The Coders 1991

Panoramic life of a Moldovan village in the second half of the twentieth century.

Kites Don't Share Their Prey 1989

A Moldovan village in the late forties. Andrei Brume, a Komsomol member, university student and MGB lieutenant, is on a mission to fight a criminal gang. The situation is extremely dramatic. On the one hand, there are night raids by Stratan's gang, on the other - endless official extortion, respectfully referred to as a "state loan", when the chairman of the collective farm, Maria Josan, groping the trigger of a revolver, calls on hard workers to respond to the call of the Motherland...

Earthly Joys 1988

The young soldier Vasily Lemekhov has returned from the hospital and met a young woman Natasha in Chisinau.

Mysterious Prisoner 1987

Mikhail is fascinated by the ideas of the Decembrists about a Russia free from the tyranny of the Tsar. After graduating from military school, he goes abroad. Upon returning to Russia, a tragic life awaits him.

Swans in the Pond 1982

The director's autobiographical film about a distant hungry childhood after the war, where his mother became the main character...

The June Milestone 1982

Summer of 1940. The architect returns from Bucharest to his native Bessarabia with a firm desire to live outside politics. However, life forces him to make a choice.

Where Are You, My Love? 1981

The Fortress 1979

A group of Soviet paratroopers are engaged in a secret operation in Adriatic sea during the last year of WWII.

Root of Life 1978

Fascinated by the idea of creating an industrial inter-collective farm garden, scientist Andrei Barbu interrupts his work at the institute and moves to the district...

On the Track of the Wolf 1977

The film reproduces the events of the summer of 1921, when Kotovsky, at the head of a separate cavalry brigade, completed the defeat of the Antonov counterrevolutionary rebellion in the Tambov region, destroying Matyukhin's gang.

Don't Believe the Cry of a Night Bird 1977

Immediately after the war, veteran Vasile Karuntu came to the machine-building plant where Ion worked, who soon became a foreman. They both fell in love with Maria, but she married Vasile. With Maria, he created a family, raised four children, three of whom are adopted orphans. And now, many years after the first rivalry, the management of the plant releases Jonah from the foreman and appoints Vasile instead...

Nikushor From the TV Tribe 1975

The film is about difficult-to-educate kids and those who are involved in their upbringing.

Duration of the Day 1974

About the life of Stefan Barda, who joined the struggle for the liberation of Bessarabia, occupied by the troops of Royal Romania, in the 1920s.

The Last Hajduk 1973

About the romantic youth of the legendary commander, hero of the Civil War G.I.Kotovsky (1881-1925). An inexperienced fighter against landlord arbitrariness becomes a professional revolutionary under the influence of revolutionary events in Russia.

Notches For Memory 1973

A difficult historical period in the life of the Moldovan people, who fought in the 1930s against the yoke of royal Romania and for reunification with the Soviet Union.

A Delayed-Action Explosion 1971

The plot is based on the creation of an illegal Marxist printing house in Chisinau in 1901, which reprinted the newspaper Iskra and other underground literature.

Ten Winters in One Summer 1970

Four short stories tell about the inhabitants of the Moldovan village of Redu Mare. Stefan, a former front-line cowman, returned from the army and found unpleasant changes for himself. His beloved girlfriend got married... Originally from Redu Mare, the hero of the second novel is the power juggler Ion Ciocanu. The third novel tells about a young rural saint. His love for a random girl he met awakened a craving for a "mundane" life. But Valentine is lucky... The film ends with a story about Toolbarel, a cheerful and wise old man. He appears in all the other novels.

At Attempt to Escape 1965

Bessarabia on the eve of World War II... Soldier Ștefan Brebu is being taken to trial in a prison car as a witness. The escorts were ordered to shoot him on the way "at attempt to escape." A soldier can give testimony in court that is undesirable for the authorities: it was not communists who were shooting at unarmed peasants...

Journey into April 1964

A journalism student Kostik is travelling, by river steamer, to the place of his internship in the village of Lower Lazureny, but by mistake he goes ashore at Upper Lazureny. While Kostika is trying to get out of the village and get to his destination, wonderful adventures happen.