"The action of this adventure film follows a real-life story. A Soviet vessel was carrying a cargo of the opium for pharmacological industry. The present-day pirates, going after a rich ..."

"A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, ..."

"The 16-year-old Tanya Canareykina decided to drastically change her life. For starters she fell in love with a pilot who played the trumpet and had sad, dreaming eyes. Because of ..."

"A musical film based upon A. S. Pushkin’s fairy tale “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights”. The tale narrated by Innokenty Smoktunovsky. Viewers’ comments ..."

"Set in turn of the century Russia, a passionate and epic love story about lost love, betrayal and the human spirit. 1905, Jane Callaghan a once beautiful American writes to her ..."

"This musical, beautifully costumed film is based on a popular Russian fairy tale. Once upon a time there lived a nice, sweet girl, Nastenka. Her wicked stepmother made her work ..."

"The film is based on the popular science-fiction novel “Professor Dowell’s Head” by Russian writer Alexander Belyaev. For many years, a prominent scientist had been striving to solve the problem ..."

"Once upon a time there lived a tsar by the name of Yeremey. He went on a year-long travel over his realm to take inventory of everything that belonged to ..."

"The film is based on the science-fiction novel "A Picnic on the Roadside" by Russian sci-fi writers, the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Stalker is the man who knows a lot ..."

"The film is based on the story of the same name by Soviet writer Chinghiz Aitmatov. It is set in a remote Kirghiz village during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). A ..."

"Alex created a program that can project man’s dreams onto the screen. Though it’s only a ploy in order to attract attention to “himself precious”. ..."

"A melodramatic love story with three main heroes: Vera, a waitress; Platon, a pianist; and… a train station where these two, already not young, people met. The differences in the ..."

"A screen adaptation of the story of the same name by Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov, a Nobel Prize winner. Andrei Sokolov, the film’s protagonist, had lost in the war with fascist ..."

"There is a Russian saying: “To go through fire, water and brass pipes”, which means to endure severe trials, to acquire vast life experience, to gain many impressions and steel ..."

"The film is based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The original script is by the well-known Russian writer Yevgheny Schwartz. This is a touching story of great love, ..."

"A screen adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy. The somber Elsinore Castle that keeps secrets of many a crime is looming over the rocky coastline. Prince Hamlet once again puts the ..."

"Based on the story “Christmas Eve” by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. The whimsical combination of Christmas phantasmagoria and an eccentric fairy tale makes this film an unforgettable spectacle. The action takes ..."

"This gigantic motion picture epic, based on the novel of the same name by the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, has won worldwide critical acclaim. For the shooting of the ..."

"By opinion poll of the members of the European Academy of Film and Television (1995), this motion picture was recognized one of the world’s ten best films (8th place). Its ..."

"The first full-length feature film by the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. It caused a popular sensation in cinema world. The film was highly praised by the great 20th-century French writer ..."

"This story, both happy and sad, is based on the popular fairy tales by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. Two parallel story-lines develop in this film. At a roadside inn, ..."

"The film is based on short stories by Russian writer Yuri Guerman. The year of 1944. The Second World War. A marine air force regiment is stationed at a small airfield. ..."

" This romantic melodrama, based on the science-fiction novel of the same name by Alexander Belyaev, became a box-office leader in the USSR in 1961. There is a panic in a ..."

"The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own ..."

"The film is based on the novel by Robert L. Stevenson. Jim, a dashing young man dreaming of romantic, thrilling adventures, happens to come across an old sea chart. It ..."

"This cinematic expression of the author’s reflections is one of the best films of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Its working title was “White, White Day”. Quoted in the film are ..."

"The 1920s Civil War in Russia… Budenny’s revolutionary army gets hold of a French movie camera as a trophy. To receive operational reconnaissance data, the army’s general staff decides to ..."

"A screen adaptation of the second version of A.M. Gorky’s play “Vassa Zheleznova”. In this family children were taught from the early years to put accent on the word “my”: my ..."

"The plot of this eccentric comedy is based on a newspaper item, found by script co-writer Yakov Kostyukovsky, about the arrest on the Italian border of a criminal who had ..."

"This “Middle-Eastern”, or rather a Central-Asian action film, about the Red Army fighting the counter-revolutionary robber bands has become not only a cult movie, but also one of the favorites ..."

"In one of the realms, there was time for the prince to get married, but the bride would have to be a real princess. A sign was put up on ..."

"A wide-scope panoramic view of Russia in 1916. The country is in its third year of war which seems to never end, with police rule, hunger and devastation at their ..."

"Watching one day a television program, a modest coach of a variety dance group, Alexei Ivanovich Beglov, recognized himself in a brilliant, elegant step dancer from old newsreel footage. He ..."

"Based upon the title story by the cult Russian author Anatoly Rybakov (novel “Children of the Arbat”, novellas “The Dirk”, “The Bronze Bird”, etc.). A wonderful lyrical film made in the ..."

"In some town there once lived very nice and unusual children – a boy named Petya and a girl named Toma. Toma had an illness of “the never-laughing tsarevna” – ..."

"Based on the books by Kornei Chukovsky.If there are hospitals for people, then why there should not be hospitals for beasts? And in every hospital there must be a doctor. ..."

"A made-in Russia film version of the colorful Oriental fairy tale. A wicked Maghribian wizard appealed to the stars to tell him the name of the man who would find a ..."

"The film’s heroine, Lola, is getting ready for the celebration of her birthday. Because she knows she is in for a surprise, she lets two strangers with flowers and a ..."

"Andrei Davydov, a successful businessman and former physicist, plots an unprecedented scam aimed at causing a downfall on the world’s financial markets. He has no doubts that he will succeed, ..."

"A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the time of the October Revolution. The age-old foundations are ..."

"A hilarious animation based on R. Stevenson’s famous novel. Film One: “Captain Flint’s Map”. Film Two: “Captain Flint’s Treasure”. One day an unexpected guest appeared at “The Admiral Benbow” Inn – an old ..."

"The film is based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The original script is by the well-known Russian writer Yevgheny Schwartz. This is a touching story of great love, ..."

"Never! You hear? NEVER pursue unfamiliar and too talkative rabbits. If you don’t want, of course, to get stuck (like a fly in the honey) in a most strange situation. ..."

"The film is based on the story of the same name by the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. Viy is a colossal creation of simple folk’s imagination. The main protagonist of ..."

"The distant 1920s. Three musicians from Odessa – Kostya, Styopa and Zhora – formed a jazz band. Following a few funny, albeit sad incidents, they were joined by a saxophone ..."

"A girl named Olya never listened to her grandmother, but one day… due to an old and magic mirror, Olya met her own reflection – a girl named Yalo. Together ..."

"An eccentric tragicomedy. A writer wrote a story and took it to a publishing house. The summer had passed, the autumn was in full swing… Finally, the writer mustered his courage ..."