PREFACE TO THE CATALOGUE
This is the revised and enlarged edition of the “Catalogue of Lenfilm Studio Feature Films 1918 —
1989”, published in 1991. It contains description of feature films made at the Lenfilm Studio in the
period of 1918 — 1997.
The catalogue includes full length films and short films (including TV films) and a number of
examination and diploma works made at the studio by students — the future cinematographers.
Each film is provided with information that includes the title, year of production, the basic technical
data and characteristics, names of the main authors and actors as well as the brief annotation.
The catalogue includes films made in collaboration with local and foreign studios.
As a rule, the catalogue does not include documentary, educational and made to order films,
produced by Lenfilm Studio in different periods of time and in different volumes. The exception was
made for documentaries made in the years of 1950 — 1952 and cartoons made in the years of 1920 —
1940 and a few others which present, from our point of view, a strong interest for the history of the
studio.
For several films (in most cases — for educational, cartoons and films made in the ‘20s) it was not
possible to establish the full data, so only part of the information is provided.
The principal source for the information given in the catalogue is the data base of Lenfilm Studio
films compiled by a film historian and an editor of the Lenfilm Sudio Dmitry Ivaneyev who was using
film screenplays, the films, catalogues and card indexes of the Russian State Film Archives.
The films are arranged in chronological order, according to the year of completion of production.
Each title has a number, and index at the end of the catalogue lists titles of all the films in alphabetical
order with the number. The catalogue is supplied with supplements, list of films in alphabetical order
and index of film directors.
All the films made before 1931 are silent, all films made beginning from 1935 are sound films.
The catalogue was prepared for publication by editors of the Public Relations Department of the
Lenfilm Studio Dmitry Ivanayev (films made in 1918 — 1959), Svetlana Kolomoyets (films made in
1960 — 1989), Viktoria Mukhina (films made in 1990 — 1996)...
List of abbreviations used in the catalogue:
b/w — black and white
min. — minutes
1
UPLOTNENIYE (REDUCTION OF LIVING SPACE)
1918, 56 min., b/w
Propaganda film
Directors: Alexander Panteleyev, Nikolay Pashkovsky, Anatoly Dolinov,
screenplay: Anatoly Lunacharsky, Alexander Panteleyev, camera: V. Lemke
Cast: Ivan Lersky, Dmitry Leshchenko
About a year has passed since the October Revolution of 1917. Things are not going smoothly in the
family of an old honored professor. He sympathizes with the revolution, his eldest son, a former
military cadet, is the enemy of the revolution, his youngest son is at the cross-roads.. And in addition
the professor is forced to give part of his apartment to a worker with a daughter who move to
professor’s place from a wet basement.
The first feature film made by Petrograd Cinema Committee, the predecessor of Lenfilm Studio, was
shot within several days at the committee’s premises.
2
BORTSY ZA SVETLOYE TSARSTVO TRETYEGO
INTERNATSIONALA (FIGHTERS FOR THE BRIGHT
KINGDOM OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL)
1919, b/w
Propaganda film
Director: Boris Svetlov, screenplay: Zakhary Grinberg, camera: Friedrich VerigoDorovsky
Cast: M. Barash, S. Neradovsky, Anna Panova, Alexander Razumny
Authors of the film tried to give viewers some idea of the essence of class struggle and tell about
attempts of bourgeoisie to play off people of different nationalities against each other and thus to
disunite proletariat.
3
VSE POD RUZHYO (ALL TO ARMS)
1919, b/w
Propaganda film
Written and directed by: Boris Svetlov, camera: V. Lemke
Cast: Bulovsky, Volkhonsky, Golubeva, Nikolai Dorian, Krasovsky, Anna Panova
The propaganda film called on working people to resist general’s Yudenich troops in the days when the
White Army was attacking Petrograd.
4
POBEDA MAYA (MAY VICTORY)
1919, 16 min., b/w
Propaganda film
Director: Boris Svetlov, screenplay: P. Sepp, camera: V. Lemke
The film is centered around contraposition of free life in the young Soviet republic and police
regime in Russia under tzars.
5
PROLETARGRAD NA STRAZHE REVOLUTSII
(PROLETARGRAD ON GUARD OF REVOLUTION)
1919, 22 min., b/w
Propaganda film
Written and directed by: Boris Svetlov, camera: V. Lemke
The propaganda film made as a report on the subject of “What Will the White Army Bring Us?”. Some
theses were illustrated by scenes from life of workers and bourgeoisie.
6
VZYATIYE ZIMNEGO DVORTSA (SEIZURE OF
THE WINTER PALACE)
1920, b/w
Propaganda film
Directors: Nikolai Yevreinov, Konstantin Derzhavin, Alexander Kugel, Nikolai
Petrov, Leonid Vivyen, N. Misheyev, film shooting directed by: Boris Svetlov,
production designer: Yuri Annenkov
Screen version of mass performance shown on November 7, 1920 on the Palace Square.
The “Proletkult” actors and a crowd of several thousand people took part in the performance.
7
GIMN OSVOBOZHDYONNOMU TRUDU (HYMN TO
LIBERATED LABOR)
1920, b/w
Propaganda film
Pantomime directed by: Alexander Kugel, S. Maslov, film shooting directed by:
Boris Svetlov, production designers: Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Yuri Annenkov
Screen version of mass pantomime of the same title that was shown on May 1, 1920 in Petrograd, near
the former Stock Exchange building on the spit of Vasilyevsky Island. Over 4000 people took part in
the performance.
8
GOLOD (STARVATION)
1921, b/w
Propaganda film
Written and directed by: Alexander Ivanov-Gay, camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky
Cast: Vladimir Vikulin, Sergei Shklyarevsky, Yelizaveta Time, Kondrat Yakovlev,
Pavel Leshkov
Active villagers together with a young worker who was sent from the town
are fighting to create a commune. Rich villagers are trying to prevent it.
9
LESNIYE BRATYA (FOREST BROTHERS)
1921, b/w
Propaganda film
Written and directed by: Boris Svetlov, camera: V. Lemke
Screen version of A. Budilev’s story of the same title on revolutionary struggle of Latvian people in
1905.
10
A TAM (AND THERE...)
1922, b/w
Propaganda film
Written and directed by: Vladimir Maximov, camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky
Cast: Vladimir Maximov
Showing of the film was accompanied by actor’s declamation.
11
DOLYA TY RUSSKAYA, DOLYUSHKA ZHENSKAYA
(RUSSUIAN WOMAN’S LOT)
1922, 54 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Boris Svetlov, screenplay: Maria Sverchkova, camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky
Cast: N. Gasilov, Ursula Krug, Yelena Chaika, Georgy Aleksandrov, Veronika
Buzhinskaya, Vasily Kozhura, Fyodor Mishin
Village girl Marisha is in love with coachman Yakov. Marisha’s father, a wealthy peasant, does not
allow his daughter to marry a coachman. Soon Marisha gives birth to a child. Persecuted by village
philistines Marisha plunges with her son into the river.
12
NET SCHASTYA NA ZEMLE (THERE IS NO
HAPPINESS IN THE WORLD)
1922, 39 min., b/w
Melodrama
Written and directed by Alexander Panteleyev, camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky
Cast: Roman Apollonsky, Alexander Panteleyev, Alexandra Chizhevskaya, Raisa
Mamontova, Sergei Shklyarevsky
Newly-weds Vera and Nikolai live in poverty. By chance Vera meets rich man Obolensky, an old
friend of Nikolai, who returned to Russia after spending several years in America. They start dating.
During one of their rendezvous Nikolai commits suicide before their eyes. Vera goes mad.
13
OTETS SERAFIM (FATHER SERAFIM)
1922, 54 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Panteleyev, screenplay: Alexander Zarin, camera: Ivan Frolov
Cast: Nikolay Khodotov, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yelena Tumanskaya, Alexandra
Chizhevskaya, Alexander Larikov, Sergei Shklyarevsky
The plot of the film includes story of mother of a worker — member of a secret revolutionary
organization. At home mother happens to find at home revolutionary leaflets and decides to take them
to the priest.
14
SKAZ O TOM KAK LAPOTNIKI V RAZUM VOSHLI
(TALE OF PEASANTS WHO CAME TO THEIR SENSES)
1922, b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Alexander Panteleyev, camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky
Comedy film made as a study work of the First Petrograd Group of Cinema Actors deals with
awakening of revolutionary consciousness in working people.
15
SKORB BESKONECHNAYA (ENDLESS SORROW)
1922, 80 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Panteleyev, screenplay: Alexander Zarin, camera: Nikolai
Kozlovsky, production designer: V. Vorobyov
Cast: Vladimir Maximov, Yelena Chaika, Ursula Krug, Pyotr Kirillov, G. Fyodorov
The film is focused on the story of assistant-professor Korenev. During mass starvation of 1921 —
1922 in the Volga region Korenev’s family died and he got seriously ill. Having recovered he goes with
a hospital team to fight starvation.
The documentary sequences shot in the Volga region were included in the film.
16
CHUDOTVORETS (WONDER-WORKER)
1922, 43 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Alexander Panteleyev, screenplay: Alexander Zarin, camera: Nikolai
Kozlovsky
Cast: Pyotr Kirillov, Yelena Tumanskaya, Vasily Kozhura, Raisa Mamontova
The comedy is set at the beginning of the 19th century. The Virgin appeared before a soldier who was
on sentry duty near a wonder-working icon and gave him an expensive diamond.
17
DVORETS I KREPOST (PALACE AND FORTRESS)
1923, 57 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Olga Forsh, Pavel Shchegolev, camera:
Ivan Frolov, Viktor Glass, production designers: Vladimir Shchuko, Boros Rerikh
Cast: Yevgeny Boronikhin, Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky, Yelena Khmelevskaya, Maria
Yuryeva, Sergei Shishko, Gennady Michurin, Lev Dobrovolsky
Loosely based on Pavel Shchegolev’s novel “The Mysterious Prisoner”
Story of tragic fate of Mikhail Beideman, a Peter and Paul Fortress prisoner, who spent over 20 years in
a stone cell of Alexeyevsky ravelin.
18
DIPLOMATICHESKAYA TAINA (DIPLOMATIC
SECRET)
1923, 65 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Boris Chaikovsky, screenplay: Lev Nikulin, camera: Grigory Giber
Cast: Yevgeniya Khovanskaya, Vladimir Maksimov, Oleg Frelikh, Iona Talanov,
Ivan Khudoleyev, Vasily Kozhura
Loosely based on Lev Nikulin’s novel “No Accidents”.
Ali Khan, a former Secretary of the Council of Ministers of an invented country of Gulistan, sacked at
request of British officials, accidentally gets hold of a document compromising reputation of British
ambassador. When the British ambassador discovers that the document disappeared he orders the
secretary of the embassy to find it. The chase after Ali Khan begins...
19
YEST KONTAKT! (THERE IS CONTACT!)
1923, 9 min., b/w
Propaganda film
Written and directed by: Vladimir Maksimov, camera: Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky
Cast: Vladimir Maksimov
An experienced aviator tells about history of Russian aviation and urges to restore Russian air fleet.
Demonstration of the film, based on archives’ material, was accompanied by declamation of actor
Vladimir Maksimov
20
ZA VLAST SOVETOV (FOR THE POWER OF
SOVIETS)
1923, 73 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Alexander Panteleyev, screenplay: Daniil Gessen, Alexander Litvinov, V.
Kartsev, camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Roman Apollonsky, Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky, Alexander Lyubosh, Pyotr
Andriyevsky, Clara Klodnitskaya, Alexei Goryushin
Dramatic love story of a worker who gets in love with a White Army spy is shown against a backdrop
of historical episodes of the defence of Petrograd in 1918.
21
KOMEDIANTKA (A COMEDIAN)
1923, 57 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Ivanovsky, camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky,
production designer: Viktor Ballyuzek
Cast: Kondrat Yakovlev, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Nina Shaternikova, Sergei Shishko,
Yelena Tumanskaya, Yekaterina Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya, Alexander Panteleyev
Loosely based on Nikolai Leskov’s short story “Toupee Artist”
A tragic life story of a serf girl who was an actress.
22
TORGOVY DOM “ANTANTA I KO” (THE ENTENTE
AND CO. TRADE HOUSE)
1923, 20 min., b/w
Political grotesque
Director: Konstantin Derzhavin, screenplay: Nikolai Agnivtsev, camera: Leopold
Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: Moisei Levin
Cast: Leonid Utesov, Darya Gamalei, An German, Alexander Mgebrov, Konstantin
Gibshman
Screen version of mass political grotesque show staged on the Palace Square during October
Revolution celebrations in Petrograd.
23
CHASOVNYA SVYATOGO IOANNA (ST. JOHN’S
CHAPEL)
1923, 62 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Boris Chaikovsky, screenplay: Lev Nikulin, camera: Griogory Giber
Cast: Nina Sokolovskaya, Vasily Kozhura, Vladimir Maksimov, Yevgeniya
Khovanskaya, Ivan Khudoleyev, Yelena Chaika, Iona Talanov
Loosely based on Herman Heijermans’s play “The Good Hope” and Victor Hugo’s novel “Toilers of
the Sea”.
The story is set in Russia. Two brothers from a poor fisherman’s family are compelled to go to work
for owner of a large fishing company. He sends the brothers to his “Lena” boat being perfectly aware
of the fact that the old boat can sink any moment. And this is exactly what happens. The brothers perish
and the owner of the company gets large insurance and donates part of the money on construction of a
chapel in memory of perished fishermen.
24
BEDNYAKU VPROK — KULAKU V BOK (WHAT IS
GOOD FOR POOR PEASANT IS BAD FOR KULAK”
1924, 34 min. b/w
Propaganda film
Director: Yakov Poselsky, screenplay: Daniil Gessen, camera: Grigory Giber
Cast: Iona Talanov, Ivan Shtraukh, M. Lavrova
The film urged peasants to have their buildings and live-stock insured in Gosstrakh agencies.
25
VANKA)
VANKA — YUNY PIONER (YOUNG PIONEER
1924, 46 min., b/w
Film-novel
Written and directed by: Pyotr Malakhov, camera: Leonid Drankov
Cast: Shura Konstantinov, Ursula Krug, Alexander Maseyev, P. Vasilyev
Village boy Vanka dreams of becoming a pioneer. He runs away from home, comes to the city and
joins the pioneer organization. Some time later he returns to his village and organizes there a pioneer
team.
26
KAMERGER YEGO VELICHESTVA (HIS
MAJESTY’S GENTLEMAN-IN-ATTENDANCE)
1924, 61 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Mikhail Doronin, screenplay: Lev Nikulin, camera: Leopold VeriogoDorovsky
Cast: Mikhail Doronin, Olga Bystritskaya, Yelena Chaika, Oleg Frelikh
A courtier Sergei Shatov meets in the Crimea Asya, the granddaughter a palace gardener, and tries to
seduce the girl. He informs police on his rival, accusing the young gardener of preparing assassination
of Nicholas II. When Asya finds out about the report she kills Shatov and runs away to the mountains.
27
KONETS RODA LUNICH (END OF THE LUNICH
FAMILY)
1924, 80 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Oleg Freilikh, screenplay: Lev Nikulin, camera: Friedrich VerigoDorovsky
Cast: Ivan Khudoleyev, Vladimir Maksimov, Yelena Chaika, Olga Bystritskaya, Oleg
Freilikh, Iona Talanov, Yevgeniya Khovanskaya, Mikhail Doronin
Based on “The Useless Victory”, an early story by Anton Chekhov
Hungarian vagrant musician takes revenge on the countess who insulted her father.
28
KRASNYE PARTIZANY (RED PARTISANS)
1924, 100 min., b/w
Historical-revolutionary film
Director: Vyacheslav Viskovsky, screenplay: Boris Leonidov, camera: Friedrich
Verigo-Dorovsky, production designers: Vladimir Yegorov, Yevgeny Eney
Cast: M. Lomakin, Nikolai Simonov, Ye. Rudina, Vera Vladimirova, Valery
Solovtsev
The film tells about the struggle of Siberian partisans against Kolchak’s gangs.
29
N+N+N
1924, 13 min., b/w
Satire
Written and directed by: Vladimir Shmidthof, camera: N. Yefremov
Cast: Mark Dobrynin, Irina Kunina, Yu. Daminskaya
Film satirizes “nepmans” (nouveau riches of the 20es), involved in trade speculations and evading from
taxation.
30
POKHOZHDENIYA OKTYABRINY (ADVENTURES
OF OKTYABRINA)
1924, 35 min., b/w
Eccentric comedy
Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, camera:
Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky, Ivan Frolov
Cast: Zinaida Tarakhovskaya, Yevgeny Kumeiko, Sergei Martinson, Antonio Tserep,
Fyodor Knorre
Oktyabrina, a Young Communist Leager and a house-manager has mechanized her household. She
gives instructions to her staff over the radio, the yardman is riding around the premises on a motorbike.
She moves one of the tenants, the “nepman” who pretends to be unemployed and does not pay the rent,
to the roof of the building. Feeling very depressed the “nepman” opens a bottle of beer. Coolidge
Poincare gets out of the bottle. They decide to get hold of the Gosbank cash box, but Oktyabrina finds
out about their plan and begins her struggle with the malefactors. With the help of Young Communist
Leagers and modern technology Oktyabrina wins the battle.
31
PROSTYYE SERDTSA (SIMPLE HEARTS)
1924, 59 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Ivan Khudoleyev, screenplay: Elga Grig, Ivan Khudoleyev, camera:
Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky
Cast: M. Barash, Yevgeny Boronikhin, Yelena Chaika, Vladimir Maksimov, Oleg
Frelikh
Loosely based on Alfred Tennyson’s poem “The Saved”
The film is set in Russia of the beginning of the XXth century.
Young girl Anna lived in a working-class neighborhood and two young workers, Andrei and Filipp
were in love with her. Anna fell in love with Andrei and married him. Soon after that Andrei was
drafted to the navy and assigned to serve on a battleship. The ship perished but Andrei managed to
survive and stayed for a long time away from his native country. When he finally returned home he
found Anna married to Filipp…
32
RUKI PROCH (HANDS OFF)
1924, 79 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Mikhail Doronin, screenplay: Mikhail Levidov, camera: Friedrich VerigoDorovsky, Pyotr Yermolov, production designer: Ye. Sokolov
Cast: Boris Shlikhting, Ivan Khudoleyev, Mikhail Doronin, Yevgeniya Khovanskaya,
Iona Talanov
Soviet workers restore a destroyed factory and struggle against intrigues of White Army
Guards, foreign spies and “nepmans” (nouveau riches of the 20-es). The story is centered around the
director of a chemical trust who is persecuted in the Crimea by foreign secret service agents.
33
SAMIY YUNIY PIONER (THE YOUNGEST
PIONEER)
1924, 27 min., b/w
Eccentric comedy
Director: Konstantin Derzhavin, screenplay: Anatol Litvak, Konstantin Derzhavin,
camera: Albert Kyun, production designer: I. Brif
Cast: Galochka Levina
The lead role is played by a three-year-old girl. The story is centered around “adventures”
of the child at White Army’s rear in the days of Civil War.
34
SERDTSA I DOLLARY (HEARTS AND DOLLARS)
1924, 87 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Nikolai Petrov, screenplay: Dukh-Banko (Glikman), Vladimir Korolevich,
camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky, Evgeny Mikhailov, production designer: Vladimir
Yegorov
Cast: D. Cherkasov, Sergei Shishko, Ivan Lersky, Nikolai Petrov, Maria Babanova,
Sofya Magarill
The years of NEP (New Economic Policy). Two persons bearing the same last name live in Leningrad:
Ivanov, the draftsman, and Ivanov, the “nepman” (nouveau rich). Jane, an American relative of
draftsman Ivanov comes to Leningrad on a visit. At the same time unemployed Harry, an American
relative of “nepman” Ivanov also comes to visit his Russian relatives.
35
SKARLATINA (SCARLET FEVER)
1924, 45 min., b/w
Educational film
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: B. Sigal, camera: Leonid Drankov
Cast: Maria Taut-Korso, Yakov Gudkin, Eduard Ioganson, Gleb Bushtuyev
The film attempted to dwell on the latest methods of treatment for inflectional diseases in
contemporary medicine.
36
TSVETOCHNITSA (FLOWER GIRL)
1924, 18 min., b/w
Educational-training film
Written and directed by: Pyotr Malakhov, camera: Viktor Vishnevsky
Cast: P. Shidlovsky, O. Glukhova, Vladimir Yerofeyev, Anatoly Vladimirov
Educational-training work.
37
CHAI (TEA)
1924, 7 min., b/w
Satire
Written and directed by: Vyacheslav Viskovsky, camera: Friedrich VerigoDorovsky
Cast: Nikolai Shmidthof, Maria Dobrova, Yekaterina Podolskaya, Friedrich Ermler
Film mocks the everyday life of “nepmans” (nouveau riches of the 20es).
38
— 54)
AERO EN TE – PYATDESYAT CHETYRE (AERO NT
1925, 61 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Nikolai Petrov, screenplay: N. Surovtsev, camera: Albert Kyun,
production designer: Alexei Utkin
Cast: Yekaterina Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya, Vladimir Voronov, Alexander Orlov
The film tells about creation of the first Soviet aviation engine.
39
REAR)
V TYLU U BYELYKH (AT THE WHITE ARMY’S
1925, 80 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Boris Chaikovsky, Olga Rakhmanova, screenplay: Nina AgadzhanovaShutko, camera: Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky, Grigory Giber, production designer:
Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Nikolai Kutuzov, M. Brusak, Sergei Minin, N. Savskaya, Ivan Khudoleyev,
Olga Rakhmanova
The film tells about the struggle of bolsheviks against White Army troops in one of towns on the Black
Sea coast in the days of the Civil War.
40
VZDUVAITE GORNY (ADD HEAT TO FURNACES)
1925, 61 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Vladimir Kasyanov, screenplay: Sergei Garin, camera: Alexander Ryllo,
Alexander Sigayev, production designer: A. Goncharsky
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Pyotr Kuznetsov, Natalya Razumova, Sergei Troitsky
The film tells about the struggle of Leningrad Baltiysky Factory workers with saboteurs.
41
DAYOSH RADIO! (LET THERE BE RADIO!)
1925, 21 min., b/w
Propaganda film
Written and directed by: S. Grunberg, Sergei Yutkevich, camera: Albert Kyun,
production designer: Sergei Yutkevich
Cast: Boris Poslavsky, Pyotr Repnin
Eccentric comedy popularizing radio.
42
DEVYATOYE YANVARYA (THE NINTH OF
JANUARY)
1925, 98 min., b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Director: Vyacheslav Viskovsky, screenplay: Pavel Shchegolev, camera: Andrei
Moskvin. A. Dalmatov, production designer: Alexei Utkin
Cast: Yevgeny Boronikhin, Alexei Bogdanovsky, Nikolay Simonov, V. Borozdin, A.
Yevdakov, Tamara Glebova
The film tells about development of revolutionary tendencies among Russian workers at the beginning
of the century, which resulted in the strikes at Obukhovsky and Putilovsky Works in St. Petersburg and
the march of workers to the tsar’s palace and shooting down of peaceful demonstration by troops on
January 9, 1905.
43
MINARET SMERTI (MINARET OF DEATH)
1925, 61 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vyacheslav Viskovsky, screenplay: Alexander Balagin, Vyachslav
Viskovsky, camera: Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky, Svyatoslav Belayev, production
designer: Alexei Utkin
Cast: N. Vendelin, V. Baranova, Oleg Frelikh, N. Dzhalilov, Olga Spirova, Iona
Talanov
Loosely based on 16th century Bukhara legend. Dzhemal, daughter of the khan of Khiva, is going from
Bukhara to her native Khiva. The caravan is attacked by bandits. The leader of the gang is enchanted
by the beauty of Dzhemal, but the prisoner rejects love of the robber.
Soon Dzhemal and her foster sister manage to escape. Wandering in scorching desert girls meet Djigit
(skillful horseman) Sadyk.
44
MISHKA ZVONOV (MISHKA ZVONOV)
1925, 54 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Pyotr Malakhov, screenplay: Sergei Lebedev, Svyatoslav Belyaev,
camera: Albert Kyun, production designer: Pavel Mikhelson
Cast: Shura Konstantinov, V.Voyeikov, Elena Tumanskaya, Sergei Glagolin
The film is centered around the adventures of a homeless peasant boy who came to Leningrad.
45
MISHKI PROTIV YUDENICHA (MISHKI AGAINST
YUDENICH)
1925, 25 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, screenplay: Irina Kunina, Grigory
Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky, production
designer: Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Shura Zavyalov, Polina Pona, Sergei Gerasimov, Andrei Kostrichkin, Yevgeny
Kumeiko, Yanina Zheimo
Made in the genre of eccentric comedy the film tells about amazing adventures of the newspaper boy
Mishka who found himself in the headquarters of General Yudenich.
46
NA VERNOM SLEDU (ON THE RIGHT TRACK)
1925, 61 min., b/w
Propaganda film
Director: Alexei Dmitriyev, screenplay: Mikhail Boitler, camera: Grigory Giber
Cast: Pyotr Repnin, Boris Barnet, K. Koreneva, Lev Sverdlin
The film tells about help provided by the city Young Communist Leaguers to young villagers in their
struggle against kulaks (peasant proprietors).
47
DEATH)
NA ZHIZN I NA SMERT (FOR LIFE AND FOR
1925, 90 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Boris Chaikovsky, Pavel Petrov-Bytov, camera: Friedrich
Verigo-Dorovsky, production designers: I. Brif, Alexei Utkin
Cast: Eduard Ioganson, Yevgeny Boronikhin, Yelena Chaika, Iona Talanov
An old worker recollects how he embarked on the path of the revolutionary activities.
48
NAVODNENIYE (THE FLOOD)
1925, 8 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Boris Svetlov, camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky,
production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Ya. Auer, Vera Streshneva, Alexandra Chizhevskaya
Witty comedy advertising “Neva” — a new brand of cigarettes produced by Lentabaktrest
49
NAPOLEON-GAZ (NAPOLEON-GAS)
1925, 93, b/w
Propaganda film
Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Svyatoslav Belyaev,
production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Yevgeny Boronikhin, Iona Talanov, Olga Spirova, Yelena Chaika
The film tells about readiness of Soviet people to repel the enemy’s aggression.
50
NEMIYE SVIDETELI (SILENT WITNESSES).
1925, 32 min., b/w
Educational film
Director: Vitaly Dobrovolsky-Fedorovich, screenplay: V. Sanchov, Vitaly
Dobrovolsky-Fedorovich, camera: Grigory Giber
Cast: M. Kotelnikov, P. Meshcherin, M. Wolf
The film tells about the activities of criminal investigation department, about its laboratories and the
latest achievements of science which help detectives to find criminals. The story is based on the
investigation of a murder case.
51
PALACHI (EXECUTIONERS)
1925, 90 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Panteleyev, screenplay: Mikhail Rakitin, camera: Nikolai
Kozlovsky, Albert Kyun, production designers: Alexei Utkin, Vladimir Yegorov, I.
Brif
Cast: Pyotr Kuznetsov, Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky, Sergei Shishko, Yevgeny
Studentsov
Heroism and staunchness of revolutionary fighters contrasts with immoral nature of a
degenerating noble family.
52
PETUKHI (ROOSTERS)
1925, 39 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Pyotr Malakhov, screenplay: Vadim Yunakovsky, camera: Sergei
Lebedev, Albert Kyun, production designer: Pavel Mikhelson
Cast: V. Vadimov, Iona Talanov, Shura Konstantinov, Maria Bernatskaya
The first years of the NEP (New Economic Policy). Peasants got sick and tired of endless quarrels
between village priest Agafangel and deacon Gormoniy. The peasants decided to move both clergymen
out of the village.
53
PUTESHESTVIYE TRUDOVYKH KOPEYEK (TRIP
OF HARD-EARNED MONEY)
1925, 59 min., b/w
Propaganda film
Director: Boris Svetlov, screenplay: B. Ivanov, M. Gagarsky, Vladimir Yakovlev,
camera: Alexander Ryllo, Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky
The film is made as a visual aid to popularize the purpose of the common labor tax collected from
Soviet peasants in the 20es.
54
RADIODETEKTIV (RADIO-DETECTIVE)
1925, 22 min., b/w
Propaganda film
Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Viktor Glass, production
designer: Nikolai Akimov
Cast: A. Matov, Roman Rubinstein
The film popularizing radio is centered around adventures of the “nepman” (nouveau rich of the 20es)
evading from paying taxes and caught with the help of radio.
55
RASSEYANNIY KOMMIVOYAZHER (ABSENTMINDED SALESMAN)
1925, 10 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Boris Svetlov, screenplay: Vladimir Shmidthof, camera: Leopold VerigoDorovsky, production designer: A. Goncharsky
Cast: Nikolai Petrov, Irina Kunina, A. Nilin
The film advertises products of Lentabaktrest.
56
SON STOROZHA (WATCHMAN’S DREAM)
1925, 7 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Vladimir Shmidthof, camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky
Film made as advertisement of Lentabaktrest.
57
SORVALOS (FAILURE)
1925, b/w
Written and directed by: Boris Svetlov, camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky,
production designer: A. Goncharsky
58
STEPAN KHALTURIN (STEPAN KHALTURIN)
1925, 70 min., b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Pavel Shchegolev, camera: Ivan
Frolov, Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky, production designers: Alexei Utkin, Vladimir
Yegorov
Cast: Alexender Morozov, A. Raupenas, Nikolai Shmidthof, Vera Kuindzhi,
Yevgeny Boronikhin, Konstantin Khokhlov, Kondrat Yakovlev, Yekaterina
Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Yakov Malyutin, Sergei Shishko, Gennady Michurin
The story is based on the biography of carpenter Stepan Khalturin, one of the leaders of the “Northern
Union of Russian Workers”, who prepared assassination of the tsar.
59
TYAZHELIYE GODY (HARD YEARS)
1925, 81 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Aleksander Razumny, screenplay: Alexander Rasumny, P. Misheyev,
camera: Alexander Razumny, production designer: Alexander Razumny
Cast: Fyodor Bogdanov, O. Lebedeva, Ye. Zhbankov, Vera Vladimirova, Mark
Dobrynin, Anatoly Nelidov, Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Ivan Lersky
Moral staunchness of a revolutionary worker is contrasted with immorality of his son affected by
corrupting influence of petty-bourgeois surrounding.
60
CHTO, GDE ON KUPIL? (WHAT DID HE BUY AND
WHERE?)
1925, b/w
Written and directed by: Nikolai Foregger, camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky
61
BREW)
CHUDO S SAMOGONOM (MIRACLE WITH HOME-
1925, 14 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Vladimir Feinberg, screenplay: S. Kaluzhsky, Vldimir Feinberg, camera:
Albert Kyun, production designer: I. Brif
Cast: I. Moskalev, Vera Streshneva, V. Dobuzhinsky, A. Makashev, Shura
Konstantinov, Tolya Andreyev
Adventures of two young pioneers who arrived with their dog on a summer vacation at the village and
unmasked village moonshiners.
62
BRATISHKA (BROTHER)
1926, 57 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei
Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Pyotr Sobolevsky, Yanina Zheimo, Sergei Martinson, Sergei Gerasimov
The film tells about a driver who worked for a trust and renovated an old automobile.
63
VOLZHSKIYE BUNTARI (VOLGA REBELS)
1926, 78, b/w
Drama
Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, screenplay: Ioakim Maksimov-Koshkinsky, Pavel
Petrov-Bytov, camera: Sergei Lebedev, production designer: I. Brif
Cast: S. Galich, Pyotr Kirillov, Maria Dobrova, Iona Talanov, Shura Zavyalov
The film tells about the struggle of Chuvash people for their rights int the beginning of the century.
64
VOR, NO NE BAGDADSKY (THE THIEF, BUT NOT
FROM BAGDAD)
1926, 9 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Vladimir Feinberg, screenplay: Alexander Rodchenko, camera: Alexander
Ryllo, production designer: Alexander Rodchenko
Cast: S. Galich
The film advertised products of Lentabaktrest and was made as a parody on film advertising.
65
DEKABRISTY (THE DECEMBRISTS)
1926, 99 min., b/w
Historical drama
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Pavel Shchegolev, Alexander
Ivanovsky, camera: Ivan Frolov, production designer: Anatoly Arapov
Cast: Vladimir Maksimov, Yevgeny Boronikhin, Boris Tamarin, Gennady Michurin,
Sergei Shishko, Nikolai Lebedev, Varvara Annenkova
Love story of Annenkov, a participant of 1825 revolt of nobility, and Paulina Goeble.
66
DETI BURI (CHILDREN OF THUNDERSTORM)
1926, 72 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Friedrich Ermler, Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Nikolai Molodtsov, V.
Mankovsky, Vladimir Yakovlev, camera: Naum Aptekman, production designer:
Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Sergei Glagolin, Maria Taut-Korso, Valery Solovtsov, Yakov Gudkin, Zinovy
Drapkin, Veronika Buzhinskaya
The film tells about the participation of young people in the defence of Petrograd from White Army
troops commanded by General Yudenich during the Civil War.
67
KARYERA SPIRKI SHPANDYRYA (CAREER OF
SPIRKA SHPANDYR)
1926, 60 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Boris Svetlov, screenplay: G. Batargin, camera: Friedrich VerigoDorovsky, production designer: A. Goncharsky
Cast: Leonid Utesov, Nina Zheleznova, Anatoly Nelidov, Yekaterina Podolskaya,
Nikolai Shmidthof
Spirka Shpandyr, a petty crook and a swindler after serving a prison term escapes from the Soviet
country. Abroad the swindler immediately finds common language with the police and becomes a paid
police agent. He provokes all kinds of conflicts between capitalist government officials and Soviet
missions. Spirka pretends to be a priest, a worker and, finally, a baron. This is how Spirka Shpandyr, a
swindler and provocateur, the pride of Russian White emigration makes his brilliant career abroad.
68
KATERINA IZMNAILOVA (CATHERINA
IZMAILOVA)
1926, 86 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Cheslav Sabinsky, screenplay: Boris Leonidov, camera: Naum Aptekman,
production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Yelena Yegorova, Nikolai Simonov, Anatoly Nelidov, V. Nikulin, Fyodor
Bogdanov, Zoya Valevskaya
Based on Nikolai Leskov’s novel “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District”.
69
KATKA – “BUMAZHNYI RANET” (KATKA – “THE
PAPER RENNET”)
1926, 73 min., b/w
Drama
The film was dubbed at “Lenfilm” in 1973, b/w, 74 min. Director of dubbing:
Fyodor Nikitin, sound: Grigory Elbert
Director: Eduard Ioganson, Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Mikhail Borisoglebsky,
Boris Leonidov, camera: Yevgeny Mikhailov, production designer: Yevgeny
Yeney
Cast: Veronika Buzhinskaya, Bella Chernova, Valery Solovtsov, Yakov Gudkin,
Fyodor Nikitin
Story of a young village girl who came in mid-20es to Leningrad to earn some money “to buy a cow”,
found herself among criminals but managed to break with the city underworld and start a new life.
70
PESN TUNDRY (SONG OF TUNDRA)
1926, 74 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Vladimir Shmidthof, camera:
Alexander Ryllo, production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Alexander Shabelsky, Pavel Kurzner, N. Sharap, T. Ott, V. Plotnikov
The film tells about the struggle of Laplanders against tyranny of tsarist police and rapacious fir
dealers. It also tells about an exiled Russian revolutionary who helped people belonging to this minor
nationality.
71
ADAT)
POD VLASTYU ADATA (UNDER THE RULE OF
1926, 74 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Kasyanov, screenplay: Izmail Abai, camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky,
production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: A. Gamkrelidze, S. Palavandishvili, B. Svani, AS. Kalantadze
The film tells about the struggle of mountain tribes of the Caucasus against tsarist troops.
72
SEVERNOYE SIYANIYE (AURORA BOREALIS)
1926, 72 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Nikolai Foregger, screenplay: Boris Chaikovsky, Grigory GricherCherikover, camera: Albert Kyun, Leonid Drankov, production designer: Yevgeny
Yeney
Cast: Yevgeny Boronikhin, K. Zolotarev, Olga Spirova, I. Pyarn, V. Makarov
Life of political exiles and Russian gold-diggers in the north of Kamchatka peninsular in 1915 — 1922.
73
SOPERNIKI (RIVALS)
1926, 62 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Sergei Shishko, screenplay: Ivan Leonov, camera: Ivan Frolov,
production designer: Boris Almendingen
Cast: Nikolai Lebedev, V. Baranova, Alexandra Chizhevskaya, Ivan Khudoleyev,
Konstantin Khokhlov
Soviet worker-inventor is struggling with representatives of a foreign company for introduction of a
new brake system on transport.
74
TARKO (TARKO)
1926, 67 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Feinberg, camera: V. Vorotilov, Nikolai
Kozlovsky, production designer: A. Goncharovsky
Cast: Sergei Langovoy, Ursula Krug, N. Gnedich, Fyodor Slavsky, Irina Kunina
The film tells about tough exploitation of the peoples of the North by the owners of companies.
75
TRISTA TRIDTSAT TRI NESCHASTYA (THREE
HUNDRED THIRTY- THREE MISFORTUNES)
1926, 12 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Vladimir Feinberg, screenplay: Irina Kunina, camera: Alexander Ryllo
Cast: Alexander Aleksandrov-Serzh
The film advertised products of Lentabaktrest.
76
CHYORTOVO KOLESO (DEVIL’S WHEEL)
1926, 76 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, screenplay: Adrian Piotrovsky,
camera: Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Pyotr Sobolevsky, Lyudmila Semyonova, Sergei Gerasimov, Emil Gal, Antonio
Tserep, Sergei Martinson, Yanina Zheimo, Andrei Kostrichkin
The film tells about the life of a Red Navy man who accidentally became a member of a gang of
thieves but managed to revive to honest living.
77
CHUZHIYE (ALIENS)
1926, 68 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Boris Svetlov, screenplay: Valentin Trakhtenberg, camera: Leopold
Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Leonid Utesov, Nina Zheleznova, Mikhail Rostovtsev, O. Arakcheyevskaya, D.
Cherkasov, A. Ivanova
Based on Valentin Trakhtenberg’s story “Siskin”.
The court is hearing the case of a former Red Army guard who gave himself up to investigating
authorities.
78
SHINEL (THE GREATCOAT)
1926, 65 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, screenplay: Adrian Piotrovsky,
camera: Andrei Moskvin, Yevgeny Mikhailov, production designer: Yevgeny
Yeney
Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, A. Yeremeyeva, Sergei Gerasimov, Alexei Kapler, Yanina
Zheimo, Emil Gal
Loosely based on Nikolai Gogol’s short stories “The Greatcoat” and “Nevsky Prospekt”.
79
VINTIK-SHPINTIK (LITTLE SCREW)
1927, 12 min., b/w
Cartoon
The film was dudbbed in Germany in 1931 (music: E. Meisel)
Director: Vladislav Tvardovsky, screenplay: Nikolai Agnivtsev, camera: Yevgeny
Bogorov, cartoons: V. Kuklin, S. Zhukov, Igor Sorokhtin, Alexander Presnyakov
Dynamo, fly-wheel and gears consider themselves to “heroes” of the production process. Quiet and
modest Little Screw also participates in the “big work” but no one takes him seriously. Offended, he
leaves the plant. Only then everybody realizes the importance of a screw for the operation of the plant.
Little Screw accepts apologies and returns to the plant.
80
VODOVOROT (VORTEX)
1927, 73 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, screenplay: Olga Vishnevskaya, Pavel Petrov-Bytov,
camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: Boris Almendingen
Cast: F. Mikhailov, Tatyana Guretskaya, N. Sharap, Sergei Langovoy, Shura
Savelyev
The film tells about the struggle of peasants with the miller-kulak (peasant proprietor) in the first years
after the end of the Civil war.
81
“GLAVDYNYA” NA OTDYKHE (“GLAVDYNYA” ON
VACATION)
1927, 15 min., b/w
Comedy
Director Vladimir Shmidthof, screenplay: Alexander Bogdanov, Vladimir
Shmidthof, camera: V. Bluvshtein, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Alexander Bogdanov, E. Mashkevich, V. Yablonsky, Ya. Golts
The film mocks the vicious practice of staffing an organization with too many employees.
82
DVA RIKSHI (TWO RICKSHAWS)
1927, 6 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), screenplay: Nikolai Agnivtsev, camera: N.
Yefremov, production designer: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri)
Mid 20-es. A Chinese fieldmarshal as a rickshaw is carrying British General John Bull and his bulldog
along Chinese roads. They come across a Chinese worker who grabs both the general
and the fieldmarshal and throws them away to the garbage pile.
83
DEVUSHKA S DALYOKOY REKI (GIRL FROM THE
BANKS OF A REMOTE RIVER)
1927, 76 min., b/w
Poetic film
Director: Yevgeny Chervyakov, screenplay: Grigory Aleksandrov, camera:
Svyatoslav Belyaev, production designers: Yevgeny Yeney, Semyon Meinkin
Cast: Rosa Sverdlova, Vladimir Romashkov, Pyotr Kirillov
The years of NEP (New Economic Policy) A girl working at a telegraph in a remote place was longing
to go to Moscow. Reading bare dots and dashes she was learning about exciting events happening in
the country and was getting more and more dissatisfied with her life. Finally she realized her dream,
came to Moscow and was happy to share enthusiasm of the young people rebuilding the city. When the
girl returned home she saw that a large-scale construction was started in her native region, on the bank
of a remote river.
And again she is transmitting dots and dashes but now she feels that her work is part of the great work
going in her country.
84
DERZHI CHUBAROVTSA (STOP CHUBAROVETS)
1927, 7 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), screenplay: Alexander Flit, camera: G. Knok,
production designer: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri)
The film was released in connection with the criminal trial over a gang of hooligans which held in these
years.
85
DOM V SUGROBAKH (HOUSE IN SNOW-DRIFTS)
1927, 63 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Boris Leonidov, camera: Yevgeny
Mikhailov, Gleb Bushtuyev, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Fyodor Nikitin, Tatyana Okova, Valery Solovtsov, Yakov Gudkin, Galina
Shaposhnikova
Loosely based on Yevgeny Zamyatin’s short story “The Cave”
The film tells about a musician who went through some serious hesitations before he realized that
revolutionary Russia needed his art.
86
ZOLOTOYE RUNO (THE GOLDEN FLEECE)
1927, 65 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Boris Svetozarov, screenplay: Ilya Kravchunovsky, camera: N. Yudin,
production designer: Vasily Rakhals
Cast: Ye. Liliyeva, N. Nenasheva, A. Antonov, Ye. Tokmakov, Yelena Yegorova
Loosely based on Pavel Zhurba’s story “A Trollop”.
Set in the years when the first collective farms were organized, the film tells about the attempts of
working peasants to unmask false cooperatives and about their struggle for the organization of a cattle
breeding farm.
87
MOGILA PANBURLEYA (THE GRAVE OF
PANBURLEY)
1927, 76 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Cheslav Sabinsky, screenplay: Nikolai Nikitin, camera: Vasily
Simbirtsev, Felix Shtertser, production designers: Boris Almendingen, Mikhail
Litvak
Cast: Yebgeny Boronikhin, S. Pronskaya, Alexander Morozov, Yelena Deineko,
Fyodor Bodganov
Based on Nikolai Nikitin’s short story of the same title.
The film tells about the disintegration of a landowner’s family.
88
NA DALNEM BEREGY (ON A DISTANT SHORE)
1927, 59 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Alexander Khrypov, camera: Pyotr
Chupyatov, production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke
Cast: Yelena Yegorova, Anatoly Nelidov, Tamara Godlevskaya, Sergei Langovoy,
Vasily Chudakov
Fishermen living in a village in the Far North struggle against a kulak (peasant proprietor).
89
NA RELSAKH (ON RAIL-TRACK)
1927, 72 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Ivan Khudoleyev, screenplay: Mikhail Borisoglebsky, camera: Grigory
Lemberg, production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: N. Sharap, Sergei Glagolin, Veronika Buzhinskaya, Alexei Goryushin
An honest Soviet man is fighting against go-getters, bribe-takers and profiteers.
90
OKTYABR (OCTOBER)
1927, 101 min., b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Written and directed by: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigory Aleksandrov, camera: Eduard
Tisse, production designer: Vasily Kovrigin
Cast: Vasily Nikandrov, N. Popov, Boris Livanov, Eduard Tisse
The film was restored and dubbed at “Mosfilm” in 1967, 104 min., misic: Dmitry
Shostakovich, sound: Valentina Ladygina, Viktor Babushkin
Epic drama dealing with the bolshevik revolution of October 1917.
The film was commissioned by the Soviet governmental October Anniversary Committee to mark the
10th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
91
ORDER NA ZHIZN (WARRANT FOR LIFE)
1927, 70 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Semyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Boris Lipatov, camera: Svyatoslav
Belyaev, production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke
Cast: Pyotr Kuznetsov, Yelena Yegorova, Pyotr Kirillov, Tatyana Guretskaya, N.
Rybolovlev, Vasily Chudakov
A class enemy turns to his own advantage low moral standards and unstable political
views of some Soviet workers.
92
OTVAZHNIYE MOREPLAVATELI (BRAVE
NAVIGATORS)
1927, 25 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Vladimir Shmidthof, screenplay: Ilya Trauberg, camera: V. Bluvstein,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Alexander Bogdanov, M. Milman, V. Yablonsky, E. Mashkevich
The film popularized physical culture and sports. The leading Soviet swimmers of mid-20-es were
shown in the film.
93
PARIZHSKIY SAPOZHNIK (PARIS SHOEMAKER)
1927, 75 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Nikolai Nikitin, Boris Leonidov, camera:
Yevgeny Mikhailov, Gleb Bushtuyev, production designers: Yevgeny Mikhailov,
Gleb Bushtuyev
Cast: Bella Chernova, Yakov Gudkin, Varvara Myasnikova
It is impossible to hide from inquisitive looks and gossips in a small provincial town. However, paper-mill worker, Young Communist Leaguer Katya and Andrei are not hiding their
love. All of a sudden Katya’s radiant hopes break to pieces: Andrei is indignant to hear the
news that Katya is expecting a baby. He does not want “to change diapers”, this “trivial life”
will interfere with his plans to “build bright future”.
94
POET I TSAR (THE POET AND THE TSAR)
1927, 72 min., b/w
Biopic
Director: Vladimir Gardin, screenplay: Vladimir Gardin, Yevgeny Chervyakov,
camera: Svyatoslav Belyaev, Naum Aptekman, production designer: Anatoly
Arapov
Cast: Yevgeny Chervyakpov, Irina Volodko, K. Karenin, Boris Tamarin, Alexei
Feona, Ivan Lersky, Alexander Larikov, Zoya Valevskaya
The film tells about the last yars of Alexander Pushkin.
The film was restored and music was incerted at Gorky Studio in 1968., 75 min.
Director of restoration: L. Gitsburg, music editor: Yu. Matskevich, sound: K. Amirov
95
PRUZHINKA (THE SPRING)
1927, 23 min., b/w
Comic story
Written and directed by: Vladimir Shmidthof, camera: V. Bluvstein, Vladimir
Danashevsky, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Alexander Bogdanov, Maria Taut
The film condemns bureaucratic “red tape” on factories.
96
PURGA (SNOW-STORM)
1927, 80 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Cheslav Sabinsky, screenplay: Dmitry Shcheglov, camera: Naum
Aptekman, production designer: Boris Almendigen
Cast: Gennady Michurin, Fyodor Bogdanov, Maria Putyata, Zoya Valevskaya,
Yevgeny Boronikhin, Pyotr Podvalny
Based on Dmitry Shcheglov’s play of the same title.
Wholehearted and pure character of a Bolshevik is set off against moral meanness of a representative of
petty bourgeoisie.
97
SEVERNAYA LUBOV (NORTHERN LOVE)
1927, 72 min., b/w
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Yevgeny Zamyatin, camera: Vasily
Simbirtsev, Pavel Pallei, production designer: Isaak Makhlis
Cast: Vasily Chudakov, Borya Lytkin, Anatoly Nelidov, Alexei Goryushin,
Yekaterina Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya, Zinaida Zanoni, Ursula Krug, Natalya
Razumova
Loosely based on Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel “North”
The film tells about the life of fishermen in the north of Russia.
98
ES. VE. DE. (UNION OF THE GREAT CAUSE)
1927, 76 min., b/w
Historical drama
Director: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, screenplay: Yuri Tynyanov, Yulian
Oksman, camera: Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Sergei Gerasimov, Andrei Kostrichkin, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Konstantin
Khokhlov, Sofya Magarill, Yanina Zheimo, Lyudmila Semenova
The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia.
99
STORONA LESNAYA (FOREST LAND)
1927, 70 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Georgy Krol, screenplay: F. Malov, Georgy Krol, camera: Pyotr
Chupyatov, Yuliy Stilianudis, production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke, I. Brif
Cast: Georgy Kolosov, V. Vadimov, Pavel Kurzner, Nadezhda Lezhen, A.
Chekayevsky, Nikolai Lebedev
The film tells about struggle of Young Communist Leaguers — members of timber-cutting cooperative
— with a proprietor.
100
SCHASTLIVIYE CHEREPKI (HAPPY CROCKS)
1927, 65 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Konstantin Derzhavin, camera: Pyotr
Chupyatov, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Kseniya Denisova, N. Yablokov, Boris Novikov, V. Belousov, Pavel Kurzner
Linking of town and village in period of reconstruction.
101
TURBINA NOMER TRI (TURBINE NO. 3)
1927, 50 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Semyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Adrian Piotrovsky, Nikolai Erdman,
camera: Svyatoslav Belyaev, Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Boris
Dubrovsky-Eshke
Cast: Pyotr Kuznetsov, Mark Gall, Nikolai Lebedev, Tatyana Guretskaya
Loosely based on “Cement”, a novel by Fyodor Gladkov
The film tells about the construction of a hydro-electric power station.
The film includes scenes shot on location on the Volkhov Hydro-Electric Power station.
102 CHUZHOY PIDZHAK (SOMEBODY ELSE’S
JACKET)
1927, 63 min., b/w
Satirical comedy
Director: Boris Shpis, screenplay: Veniamin Kaverin, camera: Andrei Moskvin, I.
Tikhomirov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, Sergei Gerasimov, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Arnold Arnold,
Yanina Zheimo, Tamara Makarova
Loosely based on “Inspector”, a short story by Veniamin Kaverin
The film satirizes negative elements in the work of economic executives in the first years of New
Economic Policy.
103
ASYA (ASYA)
1928, 77 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, camera: Alexander
Ryllo, Pavel Pallei, Mikhail Kaplan, production designers: Boris Almendingen,
Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Olga Rozevskaya, Konstantin Khokhlov, Nadezhda Skarskaya, Yekaterina
Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Kondrat Yakovlev, Anatoly Nelidov, Irina Volodko
The story includes some episodes from the biography of a Russian writer Ivan Turgenev.
104
BUZILKA (BUZILKA)
1928, 21 min., b/w
Feature/Cartoon
Director: Alexander Presnyakov, Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: M. Timens, camera:
Leonid Patlis, Nikolai Yefremov, cartoonist and production designer: Vladislav
Tvardovsky
Cast: N. Litvinov, Kirill Gun
Khudyshkin, the Assistant Deputy Chief of Tsentropokryshki and Tolstushkin, his drinking companion,
were spreading rumors about imminent war and earthquake. Once Khudyshkin had a dream that he was
taken prisoner by Chamberlain. Cartoon personage Buzilka denounces the two panic-mongers and
ridicules dead scared Tolstushkin and Khudyshkin.
105
VESYOLIYE STROITELI (MERRY BUILDERS)
1928, 61 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Mikhail Bystritsky, D. Yeremich, camera: Ya. Barru
Cast: A. Zimin, N. Bashkirov, V. Savitsky, N. Lash, P. Khodakov
The film tells about the construction of summer workmen’s settlement.
106
GAFIR I MARIAM (GAFIR AND MARIAM)
1928, 56 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, camera: Pyotr
Chupyatov, production designers: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke, Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Nikolai Michurin, N. Urvantsev, Tamara Adelgeim, P. Vasilyev, Vladimir
Vikulin
Loosely based on Vsevolod Ivanov’s short story “Shaitan Arba” dealing with the clash of
new and old in period of the New Economic Policy.
107
DVA BRONEVIKA (TWO ARMORED CARS)
1928, 72 min., b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Director: Semyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Viktor Shklovsky, Semyon
Timoshenko, camera: Leonid Patlis, Alexander Gintsburg, production designer:
Semyon Meinkin
Cast: Vasili Chudakov, Tatyana Guretskaya, Pyotr Kuznetsov, Pyotr Podvalny, Pyotr
Kirillov, Emil Gal
In the days of 1917 revolution Russian army soldiers are taking the side of proletariat.
108
DZHOI I DRUZHOK (DZHOI AND DRUZHOK)
1928, 59 min., b/w
Adventure
Written and directed by: Vladimir Petrov, Mary Khukhunashvili, camera: Vasily
Simbirtsev, Svyatoslav Belyaev, production designers: Yevgeniya Slovtsova,
Semyon Meinkin
Cast: Shura Zavyalova, Fatima Gilyazova, Borya Lytkin, Fyodor Bodganov, Pyotr
Kuznetsov
The film tells about the education of children.
109
DOM VVERKH DNOM (HOUSE UPSIDE DOWN)
1928, 9 min., b/w
Cartoon
Written and directed by: Dmitry Tolmachev, camera: Nikolai Yefremov, cartoons:
Viktor Griogoryev (Gri)
Avoskin, a stupid bungler working for a housing cooperative starts building a house without a drawing.
He chooses the place for the construction site on a bog. When the construction is about to be finished
the house falls apart.
110
ZHELEZNAYA LOSHAD (AN IRON HORSE)
1928, 22 min., b/w
Propaganda film
Director: Oscar Gallai, screenplay: Zinovy Drapkin, Robert Maiman, camera:
Mikhail Galper
Cast: Pyotr Kuznetsov, P. Yermakov, Gerorgy Uvarov
The film tells about the mechanization of peasants’ labor in a village.
111
ZAPASETS (A STOCK)
1928, 20 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Vladimir Shmidthof, screenplay: Viktor Ardov, Alexander Bogdanov,
Vladimir Shmidthof, camera: Yuli Stilianudis, production designer: Nikolai
Suvorov
Cast: Alexander Bogdanov, E. Mashkevich
The film satirizes panic-mongers spreading rumors about war.
112
ZNOINY PRINTS (HOT PRINCE)
1928, 68 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Vladimir Shmidthof, screenplay: Boris Lipatov, camera: Yuli Stilianudis,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Alexander Bogdanov, N. Nikolayev, A. Yeremeyeva, V. Yablonsky, Varvara
Myasnikova
The film tells about the life of young people working at a plant.
113
ZOLOTOI MYOD (GOLDEN HONEY)
1928, 62 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Nikolai Bersenev, Vladimir Petrov, screenplay: Nikolai Bersenev,
camera: Vladimir Danashevsky, production designers: I. Brif, Yevgeniya Slovtseva
Cast: Fyodor Bogdanov, Pyotr Kuznetsov, A. Baskakov, Fatima Gilyazova, Borya
Lytkin, Shura Zavyalov
Film for children about reforming waifs and strays in children’s labour commune
114
INZHENER YELAGIN (ENGINEER YELAGIN)
1928, 67 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Feinberg, screenplay: Vladimir Braun, A. Morozov, camera:
Naum Aptekman, production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke
Cast: Nikolai Monakhov, Varvara Myasnikova, Fyodor Nikitin, A. Temnov
The film tells about the sufferings of a Soviet engineer whose son was recruited by a foreign
intelligence service.
115
KASTUS KALINOVSKY (KASTUS KALINOVSKY)
1928, 72 min., b/w
Historical drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Gardin, camera: Naum Aptekman, A.
Akmolinsky, production designer: Anatoly Arapov
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, V. Plotnikov, Alexei Feona, Grigory Ge, Sofia Magarill,
Boris Livanov, Tatyana Bulakh, Konstantin Khokhlov, Kondrat Yakovlev
The film tells about peasants’ uprising of 1863 headed by popular hero Kastus Kalinovsky
116
KOMNATA S MEBELYU (FURNISHED ROOM)
1928, 20 min., b/w
Feature/animation
Directors: Alexander Presnyakov, Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: M. Timens, camera:
Leonid Patlis, Nikolai Yefremov, cartoons: Vladislav Tvardovsky, V. Kuklin, S.
Zhukov
Cast: A. Sadovskaya, Kirill Gun, N. Litvinov, Sergei Troitsky
A doll named Buzilka finds out that a landlady is going to sell a room in her flat to a nepman (nouveau
rich of the 20es). Indignant Buzilka decides to help a young musician get this room and substitutes the
documents. The landlady fails to notice the substitution and the musician becomes the owner of the
room.
117
KOSAYA LINIYA
1928, 68 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanov, Oscar Gallai, screenplay: B. Feldman, Konstantin
Derzhavin, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, Mikhail Galper, production designer:
Yevgeniya Slovtsova, Ye. Rubinstein
Cast: Lev Butarinsky, A. Pasynkova, Kseniya Klyaro, Gennady Michurin, Mikhail
Rostovtsev, Alexei Goryushkin
The film tells about struggle with workers’ hard drinking and shirking.
118
KUZNYA UT (THE UT FORGE)
1928, 55 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Yevgeny Petrov, screenplay: Yakov Zadykhin, camera: Pavel Pallei,
Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Tatyana Guretskaya, Fyodor Slavsky, Yakov Zadykhin, N. Yablokov, F.
Mikhailov, Sergei Langovoy
Organizers of a cooperative company in a village are struggling against the bureaucrats and bunglers.
119
LUNA SLEVA (MOON ON THE LEFT SIDE)
1928, 63 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, Vladimir
Granatman, Mikhail Shapiro, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, production designer:
Mikhail Litvak
Cast: Vasily Chudakov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Boris Chirkov, Zoya Valevskaya,
Mikhail Lomakin, Yelena Yegorova
Loosely based on Vladimir Bill-Byelotserkovsky’s play of the same title.
120
MAX I MORITZ (MAX AND MORITZ)
1928, 21 min., b/w
Animation
Written and directed by: Yevgeny Demmeni, camera: Anatoly Pogorely,
production designer: I. Pavlovich, in the production participated “Teatr Petrushki”
group of the Leningrad Young Spectators’ Theatre
Puppets operated by: N. Goryainov, B. Davydov, B. Lebedev
Puppets: Max, Moritz, Widow, Tailor, Beck, Teacher Lempel, Peasant, Miller, Dog
Loosely based on a tale by Wilhelm Busch.
Max and Moritz were mischievous boys. They were tearing their books and notebooks to pieces and
mocking adults. Once they got into a barn, ripped up a sack and spilled grain all over the floor. A
peasant who saw this put Max and Moritz into a sack and decided to carry
them to the mill. Scared children begged him to let them out. The peasant set the boys free and they
improved their behavior.
121
MOI SYN (MY SON)
1928, 69 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Yevgeny Chervyakov, screenplay: Yuri Gromov, Nikolai Dirin, A. Turin,
Yevgeny Chervyakov, camera: Svyatoslav Belyaev, production designer: Semyon
Meinkin
Cast: Gennady Michurin, Anna Sten, Pavel Beryozov, Lyudmila Semyonova, Nikolai
Cherkasov, Boris Chirkov
A lyrical study on how a Soviet man is getting rid of old concepts of love and jealousy.
122
MYATEZH (REVOLT)
1928, 76 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Semyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Semyon Timoshenko,
camera: Leonid Patlis, production designers: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke, Semyon
Meinkin
Cast: Pyotr Podvalny, A. Alexeyev, Tatyana Guretskaya, I. Razveyev, Valery
Solovtsov, Boris Babochkin, Pyotr Kirillov
Loosely based on Dmitry Furmanov’s novel of the same title.
The story is based on real events: a revolt in the city of Verny (later renamed Frunze, now — Bishkek)
in 1920.
123 NE TAK STRASHEN CHYORT (THE DEVIL IS NOT
AS BLACK)
1928, 18 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Alexander Bogdanov, screenplay: Zinovy Drapkin, Robert Maiman,
camera: Feliks Shtertser, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: A; Goldman, N. Fausek, V. Soboleva
Peasants are getting rid of superstitious beliefs.
124
NORD-OST (NORTH-EAST)
1928, 69 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Cheslav Sabinsky, screenplay: Dmitry Shcheglov, camera: Friedrih
Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: Isaak Makhlis
Cast: Zoya Valevskaya, Sergei Troitsky, Ivan Khudoleyev, Gennady Michurin,
Lyudmila Semyonova
Loosely based on Dmitry Shcheglov’s play of the same title.
125
NOTA NA KOLYOSAKH (A NOTE ON WHEELS)
1928, 20 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Yevgeny Maikhailov, Fyodor Nikitin, screenplay: Sergei Bartenev,
camera: Yevgeny Mikhailov
Cast: V. Yablonsky, N. Vasilyeva-Opel, Gerda Slatanakh
The film tells about the formation of the new relations style in family life.
126
OBIZHENNIYE BUKVY (OFFENDED LETTERS)
1928, 17 min., b/w
Feature/Cartoon
Directors: Alexander Presnyakov, Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: Nikolai Agnivtsev,
camera: Leonid Drankov, Nikolai Yefremov, cartoons: Vladislav Tvardovsky
Offended by school children’s negligent attitude to books and studies, letters rose in revolt. The
alphabet sent its delegates to Ministry of Education to lodge a complaint against children. Anatoly
Lunacharsky, the Minister of Education, received the delegates and promised the letters to bring
children to reason.
127
PESN O METALE (SONG OF METAL)
1928, 7 min., b/w
Film study
Directors-editors: Mikhail Shapiro, Iosif Heifits, Alexander Zarkhi, Vladimir
Granatman, camera: Alexander Ginzburg
Shot without a screenplay the film is an edited combination of newsreels. Lines from Alexander
Zharov’s poem of the same title were used as captions.
128
PIONER VANYA (PIONEER VANYA)
1928, 12 min., b/w
Cartoon
Written and directed by: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), camera: Nikolai Yefremov,
production designer: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri)
Pioneer Vanya, an enthusiast of aircraft modelling, longed to go round the world. His wish comes true
in his dream. He wins a single combat with a shark and an octopus. He finds himself in the jungle,
meets a lion and helps monkeys who rose in rebellion against the hippopotamus.
