Directing

Lidiya Ishimbaeva

Born — Died

1924-05-11 — 1998-08-26

Known for

Directing

Credits

31 titles

Known for

A Provincial Lady poster
NR

Based on a famous play by Ivan Turgenev. The sudden arrival of a guest, Count Lubin, stirred the quiet, measured life of Stupendievs, revived hopes for change. Childhood and youth of Darya Ivanovna, 28-year-old wife Stupendyeva, passed in the estate of the Count's mother, in Spassky. She remembers him as a brilliant officer, and keeps her youth's feeling about him.

A Provincial Lady

1969

Lika poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lika

1978

Labyrinth poster
NR

Police are detaining an opposition newspaper journalist on suspicion of murder. The prosecution's evidence is scanty and fragile. But a dirty political fuss has developed around this case. The fate and life of a person become the stake in the struggle for power.

Labyrinth

1966

The Pickwick Papers poster
NR

A two-part television play based on the novel by Charles Dickens featuring songs by poet David Samoylov.

The Pickwick Papers

1972

Valentinov Street poster
NR

The action takes place in the pre-revolutionary years and in the first days after the October Revolution. The main character, a female student, becomes an ally of a Bolshevik, who later dies on the front lines of the Civil War.

Valentinov Street

1970

The Young Mistress of Niskavuori poster
NR

The most famous work of the remarkable classic of Finnish literature Hella Wuolijoki is the saga of the Niskavuori family, consisting of five plays. The first of them, *"The Young Mistress of Niskavuori"*, which reflects the Finnish national character, tells the story of love, changes in life, disappointments, and views on morality through the eyes of straightforward, stubborn people from the countryside who must adapt to new circumstances. The action takes place in 1880.

The Young Mistress of Niskavuori

1979

Behind the camera

A Provincial Lady poster
NR

Based on a famous play by Ivan Turgenev. The sudden arrival of a guest, Count Lubin, stirred the quiet, measured life of Stupendievs, revived hopes for change. Childhood and youth of Darya Ivanovna, 28-year-old wife Stupendyeva, passed in the estate of the Count's mother, in Spassky. She remembers him as a brilliant officer, and keeps her youth's feeling about him.

A Provincial Lady

1969

Lika poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lika

1978

Labyrinth poster
NR

Police are detaining an opposition newspaper journalist on suspicion of murder. The prosecution's evidence is scanty and fragile. But a dirty political fuss has developed around this case. The fate and life of a person become the stake in the struggle for power.

Labyrinth

1966

The Pickwick Papers poster
NR

A two-part television play based on the novel by Charles Dickens featuring songs by poet David Samoylov.

The Pickwick Papers

1972

Valentinov Street poster
NR

The action takes place in the pre-revolutionary years and in the first days after the October Revolution. The main character, a female student, becomes an ally of a Bolshevik, who later dies on the front lines of the Civil War.

Valentinov Street

1970

The Young Mistress of Niskavuori poster
NR

The most famous work of the remarkable classic of Finnish literature Hella Wuolijoki is the saga of the Niskavuori family, consisting of five plays. The first of them, *"The Young Mistress of Niskavuori"*, which reflects the Finnish national character, tells the story of love, changes in life, disappointments, and views on morality through the eyes of straightforward, stubborn people from the countryside who must adapt to new circumstances. The action takes place in 1880.

The Young Mistress of Niskavuori

1979

Mitya poster
8.0

The chief engineer of a large enterprise is waiting for a meeting with the minister on an important issue and at the same time is trying to return the woman he loves.

Mitya

1967

Such Stories poster
NR

Three Novels from the Life of the Factory.

Such Stories

1974

June, the Beginning of Summer poster
NR

Varya Gracheva's husband left her. During these difficult days, a chance acquaintance, a television technician named Mitya Paramonov, comes to her aid. He helps Varya sort out her feelings and tries to reconcile her with her husband. However, Varya is still unable to forgive the betrayal...

June, the Beginning of Summer

1983

The Incident at the Hotel poster
NR

A group of young men bursts into a hotel where several guests are already staying, not long after they had run over a motorcyclist and his passenger with their car. Brandishing a knife, they demand that the guests give them a car.

