Lyudmila Polyakova

We Will Meet in the Metro

The film is dedicated to the first builders of the Leningrad metro, who began their work before the war, survived the blockade and in 1955 delivered the first stage to the city.

Seven Days of Nadezhda

The young weaver Nadezhda was encouraged in every possible way at the factory: she was awarded a trip to Italy, given a new apartment, nominated as a candidate for deputy of the Supreme Council, while the factory administration turned a blind eye to the fact that some of her products were defective.

Once There Was a Woman

A chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country.

Model

Psychological melodrama based on the motives of Yury Nagibin’s story «Three men and one woman, and one more man». The beginning of the 20th century. The young couple Vladislav Eschenbach and Sofia Pshebyshevskaya arrive in Tiflis, where sun, wine, ancient architecture and new impressions await them. She is the eternal mistress; it is her trade, her way of life and thinking. He understood this well before their marriage, but he cannot come to terms with her way of life. They are overcome by vanity, by the desire for understanding, and even by despair. For each of them the views of the other are nonsense, but they still try to live together. The outcome of this story seems obvious. But it takes an unexpected turn: in the life of the strange couple there occurs a moment when each of them has to resolve the single most important question…

Blizzard

Once made a choice between duty and feeling. After a year, Zhenya cannot decide what is right - to be honest for love or happy with calculations? Santa Claus gives him a very unusual Soviet lawsuit to look at the snow and make a wish. He does not exactly perform, but under one condition.

Bimmer

A black BMW, a symbol of luxury, is racing along the night streets of Moscow in the 90s. Bad luck turns four friends into criminals and they have no way back. Only the black “bimmer” is reliable in this life without rules, taking the friends farther and farther from Moscow, into the crazy and ruthless wilderness of Russian roads… None of them wanted to kill. None of them wanted to die. But they will have to face their destiny in the end.

My Combat Team

1945 год, война позади. Восемнадцатилетний сержант Сергей Кружкой после тяжелого ранения возвращается домой. Узнав, что в городе орудует банда преступников, герой решает помочь органам правопорядка и в одиночку начинает расследование. После первого столкновения с бандитами Сергей попадает в госпиталь. К нему приезжают фронтовые друзья и они вместе разрабатывают план действий…

The Ascent

During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II, mystic Grigori Rasputin holds great influence over the empire. However, many in St Petersburg begin to regard Rasputin, with his strange practices and mesmerizing qualities, as a liability and plot his assassination. When Rasputin, known to many as the 'Mad Monk', leads Nicholas to embrace an ill-conceived military strategy, a group of determined conspirators set down a plan to eliminate him.

The Real Tale

The funny adventures of a characters of Russian folk fairy tales in the contemporary world.

Humiliated and Insulted

Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart.

The Trial

Based on materials from real criminal cases, it follows the trial of the trade mafia.

Before Dinner

One day from the social and personal life of the chief engineer of the plant.

Comrade Nikanorova Awaits You

Fate has repeatedly deceived Katya Nikanorova — however, she is still destined to wait for a meeting with her happiness. However, far from immediately she was able to discern her prince in the closed, sometimes ridiculous and ridiculous, nondescript veterinarian Dyozhkin. And he saw a kind and sensitive woman in the keen and stormy Katerina. But before this happens, the heroes of the melodrama will survive many curious situations...

Thirteen Months

Gleb Ryazanov, a successful businessman, suddenly realizes that he has spent his best years on becoming a "right shot". Even his family life is nothing but a bargain. In a desperate attempt to start life with a clean slate Gleb leaves home, falling into a dizzying world of mysticism and crime, friendship and love. But to get out of the vicious circle is very difficult...

Apartment

Follows three friends from different social backgrounds who grew up together. The room with toys, the view from the window of the fountain of one of them was a model of life well-being and happiness for the other. Having become an adult and having met love, he tells his beloved about this apartment, promises her the happiness he has dreamed of since childhood and... commits meanness.

