Anatoliy Kubatskiy

Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors

Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality. Based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev.

Father Frost

A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.

Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair

One day, King Yeremei decides to go on a long hike in order to consider all his areas and compile their register. A well appears on his way home, but as soon as the sovereign bent over him, he was seized by the underwater king Chudo-Yudo and demanded an unusual ransom for his release — that which is in the state of Yeremei, but which he does not know about. The tsar is forced to agree to these conditions, because he thinks that each blade of grass was taken into account in the inventory — he still does not suspect that in his absence the Queen gave birth to him an heir.

Maria, the Wonderful Weaver

An old soldier helps a young boy find his mother, who's been kidnapped to the magical underwater kingdom in a remote Russian lake.

Distant Countries

An aviation colonel comes to the Western Urals, to a large village of industrial importance. He remembers running here as a barefoot boy with his friend in the early 1930s. Then there was only a small crossing and a small village. About how they lived and studied here, how they became active builders of a new life, how they dreamed of seeing different countries, how they bravely fought the Nazis far from their homeland.

Northern Rhapsody

Tonya, a winner of a regional competition, is admitted to the entrance exams to the capital's Song and Dance Ensemble. The young polar pilot Ladeikin helps the girl to get from the Far North to Moscow and become a soloist of the ensemble.

Profession: Film Actor

Vyacheslav Tikhonov's roles are discussed by his colleagues.

New Adventures of Puss in Boots

Lyuba, a daughter of King of Chess is kidnapped by playing Cards... Young Vanya and his best friend - Puss in the boots - are trying to rescue Lyuba.

Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes

Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka.

A Song in the Woods

A little girl is walking in the forest while singing a song. All the forest dwellers like the song, and everyone sings it in their own way.

At the Pike's Behest

The tale about a magic fish that too literally understands the wishes of lazy fool.

Little House on Wheels

About the boy Gosha and his friends who helped a lonely swallow.

Trubachyov's Detachment Is Fighting

The Trubachyov's pioneers detachment is stuck in the occupied territories during WWII. The children are trying to fight the enemy...

The Enchanted Boy

An animated adaptation of the classic story of Nils Holgerson, a naughty boy who is transformed to a very little dwarf and goes through many adventures, flying with a band of wild geese.

It Happened in Penkovo

Tractor driver Matvey Morozov returns to his native village from the prison. And he recalls the story of his marriage, his fatal love, failed betrayal and committed reckless “crime”, in which he doesn't repent at all.

Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

The Village Detective

Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate.

The Duenna

A funny musical based on the comedy "The Duenna" by British dramatist Richard B. Sheridan.

Land and People

A progressive agronomist fights with a conservative collective farm chairman.

Funny Stories

Funny stories about four friends and their adventures in a big city.

The Magpie

Aneta, the serf actress of Knyaz Skalinsky, amazes with her beauty and talented performance of Shchepin. After the performance, a frank conversation ensues between them. The interlocutor learns that Skalinsky, pursuing the actress for a long time, gave her lover — a young actor of the troupe — to the soldiers for twenty-five years. After much deliberation, Shchepin decides to help the girl, but is too late...

Incident in the Taiga

Young scientist is going to taiga for his experiments but meets poachers on the way.

Reporter from Overseas

An inexperienced reporter, Bob Sketch, is hired by the Strykoroba Corporation to cover Moscow, where his sensational and inaccurate reports lead to a series of misadventures and a reprimand from his boss upon returning to the US.

In a Quiet Marina

Two old friends remain socially active even after their retirement...

The Hunchedback Horse

Adventures of Ivan the Fool and humpbacked horse in the world of kind magical creatures and cruel people.

Murder on Dante Street

A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII.

Водяной

Prokhor Lykov, nicknamed Vodyany in the village for his passion for fishing, always disappeared on the shore of the lake with a fishing rod. The chairman of the collective farm decides to use his enthusiasm in his own way ...

