Directing

Viktor Ryzhkov

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Vanyushin's Children poster
NR

The film is a play about the collapse of the Vanyushins merchant family. The head of the family is a stranger to his children. The insight turned out to be cruel: sharp contradictions, anger, enmity, greed tear the family apart. Not finding a way out of this situation, he commits suicide.

Vanyushin's Children

1982

Nude with a Violin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nude with a Violin

1959

In a Busy Place poster
NR

In a bustling location, Vukol Ermolayevich Bessudny set up his inn: by day, a hospitable host, by night – a robber and thief. He welcomes wealthy merchants, drugs them with a sleep potion, and robs them on the forest road. Meanwhile, his wife, Yevgeniya Mironovna, waits for her lover, the handsome landowner Milovidov, whenever Vukol goes off on his nightly raids. Vukol's sister, Annushka, is also in love with the young nobleman. The dense forests, harsh customs, merchant bravado, and jealous women… Trouble is brewing!

In a Busy Place

1986

It Shines But It Doesn't Warm poster
NR

Based on the eponymous play by A. Ostrovsky and N. Solovyov, directed by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR.

It Shines But It Doesn't Warm

1972

There Are Many of Us — You and I poster
NR

Two fugitives are making their way through the Soviet territory occupied by the Germans. Their goal is to find a partisan unit or cross the front line. One of them is a sixteen-year-old boy, Stepan, a local resident. The other is a Soviet officer who escaped captivity, whom Stepan miraculously saved from death.

There Are Many of Us — You and I

1964

The Challenge poster
NR

The experienced collective farm chairman, Berest, is replaced by a young specialist, economist Bocharova, who strives to reorganize the farm's operations.

The Challenge

1977

Behind the camera

Vanyushin's Children poster
NR

The film is a play about the collapse of the Vanyushins merchant family. The head of the family is a stranger to his children. The insight turned out to be cruel: sharp contradictions, anger, enmity, greed tear the family apart. Not finding a way out of this situation, he commits suicide.

Vanyushin's Children

1982

Nude with a Violin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nude with a Violin

1959

In a Busy Place poster
NR

In a bustling location, Vukol Ermolayevich Bessudny set up his inn: by day, a hospitable host, by night – a robber and thief. He welcomes wealthy merchants, drugs them with a sleep potion, and robs them on the forest road. Meanwhile, his wife, Yevgeniya Mironovna, waits for her lover, the handsome landowner Milovidov, whenever Vukol goes off on his nightly raids. Vukol's sister, Annushka, is also in love with the young nobleman. The dense forests, harsh customs, merchant bravado, and jealous women… Trouble is brewing!

In a Busy Place

1986

It Shines But It Doesn't Warm poster
NR

Based on the eponymous play by A. Ostrovsky and N. Solovyov, directed by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR.

It Shines But It Doesn't Warm

1972

There Are Many of Us — You and I poster
NR

Two fugitives are making their way through the Soviet territory occupied by the Germans. Their goal is to find a partisan unit or cross the front line. One of them is a sixteen-year-old boy, Stepan, a local resident. The other is a Soviet officer who escaped captivity, whom Stepan miraculously saved from death.

There Are Many of Us — You and I

1964

The Challenge poster
NR

The experienced collective farm chairman, Berest, is replaced by a young specialist, economist Bocharova, who strives to reorganize the farm's operations.

The Challenge

1977

All Day Long poster
NR

A day in the life of the factory director Druyanov, who transformed a once backward enterprise into one of the leading companies in the industry.

All Day Long

1978

By Special Exception poster
NR

The daughter of a general in the missile forces decided to prove that a modern woman can serve in the army just as well as a man. The battery commander and his subordinate, the heroine of the play, fall in love with each other.

By Special Exception

1980

A Narym Divorce poster
NR

About the district officer Fyodor Ivanovich Aniskin, who maintains order and legality in his native collective farm.

A Narym Divorce

1972

A Profitable Position poster
NR

A young official, ambitious, but holding idealistic views, doesn't want to curry favor, or use patronage, although he is ready to live, albeit poorly, but honestly. He's subjected to increasing pressure from others who believe that material well-being is more important than principles, and he increasingly fights with his wife over money.

A Profitable Position

1981

Rasteryaeva Street poster
NR

Lipa and Vera had been friends since childhood. Now, having finished their boarding school, each of them faces her own path in life. Tormented by poverty, Lipa is forced to marry the old, dull, and cruel Tolokonnikov. However, she cannot bear the tyranny of the cowardly official for long. Leaving her husband, she departs from Rasteryaeva Street. Vera's life turned out differently. Fleeing with a hussar, she spent several turbulent years, but, exhausted, she returned once again to Rasteryaeva Street. And nothing had changed there.

Rasteryaeva Street

1961

Rasteryaeva Street poster
NR

Lipa and Vera had been friends since childhood. Now, having finished their boarding school, each of them faces her own path in life. Tormented by poverty, Lipa is forced to marry the old, dull, and cruel Tolokonnikov. However, she cannot bear the tyranny of the cowardly official for long. Leaving her husband, she departs from Rasteryaeva Street. Vera's life turned out differently. Fleeing with a hussar, she spent several turbulent years, but, exhausted, she returned once again to Rasteryaeva Street. And nothing had changed there.

Rasteryaeva Street

1961

Communards poster
NR

The story takes place in 1921, during the early days of the commune established in a Siberian village.

Communards

1971

Banker poster
NR

Galina, the daughter of the manager of the city branch of the State Bank Roman Stepanovich Kruchi, and brought up by him alone from the age of three, is marrying the furniture factory director Andrei Tur. It turns out that Andrey, having received a bank loan for the plant, cannot return it on time, since the plant produced defective products that were not accepted by the customer. Andrey is removed from work and together with Galina he leaves for a new place of work.

Banker

1964

Meeting poster
NR

The hero saw among his colleagues a man whom he had met during the war in the dungeons of the Gestapo. This man reported that a thief from the same cell was trying to escape. The “thief” was shot, and later it turned out that he was the leader of the underground...

Meeting

1969

Return poster
6.0

The soldier returned home after the end of the war. And now we need to get used to a peaceful life again, a wife, children who grew up without him.

Return

1968

Return poster
6.0

The soldier returned home after the end of the war. And now we need to get used to a peaceful life again, a wife, children who grew up without him.

Return

1968