Evgeniy Evstigneev

biography: Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Evstigneev - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater teacher; People's Artist of the USSR (1983), laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1974) and the State Prize of the RSFSR. brothers Vasiliev (1990), holder of the Order of Lenin (1986). Since 1957, he has been an actor in the Sovremennik Theater. He played his first significant role in the theater in 1960 in the play "The Naked King" based on the play by E.L. Schwartz. After this performance, the performer of the main role - the king - the actor became famous. His last role in this theater was Dorn in A.P.'s The Seagull. Chekhov in 1970. In 1964, he played the role of Dynin in the debut film directed by E.G. Klimov “Welcome, or No Trespassing”. In 1971, following O. N. Efremov, he joined the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater. His first role on the new stage was Volodya in the play "Valentin and Valentine" based on the play by M.M. Roshchina. In 1988, he played the role of Professor Preobrazhenskiy in the two-part TV movie Heart of a Dog. At the turn of the 1990s, he played Firs in the Anton Chekhov Theater in The Cherry Orchard, in 1991 - in the ARTel of ARTist Sergey Yursky-Glov in the play Players-XXI. In total, he starred in more than a hundred tapes in films and on television.

Seventeen Moments of Spring

overview: A Soviet spy is tasked with disrupting the negotiations between Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles taking place in Switzerland, aimed at forging a separate peace between Germany and the Western Allies.

character: Werner Pleischner - professor

original_name: Семнадцать мгновений весны

Old Fortress

overview: The Soviet propagnda film follows young people from Ukrainian Kamianets-Podilskyi during the revolutionary battles for Soviet power, spanning from pre-revolutionary times to the 1930s. It depicts their experiences in a gymnasium, labour school, cadet dormitory, and their involvement in conflicts against Petliura’s forces and German interventionists, highlighting divisions by social status and political views. It consists of three parts: "Commissar Sergushin" (episodes 1-3); "The Haunted House" (episodes 4-5); "The City by the Sea" (episodes 6-7).

character: Симон Васильевич Петлюра (1-3 серии)

original_name: Старая крепость

Ermak

overview: The second half of the 16th century, the time of Ivan the Terrible's reign. The story of Yermak Timofeyevich, whose campaign beyond the Urals served to annex the Siberian lands to the Moscow kingdom.

character: Czar Ivan Groznyy «Ivan the Terrible»

original_name: Ермак

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

overview: After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to track down a gang "Chernaya Koshka" (Black Cat) which terrorizes the city. Also, they have to find out who murdered Larisa Gruzdeva. Zheglov believes it was her husband Ivan Gruzdev, but Sharapov has his doubts about it...

character: Пётр Ручников (вор «Ручечник»)

original_name: Место встречи изменить нельзя

Vivat, Naval Cadets!

overview: 1744. Russian Empire. Being childless, but at the same time wanting to finally consolidate on the Russian throne of his - "Peter's" line of the Romanov dynasty, Empress Elizabeth Petrovna decides to marry his nephew Karl Peter Ulrich, brought from Prussia, called in Russia "Peter Fyodorovich" to some noble, but preferably not very rich and not very willful European "princess". Elizabeth is intrigued by the brave young guardsman and his intercession for Yaguzhinskaya, and she gives Belov "an assignment of national importance" - to secretly bring his important guests to Russia from Prussia. The ubiquitous vice-chancellor Bestuzhev learns about it. He summons Alexei Korsak, Belov's friend who will keep Alexander company on his trip to Prussia, and instructs him to become a spy on Belov, threatening Korsak with "exile to the galleys" and "Siberia" for his wife and young son if he refuses.

character: Aleksey Petrovich Bestuzhev

original_name: Виват, гардемарины!

origin_country: RU SU

Naval Cadets, Charge!

overview: 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 abroad, the consequences for the country would be grave. The cadets are trying to return the papers to their owner, but there are others who want to get the papers...

original_name: Гардемарины, вперёд!

The Limit of Possible

character: Андрей Кириллович Куликов

original_name: Предел возможного

The Tales of the Old Wizard

overview: A princess is born to the king and queen of a fairy-tale kingdom. The wicked witch, who resents not having been invited to the princess's birthday party, curses her: on the day the princess turns 16, she will be pricked by the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into eternal sleep. The king orders that all spinning wheels in the kingdom be destroyed and the number 16 be taken out of use. However, a young traveling prince arrives, bringing a curse with him.

character: Король-самозванец

original_name: Сказки старого волшебника

Ночные забавы

character: Андрюшенко

original_name: Ночные забавы

Domestic Circumstances

overview: Multiple love stories are going around the young family, including the newlyweds, parents, and even a grandmother.

character: Николай

original_name: По семейным обстоятельствам

Fuse

overview: Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

Past and Thoughts

overview: Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.

character: Трензинский

original_name: Былое и думы

character: чтец

original_name: Былое и думы

The Days of Surgeon Mishkin

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

original_name: Дни хирурга Мишкина

Variant 'Omega'

overview: The miniseries is based on documentary material about the actions of Soviet intelligence in Tallinn occupied by the Nazis.

character: Nikolay Alekseevich Simakov

original_name: Вариант «Омега»

My Destiny

overview: Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...

character: Timofey Kozhukhov / Pavel Timofeyevich

original_name: Моя судьба

The last summer of childhood

overview: The film takes place in Moscow in 1925, during the New Economic Policy (NEP). The three main characters - Misha, Genka, and Slava - have grown up and become Komsomol members. A murder occurs in their courtyard: engineer Zimin is shot dead at night. The prime suspect turns out to be a local hooligan. But Misha refuses to believe him completely and tries to find evidence on his own.

