Pavel Finn

Writing

Pavel Finn

Born

1940-06-28 (86)

Known for

Writing

Credits

38 titles

Known for

The Wedding Day Has to Be Specified poster
5.3

The hero, a tall, blond, handsome man with a sense of humour, a labour leader, and an athlete, grew up in a family of metallurgists. After meeting a silly girl under very unusual circumstances, he fell in love with her. He quickly brought her home to his parents and explained that they were “forever together.” However, she was not yet divorced, and in many ways, she did not satisfy his father.

The Wedding Day Has to Be Specified

1980

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story poster
5.0

Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping to the West and achieving the American dream.

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story

2021

The Headless Rider poster
6.0

The film takes place in 1850, Texas, United States. Louise, daughter of the wealthy plantation owner Poindexter, master of the hacienda Casa del Corvo, falls in love with a poor mustanger Maurice Gerald. The night their secret rendezvous happens, her brother Henry disappears. Suspicion in murder falls on Gerald, who was found covered in blood, with signs of struggle on the body and on Henry's cloak. One more minute, and an angry crowd would have Gerald lynched, but then the mysterious Headless Horseman appears...

The Headless Rider

1973

New Year Adventures of Masha and Vitya poster
6.6

Before a New Year evening Masha and Vitya decide to go to the forest full of fairy tales creatures.

New Year Adventures of Masha and Vitya

1975

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District poster
4.6

Katerina Izmailova, a beautiful and uneducated merchant's wife, feels lonely and bored somewhere in the Russian provinces while her older husband is often away. Years go by in her childless marriage, without an outlet for her youthful energy, resulting in constant idleness and frustration. Along comes Sergei, an unscrupulous young worker who is happy to improve his lot by seducing Katerina as he has done with others before. Katerina falls for Sergei, and this love quickly becomes her only reason for living, turning to destructive passion and ultimately to tragedy for many.

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

1989

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №2. Testament of the Empress poster
5.8

Having enthroned the wife of Peter the Great and his mistress Catherine I, Menshikov receives unlimited power, thereby causing envy and indignation of his former allies in the coup. Taking advantage of his absence, they are plotting against His Serene Highness. But once again, luck accompanies the brave darling of fortune: having received a warning of mortal danger, he escapes arrest and enters the boudoir of the Empress.

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №2. Testament of the Empress

2000

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Wedding Day Has to Be Specified poster
5.3

The hero, a tall, blond, handsome man with a sense of humour, a labour leader, and an athlete, grew up in a family of metallurgists. After meeting a silly girl under very unusual circumstances, he fell in love with her. He quickly brought her home to his parents and explained that they were “forever together.” However, she was not yet divorced, and in many ways, she did not satisfy his father.

The Wedding Day Has to Be Specified

1980

The Headless Rider poster
6.0

The film takes place in 1850, Texas, United States. Louise, daughter of the wealthy plantation owner Poindexter, master of the hacienda Casa del Corvo, falls in love with a poor mustanger Maurice Gerald. The night their secret rendezvous happens, her brother Henry disappears. Suspicion in murder falls on Gerald, who was found covered in blood, with signs of struggle on the body and on Henry's cloak. One more minute, and an angry crowd would have Gerald lynched, but then the mysterious Headless Horseman appears...

The Headless Rider

1973

New Year Adventures of Masha and Vitya poster
6.6

Before a New Year evening Masha and Vitya decide to go to the forest full of fairy tales creatures.

New Year Adventures of Masha and Vitya

1975

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District poster
4.6

Katerina Izmailova, a beautiful and uneducated merchant's wife, feels lonely and bored somewhere in the Russian provinces while her older husband is often away. Years go by in her childless marriage, without an outlet for her youthful energy, resulting in constant idleness and frustration. Along comes Sergei, an unscrupulous young worker who is happy to improve his lot by seducing Katerina as he has done with others before. Katerina falls for Sergei, and this love quickly becomes her only reason for living, turning to destructive passion and ultimately to tragedy for many.

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

1989

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №2. Testament of the Empress poster
5.8

Having enthroned the wife of Peter the Great and his mistress Catherine I, Menshikov receives unlimited power, thereby causing envy and indignation of his former allies in the coup. Taking advantage of his absence, they are plotting against His Serene Highness. But once again, luck accompanies the brave darling of fortune: having received a warning of mortal danger, he escapes arrest and enters the boudoir of the Empress.

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №2. Testament of the Empress

2000

The Role poster
6.3

In revolutionary Russia, a brilliant actor takes on the greatest role of his life: that of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt... even when the play of the life he writes heads towards a tragic finale.

The Role

2013

26 Days of Dostoyevsky's Life poster
5.0

Brief imaginary period in the famed Russian writer's life that encapsulates one of his darker moments in 1866. At that time he was still a relatively unknown writer whose first widely acclaimed work, Crime and Punishment, was just on the horizon. His life was at a very low ebb as he struggled with debts he could not pay, and as he fought depression over the loss of his wife to tuberculosis, and the death of his brother, who was very close to him. His first literary journal had to be scrapped because of political reasons, and the second venture needed funding.

