Oleg Palmov

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton.

Having arrived from the village to Leningrad, the heroine achieved everything she could dream of: she graduated from the Institute with honors, defended her thesis, built and furnished a cooperative apartment. Only here in private life she was not lucky: for some reason, do not hold near her man…

The family idyll collapsed when the husband, who was far from art, got tired of his wife's creative self-denial. Not believing in her talent, he does not show her work to an art critic, but tells his wife that her work has not been accepted for the competition. This is followed by rehabilitation as a creative person, but it is no longer possible to establish family relations.…

A beautiful blonde is killed in the women's restroom of a bar-restaurant; after a long and dangerous chase, the murderer-motorcyclist manages to escape from the police...

An unknown writer, Paul Dubois, wins the prestigious Prix Goncourt for his novel. However, the author does not attend the award ceremony, and it is soon revealed that the murder described in the novel is real. Reporter José Roben conducts his own investigation and identifies the author and the murderer.

The second part of the Soviet TV adaption.

About life in the Russian city of Saratov in 1919 during the Russian Civil War.

Set in December of 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Lenin and the communists are making every effort to strengthen their power. Lenin appoints Felix Dzerzhinsky the Commissar for Internal Affairs and the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (CheKa). It became the predecessor of GPU and KGB.

When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family.

He is a star of theater and cinema, his day is scheduled by the minute – shooting in blockbusters, starring roles on the stage, broadcasts of central channels, photo shoots for the covers of glamorous magazines. She is a modest girl from the province, her fate is to be a concierge in the house of stars and look at the passing heroes of the gossip columns from her corner. It seems that everything is with Vera, as with people - a young husband with a Moscow residence permit, a child. It seemed that she would like to live and rejoice, but to her misfortune she meets Him. This is not a commercial calculation, this is not a momentary passion, but a deep, sacrificial love.

The action takes place shortly before the Victory in the ruins of Berlin. But it is not the military actions that are at the center of what is happening, but the fate of people, their sorrows and hopes. A young first-year Dandelion, drafted in the last days of the war, suffers completely childishly from the fact that he will not get military glory. His older friend, Dervoed, in front of whom his wife and son died, is suffering unable to cope with the mental pain. In contrast, the Rebel, who was taken to the military enlistment office right from his own wedding, is nervous and fierce. A real "war dog", he only knows how to kill. What to do when the war is over, where to put yourself?

A girl's mother dies and she is left with her newborn sister and father, both inconsolable in their grief...