Actor
Leonid Parfyonov
66 years · Cherepovets, USSR [now Russia] · 24 films
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.
Best known for
Generation P
2011 · TV Journalist
On Tubi TV
Old Songs About the Main Thing
1996 · Writer
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
1997 · Actor, Screenplay
Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.
2016 · Himself (Presenter), Producer
Still Waters
2000 · Himself
Russia in Bloom
2013 · Himself (Host and Narrator), Producer
Filmography 24
Russian Georgians. Part 2
2022 · himself (presentor), Producer
Pocket of Russia
2021 · Producer, Screenplay
In Qvevri Veritas
2021 · Actor
Listyev. A New Look
2020 · himself
Russian Georgians. Part 1
2020 · himself (presentor), Producer
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
2017 · Himself (Presenter), Producer
Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948.
2017 · Himself (Presenter), Writer
Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.
2016 · Himself (Presenter), Producer
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
2014 · Self (uncredited)
On DocAlliance Films
Russia in Bloom
2013 · Himself (Host and Narrator), Producer
Eye of God
2012 · Himself (Presenter)
Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных
2012 · Actor
Boris Godunov
2011 · Schelkalov
Generation P
2011 · TV Journalist
On Tubi TV
He Came to Give Us Freedom
2011 · Actor
Zvorykin-Muromets
2010 · Narrator, Screenplay
Gogol the Bird
2009 · Himself (host), Writer
Bashlachev. The Flight of Death
2005 · Self
O World, You Are a Sport!
2004 · Director, Writer
Still Waters
2000 · Himself
The Age of Nabokov
1999 · Actor, Writer
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
1997 · Actor, Screenplay
Old Songs About the Main Thing
1996 · Writer
Children of the 20th Congress
1988 · Host, Writer