Andrei Krutikov was the first child born in the settlement of the hydroelectric station workers. The residents of the settlement named a street after him. Years passed, and the young city grew. Andrei grew up to be a mischievous, lying, and wild storyteller. But then a new boy, Borya Skalov, appeared in his class. Unintentionally, Andrei started to imitate the serious and responsible Boris, and he didn't even notice how his life began to change.
The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples with love, modernity and materialism.
Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes.
An old soldier helps a young boy find his mother, who's been kidnapped to the magical underwater kingdom in a remote Russian lake.
A cheerful mix-up takes place at a provincial hotel when a newspaper reporter is mistaken for a famous hypnotist.
Rookie Vladimir Danilin gets to the foreman of communication Kachure and is appointed to riding ones. Having no experience with horses, Danilin often finds himself in comic situations.
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
The action of the film takes place in a provincial town in pre-revolutionary Russia. Two friends, Semka and Alyosha, decide to run away to America. The owner of the pawnshop, where the guys bring a white fluffy cat, not only accepts the amazing pledge but also helps the boys figure out their lives...
A team of pop artists arrives in a small resort town and hopes to make money easily. But the guest performers are not given a provincial reception. Vacationing students of the theater university expose the hacks and declare a boycott against them...
The story is about two friends living in one of the provinces of central Russia. Pyotr Vasilyevich decides to marry off his young friend, Boris Andreyich. They visit a widow, two sisters of marriageable age, and the Barsukov family, which consists of two members: the father and his 19-year-old daughter, Verochka.
A telefilm about how a common cause and a dream helped classmates living by the sea find friendship...
Victor Ace loves to sing, but is forced to become a car mechanic. Lisa dreams of urban life, but lives in a village. Kostya Lastochkin is an excellent mechanic, but he serves in the army and comes home only on vacation.
A little girl named Katherine saved one boy's life during the bombing in Leningrad while under the Siege in WWII. The boy cannot speak yet. So she gave him a name Seryozha and provided him with food and care. She was later adopted by the boy's father, who recognized his son.
How can anyone take a person seriously when his last name is Zaychik (Little Hare). Everyone can manipulate and make fun of him. And Zaychik never strikes back just because he is too shy. But to the surprise of everyone love makes a lion out of little hare.
It takes one little big eared hero to bring back the sun and smiles to the adult world! Amazing adventures await a fluffy restless animal from a distant orange country when he gets to a small sea town. There he will find friends, home and finally a name. Helped – and hindered! – he will be by a unsociable old gardener, a strange fashionista aunt and her capricious granddaughter, a boy who can’t start talking in any way and his mother, who has a hard time, although she cooks the most delicious chocolate in the world. And many, many others, whose lives, along with the aroma of oranges, are about to burst into magic and adventure.
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On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair.
It is year 1900 in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and Deacon Olympius begins to take interest in secular literature. When he stumbles upon a book by Tolstoy, he is humbled and inspired to lead a just life. Based on a story by Aleksandr Kuprin.
Mashenka, a young typist during WWII, flees her occupied town with her boss, the senior cashier of a bank,along with a sack of jewelry and gold they hope to deliver to the Red Army.
It's time for the reckless guy Simion Cook to join the army. Having joined the airborne troops under the command of petty officer Petro Golovko, who is not indifferent to music, who organizes the vocal trio "Sineva", named after the initial letters of its participants: Moldovan Simeon, Armenian Nerses and Russian Vasily. And now the day has come when a new musical director, who turned out to be a charming girl Sasha, should arrive at the military unit. Who would have guessed that after the service, Simion would return home with a pretty bride...
Follows the service of Lieutenant Colonel Lubentsov as commandant of the German city of Lauterburg in the first days after the end of the Great Patriotic War.
A young artist gets into a scuffle with bikers after dabbling in graffiti on the subway. This altercation costs him a trip to Italy, and he is sent to rural Russia instead. However, his journey takes an unexpected turn.
Criminal bosses who live by the law of the jungle divide their spheres of influence. Where millions are at stake, human life is worth nothing.
This lavish Soviet/Czech co-production is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel, The Gambler, which tells the story of a Russian living in Germany, in a gambling resort. This film is set at the turn of the century, and was filmed in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia. Played by Nikolai Burlyayev, the gambler succumbs completely to his addiction, using up every resource he has (human, spiritual and financial) in his wagering, finally becoming a rootless drifter.