character: Valentin Valentinovich Navrotskiy

original_name: Последнее лето детства

Pусский

Евгений Евстигнеев

biography: Евгений Александрович Евстигнеев - советский и российский актёр театра и кино, театральный педагог; народный артист СССР (1983), лауреат Государственной премии СССР (1974) и Государственной премии РСФСР им. братьев Васильевых (1990), кавалер ордена Ленина (1986). С 1957 года - актёр театра «Современник». Первую свою значительную роль в театре сыграл в 1960 году в спектакле «Голый король» по пьесе Е. Л. Шварца. После этого спектакля исполнитель главной роли - короля - актёр стал знаменитым. Последней его ролью в этом театре был Дорн в «Чайке» А.П. Чехова в 1970 году. В 1964 году сыграл роль Дынина в дебютном фильме режиссёра Э.Г. Климова «Добро пожаловать, или Посторонним вход воспрещён». В 1971 году вслед за О.Н. Ефремовым перешёл в труппу МХАТа. Первой его ролью на новой сцене стал Володя в спектакле «Валентин и Валентина» по пьесе М.М. Рощина. В 1988 году сыграл роль профессора Преображенского в двухсерийном телефильме «Собачье сердце». На рубеже 1990-х годов сыграл в Театре Антона Чехова Фирса в «Вишнёвом саде», в 1991 году - в АРТели АРТистов Сергея Юрского - Глова в спектакле «Игроки-XXI». Всего снялся более чем в ста лентах в кино и на телевидении.

Polski

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english_name: Polish

Français

Ievgueni Ievstigneïev

biography: Ievgueni Alexandrovitch Ievstigneïev (en russe : Евгений Александрович Евстигнеев), né à Nijni Novgorod le 9 octobre 1926 et mort à Londres le 5 mars 1992 (à 65 ans), est un acteur soviétique de premier plan et l'un des fondateurs du Théâtre Sovremennik de Moscou. Artiste du peuple de l'URSS en 1983.

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english_name: French

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Evgeni Evstigneev
Evgeny Evstigneev
Yevgeni Evstigneev
Yevgeny Evstigneev
Yevgeni Yevstigneev
Yevgeny Yevstigneev
Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev
E. Evstigneev
Ye. Yevstigneyev
Е. Евстигнеев
Евгений Александрович Евстигнеев

title: White Queen's Move

overview: A ski coach in a midlife crisis is about to quit his career in sports.

character: Дрыжик, парикмахер

original_title: Ход белой королевы

title: Welcome, or No Trespassing

overview: Children rebel against the strict rules and regulations they face during their time in a Communist Young Pioneer camp.

character: Товарищ Дынин, директор пионерского лагеря

original_title: Добро пожаловать, или Посторонним вход воспрещен

title: About the Little Red Riding Hood

overview: A sequel to the well-known story about a Little Red Riding Hood (Krasnaya Shapochka). This time, a family of a slain wolf decides to avenge his death. So they falsely inform Little Red Riding Hood that her grandma is sick and prepare to eat her on her way.

character: звездочёт

original_title: Про Красную Шапочку

title: There's Still Time

overview: The hero of the film, a Komsomol member of a large youth construction site, decides whether it is possible to sacrifice people's lives in the name of a great goal.

original_title: Ещё можно успеть

title: Born by the Storm

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

character: Polkovnik Heise

original_title: Рождённые бурей

title: Heart of a Dog

overview: In 1920s Moscow, shortly after the October Revolution, a stray dog named Sharik is taken in by Professor Preobrazhensky, a wealthy and respected surgeon. The professor performs a daring medical experiment on the dog that changes him into a human being. As the newly transformed Sharikov begins to navigate life in the professor’s apartment, his crude behavior and revolutionary ideas turn the household upside down.

character: Professor Filipp Preobrazhenskyy

original_title: Собачье сердце

title: Domestic Circumstances

overview: Multiply love stories are going around the young family including the newlyweds parnts and even... a grandmother.

original_title: По семейным обстоятельствам

title: How Longing Was Defeated

overview: The Merry Master arrived in the enchanted city and defeated the evil witch Tosca.

character: from the author, Sea Wind (voice)

original_title: Как тоску одолели

title: Following the Sun

overview: A story about a boy walking across the town following sun.

character: Николай Черных (мотогонщик, выполняющий «Бесстрашный рейс»)

original_title: Человек идет за солнцем

title: Old Men: Robbers

overview: An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen.

character: Воробьев

original_title: Старики-разбойники

title: The Drayman and the King

overview: Moldavanka is a legendary district of pre-revolutionary Odesa, a bustling, carefree world brimming with vibrant southern life. It is home to a colorful, cheerful crowd, as well as the pride of Moldavanka — the charming bandit Benya Krik, nicknamed the King, son of the horse dealer Mendel Krik. The whole story begins when Mendel decides to leave his family and run off with the young beauty Marusya, selling his famous Odesa stable...

character: Nikifor

original_title: Биндюжник и Король

title: Winter Evening in Gagry

overview: A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as step became unpopular he lost everything. He hates even this word - 'chechotka' (step dance). But somehow the young man convinces him to become his coach and manager.

character: Beglov

original_title: Зимний вечер в Гаграх

title: Sons of Bitches

overview: The story about actors who will never agree to betray their theatre, even if they will have to burn themselves. And other instructions on how to behave if a whiskered man breaks into your house and wants you to leave it.

