
Acting
Boris Aleksandrov
Born 1936-01-01 · Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Acting credits
NRAn unprecedented piece of news spreads through the village: a comrades’ court is to be held between collective farm brigade leader Yakiv Brus and an old woman named Motria, whom he struck on the head. The village club fills with people eager to sort out what seems to be every pressing issue at once.
The Literate Man
1987
3.6The new reality changes the usual life in the village of Babylon. Attempts to communize the small town are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance. Amidst the resistance philosopher Fabian returns to Babylon and tries to prevent bloodshed, but he meets a tragic fate.
Babylon XX
1980
NRVillagers carry out a brutal vigilante trial against Hanna—they believe she is a witch and blame her for all their misfortunes. A young priest saves the woman from being killed and takes her into his home. With Hanna’s arrival, sinister events begin to unfold around the church, and the “witch” is not the only apparition to haunt the village in those days.
Accursed
1990
NRThe permanent chairman of one of Ukraine's leading collective farms, a former front-line soldier, is caught off guard by the unexpected: the spring is unusually difficult and does not bode well for the harvest, his health has deteriorated, and his best foreman has been transferred to a struggling farm. However, Zakhar Platonovich does not complain to his superiors and relies solely on his fellow villagers...
The Spring of Hope
1984
9.0Darbazar, who was carrying a secret letter to General Sukhbaatar about how ordinary herdsmen participated in the People's Revolution of 1921, fell into the hands of the enemy, and before being killed, he left his wife to continue the work he intended to do. tells about the face-to-face encounter with the great general Sukhbaatar
A Messenger of the People
1959
NROn organizing the delivery of weapons to the workers' detachments of Crimea to fight Wrangel. The action takes place during the Bolshevik coup.
Name the Hurricane Maria
1970
NRBased on the play by Mykola Kulish. The film takes place at a time when Soviet power was established, and due to collectivization and excessive withdrawal of funds from grain sales abroad, famine began. Against this backdrop unfolds the story of three comrades who initially supported the revolution and the new system, but now have changed their views.
The Zone
1988
NRIn the village club of Ershovka, a trial is underway against Yakov Vorobyov, who is accused of intentionally setting fire to the forest. Gradually, the trial turns into a public gathering, where the villagers openly discuss the rampant alcoholism that plagues their community.
The Trial in Ershovka
1987
9.0No synopsis available yet.
The Salvos of the Aurora Cruiser
1965
6.0A story of two brothers who leave rural Polesiya to seek a better life in Kyiv. One of them quickly finds himself atop the wheel of fortune and the other -- at its bottom. The first brother dies mysteriously and the second brother attempts to take over his work, but in the process begins to lose his humanity, slowly transforming into an undead monster. Based on a story by Vladimir Drozd, "Amulet" is a rare example of horror cinema in the history of Ukrainian film.
Amulet
1991
8.0Natalia Kuznetsova, a young, outwardly prosperous and successful woman artist, lives in the centre of Moscow. A plumber comes to fix a clogged sink in her bathroom, who turns out to be a man from her distant past... The meeting evokes memories of her first love: in her youth she was friends with Igor Turbin, who was from a large family, and although he had abilities and talent, he did not go to university, but went to work for the sake of his two younger brothers. She married Makarkin, a carefree and successful classmate. She, the daughter of the creative intelligentsia, was self-assured a place in the art academy and a secure career and future, and the husband should have been appropriate. But happiness did not turn out. Years later she realised that she had betrayed her love and married a complete stranger....
A Stranger's Call
1985
NRThe hero of the film, a thirty-year-old young man, returns to his hometown and discovers that he is becoming a participant in some kind of intrigue, the logic that should lead him to clash with Dima, the head of one of the local criminal gangs, Mikhail cannot avoid fighting, because the mystery of his beloved's death is connected with this name...
Somebody Else's Game
1991
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Men Are Men
1985
NRIn the school forestry, they discover a lair where a she-wolf lives with three cubs. Sheep go missing on a collective farm and the wolf family is blamed for this. But the young foresters are sure that the "wolf" stealing sheep is one of the collective farmers.
Such Lovely Wolves
1975
8.0Boris Zhadanovsky, a hereditary nobleman and officer who was predicted to have a brilliant military career, sides with the rebellious people. In 1905, Zhadanovsky is sentenced to death for his revolutionary activities. However, a powerful strike movement organized in response to the court's decision forces the tsarist government to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. After the revolution, Zhadanovsky joins the Red Army and dies fighting the White Army.
Execution Is Not Possible
1982
NRProtagonist dies and goes to the afterlife, weirdly similar to Soviet sanatorium. He finds friends and love interest there, but farewell is soon - doctors are going to resuscitate him
Life Will Go On!
1995
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Droplets
1982
5.2Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.
A Friend of the Deceased
1997
7.0The 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
8.0Maria is a single mother of two children. When Maria dies unexpectedly, the children are looked after by Anna, who lives next door. Meanwhile, Nikolai, who wanted to marry Maria, decides to stay with Anna to help raise Maria's kids.
Woman for Everyone
1991
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sespel
1972
7.0The film depicts the adventurous life of the civil war hero Vasil Kikvidze.
Stray Bullet
1980
5.4This story began on the day when an unknown car enthusiast, Grigory Yakovlev, beat famous athletes in a car he had built himself. The head of the design bureau liked his car, who invited the young racing driver to his laboratory...
Speed
1983
7.0Problems of modern villages and economic use of land.
Trust
1972