Vladimir Kenigson

At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zelyony go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to encounter a mysterious conspiracy led by Doctor Verhovtsev against legendary Two Captains Kim and Buran. The only clue is a talking bird Сhatterer [Govorun] that our heroes accidentally took possession of.

First, there was a visit by a famous writer to his old friend, who then, in order to get rid of a random witness, killed him. Envy and money. Isn't that a motive for a crime? The police opened a criminal case, and the search for the perpetrator began. It turned out that there were many witnesses. But the weapon used to kill the writer has not yet been found...

Pensioner organizes a meeting of former classmates fifty years after graduating from school. Many are no longer alive, but those who came touchingly remember their distant childhood and youth, the joys and sorrows of bygone years.

A cartoon about the Battle of Kulikovo Field.

Divorced Maria and married Ofelia work as ladies' masters in a Moscow hairdressing salon. Ofelia often complains to her friend about her philandering husband. Maria has no one to complain about - she lives alone and is not bored. To reconcile Ophelia and her husband, Maria often visits Ivan at the zoo, where he works as a zookeeper, and gradually becomes attached to him. The sedate and positive Maria has much more in common with Ivan than the capricious and flighty Ophelia.

After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?

The beginning of the 20s. In the North Caucasus, a gang led by the “Head of the Gorgon” is preparing a counter-revolutionary rebellion. The Red Army soldier Svetlov, returning home from the front, becomes a victim of the bandits who attacked him and finds himself in the hospital, the very center of the White Guard conspiracy.

Based on XIII century historical chronicles (The Tale of the Destruction of Riazan by Batu) it's a story about how folk hero Yevpatiy Kolovrat seeks revenge on Batu Khan for burning the city of Riazan.

The action takes place in Naples. A dispute arises between the owner of a small lottery office and the fiancé of his daughter, who works at the same office. The conflict is full of humorous twists and turns. At its core is a trickery involving a lottery ticket that has won a large prize...

1918. North Caucasus, civil war. After the revolutionary upsurge, during which the First Congress of the Peoples of the Terek Region was convened, there was a temporary decline. Denikin's troops were rampaging, and the party went underground, continuing its revolutionary activities. Denikin's troops notice the appearance of the Bolshevik Aslanbek in the city and begin to follow the liaison officer. Soon, the underground committee is arrested. But by this time, the Red Army, having received powerful support from the mountain dwellers and workers, goes on the offensive.

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.

German intelligence is sending a terrorist group to the Soviet Union in the beginning of WWII.

The rich merchant widow Yuliya Tugina is practically ruined by her lover, impoverished nobleman Vadim Dulchin, who loves only himself and gambling. Merchant Flor Fedulych in love with a young widow Yuliya Pavlovna. But all her thoughts are occupied by the handsome Dulchin. But the wise and prudent merchant builds his intrigue, and soon they will have to combine marriage with the unloved, but the rich.

Based on the eponymous play by K. Čapek, directed by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR. The Macropoulos Method — an elixir of immortality, the possibility of which becomes a test of the characters' human integrity in the play.

A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it?

Based on Kazakh fairy tales about the wise scoffer, defender of the poor.

At the end of the boarding school, young Rebecca will find the place of a simple governess, and you really want to get into the world, to marry a noble rich man. And she does not despair, believing that the natural mind helps out no worse than papa's money. Penniless, but full of ambition, Becky is confident of her success at the fair of everyday life.

The years of civil war. Teacher Lyubov Yarovaya is on the side of the revolution. Her husband Mikhail is a White Guard officer. Mikhail fiercely fights against Soviet power. The struggle in the woman's soul between her love for her husband and her revolutionary duty ends with the victory of the latter. She passes a harsh and merciless sentence on Mikhail...

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A story about the morals of 19th-century Russian nobility resonates in a striking way with the realities and ethical values of our own time. Emotions are paid for with money — money that is ruthless and destructive. A timely tale of a “spiritually impoverished” man of great wealth, confident in his power and certain of how to achieve his goals.

An inveterate gambler Mikhail Vasilievich Krechinsky loses a large sum of money. In order to avoid shame and pay debts, Krechinsky decides to marry a rich girl. But in order to receive the blessing of his father and speed up the wedding, he again has to go to deception...

The film is set in 1920 in the Volga region during the Civil War. The story of the heroic struggle of the crew of an armored train.

An employee of the foreign trade association Kazakov makes an offer to the American businessman Vikas to invest in the construction of a chemical plant. It was decided to build it on the site of a gasification station in Nizhne-Pechorsk. Vikas' decision to conclude a contract for the construction of the plant becomes known to American businessmen, who are not interested in this cooperation. Ron Kluger comes to Moscow to interfere with the negotiations...

A production of the State Academic Maly Theater. The film, dedicated to the memory of Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, includes fragments of plays based on the playwright's plays: "We'll settle accounts with our own people", "Thunderstorm", "Wolves and Sheep", "The Abyss", "The Snow Maiden", "The Heart is not a Stone", "It Shines but Doesn't Warm", "Mad Money", "The Truth is Good, but Happiness is Better", and "It's not all for naught".

Teleplay based on the novel of the same name by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, staged at the USSR State Academic Maly Theater.