character: Andrey Ivanovich Nanaytsev

original_title: Сукины дети

title: The Old New Year

overview: Two families are trying to fix their problems during the celebration of the New Year.

character: Адамыч

original_title: Старый новый год

title: Zigzag of Success

overview: Photo studio "Contemporary" in a provincial town lives with its everyday problems. The director is concerned over the failure to fulfill the planned targets, receptionist Alevtina wants to get married, and photographer Vladimir Oreshnikov dreams of becoming a professional photographer.  But suddenly luck smiles on Oreshnikov. He takes 20 rubles form the worker's mutual aid fund, buys a government lottery bond and wins 10,000 rubles. Oreshnikov wants to receive the win himself, but his colleagues object to him, because the money that he spent on the bond were public, hence the win should be divided equally among all workers. It creates a controversial situation, which is successfully resolved on the very eve of the New Year, under the chiming clock...

character: Ivan Kalachyov

original_title: Зигзаг удачи

title: Beware of the Car!

character: Евгений Александрович, режиссёр народного театра

original_title: Берегись автомобиля

title: The Property of Republic

overview: Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid Keshka, is stealing a collection of paintings and sculptures from the abandoned estate owners. Hoping to transport her abroad, criminals wander with a circus troupe, and in their wake goes a tireless criminal investigator — Makar Ovchinnikov.

character: Витоль

original_title: Достояние республики

title: The Orphans

overview: A story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II.

character: Gatekeeper

original_title: Подранки

title: The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

overview: Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand.

character: Ruchnikov

original_title: Место встречи изменить нельзя

title: Ballad of a Soldier

overview: During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.

character: Truck Driver Who Changed His Mind

original_title: Баллада о солдате

title: Cheka Employee

overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Aleksandr Lukin and Dmitriy Polyanovskiy. Russia, 1919. A young soldier of the First Cavalry Army, Aleksei Mikhalyov, is sent to work in the provincial Cheka. Here in the south of the country there is a large White Guard underground led by the elusive Markov. Aleksei gets into the gang, where he is mistaken for his own. The day of the operation to eliminate the white underground is appointed. But unforeseen circumstances destroy the plans of the Chekists.

character: Markov

original_title: Сотрудник ЧК

title: The Mechanic Gavrilov's Beloved Woman

overview: Story of 38-years-old Rita whose fiance didn't show up at their wedding.

character: дядя Риты

original_title: Любимая женщина механика Гаврилова

title: Moonsund

overview: Captain of a Russian battleship "Novik" Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady Klara who is a German spy. They cannot be together because of the war and their professions. But they are in such love that all the war battles and battleships do not stop them, only their duties do.

character: Von Essen

original_title: Моонзунд

title: The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin

overview: A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.

character: Пётр Петрович Гарин

original_title: Гиперболоид инженера Гарина

title: Zerograd

overview: Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.

character: директор музея

original_title: Город Зеро

title: The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin

overview: A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.

character: Kalinin

original_title: Пиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным

title: We're from Jazz

overview: A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.

character: 'Papa'

original_title: Мы из джаза

title: Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia

overview: In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. As more people learn about it, they head to Leningrad to find the lion where it is rumoured to be buried.

character: Italian Lame

original_title: Невероятные приключения итальянцев в России

title: Last Summer of Childhood

overview: This is a last of 3 movies about 3 friends (the other two are "Kortik" and "Bronzovaya Ptitsa"). The gang has grown up and in this movie they discover and help to stop criminal activity on the factory and in their neighborhood.

character: Навроцкий

original_title: Последнее лето детства

title: The Flight

overview: The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the flight" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to Russia. Some of them have understood that they can't live outside Russia and go back maybe to be happy, maybe not, some go back to face sure death for their crimes, some don't go back and know that are going to miss homeland forever, some are comfortably well off (are they?) in exile.

character: Парамон Ильич Корзухин

original_title: Бег

title: Ermak

overview: The story of Ermak Timofeevich, whose campaign for the Ural mountains served to annex the Siberian lands to the Moscow kingdom, in the second half of the 16th century.

character: Иван Грозный

title: The Days of Surgeon Mishkin

original_title: Дни хирурга Мишкина

title: Night Fun

overview: A night become real "fun" for a family with the visit from very strange person.

original_title: Ночные забавы

title: New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court

overview: The plane of the American pilot Hank Morgan got lost in time. The pilot falls into temporary loop and finds himself at the era of the glorious King Arthur. Here he is destined to meet the legendary knights of the Round Table and the insidious Queen Morgana - the sister of the king, the beautiful Sandy and the wise Wizard. He will find himself in the rags of a slave and in knightly armor, to witness the greatness and death of the kingdom.

original_title: Новые приключения янки при дворе короля Артура

title: Holy Moly!

overview: Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Georgy Burkov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Galina Polskikh in a sad comedy by Sergey Nikonenko based on Vasily Shukshin’s short stories “Touches on the Portrait”, “The Stubborn One”, “The Strong Go Further”. Nikolai Knyazev works in a TV repair shop. God has blessed him with golden hands and heart, yet the majority of his fellow-town folk think he’s a bit nutty. And for a good reason: he’s constructing a perpetual motion machine, for years has been writing a philosophical treatise, dreaming of world fame and looking down on the other inhabitants of this sinful earth. But no matter how hard he is looking, he can’t see where his happiness (that is, post-office employee Lyuba) lies…

original_title: Ёлки-палки!..

