Yuriy Solomin

In 1971, the frustrated Akira Kurosawa made an unsuccessful attempt to cut his veins. His life was restored by the opportunity offered by Mosfilm: to make the first Soviet-Japanese collaborative film "Dersu Uzala". The documentary reflects the challenging shooting period and captures the memories of crew members more than 40 years later.

The film is based on a dialogue between young and older generations about life, profession, fame, love, the mission of art, the destiny of man, heroism and the ideals of our time. Conversations of outstanding figures of Russian culture with actors who have recently started their professional path and have already clearly declared themselves in art.

Somewhere in the Middle East, undercover agent Victor Bystroletov arrives in one of the oil kingdoms posing as an international journalist. His true goal is to contact a former terrorist named Javad. It has been several years since the holy warrior lay down his weapons and disappeared. Interpol is looking for him, as are his former jihad brothers, who have put a death sentence on his head for betrayal.

Yegor is a Russian special agent on a mission to Malta to catch Mikhail Shering fugitive. According to special services, Mikhail was in possession of documents of interest to both the government and the Russian mafia. Therefore, difficulties in bringing Mikhail begin and guns strafed.

"The Maltese Cross" - Prince Dmitry a descendant of the Romanov dynasty is kidnapped by a mafia boss - who also claims to have royal blood and sees himself as the new Russian emperor.

Alexey Kromov, a former Russian army colonel, is stuck in Paris with a huge sum of money which belong to the former Russian government.

The arrival of a famous writer brings disarray to the lives of an aspiring playwright and a young actress.

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.

The story of a woman returning from a labor camp. She is looking for a person, on whose denunciation she was arrested, in order to take revenge on him, but having completed her judgment, she realizes that revenge is meaningless.

Retired police colonel starts his own murder investigation.

Based on the play by A.P. Chekhov. TV version of the performance by the Maly Theatre.

A version of the creation of one of the great monuments of ancient Russian literature "The Word about Igor's Regiment".

Follows the tragic pages of our history, when the so-called “special meeting”, consisting of three people, passed harsh sentences on innocent people.

Members of the Shield and Helmet Masonic Lodge, sent by the CIA, are preparing a coup in one of the western countries. The criminal chronicle reporter manages to infiltrate the headquarters of the conspirators. The information he produces will play a decisive role in preventing the putsch. However, the successful journalist soon became convinced that he had discovered only the tip of the iceberg...

Trying to stop the fratricidal bloodshed started by his father - John the Terrible, Tsar Fyodor gave away power and led Russia to turmoil.

A seemingly ordinary car accident turns out to be a murder investigation...

A girl's mother dies and she is left with her newborn sister and father, both inconsolable in their grief...

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, he is expected by the hostility of some persons interested in the inheritance, and the open sympathies of others - the old man Yerikhonov and his daughter Asya, who fell in love with Burtsev.

A Russian investigator and a Buryat policeman are investigating the murder of a truth-seeking huntsman in the Baikal taiga.

After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?

The life of Mr. Kettle, an executive of a single bank in a small provincial English town Brickmill, is strictly organized: 7 a.m. stand up, then breakfast, at 9 a.m. work, at 13 p.m. diner, then work, at 18 p.m.- the end of a workday, then club, home, sleep. But one dull English morning almost having reached his work, he stops near a shop window, trading toys. How is Mrs. Twigg, Kettle's housekeeper amazed when she sees seem at home with bags and hears him saying that he is not intended to go to work any longer. This is the day when Mr. Kettle suddenly meets his love, and after a series of funny and tragic situations both choose a new life free and joyful.

The film tells about the founder of the first Russian peasant choir Mitrofan Efimovich Pyatnitskiy, about his life, tragic love and other facts of his biography. The picture reflects the musical life of Russia in the pre-revolutionary period.

A film about the remarkable life of Russian mathematician Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), the first woman to become a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Sofia Kovalevskaya's life was full of complex and dramatic twists and turns. These included a fictitious marriage that allowed her to obtain a higher education abroad; a period when she and her husband embarked on a commercial venture; and, finally, her breakup with him. The film's drama is built on the fact that Sofia Kovalevskaya's grown-up daughter, Fufa, several years after her mother's death, tries to understand who she was not only as a mathematician and public figure, but also simply as a person.

Six years old boy decides to start school and going by himself to first grade instead of kindergarten.

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.

In June 1941, the Extraordinary Defense Headquarters of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov forced units of the front to withdraw, and on July 9, Pskov was also abandoned. The battles in the Luga direction held back the enemy. The first attacks of the Germans, intending to cross the Luga line on the move, were repulsed with heavy losses for them.

The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.

A hereditary farmer lives with the concerns of his four daughters but loses his spiritual sensitivity upon learning of his daughter's love for the guy.

A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love?

Ten-graders Gosha and Zosya are in love with each other. The last school waltz has been played and it seems nothing stands any longer in the way of the young people being together. However, getting the news that he’s going to be a father soon, Gosha chooses a free life.

American journalist gets a sensational material but is afraid to publish it...

"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.

A drama based on Boris Lavrenev's play "The Rift", telling about the participation of Baltic Fleet sailors in the Bolshevik coup of 1917.

The film recreates the heroic epic of the defense of Sevastopol in 1941-1942. The fall of 1941. Having broken through the defense at Perekop and seized Crimea, the fascist troops begin the siege of Sevastopol. The Soviet fleet is withdrawn to Novorossiysk. For the defense of Sevastopol remained only guns of ships, coastal batteries and several detachments of marines, the defense is led by General Petrov.

A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.

A film-play produced by the State Academic Maly Theatre based on the play of the same name by Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky. A drama about the 'little man,' weak and kind, drowning in the depths of the sea of life.