129
PRAVO NA ZHIZN (A RIGHT TO LIVE)
1928, 69 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, screenplay: S. Daurov, Pavel Petrov-Bytov, camera:
Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Tatyana Guretskaya, Fyodor Mikhailov, Roza Sverdlova, N. Sharap
The film tells about struggle against favouritism at factories in the years of the NEP (New Economic
Policy).
130
PRYZHOK (A JUMP)
1928, 54 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: K. Gavrilyuk, Andrei Mikhailovsky,
camera: Feliks Shtertser, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Yakov Gudkin, Yelena Leonova, G. Meyerovich, A. Shats
The film promoting mass physical culture and sports among young people.
131
RODNOY BRAT (BROTHER)
1928, 61 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Nikolai Krol, screenplay: Nikolai Molodtsov, camera: V. Bluvstein,
Yevgeny Mikhailov, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, V. Soshalskaya, Pyotr Kuznetsov, Boris Chirkov
Loosely based on “Kinsfolk”, a novel by Mikhail Chumandrin.
New morale comes into collision with the old private-ownership mentality.
132
SINIYE VOROTNIKI (BLUE COLLARS)
1928, 56 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Boris Shpis, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, camera: Vladimir
Danashevsky, production designer: Boris Shpis
Cast: Semyon Antonov, Valery Solovtsov, N. Krasolenko
On the importance of physical culture and sports for Soviet youth.
133
SNEZHNIYE REBYATA (SNOW BOYS)
1928, 45 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Boris Shpis, screenplay: Ilya Trauberg, camera: I. Tikhomirov,
production designer: Boris Spis
Cast: Semyon Antonov, Valery Solovtsov, N. Krasolenko, Yevgeny Kumeiko
The film was made to promote mass physical culture movement in the Soviet Union.
134
SYN RYBAKA (THE FISHERMAN’S SON)
1928, 75 min., b/w
Biopic
Director: Alexander Ivankovsky, screenplay: Nikolai Katkov, camera: Yuli
Stilianudis, production designer: Moisei Levin
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Olga Rozevskaya, Kondrat Yakovlev, Irina Volodko, Ivan
Khudoleyev, Pyotr Podvalny, Yelena Deineko
The film focuses on life of the great Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov
135
TANYA (TANYA)
1928, 12 min., b/w
Revolutionary propaganda
Written and directed by: Sergei Glagolin, camera: Emmanual Ratner, production
designer: Boris Almendingen
Cast: K. Lazarev, D. Volge, V. Pevtsova, D. Ignatyev
Based on “Tanya, a Revolutionary”, a short story by Yelena Vereiskaya
The film tells about the participation of children in underground activities of Bolsheviks in the years of
the Civil War.
136 TRETYA ZHENA MULLY (THE THIRD WIFE OF A
MULLAKH)
1928, 72 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vyachslav Viskovsky, screenplay: Alexander Balagin, Vyachslav
Viskovsky, camera: Feliks Shtertser, libretto: Lusil Skvair
Cast: V. Baranova, A. Shats, Boris Novikov, Sergei Shishko, Ivan Khudoleyev
The film tells about struggle for women emancipation in the East in the first years of the Soviet power.
137
TRETYA MOLODOST (THE THIRD YOUTH)
1928, 71 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Vladimir Shmidthof, screenplay: Andrei Aravsky, Ivan Pyryev, camera:
Alexander Gintsburg, production designer: Nikolai Akimov
Cast: Andrei Lavrentyev, Kseniya Denisova, Yuri Lavrov, Yu. Gurin, Nikolai
Lebedev
The film tells about the introduction of new machinery in agricultural cooperatives.
138
KHABU (KHABU)
1928, 68 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vyachslav Viskovsky, screenplay: Yuri Tarich, Vyacheslav Viskovsky,
camera: Feliks Shtertser, production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke
Cast: Alexander Mgebrov, Pavel Kursner, A. Nikolayeva, Nikolai Simonov, Yevgeny
Kumeiko, Emil Gal
Based on Vsevolod Ivanov’s novel of the same title.
139
KHVASTUNISHKA (LITTLE BOASTER)
1928, 5 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Ivan Druzhinin, screenplay: M. Timens, camera: Nikolai Yefremov,
production designer: Ivan Druzhinin
A cowardly boy Nikolka loved to boast of his exploits. One day he took a rifle and went to the forest to
trace a wolf and came across a little rabbit. The frightened boy took the rabbit for some dangerous wild
beast and rushed home, forgetting about his rifle.
140
TSENA CHELOVYEKA (VALUE OF A MAN)
1928, 68 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Mikhail Averbakh, Mark Donskoi, screenplay: Veniamin Yadin, Leonid
Zalkind, camera: Nikolai Ushakov, production designers: Semyon Meinkin,
Mikhail Litvak
Cast: D. Maloletnov, Igor Doronin, Roza Sverdlova
This film is about the necessity of the careful attitute to a friend.
141
A POCHEMU TAK? (AND WHY IS IT SO?)
1929, 50 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Nikolai Dirin, A. Larionov, screenplay: A. Larionov, camera: Boris
Khrennikov, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: L. Ivanov-Rayev, Vladimir Romashkov, Olga Rozevskaya, Fyodor Bogdanov,
N. Mikhailov
The film is about the close association of young people with the elder generation of workers.
142
ADRES LENINA (LENIN’S ADDRESS)
1929, 61 min., b/w
Film-novel
Director: Vladimir Petrov, screenplay: Boris Brodyansky, camera: Vyacheslav
Gordanov, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Fatima Gilyazova, Borya Lytkin, Yekaterina Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya,
Veronika Buzhinskaya, Shura Zavyalov
The film features the life of Leningrad pioneers.
143
BOLNIYE NERVY (BAD NERVES)
1929, 59 min., b/w
Educational film
Director: Noi Galkin, screenplay: Noi Galkin, Lazar Sukharebsky, camera:
Alexander Gintsburg, production designer: Nikolai Akimov
Cast: Fatima Gilyazova, Borya Lytkin, Yekaterina Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya,
Veronika Buzhinskaya, Shura Zavyalov
Cast: Sergei Minin, Yelena Yegorova, Gerda Slatanakh
This film is about neurasthenia and the methods of its treatment.
144 BUZILKA PROTIV BRAKA (BUZILKA STRUGGLES
AGAINST DEFECTIVE GOODS)
1929, 18 min., b/w
Feature/Cartoon
Director: Alexander Presnyakov, screenplay: A. Maslov-Minikh, camera: Nikolai
Yefremov, production designer: Viktor Tvardovsky, cartoons, production design
by: S. Zhukov, captions by: Dmitry Tolmachev
Buzilka, a drawn personage, purchased in a store a primus-stove, a knife and some sausage. All the
goods turned out to be of low quality. Buzilka goes to companies manufacturing these goods. He finds
out why the companies are producing defective products and takes the necessary steps to improve the
situation.
145
BUNT BABUSHEK (GRANDMOTHERS’ REVOLT)
1919, 50 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Oskar Gallai, screenplay: Iosif Berhin, Yuri Musykant, camera: M.
Galper, production designer: Fyodor Berenshtam
Cast: Pavel Kurzner, B. Manukhin, D. Zhiryakov, R. Kamskaya, Yuri Laptev
People overcome the feeling of chauvinism.
146
GENERAL TOPTYGIN (GENERAL TOPTYGIN)
1929, 23 min., b/w
Director: Sergei Glagolin, screenplay: N. Ignatovich, Sergei Glagolin, camera: Ya.
Leibov, Pavel Pallei, production designer: Boris Almendingen
Cast: K. Karenin, Sergei Glagolin, Fyodor Slavsky
Based on Nikolai Nekrasov’s poem of the same title.
147
GOLUBOI EKSPRESS (BLUE EXPRESS)
1929, 61 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Ilya Trauberg, screenplay: Leonid Ierikhonov, Ilya Trauberg, camera:
Boris Khrennikov, Yuli Stilianudis, production designers: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke,
Moisei Levin
The film was sound-tracked in Paris in 1931
Cast: Sergei Minin, Igor Chernyak, I. Arbenin, Yakov Gudkin, Ivan Savelyev, San
Bo-yan
The film features the struggle of Chinese people for freedom and national independence.
148
DOROGA V MIR (ROAD TO THE WORLD)
1929, 84 min., b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Director: Boris Shpis, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Boris Shpis, camera: Yevgeny
Mikhailov, production designer: Semyon Meinkin
Cast: Valery Solovtsov, Kira Semyonova, Mikhail Speransky, Yanina Zheimo, Anna
Zarzhitskaya, Shura Zavyalov
History of Russian proletariat is illustrated by the life story of a worker — member of the Bolshevik
party.
149
ZOLOTOI KLYUV (GOLDEN BEAK)
1929, 67 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Yevgeny Chervyakov, screenplay: Nikolai Molodtsov, Yevgeny
Chervyakov, camera: Svyatoslav Belyayev, Alexander Sigayev, production
designer: Semyon Meinkin
Cast: L. Yefimov, Gennady Michurin, Sergei Minin, M. Gipsi, Boris Dmokhovsky,
Boris Livanov, Anna Sten, Konstantin Gibshman
Based on Anna Karavayeva’s novel of the same title.
The film tells about the slavish forced labor of serfs working in mines in the times of tsar Paul I and
about their struggle against the tyranny of tsarist administration.
150
KAAN-KEREDE (KAAN-KEREDE)
1929, 62 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Feinberg, camera: Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky,
V. Kamensky, production designers: Isaak Makhlis, Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke
Cast: M. Gipsi, I. Arbenin, Lev Butarinsky, Pavel Kurzner, Bela Chernova, K.
Karenin, Varvara Myasnikova
The film tells about the penetration of new culture and struggle against backward views in remote
regions of the country.
151
KAIN I ARTYOM (CAIN AND ARTYOM)
1929, 80 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, camera: Nikolai Ushakov, Mikhail
Kaplan, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Isaak Makhlis
The film was sound-tracked in 1932 in France by director Abel Hans
Cast: Yelena Yegorova, Georgy Uvarov, Emil Gal, Nikolai Simonov
Loosely based on Maxim Gorky’s short story of the same title.
152
KONNITSA SKACHET (CAVALRY GALLOPS)
1929, 56 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Nikolai Beresnev, camera: Naum Aptekman, production
designer: Ivan Zablotsky
Cast: Kolya Simanovich, Ursula Krug, N. Kutuzov, Yuri Laptev, Nikolai Michurin
Loosely based on Nikolai Tikhonov’s novel “War Horses”
Red Army guards are fighting against White Army security service.
153
LEDYANAYA SUDBA (ICE FORTUNE)
1929, 71 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Yevgeny Petrov, screenplay: Boris Brodyansky, Vladimir Petrov, camera:
Vasily Belyayev, production designer: Isaak Makhlis
Cast: Nikolai Prozorovsky, Vladimir Vikulin, D. Zaitsev, Oleg Zhakov, F. Khokhlov,
Veronika Buzhinskaya, Pyotr Kuznetsov
The film features the high moral qualities of a team of researchers working at a polar station.
154 NEULOVIMY RABKOR (ELUSIVE
CORRESPONDENT)
1929, 18 min., b/w
Feature/Cartoon
Director: Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: A. Maslov-Minikh, camera: Nikolai
Yefremov, production designers: Vladislav Tvardovsky, P. Sokolov
Cast: Fyodor Kamensky, M. Kolokolov, N. Galkov
The film tells about the adventures of an “elusive correspondent” Buzilka at one of factories. Buzilka is
a drawn personage of a series of cartoons.
155
NOVY VAVILON (NEW BABYLON)
1929, 80 min., b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei
Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Yelena Kuzmina, Pyotr Sobolevsky, David Gutman, Sofia Magarill, Sergei
Gerasimov, Yanina Zheimo, Yevgeny Chervyakov, Andrei Kostrichkin, Oleg Zhakov,
Vsevolod Pudovkin
The film is set in the days of Paris Commune.
156
OBLOMOK IMPERII (FRAGMENT OF EMPIRE)
1929, 80 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Katherina Vinogradskaya, Friedrich Ermler,
camera: Yevgeny Shneider, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
The film was restored and re-edited at “Lenfilm”(1967, 78 min., b/w). Director of
restoration: Fyodor Nikitin, editor: Mikhail Bleinman, sound: Grigory Elbert,
misic: Vladimir Deshevov
Cast: Fyodor Nikitin, Lyudmila Semyonova, Valery Solovtsov, Yakov Gudkin,
Vyacheslav Viskovsky
The film tells about great changes that took place in the conscience of people as a result of the October
revolution.
157
PIZHON (A FOP)
1929, min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Mark Donskoy, screenplay: Yuli Stilianudis, Simova, V. Bogdanovich,
camera: F. Zandberg, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: V. Chumachenko, V. Adamova
The film satirizes philistine approach to art as the “refined” style of behavior and dressing according to
the latest fashion.
158
POCHTA (POST)
1929, 20 min., b/w
Cartoon
The film was sound-tracked in 1930, 30 min., Director: N. Timofeyev, misic:
Vladimir Deshevov, sound: Mikhail Mukhachev, text by: Daniil Harms
Director: Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, screenplay: Samuil Marshak, camera: K. Kirillov,
production designer: Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, cartoons: Ivan Druzhinin
Based on Samuil Marshak’s poem of the same title.
159
SMERTNY NOMER (THE FATAL TURN)
1929, 67 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Georgy Krol, camera: Boris Khrennikov, production
designer: Moisei Levin
Cast: Illarion Pevtsov, Lyudmila Semyonova, Arnold Arnold, Iona Brodsky,
Yevgeny Kumeiko
Loosely based on Boris Zhitkov’s novel “Boa”
160
SOVETSKAYA KOPEIKA (A SOVIET COPECK)
1929, 10 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), screenplay: Avraam Naroditsky, production
designers: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), Dmitry Tolmachev, captions by: Dmitry
Tolmachev
At the time when “Soviet Copeck” factory employees are working hard to increase the public wealth an
idler does nothing but drinks. His machine tool complains that his operator is a sloven. Hardly moving
his feet the idler goes first to the medical room and then to the mutual insurance fund. A Soviet copeck
urges its friends to repulse the lazy drunkard. Money refuses to go into his pocket.
161
TRANSPORT OGNYA (FIRE TRANSPORT)
1929, 76 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, Alexander
Ivanov, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, production designer: Boris DubrovskyEshke
Cast: Kseniya Klyaro, Gleb Kuznetsov, Nikolai Michurin, Alexei Goryushin, Lev
Butarinsky
The film features the underground activities of armed workers detachments on the eve of the first
Russian revolution.
162
UBITY ZHIV (THE KILLED MAN IS ALIVE)
1929, 20 min., b/w
Film-novel
Directors: Yu. Goltsev, Dmitry Tolmachev, screenplay: Dmitry Tolmachev,
camera: Vasily Belyayev, Vasily Simbirtsev
Cast: Sergei Minin, Igor Chernyak, V. Shupov
The film features the episodes of revolutionary struggle in the West.
163
FLAG NATSII (THE FLAG OF THE NATION)
1929, 76 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimirm Shmidthof after libretto by Nikolai Akimov,
camera: Vladimir Danashevsky, production designers: Yevgeny Yeney, Yevgeniya
Slovtsova
Cast: Boris Azarov, P. Naumov, Gennady Michurin, Nina Shaternikova, Sergei
Minin, Yuri Lavrov, Igor Chernyak
The film features the struggle of workers against violence and police tyranny in the capitalist society.
164 CHELOVEK S PORTFELEM (A MAN WITH A
BRIEFCASE)
1929, 65 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Cheslav Sabinsky, screenplay: A. Kirillov, camera: Naum Aptekman,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Nikolai Monakhov, Irina Volodko, Kolya Simonovich, S. Pronskaya, Andrei
Lavrentyev, Pavel Kurzner, Sergei Shishko, Varvara Myasnikova
Based on Alexei Faiko’s play of the same title.
The film unmasks a disguised enemy who fraudulently mixes with Soviet scientists.
165
CHERNY PARUS (THE BLACK SAIL)
1929, 72 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Sergei Yutkevich, screenplay: Boris Feldman, Georgy Zelondzhev-Shipov,
camera: Joseph Martov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Pyotr Savin, Konstantin Nazarenko, Nina Shaternikova, Boris Poslavsky, D.
Zaitsev, Andrei Kostrichkin
Young Communist Leaguers urge fishermen to sell their take to a state company rather than to a private
owner — a profiteer.
166 BRATISHKIN SOREVNUYETSYA (BRATISHKIN
TAKES PART IN A COMPETITION))
1930, 10 min., b/w
Cartoon
Written and directed by: Vladislav Tvardovsky, camera: Nikolai Yefremov,
production designer: Vladislav Tvardovsky
Ideas of socialist competition going on at plants, factories, mines and in villages evokes warm response
in Bratishkin, a Red Army soldier. He gathers the most active Red Army men and they draft a socialist
emulation agreement that includes over 200 various paragraphs. He forgets to include only one
paragraph — the combat training. Party leaders and commanders correct this mistake. The chart
showing results of combat training is prominently displayed. Competition among Red Army men helps
to improve their battle training.
167
VESYOLAYA VOINA (MERRY WAR)
1930, 62 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Pyotr Veisbrem, Nikolai Dirin, screenplay: Alexander Popov, camera:
Sergei Zhigachev
Cast: N. Vildgrube, M. Guseva, Sergei Sploshnov, Yelena Kuzmina
The film features competition among young workers.
168
VETER V LITSO (AGAINST THE WIND)
1930, 80 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, screenplay: Iosif Berkhin, camera:
Mikhail Kaplan, Khecho Nazaryants, production designer: Yelena Aladzhalova
Cast: Oleg Zhakov, Alexander Melnikov, D. Zgiryakov, T. Petrova, Z. Gleizarova
Screen version of the Tram Theatre production based on Nikolay Lvov’s play “ Days Are Melting”.
Young Communist Leaguers are fighting against the old philistine mode of life.
169
VSADNIKI VETRA (WIND HORSEMEN)
1930, 34 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: V.Zhemchuzhnikov, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman
Cast: D. Zhiryakov, Alexander Melnikov, Nikolai Cherkasov
Young Communist leaguers are fighting against religious prejudices in a village
170
GORODA I GODY (CITIES AND YEARS)
1930, 92 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Yevgeny Chervyakov, screenplay: Natan Zarkhi, Yevgeny Chervyakov,
camera: Svyatoslav Belyayev, Alexander Sigayev, production designer: Semyon
Meinkin
Cast: Berngardt Gettske, Ivan Chuvelev, Gennady Michurin, Sofya Magarill, Andrei
Kostrichkin, David Gutman
Based on Konstantin Fedin’s novel of the same title
171 DVADTSAT DVA NESCHASTYA (TWENTY TWO
MISFORTUNES)
1930, 54 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Sergei Bartenev, Sergei Gerasimov, screenplay: S. Mikhailov, Ivan
Skorinko, camera: I. Tikhomirov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Sofya Magarill, Yanina Zheimo, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin, Pyotr
Sobolevsky
The film satirizes narrow-mindedness and philistine attitude to life.
172
DVE SILY (TWO POWERS)
1930, 49 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Noi Galkin, screenplay: Dmitry Sverchkov, Mikhail Bleiman, Noi Galkin,
L. Konstantinovsky, camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer:
Pavel Betaki
Cast: K. Karenin, Alexander Antonov, L. Konstantinovsky
The film features revolutionary struggle of workers against tsarist power.
173
YEST, KAPITAN! (AYE, AYE, CAPTAIN!)
1930., 84 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Vladimir Granatman, Alexander Ivanov,
Mikhail Shapiro, camera: Yuli Stilianudis, Boris Khrennikov, production designer:
Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke
Cast: Lev Butarinsky, Alexei Goryushin, Igor Antonenko, Fyodor Slavsky, Kseniya
Klyaro
The film features the heroism and selflessness of Soviet seamen serving in merchant fleet.
174
ZHIZN NA POLNY KHOD (LIFE AT FULL SPEED)
1930, 67 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: A. Shmyrev, camera: Gleb Bushtuyev,
Boris Khrennikov, production designers: Yevgeniya Slovtsova, Boris DubrovskyEshke
Cast: Fyodor Nikitin, Maria Taut-Korso, N. Urvantsev
The film tells about establishing of the new style of relations in a Soviet family.
175
DEAD)
ZAGOVOR MYORTVYKH (THE PLOT OF THE
1930, 72 min., b/w
Historical film
Director: Semyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Nikolai Tikhonov, Semyon
Timoshenko, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, Vladimir Danashevsky, production
designers: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke, Moisei Levin
Cast: Boris Babochkin, Leonid Kmit, Pyotr Vitsinsky, Nikolai Petrov, Vladimir
Taskin, David Gutman, Yevgeny Chervyakov, Pyotr Kuznetsov
The film tells about heroic defense of Petrograd by workers in 1919.
176
ZAYOM V MASSY (A LOAN FOR MASSES)
1930, 11 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Ye. Ustinov, director- production designer: I. Reiman, camera: S.
Bartashevich
Made as an advertising cartoon the film explained the political and economical importance of the
“Five-Year Plan in Four Years” state loan. The film urged season-workers returning to their villages to
subscribe to the state loan.
177 KAVKAZSKY PLENNIK (THE PRISONER OF THE
CAUCASUS)
1930, 72 min., b/w
Biopic
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Pavel Shchegolev, Viktor Manuilov,
camera: Naum Aptekman, production designer: Moisei Levin
Cast: Boris Tamarin, Galina Kravchenko, A. Sandel, Roza Sverdlova, Ivan
Khudoleyev, Igor Chernyak, L. Dobrovolsky, K. Karenin, Irina Volodko
The film focuses on some circumstances of the tragic death of poet Mikhail Lermontov.
178
KTO VINOVAT? (WHO’S TO BLAME?)
1930, 63 min., b/w
Educational film
Director: Noi Galkin, screenplay: Noi Galkin, Dmitry Tolmachev, idea and
libretto: Lazar Sukharebsky, camera: Leonid Patlis, Joseph Martov, production
designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Olga Lenskaya, Yekaterina Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya, Sergei Minin
The film about hygiene in a family life.
179
LITSOM K LITSU (FACE TO FACE)
1930, 67 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Oskar Gallai, screenplay: Iosif Berkhin, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev,
Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Vladimir Yegorov
Cast: Pavel Kurzner, Irina Volodko, Boris Shlikhting, Maria Dobrova
Ivanov, an ex-White Army man, who managed to get the position of the technical director of a large fur
company is guided solely by the interests of private owners. Enjoying the full confidence of Mokhov,
the chairman of the company, he starts large-scale sabotage.
180
LYAGAVY (POINTER)
1930., 50 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Pyotr Kirillov, screenplay: Lyudmila Vepritskaya, A. Goldman, camera:
Ya. Leibov, Pavel Pallei, production designer: K. Ladogina
Cast: Varvara Myasnikova, V. Galyamin, V. Nikitin, Boris Lytkin, S. Akimov, G.
Vasilyeva
Loosely based on Lyudmila Vepritskaya’s play of the same title.
The film tells about bringing children up in the spirit of comradeship.
181
MYORTVAYA DUSHA (THE DEAD SOUL)
1930., 61 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Feinberg, screenplay: Dmitry Tolmachev, camera: I.
Tikhomirov, production designers: Semyon Meinkin, Pavel Betaki, K. Ladogina
Cast: Vladimir Gardin, Anna Zarzhitskaya, Klavdiya Destomb, Andrei Kostrichkin
The film denounces bureaucratic formalism.
182
MSTITEL (AVENGER)
1930, 76 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Boris Shpis, screenplay: Rachel Milman, Boris Shpis, camera: I.
Tikhomirov, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Galicha-Bayaki, Dyungnochu-Bayaki, Valery Solovtsov
The film features hard life of the Tungus people in the past and reformation of their life on the new
Soviet bases.
183 NASTOYASHCHIYE OKHOTNIKI (REAL
HUNTERS)
1930., 64 min., b/w
Adventure
Directors: Nikolai Lebedev, Naum Urgyumov, screenplay: Nikolai Katkov, Nikolai
Lebedev, Naum Ugryumov, camera: Joseph Martov, Feliks Zandberg, production
designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Konstantin Nazarenko, A. Kozhevnikova, Kolya Goldberg
Based on “Bear Hunters”, a short story by Nikolai Katkov
Children’s tourism shown in the film contrasts with the false romanticism of adventures.
184
NASHI DEVUSHKI (OUR GIRLS)
1930, 62 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Braun, screenplay: Alexander Ustinovich, camera: Gleb
Bushtuyev, production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Sofia Magarill, Varvara Myasnikova, Andrei Kostrichkin, Vladimir Gardin,
Pavel Kurzner, Yevgeniya Pyryalova, Antonina Bryantseva
The film tells about Soviet youth’s struggle for the introduction of the new methods of labor
organization.
185
BABY)
NE KHOCHU REBYONKA (I DO NOT WANT A
1930, 71 min., b/w
Educational film
Director: Mikhail Gall, screenplay: Vladimir Nedobrovo, camera: Leonid Patlis,
production designer: Fyodor Berenshtam
Cast: N. Fassman, G. Samoilov, L. Ladonina, D. Zhiryakov
The film promotes education of children at nursery schools.
186 O KUPTSE, NYNYE BRATSE VO KHRISTE (ABOUT
A MERCHANT WHO BECAME A CHRISTIAN BROTHER)
1930, 9 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), screenplay: A. Maslov-Minikh, camera: E.
Kirillov
This grotesque film unmasks the sectarianism.
187
OGON (FIRE)
1930, 71 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Mark Donskoi, screenplay: Iosif Prut, camera: Yuri Utekhin, production
designer: Yefim Khiger
Cast: L. Vladimirova, V. Chumachenko, P. Naumov, Emil Gal
The film tells about struggle against survivals of the patriarchal tribal system in the outlying districts of
the country.
188
PAKHARI MORYA (SEA PLOUGH-MEN)
1930, 58 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Georgy Krol, screenplay: Boris Brodyansky, Georgy Krol, camera:
Yevgeny Mikhailov, production designer: Semyon Meinkin
Cast: Arnold Arnold, Yevgeny Kumeiko, Gleb Kuznetsov, E. Mashkevich, Iona
Brodsky, Maria Taut-Korso
Story of a fisherman who joins a fishing cooperative.
189
PO TU STORONY (ON THE OTHER SIDE)
1930, 74 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Boris Kazachkov, screenplay: Vladimir Nedobrovo, camera: Alexander
Bratukha, production designer: Vladimir Yegorov
Cast: Konstantin Gradopolov, Sergei Ponachevny, Alexei Goryushin, Nina
Shaternikova, Vladimir Gardin
Based on the short story of the same title by Viktor Kin.
The film features struggle of workers-communists and guerillas against White Army troops for the
liberation of Khabarovsk.
190
POVOROT (THE TURN)
1930, 84 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, camera: Nikolai Ushakov,
production designer: Isaak Makhlis
Cast: Nikolai Michurin, Yelena Yegorova, Georgy Uvarov, Pavel Kurzner, Nikolai
Simonov, Tatyana Guretskaya
Loosely based on “Bars”, a novel by Fyodor Panfyorov.
Active villagers are fighting against kulaks (peasant proprietors) for organization of an agricultural
cooperative.
191
PODZEMNOYE SOLNTSE (THE UNDERGROUND
SUN)
1930, 66 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Mikhail Averbakh, screenplay: Dmitry Tolmachev, camera: Vasily
Simbirtsev, production designers: Fyodor Berenshtam, Semyon Meinkin
Cast: D. Maloletnev, L. Vladimirova, K. Karenin, L. Dobrovolsky, V. Kalashnikov,
Yuri Laptev, Boris Shlikhting
Loosely based on “The Voice of the Earth Depths”, a play by Vladimir Bill-Belotserkovsky
Front-rank Donbas miners are working hard to get the mining industry out of crisis and devastation.
192
SPYASHCHAYA KRASAVITSA (SLEEPNG BEAUTY)
1930, 76 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Georgy and Sergei Vasilyev, screenplay: Grigory Aleksandrov, Georgy
and Sergei Vasilyev, camera: Yevgeny Shneider, production designer: Isaak
Makhlis
Cast: Konstantin Mukhutdinov, Varvara Myasnikova, Nikolai Simonov, P. Viktorov,
Yelena Deineko, Pyotr Pirogov, Yakov Gudkin
The film deal with the importance of the new proletarian art.
193 SMOTRI V KOREN (GET TO THE ROOT OF THE
MATTER)
1930, 9 min., b/w
Cartoon
Written and directed by: Boris Antonovsky, production designer: Boris
Antonovsky
The Pope addresses believers with an appeal to organize a crusade “to save Russia from Communism”.
Reactionary circles in the USA and Britain support the Pope. Counter-revolutionary Russian emigrants
and reactionaries in many countries take up the Pope’s initiative. However, all their plans fail.
194
SCHASTLIVY KENT (HAPPY KENT)
1930, 77 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Shmidtgof, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, camera: Vladimir
Danashevsky, Yuri Utekhin, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Pyotr Sobolevsky, Sofia Magarill, I. Moskalev, V. Yelensky, Vladimir Gardin,
Tamara Makarova
The film tells about the crash of petty-bourgeois illusions of an American worker
195
SYN STRANY (SON OF THE COUNTRY)
1930, 65 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Vladimir Nedobrovo after the idea of
Nikolai Beresnev, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, Georgy Filatov, production
designer: Vladimir Yegorov
Cast: Boris Ivanitsky, Vladimir Vikulin, Iona Brodsky, Sergei Barmichev
The film is about class struggle in one of the remote regions of Uzbekistan in the first years of the
Soviet power.
196
TYAZHELAYA NAGRUZKA (HARD LOAD)
1930, 60 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Pyotr Kirillov, screenplay: Daniil Rafalovich, camera: Vaniamin Levitin,
production designer: L. Neimark
Cast: Nikolai Petrov, Andrei Apsolon, S. Kovalev, L. Ladonina
Based on “The Last Percent”, a short story by P. Sakharov about the wrong methods of drawing young
people in the Young Communist League.
197
FRITZ BAUER (FRITZ BAUER)
1930, 66 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Petrov, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov,
production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Pavel Betaki
Cast: Bruno Riderer, Kseniya Serafimova, Kolya Simanovich, Fatima Gilyazova, F.
Neibakher, V. Veitsel, O. Brauer, Georgy Friken
Based on the play of the same title by Natalya Sats and V. Selikhova
The film features class struggle in Germany and participation of workers’ children in the struggle.
198
CHUZHOI BEREG (FOREIGN SHORE)
1930, 64 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Mark Donskoy, screenplay: Vsevolod Vvedensky, B. Zvonarev, camera:
M. Galper, production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Ye. Gavrilova, F. Brest, Yakov Gudkin, M. Maloletnov, Boris Shlikhting,
Lyudmila Semyonova
A group of Soviet seamen is trying to reform their comrade.
199 TYSYACHA DEVYATSOT PYATIY GOD V
BURZHUAZNOI SATIRE (THE YEAR OF 1905 IN A
BOURGEOIS SATIRE)
1930, 13 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Noi Galkin, screenplay: Simon Dreiden, camera: Pyotr Chupyatov,
cartoons: Ivan Druzhinin
The film was sound-tracked in 1931. Director of the sound version: Georgy
Rimsky-Korsakov, misic: Vladimir Deshevov, sound: Mikhail Mukhachev
The film is based on documentary materials related to the days of the first Russian revolution. The film
uses cartoons and poems ridiculing Nicholas II, Pobedonostsev, Vitte, Durnovo, Kokovtsev,
Goremykin, Trepov and Dubasov published in satirical magazines in 1905 — 1906.
200
AVARIYA (ACCIDENT)
1931, 40 min., silent, b/w
Film-essay
Written and directed by: German Matveyev, camera: Georgy Brusse
Cast: Pyotr Pirogov
A group of front-rank workers are trying to bridge the gaps in river transport.
201
STORY)
AMERIKANSKAYA ISTORIYA (AN AMERICAN
1931, 22 min., silent, b/w
Comedy
Director: Boris Nikiforov, screenplay: Boris Kolomarov, camera: Alexander
Bratukha
Cast: A. Nikolayev, Kondratyev, A. Shandrikovskaya
The film tells about necessity to acquire technical skills.
202
GOPAK (HOPAK) (UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCE)
1931, 11 min., sound, b/w
Cartoon
Director: Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, camera: Andrei Moskvin, production designer:
P. Sokolov, misic: Nikolai Timofeyev, sound: Mikhail Mukhachev, choreography:
Vasily Vainonen, conductors: Alexander Gauk, Nikolai Rabinovich
Experimental sound film composed of separate dancing turns.
203 DNEVNIK ODNOI COMMUNY (DIARY OF ONE
COMMUNE)
1931, 53 min., silent, b/w
Film-essay
Director: Abram Grinfeld, screenplay: Lev Levin, camera: D. Kandelaki,
production designer: Semyon Meinkin
Commune of Young Communist Leaguers is fighting for successful completion of the construction of
the Stalingrad tractor plant.
204
ZAKON DRUZHBY (THE LAW OF FRIENDSHIP)
1931, 54 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Cheslav Sabinsky, screenplay: M. Itina, Georgy Krol, Pavel Stelmakh,
camera: Alexander Azhogin, production designer: Konstantin Bondarenko
Cast: V. Tulubyev, Fyodor Slavsky, V. Lagert, G. Oparin, T. Kaligina
This film for children condemns the false interpretation of the notion of friendship.
205 ZAPAKH VELIKOI IMPERII (THE SMELL OF THE
GREAT EMPIRE)
1931, 56 min., silent, b/w
Propaganda film
Director: Sergei Glagolin, screenplay: M. Gerasimov, Iosif Prut, camera: Emmanuil
Ratner, production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Fyodor Slavsky, A. Obukhovich, Boris Oganyants, K. Lazarev
The film promotes activities of Osoaviakhim (Society for Assisting Army and Air Force).
206
ZLATIYE GORY (GOLDEN MOUNTS)
1931, 95 min., sound, b/w
Drama
Director: Sergei Yutkevich, screenplay: Andrei Mikhailovsky, Vladimir Nedobrovo,
Sergei Yutkevich, Lev Arnshtam, camera: Joseph Martov, production designer:
Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Boris Poslavsky, Yurti Korvin-Krukovsky, Boris Feodosyev, Ivan Shtraukh,
Boris Tenin, Nikolai Michurin, Nikolai Shengelaya
1914 strike movement on Baku oil fields and at St. Petersburg metallurgical works give strong impulse
to the development of class conscience of a worker, a recent peasant.
207
ZOLOTOYE VREMYA (GOLDEN TIME)
1931, 25 min., silent, b/w
Comedy
Director: Pyotr Kirillov, screenplay: Vladimir Nedobrovo, camera: Sergei
Zhigachev, production designers: D. Neimark, Konstantin Bondarenko
Cast: V. Pushilov
Group of factory laborers is trying to reform their fellow who is a shirker and a bad worker.
208
ZYBUN (QUICK SANDS)
1931, 95 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, Vladimir Yakovlev, screenplay: Andrei Mikhailovsky,
Alexander Chirkov, camera: Sergei Ivanov (Alliluyev), L. Medvedev, production
designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: A. Rokotov, V. Pushilov, N. Gutovsky, Pyotr Nikashin, Tatyana Guretskaya
The film features struggle against kulaks (peasant proprietors) and attempts to attract “middle” peasants
to join a collective farm.
209
IKH PUTI RAZOSHLIS (THEY DRIFTED APART)
1931, 57 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Boris Fyodorov, screenplay: Leonid Zalkind, Alexander Lazebnikov,
Andrei Mikhailovsky, camera: Sergei Ivanov (Alliluyev), production designer:
Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Vladimir Gardin, Georgy Friken, Ya. Rykov, Pyotr Kirillov, T. Martirosov
Under the influence of successes achieved in building socialism foreign experts working in the USSR
begin to stratify according to their class affiliations
210
KAPLYA NEFTI (A DROP OF OIL)
1931, 58 min., silent, b/w
Educational film
Written and directed by: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke, camera: Naum Aptekman,
production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke
Based on “Oil”, a play by Tur brothers (pen-name of Pyotr Ryzhey and Leonid Tubelsky), Yakov
Gorev and Alexander Shtein.
211
KINOMETLA NOMER TRI (CINEMA-BROOM No. 3)
1931, 38 min., silent, b/w
Satirical story
Director: Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: Dmitry Tolmachev, camera: Vasily
Simbirtsev, F. Zandberg
Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, Alexander Melnikov
The film features struggle against production of defective consumer goods.
212 KONETS NAKHALOVKI (THE END OF
NAKHALOVKA)
1931, 56 min., b/w
Director: Manuel Bolshintsov, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Manuel Bolshintsov,
camera: Alexander Azhogin, production designer: Pavel Betaki
The story and the cast not established.
213
KROV ZEMLI (THE BLOOD OF EARTH)
1931, 96 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Mikhail Averbakh, screenplay: Dmitry Tolmachev, camera: Vasily
Simbirtsev, production designer: Semyon Meinkin
Cast: Ermil Gal, Yevgeny Chervyakov, M. Gipsi, Konstantin Mukhutdinov,
Alexander Beniaminov, Roza Sverdlova, Vladimir Gardin, Tatyana Bulakh, Boris
Shlikhting
The film features the struggle of poor peasants against clergy and rich landowners who hampered the
use of oil resources for need of the national economy.
214
LETUN (A ROLLING STONE)
1931, 14 min., b/w
Sound Cartoon
Director of the sound version: Ilya Trauberg, screenplay: Vladimir Solovyov,
director of cartoons: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), cartoons: P. Porioshkov, misic:
Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov
At first the film was released as a silent film, 10 min
Worker Ivan Letalov (a drawn character) concerned only with making money is changing jobs,
“flying” from one factory to another. The person frequently changing jobs does not allow factories to
catch up with their plans. A front-rank worker demands that Ivan Letalov’s wings “should be clipped”.
Ministry of Labor rules that self-seekers should be expelled from the labor exchange. Ivan Letalov’s
wings fall off. Now he is not “flying” but running in search of job. But doors of all plants are closing in
front of the “rolling stone”.
215
NA ETOM SVETE (IN THIS LIFE)
1931, 65 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Boris Kazachkov, screenplay: Dmitry Tolmachev, camera: Anatoly
Pogorely, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Yevgeniya Pyryalova, A. Galatova, Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya,
Fyodor Slavsky, Fyodor Bogdanov, Leonid Kmit
Under the influence of socialist forms of labor great changes take place in the mentality of a backward
working woman.
216
ODNA (ALONE)
1931, 80 min., sound, b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei
Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Dmitry Shostrakovich,
sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Yelena Kuzmina, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Sergei Gerasimov, Maria Babanova,
Yanina Zheimo, Boris Chirkov
A young teacher makes her first steps in life. She takes up the job at school in a remote Altai area and
comes into conflict with local kulaks (rich peasants).
217
ONI I MY (THEY AND US)
1931, 11 min., silent, b/w
Propaganda Cartoon
Written and directed by: Boris Antonovsky, production designer: Boris
Antonovsky
This film is an advertisement for an all-Union lottery organized by Osoaviakhim (Society Assisting
Army and Air Force).
218
OSTROV CHUDES (A WONDER ISLAND)
1931, 65 min., silent, b/w
Film novel
Director: Naum Ugryumov, Abram Naroditsky, screenplay: Naum Ugryumov,
camera: Anatoly Nazarov, Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Konstantin
Bondarenko
Based on children’s novel “Corns Seekers” by P. Gryaznov
The story contrasts romance of useful activities to useless daydreaming.
219 PAREN S BEREGOV MISSURI (A FELLOW FROM
MISSOURI BANKS)
1931, 73 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Braun, screenplay: Andrei Mikhailovsky, camera: Vladimir
Danashevsky, Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Emil Gal, Bruno Riderer, Maria Bagildz, Nikolai Simonov, A. Ustinovich
A group of Americans who came to the USSR organises a commune.
220
PASIFIK (PACIFIC)
1931, 7 min., sound, b/w
Experimental film
Written and directed by: Mikhail Tsekhanovsky
The film attempts to illustrate an instrumental musical composition.
Musical poem by French composer Arthur Onegger was recorded and various visual images like steam
engine and its parts, musical instruments, hands of musicians etc. were added to illustrate the music.
221
PLOTINA (DYKE)
1931, 54 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Petrov, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Bruno Riderer, F. Neibakher, N. Gorodnichev
The story is based on the real life event that took place in 1925 on Soviet-Romanian border when
Romania attempted to seize an island using the fact that the border river had changed its course.
222
POLDEN (MIDDAY)
1931, 76 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Directors: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, screenplay: A. Kolbanovsky, Alexander
Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, camera: Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Yelena
Aladzhalova
Cast: Fyodor Bogdanov, Pyotr Vitsinsky, Oleg Zhakov, Fyodor Slavsky, Alexander
Melnikov, Tamara Makarova
The story is set in a remote village. A small group of Young Communist Leaguers and a factory worker
sent to help them are fighting against kulaks (peasant proprietors).
223
RAZGROM (THE RIOT)
1931, 76 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Nikolai Beresnev, screenplay: Yuri Laptev, Nikolai Beresnev, camera:
Alexander Sigayev, production designer: Fyodor Berenshtam
Cast: Viktor Yablonsky, Ivan Yudin, Pyotr Savin, Konstantin Mukhutdinov, Nikolai
Khryashchikov, Ludmila Semyonova
Based on Alexander Fadeyev’s novel of the same title.
224
SEKRET (SECRET)
1931, 43 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Oskar Gallai, screenplay: Vladimir Solovyov, camera: Leopold VerigoDorovsky, production designer: Yefim Khiger
Cast: Pavel Kurzner, A. Temnov, Vladimir Gardin, Yevgeniya Pyryalova, N. Petrov
Young factory workers are anxious to rationalize the process of production.
225
SNAIPER (SNIPER)
1931, 83 min., sound, b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Vladimir Danashevsky,
production designer: Yvegeny Yeney, misic: Nikolai Malakhovsky, sound: Mikhail
Mukhachev
Cast: Pyotr Sobolevsky, Pyotr Shlikhting, Pyotr Kirillov, Vladimir Gardin
The film tells about development of class consciousness of a Russian worker — participant of 1914 1918 war.
226 TOVARNY SEMSOT SEMNADTSATIY (FREIGHT
TRAIN 717)
1931, 62 min., silent, b/w
Film novel
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: V. Petrov, B. Shwarts, camera: Vasily
Simbirtsev, production designer: Abram Veksler
Cast: G. Bogdanov, V. Zabelina
Young pioneers are taking part in the production process and in everyday life of a plant.
227 FOMA-RABOTYAGA (FOMA — THE HARD
WORKER)
1931, 55 min., silent, b/w
Comedy
Director: Sergei Glagolin, screenplay: Yakov Yaluner, camera: Vladimir Vergiles,
production designer: Vladimir Boriskovich
Cast: I. Fomichev, S. Spirov, Maria Bagildz, Antonina Bryantseva
The film satirises a lazy collective farmer.
228
CHELOVEK ZA BORTOM (MAN OVERBOARD)
1931, 65 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Iosif Berkhin, screenplay: Pavel Stelmakh, Yan Larri, camera: Alexander
Bratukha, production designer: Abram Veksler
Cast: Leonid Kmit, Pavel Kurzner, Sergei Ponachevny, Nina Shaternikova
The film unmasks counter-revolutionary activities of a Baptist sect.
229
CHELOVEK IZ TYURMY (A MAN FROM PRISON)
1931, 71 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Sergei Bartenev, screenplay: Iosif Prut, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Yevgeniya Solovtsova
Cast: Ivan Chuvelev, O. Lebedeva, P. Samsonov, Andrei Kostrichkin, Yanina
Zheimo
The film tells about reforming a man who had committed a crime.
230
BEGLETS (RUNAWAY)
1932, 37 min., sound, b/w
Film novel
Director: Vladimir Petrov, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Vladimir Petrov, dialogues
by: Veniamin Kaverin, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov, production designer:
Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Valery Zhelobinsky, sound: Mikhail Mukhachev
Cast: Gennady Michurin, Bruno Riderer, Vyacheslav Viskovsky, Andrei Kostrichkin
Loosely based on the play of the same title by Karl August Wietfogel.
The film features a heroic episode of the struggle of German communists at the beginning of the 30-s.
231 BLESTYASHCHAYA KARYERA (THE BRILLIANT
CAREER)
1932, 108 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Braun, screenplay: Mikhail Kozakov, Vladimir Braun, camera:
Vladimir Danashevsky, production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Pavel Zhuravlenko, Vladimir Gardin, Yelena Yegorova, V. Zabelina, Pyotr
Pirogov
The film tells about the patriotism of a young Soviet engineer sent on business trip abroad.
232
VSTRECHNY (COUNTER-PLAN)
1932, 118 min., sound, b/w
Drama
Directors: Friedrich Ermler, Sergei Yutkevich, screenplay: Lev Arnstam, Daniil Del,
Friedrich Ermler, Sergei Yutkevich, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, Joseph Martov,
Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke, misic: Dmitry
Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk, Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Vladimir Gardin, Maria Blumental-Tamarina, Tatyana Guretskaya, Andrei
Abrikosov, Boris Tenin, Boris Poslavsky
Story of the Leningrad turbine plant workers who designed and manufactured the first Soviet turbine.
233
GAIL MOSKAU (HAIL MOSCOW)
1932, 88 min., sound, b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Shmidtgof, screenplay: Alexander Ustinovich, camera: Andrei
Moskvin. Pavel Posypkin, production designer: Konstantin Bondarenko, misic:
Nikolai Timofeyev, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: I. Martin, A. Afinogenov, Malik Kayumov, K. Dmitriyev, Sofia Magarill
This film is about the solidarity of Soviet seamen with foreign workers.
234
GOROD V STEPI (A TOWN IN STEPPE)
1932, 57 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Directors: Cheslav Sabinsky, Vladimir Yakolev, screenplay: Cheslav Sabinsky, I.
Kotlerman, camera: Svyatoslav Belyayev, Ivan Akmen, production designer: Yefim
Khiger
Cast: Alexander Mazayev, Irina Volodko, Pyotr Podvalny, Andrei Lavrentyev, K.
Denisova
Loosely based on Alexander Serafimovich’s novel of the same title.
235 DLYA VAS NAIDYETSYA RABOTA (THERE IS A
JOB FOR YOU)
1932, 106 min., sound, b/w
Drama
Director: Ilya Trauberg, screenplay: Iosif Prut, Ilya Trauberg, camera: Vyacheslav
Gordanov, Vladimir Yakovlev, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic:
Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev, Ilya Volk
Cast: Sofya Magarill, Maksim Shtraukh, Fyodor Nikitin
Awakening of class consciousness in a German worker under the influence of crisis and
unemployment.
236
DOROGOY DLINNOYU (ON A LONG JOURNEY)
1932, 14 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Ivan Druzhinin, screenplay: L. Glyuzman, A. Red, production designer:
Ivan Druzhinin, captions: Vladimir Solovyov
Satirical denunciation of poor management and slipshod operation of transport.
237
ZOLOTIYE RUKI (GOLDEN HANDS)
1932, 66 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Sergei Glagolin, screenplay: Yakov Yaluner, camera: Vladimir Vergiles,
production designer: Vladimir Boriskovich
Cast: L. Ladogina, G. Borovkov, Zinaida Zanoni, Yekaterina Aleksandrovskaya
Women are offered jobs at factories.
238 ISHCHU PROTEKTSII (I AM LOOKING FOR A
PATRON)
1932, 66 min., silent, b/w
Comedy
Director: Boris Kazachkov, screenplay: L.Glyuzman, Boris Kazachkov, camera:
Anatoly Pogorely, production designer: Konstantin Bondarenko
Cast: D. Zaitsev, Andrei Kostrichkin, Yevgeniya Pyryalova
An enterprising young man gets all sorts of benefits pretending that he is a relative of influential
people.
239
LES (FOREST)
1932, 80 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Sergei Gerasimov, idea: Iosif Prut, camera: Yuri Utekhin,
production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, Alexander Melnikov, Pyotr Pirogov, Yevgeniya Pyryalova
The film dealt with complicated issues of political education of peasants. It showed the difficult process
of changing mentality of people who were working in remote timber exploitation areas and were
separated from the majority of their fellow workers.
The film was never released.
240
LICHNOYE DELO (PERSONAL AFFAIR)
1932, 73 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Directors: Sergei and Georgy Vasilyev, screenplay: Alexander Chirkov, camera:
Svyatoslav Belyayev, production designers: Semyon Meinkin, Pavel Zaltsman
Cast: Nikolai Khodotov, Konstantin Nazarenko, Varvara Myasnikova, Andrei
Apsolon, P. Elsky, Sergei Barmichev
A respected old worker is getting rid of his religious prejudices.
The film did not survive. Using negative stills of the film and screenplay kept by assistant director
Varvara Myasnikova “ Lenfilm” made a photo-film giving detailed reproduction of the film made in
1932.
241 MUZYKALNAYA OLIMPIADA (MUSICAL
OLYMPICS)
1932, 46 min., sound, b/w
Film-concert
Director: Yevgeny Chervyakov, screenplay: Daniil Rafalovich, Yevgeny
Chervyakov, camera: Valery Ginzburg, Svyatoslav Belyayev, F. Zandberg, sound:
Ilya Volk, Ivan Dmitriyev, Mikhail Mukhachev
The film is composed of separate musical turns.
242
NA RADIOVOLNE (ON A RADIO WAVE)
1932, 15 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Vladislav Tvardovsky, P. Poroshkov, screenplay: M. Tuberovsky,
production designers: Vladislav Tvardovsky, P. Poroshkov
The story not established.
243
OSHIBKA GEROYA (MISTAKE OF A HERO)
1932, 74 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Boris Chirskov, camera: Georgy Filatov,
production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Georgy Zhzhenov, Andrei Apsolon, B. Rakitin, A. Maseyev, V. Belousov, Oleg
Zhakov
A group of factory workers is trying to reform a conceited young worker.
244
POBEDITELI NOCHI (CONQUERORS OF NIGHT)
1932, 95 min., sound, b/w
Film-essay
Director: Adolf Minkin, Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: Vladimir Nedobrovo, camera:
F. Zantsberg, Pavel Pallei, production designer: Pavel Zaltsman, Elza Rapoport,
misic: Boris Arapov, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Illarion Pevtsov, Vasily Sofronov, Serafim Azanchevsky, Andrei Kostrichkin,
Gennady Michurin, Mikhail Tsarev
The film tells about Soviet Arctic researches. The story is based on the voyage of the “Malygin”
ice breaker to Franz-Joseph Land made in the summer of 1931.
245
RODNAYA KROV (KINSFOLK)
1932, 66 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Rafail Muzykant, screenplay: Andrei Chiginsky, camera: Alexander
Sigayev, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Pavel Betaki
Cast: Valery Solovtsov, Konstantin Nazarenko
The lead character of the film is a poor peasant’s son who was brought up in the family of a kulak
(peasant proprietor) and adopted the kulaks’ ideology.
246
SERDTSE SOLOMONA (SOLOMON’S HEART)
1932, 62 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Directors: Sergei Gerasimov, Mikhail Kresin, screenplay: Sergei Gerasimov,
camera: Yuri Utekhin, production designers: Konstantin Bondarenko, Semyon
Meinkin
Cast: Anna Zarzhitskaya, Valery Solovtsov, N. Gorodnichev, Pavel Kurzner,
Vladimir Gardin, Viktor Portnov
Young villagers unmask a kulak (peasant proprietor) who is trying to commit sabotage against an
agricultural commune
247
SIMFONIYA MIRA (SYMPHONY OF PEACE)
1932, 14 min., sound/ b/w
Cartoon
Directors: Vitali Syumkin, S. Tarasov, screenplay: Eduard Ioganson, B. Bankovsky,
Alexander Flit, camera: Yevgeny Sholpo, production designer: Viktor Grigoryev
(Gri), misic: Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov
Tiger, Rabbit, Monkey and Goat arrive as delegates to a peace conference on disarmament. Each of
them has a musical instrument. The delegates are expected to perform the “Symphony of Peace”.
Suddenly there emerges a figure of Death — the personification of crisis. The “peaceful” orchestra
immediately changes — violins turn into rifles, cellos — into guns, a drum — into a machine-gun and
the “Symphony of War” begins.
The method of the drawn sound developed by Yevgeny Shoplo was used in this experimental film.
248
SLOZHNY VOPROS (A COMPLICATED QUESTION)
1932, 66 min., silent, b/w
Comedy
Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, screenplay: M. Padve, Georgy Venetsianov, camera:
Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: D. Zaitsev, V. Boye, Alexanader Vinogradov, Firs Shishigin, Antonina
Bryantseva
The story of unmasking a saboteur in one of the competing collective farms.
249
SOLDATSKY SYN (SON OF A SOLDIER)
1932, 103 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Nikolai Lebedev, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, production
designer: Abram Veksler
Cast: Tolya Afinogenov, Tolya Kurdyavtsev, V. Besedova, M. Bolshakov, Sergei
Ponachevny
Children’s film featuring participation of workers’ children in the revolutionary struggle at the
beginning of the century.
250
TRI SOLDATA (THREE SOLDIERS)
1932, 98 min., silent, b/w
Adventure
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Boris Lipatov, Alexander Ivanov, Vladimir
Granatman, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, production designer: Semyon Meinkin
Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, Pyotr Pirogov, Yevgeny Chervyakov, Sergei Gerasimov,
Yelena Kuzmina, Varvara Myasnikova
The film features the process of stratification on the basis of class affiliation among foreign soldiers
that invaded Odessa in 1919. Story of three soldiers — a worker, a peasant and an office clerk.
251
UTIRAITE SLYOZY (WIPE YOUR TEARS)
1932, 67 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Pyotr Kirillov, screenplay: Boris Zon, Alexandra Brushtein, camera:
Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Vladimir Gardin, L. Kaulik, N. Turunnen, Ye. Kartseva, M. Simakina
The film features participation of German workers’ children in the class struggle.
252
ANNENKOVSHCHINA (ANNENKOV’S BANDS)
1933, 115 min., sound, b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Nikolai Bersenev, camera: Alexander Sigayev, Alexander
Ksenofontov, production designer: Anatoly Arapov, Pavel Zaltsman, misic: Dmitry
Astradantsev, sound: Alexander Bekker, V. Yuditsky
Cast: Boris Livanov, Vladimir Gardin, Vladimir Taskin, Andrei Kostrichkin, N.
Pozdnyakov, V. Bokarev
The film features struggle of Soviet partisans and Red Army troops against White Army bands
commanded by Annenkov.
New version made in 1936, 73 min.
253
ZHIT (TO LIVE)
1933, 69 min., sound, b/w
Adventure story
Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Yurti Utekhin, production
designer: Nikolai Suvorov, Fyodor Bernstam, misic: Gavriil Popov, sound: Mikhail
Mukhachev
Cast: Galina Kravchenko, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Vladimir Kryuger
A Soviet seamen discharges his duty in the last years of the Civil War.
254 IUDUSHKA GOLOVLYOV (IUDUSHKA
GOLOVLYOV)
1933, 94 min., sound, b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Konstantin Derzhavin, Alexander
Ivanovsky, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, production designer: Vladimir Yegorov,
misic: Andrei Pashchenko, sound: Pyotr Vitsinsky
Cast: Vladimir Gardin, Tatyana Bulakh, Nina Latonina, Yekaterina KorchaginaAlexandrovskaya, Mikhail Tarkhanov, Irina Zarubina
Based on Mikhail Satlykov-Shchedrin’s novel “The Golovlyov Family”.
255
MOYA RODINA (MY MOTHERLAND)
1933, 77 min., sound, b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Alexander
Zarkhi, Iosif
Heifits, camera: Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic:
Gavriil Popov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Boris Khaidarov, Gennady Michurin, Alexander Melnikov, Yanina Zheimo,
Konstantin Nazarenko, Lyudmila Semyonova, Oleg Zhakov
The film features acts of provocation committed by imperialists and White Army bandits on SovietChinese border in 1929.
256 OTCHAYANNIY BATALYON (THE BOLD
BATTALION)
1933, 66 min., silent, b/w
Film-Novel
Written and directed by: Avraam Naroditsky, Naum Ugryumov, camera:
Emmanuil Ratner, production designer: Konstantin Bondarenko
Cast: Roza Sverdlova, Gennady Michurin
Children’s film featuring life of Soviet schoolchildren.
257
OCHIR (OCHIR)
1933, 80 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Darya Shpirkan, camera: Vladimir Yakovlev, Mikhail
Rotinov, production designer: Pyotr Yakimov
Cast: Zula Nakhashkiyev, S. Musov, B. Kushlykov, Nikolai Khryashchikov
Story of a Kalmyk nomad who under Soviet power became a front rank worker at a stud farm.
258
CHASTNY SLUCHAI (A PARTICULAR CASE)
1933, 75 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Ilya Trauberg, screenplay: Ilya Trauberg, Nikolai Chukovsky, camera:
Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Pavel Zaltsman
Cast: Nikolai Michurin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Alexander Melnikov, Sergei
Ponachevny, Yevgeniya Pyryalova, Alexander Bryantsev, Sofia Magarill, Oleg
Zhakov
The film tells about f struggle against saboteurs who managed to mix with Soviet intellectuals.
259
GROZA (THE THUNDERSTORM)
1934, 85 min., sound, b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Petrov, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Vladimir Shcherbachyov, sound: Ivan
Dmitriyev
Cast: Alla Tarasova, Ivan Chuvelev, Varvara Mnassalitinova, Irina Zarubina, Mikhail
Zharov, Mikhail Tsaryov, Mikhail Tarkhanov, Yekaterina KorchaginaAlexandrovskaya
Based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s play of the same title.
260 ZHENITBA YANA KNUKKE (MARRIAGE OF YAN
KNUKKE)
1934, 66 min., silent, b/w
Comedy
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Vsevolod Voyevodin, Yevgeny Ryss,
camera: Alexander Gintsburg, Arkady Koltsaty, production designer: Isaak Makhlis
Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, Anna Zarzhitskaya, Yevgeny Chervyakov, Nikolai
Cherkasov, Yakov Gudkin, Boris Shlikhting
Satirical discrediting of pacifistic illusions of an “humble man” living in a capitalist country.
261
KOROLYEVSKIYE MATROSY (KING’S SAILORS)
1934, 71 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Braun, screenplay: Boris Lipatov, camera: Vladimir
Danashevsky, Solomon Byelenky, production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Kurt Arendt, Hans Klering, Isaak Menaker, Pavel Zhuravlenko, L. Nenasheva,
Kseniya Moskalenko, Ursula Krug, Fyodor Nikitin
The story is based on the real event: the revolt of British sailors in Invergordon in 1931.
262
KRESTYANE (PEASANTS)
1934, 114 min., sound, b/w
Drama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Manuel Bolshintsov, Viktor Portnov,
Friedrich Ermler, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, production designer: Nikolai
Suvorov, misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Yelena Yunger, Boris Poslavsky, Alexei Petrov, Yekaterina KorchaginaAlexandrovskaya, Nikolai Bogolyubov, Vladimir Gardin, Pyotr Aleinikov
The film features struggle of communists and progressive peasants for strengthening the collectivefarm system.
263
LYUBLYU LI TEBYA? (DO I LOVE YOU?)
1934, 65 min., silent, b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Sergei Gerasimov, camera: Yuri Utekhin, F. Zandberg,
production designer: Semyon Meinkin, T. Shishmaryov
Cast: Tamara Makarova, Vladimir Maryev, Konstantin Nazarenko, Oleg Zhakov,
Mikhail Rostovtsev, Nina Shaternikova, Yelena Deineko
Story of a young couple of Soviet students.
264
MOON)
NA LUNU S PERESADKOY (A TRANSFER TO THE
1934, 60 min., silent, b/w
Film-novel
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexai Panteleyev, camera: Vasily
Simbirtsev, production designer: Abram Veksler
Cast: Lenya Glebov, O. Kurnosova, Misha Fadeyev, N. Rostova, Ivan Savelyev
Children’s film tells about schoolchildren — enthusiasts of aircraft modeling.
265 NASLEDNIY PRINTS RESPUBLIKI (THE CROWN
PRINCE OF THE REPUBLIC)
1934, 66 min., silent, b/w
Comedy
Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Rafail Muzikant, Boris Chirskov, camera:
Georgy Filatov, production designer: Pavel Betaki
Cast: Pyotr Kirillov, Yevgeniya Pyryalova, Andrei Apsolon, Georgy Orlov, Sergei
Ponachevny, Georgy Zhzhenov
The film ridicules fathers who prefer to keep away from the troubles of taking care of little babies.
266
RAZBUDITE LENOCHKU (WAKE LENOCHKA UP)
1934, 25 min., silent, b/w
Comedy
Director: Antonina Kudryavtseva, screenplay: Nikolai Oleinikov, Yevgeny Shwarts,
camera: Georgy Filatov, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Yanina Zheimo, Sergei Gerasimov
This children’s film tells about a little schoolgirl who was always late to school and about her school
friends who found a clever and original method to cure her of the habit to be late.
267
SEKRET FIRMY (SECRET OF THE COMPANY)
1934, 66 min., silent, b/w
Comedy
Director: Vladimir Shmidthof, screenplay: Nikolai Brykin, Savely Ruben, Vladimir
Shmidthof, camera: Anatoly Pogorely, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova,
Elza Rapoport
Cast: Semyon Svashenko, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Sofia Magarill, Valery Slovtsov, Pavel
Volkov, Yakov Gudkin, Yuri Lavrov, Tamara Makarova
A group of enthusiasts from a small town comes across an old deserted small factory located on the
edge of a forest and reconstructs it.
268
FLAG STADIONA (FLAG OF THE STADIUM)
1934, 66 min., silent, b/w
Comedy
Director: Boris Kazachkov, screenplay: Bella Zorich, Pavel Lin, camera: Vladimir
Yakovlev, production designer: Konstantin Bondarenko
Cast: Boris Tenin, Vera Koroleva, Olga Spirova, Pyotr Kirillov, Alexander Melnikov,
Konstantin Nazarenko, Valery Solovtsov
The film ridicules elements of philistinism in a Soviet intellectual.