title: Nine Days of One Year

overview: Set in the Soviet scientific community, the story follows two dedicated physicists whose close friendship unfolds amid dangerous nuclear research, shaped by their shared affection for a strong-willed woman. Radiation exposure, scientific ambition, and romantic rivalries intersect as the characters confront the physical risks of their work and the personal consequences of their choices.

original_title: Девять дней одного года

title: The Voice in the Wilderness

overview: Armenia in the Middle Ages ... the desert ... the bell-tower of a half-destroyed church ... Martiros languishes in the desert. His heart strikes out beyond the narrow monastic circle.

original_title: Ձայն Բարբառոյ

title: Naval Cadets III

overview: There is a seven-year war, Russian soldiers are forced to fight for the interests of France and Austria against Prussia. The midshipmen continue to selflessly serve the Motherland. One is on an expedition, the other is at court, and the third is sent to Venice to hand over a jewelry box. In fact, there is a message in the box, on which the future fate of Europe and Russia depends!

original_title: Гардемарины III

title: Taste of Khalva

overview: For many years the great Emir of Bukhara has not known happiness - he has lost the taste to delightful khalva, and now life is as sour as a lemon for him. The house of poor pot-maker Shir-Mamed, however, is full of happiness - his little son Hodzha Nasreddin has been born. Rumours have spread about his unusual abilities - maybe he will be able to make the Emir happy again?

title: The Ugly Story

overview: Based on a satirical short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky concerning the escapades of a Russian civil servant.

original_title: Скверный анекдот

title: Don't Leave Your Lovers

overview: Sometimes divorce process could be really painful. This is exactly the case for the heroes of this romantic drama.

character: Хомак, сосед Вадима

original_title: С любимыми не расставайтесь

title: Strange People

overview: A comedy based on three short novels by Vasiliy Shukshin.

original_title: Странные люди

title: Naval Cadets, Charge!

original_title: Гардемарины, вперед!

title: Vivat, Naval Cadets!

overview: In the second movie the Naval Cadets are guarding the princess coming from Germany to marry a Russian prince.

original_title: Виват, гардемарины!

title: Story of an Unknown Actor

overview: Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev is not that young of an actor. For many years he plays in the provincial theater in leading roles. The director of a play based on a play that was written for Goryaev takes the young actor for his role. Goryaev at first falls into despair, leaves the theater, turns to friends. After a while he digests what happened and realizes that it is time to leave the stage with dignity.

original_title: Повесть о неизвестном актёре

title: The Dream of Russia

overview: Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.

title: Elder Sister

overview: A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya  and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career.

original_title: Старшая сестра

title: Jack Vosmyorkin, American

overview: Jack Vosmyorkin,  young American with Russian origins decides to return to Russia in order to watch October Revolution in action.

original_title: Джек Восьмёркин - “американец”

title: Young-Green

overview: The beginning of the 1950s. Nikolai Babushkin, a young specialist in one of the taiga construction sites, who had just been elected a deputy of the district council, was sent behind a brick to the city of Dzhegor. He is already familiar with the bold project of the engineer Cheremnykh, according to which one of the shops of the brick factory can be transferred to the production of expanded clay blocks in a short time.  To provide the construction site with the necessary material, Nikolai gathers a team and helps the inventor to implement the project. There, in Dzhegor, he meets Irina, a graduate of the architectural institute …

original_title: Молодо-зелено

title: And Life, and Tears and Love

overview: The life of the inhabitants of the veterans' house was boring and monotonous. Everything changed with the arrival of the new head physician, Varvara Dmitriyevna. Her kindness and sensitivity began to work miracles. After all, Varvara Dmitriyevna tries not only to treat the ailments of the elderly, but also to return to them their lost interest in life, the belief that one can still love and be loved...

original_title: И жизнь, и слезы, и любовь

title: Lot

overview: Young hockey player try his best to become success goal-keeper.

title: The Golden Calf

overview: A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.

original_title: Золотой теленок

title: Tchaikovsky

overview: 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 his friendship with Baroness von Meck, an outstanding woman of her time, who for many years was Tchaikovsky’s guardian angel. The film also includes retrospections of the composer’s childhood and adolescent years, with Tchaikovsky’s life poetically recounted against the background of fragments from his operas and ballets performed by the best Russian musicians.

title: Touches on the V. I. Lenin's Portrait

overview: Life and works of V.I. Lenin during the difficult period for the country of 1918.

original_title: Штрихи к портрету В.И. Ленина

title: This Fantastic World 6

overview: Screen adaptation of two works by science fiction writers: “Noise Level” by Raymond Jones and “Shadow of the Past” by Ivan Efremov.

original_title: Этот фантастический мир. Фильм 6

title: Заседание парткома

character: Лев Соломахин (парторг)

original_title: Заседание парткома

title: Demidovy

title: Вариант «Омега»

original_title: Вариант «Омега»

title: They Conquer the Skies

overview: The end of the 1940s. Test pilot Aleksei Kolchin was commissioned for the first time to fly the first Soviet jet fighter. The tests are successful, but it is necessary to improve the aircraft. When performing a test flight, Kolchin dies, his last words are recorded on tape. Having studied them, Kolchin's friend Sergei Sharov makes a new attempt and completes the test of the aircraft.

original_title: Им покоряется небо

title: The Pathfinder

overview: Wild West adventures in this action movie based on famous "The Pathfinder" novel by James Fenimore Cooper.

title: Nose

overview: A fantasy about an official whose nose has escaped.

title: The Hole

overview: A few days from the life of average brothel in early XX century Russia. Based on the classical novel by Aleksandr Kuprin.

