Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

A film about reflection, where the hero argues with himself.

Interstellar expedition equipped by "pioneers"(soviet scouts) reaches Alpha Kassiopea and finds that smart robots took control of whole planet. Their...

Several children go on a lifelong space mission to Cassiopeia because they don't want to go to school.

In December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek recognition of Finland's independence.

A television play from John Steinbeck's novel, performed live for Leningrad Television.

Follows the famous Oryol trotter, multiple champion of the beginning of the century. Then - in sharp battles on the tracks of hippodromes - the fate...

Ukraine, 1918. Underground worker Sigismund Raevsky organizes a Komsomol cell and gathers young people to fight against the German invaders...

Young poet Henry Epjohn is passionately in love with Aurora, the wife of aristocrat Teddy Bompas. Aurora suspects that her husband has gotten hold of...

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

Five stories all related to alcohol and it's affectation on people lives.

An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the...

Set in Russia during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War. The war is shown through the eyes of simple soldiers, who are dreaming about...

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,...

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...

Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev....

A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII.

The story concerns the events in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War. Private detective Petya Chukhontsev, a law student who has not...

The young girl Olga Vasilyeva grew up in an orphanage. She never knew her mother and wants to find her. The only trace she has is a preserved letter...

Hermann is an officer of the engineers in the Imperial Russian Army. He constantly watches the other officers gamble, but never plays himself. One...

A drama based on the daily life of a hospital and its doctors.

According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he...

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the...

A story about a good doctor - surgeon Mishkin who works in a countryside hospital.

Daniel Corban reports his wife Elizabeth missing to the police. A priest arrives and says he has found her. When he brings her in, Corban insists she...

The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, of...

About Russian space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.

He is overly intelligent... He is genius... And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia.

Set in the Soviet scientific community, the story follows two dedicated physicists whose close friendship unfolds amid dangerous nuclear research,...

Based on Anna Ahmatova's translation of Korean poem about eternal love.

Admetus, king of Feres, makes an agreement with the Fates to postpone the date of his death, in exchange for someone else taking his place, without...

Based on Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" ("The Miserly Knight", "Mozart and Salieri", "The Stone Guest", "A Feast in the Time of Plague").

When gold is discovered in a remote location, a variety of different groups descend on the spot to stake their claims, resulting in a spate of brutal...

A Marine's presumed death leads his fiancée to marry another, only for him to return, leading to a tragic, symbolic end for him despite his physical...

Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great...

After a pilot is forced to make an emergency landing in the Sahara Desert, he befriends a young prince from outer space; the friendship conjures up...

On the eve of his wedding, a young doctor leaves Moscow to see his mother who lives in a nature reserve. Things are complicated by the fact that the...

Historical drama about the engineer of the first printing press built in Muscovite Rus' and his complicated relationship with the state under the...

Three naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Bestuzhev, a vice-chancellor of Russia. If this diary ever gets...

A musical fairytale based on the poem "The Tale of the Dead Princess" by Alexander Pushkin.

In this picture, the barrier epitomizes the line between reality and dreams, the pattern of harmony and happiness. The delicate, pretty, sensitive...

A play about the life and death of Jean-Baptiste Molière, an artist tired of fighting the world.

In one of the realms, there was time for the prince to get married, but the bride would have to be a real princess. A sign was put up on the gates:...

A tragic accident happens during the shooting of a movie about Jesus Christ. An actor who plays Jesus is killed. The director of the movie believes...

Dr. Jekyll has made a sensational discovery: he has managed to separate good from evil in himself. This discovery he must keep secret, because the...

One soviet programmer has problems in his job. He is laughed at by women, they think he is too awkward. His chiefs are giving no rest to him. In...

The main characters of this edition of the popular television almanac are the heroes of the fantastic stories of the Soviet writer O. Lukyanov “The...

Researching for a script about a famous scientist who tragically passed away, a writer meets his wife Anna who's been struggling with the loss. A...

Leningrad State Drama Theatre's staging of Pushkin's play Mozart and Salieri.

A film about the Northern Urals and its nature, as well as about the life of a local forester and his family.

Film version of the Rimsky Korsakov opera from the Pushkin story. Motsart i Salyeri (Mozart and Salieri), based on a legend that Salieri poisoned...

Theft takes place in Washington, DC. Howard Knox is a well-intentioned Congressman crusading for reform. He is scheduled to make a speech in which he...

Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small...

A story from the life in the beginning of XX century based on the theater play by Maxim Gorky.

Late one summer evening, another guest arrives at a cottage on the shore of a beautiful lake, where fishermen usually stay: Pal Palych. Soon, the...

In the fall of 1938, three former fighters of the international brigade — russian Shukhov, frenchman Henri and american Liz — fall into a resort...

Retired professor Serebryakov and his young wife Yeléna disrupt the lives of his brother-in-law Vanya and daughter Sofya on a rural estate, leading...

The last twenty-four hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor and his family just prior to their deportation and execution at Babi Yar.

The film takes place in pre-Christian Russia, when Ratibor united the East Slavs into one army against the nomadic Khazars.

