Leonid Brezhnev
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 19, 1906
- Died
- November 10, 1982 (aged 75)
- Birthplace
- Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslavskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Biography
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, born in Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslav governorate, Russian Empire — Soviet statesman, politician and party figure who held the highest leadership position in the CPSU for 18 years (from 1964 until his death in 1982). First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in 1964-1966 and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee from 1966 to 1982. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976). Four times Hero of the Soviet Union (1966, 1976, 1978, 1981), Hero of Socialist Labor (1961). Candidate member of the Presidium of the Central Committee (1952-1953; 1956-1957), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1952-1953; 1956-1960, 1963-1964). In 1960-1964 — Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR from 1964 to 1966. Deputy of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (3rd-10th convocations, 1950-1982). Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Cavalier of eight Orders of Lenin. Laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace Among Nations" (1973) and the Lenin Prize for Literature (1979). In 1978 he was awarded the Order of Victory (in 1989 this award was cancelled by decree signed by the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev as being contrary to the statute of the order). In total, Brezhnev had 117 Soviet and foreign state awards. He participated in the Great Patriotic War and the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945 (political officer of the combined regiment of the 4th Ukrainian Front).
Known For
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
Palme
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Agnelli
The Society of the Spectacle
Czechoslovakia 1968
Disco and Atomic War
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
O Sport, You Are Peace!
The Helsinki Effect
A Dying King: The Shah of Iran
1979: Big Bang of the Present
Filmography
The Helsinki Effect
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Аркадий Райкин. Королю дозволено всё
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
1979: Big Bang of the Present
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Going to Hell
Movie · as Self (Archive Footage)
Agnelli
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
A Dying King: The Shah of Iran
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Burden of the Gypsies
Movie · as Himself (archive)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Legends of Cinema
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Palme
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Space Sailors
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Disco and Atomic War
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
:03 from Gold
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Case of Joseph Brodsky
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Л.И.Брежнев
TV · as Леонид Ильич Брежнев · 10 eps
Red Star Over Khyber
Movie · as Self
Kyiv Symphony
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Memory of the People
Movie · as (archive footage)
Trial
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
O Sport, You Are Peace!
Movie · as Self - Opens the Olympics
Karpov Plays with Karpov
Movie · as Self
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Incendiaries from the Celestial Empire
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Beijing's Cards
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Spring in Phnom Penh
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Maoism: A Tragedy for China
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Story of the Communist
Movie · as Himself
The Society of the Spectacle
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Venceremos, solidaridad
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
A Time For Peace
Movie · as Self
Czechoslovakia 1968
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
People and Space
Movie · as Self - Archive Footage
Urho Kekkonen - valtiomies, presidentti
Movie