Avangard Leontiev
# Avangard Leontiev

Avangard Nikolaevich Leontiev (Russian: Аванга́рд Никола́евич Лео́нтьев; born February 27, 1947, in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, teacher, professor. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1995). Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995).

## Selected filmography

* Train Stop – Two Minutes (1972) as viewer
* Little Tragedies (1979) as Solomon
* A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov (1980) as Alexeyev
* Alone and Unarmed (1984) as photographer
* The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984) as narrator
* Dark Eyes (1987) as official in St. Petersburg
* The Parrot Speaking Yiddish (1990) as Zaremba
* Burnt by the Sun (1994) as Chauffeur
* The Barber of Siberia (1998) as Andrei's uncle
* Silver Lily of the Valley (2000) as episode
* Yesenin (2005) as Anatoly Lunacharsky
* Adjutants of Love (2005) as Paul I of Russia
* Sunstroke (2014) as prestidigitator
* The Age of Pioneers (2017) as Yuri Levitan
* Van Goghs (2018) as Veniamin