In order to carry out subversive work, the Chekist remains in a city occupied by whites. To do this, he moves into the doctor's apartment a singer, a graduate of the conservatory, who was joyfully welcomed by the doctor's family, and then, after the arrival of the whites, introduces himself as the husband of this singer, a businessman Couturier.
A murder just happened and it seems the answer is simple on who and how did it. But a casual talk between suspect's mother and prosecutor sets a different point of view on a just opened case.
A story about the tragic events in the life of besieged Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1943.
Summer 1918. As revolutionary Russia remains locked in turmoil, British mission chief Robert Lockhart plots against the Bolshevik government. Seeking to strengthen the conspiracy, he attempts to win the support of the Latvian Riflemen by bribing Bērziņš, commander of the Artillery Division of the Latvian Riflemen. His efforts draw the Latvian soldiers into a dangerous web of political intrigue, loyalty and betrayal.
A touching story about a teenager who dreams of growing up as soon as possible and discovering unknown islands. In the meantime, having scored another two and being offended by his father for the breakdown of an elegant sailboat made with his own hands, he runs away from home, wherever his eyes look - suddenly along the way he will come across an island that has not yet been discovered by anyone. And by doing so, he raises the police, the school, relatives and friends to their feet...
"Iskra" is the codename for the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of Leningrad. In January 1943, the blockade of Leningrad was broken. A corridor 8-11 km wide was formed between Lake Ladoga and the front line.
The career path of Sergei Omarov, a young engineer and graduate of a mining institute, does not start easily. But with the help of his worker friends, he not only becomes a skilled craftsman, but also rises to the position of head of Vzryvprom.
Former front-line intelligence officer, captain Nikolai Mityasov, after being wounded, returns to the destroyed city and learns the sad news: his wife Shura cheated on him. Bitterness and confusion gave way to hope. But peace has come, demobilization has begun, it is necessary to restore the homeland. Nikolai finds the strength to continue living, enters a construction institute, meets Valya and begins a new happy life without war...
Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.
He has appearance, abilities, intelligence, but exchanged everything for women, bringing them mostly grief, deceiving them and extracting everything he could from those who were older and richer. But then they saw through him and sent him out as a choreographer to the provinces, where he literally died. There arose a natural, but at the same time unnatural friendship and enmity with a drug addict nicknamed Buryy (Brown). This relationship brought Fuflo (Junk), as Buryy nicknamed him, to murder.
1942, Great Patriotic War. Thousands of orphaned children evacuated from besieged Leningrad and other cities found shelter and care in Uzbek families and orphanages.
About the beginning of M. Gorky's literary activity. Arriving in the provincial town of Samara, Alexey Peshkov publishes one after another incriminating feuilletons under the pseudonym Yehudiel Chlamydia. Acquires enemies, friends, becomes a famous writer and leaves for Moscow.
At the heart of the plot - the erroneous message about the death of Varvara Antonovna gathers around her son, daughter-in-law and grandson. They feel a sense of deep guilt, so carelessly treating a loved one for a number of years
A finding of an old briefcase in a ruined house in 1970s leads to a treasure, hidden in the 1920s.
Inspired by the life of Varvara Asenkova, a 19th-century actress who earned great acclaim on St. Petersburg stage before her death at the age of 24.
An employee leaves the company, lured away by a “competing company”, but his boss doesn't want to let him go at all, not handing over the documents, instead of saying goodbye through the secretary, that he doesn’t want him to leave, and gives three months to say goodbye to them or not. Nevertheless, he leaves, while grossly violating party discipline. A new venture awaits him, there he will be a big boss, an “outsider.” They have high hopes for it, but they are in no hurry to immediately reveal all the features and hidden production problems.
The action takes place in Odesa in 1918-1919. At the request of General Denikin, a French squadron arrives in Odesa to restore order in the city. Odesa Bolsheviks are trying to convince the sailors to leave the city. At the center of the story is the heroic fate of Frenchwoman Jeanne-Marie Lyabourb (1877-1919), shot by French interventionists.
The film shows the daily life of an architecture studio, where a young student comes to work on his dissertation.