Privalov's Millions

A young heir of a big fortune Sergey Privalov is coming back to his native town after a long absence. Having visited his owned plants, he breaks out with the idea to rebuild the industrial processes, improve the life of workers, and build schools and hospitals. Though, his interests collide with the interests of local big wigs, to whom the existing situation suits perfectly

Bread and Roses

A young worker Gavriil Ivushkin went with his comrades to the Altai steppe to build a commune. Gavriil Ivushkin endured the cold and hunger, the struggle against counter-revolution. But he could not hide his feelings for the beautiful Lyubasha, the daughter of a local "kulak".

The Frigid Sea

Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ...

Two Lives

Twenty years ago, Nastya Samokurova left the village in the city to seek happiness. Lived in the city, easy, easy life, engaged in speculation. And now she came to visit her sister Dasha, who continued to live in the collective farm and was universally respected.

Happy Kukushkin

A young worker, Kukushkin, falls in love with the innkeeper's daughter and asks for her hand in marriage. Having been refused, Kukushkin begins to practice throwing rings. The day comes when the lover wins all the property of a nepman and becomes a wealthy fiancé for his beloved.

The Inspector-General

Khlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. Petersburg. Khlestakov is mistaken for an undercover inspector, and uses the situation for taking bribes from the local governor and flirting with both his wife and daughter. Khlestakov abuses the corruption and hypocrisy of the local authorities until, at the end, the real inspector shows up...

The Tale of the Golden Rooster

A satirical fairy tale about an old tsar Dadon and a golden cockerel who guarded the borders of his kingdom.

Partisan Spark

From the first days of the WWII, an underground Komsomol organization "Partisan Spark" was established in a small Ukrainian village Krymka, captured by the fascists. It was headed by a ninth-grader Parfen Grechanyi. Young underground members, yesterday's schoolchildren, led a brave and courageous fight against the occupants. Beginning with the defeat of a fascist convoy that was taking bread from the village, the Sparkers were terrifying the enemies with their combat operations. It was 1943. The organization grew and became stronger. One day a rash act of a desperate boy Shura Kuchera leads the enemies on the trail of the underground group members....

Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka

The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.

A Hard Day's Monday

Having very skillfully organized the food production of "worse quality, but more quantity", the Tonap share partnership began to gain power. Khristoforov, the underground organization's head, is concerned about the spoiled products' sale, and he developed an operation to get closer to the city industrial council: asked for a meeting, and by Monday he ordered Stryapkov to find a gift. However, an incident occurred: the crown from the gold watch of Evlampius Kokin, a master of the sausage shop, was found in the sausage. Kokin, who had long been tormented by fear, without consulting with the leadership, came to the police himself.

When the Harpsichord Plays

A student falls in love with a girl detained on a false suspicion of speculation.

How the Little Camel and the Little Donkey Went to School

This animated short tells the story of a young Camel and Donkey attending school for the first time in a forest clearing. Dreaming of a prettier place, they decide to move the lessons to another meadow. Their mischief disrupts the class, and they are disciplined—but before long, they return to school, ready to learn.

Soon There Will Be Rain

A gambling-addicted old man loses all the water on Earth, condemning all living beings to death from drought.

A Spruce Was Born in the Forest

The film tells us how painted little man became alive and went to the wood for the fir-tree.

Cruelty

A criminal drama based on the story of the same name by Pavel Nilin. The first years of Soviet power in East Siberia. Malyshev,deputy chief of Criminal Investigation Department, a Komsomol member, wins over to the Soviet power a former field-hand and now a bandit Lazar Baukin, and the latter tells him about Vorontsov, the gang leader. Malyshev guarantees Baukin’s freedom. However the chief arrests him in order to reap laurels of catching the gang leader. Malyshev is in despair - he has brought under execution the man who has fully trusted him. The situation gets worse due to his personal drama and Malyshev commits suicide.

Saved Name

Grishka Hamuraru, the grandson of the underground fighter Samson Hamuraru, who is still unjustly considered a traitor in the Moldovan village of Vioreni for having led a partisan group to ruin during the war, decides to conduct his own investigation and restore his grandfather's good name.

Sin

Sergey Sergeyevich, a retired KGB colonel, has been enjoying his long-standing retirement. He remains fit and energetic, with little to complain about in life—he has everything he needs, even a mistress who dreams of marrying him. But one winter evening, two visitors arrive at his door.

The Humpbacked Horse

Remake of the 1947 Soviet film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.