Vadik Volnov (Garik Kharlamov) dies on his own wedding of cannabis overdose and has to prove to God that he is worthy to enter Heaven. During his conversation with God's secretary, Vadik recalls numerous memorable moments of his earthly existence, such as getting drunk on cognac on his 8th...
Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the Terrible had died. At first, things...
A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.
The main characters of the film are residents of different places of this country, most common people, with whom most uncommon things, pure wonders, happen. Semyon and Lyuba, a family of fireguards, have a chance to fulfill a dream – to go to Moscow to take part in their favorite TV show “Field...
Once, on New Year's Eve, photojournalist Gosha met a strange old man who called himself an inventor. He kept his last invention in a suitcase and willingly determined with the help of this device the area and degree of giftedness of each person. Gaucher, the old man predicted the career of a clown,...
Twenty-Six Days in the Life of Dostoyevsky was entered on February 16th at the 1981 Berlin Film Festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Dostoyevsky's death on February 9th, 1881, and won a "Best Actor" award for Anatoly Solonitsyn as Dostoyevsky. Solonitsyn was a favorite actor in Andrei...
The young artist Burtsev goes to Paris about the inheritance left to him by his uncle, who left for France with the first wave of emigrants. There, he is expected by the hostility of some persons interested in the inheritance, and the open sympathies of others - the old man Yerikhonov and his...
To mark the 60 years since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The film is set in a small village in western Russia. It is a story about two days from the life of an ordinary family: a father, a mother and their five-year-old daughter. That’s what Garik Sukachyov says about his...
The action takes place in Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century. Rasmus is a boy who lives in a shelter. Not content to stay under the strict discipline of the orphanage, he escapesand joins a tramp, nicknamed "Oscar Tumbleweed. They begin to travel the country together, but Oscar is...
The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odesa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, Pollack, arrives in Odesa, and realizes how hard it is...
Having caught his wife in bed with her lover, Stanislav leaves home. He changes his life dramatically. Stanislav, having taken a job as a security guard in the country house of a rich and lonely lady, constantly quarrels with the young gardener Sveta. But the hostess still doesn’t doesn't appear....
Patients of the resuscitator Mikhailov are people who tried to commit suicide. Veronika, a young journalist and sociologist, often visits the hospital where the hero works. Natasha, Mikhailov's wife, guesses that her husband is in love with another woman. She is jealous and increasingly feels her...
A.S. Pushkin's fairy tales "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" and "The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Heroes" staged by the actors of the Central Children's Theater.
In the village called Utka (Duck), in an old larder, there lived a house sprite, Shishok. A real one, with horns and in a fur coat, jolly and mischievous. He could walk through walls and find lost things. The only thing distressing Shishok was that the children stopped seeing him when they grew up....
Great Britain at the beginning of the XVIII century. His daughter Hilaret runs away from the house of a rich merchant to secretly marry her lover. The lives of young people are in danger. But despite the intrigues of dishonest law enforcement officers, vice is punished, and justice prevails...
The hero of the film is senior police commissioner Kuzmin. The plot is based on the robbery of a savings bank, an attack on a woman with the theft of a bag, the fate of a talented artist driven into a dead end by life and, finally, the problems of fathers and children...