title: Fidelity

overview: A story of a first love between two recent high school graduates who meet one another evening before start of the WWII.

title: Still Love, Still Hope

overview: A story about a man who keeps loving the only woman, against all odds. He maintains his profound feeling thru the years and puts up with the fact that she's got married and eventually become a mother of grown-ups. He is contented with the status of "just" a devoted friend.

original_title: Еще люблю, еще надеюсь

title: She Has a Broom, He Has a Black Hat

overview: A Baba Yaga's grand-daughter gets into the argument with the young son of Kashchey and decides to leave the magic forest.

original_title: Она с метлой, он в черной шляпе

title: A Teacher of Singing

overview: A music teacher is trying to organize a choir in the school he works in.

original_title: Учитель пения

title: The Lower Depths

overview: A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.

title: Amazing Berendeev

overview: After starting learning in a technical school a young student Sergey Berendeev proves to everybody that he's a real inventor.

original_title: Потрясающий Берендеев

title: Accused of Murder

overview: A group of drunken young people severely beat the couple in love. Subsequently, Aleksandr Shchetinin died in the hospital after receiving injuries from beatings. The court, chaired by Judge Khromova, is to pronounce the death sentence on one of the four participants in the fight, who committed the fatal blow that led to death.

original_title: Обвиняются в убийстве

title: Accept a Telegram for Credit

overview: A young boy is trying to arrange money in order to build aircraft.

original_title: Примите телеграмму в долг

title: The Black Hen, or Living Underground

overview: At a St. Petersburg boarding school, a new life began for the ten-year-old Alyosha, who was accustomed parental attention. Missing his home, Alyosha created an imaginary magic world of underground dwellers, with a king and his subjects who very much resembled the people surrounding the boy. Alyosha experienced many interesting adventures in this mysterious fairy tale...

original_title: Черная курица, или Подземные жители

title: I Don't Want to Be a Grown-Up

overview: The parents of six-year-old Pavlik want to make an erudite out of their beloved son. They constantly force the boy to read a lot, study and achieve success. Mom and dad so want their son to be the first in everything. One day Pavlik comes to visit his grandmother in the village. Grandmother allows her grandson to go out alone for a walk. The walk turns into a fun journey for the young hero to Moscow...

original_title: Не хочу быть взрослым

title: Country House

overview: Having saved money for a summer cottage and having chosen a suitable house, the couple of Petrovs decided without hesitation to enter into ownership rights. Right from the savings bank, the wife goes to the garden plot, and the husband has to pay the owners in Moscow. However, a thick bundle of money disappears from his pocket ...

title: Lyubushka

overview: Bandits took away a beautiful horse from peasant Nikita Lykov and left him a nag instead. The peasant began to nurse the horse, which turned out to be a famous Oryol trotter named Lyubushka.

title: To the Bright Light

original_title: На ясный огонь

title: Nylon 100%

overview: An adventures of a 100% nylon "fur" coat traveling between various people.

character: стоматолог Бадеев Евгений Андрианович

title: Duel

overview: 1896. The regiment, stationed in a small town, is bored, drunk, languishing in soullessness. Lieutenant Romashov falls in love with the captain's wife Shurochka. Society is abuzz on the subject. A quarrel arises between the captain and the lieutenant.

title: Never

overview: A new shipyard director arrives in the city. New orders began at the factory, but, unfortunately, the new leader had flaws: there was something unusually tough, callous in his attitude to people ...

title: The Limit of Possible

original_title: Предел возможного

title: My Destiny

character: Тимофей Кожухов / Павел Тимофеевич

title: Privalov's Millions

overview: A young heir of a big fortune Sergey Privalov is coming back to his native town after a long absence. Having visited his owned plants, he breaks out with the idea to rebuild the industrial processes, improve the life of workers, and build schools and hospitals. Though, his interests collide with the interests of local big wigs, to whom the existing situation suits perfectly

original_title: Приваловские миллионы

title: Own

title: A Bridge is Being Built

overview: The plot is based on the construction of a highway bridge across the Volga River in Saratov. A Moscow correspondent comes to this construction site.

original_title: Строится мост

title: Стюардесса

title: Ten Years Without Right to Write Letters

overview: After the war, the hero of the film comes to Moscow to take revenge on the scammer, through whose fault his father died in the 37th. He carries out his sentence and is ready to answer for it according to the law. His girlfriend becomes an involuntary participant in the drama

character: Исай Львович

original_title: Десять лет без права переписки

title: The Man With the Accordion

overview: Dmitry Gromtsev was a volunteer to go the front where he was wounded. He couldn't get back to his beloved profession of musician. The movie tells us about difficult destiny of a person who couldn't become an artist because of war.

character: Иван Северинович Лопатин

original_title: Человек с аккордеоном

title: The Imp With A Bushy Tail

character: толстый пёс / кот

original_title: Чертёнок с пушистым хвостом

title: Wings

overview: Former fighter pilot turned provincial schoolmistress Nadezhda Petrovna struggles to adapt to peacetime, having internalised military ideals of service and obedience.

title: The Scoundrel, or Running On the Spot

overview: Comedy of manners with elements of grotesque. The hero of the tape - an employee of a solid research Institute San Sanych lubomudrov - an extraordinary personality. Charming trickster and subtle psychologist, he is fluent in the art of communicating with the "right" people.

