the first time the spectator saw on the screen a strong but misunderstood woman played by Safonova. The popularity of this film inspired Maslennikov to create sequels in 1990 and 1995 and the same-name TV-series in 1997. In 1989 Maslennikov filmed the television adventure picture Philipp Traum, based on the unfinished Mark Twain novel The Mysterious Stranger. The cinema version was named Chronicle of Satan Jr.. He made a co-production with French partners, filming the story of Leonid Andreyev (The Dark), where the main roles were played by Oleg Yankovsky and Kseniya Kachalina. The year 2000 saw the release of the 10 series of Chto skazal pokoynik (What Has the Deceased Said) (2000) after the popular Polish writer Ioanna Khmelevskaya, and start of the filming of Vospominaniya o Sherloke Kholmse (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), which united all the five famous Sherlock Holmes films with a single plotline. In 2001 he was a member of the jury at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival. Maslennikov became People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. In 2001 he received the State Prize of the Russian Federation. By his 75th birthday in 2006 Igor Maslennikov finished his book of memoirs under the title The Baker Street in Petrogradskaya.

Directed 43

2000s

  1. 2009

    Bankrupt

    Director

  2. 2008

    Bribes are Smooth

    Director

  3. 2007

    Night Visitors

    Director

  4. 2006

    Russian Money

    Director

  5. 2004

    Timur & His Commando$

    Director

  6. 2002

    Letters to Elsa

    Director

  7. 2000

    What Has the Deceased Said

    Director

  8. Memories of Sherlock Holmes

    Director

1990s

  1. 1995

    Winter Cherry 3

    Director

  2. Winter Cherries

    Director

  3. 1992

    Dark

    Director

  4. 1990

    Philipp Traum

    Director

  5. Winter Cherries 2

    Director

1980s

  1. 1989

    Extension of the Family

    Director

  2. 1988

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2

    Director

  3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1

    Director

  4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins

    Series Director

  5. 1987

    Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century

    Director

  6. 1985

    Winter Cherries

    Director

  7. 1983

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra - Part 2

    Director

  8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra

    Director

  9. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra - Part 1

    Director

  10. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra

    Series Director

  11. 1982

    The Queen of Spades

    Director

  12. 1981

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2

    Director

  13. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Director

  14. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1

    Director

  15. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Series Director

  16. 1980

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Hunting the Tiger

    Director

  17. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Mortal Fight

    Director

  18. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: King of Blackmailers

    Director

  19. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

    Series Director

  20. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Bloody Inscription

    Director

  21. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Acquaintance

    Director

  22. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

    Director

  23. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

    Series Director

1970s

  1. 1978

    Yaroslavna, Queen of France

    Director

  2. 1976

    A Sentimental Romance

    Director

  3. 1974

    Under a Stone Sky

    Director

  4. 1972

    Racers

    Director

1960s

  1. 1969

    Tomorrow, on April 3rd...

    Director

  2. 1968

    Private Life of Kuzyayev Valentin

    Director

  3. 1962

    Fuse

    Director

Wrote 19

2010s

  1. 2014

    The Last Tram

    Screenplay

2000s

  1. 2000

    What Has the Deceased Said

    Writer

  2. Memories of Sherlock Holmes

    Screenplay

1980s

  1. 1988

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2

    Screenplay

  2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1

    Screenplay

  3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins

    Screenplay

  4. 1987

    Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century

    Screenplay

  5. 1983

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra - Part 2

    Screenplay

  6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra

    Screenplay

  7. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra - Part 1

    Screenplay

  8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra

    Screenplay

  9. 1981

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2

    Screenplay

  10. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Writer

  11. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1

    Screenplay

  12. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Screenplay

  13. 1980

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

    Screenplay

1970s

  1. 1976

    A Sentimental Romance

    Writer

  2. 1972

    Racers

    Co-Writer

1960s

  1. 1964

    The Husbands and The Knives

    Script Editor

Acted in 5

1980s

  1. 1988

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2

    Projectionist

  2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins

    cinema mechanic · 1 episode

  3. 1987

    Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century

    Projectionist

  4. 1980

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

    Projectionist cinema · 1 episode

Created 1

1980s

  1. 1988

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins

    Creator

Appearances2

2000s

  1. 2002

    Золотая коллекция. Весь Шерлок Холмс. Бонус 1

    self

  2. Золотая коллекция. Весь Шерлок Холмс. Бонус 2

    self