Autumn 1941. German tank troops are making another attempt to break through to the Uritsk and Pulkovo Heights. During heavy fighting, Soviet troops managed to stop the offensive of fascist tanks one and a half kilometers south of the Pulkovo Observatory. The 900 days of the blockade and the incredible courage of the Soviet people were approaching ...

A story about the tragic events in the life of besieged Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1943.

Eisenstein gets in trouble for shooting a grouse. He is told that he must go to prison for his crime. However, his friend has invited him to an aristocratic ball. Eisenstein, despite being married, wants to go to the ball to meet women. Eisenstein lies to his wife. He tells her that he is going to prison but actually he goes to the ball. His story arises the suspicion of his wife. His wife devises a plot to catch her womanizing husband.

A production of the State Academic Maly Theater. The film, dedicated to the memory of Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, includes fragments of plays based on the playwright's plays: "We'll settle accounts with our own people", "Thunderstorm", "Wolves and Sheep", "The Abyss", "The Snow Maiden", "The Heart is not a Stone", "It Shines but Doesn't Warm", "Mad Money", "The Truth is Good, but Happiness is Better", and "It's not all for naught".

A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the time of the October Revolution. The age-old foundations are crumbling, the process of social stratification is underway and, as a result, some people go to defend the revolution, and others - to fight against it. The main hero is the young Cossack Roman Ulybin. At first, this carefree daredevil is preoccupied only with one problem: whether his sweetheart, Dashutka, is to marry him or a merchant’s son, Alyoshka. Roman is killing time fist-fighting with his rival. But little by little, the young man realizes that the world around him has changed, that people are fighting for equality and social justice, and, being a real Cossack, he can’t remain on the sidelines…

Performance at the Maly Theater from the novel by the Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky.

1919, Russian Civil War. Siberia was united under the rule of the White Guard General Kolchak. Unwilling to recognize his power, 32 common villages from the Yenisei province declare themselves the independent Soviet Badja Republic. The Badja guerrillas, led by the hero of the WWI Pyotr Shchetinkin, quickly become a serious enemy for the White Guard.

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A detective investigating the robbery also tries to help young man to avoid criminal future.

The hero of the film, the world record holder in the high jump, after a car accident according to the conclusion of doctors, should forever leave the sport. But against all odds, he is doing everything possible to return to the national team. Chance brings him together with a surgeon, also fanatically devoted to his work - and the hero again wins international competitions.

A group of musicians are trying to prevent the stealing of rare musical instruments in Russia during the twenties.

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

The action unfolds in the last months of the WWII in Germany. Major Lubentsova meets a military doctor Tanya Koltsova, with whom once, in 1941, they once got out of the encirclement together. After that, their paths diverged. But in April 1945, during the forcing of the Oder, they found themselves together again.

The invaders are leaving the northern town of the young Soviet republic. The brave underground activist Alexei Ilyutinsky infiltrates a musical troupe organized to entertain the White Army command and boost the morale of the population. The new horn player, who has no musical ear whatsoever, passes on the White Army's defense plan to the Reds and saves Bolshevik Makeev, the former chairman of the provincial executive committee, from being shot.

The true story of the Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov, who, behind enemy lines in Ukraine, infiltrated Hitler's headquarters, kidnapped the commander of the punitive troops and executed the imperial adviser.

In the boarding house of Wanda Ogrodskaya and her younger sister Anna, live the rich widow Sophia Parmen with her governess Yanina and the young lawyer Pyotr Bukovich, with whom all the women of the house are in love. Mrs. Sophia invites the lawyer to marry her, but is refused - Peter loves the dowry-free Anna. In revenge, Sophia gives a rich dowry to her governess, and Peter marries Yanina.

The illiterate kaffir Mpele receives a message from the prison farm about his... death, as well as the “property of the deceased”: a pipe, a pen and a notebook... The perplexed Mpele, who has never even been under arrest, turns to the police...

Family drama centering on the childhood of Vladimir Lenin, then Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, in the city of Simbirsk, and his relationship with his mother.

A group of young men bursts into a hotel where several guests are already staying, not long after they had run over a motorcyclist and his passenger with their car. Brandishing a knife, they demand that the guests give them a car.

The film covers the period from 1900 to 1917. Historical events—the Russo-Japanese War, January 9, and others—are shown through the eyes of a mother who begins to realize that her children have many like-minded followers, and thanks to this, she comes to believe in the feasibility of the ideals for which her eldest son sacrificed himself. Only the awareness that his cause is not hopeless, that it is achievable and close to victory, gives her the courage to endure separation from her loved ones and wandering.

Young engineer Pavel Kaurov goes to his first destination — to the port city of Sibirsk. He is appointed to lead a group of cranes: gantry and floating. After several troubles Pavel mastered the port work and received a serious assignment. Meanwhile, his fiancee Nina, an architect by profession, is arriving in Siberia. However, besides Pavel, fellow students came to the station to meet her — Petunin's brother and sister, in whose house she is staying. Soon Annushka, who has long loved Pavel, arrives. From that day on, he had trouble after trouble. After a crane accident, which happened through his fault, the hero pulls himself together and does everything to regain the confidence of the brigade...

A wounded partisan took refuge in the mill, and the miller informed the second lieutenant of the government troops about this. Seeing the partisan, the second lieutenant recognizes him as a friend of his youth...

The story of Tanabai the blacksmith, father of three children, who upon his return from war became a herdsman, and his tragic love for the soldier’s widow Byubyudzhan. The lyrical poem has an additional storyline concerning the horse Gyulsary and his master Tanabai.

Screen adaptation of Yuri Nagibin's novel of the same name about a gamekeeper who pursues a poacher.