character: зритель на спектакле «Три сестры» (нет в титрах)

original_title: Прохиндиада, или Бег на месте

title: In a Hard Hour

overview: 1941 year. The Siberian carpenter Kuzma Kroykov arrived in Moscow as part of a rifle company. In a line of fighters, he walked through the streets of Moscow at night and in a village near Moscow met Varvara Oknova. Resolute, tall and beautiful, she won his heart. But soon the protracted terrible battles for Moscow began...

original_title: В трудный час

title: Arbiter

overview: The city "N" seized by chaos and lawlessness. A hitman nicknamed "The Arbiter" accomplishes justice. Experienced investigator and his partner, a young police lieutenant, decided to catch the mysterious killer. During the investigation, it turns out that the killer is a man who were a victim once.

title: A Horseman over the City

overview: Schoolboy Kirill has only one flaw—he wears glasses. So when he meets his classmate Aina, he hides them in his pocket and, whenever she asks him about them, he claims he forgot them at home. Meanwhile, Kirill's mother believes that his only flaw is that he always says what he thinks. However, their points of view are not entirely different. One day, Kirill will find a true friend — an old watchmaker who fought in World War II. The boy will be surprised and delighted to learn that Aina is his granddaughter.

original_title: Всадник над городом

title: How Is It Going, Crucians?

overview: A retired KGB colonel, having collected at his country house a file cabinet of people who had cooperated with the Committee in previous years, calls them back to his house and makes them perform certain tasks. But even on it there are bigger sharks - representatives of the mafia, who have guessed how much money they can now get from the former "peasants". However, one of them, dreaming to finish with the archive, will somewhat disrupt the plans of the above-mentioned characters.

character: Анатолий, диссидент-эмигрант

original_title: Как живёте, караси?

title: The Time That Has Passed

overview: The 1950s. The head of the steel industry was removed from his position and appointed ambassador to one of the northern countries of Europe. He had enough time to reflect on his life and understand the true reason for his dismissal.

original_title: Канувшее время

title: The Legend of Till

overview: 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 Land of Flanders and Elsewhere."  First part: "The Ashes of Claes".  XVI century. The freedom-loving and cheerful people of the Netherlands under the rule of the Spanish king: persecution, torture, bonfires of the Inquisition, encouraging scammers. The fearless Thyl Uhlenshpiegel and his faithful girlfriend Nele have to go through many trials.  Second part: "Viva Beggars!".  The people of the Netherlands, tormented by cruel royal decrees, taxes, heresy, torture and executions, began a war of liberation against Spanish rule. Many feats will be performed by the national hero Tilbert (Thyl) Ulenspiegel and his friend Lamme Gudzak before peace returns to their homeland.

original_title: Легенда о Тиле

title: The Hat

overview: The story is about how a metropolitan writer, concerned about the “fifth point of his questionnaire,” instead of the noble or, at worst, rabbit fur assigned to him by rank, was given a “medium fluffy domestic cat” at the Literary Fund, and how he, previously quiet and inconspicuous, ventured to a “mutiny on a ship” confidently cutting through the waters of “socialist realism.”

title: Вся королевская рать

original_title: Вся королевская рать

title: The Morality of Mrs. Dulska

overview: Mrs. Dulska, the landlady of a tenement building, is obsessed with her son, going to great lengths to prevent him from getting married.

character: пан Дульский

original_title: Мораль пани Дульской

title: Человек из страны Грин

character: Франк Давенант, бродяга

original_title: Человек из страны Грин

title: The Comic Lover, or The Amorous Adventures of Sir John Falstaff

original_title: Комический любовник, или Любовные затеи сэра Джона Фальстафа

title: Perikola

overview: The action takes place in the 18th century in Lima. The wandering artists Pericola and Piquillo perform in the town square. They love each other, but cannot get married - the poor artists do not have the means for this. Meanwhile, the Viceroy of Peru, Don Andreas-Ribeira, likening to Harun Al-Rashid, dresses up as a commoner and goes out into the city to find out what his subjects say about him. He falls in love with Pericola at first sight. But the fact that she is not married prevents the Pericole from appearing at the royal court.

title: Just a Life – The Story of Fridtjof Nansen

overview: This dramatized documentary depicts the life and the actions of Fridtjof Nansen; an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel laureate.

original_title: Bare et liv - historien om Fridtjof Nansen

title: The Old House

overview: About the early years of the life of the philosopher and writer Alexander Herzen, about his first and unrequited love, about the throwing of youth and growing up of a young critic and revolutioner.  According to his father, he comes from an ancient Russian family, and his mother was a simple German woman. As an illegitimate son, he was not given the name of his father, Yakovlev. In his youth, he was fond of the ideas of freedom, for which it is not a pity to fight, which even then was close to the ideals of the revolution...

title: The Commander of the Lucky 'Pike'

overview: 1942, Polar region. The Germans are preparing to capture Murmansk. The submarine Sch-721 is considered lucky, and its captain Aleksei Strogov has the ability to extricate himself from the most difficult situations. He also develops tactics for a periscope-free torpedo attack, despite the skepticism of colleagues and management. And now, when the Happy "Pike" had to take on board the crew of another Soviet submarine, and she was on the seabed with almost no oxygen, Aleksei manages to save people and perform the operation, paying for it with his life...

original_title: Командир счастливой «Щуки»

title: Brave Inspector Mamochkin

overview: A story how traffic inspector Mamochkin punished someone who had disturbed public order.

