Aleksandr Volodin

Writing

Aleksandr Volodin

Born — Died

1919-02-10 — 2001-12-17

Place of birth

Minsk, Belorusskaya SSR, USSR

Known for

Writing

Credits

27 titles

Aleksandr Moiseyevich Volodin was a Soviet and Russian screenwriter, director, poet, and playwright, whose plays enjoyed long runs and great popularity on the Soviet stage.

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Autumn Marathon poster
7.1

Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.

Autumn Marathon

1979

Proshlym Letom poster
7.0

One evening Grisha dares to approach Polinka, a girl from the neighbouring village he has admired for a long time. They begin to date and all goes well until the day when Grisha’s impudent friend Kostya decides to ridicule Polinka in public.

Proshlym Letom

1962

The Girl and the Bugler poster
4.5

It is a story about 12 or 13 years old girl in the middle of 60-th in USSR. She is a pioneer. She is in love with her pioneer leader - 16-17 years old boy, who doesn't even notice her. In order to impress him she tries to find someone, who was a member of pioneer squad in 1923 - one of the first Soviet pioneers...

The Girl and the Bugler

1965

Bells of Autumn poster
3.8

A musical fairytale based on the poem "The Tale of the Dead Princess" by Alexander Pushkin.

Bells of Autumn

1979

A Portrait with Rain poster
6.7

Misfortune brings Anatoly, a lonely sailor, to meet Claudia, who comes to his house to help bury his mother. Although he sees her as a calculating person at first, he soon begins to realize he is deeply mistaken.

A Portrait with Rain

1978

Two Arrows. Stone Age Detective poster
4.2

A parable in the manner of a tragedian based on the play by A. Volodin "On the tribes of the Bison and Scorpions, who lived many thousands of years ago on a small island." The events that the film tells about take place in ancient times, in the Stone Age. In the forest, where a large tribe lives, two shots in the back killed one of the clan, nicknamed Long. His widow demands that the killer become her husband. The head of the clan is trying to find out who the killer is.

Two Arrows. Stone Age Detective

1989

Humiliated and Insulted poster
4.7

Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart.

Humiliated and Insulted

1990

Elder Sister poster
5.8

A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career.

Elder Sister

1967

Tears Were Falling poster
6.3

A beautiful man, husband, father and worker Pavel Ivanovich Vasin got into the eye with a shard of the mirror of an evil wizard. And the world for him appeared in a gloomy light. He began to insult and offend everyone at home and at work. Anger and suspicion overwhelmed Vasin's heart.

Tears Were Falling

1983

Cyrano de Bergerac poster
4.3

Long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.

Cyrano de Bergerac

1989

Dulcinea of Tobossa poster
5.2

Dulcinea seeks an eternal dream of justice, chivalry, protection of the wronged in real, everyday life but all her dreams fail to come true. All men to whom she turns for setting the out-of-joint time right fall short of her expectations because they are too small for the task. She is mocked, exposed and disappointed. So what to do? Somebody has to take Don Quixote's place.

Dulcinea of Tobossa

1980

Nastya poster
5.7

A young Russian store clerk has a drab existence in times of shortages and is berated by her ailing mother for not seeing men. So she brings home an unknown young man who she met on the tram. She dreams many things but pines for this man.

Nastya

1994

Daughters-Mothers poster
4.3

The young girl Olga Vasilyeva grew up in an orphanage. She never knew her mother and wants to find her. The only trace she has is a preserved letter from her mother from her personal file, which she managed to get from the administration of the orphanage. For a short vacation at her factory school, she travels from Sverdlovsk to Moscow following the unreliable traces of this letter. Yelena Alekseyevna — the woman she finds when she arrives at the address turns out to be a teacher in a ballet school, the wife of an ordinary senior teacher at the Moscow Technical Institute (who didn't defend his dissertation and is complacent about this) and an old-Moscow intellectual. She kindly meets her, but she is not the person Olga is looking for, she only has the same last name and first name and consonant middle name. She is kind and hospitable, ready to help the girl find her real mother and offers Olga to visit her house during a short stay in Moscow.

Daughters-Mothers

1975

Don't Leave Your Lovers poster
6.2

Sometimes divorce process could be really painful. This is exactly the case for the heroes of this romantic drama.

Don't Leave Your Lovers

1980

The Magician poster
5.3

In a small provincial town, the magician Viktor Mikhailovich Kukushkin performed in a student dormitory. His tricks were not very complicated and did not make a great impression on the audience. But this evening was the beginning of friendship between the magician and the students.

The Magician

1968

Adventures of a Dentist poster
6.5

Young dentist Chesnokov has a knack for painless tooth removal, much to the dismay of others, who fear unemployment and start to challenge Chesnokov.

Adventures of a Dentist

1967

Confusion of Feelings poster
4.6

A young man tries to make everybody happy including the girl he's in love with and her divorcing parents.

Confusion of Feelings

1978

Mother of Jesus poster
10.0

After Jesus' execution, several people gather at his mother's house — a brother and sister, a Roman patrician with a servant, one of the apostles... They all understand that something more significant has happened than just the execution of some half-crazed prophet. Everyone is trying to answer the question for themselves, what is the mystery of the personality of Jesus Christ. But, alas, no one here hears each other. And there is already a crowd of sufferers at the house, who see in the mother of Jesus the savior from all troubles...

Mother of Jesus

1991

I Don't Want to Be Unhappy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I Don't Want to Be Unhappy

1983

Aleksandr Volodin: My Soul Is Restless poster
NR

Playwright and poet Aleksandr Volodin looks back at his life and career.

Aleksandr Volodin: My Soul Is Restless

1993

The Incident Which Nobody Noticed poster
6.5

The modest shop assistant in a grocery shop Nastya dreamed about happiness. She dreamed about miracle, which would have made her beautiful. She dreamed all day and all night. And one day the miracle happened ...

The Incident Which Nobody Noticed

1967

The Incident Which Nobody Noticed poster
6.5

The modest shop assistant in a grocery shop Nastya dreamed about happiness. She dreamed about miracle, which would have made her beautiful. She dreamed all day and all night. And one day the miracle happened ...

The Incident Which Nobody Noticed

1967

The Appointment poster
6.0

A soft and gentle man suddenly starts to change after being appointed to the manager position.

The Appointment

1980