Actor, writer, designer and director Aleksandr Artyomovich Adabashyan was born in Moscow in 1945 the same year as his friend and steady collaborator Nikita Mikhalkov. The two men’s varied pairings began in 1974 when Adabashyan production designed Mikhalkov’s feature debut “At Home Among Strangers, Strangers at Home”, a low budget “Borscht Western” set during the bloody Russian civil war following the Bolshevik revolution. Adabashyan has designed eight Mikhalkov films in all, physically realizing such disparate visions as Moscow during the Khrushchev regime in 1979’s “Five Evenings,” mid-nineteenth century St. Petersburg in 1980’s “Oblomov”, and the infant Soviet film industry in 1976’s “Slave of Love”. In addition, Adabashyan has some two dozen writing credits to his name including multiple pairings with Mikhalkov. After making his onscreen debut in “At Home Among Strangers”, Adabashyan has made frequent appearances in Russian film and television, primarily in character roles.

Filmography

• 2025Father Nicholas. The Story of Charles Sidney Gibbes — Writer
• 2025Impostors
• 2025The Drummer's Fate — Writer
• 2025Two People in One Life and a Dog
• 2023Invisible
• 2023Katya-Katya — Writer, Production Design
• King & Jester — Гордарик / Одноглазый
• 2022Strict Regime Parents — отец
• 2020All About My Sister — Ragman, Screenplay
• The Diplomat — Lipkin
• 2018Sobibor — Screenplay
• 2017Жили-были мы — Writer, Production Design
• Poor people — издатель
• 2016The Hero
• 2015No Borders — photographer
• 2014Spikes — Writer
• 2014Sunstroke — Writer
• 2013Dog's Paradise — Production Design, Writer
• 2013Ku! Kin-dza-dza — Droid Abradoks(voice), Writer
• Sherlock Holmes — publishing house editor
• 2011Kiss through the Wall — Ярило Ольгович
• 2010A Man from Boulevard des Capucines — строитель-философ
• 2010Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus — Igor
• 2010Elephant — Petrovich
• 2010The New Year's Mystery
• 2010The snow is falling in Russia — Мэр
• 2010Смерть в пенсне или Наш Чехов — Writer, Production Design
• Fathers and Sons — Writer, Art Direction
• 2008Plus One
• 2008The Ghost — Aleksandr
• 200712 — bailiff
• 2007Dombey and Son — Writer
• 2007Джоконда на асфальте
• 2006Tycoon's Interpreter — Ira's father
• 2006Your Will Not Leave Me
• 2005Never Again as Before — Writer
• The Master and Margarita — Berlioz
• 2004About Love In Any Weather — Homeless
• 2004La fonte des neiges — Writer
• Region — геодезист Михалыч
• 2003Year of the Horse - Constellation Scorpio
• 2002A. P.
• Azazel — Director, Creator
• 2002Azazel — Director
• 2001Word of Honour — Script Editor
• Black Room
• Memories of Sherlock Holmes — John Barrymore
• 2000The Musicians from Bremen
• 2000The President and his Granddaughter — Doctor
• 1999A Time to Love — Writer
• Fort Boyard Russia — Fouras the Stargazer
• 1995Like Two Crocodiles — Writer
• 1995Moscow Vacation
• 1994Nastya — представитель министерства культуры, Writer
• 1993Presence
• To Remember — Narrator
• 1991KGB Agents Also Fall in Love — Screenplay
• 1990Mado, poste restante — Writer, Director
• 1990Spanish Actress for Russian Minister — Writer
• 1989The Lonely Hunter — Screenplay
• 1988The Story of One Billiard-Room — Writer
• 1987Dark Eyes — episode (uncredited), Production Design, Writer, Title Designer
• 1987My Favorite Clown — Screenplay
• 1986Guard Me, My Talisman — французский турист
• 1986The Wedding Is Accused — Boris Gorin, MC
• 1985Requiem for a Fillet
• 1984Sunday Walks — Writer
• 1984The Lonely Businessman's Big Score — Writer
• 1984Two Hussars
• 1983Flights in Dreams and in Reality — The Sculptor
• 1983Recipe of Her Youth — Writer
• 1983The Chosen Ones — Production Design
• 1983The Kiss — Sergei, the general's son
• 1983Without Witness — Production Design
• 1982Kin — episode, Production Design
• 1981The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles — John Barrymore
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles — John Barrymore
• 1981The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1 — John Barrymore
• 1981The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2 — John Barrymore
• 1980Oblomov — episode (uncredited), Writer, Production Design
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson — John Barrymore
• 1979Five Evenings — Timofeyev, Writer, Production Design
• 1979Siberiade — salesman, Production Design
• 1979The City Accepted — Вышеградский Рудольф ("Марчелло"), мошенник
• 1977An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano — Writer, Production Design
• 1977Trans-Siberian Express — Writer
• 1976A Slave of Love — Production Design
• 1975Mother of Men — Production Design
• 1974At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own — episode, Production Design
• 1973Fan — Screenplay
• 1970A Quiet Day at the End of the War — Set Decoration

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Legends of Cinema — Self - Заслуженный деятель искусств РФ