Mark Prudkin

The joyless life in the sands with her decrepit miller husband has kindled greed and malice in the young woman. She curses her absurd marriage and... daily adds arsenic to her husband’s food, slowly killing him...

Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary.

An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.

On the life and works of Mikhail Bulgakov.

Documentary about Anton Chekhov and his descendants in Moscow. Vera Tschechowa, who is the great-grandniece of the poet and writer, meets with family members, writers, and theater professionals. Past and present merge into a poetic journey of discovery into a country that, until then, had been little known in the realm of artistic sensibilities.

Before leaving for the USSR, a West German journalist meets his father, who was in Russia in 1922, where he met, fell in love with and lost forever a Russian translator. Sixty years later, the son follows his father's route...

Based on the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

A film about outstanding actors of the Soviet stage: Angelina Stepanova, Mark Prudkin, Igor Ilyinsky, Faina Ranevskaya, Veriko Andzhaparidze and others.

An overview of the 75-year history of the Moscow Art Theatre containing unique historical footage, including rare excerpts from various stage productions.

Gorky Moscow Art Theater. A play based on the play of the same name by F. Schiller. About the confrontation between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Queen Mary of Scotland.

A story about a role of Vladimir Lenin in the electrification of Russia after Civil War.

Based on the work of the same name by A. P. Chekhov about the fate of an old provincial actor.

Screen adaptation of the two-part play "Chekhov's Pages" staged by the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky based on one-act plays and stories by A.P. Chekhov: “Gimp”, “Lecture on the dangers of tobacco”, “Anniversary”, “Pecheneg”, “The Story of Mrs. N.N.”, “Swan Song”.

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The tragic story of the Karamazov family takes place in a Russian province in the late 19th century. The relations of their father and three brothers are very complicated and contradictory. One of the brothers is accused of killing his father, whom he did not commit. The brothers are unable to help him, and only a loving girl follows him to hard labour.

Life and works of V.I. Lenin during the difficult period for the country of 1918.

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Performance of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater based on the play by N. Pogodin.