Return Move

After fifteen years of wandering, Ivan Shalnev returned to his native village for the summer. Autumn arrived quickly. He hadn't managed to accomplish everything he had planned. But he realized where his happiness lay, and he stayed forever...

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.

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.

A continuation of a saga about Budulai started in "Gypsy" (1979).

During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

The life of Pavla Brus, a middle-aged, modest but principled woman, suddenly changes with a crush on a drilling foreman. Unable to restrain her feelings, she decides to cheat on her husband, divorce and leave the family. But her youngest son Kuzma, a teenager with an intelligent and piercing look at the world around him, stops her from a rash act, which is shaped by observation of Siberian nature. A philosophical attitude towards banal life processes allows the mother to reconsider her feelings for her husband Tikhon and the failed lover Nikolai.

A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life and the difficult love to Russian woman.

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.

Gordon Patrick, a young CIA analyst is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a major Russian political figure.

About the commissioning of a new rolling mill at the steel plant. The plot is based on the relationship between two fellow students at the institute - a senior official of the Ministry, who came to the start-up of the mill, and the director of the plant.

Four present-day Russian men dig for Nazi memorabilia at a WWII battlefield. A wormhole lake sends them back to a battle in 1942 USSR.

In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.

An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.

Sergei and Andrei are walking through a city park and see that a film shoot set just post World War II is taking place . They climb over the park fence to get a better view but hit some cable lying on the ground and find themselves in the past - on May 8, 1949, a day which they seem doomed to relive over and over again.

Alyoshin, a Soviet journalist working in Argentina, witnessed the kidnapping of photo correspondent.

The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.

On their way to a Black Sea resort, a Siberian tractor driver and his wife make new friends and take a detour to Moscow.

According to the stories of I.Kasafutdinov. Grigory has been working as a diver in the Sea of Okhotsk for many years. He misses his six-year-old son Dimka very much and decides to return to his hometown to invite his ex-wife Katya to try to somehow establish a life together. When he arrives, he finds out that Katya has a new husband, and she is expecting a child from him. Grigory asks to give him his son in exchange for all the money earned in the north, and Katya, after a brief hesitation, agrees. Grigory takes Dimka away, but the police overtake them at the train station. At the police station, Grigory learns that his ex-wife has filed a complaint about the abduction of her son...

The romantic vagrant, Moldovian Mihai Adam goes to Spain to be enlisted as volunteer fighter against the Franco regime.

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.

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

For the third year, the expedition has been searching for the causative agent of an infectious disease rampant in the Ussuri taiga, where a major construction project is about to begin. Meanwhile, the enemy seeks to destroy the fruits of years of labor of Soviet microbiologists. Young scientist Vasily Zheludev exposes a master saboteur and forces him to flee into the taiga.

On December 6, 1941, the troops of the Western Front launched an offensive near Moscow. And before that, in the autumn of 1941, when the fascists were at Moscow, ten soldiers under the command of a lieutenant went into the enemy terrain to blow up the ammunition base.

Maria Odintsova, a young engineer, is a leader, secretary of the district committee of a small district, which is beginning to acquire important economic significance: it is decided to build a large hydroelectric power plant here. The heroine's conflict with the head of construction arises because of their different attitudes to the possibilities of using and preserving natural resources.

The novelette was written by I.Huseynov. In the film, the problem of war is viewed from the perspective of love. Almost all of the men of the village are at the battlefront. The women who stayed in the night and day to support their efforts. Children wake up in the middle of the night, crying for bread. All of the villagers feel anxious for the men to return. Mothers are waiting for their sons; wives, for their husbands and children, for their fathers. When Sayali's husband dies at the front, her husband's friend Jabrayil proposes to her. The people of the village are furious. Jabrayil's brothers leave home, convinced that their family has been disgraced. One brother goesw crazy; the other fall ill and dies. The only person who doesn't blame Jabrayil is the "agsaggal" (the wise old man) of the village - Isfandiyar Kishi. In this film, note single sound of weaponry is heard, not are any battle scenes depicted, yet we still witness the inherent tragedy of war.

The young, talented scientist Konstantin Popov begins a serious romance with the daughter of his academic supervisor. Soon, rumors begin to spread around the department that Popov has made the right choice: the calculation is accurate. Konstantin, a principled and uncompromising man, is used to achieving everything in life on his own. Unable to bear the ridicule of his colleagues, he breaks off the relationship with the woman who loves him...

Far East. Military unit. The days of the border guards are filled with ordinary human concerns and joys. But the habitual rhythm of life is often disturbed, because near the border and the ocean, concealing the danger of a tsunami ...

The war, with its immorality and cruelty, touched the foundations - the "bridges of life" - of a simple Moldovan village...

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...

In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic produce, Cipollino fights the unjust treatment of his fellow vegetable townsfolk by the fruit royalty (Prince Lemon and the overly proud Lord Tomato) in the garden kingdom.

When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dilapidated Moscow movie studio late one night, she thinks she witnesses the making of a snuff film. Thus begins a night of terror.

Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves in the occupied territory in the area of operations of the Belarusian partisan detachment. To find the people's avengers, the Nazis decide to use children.

St. Petersburg. Winter of 1917, the eve of the February Revolution. The maid finds in the room the corpse of the murdered tenant. In his pocket, a hotel account was found in the name of Karl Fischer, a well-known banker. An investigation is beginning. In the list of suspects - an agent of the secret police...

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 young lumberjack foreman Lyoshka Ignatov bitterly sees for himself that the huge stocks of forest, extracted by hard work, rot on the side of the road due to simple mismanagement. Raising the alarm at the timber industry farm and not receiving support in the area, he flies to Moscow.

On the way for fishing Leonid Karetnikov finds the body of a man on the roadside and admit a car driving out of there. While Karetnikov called the police, the body was gone. Also disappeared the bag with tools to crack safes, lying next to body. Pursuing the investigation of the case, Colonel Kornilov states that the victim is probably Lev Kotlukov - known "safecracker" nicknamed Leo the Boar. Also, it looks like he got hit by a car belongs to citizen - professor of the Institute, which has no relation to criminal organizations. To reveal the intentions of criminals, Kornilov decided to send his man Major Bugaev undercover to the gang.

The Great Patriotic War. Death in the whistle of every bullet, every shell. Burning buildings, hungry people in the basement. How many people passed through the land of fire - patient, courageous, silent. Cameraman Vladimir Sushkov walked next to them, creating a harsh tale of those who were and were not in the war ...

A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.

A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.

About Nikolai Bukharin and his comrades, about Stalin’s repressions of the 30s.