269
CHAPAYEV (CHAPAYEV)
1934, 95 min., sound, b/w
War drama
Written and directed by: Sergei and Georgy Vasilyev, camera: Alexander Sigayev,
Alexander Ksenofontov, production designer: Isaak Makhlis, misic: Gavriil Popov,
sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Boris Babochkin, Boris Blinov, Varvara Myasnikova, Leonid Kmit, Illarion
Pevtsov, Stepan Shkurat, Vyacheslav Volkov, Nikolai Simonov, Boris Chirkov,
Georgy Vasilyev
Based on material collected by Dmitry and Anna Furmanov about Vasily Chapayev, a Civil War hero.
270
CHUDO (A MIRACLE)
1934, 61 min., silent, b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, camera: Anatoly Nazarov,
production designer: Yefim Khiger
Cast: Vladimir Gardin, Nikolai Simonov, Tatyana Guretskaaya, Illarion Pevtsov,
Sergei Ponachevny, Alexander Mazayev
Under the influence of revolutionary events of 1905 — 1906 an old backward worker develops his
class consciousness.
271
YUNOST MAKSIMA (YOUTH OF MAXIM)
1934, 98 min., sound, b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei
Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich,
sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Boris Chirkov, Stepan Kayukov, Alexander Kulakov, Valentina Kibardina,
Mikhail Tarkhanov, Pavel Volkov, Boris Blinov
Story of young worker Maxim who becomes a professional revolutionary.
272
GORYACHIYE DENYOCHKI (BUSY DAYS)
1935, 90 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, camera: Mikhail Kaplan,
production designer: Anatoly Bosulayev, misic: Valery Zhelobinsky, sound: Arnold
Shargorodsky
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Yanina Zheimo,
Anatoly Gribov
The film features life of Soviet youth. Love story of Byelokon, a young tank-officer, and Tanya, an
agricultural college student.
273
GRANITSA (THE BORDER)
1935, 87 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Mikhail Dubson, camera: Vladimir Rapoport, production
designer: Yefim Khiger, Issak Makhlis, misic: Lev Pulver, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Boris Poslavsky, Yelena Granovskaya, Vasily Toporkov, Veniamin Zuskin,
Nikolai Cherkasov
The film features life of Jewish residents of an area that borders on the USSR.
274
DUBROVSKY (DUBROVSKY)
1935, 70 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Ivanovsky, camera: Alexander Sigayev,
production designer: Vladimir Yegorov, misic: Andrei Pashchenko, sound: Pyotr
and Gleb Vitsinsky
Cast: Boris Livanov, Nikolai Monakhov, Galina Grigoryeva, Vladimir Gardin,
Mikhail Tarkhanov
Based on Alexander Pushkin’s novel of the same title.
275
LUNNIY KAMEN (THE MOON STONE)
1935, 65 min., b/w
Adventure story
Director: Adolf Minkin, Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: Vladimir Nedobrovo, camera:
F. Zandberg, Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Pavel Zaltsman, Naum
Fishman, misic: Boris Arapov, sound: Nikolai Dabolin
Cast: Yuri Tolubeyev, Gennady Michurin, Solomon Mikhoels, Konstantin
Adashevsky, Yakov Malyutkin
The film features the selfless work of Russian geologists at the beginning of the century.
276
PODRUGI (FRIENDS)
1935, 95 min., b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Director: Lev Arnstam, screenplay: Lev Arnstam, Raisa Vasilyeva, camera:
Vladimir Rappoport, Arkady Shafran, production designer: Moisei Levin, misic:
Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev, Ilya Volk
Cast: Zoya Fyodorova, Yanina Zheimo, Irina Zarubina, Boris Babochkin, Maria
Blumental-Tanarina, Boris Chirkov
Story of three girls from Petrograd working class neighborhood, of their friendship and participation in
the defense of Petrograd from foreign intervention in 1919.
277 SOKROVISHCHA POGIBSHEGO KORABLYA
(TREASURES OF THE LOST SHIP)
1935, 83 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Braun, screenplay: Boris Lipatov, camera: Solomon Byelenky,
production designer: Pyotr Yakimov, misic: Yuri Kochurov, sound: Pyotr and Gleb
Vitsinsky
Cast: Nikolai Batalov, Yelena Pyryalova, Andrei Kostrichkin, Pavel Kurzner
The film features work of divers, raising the sunk ship from the sea ground.
278
TRI TOVARISHCHA (THREE FRIENDS)
1935, 95 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Semyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Alexei Kapler, Tatyana Zlatogorova,
camera: Vladimir Danashevsky, Boris Kulikovich, production designer: Nikolai
Suvorov, Vladimir Kalyagin, misic: Isaak Dunayevsky, sound: Pyotr Vitsinsky
Cast: Nikolai Batalov, Veronika Polonskaya, Anatoly Goryunov, Tatyana
Guretskaya, Mikhail Zharov
Story of three comrades who became friends in the years of the Civil War and met again in mid 30-s.
279
VRATAR (GOALKEEPER)
1936, 75 min., b/w
Valery Solovtsov
Director: Seyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Lev Kassil, M. Yudin, camera: Vladimir
Danashevsky, production designer: Pyotr Yakimov, Vladimir Kalyagin, misic: Isaak
Dunayevsky, sound: Viktor Muravyov
Cast: Grigory Pluzhnik, Tatyana Guretskaya, Lyudmila Glazova, Anatoly Goryunov,
The film tells about rivalry of two football teams and about a young stevedore from Volga region who
was a born goalkeeper.
280
FLEET)
DEPUTAT BALTIKI (DEPUTY FOR THE BALTIC
1936, 96 in., b/w
Director: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, screenplay: Leonid Rakhmanov, Daniil
Historical-Revolutionary
Del, Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, camera: Mikhail Kaplan, production designer:
Nikolai Suvorov, Vladimir Kalyagin, misic: Nikolai Timofeyev, sound: Arnold
Shargorodsky, Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Maria Domasheva, Oleg Zhakov, Boris Livanov
Set in 1917 the film focuses on life of a Russian botanist in the days of October Revolution. The
prototype of the lead character was the noted Russian naturalist Klimenty Timiryazev (1843 — 1920).
281 LENOCHKA I VINOGRAD (LENOCHKA AND
GRAPES)
1936, 50 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Antonina Kudryavtseva, screenplay: Yevgeny Shwarts, Nikolai Oleinikov,
camera: Pavel Posypkin, Mikhail Rotinov, production designer: Yevgeniya
Slovtsova, misic: Nikolai Strelnikov, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev, Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Yanina Zheimo, Boris Chirkov
Adventures of a schoolgirl during the summer vacation which she spends in a vine-growing
collective farm in the Crimea.
282
NA OTDYKHE (ON HOLIDAY)
1936, 61 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Yevgeny Shwarts, Nikolai Oleinikov,
camera: Georgy Filatov, production designer: Pavel Zaltsman, misic: Ivan
Dzerzhinsky, sound: V. Muravyov
Cast: N. Zvereva, Yuri Tolubeyev, Vladimir Sladkopevtesev, Tatyana Guretskaya,
Yefim Altus, Sergei Ponachevny
Funny story of two friends — a famous polar researcher and an aviator — who are spending their
holiday at a summer resort and are concealing their true occupations.
283 PUTESHESTVIYE V ARZRUM (THE JOURNEY TO
ARZRUM)
1936, 77 min., b/w
Film-novel
Director: Moisei Levin, screenplay: Mikhail Bleinman, Ilya Zilberstein, camera:
Nikolai Ushakov, production designer: Moisei levin, misic: Nikolai Strelnikov,
sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Dmitry Zhuravlyov, Konstantin Khokhlov, Nikolai Ryzhov, Lev Kolesov
Loosely based on Alexander Pushkin’s memories of his journey to the Caucasus in 1829.
284
SEMERO SMELYKH (SEVEN BRAVE SPIRITS)
1936, 92 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Sergei Gerasimov, screenplay: Yuri German, Sergei Gerasimov, camera:
Yevgeny Velichko, production designer: Vladimir Semyonov, misic: Venedikt
Pushkov, sound: Arnold Shargiorodsky, Leonid Shapiro
Cast: Nikolai Bogolyubov, Tamara Makarova, Ivan Novoseltsev, AnDrei Apsolon,
Oleg Zhakov, Pyotr Aleinikov, Ivan Kuznetsov
Story of seven friends — young polar researchers, who went to work in the Arctic region, of
determination and courage they displayed under tough conditions of life and work on territory located
beyond the Polar circle.
285
SYN MONGOLII (SON OF MONGOLIA)
1936, 89 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Ilya Trauberg, screenplay: Lev Slavin, Boris Lapin, Zakhar Khatsrevin,
camera: Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Nikolai
Rubinovich, Eduard Grikurov, sound: Nikolai Dabolin
Cast: Tseven, Sosor-Barma, Gombo, Bato-Ochir, Igin Khorlo
The first film made by the Lenfilm Studio in collaboration with Mongolian cinematographers. The
story of this feature film is focused on life of a Mongolian herdsman.
286
FEDKA (FEDKA)
1936, 62 min., b/w
Adventure story
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Doivber Levin, camera: Viutaly Chulkov,
production designer: Abram Veksler, misic: Viktor Tomilin, sound: Sergei
Zhigachev
Cast: Kolya Kat-Oglu, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Ivan Savelyev, A. Zasorin
The film features participation of children in the Civil War.
287
CHUDESNY KORABL (THE WONDERFUL BOAT)
1936, 42 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Boris Kazachkov, screenplay: L. Varkovitskaya, camera: N. Sokolov,
misic: Nikolai Strelnikov, sound: Andrei Gavryushev
Cast: N. Aslanov, Maria Domasheva, Viktor Tolubyev
Children’s film tells about a schoolboy who constructs a radio-operated model of a boat.
288
YUNOST POETA (YOUTH OF THE POET)
1936, 88 min., b/w
Historical Biography
Director: Abram Narodnitsky, screenplay: Yuri Slonimsky, camera: Alexander
Sigayev, Apollinary Dudko, production designer: Pyotr Yakimov, Semyon Meinkin,
misic: Yuri Kochurov, sound: Andrei Gavryushev
Cast: Valentin Litovsky, Vladimir Gardin, V. Ivasheva, Nina Shaternikova,
Alexander Mgebrov, Vladimir Taskin
The film focuses on Alexander Pushkin’s youth and the years he spent in Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo.
289
BOLSHIYE KRYLYA (BIG WINGS)
1937, 75 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Mikhail Dubson, screenplay: Alexei Garri, Mikhail Dubson, camera:
Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Eduard Krimmer, Pavel Betaki, misic:
Valery Zhelobinsky, sound: Lev Valter, Vyacheslav Bugrov
Cast: Boris Babochkin, O. Glazunov, Boris Blinov, Mikhail Astangov, Khilda
Yenings, yelena Yunger, Zoya Fyodorova
Story of an aircraft designer who constructed a super-powerful passenger airplane that crashed during a
test flight.
290
VELIKIY GRAZHDANIN (THE GREAT CITIZEN)
1937, 1st series, 118 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Manuel Bolshintsov,
Friedrich Ermler, camera: Arkady Koltsaty, production designer: Abram Veksler,
Semyon Meinkin, Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ivan
Dmitriyev
Cast: Nikolai Bogolyubov, Ivan Bersenev, Oleg Zhakov, Zoya Fyodorova, Boris
Poslavsky, Alexander Zrazhevsky, Boris Chirkov
The film features life of Soviet country in the 20-s. The story is focused on the character of a major
party leader. The film was inspired by life and activities of Bolshevik leader Sergei Kirov (1886 —
1934).
291
MAXIM)
VOZVRASHCHENIYE MAKSIMA (RETURN OF
1937, 112 min., b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Director: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, screenplay: Grigory Kozintsev, Lev
Slavin, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny
Yeney, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk, Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Boris Chirkov, Vaklentina Kibardina, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Mikhail Zharov,
Alexander Zrazhevsky, Alexander Chistyakov, Vasily Vanin
The second series of historical-revolutionary trilogy of worker Maxim, featuring activities of
Bolsheviks on the eve of World War I.
292 VOLOCHAYEVSKIYE DNI (THE DAYS IN
VOLOCHAYEVSK)
1937, 112 min., b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Written and directed by: Georgy and Sergei Vasilyev, camera: Alexander Sigayev,
production designer: Yakov Rivosh, Ivan Zabolotsky, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich,
sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Varvara Myasnikova, Nikolai Dorokhin, Lev Sverdlin, Yuri Lavrov, Boris
Chirkov, Boris Blinov
The film features utter defeat of Japanese invaders and White Army troops by Soviet people in the Far
East during the years of the Civil War.
293
ZHENITBA (MARRIAGE)
1937, 68 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Erast Garin and Khesya Lokshina, camera: Anatoly
Pogorely, production designer: Isaak Makhlis, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Erast Garin, Stepan Kayukov, A. Chekayevsky, N. Latonina, Zoya Fyodorova,
O. Tomilina
Based on Nikolai Gogol’s comedy of the same title.
294 ZA SOVYETSKUYU RODINU (FOR THE SOVIET
MOTHERLAND)
1937, 88 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Rafail and Yuri Muzykant, screenplay: Gennady Fish, Yuri and Rafail
Muzykant, camera: Yevgeny Velichko, production designer: Pavel Zaltsman,
Mikhail Tsibasov, misic: Alexei Zhivotov, sound: Pyotr and Gleb Vitsinsky
Cast: Oleg Zhakov, Ivan Chuvelev, Ivan Selyanin, Pyotr Kirillov, Pyotr Aleinikov,
Nikolai Kryuchkov, Nikolai Cherkasov
Based on Gennady Fish’s novel “The Fall of Kimas-Lake”, featuring the struggle of Red Army against
White Finns in the days of the Civil War.
295
PERVAYA OKHOTA (THE FIRST HUNTING)
1937, 8 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Pavel Shmidt, screenplay: Vitaly Bianki, production designer: Pavel
Shmidt, misic: V. Vitlin, sound: V. Urbenin
Unsuccessful attempts of a puppy to chase a butterfly, a bittern and a hoopoe.
296
PYOTR PERVY (PETER THE FIRST)
1937, 1st series, 103 min., b/w
Historical
Director: Vladimir Petrov, screenplay: Alexei Tolstoy, Vladimir Petrov, camera:
Vyachslav Gordanov, Vladimir Yakovlev, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov,
misic: Vladimir Shcherbachev, sound: Zakhar Zalkind
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Mikhail Zharov, Alla Tarasova, Mikhail
Tarkhanov, Vladimir Gardin, Irina Zarubina
The film features life and activities of tsar Peter I, the reformer of the 18th century Russia.
297
PUGACHEV (PUGACHEV)
1937, 105 min., b/w
Historical
Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, screenplay: Olga Forsh, camera: Anatoly Nazarov,
production designer: Yefim Khiger, misic: Vissarion Shebalin, sound: Viktor
Muravyov
Cast: Konstantin Skorobogatov, Yelena Karyakina, Konstantin Mukhitdinov, Mikhail
Pavlikov, N. Latonina
Set in the 18th century Russia the film features peasant rebellion led by Yemelyan Pugachev.
298
TAIGA ZOLOTAYA (THE GOLDEN TAIGA)
1937, 78 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Gennady Kazansky, Maxim Ruf, screenplay: Nikolai Pogodin, camera:
Veniamin Levitin, Anatoly Pogorely, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic:
Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Nikolai Butakov, Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Boris Tenin, Alexander Vinogradov, N. Latonina, Pavel Volkov, Nina
Shaternikova, Yuri Tolubeyev, Vasily Merkuryev, Nikolai Kryuchkov
The film deals with life of gold-diggers.
299
TYERYEMOK (A LITTLE HOUSE)
1937, 7 min., b/w
Cartoon
Written and directed by: Alexander Sinitsyn, Vitaly Syumkin, camera: V.
Vilchevskaya, misic: Isaak Dunayevsky, lyrics: Vladimir Volzhenin
Based on Russian folk fairy-tale.
Three-color print made by the color-film sector laboratory according to the method developed by the
State Institute of Optics.
300
SHAKHTYORY (MINERS)
1937, 110 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Sergei Yutkevich, screenplay: Alexei Kapler, camera: Joseph Martov,
production designer: Abidin-Dino, Olga Pchelnikova, misic: Boris Golts, sound: M.
Sher
Cast: Boris Poslavsky, Yuri Tolubeyev, Vladimir Lukin, Nina Rusinova, Zoya
Fyodorova, Stepan Kayukov, Mark Bernes
The film features life of Donbas miners who are trying to increase the coal output.
301
AMANGELDY (AMANGELDY)
1938, 84 min., b/w
Biopic
Director: Moisei Levin, screenplay: Vsevolod Ivanov, Gabit Musrepov, camera:
Hecho Nazaryantz, production designers: Moisei Levin, Natalya Fateyeva, misic:
Mikhail Gnesin, Akhmet Zhubanov, sound: Afanasi Simonovski, Alexander
Ostrovski
Cast: Yeleubai Umurzakov, Shara Zhiyenkulova, Serke Kozhankulov, Kurmanbek
Dzhandarbekov, Kanabek Bayseitov, Kalibek Kuanyshpayev
The picture is focused on Amangeldy Imanov, a son of the Kazakh people who became a conscientious
fighter for the revolutionary cause.
302
VRAGI (THE ENEMIES)
1938, 78 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Ivanovski, camera: Solomon Belenki,
production designers: Semyon Meinkin, Dmitri Rudoi, misic: Yuri Kochurov,
sound: Pyotr and Gleb Vitsinski
Cast: Valentin Kiselyev, Tamara Glebova, Boris Poslavski, Sophya Magarill, Boris
Zhukovski, Irina Zarubina, Vladimir Gardin, Zoya Fyodorova, Yanina Zheimo
Loosely based on a play of the same title by Maxim Gorki.
303 VYBORGSKAYA STORONA (THE VYBORG
MUNICIPAL DISTRICT)
1938, 121 min., b/w
Revolutionary history
Written and directed by: Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei
Moskvin, Georgi Filatov, production designer: Vasili Vlasov, misic: Dmitri
Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk, Boris Khutoryanski
Cast: Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Nataliya Uzhviy, Yuri Tolubeyev, Maxim
Schtrauh, Mikhail Zharov
Part 3 of the trilogy (the first two parts titled “Maxim's Youth” and “Return of Maxim”) telling about
the first months of Petrograd life following the revolution of 1917.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
304
GOD DEVYATNADTSATY (THE YEAR 1919)
1938, 85 min., b/w
Revolutionary history
Director: Ilya Trauberg, screenplay: Joseph Prut, Ilya Trauberg, camera: Anatoli
Nazarov, Lev Sokolski, Vladimir Danashevski, Veniamin Levitin, production
designer: Pyotr Yakimov, misic: Lev Knipper, sound: Nikolai Dabolin
Cast: G. Gorbunov, Vitali Polizeimako, Andrei Apsolon, Vladimir Gardin, Hans
Klering
Based on a play of the same title by Joseph Prut focused on the heroic defence of Astrakhan during the
Civil War.
305 DETSTVO MARSHALA (THE MARSHAL'S
CHILDHOOD)
1938, 87 min., b/w
Biography
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Igor Vsevolozhski, Leo Moor, Nikolai
Lebedev, camera: Vitali Chulkov, production designers: Olga Pchelnikova,
Vladimir Kalyagin, misic: Victor Tomilin, sound: Alexander Ostrovski, Afanasi
Simonovski
Cast: A. Polibin, Vasya Baukov, I. Melnikov, K. Freidkina, G. Yeremeyev
Loosely based on “The Farmstead Team”, a story by Igor Vsevolozhski.
The picture features the childhood of Semyon Budyenny, Marshal of the USSR and a Civil War hero.
306
DZHYABZHA (DZHYABZHA)
1938, 12 min., b/w
Graphic Cartoon
Written and directed by: Mstislav Paschenko, production designers: N.
Vereschagina, V. Sokolov (backgrounds), misic: Nikolai Strelnikov, sound: Pavel
Kramorov
Based on a Nanaian fairy-tale.
An evil old woman Dzhyabzha lived in a hut in the woods. Her servants, Girl, Little Dog and Baby
Frog, worked from morning till night, which didn't spare them the old hag's beatings. It so happened
that a bear got into the hut and put away all of the dinner prepared for Dzhyabzha. Infuriated, the old
hag went after her servants, wielding a thick stick. But Girl, Little Dog and Baby Frog quickly climbed
a very high tree, jumping over to the Moon. Dzhyabzha went after them, but failed and was suspended
on a bough.
307
DRUZYA (THE FRIENDS)
1938, 113 min., b/w
Revolutionary history
Director: Lev Arnstam, screenplay: Nikolai Tikhonov, Lev Arnstam, camera:
Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Dmitri
Shostakovich, sound: Nikolai Butakov
Cast: Boris Babochkin, Irina Zarubina, Nikolai Cherkasov, Stepan Kayukov, Kote
Daushvili, Seraphima Bierman
The picture features the life of the North Caucasian peoples shortly after the revolution of 1917 as they
unite to fight the oppressors.
308
KOMSOMOLSK (KOMSOMOLSK)
1938, 109 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Sergei Gerasimov, screenplay: Zinoviya Markina, Mikhail Vitukhnovski,
Sergei Gerasimov, camera: Alexander Ginzburg, production designer: Vladimir
Semyonov, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Yevgeni Nesterov, Arnold
Shargorodski
Cast: Tamara Makarova, Ivan Novoseltsev, Pavel Volkov, Nikolai Kryuchkov,
Stepan Krylov, Valentina Telegina, Pyotr Aleinikov
The picture features the life of the young Soviet people who build a new city, Komsomolsk, in the Far
Eastern taiga in the 1930-es.
309
NA GRANITSE (AT THE BORDER)
1938, 104 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Ivanov, camera: Vladimir Rapoport,
production designer: Pavel Zalzman, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Andrei
Gavryushev
Cast: Nikolai Kryuchkov, Yelena Tyapkina, Zoya Fyodorova, Stepan Krylov, Erast
Garin, Yuri Lavrov
The picture features the fight of the border guards and residents of the Far East against trespassers.
310
PYOTR PERVY (PETER THE FIRST)
1938, Part 2, 126 min., b/w
Historical epic
Director: Vladimir Petrov, screenplay: Alexei Tolstoi, Vladimir Yakovlev, Nikolai
Leschenko, camera: Vladimir Yakovlev, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov,
Vladimir Kalyagin, misic: Vladimir Scherbachyev, sound: Zakhar Zalkind, Yuri
Kurzner
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Alla Tarasova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Mikhail Zharov, Mikhail
Tarkhanov, Vladimir Dobrovolski, Irina Zarubina, Mikhail Gardin
The picture features the statesmanship and the military actions of Peter I and the victory of the Russian
arms in the Poltava and Baltic Sea battles.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
311
PROFESSOR MAMLYUK (PROFESSOR MAMLYUK)
1938, 105 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Herbert Rappaport, Adolph Minkin, screenplay: Friedrich Wolfe, Adolph
Minkin, Herbert Rappaport, camera: Georgi Filatov, production designer: Pavel
Betaki, misic: Yuri Kochurov, Nikolai Timofeyev, sound: Lev Valter, Boris Lytkin
Cast: Semyon Mezhinski, Oleg Zhakov, Nina Shaternikova, Vasili Merkuryev,
Vladimir Chestnokov, Yuri Tolubeyev
Loosely based on a play by Friedrich Wolfe.
The picture features the social insight of a German doctor and scientist far removed from politics under
the impact of the German political events of the early 1930-s.
312
UTYENOK (THE DUCKLING)
1938, 10 min., b/w
Graphic Cartoon
Director: Ivan Druzhinin, screenplay: M. Solovyev, Ivan Druzhinin, production
designer: Ivan Druzhinin, misic: V. Vitlin, sound: Pavel Kramarov
Out on a stroll, the naughty Duckling runs off from his Mother Duck and little brothers. Meeting a
Butterfly, the Duckling rushes after her and plays with the Hedgehog until he hurts his nose on the
prickly needles. The Duckling's pranks get him into trouble: he almost ends up as the Fox's breakfast.
Thanks to the Puppy, the Duckling has a narrow escape.
313
CHELOVEK S RUZHYEM (A MAN WITH A GUN)
1938, 103 min., b/w
Revolutionary history
Director: Sergei Yutkevich, screenplay: Nikolai Pogodin, camera: Joseph Martov,
production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Dmitri Shostakovich, sound:
Konstantin Nesterov
Cast: Boris Tenin, Vladimir Lukin, Zoya Fyodorova, Boris Chirkov, Nikolai
Cherkasov, Seraphima Bierman, Mark Bernes, Maxim Schtrauh
The picture features the first days of the Soviet Republic. It is focused on the soldier Ivan Shadrin, a
former peasant, who gets actively involved in the revolutionary struggle.
314
ARINKA (ARINKA)
1939, 82 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Nadezhda Kosheverova, Yuri Muzykant, screenplay: Semyon Polotski,
Matvey Tevelyev, camera: Apollinari Dudko, production designer: Alexander
Black, misic: Nikita Bogoslovski, sound: Afanasi Simonovski
Cast: Larisa Yemelyantseva, Nikolai Konovalov, Alexander Kulakov, Pavel
Sukhanov
The picture features the life and work of the Soviet railway workers.
315
VELIKI GRAZHDANIN (THE GREAT CITIZEN)
1939, Part 2, 134 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Manuel Bolshintsov,
Friedrich Ermler, camera: Arkadi Koltsaty, production designers: Semyon Meinkin,
Mikhail Krotkin, misic: Dmitri Shostakovich, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Nikolai Bogolyubov, Alexander Zrazhevski, Yephim Altus, Zoya Fyodorova,
Oleg Zhakov, Ivan Bersenev, Yuri Tolubeyev
The picture features the fight of the Communist Party against the followers of Trotski and Bukharin in
the 1930-es.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
316
DOKTOR KALYUZHNY (DICTOR KALYUZNY)
1939, 85 min., b/w
Filmed story
Directors: Erast Garin, Khesya Lokshina, screenplay: Yuri Herman, camera:
Anatoli Pogorely, Alexander Sigayev, production designer: Fyodor Berenstam,
misic: A. Pappe, sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Boris Tolmazov, Maria Barabanova, Yuri Tolubeyev, Yanina Zheimo, Arkadi
Raikin, Valentin Kiselyev
Loosely based on “The Son of the People”, a play by Yuri Herman.
The picture is focused on the young and enthusiastic Doctor Kalyuzhny returning to his native village
after his graduation. Kalyuzhy's scientific discovery helped to restore the eyesight of his old teacher
and of his former bride's little sister.
317
MUZHESTVO (COURAGE)
1939, 74 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov, screenplay: Georgi Kubanski, camera: Veniamin
Levitin, production designer: Yephim Khiger, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Ilya
Volk
Cast: Oleg Zhakov, Dmitri Dudnikov, Konstantin Sorokin, Alexei Bondi
The picture is focused on the courage of a civilian flier detaining a dangerous saboteur.
318 NAYEZDNIK IZ KABARDY (A HORSEMAN FROM
KABARDA)
1939, 74 min., b/w
Filmed story
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexander Popov, camera: Vitali Chulkov,
production designer: Vladimir Pokrovski, misic: Victor Tomilin, sound: Alexander
Ostrovski
Cast: G. Yeremeyev, Tamara Glebova, Yuri Lakotkin, Timofei Remizov
The picture is about the kids form a Kabarda village helping the adults to breed swift-running horses.
319
PATRIOT (THE PATRIOT)
1939, 81 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Jan Fried, screenplay: Andrei Apsolon, camera: Khecho Nazaryantz,
production designer: M. Semyenenko, misic: Joseph Pustylnik, sound: Grigori
Elbert
Cast: Vladimir Lukin, Yura Bychkov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Olga Avericheva, Vova
Repkin, Nikolai Simonov
A children's picture featuring the adventures involved in nourishing of the sense of patriotic duty in a
Soviet schoolboy.
320 SLUCHAI NA POLUSTANKE (AN INCIDENT IN A
SMALL RAILWAY STATION)
1939, 62 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Oleg Sergeyev, Sergei Yakushev, camera: Alexander
Tikhonov, production designer: Vera Bakun, misic: Georgi Krasnov, S. Masselius,
sound: Boris Lytkin
Cast: Vladimir Gardin, Mikhail Dubrava, Ivan Nazarov, Yevgeni Nemchenko,
Andrei Kostrichkin, Alexander Melnikov
Loosely based on “The Unknown Comrade”, a short story by Fyodor Knorre.
The picture is focused on the heroic deed of a Far Eastern young telegraph operator during the Civil
War.
321 STANITSA DALNYAYA (DALNYAYA COSSACK
VILLAGE)
1939, 87 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Yevgeni Chervyakov, screenplay: Boris Chirskov, camera: Svyatoslav
Belyayev, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Mariya Fateyeva, misic: Vladimir
Scherbachyev, sound: Yuri Kurzner
Cast: Zoya Fyodorova, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Nina Shaternikova, Andrei Kostrichkin
The picture features the life of the Kuban collective farmers on the brink of the war.
322
TANKISTY (THE TANKERS)
1939, 89 min., b/w
Defence film
Directors: Zinovi Drapkin, Robert Maiman, screenplay: Zinovi Drapkin, Robert
Maiman, Georgi Seliverstov, camera: Alexander Sigayev, Mikhail Magid,
production designers: Pyotr Yakimov, Dmitri Rudoi, misic: Dmitri and Daniil
Pokrass, sound: Arnold Shargorodski, Anna Volokhova
Cast: G. Gorbunov, Alexander Kulakov, Voldemar Chobur, Stepan Krylov, Vasili
Merkuryev
The picture features the actions of the Soviet tankers in a probable fighting situation.
323
UCHITEL (THE TEACHER)
1939, 107 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Sergei Gerasimov, camera: Vladimir Yakovlev,
production designer: Victor Semyonov, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Yevgeni
Nesterov
Cast: Boris Chirkov, Tamara Makarova, Pavel Volkov, Valentina Telegina, Ivan
Nazarov, Anna Matveyeva
The picture is set in the 1930-es and focused on a village teacher.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
324
KHIRURGIYA (SURGERY)
1939, 37 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Jan Fried, camera: Solomon Belenki, production
designers: Pavel Zalzman, Semyon Malkin, misic: Nikolai Timofeyev, sound:
Konstantin Gordon
Cast: Ivan Moskvin, Igor Ilyinski, Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Vasili
Merkuryev, Valentina Telegina
Loosely based on “Surgery” and “The Country Medics”, short stories by Anton Chekhov.
325 CHETVYERTY PERISKOP (THE FOURTH
PERISCOPE)
1939, 88 min., b/w
Defence film
Director: Victor Eisymont, screenplay: Georgi Blaustein, Georgi Venetsianov,
camera: Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Abram Veksler, misic: Venedict
Pushkov, Boris Golz, sound: Nikolai Butakov
Cast: Boris Blinov, Vladimir Chestnokov, Mariya Domasheva, K. Nassonov,
Vladimir Lukin, Sergei Morschikhin
The picture is focused on Soviet sailors keeping a vigilant watch over the sea borders.
326 CHLEN PRAVITELSTVA (A GOVERNMENT
MEMBER)
1939, 107 min., b/w
Directors: Alexander Zarkhi, Joseph Heifitz, screenplay: Katerina Vinogradskaya
with input from Alexander Zarkhi and Joseph Heifitz, camera: Alexander Ginzburg,
production designers: Olga Pchelnikova, Vladimir Kalyagin, misic: Nikolai
Timofeyev, sound: Arnold Shargorodski
Cast: Vera Maretskaya, Vasili Vanin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Valentina Telegina, Boris
Blinov, Vasili Merkuryev, Alexei Konsovski
Story of a Russian peasant woman who becomes a Soviet Government member.
327
VOZVRASHCHENIYE (THE RETURN)
1940, 75 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Jan Fried, screenplay: Boris Chirskov, Raphail Muzykant, camera:
Alexander Ksenofontov, production designer: Olga Pchelnikova, misic: Joseph
Pustylnik, sound: Grigori Elbert
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Tatiana Guretskaya, Vova Tumalaryantz, Alexander
Chistyakov, Vladimir Lukin, Boris Poslavski
The picture is focused on the family of a polar researcher.
328
GALYA (GALYA)
1940, 37 min., b/w
Filmed short story
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Sergei Glagolin, camera: Apollinari
Dudko, misic: Nikita Bogoslovski, sound: Afanasi Somonovski
Cast: Pyotr Kirillov, Yevgeniya Vdovina, Mariya Barabanova, Alexei Bondi
The picture is focused at the gifted Leningrad girl Galya completing her sculptor father's unfinished
work.
329
GOLOS TARASA (TARAS' VOICE)
1940, 36 min., b/w
Filmed short story
Director: Vladimir Feinberg, screenplay: Vladimir Belyayev, camera: Yevgeni
Velichko, production designers: Vladimir Pokrovski, Mariya Fateyeva, misic:
Valeri Zhelobinski, sound: Lev Valter, Anna Volokhova
Cast: Boris Petker, Yelena Karyakina, Kseniya Tarasova, Nikolai Sosnin, Vladimir
Vasilyev
The picture features the liberation of Western Ukraine.
330 KONTSERT NA EKRANE (A CONCERT ON THE
SCREEN)
1940, 79 min., b/w
Filmed concert
Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Vladimir Danashevski,
Anatoli Nazarov, production designers: Semyon Mandel, Yakov Rivosh, misic:
Isaac Dunayevski, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev, Grigori Elbert
Cast: Ivan Moskvin, Nikolai Cherkasov, Vera Davydova, Yevgeni Mravinski,
Nataliya Dudinskaya, Vakhtang Chabukiani, Keto Dzhaparidze, Vladimir Khenkin,
Boris Eder, Leonid Utyesov
The self-contained concert items are linked by the presentation of the host, Nikolai Cherkasov.
331
MUZYKALNAYA ISTORIYA (A MUSICAL STORY)
1940, 83 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Alexander Ivanovski, Herbert Rappaport, screenplay: Yevgeni Petrov,
Georgi Munblit, camera: Arkadi Koltsaty, production designer: Semyon Mandel,
sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Sergei Lemeshev, Zoya Fyodorova, Nikolai Konovalov, Erast Garin, Anna
Sergeyeva, Anatoli Korolkevich
The picture is focused on the taxi driver Petya Govorkov who possesses a beautiful strong voice and
becomes a professional singer.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
332
OSEN (THE FALL)
1940, 11 min., b/w
Film study
Directors: Friedrich Ermler, Isaac Menaker, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov, Mikhail
Magid, production designer: Semyon Meinkin, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
An experimental picture revealing the artistic unity of colored images and music.
333
PEREKHOD (THE CROSSING)
1940, 74 min., b/w
Defence film
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Semyon Polotski, Matvei Tevelyev,
camera: Yevgeni Velichko, production designer: Pavel Zalzman, misic: Boris
Arapov, Gavriil Popov, sound: Andrei Gavryushev
Cast: Stepan Krylov, Yuliya Predtechenskaya, Nikolai Vinogradov, Georgi Kolosov,
Vladimir Volchik
The picture features the heroic crossing of the Pamir by a Red Army unit sent to assist the residents of a
Tajik village affected by an earthquake.
334
PRIYATELI (THE CHUMS)
1940, 70 min., b/w
Filmed story
Director: Mikhail Gavronski, screenplay: Nikolai Taube, camera: Yevgeni Shapiro,
production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Vasili Solovyev-Sedoi, sound: Kirill
Pozdnyshev
Cast: Mikhail Kuznetsov, Tamara Alyeshina, Zinaida Karpova, Boris Poslavski,
Yelena Junger
The picture is focused on school graduates choosing their future vocations.
335
RAYKHAN (RAYKHAN)
1940, 76 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Moisei Levin, screenplay: Mukhtar Auezov, camera: Hecho Nazaryanz,
production designer: Moisei Levin, misic: Vasili Velikanov, sound: Andrei
Gavryushev
Cast: Yeleubai Umurzakov, Khadisha Bukeyeva, Seraly Kozhamkulov, Kolibek
Kuanyshbayev, Shaken Aymanov
The picture features the emancipation of the Kazakh women under the Soviet power.
336 SKAZKA O GLUPOM MYSHONKE (A FAIRY-TALE
ABOUT THE SILLY BABY MOUSE)
1940, 15 min., b/w
Graphic Cartoon
Written and directed by: Mikhail Tsekhanovski, camera: Vasili Shumyakin,
production designer: Leonid Chupyatov, misic: Dmitri Shostakovich, sound:
Alexander Becker
The sun has set. All the animals have gone to sleep. Only Baby Mouse is not sleepy. He doesn't like the
lullaby his Mother Mouse is singing. The agitated Mother goes to the Frog, the Pig. the Duck, the
Horsy, and the Pike for help, but they can't sing the silly Baby Mouse to sleep. Despairing, Mother
Mouse brings in the Cat to baby-sit. Disaster would have struck, but for the courageous guard, the Dog,
who just manages to save Baby Mouse who went to sleep, soothed by Cat's “kind” purring.
337
TSIRK (THE CIRCUS)
1940, 9 min., b/w
Graphic Cartoon
Written and directed by: Alexander Sinitsin, Vitali Syumkin, camera: Vasili
Shumyakin, production designer (sketches, backgrounds): Yevgeniya Slovtsova,
misic: Isaac Dunayevski, sound: Konstantin Gordon, verse: Vladimir Volzhenin
A small circus has spread its tent in a small town square. Its arena is graced by famous circus
performers such as the Athletic Bear, the Juggling Poodle, and the Acrobatic Cat. Behind the wings, the
Mongrel Dog is performing the modest duties of a cleaner. It so happened that the silly Donkey
participating in one of the tricks turned obstinate during a performance. They had to summon the
Mongrel Dog, well familiar with the Donkey's temper. The Mongrel Dog not just dealt with the
stubborn Donkey, but also displayed some accomplished circus artistry before the admiring spectators.
338
SHESTDESYAT DNEY (SIXTY DAYS)
1940, 74 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Seraphim Kananykhin, camera: Alexander
Ginzburg, Sergei Ivanov, production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Sergei
Mitin, sound: Yuri Kurzner
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Boris Zhukovski, Zoya Fyodorova, Vladimir Yantsat, Ivan
Nazarov, Yuri Lyubimov
The picture is focused on the change in the personality of a young civilian scientist accomplished
during a two-month training course in the annual camp.
339 ANTON IVANOVICH SERDITSA (ANTON
IVANOVICH IS ANGRY)
1941, 75 min., b/w
Musical comedy
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Yevgeny Petrov, Georgy Munblit,
camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Semyon Mandel, Abram Veksler,
misic: Dmitry Kabalevsky, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Nikolai Konovalov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Pavel Kadochnikov, Sergei
Martinson, Tatyana Kondrakova
Conservatory professor gives his daughter classical musical education expecting that she will continue
the family traditions. However, Simochka is fascinated by the “light” music. She makes a brilliant
debut in an operetta and finds her vocation in this genre.
340 BOYEVOY KINOSBORNIK NOMER DVA
(COLLECTION OF WAR FILMS No. 2)
1941, 56 min., b/w, 5 short films, the collection was created by cameramen:
Alexander Xenofontov, Vladimir Rapoport, Khecho Nazaryants, design producers:
Alexander Black, Semyon Meinkin, misic: Isaac Dunayevsky, sound: Ilya Volk
1. VSTRECHA (MEETING)
Drama
Director: Vladimir Feinberg, screenplay: Vladimir Belyaev, Mikhail Rozenberg,
camera: Yevgeny Velichko
Cast: Vladimir Lukin
Poland is occupied by fascist troops. A Nazi officer gives order to execute a Byelorussian peasant.
However, the peasant manages to escape. On June 22, 1941 when fascist troops attacked the USSR the
two men meet again...
2. ODIN IZ MNOGIKH (ONE OF MANY)
Drama
Director: Viktor Eisymont, screenplay: Alexander Shtein, Iogann Zeltser, Yuri
German
Cast: Boris Blinov, Alexander Melnikov, Ivan Kuznetsov, Mikhail Yekaterininsky
A Nazi pilot regarded by Hitler to be “the first of aces” is bombing Soviet cities. During one of
bombing attacks his plane is shot down by Soviet anti-aircraft gunners.
3. U STAROY NYANI (AT OLD NANNY’S PLACE)
Drama
Director: Yevgeny Chervyakov, screenplay: Vladimir Belyaev, Mikhail Rozenberg
Cast: Tatyana Sukova, Volodya Chekalov, Pavel Sukhanov, Yevgeny Nemchenko,
Pyotr Kirillov
Many years ago a young woman worked as a nanny in a German family. Later the boy she brought up
moved with his family to Germany. Now he returns to Russia as a Nazi spy and is trying to hide in the
house of his old nanny. The old woman and her grandchildren unmask the enemy.
4. STO ZA ODNOGO (A HUNDRED FOR ONE)
Drama
Director: Gerbert Rappaport, screenplay: Yevgeny Ryss, Vsevolod Voyevodin
Cast: Larisa Yemelyanova, L. Bordukov, Boris Poslavsky, Pavel Sukhanov
A Yugoslavian patriot kills the brutal fascist officer. Nazis order to execute 100 hostages, but people
condemned to death manage to kill their guards.
5. SLUCHAI NA TELEGRAPHE (INCIDENT AT A TELEGRAPH OFFICE)
Farce
Directors: Lev Arnshtam, Grigory Kozintsev, screenplay: Lev Arnshtam
Cast: Yevgeny Chervyakov
A strange figure appears among the people waiting in line to send a telegram. It is Napoleon. The
telegraph clerk calculates the cost of the telegram addressed to Hitler in Berlin. The message is brief:
“Have tried, don’t recommend to”.
341
VALERY CHKALOV (VALERY CHKALOV)
1941, 89 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov, screenplay: Georgy Baidukov, Dmitry Tarasov, Boris
Chirskov, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, production designer: Alexander Black,
misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky, Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Vladimir Belokurov, Semyon Menzhinsky, Kseniya Tarasova, Vasily Vanin,
Boris Zhukovsky
The film is about the fate of the famous Soviet aviator Chkalov, who in mid 30’es made with his crew
the first nonstop flight from Moscow to the Far East, covering over 9000 kilometers and later made the
first nonstop transatlantic flight from Moscow to the USA across the North Pole.
342
MAXIM)
VSTRECHA S MAKSIMOM (MEETING WITH
1941, 9 min., b/w
Propaganda film
Director: Sergei Gerasimov, screenplay: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg,
camera: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Boris Chirkov
The short propaganda film was released a month and a half after the outbreak of World War II. Maxim,
the popular movie character of the 30’es comes down from the screen and addresses the viewers with
the appeal to fight fascists that invaded the country.
343 KAK VASYA TYORKIN PRIZYVATSA SHEL (HOW
VASYA TYORKIN WENT TO RECRUITING STATION)
1941, 8 min., Cartoon
Director: Vitaly Syukin, Pavel Shmidt, screenplay: Alexander Gitovih, Vladimir
Livshits, Anatoly Chivilikhin, production designer: Vladimir Lebedev, misic:
Venedikt Pushkov
On his way to a recruiting station Tyorkin notices three paratroopers dropped from fascist aircraft.
Using a ruse Tyorkin destroys the fascists and proceeds on his way.
344
KINOKONTSERT (FILM-CONCERT)
1941, 49 min., b/w
Written and directed by: Isaak Menaker, Adolf Minkin, Gerbert Rappaport, Semyon
Timoshenko, Mikhail Shapiro, Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, camera: Arkady Koltsaty,
Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Semyon Mandel, Pavel Betaki, misic:
Dmitry Astradantsev, Boris Pyles, sound: Lev Valter, Ivan Dmitriyev, Yuri Kurzner
Cast: Yevgeny Mravinsky, Lidiya Ruslanova, Maxim Mikhailov, Vakhtang
Chabukiani, Sergei Koren, Emil Gilels, Yakov Flier, Sergei Lemeshev, Galina
Ulanova
This cinema concert is composed of separate concert turns of different genres performed by prominent
actors.
345
MASKARAD (MASQUERADE)
1941, 113 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Sergei Gerasimov, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov,
production designer: Semyon Meinkin, misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Zakhar
Zalkind, Konstantin Gordon
Cast: Nikolai Mordvinov, Tamara Makarova, Sofia Magarill, Mikhail Sadovsky,
Sergei Gerasimov
Based on Mikhail Lermontov’s play of the same title.
346 PODRUGI, NA FRONT! (GIRLS, GO TO THE
FRONT!)
1941, 8 min., b/w
Propaganda short film
Written and directed by: Viktor Eisymont, camera: Vladimir Rapoport, Sergei
Ivanov, production designer: Fyodor Berenshtam, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Olga Fedorina, Yuri Lyubimov, Zoya Fyodorova, Tamara Alyoshina
Actress Lelya Fedorina who played the role of the nurse in the film “Wartime Friends” urges Leningrad
women to go to the front as nurses. The film was released three weeks after Nazi troops attacked the
USSR.
347 PRIKLYUCHENIYA KORZINKINOY (ADVENTURES
OF KORZINKINA)
1941, 38 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Klimenty Mints, screenplay: Klimenty Mints, Grigory Yagfeld, camera:
Mikhail Kaplan, Semyon Sheinin, production designer: Viktor Savostin, misic:
Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Zakhar Zalkind, Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Yanina Zheimo, Stepan Kayukov, Sergei Filippov
The eccentric comedy is focused at the fussy and energetic Korzinkina, a cashier at a local train station,
who all the time meddles in passengers’ affairs.
348
RAZGROM YUDENUCHA (DEFEAT OF YUDENICH)
1941, 73 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, screenplay: Vladimir Nedobrovo, Nikolai Brykin,
camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Pyort Yakimov, misic: Venedikt
Pushkov, sound: Pyotr Vitsinsky
Cast: Konstantin Skorobogatov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Vasily Sofronov, Vladimir
Chestnokov, Gennady Michurin, Vladimir Gardin
Autumn of 1919. White Army troops under General Yudenich together with foreign interventionists are
approaching Petrograd. Putilov Factory workers headed by the old foreman Ivan Yegorovich start
manufacturing first Soviet tanks and join Red Army detachments going to defend the city.
349
STARAYA GVARDIYA (OLD GUARD)
1941, 36 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Sergei Gerasimov, screenplay: Semyon Polotsky, Matvei Tevelev,
camera: Mikhail Magid, production designer: Semyon Meinkin, sound: Zakhar
Zalkind
Cast: Boris Poslavsky, Boris Blinov, Pyotr Kirillov
The summer of 1941. Beginning of World War II. Having seen their sons off to the front retired
workers take their children’s jobs at plants and factories.
350
TRI PODRUGI (THREE FRIENDS)
1941, 17 min., cartoon, color
Fairy tale
Director: Pavel Shmidt, screenplay: Lyudmila Kazantseva, M. Murov, camera:
Mikhail Magid, production designers: Leonid Chupyatov, Konstantin Rudakov,
misic: Venedikt Pushkov, Boris Golts, sound: Ilya Volk, songs lyrics by: Vladimir
Volzhenin
Cast: Nata Svechko, Lulya Gribkova, Nyura Ivanova
The girl has a dream: together with her friends she makes a long flight on an airplane. In the Arctic the
girls are welcomed by a Polar Bear. Polar animals give the girls a concert and meanwhile two little
bears get in the airplane and take off...The girl sees the plane in the sky.. and wakes up. She is
disappointed to realize that it was just a dream and starts crying.
351
FRONTOVIYE PODRUGI (WAR TIME FRIENDS)
1941, 94 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Viktor Eisymont, screenplay: Sergei Mikhalkov, Mikhail Rozenberg,
camera: Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Fyodor Berenshtam, misic:
Vissarion Shebalin, sound: Alexander Ostrovsky
Cast: Zoya Fyodorova, Andrei Abrikosov, Boris Blinov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Oleg
Zhakov, Olga Fedorina, Tamara Aleshina
On the first days of war a group of girls volunteer to go to the front. Young nurses selflessly help
doctors in hospitals and on battlefields to save wounded Red Army fighters. It is during these hard war
days that a strong and sincere feeling of love comes to heroes of the film.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
352
CHAPAYEV S NAMI (CHAPAYEV IS WITH US)
1941, 9 min., b/w
Propaganda short film
Director: Vladimir Petrov, screenplay: Lev Arnshtam, Sergei Gerasimov, camera:
Vladimir Yakovlev, sound: Nikolai Butakov
Cast: Boris Babochkin
Chapayev, the legendary Civil War hero and the popular character of Soviet cinema in the 30’es
descends from the screen and urges viewers to merciless fight against Nazis that attacked the Soviet
Union.
The film was released 40 days after German troops attacked the USSR.
353
VANKA (VANKA)
1942, 35 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Gerbert Rappaport, screenplay: Semyon Polotsky, Matvei Tevelev,
Manuel Bolshintsov, camera: Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Moisey
Levitin, misic: Vasily Velikanov, sound: Alexander Ostrovsky
Cast: Yanina Zheimo, Yuri Bogolyubov, Mikhail Zharov, Boris Blinov
Story of a young girl Tanka who disguised as a boy joins the guerilla detachment and takes vengeance
on fascists for the death of her parents.
354
VAREZHKI (MITTENS)
1942, 41 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Naum Lyuboshits, Pavel Armand, screenplay: Semyon Polotsky, Matvey
Tevelev, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov, production designer: Vladimir Pokrovsky,
misic: Vera and Pavel Armand, sound: Kirill Pozdnyshev
Cast: Vladimir Chestnokov, Mikhail Pavlikov, Boris Gorin-Goryaynov
The severe winter of 1941. Residents of Leningrad send parcels with presents to soldiers defending the
city. In one of the parcels there is a pair of warm mittens and a message from a girl, who asks to give
her present to the bravest soldier. Which of the fighters shall get the mittens?
The film was made in winter of 1941 — 1942 by actors and cinema workers who were staying in
Leningrad besieged by Nazi troops.
355 YEGO ZOVUT SUKHE-BATOR (HIS NAME IS
SUKHE-BATOR)
1942, 105 min., b/w, Mongolkino, Tashkent Film Studio, “Lenfilm”
Historical drama
Directors: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, screenplay: Boris Lapin, Zakhar
Khartsevin, Alexander Zarkhi, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, production designer:
Anatoly Bosulayev, misic: Boris Arapov, Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Arnold
Shargorodsky
Cast: Maksim Shtraukh, Lev Sverdlin, Gelik Dordzi, Erintsyn Narbo, Nikolai
Cherkasov, Tseven
1919. Mongolian people are rising against feudal lords oppressing peasants and herdsmen. The uprising
is headed by Sukhe, nicknamed Bator for his courage. The fill narrates about the national liberation
movement of Mongolian people.
356
NEPOBEDIMIYE (INVINCIBLE)
1942, 94 min., b/w
War drama
Directors: Sergei Gerasimov, Mikhail Kalatozov, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman,
Mikhail Kalatozov, camera: Arkady Koltsaty, Mikhail Magid, production designer:
Anatoly Bosulayev, misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Boris Babochkin, Tamara Makarova, Pyotr Kirillov, Boris Blinov, Pyotr
Aleinikov
The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a
large defense plant. Built in the shortest possible time combat vehicles are tested directly on
battlefields, fighting with fascists in the outskirts of the city.
The first feature film about the heroic everyday life of city defenders was shot directly in assembly
shops of plants and in the streets of Leningrad when the city was fighting against the enemy.
357 OBORONA TSARITSYNA (DEFENSE OF
TSARITSYN)
1942, 104 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Georgy and Sergei Vasilyev, camera: Apollinary Dudko,
Alexander Sigayev, Sergei Ivanov, production designers: Pyotr Yakimov, Ivan
Znoinov, Mikhail Tsibasov, misic: Nikolai Kryukov, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Mikhail Gelovani, Nikolai Bogolyubov, Mikhail Zharov, Varvara Myasnikova,
Pavel Kadochnikov, Vasily Sofronov, Boris Babochkin
The autumn of 1918. In the course of the Civil War Tsaritsyn, a large city and a major port on the
Volga river became the place of a decisive battle between the White Army counterrevolutionaries and
the Red Army troops.
Cossack Perchikhin and a factory worker Katya Davydova actively participate in mobilization of the
city residents for the defense of Tsaritsyn together with the Red Army units headed by the Red Army
commander Voroshilov and the Moscow envoy Stalin.
Two parts of the film were shot simultaneously. The second part was never released.
The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
358
AKTRISA (THE ACTRESS)
1943, 76 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Leonid Trauberg, screenplay: Mikhail Volpin, Nikolai Erdman, camera:
Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Galina Sergeyeva, Boris Babochkin, Mikhail Zharov, Zoya Morskaya, Vladimir
Gribkov, Konstantin Sorokin
A famous operetta actress Zoya Strelnikova, evacuated with her theatre to a remote Siberian
town, believes that the profession of an actress is out of place in the severe war days and begins
working as a nurse at a hospital. Her meetings with wounded soldiers, who enjoy listening to
Strelnikova’s record, which they keep with the greatest possible care, make her realize the real place of
the actress in the hard war times. She returns to the theatre and participates in concerts arranged for
soldiers at the front.
The film was restored at “Lenfilm” in 1972.
359
VOZDUSHNIY IZVOZCHIK (AIR CABBY)
1943, 75 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Gerbert Rappaport, screenplay: Yevgeny Petrov, camera: Alexander
Galperin, production designer: Vladimir Yegorov, musical production: Yuri
Biryukov, sound: Alexander Ostrovsky
Cast: Mikhail Zharov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Boris Blinov, Grigory Shpigel
The hero of the film, an experienced pilot Baranov working for the civil aviation, meets his passenger,
a young singer Natasha Kulikova and they fall in love with each other. When the war begins Baranov
demands to be transferred to fighter aircraft but his commanders order him to keep working as an “air
cabby”.
On the day of Natasha’s debut at an opera theatre Baranov is sent with an important mission to enemy’s
rear. On his way back he attacks fascist airplanes and shoots down one of them. Approaching Moscow
he hears Natasha’s clear voice singing over the radio.
360 ONA ZASHCHISHCHAYET RODINU (SHE DEFENDS
HER MOTHERLAND)
1943, 80 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Alexei Kapler, camera: Vladimir Rapoport,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Gavriil Popov, sound: Zakhar Zalkind
Cast: Vera Maretskaya, Nikolai Bogolyubov, Lidiya Smirnova, Pyotr Aleinikov
On the first day of the war fascists brutally killed the little son of a peasant woman Praskovya
Lukyanova before the mother’s eyes. Her husband was also killed. Praskovya leaves the village. She
goes to woods, organizes a partisan detachment and takes vengeance on the enemy.
The film was restored at the Gorky Film Studio in 1966.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
361 PODVODNAYA LODKA TE DEVYAT (T-9
SUBMARINE)
1943, 71 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Alexander Shtein, Iogann Zeltser, camera:
Nikolai Renkov, production designer: Yuri Shvets, misic: Boris Zeidman, sound:
A.Sheikhov
Cast: Oleg Zhakov, I. Dagestan, B. Chinkin, V. Sharlakhov
Soviet T-9 submarine successfully torpedoes enemy’s transport. Continuing to fulfill its mission T-9
gets into the enemy’s port. The sailors go ashore and blow up the railway bridge with the train carrying
fascist troops.
On the way back the submarine is spotted by the enemy. Commander of T-9 decides to take up the last
battle and gives the order to surface.
362
POD ZVUKI DOMBR (SOUNDS OF DOMBRA)
1943, 54 min., b/w
Film-concert
Directors: Adolf Minkin, Semyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Kabysh Siranov,
Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Lev Kosmatov, Nikolai Kononov, production
designers: Artur Berger, Z. Naziarov, Tatyana Levitskaya, Kulakhmet-Kongyr
Khodzhikov, misic: Nikolai Kryukov, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Kazakhstan actors
363
FRONT (FRONT)
1943, 118 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Georgy and Sergei Vasilyev, camera: Apollinary Dudko,
production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke, misic: Gavriil Popov, sound:
Alexander Bekker
Cast: Boris Zhukovsky, Boris Babochkin, Pavel Geraga, Boris Dmokhovsky, Lev
Sverdlin, Vasily Vanin, Boris Chirkov, Nikolai Kryuchkov
Loosely based on Alexander Korneichuk’s play of the same title.
The play rises the acute problem of the necessity to promote young talented military commanders to
high-ranking positions.
364 MALAKHOV KURGAN (THE MALAKHOV
BARROW)
1944, 89 min., b/w
War drama
Directors: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, screenplay: Boris Voitekhov, Alexander
Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, camera: Arkady Koltsaty, production designer: Vladimir
Kaplunovsky, misic: Andrei Balanchivadze, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Nikolai Kryuchkov, Boris Andreyev, Akakiy Khorava, Maria Pastukhova,
Nikolai Dorokhin
In the summer of 1942 Soviet troops are leaving the city of Sevastopol under the General headquarters
order. Captain Likharev recollects some episodes of the 250-day defense of the city.
His destroyer “Grozny” makes a breakthrough into the city already besieged by the German troops.
The crew of his destroyer turned into a marine corpse detachment repulses the Nazi attacks on the
Malakhov barrow.
The mariners are fighting against fascist tanks.
Capitain Likharev is the last to leave Sevastopol.
When will he return to the city?
The film was shot in liberated Sevastopol in the summer of 1944.
365
MORSKOY BATALION (MARINE BATTALION)
1944, 80 min., b/w
War drama
Directors: Adolf Minkin, Alexander Faintsimmer, screenplay: Alexander Shtein,
camera: Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Abram Veksler, misic: Venedikt
Pushkov, sound: Alexander Ostrovsky
Cast: Alexander Larikov, Maria Domasheva, Andrei Abrikosov, Lidiya Smirnova,
Pyotr Aleinikov, Nikolai Dorokhin, Alexei Konsovsky
The film is focused on the story of the marine corpse battalion from the “Kirov” cruiser. Leningrader
Sergei Markin and his friends are bravely fighting shoulder to shoulder with the infantry soldiers and
peoples’ volunteer corpse against Nazi troops.
Time passes. The Nazi troops are defeated and mariners are return to their battleships. Liberation of
Tallinn lies ahead. And meanwhile battleship guns are firing salute celebrating the liberation of
Leningrad.
It is the first film shot in summer of 1944 in the renovated Leningrad pavilions upon “Lenfilm” return
from evacuation.
366
SILVA (SILVA)
1944, 80 min., b/w
Musical comedy
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Mikhail Dolgopolov, Grigory Yaron,
camera: Zhosef Martov, production designers: Vladimir Yegorov, Igor Vuskovich,
sound: A. Korobov
Cast: Zoya Smirnova-Nemirovich, Niyaz Dautov, M. Sakalis, Sergei Martinson
Screen version of Imre Kalman’s musical comedy of the same title.
367
CHEREVICHKI (SHOES)
1944, 84 min., b/w
Filmed opera
Written and directed by: Mikhail Shapiro, Nadezhda Kosheverova, camera:
Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Grigory Bolshakov, Sofia Golemba, Liliya Gritsenko, Maxim Mikhailov, N.
Panchekhin, Nikolai Chesnokov, Andrei Ivanov
Screen version of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s opera of the same title based on “The Chistmas Eve Night”, a
novel by Nikolai Gogol.
368
POINT)
VELIKIY PERELOM (THE GREAT TURNING-
1945, 108 min., b/w
War drama
Director: Fridrich Ermler, screenplay: Boris Chirskov, camera: Arkady Koltsaty,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Gavriil Popov, sound: Alexander
Ostrovsky, Nikolai Kosarev
Cast: Mikhail Derzhavin, Sr., Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yuri Tolubeyev, Andrei
Abrikosov, Alexander Zrazhevsky, Mark Bernes
World War II. German high command accumulates enormous forces for the assault. Soviet troops
commanded by General Muravyov repulse the enemy attacks.. Soviet army scouts find out the exact
day and time of the decisive offensive. Muravyov is determined to forestall the Nazis and plasters the
enemy with fire.
All is quiet. Will the fascist troops weakened by the surprise fire begin their offensive or put off the
attack?
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
 The film was awarded the Grand National Premium of the 1st International Film Festival in
Cannes, France (1946) and the Grand International Premium for the best screenplay at the 1st
International Film Festival in Cannes, France (1946).
369
NEBESNIY TIKHOHOD (A SLOW AIRCRAFT)
1945, 82 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Alexander Sigayev,
production designer: Isaak Makhlis, misic: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, sound: Pyotr
Vitsinsky, Kirill Pozdnyshev
Cast: Nikolai Kryuchkov, Vasily Merkuryev, Vasily Neshchiplenko, Alla Parfanyak,
Lyudmila Glazova, Tamara Alyoshina
Three fighter pilots swear a solemn oath not to fall in love till the end of the war. By chance they
happen to find themselves in an all- women bomber squadron. And love wins...
The film was restored at “Lenfilm” in 1970.
370
PROSTIYE LYUDI (COMMON PEOPLE)
1945, 79 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei
Moskvin, Anatoly Nazarov, production designers: Yevgeny Yeney, David Vinitsky,
misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Yuri Tolubeyev, Olga Lebzak, Boris Zhukovsky, Yekaterina KorchaginaAlexandrovskaya, Larisa Yemelyantseva, Tatyana Peltser, Alexander Larikov
The film tells about the selfless labor of Soviet people during World War II, who in the shortest
possible time built a large aircraft factory in the eastern part of the country.
For redundant realistic reflection of the war time hardships the film was banned and released only in
1956.
371
VO IMYA ZHIZNI (FOR THE SAKE OF LIFE)
1946, 101 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, screenplay: Yevgeny Gabrilovich,
Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, Sergei Yermolinsky, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Alexander
Bekker
Cast: Viktor Khokhryakov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Oleg Zhakov, Klavdiya Lepanova,
Lyudmila Shabalina, Alexander Zrazhevsky, Nikolai Cherkasov
Three friends, young surgeons, return after the war to Leningrad. In their clinic they start working over
a serious medical problem. However time is passing and their intense work does not give any results.
Two of the surgeons loose hope to achieve desired success. Petrov is left on his own. His persistency,
sell-confidence and support of the girl he loves let the young doctor dare to make a complicated
surgery.
