Leonid Parfyonov
Russian veteran journalist, news presenter, TV producer and author of many popular documentary TV shows. Parfyonov is best known for his studio work and productions for the NTV (of which he was Producer General between 1997 and 1999) until that TV channel was subdued by the government-owned Gazprom Media. From December 3, 2004 until December 20, 2007 he was an Editor-in-Chief of Russky Newsweek, Russian edition of Newsweek. Parfyonov is currently a member of Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
As the author and narrator of the daily culture news TV show Namedni on NTV, Parfyonov produced the line of popular history TV documentaries which he narrated and hosted on-site of almost each event portrayed. The series achieved great success and were repeatedly broadcast for years after premiere.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4848 |
| Birthday | 1960-01-26 |
| Place of Birth | Cherepovets, USSR [now Russia] |
| Also Known As | Leonid G. Parfënov, Леонид Парфёнов, Leonid Parfenov, Леонид Парфенов, |
2021
Namedni-2020-2. Tiktok. Beirut. Khabarovsk. Belarus. Karabakh. Morgenstern. Navalny and poison
7.2/2
Events, people, phenomena that determined the way of life. That, without which it is impossible to imagine us, is even more difficult to understand. A...
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Namedni-2020-2. Tiktok. Beirut. Khabarovsk. Belarus. Karabakh. Morgenstern. Navalny and poison
2021
Namedni-2020-1. Covid. Remote. Resetting. Traffic accident with Efremov. Screenlife
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Namedni-2020-1. Covid. Remote. Resetting. Traffic accident with Efremov. Screenlife
2021
Namedni-1921 Capablanca. Hunger in the Volga region. March 8. Youth Theater. Homeless children
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Namedni-1921 Capablanca. Hunger in the Volga region. March 8. Youth Theater. Homeless children
1997
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
5.393/14
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Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
2014
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
4.2/5
The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir P...
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The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
2012
Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных
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Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных
2011
Generation P
6.414/128
Set in the ground zero of gangster globalism and driven by a truly manic energy, Generation P is at once a comedy, a tragedy and a fantasy about the...
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Generation P
2022
Russian Georgians. Part 2
0/0
The second part of Leonid Parfyonov's project "Russian Georgians" will begin with a story about Stalin's design of the Russian patriotic upsurge in th...
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Russian Georgians. Part 2
2006
And Personally Leonid Ilyich
8/1
A famous Russian documentarist Leonid Parfyonov with deep investigation into the life of Leonid Brezhnev.
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And Personally Leonid Ilyich
2000
Still Waters
2.889/9
Kashtanov, professor of medicine and famous Moscow surgeon, is experiencing midlife crisis. Suddenly he decides to leave everything and escape to the...
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Still Waters
2016
Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.
7.6/9
The history of Jewish people in Russia up until the 1917 revolution.
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Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.
2017
Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948.
8.2/5
The second film of the trilogy covers the thirtieth anniversary from 1918 to 1948. Unprecedented until that time in any country of the world, a bright...
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Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948.
2012
Eye of God
7.5/2
The «Eye of God» is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. It shows how progressive and pro-West Russians can be, when it comes to...
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Eye of God
2017
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
7.7/6
With the assassination in 1948 of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, by the state security, new times begin in the relat...
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Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
2009
Gogol the Bird
7.7/3
This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the unique style of the author Leonid Parfyonov. Docum...
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Gogol the Bird
2013
Russia in Bloom
7.1/7
A documentary about Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer in color photography of early 20th-century Russia.
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Russia in Bloom
2011
Boris Godunov
5.4/4
Our eternal theme is crime and punishment. In Boris Godunov, the problems of conscience and existential choice are linked to the history of the countr...
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Boris Godunov
2020
Russian Georgians. Part 1
6/1
The film is about the historical role of Georgians in Russian, and later - Soviet politics, culture and science. The heroes of the film are Bagration...
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Russian Georgians. Part 1
2020
Listyev. A New Look
0/0
Investigation of the causes of death of Vladislav Listyev. 25 years passed, but the perpetrators of the highest-profile contract murder in Russia in t...
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Listyev. A New Look
2010
Zvorykin-Muromets
6/1
Parfenov's documentary is about a brilliant scientist and engineer, born in Russia, but only known on the other side of the ocean. The invention of mo...
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Zvorykin-Muromets
2005
Bashlachev. The Flight of Death
0/0
A documentary film about the life and early death of Russian singer and songwriter Aleksandr Bashlachev through the eyes of his friends, family member...
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Bashlachev. The Flight of Death
2011
He Came to Give Us Freedom
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Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom before becoming General Secretary of the Communist Par...
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He Came to Give Us Freedom
2021
In Qvevri Veritas
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Leonid Parfyonov travels to Georgia, where he studies how amphorae are made and grapes are crushed with bare feet, and learns why orange wine is slowl...
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In Qvevri Veritas
1988
Children of the 20th Congress
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In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties.
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Children of the 20th Congress
1999
The Age of Nabokov
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Leonid Parfenov's program “Nabokov's Century” is dedicated to the centenary of the great Russian and American classic. These are, first of all, the st...
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