
Leonid Parfyonov
Acting
Born 1960-01-26 · Cherepovets, USSR [now Russia]
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

Eye of God
2012 · Movie

Gogol the Bird
2009 · Movie

Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948.
2017 · Movie

Generation P
2011 · Movie

Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.
2016 · Movie

Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
2017 · Movie

Russia in Bloom
2013 · Movie

Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
1997 · Movie

Zvorykin-Muromets
2010 · Movie

Boris Godunov
2011 · Movie

Russian Georgians. Part 1
2020 · Movie

The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
2014 · Movie

Still Waters
2000 · Movie

Bashlachev. The Flight of Death
2005 · Movie

He Came to Give Us Freedom
2011 · Movie

Russian Georgians. Part 2
2022 · Movie

Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных
2012 · Movie

Children of the 20th Congress
1988 · Movie

The Age of Nabokov
1999 · Movie

Listyev. A New Look
2020 · Movie

In Qvevri Veritas
2021 · Movie