Sergey Miroshnichenko

Directing

Sergey Miroshnichenko

Born

1955-06-24 (71)

Place of birth

Chelyabinsk, USSR (Russia)

Known for

Directing

Credits

42 titles

Sergey Valentinovich Miroshnichenko (Russian: Сергей Валентинович Мирошниче́нко; born 24 June, 1955; Chelyabinsk) is a Russian documentary filmmaker and screenwriter, teacher, professor. Honored Artist of Russia. Winner of two State Prizes of the Russian Federation. Author of several dozen films, winner of many awards. Member of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art, Secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia for Documentary Films. Professor of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, academician of the National Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Russia, member of the Academy of Russian Television "TEFI", academician of the Russian Academy of Cinematog…

Known for

Born in the USSR: 35 Up poster
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The documentary series "Born in the USSR" is a unique chronology which began in 1989 and has continued for more than 30 years. The authors follow 20 children from different Republics of the former Soviet Union revisiting their life stories every seven years. The new film focuses on the age of 35 years, the time of adulthood and re-evaluation when a man finds himself at the "midpoint" of his life. This is a series about the coming of age of a generation, the search for oneself, about the human being undergoing changes in the changing world.

Born in the USSR: 35 Up

2026

Anna poster
5.2

Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna such questions as "What do you love the most?", "What scares you the most?", "What do you want above anything" and "What do you hate the most?"

Anna

1993

Born in the USSR: 7 Up poster
7.2

Seven Up series the first ever reality soap. The concept involves filming and getting to know a number of children, aged seven, across the nation. These children are then re-visited every 7 years to see how their lives are progressing. A varied group of children from different regions and social classes were selected. The Soviet group includes children from across the union, including Russia, Kirgizstan, Georgia and Lithuania. The filming took place during a time of civil and ethnic unrest and poverty.

Born in the USSR: 7 Up

1991

Born in the USSR: 21 Up poster
6.5

Born in the USSR: 21 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life today, aged 21.

Born in the USSR: 21 Up

2005

Brave World poster
NR

A young soldier returns from the front line with a serious wound. How will he build his new life?

Brave World

2023

Spirit in Motion poster
NR

Eight of the strongest athletes from different parts of the world are fighting for a chance to get to Sochi.

Spirit in Motion

2015

Film credits

Behind the camera

Born in the USSR: 35 Up poster
NR

The documentary series "Born in the USSR" is a unique chronology which began in 1989 and has continued for more than 30 years. The authors follow 20 children from different Republics of the former Soviet Union revisiting their life stories every seven years. The new film focuses on the age of 35 years, the time of adulthood and re-evaluation when a man finds himself at the "midpoint" of his life. This is a series about the coming of age of a generation, the search for oneself, about the human being undergoing changes in the changing world.

Born in the USSR: 35 Up

2026

Born in the USSR: 35 Up poster
NR

The documentary series "Born in the USSR" is a unique chronology which began in 1989 and has continued for more than 30 years. The authors follow 20 children from different Republics of the former Soviet Union revisiting their life stories every seven years. The new film focuses on the age of 35 years, the time of adulthood and re-evaluation when a man finds himself at the "midpoint" of his life. This is a series about the coming of age of a generation, the search for oneself, about the human being undergoing changes in the changing world.

Born in the USSR: 35 Up

2026

Born in the USSR: 35 Up poster
NR

The documentary series "Born in the USSR" is a unique chronology which began in 1989 and has continued for more than 30 years. The authors follow 20 children from different Republics of the former Soviet Union revisiting their life stories every seven years. The new film focuses on the age of 35 years, the time of adulthood and re-evaluation when a man finds himself at the "midpoint" of his life. This is a series about the coming of age of a generation, the search for oneself, about the human being undergoing changes in the changing world.

Born in the USSR: 35 Up

2026

Anna poster
5.2

Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna such questions as "What do you love the most?", "What scares you the most?", "What do you want above anything" and "What do you hate the most?"

Anna

1993

Born in the USSR: 7 Up poster
7.2

Seven Up series the first ever reality soap. The concept involves filming and getting to know a number of children, aged seven, across the nation. These children are then re-visited every 7 years to see how their lives are progressing. A varied group of children from different regions and social classes were selected. The Soviet group includes children from across the union, including Russia, Kirgizstan, Georgia and Lithuania. The filming took place during a time of civil and ethnic unrest and poverty.

Born in the USSR: 7 Up

1991

Born in the USSR: 7 Up poster
7.2

Seven Up series the first ever reality soap. The concept involves filming and getting to know a number of children, aged seven, across the nation. These children are then re-visited every 7 years to see how their lives are progressing. A varied group of children from different regions and social classes were selected. The Soviet group includes children from across the union, including Russia, Kirgizstan, Georgia and Lithuania. The filming took place during a time of civil and ethnic unrest and poverty.

