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Filmography
19 films


And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning
1971
country: Soviet Union
A drama based on Boris Lavrenev's play "The Rift", telling about the participation of Baltic Fleet sailors in the Bolshevik coup of 1917.


Hello, Warsaw!
1971 · 1h 18m
country: Soviet Union
A doctor from Poland is looking for his sister who got missing in the USSR during WWII.


New Year's Abduction
1970 · 3h 32m
country: Soviet Union
The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's concert. A police captain investigates the kidnapping and listens to complaints from the “unkidnapped” artists.


I Am His Bride
1969 · 1h 17m
country: Soviet Union
The court undeservedly passes a harsh sentence on a young worker Volodya Kharlamov. His girlfriend Valya, whom Volodya once saved from hooligans, and the people's assessor Mitrokhin actively insist on a review of the case. In the end, they are joined by others who knew Kharlamov well, but who were significantly hindered by simple human qualities - fear, selfishness and indifference.


Women Kingdom
1968 · 1h 37m
country: Soviet Union
A story about Soviet women and their village set during the years after WWII.


The Twenty Six Comissars
1966 · 1h 43m
country: Soviet Union
The film is about dramatic revolutionary events happened in 1918 in Baku.


I Am Cuba
1964 · 2h 21m
country: Cuba
A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution: a young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend; a tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works; university students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval; and, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family are patriotically swept up into the burgeoning revolt.


A Leap Year
1961 · 1h 34m
country: Soviet Union
On the streets of the regional city, a cheerful holiday bustle reigns. The apartment of the Kupriyanovs is also noisy — friends of their youngest daughter Yulka are preparing for the New Year. The old driver Leonid Kupriyanov will not have to celebrate the holiday with his family, he should go on the next trip. Preparing for the New Year, none of the heroes imagined what dramatic events would fall on them, how difficult and unexpectedly the destinies of three families would intertwine, how difficult it would be to recover from their experiences ...


Northern Story
1960 · 1h 17m
country: Soviet Union
Shortly before the December uprising of 1825, officer Pavel Bestuzhev was exiled to a distant northern garrison for insolence. Soon, he gets a chance to help a wounded Decembrist who intends to cross the border. Bestuzhev saves the fugitive and his beloved at the cost of his own life…


The Song of Koltsov
1959 · 1h 28m
country: Soviet Union


The Wind
1959 · 1h 39m
country: Soviet Union
Filmed in the context of the fortieth anniversary of the creation of the Komsomols, the League of Young Communists, tells the story of three youth delegates from the League in 1918, who must make the dangerous journey to Moscow during the civil war to participate in League’s congress.


The Cranes Are Flying
1957 · 1h 37m
country: Soviet Union
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.


Golden Apples
1955 · 1h 18m
country: Soviet Union
Early 50s. Frosts, unusual for the Black Sea coast, scathered orange trees used for breeding new varieties at the experimental botanical station. There is only one specimen left, and there is nothing to pollinate it with.


Sadko
1953 · 1h 25m
country: Soviet Union
In the old Russian city of Novgorod, the merchants are feasting in a gorgeous palace and Sadko is bragging that he can bring to their land a sweet-voiced bird of happiness. They laugh at him, but he is offered help by the Ocean King's daughter, who is mesmerized by Sadko's singing and is in love with him. The hero is destined to visit many lands in his search of the bird.


Glorious Path
1949 · 1h 17m
country: Soviet Union
A girl from a small village goes to the big city to realize her dream of driving trains.


The Lucky Bride
1946 · 1h 11m
country: Soviet Union
After the victory on Napoleon a hussar returns to Moscow. He is met by a desperate man who offers him a deal: marry his daughter before she turns 18 and inherit a huge fortune from her rich, eccentric aunt. There is also another condition...


Native Fields
1945 · 1h 30m
country: Soviet Union
November 1941. One by one, the men leave, leaving only old men, women and children in the village of Bykovka. Ivan Vybornov, the chairman of the collective farm, is also raring to go to the front, but, obeying party discipline, remains in the village and continues to skillfully and energetically lead the collective farm, mobilizing fellow villagers to send bread for the front and starving cities.