Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13543
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Féodor Atkine represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 53 years in, and Féodor is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Féodor Atkine appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Féodor. Manipulation is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, thriller, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Cédric Jimenez, Benjamin Rocher, Oliver Stone and others, Féodor Atkine helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Manipulation (2026) as Juraj · Love and Death (1975) as Mikhail · The Day of the Jackal (1973) as Young OAS Gunfighter
Career snapshot
Ranked #13543 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
1973–2026
Career length
53 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Manipulation
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Manipulation
Most frequent director
Cédric Jimenez
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Cédric Jimenez
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.9
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1970s
7.2 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. Love and Death, The Day of the Jackal — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
7.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Love and Death, The Day of the Jackal.
Most productive era
2020s
12 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1970s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.01 film | 6.22 films | 5.91 film | 6.05 films |
| Action | 7.21 film | 7.01 film | 6.21 film | 5.91 film | 6.11 film |
| Thriller | 7.21 film | 7.01 film | — | — | 6.94 films |
| Comedy | 7.21 film | 7.01 film | — | — | 6.91 film |
| Crime | — | 7.02 films | — | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.01 film | 6.22 films | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | — | 5.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young OAS Gunfighter.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Manipulation
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Juraj.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
20 of 20 films
as Juraj
Directed by Unknown
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Mikhail
Directed by Woody Allen
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Juraj
Manipulation (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Juraj gives Féodor Atkine a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self - Narrator (voice)
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain (2022)
Performance score7.7
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self - Narrator (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Minos (voice)
Icarus (2022)
Performance score7.4
Icarus asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Minos (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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(voice)
Rabbids Invasion: Mission To Mars (2021)
Performance score7.3
Rabbids Invasion: Mission To Mars asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Juraj
Start here. Manipulation is the clearest statement of what Féodor Atkine does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Féodor at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Love and Death (1975)
A deliberate change of key after Manipulation — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Rabbids Invasion: Mission To Mars (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Love and Death but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain (2022)
Same director as Rabbids Invasion: Mission To Mars, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Icarus (2022)
Same director as Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Fred Zinnemann
Director
1 film together
Notably The Day of the Jackal
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Love and Death
Philip Kaufman
Director
1 film together
Notably Henry & June
Pedro Almodóvar
Director
1 film together
Notably High Heels
John Frankenheimer
Director
1 film together
Notably Ronin
Roland Joffé
Director
1 film together
Notably Vatel
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably Alexander
Benjamin Rocher
Director
1 film together
Notably Antigang
Cédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog 51
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love and DeathFred Zinnemann
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Day of the JackalJohn Frankenheimer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RoninPedro Almodóvar
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
High HeelsOliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AlexanderCédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dog 51Roland Joffé
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VatelPhilip Kaufman
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Henry & JuneBenjamin Rocher
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AntigangSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Manipulation
as Juraj
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Alexander
as Roxane's Father
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Manipulation
as Juraj
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Alexander
as Roxane's Father
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Manipulation
as Juraj
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Féodor Atkine has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
53 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Manipulation
as Juraj
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Manipulation
as Juraj
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Alexander
as Roxane's Father
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Man from Rome
as Cardenal Iwaszkiewicz
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Manipulation
as Juraj
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Dog 51
as Le pasteur
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
High Heels
as Manuel
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Alexander
as Roxane's Father
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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