Anatoliy Kuznetsov

The beginning of the Great Patriotic War. A newly formed company of penal soldiers is thrown into battle after a march. They must walk through a minefield to clear the way for the main combat forces. No one wants to die, but there is nowhere to retreat. Many years later, on the day of the Victory celebration, two veterans meet on the Khodynka Field during a parade rehearsal. Many years have passed, and both have changed a great deal, so they don’t recognize each other right away. The old men remember the one and only real battle with the enemy in their lives — the first one, bloody and brutal. This battle must not be forgotten. Back then, only two survivors remained from the entire penal company...

The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiancée - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion.

A story about young boy Slava and his first trip to the sea.

Throughout his life, Egor lived in a remote taiga. All his knowledge of the world, he learned from the stories of his only relative — old grandfather-hunter. Once Egor meets TV presenter Angelina, he falls in love and decides to journey to Moscow in order to marry her. However, he finds it difficult to get used to the pace of metropolitan life.

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

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

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A film based on a Tolstoy novel about naïveté, idealism and love facing harsh reality.

Three demobilized "Afghans" arrive in one of the cities of Central Asia. And already at the airport, a fight begins between them and the local neo-fascist organization, rampaging through the city with impunity...

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.

Returning to his native village, a demobilized paratrooper learns that his brother has become a victim of a drug mafia. He decides to avenge his death and goes to the city...

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

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

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

Fall, 1921. Wrangel's army, defeated in Crimea after a short stay in Turkey, found refuge in Bulgaria. White Guard Colonel lives here with his son and daughter, while his wife and youngest daughter were sheltered by the family of the Bolshevik, who've been sent to Bulgaria for propaganda work among Russian soldiers.

At the resort, chance brings together Grebentsov and Panshin, former fellow soldiers. Grebentsov had once vacationed in these places, and then he had an affair with a beautiful local girl, Nadya. And now she appears again in Grebentsov's life. The past enters the present and may change tomorrow.

The fifth film in a Mosfilm "youth" anthology series comprising three short stories. The first story, 'Vizit' (The Visit), directed by filmmaker turned politician Yevgeni Gerasimov, tells the story of a rural boy visiting his former village girlfriend, now living in Moscow. Next comes a short film by Aleksandr Majorov called 'Zolotye rybki' (Goldfishes), which is based on a story of a magical goldfish brought from a provincial pet store by the late Russian historian and science-fiction and fantasy writer Kir Bulychyov. The final segment and the title of the film, 'Polosa vezeniya' (Streak of Luck), tells the story of a member of staff at a research institute who is offered the job of department head but has second thoughts when he discovers the previous boss was unfairly dismissed.

Best friends and mischievous third-graders Vasya Petrov and Petya Vasechkin, despite their differences, share a love for adventures. Romantic Vasya falls for his serious, excellent classmate Masha and writes her an anonymous love note. However, the quick-witted Masha identifies Vasya due to his errors and rejects him harshly. Upset, Vasya confides in Petya, who then devises a cunning plan to win Masha over.

About the work of the Soviet film director S. F. Bondarchuk.

A dramatic love story in the front line.

An international geological expedition led by a Russian engineer works in an inaccessible area of one of the Latin American countries. Scientists are held hostage by a nearby gang that trades in the drug trade. Geologists are in mortal danger ...

Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.

The young soldier Vasily Lemekhov has returned from the hospital and met a young woman Natasha in Chisinau.

After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He is looking forward to his wife Polana (Libuse Geprtová) and his little daughter Hafie. The family and the village welcome him with hesitation. Everybody believed that Juraj died in America because Polana stopped receiving money from him already two years ago. Polana's farm was prospering first of all thanks to the young stable boy Stepán (Sándor Oszter). Men in the pub first indicate and then say to Juraj directly that Polana has been unfaithful to him with Stepán.

Second movie of a dilogy about Russian paratroopers started with "V zone osobogo vnimaniya"

The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. These searches began his friend before the war, in remote taiga places. Yevdokiya Perevalova — the widow of a deceased friend decides to help Nesterov get to those deaf places...

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

This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.

A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way to Lenin wake up again.

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

It is summer 1944. The war is far away from Slovak mountains for the time being. The head of forest management Borodác brings a new employee to complete the eight woodcutters work team of Czechs, Slovaks and one Pole - the young guy is Martin Uher, a former clerk form Prague. The eight tough men do not trust the newcomer at first, but as time is passing, they got used to him. After some time, Martin gets next to Julika, a young wife of the gamekeeper Tkác (Vlado Müller) and they begin to go out secretly. The gamekeeper knows that Martin had promised to cooperate with German Gestapo, after he had experienced a hard interrogation. In avoiding to be a grass, Martin leaves Prague to hide in Slovak mountains. Tkác wants Martin to inform on his colleagues who hide guns in the forest to ready to use them against Nazis.