26 Days of Dostoyevsky's Life

1981

The Broken Horseshoe poster
7.5

French aeronaut Jules Ardan, traveling in a hot air balloon, accidentally finds himself in Reval. Here he meets Dr. Peterson and his daughter Leida. The gendarmes are hunting for Leida's fiance. The banker's son is being murdered in the city. Suspicion falls on Peterson. Jules Ardan takes over the investigation of the crime.

The Broken Horseshoe

1973

The Gift to Stalin poster
6.4

A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik a Polish doctor. The Soviet militia harasses the poor peasants and Vera suffered the harassment of a bully cop: Bulgabi. Finally Vera accepts the marriage proposal of Ezhik but the jealous Bulgabi tries to prevent the marriage. The result is a fight in which Ezhik shoots himself accidentally. The old Kasym decides that Sabyr is now old enough to go to seek his real parents. At the end Sabyr, now an adult, decides to return to the village, but the village no longer exists because it was destroyed by a Soviet nuclear test.

The Gift to Stalin

2008

Mission in Kabul poster
NR

On the formation of young Soviet diplomacy and the struggle of the mission in Kabul with the internal reaction and representatives of the Western powers for the signing of the Cooperation Agreement. A Russian diplomatic mission was sent to Kabul. The friendly relations between Afghanistan and the young Soviet republic became a real threat to traditional British rule in the East.

Mission in Kabul

1971

The Hollow poster
3.7

Yar is a place that keeps people, and they can't part with it. If they leave, they will die. The only one who wants to escape from the Yar is our main character Karev. But leaving the Yar, he thereby breaks with all traditional values, and unwittingly becomes the cause of the death of people dear to him...

The Hollow

2007

An Ice in a Warm Sea poster
8.0

The old shipyard repairman ust-Nazar returned to work after an illness. They were already preparing to see the old man off to retirement. But Ust-Nazar was able to convince his superiors of his efficiency, and they instructed him to repair the old boat. By spring, the boat was ready for sailing. When a huge ice floe threatened the oil rig during an ice break, the old man, without thinking about his own life, went with a battering ram to the ice block.

An Ice in a Warm Sea

1983

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №1. Testament of the Emperor poster
7.0

Russia, January 25, 1725. "Give it all...". The emperor's weakening hand was able to write in his will only these two short incomprehensible words that kept Russia in a bloody struggle for the crown for a century.

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №1. Testament of the Emperor

2000

Sunset poster
4.3

Old, rich Jew Mendel Krik falls in love with the beautiful Marusya. But their sons Levka and Bena don't share their dreams... Revolution has come.

Sunset

1990

A Declaration of Love poster
4.7

The main character is a talented, but timid writer of the Filippok experiencing with his country the difficult years of revolution, devastation and war. Adversity helps him overcome the unrequited and faithful love for the widow of Commissioner Zinochka, who bossily manages his career, not hesitating to start novels with other men. Filippok will describe the story of his life in a book that at the end of days will be presented by a terminally ill, but still dearly beloved wife, with gratitude for the experience.

A Declaration of Love

1978

Break Point poster
7.0

A touching love story of two pupils of the famous European tennis school - the Russian girl Asya and the Croatian Duchamp - who unexpectedly find themselves with a difficult choice: a sports career in the name of fame and international recognition or high, bright feelings ...

Break Point

2004

Taxi Fare poster
10.0

Oleg Sergachev was one of the best drivers in the taxi company. He got along with everyone and lived by the principle of "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." He wanted for nothing, living for himself and the woman he loved. But when a new director came to the taxi company and started laying down the law, the hero felt uncomfortable.

Taxi Fare

1986

3 Girls poster
2.0

The plot of the film is based on three love stories. The events take place in Moscow, Baku and Africa, but most of them are related to the Azerbaijani capital. The film, shot in the comedy genre, takes place during the Great Patriotic War, when the Germans left the occupied territories.

3 Girls

2007

Why? poster
7.0

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

Why?

1996

There Are No Strangers Here poster
8.5

Young police lieutenant Kozrev investigates robbery from fish kolhoz. Suspect is criminal Chuma who hiding himself in the forest.

There Are No Strangers Here

1986

And There Was No Better Brother poster
NR

This story of two temperamentally different brothers takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku during the 1970s. The elder brother Jalil is a married postal worker who keeps bees as a hobby. Younger brother Simurg is more adventurous by nature and capable of going after his goals, not just dreaming about them. Jalil has a recurring memory: once, when he was still a kid, his mother, pregnant with Simurg, took him to a women’s sauna. When both brothers fall in love for the same beautiful girl, their differences become apparent once again.

And There Was No Better Brother

2011

The Incomparable Nakonechnikov poster
7.0

About a hairdresser who became a playwright, not knowing how deep the ford decided to step.