A factory worker leads a double life. In that other reality, he's a "killer" doing his dirty work. Receiving the order, he is as close to his...

On the night of June 22, 1941, a fire breaks out on a German passenger ship. The Soviet tanker "Caspian" comes to its aid - and navigator Nikolai...

Tired of watching the total collapse of the army on the fronts of World War I, left without his scattered squad, Lieutenant Reshetov goes to...

An older couple have four children who left them long ago. Tired of waiting for letters which never arrive, the father takes a trip to see how the...

A young philologist works in his teacher's archive, and he manages to decipher Pushkin's priceless autograph. The discoverer, inspired by success,...

According to the play of the same name of A. N. Ostrovsky. The merchants already possess the big equities. Money "runs the show". The world of...

A boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city.

On the streets of the regional city, a cheerful holiday bustle reigns. The apartment of the Kupriyanovs is also noisy — friends of their youngest...

‎Juggler Dan is beautiful and carefree and not too eager to become the circus main star. However, the meeting with Olga, who has no doubts about...

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...

The puppy learns from animals and birds why you need to bite.

A rich caliph is leading a careless life. One day an evil wizard sells him a magic potion that can turn human into any animal he wants. The only...

About fidelity and cunning, about purity of human feelings and belief in true happiness.

About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel and died when he was 37.

The engineer and the reporter arrived at one of the plants of the Altai. They have just completed the institutions and are confident that the future...

Based on the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

“Without the Sun” is the first name that Gorky himself gave to his play and which most closely matches its essence. For this work is not about...

Venice, eighteenth century. The young Rosanna, widowed on her wedding day, discovers that she is the sole heir to an enormous patrimony, becoming in...

Knowing that he will soon pass on, elderly Valentin Grack hires private detective Stanislav to follow him around for an entire day and write down...

Drama based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky.

The young artist Burtsev goes to Paris about the inheritance left to him by his uncle, who left for France with the first wave of emigrants. There,...

Central Russia. The deputy chairman of the district executive committee, Tretyakova, was instructed to organize work to eliminate the consequences of...

The film is a recollection of an adult about the unforgettable days of the first post-war year. Klava, who lost her husband at the front, with her...

History teacher Nikolay Echevin on his sixtieth birthday receives an anonymous letter in which he is called the "center of public infection" and...

Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the...

For Vera — a student of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute, first love instead of joy and happiness brings disappointment — and it was enough to...

Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet...

The final film of the television series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson." It is based on the late and little-known stories of...

This film version was released before the premiere of the full two-part television version (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The...

The spicy story of a modest Russian guy drawn into the incessant sexual marathon by the will of rival intelligence agencies. The victims of such an...

A film adaptation of A. Sukhovo-Kobylin’s work “The Case,” which reproduces the details of the author’s trial experience.

The film is based on the drawings and manuscripts of A.S.Pushkin.

The second part of a trilogy of films based on Pushkin's drawings, poems and letters.

A full-length animated film based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin, which includes all three pictures of Andrey Khrzhanovsky's Pushkin trilogy: "I...

The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which...

A TV movie inspired by Ivan Turgenev's Torrents of Spring.

In the winter of 1918, a provincial Russian town is faced with a shortage of food, firewood, and medicine. Discontent is brewing in the Red Army...

Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane.

First Love is based on the eponymous novella by Ivan Turgenev set in the first third of the 19th century. It follows a 16-year old boy who becomes...

Dina starts to see ghosts after her father mysteriously disappears...

The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on the feuilletons and notebooks of famous writers...

Many centuries ago, on the southwest coast of India, in Travancore, the art of kathakali dance arose, the most important place in which gestures...

About the Soviet actor of theater and cinema, Honored Artist of the RSFSR - Evgeny Yakovlevich Urbansky recalled Vasily Livanov, Polina Filippovna,...

A film about the life and work of the famous film director Mikhail Romm.

Ewa decides to leave Paris and find her husband left in Poland.

Based on the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

A Soviet biographical documentary devoted to Leonid I. Brezhnev, portraying his life “at work and at home” and tracing his path from the son of a...

In his unpublished main work, The Boards of Fate, Velimir Khlebnikov discovered the Law of Time, according to which, as he believed, world history...

Screen version of William Saroyan's play about a family of Armenian immigrants during the Great Depression.

Leningrad State Drama Theater television staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous Knight, The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri

A young woman takes a job as a laboratory assistant at a research institute. The established relationships among the staff strike her as artificial....

A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons.

Animals and humans are part of a single chain of all living things, two poles of the living world. By looking deep into the past and reconstructing...

Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's...

This film-concert is a ballet based on the novel "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, set to the music of Symphony No. 6 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and...

The film is based on excerpts from the works of the great Russian thinker Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The consultants are Doctor of Philology...

Reconstructed from archival documents and historical studies, a chronicle of the 1916 popular uprising in the Hungry Steppe and the Jizzakh Steppe.

The old writer is sorting through the relics in his hands, reminding him of the events of bygone years. In the first novel, a girl betrays her love...