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Young boy traveling on the ship called "Equator" suddenly witnesses the activity of the spy and helps to catch him.

Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...

A female commissar is sent to the naval detachment, led by the anarchist Vozhak, on behalf of the Party Central Committee. She is tasked with subordinating the sailors to the cause of the revolution.

On the participation of the intelligentsia in the revolution and post-revolutionary transformations of the Soviet country.

A television play based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky.

An old pickpocket named "Cardinal", during the days of the International Festival of Youth and Students, decides to gather old “personnels” to prepare small and large thefts from the festival participants. During the "conference" it turns out that a complete "personnel crisis" has come. The ensuing meeting with the former bootlegger — Senka-Moroz, who broke with his past and found happiness in his family and honest work, leads the Cardinal to confusion and mental confusion. A conversation with Professor Muromtsev, a terminally ill person who nevertheless cares about the fate of others, shock the "Cardinal" and he takes the first but decisive step towards a new life, breaking with the criminal world.

Screen version of the popular play of the 1960’s about people of a generation, whose lives were affected in different ways by the main developments in the Soviet Union from the 30’s and 60’s.

Gunan is a shepherd in love with the beautiful Oyuun, the daughter of the khan Iribsyn. When he is taking part in a competition for the hand of Oyun, he must defeat not only the rich princes, but also the three-headed monster Mongoose. Based on the Mongol folk tale of the same name.

A story of the adventures of two young boys during WWII.

Young detective investigates a complex crime starting with two movie tickets found in the pocket of one of the criminals.

First animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Gena the Crocodile works as a zoo animal at an urban zoo. Every evening, he returns home to his lonely apartment. Gena gets very tired of playing chess against himself and decides to find some friends to play with. Animals and people respond to advertisements that he posts all around the city. First, a girl named Galya comes with a homeless puppy, who is then followed by Cheburashka. They decide to build a house for all the lonely citizens of the city, but a mischievous old lady, Shapoklyak, tries to stop them in different ways.

The story of a father - a hero of the Civil War, a general of the Patriotic War and his son, frivolous and absent-minded in the civilian life, but who took over his father's 'baton' in the 'hard times'. General Rybakov's son Ivan, confident that his father's name will protect him from trouble, commits a number of disreputable acts. Between father and son there is a decisive explanation, as a result of which Ivan leaves home. During the Great Patriotic War, the Rybakovs meet again. The severely wounded general, dying, bequeaths his weapon to his son.

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.

Based on the play of the same name by I. Popov and L. Stepanov, staged by the State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR.

Based on the eponymous play by P. Malyarevsky about the Leninsk events of 1912.

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Life and works of V.I. Lenin during the difficult period for the country of 1918.

The plot is based on the story of the English provincial newspaper "Northern Light", which was able to hold its own in the face of tough competition from large newspaper monopolies...

A drama about football coaches and players.

Spring 1919. All routes to Baku oil are blocked. S.M. Kirov, a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 11th Army, instructs Georgy Atarbekov, chairman of the Astrakhan Cheka, to establish contact with the Dagestani Revolutionary Committee, purchase gasoline, and smuggle fuel. According to Atarbekov's plan, propaganda brigade actors Armen and Anush are sent to the port of Petrovsk with the documents of the detained Persian businessman Makhmedi and his wife.

Faith Vans, an employee of one of the departments of the US State Department, receives a summons to the commission to investigate un-American activities, and her prosperous, calm life begins to collapse. But Faith doesn't give up, and she fights for her rights.

Once upon a time, young scientists Kalitin and Danilov were friends, but a quarrel separated them. The circumstances of the quarrel remained unclear to everyone until the end. But everyone thought they were right. Years have passed. Professor Kalitin’s son, working under his leadership, moves to the institute headed by Danilov. Kalitin learns about this decision of Igor on the day of the arrival of his friend and colleague Vasin. On this occasion, old friends gather at the professor’s house, including Luzgin, Kalitin’s boss. Reflections on his life help the professor understand his son’s choice, oppose the unprincipled careerist Luzgin and make peace with Danilov.

The Nazis planted explosives to blow up the cities of Krakow and Prague, but the underground resistance in Poland works with the Russians to stop the disaster.

Russia, 1919. A young soldier of the First Cavalry Army, Aleksei Mikhalyov, is sent to work in the provincial Cheka. Here in the south of the country there is a large White Guard underground led by the elusive Markov. Aleksei gets into the gang, where he is mistaken for his own. The day of the operation to eliminate the white underground is appointed. But unforeseen circumstances destroy the plans of the Chekists.

The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.

Civil War. Southern steppes of Russia. Circumstances bring together various people: the Chekist, professor, actor, nurse and White Guard officer posing as a vet. On two tachanka's they make their way into the city.

A dramatization of the 1919 defense of Petrograd, focusing on Bolshevik leadership and the defeat of White Army forces during the Russian Civil War.

A group of semitrailers is moving through a snow storm - and no one doesn't know that there is a spy between the drivers.

Sergey's girlfriend desperately wants him to quit dangerous police job. But Sergey doesn't want to abandon his new case which proves to be quite difficult.

A drama about a high school conflict based on the novel by Liya Geraskina.