Anatoli Vasilyev

A story about a boy who can't walk and his friend, who creates a world for him - a life-saving fairy tale about a mermaid and dangerous games with mythical creatures. This friendship becomes a shield against cruelty and a cure for despair.

Mikhail is a former aircraft designer, and now just a grandfather who constantly gets into ridiculous situations. One day on December 31, she and her grandson Seryozha sheltered a dog who was hiding from New Year's fireworks. The dog was given the name Stepka. Soon after his grandson was taken away by his parents, Mikhail becomes ill. And now Stepka has very little time to call for help and save his master's life. But it is very difficult to do this, because none of the people knows the dog language. The only way out is to find Seryozha, who, as it seems to Stepka, understands him. And then the four-legged hero goes to the other side of the city to meet incredible adventures.

VXII century. The Old Believer family lives in the sleepy Siberian taiga. They keep an ancient miraculous icon that has saved them from trouble more than once. The icon used to belong to the boyar Morozov and came to them after his arrest. In the 1970s, a group of researchers assembled an expedition to Siberia, to the place where Old Believers live. The icon seems to be in the skete of Karp and his daughter Agafia. Historians want to make sure that the rumors are true, they do not know that several more interested groups are also sent there - students, foreign agents and treasure-seeker criminals.

Director Yuri Eremin masterfully presents classics in a contemporary way, finding vital connections with the present while avoiding semantic and artistic overstatements. Dostoevsky's translation of the biblical story to Russian soil resonates more poignantly than ever before. The play, with its intense plot development, seamlessly intertwines profound philosophical and moral content with a maelstrom of destructive passions, centered on the protagonist, who unwittingly sparks a love rivalry between two extraordinary women. Staged at the Mossovet Theatre in Moscow.

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Ivan and Valentina decide to celebrate New Year very modestly, without Christmas trees and festive delicacies, in the native village of Kuchugury. But, their city in-laws come — Yuri and Olga Kovalev with Zhenya, their granddaughter. And the celebrities who are going to corporate parties become stuck in the village because of heavy snowfall and drifts on the roads. The hotel does not have enough space, and in-laws, experienced in this business, offer their services.

Based on two plays by Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy – "The Death of John the Terrible" and "Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich".

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Based on A. Galych's play "Matrosskaya Tishina", "Papa" tells a story of a Jewish father who dreamed of seeing his son perform on a stage in front of huge audiences, he dreamed of seeing him as the greatest violinist of his time. To achieve the goal he taught his son Dodik how to play the violin from the yearly age. When Dodik grew up he left the small town he and his father lived in to study in the Moscow Conservatory leaving his past behind. But one day he has to choose either to loose his father or everything he has achieved.

Based on A. Galych's play "Matrosskaya Tishina", "Papa" tells a story of a Jewish father who dreamed of seeing his son perform on a stage in front of huge audiences, he dreamed of seeing him as the greatest violinist of his time. To achieve the goal he taught his son Dodik how to play the violin from the yearly age. When Dodik grew up he left the small town he and his father lived in to study in the Moscow Conservatory leaving his past behind. But one day he has to choose either to loose his father or everything he has achieved.

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A propaganda film about Major Roman Vetrov, a veteran of the Afghan war, cadre officer of special forces, trying to thwart the criminal plan of the international drug mafia. In an unequal battle with drug traffickers Vetrov experiences many blows of fate: his father dies, his favorite girl is married to a former friend. Major becomes a victim of intrigue, subtly played by criminals - by the court sentence he is innocently convicted and sent to prison. And only loyalty to the duty of honor, unbreakable will and courage help Major Vetrov to overcome all obstacles, defeat evil and regain his lost love.

The end of the fifties. A brave general, a confirmed bachelor and a desperate womanizer Anton Smybabov receives an order to get married within two weeks - otherwise he faces dismissal from the army. In the process of desperate search for a bride, the general really falls in love for the first time in his life...

At the start of the new capitalistic era in Russia a group of friends open a taxi cab company.

He is young, but behind his back is already a great life experience: first, the divorce of his parents, then the Chechen war, where he ended up of his own free will. After a serious wound, he returns to the peaceful life of a big city. His beloved girl accuses him of male insolvency, and a severe mental trauma received in the war leads the hero to an attempted suicide. A native father comes to the rescue, who introduces his son to an experienced, mature woman with a dubious past. It is she who returns the guy self-confidence and interest in life. Initially, it was assumed that this connection would be temporary, but unexpectedly for all, a deep feeling arises between the characters ...

In the city, people disappear and die under mysterious circumstances. Commissioner Gard and Inspector Taratura believe that all these murders are the result of a war between two mafias. But journalist Chester has a different opinion. He is sure that the crimes are the result of the activities of "Adventure Firm" company. The company sells adventures to everyone who wants to tickle their nerves. The most expensive and interesting adventure is the “adventure without guarantee,” but in this case the company is not responsible for the possible death of the client. Wanting to understand the company's activities and write a report about it, journalist Chester buys himself the deadliest adventure....

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The film tells about the fate of the brilliant Russian poet Alexei Koltsov, who so romantically sang the nature of Rus', the incomparable beauty of Russian women, the incomprehensible mystery of the Russian soul.

The film tells about the engineer Gorelikov, who, together with his disabled friend, opens a salon with computers for children and students. And suddenly they are attacked by a gang of racketeers.

