Sergei Desnitsky

From the childhood Natasha Korolyuk showed talent for music. She graduated from the conservatory in a small town and was ready to begin new and exciting activities. But her life plans changed when she met pianist Alexander. She married him and moved to Moscow. But soon the girl realizes that her husband is the usual mediocrity and seedy bohemian who wants to live idly. Active Natasha does not want to cast in lot with this man and returns to her homeland.

Pirx, an experienced pilot, is hired to go on a top-secret mission to evaluate some 'nonlinears' (an experimental model of android) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and this intriguing crew are sent out to launch two satellites into the rings of Saturn, but he is determined to find out and identify a hostile unhuman coworker among them.

Tallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to find Tear of the Prince of Darkness, a legendary ring which can bring Satan’s rule over the world.

In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe and tries to keep her close, dreaming and working hard to rebuild a new town while the troupe increasingly faces decline and the end of its run.

During WWII Red Army sailor suddenly gets to German underwater swimmers secret base...

Falling Star is based on three stories by the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Astafyev and centers on a young soldier on the front lines who is wounded and taken to the hospital. Once there, he muses about his childhood and a little girl he had loved - someone who could easily have grown up to be the nurse that is attending to him now. As he recuperates, he and the nurse fall in love and he very much wants to marry her. At this point, the nurse's mother comes for a visit and advises him against such an action because if they were to marry and he were subsequently killed or maimed in action - the fighting is still close to the hospital - the nurse would suffer much more than if he just left her alone. Now it is up to the soldier to make a decision one way or the other.

TV adaptation of Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel about Vera Pavlovna, a woman who escapes the control of her family and arranged marriage to seek economic independence.

The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films.

An action-packed film about the role of Mikhail Frunze in the liquidation of Father Makhno’s gangs in Ukraine.

The trio of adventurous pals, a man who is a scientist, a fine lady and a former military pilot are in the Indochina jungles looking for some mysterious vase that holds a metal container that is of no mundane origin.

Gorky Moscow Art Theater. A play based on the play of the same name by F. Schiller. About the confrontation between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Queen Mary of Scotland.

The television play is based on three stories by Turgenev: "A Meeting", "Pyotr Petrovich Karataev", and "Hamlet of Shchigrovsky District".

1918. After the death of the mother, the father decides to take the children to Moscow to see a distant relative. On the way, the guys experience a raid by a White Guard gang on a train, the death of their father, and meet the homeless child Yashka, who brings a plan to Lenin - how to destroy all the bourgeoisie and all the counter-propaganda in one day. The boys become involved in revolutionary events, and ahead is Moscow, a chance meeting and conversation with Lenin and Dzerzhinsky, the fight against counter-revolution...

Maxim Fedorov, a researcher at the Moscow Museum on Krasnaya Presnya, is obsessed with the idea of describing the fate of the "Violinist", whose name often flashed in archival documents of the pre-revolutionary period. Collecting the facts, the hero restores the true name and life story of the musician, who became one of the first professional revolutionaries.

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?

A police detective is trying to find a murderer who uses a new recently developed drug for his crimes.

The film tells about the difficult and dangerous everyday life of submarine officers in love with their profession during the Cold War.

A young, intelligent and lucky guy, nicknamed Favorite, which stuck to him during his student years, is interested in karate. The local mafia notices him and begins to promote him to the People's Deputies of the RSFSR. A girl he meets after a long separation helps the hero understand this situation. The fight for her honor develops into an open battle with a criminal group, from which the guy emerges with honor.

The protagonists of the film, chekists Sasha Sizov and Ivan Shagin, take the confiscated jewels out of the city captured by the White Guards and deliver them to Kiev. Having returned to the city liberated by the Red Army, they expose a White Guard agent who has infiltrated the Cheka and take part in the defeat of Colonel Sherstev's gang.

The short film The Muse tells us a story about the artist and his inspiration. The characters, created by I. Bunin in his novel a century ago, are shown in the today Moscow for the only purpose - to demonstrate us the philosophy attributed to one of the greatest writers of the first half of 20th century.

Autumn 1941. In a Nazi POW camp near Kyiev, a person claiming to be a doctor appears. He convinced Germans to set up a hospital. Raising no suspicions in Germans, he supplied prisoners with weapons and helped them to escape.

This episode of the TV almanac dramatized fragments of A. Tolstoy's science fiction novel "Aelita", the stories of Kir Bulychev "The Snow Maiden" and Eric Frank Russell's "I Testify".

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A stage production by the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.

Based on the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

A staging of the play by Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Academic Art Theatre.