original_title: Бравый инспектор Мамочкин

title: The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce

original_title: Жизнь и смерть Фердинанда Люса

title: If You Want - Believe It, If You Want - Don't

overview: Roman Kurykin, an amateur jazzman and the owner of an absolute ear for music, cannot reconcile himself to the idea that his son Edik does not show any interest in music. The dejected father, in desperation, suspected that the child could have been replaced in the maternity hospital by mistake. He got the addresses of two families where the sons were born at the same time as the younger Kurykin. Kurykin reports his suspicions to two other fathers, Shulgin and Sazonov. In secret from their wives, husbands begin their investigation.

original_title: Хотите - верьте, хотите - нет

title: Sultry July

overview: A new chairman arrives at the Zarya collective farm with the firm intention of creating a model farm there. But from the very beginning, his work is complicated by his difficult relationship with the young agronomist Svetlana Nikitina.

original_title: Знойный июль

title: They Live Nearby

overview: Once upon a time, young scientists Kalitin and Danilov were friends, but a quarrel separated them. The circumstances of the quarrel remained unclear to everyone until the end. But everyone thought they were right. Years have passed. Professor Kalitin’s son, working under his leadership, moves to the institute headed by Danilov. Kalitin learns about this decision of Igor on the day of the arrival of his friend and colleague Vasin. On this occasion, old friends gather at the professor’s house, including Luzgin, Kalitin’s boss. Reflections on his life help the professor understand his son’s choice, oppose the unprincipled careerist Luzgin and make peace with Danilov.

original_title: Они живут рядом

title: Bridges Over Oblivion

overview: Kirovakan, Armenia, 1968. A street in the town is being renamed, but nobody seems to know whom after. A chance encounter between a student running late to his thesis defense, and a young woman determined to leave the town forever. 25 years earlier, Genrikh Zakaryan, a young resistance fighter, smuggles a secret Nazi operations map through occupied territory. Imaginings and history meld into one, echoes of past and future coalesce: “the fate of Genrikh Zakaryan is intangibly intertwined with the fate of today’s youth.”

original_title: Мосты через забвение

title: Anyuta

overview: Spending his days in a cheap hotel, medical student Klochkov entertains himself by mistreating his meek roommate Anyuta.

title: The Hamlet of Shchigry District

overview: A television film based on the stories by Ivan Turgenev from the "Notes of a Hunter" collection.

original_title: Гамлет Щигровского уезда

title: Fairy-Tales of an Old Magician

original_title: Сказки старого волшебника

title: Rubinchik And...

overview: Isaac Rubinchik, like a biblical old man who has lived a long and dramatic life, feels the need for moral reflection on his experiences. Disputes with long-dead relatives, a glance into the future, which he sees in the ruins of civilization - all these memories and fears make Rubinchik reevaluate many things and bring closer the moment of his spiritual epiphany.

original_title: Лавка «Рубинчик и..»

title: Our Theatre

overview: An overview of the 75-year history of the Moscow Art Theatre containing unique historical footage, including rare excerpts from various stage productions.

original_title: О нашем театре

title: Three Sisters

overview: A stage production by the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.

title: Favorite Roles

overview: A television film dedicated to the work of People's Artist of the USSR, Anastasia Platonovna Zueva.

original_title: Любимые роли

title: Mangyshlak. The Beginning of the Journey

overview: About the development of a new oil field on the Mangyshlak peninsula.

original_title: Мангышлак. Начало пути

title: Галина Волчек. Любовь и заблуждения

original_title: Галина Волчек. Любовь и заблуждения

title: White Queen's Move

character: Дрыжик, парикмахер

original_title: Ход белой королевы

title: Welcome, or No Trespassing

title: About the Little Red Riding Hood

original_title: Про Красную Шапочку

title: There's Still Time

original_title: Ещё можно успеть

title: Born by the Storm

original_title: Рождённые бурей

title: Heart of a Dog

original_title: Собачье сердце

title: Domestic Circumstances

original_title: По семейным обстоятельствам

title: How Longing Was Defeated

original_title: Как тоску одолели

title: Following the Sun

original_title: Человек идет за солнцем

title: Old Men: Robbers

original_title: Старики-разбойники

title: Winter Evening in Gagry

original_title: Зимний вечер в Гаграх

title: The Drayman and the King

original_title: Биндюжник и Король

title: The Old New Year

original_title: Старый новый год

title: Sons of Bitches

title: Zigzag of Success

original_title: Зигзаг удачи

title: Beware of the Car!

original_title: Берегись автомобиля

title: The Property of Republic

original_title: Достояние республики

title: The Orphans

title: The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

original_title: Место встречи изменить нельзя

title: Ballad of a Soldier

original_title: Баллада о солдате

title: Cheka Employee

original_title: Сотрудник ЧК

title: The Mechanic Gavrilov's Beloved Woman

original_title: Любимая женщина механика Гаврилова

title: Moonsund

title: The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin

character: Пётр Петрович Гарин

original_title: Гиперболоид инженера Гарина

title: Zerograd

character: директор музея

original_title: Пиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным

title: We're from Jazz

title: Last Summer of Childhood

original_title: Последнее лето детства

title: The Flight

character: Парамон Ильич Корзухин

title: Ermak

character: Иван Грозный

title: The Days of Surgeon Mishkin

original_title: Дни хирурга Мишкина

title: Night Fun

original_title: Ночные забавы

title: Holy Moly!

original_title: Ёлки-палки!..

title: Nine Days of One Year

original_title: Девять дней одного года

title: The Voice in the Wilderness

original_title: Ձայն Բարբառոյ

title: Naval Cadets III

original_title: Гардемарины III

title: Taste of Khalva

title: The Ugly Story

original_title: Скверный анекдот

title: Don't Leave Your Lovers

character: Хомак, сосед Вадима

original_title: С любимыми не расставайтесь

title: Strange People

original_title: Странные люди

title: Vivat, Naval Cadets!

