Directing

Aleksandr Orlov

Born 1940-08-08 · Novosibirsk, RSFSR, USSR

Acting credits

Stalin poster
5.3

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of Anna Aliluyeva, Stalin’s granddaughter, the film traces the rise of the Bolshevik tyrant from Lenin’s return from exile to his brutal struggle with Trotsky, the creation of his feared secret police and the merciless inner workings of his regime. As Anna recounts her grandfather’s life, viewers gain an intimate, personal perspective on the paranoia and purges that left even his closest circles living in constant fear.

Stalin

1992

Every day of Dr. Kalinnikova poster
7.5

The story of a talented woman who dedicated her life to surgery. Patients from all over the country go to her orthopedic laboratory — the doctor’s unique methods of treatment are so effective. However, an anonymous complaint is received by the metropolitan commission. Now experts have to figure out whether Kalinnikova really creates innovative healing techniques...

Every day of Dr. Kalinnikova

1974

A Woman That Sings poster
3.8

A musical melodrama and semi‐biographical portrait of Alla Pugacheva, here named Anna Streltsova, who repeatedly contemplates leaving the stage until she discovers her true style and songs. Along the way she endures a difficult marriage and divorce, embraces motherhood, and ultimately experiences a profound, life-changing love.

A Woman That Sings

1979

A Very Old Story poster
6.4

Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the film is a puppeteer who lives in a poor and gray world. He composes a fairy tale in which he himself, in the guise of a brave soldier, finds a flint and is helped by a kind wizard. The soldier falls in love with a spoiled, capricious princess who, as befits a princess, poses riddles to her numerous suitors. Her father, the king, is eager to see the soldier as her husband, as he believes the soldier has a great deal of gold. In the fairy tale, everything ends well, but in real life, not so much. "But life is not a fairy tale," his beloved girl says to him as she bids him farewell.

A Very Old Story

1968

The Last Bread poster
5.0

After going through all the details of the old combine with his own hands, the pioneer virgin landowner granddad Yakushenko met his last great suffering - harvesting bread - in the most dignified manner. Aleksei, Irina and Dmitriy decide to help granddad — and went in the evening to look for spare parts for his combine in neighbouring farms...

The Last Bread

1963

The Potter's Wheel poster
NR

A film crew arrives for a three-day shoot in a village in the Yaroslavl region to film a documentary about an old master potter, Mikhail Lukich Bolotnikov.

The Potter's Wheel

1974

The Hockey Players poster
8.0

Thirty-year-old captain of the hockey team Duganov, a famous and experienced player, decides to fight for the sporting longevity of "old men" like him. Acutely experiencing a quarrel with his favorite girl, Duganov achieves participation in the decisive final match between the two strongest teams and achieves victory.

The Hockey Players

1965

Arena poster
8.5

In one of the occupied European cities, the commandant of the garrison gathers a troupe of circus performers. Coming from different countries, they are in the humiliating position of people forced to serve their enslavers. Many of them, recruited from camps and workhouses, were quite content with their lot. Only after a chain of subsequent events, the artists raise an uprising. Unarmed people are not able to resist the arrived guards. They die, but at the cost of their lives they regain their lost human dignity.

Arena

1967

A Hero of Our Time poster
5.7

After the death of Bela, Pechorin was unwell for a long time, and then left the fortress and Maxim Maximych and left for Georgia. Since then, the headquarters captain had no news of his friend, often recalled and carefully carried his diaries in his wanderings. Five years have passed... Once at a post station near Vladikavkaz, Maxim Maximych with delight learns that Grigory Pechorin also came here. The long-awaited meeting brings an unbearable pain and bitterness of disappointment to the old warrior. In his hearts, he mercilessly parted with the travel notes of the ensign. And his random companion finds on the yellowed pages the story of the soul of an amazing, extraordinary person who brings misfortune to others all his life.

A Hero of Our Time

1967

Year as Long as Life poster
7.0

The film takes place in Europe in the 19th century. The film shows the popular uprisings that took place there, as well as the search for truth and the confrontation of Karl Marx and opponents of the revolution.

Year as Long as Life

1965

A Hero of Our Time: Bela poster
8.0

Russian officer Pechorin falls in love with Bela, the daughter of a local chieftain. By tricking her brother Azamat into abducting her, he calls upon himself the wrath of horseman Kazbich.

A Hero of Our Time: Bela

1967

Family Happiness poster
5.5

The film comprises four novellas: (1) “From Boredom”. A wealthy matron, bored with life, embarks on a romance with her children’s romantic tutor. (2) “Nerves”. Haunted by tales of the supernatural, Vak­s­in can’t sleep and is found in the morning napping on the governess’s chest. (3) “The Avenger”. A husband plans to kill his unfaithful wife but abandons the plot when he dreads the punishment to come. (4) “The Proposal”. A tragicomic matchmaking tale of landowner Lomov wooing his neighbor’s daughter.

