Boris Arakelov

Two people fall in love. A film that started as a documentary.

The heiress of a gem mage travels to St. Petersburg to fulfill her father's dream and her destiny.

Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a newborn baby. Vadim is forced to spend the rest of his day with Anna, helping her untangle herself from unpleasant, dramatic, and even tragic situations – and she and she alone is to blame for all of them. The baby, which Anna stole in order to make an impression on an estranged lover, is finally returned to its parents, but the problems that the theft caused remain.

Lida Baburova, a tour guide of an architectural museum, unexpectedly receives a warrant for a two-room apartment in the new district of Zarechye, among the new settlers called "our Cheryomushki". Lida and her father go to inspect the apartment, but it turns out that it doesn't exist. The manager of the house, Barabashkin, conducted fictitious documentation, and the Baburovs' apartment merged with the neighboring one, owned by the head of the construction trust Drebednyov.

A drama about a complications in a newlyweds life.

The teenager Misha Polyakov, being with his mother in a Ukrainian village on vacation with his grandmother and about to return home to Petrograd, offers his best friend Genka to go with him. Suddenly, a white gang of Nikitsky bursts into the village and attacks Misha’s house, where Commissioner Polevoy lives. The purpose of Nikitskiy (aka Nikolskiy) is a dagger located at Polevoy. Saving the commissioner, Misha learns from him the history and secret of the weapon, and receives it for storage with a request to solve the secret. Having returned with adventures to Petrograd, Misha Polyakov with friends begins to unravel the riddle of the dagger, in the handle of which is encrypted text.

The career path of Sergei Omarov, a young engineer and graduate of a mining institute, does not start easily. But with the help of his worker friends, he not only becomes a skilled craftsman, but also rises to the position of head of Vzryvprom.

In one big country there was a small village of Khlyupovo. And there lived in that village old men and old women, and small children. But one day, tired of the constant auditors and visiting bosses, the village decided to separate from the country...

Reconstructed from archival documents and historical studies, a chronicle of the 1916 popular uprising in the Hungry Steppe and the Jizzakh Steppe.

The plot is based on events that took place in St. Petersburg in May 1901, when workers at the Obukhov military factory rebelled against the tsar.

Ivan Mazaev finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme of The Last Judgment, numerous catastrophic events reveal a certain ambiguity in their origins, accompanied by the terrible suspicion that the things going on are some kind of a performance or theatrical production.

Maxim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from a Ukrainian village. He loves to make up stories and invent practical jokes. When he is drafted into the Russian Army, he doesn't stop his antics.

The heroes strive, at the cost of any trials and sacrifices, to discover the gold-bearing veins and placer deposits the country so desperately needs. Meanwhile, hardened villains operate alongside them, doing everything they can to thwart their plans and intentions—this drives the dramatic tension and the intense events of the production…

One day, the elephant—the pride of the zoo—leaves its enclosure and goes for a walk around the city. All attempts by the keepers to bring it back are unsuccessful. Only a five-year-old boy manages to establish contact with the giant animal.

King of one fairy kingdom Philogerts is concerned that his only son Prince Philotheus does not want to grow up. Then the king decides to get him married. To do this, he arranges a contest of princesses, the winner of which will become the wife of Philotheus. The court magician of the kingdom of Izmora helps to arrange the competition.

After the wedding, the young worker is sent to the village. A year later, he is given the opportunity to return to Leningrad. Feeling needed by the collective farm, he stays in the village...

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes.

The engineer and the reporter arrived at one of the plants of the Altai. They have just completed the institutions and are confident that the future is in their hands. At the plant, all relations are formed around the dubious glory of the Turner Milovidov. A fresh look, self-confidence and each other help friends to expose the "record holder".

Four stories from the life of Sasha Agafonov, who started living on his own. After getting a job as a driver at a large construction site, Sasha met a lovely girl named Lisa and helped her with housing by inviting her to live in his apartment. She kicked him out. He left for Central Asia, where he found a friend, Victor, who became his partner on long-distance trips. When Victor died in a car accident, Sasha went to Murmansk. There he had a brief romance with a married woman named Polina. And now, wise from life experience, Alexander Agafonov—manly and reserved—knows for sure that happiness is in his hands.

Former front-line intelligence officer, captain Nikolai Mityasov, after being wounded, returns to the destroyed city and learns the sad news: his wife Shura cheated on him. Bitterness and confusion gave way to hope. But peace has come, demobilization has begun, it is necessary to restore the homeland. Nikolai finds the strength to continue living, enters a construction institute, meets Valya and begins a new happy life without war...

Driver Panachuk, who took «left» passengers, is in a hurry to Gorsk. Panachuk tells the policeman who stopped him that he saw a murdered doctor in a crashed «Moskvich» car on the way.

From childhood, Sanya Grigoryev was able to achieve success in any business. He grew up a courageous and brave man. The dream of finding the remnants of Captain Tatarinov’s expedition led him to the ranks of polar explorers. The life of Captain Grigoryev is full of heroic events: he flew over the Arctic, fought against the Nazis. He was in danger, had to endure temporary defeats, but the hero’s persistent and purposeful character helps him to keep his vow made to himself in childhood: “Fight and seek, find and not give up.”

A drama about educating homeless children based on the book by Anton Makarenko.

Junior Lieutenant Maleshkin, an unshooted graduate of the school, commands the crew of the self-propelled gun SU-100. All the subordinates of Maleshkin are older than him and much more experienced. The authority of the young commander is tested at every step, he quarrels, then reconciles with his crew.