original_title: Виват, гардемарины!

title: Naval Cadets, Charge!

original_title: Гардемарины, вперед!

title: Story of an Unknown Actor

original_title: Повесть о неизвестном актёре

title: The Dream of Russia

title: Elder Sister

original_title: Старшая сестра

title: Jack Vosmyorkin, American

original_title: Джек Восьмёркин - “американец”

title: Young-Green

original_title: Молодо-зелено

title: And Life, and Tears and Love

original_title: И жизнь, и слезы, и любовь

title: Lot

title: The Golden Calf

original_title: Золотой теленок

title: Tchaikovsky

title: Touches on the V. I. Lenin's Portrait

original_title: Штрихи к портрету В.И. Ленина

title: This Fantastic World 6

original_title: Этот фантастический мир. Фильм 6

title: Заседание парткома

character: Лев Соломахин (парторг)

original_title: Заседание парткома

title: Demidovy

title: Вариант «Омега»

original_title: Вариант «Омега»

title: They Conquer the Skies

original_title: Им покоряется небо

title: The Pathfinder

title: Nose

title: The Hole

title: Fidelity

title: Still Love, Still Hope

original_title: Еще люблю, еще надеюсь

title: She Has a Broom, He Has a Black Hat

original_title: Она с метлой, он в черной шляпе

title: A Teacher of Singing

original_title: Учитель пения

title: The Lower Depths

title: Amazing Berendeev

original_title: Потрясающий Берендеев

title: Accused of Murder

original_title: Обвиняются в убийстве

title: Accept a Telegram for Credit

original_title: Примите телеграмму в долг

title: The Black Hen, or Living Underground

original_title: Черная курица, или Подземные жители

title: I Don't Want to Be a Grown-Up

original_title: Не хочу быть взрослым

title: Country House

title: Lyubushka

title: To the Bright Light

original_title: На ясный огонь

title: Nylon 100%

character: стоматолог Бадеев Евгений Андрианович

title: Never

title: Duel

title: The Limit of Possible

original_title: Предел возможного

title: My Destiny

character: Тимофей Кожухов / Павел Тимофеевич

title: Privalov's Millions

original_title: Приваловские миллионы

title: Own

title: A Bridge is Being Built

original_title: Строится мост

title: Стюардесса

character: Исай Львович

original_title: Десять лет без права переписки

title: The Man With the Accordion

character: Иван Северинович Лопатин

original_title: Человек с аккордеоном

title: The Imp With A Bushy Tail

character: толстый пёс / кот

original_title: Чертёнок с пушистым хвостом

title: Wings

title: The Scoundrel, or Running On the Spot

original_title: Прохиндиада, или Бег на месте

title: In a Hard Hour

original_title: В трудный час

title: Arbiter

title: A Horseman over the City

original_title: Всадник над городом

title: How Is It Going, Crucians?

character: Анатолий, диссидент-эмигрант

original_title: Как живёте, караси?

title: The Time That Has Passed

original_title: Канувшее время

title: The Legend of Till

original_title: Легенда о Тиле

title: The Hat

title: Вся королевская рать

original_title: Вся королевская рать

title: The Morality of Mrs. Dulska

character: пан Дульский

original_title: Мораль пани Дульской

title: Человек из страны Грин

character: Франк Давенант, бродяга

original_title: Человек из страны Грин

title: Perikola

title: The Old House

title: The Commander of the Lucky 'Pike'

original_title: Командир счастливой «Щуки»

title: Brave Inspector Mamochkin

original_title: Бравый инспектор Мамочкин

title: The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce

original_title: Жизнь и смерть Фердинанда Люса

original_title: Хотите - верьте, хотите - нет

title: Sultry July

original_title: Знойный июль

title: They Live Nearby

original_title: Они живут рядом

title: Bridges Over Oblivion

original_title: Мосты через забвение

title: Anyuta

title: The Hamlet of Shchigry District

original_title: Гамлет Щигровского уезда

title: Fairy-Tales of an Old Magician

original_title: Сказки старого волшебника

title: Rubinchik And...

original_title: Лавка «Рубинчик и..»

title: Our Theatre

original_title: О нашем театре

title: Three Sisters

title: Favorite Roles

original_title: Любимые роли

original_title: Мангышлак. Начало пути

title: Галина Волчек. Любовь и заблуждения

original_title: Галина Волчек. Любовь и заблуждения

Seventeen Moments of Spring

original_name: Семнадцать мгновений весны

Old Fortress

character: Симон Васильевич Петлюра (1-3 серии)

original_name: Старая крепость

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

character: Пётр Ручников (вор «Ручечник»)

original_name: Место встречи изменить нельзя

Vivat, Naval Cadets!

original_name: Виват, гардемарины!

Naval Cadets, Charge!

original_name: Гардемарины, вперёд!

The Limit of Possible

character: Андрей Кириллович Куликов

original_name: Предел возможного

The Tales of the Old Wizard

character: Король-самозванец

original_name: Сказки старого волшебника

Ночные забавы

original_name: Ночные забавы

Domestic Circumstances

original_name: По семейным обстоятельствам

Past and Thoughts

original_name: Былое и думы

original_name: Былое и думы

The Days of Surgeon Mishkin

original_name: Дни хирурга Мишкина

Variant 'Omega'

original_name: Вариант «Омега»

The last summer of childhood

original_name: Последнее лето детства