372
ISLAND)
OSTROV BEZYMYANNY (THE BEZYMYANNY
1946, 77 min., b/w
Adventure
Directors: Adolf Bergunker, Mikhail Yegorov, screenplay: Boris Brodsky, camera:
Sergei Ivanov, production designer: Viktor Savostin, misic: Venedikt Pushkov,
sound: Nikolai Kosarev
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Nina Mazayeva, Sergei Filippov
Radio station on the Bezymyanny Island in the Far North helps the Allies’ transports to find their way
in northern seas. Nazis are severely bombing the island but radio operator Asya manages to save the
reserve portable radio set and install it on a deserted old boat. Radio signals from the island help Soviet
pilot to take the resqued mariners to the Bezymyanny. On the island he meets the girl he loves.
373
SOLISTKA BALETA (THE BALLERINA)
1946, 77 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Aron Erlikh, Alexander Ivanovsky,
camera: Arkady Koltsaty, production designer: Isaak Makhlis, misic: Venedikt
Pushkov, sound: Pyotr Vitsinsky
Cast: Mira Redina, Viktor Kazanovich, Olga Zhizneva, Vladimir Gardin, Galina
Ulanova, Vladimir Preobrazhensky
Natasha Subbotina is graduating from the ballet school and is working on the part of Aurora in
“The Sleeping Beauty”. The young ballerina does not want to repeat the traditional interpretation of the
part and wants to add some fresh elements to the dance choreographed by Marius Petipa many years
ago. It is not easy to find the new ways in art. Not everything goes smoothly in Natasha’s relations with
Conservatory student Alexei, who is in love with her.
374
SYNOVYA (SONS)
1946, 83 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Fyodor Knorre, DOP: Vladimir Rapoport,
production designer: Moisey Levin, misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Lev Valter,
Kseniya Cheremukhina
Cast: Oleg Zhakov, Ivan Savelyev, Maria Domasheva, Lidiya Smirnova, Nikodim
Gippius, Vasily Vanin, Vasily Merkuryev, Lidiya Sukharevskaya
Latvia is occupied by Nazis. The story is centered on the fate of two brothers. Yanis, the eldest brother,
becomes a partisan and fights against fascists. Valdemar, the youngest brother, collaborates with Nazis
and helps them to fight against partisans.
375 VOZVRASHCHENIYE S POBEDOY (RETURN
HOME WITH A VICTORY)
1947, 93 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Konstantin Isayev,
camera: Eduard Tisse, production designer: Voldemar Valdman, misic: Anatoly
Lepin, sound: Konstantin Gordon
Cast: Artur Dimiter, Velta Line, L. Leiman, Yanis Filipson, V. Siliniyek, Yan Osis
Loosely based on the play “Victory” by Vilis Latsis.
The years of World War II. Due to treachery Soviet Army lieutenant Avgust Griese is captured.
Fascists are trying to persuade him to take their side. Avgust refuses. But fascists broadcast the
alleged radio address of Avgust urging the Latvians to give up resistance to Nazis. His comrades
consider him to be a traitor. Avgust manages to escape from the prison. And soon after that rumors
about Krum, a fearless guerilla and avenger acting alone, start circulating all over Latvia.
376
ZHIZN V TSITADELY (LIFE IN A CITADEL)
1947, 89 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Gerbert Rappaport, screenplay: Leonid Trauberg, camera: Sergei Ivanov,
production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Eugen Kapp, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Hugo Laur, A. Talvi, Gunnar Kilgas, Liya Laats, Rudolf Nuude, Boris
Dobronravov, Ants Lauter, Alexander Randviyr
Loosely based on the play of the same title by August Jakobson.
Estonia is liberated from Nazi occupation. Profesor Miylas, a noted Estonian botanist developed the
unique project of swamp drainage which was later rejected. The offended researcher starts working on
some purely theoretical scientific problems. He does not care about events happening in the world
around him. However, his attempt to shut himself off to life fails.
Professor’s eldest son and nephew come to his house. The old scientist is horrified to find out that both
worked as executioners in a Nazi death camp. The son’s attempt to kill his father makes Miylas leave
his illusionary “citadel”.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
377
ZA TEKH KTO V MORE (TO THOSE WHO ARE AT
SEA)
1947, 85 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Faintsimmer, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Konstantin Isayev,
camera: Moisey Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov,
Nikolai Spichkin, misic: Antonio Spadavekkia, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Mikhail Zharov, Alexandra Trishko, Dmitry Pavlov, Georgy Karnovich-Valois,
Ninel Myshkova, Elva Lutsenko, Daniil Sagal, Ivan Lyubeznov
Loosely based on the play of the same title by Boris Lavrenev.
Years of World War II. Eager to become famous captain Borovsky gave the commander of torpedo
boats the wrong coordinates of the enemy location and violating the order attacked the enemy on his
own. A Soviet torpedo boat is destroyed. Degraded to the ranks Borovsky redeems his fault.
378
ZOLUSHKA (CINDERELLA)
1947, 84 min., b/w
Fairy- tale
Directors: Nadezhda Kosheverova, Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Yevgeny Schwarz,
camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Isaak Makhlis, scenery and
costumes designed by Nikolai Akimov, misic: Antonio Spadavekkia, sound:
Alexander Ostrovsky
Cast: Yanina Zheimo, Alexei Konsovsky, Erast Garin, Vasily Merkiryev, Faina
Ranevskaya, Yelena Yunger, Varvara Myasnikova, Igor Klimenkov, Sergei Filippov,
Tamara Sezenevskaya
Based on the traditional story about the hard working Cinderella, her wicked step-mother and lazy
sisters.
The film was restored at “Mosfilm” in 1967.
379
PIROGOV (PIROGOV)
1947, 92 min., b/w
Biopic
Director: Grigiory Kozintsev, screenplay: Yuri German, camera: Andrei Moskvin,
Anatoly Nazarov, Naum Shifrin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic:
Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk, Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Konstantin Skorobogatov, Vladimir Chestnokov, Olga Lebzak, Nikolai
Cherkasov, Yakov Malyutin, Tatyana Piletskaya, Alexei Dikiy
The film is focused on the life and activities of a Russian surgeon and scientist Nikolai Pirogov.
Episodes of his struggle with cholera epidemics and his new approach to medical practice reveal
Pirogov’s strong personality. We watch Pirogov making the first in the world surgical operation using
ether as anaesthetic and selflessly working as a surgeon during defense of Sevastopol in 1854 — 1855.
The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
380
DRAGOTSENNYE ZIORNA (PRECIOUS GRAINS)
1948, 89 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, screenplay: Esfir Buranova, camera:
Sergei Ivanov, production designers: Vladimir Agranov, Dmitry Rudoy, misic:
Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Galina Kozhakina, Boris Zhukovsky, Oleg Zhakov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Vasily
Vanin, Valentina Telegina, Pyotr Aleinikov, Rostislav Plyatt
Young journalist Tonya Uvarova trusted the great reputation of “the king of steppe” — the chairman of
the regional executive committee Korolev and praises him and his accomplices in her article.
The newspaper publication causes indignation of collective farm workers who know the real
worth of them. Tanya takes her mistake pretty hard and with the help of peasants unmasks Korolev
who was seeking fame for himself and cheated the state.
381 AKADEMIK IVAN PAVLOV (ACADEMICIAN IVAN
PAVLOV)
1949, 111 min., b/w
Biopic
Director: Grigory Roshal, screenplay: Mikhail Papava, camera: Vyacheslav
Gordanov, Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, Yevgeny Kirpichev, production
designers: Yevgeny Yeney, Abram Veksler, misic: Dmitry Kabalevsky, sound:
Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Alexander Borisov, Nina Alisova, Vladimir Chestnokov, Fyodor Nikitin,
Vladimir Balashov, Vasily Sofronov
The film centers on the complicated and thorny life of Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist and a Nobel
prize laureate who found new methods for studying the physiology of the digestive glands and animal
brain functions.
The film was restored at “Mosfilm” in 1976.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
 The film was awarded the Labour Premium of the International Film Festival in Czechoslovakia
(1949).
382
ALEXANDER POPOV (ALEXANDER POPOV)
1949, 99 min., b/w
Biopic
Directors: Gerbert Rappaport, Viktor Eisymont, screenplay: Alexander
Razumovsky, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer:
Isaak Makhlis, misic: Yuri Kochurov, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Alexander Borisov, Konstantin Skorobogatov, Ilya
Sudakov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Bruno Freindlikh, Leonid Vivyen
Alexander Popov, professor at the field engineers’ school in Kronshtadt, together with his friend and
assistant Rybkin is working on the theory of electromagnetic waves. His persistent work is crowned
with success — he develops the wireless telegraphy. Radio helps to save people drifting on an ice float
in the open sea.
Alexander Popov and his invention find support of Dmitry Mendeleyev, Admiral Stepan Makarov and
world famous scientists.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
383
VELIKAYA SILA (THE GREAT FORCE)
1949, 106 min., b/w
Publicist film story
Director: Fridrikh Ermler, screenplay: Leonid Trauberg, camera: Arkady Koltsaty,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Gavriil Popov, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Boris Babochkin, Viktor Khokhryakov, Galina Inyutina, Yuri Tolubeyev,
Nikolai Bogolyubov, Fyodor Nikitin, Boris Smirnov, Olga Aroseva, Inna
Kondratyeva, Alexandra Trishko
Loosely based on the play of the same title by Boris Romashov.
Professor Lavrov, a disciple and a follower of Michurin is trying to dispute the theory of heredity and
successfully works on breeding a new hen strain.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
384
ZVREZDA (STAR)
1949, 98 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Pavel Furmansky, camera: Vladimir
Rapoport, Sergei Ivanov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Venedikt
Pushkov, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Anatoly Verbitsky, Alexei Pokrovsky, Irina Radchenko, Lidiya Sukharevskaya,
Oleg Zhakov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Vasily Merkuryev, Pavel Volkov
Loosely based on the novel of the same title by Emmanuil Kazakevich.
Headquarters of a Soviet division gets the information that the enemy is preparing a counteroffensive
and is drawing up large forces to the front line. A group of scouts sent to check the information did not
return. The new team of scouts named “Star” is headed by lieutenant Travkin. The group fulfills the
task and on its way back runs into a Nazi detachments. Lieutenant Travkin sends one of the scouts to
deliver the message to the commander and together with his comrades starts the mortal combat with the
enemy.
The demonstration of the scouts’ death was not in line with the post-war normative aesthetics. The film
was banned and released only in 1953.
385 SCHASTLIVOGO PLAVANIYA (HAVE A GOOD
VOYAGE)
1949, 85 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexander Popov, camera: Veniamin
Levitin, production designer: Viktor Savostin, misic: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, Leon
Khodzha-Einatov, sound: Alexander Ostrovsky
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Stepan Krylov, Pavel Volkov, Misha Boitsov, Igor
Klimenkov, Seryozha Uspensky, Yura Zhestovsky, Vitya Tsoi, Pyotr Andriyevsky
Captain Levashov, new commander of the 5th company of Nakhimov Naval College is training his
students to show initiative and often turns his classes in “fullfilement of a battle task “.
His advice and encouragement, his demands to observe the military discipline and his personal
example help naval cadets to get prepared to their future careers of naval officers.
The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
386
MUSORGSKY (MUSSORGSKY)
1950, 122 min., color
Biopic
Director: Grigory Roshal, screenplay: Anna Abramova, Grigory Roshal, camera:
Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Abram
Veksler, music and musical editing: Dmitry Kabalevsky, sound: Arnold
Shargorodsky
Cast: Alexander Borisov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Vladimir Balashov, Andrei Popov,
Fyodor Nikitin, Lubov Orlova, Lidiya Shtykan
Working on the first opera in his father’s country estate Modest Mussorgsky sees poverty and
sufferings of peasants, tyranny of landowners. The things he witnessed leave the deep trace in his soul
and greatly influence the general tendency of his art.
His association with “The Mighty Five” group of composers, passionate speeches of musical critic
Vladimir Stasov, meetings with artist Ilya Repin, work on operas “Boris Godunov” and
“Khovanshchina” — all these episodes reveal the exceptional talent and strong personality of the
composer, author of brilliant musical compositions.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
 The film was awarded the Premium for the best scenery design at the IY International Film
Festival in Cannes, France (1951).
387
OGNI BAKU (LIGHTS OF BAKU)
1950, 93 min., b/w. Released in 1958
Drama
Directors: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Kheifits, Rza Abbas-Kuli Takhmasib, screenplay:
Grigory Koltunov, Yevgeny Pomeshchikov, camera: Georgy Yegiazarov,
production designer: Mikhail Yuferov, misic: Kara Karayev, sound: Aga Gussein
Kerimov
Cast: Mirza-Aga Aliyev, Marziya Davudava, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Rza Abbas-Kuli
Takhmasib, Nikolai Kryuchkov
Soviet oil industry workers are working hard to make Baku the foremost area of oil output.
388 SADY I PARKI LENINGRADA (PARKS AND
GARDENS OF LENINGRAD)
1950, 27 min., color
Topical and landscape film
Director: Semyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Vissarion Sayanov, camera: Yevgeny
Shapiro, sound: Alexander Ostrovsky, voice over: Ruvim Vygodsky
389 SOVETSKAYA BASHKIRIYA (SOVIET
BASHKIRIYA)
1950, 45 min., color
Documentary
Directors: N. Solovyov, Iosif Gindin, screenplay: Anver Bikchentayev, text by:
Mark Lanskoy, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, Konstantin Sobol, misic: Husain
Akhmetov, Rauf Murtazin, sound: Lev Valter
390
SOVETSKAYA TATARIYA (SOVIET TATARIYA)
1950, 39 min., color
Documentary
Director: Anatoly Granik, K. Posdnyakov, screenplay: Boris Yampolsky, camera:
Alexander Ksenofontov, misic: Nazib Zhiganov, sound: Lev Valter, voice over:
Ruvim Vygodsky
391 SOVETSKAYA UDMURTIYA (SOVIET
UDMURTIYA)
1950, 39 min., color
Documentary
Director: Yan Frid, screenplay: Nikolai Rozhkov, text by: Semyon Nagorny, poems
by: Yelena Ryvina, camera: Veniamin Levitin, misic: Orest Yevlakhov, sound:
Pyotr Vitsinsky, voice over: Ruvim Vygodsky
392 ADYGEISKAYA AVTONOMNAYA OBLAST
(ADYGEI AUTONOMOUS REGION)
1951, 39 min., color
Documentary
Directors: Vladimir Vengerov, Iosif Gindin, screenplay: Dmitry Kostanov, Mark
Lanskoy, text by: Mark Lanskoy, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, Ilya Goldberg, misic:
Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Alexander Ostrovsky
393
AUL KUBACHI (KUBACHI VILLAGE)
1951, 17 min., color
Documentary
Directors: Nadezhda Kosheverova, Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Nadezhda
Kosheverova, Nikolai Lebedev, camera: Georgy Shurkin, misic: Gotfrid Gasanov,
sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
394
BELINSKY (BELINSKY)
1951, 102 min., b/w
Biopic
Director: Grigory Kozintsev, screenplay: Yuri German, Yelena Serebrovskaya,
Grigory Kozintsev, camera: Andrei Moskvin, Mark Magidson, Serrgei Ivanov,
production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ilya
Volk
Cast: Sergei Kurilov, Alexander Borisov, Georgy Vitsin, Yuri Tolubeyev, Nina
Mamayeva, Mikhail Nazvanov, Boris Dmokhovsky, Vladimir Belokurov, Igor
Gorbachev
The film is focused on life and creative activities of Vissarion Belinsky, a Russian author and literary
critic. Episodes of his work in the “Notes of Fatherland” magazine, meetings with progressive-minded
Russian writers Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev and Nikolai Nekrasov, his presence
at the premiere of “Inspector General” at Maly Theatre and his trip to Novgorod to the exiled writer
Alexander Gertsen demonstrate the strong personality of the lead character of the film, an outstanding
figure in Russian culture.
395 KARELO-FINSKAYA SSR (KARELIAN-FINNISH
SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC)
1951, 62 min., color
Documentary
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Alexander Sadovsky, Alexander Ivanov,
text by: Semyon Nagorny, camera: Viktor Chulkov, Alexander Ksenofontov,
Vyacheslav Gordanov, Viktor Maksimovich, sound: Lev Valter, Ivan Dmitriyev,
voice over: Leonid Khmara
396
KEMERI (KEMERI)
1951, 16 min., color
Landscape film
Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, text by: Inna Filimonova, camera:
Vyacheslav Gordanov, misic: Adolf Skulte, sound: Lev Valter, Pyotr Vitsinsky
397 MORDOVSKAYA ASSR (MORDOVIAN
AUTONOMOUS SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC)
1951, 49 min., color
Documentary
Directors: Iosif Heifits, Semyon Derevensky, screenplay: Iosif Heifits, Ivan
Voronin, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, Alexei Sysoyev, misic: Galina Ustvolskaya,
sound: Alexander Bekker, voice over: Leonid Khmara
398
SVET V KOORDI (LIGHT IN KOORDI)
1951, 98 min., color
Drama
Director: Gerbert Rappaport, screenplay: Hans Leberekht, Yuri German, camera:
Sergei Ivanov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Eugen Kapp, sound:
Grigory Elbert
Cast: Georg Ots, Alexander Randviyr, Valentina Tern, Ilmar Tammur, Rudolf Nuude,
Evi Rayer, Hugo Laur, Lembit Rayala, Ants Eskola
Loosely based on the novel of the same title by Hans Leberekht dealing with the struggle for
establishing the collective farm system in a post-war Estonian village.
 The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
399
SOVETSKAYA KABARDA (SOVIET KABARDA)
1951, 41 min., color
Documentary
Directors: Anatoly Granik, Tamara Rodionova, screenplay: Khachim Teunov, V.
Vasilenko, text by: Boris Yampolsky, camera: Sergei Ivanov, Muzakir Shurukov,
misic: Leon Khodzha-Einatov, sound: Grigory Elbert, voice over: Leonid Khmara
400 SOVETSKAYA BURYAT-MONGOLIYA (SOVIET
BURYAT-MONGOLIA)
1951, 59 min., color
Documentary
Director: Yan Frid, screenplay: Ts. Galsanov, Yefim Uchitel, text by: Semyon
Nagorny, Boris Savransky, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, Alexander
Zavyalov, Viktor Maksimovich, misic: Andrei Pashchenko, sound: Arnold
Shargorodsky, voice over: Leonid Khmara
401
SEAS)
U SEVERNYKH MOREI (NEAR THE NORTHERN
1951, 39 min., color
Documentary-landscape film
Director: Alexander Faintsimmer, screenplay: David Dar, camera: A. Dubkov,
Veniamin Levitin, Solomon Belenky, Viktor Chulkov, misic: Vladimir Deshevov,
Sergey Shatiryan, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
402
V ZAILIYSKOM ALATAU (IN ZAILIYSKY ALATAU)
1952, 21 min., color
Documentary-landscape picture
Director: Mikhail Korotkevich, screenplay: Dmitry Snegin, Mark Lanskoy, camera:
Alexander Xenofontov, text: Mark Lanskoy, sound: Grigory Elbert
403
ZHIVOY TRUP (A LIVING CORPSE)
1952, 181 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Vengerov, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Semyon Malkin, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Galina Inyutina, Yelizaveta Time, Alexander Dubensky,
Elizaveta Zhikhareva, Yakov Malyutin, Oleg Lebzak, Bruno Freindlich, Mikhail
Yekaterininsky, Konstantin Adashevsky
A screen version of the performance staged by the Leningrad State Academic Pushkin Drama Theatre,
produced by Vladimir Kozhich and Antonin Dawson (based on a novel of the same title by Lev
Tolstoy).
404 KONTSERT MASTEROV ISKUSSTV (A CONCERT
GIVEN BY MASTERS OF ART)
1952, 90 min., color
Filmed concert
Directors: Alexander Ivanovsky, Herbert Rappoport, camera: Sergey Ivanov, sound:
Grigory Elbert
The Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonic Society, the State Folk
Dance Company under the direction of Igor Moiseyev; Cast: Maxim Mikhailov, Nina
Guselnikova, Galina Ulanova, Vladimir Preobrazhensky, Leokadia Maslennikova,
Sergey Lemeshev, Sophia Preobrazhenskaya, Natalya Dudinskaya, Konstantin
Sergeyev, Veronika Borisenko, Alla Shelest, Semyon Kaplan, Tatyana Vecheslova,
Igor Belsky; producer: Kirill Kondrashin
The picture comprising individual concert items involves prominent Moscow and Leningrad companies
and masters of art.
405
WAY)
NAVSTRECHU ZHIZNI (MEETING LIFE HALF-
1952, 82 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Katerina Vinogradskaya, camera: Veniamin
Levitin, production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Vasily Solovyev-Sedoy,
sound: Alexander Ostrovsky, Lev Valter
Cast: Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Victor Sokolov, Georgy Semyonov, Vasily
Merkuryev, Sergey Gurzo
Loosely based on “Little Star”, a story by Ivan Vasilenko.
406
RAZLOM (THE SPLIT)
1952, 153 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Pavel Bogolyubov, Yuri Muzykant, camera: Anatoly Nazarov,
production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Ivan Ivanov, misic: Victor Voloshinov,
sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Vitaly Polizeimako, Vasily Sofronov, Yelena Granovskaya, Valentina
Kibardina, Nina Olkhina, Nikolai Korn, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Alexander Larikov
Based on the performance staged by the Leningrad Gorky Drama Theatre; producers: Alexander
Sokolov, Ivan Zonne; playwright: Boris Lavrenev.
The tempestuous events of the spring and summer of 1917 in Petrograd have caused a split in the
family of Bersenev, commanding officer of “Zarya” cruiser. In spite of being of noble birth, he
sympathizes with the “Zarya” seamen who refuse to carry out the order of the Provisional Government
to disarm the ship. Bersenev's elder daughter sides with her father...
407
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV)
1952, 114 min., color
Drama
Directors: Grigory Roshal, Gennady Kazansky, screenplay: Anna Abramova,
Grigory Roshal, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production designers:
Nikolai Suvorov, Abram Veksler, misic: Yuri Sviridov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Grigory Belov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Alexander Borisov, Lilia Gritsenko, Victor
Khokhryakov, Lilia Sukharevskaya, Alexander Ognivtsev, Yevgeny Lebedev, Sergey
Kurillov, Bruno Freindlich
Petersburg. Late 19th century. Composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is in the prime of his creative
ability. His new opera “Sadko”, turned down by the Imperial Theatre, is being staged by a private opera
house owned by the renown patron of arts Savva Mamontov. The audience is greatly impressed by
“Sadko”.
“Sadko” is followed by the composer's masterpieces: “Mozart and Salieri”, “The Tsar's Bride”, “The
Fairy Tale of Saltan the Tsar”, the fairy tale opera titled “The Golden Cockerel”.
408
ALEKO (ALEKO)
1953, 60 min., color, stereo
Filmed opera
Director: Sergey Sidelev, screenplay: Anna Abramova, Grigory Roshal, camera:
Anatoly Nazarov, production designers: Abram Veksler, Victor Volin, misic: Vasily
Solovyev-Sedoy, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Alexander Ognivtsev, Mark Reisen, Inna Zubkovskaya, Svyatoslav Kuznetsov,
Bronislava Zlatogorova
A screen version of the opera of the same title by Sergey Rakhmaninov based on “The Gipsies”, a
romantic poem of the same title by Alexander Pushkin.
409 ALYOSHA PTITSYN VYRABATYVAYET
KHARAKTER (ALYOSHA PTITSYN CULTIVATES
WILLPOWER)
1953, 73 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Granik, screenplay: Agnia Barto, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Nikolai
Kosarev
Cast: Vitya Kargopoltsev, Olga Pyzhova, Valentina Sperantova, Yuri Bublikov,
Tamara Alyoshina, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Lydia Sukharevskaya
At the railway terminal the grandmother of the Moscow boy Alyosha, who is in his third year at school,
happened to miss her friend and her granddaughter coming to visit her. The hospitable Alyosha meets
them and it takes him all day to show them the beautiful and clean Moscow, the capital's high
buildings, the new metro stations, the wide avenues...
410
VESNA V MOSKVE (A SPRING IN MOSCOW)
1953, 108 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Joseph Heifitz, Nadezhda Kosheverova, camera: Vladimir Levitin, Sergey
Ivanov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Alexei Zhivotov, sound:
Alexander Bekker
Cast: Galina Korotkevich, Vladimir Petrov, Yuri Bublikov, Anatoly Kuznetsov,
Vladimir Taskin, Lev Shostak, Lyudmila Ponomaryeva, Anatoly Abramov, Alexandra
Trishko
A vivacious, cheerful picture based on a performance featuring the post-war life of young Soviet
people staged by the Leningrad New Theatre; producer and production designer: Nikolai Akimov,
playwright: Victor Gusev.
411
VRAGI (THE ENEMIES)
1953, 157 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Tamara Rodionova, camera: Yevgeny Kirpichev, Alexei Sysoyev,
production designer: Bella Manevich, sound: Alexander Becker
Cast: Vasily Sofronov, Yelena Granovskaya, Nikolai Korn, Valentina Kibardina,
Nina Olkhina, Ivan Yefremov, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Alexander Larikov
Based on the performance staged by the Leningrad Gorky Drama Theatre producer: Alexandra
Rashevskaya; playwright: Maxim Gorky.
412
GORYACHEYE SERDTSE (THE BURNING HEART)
1953, 179 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Gennady Kazansky, camera: Alexander Xenofontov, production
designers: Victor Volin, Bella Manevich, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Gennady Michurin, Alla Belousova, Tamara Alyoshina, Alexander Borisov,
Konstantin Kalinis, Konstantin Skorobogatov, Konstantin Adashevsky
Based on the production of the Leningrad Pushkin State Academic Drama Theatre of the play by
Alexander Ostrovsky directed by Vladimir Kozhich, Antonin Dawson.
413 ZVANY UZHIN (RAZBITYYE MECHTY) (THE
DINNER PARTY (THE SHATTERED DREAMS)
1953, 31 min., color
Satirical comedy
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Vladimir Mass, Mikhail Chervinsky,
Friedrich Ermler, camera: Apollinary Dudko, production designer: Isaac Makhlis,
misic: Gavriil Popov, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Igor Ilyinsky, Anna Lisyanskaya, Nina Mamayeva, Boris Zhukovsky
What is the best and quickest way to get one's career in motion? Sure enough, by licking the bosses'
boots. Thus the insignificant Pyotr Petrovich invented a birthday and invited all the management to his
party.
When everything is ready for the distinguished guests, the door leading from the room to the corridor
happens to slam. Pyotr Petrovich is rushing about the locked room. He has no key. What's to be done?
The satire turned out so stinging that the picture was not allowed on the screen until 1962, and then
under a different name.
414
LES (THE FOREST)
1953, 170 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Vladimir Vengerov, Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Solomon Belenky,
Muzakir Shurukov, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, sound: Arnold
Shargorodsky
Cast: Yelizaveta Time, Klavdia Trofimova, Vasily Merkuryev, Konstantin Kalinis,
Yuri Tolubeyev, Alexander Borisov, Georgy Kulbush, Konstantin Adashevsky
Based on the production of the Leningrad Pushkin State Academic Drama Theatre of the play by
Alexander Ostrovsky directed by Vladimir Kozhich, Antonin Dawson.
415
LYUBOV YAROVAYA (LYUBOV YAROVAYA)
1953, 154 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Jan Fried, camera: Apollinary Dudko, Alexei Sysoyev, production
designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Zoya Karpova, Alexander Mazayev, Valentina Kibardina, Vitaly Polizeimako,
Igor Gorbachev, Yelena Granovskaya, Alexander Larikov, Yephim Kopelyan, Yelena
Nikitina
Based on the performance staged by the Leningrad Gorky Drama Theatre, Director:
Ivan Yefremov; playwright: Konstantin Trenyev
The Civil War years. A small southern town that keeps changing hands. The teacher Lyubov Yarovaya
is helping the underground revolutionary committee. Unexpectedly, she meets her husband, Lieutenant
Yarovoy, deemed killed in World War I...
416 MASTERA RUSSKOGO BALETA (THE RUSSIAN
BALLET MASTERS)
1953, 83 min., color
Filmed ballet
Director: Herbert Rappaport, screenplay: Konstantin Sergeyev, camera: Sergey
Ivanov, production designer: Semyon Mandel, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound:
Grigory Elbert
Cast: Galina Ulanova, Natalya Dudinskaya, Konstantin Sergeyev, Maya Plisetskaya,
Pyotr Gusev, Yuri Zhdanov, Igor Belsky, Vakhtang Chabukhiani
The picture is a selection of theme extracts from ballets: “The Swan Lake” by Pyotr Chaikovsky, “The
Bakhchisaray Fountain” and “The Paris Flames” by Boris Asafyev.
 The film was awarded eight Premiums of the Classical Ballet Section at the III International Film
Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1954) and the Special Grand Prix of the European Films Week
in Paraguay (1954).
417
NEMAN)
NAD NEMANOM RASSVET (IT'S DAWN OVER THE
1953, 86 min., color, co-production with the Lithuanian Picture Studio
Drama
Director: Alexander Feinzimmer, screenplay: Yuozas Baltushis, Yevgeny
Gabrilovich, camera: Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Semyon Malkin,
misic: Balis Dvarionas, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Uozas Siparis, I. Lautsus, Algimantas Voschikas, Yuozas Miltinis, A. Jodkayte,
Irena Leonavichute
The picture features the post-war strengthening of a Lithuanian Collective Farm and the struggle
against the vestiges of the past rooted in the people's minds.
418
TENI (THE SHADOWS)
1953, 111 min., b/w
Dramatic satire
Directors: Nikolai Akimov, Nadezhda Kosheverova, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev
Sokolsky, production designers: Nikolai Akimov, Bella Manevich, misic: Dmitry
Tolstoy, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Valentin Lebedev, Vladimir Petrov, Galina Korotkevich, Vera Budreyko, Yuri
Bublikov, Anatoly Abramov
A screen version of the performance by the Leningrad Lensoveta Theatre. Production and design:
Nikolai Akimov, playwright: Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin.
419 SLUGA DVUKH GOSPOD (A SERVANT TO TWO
MASTERS)
1953, 108 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Adolph Bergunker, camera: Alexander Xenofontov, production
designers: Alexei Rudyakov, Alexei Fedotov, misic: Vladimir Deshevov, sound:
Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Ivan Palmu, Lyudmila Makarova, Boris Ryzhukhin, Lev Semyonov, Inna
Yefremova, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Olga Ovcharenko, Mikhail Ivanov
Based on the Leningrad Gorky Drama Theatre production. Director: Grigory Nikulin,
playwright: Carlo Goldoni
420
SON BOLELSCHIKA (A FAN'S DREAM)
1953, 4 min., color
Filmed jest
Director: Herbert Rappaport
The picture is a screen version of the hit of the 50-s: a jest dance performed by the State Dancing
Company of the USSR under the direction of Igor Moiseyev.
A snoozing “fan” dreams of rushing onto a football field, becoming part of the game and employing
terrific tricks to help “his” team.
421
CHEST TOVARISHCHA (A COMRADE'S HONOUR)
1953, 84 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Boris Izyumsky, Leonid Zhezhelenko,
camera: Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Vladimir
Maklakov, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Konstantin Skorobogatov, Boris Kokovkin, Gennady Michurin, Vladimir
Druzhnikov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Vladimir Birtsev, Yevgeny Novikov, Lev Frichinsky,
Nina Grebeshkova, Vasily Merkuryev
Based on “The Scarlet Shoulder-Straps”, a story by Boris Izyumsky.
Major Bakanov, the new tutor of the Suvorov Military School, had to start with sorting out the problem
between the undergraduate Gennady Pashkov and his comrades. The self-indulging, self-centered
Gennady was arrogant, capable of mocking a boy-and-girl friendship and letting a friend down. The
teacher's experience and time alter the conduct of the young man who was giving himself airs, and by
graduation time Pashkov's friends are sure that he will make a good officer.
422
BOLSHAYA SEMYA (A BIG FAMILY)
1954, 109 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Joseph Heifitz, screenplay: Vsevolod Kochetov, Sokrat Kara, camera:
Sergey Ivanov, production designers: Victor Volin, Victor Savostin, misic: Venedict
Pushkov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Sergey Lukyanov, Boris Andreyev, Vera Kuznetsova, Alexei Batalov, Sergey
Kurillov, Yelena Dobronravova, Nikolai Sergeyev, Pavel Kadochnikov, Nikolai
Gritsenko
Based on “The Zhurbins”, a novel by Vsevolod Kochetov.
Young Alexei Zhurbin, his father Ilya, his grandfather Matvey, his brothers Anton and Victor, his
girlfriend Katya, the old craftsman Basmanov who is a family friend — all of them are unique and
original. The old people's friendship and the young love evoke feeling and sympathy. The spectators
are moved by the trials encountered by Alexei and Katya in their private life, by Victor's wife Lida
leaving the Zhurbin family, by the sincere and touching intention of the old craftsman Ilya to master the
basics of algebra...
 The film got the Honorary Diploma of the International Film Week in Mexico (1955).
 The cast of the film was awarded the Premium for the Best Actors’ Work at the YIII International
Film Festival in Cannes, France (1955).
423
GEROI SHIPKI (THE SHIPKA HEROES)
1954, 123 min., color, co-production with “Bulgarfilm”
Filmed historical epic
Director: Sergey Vasilyev, screenplay: Arkady Perventsev, camera: Mikhail
Kirillov, production designers: Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennady Myasnikov, R. Popov,
misic: Nikolai Kryukov, Philip Kutev, sound: Alexander Babiy, Boris Antonov, K.
Shopov
Cast: Ivan Pereverzev, Victor Avdyushko, Georgy Yumatov, Konstantin Sorokin,
Petko Karlukovsky, Apostol Karamitev, Stefan Peychev, Zheni Bozhinova, Katya
Chukova, Yevgeny Samoylov, Sergey Papov
The 1870-s. The Bulgarian patriots have risen against the centuries of Turkish rule. Russia comes to the
aid of her Slavic brothers. The Russian soldiers and the Bulgarian volunteers are fighting side by side.
Just as the friendship of characters grew in battle, so did the friendship of the film crews of the two
countries grow in working on the picture, giving birth to the Bulgarian film industry.
 The film was awarded the Premium for the Best Film Director’s Work at the YIII International
Film Festival in Cannes, France (1955).
424
ZAPASNOY IGROK (THE RESERVE PLAYER)
1954, 83 min., color
Comedy
Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Isaac Dunayevsky, sound: Grigory
Elbert
Cast: Georgy Vitsin, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Tatyana
Konyukhova, Valentina Ushakova, Mark Bernes, Vladimir Belokurov
With the decisive Cup Finals game coming up, the best “Blue Arrows” football team player Sasha
Vesnushkin makes a requirement to consolidate the team with “star” players of other teams. He has no
faith in the ability of his comrades. The coach replaces Sasha with his brother Vasya, the “Blue
Arrows” reserve player and champion, whom he has given some good schooling.
425
ZELYONY DOL (THE GREEN DALE)
1954, 58 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Tamara Rodionova, screenplay: Sergey Antonov, camera: Alexander
Xenofontov, Yevgeny Kirpichev, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Nikolai
Kosarev
Cast: Boris Ryzhukhin, Arina Bedrintseva, Natalya Rashevskaya, Seryezha
Podmasteryev, Pyotr Lobanov, Edward Bredun
Petya Ivanov, a schoolboy, gets a letter from a prominent scientist, containing 20 seeds of the
extremely productive wheat of a new grade. Petya and his school friends decide to establish a trial plot.
Apprehensive of the grown-ups taking away their seeds, the kids do everything in secrecy...
426
KORTIK (THE DIRK)
1954, 88 min., b/w
Adventure
Directors: Vladimir Vengerov, Mikhail Schweizer, screenplay: Anatoly Rybakov,
Innokenty Gomello, camera: Veniamin Levitin, production designers: Alexei
Rudyakov, Alexei Fedotov, misic: Boris Arapov, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Arkady Tolbuzin, Bruno Freindlich, Volodya Shakhmametyev, Borya
Arakelov, Nina Krachkovskaya, Natalya Rashevskaya, Sergey Filippov
Based on a novel of the same title by Anatoly Rybakov.
Two boys, Misha and Genka, are helping Commissar Polevoy trace Nikitsky, leader of the White
bandit gang; years ago, in front of the seamen, Nikitsky killed a naval officer and wanted to take his
antique dirk, but Polevoy kept the blade. All this time Nikolsky, who only got the sheath, has been after
the dirk.
The boys find out that the dirk is connected with an ancient mystery which can be revealed only with
the dirk sheathed. Finally, Nikitsky is seized, and the sheath recovered.
427 UKROTITELNITSA TIGROV (THE LADY TAMER
OF| TIGERS)
1954, 101 min., color
Comedy
Directors: Alexander Ivanovsky, Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Klementy
Mintz, Yevgeny Pomeschikov, camera: Apollinary Dudko, production designers:
Abram Veksler, Semyon Mandel, misic: Mikhail Weinberg, sound: Alexander
Bekker
Cast: Lyudmila Kasatkina, Pavel Kadochnikov, Leonid Bykov, Pavel Sukhanov,
Konstantin Sorokin, Nina Urgant, Boris Eder, Tatyana Peltser
The famous motor racer Yermolayev accepts the invitation of the circus director and puts together an
impressive stunt — a motorcycle jump performed under the circus dome. Behind stage he meets the
modest circus employee Lena who dreams of the glittering, picturesque art of the circus. She becomes
Yermolayev's assistant.
About to leave on a long tour, Lena gets a chance to make her long-time dream come true and work
with tigers. Yermolayev, in love with Lena, leaves without her. Time passes. Yermolayev has a new
assistant. Lena becomes a tamer of tigers, and the night of her debut comes...
 The film was awarded the Diploma of the II International Film Festival in Darban, Republic of
South Africa (1955).
428
GVOZD PROGRAMMY (THE HIT OF THE SHOW)
1955, 30 min., b/w
Satirical comedy
Written and directed by: Nikolai Lebedev, camera: Vitaly Chulkov, production
designer: Mikhail Krotkin, misic: Anatoly Vladimirtsev, Georgy Nosov, sound:
Anna Volokhova
Cast: Gleb Selyanin, Muza Krepkogorskaya, Vasily Merkuryev
The picture mocks the Collective Farm Chairman putting obstacles in the way of amateur talent
activities.
429
DVA KAPITANA (THE TWO CAPTAINS)
1955, 98 min., color
Adventure
Director: Vladimir Vengerov, screenplay: Veniamin Kaverin, Yevgeny Gabrilovich,
camera: Apollinary Dudko, production designer: David Vinitsky, misic: Oleg
Karavaychuk, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Alexander Mikhailov, Olga Zabotkina, Anatoly Adoskin, Yevgeny Lebedev,
Borya Belyayev, Lyuda Bezuglaya, Borya Arakelov, Inna Kondratyeva, Leonid
Gallis, Tatyana Peltser, Bruno Freindlich
A screen version of a novel of the same title by Veniamin Kaverin.
Sanya Grigoryev, a teenage boy from the town of Ensk, comes across a dead postman's bag containing
a package of letters recounting the tragic end of Captain Tatarinov's Arctic expedition. He goes to
Leningrad and enters the school where Katya, the Arctic explorer's daughter, is a student, telling her
about the letters. The love for Katya and the letters of her father are behind Sanya's firm decision to
become an Arctic pilot and find the trace of the vanished expedition.
The war-time hardships, the treachery of a school friend and the slander of Captain Tatarinov's brother
who had destroyed the expedition complicate the search which Sanya relentlessly pursues.
 The film was awarded the Diploma for the Film Director’s Work at the International Children
Film Festival in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1956).
430
DVENADTSATAYA NOCH (THE TWELFTH NIGHT)
1955, 90 min., color
Comedy
Written and directed by: Jan Fried, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production
designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Alexei Zhivotov, sound: Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Clara Luchko, Alla Larionova, Vadim Medvedev, Mikhail Yanshin, Georgy
Vitsin, Vasily Merkuryev, Bruno Freindlich, Sergey Filippov
A screen version of a comedy of the same title by William Shakespeare.
431
DELO (THE CASE)
1955, 97 min., b/w
Filmed stage performance
Director: Gennady Kazansky, camera: Vitaly Chulkov, production designer: Ivan
Ivanov, misic: Dmitry Tolstoy, sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Alexander Gultsen, Vladimir Taskin, Pavel Pankov, Yuri Bublikov, N.
Lukinov, Galina Korotkevich, Dmitry Bessonov, Vsevolod Kuznetsov
Based on the play of the same title by Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin staged at the Lensoveta Drama
Theatre, produced and designed by Nikolai Akimov.
432
DELO RUMYANTSEVA (THE RUMYANTSEV CASE)
1955, 103 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Joseph Heifitz, screenplay: Yuri German, Joseph Heifitz, camera: Mikhail
Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production designers: Isaac Kaplan, Bella Manevich, misic:
Venedict Pushkov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Alexei Batalov, Ninel Podgornaya, Sergey Lukyanov, Gennady Yukhtin,
Vladimir Lepko, Yevgeny Leonov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Victor Chekmaryev, Ants
Eskola, Pyotr Lobanov
The long distance trucker Sasha Rumyantsev unintentionally becomes an accomplice to a crime
committed by the manager of his trucking company. The honest guy is accused of stealing a truckload
of goods in scarce supply. Together, the employees of the trucking company rise to the defense of their
friend, helping the investigator Colonel Afanasyev find and expose the real criminals.
 The film was awarded the Prize for the Creation of a New Personality Image at the IX
International Film Festival in Czechoslovakia (1956).
433
MAXIM PEREPELITSA (MAXIM PEREPELITSA)
1955, 94 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Anatoly Granik, screenplay: Ivan Stadnyuk, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev,
production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Vasily Solovyev-Sedoy, sound:
Nikolai Kosarev
Cast: Leonid Bykov, Alexander Borisov, Lyudmila Kostyrko, Nikolai Yakovchenko,
Georgy Vitsin, Konstantin Sorokin
A merry, witty comedy about a mischievous guy from a Ukrainian village being drafted into the Army,
to become a smart, disciplined soldier.
434 MIKHAYLO LOMONOSOV (MIKHAYLO
LOMONOSOV)
1955, 104 min., color
Biopic
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Leonid Rakhmanov, camera: Mikhail
Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Venedict
Pushkov, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Boris Livanov, Asta Vihandi, Ants Eskola, Janis Osis, Vladimir Soshalsky,
Alexei Konsovsky, Vladimir Belokurov
The picture features the great Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov.
After several years of studying in Germany Lomonosov returns to his motherland to embark on the
years of persistent struggle to establish the native Russian science, to found centers of true science in
St. Petersburg and Moscow, and to start the Moscow University.
435
STORY)
NEOKONCHENNAYA POVEST (AN UNFINISHED
1955, 100 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Konstantin Isayev, camera: Anatoly
Nazarov, production designers: Isaac Kaplan, Bella Manevich, misic: Gavriil
Popov, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Elina Bystritskaya, Sergey Bondarchuk, Sophia Giatsyntova, Yevgeny
Samoylov, Yevgeny Lebedev, Alexander Larikov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Erast Garin
The local doctor Yelizaveta Maximovna sees and restores to health lots and lots of patients.
The talented shipbuilder Yershov afflicted by the misfortune of leg paralysis proves to be the most
“difficult” one yet. Consistently trying out various treatment courses she strives to help Yershov, who
falls in love with his physician. Yershov's mother and Doctor Aganin, who is in love with Yelizaveta
Maximovna, put obstacles in the path of their happiness...
436
OVOD (THE GADFLY)
1955, 102 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Alexander Feinzimmer, screenplay: Yevgeny Gabrilovich, camera:
Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Dmitry
Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Oleg Strizhenov, Marina Strizhenova, Nikolai Simonov, Vladimir Etush,
Vadim Medvedev, Vladimir Chestnokov, Ruben Simonov
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Ethel Lillian Voynich.
The picture is set in Italy in the 1930-s.
Young Arthur falls prey to the treachery of his confessor, who, from his confession, learned of the
existence of the “Young Italy” secret society and reported it to the Austrian gendarmes. Arthur's friends
condemn him as a traitor. At the same time Arthur finds out that the priest Montanelli, his spiritual
instructor whom he used to worship as a pillar of honesty and infallibility, has broken his vow of
celibacy and is in fact his father. Arthur vanishes...
Thirteen years go by; the Italian national movement for freedom is championed by the brave and
resolute revolutionary going by the name of Rivarez, who comes up with a publication denouncing the
reactionary government and Catholic clergy...
437
SLEDY NA SNEGU (THE TRACKS ON THE SNOW)
1955, 82 min., color
Adventure
Director: Adolph Bergunker, screenplay: Georgy Bryantsev, camera: Veniamin
Levitin, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Orest Yevlakhov, sound:
Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Vladimir Krasnopolsky, Vladimir Gusev, Yevgenia Tan, Pavel Reshetnikov,
Konstantin Adashevsky, Oleg Zhakov
The picture features the post-war fight of the Soviet people against saboteurs and spies.
The leader of a geological party is killed in the taiga. A team flies out from Moscow to begin the search
for the assassin. During the chase, their Yakut hunter guide, who discovered a strange trail in the taiga,
finds his death. The situation becomes even more complicated...
438
SHCHASTYE ANDRUSA (ANDRUS' LUCK)
1955, 94 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Herbert Rappaport, screenplay: Hans Lebreht, camera: Sergey Ivanov,
production designer: Victor Volin, misic: Eugene Kapp, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Ann Adusson, Ants Lauter, Ita Ever, Hugo Laur, R. Peramets, K. Vaha, Rudolf
Nuude, Kalje Kijsk, Yuri Jarvet
A screen version of “The Captains”, a novel by Hans Lebreht.
439
TALANTY I POKLONNIKI (TALENTS AND FANS)
1955, 89 min., b/w
Melodrama
Directors: Andrei Apsolon, Boris Dmokhovsky, screenplay: Leonid Lyubashevsky,
camera: Heinrich Marandzhyan, production designers: Abram Veksler, Nikolai
Suvorov, misic: Yephim Sirotkin, Dmitry Tolstoy, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Tatyana Lennikova, Pavel Kadochnikov, Boris Smirnov, Yekaterina
Aleksandrovskaya, Konstantin Skorobogatov, Yevgeny Lebedev, Gennady Michurin,
Nikolai Trofimov, Tamara Alyoshina
A screen version of a play of the same title by Alexander Ostrovsky.
440
CHUZHAYA RODNYA (STRANGE KIN)
1955, 89 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Schweizer, screenplay by: Vladimir Tendryakov based on his
novel “Ill Suited”, camera: Vyacheslav Fastovich, production designer: Nikolai
Suvorov, misic: Andrei Paschenko, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Nikolai Rybnikov, Nonna Mordyukova, Nikolai Segeyev, Yelena Maximova,
Stepan Krylov, Lyubov Malinovskaya, Leonid Kmit
The tractor driver Fyodor enters the narrow, stuffy little world of the Ryashkin family with its longtime rigid life standards. Having married their handsome daughter Stesha, he wants to bring sounds of
modern life into their stagnant world. Encountering resolute opposition of the Ryashkins and Stesha's
doubts, Fyodor leaves his wife.
Truly loving her husband and continuing to love her parents, the young woman is faced with the
question, what's to be done?
441 DEVOCHKA I KROKODIL (THE YOUNG GIRL AND
THE CROCODILE)
1956, 68 min., b/w
Adventure
Directors: Joseph Gindin, Isaac Menaker, screenplay: Nina Gernet, Grigory
Jagtfeldt, camera: Konstantin Sobol, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic:
Galina Ustvolskaya, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Yelena Granovskaya, Yephim Teterin, Natasha Polinkovskaya, Natasha
Zabavnaya, Zoya Fyodorova, Lyonya Lvov, Lyudmila Makarova
Mitya's father, a long distance sailor, has sent him a gift of a large egg. Shortly a baby crocodile popped
out of the egg. What's to be done with it?
Thus started the exceptional adventures of Mitya and his young friends at home, in the school minizoo, and outdoors, when the baby, — still, a crocodile baby! — crawled out, having escaped from the
bathtub.
442
DOROGA PRAVDY (THE ROAD OF TRUTH)
1956, 90 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Jan Fried, screenplay: Sergey Gerasimov, camera: Veniamin Levitin,
production designer: Mikhail Krotkin, misic: Jan Frenkel, sound: Arnold
Shargorodsky
Cast: Tamara Makarova, Alexander Borisov, Oleg Zhakov, Nina Zorskaya, Vera
Pashennaya, Alla Larionova, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nina Drobysheva
The picture features the life story of an ordinary Moscow working woman who becomes a people's
judge.
Different life stories come before her eyes. She encounters human dramas and misunderstandings,
swindle and deceit. All the while, she has her own problems. Her children have grown up. She is in
love with a married man, and the emotion is reciprocated. Whereas people expect her to administer
justice...
443
ISKATELI (THE SEEKERS)
1956, 103 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Daniil Granin, Leonid Zhezhelenko, based
on a novel of the same title by Daniil Granin, camera: Sergey Ivanov, production
designer: Victor Volin, misic: Nikolai Chervinsky, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Yevgeny Matveyev, Igor Gorbachev, Marina Yuryeva, Maya Blinova, Nina
Mamayeva
Engineer Lobanov, Cand. Sc., is working on the design of a detector, a remote control instrument for
locating damaged electrical cables. Wishing to be closer to the practical use of his instrument, he leaves
his research institute for a production company, to start his activities with restructuring his Department,
where Lebedev's new approach and creative plans find support. Yet, the trouble-making Assistant Head
of the Department is out to obstruct the work on the detector. Lobanov's urgency and persistence, his
team's support, and his confidence in the need for the detector lead the inventor to victory.
444
KRUTIYE GORKI (STEEP HILLS)
1956, 98 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Budimir Metalnikov, camera: Sergey
Ivanov, production designer: Victor Volin, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound:
Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Dmitry Pavlov, Ivan Dmitriyev, Galina Vodyanitskaya, Lydia Smirnova, Boris
Kokovkin, Yelena Karyakina
The new Collective Farm Chairman Frolov comes to the village of Krutiye Gorki, where he used to
live. In the process of taking over from the former Chairman Gorelov he reveals a series of unlawful
transactions. Gorelov regards this as revenge, since his wife Anna is Gorelov's old love. Gorelov is
taken into custody and convicted.
While setting things going in his native village, Frolov is unable to forget Anna. His love for Anna
blazes anew. Having served his time, Gorelov returns to take his wife and son away from the Collective
Farm. Anna faces a difficult choice.
445
MEDOVY MESYATS (THE HONEYMOON)
1956, 93 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Klementy Minz, Yevgeny
Pomeschikov, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designers: Abram Veksler,
Semyon Mandel, misic: Mikhail Weinberg, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Lyudmila Kasatkina, Pavel Kadochnikov, Tatyana Pankova, Pavel Sukhanov,
Zoya Fyodorova, Sergey Filippov, Tatyana Peltser
The Leningrad-born Tatyana Odintsova, graduate of a medical institute, dreams of working nowhere
but in her native city. This is her reason for marrying the engineer Alexei Rybalchenko. But Alexei
consents to go to a bridge construction site in Siberia and demands that his wife come with him. The
unsettled rural life is beyond any expectations Lyudmila might have had. Shortly the construction site
gets its first patients, and there is a need to arrange medical care. Gradually, helping people, Lyudmila
is drawn into her work. Also her relationship with Alexei, all but severed due to the uncompromising
personalities of the newlyweds, straightens out.
446
NEVESTA (THE BRIDE)
1956, 87 min., b/w
Melodrama
Directors: Grigory Nikulin, Vladimir Shredel, screenplay by: Irina Kokoreva based
on Anton Chekhov’s story of the same title, camera: Vladimir Korotkov, Georgy
Kalatozov, production designers: Semyon Malkin, Alexei Fedotov, misic:
Alexander Manevich, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Tatyana Piletskaya, Yuri Puzyriov, Oleg Basilashvili, Olga Kaziko, Roza
Sverdlova, Fyodor Nikitin
447
ODNA NOCH (A SINGLE NIGHT)
1956, 102 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Maxim Ruf, Alexander Muzil, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production
designer: Mikhail Krotkin, misic: Boris Kluzner, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Konstantin Skorobogatov, Olga Lebzak, Alexander Borisov, Tamara
Alyoshina, Anna Yefimova, Alexander Sokolov, Anna Lisyanskaya, Yelena
Karyakina
A screen version of the play by Boris Gorbatov staged by the Leningrad Pushkin Drama Theatre.
1942. Fighting is in progress in the outskirts of a small town. Trying to escape from the fascist invaders
besieging the town, its residents are hastily leaving. Only the inhabitants of the old worker Bogatyriov's
house are in no hurry to get out. His younger daughter is staying on assignment of the partisans. His
daughter-in-law has a sick child. The man of the house cannot abandon his family, nor does he believe
that the town will surrender. One of his tenants is willing to serve the fascists and is expecting them;
the other is using the havoc to rob a store. Thus, over a single night, the personalities and the true
natures of the characters are revealed...
The fascists failed to seize the town, after all.
448
ONA VAS LYUBIT (SHE LOVES YOU)
1956, 85 min., color
Comedy
Directors: Semyon Derevyansky, Raphail Suslovich, screenplay: Vladimir
Polyakov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer:
Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vasily Solovyev-Sedoy, sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Georgy Vitsin, Inna Kmit, Lydia Sukharevskaya, Tamara Nosova, Alexander
Shirvindt, Igor Dmitriyev, Yevgeny Lebedev, Konstantin Sorokin
The shy, nice Kostya Kanareykin who works in a Zoo saw the portrait of the sportswoman Olya
Tsvetkova on the cover of the “Ogonyok” magazine and fell in love with her. They begin exchanging
letters. Instead of the picture of his friend Kanareykin, the photographer sends Olya one of the
handsome actor Ukhov. Olya comes to Kostya's city, and misunderstandings start to occur right away.
Towards the end everything is sorted out, and Kostya makes his declaration to Olya.
449 PRIKLYUCHENYA ARTYOMKI (ARTYOMKA'S
ADVENTURES)
1956, 80 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Andrei Apsolon, screenplay: Leonid Solovyev (based on “Artyomka in the
Circus”, a story by Ivan Vasilenko), camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production
designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Borya Alexandrov, Tito Romalio, Sergey Plotnikov, Pyotr Savin, Mikhail
Troyanovsky, Leonid Gallis, Vitaly Polizeimako, Oleg Zhakov, Tamara Alyoshina
A seaside southern town. The fatherless and motherless thirteen-year-old Artyomka was crazy about
the circus. He used to spend all the time there; it was the place of work of his friends: the clown
Kubyshka, his daughter, the circus equestrienne Lyasya, and the Negro wrestler Peps. Artyomka
happened to help the revolutionaries hide some print in the circus, but the gendarmes traced the boy.
Learning about this, the circus owner fired his friends, and they leave the town.
450
PYAT DNEY (FIVE DAYS)
1956, 29 min., b/w, wide screen
Experiment
Director: Joseph Shapiro, screenplay: Mark Lanskoy, camera: Alexander
Xenofontov, production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Anatoly Vladimirtsev, sound:
Ilya Volk
Cast: D. Milchakov, Maryana Safonova, Rem Lebedev, Yevgeny Vesnik, Masters of
Sports V. Zhdanov and A. Tarasov
A short experimental picture, the shooting of which served to put to the test the possibilities of
anamorphed optics, i.e. those of the wide screen.
The picture is comprised of fragments of a pentathlon competition incorporated into a plot. The picture
casts both Masters of Sports and actors.
451
SOLDATY (THE SOLDIERS)
1956, 106 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Victor Nekrasov (based on his story “In the
Stalingrad Trenches”), camera: Vyacheslav Fastovich, production designer: Nikolai
Suvorov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Vsevolod Safonov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Tamara Loginova, Leonid Kmit,
Nikolai Pogodin, Lyudmila Markeliya, Yuri Solovyev, Yevgeny Teterin
June, 1942. New army units are being formed in Stalingrad to defend the city. The characters of the
picture, who have retreated to the Volga with the Red Army, join them.
The battle for Stalingrad begins. The battle scenes and those of the brief respites reveal the
personalities of the skilled Battalion Commander Kerzhentsev, the outwardly clumsy “civilian”
Lieutenant Farber, the smart short-spoken Valega, the heartless career-conscious captain Abrosimov,
the valiant Platoon Leader Karnaukhov, the dashing sailor scout Chumak, the Army doctor Lyusya...
452 SOPHIA KOVALEVSKAYA (SOPHIA
KOVALEVSKAYA)
1956, 100 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Joseph Shapiro, camera: Yevgeny Kirpichev, production designer: Ivan
Ivanov, misic: Leonid Peskov, sound: Nikolai Kosarev
Cast: Yelena Junger, Lev Kolesov, Tatyana Sezenevskaya, Vladimir Uskov, Bruno
Freindlich, Olga Volkova, Pavel Sukhanov
A screen version of the performance of the same title staged by the Leningrad State Comedy Theatre
based on a the play by the Tur brothers (pen-name adopted by the playwrights Pyotr Ryzhey and
Leonid Tubelsky) featuring the life story of the remarkable Russian scientist Sophia Kovalevskaya, the
world first female professor of mathematics.
453 STARIK KHOTTABYCH (THE OLD MAN
KHOTTABYCH)
1956, 86 min., color
Adventure
Director: Gennady Kazansky, screenplay: Lazar Lagin (based on his novel of the
same title), camera: Muzakir Shurukov, production designers: Isaac Kaplan, Bella
Manevich, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Nikolai Volkov Sr., Alyosha Litvinov, Gena Khudyakov, Lyova Kovalchuk,
Maya Blinova, Yephim Kopelyan, Alexander Larikov
Taking a swim in the Moskva River, the schoolboy Volka Kostylkov finds an ancient clay vessel on its
bottom. Opened by Volka, the vessel released the Jinn Gassan Abdurakhman ibn Khottab. In
appreciation of his newly found freedom the Jinn, to whom Volka attributes the name of Khottabych,
grants his rescuer his wishes. Strange happenings begin to occur in Moscow...
 The film was awarded the Encouraging Premium of the International Film Festival in Vancouver,
Canada (1958) and the Honorary Diploma of the 1st International Children Film Festival in
Poland (1971).
454
BALTIYSKAYA SLAVA (THE BALTIC GLORY)
1957, 94 min., color
Revolutionary history
Director: Jan Fried, screenplay: Alexei Zinovyev, camera: Veniamin Levitin,
production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Gavriil Popov, sound: Vladimir
Yakovlev
Cast: Joseph Kutyansky, Pavel Kadochnikov, Alexander Borisov, Vladislav
Strzhelchik, Yephim Kopelyan, Leonid Kmit
The picture features the fight of the Baltic Fleet sailors for the revolutionary Petrograd in the fall of
1917 and is focused on the life stories of a seaman and a marine officer joining the ranks of the fighters
for the revolution.
455
SONG)
BESSMERTNAYA PESNYA (THE IMMORTAL
1957, 76 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Matvey Volodarsky, screenplay: Andrei Leontyev (based on a short story
by Victor Avdeyev), camera: Vyacheslav Fastovich, production designer: Ivan
Ivanov, misic: Jan Frenkel, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Fyodor Shmakov, Galina Karelina, Arkady Trusov, Nina Drobysheva
1920. The Red Army units drive the Whites out of a Kuban village. The wounded Red Army soldier
Yusalov opens a music school in the village. The sound of the revolutionary songs carries far beyond
the structure housing the school, firing the hate of the rich villagers. Luring Yusalov to the boggy
riverside, they kill the soldier...
After many years, the village gets a new music school bearing Yusalov's name.
456
VSEGO DOROZHE (THE MOST VALUED)
1957, 83 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Yuri Muzykant, S. Selector, screenplay: Sergey Voronin, camera:
Yevgeny Kirpichev, production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Vasily SolovyevSedoy, sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Julian Panich, Galina Karelina, Mikhail Ivanov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Yuri
Solovyev, Arkady Trusov
The young Collective Farm Chairman Roman Baklanov, an honest man of principle, erred. Giving in to
the persistent badgering of his favorite wife and her parents, Roman agreed to rescue his father-in-law,
a driver who squandered in drink some hay belonging to the Collective Farm.
Having once stumbled, Roman either voluntarily or involuntarily becomes responsible for more crimes.
Realizing that his indecisiveness is being used by dishonest persons, Roman keenly takes the situation
to heart. Not before the swindlers demand his immediate participation in their obscure doings does
Roman summon the effort to confess his faults.
457
DON KIKHOT (DON QUIXOTE)
1957, 100 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Grigory Kozintsev, screenplay: Yevgeny Schwarz, camera: Andrei
Moskvin, Apollinary Dudko, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Kara
Karayev, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Seraphima Birman, Svetlana Grigoryeva,
Tamila Agamirova, Georgy Vitsin, Bruno Freindlich, Lydia Vertinskaya
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Miguel de Cervantes.
 The film was awarded the “Femina du Cinema” Prize and the Honorary Diploma of the
International Film Festival in Brussels, Belgium (1958); the Honorary Certificate of the 1st
International Film Festival in Vancouver, Canada (1958); the Premium for the Best Actor’s Work
of the International Film Festival in Stratford, Canada (1958); the Honorary Diploma of the XII
International Film Festival in San Sebastiano, Spain (1964); the Special Premium and the
Diploma of the Jury of the National Cinema Club Federation at the XII International Film Festival
in San Sebastiano, Spain (1964).
458
DON CEZAR DE BAZAN (DON CEZAR DE BAZAN)
1957, 96 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Joseph Shapiro, screenplay: Vladimir Chestnokov, Joseph Shapiro,
camera: Apollinary Dudko, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Yuri
Sviridov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Vladimir Chestnokov, Olga Zabotkina, Fyodor Nikitin, Nikolai Boyarsky,
Natalya Dudinskaya
Based on a play by the French playwrights Philip Dumanoire and Adolph Philip Dennery staged by
Vladimir Kozhich at the Leningrad Pushkin Academic Drama Theatre.
The street dancer Maritana has captured the heart of Carl II, King of Spain. Minister Jose, enamored of
the Queen, wants to make use of this. But Maritana loves the brave and charming Don Cezar of the
impoverished ancient family of de Bazans.
