
Acting
Vadim Vilskiy
Born 1925-08-24 · Kishinyov, Bessarabia, Kingdom of Romania
Acting credits
4.3A famous singer is going through the dark period of her life...
Soul
1981
5.4A drama about a complicated life of a director in a small provincial theater.
Success
1984
NRThe film "Photographer" shows the last day of the old photographer working in his studio. He succeeded in his life-long efforts to stop time.
Photographer
1997
7.1Arriving in Moscow, Chechen War veteran Danila meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hockey team. Soon after this meeting, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.
Brother 2
2000
8.0The mountain resort of one the European countries is blocked by the group of terrorists. They threaten to cause the descent of avalanches by directional explosion.
Ransom
1987
6.2During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.
A Slave of Love
1976
5.2The heroine of the film is a young attractive woman whose motto is “you need to become depraved to feel like a saint.” She is convinced that men who love her should easily accept her for who she is. But it only causes them pain...
Autumn, Chertanovo...
1988
7.1The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
Siberiade
1979
NRThe captain of a foreign ship drops off Hans, a sick sailor with no papers, on one of the islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Silvana, a fisherwoman, finds him and takes him into her home. Hans gets better and, after becoming friends with her son, starts going out to sea to fish. After a serious illness, the sailor forgot his past, and everyone thought he was German. He was happy in Silvana's house. But one day, when he fell ill, Hans began to shout in Russian in his delirium. After he recovered, Silvana was unable to prevent him from returning to his homeland...
Falling Hoarfrost
1969
6.3This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue
1976
7.6Boyars are trying to marry their tsar in a country of far far away.
Help Me, Bros!
1989
8.0The lover of nurse Inna Sorokina must go on a long business trip abroad. The heroine, experiencing a severe mental crisis, goes to a sanatorium, hoping to make a serious acquaintance there and get rid of the impending loneliness. A holiday romance with Adam (Vadim) does not lead to the desired marriage, but helps the heroine find inner freedom.
Who Will Enter the Last Carriage?..
1986
5.5The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernatural powers she got from the devil, Woland, who is visiting Moscow.
The Master and Margarita
2011
6.5The drunkard and his wife become orderlies in a cholera barracks during the outbreak.
The Orlovs
1978
10.0Mikhail is fascinated by the ideas of the Decembrists about a Russia free from the tyranny of the Tsar. After graduating from military school, he goes abroad. Upon returning to Russia, a tragic life awaits him.
Mysterious Prisoner
1987
4.0The 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.
And the Wind Returns...
1992
7.5"Horror" film about the harsh lives of the children living in an outwardly prosperous orphanage. When a young boy dies during a clandestine mutual drug-taking session, his accomplices unsuccessfully try to hide his corpse to evade punishment, and then the orphanage management tries to hush up the whole affair to keep up appearances.
The Public House
1989
10.0The film raises environmental issues and examines the nature of the relationship between the manager and the team.
Today and Tomorrow
1980
6.3The Red Army squadron is trying to escape from the enemy while carrying a huge load of rare furs to be sold abroad.
Urgent... Secret... CheKa
1982
4.5The naive hero, having read clever books, marries a prostitute with the aim of re-educating her and collides with the famous Sergei Eisenstein, ending in the most unexpected and fatal way...
Return of the "Battleship"
1996
4.9The beginning of the 30s of the last century. A leak of classified information was found at the Soviet shipbuilding plant. Arriving under the guise of a scientist, the legendary chekist Karotin begins to unravel the threads of the conspiracy of the fascist spy organization. He is helped by inexperienced but active local detectives. Mastering the basics of the counterintelligence, they fall into a situation the other one funnier.
Was There Karotin?
1990
6.5Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov was entrusted with is stolen, initially by a group of assassins and then by a group of bandits. In tracking the gold’s whereabouts, Shilov’s motives are questioned and he is suspected of treason, in part because his brother was a devoted White. In an effort to clear his name, Shilov locates the gold, but he also discovers rampant greed and corruption.
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
1974
5.5The film is set in 1913 Russia during the celebrations of the Tricentennial Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. Rich Russian merchants are celebrating their wealth by gambling and playing poker. They are traveling aboard the luxurious cruise liner "St. Nikolai" on Volga river, oblivious to the fact that several gangs of crooks and con-artists are stealing their money in the game. Their target is the wealthiest Russian tycoon Satanovsky.
Chinese Tea-Set
2000
10.0Follows the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov’s stories intersect. The hero can easily meet with Stalin or drink vodka with a homeless person in the basement.
Listen If It's Raining...
1999