The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
In this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard.
One of the most favorite Soviet comedies, a screen version of the play of the same name by Vladimir Gurkin. Each of us knows the story of Vasily, who went to the resort, succumbed to the charms of a femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, but could not withstand two weeks of urban life, and returned to his family, where he waited for love and pigeons.
A two-part television play based on "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Hunted Down" by Charles Dickens.
Germany in the thirties. Soviet spy Yaroslava Soboleva (aka Sophie Weinert) manages to destroy stocks of a new type of bacteriological weapon at the cost of her own life
Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary.
In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia. The main character is probably based on Yeti.
A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.
In the fall of 1938, the NKVD arrested Sergei Korolyov. Under torture, the investigators are trying to extract from him a confession of anti-Soviet activities, each time citing incriminating facts from the biography of the young scientist. Plunging into Korolev's memories, the viewer sees what an extraordinary and enthusiastic person he was, how much creative energy and vitality Sergei Pavlovich gave to the development of world cosmonautics.
The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka.
Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand.
Based on the novel by Jules Verne "Drama in Livonia". French aeronaut Jules Ardan, traveling in a hot air balloon, accidentally finds himself in Reval. Here he meets Dr. Peterson and his daughter Leida. The gendarmes are hunting for Leida's fiance. The banker's son is being murdered in the city. Suspicion falls on Peterson. Jules Ardan takes over the investigation of the crime.
Directed by Andrei Yermash, and written by Isaac Asimov, Budimir Metalnikov, and Andrei Yermash, «Konets vechnosti» is a 1987 Science Fiction film, starring Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergei Yursky, Gediminas Girdvainis and Boris Ivanov.
A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
A military dictator in a fictional country, modeled on early-1970s Chile, has risen from butcher to junta leader but now, isolated and distrustful, confides only in his guard Manuel. Manuel, who once shared the dictator’s humble origins, betrays him without hesitation when a popular uprising topples the regime and personally kills him.
The story begins when Alice Postique, who had to stay late at work, discovers her boss Roche with a knife in his back. When the police detective arrives, Alice recognizes him as her old friend.
A movie about a little man - a little funny and a little sad - a Latino businessman, owner of a loss-making shop. And about a big moral problem. A child has fallen down a deep well. He's alive, but it's almost impossible to get him out. What is more dignified: to honestly say that the child is alive but already dead or to repeat for everyone the mantra "he will certainly be rescued now"? And how to live on, if in the heat of an argument, bet on "will not be saved".
The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society.
Based on Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" ("The Miserly Knight", "Mozart and Salieri", "The Stone Guest", "A Feast in the Time of Plague").
A story about the life of a woman, two men of her life and her son, Janek Garbus, seen through the eyes of the latter - "conceived by an NKVD uncle on the night after the Soviet army entered".
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik a Polish doctor. The Soviet militia harasses the poor peasants and Vera suffered the harassment of a bully cop: Bulgabi. Finally Vera accepts the marriage proposal of Ezhik but the jealous Bulgabi tries to prevent the marriage. The result is a fight in which Ezhik shoots himself accidentally. The old Kasym decides that Sabyr is now old enough to go to seek his real parents. At the end Sabyr, now an adult, decides to return to the village, but the village no longer exists because it was destroyed by a Soviet nuclear test.
In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond.
In early 20th-century Azerbaijan, two circus artists travel to a village where one of them was born, unaware of the danger and adventure that await them.
A drama about a complications in a newlyweds life.
After Monsieur Lenoir commits a terrible crime, his family members gather together to discuss their damage control options.
The first and second chapters of "Eugene Onegin" performed by Sergei Yursky, filmed live for Leningrad Television.
Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life.
A story of court intrigues, love, and betrayal. A vain king is turned into a stag and only true love can save him
A film almanac consisting of two short stories, united by a common idea of the need to maintain harmony between private and public interests: “Suite” and “One Fine Day”. The hero of the story ”Suite" is a lifeguard on the shore. The events taking place at sea do not bother him at all. To the music of Bizet, he dreams of Carmen, her exploits, valor and strong love... The hero of the short story “One Fine Day”, a promising researcher, one morning saw a spaceship from his balcony. Do this a little restlessly to his mother-in-law, neighbors, acquaintances, boss and, finally, to a psychiatrist...
Due to a brain injury received in a street fight, Gera Romanov begins to fall into parallel worlds, where he dies painfully every time.
About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate.
The consequences of a nuclear war are destruction, hunger. The surviving people have even lost the memory of their former civilization. At the center of the play is the Old Man, the only person who remembers the past, because without the past humanity cannot have a future...
An engineer's hotel stay is interrupted by a visit from a stranger.
