Leonid Parfyonov
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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
Credits
Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных (2012)
Actor
Russian Georgians. Part 1 (2020)
as himself (presentor)
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story (2014)
as Self (uncredited)
Children of the 20th Congress (1988)
as Host
Generation P (2011)
as TV Journalist
In Qvevri Veritas (2021)
Actor
Still Waters (2000)
as Himself
Russian Georgians. Part 2 (2022)
as himself (presentor)
Gogol the Bird (2009)
as Himself (host)
Namedni-2020-1. Covid. Remote. Resetting. Traffic accident with Efremov. Screenlife (2021)
Actor
Boris Godunov (2011)
as Schelkalov
Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948. (2017)
as Himself (Presenter)
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2 (1997)
Actor
Eye of God (2012)
as Himself (Presenter)
He Came to Give Us Freedom (2011)
Actor
Namedni-1921 Capablanca. Hunger in the Volga region. March 8. Youth Theater. Homeless children (2021)
Actor
Namedni-2020-2. Tiktok. Beirut. Khabarovsk. Belarus. Karabakh. Morgenstern. Navalny and poison (2021)
as self
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948. (2017)
as Himself (Presenter)
Listyev. A New Look (2020)
as himself
Russia in Bloom (2013)
as Himself (Host and Narrator)
Bashlachev. The Flight of Death (2005)
as Self
Zvorykin-Muromets (2010)
as Narrator
Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution. (2016)
as Himself (Presenter)
And Personally Leonid Ilyich (2006)
as Narrator
The Age of Nabokov (1999)
Actor