Three Sisters

Preserving the text of the play, the amazing dialogues, the brilliant characters, we have transposed the action into today’s Russian provinces and changed only one thing: the age of the heroes. In Anton Chekhov’s play the heroines are aged around 25; now they are 55. What does that do? The heroes’ retorts, stylistically inappropriate from today’s twenty-year-olds, are absolutely organic for the older generation, the ‘Soviet’ intelligentsia. The problems of Chekhov’s classical work concerning the search for a meaning in life, the loss of ideals, the fear before death without having achieved anything in the world, the desire to be useful to others – all these things are also a typical attribute of the Soviet intelligentsia.

High Security Vacation

Two escaped convicts pose as children's summer camp staff in order to evade capture and learn about caring for others in the process. Sumrak has been in prison since he was 16 years old but is pushing thirty now, is well acquainted with prison gang culture and covered with tattoos. Evgeni Koltsov is a former police officer unjustly imprisoned and destined for a death sentence from the other inmates if he stays in prison.

The Last Saturday

A soldier returns from the army with his young wife. A local heartbreaker and a drunkard, an imposing man who does not care about anything, takes a fancy to her. He draws the young man into his company, and one evening the wife finds her spouse drowned in a puddle. After some time, she offers the heartbreaker to drink champagne together (and he has previously made her very explicit offers) and tries to kill him, but instead gets a fatal stabbing herself.

The Confrontation

In the apartment of Anna, who, judging by her testimony to the investigation, was on a business trip, a fire broke out at night. The son was saved, but as a result of a nervous shock he was speechless. The investigation, the mother and father of the child will find out the true cause of the tragedy.

True Stories

The mad day of the successful citizen — the electrician Vasily Ivanovich began with visit of the Commission on check of the complaint to the waste proceeding from the furnace. According to the findings of the Commission had to change the photo on the documents to a more similar one. And to invite lady in theater, had to turn off there light.

Russian Brothers

A large group of criminals escapes from prison. Helicopter with a group of capture crashes and now the pursuers were in the role of the persecuted. It is tragic that among criminals there was a brother of one of field investigators.

Big Trap, or solo for cat under full moon

A large government official from Moscow, having come to rest at home, falls into a trap organized for him by two sisters working in the former state house. Sincerely falling in love with one of them, he does not suspect that he is becoming the object of blackmail ...

Front Without Flanks

A first episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazi occupation of Russia during WWII. The film is set in August of 1941, when the Nazi forces invaded and occupied the European part of Russia. Major Mlynsky is in charge of the special group of partisans. His group is absorbing other small groups of Russian soldiers, who managed to survive from the attacks of the overwhelming Nazi forces. The Nazi Armies are advancing to Moscow. Major Mlynsky is organizing the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazis, behind the enemy lines.

Metamorphosis

Based on Kafka's story of the same name, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.

Farewell

Matyora is a small village on an eponymous beautiful island; its existence is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam, leaving its citizens forced to bid farewell to their beloved home.

Don't Believe that I'm No Longer Here

The film is based on a real story. Climbers found the purse of a military postman killed during World War II, letters sent 30 years later.

The Road Home

A story about the fate of a woman who has traveled a thorny path from unrequited love to family happiness.

Party Secretary

Collective farmer is unanimously elected secretary of the party committee by her fellow villagers.

The Rainmaker

Bill Starbuck revives lost hopes in people. He comes to them in times of drought and sells the rain, that is, the promise to bring rain. He sets one condition - you have to believe in a miracle. Bill makes Lizzie, the farmer's daughter, believe that she is worthy of love. It really started to rain, and Lizzie's beloved man reciprocated her feelings.

The President and His Woman

A future president must have no secrets from the voters — not even in his personal life. Intimate details can become powerful weapons in the hands of political opponents. And so, the presidential candidate is forced to publicly introduce his first wife — a woman he once loved passionately… and then betrayed.