The pride of the repair plant, a striker, an order-bearer, one day suddenly inquired about his home affairs and discovered that not everything was as well as he would like it to be. His son works without having finished school. He dropped out of school a month before receiving his diploma without his parents' knowledge, he wanted to go to the nautical school. There is a huge competition. But he works without a soul, but for a check mark in the characterization. The son became a stranger to his father. In a different way alien to the father's eldest daughter, a mannequin. She loves married, dating him for two years, and he still does not want or does not want to part with his wife. Her father does not understand that she has her own life, forbids her to meet with her lover. And the youngest, not by years independent, childishly trusting and maturely reasonable tells her father his mistakes. And it is she who helps her father to understand his guilt before the family.

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

The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers, workers, Egyptians, and Soviets.

Germany in 1943. The Berlin worker Klaus Hartung is deployed as a soldier to the Eastern front during World War II. During a tour, he is captured by a Russian patrol. While in captivity, Hartung comes to the conclusion that he has to come through and actively take part in the effort to end the war. He consents to abduct a German officer together with two Russian soldiers. During their adventurous mission, the men who at first had been enemies, become sincere friends.

An employee of the foreign trade association Kazakov makes an offer to the American businessman Vikas to invest in the construction of a chemical plant. It was decided to build it on the site of a gasification station in Nizhne-Pechorsk. Vikas' decision to conclude a contract for the construction of the plant becomes known to American businessmen, who are not interested in this cooperation. Ron Kluger comes to Moscow to interfere with the negotiations...

Partisans attack a column of hundred german trucks cisterns, that carry fuel to the front. However, their action is difficult, as Germans have chained Soviet prisoners to the driving wheels. The mission is to stop and destroy the column and save the lives of the prisoners.

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In September 1944, the red army crosses the Danube. Private Ales together with his agricultural horses follows the victory march. A broken wheel of his cart forces Ales to fall behind and look for help in the nearby village. The "odyssey" of the common cavalry soldier begins. He becomes a friend with the Bulgarian peasants. They need to part ways with a hidden sadness and true love. —Georgi Djulgerov

Action film about the Soviet paratroopers.

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Based on the book of Viktor Dragunsky "Deniskin's Stories". Once upon a time there lived in Moscow the 1950's an October school student Deniska Korablyov. Every day he was terribly busy with the most ordinary children's activities: he did not prepare lessons, quarreled and put up with classmates, helped around the house and dabbled. He also planned a real murder, crossed paths with the criminal Fantômas, exposed the adult liars and thieves, participated in the selfless rescue of man...

A family drama about a friendship between horse and 10 years old boy.

The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his wife, only to be caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander, Rahimov, "convinces" Sukhov to help, temporarily, with the protection of abandoned women of the Basmachi guerrilla leader Abdullah's harem. Leaving a young Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with the task, Rahimov and his cavalry unit set out to pursue fleeing Abdullah.Sukhov and women from Abdullah's harem return to a nearby shore town. Soon, looking for a seaway across the border, Abdullah and his gang come to the same town...

A group of young motivated people are trying to convert old "Oduvanchik" restaurant in to a youth club.

Pupils of the ordinary high school organize a “secret society” under the motto “Help the offended and weak, avenge widers and upstarts!” The new pioneer leader supports the children, and soon he manages to make the school life of the children truly fascinating.

A documentary film about the work of stuntmen and camera operators in Soviet cinema, using the film "White Sun of the Desert" as an example.

The film is about the working youth of a giant factory in Moscow - the story of a young girl Asya, who had to endure a lot of disappointments before she found true friends

A documentary on the life and works of Sergei Vasilyev and Georgi Vasilyev, two Soviet filmmakers commonly known as the Vasilyev brothers.

A story about Soviet women and their village set during the years after WWII.

The film takes place in the late 1920s, during the emergence of the first collective farms in Turkmenistan. The main character Aina works as a laborer for the kulak Esen-bay, who hates the Soviet regime and is associated with the Basmachi.

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.

After graduating from the institute in Leningrad, the young geologist Volodya Batanin arrives to work for distribution to a coal plant in the Arctic.

A young couple is traveling to the Black Sea with their car planning to have a wedding on the way.

Story depicting the national liberation struggle of the Albanian people against the Italian and German invaders during World War II.

Plant director Nazarov and engineer Petrov are constantly at odds with each other. Both dream of taking a vacation so they can spend some time apart. As it happens, they end up in the same mountaineering group. Petrov turns out to be the leader. It took the rigors of group life and considerable difficulties for Nazarov to understand how courageous, humane, and wholehearted Petrov is.

A funny story about a life of a big department store and its employees and customers.

The positive assessment of the work of young historian Nadezhda Kovrova went to her head. Confident in her infallibility, she makes a mistake.

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