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Viktor Tregubovich, Gennadiy Portnov, Yuriy Klepikov, Vitalij Solomin, Viktor Pavlov, Mihail Kokshenov, Vasily Shukshin

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 ...

Aleksandr Ptushko, Igor Morozov, Aleksandr Yurovskiy, Semen Nagornyy, Gennadiy Cekavyy, Oleg Anofriev, Vasiliy Lanovoy

A screen adaptation of the poetic fairy tale by Alexander Grin. In a small fishermen’s village there lived the reclusive Longren with his daughter. Once an experienced sailor, he was now retired ...

Andrey Mihalkov-Konchalovskiy, Eduard Artemev, Valentin Ezhov, Levan Paatashvili, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikita Mihalkov, Vsevolod Larionov

A vast saga in four parts. A small village of Yelan is hidden in the backwoods of Siberia. From time immemorial there have been living and feuding, two families: the ...

Lev Milchin, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Mihail Meerovich, Aleksandr Pushkin, Mihail Druyan

Skazki - eto to, chto ostaetsya ot navsegda ushedshego detstva u kazhdogo cheloveka. Podarite sebe shans vnov i vnov vozvrashchatsya v volshebnyy mir, sozdannyy geniem A. S. Pushkina. Priklyucheniya otvazhnogo ...

Kira Muratova, Ludwig Beethoven, Gennadiy Karyuk, Igor Kalenov, Viktor Pavlov, Renata Litvinova, Svetlana Kolenda

The blonde’s name is Lilia, the brunette’s – Violetta. The girls are fascinated by the horse races. Young racers are attracted to the girls. Sporting intrigues interlace with love affairs. ...

Iosif Heyfic, Andrey Moskvin, Dmitriy Meshiev, Aleksej Batalov, Iya Savvina, Yuriy Medvedev, Nina Alisova

A screen adaptation of the story of the same name by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. The chance meeting of Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, while both were vacationing in Yalta, is ...

The video tells about Russian folk traditions and is based on authentic folklore and ethnographic materials gathered by theater actors during expeditions. It also represents Russian folk calendar rites and ...

Sergey Gerasimov, Yuriy Levitin, Mihail Sholohov, Vladimir Rapoport, Mihail Gluzskiy, Igor Dmitriev, Petr Glebov

A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov, a Nobel Prize winner. The film depicts the destinies of the Don Cossacks during the First ...

Stanislav Rostockiy, Andrej Petrov, Gavriil Troepolskiy, Vyacheslav Shumskiy, Lyubov Sokolova, Vyacheslav Tihonov, Ivan Ryzhov

This is a touching story about a hunting dog, faithfully devoted to his master, an elderly writer. The war veteran Ivan Ivanovich got very sick one day (his wartime wounds ...

Vladimir Naumov, Aleksandr Alov, Nikolay Karetnikov, Mihail Bulgakov, Levan Paatashvili, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Mihail Ulyanov

This film is based on works by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The 1920s Civil War in Russia. Routed by the Red Army, the panic-stricken White Guards were fleeing the country. ...

Grigoriy Kozincev, Karaev Abulfaz, Evgeniy Shvarc, Andrey Moskvin, Apollinariy Dudko, Nikolaj Cherkasov, Georgiy Vicin

Based upon “the world’s first novel” (Carlos Fuentes) by Miguel de Cervantes, “The Ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha”. Writing “Don Quixote” in the early 17th century was a necessary ...

Aleksey Balabanov, Nautilus Pompilius , Sergej Astahov, Sergey Selyanov, Vyacheslav Butusov, Yuriy Kuznecov, Sergey Bodrov-mladshiy

Danila Bagrov, just demobbed from the army, returns to his quiet, provincial home town. But life is monotonous and boring in this Russian backwoods, so he is heading for faraway ...

Aleksandr Mitta, Boris Chaykovskiy, Yuliy Dunskiy, Valeriy Frid, Sokol Yuriy, Evgeniy Leonov, Leonid Kuravlev

A heroic fantasy about an artist’s destiny at the tumultuous time of social transformations. One of director Alexander Mitta’s best films. The south of Russia, 1920. In a town square, a ...

Karen Shahnazarov, Eduard Artemev, Aleksandr Borodyanskij, Nikolay Nemolyaev, Inna Churikova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chernyy

After failing at the entrance exams for a pedagogical college, Ivan Miroshnikov found a job of a messenger at an editorial office. Meeting new people makes our hero reevaluate his ...

Grigoriy Kozincev, Karaev Abulfaz, Evgeniy Shvarc, Andrey Moskvin, Nikolaj Cherkasov, Georgiy Vicin, Galina Volchek

Based upon “the world’s first novel” (Carlos Fuentes) by Miguel de Cervantes, “The Ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha”. Writing “Don Quixote” in the early 17th century was a necessary ...

Sergey Paradzhanov, David Abashidze, Dzhansug Kahidze, Miroslav Skorik, Dzhavanshir Kuliev, Tigran Mansuryan, Giya Badridze

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Teni zabytyh predkov) (Disc 1) 1964, 93 min. USSR, Dovzhenko Film Studio Based upon the novella by Mikhail Kotsyubinsky. Two Gutsul families had been warring for many ...

Eldar Ryazanov, Andrej Petrov, Aleksandr Ostrovskiy, Vadim Alisov, Aleksej Petrenko, Nikita Mihalkov, Andrej Myagkov

The film is based on the play “A Dowerless Girl” by the prominent 19th-century Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky. The beautiful Larissa Ogudalova, daughter of an impoverished, widowed noblewoman, living in a ...

Garik Sukachev, Stanislav Rostockiy, Sergey Ursulyak, Igor Sukachev, Rezo Chheidze, Sulhan Cincadze, Kirill Molchanov

Celebration (Prazdnik) (Disk 1) Director: Garik Sukachev 2001, 89 min. To mark the 60 years since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The film ...

Eldar Ryazanov, Andrej Petrov, Aleksandr Ostrovskiy, Vadim Alisov, Aleksej Petrenko, Nikita Mihalkov, Andrej Myagkov

The film is based on the play “A Dowerless Girl” by the prominent 19th-century Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky. The beautiful Larissa Ogudalova, daughter of an impoverished, widowed noblewoman, living in a ...

Vladimir Naumov, Aleksandr Alov, Nikolay Karetnikov, Mihail Bulgakov, Levan Paatashvili, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Mihail Ulyanov

This film is based on works by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The 1920s Civil War in Russia. Routed by the Red Army, the panic-stricken White Guards were fleeing the country. ...