The Incomparable Nakonechnikov

1981

Armed and Very Dangerous poster
5.5

America’s Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed here in pursuit of enrichment. Among them was Gabriel Conroy, a man absolutely helpless in the world of business. When fountains of oil started gushing on his plot of land, the local moneybags Peter Damphy decided to appropriate the land, and succeeded in it by blackmailing Conroy’s wife and his former mistress Julie...

Armed and Very Dangerous

1978

Tairov's Death poster
1.0

The film is dedicated to the tragic fate of the outstanding theater director, founder of the famous Chamber Theater Alexander Tairov. Tairov's performances "Princess Brambilla", "Phaedra", "Love under the Elms", "Optimistic Tragedy" have gained worldwide fame. In 1949, during the so-called struggle against cosmopolitans, Tairov was released from the leadership of the Chamber Theater, the theater was renamed. Unable to withstand this blow, shocked by the betrayal of the actors he raised, crushed by the harassment of the press, Tairov died a year later in a psychiatric clinic...

Tairov's Death

2004

The Witness poster
4.5

An orphaned boy unlocks terrifying memories from the “kinderheim” concentration camp upon attending a trial of collaborators.

The Witness

1986

Accidental Waltz poster
5.5

Tatyana Prokofievna is an ageing woman with a diva’s behavior, but her life is uneventful, ordinary and dull. To escape the everyday slumber she seeks companionship of young men. She provides shelter and becomes involved in their problems. Her ex-boyfriend has married a younger woman. Tatyana is forced to keep her loneliness hidden because of her role as hostess.

Accidental Waltz

1989

Myth About Leonid poster
NR

A retro-journalistic drama based on one of the versions of Kirov’s murder, proposed by former NKVD general Orlov, who managed to escape death during the “purge” in the “Kirov” case.

Myth About Leonid

1991

The Career of Arturo Ui poster
9.0

When the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel - how many opportunities there are for a funny comedy...

The Career of Arturo Ui

1996

The Lost Ones poster
8.0

Two young nationalists from Soviet Estonia falls under the influence of popular radio DJ Rudolf Talgre, who during the war collaborated with the Nazis and was proud of it and now settled in Sweden. However, one of the friends begins to doubt the correctness of the “voice”, which leads to a quarrel between friends ... After going through betrayal and murder, students - Juhan and Linda - still manage to get into the coveted Sweden, where they actually learn the price of the words of their ideological mentor.

The Lost Ones

1971

Evening Bell poster
7.5

In the center of the plot is a screenwriter hired to create a new film. He writes a script about his childhood in the post-war Moscow courtyard. About how the boys were at enmity with the firemen, how they tried to blow up the fire, and how the firemen took revenge on them ... And how the boys ate the earth, swearing allegiance to each other ... And about who passed the test and who did not .. In his memoirs the script writer seems to be walking around in circles, returning to his childhood, as the brightest part of his life, where he very much wants to return, like a prodigal son in his father's house...

Evening Bell

2004

The Great Concert of Nations, or The Breath of Cheyne-Stokes poster
8.0

A film about the destruction of the Jewish intelligentsia - from the defeat of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to the “Doctors’ Plot.”

The Great Concert of Nations, or The Breath of Cheyne-Stokes

1991

Kids Playground poster
9.0

Living without parents, Zhanna and Roman are still almost children. She left the orphanage and went to work at a factory. He, tired of his grandmother's endless debts, got a job with the ambulance service after school. At first, their life together seemed secure. The young couple was happy until Roman got involved with a gang of thieves...

Kids Playground

1987

I Worked For Stalin poster
8.0

Gain an inside look into the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin's reign of terror through eyewitness testimonies, archival photographs and rare film footage, which reveal the real-life backstabbing and power plays among Stalin's inner circle. This documentary follows the stories of such high-ranking officials as Andrei Zhdanov, Nikita Khrushchev and Georgy Malenkov as they battled to secure their place in history by becoming Stalin's successor.

I Worked For Stalin

1990

She poster
6.5

A young Tajik girl, Maija (Nilufar Faizieva), flies to Russia following her fiancé, Khamid(Makhsum Abdullaev), where he works as a guest worker and lives in the slums with other workers like him. He promises to marry her, but eventually leaves her with barely known people and returns back toTajikistan for a marriage arranged by his parents.

She

2013

No artwork available
NR

A documentary film on the theme of the Solovetsky Monastery – the first outpost of Christian and Russian culture in the harsh Pomerania. About the great shrine of ancient holiness, martyrdom and new martyrdom. The story begins with the history of the monastery's creation, six centuries ago, since the appearance of the Venerable Savvati, Herman and Zosima on the island. The chronicle footage tells about the terrible period of the archipelago, when a special purpose camp was set up there since 1928, about the terrible suffering and torment that the prisoners endured. About monasticism, and, of course, about the present day of the monastery.

The Place is Sacred Here

2011

This Worries Everyone poster
NR

"Our film is about the religious sect of Russian Pentecostals, one of the most reactionary and fanatical cults. Their actions are incompatible with the life and laws of our society. We testify that every frame of this film is documentary."

This Worries Everyone

1960