A young businessman believes that money and fortune are the most important things in the world. One day he loses all his money and faces the necessity to reconsider and change his life.
A screen adaptation of the satirical poem by Eduard Uspensky. Vova Sidorov is the only child in a big family, growing up without a father. Everything he cherished, but a summons from the recruitment office turns everything on its head!
A princess is born to the king and queen of a fairy-tale kingdom. The wicked witch, who resents not having been invited to the princess's birthday party, curses her: on the day the princess turns 16, she will be pricked by the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into eternal sleep. The king orders that all spinning wheels in the kingdom be destroyed and the number 16 be taken out of use. However, a young traveling prince arrives, bringing a curse with him.
The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernatural powers she got from the devil, Woland, who is visiting Moscow.
The film takes place in Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century. Rasmus is a boy who lives in a shelter. Unwilling to stay in the orphanage, he escapes and joins a tramp nicknamed Oscar Tumbleweed.
A famous botanist, Monsieur Jordan is a guest in Garabagh to Hatamkhan Agha. Hatamkhan Agha's nephew wants to go to France with Jordan in order to study. His family and lover try to discourage him and consult to Darvish Mastali Shah. Mastali Shah decides to use magic and explode Paris.
On the seashore, the mother and father decided to build a country house where their three sons, daughter, daughters-in-law and grandchildren could gather together. But neither the sons nor the daughter can find time to visit and help their parents. Only the eldest son understands his father and mother...
From the American psychiatric hospital run by two maniac, confident that he was a spy, and a transsexual. Very soon they will want to return to their native madhouse — but it will be too late. Because the third psycho sent them on a secret mission to Russia. Yes, even in a balloon.
The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...
A musical fairy tale about a lion who got bored living in the zoo and goes wandering around the city of Baku, where he met and became friends with a boy Rustam.
Bek's men kidnap Farukh's fiancee. He goes on a quest, thus violating the warnings of the good Fairy. Farukh and his friend the Fool overcome all difficulties on the way to love, understanding the power of friendship, justice, good and evil.
Two ordinary boys, brothers Paul and Peter, rescue two little dogs from the evil Kaspar Schlich.
The strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real day in the life of the real Moscow architect Alexander Petrovich Chernov, his mental crisis; and the other is Chernov’s fiction. There is a different fate, a different country, a different life. It is into this very life that Chernov strives to get into - and for the sake of a trip to Spain he will have to commit betrayal. There, for a moment, the doubles will be nearby and both will be on the verge of death. Who will die in the spring of 1978?
July-December 1917, the country is undergoing a revolution. "The pillars of society" are alarmed by the looming on them menacing events. Some of them are ready to fight with the revolution, others — among them industrialist Vasily Dostigaev trying to "adapt»
Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.
After coming into conflict with the administration of his research institute, engineer Krylov files his resignation and starts working as a stuntman.
A young boy in Cuba finds himself in mortal peril as his fishing village gets infiltrated by malign forces.
In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, and Edwin fights Neville Landles, who is in love with Rose, leading to his disappearance.
A cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry.
A television play based on the life and death of Russian poet and Decembrist Wilhelm "Kyukhlya" Küchelbecker.
A runaway robot obsessed with an idea of creating a perfect human becomes a household property of a writer through deception.
A filmed version of Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers", transposed into modern-day Russia and performed by an all-star cast.
A documentary-fiction hybrid film based on the works of Joseph Brodsky.
The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.
The film is based on the drawings and manuscripts of A.S.Pushkin.
The second part of a trilogy of films based on Pushkin's drawings, poems and letters.
A full-length animated film based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin, which includes all three pictures of Andrey Khrzhanovsky's Pushkin trilogy: "I Am Flying to You as a Memory..." (1977), "With You I Am Again..." (1980) and "Autumn" (1982).
Blending drawings, paintings, filmed interviews, and recorded testimony, this animation-documentary hybrid tells of the tragic fate of the Estonian artist Ülo Sooster.
An animated film in two parts, about the tragic fate of Estonian artist Ülo Sooster and about his work.
The second part of the duology on the famous Estonian artist Ülo Sooster continues his life story, paying homage to many other great artists who were spiritually consonant with his work.
Chief accountant Porfiry Petrovich Smirnov-Alyansky, who took a good walk on the anniversary of his colleague cashier Ivan Zakharovich Vodnev, climbs into the traffic controller's booth and disrupts traffic on one of the streets of Leningrad. However, the guard Vasiliy Shaneshkin mistakenly delivers to the police station not an escaped offender, but a quite decent cashier. In addition, Vodnev, offended by the police, turns out to be the father of the bride Shaneshkin — Katya. Vasiliy admits his guilt, but, not daring to explain himself, leaves the angry Ivan Zakharovich with bad thoughts about the Soviet police. Fortunately, the young sergeant will soon have an opportunity to prove to others the responsibility and conscientiousness of the police officers.