Following a chain of artfully stringed critical situations vice is punished, and virtue triumphs.
459
YEGO VREMYA PRIDYET (HIS TIME WILL COME)
1957, 99 min., b/w
Biopic
Director: Mazhit Begalin, screenplay: Sergey Yermolinsky, Mikhail Bleiman,
camera: Solomon Rubashkin, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic:
Yevgeny Brusilovsky, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Nurmukhan Zhanturin, Yeleubay Umurzakov, Kalibek Kuanyshpayev,
Kurmanbek Dzhandarbekov, Gennady Michurin, Pyotr Chernov
The picture features the life story of the famous 19th century enlightener, the son of the Kazakh people
Chokan Valikhanov, an ethnographer and a famous traveller.
460 NA OSTROVE DALNEM... (ON A FARAWAY
ISLAND...)
1957, 96 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Vladimir Sutyrin (based on Alexander
Borschagovsky’s story “Missing”), camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production
designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Nikolai Timofeyev, Lev Frichinsky, Raisa Kurkina, Pyotr Savin, K. Polyakov,
Alexander Sokolov, Georgy Zhzhenov
Pursued by ships and aircraft, the search for the sailors swept out into the ocean by the storm lasted
close to three months. For close to three months the “Baklan” crew put up a courageous fight with the
elements. Finally, when those on land lost all hope of ever seeing their family and friends again, the
small tugboat slowly approached the pear.
461
NA PERELOME (ON THE BREAK)
1957, 80 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Yevgeny Mitko, camera: Vitaly Chulkov,
production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Vladimir Maklakov, sound: Boris
Khutoryansky
Cast: V. Zharikov, Nina Drobysheva, Mikhail Yekaterininsky, Yuri Sorokin, V.
Geraskin, Andrei Kostrichkin
After the death of his father the stepmother of the teenage boy Victor Tsaplin, suspecting him of
stealing a watch, sent him to an Odessa orphanage. The kids gave the newcomer an unfriendly
welcome, and when one of the staff announced that his ancient watch was missing, the blame was laid
on Victor. Entering a marine school and sailing with tipsy fishermen, Victor smashes the motorboat. He
is dismissed from the school.
Deciding to start anew in a different place, Victor leaves for the Kamchatka to work as a stoker.
462 PODDUBENSKIYE CHASTUSHKI (THE PODDUBKI
LIMERICKS)
1957, 82 min., color
Musical comedy
Director: Herbert Rappaport, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production
designer: Victor Volin, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Leopold Stepanov, Yelena Rokotova, Svetlana Karpinskaya, Mikhail Mudrov,
R. Suvorova, Galina Mochalova, Sergey Kokovkin
The picture is based on the short story of the same title by Sergey Antonov staged by the Drama Studio
of the Leningrad Kirov Palace of Culture; producers: Oscar Remez, Lev Shostak.
The village of Poddubki in the vicinity of Moscow is populated by merry, vivacious young people who
work there. The village is widely famous for its limericks: mischievous and lyrical, thoughtful and
melancholy, provocative and sharp, they can be heard everywhere from early morning well into the
night. Whoever is the author?
463
RYADOM S NAMI (AT OUR SIDE)
1957, 94 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Adolph Bergunker, screenplay: Yelena Katerli, Israel Metter, camera:
Semyon Ivanov, production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Orest Yevlakhov,
sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Leonid Bykov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Clara Luchko, Georgy Yumatov,
Nikolai Rybnikov, Oleg Yefremov, Nina Doroshina, Boris Chirkov
Having familiarized himself with the situation at the factory, the new factory newspaper editor Andrei
recognizes that the image of handsome Milovidov, a famous turner, is being upheld by the special
working environment custom-made for him. Thus, as soon as the new important order calls for a switch
from his accustomed technology, Milovidov is quick to turn it down. Self-loving and career-conscious,
he also breaks with the girl who fell in love with him.
How will the lives of the characters proceed?
464
SMERT PAZUKHINA (PAZUKHIN'S DEATH)
1957, 85 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Grigory Nikulin, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production
designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Alexander Manevich, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Mikhail Troyanovsky, Vitaly Polizeimako, Nikolai Korn, Anna Lisyanskaya,
Olga Kaziko, Nina Urgant
Based on a play by Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin staged by the Leningrad Gorky Drama Theatre;
producer: Grigory Nikulin.
The rich merchant Ivan Pazukhin dies. Waiting for him to die, his family and hangers-on start a
primitive struggle over the inheritance...
465
STEPAN KOLCHUGIN (STEPAN KOLCHUGIN)
1957, 90 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Tamara Rodionova, screenplay: Sokrat Kara (based on Part 1 of the novel
of the same title by Vasily Grossman), camera: Heinrich Marandzhyan, production
designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Nikolai Kosyrev
Cast: Seryezha Podmasteryev, Nina Mamayeva, Julian Panich, Lyudmila Makarova,
Nina Nikitina, Nikolai Timofeyev, Arkady Trusov
466
TAMBU-LAMBU (TAMBU-LAMBU)
1957, 30 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Bychkov, screenplay: Vladimir Bychkov, Yuri Printsev, camera:
Valentin Zheleznyakov, Oleg Luchinin, production designer: Leonid Platov, misic:
Alexander Manevich, sound: Nikolai Kosarev
Cast: Sasha Trusov, Vitya Perevalov, Konstantin Adashevsky
The picture features the adventures of two kids looking for the person who left his notebook in a
telephone booth.
467 ULITSA POLNA NEOZHIDANNOSTEY (THE
STREETS ARE FULL OF SURPRISES)
1957, 73 min., color
Comedy
Director: Sergey Sidelev, screenplay: Leonid Karasyev, camera: Sergey Ivanov,
production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Irina
Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Leonid Kharitonov, Vsevolod Larionov, Georgy Chernovolenko, Yakov Rodos,
Jemma Osmolovskaya, Vera Karpova, Yevgeny Leonov, Lyudmila Makarova
Through a misunderstanding, the young militiaman Vasya Shaneshkin detains and brings to the
precinct Vodnev, employed as cashier at a construction trust. His daughter Katya, a University costudent of Shaneshkin's, doesn't dare tell her father that she favours Vasya. At the same time, the
swindler Zaitsev, winning Vodnev's confidence, relieves him of a significant amount of money.
Displaying resourcefulness and courage, Shaneshkin seizes the criminal.
468
SHTORM (THE STORM)
1957, 90 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Mikhail Dubson, screenplay: Vladimir Bill-Belotserkovsky (based on his
play of the same title), camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Nikolai
Suvorov, misic: Nikolai Chervinsky, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Vsevolod Safonov, David Volosov, Emma Popova, Yevgeny Lebedev,
Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Sergey Filippov, Georgy Yumatov, Lydia Sukharevskaya
469
ANDREIKA (ANDREIKA)
1958, 90 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexander Popov, camera: Semyon Ivanov,
production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Vladimir Maklakov, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Nikolai Timofeyev, Lilia Gritsenko, Alexander Larikov, Borya Vasilyev, Kolya
Melnikov, Kirill Lavrov
Petrograd. Summer of 1917. A worker's son Andreika and a friend of his decide to help the grown-ups
hide Lenin who is being sought by agents of the Provisional Government. One of the agents, Ensign
Zvonkov, posing as a soldier released from the army and working as a janitor, evokes the boys' trust.
Yet, quite soon they see their mistake. Meeting “Uncle Vitya” in the street and following him,
Andreika and his chum help the grown-ups arrest Zvonkov.
470
V DNI OKTYABRYA (IN THE DAYS OF OCTOBER)
1958, 103 min., color
Drama
Director: Sergey Vasilyev, screenplay: Sergey Vasilyev, Nikolai Otten, camera:
Apollinary Dudko, production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Boris Chaikovsky,
sound: Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Vladimir Chestnokov, Leonid Lyubashevsky, Alexander Borisov, Sergey
Plotnikov, Kirill Lavrov, Anatoly Fedorinov, Galina Vodyanitskaya
A historical picture featuring the revolutionary events of October, 1917.
The screenplay is based on “Ten Days That Shook the World”, a documentary publicistic book by the
famous American journalist John Reed.
471
VEDMA (THE WITCH)
1958, 31 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Abramov, camera: Yevgeny Kirpichev,
production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Boris Klyuzner, sound: Irina
Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Erast Garin, Alla Larionova, Nikolai Rybnikov
Based on a short story of the same title by Anton Chekhov.
 The film was awarded the “Grand Prix Eurovision” of the 1st International Television Film
Festival in Cannes, France (1961) and the Premium for the Best Short Film at the V International
Film Festival in San Francisco, USA (1961).
472
GO ON)
GOROD ZAZHIGAYET OGNI (THE CITY LIGHTS
1958, 97 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Vengerov, camera: Heinrich Marandzhyan,
production designer: Victor Volin, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Yevgeny
Nesterov
Cast: Nikolai Pogodin, Yelena Dobronravova, Oleg Borisov, Lilia Alyoshnikova,
Yuri Lyubimov, Alexander Sokolov, Alisa Freindlich
Based on “In His Native City”, a story by Victor Nekrasov.
The ex-scout Captain Nikolai Mityasov returns to his native city which has been destroyed by the
fascists. His heavy wound is keeping him from his favorite sports. Nikolai's confusion and
embarrassment have been further enhanced by his wife's unfaithfulness. The new friends helped the
man back from the front enroll in the Engineering and Construction Institute and take an active part in
the peaceful working life.
473
DEN PERVUY (DAY ONE)
1958, 91 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Konstantin Isayev, camera: Anatoly
Nazarov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Oleg Kravaychuk, sound:
Alexander Becker
Cast: Edward Bredun, Oksana Petrenko, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Konstantin
Skorobogatov, Alexander Larikov, Yuri Tolubeyev
The Petrograd worker Nikolai Timofeyev is always in the thick of events. We see him in the Smolny,
which is housing the headquarters of the Revolution; in the Peter and Paul Fortress, obtaining arms for
the workers; in the Winter Palace, delivering the ultimatum to the ministers of the Provisional
Government. Always at his side is his wife Katya, an expectant mother.
At the very time when Nikolai is storming the Winter Palace with the armed workers, on the marble
staircase of the Headquarters in the Palace Square a son is born to Katya.
Day one of the Soviet Republic dawns, being also the first day in the life of Nikolai Timofeyev's son.
474 DOM NAPROTIV (THE BUILDING ACROSS THE
STREET)
1958, 31 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Sergey Voronin, camera: Vitaly
Chulkov, production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: extracts from pieces by
Sergey Rakhmaninov, sound: Alexander Becker
Cast: Galina Dunayeva, Lyudmila Kasyanova, Gleb Selyanin, Stepan Krylov,
Alexander Orlov
The driver Vasya, in hospital with bad bone fractures, doesn't believe in getting well. He gloom is
further enhanced by the building across the street that is falling apart.
But one day workers arrive to tear down the ruins and begin new construction. Chatting to the builders
and watching them at work, Vasya gradually comes alive, further helped by the jokes of the young
stonemason Tasya.
Time passes. Vasya gets well, the building is ready, the workers have left, but Vasya's friendship with
Tasya perseveres.
475
DOROGOY MOY CHELOVEK (MY DEAR MAN)
1958, 108 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Joseph Heifitz, screenplay: Yuri Herman, Joseph Heifitz, camera: Mikhail
Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production designers: Bella Manevich, Isaac Kaplan, misic:
Venedict Pushkov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Alexei Batalov, Inna Makarova, Leonid Bykov, Boris Chirkov, Ivan
Pereverzev, Yuri Medvedev, Bella Vinogradova, Lydia Shtykan
The screenplay became the basis for the novel “The Cause You Serve” by Yuri Herman.
The main character, Vladimir Ustimenko, is a doctor. Life has not been kind to him. His father perished
in Spain in the 1930-s. Invariably, no matter where his destiny took him, Vladimir stuck to the ideals
and principles he developed back in his youth: as a student of the medical institute, in the capacity of
army surgeon during the war, and in the post-war years when he became Head Physician in charge of a
municipal hospital. Justice and selflessness have always been parts of Ustimenko's approach both to the
cause he serves and the people he meets at different stages of his life.
This includes his girlfriend Varya, their friendship going back to well before the war and supporting
both of them throughout their long lives.
476
YEVGENY ONEGIN (EUGENE ONEGIN)
1958, 108 min., color
Drama
Director: Roman Tikhomirov, screenplay: Alexander Ivanovsky, Roman
Tikhomirov, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov,
sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Ariadna Shengelaya, Svetlana Nemolyayeva, Vadim Medvedev, Igor Ozerov,
Ivan Petrov. Singing: Galina Vishnevskaya, Larisa Avdeyeva, Yevgeny Kibalko,
Anton Grigoryev, Ivan Petrov
A screen version of the opera of the same title by Pyotr Chaikovsky based on the versed novel by
Alexander Pushkin; musical manager and conductor: Boris Khaykin.
 The film was awarded the Diploma of the XIII International Film Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland
(1959).
477 KOLOVRASCHENIYE ZHIZNI (THE LIFE'S
TURMOIL)
1958, 30 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Joseph Shapiro, camera: Konstantin Sobol, production
designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Irina
Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Arkady Trusov, Lyubov Malinovskaya, Victor Chekmaryev
Based on a short story of the same title by O'Henry.
478
KOCHUBEY (KOCHUBEY)
1958, 108 min., b/w, wide screen
Screen version
Director: Yuri Ozerov, screenplay: Arkady Perventsev, camera: Sergey Ivanov,
production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Yuri Levitin, sound: Nikolai Kosarev,
Ilya Volk
Cast: Nikolai Rybnikov, Pavel Usovnichenko, Lyudmila Khityayeva, Julian Panich,
Konstantin Sorokin, Fyodor Shmakov, Oleg Zhakov, Vladimir Tatosov
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Arkady Perventsev.
The world was into the year 1918. Word of the brigade led by the brave and reckless Kochubey was all
over the Kuban. Many a time did he drive the White troops out of villages with his unexpected
maneuvers. Many a time his attack, delivered out of the blue, defeated the armed enemy units. But by
and by, the fearless Kochubey came to understand that it takes also military discipline and mastery of
military science to achieve a complete victory...
479
MISTER IKS (MISTER X)
1958, 95 min., color
Musical
Director: Yuzef Khmelnitsky, screenplay: Nora Rubunstein, Yuzef Khmelnitsky,
camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designers: Abram Veksler, Yevgeny Yeney,
sound: Rostislav Lapinsky
Cast: Georg Ots, Marina Yurasova, Anatoly Korolkevich, Zoya Vinogradova, Nikolai
Kashirsky, Glikeria Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Grigory Yaron, Yephim Kopelyan
Based on “The Circus Princess”, a musical comedy by the Hungarian composer Imre Kalman.
480
NASH KORRESPONDENT (OUR REPORTER)
1958, 101 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Granik, screenplay: Sergey Antonov, camera: Veniamin Levitin,
production designer: Victor Volin, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Vladimir
Yakovlev
Cast: Nelly Podgornaya, Inna Makarova, Felix Razdyakonov, Rolan Bykov, Vitaly
Konyayev
The meetings on Moscow construction sites and in the faraway virgin lands, the regular stories and
essays focused on specific problems help the young reporter Tanya Nikitina gain professional skill.
Tanya's essay about the people developing virgin lands is a success, but unexpectedly she finds out that
in her haste she has slandered a famous woman working there. Striving to reinstate the truth, the
reporter writes a book about the heroine.
481
NOCHNOY GOST (THE NIGHT GUEST)
1958, 58 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, camera: Vladimir Burykin,
production designer: Abram Veksler, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Arnold
Shargorodsky
Cast: Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Alexandra Panova, Lyubov Sokolova, Valentina
Pugacheva, Georgy Zhzhenov, Mikhail Gluzsky, Igor Yefimov
Based on a short story of the same title by Yuri Nagibin.
Late on a summer night, a new tenant, Pal Palych, appears in a cottage sitting on the shore of a
beautiful lake where fishermen use to stay. Soon both the landlady and the other tenants get the feeling
that behind the outward charm and the nice empty words is an indifferent and intensely self-loving
person.
482 OTTSY I DETI (THE FATHERS AND THE
CHILDREN)
1958, 103 min., color
Drama
Directors: Adolph Bergunker, Natalya Rashevskaya, screenplay: Alexander Vitov
(Alexander Vitenzon), Natalya Rashevskaya, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production
designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Victor Avdyushko, Nikolai Sergeyev, Yekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Edward
Martsevich, Alexei Konsovsky, Bruno Freindlich, Alla Larionova, Izolda Izvitskaya
Based on a novel of the same title by Ivan Turgenev.
483
PAKHITA (PAKHITA)
1958, 32 min., b/w
Screened ballet
Director: Mikhail Shapiro, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, sound: Yevgeny
Nesterov
A screen version of a ballet performance to the music by Ludwig Minkus staged by the Leningrad
Academic Small Opera Theatre; producer: Marius Petitpas, revival: Konstantin Boyarsky.
484 POD STUK KOLYOS (TO THE RUMBLE OF
WHEELS)
1958, 71 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev,
production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Boris
Khutoryansky
Cast: Iya Arepina, Alla Firsova, Pavel Kashlakov, Victor Adeyev, Ivan Selyanin, Igor
Dmitriyev, Herman Khovanov
Based on “To School” and “Love”, short stories by Yuri Nagibin.
Sitting in a compartment of a train car, Yegor is reminiscing about his childhood and his friendship
with the merriest and naughtiest of the village girls, Nastenka. Yegor left to get an education, while
Nastenka became a charming young lady, gave up school and started work at the local Leisure Home.
The guests pronounced her to be heading towards a brilliant acting career, and Nastya forgot her
childhood friend. In her turn, she was also forgotten by the departed guests from the capital, who
promised to summon her to Moscow.
Coming home for his vacation, Yegor was at a loss for words needed to support the young girl.
At this time, on the train, Yegor feels that he is also responsible for Nastya's fate. Jumping off the
moving train, Yegor returns to the village along the railway track.
485
POSLEDNY DYUYM (THE LAST INCH)
1958, 90 min., color
Drama
Directors: Theodore Wulfovich, Nikita Kurikhin, screenplay: Leonid Belokurov,
camera: Samuil Rubashkin, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Mikhail
Weinberg, sound: Georgy Salye
Cast: Slava Muratov, Nikolai Kryukov, Mikhail Gluzsky
Based on a short story of the same title by James Aldridge.
An excellent but elderly pilot Ben agrees to do some dangerous underwater filming for the TV.
Accompanied by his twelve-year-old son Davy, he flies a light sports plane to Shark Bay. Davy sits on
the shore for a long time. At last, a blood-streaked Ben emerges from the ocean. Painfully, the boy
drags his heavy father to the plane...
486
PUCHINA (THE DEEP)
1958, 99 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Antonin Dawson, Yuri Muzykant, camera: Muzakir
Shurukov, production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound:
Anna Volokhova
Cast: Alexander Borisov, Natalya Rashevskaya, Adolph Shestakov, Vasily
Merkuryev, Anna Lisyanskaya, Mikhail Yekaterininsky, Alexander Sokolov, Nina
Mamayeva, Masha Yekaterininskaya
Based on a play of the same title by Alexander Ostrovsky.
487
SHOFYOR PONEVOLE (A RELUCTANT DRIVER)
1958, 93 min., color
Comedy
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Sergey Mikhalkov, Klimenty Minz,
camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Mikhail
Weinberg, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Antony Khodursky, Maria Mironova, Sergey Filippov, Lilia Gritsenko, Irina
Zarubina, Vera Karpova, Yuri Solovyev, Pavel Sukhanov, Pyotr Aleynikov
On an early summer morning Head Office manager Pastukhov and his driver Savrasov set off on
vacation by car. At their very first rest stop Savrasov had a severe attack of the gout. Wrapping his
driver companion in his blazer, Pastukhov takes him to a hospital, where, due to the documents in the
blazer pocket, he is taken for the Head Office manager. At the same time, struggling through recurrent
inconvenience and awkwardness resulting from the activities of his employees, Pastukhov painfully
reaches the District seat.
488
SHOPENIANA (CHOPINIANA)
1958, 31 min., b/w
Screened ballet
Directors: Isaac Menaker, Boris Fenster, camera: Apollinary Dudko, sound:
Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Ninel Petrova, Irina Kolpakova, Lyudmila Alekseyeva, Vladlen Semyonov
A screen version of a ballet to the music of Frederic Chopin staged by the Leningrad State Academic
Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre.
489 AKTYER NIKOLAI CHERKASOV (THE ACTOR
NIKOLAI CHERKASOV)
1959, 66 min., b/w
Feature/publicistic picture
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Alexei Leontyev, Joseph Wolfson,
Nikolai Cherkasov, camera: Victor Maximovich, production designer: Boris
Burmistrov, sound: Alexander Bekker
A TV picture featuring the creative activity of the actor Nikolai Cherkasov.
490 V TVOIKH RUKAKH ZHIZN (YOU HOLD LIFE IN
YOUR HANDS)
1959, 91 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Leonid Agranovich, Arkady Sakhnin,
camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Oleg
Karavaychuk, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Oleg Strizhenov, Joseph Kutyansky, Victor Chekhmarev, Herman Yushko,
Clara Luchko, Marina Strizhenova
The picture is about the courage of Soviet sappers, clearing mines from a big ammunition dump left
behind by the fascists a the city block and discovered in the course of construction of an apartment
building 15 years after the war.
491
GORYACHAYA DUSHA (THE BURNING SOUL)
1959, 88 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Yevgeny Nemchenko, screenplay: Vladimir Popov, Yelena Lenskaya,
camera: Semyon Ivanov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, Mikhail Ivanov,
misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Rostislav Lapinsky
Cast: Vasily Vekshin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Vasily Merkuryev, Nikolai
Yemelyanov, Oleg Basilashvili, Alina Nemchenko, Igor Vladimirov
The young steel founder Fyodor Shebalin has developed an ardent wish to implement a new method of
mutual training in the best working skills in his factory. The management and the old workers are in no
hurry to change the proven old ways. The impatient young people fail the trial melting. The engineer
Yasnova is sure that the productivity of the furnaces can be increased without rebuilding them.
What will the factory management decide?
492 DOROGA UKHODIT VDAL (THE ROAD
DISAPPEARS INTO THE DISTANCE)
1959, 63 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Vekhotko, screenplay: Alexei Leontyev, camera: Oleg
Kukhovarenko, production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Dmitry Tolstoy, sound:
Anna Volokhova
Cast: Julia Tsoglin, Yuri Solovyev, Mikhail Troyanovsky, G. Osipenko, E. Popov
Graduating from the medical institute, Lena Shatrova was really piqued to wind up in a shabby district
hospital. Not before saving a boy sick in a distant village she had difficulties reaching did she come to
understand the need for medical care experienced by people independent of where they live.
493 DOSTIGAYEV I DRUGIYE (DOSTIGAYEV AND
OTHERS)
1959, 101 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Yuri Muzykant, Natalya Rashevskaya, camera: Veniamin
Levitin, production designer: Yakov Rivosh, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound:
Boris Antonov
Cast: Vitaly Polizeimako, Nina Olkhina, Inna Yefremova, Mikhail Ivanov, Vasily
Sofronov, Sergey Yursky, Yelena Granovskaya, Olga Kaziko, Vladislav Strzhelchik,
Yephim Kopelyan, Yevgeny Lebedev
Based on a play of the same title by Maxim Gorky staged by the Leningrad Gorky Drama Theatre;
producer: Natalya Rashevskaya.
494
ZHEREBYENOK (THE COLT)
1959, 42 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, camera: Yevgeny Kirpichev,
production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Vasily Solovyev-Sedoy, sound:
Anna Volokhova
Cast: Iya Arepina, Alla Firsova, Pavel Kashlakov, Victor Adeyev, Ivan Selyanin, Igor
Dmitriyev, Herman Khovanov
Based on a short story of the same title by Mikhail Sholokhov.
The mare belonging to Trofim, who is part of a Red Army squadron, has a colt. In a battle occurring
shortly the colt lost his mother and didn't catch up with the Read Army unit until the next day, and then
with the White Kazakhs. Hearing his mother's call from across the river, the colt rushes into the water,
but is no match for the swift current. Trofim hurries to his rescue. When the Red Army soldier and the
colt scramble on shore, a bullet fired by an officer of the Whites kills Trofim.
 The film was awarded the Premium of the YII International Film Festival in Oberhausen, the
German Federal Republic (1961).
495
ZAGADKA N.F.I. (THE ENIGMA OF N.F.I.)
1959, 61 min., b/w, TV
Feature/publicistic picture
Director: Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Irakly Andronikov, Sergey Vladimirsky,
camera: Vyacheslav Fastovich, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic:
Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Irakly Andronikov, Seraphima Bierman, I. Vardadze, M. Gvetadze, I. Imereli,
Yelizaveta Uvarova
The picture deals with literary and artistic research methods. In the TV picture the prominent researcher
and scientist Irakly Andronikov tells about the research he did in the Caucasus trying to identify
locations bearing ties to Lermontov and the name of the woman who inspired the numerous poems
dedicated by Lermontov to N.F.I.
496
LIBERAL (THE LIBERAL)
1959, 18 min., b/w
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Mikhail Yershov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production
designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Lev Stepanov, Svetlana Mazovetskaya, Yevgeny Grigoryev, Roza Sverdlova,
Tamara Timofeyeva, Pavel Pervushin, Fyodor Fedorovsky
Based on a short story of the same title by Anton Chekhov.
497 LYUDI GOLUBYKH REK (THE PEOPLE OF THE
BLUE RIVERS)
1959, 86 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Andrei Apsolon, screenplay: Oleg Sagan-ool, Stepan Saryg-ool, Leonid
Solovyev, camera: Muzakir Shurukov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic:
Nadezhda Simonyan, Alexei Chyrgal-ool, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: P. Nikolaiev, N. Olzey-ool, Maxim Munzuk, Zh. Tursunov, Vera Karpova,
Yeleubay Umurzakov
Mergen returns to his native Tuva. He is an engineer fresh from the institute, set on making his native
land even more beautiful. Soon enough, he gets a chance to apply himself. A flood has destroyed an old
bridge across a turbulent river, and Maxim begins the construction of a new and solid modern bridge.
498 NE IMEY STO RUBLEY... (RATHER THAN A
HUNDRED ROUBLES...)
1959, 87 min., color
Comedy
Director: Gennady Kazansky, screenplay: Boris Laskin, Vladimir Polyakov,
camera: Muzakir Shurukov, production designers: Abram Veskler, Yevgeny
Yeney, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Rostislav Lapinsky
Cast: Alexander Nikitin, Pavel Rudakov, Lyudmila Shagalova, Alina Nemchenko,
Yevgeny Leonov, Stepan Krylov, V. Kharitonov
All vocations have champions in ardent love with them. One such was Ivan Andreievich Bazanov,
Director of the Museum of Local Lore. Setting out in search of a hidden treasure, he lured along the
people he chanced to meet. Nadya, the daughter of a railway guard, Nina Platonovna, the botanist who
missed her bus, the students of the conservatoire with nowhere to spend the night, and Gulyayev,
Bazanov's neighbor — all of them succumb to the lore researcher's bountiful and vivid imagination and
join in his search for the country's riches. True friendship and true love proved to be their most valuable
finds.
499
NEVSKIYE MELODII (THE NEVA TUNES)
1959, 71 min., color
Filmed concert
Director: Joseph Shapiro, screenplay: Alexander Khazin, camera: Alexander
Xenofontov, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Vasily Solovyev-Sedoy,
sound: Grigory Elbert, Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Alexei Kozhevnikov, Grenada Mnatsakanova, Pyotr Merkuryev, Sergey
Filippov
The picture features a young designer embarking on composing a merry musical revue with some
friends of his, and the results of his efforts.
500
NEOPLACHENNY DOLG (THE UNPAID DEBT)
1959, 82 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, camera: Samuil Rubashkin,
production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Irina
Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Daniil Ilchenko, E. Prokhnitskaya, Nina Antonova, Victor Markin, B.
Vladimirov, Boris Novikov, Vladimir Samoylov
Winter. At a tiny railway station where inter-city trains pause for no more than a couple of minutes, the
old horse driver Marushkin meets Lyusya Krechetova, the new agronomist fresh from the institute. At
first she curiously takes in the new people and the new environment, but in no time at all she becomes
irritated by such small things as the lights going out, the missing supply of water...
She doesn't notice the intensity of work displayed by her new acquaintances: the young postwoman, her
co-student gardener in love with her, the new Collective Farm Chairman, the old man Marushkin who
feels in charge of the district.
Thinking and caring of nothing but her personal well-being, which is not going to be achieved here,
Lyusya abandons everything and leaves.
Where to?
501 POVEST O MOLODOZHONAKH (A STORY OF
NEWLYWEDS)
1959, 82 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Sergey Sidelev, screenplay: Alexander Khazin, camera: Mikhail Magid,
Lev Sokolsky, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Vasily SolovyevSedoy, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Vera Pashennaya, Tatyana Peltser, Kyunna Ignatova, Svetlana Zhgun, Anatoly
Kuznetsov, Yevgeny Leonov, Alisa Freindlich, Kirill Lavrov, Sergey Yursky
The building on the Neva bank forever remains home for all who grew up there. It is the annual
meeting place of the former charges of the orphanage. One of them, coming to meet the headmistress
Olga Nikolaievna, is Shura, accompanied by her husband. Her long-time friends gave the newlyweds a
warm welcome and wished them happiness. Yet, in a short while a silly quarrel drove the young couple
apart. One couldn't be sure of the outcome, but luckily Shura came to see her friends in the building on
the Neva.
502 PODNYATAYA TSELINA (VIRGIN LAND
DEVELOPED)
1959, Part 1 (a trilogy), 95 min., color
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Yuri Lukin, Fyodor Shakhmagonov,
camera: Vyacheslav Fastovich, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Oleg
Karavaychuk, sound: Georgy Salye
Cast: Pyotr Chernov, Yevgeny Matveyev, Fyodor Shmakov, Vladimir Dorofeyev,
Lyudmila Khityayeva, Pyotr Glebov, Victor Chekhmarev, Leonid Kmit
Based on a novel of the same title by Mikhail Sholokhov.
503 SSORA V LUKASHAKH (THE QUARREL IN
LUKASHI)
1959, 93 min., color
Comedy
Director: Maxim Ruf, screenplay: Victor Kurochkin, camera: Sergey Ivanov,
production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Valentin Levashov, sound: Boris
Khutoryansky
Cast: Sergey Plotnikov, Kirill Lavrov, Leonid Bykov, Inga Budkevich, Galina
Teplinskaya, Galina Vasilyeva, Pavel Volkov, Valentina Telegina
Victor Tuz was crazy about art and loved to sing, but for the lack of other candidates the Collective
Farm Chairman Trofimov sent him to be trained as a mechanic. Trofimov's own daughter Liza doesn't
like rural life, dreaming of the city. Kostya Lastochkin is an excellent mechanic, but he comes home
only on vacations, still due to complete his term in the Army. Everyone in Lukashi welcomes the
young lieutenant who is clever with his hands. The nice modest girl Katya is especially appreciative of
his visits.
504
SYN IRISTONA (IRISTON'S SON)
1959, 97 min., color
Publicistic/feature picture
Director: Vladimir Chebotarev, screenplay: Roman Fatuyev, Maxim Tsagarayev,
camera: Edward Rozovsky, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Ilya
Gabarayev, sound: Nikolai Kosarev
Cast: Vladimir Tkhapsayev, Lia Eliava, Nikolai Volkov, Pavel Kadochnikov, V.
Kosarev, Z. Tuayev, Mairbek Tsalikov
The picture features the life story of the prominent 19th century Osset poet Kosta Khetagurov.
505
TETYA LUSHA (AUNT LUSHA)
1959, 14 min., b/w, TV
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Joseph Shapiro, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production
designer: Ivan Ivanov, sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Lilia Gurova, Dolorez Stolbova, Oleg Chromenkov, Nikolai Kuzmin
Aunt Lusha has been holding the position of Collective Farm Chairman for a dozen years. She has done
a lot for her co-villagers. It is harvest season, but the driver wants to quit and go to work at the
Machine/Tractor Maintenance Shop, the district authorities won't allocate a thrasher, and it is time to
get the animal farm ready for winter. All the decisions pending are urgent and cannot be delayed. Thus,
in caring about her work and about other people, has Lusha's youth slipped away. Perhaps it is time to
think of herself? Especially since Aunt Lusha's old age is still quite a long way off....
Loosely based on a short story of the same title by Sergey Antonov.
506 CHOLPON-UTRENNYAYA ZVEZDA (CHOLPON —
THE MORNING STAR)
1959, 76 min., color
Filmed ballet
Director: Roman Tikhomirov, screenplay: Isaac Menaker, Nurdin Tugelov,
Apollinary Dudko, Roman Tikhomirov, camera: Apollinary Dudko, production
designer: Alexander Black, misic: Mikhail Rauhverger, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Reyna Chokoyeva, Uran Sarbagishev, Nurdin Tugelov, Bibisara
Beyshenaliyeva, Sapar Abduzhalilov
A filmed ballet starring actors of the Kirghiz State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Both the ballet and the picture are based on a Kirghiz folk legend.
507
SHINEL (THE GREATCOAT)
1959, 75 min., color
Drama
Director: Alexei Batalov, screenplay: Leonid Solovyev, camera: Heinrich
Marandzhyan, production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Nikolai Sidelnikov,
sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Rolan Bykov, Yuri Tolubeyev, A. Yezhkina, Yelena Ponsova, Georgy Teikh,
Nina Urgant, Alexander Sokolov
Based on a story of the same title by Nikolai Gogol filmed to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the
writer's birth.
508
ANAFEMA (ANATHEMA)
1960, 45 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Sergei Gippius, screenplay: Leonid Solovyov, camera: Alexei Karpukhin,
production designer: Alexei Fedorov, music from pieces by Alexander Skryabin,
sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Sergei Krylov, Klara Fadeyeva, Igor Yefimov, Nikolai Gavrilov
Based on a short story by Alexander Kuprin
509
BALTIYSKOYE NEBO (BALTIC SKY)
1960 — 1961, 2 parts, 1st — 89 min., 2nd — 83 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Vengerov, camera: Henrich Marandzyan,
production designer: Viktor Volin, misic: Isaak Schwarts, sound: Yevgeny
Nesterov
Cast: Pyotr Glebov, Vsevolod Platov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Rolan Bykov, Mikhail
Kozakov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Borisov
Based on a novel by Nikolai Chukovsky dealing with the heroic battle for Leningrad besieged
by the Nazis during the days of World War II.
510 GUSHCHAK IZ RIO DE JANEIRO (GUSHCHAK
FROM RIO DE JANEIRO)
1960, 56 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Arkady Shtaden, screenplay: Alexander Minchkovsky, camera:Anatoly
Nazarov, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Nikolai Chervinsky, sound:
Alexander Bekker
Cast: Viktor Sokolovsky, Yevgeniya Neverovsky, Alexei Kurikhin, Alexander
Susnin
Story of a hairdresser Gushchak who after long wanderings around the world returns to his
native village. At first, he finds it difficult to
adapt to the new situation. But as time passes Gushchak feels the
kindness and care of people around him, and he becomes a full and equal member of the
community.
511
DAMA S SOBACHKOI (LADY WITH A LAP DOG)
1960, 83 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Iosif Heifits, camera: Andrei Moskvin, Dmitry
Meskhiyev, production designers: Bella Manevich, Isaak Kaplan, misic: Nadezhda
Simonyan, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Iya Savvina, Alexei Batalov, Nina Alisova, Panteleimon Krymov, Yuri
Medvedev, Vladimir Erenberg
Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
 The film was awarded the Special Premium for Humanism of the International Film Festival in
Cannes, France (1960).
 The actress Iya Savvina was honored the Special Premium of the International Film Festival in
Cannes, France (1960).
512
DO BUDUSHCHEI VESNY (UNTIL NEXT SPRING)
1960, 57 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Sergei Voronin, camera: Semyon Ivanov,
production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Anna
Volokhova
Cast: Innokentiy Smoktunovsky, Anna Arkhipenko, Mariya Prizvan-Sokolova
The young heroine of the film is deceived by the man she loves and has lost faith in people's
decency. But the warm and loving care of her teacher allows her to regain faith in people.
513
DOMOI (HOMEWARD BOUND)
1960, 73 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Arkady Abramov, screenplay: Pyotr Beloborodov, camera: Eduard
Rozovsky, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Boris Klyuzner, sound:
Irina Chernakhovskaya
Cast: Ivan Pereverzev, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Maya Menglet, Alexander Sokolov, Kirill
Lavrov
After five months of work on a trawler in the ocean, Stepan Lezhnev
decides to spend his leave in his native village. After gathering
with friends and relatives, participating in solving the small and
major problems of the collective farm, Stepan wants to stay in the
village forever.
514
I SNOVA UTRO (MORNING ONCE AGAIN)
1960, 74 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Gennady Kazansky, screenplay: Grigory Belenky, Leonid Maltsev,
camera: Muzakir Shurukov, production designer: Vasily Zachinayev, misic:
Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Rostislav Lapinsky
Cast: Vladimir Samoilov, Kyunna Ignatova, Boris Ryzhukhin, Natalya Medvedeva,
Nikolai Kharitonov
Professor Severtsev, a talented surgeon, looses both legs in an accident in order to save the life
of a child. It seems that he will never again be able to work as a surgeon. However, his friends,
ex-patients, and the love of a faithful and devoted woman allow him to regain confidence in
himself and return to his work.
515
KROTKAYA (THE MEEK ONE)
1960, 68 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Alexander Borisov, screenplay: Alexander Borisov, Akiba Golburt,
camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Georgy Kropachyev, misic:
Leonid Prigozhin, sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Iya Savvina, Andrei Popov, Vera Kuznetsova, Panteleimon Krymov
Based on a novel of the same title by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
516
LYUBLYU TEBYA, ZHIZN (I LOVE LIFE)
1960, 83 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Mikhail Berestinsky, camera:Vladimir
Burykin, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Oleg Karavaichuk, sound:
Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Gennady Vernov, Ariadna Shengelaya, Irina Bunina, Alexei Kozhevnikov,
Vladimir Chestnokov
A young working girl falls into the hands of a religious sect. Only the timely help and support of
her friends allow the girl to return back to normal life.
517 MOST PEREYTI NELZYA (THE BRIDGE CAN NOT
BE CROSSED)
1960, 90 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Teodor Vulfovich, Nikita Kurikhin, screenplay: Teodor Vulfovich,
camera: Samuil Rubashkin, production designers: Semyon Mandel, Vsevolod
Ulitko, Tamara Vasilkovskaya, misic: Mikhail Vainberg, sound:Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Nikolai Volkov, Lidiya Sukharevskaya, Grigory Gai, Georgy Shevtsov,
Vladimir Kazarinov, Yuri Dedovich, Rolan Bykov, Lyudmila Makarova
Screen version of Arthur Miller's play “Death of a Salesman”.
Willy Loman had been working for the company for more than thirty years. He is over sixty.
The young owner of “Wagner and Co.” fires the old salesman who can no longer carry out his
work well. The two sons of the hero do not live up to his expectations, they do not want to
support their father and mother who are getting old. The hero of the film believes that life has no
meaning any longer, and the only one way out of this situation is to collect the life insurance
money by taking his own life.
518 OSTOROZHNO, BABUSHKA! (BEWARE OF
GRANDMOTHER!)
1960, 80 min., color
Comedy
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Konstantin Isayev, camera: Semyon
Ivanov, production designers: Yevgeny Yeney, Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Vasily
Solovyov-Sedoi, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Faina Ranevskaya, Ariadna Shengelaya, Lyudmila Markeliya, Svetlana
Kharitonova, Nina Urgant, Yuly Panich, Leonid Bykov, Sergei Filippov
Lena is the director of the new municipal cultural center. The construction of the center is still
under way, but amateur theatrical companies have already began their rehearsals. Local
bureaucrats do not see much use in the project and suspend the construction. Lena's
grandmother finds out about her granddaughter's troubles and energetically takes the matter in
her hands. She summons old men and women from all over the town and soon the construction
work is in full swing.
519
PIKOVAYA DAMA (THE QUEEN OF SPADES)
1960, 100 min., color
Film-opera
Director: Roman Tikhomirov, screenplay: Georgy Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev, Pavel
Weisbrem, Roman Tikhomirov, Boris Yarustovsky, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Igor Vuskovich, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Oleg Strizhenov (Zurab Andzhaparidze singing), Olga Krasina (Tamara
Milashkina singing), Yelena Polevitskaya (Svetlana Preobrazhenskaya singing),
Valentin Kulik (Yevgeny Kibkalo singing), Vadim Medvedev (Vasily Nechipailo
singing), Irina Gubanova (Larisa Avdeyeva singing)
Adaptation of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s opera based on a novel by Alexander Pushkin
520
PLOKHAYA PRIMYETA (BAD OMEN)
1960, 29 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Natalya Troshchenko, screenplay: Alexander Yurovsky, camera:Viktor
Karasayev, Alexander Chirov, production designer: Vasily Zachinayev, misic:
Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Rostislav Lapinsky
Cast: Svetlana Druzhinina, Boris Ryzhukhin, Stepan Krylov, Alexander Susnin,
Viktor Terekhov, Pavel Pyervushin
Screen version of a story by A. Chuzhmir
521
POBYEDITEL (WINNER)
1960, 46 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Viktor Sadovsky, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, camera: Vladimir
Maksimovich, production designer: Viktor Savostin, misic: Alexei Lobkovsky,
sound: Nikolai Kosarev
Cast: Igor Yefimov, Grenada Mnatsakanova, Boris Ryzhukhin, Tamara Aleksina,
Alexei Kozhevnikov
A renowned sportsman, champion in skating, Alexei Streshnev, realizes that his time is gone
and it would be better to leave the ice track before he suffers a defeat. His fellow sportsmen and
his wife are against this decision and, most important, he is the main rival of his ex-pupil, a
promising young athlete Vasily Kurbatov. Streshnev sacrifices his reputation of an undefeated
champion and helps a young sportsman to set a new record.
522
POIMANNYI MONAKH (A TRAPPED MONK)
1960, 67 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Grigory Nikulin, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky,
production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Arkady Manevich, sound: Boris
Khutoryansky
Cast: Vasily Politseymako, Viktor Chekmariov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Vladimir
Matusov, Mikhail Ivanov, Irina Davydova
Film version of a theatrical production based on Henry Fielding's Comedy
523 REBYATA S KANONYERSKOGO (BOYS FROM
KANONYERSKY ISLAND)
1960, 71 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Rady Pogodin, Mikhail Demidenko, camera:
Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic:Nadezhda Simonyan,
sound: Semyon Shumyacher, Grigory Elbert
Cast: Valya Yefimov, Volodya Osobik, Yura Melentyev, Lyusya Barsukova, Galya
Gulina, Liliya Gritsenko, Vladimir Samoilov
Two friends Valya and Slava invent an exciting game for children from their neighborhood.
They pretend to be the crew on 'battleship' which is in fact an old deserted barn. Children are
eager to do something really useful. One day they get a letter from their older friend. He is
participating in the cultivation of virgin farm land and complains that there are not enough good
tractors. The children now find a serious occupation for themselves.They start collecting scrap
metal which can be used for building a new tractor. They make use of everything — even the
long forgotten sunk barge.
524 KHOREOGRAFICHESKIYE MINIATYURY
(CHOREOGRAPHIC MINIATURES)
1960
Film-ballet
Director: Apollinary Dudko, Leonid Yakobson, screenplay: Apollinary Dudko,
Leonid Yakobson, camera: Konstantin Sobol, production designer: Yevgeny
Yeney, sound: Lev Valter
Ballet miniatures performed by ballet dancers of Leningrad theatres.
525 CHELOVEK S BUDUSHCHIM (A MAN WITH A
FUTURE)
1960, 76 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Alexei Salynsky, camera: Yevgeny
Kirpichev, production designer: Semyon Malkin, music: Nikolai Chervinsky,
sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Gennady Nilov, Izolda Izvitskaya, Tamara Stradina, Sergei Fesyunov, Igor
Yefimov, Lyudmila Glazova, Viktor Maryev
Among his friends and colleagues Ivan Kondakov has the reputation of a crazy fanatic, always
inventing fantastic machines and gadgets. A local newspaper mocks him in a satiric story.
Caricatures on him are posted on the bulletin board at the mine where he works.
Colleagues react to his latest project, which is a mining combine, with ironic smiles. Only Nina,
a new worker at the mine, supports Ivan. Her confidence in his creative power allows Ivan to
overcome all the obstacles and to become a success.
526
CHUZHAYA BEDA (SOMEONE ELSE'S TROUBLE)
1960, 84 min., color
Drama
Director: Jan Frid, screenplay: Grigory Baklanov, camera: Veniamin Levitin,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, music: Dmitry Tolstoy, sound: Vladimir
Yakovlev
Cast: Mikhail Kuznetsov, Liliya Gritsenko, Dzidra Ritenbergs, Viktor Khokhryakov,
Arkady Trusov, Pavel Kalashnikov
Something has changed in the life of Fyodor Denisov, the chairman of the collective farm. He is
not getting along with people. People are saying that he wants to have things his way, that he
does not discuss collective farm affairs with other people, and that he does not care about other
people's troubles. His family life collapses. He falls for another woman, Alexandra. He deserts
his family and leaves his job. But one day there is a knock at the door. Trouble has come! Now
it is not the time to remember old offences.
527
EZOP (AESOP)
1960, 87 min
Drama
Written and directed by: Georgy Tovstonogov, Yuri Muzykant, camera: Mikhail
Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Nadezhda
Simonyan, Yuri Prokofyev, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Vasily Politseimako, Nikolai Korn, Nina Olkhina, Irina Kondratyeva, Pavel
Luspekayev, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Boris Vasilyev
Screen version of the well-known play “ The Fox and the Grapes” by G. Figeiredo produced by
the Gorky Bolshoy Drama Theatre.
528 BARYER NEIZVESTNOSTI (BARRIER OF THE
UNKNOWN)
1961, 100 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Nikita Kurikhin, screenplay: Boris Chirskov, Dmityry Radovsky, Mikhail
Arlazorov, camera: Samuil Rubashkin, production designers: Yevgeny Yeney,
Georgy Kropachev, misic: Moisei Vainberg, sound: Georgy Salye
Cast: Vyacheslav Shalevich, Nikolai Gritsenko, Alexander Grave, Fyodor Nikitin,
Valentina Kibardina
The test pilot, Kazantsev, perishes during the flight of a experimental aircraft-lab called
“Cyclone”. Before he crashed he several times reported a strange phenomenon — a luminescent
object flying at high altitude and at high speed. However, tracking devices did not record the
phenomenon, and the flight command center regarded it as an illusion of the pilot.
After the tragic death of Kazantsev, his friend and colleague, Baikalov, takes the decision to
continue testing the aircraft.
And again the flight command center is getting information about the strange phenomenon…
529 BRATYA KOMAROVY (THE KOMAROV
BROTHERS)
1961, 55 min., b/w
Director: Anatoly Vekhotko, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, camera: Vladimir Chumak,
production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Isaak Schwarts, sound: Alexander
Bekker
Cast: Inna Makarova, Vera Titova, Viktor Khokhryakov, Volodya Mareyev, Borya
Barkhatov, Seryozha Rozhanovsky
Loosely based on three short stories by Yuri Nagibin — “Komarov”, “Old Turtle” and “Mad
Bull”. Three boys — the three Komarov brothers — open for themselves the poetic world of
nature full of miracles and wonders, the world of human relations. This summer has turned out
to be a particular one…
530 BUDNI I PRAZDNIKI (WEEKDAYS AND
HOLIDAYS)
1961, 93 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Yulian Semyonov, camera: Apollinary
Dudko, production designer: Viktor Savostin, music: Isaak Schwarts, sound:
Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Lev Krugly, Nikolai Volkov, Alexandra Zavyalova, Svetlana Zhgun, Pyotr
Aleinikov, Vladimir Volchek
The young engineer, Zotov, is appointed a supervisor of the remote 406 outpost of a railroad
being constructed in Siberia. The railroad construciton workers, who live in dark and cold mud
huts, do not treat the new supervisor too friendly: they are tired of hard labor and poor living
conditions. But finally there comes the day when builders move into a new house which they
built with their own hands. And this day turned out to be a double holiday for Zotov — his
fiance has arrived! But soon again life returns back to its old routine. A new group of workers
arrive to the construction site and again the cold hut is filled with people.
531
VODYANOY (WATER SPRITE)
1961, 35 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Sergei Sidelev, screenplay: Edda Buranova, camera: Alexander
Karpukhin, production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Nikolai Shakhmatov,
sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Erast Garin, Valentina Vladimirovna, Mikhail Fyodorov, Alexei Kubatsky
Prokhor Lykov is nicknamed the 'water sprite' because of his passion for fishing. He spends all
his days sitting by a lake with a fishing rod in his hands.
Each day, he starts fishing at dawn. His wife constantly grumbles and villagers make jokes
about him. He might have been regarded as a good-for-nothing all his life. But the collective
farm chairman finds a good application for Prokhor's hobby.
532
GORIZONT (THE HORIZON)
1961, 100 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Iosif Heifits, screenplay: Grigory Baklanov, camera: Vadim Derbenev,
Viktor Karasev, Alexander Chirkov, production designers: Bella Manevich, Isaak
Kaplan, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Yuri Tolubeyev, Boris Chirkov, Alexander Safonov, Vladimir Nosik, Maya
Bulgakova, Geliy Sysoyev, Svetlana Melkova
Twelve youngsters, who have just graduated from school, go to a far away part of the country to
cultivate the virgin farm land. Little by little they are getting used to hard labor and hard living
conditions. Sergei Novoskoltsev, who always wants to be the leader, comes into conflict with
his fellows. The situation is further complicated by the disgraceful way he treats Rimma, the girl
who loves him. Problems increase and Sergei considers leaving this place and deserting “the
labour front”. However, at the last moment he realizes that his duty is to stay with his comrades.
533 DEVCHYONKA, S KOTOROI YA DRUZHIL (THE
GIRL WHO WAS MY FRIEND)
1961, 75 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexander Popov, camera: Sergei Ivanov,
Semyon Ivanov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic:Vladimir Maklakov,
sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Vasily Merkuryev, Luda Boltrik, Yura Fisenko, Andrei Tretyakov, Andrei
Chernetsov, Lara Nesmachnaya
New neighbours — a father and a daughter — move into a house where Fedya Streltsov lives.
Fedya and Nadya became friends, they share the desk at school and do their homework together.
Nadya is the first person to whom Fedya confides his poignant secret--- he doubted his father's
honesty. Fortunately, all ends well, except that the boy has to part with his friend. Nadya and her
father moved to the Far East, to work on a large-scale construction project.
534 KAK VERYOVOCHKA NI VYOTSA (HOW THE
ROPE TURNS)
1961, 7 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Gerbert Rappopoprt, Leonid Bykov, screenplay: Leonid
Klimovich, camera: Yakov Sklyansky, production designer: Mikhail Krotkin,
music: Dmitry Tolstoy, sound: Ilya Volk
All three leading roles in the film are performed by Nikolai Trofimov
The “Thick Rope” cooperative is entwining three thin ropes to make one thick one, and the
“Thin Rope” cooperative uses one thick rope to make three thin ones. As a result there are
neither thick nor thin ropes at a local store. A funny story of cooperative swindlers.
535
MISHEL I MISHUTKA (MICHEL AND MISHUTKA)
1961, 33 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, Mikhail Shamkovich, screenplay: Nikolai Erdman,
Mikhail Demidenko, camera: Alexei Zavyalov, Georgy Senotov, production
designers: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Andrei Petrov,
sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Valentin Filatov (voice over — Zinovy Gerdt)
Being on holiday, Michel, a famous actor, stopped training himself and nearly ruined the circus
performance. It was a little bear Mishutka that saved the day and performed Michel's star turn
— the flight under the top of the circus tent.
536
PYOSTRIYE RASSKAZY (MOTLEY STORIES)
1961, 80 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Mikhail Ruf, screenplay, theatrical production and scenery
design by: Nikolai Akimov, camera: Sergei Ivanov, production designer: Bella
Manevich, sound Boris Khutoryansky, music from pieces by: Jacques Offenbach
Cast: Pavel Sukhanov, Kseniya Guretskaya, Nikolai Trofimov, Yevgeny Zharov,
Vladimir Osipov, Igor Polyakov, Yelena Yunger, Nikolai Kharitonov, Vera Karpova,
Georgy Voropayev
Film version of the Leningrad State Comedy Theatre production based on comic short stories by
Anton Chekhov
537 PODNYATAYA TSELINA (VIRGIN LAND
DEVELOPED)
1961, (a trilogy), Parts 2 and 3, (2nd — 83 min., 3rd — 100 min., ) color
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Yuri Lukin, Farukh Shakhmagonov,
camera: Vyachslav Fastovich, production designer: Abram Veksler, Nikolai
Suvorov, misic: Oleg Karavaichuk, sound: Georgy Salye
Cast: Pyotr Chernov, Yevgeny Matveyev, Lyudmila Khitayeva, Pyotr Glebov, Viktor
Chekmaryov, Fyodor Shmakov
Based on a novel of the same title by Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov
538
POLOSATY REIS (A LIVELY VOYAGE)
1961, 83 min., color
Comedy
Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Alexei Kapler, Viktor Konetsky, camera:
Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic:Veniamin Basner,
sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Ivan Dmitriyev, Margarita Nazarova, Alexei Gribov, Yevgeny Leonov,
Alexander Beniaminov, Alexei Smirnov, Alexei Kozhevnikov
A Soviet boat is transporting an unusual and very expensive shipment -tigers, lions, and a
mischievous monkey. This shipment is accompanied by Shumeikin, a cook working for the
trade mission who pretends to be a tamer.
At sea the monkey opens the cages of the wild beasts and this leads to a series of funny
adventures.
539
RAZDUMYA… (CONTEMPLATIONS)
1961, 75 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Tamara Rodionova, screenplay:Alexei Kiva, Mikhail Krakovsky, camera:
Oleg Kukhovarenko, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic:Nadezhda
Simonyan, sound: Nikolai Kosarev
Cast: Yuri Tolubeyev, Dmitri Barkov, Evgeni Lebedev, Nina Mamayeva, Fiodor
Nikitin, Julian Panich
After graduating from school Kostya Migunov goes to work for the same factory where his
father has been working for almost 40 years. Yakov Ivanovich treats his son with particular
strictness because he is not serious in his approach to work.
Kostya's first day at the factory is full of new impressions. He manages to make some mischief,
and also to help elders solve some pressing problem.
540
SAMIYE PERVIYE (THE VERY FIRST ONES)
1961, 95 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Grannik, screenplay: Alexei Tverskoy, camera: Muzakir
Shurukov, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Isaac Schwartz, sound:
Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Igor Pushkarev, Nina Drobysheva, Lyudmila Shagalova, Vladimir Chestnokov,
Vladimir Samoiolv, Oleg Zhakov
Pilot Sergei Sazonov is offered to join a group of astronauts. He keeps his new job in secret
from everybody, including his wife Natasha.
He goes with his wife to the reception in the Kremlin in honour of Yuri Gagarin’s flight and
there he is told about beginning of a new program to train astronauts for flight to the Moon.
541
STAROZHIL (OLD TIMER)
1961, 72 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Iskander Khamrayev, screenplay: Nikodim Gippius, camera:Konstantin
Ryzhov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Nikolai Chervinsky, sound:
Rostislav Lapinsky
Cast: Vitya Perevalov, Tolya Arkhipov, Misha Yekimov, Valya Nekhnayeva
Andrei Kutikov was the first child born in a new workers' town and one of the streets of this
town has been named after him. As time went on, the town expands and Andrei grows up. He is
a liar and always full of mischief. One day a new boy comes to Andrei's class. Unintentionally,
Andrei begins to imitate the manner of the serious and reliable Boris and hardly notices that his
life is beginning to change.
542
CHELOVEK-AMFIBIA (THE AMPHIBIAN MAN)
1961, 95 min., color
Science fiction
Director: Gennady Kazansky, Vladimir Chebotaryov, screenplay: Akiba Golburt,
Alexander Ksenofontov, Alexei Kapler, camera: Eduard Rozovsky, production
designers: Vsevolod Ulitko, Tamara Vasilkovskaya, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound:
Lev Valter
Cast: Vladimir Korenev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov, Nikolai
Simonov, Vladlen Davydov
Based on the adventure fiction novel “The Amphibian Man” by Alexander Belyaev
A small seacoast town is full of rumors about a 'sea devil.' A wealthy merchant, Zurita, who
trades in pearls, does not believe in it until he runs into the 'devil' under dramatic circumstances.
After that he is eager to get this ‘devil' and use him for his own purposes. The 'devil' is an
ordinary, or, to be precise, extraordinary young man. When he was a small child a doctor saved
his life by transplanting shark's gills into the boy's body. As a result, the boy, Ichtiander, can live
both on land and in water. Ichtiander falls in love with Guttiere, the girl Zurita is going to marry,
and becomes Zurita's sworn enemy and prisoner…
543
VENUS)
YAVLENIYE VENERY (THE PHENOMENON OF
1961, 40 min., color
Drama
Director: Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Lev Rakhmanov, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Venedikt Pushkov,
sound: Ilya Volk, voice over — Leonid Khmara
Cast: Lev Gallis, A. Afanasyev, Vladimir Balashov, Nikolai Volkov, Mikhail
Gluzsky, I. Gurzo, Georgy Teikh, Yuri Rodionov
In 1761 scientists were expecting the planet of Venus to cross the sun's path. Mikhail
Lomonosov tried to set up research expedition to Siberia to observe this phenomenon but his
request was denied by authorities.
Abbe Chapp is going from Paris to the Siberian town of Tobolsk. The Academy of Sciences
sends two Russian expeditions to accompany the French scientist. Lomonosov is observing the
Venus in St. Petersburg and makes a discovery that Venus has an atmosphere.
544
GRYESHNY ANGEL (THE SINFUL ANGEL)
1962, 99 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Gennady Kazansky screenplay: Mikhail Berestinsky, camera:Muzakir
Shurukov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan,
sound: Rostislav Lapinsky, Boris Antonov
Cast: Olga Krasina, Nikolai Volkov, Sr., Nina Veselovskaya, Gennady Frolov, Yuri
Medvedev, Boris Chirkov, Galina Volchek, Alexei Kozhevnikov
Fourteen-year old Vera Telegina sees the sea for the first time in her life. She happened to come
to this place by accident. She had nowhere to go. Police sergeant Stavridi finds out that the girl's
parents fell victim to political repressions and places the girl in a boarding school.
Vera had to go through a lot of suffering. Several times she was on the verge despair. It was the
support of her friends and the sympathy of adults that helped Vera to survive. In the spring of
1953 she finally receives a telegram from her parents…
545
DIKAYA SOBAKA DINGO (WILD DINGO DOG)
1962, 97 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Yuli Karasik, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, camera: Vyacheslav
Fastovich, production designer: Viktor Volin, music: Isaac Schwarts, sound: Boris
Khutpryansky
Cast: Galina Polskikh, Vladimir Osobik, Talas Umurzakov, Anna Rodionova, Inna
Kondratyeva, Nikolai Timofeyev, Tamara Loginova
Loosely based on “Wild Dingo Dog or The First Love Story”, a novel by R.Friermann.
Tanya was an unruly and unpredictable girl bent on having things her way. Her nickname was
“Wild Dingo Dog”. Tanya's father, who had long time ago left Tanya and her mother,
unexpectedly comes to this small seacoast town with his new wife and adopted son Kostya.
Tanya falls in love with Kostya, but her first love — deep and tender — turns out to be
unhappy.
 The film was awarded “ St. Marcus Golden Lion “ – the Grand Prix of the International Film
Festival in Venice (1962) and the “Golden Bough “ Premium of the above Festival.
546
DUSHA ZOVYOT (CALL OF THE SOUL)
1962, 50 min., b/w
Melodrama
Directors: Alexander Borisov, Mikhail Ruf, screenplay: Alexei Vlasov, Arkady
Mlodik, camera: Sergei Ivanov, production designer: Vladislav Savostin, misic:
Andrei Preslenev, sound: Rostislav Lapinsky, Anna Volokhova
Cast: Alexander Borisov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Valentina Telegina, Pavel Luspekayev,
Lyudmila Chupiro, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Boris Ryzhukhin, Yuri Solovyov
Two old factory workers Sukhov and Solyanov, are old buddies. All their life they have been
working at the same factory and living in the same neighborhood. Once Solyanov decides to
retire and the two friends quarrel. However, soon Solyanov finds out that it is not easy for him
to part with the factory. He realizes that the factory's young workers need his knowledge and his
experience. It turns out that his old friend, who reproached him, was right.
547 YESLI POZOVYOT TOVARISHCH (IF YOUR
FRIEND CALLS YOU)
1962, 95 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Boris Chirkov, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Yuri Levitin, sound: Georgy Salye
Cast: Alexei Khlebnikov, Viktor Tkachenko, Nina Malyavina, Vladimir Burtsev,
Liliya Malinovskaya, Georgy Teikh
Based on a short story by Viktor Konetsky.
Shatalov and ‘Manya' (the nickname of Alexei) became friends in a naval college. Later, their
careers developed differently. ’Manya' becomes the commander of a submarine. Shatalov,
punished for criminal negligence in the performance of his duties, is transferred to coastal
service. As a professional naval officer, he finds this situation unbearable. One day, he receives
a telegram from the Russian Far North. His friend ‘Manya' asks him to come there.
548 ZAVTRASHNIYE ZABOTY (TOMORROW'S
TROUBLES)
1962, 75 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Georgy Aronov, screenplay: Budemir Metalnikov, camera:Konstantin
Ryzhov, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Andrei Prigozhin, sound:
Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Anatoly Azo, Yelena Dobronravova, Sergei Plotnikov, Vera Titova, Yuri
Dedovich
Based on a short story by Viktor Konetsky
It turned out to be a very difficult voyage for captain Gleb Volnov. The crew of the ship consists
of naval college students who are going to sea for the first time. The mechanic, Bitov, father of
Gleb's late friend, returns to the ship after a long stay on land. Besides the captain is going
through a deep personal crisis. He unintentionally hurts a woman very dear to him and it lies
heavily on his soul.