The Incident at the Hotel

1967

Az and Fert poster
NR

The landowner Mordashov, in order to please his future son-in-law Alexei Fursikov, marks his daughter’s entire dowry with the monogram “A.F.” But the groom gives compensation. So that the goods are not lost, the prudent father begins the search for a groom with the appropriate initials Az and Firth.

Az and Fert

1977

Solaris poster
6.1

Kris Kelvin joins the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to find its two crew members plagued by "phantoms," creations of Solaris. Kelvin is soon confronted with his own phantom, taking the shape of his dead wife Hari.

Solaris

1968

Lunyov Today and Tomorrow poster
NR

Mathematics teacher Ivan Lunev proposes a new method of teaching children. This innovation has yielded brilliant results. However, there are also those who oppose him...

Lunyov Today and Tomorrow

1977

A Profitable Position poster
NR

Based on the play of the same name by A.N. Ostrovsky.

A Profitable Position

1977

Gooseberry poster
NR

Three interlocutors are having a sedate conversation in a cozy hallway...

Gooseberry

1967

Two and Death poster
NR

A wounded partisan took refuge in the mill, and the miller informed the second lieutenant of the government troops about this. Seeing the partisan, the second lieutenant recognizes him as a friend of his youth...

Two and Death

1969

The Morality of Mrs. Dulska poster
NR

Mrs. Dulska, the landlady of a tenement building, is obsessed with her son, going to great lengths to prevent him from getting married.

The Morality of Mrs. Dulska

1978

Christians poster
NR

At one court hearing, a witness, who is engaged in prostitution, refused to take the oath, cause she didn't consider herself as a Christian. That incident caused great excitement in the hall.

Christians

1969

Mr. Puntilla and His Man Matti poster
NR

Mr. Puntilla is kind to his servants only when he's drunk, and at other times, they endure nothing but insults from him. However, the servant Matti manages to preserve his human dignity...

Mr. Puntilla and His Man Matti

1974

He Came poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

He Came

1973

The Pointsman poster
NR

Ivan Perepasov has been serving at the railway station as a pointsman for twenty-two years. It seemed to him that all he could do was run along the arrows, give signals, light lanterns. The shift was coming to an end, Ivan hurried home, where his wife and eight children were waiting for him. Suddenly it seemed to him that he had forgotten, after the passage of a freight train, to throw the switch lever onto the main track, along which the postal train was now rushing. Ivan, in despair, rushes onto the adjacent track and falls under a maneuvering locomotive...

The Pointsman

1968

Strict Girl poster
8.0

An orphaned ninth-grader comes to the factory where her father once worked.

Strict Girl

1969

Faust poster
5.8

A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.

Faust

1969

In Transit poster
NR

A prominent scientist Andrei Loginov comes to the city of his youth, just for one day, while passing through. Here he meets the woman he once loved. Memories of days long past, of the people who remained there, turn out to be not such a simple matter.

In Transit

1982

Angel Pavement poster
NR

Twig and Darsingham's offices were in Angel Street, London. The company's business is going badly, but suddenly a sales representative shows up in the office. With his arrival, the company began to prosper and the people who worked there had high hopes for the future. However, they were not destined to come true. Golspie's agent turned out to be a fraud who bankrupted the company.

Angel Pavement

1969

Woodprint poster
NR

The former artist, and now the director of the Glass-Porcelain trust, Fyodor Kudrin, saw an amazing engraving at the exhibition. The meeting with its creator turned Fedor’s life upside down.

Woodprint

1966

Colas Breugnon poster
NR

A merry prankster and jester, Colas Breugnon loves life and knows how to enjoy it. Even when fate throws him a sour face, he finds a joke to lift his spirits.

Colas Breugnon

1966

The Belkin Tales: The Shot poster
NR

Feeling taunted by the success of an inordinately fortunate nobleman, an officer decides to challenge him to a duel.

The Belkin Tales: The Shot

1981

Who is in Fault? poster
NR

Film-play based on the novel of the same name by A.I. Herzen.

Who is in Fault?

1962

We Are Men poster
NR

A teacher comes across a love letter from an old friend, addressed to his wife. He decides to defend his honor the old-fashioned way - challenge his opponent to a duel, and strangely enough, it was accepted...

We Are Men

1976

Li-ittle! poster
NR

A young girl lives with an elderly couple in a settlement in a distant Siberian village. They liked her. When she dies unexpectedly, they go many miles to holy places to pray for the salvation of her soul.

Li-ittle!

1968