Born in the USSR: 7 Up

1991

Born in the USSR: 21 Up poster
6.5

Born in the USSR: 21 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life today, aged 21.

Born in the USSR: 21 Up

2005

Born in the USSR: 21 Up poster
6.5

Born in the USSR: 21 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life today, aged 21.

Born in the USSR: 21 Up

2005

Brave World poster
NR

A young soldier returns from the front line with a serious wound. How will he build his new life?

Brave World

2023

Spirit in Motion poster
NR

Eight of the strongest athletes from different parts of the world are fighting for a chance to get to Sochi.

Spirit in Motion

2015

Georgy Zhzhenov. Russian Cross. poster
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Three parts of the cycle - three films: "Never Say Never", "Fraer of Muddy Water", "The Last Mohicans". Zhzhenov's activity in cinema began before the age of 22. Then there was an arrest with interrogations and prisons, then camps... The artist tells about his life in Russian prisons and the places where he was imprisoned: in Kresty, in Vladivostok, in Magadan. Excerpts from the films in which Georgy Zhzhenov starred surprisingly reveal his own life.

Georgy Zhzhenov. Russian Cross.

2004

Georgy Zhzhenov. Russian Cross. poster
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Three parts of the cycle - three films: "Never Say Never", "Fraer of Muddy Water", "The Last Mohicans". Zhzhenov's activity in cinema began before the age of 22. Then there was an arrest with interrogations and prisons, then camps... The artist tells about his life in Russian prisons and the places where he was imprisoned: in Kresty, in Vladivostok, in Magadan. Excerpts from the films in which Georgy Zhzhenov starred surprisingly reveal his own life.

Georgy Zhzhenov. Russian Cross.

2004

Rings of the World poster
NR

Endowed with outstanding cinematography, and in-depth interviews with competitors, this documentary underlines the gender parity being achieved at an Olympic level. Women compete in ski jumping for the first time at the Winter Games, and Canada is seen beating the United States at the last gasp in the women's ice hockey final. Disciplines given prominence here include speed skating, figure skating, aerial skiing, curling, and the biathlon. Training is analysed as much as the competitions themselves. A suite of accidents and mishaps, and the consequent tears of frustration, remind us that the Olympics is not just about winning.

Rings of the World

2016

Rings of the World poster
NR

Endowed with outstanding cinematography, and in-depth interviews with competitors, this documentary underlines the gender parity being achieved at an Olympic level. Women compete in ski jumping for the first time at the Winter Games, and Canada is seen beating the United States at the last gasp in the women's ice hockey final. Disciplines given prominence here include speed skating, figure skating, aerial skiing, curling, and the biathlon. Training is analysed as much as the competitions themselves. A suite of accidents and mishaps, and the consequent tears of frustration, remind us that the Olympics is not just about winning.

Rings of the World

2016

Rings of the World poster
NR

Endowed with outstanding cinematography, and in-depth interviews with competitors, this documentary underlines the gender parity being achieved at an Olympic level. Women compete in ski jumping for the first time at the Winter Games, and Canada is seen beating the United States at the last gasp in the women's ice hockey final. Disciplines given prominence here include speed skating, figure skating, aerial skiing, curling, and the biathlon. Training is analysed as much as the competitions themselves. A suite of accidents and mishaps, and the consequent tears of frustration, remind us that the Olympics is not just about winning.

Rings of the World

2016

QUADRO poster
NR

Chelyabinsk is not only a rugged city with numerous factories; it is also the cultural capital of the Southern Urals. The city has many theaters, each catering to its own audience. Short stories about famous theaters and their directors will introduce viewers to a different side of the city.

QUADRO

2025

Body Parts poster
NR

No matter how far the war retreats, its traces are imprinted on the torn earth and the memory of generations for tens, hundreds of years with bloody traces. The body of the earth is burned by shells, torn apart by mines - and we are its Parts. The heroes of the film are young Caucasian guys-children of the war that destroyed their childhood and youth. In this black-and-white movie, the past, present and future alike merge into the color of the tragedy of all times and peoples – the color of war.

Body Parts

2009

Unknown Putin poster
7.0

The Leningrad period of V. Putin's life.

Unknown Putin

2000

Unknown Putin poster
7.0

The Leningrad period of V. Putin's life.

Unknown Putin

2000

Vladimir Central poster
NR

A portrait of a prison through whose walls a record number of politicians, revolutionaries, scientists, philosophers and soldiers passed. The heroes of the film are employees, prisoners and veterans of the Federal Penitentiary Service who once supervised Stalin's son Vasily, Lidia Ruslanova, the authorities of the criminal world.