It is a long voyage and Gleb has plenty of time to sort it all out.
549 IZ NYU YORKA V YASNUYU POLYANU (FROM
NEW YORK TO YASNAYA POLYANA)
1962, 54 min., b/w, TV
Melodrama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Vladimir Vladimirov, camera:Apollinary
Dudko, production designer: Isaak Kaplan, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Anna Shilova, Pavel Okhrimenko, Nikolai Gusev, Pyotr Lobach
At the turn of the century two Russians leave for America and a few
years later they send a letter to Lev Tolstoy. Half a century later
Pyotr Lobach, Pavel Okhrimenko and Lev Tolstoy's secretary Nikolai Gusev are recalling these
times.
550
KINO I VREMYA (CINEMA AND TIME)
1962, 95 min., b/w
Film archive compilation
Director: Viktor Sadovsky, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, Viktor Sadovsky, camera:
Semyn Ivanov, production designer: Vasily Zachinayev, misic:Alexei Agafonnikov,
sound: Yevgeny Nesterov, voice over: Boris Chirkov
The film consists of fragments of films made by “Lenfilm “.
551 KOGDA RAZVODYAT MOSTY (WHEN THE DRAW
BRIDGES OPEN)
1962, 92 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Vasily Aksyonov, camera: Moisei Magid,
Lev Sokolsky, production designer: Alexander Black, music: Nadezhda Simonyan,
sound: Alexandr Bekker
Cast: Vladimir Yemelyanov, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Valentina Belyaeva, Iya Arepina,
Leonid Bykov
Fresh from high school, Valerka has to make a decision about his career. He cherishes romantic
dreams about travelling to far off places, but fails his exam to enter naval college. Thus he goes
to work as a stagehand in a theatre but soon he gives up his job and falls in love with his
neighbour, Inga, who dreams of the sweat life. After a series of misfortunes, Valerka finally
finds out his path in life. He gets a job at the seaport where his father has been working as a
docker all his life, and enters correspondence courses at a college.
552
MALCHIK S KONKAMI (BOY WITH SKATES)
1962, 35 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Sergei Gippius, screenplay: Yuri Yakovlev, camera: Vladimir Kovzel,
production designer Nikolai Obukhovich, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound:
Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Panteleimon Krymov, Igor Selyuzhenok, Liliya Malinovskaya, Valya
Nekhayeva, Galya Gulina, Alexander Sokolov, Zoya Alexandrova
A jolly little boy is hurrying up to the skating rink. An old man in the street suddenly falls ill.
The boy helps him to get home, goes to the drug store for some medicine and calls the
ambulance. The old war veteran is taken to the hospital. He tells the boy that he wishes he had
such a messenger on the front. The boy falls asleep and has a dream that he is a soldier, fighting
and defeating the enemy. He wakes up to find himself sitting in the hospital ward. The doctor
tells him that the old man had been operated on and that the operation was quite successful.
553
PERVIY MYACH (THE FIRST FOOTBALL)
1962, 20 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Nikolai Rozantsev, camera: Yevgeny Kirpichev,
production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Nikolai Chervinsky, sound: Yevgeny
Nesterov
Cast: Sergei Gurzo, Alexander Susnin, Pavel Kashlakov, Georgy Satini, Gennady
Nilov, Leonid Zhukov
Based on a short story by A. Zilberbort
On the eve of the national championship, players of a football
team are feeling very depressed. Their coach is sick, it has been
raining for several days and no one wants to begin the training.
The sudden appearance of the club's towel boy, who asks the players to take him as goalkeeper,
cheers the sportsmen up. They go to the playing field taking the persistent boy with them…
554
POROZHNIY REIS (AN EMPTY TRIP)
1962, 85 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Vladimir Vengerov, screenplay: Sergei Antonov, camera: Henrich
Marandzhyan, production designer: Viktor Volin, music: Isaak Schwartz, sound:
Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Georgy Yumatov, Alexander Demyanenko, Tamara Syomina, German Kachin,
Svetlana Kharitonova, Anatoly Papanov
Based on a short story by Sergei Antonov
A young journalist, Sirotkin, visits a timber company in Siberia in
order to write a story about the driver Khromov. After becoming familiar with the work of the
company Sirotkin finds out that Khromov is involved in illegal deals with the director of the
company. Fearing the disclosure of his crimes the director orders Khromov to kill the journalist
on the way back…
 The film was awarded the Silver Prize and the Diploma of the
 International Film Festival in Moscow (1963).
555
POSLE SVADBY (AFTER THE WEDDING)
1962, 92 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Daniil Granin, camera: Vladimir Burikin,
production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Oleg Karavaichuk, sound: Irina
Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Stanislav Khitrov, Natalya Kustinskaya, Alla Konstantinova, Pavel Kashlakov,
Yuri Solovyov
Based on a novel by Daniil Granin
All goes well in Igor's life. He works as a mechanic at a Leningrad
plant and has recently married the girl he loves. Naturally, he was not very enthusiastic about an
offer to go to work in a remote backward collective farm. Eager to prove that there can be a
normal life in a village, he convinces himself to go there. He encounters many difficulties at
first, but finally he sets things right, and when a year later he has the opportunity to return to the
city he refuses to do it.
556
PROSHLYM LYETOM (LAST SUMMER)
1962, 30 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Alexander Volodin, camera: Semyon
Ivanov, production designer: Igor Ivanov, misic: Gennady Portnov, sound: Anna
Volokhova
Cast: Tanya Nikitina, Senya Morozov, Vitaly Kanevsky, Liliya Kolpakova, Dolores
Stolbova
One evening Grisha dares to approach Polinka, a girl from the
neighbouring village he has admired for a long time. They begin to date and all goes well until
the day when Grisha's impudent friend Kostya decides to ridicule Polinka in public. Grisha,
instead of standing up for the girl, cowardly joins his friend…
It could have put the end to their love, but Grisha gathers up the
courage to apologize to Polinka and though his friends mock him, he
stubbornly continues to court Polinka.
557 SEMSOT TRINADTSATIY PROSIT POSADKU
(FLIGHT No. 713 ASKS PERMISSION TO LAND)
1962, 75 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Grigory Nikulin, screenplay: Alexei Leont’yev, Andrei
Donatov, camera: Veniamin Levitin, production designers: Igor Vuskovich,
Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Gennady Portnov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Vladimir Chestnokov, Otar Koberidze, Lev Krugly, Lyudmila Shagalova,
Vladimir Vysotsky, Eve Kivi, Yefim Kopelyan
Flight 713 is fine until the moment when the passengers of airliner
begin to suspect that something is wrong. It turned out that terrorists
knocked out the crew of the aircraft, and the airplane is operated by
automatic pilot.
The danger brings the passengers — all very different people – together and makes them forget
their vanity and false pride. At the end, the plane makes a safe landing.
558
SERIY VOLK (GREY WOLF)
1962, 80 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Tamara Rodionova, screenplay: Sokrat Kara, camera: Oleg
Kukhovarenko, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Nikolai Agafonnikov,
sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Konstantin Sinitsyn, Boris Gorshenin, Georgy Kulikov, Nina Nikitina, Nikolai
Grinko, Liliya Arkhipova, Sergei Karnovich-Valois, Yevgeny Lebedev
The brothers Pyotr and Trofim Bakhrushin choose two different ways in life. Pyotr has lived all
his life in his native village and became the chairman of a collective farm. Trofim emigrated to
America after the Russian Civil War, deserting his wife and daughter. 40 years later he comes to
his native village as a guest.
559
CHERYOMUSHKI (CHERYOMUSHKI)
1962, 85 min., color
Musical comedy
Director: Gerbert Rappaport, screenplay: Vladimir Mass, Mikhail
Chervinsky, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Marksen GaukhmanSverdlov, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Olga Zabotkina, Vladimir Vasilyev, Marina Khatuntseva, Gennady Bortnikov,
Vladimir Zemlyanikin, Vasily Merkuryev, Yevgeny Leonov
Based on Dmitry Shostakovich’s musical comedy “Moscow-Cheryomushki”
The young architect, Lida Baburova, has finally received a long awaited apartment in a new
district of Moscow. Along with other new tenants in the apartment building Lida and her father
hurry up to Cheryomushki to see the place where they are going to live. At first it takes her
much trouble to get the keys, and when she finally gets them she is shocked to see that a wall in
her new apartment has been pulled down. A high-ranking official decided to expand his
apartment at the expense of hers.
560
CHORNAYA CHAIKA (BLACK SEAGULL)
1962, 95 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Grigory Koltunov, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev,
production designer: Isaak Kaplan, misic: Antonio Spadavekkia, sound: Nikolai
Kosarev
Cast: Nikolai Volkov, Yuri Savela, Alexei Loktev, Dzheikhun Dzhamal, Sergei
Yursky, Anatoly Adoskin, Yevgeny Matveyev
Manolo is an imaginative boy, and fancies himself to be as brave and courageous as his friend
Sardinka. Life in liberated Cuba would have been free and jolly if American fighters had not
been flying low over the island and if there had not been a sniper hiding in bushes killing
harmless people.
There is a rumour that this sniper is the father of Sardinka, Manolo’s best friend.
561 VSYO OSTAYOTSYA LYUDYAM (EVERYTHING IS
LEFT TO HUMANITY)
1963, 100 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Georgy Natanson, screenplay: Samuil Alyoshin, camera: Sergei Ivanov,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, music: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Boris
Antonov
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Sofia Pilyavskaya, Andrei Popov, Elina Bystritskaya, Igor
Ozerov, Igor Gorbachev
Loosely based on the play of the same title by Samuil Alyoshin
Professor Dronov is very ill, and will hardly live longer than one year. Doctors prescribe him
rest. However, the researcher can not leave his project unfinished. He is working on an new
engine vitally important for development of astronautics. Besides, Dronov is a deputy of the
Supreme Soviet. So he can and he must help people.
Having a strong spirit, Dronov acts according to his conscience and
obeys the call of duty.
562
DVA VOSKRESENYA (TWO SUNDAYS)
1963, 83 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, camera: Semyon Ivanov,
production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Arnold
Shargorodsky
Cast: Lyudmila Dolgorukova, Vladimir Koretsky, Lyudmila Makarova, Viktor
Maksimov, Tatyana Pankova
Lyusya is a bank teller in a small town. Accidentally she wins a large sum of money and decides
to spend it on a trip to Moscow.
In Moscow she meets Volodya. The young couple spends all day together and makes a date for
the next weekend. But Lyusya is late for the date and when she finally comes Volodya has
already left.
Lyusya returns home and writes Volodya a letter. She hopes that there will be more such
meetings in her life, and that her life will be full of wonderful surprises.
563
DEN SHCHASTYA (A DAY OF HAPPINESS)
1963, 95 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Iosif Heifits, screenplay: Yuri German, Iosif Heifits, camera: Henrich
Marandzhyan, production designers: Bella Manevich, Isaak Kaplan, misic:
Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Tamara Syomina, Alexei Batalov, Valentin Zubkov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Larisa
Golubkina, Lyudmila Glazova
It was a chance meeting. Alexander, a young ambulance doctor, saw a pretty woman and acting
on impulse made her acquaintance. This fluke meeting grows into a deep love. Shura is married,
however, and the situation in her family is a complicated one. Her husband, a geologist, blames
himself for the accidental death of his colleagues, and leaves geology to do odd jobs. He does
not allow his wife to go to work and Shura is tired of being idle at home. Finally, Shura decides
to change her life. She goes to live in a village and is prepared to make a fresh start.
 The film was awarded the Honorary Diploma of the International Film Festival in Locarno (1964).
564
ZNAKOMTES, BALUYEV! (MEET BALUYEV!)
1963, 95 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Komissarzhevsky, screenplay: Vadim Kozhevnikov, Viktor
Komissarzhevsky, camera: Veniamin Levitin, Dmitry Meskhiev, production
designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Ivan Pereverzev, Nina Urgant, Stanislav Sokolov, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Anatoly
Romashin, Sergei Plotnikov, Panteleimon Krymov
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Vadim Kozhevnikov.
For many years, the civil engineer, Pavel Baluyev has been moving from one place to another
all over the country, laying gas pipelines across rivers. Again he is going to a new construction
site and again he is parting with his wife. On the new place he has to solve complicated
technical problems and also to adapt himself to the people he is working with. For Baluyev his
work is a spiritual necessity. He captivates people by his optimism and enthusiasm. This man
will always be a winner.
565
KAIN VOSEMNADTSATIY (CAIN XVIII)
1963, 87 min., color
Comedy
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Yevgeny Schwartz,
Nikolai Erdman, camera: Eduard Rozovsky, production designer: Valery Dorer,
Abram Veksler, misic: Antonio Spadavekkia, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Erast Garin, Lydia Sukharevskaya, Yuri Lyubimov, Mikhail Zharov, Alexander
Demyanenko, Rina Zelyonaya
Loosely based on the fairy-tale of the same title by Eugene Schwarz.
Two friends, wandering musicians named Jan and Jean, are going to the country ruled by king
Cain XVIII — a police state where treachery and meanness are praised as merits. The thing is
that Jan is in love with a princess and the princess' mother wants her daughter to marry the king.
The two friends decide to do their best to break the engagement.
566
KREPOSTNAYA AKTRISA (A SERF ACTRESS)
1963, 101 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Musical comedy
Director: Roman Tikhomirov, screenplay: A. Zakharov (Leonid Trauberg), loosely
based on script by Yefim Gerken, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer:
Igor Vuskovich, misic: Nikolai Strelnikov, sound:Grigory Elbert
Cast: Tamara Syomina (Tamara Milashkina singing), Dmitry Smirnov (Yevgeny
Raikov singing), Sergei Filippov, Yevgeny Leonov, Sergei Yursky (Lev Morozov
singing), Glykeria Bogdanova-Chesnokova
Loosely based on Nikolai Strelnikov's operetta “Indentured Maiden”.
In the country estate of count Kutaisov, they are preparing for the arrival of Anastasiya
Batmanova, a famous actress coming back home from Paris. Anastasiya is a former serf, but
when she was a small child she was set free from bondage. At the same time, Andrei arrives at
the estate. He is secretly in love with Anastasiya. Andrei is a stepbrother of the hussar, Nikita,
who is his father's illegitimate son with one of Kutaisov's serfwomen. Andrei's papers certifying
that he is a freed serf go missing. Loosing hope to win Anastasiya's affection, Kutaisov decides
to marry Anastasiya off to his serf Andrei in order to have her in his full power.
567
MANDAT (MANDATE)
1963, 80 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexander Vlasov, Arkady Mlodik, camera:
Anatoly Karpukhin, production designer: Vladimir Savostin, misic: Vladimir
Maklakov, sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Igor Bogolyubov, Nikolai Rozhdestvensky, Oleg Letnikov, Nikolai Kuzmin,
Borya Shcherbakov, Volodya Lebedev
1919. Gleb Prokhorov, the leader of a small group of workers, goes to villages to confiscate
grain from the peasants. All the members of the group are killed in an uneven fight with the
kulaks (rich peasants). But Glebka, Prokhorov's son, with the help of several boys, accomplishes
his father's mission and delivers grain to the starving people in Petrograd.
568
ALIVE)
POKA ZHIV CHELOVEK (WHILE THE MAN IS
1963, 80 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Grigory Aronov, screenplay: Iosif Olshansky, Nina Rudneva, camera:
Eduard Rozovsky, production designer: Viktor Volin, misic: Isaak Schwarts,
sound: Rostislav Lapinsky
Cast: Vladimir Zamansky, Nina Urgant, Olga Zabara, Sergei Plotnikov, Vladimir
Kostin, Lydia Shtykan, Bruno Freindlikh
The engineer Shirokov got into a road accident at the time when at the factory the future of his
new project was at stake. He also Had some serious unsolved problems in his personal life. The
loving care of people around him, and their unselfish assistance helps Shirokov to overcome his
ailment and return to active life.
569
PRINIMAYU BOI (I TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE)
1963, released in 1965, 78 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Alexei Kapler, camera: Yakov Sklyansky,
production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Konstantin
Lashkov
Cast: Yuri Berkun, Leonid Dyachkov, Olga Lysenko, Pavel Kashlakov, Vasily
Merkuryev, Irina Gubanova
Alyosha Utochkin is a quite young man, a dreamer. Accidentally he joins a band of disreputable
youngsters headed by Valetov. At a factory where Alyosha got the job he is regarded as one of
Valetov's gang, which complicates his life. Alyosha falls in love with his supervisor, Liza, and
manages not only to break off with Valetov but even begins a struggle against him. The end of
the story is a tragic one. Members of the band kill Alyosha.
570
RODNAYA KROV (KINSFOLK)
1963, 83 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Fyodor Knorre, camera: Oleg
Kukhovarenko, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound:
Georgy Salye
Cast: Yevgeny Matveyev, Viya Artmane, Tanya Doronina, Vera Povetkina, Anatoly
Papanov, Kolya Morozov, Yuri Fisenko
Based on a novel of the same title by Fyodor Knorre
A tank sergeant during World War II, Fedotov, is on his way home from the hospital when he
meets Sonya, a young woman working on a ferry. She has three small children.
Falling for Sonya, Fedotov spends all his brief leave in her house and returns to her when the
war ends.
But their happiness did not last long. Sonya dies after an operation. And a new trouble comes:
all of a sudden father of Sonya’s children shows up, prepared to take care of his family...
571 SOBIRAYUSHCHIY OBLAKA (COLLECTOR OF
CLOUDS)
1963, 19 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Alexei Igishev, screenplay: Yuri Yakovlev, camera: Dmitry Dolinin,
production designer: Viktor Mushnikov, misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Yevgeny
Nesterov
Cast: Seryozha Kokorev, Svetlana Druzhinina, Fyodor Nikitin, Grenada
Mnatsakanova, Svetlana Loshchinina
Loosely based on a story of the same title by Yuri Yakovlev.
Malyavkin loves to watch the fantastic shapes clouds take. Whatever he is doing — at school or
collecting scrap paper — from time to time he looks up the sky, at the flock of his unusual
friends.
One day, the boy gets very upset. He sees how the assistant school
manager burns the scras paper the boy had collected and he thinks that his white clouds are
turning into the black smoke and going down the pipe.
572
ULITSA NYUTONA, DOM ODIN (NEWTON STREET,
1)
1963, 93 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Teodor Vulfovich, screenplay: Edward Radzinsky, Teodor
Vulfovich, camera: Viktor Karasev, Nikolai Zhilin, production designers: Vsevolod
Ulitko, Tamara Vasilkovskaya, misic: Moisei Vainberg, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Larisa Kadochnikova, Yevgeny Fridman, Yuri Ilyenko, Yevgeny Agafonov,
Vladimir Lippart
A talented young man, Timofei Suverenev comes to Moscow from the remote Tyuleniy island.
Determined to become a scientist he achieves brilliant results. The research work made in
collaboration with his fellow student Galtsov is awarded a golden medal. It seems that all is
going extremely well when it suddenly turns out that there is an error in their research work.
Galtsov suggests to keep it a secret. Not willing to compromise, Timofei breaks off with his
friend and returns home to continue the research work by himself.
573 BARBOS V GOSTYAKH U BOBIKA (BARBOS PAYS
A VISIT TO BOBIK)
1964, 20 min., color
Comedy
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Nikolai Nosov, camera: Mikhail
Shamkovich, Alexander Dibrivny, production designer: Isaak Kaplan, misic: Murad
Kazhlayev, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Lhasa apse Mishka, mongrel Luks, Maltese Amishka, boxer Ero, Siamese cat
Tau
Barbos the dog lives in an old cold kennel while the lazy spoiled lap dog Bobik, finds it
extremely tiresome to comply with Grandfather's simple commands. One day, in Grandfather's
absence, Bobik invites Barbos to his place and starts boasting about his life. After eating,
playing and taking a bath both friends fell asleep in Grandfather's bed. And at that moment the
master of the house returns home.
574
VESENNIYE KHLOPOTY (SPRING CHORES)
1964, 80 min., color
Comedy
Director: Jan Frid, screenplay: Eduard Shim, camera: Vyacheslav Fastovich,
production designer: Boris Burmistrov, music: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi
Cast: Tamara Korolyuk, Vladimir Treshchalov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Alexander
Borisov, Georgy Vitsin, Stanislav Sokolov, Alexander Lenkov, Svetlana Dik
The young factory worker, Zhenya, decides to plant trees and shrubs on the factory premises in
her free time. Other young workers enthusiastically join Zhenya and though not everything is
going smoothly — there is a lot of arguing and some guys try to avoid the work — at the end of
the film, the factory garden is blooming.
575 VOZVRASHCHENNAYA MUZYKA (THE MUSIC
REGAINED)
1964, 75 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vitaly Aksyonov, screenplay: Alexander Gladkov, camera: Vladimir
Burikin, production designers: Viktor Volin, Abram Veksler, music: Vladlen
Chistyakov, sound: Boris Antonov, lyrics by: Bulat Okudzhava
Cast: Zinovy Gerdt, Raisa Spasskaya, William Semyonov, Alexei Kozhevnikov,
Viktoria Fyodorova, Nikolaty Volkov, Igor Gorbachev, Georg Ots, Alexander
Demyanenko
A young musical critic, Marina Gabrielyan, is working on her theses about the composer Sergei
Kornilov. She decides to reconstruct the score of the symphony destroyed by the composer who
regarded it as a failure. The idea of the story is prompted by true story from the biography of
Sergei Rachmaninoff, who destroyed his first symphony after its unsuccessful first performance.
576
GAMLET (HAMLET)
1964, 2 parts, 70 min. each, wide screen
Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev, camera: Ionas Gritsyus, production
drama
designers: Yevgeny Yeney, Grigory Kropachev, Simon Virsaladze, music: Dmitry
Shostakovich, sound: Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elsa Radzinya, Yuri Tolubeyev,
Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Vadim Medvedev, Igor Dmitriyev, Grigory Gay, Vladimir
Erenberg
Based on William Shakespeare’s tragedy of the same title, translated by Boris Pasternak
 The film was awarded the Special Premium and the Honorary Diploma of the Jury of the
International Film Festival in Venice (1964); the Special Premium and the Diploma of the Jury of
the International Film Festival in San Sebastiano (1965); the Special Premium and the Diploma of
the Jury of the National Cinema Club Federation at the International Film Festival in San
Sebastiano (1965).
577 GOSUDARSTVENNY PRESTUPNIK (THE STATE
CRIMINAL)
1964, 90 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Alexender Galich, camera: Alexander
Chirov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, music: Nikolai Chervinsky, sound:
Georgy Salye
Cast: Alexander Demyanenko, Alina Pokrovskaya, Sergei Lukyanov, Pavel
Kadochnikov, Klara Luchko, Oleg Zhakov
The film tells about the work of state security agents, who after a long persistent search, have
found and neutralized a dangerous criminal who in the times of World War II put to death
hundreds of Soviet people.
578
DONSKAYA POVEST (THE DON STORY)
1964, 90 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, camera: Yevgeny Kirpichev,
production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, sound:
Nikolai Kosarev
Cast: Yevgeny Leonov, Lyudmila Chursina, Alexander Blinov, Boris Novikov,
Nikolai Melnikov, Alexei Kozhevnikov
Loosely based on Mikhail Sholokhov’s short stories “Shibalok's Seed” and “Birthmark.”
Period of the Civil War on the Don… Shibalok, is a soldier in a Cossack detachment who is
pursuing the Koshevoy gang. Shibalok comes to the mill and in a barn he finds Darya, a young
woman who, he believes, was raped by the gangsters. Dara stays with the detachment. This is
the beginning of Shibalok's sad love story.
One night the unarmed detachment was attacked by the gang and many Cossacks were killed in
the uneven battle. Later Darya, being in difficult labor, confesses to Shibalok that she secretly
passed the information about the detachment to the gang. After the child is born Shibalok kills
Darya.
579
ZHAVORONOK (SKYLARK)
1964, 83 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Nikita Kurikhin, Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Mikhail Dudin, Sergei
Orlov, camera: Nikolai Zhilin, Viktor Karasyov, production designer: Boris Bykov,
misic: Yakov Vaisburd, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Vyacheslav Gurenkov, Gennady Yukhtin, Vladimir Pogoreltsev, Valentin
Skulme, Bruno Oya, Olev Tinn, Ervin Abel, Heino Mandri
1942. The Nazis are testing the new anti-tank missiles and bring to the firing ground Russian
tankers — prisoners of war. The crew of the tank commanded by Ivan breaches away from the
firing ground and is getting in a German town destroying everything on its way. The story has
the tragic end. All the crew of the tank perishes.
580
ZAICHIK (RABBIT)
1964, 80 min., color
Comedy
Director: Leonid Bykov, screenplay: Mikhail Ginn, Henrich Ryabkin, Kim Ryzhov,
camera: Sergei Ivanov, production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Andrei Petrov,
sound: Berta Livshits
Cast: Leonid Bykov, Olga Krasina, Igor Gorbachev, Sergei Filippov, Georgy Vitsin,
Alexei Smirnov, Igor Dmitriyev
Zaichik (the name means 'rabbit') is a theatre make up artist. Honest
and kind hearted, he is known to be shy and timid. But this quiet man turns out to be a real
fighter. He is not going to put up with red tape and stagnation in his theatre.
581 KOGDA PESNYA NYE KONCHAYETSA (WHEN
THE SONG DOES NOT END)
1964, 82 min., color
Musical film-revue
Director: Roman Tikhomirov, screenplay: Anatoly Badkhen, camera: Yevgeny
Shapiro, production designer: Andrei Vagin, misic: Andrei Petrov, Georgy Portnov,
Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, Viktor Fyodorov, Georgy Firtich, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Galina Spoludennaya, Dalvin Shcherbakov, Lyudmila Zykina, Georg Ots,
Muslim Magomayev, Galina Kovaleva, Tamara Milashkina, Edita Pyekha, Arkady
Raikin
The action of the film takes place during “Leningradskoye Leto” -the Leningrad summer
musical festival. Among the participants of the festival are popular music stars and entertainers.
During this lively and jolly festival Svetlana meets a young police lieutenant.
582
MAT I MACHEKHA (MOTHER AND STEPMOTHER)
1964, 75 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Leonid Pchyolkin, screenplay: Georg Radov, camera: Ernst Yakovlev,
production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Irina
Volkova
Cast: Lyubov Sokolova, Nina Urgant, Nikolai Gritsenko, Yevgeny Matveyev,
Yevgeny Petrov, Anatoly Papanov, Liliya Gurova
One day in Praskovya's house, appears Katerina who says that she is the natural mother of the
girl adopted by Praskovya 9 years ago. This dramatic situation is further complicated for
Praskovya by problems at her work and by the intrigues of her envious old enemy, Smaltchikha.
The woman mobilizes all her courage and wisdom to win in the end.
583 POYEZD MILOSERDIYA (THE TRAIN OF
CHARITY)
1964, 87 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Iskander Khamrayev, screenplay: Vera Panova, camera: Konstantin
Ryzhov, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Marat Kamilov, sound:
Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Valentin Zubkov, Mikhail Yekaterininsky, Emma Popova, Zhanna
Prokhorenko, Yevgeny Lebedev, Vladimir Retsepter
Based on Vera Panova's novel “Companions”
People of different ages, characters and habits come to work in the hospital train going to the
front. They spend several years together, working and fighting in a war. They go through a lot of
hardships and when the war ends the peaceful life they are dreaming about will seem strange
and unfamiliar to them.
584 POKA FRONT V OBORONE (WHILE THE FRONT
TAKES UP A DEFENSIVE POSITION)
1964, 80 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Yulu Fait, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, camera: Vladimir Chumak,
production designer: Vasily Zachinayev, misic: Boris Chaikovsky, sound: Vladimir
Yakovlev, lyrics by: Gennady Shpalikov
Cast: Igor Kosukhin, Viktor Avdiushko, Svetlana Svetlichnaya, Vladimir Belokurov,
Alexander Demyanenko
Loosely based on the short stories by Yuri Nagibin “Battle for a High Ground” and “Pavlik”.
1942. Action takes place on the Volkhovsky front. A young army political instructor, Rusakov,
had poor military training and though he is far from being a coward, he finds his first battle an
extremely hard experience. He goes through a lot of hardships.
Katya, the girl he loves, is killed. But the severeraw reality of war strengthens his character and
makes Rusakov a courageous soldier.
585
POMNI, KASPAR (REMEMBER ME KASPAR)
1964, 80 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Written and directed by: Grigory Nikulin, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production
designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: German Zhuravlev, Anatoly Romashin, Zinaida Dorogova, Alexander
Mikhailov, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Vladimir Lippart
A German soldier, Kaspar, who narrow escaped death in an air fight, has lost his way in the
Byelorussian woods. He comes across Russian lieutenant Denis Marasev, who escaped from a
German POW camp. Their encounter helps Kaspar to change his attitude to war and fascism.
586 SPYASHCHAYA KRASAVITSA (SLEEPING
BEAUTY)
1964, 100 min., color, wide format
Filmed ballet
Director: Apollinary Dudko, screenplay: Konstantin Sergeyev, Iosif
Shapiro, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Tamara Vasilkovskaya,
Vsevolod Ulitko, sound: Alexander Bekker, choreography: Marius Petipa,
Konstantin Sergeyev
Cast: Alla Sizova, Yuri Solovyov, Irina Bazhenova, Natalya Dudinskaya, Olga
Zabotkina, Natalya Makarova
Screen version of the Tchaikovsky’s ballet of the same name.
587
FRO (FRO)
1964, 45 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Rezo Esadze, screenplay: Feliz Mironer, camera: Konstantin Sobol,
Valery Fedosov, production designer: Vyacheslav Zachinayev, misic: Isaak
Schwartz, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Alexandra Zavyalova, Nikolai Trofimov, Gennady Yukhtin, Alisa Freinlikh,
Nina Korn, Vsevolod Kuznetsov
Based on a story of the same title by Andrei Platonov
The film is set in the 30-s, the time of the first 5-year plans, large-scale construction projects,
and development of remote regions of the USSR. Frosya's husband, Fyodor, is leaving for the
Far East. After his departure, Frosya looses interest in life. Her father, Nefiod Stepanovich, finds
it difficult to understand his daughter's depression. For him, work is the only importantant thing
in life and he takes his retirement pretty hard. Gradually Frosya is beginning to realize that she
should take a more active part in life.
588 A KREPOST BYLA NEPRISTUPNAYA (THE
FORTRESS WAS IMPREGNABLE)
1965, (new version of the film “Youth of a Marshal”), 65 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Igor Vsevolozhsky, Leo Mur, camera:
Vitaly Chulkov, production designers: Olga Pchelnikova, Vladimir Kalyagin, misic:
Vladimir Maklakov, sound: Alexender Ostrovsky, Irina Volkova
Cast: Alexei Polibin, Vasya Baukov, Tamara Krasinkova, Gennady Yeremeyev, Oleg
Beyul, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Ivan Mazini
Based on Igor Vsevolozhsky’ s story “Farmstead Team”
The film tells about childhood of Semyon Budenny, Marshall of the Soviet Union.
589
AVARIYA (ROAD ACCIDENT)
1965, 90 min., b/w
Detective story
Directors: Alexander Abramov, Nikolai Birman, screenplay: Vasily
Pomerantsev, camera: Vyacheslav Fastovich, production designers: Alexander
Black, Dmitry Rudoy, misic: Boris Klyuzner, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Viktor Tarasov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Vladimir Ratomsky, Nikolai Sergeyev,
Vladimir Kashpur, Igor Gorbachev, Geliy Sysoyev, Lubov Malinovskaya, Yefim
Kopelyan
Driver Panchuk finds on a country road a smashed Moskvitch car and a dead body and calls the police.
Young prosecutor Chizhov who conducts the case does not give himself the trouble to look into the
matter and from the very beginning starts suspecting Panchuk. It is the irony of fate that pretty soon he
finds himself in a similar situation.
590
DRUZYA I GODY (FRIENDS AND YEARS)
1965, 2 parts, 1st — 63 min., 2nd — 67 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Leonid Zorin, camera: Eduard Rozovsky,
production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Veniamin Basner,
sound: Georgy Salye
Cast: Alexander Grave, Natalya Velichko, Yuri Yakovlev, Zinoviy Vysokovsky,
Nina Veselovskaya, Oleg Anofriyev, Vladimir Kenigson, Sofya Pilavskaya,
Vyacheslav Nevinny, Igor Pushkarev
Based on the play of the same title by Leonid Zorin
1934. Former schoolmates — Yura, Volodya, Grisha and Tanya got together in a small seacoast town.
All three friends are in love with Tanya. They have just graduated from colleges and are going to start
an independent life. What will they loose and acquire, in what way will they survive the war years,
what will they turn out to be? The film traces their lives from pre-war years to the 1960’s.
591
ZALP “AVRORY” (GUNSHOT OF “AURORA”)
1965, 89 min., b/w, wide screen, wide format
Drama
Director: Yuri Vyshinsky, screenplay: Boris Lavrenev, Yuri Vyshinsky, camera:
Anatoly Nazarov, production designers: Semyon Malkin, Nikolai Suvorov, misic:
Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Mikhail Kuznetsov, Vladimir Tatosov, Yulyen Balmusov, Sergei Yakovlev, Izil
Zabludovsky, Kirill Lavrov, Georgy Epifantsev, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Yefim Kopelyan
Petrograd, October 1917. On the meeting of the central Party Committee Lenin raises the question of
armed uprising...
Erikson, commander of “Aurora” cruiser, receives the order from Provisional Government to put the
cruiser to sea. However, Belyshev, the chairman of the cruiser’s committee cancels the order...
All the dramatic events taking place on the eve of the October revolution end with the historic gunshot
of “Aurora” cruiser — the signal to armed uprising and the storming of the Winter Palace.
592
ZNOINIY IYUL (HOT JULY)
1965, 69 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Sergei Antonov, camera: Muzakir
Shurukov, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Venedikt Pushkov,
sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Alexei Glasyrin, Alexander Borisov, Liliya Gritsenko, Nina Urgant, Valentina
Telegina, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Boris Arakelov
Zakhar Stoletov, who after political rehabilitation becomes the chairman of a backward collective farm
faces many problems. Among the hardest problems is his conflict with a young agronomist Svetlana
Nikitina and the accidental meeting with the regional party worker Dedyukhin who slandered Stoletov
in 1937...
Dramatic situation is further aggravated by the fact that Svetlana turns out to be Stoletov’s daughter —
many years ago her mother, Lyudmila Sergeyevna, renounced her repressed husband...
593 IDU NA GROZU (APPROACHING THE
THUNDERSTORM)
1965, 2 parts, 1st — 73 min., 2nd — 65 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Daniil Granin, Sergei Mikaelyan, camera:
Oleg Kukhovarenko, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic:Vladlen
Chistyakov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Alexander Belyavsky, Vasily Lanovoy, Rostislav Plyatt, Mikhail Astangov,
Zhanna Prokhorenko, Viktoria Lepko, Yevgeny Lebedev, Anatoly Papanov, Lev
Prygunov, Leonid Dyachkov
Based on the novel of the same title by Daniil Granin
The story told in the film begins in 1952 and covers 10 years. Lives of two friends — Sergei Krylov
and Oleg Tulin went in two different ways. Shortly after graduating from university Tulin is assigned
to work on a serious project, while Krylov is expelled from university for his refusal to consider
cybernetics to be “a false science”.
Showing great persistency Krylov grabs the opportunity to work in a research institute under the
guidance of the noted scientist Dankevich, but in a difficult moment cowardly leaves the project and
goes on a research expedition to collect materials for his theses.
Having achieved success and having got the position of the chief of a laboratory Krylov begins a new
research project and invites Tulin to work together, but fate finally pays him back for leaving the
project.
594
LEBEDINAYUA PESNYA (THE SWAN SONG)
1965, 17 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Yuri Mogiltsev, camera: Boris Timkovsky, production
designer: Yuri Kulikov, sound: Kirill Tikhomirov
Cast: Fyodor Nikitin, Kirill Gun
Based on Anton Chekhov’s short story “Kalkhas”
After his benefit performance old comic theatre actor Svetlovidov fell asleep in the empty theatre. He
wakes up with a poignant feeling that he is an old lonely man, who lost everything in his life. And his
only compassionate listener is the old prompter Nikitin who lives in the theatre.
595 MUZYKANTY ODNOGO POLKA (MUSICIANS
FROM ONE REGIMENT)
1965, 80 min., color
Comedy
Directors: Pavel Kadochnikov, Gennady Kazansky, screenplay: Daniil Del, camera:
Gennady Chereshko, production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky,
sound: Nikolai Kosarev
Cast: Yuri Solomin, Nikolai Yeryomenko, Sr., Pavel Kadochnikov, Nikolai
Boyarsky, Konstantin Adashevsky, Konstantin Nikitin
Invaders, frightened by the offensive of the Red Army are hastily leaving the town. Commanders of the
White Army hurry up to kill arrested bolsheviks. Among the arrested is Makeyev, the leader of the
bolshevik underground organization.
To save his comrade, the brave member of the organization Ilyutinsky penetrates into a musical squad
specially created to entertain the White Army officers.
596
NA ODNOY PLANETE (ON ONE PLANET)
1965, 95 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Ilya Olshvanger, screenplay: Savva Dangulov, Mikhail Papava, camera:
Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Boris Tishchenko,
sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Innokenty Smoktunovsky (as Lenin), Emma Popova, Yulyen Balmusiov,
Andrei Kabaladze, Izil Zabludovsky, Yuri Volkov, Yevgeny Lebedev, Pavel
Luspekayev, Bruno Oya, Yefim Kopelyan
The film tells about one day in the life of Vladimir Lenin beginning from the evening, December 31,
1917 and ending on January 1, 1918. Thick with the tenseness of the epoch, this day is filled with
unique task set before the first in the world state of workers and peasants.
597
PERVAYA BASTILIYA (THE FIRST BASTILLE)
1965, 70 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Yuri Yakovlev, camera: Dmitry Dolinin,
Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Veniamin
Basner, sound: Galina Gavrilova, Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Valery Golovnenkov, Yelizaveta Solodova, Yevgeny Matveyev, Nina
Sikorskaya, Sergei Belyatsky
Beginning of the revolutionary activities of Vladimir Lenin, a student of the Kazan University.
598
PERVIY POSETITEL (THE FIRST VISITOR)
1965, 73 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Leonid Kvinikhidze, screenplay: Daniil Granin, camera: Moisei Magid,
Lev Sokolsky, Alexander Black, misic: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Yuri Dubrovin, Rufina Nifontova, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Igor Yasulovich,
Igor Gorbachev, Sergei Filippov, Boris Chirkov, Alisa Freinlikh
The film is set in period of October 24 — 29, 1917. Peasant Vasily Shubin comes to Petrograd to lodge
a complaint to the Provisional Government about the illegal confiscation of his horse for public use.
He fails to find justice from the Provisional Government he decides to appeal to Lenin.
599 PERED SUDOM ISTORII (THE VERDICT OF
HISTORY)
1965, 92 min., b/w, wide screen
Documentary /feature film
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Vladimir Vladimirov, Mikhail
Bleinman, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production designer: Alexander
Black, misic: Sergei Slonimsky, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Vasily Shulgin, Fyodor Petrov, Sergei Svistunov
The film centers on Vasily Shulgin, a former political opponent of Soviet power, the living witness and
active participant of many historicevents.
Dialogue between the Historian and Shulgin is unfolding like a philosophical and political debate on
February Revolution, and the fate of emigrants.
600 RABOCHIY POSYOLOK (THE WORKERS’
SETTLEMENT)
1965, 2 parts (1st — 65 min., 2nd — 62 min.), b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Vengerov, screenplay: Vera Panova, camera: Henrich
Maradzyan, production designer: Viktor Volin, music: Isaak Schwarts, song lyrics
by: Gennady Shpalikov, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Oleg Borisov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikolai Simonov, Tatyana Doronina,
Viktor Avdyushko, Lubov Sokolova, Stanislav Chekan, Boris Ryzhukhin, Viktor
Tregubovich
Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. He drowns his sorrows in drink, tormenting his wife
Maria and teenager son Lyonka.
Maria decides to leave her husband. She goes with her son to Altai, but the boy runs away and returns
to his father. Together they drag out a miserable existence till the moment when Griogory Shalagin, an
old friend of Pleshcheyev, returns from the army. He awakes in Leonid’s heart the feeling of self
dignity and the pride of a soldier.
601
TRETYA MOLODOST (THE THIRD YOUTH)
1965, 91 min., color, wide screen, wide format, “Lenfilm” and “Film-Alcam”
(France)
Melodrama
Director: Jean Drevil, screenplay: Alexander Galich, Paul Andreotta, camera:
Konstantin Ryzhov, Michel Kelber, production designer: Isaak Kaplan, sound:
Grigory Elbert, fragments from pieces by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven,
Mikhail Glinka, Caesar Kui, Nadezhda Simonyan
Cast: Gilles Segal, Oleg Strizhenov, Jacques Ferier, Natalya Velichko, Nikolai
Cherkasov, Alla Larionova, Yevgeniya Sokolova
Marius Petipa (1818 — 1910) immigrated from France to Russia and found his new home, love and
vocation in this country. The great ballet master and choreographer, he glorified Russian ballet and
won the world-wide fame.
Many ballets choreographed by Petipa are included in repertoire of modern ballet theatres as the
outstanding pieces of Russian cultural heritage.
602
V GORODE ES. (IN THE TOWN S.)
1966, 97 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Written and directed by: Iosif Heifits, camera: Henrich Marandzyan, production
designers: Bella Manevich, Isaak Kaplan, music: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound:
Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Andrei Popov, Anatoly Papanov, Nonna Terentyeva, Lidia Shtykan, Igor
Gorbachev, Alexei Batalov, Olga Aroseva, Alexander Borisov, Olga Gobzeva, Rina
Zelionaya, Ivan Krasko, Yuri Medvedev
Based on Anton Chekhov’s short story “Ionych”
603 DVA BILYETA NA DNEVNOY SEANS (TWO
TICKETS FOR THE DAY-TIME SHOW)
1966, 90 min., b/w, wide screen
Detective
Director: Herbert Rappaport, screenplay: Boris Chirskov, camera: Dmitry
Meskhiyev, production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Alexander
Mnatsakanyan, sound: Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Alexander Zbruyev, Zemfira Tsakhilova, Igor Gorbachev, Alexei Kozhevnikov,
Nikita Podgorny, Bruno Freindlich, Lyudmila Chursina, Alexander Yanvarev,
Stanislav Chekan, Vladimir Kenigson, Galina Nikulina
Young police officer Alyoshin working for the economic crimes investigation department is going to
leave the police service. His boss gives him the last and a seemingly simple task — to double check a
minor detail of a recent police operation. Solving the mystery of two used cinema tickets Alyoshin gets
involved in complicated events that end up with exposure of a large gang of plunderers.
604 DOLGAYA SHCHASTLIVAYA ZHIZN (LONG AND
HAPPY LIFE)
1966, 70 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Gennady Shpalikov, camera: Dmitry Meckhiyev,
production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, sound: Irina
Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Inna Gulaya, Kirill Lavrov, Pavel Luspekayev, Georgy Shtil, Larisa Burkova,
Alla Tarasova
Two young people — Lena and Viktor — met by chance and spent a Night together. Mutual attraction
could have developed into a deeper feeling. However, in the morning they both felt awkward and
embarrassed and used the insignificant pretext to part without even trying to sort out their feelings.
605
ZIMNEYE UTRO (WINTER MORNING)
1966, 83 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Sokrat Kara, camera: Semyon Ivanov,
production designer: Alexei Fedorov, misic: Vladimir Maklanov, sound: Boris
Livshits
Cast: Tanya Soldatenkova, Kostya Kornakov, Nikolai Timofeyev, Vsevolod
Kuznertsov, Liliya Gurova, Lubov Malinovskaya
Based on the novel “The Seventh Symphony” by T. Tsinberg.
The film is set in Leningrad besieged by the Nazis. During the air raid the girl Katya saves a little boy.
She names the boy Seryozha. But one day the real father of the boy appeares looking for his missing
family.
 The film was awarded the Gold Prize and the Diploma for the Best Children Film, the Prize for the
Kindest Film and the Diploma of the Pioneer and Schoolchildren Jury at the International Film
Festival in Moscow (1969).
606 KATERINA IZMAYLOVA (KATERINA
IZMAYLOVA)
1966, 121 min., color, wide screen
Film-opera
Director: Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Dmitry Shostakovich, camera: Rostislav
Davydov, Vladimir Ponomaryov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic:
Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Galina Vishnevskaya, Artyom Inozemtsev, Nikolai Boyarsky, Alexander
Sokolov, Tatyana Gavrilova, Roman Tkachuk, Vera Titova
Screen version of Dmitry Shostakovich’s opera based on the novel “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk
District” by Nikolai Leskov
607 KTO PRIDUMAL KOLESO? (WHO INVENTED THE
WHEEL?)
1966, 83 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Tengiz Abuladze, Anatoly
Grebnev, Tomaz Maliava, camera: Yakov Sklyansky, production designer: Vasily
Zachinayev, misic: Isaak Schwarts, sound: Semyon Shumyacher, song lyrics by:
Gennady Shpalikov
Cast: Georgy Korolchuk, Galina Nikulina, Natalya Selezneva, Georgy Vitsin,
Mikhail Gluzsky, Nikolai Volkov, Sr
Based on Viktor Krakovsky’s novel “Return to the Horizon”.
Seva Losev, a sixteen-year old youth, arrived from the Arctic to the mainland to his uncle to continue
his education. As is turned out instead of going to college Seva had to go to work at a chemcal plant.
New life, first problems, first love... the boy is turning into an adult.
608
GIRL)
MALCHIK I DEVOCHKA (THE BOY AND THE
1966, 74 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Yuri Fait, screenplay: Vera Panova, camera: Vladimir Chumak,
production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Boris Tchaikovsky, sound: Vladimir
Yakovlev
Cast: Nikolai Burlyayev, Nataliya Bogunova, Lyudmila Shagalova, Yelizaveta
Uvarova, Nikolai Gubenko, Lubov Malinovskaya
Two fresh from school young people — a Boy and a Girl — met on a coast of a southern sea. Their
brief meeting was warmed up by the sincere and innocent love. And then the Boy went away and the
Girl had a son.
609
NA DIKOM BREGE (ON THE WILD SHORE)
1966, 2 parts (1st — 75 min., 2nd — 67 min.), b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Granik, screenplay: Georgy Kapralov, Anatoly Granik, Ignat
Dvoretsky, camera: Viktor Karasev, Nikolai Zhilin, production designer: Mikhail
Ivanov, misic: Valery Gavrilin, sound: Nikolai Kosarev
Cast: Boris Andreyev, Vsevolod Safonov, Yelizaveta Akuliocheva, Alexei Glazyrin,
Oleg Borisov, Alexander Lazarev, Tatyana Bestayeva, Pavel Luspekayev
Based on the novel of the same title by Boris Polevoy
The story is based round the collision of two characters — Petin, the chief engineer, and Litvinov, the
chief of the construction. For Petin the most important thing in his life is his career and well-being and
he is prepared to sacrifice everything in pursuing his goals. Litvinov is his antipode, a man who cares
about the cause he serves to and about the people around him. The story is set on a large-size
construction site in Siberia.
610 NACHALNIK CHUKOTKY (THE CHIEF OF
CHUKOTKA)
1966, 91 min., b/w, wide screen
Comedy
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, Viktor
Viktorov, camera: Eduard Rozovsky, production designer: Marksen GaukhmanSverdlov, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Mikhail Kononov, Alexei Gribov, Nikolai Volkov, Sr. Pavel Vinnik, Iosif
Konopatsky, Alexei Kozhevnikov
1922. Commissar Glazkov is send to Chukotka to establish Soviet power. On his way to Uigunan,
Glazkov dies and the only one who gets to the destination point is his secretary Alyosha. By pure
chance this young man becomes the chief of Chukotka.
611 NE ZABUD...STANTSIYA LUGOVAYA (DON’T
FORGET...THE LUGOVAYA STATION)
1966, 84 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Nikita Kurikhin, Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Iosif Olshansky, Nina
Rudneva, camera: Alexander Chirov, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic:
Yakov Vaisburd, sound: Georgy Salye
Cast: Georgy Yumatov, Alla Chernova, Valentina Vladimirova, Valentina Kibardina,
Muza Krenkogorskaya, Yelizaveta Uvarova, Alexander Demyanenko, Oleg Belov
World War II. Troop train and train with refugees are stuck at a small railway station. Young lieutenant
Ryabov and Lyusya spent several days on the station together and became very close. The war
separates the couple... Twenty years later Ryabov accidentally comes to the station and finds out that
Lyusya has been waiting for him for many years.
612
RESPUBLIKA SHKID (THE REPUBLIC OF SHKID)
1966, 103 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Gennady Poloka, screenplay: Leonid Panteleyev, camera: Dmitry Dolinin,
Alexander Chechulin, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Yevgeny Gukov,
misic: Sergei Slonimsky, sound: Galina Gavrilova
Cast: Sergei Yursky, Yuliya Burygina, Pavel Luspekayev, Alexander Melnikov, Vera
Titova, Anatoly Stolbov, Lev Vainshtein, Viktor Perevalov, Sasha Kavalerov
Loosely based on the novel of the same title by Gennady Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev
The 20-s. Viktor Nikolaievich Sorokin, the director of a boarding school, a refined intellectual, gathers
in his school homeless children, aggravated and embittered by the difficult life they had. Step by step
he is shaping the souls and characters of children, developing them into conscious citizens.
613 SEGODNYA — NOVIY ATTRAKTSION (TODAY —
THE NEW PERFORMANCE)
1966, 95 min., color, wide screen
Comedy
Directors: Nadezhda Kosheverova, Apollinary Dudko, screenplay: Yuliy
Dunsky, Valery Frid, story by: Konstantin Konstantinovsky, camera: Vladimir
Burykin, Vladimir Korotkov, Konstantin Solovyov, productiondesigners: Igor
Vuskovich, Valery Dorrer, misic: Karen Khachaturyan, sound: Igor Lashkov
Cast: Marina Polbentseva, Otar Koberidze, Faina Ranevskaya, Geliy Sysoyev, Igor
Gorbachev, Mikhail Gluzsky
Marat Miskheyev, an assistant of a famed tamer, begins to work on his own. His partner in the new
performance is his wife Valya. Their star turn — tamed tigers — has a great success with the audience.
The fame turns Valya’s head and she forgets who stands behind her success. After one of their quarrels
Marat leaves the circus and soon after that during the tour Valya has a bad accident...
614
SNEZHNAYA KOROLEVA (THE SNOW QUEEN)
1966, 85 min., color, wide screen
Fairy tale
Director: Gennady Kazansky, screenplay: Yevgeny Schwarts, camera: Sergei
Ivanov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound:
Anna Volokhova
Cast: Lena Proklova, Natalya Klimova, Nikolai Boyarsky, Slava Tsyupa, Yevgeny
Leonov, Era Ziganshina, Irina Gubanova, Valery Nikitenko, Georgy Korolchuk, Olga
Viklandt, Vera Titova
Screen version of the play of the same title by Yevgeny Schwarts, loosely based on Andersen’s fairy
tale. Kay and Gerda live together with their old grandmother. One day the evil Snow Queen takes Kay
away to keep him forever in her ice castle. But courageous Gerda sets off to rescue her brother.
615
TRI TOLSTYAKA (THREE FAT MEN)
1966, 92 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Fairy tale
Director: Alexei Batalov, Iosif Shapiro, screenplay: Alexei Batalov, Mikhail
Olshevsky, camera: Suren Shakhbazyan, production designer: Bella Manevich,
misic: Nikolai Sidelnikov, sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Lina Braknite, Petya Artemyev, Alexei Batalov, Valentin Nikulin, Rina
Zelionaya, Yevgeny Morgunov, Pavel Luspekayev, Alexei Smirnov
Based on the fairy tale of the same title by Yuri Olesha
A fairy tale state is autocratically ruled by three fat man. Their autocracy is opposed by poor folk and
the brave rope-walker Tibul, who is helped by the doll girl Suok and the kind doctor Kaspar.
616
BRASLET-DVA (BRACELET-2)
1967, 74 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Directors: Lev Tsutsulkovsky, Mikhail Shamkovich, screenplay: Albina
Shulgina, Vadim Mikhailov, camera: Yevgeny Mezentsev, production designer:
Boris Bykov, misic: Murad Kazhlayev, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Oleg Zhakov, Vladimir Vorobyov, Vasily Livanov, Vladimir Trukhanov,
Sergei Plotnikov, Prov Sadovsky, Konstantin Adashevsky
Based on the novel of the same title by L. Brandt
Bracelet-2 is a race horse. In the days of the Civil War he is used as a usual draft horse. In the course of
a fight Bracelet is shell-shocked. The famous race horse was cured and later on triumphantly
participated in a race which turned out to be the last in Bracelet’s life.
617 V OGNE BRODA NET (“O Tane Tiotkinoy i yeyo
risunkakh”) (THERE IS NO PASSAGE IN FIRE) (“About Tanya
Tetkina and Her Drawings”)
1967, 95 min., wide screen
Drama
Director: Gleb Panfilov, screenplay: Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Gleb Panfilov, camera:
Dmitry Dolinin, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Vadim
Bibergan, sound: Georgy Salye
Cast: Inna Churikova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Mikhail Gluzsky, Maya Bulgakova,
Vladimir Kashpur, Yevgeny Lebedev, Mikhail Kononov, Mikhail Kokshenov, Lubov
Malinovskaya
Tanya Tetkina is a nurse in a hospital train taking the wounded soldiers from Civil War battle fields.
The plain shy and semi-illiterate young girl is sincerely devoted to the cause she serves.
She does not realize the importance of the events she is taking part in but has a vague feeling that the
time she lives in is a just time. Tanya has a rare gift of a true original artist and that makes her death
even more tragic.
 The film was awarded the “Golden Leopard” — the main prize of the International Film Festival
in Locarno (1969).
 The actress Inna Churikova was honored the Premium for the Best Lead Part at the International
Film Festival in Locarno (1969).
618 DEN SOLNTSA I DOZHDYA (THE SUNNY AND
RAINY DAY)
1967, 71 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Edward Radzinsky, camera: Vladimir
Chumak, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Gennady Portnov, sound:
Betty Livshits
Cast: Sasha Barinov, Tolya Popov, Alexander Sokolov, Yelizaveta Time, Svetlana
Savelova, Mikhail Kozakov, Tatyana Piletskaya, Iosif Konopatsky, Alexei Petrenko
Two 7-th grade students Kolya Mukhin and Alyosha Kronov have known each other for a long time
but they don’t cherish any kind feelings for each other. The day they spent together and events that
happened during this day not only helped them to know each other better but also in some
way changed their attitude to the world around them.
619
YEGO ZVALI ROBERT (HIS NAME WAS ROBERT)
1967, 80 min., color, wide screen
Comedy
Director: Ilya Olshvanger, screenplay: Lev Kuklin, Yuri Printsev, camera: Edgar
Shtyrtskober, production designer: Dmitry Afanasyev, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound:
Mikhail Lazarev
Cast: Oleg Strizhenov, Marianna Vertinskaya, Vladimir Pobol, Mikhail Pugovkin,
Nina Mamayeva
A young researcher, the chief of an experimental laboratory, created the biochemical model of a man.
The robot is an exact replica of its creator. As an experiment the robot named Robert is sent to
communicate with people...
620 ZHENYA, ZHENECHKA I “KATYUSHA” (ZHENYA,
ZHENECHKA AND “KATYUSHA”)
1967, 81 min., color
Comedy
Director: Vladimir Motyl, screenplay: Bulat Okudzhava, Vladimir Motyl, camera:
Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Viktor Volin, misic: Isaak Schwarts,
sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Oleg Dal, Galina Figlovskaya, Mikhail Kokshenov, Georgy Shtil, Mark Bernes,
Pavel Morosenko, Vladimir Ilyin, Lubov Malinovskaya
Everyone seems to be in love with the charming Zhenechka Zemlyanikina — the signaller in a rocket
barrage regiment. As to Zhenya Kolyshkin, in his regiment he has the reputation of a romantic and
extremely disorganized person.
However, love and war made the young man grow up and realize that the world was not just the place
for amusing adventures.
621
ZELYONAYA KARETA (THE GREEN COACH)
1967, 101 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Jan Frid, screenplay: Alexander Gladkov, camera: Lev Sokolsky, Anatoly
Nazarov, production designers: Mikhail Krotkin, Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Vladlen
Chistyakov, sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Natalya Tenyakova, Vladimir Chestnokov, Igor Dmitriyev, Lidiya Shtykan,
Igor Ozerov, Irina Gubanova, Tatyana Piletskaya, Yulian Panich, Alexander Susnin,
Alexander Borisov, Alexander Sokolov, Geliy Sysoyev
Varvara Asenkova is the great Russian actress of the 1st half of the 19th century. Her first performance
on the stage won immediate recognition of the audience. She was taken in the staff of the imperial
theatre company but practically never played the parts worth her talent. The biographical film centers
on the tragic artistic career and the early death of the actress.
622 LICHNAYA ZHIZN KUZYAYEVA VALENTINA
(PRIVATE LIFE OF VALENTIN KUSAYEV)
1967, 68 min., b/w
Melodrama
Directors: Igor Maslennikov, Ilya Averbakh, screenplay: Nataliya
Ryazantseva, camera: Boris Timkovsky, production designer: Yuri Kulikov, misic:
Alexander Kolker, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Viktor Ilyichev, Tamara Konovalova, Zinaida Krasnova, Inna Sergeyeva,
Avgust Baltrushaitis, Alexei Kozhenvnikov, Georgy Shtil
The slow and lazy schoolboy Valentin Kuzyayev accidentally becomes the object of a TV public
opinion poll. This seemingly minor event made
Kuzyayev start pondering about his life, his relations with his
friends and family, about his inner world.
623 MYATEZHNAYA ZASTAVA (REBELLOUS
DISTRICT)
1967, 93 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Adolf Bergunker, screenplay: Alexander Vlasov, Arkady Mlodik, camera:
Oleg Kukhovarenko, production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky,
sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Boris Chirkov, Vyacheslav Nevinny, Oleg Borisov, Yelena Chernaya, Alexei
Eibozhenko, Kseniya Minina, Natalya Rudnaya, Iosif Konopatsky, Konstantin
Adashevsky
St. Petersburg, 1901. Workers of the Obukhovsky plant rose in rebellion against the tsar’s autocracy.
These dramatic events find their reflection in the life of the Yepifanov family, the family of hereditary
workers.
624
PERVOROSSIYANE (RUSSIAN PIONEERS)
1967, 78 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Olga Bergholtz, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Mikhail Shcheglov, misic: Nikolai Karetnikov, sound: Tigran
Silayev
Cast: Vladimir Chestnokov, Vladimir Zamansky, Larisa Danilina, Inna Kondratyeva,
Gennady Nikov, Yulian Panich, Ivan Krasko, Natalya Klimova, Olga Volkova
Based on the poem of the same title by Olga Bergholtz
1918. Workers from Petrograd come to Altai region to establish the first agricultural commune. In spite
of the hostility of the local White Army cossacks the workers build houses, cultivate land. The poor
peasants are turning towards the commune. However, White Army cossacks take vengeance on the
members of the commune.
625 POPUTNOGO VETRA, “SINYAYA PTITSA!” (FAIR
WIND TO YOU, “BLUE BIRD”!)
1967, 80 min., co-production with “Avala-film” (Jugoslavia), color
Adventure story
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Stanislav Borislavlevich, Fyodor
Shkubonya, Yuri Printsev, camera: Milorad Markovich, production designers:
Viktor Volin, Vlastimir Gavrik, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Blazhenka Katalinich, Radmila Karaklaich, Vitaly Doronin, Boris Amarantov,
Milenko Iovanovich, Yevgeniya Vetlova, Alexander Gavrilov, Valery Komlev,
Vladimir Pak, Larisa Taranenko
Based on the novel of the same title by B. Kasper
The beautiful “Blue Bird” schooner is sailing along the Adriatic sea coast. The passengers of the
schooner are children of different nationalities, winners of the competition “For Peace and Mutual
Understanding”. During this wonderful sea voyage children find out that there are smugglers on board
the ship...
626 PROISSHESTVIYE, KOTOROGO NIKTO NE
ZAMETIL (THE UNNOTICED INCIDENT)
1967, 70 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Alexander Volodin, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov,
production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Yevgeny
Nesterov, Galina Gavrilova
Cast: Zhanna Prokhorenko, Vera Titova, Yevgeny Lebedev, Vitaly Solomin, Georgy
Shtil, Zinaida Slavina, Pavel Luspekayev, Lidiya Shtykan, Arkady Trusov
Plain and shy shop assistant Nastya who has never been happy in love wished she were as beautiful as
the Venus on the painting by Boticelli. And the miracle has occurred! As it turned out the new situation
brought the girl many unexpected delights, anxieties and troubles... And though the miracle happened
only in her imagination — it made her understand many things and change her attitude to many aspects
of life.
627 SVADBA V MALINOVKE (WEDDING IN
MALINOVKA)
1967, 95 min., color, wide screen
Musical comedy
Director: Andrei Tutyshkin, screenplay: Leonid Yukhvid, camera: Vyachslav
Fastovich, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Boris Alexandrov, sound:
Grigory Elbert
Cast: Vladimir Samoilov, Lyudmila Alfimova, Valentina Lysenko, Yevgeny
Lebedev, Mikhail Pugovkin, Zoya Fyodorova, Andrei Abrikosov, Tamara Nosova,
Mikhail Vodyanoy, Nikolai Slichenko, Alexei Smirnov
Based on the musical comedy by Boris Alexandrov, story by Leonid Yukhvid
Civil war in Ukraine. A peaceful small village inhabited mostly by old people and small children is
often raided by White Army gangs. To do away with the gang of Balyasny the Red Army commander
Nazar disguised as a White Army liason officer comes to the village — and gets right to the wedding:
Balyasny is going to marry Nazar’s daughter Yarinka against the girl’s will.