The plot is based on the story of the rescue of the scientific research vessel "Storm".

The sensual, aging artist Modest, seeking to test the strength of his feelings, kills Natalya Polonskaya’s husband; the young revolutionary and Natalya’s lover takes his own life; Natalya herself, along with her sister, who is also her lover, flees to Italy…

There are two heroes in the film: militia captain Zabrodin, who is striving to become a deputy at any cost and by any means, and the confused intellectual Shaludkin, who is trying to decently support his own family...

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Story of 38-years-old Rita whose fiance didn't show up at their wedding.

Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the Terrible had died. At first, things went well for Godunov (played by Bondarchuk), but when the Russian people began to believe he had killed Ivan the Terrible's son in order to gain the throne, an alliance sprang up against the new Czar. Events continued to spin out of control as a young monk was presented as the son Godunov had supposedly killed. Now he was openly accused of failing an assassination attempt, which seems to be even worse than succeeding. In addition to these woes, Boris Godunov began to suffer serious health problems. So much for the joys of kingship.

In August 1799, Russian troops under the command of A.V. Suvorov, having defeated the French in northern Italy, received an unexpected order. Instead of marching on Paris, they are ordered to go to the remote Swiss Alps, where there is a powerful and countless French army.

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After leaving the army, Victor Koltsov (the main guy in the movie "Attention! All Posts...") starts working for the police. While looking into a burglary, Victor comes across an 11-year-old boy who ran away from an orphanage. However, the hero does not take drastic measures, but gets to know the children better and does everything possible to restore hope and faith in a better life to these disadvantaged children. "When a child becomes an orphan after losing his parents, it is terrible, but understandable. But an orphan with living parents is both terrible and incomprehensible. The hero of our film confronts the tragedy of such children, who were given life but deprived of a home, maternal affection, and warmth," said director Igor Voznesensky about his film.

A young archaeologist arrives in a seaside town in order to find the famous statue of Aphrodite with an apple. Failure follows one another, and Levashov is ready to admit defeat. But suddenly love and new hope come.

During an examination flight, the colonel, who was on board as an examiner, accidentally touched the wrong switch - and the machine crashed into the sea. Everyone except him survived. And now, during the investigation, pilot Nazarov, a student of the colonel, as a sign of gratitude for the pedagogical skills of a talented teacher, takes all the blame upon himself.

Pavel's mother hates his fiancee. When Pavel serves in the Army she writes him that Nastya is no longer faithful to him. Pavel decides not to return to his native town. But many years later he returns to his fathers funeral and finds out that Nastya died sometime ago. She left three kids orphans and her elder daughter is also a daughter of Pavel.

Yekaterina is a middle-aged woman who works as phone operator in call-center. After her son has been married, she feels that she lonely and abandoned. One day Yekaterina moves to her native village where she meets seasonal worker Fyodor and falls in love with him. But when summer is over Fyodor returned back to his wife.

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At the site where Mikhail Sveshnev was working, the roof collapsed, crushing one of the miners. At the risk of his life, Mikhail saved his comrade, but the foreman lied to Sveshnev and blamed him for the accident. The commission identified the true culprits of the accident, but Mikhail, feeling alienated by the team, left for home. Thinking about what had happened and failing to find a job to his liking, he returned to the mine.

The tank corps of General Shubnikov in the spring of 1945 was already on the outskirts of Berlin. The stray rear did not ensure the regularity of the fuel supply. Colonel Lebedenko was commissioned to organize a base of fuel and lubricants in Himmelsfort, where a small group of Soviet soldiers had to enter into an unequal battle with the remnants of an enemy tank regiment, trying to break through the city.

Having once again successfully performed at the competition, five paratroopers, seeing off one of their friends to the airport, witnessed the collective beating of the boy. Without hesitation, the athletes rushed to help, and later learned that a man had died in a fight, while one of the athletes fell under suspicion. The investigator even figured out his first conviction. Only a few days later the mistake became obvious and the true killer was found, but for now the friends tried to answer the question themselves: who is to blame and is it to blame?

The head of the Pervomaiskaya Railway, at the first stage of perestroika, having accidentally learned that they want to fire him from his job, decides to carry out an experiment he had long planned - to put a super-heavy train on the tracks...

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A story about one of the big battles of WWII.

Having fled from the Crimea, Wrangel, having concentrated his army on the Bulgarian coast, is preparing a landing force and counts only on the support of the counter-revolutionary underground hiding in Rostov. Captain Filatov falls into the hands of the Red Army soldiers, who is "arranged" to escape with the help of Chekist Bakharev. Filatov, together with his "savior", finds himself at the center of a secret organization preparing a senseless rebellion.

Nikolai Kurkov, a Muscovite, worked at a research institute and dreamed of defending his thesis on agrobiology, but when he arrived in one of the villages of the Non-Chernozem region, he met a childhood friend and stayed, heading a lagging collective farm...

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Sergei Bukreyev arrives with a team of meliorators in another village and immediately draws attention to the director of the farm Anna Talnikova. Her dedication to work scares Sergei, he even wants to persuade her to leave the farm, but understands that Anna will never be happy without her work, and he – without it.

A boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city.

Adaptation of the epic "Tale about the beautiful Vassilissa Mikulishna". As Vassilissa with her intelligence and cunning freed her husband from prison.

Based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky, staged by the Central Academic Theater of the Soviet Army.