Finding Babel 2015

The subversive masterpieces of Russian-Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel challenged the reality of life under rising totalitarianism, and led to his arrest and execution in 1940. In Finding Babel, Andrei Malaev-Babel confronts complex traces of a turbulent history that echo in his grandfather's writing and in the conflicts of today's Ukraine and Russia. Babel's fiction is woven into Andrei's search with ethereal animation that puts the viewer, like Babel's readers, between fantasy and reality.

Warsaw Melody 2010

Yesterday's victorious soldier cannot stay with the woman he loves because of the ban on marriages with foreigners imposed by politicians.

Director Alexander Dunaev. On the Proposed Circumstances of the Soviet Theater 2010

Alexander Dunaev was the chief director of the Malaya Bronnaya Theater from 1967 to 1984.

The Royal Hunt 1990

Russian general have to find and bring back to St. Petersburg girl claiming her right to the throne...

The Pokrovsky Gates 1983

Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Khobotov's new fiancé. All these people live in one apartment and their lives constantly touch each other's.

Date 1982

As an honorary guest, Claudia Alekseevna arrives at the opening of the branch of the Institute of Culture. She will have to visit her mother, ex-husband, teachers, forgotten friends and girlfriends in her homeland...

Транзит 1982

Kind Men 1980

Based on the play of the same name by Leonid Zorin. Gordei Kabachkov, a professional con man, decided to pursue a career in science and was very successful. Having settled in a certain Institute of Ancient Culture, he easily wraps his finger around the numerous "kind men" - members of the academic council - and defends his thesis. Using his "talents" and the kindness of the staff of the Institute of Ancient Culture, Kabachkov makes a rapid take-off on the career ladder...

Man and Women 1978

Man turned to the psychoneurological dispensary to issue a certificate stating that he isn't registered here.

Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street... 1978

An omnibus of comical shorts.

Always With Me 1976

The famous scientist, academician and art critic Andrei Ilyin, who survived with the Hermitage staff the harsh trials of the Leningrad blockade, returned to his hometown after many years. The whole life of Ilyin is connected with Leningrad. A life that in the distant years of World War II would have seemed to have no future, but which, despite the unbearable horror of hunger and devastation, continued only in the name of the future ...

Grandmaster 1973

Варшавская мелодия 1969

The Ugly Story 1966

Based on a satirical short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky concerning the escapades of a Russian civil servant.

Friends and Years 1966

Retro-drama based on Leonid Zorin’s play of the same title. Screen version of the popular play of the 1960’s about people of a generation, whose lives were affected in different ways by the main developments in the Soviet Union from the 30’s and 60’s. The song “It Was Recently” is performed by Oleg Anofriev.

Peace to Him Who Enters 1961

The time is World War II. Lidiya Shaporenko plays a pregnant German woman, trapped behind Russian lines. When the woman goes into labor, three loyal Soviets deliver her to a field hospital: a newly graduated officer, an affable truck driver, and a soldier shell-shocked into muteness. The dangerous trip to the hospital ends up a rite of passage for all concerned. The winner of a special gold medal at the Venice Film Festival, Peace to Him Who Enters was originally released in the USSR in 1961 under the title Mir Vkhodyashchemu.

The Man from Nowhere 1961

In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia. The main character is probably based on Yeti.

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend 1961

During World War II, the Frenchman Léon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from the Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Léon, who became a journalist, and his friends came to the USSR to make a report and find Boris in the meantime. In Moscow he doesn't found, and for the sake of meeting with a friend, Garros has to travel around the country by car... The foreigners are accompanied by Nikolai, the translator, who, in turn, is looking for his brother's runaway bride, Natasha.