Family Happiness

1970

Notches For Memory poster
NR

A difficult historical period in the life of the Moldovan people, who fought in the 1930s against the yoke of royal Romania and for reunification with the Soviet Union.

Notches For Memory

1973

Attention! The Magician Is in the City! poster
NR

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Attention! The Magician Is in the City!

1963

Sisters Liberty poster
6.2

Two young, simple-minded twin sisters sewing-motorists from a vocational school, who after the death of their mother live separately from their alcoholic father, are charmed by a modernist painter who is indulgent to them and even introduces them into the circle of his "chosen ones". Serge uses the sisters as models and introduces them to his photographer friends.

Sisters Liberty

1990

Behind the camera

Gobseck poster
7.0

Gobsek the richest and most stragity usurer of Paris. The Countess by Anastasi lays will Gobseck family diamond my husband, for the sake of debt her beloved Maxim. This rash act she reveals to her husband her love affair.

Gobseck

1987

Gobseck poster
7.0

Gobsek the richest and most stragity usurer of Paris. The Countess by Anastasi lays will Gobseck family diamond my husband, for the sake of debt her beloved Maxim. This rash act she reveals to her husband her love affair.

Gobseck

1987

A Woman That Sings poster
3.8

A musical melodrama and semi‐biographical portrait of Alla Pugacheva, here named Anna Streltsova, who repeatedly contemplates leaving the stage until she discovers her true style and songs. Along the way she endures a difficult marriage and divorce, embraces motherhood, and ultimately experiences a profound, life-changing love.

A Woman That Sings

1979

Uncle's Dream poster
7.0

Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary.

Uncle's Dream

1981

Uncle's Dream poster
7.0

Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary.

Uncle's Dream

1981

In Difficult Times poster
NR

On the wedding day, the groom has a fire. The house in which the young people were supposed to live and all their property burns down. In difficult times, Gosstrakh comes to the rescue by paying large monetary compensation to the injured newlyweds...

In Difficult Times

1968

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde poster
5.0

Dr. Jekyll has made a sensational discovery: he has managed to separate good from evil in himself. This discovery he must keep secret, because the bearer of evil, Mr. Hyde, has become uncontrollable.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1986

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde poster
5.0

Dr. Jekyll has made a sensational discovery: he has managed to separate good from evil in himself. This discovery he must keep secret, because the bearer of evil, Mr. Hyde, has become uncontrollable.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1986

These... Three True Cards... poster
8.0

Based on Alexander Pushkin's novel "The Queen of Spades." The modern situation is projected onto the plot of "The Queen of Spades."

These... Three True Cards...

1988

These... Three True Cards... poster
8.0

Based on Alexander Pushkin's novel "The Queen of Spades." The modern situation is projected onto the plot of "The Queen of Spades."

These... Three True Cards...

1988

I Take it Upon Myself poster
NR

After getting appointed as the first People's Commissar of Heavy Industry in the history of the Soviet Union, Sergo Ordzhonikidze begins to reform and modernize the industry.

I Take it Upon Myself

1976

Potapov, to the Board! poster
8.0

A story about a school friends, their adventures, fantasies and first love...

Potapov, to the Board!

2007

Potapov, to the Board! poster
8.0

A story about a school friends, their adventures, fantasies and first love...

Potapov, to the Board!

2007

Exodus poster
NR

At first they bullied her for a long time and in a sophisticated way. Then they killed her. In the courtroom, it became clear to her father that there was no evidence against the bastards and he would have to decide the trial himself...

Exodus

1991

The Train Stops for Two Minutes poster
7.0

A doctor arrives from work in a provincial town from Moscow. At first, he yearns for the capital and friends. In addition, there are no patients. Igor decides to return to Moscow, but getting to know the locals, and even more the feeling that arose between him and nurse Alyona, forces him to change his decision.

The Train Stops for Two Minutes

1972

Monsieur Lenoir, Who... poster
NR

After Monsieur Lenoir commits a terrible crime, his family members gather together to discuss their damage control options.

Monsieur Lenoir, Who...

1984

Monsieur Lenoir, Who... poster
NR

After Monsieur Lenoir commits a terrible crime, his family members gather together to discuss their damage control options.

Monsieur Lenoir, Who...

1984

The Amazing Boy poster
8.0

After professor creates a robot who looks like blue-eyed boy the criminals become very interested in the invention.

The Amazing Boy

1971

The Amazing Boy poster
8.0

After professor creates a robot who looks like blue-eyed boy the criminals become very interested in the invention.

The Amazing Boy

1971