A high-crime investigator goes to the scene where corruption and crime have taken on new and sophisticated forms in the mountainous southern region of the country. Under the guise of a random train robbery, individual cars loaded with waste from metallurgical production - and essentially enriched gold ore - are stolen. The kidnappers have all the means at their disposal. They mercilessly kill those who try to stop them from stealing tons of gold...
Sashka is a normal boy from a small provincial of Koshkin whose dream is to become special. One day he notices that everyone around him have started to behave strangely. As he finds out that he is the "special" one not affected by Uncle Tolik's mind control device, he realizes that only he can stop the evil from happening.
A television play chronicling the lead-up to the assassination of diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov, dubbed “vazir mukhtar” in his position as Russia's ambassador to Tehran.
The hare has lost its magnificent tail - everyone is suspected.
Based on a poem by Julian Tuwim.
The noble patrician Gaius Marcius became famous for his military exploits and victories over the enemies of the Romans, the Volscians. However, his hatred of the plebeians and thirst for power led to Coriolanus being condemned to eternal exile from Rome. Then he decided to betray his homeland and take command of the Volscian army.
About the work of Georgy Alexandrovich Tovstonogov — People's Artist of the USSR, professor, laureate of the State and Lenin Prizes, and chief director of the Maxim Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater.
Batmanova, once a serf, sets Paris aflame with her singing and now returns to the court of the Prince in 19th-century Russia. The Prince wants Batmanova for himself, but she loves a young nobleman who is technically still a serf because his papers have been lost.
A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons.
A television version of the award-winning stage adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's tragic farce, mounted in 1994 for Moscow's School of Contemporary Plays Theatre and revived for television in 2009.
A television adaptation of a short comedy of the same name by George Bernard Shaw.
A satirical account of the rise and fall of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
The film tells the story of a member of the Polish underground who acted as a courier during World War II and whose most prominent mission was to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust.
A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson.
A television play based on the eponymous poem, letters, and other works by Alexander Pushkin.
The film is about the complex, passionate and at the same time deeply respectful relationship between two genius directors, a teacher (Meyerhold) and a student (Eisenstein). In the most difficult conditions of the totalitarian regime, adherence to eternal values helped both defend their art and themselves in it, preserve honor and dignity. Their relationship, creative and everyday actions are not only an artistic, but also a moral testament to future generations.
A good tale about the inhabitants of a magical city who were shamelessly robbed by the villain Miraclus. He stole their smiles - sly, playful, tender, affectionate - and melted them into golden bells! The Miracle dungeon was filled with a quiet, clear ringing sound, fresh and transparent, like a forest spring. He enjoyed this music, but the people in the city looked at each other with sad eyes and thought that joy had left them forever. But one day a cheerful company came to this city - a kind wizard, a girl Katya, a boy Vasya and a cartoon cat that came to life - and helped the residents return their smiles.
Five stories depicting five different kinds of love, from childhood to old age.
A parable about an evil dragon who has captured the “magic light”, without which people are forced to live in darkness. Mother Earth gives birth to three sons-heroes, who one by one set out to bring light to people. But the insidious dragon exposes the heroes to temptations, from which they themselves turn into monsters...
A funny comedy about doctor Aybolit and his assistants and patients - all animals.
Using extensive quotes from several Freudian works still banned by the Soviet censorship at the time, the film interprets the pivotal points of European history of the past century from a psychoanalytical point of view.
Realizing that his quest for knowledge is quixotic, a Russian polar explorer prepares for a doomed expedition to the Arctic. A live performance for Leningrad Television.
After a mail plane crashes in the Siberian taiga, two rivals set off along untrodden paths in search of missing money.
Small, hunchbacked and unlucky, Zadoc dreams of finding love. Chased from his village, he is propelled towards the unknown.
A live reading of Alexander Pushkin's humorous poem for Leningrad Television.
Thirty-two years after his live reading of Alexander Pushkin’s novel on Leningrad Television, actor Sergei Yursky comes back for another close read in this eight-part television production celebrating the 200th anniversary of the poet’s birth.
A documentary on the staging of Georgi Tovstonogov's acclaimed production of The Three Sisters at the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater, from the first table read to the opening night.
A stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", first staged for Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater and later reworked for Leningrad Television.
On the uniqueness and significance of I.S. Turgenev's theater, and the connection between his dramaturgy and prose.
A young man arrives in a village to visit his uncle, a retired colonel, and finds the local community "enslaved" by a man who, according to him, "will remain in history." The situation develops into a tragicomedy and takes on elements of phantasmagoria.