Through All the Years

Alexander Demin and Vassa Druzhinina fell in love with each other in their school years. In the thirties, due to the unjust arrest of her father, Vassa left a small Volga town. They later met, but the war kept them apart until the spring of 1945.

Three Days on the Run

The hero of the film spent three days outside the law in Moscow. Former paratrooper Andrey, who became a truck driver, came from the province and was arrested for fighting at a gas station. The hero was taken to prison along with experienced repeat offenders, who forced him to escape with them...

From the Sky to Earth

The late stages of World War II, Soviet Army began rolling into some vital cities which occupied by Germany. Kolya Isaev, a paratrooper is sent to take part the offensives in the Eastern Europe. Autobiographical story by director Yakov Segel about a young man who went to the front of the Great Patriotic War at a young age and reached Berlin.

A Stranger's Call

Natalia Kuznetsova, a young, outwardly prosperous and successful woman artist, lives in the centre of Moscow. A plumber comes to fix a clogged sink in her bathroom, who turns out to be a man from her distant past... The meeting evokes memories of her first love: in her youth she was friends with Igor Turbin, who was from a large family, and although he had abilities and talent, he did not go to university, but went to work for the sake of his two younger brothers. She married Makarkin, a carefree and successful classmate. She, the daughter of the creative intelligentsia, was self-assured a place in the art academy and a secure career and future, and the husband should have been appropriate. But happiness did not turn out. Years later she realised that she had betrayed her love and married a complete stranger....

The Young Mistress of Niskavuori

The most famous work of the remarkable classic of Finnish literature Hella Wuolijoki is the saga of the Niskavuori family, consisting of five plays. The first of them, *"The Young Mistress of Niskavuori"*, which reflects the Finnish national character, tells the story of love, changes in life, disappointments, and views on morality through the eyes of straightforward, stubborn people from the countryside who must adapt to new circumstances. The action takes place in 1880.

Commandant of Lauterburg

Follows the service of Lieutenant Colonel Lubentsov as commandant of the German city of Lauterburg in the first days after the end of the Great Patriotic War.

Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better

Based on the eponymous play by A.N. Ostrovsky. A story about an apple orchard, unmistakably showing that happiness exists, and that within our souls lies the capacity to be happy. And it is no coincidence that the kind nanny, who helps the lovers, has a "meaningful" name — Filitsata, which means "happiness."

On the Bank of a Large River

A young 19-year old girl Anastasia (O.Bobyleva) comes to a big Siberian construction site. She dreams of being a welder, but at the moment there are no vacancies, and she has to begin her labor activity in a canteen. And after a local kinder garden is left without a mentor, nobody can fancy a better candidate that Nastya. She loves kids, and the main thing is that the feeling is mutual. Once during a storm an accident happens a motor-launch, carrying workers across a river, crashes. Three children become orphans. Nastya doesnt let the construction head send them to the orphanage and decides to adopt them.

Crown of Russian Empire, or the Elusives Again

The Russian Civil War is over and the White Guard are all dead or abroad. Some of the exiled nobles are attempting to crown a new Tsar/Emperor abroad, and a couple of impostors are vying for the position. At the same time, some of the Elusive Avengers' old foes are trying to return to Russia, for mysterious reasons. The avengers are assigned the task of finding out what's going on. Turns out the bad guys are after the Russian Crown, which is encrusted with many diamonds and jewels. It is not clear whether the crown is only wanted for the coronation ceremony or if the bad guys are trying to sell it to the highest bidder, but either way they must be stopped. The avengers are after them. Two go to Paris to infiltrate the emigrant community, and the other two work on the Russian soil.

Why Would an Honest Man Need an Alibi?

There are two heroes in the film: militia captain Zabrodin, who is striving to become a deputy at any cost and by any means, and the confused intellectual Shaludkin, who is trying to decently support his own family...