628
SEDMOY SPUTNIK (THE SEVENTH SATELLITE)
1967, 83 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Directors: Grigory Aronov, Alexei German, screenplay: Yuri Klepikov, Edgar
Dubrovsky, camera: Eduard Rozovsky, production designer: Igor Vuskovich,
misic: Isaak Schvarz, sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Andrei Popov, Alexander Anisimov, Georgy Shtil, Pyotr Chernov, Vladimir
Osenev, Sofia Giatsintova, Georgy Yumatov, Alexei Batalov, Alexei Glasyrin,
Vladimir Erenberg, Panteleimon Krymov
Based on the novel of the same title by Boris Lavrenev.
Yevgeny Pavlovich Adamov, professor of history of law, sympathizes with the revolution and sizes up
the new power. He goes through terrible ordeals and after some serious pondering finally makes up his
mind: he will give all his energy and abilities to the new state.
629
SEM NOT V TISHINE (SEVEN NOTES IN SILENCE)
1967, 77 min., b/w, wide screen
Director: Vitaly Aksyonov, screenplay: Vitaly Aksyonov, Mark Rozovsky, camera:
Leonid Volkov, production designer: Yuri Kulikov, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
The film is composed of several episodes each dealing with peculiarities of a certain musical genre and
the place it takes in the spiritual life of a contemporary man.
630
SUD (THE TRIAL)
1967, 28 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: David Kocharyan, camera: Valery Fedosov, production
designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Georgy Portnov, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Viktor Ilyichev, Evgeni Lebedev, Nikilai Trofimov, Georgy Shtil, Alexei
Trusov
Loosely based on the story by Anton Chekhov.
631 KHRONIKA PIKIRUYUSHCHEGO
BOMBARDIROVSHCHIKA(CHRONICLE OF A DIVE BOMBER)
1967, 78 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Vladimir Kunin, Naum Birman, camera:
Alexander Chirov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Alexander Kolker,
sound: Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Gennady Saifulin, Oleg Dal, Lev Vainshtein, Yuri Tolubeyev, Alexander
Grave, Pyotr Shcherbakov, Georgy Korolchuk, Yelena Sanko, Viktor Ilyichev, Boris
Arakelov, Konstantin Sorokin
1944. Young lads, former students and high school graduates — “the air workers of the war” — are
fighting the enemy. A minor episode of war days – the search for the hidden airport of the enemy — is
the pivot of the story and the cause of the heroes’ death.
632 CHETYRE STRANITSY ODNOY MOLODOY ZHIZNI
(FOUR PAGES OF YOUNG MAN’S LIFE)
1967, 84 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Rezo Esadze, screenplay: Vera Panova, camera: Ernst Yakovlev,
production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Isaak Schvarz, sound: Irina Volkova
Cast: Boris Rudnev, Natalya Velichko, Boris Savitsky, Alexandra Zavyalova,
Lyudmila Arinina, Boris Arakelov
Sasha Agafonov, a young lad is just beginning his adult life. He left his home and works as a driver at a
large construction site. His new dramatic life experience changes Sasha’s character turning the boy into
a grown up man.
633
V DEN SVADBY (ON THE WEDDING DAY)
1968, 73 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vadim Mikhailov, screenplay: Viktor Rozov, camera: Nikolai
Prokoptsev, Vladimir Ponomaryov, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic:
Valery Gavrilin, sound: Igor Vigdorchik, song lyrics by: Albina Shulgina
Cast: Larisa Malevannaya, Anatoly Spivak, Yevgeniya Uralova, Lev Krugly, Viktor
Avdyushko, Violetta Zhukhimovich, Natalya Krudova, Lubov Malinovskaya, Arkady
Trusov
Based on the play of the same title by Viktor Rozov.
The story is set in a small village on the Volga river. Preparations to the wedding of Nyura and Mikhail
are almost complete when virtually on the eve of the wedding day Mikhail meets Klava — his old
flame. Realizing that the wedding can not be cancelled Mikhail and Klava are
parting. Nyura finds out about their meeting...
634
VIRINEYA (VIRINEYA)
1968, 109 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, sound: Grigory
Elbert
Cast: Lyudmila Chursina, Anatoly Papanov, Vyacheslav Nevinny, Valentina
Vladimirova, Vyacheslav Shalevich, Yevgeny Leonov, Oleg Borisov, Stanislav
Chekan, Alexei Gribov
Based on the novel of the same title by Lidiya Seifullina.
Life of young Virineya with her invalid husband Vasily whom she never loved was not easy. Unable to
bear this life any longer she left her home. After the revolution Virineya became an active supporter of
the new regime. She married bolshevik Pavel Suslov. When the Civil War broke out, Virineya, who
stayed in the village, stirred the uprising against the White Army and laid down her life for the
revolution.
635
VSEGO ODNA ZHIZN (JUST ONE LIFE)
1968, 85 min., b/w, USSR-Norway, “Lenfilm”-“Norskfilm”
Historical drama
Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Odd Bang-Hansen, Sigurd Evensmu, Yuliy
Dunsky, Valery Frid, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Isaak
Kaplan, misic: M. Senstevol, G. Senstevol, sound: K.Lashkov
Cast: Knut Vigert, Veslemey Haslund, Rolf Sund, Johim Kalmeer, Yevgeny
Yevstigneyev, Arne Os, Yan Gratinsh
The film tells about the most important episodes of the life of Fridtjof
Nansen, the traveler and Arctic explorer: his attempt to reach the North Pole sailing in the “Fram” ship,
his career as a diplomat when he struggled for independence of Norway, his activities in the League of
Nations and his service to famine stricken Russia.
636 GROZA NAD BYELOY (THUNDERSTOM OVER
THE BYELAYA RIVER)
1968, 92 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Directors: Yevgeny Nemchenko, Stanislav Chaplin, screenplay: Daniil Del, Leonid
Zhezhelenko, camera: Oleg Kukhovarenko, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound:
Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Alexander Mikhailov, Alexei Yakovlev, Natalya Tenyakova, Georgy Kulikov,
Bruno Freinlikh, Yefim Kopelyan, Vladimir Kashpur, Gennady Yukhtin, Emma
Popova, Nikolai Volkov, Sr
The Civil War. 1919
Red Army troops commanded by Mikhail Frunze, who reorganized armed forces to create the
disciplined efficient army, liberates the city of Ufa on the Byelaya river, occupied by the White Army.
637
ZHIVOY TRUP (THE LIVING CORPSE)
1968, 2 parts (1st — 77 min., 2nd — 65 min.), b/w, wide screen
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Vengerov, camera: Henrich Marandzhyan,
production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Isaak
Schwarz, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Alexei Batalov, Alla Demidova, Oleg Basilashvili, Lidiya Shtykan, Yelena
Chernaya, Svetlana Toma, Sofia Pilyavskaya, Oleg Borisov, Innokenty
Smoktunovsky, Nikolai Boyarsky
Based on Lev Tolstoy’s play of the same title.
638
ISTOCHNIK (THE SPRING)
1968, 87 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Anatioly Granik, screenplay: Ignaty Dvoretsky, camera: Ernst Yakovlev,
production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Valery Gavrilin, sound: Asya
Zvereva
Cast: Dzidra Ritenbergs, Vladimir Kashpur, Leonid Nevedomsky, Alexei Chernov,
Natalya Rybakova, Stanislav Sokolov, Lyudmila Nilova
Savely and Lelya are leading a quiet peaceful life in a forest
reserve, in a small village with a mineral spring, where Savely brought his seriously ill wife. The
seemingly routine life can not hide deep and tender love that came a bit too late...
639
LYEBEDINOYE OZERO (THE SWAN LAKE)
1968, 83 min., color, wide format
Film-ballet
Director: Apollinary Dudko, Konstantin Sergeyev, screenplay: Isaak Glikman,
Apollinary Dudko, Konstantin Sergeyev, choreography: Marius
Petipa, Leonid Ivanov, Konstantin Sergeyev, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production
designers: Viktor Volin, Boris Bykov, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Yelena Yevteyeva, John Markovsky, Makhmud Esambayev, Valery Panov,
Alla Kabarova, Viktor Ryazanov
Screen version of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet of the same name.
640
MYORTVY SEZON (THE LOW SEASON)
1968, 2 parts (1st — 70 min., 2nd — 68 min)., b/w, wide screen
Political detective
Director: Savva Kulish, screenplay: Vladimir Vladimirov, Alexander
Shlepyanov, camera: Alexender Chechulin, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov,
misic: Andrei Volkonsky, sound: Galina Gavrilova
Cast: Donatas Banionis, Rolan Bykov, Sergei Kurilov, Gennady Yukhtin, Bruno
Freindlikh, Yuri Yarvet, Svetlana Korkoshko, Laimonas Noreika, Leonhard Merzin,
Anda Zaitse, Mairi Raus
Soviet secret service agent Ladeinikov gets the information that doctor Hass, a former World War II
criminal, works for one of foreign research institutes. Ladeinikov and actor Savushkin, who knows
Hass by sight, come under assumed names to Dorgeit, a small resort town, where Hass is working.
After a long and complicated search they finally identify Hass. But Hass, in his turn, also recognizes
Savushkin.
641
MOABITSKAYA TETRAD (MOABIT NOTEBOOK)
1968, 93 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Leonid Kvinikhidze, screenplay: Vladimir Grigoryev, Edgar
Dubrovsky, Sergei Potepalov, camera: Vyacheslav Fastovich, production designer:
Alexander Black, misic: Vladislav Uspensky, sound: Irina Volkova
Cast: Pyotr Chernov, Azgar Shakirov, Aivars Bagdanovich, Laimonas Noreika,
Anatoply Shvedersky, Alexander Mikhailov, Dmitry Barkov, Sergei Svistunov
The story is focused on the dramatic life of the talented Tatar poet Musa Dzhalil: his struggle against
fascism, the ordeal of being in a German prisoner-of-war camp, his courage and his imperishable fame.
642 NA VOINE KAK NA VOINE (A LA GUERRE COMME
A LA GUERRE)
1968, 90 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Written and directed by: Viktor Kurochkin, camera: Yevgeny Mezentsev,
production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Gennady Portnov, sound: Irina
Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Mikhail Kononov, Oleg Borisov, Fyodor Odinokov, Viktor Pavlov, Valentin
Zubkov, Mikhail Gluzsky, Boris Arakelov, Pyotr Gorin, Irina Zamotina, Pyotr
Lyubeshkin
The film is set at the end of World War II. Junior lieutenant Maleshkin, fresh from the military college,
is appointed the commander of a self propelled gun. His subordinates are experienced war veterans
who took part in many battles. The film tells about their everyday life, about their happy moments and
troubles, their courage and heroism.
643
SNEGUROCHKA (SNOW MAIDEN)
1968, 86 min., color, wide screen
Fairy tale
Director: Pavel Kadochnikov, screenplay: Daniil Del, Pavel Kadochnikov, camera:
Alexander Chirov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic:Vladislav
Kladnitsky, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Yevgeniya Filonova, Yevgeny Zharikov, Irina Gubanova, Boris Khimichev,
Pavel Kadochnikov, Sergei Filippov, Lubov Malinovskaya, Valentina Pugacheva,
Valery Malyshev, Gennady Nilov, Stepan Krylov
Screen version of Alexander Ostrovsky’s play “The Spring Tale”.
644
STARAYA, STARAYA SKAZKA (OLD, OLD TALE)
1968, 90 min., color, wide screen
Fairy tale
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Yuli Dunsky, Valery Frid, camera:
Konstantin Ryzhov, production designers: Marina Azizyan, Igor Vuskovich, misic:
Andrei Petrov, sound: Boris Khutoryansky, song lyrics by: Alexander Galich
Cast: Oleg Dal, Marina Neyolova, Vladimir Etush, Georgy Vitsin, Vera Titova, Igor
Dmitriyev, Lev Lemke, Viktor Perevalov, Georgy Shtil
Based on fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen.
A brave soldier who falls in love with a malicious and capricious princess, a kind magician who helps
him to obtain his happiness and a wicked witch are familiar personages of any fairy tale.
645
STEPEN RISKA (THE DEGREE OF RISK)
1968, 95 min., b/w
Melodrama
Written and produced by: Ilya Averbakh, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production
designer: Vasily Zachinayev, sound: Mikhail Lazarev, misic: fragments from
compositions by Caesar Frank
Cast: Boris Livanov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Alla Demidova, Ivan Dmitriyev,
Yuri Grebenshchikov, Leonid Nevedomsky, Viktor Ilyichev
Screen version of surgeon Nikolai Amosov’s novel “Thoughts and Heart”.
Heart surgeries performed by talented cardiologist Sedov are unique but involve great risk. Sasha
Kirillov, a young gifted mathematician, comes to Sedov’s clinic. Sedov realizes that in this particular
case the risk is too high and chances for successful operation are too small...
646 UDAR! YESHCHO UDAR! (KICK AT THE BALL!
ANOTHER KICK!)
1968, 89 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sadovsky, screenplay: Viktor Sadovsky, Vladimir Kunin, camera:
Rostislav Davydov, Alexander Dibrivny, production designer: Boris Burmistrov,
misic: Valdlen Chistyakov, sound: Anna Volokhova, song lyrics by: Lev Kuklin
Cast: Viktor Korshunov, Yuri Volkov, Alexander Grave, Valentin Smirnitsky, Galina
Yatskina, Yuri Tolubeyev, Vladimir Kenigson, Vladimir Treshchalov, Boris Bystrov,
Yuri Dedovich, Alexei Kozhevnikov
Tamantsev, coach of ‘ Zarya’ football team, and Berger, coach of one of the strongest European
football teams, meet on a championship in Stockholm. The next game is scheduled to take place in
Leningrad. The film tells about the game — and the circumstances attending the contest.
647
BYELY FLYUGER (WHITE WEATHERCOCK)
1969, 82 min., b/w, wide screen
Adventure story
Director: David Kocharyan, screenplay: Alexander Vlasov, Arkady Mlodik,
camera: Vladimri Kovzel production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Veniamin
Basner, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Leva Orlov, Vova Magdenkov, Katya Ovsyannikova, Vitya Perevalov, Mikhail
Kononov, Viktor Chekmaryov, Oleg Belov, Vitaly Konyaev, Lyusyena
Ovchinnikova, Ivan Krasko
The summer of 1920. The struggle of bolsheviks against counter-revolutionaries is going on. Two
brothers, Fedka and Karpushka Dorokhov, help adults.
648
BEREG YUNOSTI (THE SHORE OF YOUTH)
1969, 81 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Lev Tsutsulkovsky, screenplay: Georgy Kholopov, camera: Yevgeny
Mesentsev, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vladislav Uspensky,
sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Arik Kazaryan, Tanya Cherednikova, Misha Ilyin, Kolya Ananyev, Gennady
Yukhtin, Igor Gorbachev
Based on the novel “Granada” by Georgy Kholopov
The first years of Soviet power in Baku. Tha main characters of the film are the boy Garegin and his
friends, children belonging to different nationalities. They learn to be friends, master cooperation and
solidarity. These children form the first in Baku team of young pioneers.
649
GOLUBOI LYOD (BLUE ICE)
1969, 71 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, Caesar Solodar, camera:
Alexender Chechulin, production designers: Alexander Kompaneyets, Alexander
Black, misic: Yakov Vaisburd, sound: Betty Livshits
Cast: Alexander Gorelik, Natalya Sedykh, Mare Khellaste, Anatoly Babienko
Husband and wife Berestov are figure skating stars. The story is centered on the couple’s hard work,
their achievements and failures in sports and on problems they face in their private life.
650
YEYO IMYA — VESNA (HER NAME IS SPRING)
1969, 70 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: Iskander Khamrayev, camera: Rostislav Davydov,
production designer: Emmanuil Kalantarov, misic: Marat Kamilov, sound: Galina
Gavrilova, song lyrics: Alexei Shcherbakov
Cast: Talgat Nigmatulin, Larisa Zubkovich, Yefim Kopelyan, Nina Ruslanova,
Razzak Khamrayev, Hamza Umarov, Georgy Shtil, Olga Antonova, Valentin Zubkov,
Nikolai Kryukov, Pavel Luspekayev
Loosely based on Sharadf Rashidov’s novel “Mighty Wave”.
The days of World War II. A hydroelectric power station is being constructed in Uzbekistan. The main
hero of the film is a young man Pulat, who is eager to go to the front. The story is focused on his strong
love for Bahor, on his determination and courage.
651 ZAVTRA, TRETYEGO APRELYA (TOMORROW, ON
THE THIRD OF APRIL)
1969, 70 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, camera: Vladimir
Vasilyev, production designer: Viktor Volin, misic: Alexender Kolker, sound: Asya
Zvereva, song lyrics by: Kim Ryzhov
Cast: Eneken Aksel, Lyudmila Volynskaya, Viktor Ilyichev, Pavel Luspekayev,
Alexander Demyanenko, Natasha Danilova, Larisa Malevannaya, Alexei
Kozhevnikov
Based on short stories by Ilya Zverev.
The 1st of April is known as “The April Fools’ Day” when people tell each other lies and play all sorts
of tricks on their friends. Pupils of a Leningrad junior school decided to establish “The Day of Spaking
Truth” — and chose the date — the 3rd of April. The film tells about results of this action.
652
KNYAZ IGOR (PRINCE IGOR)
1969, 105 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Film-opera
Director: Roman Tikhomirov, screenplay: Isaak Glikman, Roman Tikhomirov,
camera: Alexander Chirov, production designers: Vasily Zachinayev, Alexei
Fedotov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Boris Khmelnitsky (Vladimir Kinayev singing), Nelli Pshennaya (Tamara
Milashkina singing), Boris Tokarev (Virgulius Noreika singing), Alexander Slastin
(Valery Malyshev singing), Bimbulat Vatayev (Yevgeny Nesterenko singing)
Screen version of Alexander Borodin’s opera, loosely based on the Russian national epic “The Song of
Igor’s Campaign”.
653
MALCHISHKI (BOYS)
1969, 88 min., b/w
1. NOVENKY (NEW BOY)
Melodrama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Igor Yefimov, camera: Yakov
Sklyansky, production designers: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, Yuri Borovikov,
misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Andrei Konstantinov, Maya Bulgakova, Tatyana Doronina
After the end of war Boris returns with his mother to Leningrad. For the boys in the neighborhood
Boris is a new boy, a stranger. Boris feels drawn to Tolya, the leader of the neighborhood boys. The
story is centered on relations of the two boys.
2. ETO IMENNO YA (THIS IS JUST WHAT I AM)
Melodrama
Director: Leonid Mararychev, screenplay: Valery Popov, camera: Boris
Timkovsky, Vadim Grammatikov, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, music:
Vladislav Kladnitsky, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Vitya Zhukov, Larisa Taranenko, Gena Dyudayev, Vladimir Retsepter
Life of the 8th grade schoolboy Sasha changes when his new teacher of sports decides to make him a
boxing champion. The collision of the film lies in the inner struggle of the boy for his true personality.
654 MAMA VYSHLA ZAMUZH (MY MAMMY GOT
MARRIED)
1969, 85 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Yuri Klepikov, camera: Dmitry Dolinin,
production designer: Isaak Kaplan, misic: Oleg Karavaichuk, sound: Konstantin
Lashkov
Cast: Lyusyena Ovchinikova, Oleg Yefremov, Nikolai Burlayev, Vikror Ilyichev,
Lyudmila Arinina, Larisa Burkova, Arkady Trusov
Zina brought up her son Borka by herself and now when the son has almost grown up a new man —
Viktor — appears in her life. The film tells about relations of Zina’s son with his stepfather and about
the new life of two middle aged people.
655
NA PUTI V BERLIN (ON THE WAY TO BERLIN)
1969, 92 min., b/w
War drama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Boris Vasilyev, Kirill Rapaport, Yuri
Chulyukin, camera: Nikolai Zhilin, Viktor Karasev, production designer: Mikhail
Ivanov, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Vasily Krasnov, Nikolai Trofimov, Stepan Krylov, Antonina Shuranova,
Gennady Karnovich-Valois, Yuri Fisenko, Geliy Sysoyev, Nikolai Kuzmin
Spring 1945. The last battles of World War II. The film is about the most important battle — the battle
for Berlin, about preparatiions to operation and conducting of the battle, about its participants and
heroes.
656 NEVEROYATNIY IYEGUDIIL KHLAMIDA
(INCREDIBLE IYEGUDIIL KHLAMIDA)
1969, 100 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexander Gladkov, camera: Semyon
Ivanov, production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Vladimir Maklakov, sound: Anna
Volokhova
Cast: Afanasy Kochetkov, Alexandra Otmorskaya, Alexander Grave, Oleg
Basilashvili, Alexander Demyanenko, Galina Korotkevich, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Nina
Titova, Igor Yefimov
The story is focused on the early period of the life of Maxim Gorky, the years when he lived in Samara
and worked for “Samarskaya Pravda” newspaper. The film tells about formation of the writer’s
character, his seeking and striving for the new ways in art.
657
PRIYATNY SYURPRIZ (A PLEASANT SURPRISE)
1969, 11 min., color
Director: Mark Genin, screenplay: Alik Mkrtchyan, Yuri Tikhonov, Mark
Genin, camera: Muzakir Shurukov, production designers: Grachiya Mekinyan,
Nona Izbinskaya, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Mikhail Vodyanoy, Olga Aroseva, Pavel Sukhanov, Valery Nikitenko
A life insurance advertising.
658
PYATERO S NEBA (FIVE FROM THE SKY)
1969, 87 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Leonid Braslavsky, camera: Oleg
Kukhovarenko, production designers: Andrei Vagin, Alexander Kompaneyets,
misic: Boris Klyuzner, sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Gleb Selyanin, German Yushko, Roman Gromadsky, Alexander Chirkov,
Viktor Semenovsky, Ditmar Rikhter
The Nazis delivered to the Eastern front new chemical weapons which they intend to test in field
conditions. In order to prevent the catastrophe a group of five paratroopers is sent to the enemy’s rear.
Immediately after landing they face a serious problem: Gestapo arrested their messenger. Overcoming
all the difficulties paratroopers reach the designated area and successfully carry out the operation.
Feature based on real events.
659
RAZVYAZKA (OUTCOME)
1969, 92 min., b/w, wide screen
Detective
Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Anatoly Romov, camera: Vladimir
Burykin, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, misic: Nikolai Chervinsky,
sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Yuri Gusev, Nikolai Timofeyev, Nikolai Gritsenko, Alexei Yakovlev, Pyotr
Shelokhonov, Tatyana Mayorova, Galina Shmakova, Valery Smolyakov, Gennady
Nekrasov
Security service agency shadows a man who received a package from a foreigner. Shortly after that the
man gives himself up to the police and confesses that he had been working for a foreign secret service
and soon has to pass another report...
660
ROKIROVKA V DLINNUYU STORONY (CASTLING)
1969, 96 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Vladimir Grigoryev, screenplay: Yuri Vasilyev, Vladimir
Grigoryev, camera: Vladimir Chumak, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov,
misic: Arkady Gagulashvili, sound: Irina Volkova
Cast: Alexander Demyanenko, Algimantas Masyulis, Irina Vavilova, Pavel
Luspekayev, Gennady Poloka, Stoyapas Kosmauskas, Natalya Zhuravel
By chance young researcher Boris Lebedev gets involved in a struggle against foreign secret service
agents. Pursuing his goals the enemy uses all the methods including blackmail, bribery, threats...
661
RUDOLFIO (RUDOLFIO)
1969, 25 min., b/w
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Dinara Asanova, camera: Nikolai Pokoptsev, production
designer: Andrei Vagin, misic: Yevgeny Krylatov, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Yelena Naumkina, Yuri Vizbor
Loosely based on the short story of the same title by Valentin Rasputin
A teenage girl dreams of a romantic world and tries to combine her fantasies with the real life.
662
RYADOM S DRUGOM (NEAR THE FRIEND)
1969, 77 min., b/w, wide screen
Feature/documentary
Director: Alexander Abramov, screenplay: Lev Markhasev, Alexander
Abramov, camera: Viktor Karasev, production designer: Alexander Black, misic:
Boris Klyuzner, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Reminiscences about the prominent actor Nikolai Cherkasov.
663
GAMES)
ETI NEVINNIYE ZABAVY (THESE INNOCENT
1969, 71 min., color
Comedy
Director: Avgust Baltrushaitis, screenplay: Anatoly Rybakov, camera: Vadim
Grammatikov, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Stanislav Pozhlakov,
sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Olga Kalmykova, Mikhail Gluzsky, Georgy Shtil, Aristarkh Livanov, Nina
Urgant, Igor Gorbachev, Liliya Gurova, Inna Sergeyeva, Valery Kuzmin, Artyom
Inozemtsev
Based on Anatoly Rybakov’s novel “Holidays of Krosh”.
Olya came to Leningrad to study in the theatrical school. Disguised as a boy she meets Kostya, Viktor
and Vera, who help their elder friend to search for Japanese miniature statuettes for his collection. As it
turns out this collection was acquired in a dishonest way...
664
AFRIKANYCH (AFRICANYCH)
1970, b/w, TV
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, Viktor Sokolov, camera:
Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Veniamin Basner,
sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Nikolai Trofimov, Oleg Belov, German Orlov, Larisa Burkova, Irina Bunina
Based on Vasily Belov’s novel “The Usual Affair”.
665 BARYSHNYA I KHULIGAN (A LADY AND A
HOOLIGAN)
1970, 63 min., color, TV
Film-ballet
Written and directed by: Apollinary Dudko, screen composition and
chorepgraphy: Konstantin Boyarsky, camera: Eduard Rozovsky, production
designer: Marina Azizyan, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Irina Kolpakova, Alexei Noskov, Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, Valentina Mukhanova
Loosely based on libretto by Vladimir Mayakovsky
666
VZRYVNIKI (BLASTERS)
1970 — 1972, 82 min
Melodrama
Director: Yuri Solovyev, screenplay: Vadim Faradzhayev, camera: Anatoly
Bakhrushin, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Murad Kazhlayev,
sound: Yevgeny Nesterov, Yuri Leontyev
Cast: Gennady Kolotushkin, Nikolai Yeremenko, Ivan Kaznev, Boris Arakelov
Experts on blasting do their extremely risky and difficult but very important job on a large construction
site. The film tells about everyday life of the blaster team.
667
VOLSHEBNAYA SILA (MAGIC POWER)
1970, 64 min., color, TV
Comedy
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Viktor Dragunsky, camera: Alexander Chirov,
production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Alexander Kolker, sound: Boris
Khutoryansky
Cast: Lyudmila Senchina, Nikolai Trofimov, Kostya Tsenkayev, Mila
Vasyutinskaaya, Igor Korolev, Nina Urgant, Tanya Doronina, Arkady Raikin, Pavel
Pankov, Anna Lisyanskaya
The film is composed of three separate short films: “Avengers From the 2nd “B” Class”, “Hello,
Pushkin” and “The Magic Power of Art”.
668
ZELYONIYE TSEPOCHKI (GREEN CHAINS)
1970, 98 min., b/w, wide screen
Detective
Director: Grigory Aronov, screenplay: Felix Mironer, camera: Nikolai Zhilin,
production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Isaak Schwarz, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Pavel Luspekayev, Oleg Belov, Sasha Grigoryev, Igor Urumbekov, Volodya
Leletko, Lyudmila Glazova, Aristarkh Livanov, Fyodor Odinokov, Andrei Krupyanin
Loosely based on Georgy Markov’s novel of the same title.
Leningrad, autumn of 1941. Three boys found a pistol for firing distress rockets. With the help of an
experienced security service officer the boys managed to locate and to disarm a group of saboteurs.
669
KOROL LIR (KING LEAR)
1970, 2 parts (1st — 65 min., 2nd — 65 min.), b/w, wide screen
Drama
Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev, camera: Ionas Gritsyus, production
designers: Yevgeny Yeney, Vsevolod Ulitko, Sergo Virsaladze, misic: Dmitry
Shostakovich, sound: Eduard Vanunts
Cast: Yuri Yarvet, Elza Radzinya, Galina Volchek, Valentina Shendrikova, Oleg Dal,
Donatas Banionis, Alexei Petrenko, Karl Serbis, Leonhard Merzin, Karl Sebris,
Regimantas Adomaitis, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Yuozas Budraitis, Alexander Vokatch
Screen version of William Shakspeare’s tragedy of the same title, translated by Boris Pasternak
670
LUBOV YAROVAYA (LUBOV YAROVAYA)
1970, 103 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Drama
Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, camera:Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, sound:
Grigory Elbert
Cast: Lyudmila Chursina, Vasily Lanovoy, Rufina Nifontova, Vasily Shukshin, Kirill
Lavrov, Anatoly Papanov, Nina Alisova, Vladimir Kenigson, Alexei Gribov, Inna
Makarova, Igor Dmitriyev, Alexei Kozhevnikov
Based on Konstantin Trenev’s play of the same title.
671
MISSIYA V KABULE (MISSION IN KABUL)
1970, 2 parts (1st — 68 min., 2nd — 67 min.), color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Leonid Kvinikhidze, screenplay: Vladimir Vladimirov, Pavel
Finn, camera: Vladimir Chumak, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic:
Vladislav Uspensky, Leonid Garin, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Oleg Zhakov, Irina Miroshnichenko, Oleg Strizhenov, Gleb Strizhenov, Otar
Koberidze, Vladimir Zamansky, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Alexander Demyanenko,
Laimonas Noreika, Yelena Dobronravova, Vladimir Zeldin, Oleg Vidov, Mikhail
Gluzsky
The story is focused on the establishing of friendly relations between the Soviet Republic and
independent Afghanistan, on the struggle of Soviet diplomatic mission in Kabul against the Afghan
reactionaries who opposed the Treaty between the two states, signed in 1921.
672
MOI DOBRY PAPA (MY KIND DAD)
1970, 70 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Igor Usov, screenplay: Viktor Golyavkin, Igor Usov, camera: Alexander
Dibrivny, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound:
Lev Valter
Cast: Alexander Demyanenko, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Kostya Kornakov, Sasha
Arutyunov, Panteleimon Krymov
Seven-year old Kostya recollects his blissful life in Baku before the war: his father, composer and
conductor, his always bustling mother, his little brother...
The war broke out and this simple happy life ended. Kostya’s father went to the front and did not return
from the war.
673
NACHALO (BEGINNING)
1970, 91 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Gleb Panfilov, screenplay: Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Gleb Panfilov, camera:
Dmitry Dolinin, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Vadim
Bibergan, sound: Galina Gavrilova
Cast: Inna Churikova, Valentina Telichkina, Tatyana Stepanova, Leonid Kuravlyov,
Mikhail Kononov, Tatyana Bedova, Yuri Klepikov, Gennady Beglov, Yuri Vizbor,
Vladimir Vasilyev, Yevgeny Lebedev
Pasha Strogova lives in a small town, works at a factory and plays small roles in amateur theatrical
society. One day she is offered to play the role of Jeanne d’Arc in a film. Pasha is working on a
difficult role and is going through an unhappy love affair.
674
NOCHNAYA SMENA (NIGHT SHIFT)
1970, 88 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Alexander Gelman, Tatyana
Kaletskaya, camera: Viktor Karasev, production designer: Andrei Vagin, misic:
Yakov Vaisburd, sound: Mikhail Lazarev
Cast: Yuri Tolubeyev, Alla Chernova, Gennady Korolkov, Valentina Vladimirova,
Yelena Legurova, Yuri Vizbor, German Yushko, Viktor Pavlov, Fyodor Odinokov,
Georgy Shtil, Vladimir Losev
The main characters of the film are construction workers. Every hour of the night shift brings new
pressing problems requiring immediate solution. Emergency situation sparks a conflict between two
people: young dispatcher Gribov and old foreman Ponomaryov — they both realize that they will have
to pay for compromises with their conscience.
675
SALUT, MARIA! (SALUT, MARIA!)
1970, 2 parts (1st — 68 min., 2nd — 67 min.), b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Iosif Heifits, screenplay: Grigory Baklanov, Iosif Heifits, camera:
Henrich Marandzhyan, production designers: Bella Manevich, Isaak Kaplan, misic:
Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Ada Rogovtseva, Anhel Gutierres, Vitaly Solomin, Vladimir Tatosov,
Valentina Vladimirova, Zinaida Slavina, Tatyana Bedova, Lev Vainshtein, Valery
Zolotukhin
The film is focused on the life of an exceptional woman — courageous, strong and tender, who had to
go through numerous troubles and ordeals but whose live was blessed with great love.
676
SEKUNDOMER (STOP-WATCH)
1970, 100 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Rezo Esadze, screenplay: Leonid Zorin, camera: Valery Fedosov,
production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Oleg Karavaichuk, sound: Natalya
Levitina
Cast: Natalya Antonova, Nikolai Olyalin, Viktoria Beskova, Liliya Aleshnikova,
Olga Kobeleva, Gennady Poloka, Oleg Karavaichuk
The famous foolball player Lavrov is going to leave the world of sports. He has to play his last game.
Time to sum up this period of his life, time to ask himself the question: “What shall I do now?”
677 SEM NEVEST YEFREITORA ZBRUYEVA (SEVEN
BRIDES OF LANCE-CORPORAL ZBRUYEV)
1970, 97 min., color
Comedy
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, camera: Dmitry Dolinin,
Yuri Veksler, production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Gennady Portnov,
sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Semyon Morozov, Natalya Chetverikova, Marianna Vertinskaya, Yelena
Solovei, Natalya Varley, Leonid Kuravlev, Vasily Merkuryev, Irina Kuberskaya,
Lubov Tishchenko
One day the photo of a brave soldier Zbruyev appeared on the cover of a military magazine and he
started getting letters from girls from all over the country... There are seven girls eager to marry him.
He has to choose the one and only...
678
SCHASTYE ANNY (ANNA'S JOY)
1970, 83 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Yuri Rogov, screenplay: Vladimir Soikin, Yuri Rogov, camera: Ernst
Yakovlev, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Valery Gavrilin, sound:
Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Valentina Telichkina, Nikolai Gritsenko, Leonid Dyachkov, Georgy Shtil,
Leonid Bykov, Mikhail Gluzsky, Lubov Sokolova, Nikolai Kuzmin
The Civil War ended and Anna Dronova, a young woman who participated in the war, returns to her
native village. Being elected the chairman of the collective farm she fights for the new life in her
village.
679
UGOL PADENIYA (ANGLE OF INCIDENCE)
1970, 2 parts (1st — 72 min., 2nd — 70 min.), b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Gennady Kazansky, screenplay: Vsevolod Kochetov, Gennady
Kazansky, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Semyon Malkin,
misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Igor Vigdiorchik
Cast: Yuri Kayurov, Pavel Kashlakov, Ariadna Shengelaya, Tatyana Ivanova, Vadim
Yakovlev, Vladimir Samoilov, Anatoly Romashin, Nina Veselovskaya, Alexei
Kozhevnikov
Loosely based on the novel of the same title by Vsevolod Kochetov. The Civil war. The most dramatic
episode for Petrograd was the attack of Yudenich troops in 1919. Citizens demonstrated heroism,
courage and defended their city from the White Army.
680
UDIVITELNY ZAKLAD (SURPRISING PLEDGE)
1970, 75 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Leonid Makarychev, screenplay: Nikodim Gippius, camera: Nikolai
Zhilin, production designer: Viktor Gasilov, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky, sound:
Lev Valter
Cast: Vova Magdenkov, Lenya Bazutkin, Valentina Talyzina, Antonina Pavlycheva,
Gennady Dyudyaev, Pavel Shpringfeld, Mikhail Ivanov
Based on the novel by Yelena Boronina. The story is set in a small provincial town at the beginning of
the century. Syomka makes up his mind to run away to America. His friend Alyosha is eager to help
him. In order to get money boys decided to pawn their fluffy white cat...
681
FERENZ LIST (FERENZ LIST)
1970, 2 parts (1st — 73 min., 2nd — 83 min.), color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Marton Keleti, screenplay: Daniil Del, Imre Kesi, camera: Ishtvan
Hildebrant, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Ferenz Farkat, sound:
Vladimir Yakovlev, Yanosh Arto
Cast: Imre Shinkovich, Ariadna Shengelaya, Shandor Pechi, Igor Dmitriyev, Klara
Luchko, Igor Ozerov, Timash Mayor, Ferenz Beshenai, Laiosh Bashti, Pyotr
Shelokhonov, Marina Yurasova
The story is focused on the life of the great Hungarian composer: on dramatic collisions in his creative
work, his passions, his love.
682
KHOZYAIN (MASTER)
1970, 99 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Vasily Aksyonov, Akiba Golburt, camera:
Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov,
sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Yevgeny Gvozdeyev, Mikhail Kokshenov, Tatyana Bedova, Alexei Smirnov,
Marianna Vertinskaya, Konstantin Adashevsky, Nikolai Fyodortsev
The Civil War ends and sailor Ivan Ivanov comes to Petrograd. His goal is to become a worker at the
Putilovsky Factory but it turns out that it is not easy to reach this goal.
683 GOYA, ILI TYAZHKIY PUT POZNANIYA (GOYA,
OR THE HARD PATH OF KNOWLEDGE)
1971, 2 parts, 166 min., “Lenfilm”, “Defa” (Germany) with the input from Motion
Drama
Picture Studious (Bulgaria), “Bosna-film” (Yugoslavia), color, wide screen
Director: Conrad Wolf, screenplay: Angel Wagenstein, camera: Konstantin
Ryzhov, Werner Bergman, production designers: Alfred Hirschmayer, Valeri
Yurkevich, misic: Kara Karayev, sound: Eduard Vanunz, Harry Belenky, Yefim
Yudin
Cast: Donatas Banionis, Olivera Katarina, Fred Duren, Tatyana Lolova, Rolf Hoppe,
Mecheslav Voit, Mikhail Kozakov, Lyudmila Chursina, Veriko Andzhaparidze,
Carmella, Ariadna Shengelaya, Gustav Kholoubeck, Ernst Busch
Based on the novel of the same title by Lion Feuchtwanger.
The picture features the life story of the genius Spanish master of painting and drawing possessed of a
complicated and controversial personality full of contrasts, who lived at the end of 18th — beginning
of the19th century.
Becoming the court painter of Karl IV at the age of forty, Francisco Goya suddenly realizes that he has
reached a questionable level, and... makes an altogether new start.
 The film was awarded the Special Prize of the Jury, the Gold Prize and the Diploma for the Best
Actress’ Work at the International Film Festival in Moscow (1971).
684
DAURIYA (DAURIA)
1971, 2 parts, Part 1 — 91 min., Part 2 — 81 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Victor Tregubovich, screenplay: Yuri Klepikov, Victor Tregubovich,
camera: Yevgeni Mezentsev, production designer: Grachiya Mekhinyan, misic:
Georgi Portnov, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Arkadi Trusov, Pyotr Shelokhonov, Vera Kuznetsova, Vitaly Solomin, Vasili
Shukshin, Yefim Kopelyan, Mikhail Kokshenov, Yuri Solomin, Viktor Pavlov, Boris
Arakelov, Svetlana Golovina, Yuri Nazarov, Lyubov Malinovskaya
Based on the novel of the same title by Konstantin Sedykh.
The picture chronicles the life of a settlement beyond the Baikal Lake on the eve of World War I and
during the Revolution years. Finding himself in difficult situations, the young madcap of a Cossack
Roman Ulybin begins to give thought to social injustice. The year of 1918 sees him as a dedicated
revolutionary and a Red Army commander...
685 DOROGA NA RYUBETSAL (THE PATH TO
RUBEZAL)
1971, 86 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Adolph Bergunker, screenplay: Joseph Olshanski, Nina Rudneva, camera:
Oleg Kukhovarenko, production designer: Viktor Volin, misic: Vladislav
Kladnitski, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Lyubov Rumyantseva, Aurimas Babkauskas, Alexei Eibozhenko, Valentin
Smirnitski, Yelena Korolyeva, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Valentin Gaft, Lyubov
Sokolova, Natalya Chetverikova, Viktor Semenovski, Pavel Kormunin
Based on the novel of the same title by Irina Guro.
The German anti-fascist Max, who emigrated to the USSR in 1939, during the war fought in a partisan
detachment. He died trying to gain the enemy rear on an important assignment. Many years after the
war his partisan co-fighter Lyudmila made their old dream come true and climbed Mount Rubezal.
686 DRAMA IZ STARINNOI ZHIZNI (AN OLD LIFE
DRAMA)
1971, 86 min., color
Drama
Director: Ilya Averbach, screenplay: Ilya Averbach, Vladimir Belyayev, camera:
Dmitri Meskhiyev, production designers: Yevgeni Yeney, Marina Azizyan, misic:
Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Mikhail Lazarev
Cast: Yelena Solovei, Anatoli Yegorov, Yevgeni Perov, Sophya Pavlova, Alexander
Khlopotov, Lyudmila Arinina, Rasmi Dzhabrailov, Yuri Antipov, Alexander
Demyanenko, Victor Ilyichev, Panteleimon Krymov, Roman Filippov
Based on “The Toupee Artist”, a short story by Nikolai Leskov.
An actress, an earl's bondswoman, fell in love with the “toupee painter” Arkadi, failing to observe her
master's regulations... The story could only have a tragic ending for both of them: Arkadi was sent off
to be a soldier, while his beloved was banished to the cattle farm.
687
KRASNI DIPLOMAT (THE RED DIPLOMAT)
1971, 2 parts, 125 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Boris Dobrodeyev, camera: Heinrich
Marandzhyan, production designers: Isaac Kaplan, Bella Manevich, misic: Oleg
Karavaychuk, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Willi Burhardt, Georgi Kavtaradze, Oleg Khabalkov, Iya Savvina
The picture is focused on the dramatic episodes of the “Red diplomat” Leonid Krasin’s life.
688
MESYATS AVGUST (THE MONTH OF AUGUST)
1971, 72 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Vadim Mikhailov, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Vyacheslav
Fastovich, production designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Valeri Gavrilin, sound:
Yevgeni Nesterov, Galina Lukina
Cast: Iya Savvina, Sergei Shakurov, Alexander Plotnikov, Vera Kuznetsova,
Stanislav Churkin, Lyubov Sokolova, Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina, Galya Kurdyumova,
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Having extensively travelled the country, Alexei Krasheninnikov lingered in the city: his employer
promised to provide him with an apartment. But he received a letter saying that his old parents had
fallen ill. Alexei went to his native village, and after his father's funeral made up his mind not to return
to the city...
689
MESHCHANE (THE PHILISTINES)
1971, b/w
Drama
Director: Georgi Tovstonogov, camera: Lev Kolganov, production designers:
Semyon Mandel, Viktor Slonevski, misic: Semyon Rozenzweig, sound: Galina
Gorbonosova
Cast: Yevgeni Lebedev, Mariya Prizvan-Sokolova, Emma Popova, Vladimir
Retsepter, Kirill Lavrov, Pavel Pankov, Lyudmila Makarova, Nikolai Trofimov
A TV version of the Academic Gorki Bolshoi Drama Theater production based on a play of the same
title by Maxim Gorki.
690
NAYDI MENYA, LIONYA! (FIND ME, LIONYA!)
1971, 88 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Boris Vakhtin, camera: Semyon Ivanov,
production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Vladimir Maklakov, sound: Anna
Volokhova
Cast: Larisa Baranova, Andrei Trofimov, Nina Veselovskaya, Yevgeniya Vetlova,
Alexander Puzyryev, Alexander Demyanenko, Alexander Afanasyev, Andrei Gretsov
The screen version of “Dinka”, a story by Vera Oseyeva.
The picture is a story of the “eternal” friendship of the young daughter of a family belonging to the
intelligentsia and a working lad. Joining the revolutionary circles, they came to participate in the Civil
War.
691 NOCH NA CHETYRNADTSATOY PARALLELI (A
NIGHT ON LATITUDE 14)
1971, 84 min., b/w, wide screen
Detective
Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Vladimir Shredel, Julian Semyonov,
camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Vasili Zachinyayev, misic: Murad
Kazhlayev, sound: Semyon Shumyacher, Galina Golubeva
Cast: Valentin Gaft, Vsevolod Platov, Yelena Kozelkova, Zhanna Kovenchuk,
Nataliya Arinbasarova, Talgat Nigmatullin, Gennadi Poloka, Herman Yushko
Based on “He Killed Me Near Launt-Prabang”, a story by Julian Semyonov.
The picture is set in one of the countries of Indo-China. The people are engaged in a centuries-old
struggle against the US aggression. The Soviet reporter Dmitri Stepanov returns from the battlefield, in
a hurry to give the report to his paper. His car is being pursued by an American helicopter... The pilot is
Ed Stuart, who used to be Stepanov's friend...
692 PRISTAN NA TOM BEREGU (THE PIER ACROSS
THE RIVER)
1971, 64 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Solomon Shuster, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, camera: Vladimir Kovzel,
production designer: Georgi Kropachyev, misic: Boris Tischenko, sound: Irina
Volkova
Cast: Inna Gulaya, Stanislav Lyubshin, Oleg Korchikov, Maya Bulgakova, Antonina
Bendova
Based on a story by Yuri Nagibin.
693 PROSHCHANIYE S PETERBURGOM (A FAREWELL
TO PETERSBURG)
1971, 98 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Jan Fried, screenplay: Anatoli Grebnev, camera: Oleg Kukhovarenko,
production designer: Mikhail Krotkin, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Vladimir
Yakovlev
Cast: Girt Yakovlev, Tatyana Bedova, Tatyana Piletskaya, Vasili Merkuryev, Pavel
Kadochnikov, Igor Dmitriyev, Sergei Karnovich-Valois
The picture features a few episodes of life of “ The Waltz King” — the great Austrian composer
Johann Strauss: his arrival in Petersburg, his dramatic love for Olga which inspired the composer to
create beautiful music, and their parting.
694 RAZRESHITE VZLYET (I REQUEST CLEARANCE
TO TAKE OFF)
1971, 96 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Directors: Anatoli Vekhotko, Natalya Troschenko, screenplay: Vladimir Kunin,
camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Veniamin
Basner, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Anatoli Papanov, Semyon Morozov, Artyom Inozemtsev, Valentin Gaft, Larisa
Malevannaya, Maya Bulgakova, Viktor Perevalov
Having received his brand-new pilot's certificate, Solomentsev starts his flying career at an airfield lost
in the steppe. Now the old flier Sakhno must give up the vocation he loves. But before moving on to
become an air controller, he will help the crew of a passenger plane on an emergency landing.
695 RASSKAZHI MNE O SEBE (TELL ME ABOUT
YOURSELF)
1971, 93 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Budimir Metalnikov, camera: Alexander
Chechulin, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound:
Galina Gorbonosova, song composed and rendered by: Bulat Okudzhava
Cast: Tamara Syomina, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Vitaly Solomin, Victor Pavlov,
Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina, Georgi Shtil
The nurse Kseniya lost her beloved in the war; an unhappy marriage and long solitary years followed.
Yet, when Kseniya's son is a grown-up and her youth is well past, she encounters love...
696
TYEN (THE SHADOW)
1971, 92 min., color, wide screen
Musical comedy
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Yuli Dunski, camera: Konstantin
Ryzhov, production designers: Vladimir Dorrer, Vladimir Kostin, misic: Andrei
Eshpai, sound: Boris Khutoryanski
Cast: Oleg Dal, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Marina Neyelova, Lyudmila Gurchenko,
Andrei Mironov, Sergei Filippov, Vladimir Etush, Zinovi Gerdt, Georgi Vitsin,
Konstantin Adashevski, Alexei Polevoi
Based on the play of the same title by Yevgeni Schwarz.
The traditional fairy-tale struggle of the Good against the Evil is impersonated in the opposition of the
kind and honest Scientist and his mean and paltry Shadow.
697
MOVE)
KHOD BELOY KOROLEVY (THE WHITE QUEEN'S
1971, 95 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sadovski, screenplay: Lev Kassil, Viktor Sadovski, camera: Boris
Timkovski, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov,
sound: Anna Volokhova, Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Svetlana Golovina, Kirill Lavrov, Victoriya Fyedorova, Nikolai Ozerov, Kostya
Kornakov, Yevgeni Yevstigneyev, Iosif Konopatski, Leonid Kuravlyev, Alexei
Kozhevnikov, Alexei Smirnov, Vera Kuznetsova, Anatoli Papanov
Based on the story by of the same title by Lev Kassil.
A coach makes up his mind to leave sports, but his trainee, the future “white queen” who won the ski
championship in the High Tatry, brings him back to the career he loves.
698
KHOLODNO — GORYACHO (COLD — HOT)
1971, 65 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Nataliya Ryazantseva, camera: Nikolai
Zhilin, production designer: Andrei Vagin, misic: Nikolai Chervinski, sound: Irina
Volkova
Cast: Yelena Odintsova, Platon Andryushin, Lidiya Shtykan, Irina Kondratyeva,
Valentina Vladimirova
Loosely based on “Mesalliance”, a short story by Nikolai Chukovski.
699
CHERNIYE SUKHARI (THE DRIED RYE CRUST)
1971, 86 min., “Lenfilm”, “Defa” (Germany), color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Herbert Rappaport, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Edith Gorrish, camera:
Eduard Rozovski, Rudolf Schrade, production designers: Vsevolod Ulitko, R.
Schmidt, misic: Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound: Grigori Elbert, E. Nietzsche
Cast: Yuri Kayurov, Vladimir Tatosov, Natalya Varlei, Nikolai Merzlikin, Bruno
Oya, Yuri Medvedev, Rutger Joswig, Vladimir Antonik, Artyom Karapetyan,
Svetlana Sukhovei, Valentina Talyzina
Loosely based on the novel of the same title by Yelizaveta Drapkina.
1918. A train loaded with grain is sent from Germany to Russia as an aid to the proletariat who gained
victory in the November Revolution. The attendants, the war prisoner Kurt and the Russian girl Tanya,
have a long and difficult way ahead of them...
700 SHELMENKO — DENSHCHIK (SHELMENKO, THE
BATMAN)
1971, 95 min., color, wide screen
Musical comedy
Written and directed by: Andrei Tutyshkin, camera: Rostislav Davydov,
production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Vasili Solovyev-Sedoi, sound: Grigori
Elbert
Cast: Mikhail Pugovkin, Vladimir Dalski, Zoya Fyodorova, Lyudmila Senchina, Yuri
Medvedev, Olga Aroseva, Lyubov Koreneva, Igor Ozerov, Marina Lolbentseva
Loosely based on a comedy of the same title by Grigori Kvitka-Osnovyanenko.
The unit led by Captain Skvortsov is billeted in landowner Shpak's village. The young officer falls in
love with Shpak's daughter Prisinka. But the bridegroom is poor, and the parents are against their
union. The captain's batman Shelmenko volunteers to help the young people...
701
SHUTITE? (ARE YOU KIDDING?)
1971, 85 min., almanac, b/w, wide screen
1. INACHE MY PROPALI (OR WE ARE LOST)
Comedy
Director: Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Valeri Popov, camera: Valentin Sidorin,
production designer: Yuri Kulikov, sound: Irina Volkova
Cast: Zhenya Utkin, Zhenya Sushkov, Slava Chernyayev, Lev Lemke, Victor
Sergachyev, Mikhail Ivanov
The schoolboy Sergeyev rigged up a bell under his desk, connecting it to the school bell. This marked a
new life for the 6 “B” pupils...
2. VANDERBUL BEZHIT ZA GORIZONT (VANDERBUL RUNS BEYOND
THE HORIZON)
Comedy
Directors: Nikolai Koshelev, Valentin Morozov, screenplay: Radi Pogodin, Nikolai
Koshelev, Valentin Morozov, camera: Alik Gambaryan, production designer:
Georgi Kropachyev, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Seriozha Nosov, Valeriya Zhukhimovich, Pyotr Merkuryev
Having invented a new name of Vanderbul, the boy Vasya does senseless things to prove his courage,
such as trying to have a healthy tooth extracted, dipping his hand in boiling water...
3. SHUTITE? (ARE YOU KIDDING?)
Comedy
Director: Valeri Chechunov, screenplay: Radi Pogodin, Valeri Chechunov, camera:
Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Nikolai Martynov,
sound: Grigori Elbert
Cast: Slava Burmistrov, Mikhail Kononov, Valeri Ryzhakov, Valentina Kovel
Two conservatory students came to a village to record chastooshki – the humorous folk songs. Their
accommodation turned out to be a hut with a shattered roof. Rather than having it mended, the
Chairman of the collective farm promised to have a stove made. The teenage Grisha set about this
task...
702
BOBA I SLON (BOBA AND THE ELEPHANT)
1972, 63 min., color
Comedy
Director: Avgust Baltrushaitis, screenplay: Victor Golyavkin, camera: Nikolai
Stroganov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Stanislav Pozhlakov, sound:
Arnold Shargorodski
Cast: Denis Kucher, Arina Arakelova, Geli Sysoyev, Irina Kuberskaya, Georgi Shtil,
Yuri Solovyev, Boris Arakelov
The story started at the Zoo where the five-year-old Boba was taken by his father on a Sunday. The boy
spent much time in front of the elephant's open-air cage, and he thought he understood why the
elephant was so sad... At night, the elephant left the Zoo and went to look for his small friend...
703
V CHERNYKH PESKAKH (IN THE BLACK SANDS)
1972, 82 min., color, wide screen
Thriller
Director: Iskander Khamrayev, screenplay: Sergei Potepalov, camera: Alexander
Chechulin, production designer: Vasili Zachinyayev, misic: Marat Kamilov, sound:
Galina Lukina
Cast: Dagun Osmayev, Bimbulat Vatayev, Gennadi Nilov, Leonhard Merzin, Larisa
Zubkovich
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by M. Simashko.
In the 1920-s, the Basmatchi (counter-revolutionary bandit gangs) were committing outrages in Central
Asia. Chasing the leader of the local gang Shamurad whose brother violated his sister, the shepherd
Chary Esenov comes to a Red Army detachment...
Eventually, he progresses from a solitary fighter to a conscientious revolutionary and brings Shamurad
to the detachment to stand lawful trial.
704
GONSHCHIKI (THE RACERS)
1972, 81 min., color, wide format
Melodrama
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Yuri Klemanov, Iosif Olshanski, Nina
Rudneva, Igor Maslennikov, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer:
Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Yevgeni Leonov, Oleg Yankovski, Yuri Ivin, Larisa Luzhina, Armen
Dzhigarkhanyan, Leonhard Merzin, Nikolai Feranontov, Boris Arakelov
For many years, the metal worker Kukushkin and his navigator Sergachyev were a team, winning many
car races. With the years, Kukushkin's eyesight started to fail, and Sergachyev decided to look for a
new partner. This is their first race as rivals...
705
GROSSMEYSTER (THE GRAND MASTER)
1972, 93 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Leonid Zorin, camera: Yevgeni
Mezentsev, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound:
Betty Lievschitz
Cast: Vladimir Tatosov, Anna Tveleneva, Andrei Myagkov, Larisa Malevannaya,
Lyudmila Kasatkina, Yefim Kopelyan, Viktor Korchnoi, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Nikolai
Volkov Sr., Anatoli Solonitsin, Vladimir Tatosov, Mikhail Tal
Sergei Khlebnikov is a chess player. Sergei is not after the victory, the game is rather the clash of
brains and personalities for him.. An emotional person who is not focusing on just the practical side of
things, he seldom made it to the top in tournaments...
Yet, finally, through summoning all his resources and looking for new creative solutions, he achieved
victory in the international title claimants' match...
706
DVENADTSAT MESYATSEV (TWELVE MONTHS)
1972, 2 parts, 135 min., color
Fairy tale
Written and directed by: Anatoli Granik, camera: Rostislav Davydov, production
designer: Mikhail Shcheglov, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Larisa Zhvaniya, Nikolai Volkov Sr., Marina Maltseva, Tatyana Peltser, Lev
Lemke, Konstantin Adashevski
Based Samuil Marshak’s play of the same title.
707 DELA DAVNO MINUVSHIKH DNEY (DONE IN THE
TIME LONG PAST)
1972, 100 min., b/w, wide screen
Detective
Director: Vladimir Schredel, screenplay: Alexander Chervinski, Anatoli Bezuglov,
Yuri Klarov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Yevgeni Gukov,
misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Ivan Nasonov, Valeri Olshanski, Bruno Freindlich, Mikhail Lobanov, Pyotr
Merkuryev, Yelizaveta Uvarova, Natalya Chetverikova, Mikhail Kokshenov, Mikhail
Gluzski, Vladimir Etush
1926 witnessed the murder of the antiquarian Bogoyavlenski. Nowadays the bearer of a hundred-ruble
note he owned can get a substantial sum for the deposit held in a Swiss bank...
After many years the murder case is solved.
708 ZDRAVSVUY I PROSHCHAY (HELLO AND
FAREWELL)
1972, 95 min., color
Comedy
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, camera: Yuri Veksler,
production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound:
Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Lyudmila Zaitseva, Oleg Yefremov, Mikhail Kononov, Alexander
Demyanenko, Natalya Gundareva, Viktor Pavlov, Borislav Brondukov, Tanya
Doronina, Sasha Vedernikov, Zhanna Blinova
Shura Yarmonok's married life has not turned out well: her husband Mitka left for the city to look for
“his life's meaning”, abandoning her and their three children. But her meeting with the new local
militiaman Georgi Burov, a kind and warm-hearted person, reshaped her life and her former idea of
happiness...
709
IGROK (THE GAMBLER)
1972, 100 min., “Lenfilm” – “Barandov” (Czechoslovakia), color
Drama
Director: Alexei Batalov, screenplay: Mikhail Olshevski, camera: Dmitri
Meskhiyev, production designers: Isaac Kaplan, Bogumil Kulich, misic: Oleg
Karavaichuk, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Nikolai Burlyayev, Tatyana Ivanova, Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya, Vsevolod
Kuznetsov, Vasili Livanov, Alexander Kaidanovski, Itka Zelenogorska, Fyodor
Nikitin, Georgi Teikh
Based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel of the same title.
710 IZHORSKI BATALYON (THE IZHORA
BATTALLION)
1972, 94 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Gennadi Kazanski, screenplay: Sergei Davydov, Oleg Shestinski, Gennadi
Kazanski, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic:
Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Viktor Zhukov, Irina Yurevich, Boris Chirkov, Vadim Yakovlev, Sergei
Plotnikov, Vasili Korzun, Sergei Priselkov, Leonid Nevedomsky, Gleb Selyanin, Inna
Kondratyeva
1941 is one of the most tragic years of the Great Patriotic War.
The workers of the Izhora Factory came to the defense of Leningrad...
The picture is focused on the stopping of the enemy in the city outskirts.
711
KARPUKHIN (KARPUKHIN)
1972, 92 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Vladimir Vengerov, screenplay: Grigori Baklanov, camera: Vladimir
Chumak, production designer: Victor Volin, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound:
Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Vasili Korzun, Sergei Danilin, Nikolai Yeremenko Sr., Alexander Borisov,
Fyodor Nikitin, Boris Kokovkin, Lyubov Malinovskaya
Based on the novel of the same title by Grigori Baklanov.
One evening, the agronomist Mishakov was hit by a truck in the vicinity of a small town. The truck
driver Karpukhin became an inintentional murderer. The investigation reveals that Karpukhin is not to
blame; yet, yielding to the prejudiced prosecutor, investigator Nikonov is willing to view the facts
differently...
712
KRASNIYE PCHYELY (THE RED BEES)
1972, 72 min., color
Drama
Director: Leonid Makarychev, screenplay: Leonid Vlasov, Arkadi Mlodik, camera:
Boris Timkovski, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Vladislav
Kladnitski, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Volodya Leletko, Dima Zharkovski, Natasha Shishkina, Mikhail Kononov,
Yuri Medvedev, Ivan Krasko, Georgi Shtil, Andrei Krupenin, Arkadi Trusov
In 1922, the kids living in a small town established a new Pioneer unit, naming it “The Red Bees”.
713
KRUG (THE CIRCLE)
1972, 94 min., b/w, wide screen
Detective
Director: Herbert Rappaport, screenplay: Edgar Dubrovsky, Herbert Rappaport,
camera: Alexander Chirkov, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic:
Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound: Boris Khutoryanski
Cast: Alexander Zbruyev, Igor Gorbachyev, Pyotr Gorin, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Yevgeniya Uralova, Nikolai Rybnikov, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Svetlana Nemolyayeva,
Svetlana Korkoshko, Panteleimon Krymov, Roman Gromadski
The characters of the picture are shared with the one titled “Two Tickets for the Day-time Show”. This
time, they are in charge of the investigation of an opium theft from the storage of a Leningrad chemical
and pharmaceutical plant.
714
LENFILM (LENFILM)
1972, 11 min., b/w
Feature/documentary
Director: Viktor Sadovski, screenplay: Dmitri Ivaneyev, Victor Sadovski, camera:
Nikolai Zhilin
Host — Boris Chirkov
The picture features the 50-year history of “Lenfilm” Studio since its foundation.
715
MECHENY ATOM (THE RADIOACTIVE TRACER)
1972, 99 min., b/w, wide screen
Detective
Director: Igor Gostev, screenplay: Fyodor Shakhmagonov, camera: Lev Kolganov,
production designer: Valeri Yurkevich, misic: Raphail Khozak, sound: Semyon
Shumyacher
Cast: Georgi Zhzhyenov, Vladimir Samoilov, Georgi Taratorkin, Mikhail
Pogorzhelski, Yuri Tolubeyev, Semyon Morozov, Lyubov Sokolova, Vladislav
Strzhelchik, Vladimir Pokrovski, Pavel Kormunin
A western Intelligence Service sends Agent Salge to the USSR to identify the country's defense
capacity. Salge's activities are supported by persons trying to escape from the Soviet justice. The
officers with the Special Service controlling the agent are supplying him with fake data...
716
MONOLOG (THE MONOLOGUE)
1972, 100 min., color
Drama
Director: Ilya Averbakh, screenplay: Yevgeni Gabrilovich, camera: Dmitri
Meskhiyev, production designer: Marina Azizyan, misic: Oleg Karavaichuk, sound:
Eduard Vanunz
Cast: Mikhail Gluzski, Marina Neyelova, Margarita Terekhova, Stanislav Lyubshin,
Yevgeniya Khanayeva, Leonid Nevedomski, Leonid Gallis, Valeri Matveyev, Ernst
Romanov
A prominent scientist, Academician Sretenski is leading a steady, measured life; he is reconciled to his
joys and sorrows, selflessly loving his granddaughter whom his daughter long ago abandoned for him
to bring up... Unexpectedly, the “prodigal” daughter returns with yet another husband; his
granddaughter Nina is going through her first personal drama, while his young colleague is trying to
convince him to revert to his long-forgotten research...