Vladimir Central

2023

Vladimir Central poster
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A portrait of a prison through whose walls a record number of politicians, revolutionaries, scientists, philosophers and soldiers passed. The heroes of the film are employees, prisoners and veterans of the Federal Penitentiary Service who once supervised Stalin's son Vasily, Lidia Ruslanova, the authorities of the criminal world.

Vladimir Central

2023

Nicholas II: The Circle of Life poster
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This documentary was created for the 130th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas II and the 80th anniversary of the execution of the royal family.

Nicholas II: The Circle of Life

1998

Nicholas II: The Circle of Life poster
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This documentary was created for the 130th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas II and the 80th anniversary of the execution of the royal family.

Nicholas II: The Circle of Life

1998

Given in Exchange poster
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This documentary follows the story of a mother's love: from an empty heart to a tragedy that has changed her, to creation and love, from rejecting her own son to adopting someone else's child and accepting him as her own.

Given in Exchange

2013

Voy poster
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The film tells the story of the Russian Paralympic Blind Football team which is preparing for the most important event in their lives - the European Championship. The team has only one goal - to win the gold medal at any cost!

Voy

2019

Tram Avenue poster
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In St. Petersburg, on Tram Avenue, along which, in fact, trams have never walked, there is a shelter for underage mothers: even girls, pupils of orphanages who almost do not remember their mothers, now have to become real mothers for their own children…

Tram Avenue

2010

Be in the Game poster
NR

The film is about a new generation of Russian football players. For three years, the authors of the picture watched the heroes' paths to big football: hopes and victories, difficult trials and injuries, inevitable disappointments and sacrifices – all for the sake of fulfilling a common dream of "being in the game" at the 2018 World Cup. The heroes of the film are Alexander Golovin, Roman Zobnin, Alexander Selikhov, Magomed Ozdoev, the Miranchuki brothers.

Be in the Game

2018

Butyrka Prison Castle poster
NR

A unique lengthy filmic record of the life of the employees, suspects and convicts in one of the ol­dest Russian prisons Butyrka Prison Castle, which stores legends and secrets of many inmates inclu­ding Emelyan Pugachyov, Felix Dzershinsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Natalia Sats, Vsevolod Meyerkhold, Sergey Korolyov, Andrey Tupolev and many others.

Butyrka Prison Castle

2023

Butyrka Prison Castle poster
NR

A unique lengthy filmic record of the life of the employees, suspects and convicts in one of the ol­dest Russian prisons Butyrka Prison Castle, which stores legends and secrets of many inmates inclu­ding Emelyan Pugachyov, Felix Dzershinsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Natalia Sats, Vsevolod Meyerkhold, Sergey Korolyov, Andrey Tupolev and many others.

Butyrka Prison Castle

2023

Chastushka. XX Century poster
NR

About the brightest genre of Russian folklore.

Chastushka. XX Century

1988

Lady Tundra poster
6.0

A critical look at the human-nature relationship in the tundra.

Lady Tundra

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Requiem of the Great Victory

1995

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Requiem of the Great Victory

1995

Island poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Island

1981

Born in the USSR: 14 Up poster
7.3

Born in the USSR:14 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life.

Born in the USSR: 14 Up

1998

Born in the USSR: 14 Up poster
7.3

Born in the USSR:14 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life.

Born in the USSR: 14 Up

1998

Kresty poster
NR

Kresty is one of the oldest and largest prisons in Russia, located in the center of Saint Petersburg. The history of Kresty reflects the history of Russia. Throughout 130-year existence of the prison, thousands of people have passed through these walls: revolutionaries, engineers, generals, writers, poets, scientists, thieves, serial killers. The Kresty prison is society in a nutshell, where human vices as well as fortitude, freedom and dignity reveal themselves to the fullest.

Kresty

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

That's the Whole Life

1984

Solzhenitsyn. Remorse poster
NR

The main character of the film is Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. The film uses materials both previously known and unpublished so far, as well as interviews with Alexander Isaevich, in which he talks about the future of Russia and the world in the 21st century, about modern literature and his difficult life. In addition to him, people who knew him closely, Evgeny Mironov, Alexander Sokurov, Georges Niva, Boris Morozov and his most important close friend and wife Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna, participate in the film.

Solzhenitsyn. Remorse

2018

Solzhenitsyn. Remorse poster
NR

The main character of the film is Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. The film uses materials both previously known and unpublished so far, as well as interviews with Alexander Isaevich, in which he talks about the future of Russia and the world in the 21st century, about modern literature and his difficult life. In addition to him, people who knew him closely, Evgeny Mironov, Alexander Sokurov, Georges Niva, Boris Morozov and his most important close friend and wife Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna, participate in the film.

Solzhenitsyn. Remorse

2018