VGIK Movies

The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film, produced when he was a...

Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.

Elem Klimov's diploma film at VGIK.

Phone conversation between an abandoned husband and his friend.

A young schoolboy tries to help the girl he likes to pass a test.

Kasian Nefedovich decides to convey his last wish, of burying him beside his wife's grave, to his daughter Zinke and spend some time with her. But she doesn't allow him to stay with her family.

Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom are scarred by the trauma of the Russian Empire of yesteryear.

A school boy finds a fallen pilot in the forest during the fire started by enemies.

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.

The boy writes an essay at school in which he wants to be like his father - with mayonnaise, i.e. "MNS" (junior research fellow).

A short film about young delinquents terrorizing a neighbourhood.

A down on his luck peasant goes to fight in World War I and returns home a hero

Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.

After a performance, a girl gets behind the scenes and sees without masks all those whom she so feared, loved and hated.

Ivan Baikalov, the secretary of the District Committee, is the first person to come to him with any question: grain harvesting machines, alimony, crankshafts... - the party leader of the Altai village should know and be able to do everything. The wife of a young doctor came to seek protection from...

The absence of speech of the characters, and the only dialogue is whistled, because you can feel, but you can't talk.The background sounds like parallel, fictional worlds - worlds that exist simultaneously with ours, but independently of it, especially the sounds of radios (as the reference to the...

In their first collaboration Melkonian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov film two neighbour families that both claim ownership of a huge mulberry tree growing in the middle of their two houses.

Since early childhood I have been playing different games. And the older I get, the more dangerous it is for me to lose, and the more dangerous it is for others to win. God! Leave me one game - hide and seek. This is the only game I agree to play for the rest of my life.

A group of Swedish tourists are on the way to a Russian village to witness the so called 'Festivity of Neptunus', in which the inhabitants take a dive in a hole in the ice. This tradition, however, does not exist at all. The inhabitants try to make a good impression by starting the 'tradition' to...

The story is about a nasty boy who blackmails his older sister and the young man who is in love with her.