Colorful Stories

A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.

A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.

A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, letting the tigers and lions out. Poor passengers and crew have no place to run. The captain abandons his post out of fear, and the monkey takes over the captain's post. The ship gets under total control by the tigers and lions. Only one lady is standing up to the challenge. Her name is Marianna, she loves animals, and she takes the situation under control.

The whole city is rushing to the circus to see the deadly act of the famous masked artist, the mysterious Mr. X. Among the guests is a rich widow, Countess Palinskaya, for whom any man is ready to perform a feat. But only the mysterious X is able to ignite the flame of love in the heart of the inflexible Countess...

The story is about heiress of the circus family who organizes show "Let's get married" right in the cage for the tigers. Famous motorcyclist Fedya Yermolaev is invited to the circus for a ‘death-defying number’ – to perform a jump on a motorcycle under the big dome! Lena, a custodian at the circus, dreams of becoming a tiger tamer. Stray tigers growl and frighten. Lena enters the cage and...

In this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard.

The New Adventures of Schweik adopted to the WWII reality.

In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against General Napoleon Bonaparte. Part one of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

The film is based on history of the Russian Military garrison in Sveaborg (Suomenlinna, near Helsinki) in Finland, which was an autonomous part of Russian Empire. In 1906 Russia had about 12 thousand troops stationed in Sveaborg fortress. The riots were provoked by the Socialist - Revolutionaries who spread influence on the minds of Sveaborg garrison. First acts of un-subordination broke on July 17, 1906, when revolutionary sailors were supported by mine-men. Minemen were arrested and disarmed by the infantry regiment. Gunners decided to release their comrades. The following fight ignited a bloody revolt, that was headed by lieutenants A. Yemelyanov and Y. Kohansky, members of the Lenin's Bolshevik party. A general strike began in Helsinki on the next day. The revolt lasted three days and was crushed by the Baltic Fleet naval bombardment. Over 40 men were executed, hundreds were sentenced to prison.

Svetlana, young pretty girl, works as a trolleybus driver in a small town and almost all her permanent passengers are at least a little bit in love with her.

A young man from the city falls in love with a girl from the country side. She is not accepted by the village community: people think she is a witch.

Egor, a successful thirty-year-old engineer falls in love with Lucy, a flamboyant artist and amateur actress. He clashes with her brother Alex, an “evil genius” photographer, who has dedicated his new exhibition “Sunless City" to St. Petersburg. Egor can't understand the values of the “sunless city”, the fringe world inhabited by Lucy and Alex. After Egor realizes that Lucy is a drug addict, he desperately tries to save her...

A lonely, defenseless, unsettled man meets a beautiful gypsy woman and falls in love with her. Having left the service, having left home, he sticks to the camp, but even here he finds neither home nor love — only pity. So he remains a "gadjo" for everyone, a stranger.

Adaptation of 'Prince Serebrenni' by A. K. Tolstoy.

Three astronauts (two Russians and American) find a very Soviet-alike small town on the fourth planet from Sun.

Based on the play by J. Smetanova.

Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an Austrian-Jewish exile in Moscow, Herbert Rappaport, the film tells with the story of an apolitical humanitarian Jewish doctor and his politically-aware, fascism-resisting son, an intern, as their lives become entangled with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany, where they live and practice. Things come to a head when the Nazi organization takes control of their hospital, and place a rabid antisemitic physician in charge over Mamlock and his staff.

The story of Greek patriots' struggle against the Nazi invaders in May 1941, when German troops landed on the island of Crete. Fleeing the Germans, seven people, completely different in their views and personalities, come together: communist Memos, who has escaped from prison; military doctor Kimon, fleeing from the hospital; nurse Alika and nurse Krinjo, a gendarme; and two soldiers—a Greek and a New Zealander who has fallen behind.

A man's corpse is found on the seashore. Conducting a thorough investigation, the young investigator Kovalev establishes the identity of the murdered man and his pursuer - in the past a provocateur, who gave the Hitlerites a group of underground fighters. At one of the interrogations the criminal recognizes in the prosecutor Skurchikhin former SS Oberleutnant and begins to blackmail him, not suspecting that he worked for the Soviet intelligence...

Two stories ("The feat of the soldier Mukhin", "The Last Autumn"). The events of one concern 1917, when Lenin had to hide in Finland, the second takes place in 1923-1924 during the last months of his life in Gorki.

Lost film.

Having married a poor girl, the moneylender tries to take out his anger for the injustices he has suffered in life on the helpless orphan, hoping that she will live meekly, constantly begging for his noble soul. However, Anna enters into an irreconcilable moral battle with her husband.

Yuri Stepanovich Ipatov, who once held a high-ranking position, is dismissed from his post due to financial misconduct. Coming to terms with his guilt and deeply remorseful, he decides to return to the factory where he began his working life — this time as an ordinary laborer. However, in making this choice, Ipatov did not expect that his beloved daughter Natasha would not only disapprove, but would see it as humiliating to be the daughter of a "small" man...

A young fitter at a bus stop accidentally pushed a girl, and she fell. This is how they met, although both are dating their other halves. One day, he gathers friends to build his dream house overnight. He found her at a roadside restaurant, and they walked through the forest all night, and in the morning he puts her in the car and takes her away.

During WWII Red Army sailor suddenly gets to German underwater swimmers secret base...

Follows the life of the Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya.