
Writing
Anatoli Grebnev
Born — Died
1923-11-02 — 2002-06-19
Place of birth
Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Republic
Known for
Writing
Credits
36 titles
Anatoli Borisovich Grebnev (Gustav Borisovich Ayzenberg) was an acclaimed Soviet and Russian screenwriter.
Known for
6.1Things take an interesting turn for Tanya and her mother when her father arrives with his foster son Kolya and new wife. This film is about Kolya and Tanya's bright, pure and bitter first love.
The Wild Dog Dingo
1962
6.8Lena, a woman in her late twenties, loves her boyfriend, but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life.
July Rain
1967
NRA film about the different destinies of the sixties during the period of perestroika. The young sociologist sacrificed his scientific career for the underground development of his ideas, which became common during the era of “perestroika”. This is a film about the “children of Khrushchev’s thaw” who took a breath of freedom after the 20th Party Congress...
Old Young People
1992
9.0When Estonian violinist Eduard Sõrmus starts his concert tours in Europe, he is convinced that the world revolution is about to begin. His mission as a Red Violinist is to call the proletariat around the world to join with the revolution. It is only two things - music and revolution - that Eduard has dedicated himself to. His audience is enchanted by his performance and ignited by his ideas. With this knowledge, he travels Europe between the two world wars, accompanied by his faithful friends, his audience's admiration and the hostility of the authorities.
The Red Violin
1975
7.0Thirteen year old Slavik has always wanted to play football, but in order to play on the children's team he lies and pretends to be 12 years old. When they win, his life could not be better. But when his little sister finds out what he's done and threatens to send a letter to the losing team, his deception is revealed.
Not a Word about Football
1973
8.0The film tells the story of high school graduates, their first — still school — problems and challenges, Hobbies and disappointments, friendship and dreams.
Step Over the Threshold
1970
Film credits
Behind the camera
6.1Things take an interesting turn for Tanya and her mother when her father arrives with his foster son Kolya and new wife. This film is about Kolya and Tanya's bright, pure and bitter first love.
The Wild Dog Dingo
1962
6.8Lena, a woman in her late twenties, loves her boyfriend, but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life.
July Rain
1967
NRA film about the different destinies of the sixties during the period of perestroika. The young sociologist sacrificed his scientific career for the underground development of his ideas, which became common during the era of “perestroika”. This is a film about the “children of Khrushchev’s thaw” who took a breath of freedom after the 20th Party Congress...
Old Young People
1992
9.0When Estonian violinist Eduard Sõrmus starts his concert tours in Europe, he is convinced that the world revolution is about to begin. His mission as a Red Violinist is to call the proletariat around the world to join with the revolution. It is only two things - music and revolution - that Eduard has dedicated himself to. His audience is enchanted by his performance and ignited by his ideas. With this knowledge, he travels Europe between the two world wars, accompanied by his faithful friends, his audience's admiration and the hostility of the authorities.
The Red Violin
1975
7.0Thirteen year old Slavik has always wanted to play football, but in order to play on the children's team he lies and pretends to be 12 years old. When they win, his life could not be better. But when his little sister finds out what he's done and threatens to send a letter to the losing team, his deception is revealed.
Not a Word about Football
1973
8.0The film tells the story of high school graduates, their first — still school — problems and challenges, Hobbies and disappointments, friendship and dreams.
Step Over the Threshold
1970
6.8The true story of the Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov, who, behind enemy lines in Ukraine, infiltrated Hitler's headquarters, kidnapped the commander of the punitive troops and executed the imperial adviser.
Strong with Spirit
1967
8.5After graduating from school, Seva Losev gets a job at a chemical plant. A lyrical film about the first experiences of independent life and first love.
Who Invented the Wheel?
1966
5.0Comedy of manners with elements of grotesque. The hero of the tape - an employee of a solid research Institute San Sanych lubomudrov - an extraordinary personality. Charming trickster and subtle psychologist, he is fluent in the art of communicating with the "right" people.
The Scoundrel, or Running On the Spot
1984
8.0Sergey, a radio factory worker, a part-time student, and Nelya, an Intourist guide, got married relatively recently, but are already experiencing a serious family crisis. The first difficulties of life threaten to destroy their marriage. Young spouses have to combine their studies with work, live with their little daughter in a private apartment, and experience financial difficulties. Everyday life began to annoy Nella, but her husband annoys her even more. Sergey is a good man who loves his wife and daughter, but to his wife he seems clumsy, clumsy, too soft and therefore unable to stand up for himself. Volkov, the head of the department where Nelya works, is another matter. The complete opposite of Sergei, on the contrary, he is an enterprising, successful man, a real man and a standard of reliability…
Two People in a New House
1979
7.7Four parallel stories: "Ship", "Port", "Pompeia" and "Theater" are connected with the fate of the captain of a training warship Andrei Glebov, who visited a foreign port city.
Courtesy Call
1973
7.0A peculiar journey into the past of a famous architect, the head of a workshop, who once committed a “daring” act: contrary to the opinion of scientists, he defended his own project for a new city on the ground. But a tragedy happened - a multi-storey building under construction collapsed, and the builders died...
Only I Know
1987
6.0No synopsis available yet.
The Scoundrel 2
1994
NRA student falls in love with a girl detained on a false suspicion of speculation.
When the Harpsichord Plays
1966
4.0Svetlana Vasilievna is a young, energetic woman who often changes jobs, accustomed to achieving the goals that she has set for herself in life. Her next desire is to marry a "creative, intelligent" person. After a lengthy search, she chose an elderly, but well-mannered, intelligent official Vladimir Dmitrievich Lobanov. Svetlana believes that with the help of connections and sober calculation, you can achieve everything: well-being, respectability, even personal happiness. She does not notice that the fulfillment of her desires does not at all make the person close to her happy. The payback turns out to be unexpected and terrible.
Time of Desires
1984
5.3The everyday life of a Soviet high school principal, a WWII veteran and an unfulfilled writer, whose vocation is teaching kids.
The Diaries of a School Principal
1975
5.4A drama about a complicated life of a director in a small provincial theater.
Success
1984
6.8During lectures on literature, evening student Sasha Mukhin, a subway driver, sleeps and dreams. In approximate accordance with the subject of the lectures, he either tries to prevent Pushkin’s duel with Dantes, either intervenes in the events of Spartak’s rebellion, or is present at Galileo’s abdication, then meets a person from the future and learns from him his future fate.
Wake Mukhin Up!
1968
8.3Doctor Nechayev lives by the concerns of his patients. This is a man of remarkable mental qualities and a highly qualified specialist in cardiology, but he is completely unadapted to life in everyday life and imperceptibly lost himself, did not do much of what he dreamed of and did not understand the selfless love of a young student Alya. The doctor gradually puts an end to his hopes and dreams – they fade into the background, supplanted by work in the hospital.
The Morning Round
1979
8.0A group of young people comes to a Siberian construction site. They form a brigade, one of their tasks being cutting of a track for a power line. Different reasons made these people go to taiga and become pathfinders. One of them, a former taxi-driver Leonid (A.Kuznetsov) went to earn lots of money, Rimma (A.Zavialova) from the undivided love, the yesterdays schoolboy Constantine to find romantic appeal and adventures, and Vladimir (N.Dovzhenko) attempting to escape his shadowy past. Far away from the city fuss, in severe labor conditions and unsettled way of life, relations of these absolutely unknown to each other people gradually resume the normal course. Here many of them experience revaluation of values, others even find their love.
Wait for Letters
1960
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Women's Club
1987
6.0No synopsis available yet.
House for the Rich
2000
4.8Anna Georgievna Smirnova is a serious, businesslike and judicious person. It was these strengths of her character that helped the woman achieve high career results. Anna is a deputy and director of a textile factory in the Moscow region, who has long put an end to her personal life. She lives with her elderly mother. Her husband died, and her only daughter, Irina, is married. But suddenly, in a sanatorium in the southern resort of Anna, she meets a man named Volodya. He is a Muscovite, a former pilot, and now a driver. Volodya is younger than Anna, behind him two unsuccessful marriages. Between already middle-aged people a feeling of mutual sympathy erupts.
Old Walls
1973
6.0Based on the fantastic story by Kir Bulychyov "Can You Ask for Nina?". Guests gathered in Vadim Nikolayevich’s apartment to celebrate the 1979's New Year with a cheerful company. The landlord unsuccessfully tries to reach his friend Nina. He, dialing a number, gets to a girl who is also called Nina. Her answers seem strange to Vadim Nikolayevich until he realizes that he is in some unusual way talking with a child from Moscow in 1942.
Something with the Telephone
1979
6.5The strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real day in the life of the real Moscow architect Alexander Petrovich Chernov, his mental crisis; and the other is Chernov’s fiction. There is a different fate, a different country, a different life. It is into this very life that Chernov strives to get into - and for the sake of a trip to Spain he will have to commit betrayal. There, for a moment, the doubles will be nearby and both will be on the verge of death. Who will die in the spring of 1978?
Chernov/Chernov
1990
NRBased on materials from real criminal cases, it follows the trial of the trade mafia.
The Trial
1990
8.0Lyuska, an employee of the only savings bank in the very young town of Radiozavodsk, wins a nylon fur coat on a lottery ticket. Her colleagues advise her to get the money and buy something useful. Lyuska goes to the regional capital, receives the money, and decides to spend it on a two-week trip to Moscow.
Two Sundays
1964
NRParamon is a 6-years old boy that loves to spend time with village elders. He runs through the whole village to his grandma Apollinaria every morning. Her husband that left her long ago now tends to come back. Paramon is very exasperated by this situation
Paramon and Apollinaria
1981
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Youth
1964
5.6By chance, two middle-aged people met - the telephone operator of the hotel Lina and the chief engineer of the construction department Kirillov, who had arrived on official business from Leningrad in one of the provincial cities of the country. Behind everyone has setbacks in family life. A sincere feeling that brought two lonely people closer together helped to see those around them in a new way. They are already over forty. Both are lonely. Having met by chance and fell in love with each other, they never became happy.
Journey to Another Town
1980
7.0Yuri Zvyagin - a psychologist and host of TV show decides to help one of the watchers and flies to her remote town.
You Wrote to Me...
1976
5.2A government-appointed factory executive, Sergey Abrikosov is reduced to quivering confusion when he is dismissed. Recovering from this blow, he decides to review and realign his life. In so doing, he discovers that there's plenty left in the world to make life worth living.
Private Life
1982
8.0The young director tries to make a movie, following the script of the venerable playwright as much as possible.
Cinema About Cinema
2002
6.0A story about love between famous composer Johann Strauss and Russian beauty Olga.
Proshchaniye s Peterburgom
1971
7.0Sometimes he allowed himself to drink for real. One morning after a night of drinking, having found a woman in his bed, whom, as it turned out, had prevented from leaving for Odessa, he proposed to her and invited the girl on a road trip…
Vanishing August
1989
