Leonid Brezhnev
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).
Acting
Movie
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Movie
Palme
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Movie
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Movie
The Society of the Spectacle
as Self (archive footage)
1974
Movie
Agnelli
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Movie
Czechoslovakia 1968
as Self (archive footage)
1969
Movie
Disco and Atomic War
as Self (archive footage)
2009
Movie
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Movie
O Sport, You Are Peace!
as Self - Opens the Olympics
1981
Movie
The Helsinki Effect
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Movie
1979: Big Bang of the Present
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Movie
:03 from Gold
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Movie
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
as Self (archive footage)
2021
TV
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
as Self (archive footage)
1999
Movie
Burden of the Gypsies
as Himself (archive)
2016
Movie
Going to Hell
as Self (archive)
2019
Movie
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
as Self (archive footage)
1979
Movie
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
as Self (archive footage)
1996
Movie
Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
as Self (archive footage)
1991
Movie
Space Sailors
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Movie
Venceremos, solidaridad
as Self (archive footage)
1973
Movie
Urho Kekkonen - valtiomies, presidentti
1967
Movie
The Story of the Communist
as Himself
1976
Movie
Kyiv Symphony
as Self (archive footage)
1982