Writing

Aleksandr Lapshin

Born 1939-07-12 · USSR

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Coordinates of Death poster
5.8

The story of a group of Soviet sailors aboard the freighter Chelyabinsk who aid their Vietnamese comrades after their ship is sunk during the Vietnam War.

Coordinates of Death

1986

Vilkolakio pedsakai poster
9.0

Alyoshin, a Soviet journalist working in Argentina, witnessed the kidnapping of photo correspondent.

Vilkolakio pedsakai

1987

The Fight poster
NR

Soviet intelligence officer Kraft has a new assignment. This time, acting under the name of engineer Grubbe, he must find and transfer to the center the secret drawings of a new submarine codenamed "Walter".

The Fight

1972

Every day of Dr. Kalinnikova poster
7.5

The story of a talented woman who dedicated her life to surgery. Patients from all over the country go to her orthopedic laboratory — the doctor’s unique methods of treatment are so effective. However, an anonymous complaint is received by the metropolitan commission. Now experts have to figure out whether Kalinnikova really creates innovative healing techniques...

Every day of Dr. Kalinnikova

1974

Allazhar poster
7.5

The film tells the story of Azat, a participant in the first mass patriotic demonstrations in the USSR, who was imprisoned and subjected to abuse by investigators and prison guards. Azat’s prototype was Qayrat Rysqulbekov.

Allazhar

1996

Love in Russian 3: Governor poster
5.8

Former farmer V.P. Mukhin became governor. His enemies are trying to prevent him from signing an agreement with Belarus on the construction of a bridge. He is given 7 days to think about it. Alone and unarmed, the old man goes to a meeting with representatives of the criminal world...

Love in Russian 3: Governor

1999

Airport from the Service Entrance poster
7.7

Due to heavy snowfall that hit the city, aircraft flights were stopped for a day. Thousands of passengers crowded into the waiting room. Working together during this difficult shift, the previously conflicting bosses of the two shifts will evaluate each other, act in concert, and each will reconsider their professional and moral positions...

Airport from the Service Entrance

1987

Right to Jump poster
6.3

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.

Right to Jump

1973

The Gray Wolves poster
5.3

The film depicts the events of 1964 when Nikita Khrushchyov was forcibly replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as a head of USSR.

The Gray Wolves

1993

A Continuing Dialogue poster
NR

Alexei hadn’t seen his father since he divorced his mother. Before enrolling in the literary institute, the son decided to visit his father—and regretted the time he’d lost. At the time, his father flatly refused to understand him. Disheartened, Alexei left and didn’t enroll in the institute until his fourth year. Before starting his studies, the son came to visit his father again...

A Continuing Dialogue

1981

A Continuing Dialogue poster
NR

Alexei hadn’t seen his father since he divorced his mother. Before enrolling in the literary institute, the son decided to visit his father—and regretted the time he’d lost. At the time, his father flatly refused to understand him. Disheartened, Alexei left and didn’t enroll in the institute until his fourth year. Before starting his studies, the son came to visit his father again...

A Continuing Dialogue

1981

The Alienated Motherland poster
9.0

The film takes place in 1938 in Western Belarus, which was part of Poland. A young peasant woman, Alesya, wants at all costs to win back a house and farm that does not belong to her for the sake of happiness with her beloved Impol, from whom she is expecting a child. Her brother Mitya, a poet, writes freedom-loving poems, for which he is summoned for interrogation and brutally beaten.

The Alienated Motherland

1983

The Drummer's Fate poster
5.5

A young boy is trying to find his family and fights enemies of the state.

The Drummer's Fate

1976

Day of Wrath poster
6.1

Dr. Fiedler, in a secret underground laboratory located in the reserve, is working on experiments to create bestial creatures endowed with human intelligence. It would seem that contact with the beasts on an equal footing took place, but devoid of human morality and compassion, beast-like creatures rebelled against their creators. The journalist Battley, who learns about the monstrous rumors from the reserve, decides to conduct his own investigation and goes to the wilderness, where he encounters the products of Fiedler's terrible experiences.

Day of Wrath

1985

A Taste of Bread poster
5.0

An exploration of “virgin soil” in Kazakhstan through the stories of a party worker, a agronomist, and the director of a state farm.

A Taste of Bread

1979

Piloti poster
7.0

Further east of the Dark Blue Sky, where the Heavenly Horsemen fought, the story of a Czechoslovakian fighter squadron takes place, to which Second Lieutenant Jandak arrives as a rookie. He then experiences both his first love and a battle high above the clouds in the collective of combat pilots. Combat pilots on the Eastern Front thus experience similar stories to their Western colleagues, with the same goals and plans and the same slim prospects of survival in their daily life-and-death battles. Not surprisingly, they fought at a time when they had a common enemy, characterised by the Messerschmitt aircraft.

Piloti

1989

Gangsters in the Ocean poster
8.7

A modern pirates attack Russian ship and imprison the sailors on the inhabited island.

Gangsters in the Ocean

1992

Long-Haired Wonder poster
8.0

A story based on life events of famous gymnast Olga Korbut.

Long-Haired Wonder

1974

Trap for a Killer poster
NR

Former operative Melnik ended up in a penal colony, from which he had no chance of returning to his former self. He betrayed the system that had written him off. Now he is a professional killer, a ruthless instrument of murder in the service of a powerful criminal group. He eliminates those who cross his masters… Young operative Remezov is on the killer’s trail. He faces a difficult task: his opponent served in the law enforcement agencies, knows all the intricacies of operational and investigative work, and is capable of calculating everything several moves ahead. Remezov must act unpredictably, setting traps for the elusive killer. And now the killer has been captured, but powerful patrons free him from prison and give him the opportunity to flee abroad. Remezov has no choice but to follow him and continue the hunt. The game is not over; it’s just that the stakes have become even higher…

Trap for a Killer

2009

Coach poster
8.0

Innocent, a new coach in gymnastics, who arrived in the Siberian town, is a risk to his students to believe in themselves, in senior competitions replaces them strong competitors and get the expected result.

Coach

1969

First Route, Last Route poster
6.0

Truck drivers traveling from Odessa to Tbilisi. The first one is an elderly man, this is his last trip before retirement. The second is a newcomer, who has sat behind the wheel for the first time... Different people meet on the way of the drivers, villages and towns are left behind. Having overcome the pass, the convoy of cars enters Tbilisi, having reached the final goal of its difficult journey. The old driver gladly passes the labor baton to the newcomer, who has become a full member of the drivers' team.

First Route, Last Route

1975

Boomerang poster
9.0

Black public figure Jim Taylor is pursued by the police. He dies from a bullet in the head. In a private clinic, he is transplanted with the brain of Sheriff Maclain, who died in a car accident. While remaining black, he begins to think like a racist Maclain.

Boomerang

1981

The Formula of Light poster
9.0

Arriving two days early at the construction site, which had been practically frozen by the previous managers, Makhovikov, the chief engineer of the Yenisei power plant construction, saw the true state of affairs. He resolutely takes up the task.

The Formula of Light

1983