Writing

Viktor Smirnov

Born

1933-03-12 (93)

Place of birth

Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Known for

Writing

Credits

16 titles

In 1956 graduated from Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. Famous prose writer and screenwriter, master of the adventure story. The author of such wonderful works as “Night Motorcyclist”, “There is no turning back”, “The disturbing month of spring”. Laureate of the 1989 State Prize. Honored Artist of Ukraine. He was awarded the Dovzhenko Gold Medal for developing a military theme in the cinema. Most of the scripts were written jointly with Igor Bulgaria.

Known for

Wild Wind poster
4.5

August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is sealed. Armadas of American bombers from bases in North Africa have begun to assault Pioesti - and there is another threat from the Partisans across the border of Yugoslavia. Against the tableau of spectacular events, the dramatic story of WILD WIND unfolds.

Wild Wind

1985

Twilight poster
4.3

In the last winter of WWII a group of captive German soldiers is brought to a remote Russian village, where widows, a child and a crippled are the only ones left. This is a military drama about those, who can love and forgive.

Twilight

2005

Secret Fairway poster
5.0

The year 1944... The year of the victorious turning point in the WWII, but the Baltic theater of naval battles is still quiet. While performing a combat mission, torpedo boat commander Boris Shubin accidentally discovers a secret fairway of an unmarked German submarine. Unforeseen chance throws him on the "Flying Dutchman" and gives him the opportunity to open the veil of the strictest secrecy of the Third Reich, which surrounds her....

Secret Fairway

1986

Privalov's Millions poster
6.7

A young heir of a big fortune Sergey Privalov is coming back to his native town after a long absence. Having visited his owned plants, he breaks out with the idea to rebuild the industrial processes, improve the life of workers, and build schools and hospitals. Though, his interests collide with the interests of local big wigs, to whom the existing situation suits perfectly

Privalov's Millions

1973

Races Without a Finish poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Races Without a Finish

1977

Scarlet Stone poster
7.0

Young spouses go on a boat on a honeymoon. A fire occurs along the way - and in front of the eyes of the young wife, a burning beam falls on Matvey. Time passes, Natasha marries Stepan, who saved her that tragic night. But one day, they accidentally learn that Matvey is alive. Stepan decides to find him and leaves Moscow ...

Scarlet Stone

1987

Behind the camera

Wild Wind poster
4.5

August 1943, Europe. The tentacles of the German octopus have begun to recoil. As the Nazis retreat, their concern focuses on the supply of oil from the refineries of Romania. Without the flow of "black gold", Germany's doom is sealed. Armadas of American bombers from bases in North Africa have begun to assault Pioesti - and there is another threat from the Partisans across the border of Yugoslavia. Against the tableau of spectacular events, the dramatic story of WILD WIND unfolds.

Wild Wind

1985

Twilight poster
4.3

In the last winter of WWII a group of captive German soldiers is brought to a remote Russian village, where widows, a child and a crippled are the only ones left. This is a military drama about those, who can love and forgive.

Twilight

2005

Secret Fairway poster
5.0

The year 1944... The year of the victorious turning point in the WWII, but the Baltic theater of naval battles is still quiet. While performing a combat mission, torpedo boat commander Boris Shubin accidentally discovers a secret fairway of an unmarked German submarine. Unforeseen chance throws him on the "Flying Dutchman" and gives him the opportunity to open the veil of the strictest secrecy of the Third Reich, which surrounds her....

Secret Fairway

1986

Privalov's Millions poster
6.7

A young heir of a big fortune Sergey Privalov is coming back to his native town after a long absence. Having visited his owned plants, he breaks out with the idea to rebuild the industrial processes, improve the life of workers, and build schools and hospitals. Though, his interests collide with the interests of local big wigs, to whom the existing situation suits perfectly

Privalov's Millions

1973

Races Without a Finish poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Races Without a Finish

1977

Scarlet Stone poster
7.0

Young spouses go on a boat on a honeymoon. A fire occurs along the way - and in front of the eyes of the young wife, a burning beam falls on Matvey. Time passes, Natasha marries Stepan, who saved her that tragic night. But one day, they accidentally learn that Matvey is alive. Stepan decides to find him and leaves Moscow ...

Scarlet Stone

1987

The Troubled Month of Veresen poster
5.5

Autumn 1944. Wounded scout returns to his home village only to fight with bandits.

The Troubled Month of Veresen

1977

Night Motorcyclist poster
7.0

The investigation of a complex, complicated case of the murder of an engineer, a former prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp. The criminal, one of the executioners of this camp, did not escape retribution.

Night Motorcyclist

1972

It's Not Always Summer in Crimea poster
10.0

The film is dedicated to Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, the younger brother of V.I. Lenin, a professional revolutionary, doctor and creator of the first Soviet sanatoriums and rest homes in the Crimea.

It's Not Always Summer in Crimea

1988

Harsh Kilometers poster
6.0

In the Siberian wilderness, on one of the car depots, bad stories occur. It all starts with theft, and leads to murder. And neither the police nor the leadership of the base can put things in order. Moreover, the main character, Alexei, seems that he is completely alone in search of the truth.

Harsh Kilometers

1969

I Wait and Hope poster
7.0

1942 The Great Patriotic War is in full swing. The German command begins an intensified struggle with partisan detachments. One of these detachments, operating in Polissya, is surrounded by enemy troops. There is only one way out of this situation - it is necessary to disorient the enemy and break through the cordon. But how to do that?

I Wait and Hope

1980

Poem of Kovpak: Snow-Storm poster
5.2

A second of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.

Poem of Kovpak: Snow-Storm

1976

Poem of Kovpak: Alarm poster
5.6

A first of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.

Poem of Kovpak: Alarm

1974

Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians... poster
6.5

A third of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.

Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians...

1978

From Bug to Vistula poster
6.5

The Soviet war film tells the story of the last raid by the Ukrainian partisan division named after S. A. Kovpak, led by P. P. Vershigora, into enemy territory in 1943-1944, its advance to the state border between the USSR and Poland, and its international assistance to the Polish people in their liberation from the fascist invaders.

From Bug to Vistula

1981

Tachanka from the South poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tachanka from the South

1978