717
MOYA ZHIZN (MY LIFE)
1972, 3 parts, 200 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Grigori Nikulin, Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Viktor Sokolov, camera:
Dmitri Dolinin, production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Sergei
Slonimski, sound: Betty Lievschitz
Cast: Stanislav Lyubshin, Margarita Terekhova, Alisa Freindlich, Yuri Solomin,
Nonna Terentyeva, Nikolai Sergeyev
Based on the novel of the same title by Anton Chekhov.
The main character is a nobleman, the son of a mediocre architect; faking activity based of nothing is
alien to him... Those around him are puzzled by his wish and yearning to engage in “rough” physical
labor, to say the least of it... Yet, if a person truly aspires to something...
718 POSLEDNIYE DNI POMPEYI (THE LAST DAYS OF
POMPEI)
1972, 77 min., color, wide screen
Musical comedy
Director: Joseph Shapiro, screenplay: Boris Laskin, Leonid Likhodeyev, camera:
Vadim Grammatikov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Alexander
Kolker, sound: Yevgeni Nesterov
Cast: Ivan Dmitriyev, Lyudmila Arinina, Lev Lemke, Alexander Demyanenko, Igor
Dmitriyev, Alexei Smirnov
Some hack-workers of art came to a small resort as part of a visiting company... As their bad luck
would have it, vacationing there were some students of a Theatre Institute, who ardently rose against
the banality and spiritual surrogate offered by the variety show “actors”...
719 PRINTS I NISHCHI (THE PRINCE AND THE
PAUPER)
1972, 73 min., color
Adventure
Director: Vadim Gauzner, screenplay: Alexei Yakovlev, camera: Oleg
Kukhovarenko, production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Oleg
Karavaichuk, sound: Mikhail Lazarev
Cast: Vladimir Smirnov, Yuri Astafyev, Ivan Krasko, Maya Bulgakova, Alexander
Sokolov, Marina Neyelova, Rolan Bykov, Oleg Borisov, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Gennadi
Poloka
Based on the novel of the same title by Mark Twain.
720
PYATAYA CHETVERT (THE FIFTH QUARTER)
1972, 87 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Grigori Aronov, screenplay: Mikhail Kurayev, camera: Eduard Rozovski,
production designer: Yuri Kulikov, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Irina
Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Seryozha Gorbovski, Igor Urumbekov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Igor Dobryakov, Oleg
Belov
Loosely based on the story of the same title by Georgi Mikhasenko.
During his vacation, the thirteen-year schoolboy Anton Zorin went to visit his elder brother Leonid
involved in the construction of a hydropower plant in Siberia. There he met and made friends with
some wonderful people. Life set him certain tasks and taught certain lessons, putting the teenager
through his “fifth quarter”.
721
SINIYE ZAITSY (THE BLUE HARES)
1972, 69 min., color, wide screen
Musical comedy
Director: Vitaly Aksyenov, screenplay: Mark Rozovski, camera: Nikolai
Stroganov, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Maxim Dunayevski,
sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Alexander Filippenko, Valentina Telichkina
The circus clown Sasha makes a fascinating journey about the country, getting acquainted with the
culture and original art of various indigenous peoples.
722
TABACHNY KAPITAN (THE TOBACCO CAPTAIN)
1972, 80 min., color
Musical comedy
Director: Igor Usov, screenplay: Vladimir Vorobyev, camera: Alexander Dibrivny,
production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Grigori Elbert
Cast: Vladlen Davydov, Nataliya Fateyeva, Nikolai Trofimov, Sergei Filippov,
Lyudmila Gurchenko, Georgi Vitsyn, Yevgeni Shapin
Loosely based on the play of the same title by Nikolai Aduyev.
Peter I sends Anton Svinyin, a son of a boyar accompanied by his manservant, to Holland to study
navigation. But abroad, Anton just enjoys himself to abandon, sending his servant to attend his lessons.
Yet, the time comes to return to his motherland, where Tsar Pyotr holds Svinyin to the test...
723
UCHITEL PENIYA (THE SINGING-MASTER)
1972, 86 min., color, wide screen
Musical comedy
Director: Naum Bierman, screenplay: Emil Braginski, camera: Alexander Chirov,
production designers: Victor Volin, Yevgeni Gukov, misic: Veniamin Basner,
sound: Boris Khutoryanski
Cast: Andrei Popov, Lyudmila Ivanova, Irina Alferova, Yevgeni Yevstigneyev,
Alexander Demyanenko, Lyudmila Arinina, Georgi Shtil, Olga Volkova, Vera Titova,
Nikolai Boyarski
Yefrem Nikolayevich Solomatin is vivacious and witty. He cherishes an everlasting love for music and
for his vocation, pedagogy, dreaming of establishing schools with a thorough musical training.
Unobtrusively, tactfully, engaging his sense of humor, he is nourishing the love for music, life, and
people in his students...
724 A VY LYUBILI KOGDANIBUD? (HAVE YOU EVER
BEEN IN LOVE?)
1973, 84 min., color, wide screen
Comedy
Director: Igor Usov, screenplay: Oleg Mitin, camera: Alexander Dibrivny,
production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Alla Maltseva, Vladimir Puchkov, Lyudmila Shagalova, Sergei Filippov,
Georgy Vitsin, Panteleimon Krymov, Yelena Anderegg
Mothers and fathers always know best whom their children should be in love with... however, as often
as not children fail to agree with their parents on this point. Mother thinks that Mitya should love Lilya,
whereas Mitya is in love with Olya... and this gives rise to the conflict in this amusing comedy.
725
BLOKADA (THE SIEGE)
1973, Film I — “Luzhsky Rubezh” (“Luga Line of Defense”), 109 min., Film II —
“Pulkovsky Meridian” (“Pulkovsky Meridian”), 76 min.; color, wide format
Drama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, Alexander Chakovsky,
camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Veniamin
Basner, sound: Irina Volkova, song lyrics: Mikhail Matusovsky
Cast: Yuri Solomin, Yevgeny Lebedev, Irina Akulova, Lev Zolotukhin, Vladislav
Strzhelchik, Mikhail Ulyanov, Boris Gorbatov, Daniil Sagal, Juozas Budraitis,
Vladimir Zeldin
Based on a novel of the same title by Alexander Chakovsky.
The story is built around one of the most tragic pages of the Great Patriotic War, i.e. the siege of
Leningrad.
The plot features the great battle for the city, the headquarters activities, everyday life at the front-line,
and the Leningraders’ heroic labor efforts in the besieged city.
 The film was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers’ State Premium of the RSFSR (1980).
726
VOZVRASCHENNY GOD (THE YEAR RETURNED)
1973, 25 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Ordovsky, screenplay: Vladimir Maramzin, Mikhail Ordovsky,
camera: Nikolai Zhilin, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Georgy
Firtich, sound: Betty Livshitz
Cast: Ivan Dmitriyev, Nikolai Volkov, Yevgeny Leonov
An unusual story centered on the unexpected return to an elderly engine-driver of a year of his life
“loaned” from him by somebody long ago...
727
VSADNIK BEZ GOLOVY (HEADLESS RIDER)
1973, 103 min., color, wide format
Adventure
Director: Vladimir Weinshtock, screenplay: Vladimir Vladimirov, Pavel Finn,
camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designers: Grachiya Mekinyan, Yakov
Rivosh, misic: Nikita Bogoslovsky, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Lyudmila Savelyeva, Oleg Vidov, Alehandro Lugo, Eslinda Nunyez, Alexander
Milokosty, Ivan Petrov, Arne Yksyla
Based on a novel of the same title by Mayne Reid.
Texas. Middle of the 19th century. End of war, resulting in the Americans drawing the indigenous
Indian inhabitants off their native lands. This is the background setting off the love story of Morris
Gerald, the freedom-loving mustanger, and Louise Pointdeckster, the daughter of a plantation owner.
728 GDE ETO VIDANO, GDE ETO SLYKHANO (UNSEEN
AND UNHEARD OF)
1973, 4 novelettes almanac based on short stories by Viktor Dragunsky
1. GDE ETO VIDANO, GDE ETO SLYKHANO (UNSEEN AND UNHEARD
OF)
26 min., color
Comedy
Director: Boris Gorlov, screenplay: Maria Zvereva, camera: Rostislav Davydov,
production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Isaac Schwartz, sound: Konstantin
Lashkov
Cast: Seryezha Krupenikov, Alesha Sirotkin, Andrei Petrov, Antonina Pavlycheva
Denis Korablev, a boy in his early years of school who lacks musical talent, volunteers to render
popular satirical verse (chastushki) in a morning performance at his school; the following transpires...
2. KAPITAN (CAPTAIN)
31 min., color
Comedy
Director: Ayan Shakhmalieva, screenplay: Marina Zvereva, camera: Boris
Timkovsky, production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Isaac
Schwartz, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Petya Moseyev, Rolan Bykov, Alesha Sirotkin, Rita Sergeyecheva, Valentina
Telichkina
Denis Korablev, a cheerful boy dreaming of faraway lands, finally meets his “old sea-dog” of an uncle
who is a sea captain.
3. PODZORNAYA TRUBA (SPYGLASS)
19 min., color
Comedy
Director: Mark Genin, screenplay: Valery Popov, camera: Vladimir Burykin,
production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov,
sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Sasha Mikhailov, Lyenya Mikhailov, Rita Sergeyecheva, Seryezha Godunov,
Klara Luchko, Oleg Basilashvili
Weary of their son’s pranks, Denis Korablev’s parents have come up with a “spyglass” which
presumably enables them to keep constant watch over
young Denis...
4. POZHAR VO FLIGELE (FIRE IN THE ANNEX)
19 min., color
Comedy
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Valery Popov, camera: Henrich
Marandzhyan, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, music: Isaac Schwartz, sound:
Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Sasha Mihailov, Sasha Hmelnitsky, Oleg Dal, Liana Zhvania, Olya Bogdanova,
Rita Sergeyecheva, Vitya Tatarsky, Elizaveta Vanchugova
Frolicsome Denis Korablev and his chum Misha Slonov are late to their class again. The boys seem to
have a good reason: they had been helping to catch an escaped eagle belonging to school’s mini-zoo —
but sure enough, nobody will believe them...
729
DVER BEZ ZAMKA (LOCKLESS DOOR)
1973, 92 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Adolph Bergunker, screenplay: Alexander Borschagovsky, camera:
Viktor Karasyev, production designer: Aleksei Rudyakov, misic: Vladislav
Kladnitsky, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Zhanna Prokhorenko, Yuri Kamorny, Lubov Sokolova, Irina Akulova,
Lyudmila Gurchenko, Mikhail Medvedev, Aleksei Kozhevnikov, Yuri Goncharov,
German Kolushkin
Right after his wedding Pyotr leaves on his first run as a ship’s captain, taking Dasha to stay with his
mother in her village. Feeling ill at ease at her mother-in law’s, Dasha finds herself a job at the local
dock, lodging at her place of work... On his return, Pyotr offends his wife by a foolish suspicion...
730
DOKER (DOCKER)
1973, 74 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Yuri Rogov, screenplay: Georgy Kholopov, camera: Yevgeny Mezentsev,
Ernst Yakovlev, production designer: Mikhail Krotkin, misic: Alexander
Mnatsakanyan, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev, Mari Dzhanashiya, Nikolai Gritsenko, Yefim
Kopelyan, Rolan Bykov, Yelena Sanayeva, Igor Yefimov
Based on a novel of the same title by Georgy Kholopov
A seventeen-year-old lad dreams of accomplishing a feat on a worldwide scale. But his everyday life
involving a job in a harbor serves to convince him that there is always room for heroic feats and deeds.
731
ZDES NASH DOM (THIS IS WHERE OUR HOME IS)
1973, 135 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Ignati Dvoretsky, camera: Vladimir Chumak,
production designer: Viktor Volin, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Vladimir Zamansky, Irina Miroshnichenko, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Pyotr
Velyaminov, Vasily Merkuryev, Oleg Zhakov, Vsevolod Sanayev, Alexander
Borisov, Fyodor Odinokov, Leonid Nevedomsky
The leading character is Alexei Cheshkov, a foundry engineer, — young, ambitious, self-assured,
abrupt with a measure of straightforwardness, but a decent and honest person. He is a person of a new
social structure — and ahead of those who stick to old-fashioned ways of doing things with use of
habitual methods; hence the inevitable conflicts...
732
IGRA (THE GAME)
1973, 63 min., b/w
Director: Leonid Makarychev, screenplay: Alexander Basargin, Andrei Ladynin,
camera: Nikolai Pokoptsev, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic:
Vladislav Kladnitsky, sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Kostya Grinyov, Vitya Bolshov, Larisa Baranova, Sasha Ivanov, Natasha
Veselova, Andrei Galkin
733
ISPOLNYAYUSHCHY OBYAZANNOSTI (ACTING
AS)
1973, 82 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Irina Povolotskaya, screenplay: Alexander Chervinsky, camera: Valery
Fedosov, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Viktor Fokin, Yelena Prudnikova, Natalya Martinson, Tatyana Peltzer, Igor
Vladimirov, Alisa Freindlich, Mikhail Kozakov, Yefim Kopelyan, Leonid Bronevoy,
Rolan Bykov
The characters are a team of architects working in a design shop.
The team has recently been joined by Ilya Fyodorov, who is studying by correspondence and acting as
architect. He is a mature person who knows what he is after... yet, his actions are often hard to explain
and even paradoxical... Still, just as his colleagues, Ilya is committed to his job and is working on a
new design.
734 KRAKH INZHENYERA GARINA (ENGIEER
GARIN’S UTTER FAILURE)
1973, 4 parts, 247 min., color
Detective/adventure story
Director: Leonid Kvinikhidze, screenplay: Sergei Potepalov, camera: Vyacheslav
Fastovich, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Vladislav Uspensky, sound:
Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Oleg Borisov, Alexander Belyavsky, Vasily Korzun, Nonna Terentyeva,
Vladimir Tatosov, Yefim Kopelyan, Mikhail Volkov, Alexander Kaydanovsky,
Grigory Gay, Valentin Nikulin, Algimantas Masyulis
Loosely based on the “Engineer Garin’s Hyperboloid”, science fiction novel by Alexei N. Tostoy.
Russia. The 1920-s. Pyotr Garin, a gifted engineer, has invented a unique apparatus — a hyperboloid
emitting a “lethal ray” of great destructive power. With its help, Garin is out to conquer the world.
735
OPOZNANIYE (THE IDENTIFICATION)
1973, 92 min., b/w, wide screen
Political drama
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Adkady Poltorak, Yevgeny Zaitsev, Leonid
Menaker, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic:
Yakov Vaisburd, sound: Mikhail Lazarev
Cast: Astrida Kayrisha, Yuris Strenga, Olgert Kroders, Leonhard Merzin, Nikolai
Annenkov, Bruno Freindlich, Georgy Shtil, Yevgenya Vetlova, Larisa Pashkova,
Gleb Plaksin, Mikhail Yekaterininsky
Baron Karl Ludwig von Oster, owner of a vast concern, one of the industrial tycoons of the Federal
Republic of Germany sentenced in the course of Nurnberg Trial, has been released by the American
military administration and is busy testing a new type of weapon. The story is built around the battle
fought in court by the military criminal and the journalist Ingrid Kyn.
736 O TEKH, KOGO POMNYU I LYUBLYU (OF THOSE I
REMEMBER AND CHERISH)
1973, 80 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Directors: Anatoly Vekhotko, Natalya Troschenko, screenplay: Budimir
Metalnikov, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Valery Yurkevich,
misic: Sergei Slonimsky, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov, Galina Lukina
Cast: Valery Zolotukhin, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Viktoria Fyodorova, Yevgenya
Sabelnikova, Artem Inozemtsev, Violetta Zhukhimovich, Nadezhda Karpushina,
Lyudmila Staritsina
Loosely based on “The Girl Team”, documentary story by Pavel Zavodchikov and Sergei Samoylov
The picture unfolds the life stories of six girls: their wartime lives, their joys and hardships, their loves
and heroic deeds.
737
OTKRYTAYA KNIGA (AN OPEN BOOK)
1973, 2 parts, Part I — 91 min., Part II — 90 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Veniamin Kaverin, Natalya Ryazantseva,
camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Vasily
Solovyev-Sedoy, sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy
Cast: Lyudmila Chursina, Anya Aleksakhina, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Alexander
Demyanenko, Fyodor Nikitin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Vatslav
Dvoretsky, Lev Durov, Eleonora Shahkova, Yefim Kopelyan
Based on Veniamin Kaverin’s novel of the same title
The picture is focused on Tatyana Vlasenkova, an outstanding scientist, who is an intelligent, energetic
and tough woman. She is a fighter by nature, who won’t put up with meanness or callousness, while
possessed of a sensitive heart and a delicate and susceptible soul...
738 PLOKHOY KHOROSHY CHELOVEK (A BAD GOOD
PERSON)
1973, 100 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Written and directed by: Iosif Heifitz, camera: Henrich Marandzhyan, production
designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Oleg Dal, Vladimir Vysotsky, Lyudmila Maksakova, Anatoly Papanov,
Anatoly Azo, Yuri Medvedev, Georgy Korolchuk, Lubov Malinovskaya, Igor
Yefimov, Anhel Gutierrez, Andrei Apsolon
Loosely based on “Duel”, a story by Anton Chekhov
A dramatic story about the relationship of two young people, Layevsky and von Koren, their
implacability and antagonistic natures resulting in a duel. The action unfolds in the 1890-s in a small
town in the south of Russia.
739
PRAKTIKANT (TRAINEE)
1973, 22 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Sergei Danilin, screenplay: Tatyana Kaletskaya, camera: Valery Mironov,
production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Nikolai Martynov, sound: Yevgeny
Nesterov
Cast: Yevgeny Shesterkov, Vasily Korzun, Igor Simakov, Anastas Smolensky,
Nadezhda Gorlova
A student of an oil business technical school has been sent to a oil mining rig in the northern taiga for
on-the-job training. In these tough conditions, the young man is not just putting his professional skills
to test, but also building up his personality.
740
SHOE)
SLOMANNAYA PODKOVA (A BROKEN HORSE
1973, 80 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Vladimir Vladimirov, Pavel Finn,
camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, Dmitry Dolinin, production designer: Yuri Pugach,
misic: Romuald Grinblat, sound: Harry Belenky
Cast: Sergei Yursky, Marina Neyelova, Vladimir Razumovsky, Vitautas Paukshte,
Bronyus Babkauskas, Janis Tooming, Stanislav Sokolov, Valentin Skulme, Lev
Lemke, Vladimir Tatosov
Loosely based on “Drama in Liflandia”, a story by Jules Vernes.
Jules Ardan, a French aeronaut travelling on a balloon, happens to find himself in Revel. Here he meets
Doctor Peterson and his daughter Leida. Leida’s fiance is being pursued by the gendarmes. Banker
Schmidt’s son is murdered in the city; the suspect is Peterson... Jules Ardan undertakes to investigate
the crime...
741
SOLYONY PYES (SALTY DOG)
1973, 68 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Koshelev, screenplay: Fyodor Knorre, camera: Alexei
Gambaryan, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vladislav Uspensky,
sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Vladimir Menshov, Tatyana Shestakova, Nikolai Lavrov, Boris Arakelov,
Vitautas Paukshte, Viktor Perevalov, Nadezhda Zhilinskaya, Nikolai Kuzmin, Tamara
Urzhumova
It so happened that a homeless dog, a clever mongrel, was picked up in a port by Soviet sailors who
named him Salty. During a brief stay in one of the ports, the favorite of the crew fails to return on
board, and they have to cast off without him...
742
STARIYE STENY (OLD WALLS)
1973, 96 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, camera: Edward
Rozovsky, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, misic: Georgy Portnov,
sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yevgenya Sabelnikova, Vera
Kuznetsova, Yevgeny Kindinov, Fyodor Odinokov, Boris Arakelov, Boris Gusakov
Anna Georgiyevna is the director of a weaving factory in a small town in the vicinity of Moscow. Her
work requires a lot of physical and mental effort and self-resignation. As it often happens, her private
life has not turned out well, her daughter has grown up and moved out... Unexpectedly, what seemed
like minor adventure in a health resort develops into a deep feeling.
 The film was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers’ State Premium of the RSFSR (1976).
743
UMNIYE VESCHI (CLEVER THINGS)
1973, 123 min., color
Fairy tale
Director: Anatoly Granik, screenplay: Anatoly Granik, Alexei Tverskoy, camera:
Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Mikhail Scheglov, misic: Nadezhda
Simonyan, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Sergei Parshin, Natalya Bogunova, Nikolai Kryukov, Yevgeny Vesnik,
Alexander Demyanenko
Based on a fairy tale by Samuil Marshak.
744
TSEMENT (CEMENT)
1973, 2 parts, 125 min., color
Drama
Directors: Alexander Blank, Sergei Linkov, screenplay: Yevgeny Mitko, camera:
Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Vasily Zachinyayev, misic:Nadezhda
Simonyan, sound:
Cast: Lyudmila Zaitseva, Roman Gromadsky, Valentin Gaft, Bruno Freindlich,
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Based on the novel of the same title by Fyodor Gladkov.
745 YA SLUZHU NA GRANITSE (I SERVE ON THE
BORDER)
1973, 85 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Alexander Rozen, Vladimir Menshov, camera:
Alexei Chirov, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Veniamin Basner,
sound: Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Borislav Brondukov, Yevgeny Karelskikh, Boris Scherbakov, Eleonora
Shashkova, Anatoly Rudakov
Time of peace. Yet, at the border point where the State frontiers are being guarded, life is never quiet
and routine, but rather intense and severe. Hence those who, whether intentionally or unintentionally,
become members of this military family, undergo a test for courage and fortitude...
746 V TO DALYEKOYE LETO (DURING THAT
FARAWAY SUMMER)
1974, 74 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Yevgeny Mishin, camera: Semyon Ivanov,
production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Vladimir Maklakov, sound: Anna
Volokhova
Cast: Larisa Baranova, Volodya Magdenkov, Igor Yefimov, Antonina Pavlycheva,
Lilya Gurova, Olya Bondaryeva, Lena Orlova
Loosely based on a story of the same title by Natalya Nadezhdina.
The faraway summer of 1941... The disaster threatening the country has called not just the adults to
battle with the enemy. The picture features the young partisan Larisa Mikheyenko, her heroic deed and
her courage.
747 VESENNIYE PEREVERTYSHY (THE SPRING TURNAROUND GAMES)
1974, 85 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Grigory Aronov, screenplay: Vladimir Tendryakov, camera: Valery
Fedosov, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan,
sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Roman Madyanov, Larisa Malevannaya, Nikolai Penkov, Lev Durov, Nikolai
Grinko, Dima Zarubin
Based on a story of the same title by Vladimir Tendryakov.
All of a sudden, the thirteen-year-old Dyushka Tyagunov comes to understand that his next-door
neighbor, the little girl Rimka, resembles the beautiful Natali Pushkina, whereas his classmate Lyevka
has infected him with his love for mathematics... many more unusual things started to happen to
Dyushka, as if the habitual world he used to live in started to play “turn-around” games with him...
748 VRACHA VYZYVALY? (DID YOU CALL THE
DOCTOR?)
1974, 70 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Vadim Gauzner, screenplay: Izrail Metter, camera: Oleg Kukhovarenko,
production designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Harry
Belenky
Cast: Natalya Popova, Roman Tkachuk, Alexander Ovchinnikov, Oleg Basilashvili,
Leonid Bronevoy, Maya Bulgakova, Vera Titova, Zoya Fyodorova, Panteleymon
Krymov
The film depicts the demanding work of the young general practitioner Katya Luzina, newly graduated
from the medical institute and willing to commit herself to the chosen vocation, recognizing just how
difficult it sometimes is to help people overcome their pain and ailments...
749 DEN PRIYEMA PO LICHNYM VOPROSAM
(VISITORS’ DAY FOR PERSONAL MATTERS)
1974, 85 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Solomon Shuster, screenplay: Pyotr Popogrebsky, camera: Alexander
Chechulin, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Boris Tischenko,
sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Anatoly Papanov, Oleg Zhakov, Yuri Komarov, Zinaida Sharko, Vladimir
Zamansky, Oleg Basilashvili, Lyudmila Maksakova, Mikhail Khizhnyakov, Ivan
Solovyov, Georgy Burkov, Alexander Susnin
The spectators witness one working day of Boris Dmitriyevich Ivanov, manager of a major trust. His
decisions affect not just the achievement of the planned quarterly figures, but also the fates of many
people... This day the outward victory turns into a spiritual defeat for the energetic, resolute and
enterprising Ivanov.
750
ESHCHE NE VECHER (IT’S NOT EVENING YET)
1974, 83 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Maya Ganina, camera: Alexander Chirov,
production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Nikolai Chervinsky, sound: Galina
Golubeva
Cast: Inna Makarova, Kirill Lavrov, Rita Gladunko, Rimma Markova, Anna
Tveleneva, Tatyana Konyukhova, Lubov Malinovskaya, Lilya Gurova, Yuri
Gorobets, Olga Markina, Galina Gelchenko, Yevgeny Gerasimov
The day has come for the main female character to understand that her children are grown up, and it is
time she took care of herself. Back in the wartime, at the age of fifteen she came to work at the factory
she tied her whole life with. Thus, when offered the position of foreman, she took it without stopping to
think...
751 KSENIYA, LYUBIMAYA ZHENA FYODORA
(KSENIYA, FYODOR’S FAVORITE WIFE)
1974, 82 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Alexander Gelman, Tatyana Kaletskaya,
camera: Yuri Veksler, production designers: Bella Manevich, Rimma Narinyan,
misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Alla Mescheryakova, Stanislav Lyubshin, Lev Durov, Lyudmila Zaytseva,
Vasily Merkuryev, Vladimir Tatosov, Kira Kreylis-Petrova, Lorentz Arumanyan,
Armen Khostikyan, Oleg Belov
Kseniya Ivanova is working on a construction site. Late in life, at the age of thirty, she married Fyodor
Petrov, a driver. So their shared home and hearth are the first ones for both of them... The life lying
ahead of them is complicated enough, demanding generosity of heart, subtlety and the gift of
understanding and sparing from each of them.
752 MIR NIKOLAYA SIMONOVA (THE WORLD OF
NIKOLAI SIMONOV)
1974, 75 min., color
Fiction/documentary story
Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Lev Marhasev, camera: Vladimir Burykin,
production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Albert Preslenev, sound:
Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Nikolai Nikiforov, Igor Gorbachev, Konstantin Adashevsky, Galina Karelina,
Yuri Tolubeyev, Vadim Medvedev, Bruno Freindlich, etc
Reminiscences of Nikolai Simonov, People’s Actor of the USSR, of his life and creative activities,
offered by his friends and colleagues: Igor Gorbachev, Konstantin Adashevsky, Galina Karelina, Yuri
Tolubeyev, Vadim Medvedyev, Bruno Freindlich.
753 NE BOLIT GOLOVA U DYATLA (THE
WOODPECKER HAS NO HEADACHES)
1974, 73 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Dinara Asanova, screenplay: Yuri Klepikov, camera: Dmitry Dolinin,
production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Yevgeny Krylatov, sound: Boris
Andreyev
Cast: Sasha Zhezlyaev, Lena Tsyplakova, Sasha Bogdanov, Ira Obolskaya,
Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Nikolai Grinko, Denis Kozlov, Andrei Nikitin, Mikhail Svetin,
Boris Lebedinsky
Seva Mukhin, called Mukha (“The Fly”) by his friends, is a gifted person who dreams of becoming a
musician playing percussion instruments in a group. He hears music everywhere: in the creak of the old
gates, in the patter of the rain, even in the woodpecker’s rattle... Mukha is fourteen, he yearns to assert
himself... but everybody sees him as the little brother of the famous basketball player Mukhin. Will this
go on forever?
754
HEIR)
NEZNAKOMY NASLEDNIK (THE UNFAMILIAR
1974, 80 min., color, wide screen
Comedy
Directors: Gennadi Kazansky, Oleg Dashkevich, screenplay: Afanasi Belov,
camera: Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Vasily
Solovyev-Sedoy, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Mikhail Pugovkin, Yevgeny Gerasimov, Lyudmila Shagalova, Svetlana
Akimova, Viktor Pavlov, Georgy Shtil, Fyodor Odinokov, Alexander Demyanenko,
Igor Dobryakov, Sergei Danilin
Alexei Petrovich Kuznetsov, Head of Production Section, is trying to inculcate a love for their vocation
and for their construction site upon young builders. He has to assume the capacity of work
superintendent, teacher, and sometimes even that of a diplomat... he is wholeheartedly striving to help
the young people establish themselves and choose the right track in life...
755
ODINOZHDY ODIN (ONE TIMES ONE)
1974, 94 min., color, wide screen
Comedy
Director: Gennadi Poloka, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, camera: Yevgeny
Mezentsev, production designer: Mikhail Scheglov, misic: Edward Hagagortyan,
sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Anatoly Papanov, Nina Arkhipova, Valentina Telichkina, Nikolai
Karachentsov, Tatyana Peltzer, Regina Korokhova, Svetlana Zhgun, Tatyana
Oparkina, Dilorom Kambarova
On the verge of his sixtieth anniversary, after having enjoyed a good part of his life, the floor-polisher
Karetnikov for the first time leaves his wife of the moment for a reason other than his own volition. Not
only has he been discarded; it had to happen in full view of onlookers. On top of all this, his employers
have replaced him by a mechanical floor polishing device. It is at this trying time that Karetnikov
remembers all his previous wives...
756
POD KAMENNYM NEBOM (UNDER A STONE SKY)
1974, 82 min., color
War drama
Directors: Knut Andersen, Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Siegbjern Helmeback,
Yuri Nagibin, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Isaac Kaplan,
misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Arne Lee, Yevgeny Leonov, Wesleymay Haslund, Nikolai Burlyayev, Oleg
Yankovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Fyodor Odinokov, Viktor Ilyichev,
Yelena Solovey, Pavel Kashlakov, Zhanna Sukhopolskaya
October, 1944. A new link is added to the chain of successive shattering blows dealt to the enemy by
the Soviet Army: its name is the Far North. The armies of the Karelian Front and the marines of the
Northern Fleet have defeated the fascists in the Soviet lands beyond the Polar Circle and reached the
State border with Norway... The picture is a narration built around an episode of this great battle.
757 POSLEDNY DEN ZIMY (THE LAST DAY OF
WINTER)
1974, 91 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Grigoryev, camera: Viktor Karasyev,
production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Adkady Gagulashvili, sound:
Tigran Silayev
Cast: Lev Durov, Laymonas Noreyka, Yefim Kopelyan, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Yuri
Gorobets, Yevgeny Lebedev, Lubov Malinovskaya, Ivan Krasko, Leonid
Nevedomsky, Alina Olkhovskaya, Tamara Abrosimova, Andrei Sorokin, Alexander
Demyanenko, Mikhail Kokshenov, Geli Sysoyev
The film is a story of the working days and holidays on a Siberian construction site and of the fight put
up by the erection team leader to implement the team contract work principle which would result in
major economic benefits.
758
PREMIYA (THE BONUS)
1974, 83 min., color
Drama
Director: Sergei Mikhaelyan, screenplay: Alexander Gelman, camera: Vladimir
Chumak, production designers: Boris Burmistrov, Mikhail Ivanov, sound:
Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Yevgeny Leonov, Vladimir Samoylov, Oleg Yankovsky, Mikhail Gluzsky,
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Nina Urgant, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Alexander Pashutin,
Viktor Sergachev, Leonid Dyachkov, Borislav Brondukov
An extreme situation arising in a construction trust has led to an extraordinary meeting of the
Communist Party Committee... The issue under discussion is an unusual one: a team of workers led by
Potapov have refused their bonus, labeling it unjustified...
 The film was awarded the State Premium of the USSR (1976).
759 PYATERKA ZA LETO (A “FIVE” FOR THE
SUMMER)
1974, 70 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Leonid Makarychev, screenplay: Valery Popov, camera: Nikolai
Pokoptsev, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Stanislav Pozhlakov,
sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Andrei Dmitriyev, Mikhail Semyonov, Marina Boykina, Georgy Shtil, Leonid
Nevedomsky, Viktor Sergachev
Due to his timidity and modesty, Tolya Yeremeyev is forever alone, apart from the turbulent kids’ life
in the pioneer camp. But situations arise when the boy’s honesty and fairness cannot but reveal
themselves... Yet, having come forcefully forth at a time of crisis, he retreats right back into the
shadows — only to see somebody else rewarded for the brave action of his...
760 SVADBA KRECHINSKOGO (KRECHNISKY’S
WEDDING)
1974, 2 parts (1st — 65 min., 2nd — 63 min), color
Musical comedy
Director: Vladimir Vorobyev, screenplay: Vladimir Vorobyev, Kim Ryzhov,
camera: Heinrich Marandzhyan, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, misic:
Alexander Kolker, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Viktor Kostetsky, Alla Semak, Lev Petropavlovsky, Zoya Vinogradova, Boris
Smolkin, Vitaly Kopylov
Loosely based on the play of the same title by Vladimir Sukhovo-Kobylin.
761
SERZHANT MILITSII (THE MILITIA SERGEANT)
1974, 3 parts (1st- 63 min., 2nd — 65 min., 3rd — 62 min.), color
Melodrama
Director: Gerbert Rappaport, screenplay: Felix Mironer, camera: Rostislav
Davydov, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Alexander Mnatsakanyan,
sound: Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Alexei Minin, Lubov Sokolova, Tatyana Vedeneyeva, Ivan Krasko, Anatoly
Stolbov, Alexander Alexandrov, Yevgeny Teterin, Irina Borisova, Oleg Yankovsky
Loosely based on the story of the same title by Igor Lazutkin.
762 SOLOMENNAYA SHLYAPKA (THE LADIES’
STRAW HAT)
1974, 125 min., color
Musical comedy
Director: Leonid Kvinikhidze, screenplay: Leonid Kvinikhidze, camera: Yevgeny
Shapiro, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Isaac Schwartz, sound: Galina
Gorbonosova
Cast: Andrei Mironov, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Zinovy Gerdt, Yefim Kopelyan,
Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Mikhail Boyarsky, Mikhail Kozakov,
Alisa Freindlich, Igor Kvasha, Vladimir Tatosov, Sergei Migitsko
Loosely based on the vaudeville of the same title by Eugene Labiche.
763
STRANNIYE VZROSLIYE (THOSE QUEER ADULTS)
1974, 78 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Adkady Minchkovsky, camera: Yuri
Veksler, production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Veniamin
Basner, sound: Edward Vanunz
Cast: Rita Sergeyecheva, Lev Durov, Zinovy Gerdt, Yevgenya Khanayeva,
Alexander Demyanenko, Alla Mescheryakova
A childless family of husband and wife who are no longer young adopted the girl Tonya who comes
from an orphanage. The film is a story of the difficult establishment of their relationship, of the hard
way to achieve mutual understanding for both the adults and the child.
764
TSAREVICH PROSHA (THE TSAR’S SON PROSHA)
1974, 84 min., color, wide screen
Fairy tale
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Mikhail Volpin, camera: Vladimir
Vasilyev, Edward Rozovsky, production designer: Marina Azizyan, misic: Moisei
Weinberg, sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Sergei Martynov, Valery Zolotukhin, Tatyana Shestakova, Yevgeny Tilicheyev,
Valery Nosik, Tatyana Peltzer, Alexander Beniaminov, Sergei Filippov, Georgy
Vitsin
Prosha, the only son of Tsar Yermolay, has been banned from the Tsar’s domain for failing to relay a
wondrous dream to his papa. But in the forest the young man meets the merry swindler Lutonya, with
whose help he commits a series of feats and steals the Princess from the castle of Dardidas.
765
VOZDUKHOPLAVATEL (AERONAUT)
1975, 93 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Melodrama
Directors: Anatoly Vekhotko, Natalya Troschenko, screenplay: Vladimir Kunin,
camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Igor
Tsvetkov, sound: Harry Belenky
Cast: Leonard Varfolomeyev, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Vladimir Zamansky, Armen
Dzhigarkhanyan, Valentin Nikulin, Oleg Basilashvili, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Sergei
Dreiden, Leonhard Merzin
The year 1910. The famous Russian athlete Ivan Zaikin, world wrestling champion, is in the heyday of
fame. As fate would have it, a major change is wrought in his life: he goes to France, to Farman’s
flying school... We see Zaikin returning to Russia a licensed pilot, but his luck seems to have turned: he
suffers an accident, financial problems, the loss of his love...
766
DIARY)
DNEVNIK DIRECTORA SHKOLY (HEADMASTER’S
1975, 78 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Boris Frumin, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, camera: Alexei Gambaryan,
production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Betty Livshitz
Cast: Oleg Borisov, Iya Savvina, Alla Pokrovskaya, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yelena
Solovey, Alexander Snykov, Yuri Vizbor, Nikolai Lavrov, Viktor Pavlov, Natalya
Medvedeva, Olga Grigoryeva
Boris Nikolayevich Sveshnikov’s appointment as headmaster of the school is quite recent. The film is
structured as Sveshnikov’s own story of himself, of his relationship with his students and
schoolmasters and with his family, of the problems he encountered pursuing his chosen vocation, of the
impossibility to comply with standards when exercising the hard work of teaching...
767
DOVERIYE (THE TRUST)
1975, 96 min., color, co-production with “Fennada-Film” (Finland)
Drama
Directors: Viktor Tregubovich, Edwin Laine, screenplay: Mikhail Shatrov, Vladlen
Loginov, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Grachiya Mekhinyan,
misic: Georgy Sviridov, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Vladimir Tatosov, Vilho Sijvola, Igor Dmitriyev, Margarita
Terekhova, Antonina Shuranova, Leonhard Merzin, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Leonid
Nevedomsky, Oleg Yankovsky
For over a century Finland was part of the Russian Empire. Not until December of 1917 was its
independence as a State acknowledged by decision of the Council of People’s Commissars
(Sovnarkom). The film tells how this event came about and what kind of dramatic collisions
accompanied it.
768
DOZHIT DO RASSVETA (TO LIVE TO SEE DAWN)
1975, 77 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Directors: Mikhail Yershov, Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Vasil Bykov, Viktor
Sokolov, camera: Boris Timkovsky, production designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic:
Veniamin Basner, sound: Galina Golubeva, song lyrics: Mikhail Matusovsky
Cast: Alexander Mikhailov, Alexei Goryachev, Svetlana Orlova, Alexei Pankin,
Nikolai Kuzmin, Pavel Kashlakov
Based on Vasil Bykov’ story of the same title.
December, 1941. The enemy is approaching Moscow. Here, at this section of the front-line, 60
kilometers from the capital city, every soldier must make his own step towards Victory... The leading
characters of the picture, a team of scouts lead by Lieutenant Ivanovsky: Privates Pivovarov, Lukashov,
Sudnik, Pogrebnyak, have made a step each.
769
YEDINSTVENNAYA… (THE ONE AND ONLY)
1975, 96 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Iosif Heifitz, screenplay: Pavel Nilin, Iosif Heifitz, camera: Henrich
Marandzhyan, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Nadezhda
Simonyan, sound: Igor Vigdorchik, song lyrics: Vladimir Vysotsky
Cast: Valery Zolotukhin, Yelena Proklova, Lyudmila Gladunko, Vladimir Vysotsky,
Larisa Malevannaya, Vyacheslav Nevinny, Lubov Sokolova, Vladimir Zamansky
Based on “Rubbish”, a short story by Pavel Nilin.
Nikolai Kasatkin’s return after doing his years of service in the Army is clouded by the slandering tales
his mother and sister tell him of his wife Tanyusha. The divorce was inevitable... But it didn’t bring
relief to Nikolai; his whole life went berserk...
770 ZVEZDA PLENITELNOGO SHCHASTYA (THE
STAR OF FASCINATING HAPPINESS)
1975, 2 parts (1st — 86 min., 2nd — 82 min.), color
Historical drama
Director: Vladimir Motyl, screenplay: Vladimir Motyl, Oleg Osetinsky, Mark
Zakharov, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Valery Kostrin, misic:
Isaac Schwartz, sound: Mikhail Lazarev, song lyrics: Bulat Okudzhava
Cast: Irina Kupchenko, Alexei Batalov, Natalya Bondarchuk, Oleg Strizhenov, Eva
Shikulska, Igor Kostolevsky, Tatyana Pankova, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Vladislav
Strzhelchik, Igor Dmitriyev, Vasily Livanov, Mikhail Boyarsky, Lev Ivanov
The shots fired in the Senate Square were followed by events unfolding in a tragic way: five of the
Decembrists were executed, with most of the others exiled to Siberia.
And after them, suffering freezing temperatures and deprivations, giving up their rights and privileges,
forever abandoning their relatives and children, went their wives...
771
IVAN I KOLOMBINA (IVAN AND COLOMBINA)
1975, 80 min., color
Comedy
Director: Valery Chechunov, screenplay: Vil Lipatov, Valery Priyemykhov,
camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Sergei
Slonimsky, sound: Harry Belenky
Cast: Alexander Kharitonov, Yelena Tsyplakova, Yuri Orlov, Irina Muravyeva,
Vladimir Basov, Konstantin Sorokin
Released from the Army, Ivan Cheprasov came to work for a truck carrier company.
The boss issued Ivan with an old-fashioned wreck of a truck which nobody would attempt to repair.
The old car, nicknamed “Colombina” by the drivers, became the touchstone for Ivan to put to test his
staunchness and skill.
772
LAVINA (THE AVALANCHE)
1975, 81 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Directors: Nikolai Koshelev, Valentin Morozov, screenplay: Boris Vakhtin,
camera: Valery Mironov, production designer: Vasily Zachinyayev, misic: Igor
Tsvetkov, sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Natalya Sayko, Yuri Demich, Nikolai Merzlikin, Igor Komarov, Zurab
Kapianidze, Ivan Krasko, Nikolai Kuzmin
Loosely based on “Sparta of the Khibini”, a story by Yuri Pompeyev.
The picture is focused on the pioneers of the Khibini, enthusiasts of the 1930-s, conquerors of the icy
tundra.
773
SIGHT)
LUBOV S PERVOGO VZGLYADA (LOVE AT FIRST
1975, 90 min., color, joint production with “Gruzia-Film”
Comedy
Director: Rezo Esadze, screenplay: Bella Abramova, camera: Yuri Vorontsov,
production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Yakov Bobokhidze, sound:
Gennadi Korkhovoy, Zurab Nadaraya, song lyrics: Bulat Okudzhava
Cast: Vakhtang Panchulidze, Natalya Yurizditskaya, Ramaz Chkhivadze, Kakhi
Kavsadze, Salomeia Kancheli, Vladimir Novikov, Valida Khizroyeva
The picture is a story of the first love of an ardent football fan enamored of a girl two years his senior.
Certain circumstances, namely the family traditions, prevent the lovers from being together, but the
story has a happy end.
774 NOVOGODNIYE PRIKLYUCHENIYA MASHI I VITI
(MASHA AND VITYA’S ADVENTURES ON THE NEW YEAR’S
EVE)
1975, 71 min., color
Comedy
Director: Igor Usov, Gennadi Kazansky, screenplay: Pavel Finn, camera: Semyon
Ivanov, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, sound: Irina Volkova
Cast: Natasha Simonova, Yura Nakhratov, Igor Yefimov, Irina Borisova, Nikolai
Boyarsky, Mikhail Boyarsky, Lubov Virolainen, Georgy Shtil
A merry New Year’s Eve picture for and about children.
775
ODINNADTSAT NADEZHD (ELEVEN HOPES)
1975, 101 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sadovsky, screenplay: Valentin Yezhov, Viktor Sadovsky, camera:
Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vladlen
Chistyakov, sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Anatoly Papanov, Lubov Virolainen, Yuri Demich, Alexander Goloborodko,
Igor Dobryakov, Boris Scherbakov, Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev, Igor Gorbachev,
Nikolai Ozerov, Mikhail Vodyanoy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Vasily Vasiliyevich Vorontsov, an honored trainer, adept tactician and teacher, has made a
commitment to form a new football team to play for the country. He believes that the members of the
team should share the same views, which would rule out any incompatibility... The trainer has set
himself a difficult task, and the game to be played with the Spanish team in the World Cup will become
the main test...
776
PAMYAT (THE MEMORY)
1975, 3 parts, color
Melodrama
Director: Grigory Nikulin, screenplay: Rita Belyakovskaya, camera: Oleg
Kukhovarenko, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Alexander
Mnatsakanyan, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Larisa Malevannaya, Alexander Goloborodko, Alesha Vasilyev, Natasha
Dikareva, Sasha Zhezlyayev, Lubov Malinovskaya, Nina Urgant
The war left Maria, the main character of the film, widowed with three children. Her life is hard and
tough; all of a sudden, the family is plagued with yet another loss: the unexpected death of the elder son
Sergei... When Igor, recently back from the front-line, wants to offer Maria and her children assistance
and care, the family is torn apart by a conflict: Maria’ daughter Marina will not have her father’s
memory forsaken...
777 POLKOVNIK V OTSTAVKE (THE RETIRED
COLONEL)
1975, 94 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Maya Chumak, camera: Vladimir Chumak,
production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Asya
Zvereva
Cast: Nikolai Grinko, Lilya Gritsenko, Tatyana Kanayeva, Zhanna Prokhorenko,
Oleg Yankovsky, Vladimir Zeldin, Valentin Nikulin, Vladimir Zamansky, Zinaida
Sharko
Loosely based on “Eternal Tree”, a novel by Viktor Dyagilev.
Korney Korneyevich Polunin is a career military man, a retired colonel. An active and energetic
person, he cannot bear being idle, so he decides to resume his initial vocation and go back to being a
machine-tool operator... It is hard to start afresh, hard to find oneself an apprentice in his advanced
years, but Polunin is not one to give in to problems... On top of this, the factory has hired a group of
teenagers, boisterous lads — and who but Polunin should become their patron.
778
PRIZVANIYE (THE VOCATION)
1975, 78 min., color
Drama
Director: August Baltrushaitis, screenplay: Sergei Yegorov, Vadim Mashkin,
camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Vladislav
Uspensky, sound: Asya Zvereva, Grigory Elbert
Cast: Yuri Kamorny, Yuri Grigoryev, Yevgenya Vetlova, Lyudmila Arinina, Irina
Borisova, Mikhail Vladimirov, Anatoly Gorin, Andrei Tolubeyev
All of a sudden, a renowned racer cyclist discovers his ability as a trainer. Having lost to his young
trainee, he sincerely welcomes the young sportsman’s success and does everything to improve the
latter’s skill.
779 PROSHU SLOVA (MAY I HAVE THE FLOOR,
PLEASE)
1975, 2 parts, 145 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Written and directed by: Gleb Panfilov, camera: Alexander Antipenko, production
designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Edward
Vanunz
Cast: Inna Churikova, Nikolai Gubenko, Vitaly Zhabovsky, Katya Volkova, Leonid
Bronevoy, Vasily Shukshin, Valentina Kovel, Dmitry Bessonov, Vadim Medvedev,
Ernst Romanov
Yelizaveta Uvarova is trusted with the post of Chairman of the City Council; there is a lot to be done,
with countless “problem areas”... But everything Uvarova will undertake she does honestly and
wholeheartedly, putting to use all of her ability; she is nothing but a tough person. Being a survivor, she
is outgoing, emotional, capable of feeling keenly about things and making others feel the same... The
picture is a story of an outstanding person who has been through a personal tragedy coping at her “high
post”.
780 RASSKAZ O PROSTOY VESCHI (A STORY OF A
SIMPLE MATTER)
1978, 86 min., color
Drama
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Vladich Nedelin, Leonid Menaker, camera:
Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Yakov Vaisburd,
sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Alla Chernova, Mikhail Gluzsky, Oleg Borisov,
Viktor Avdyushko, Vladimir Zamansky, Sergei Ivanov
Based on the short story of the same title by Boris Lavrenev.
781
STARSHY SYN (THE ELDER SON)
1975, 2 parts, 140 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Vitaly Melnikov, camera: Yuri Veksler, production
designer: Bella Manevich, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Yevgeny Leonov, Natalya Yegorova, Vladimir Izotov, Nikolai Karachentsov,
Mikhail Boyarsky, Svetlana Kryuchkova
Based on the play of the same title by Alexander Vampilov.
Late for the last commuter train and reluctant to spend the night outdoors, two young lads trick the
Sarafanovs to gain access into their apartment shared by the musician father, the student daughter and
the teenage son... One of the lads passes himself for a bastard elder son of the owner of the apartment...
782
STROGOVY (THE STROGOVS)
1975 — 1976, 8 parts, 559 min., color
Drama
Director: Vladimir Vengerov, screenplay: Georgy Markov, Edward Shim, Vladimir
Vengerov, camera: Lev Kolganov, Edward Rozovsky, misic: Isaac Schwartz, sound:
Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Boris Borisov, Lyudmila Zaitseva, Herman Novikov, Lyudmila Arinina, Maya
Bulgakova, Viktor Pavlov, Geli Sysoyev, Valery Kravchenko, Rita Gladunko, Alexei
Kozhevnikov, Viktor Tregubovich, Valery Barinov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Boris
Chirkov, Igor Dmitriyev
Based on the novel of the same title by Georgy Markov.
783
CHUZHIYE PISMA (SOMEBODY ELSE’S LETTERS)
1975, 93 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ilya Averbakh, screenplay: Natalya Ryazantseva, camera: Dmitry
Dolinin, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk,
sound: Edward Vanunz
Cast: Irina Kupchenko, Svetlana Smirnova, Sergei Kovalenkov, Zinaida Sharko, Oleg
Yankovsky, Maya Bugakova, Ivan Bortnik, Natalya Skvortsova
Zinka Begunkova, in her ninth year of school in a small Central Russian town, is a girl with a
complicated life story: fatherless and motherless, living with her brother... At sixteen, Zinka is blindly
following the standard principles of “propriety”; having neither compassion nor love of mankind,
stubborn and obstinate, she is trying to reshape the very lives of those close to herself along the lines of
her own understanding...
784
SHAG NAVSTRECHU (A STEP TOWARDS)
1975, 76 min., color
Lyrical comedy
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Emil Braginsky, camera: Alexander Chirov,
production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Stanislav Pozhlakov, sound: Boris
Khutoryansky
Cast: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikolai Volkov Jr., Andrei Popov, Yelena Tsyplakova,
Yevgeny Leonov, Yelena Solovey, Lev Durov, Vladimir Basov, Yelena Drapeko,
Boris Scherbakov, Andrei Mironov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Pavel Pankov, Georgy
Vitsin, Lyudmila Ivanova, Anatoly Rudakov
Each of the five short stories comprising the picture has its own main character, its own plot and genre,
but all the five are tied together by the same idea: with the complicated and rapidly changing times we
live in, the most important things are the human person’s heart and feelings, vulnerability and kindness,
the urge to love and be loved....
785
VDOVY (THE WIDOWS)
1976, 90 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Yuri Dunski, Valery Frid, camera:
Vladimir Chumak, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, sound: Natalya
Levitina
Cast: Galina Makarova, Galina Skorobogatova, Borislav Brondukov, Yuri Kayurov,
Mikhail Pogorzhelsky, Nina Mamayeva, Gennagy Lozhkin, Raisa Maksimova,
Vladimir Pitsek, Boris Morozov, Lubov Shustova
As their old age approaches, two soldiers’ widows, Alexandra Matveyevna and Yelizaveta Yegorovna,
have come to share a home. They have been brought together not solely by their misery and solitude,
but also by a common concern, i.e. the grave of two unknown soldiers which they have been taking
care of for over 30 years, ever since the war...
At this time the women are faced by an actual disaster: their District administration has decided to turn
“their” humble grave into a memorial...
786 VESYELOYE SNOVIDENIYE, ILI SMEKH SKVOZ
SLYEZY (MERRY DREAM, OR LAUGHING WITH ONE EYE
AND WEEPING WIH THE OTHER)
1976, 2 parts, 133 min., b/w
Fairy tale
Director: Igor Usov, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, camera: Alexander Dibrivny,
production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Seryezha Krupennikov, Yulya Shulepova, Sergei Filippov, Vladimir
Trukhanov, Georgy Vitsin, Valentina Kovel, Oleg Popov, Valentin Nikulin
Loosely based on Sergei Mikhalkov’ s play “Laughter and Tears”
787
VSEGDA SO MNOYU (WITH ME FOREVER)
1976, 101 min., color
Drama
Director: Solomon Shuster, screenplay: Leonid Zorin, camera: Yuri Vorontsov,
production designer: Georgy Kropachev, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Vladislav Strzhelchik, Alisa Freindlich, Ivan Solovyov, Angelina Stepanova,
Alla Demidova, Nikolai Burlyayev, Oleg Basilashvili, Larisa Udovichenko
In his youth, the art critic Andrei Ilyin happened to go through the severe trials of the siege of
Leningrad. Together with his friends he took part in the rescue of the Hermitage treasures. After many
years, as a renowned scientist and Academician, he returns to his native city. Reevaluating his life at
this stage, he is trying to measure it with a high measure: that of the courage displayed by the defenders
of Leningrad.
788
GOROD. OSEN. RITM (CITY. FALL. RHYTHM)
1976, 36 min., color
Musical review
Director: Vadim Gauzner, screenplay: Viktor Sokolov, camera: Valery Fedosov,
production designer: Valery Yurkevich, sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy
The review familiarizes its viewers with the best Russian jazz groups.
789 DVADTSAT DNEY BEZ VOYNY (TWENTY
WARLESS DAYS)
1976, 101 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Alexei German, screenplay: Konstantin Simonov, camera: Valery
Fedosov, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Yuri Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Alexei Petrenko, Angelina Stepanova,
Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Nikolai Grinko, Lusyena Ovchinnikova, Liya Akhedzhakova,
Mikhail Kononov
Based on the story of the same title by Konstantin Simonov.
At the end of 1942, twenty days without war fell to the military correspondent Lopatin. He meant to
forget all about the war in Tashkent, a city well away from the front-line; yet, the echoes of the war will
catch up with him anywhere...
790
DIKY GAVRILA (THE WILD GAVRILA)
1976, 72 min., color
Comedy
Director: Leonid Makarychev, screenplay: Valery Priyemykhov, camera: Boris
Timkovsky, production designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Stanislav Pozhlakov,
sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Natasha Bubnova, Vitaly Buyanov, Andrei Zharenov, Kostya Tolstov, Mikhail
Boyarsky, Mikhail Devyatkin
Without any malicious intent, the kids living in a small town steal the trained bear Gavrila from the
visiting circus, meaning to set him free...
791 DLINNOYE, DLINNOYE DELO (A LENGTHY
LENGTHY BUSINESS)
1976, 92 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Directors: Grigory Aronov, Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Yuri Nikolin, camera:
Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Semyon Malkin, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Yevgeny Leonov, Vladimir Zamansky, Mikhail Gluzsky, Oleg Yankovsky,
Oleg Belov, Nikolai Karachentsov, Nina Urgant, Roman Medyanov
The investigator with the District Prosecutor’s Office is a modest, mild and kind person... Yet, when it
comes to his job which often involves people’s lives and heartbreak, he knows how to be strict and
inflexible.
792
ZHITEYSKOYE DELO (AN EVERYDAY BUSINESS)
1976, 92 min., 3 war stories almanach, b/w
1. GDE TY, LUBOV DUNYASHOVA? (WHERE ARE YOU, LUBOV
DUNYASHOVA?)
Melodrama
Director: Yuri Solovyov, screenplay: Vladimir Tendryakov, camera: Anatoly
Bakhrushin, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Alexander Kharitonov, Yevgeny Menshov, Boris Arakelov, Yuri Solovyov
Summer, 1942. A unit of signal service is withdrawn for a brief break. A young soldier happens to
come across a pack of letters which failed to reach their addressees. The young soldier and his friend
decide to answer one of the letters...
2. U TEBYA YEST YA (YOU HAVE ME)
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Sergei Potepalov, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production
designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Aliakper
Gasan-zade
Cast: Kostya Smirnov, Ira Fominskaya, Tatyana Bedova, Era Ziganshina
Winter, 1944. An orphanage is moving to another city. It so happens that it is joined by a teenage girl
going to her aunt’s... This is how Sasha and Vitka meet.
3. ZHITEYSKOYE DELO (AN EVERYDAY BUSINESS)
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Ordovsky, screenplay: Valery Priyemykhov, camera: Vladimir
Ivanov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound:
Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Oleg Borisov, Larisa Malevannaya, Olga Volkova, Sergei Dvoretsky, Alexei
Petrenko
Based on the short story of the same title by Andrei Platonov.
Released from the Army, the soldier Anton Gvozdaryev is looking for his missing son. His quest brings
him to the home of a soldier’s widow, who is the mother of three children...
793 ...I DRUGIYE OFITSIALNIYE LITSA (...AND OTHER
OFFICIALS)
1976, 89 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Alexander Gorokhov, camera: Henrich
Marandzhyan, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound:
Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Miroshnichenko, Anatoly Grachev, Vsevolod
Sanayev, Ernst Romanov, Vsevolod Yakut, Gunnar Kilgas, Lev Durov, Alexander
Galibin, Lev Krugly, Nikolai Volkov, Sr., Yevgenya Khanayeva
The story is focused on a common occurrence in the everyday activities of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs: the execution of a trading agreement with a foreign company... this is the background for the
unfolding of the outstanding personalities of the characters.
794 KADKINA VSYAKY ZNAYET (EVERYONE KNOWS
KADKIN)
1976, 79 min., color, wide screen
Comedy
Directors: Anatoly Vekhotko, Natalya Troschenko, screenplay: Pavel Vasilyev,
Anatoly Vekhotko, Natalya Troschenko, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production
designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Grigory Elbert, Natalya
Avanesova
Cast: Georgy Burkov, Lyudmila Zaitseva, Yelena Fetisenko, Maya Bulgakova, Boris
Novikov, Stepan Krylov, Roman Medyanov
Fyodor Kadkin returns from the war. A soldier, who has followed a cruel and bloody track, has
managed to keep intact his humanity, his gift of compassion, his mildness, and his bragging habit. This
is exactly the quality “helping” him to get involved in unusual and amusing situations.
795 KLYUCH BEZ PRAVA PEREDACHI (A KEY NOT TO
BE TRANSFERRED)
1976, 99 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Dinara Asanova, screenplay: Georgy Polonsky, camera: Yuri Veksler,
Dmitry Dolinin, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Yevgeny
Krylatov, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Yelena Proklova, Alexei Petrenko, Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Lubov
Malinovskaya, Zinovy Gerdt, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Marina Levtova, Yelena
Tsyplakova, Andrei Lavrikov, Kostya Nikolayev, Sasha Bogdanov
Kirill Sergeyevich, a retired Army officer, becomes the new school Headmaster. Used to a strict and
orderly routine, he at first finds the chaotic bustle of everyday school life hard... It is not easy to deal
with both the children and the teachers, especially with the students’ favorite Marina Maximovna who
teaches Literature. Well then, wasn’t Marina surprised to discover the “martinet” Nazarov to be a
perceptive and tactful person and an experienced tutor.
 The film was awarded the Special Prize of the Jury in the Contest of Films for Children and Youth
at the International Film Festival in Moscow (1977).
796 MENYA ETO NE KASAYETSYA (IT IS OF NO
CONCERN TO ME)
1976, 95 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Gerbert Rappaport, screenplay: Edgar Dubrovsky, Gerbert Rappaport,
camera: Alexander Chirov, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic:
Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound: Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Alexander Zbruyev, Irina Ponarovskaya, Yuri Demich, Bruno Freindlich, Irina
Grigoryeva, Boris Ivanov, Lyudmila Arinina, Alexander Anisimov, Ivan Dmitriyev,
Pavel Pankov, Georgy Shtil, Gennadi Nilov
Kartashov, director of a weaving factory, dies in a car crash. Shubnikov, senior inspector with the
Socialist Property Plunder Prevention Department (OBHSS), starts the investigation...
Gradually it is revealed that a whole team of plunderers is active at the factory.
797 NEBESNYYE LASTOCHKY (CELESTIAL
SWALLOWS)
1976, 2 parts, 135min, color
Musical
Written and directed by: Leonid Kvinikhidze, camera: Nikolai Zhilin, production
designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Iya Ninidze, Andrei Mironov, Sergei Zakharov, Lyudmila Gurchenko,
Alexander Shirvindt, Irina Gubanova
Loosely based on “Mademoiselle Nitouche”, story by A. Mellaque, A. Milleau and composer F.
Hervais
798 OBYKNOVENNAYA ARKTIKA (JUST THE
REGULAR ARCTIC)
1976, 2 parts, 160 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexei Simonov, camera: Rostislav Davydov, production
designers: Alexei Rudyakov, Yelena Fomina, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Galina
Lukina
Cast: Oleg Dal, Oleg Yefremov, Afanasi Kochetkov, Rolan Bykov, Georgy
Korolchuk, Valentin Yerofeyev, Viktor Pavlov
Based on the book of the same title by Boris Gorbatov.
799
OBYCHNY MESYATS (JUST A REGULAR MONTH)
1976, 3 parts, 203 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Iskander Khamrayev, screenplay: Ilya Shtermler, Albina Shulgina,
camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Marat
Kamilov, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Natalya Fateyeva, Roman Gromadsky, Igor Vladimirov,
Vladimir Retsepter, Ivan Solovyov, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Alexander Goloborodko
Based on the novel of the same title by Ilya Shtermler.
800
PERVY REYS (THE FIRST RUN)
1976, 78 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Wolf Dolgy, camera: Vladimir Ilyin,
production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Isaac Schwartz, sound:
Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Boris Andreyev, Mikhail Vaskov, Irina Rumyantseva, Oleg Anofriyev, Alla
Mescheryakova
A young lad is going through his life’s first practical assignment: finally finding a job he likes, he is
setting off on his first run...
801 POKA STOYAT GORY (WHILE THE MOUNTAINS
STAND UNMOVABLE)
1976, 79 min., color
Drama
Director: Vadim Mikhailov, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, Vadim Mikhailov,
camera: Edward Rozovsky, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic:
Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Mikhail Lazarev
Cast: Margarita Terekhova, Georgy Tretyakov, Yuri Solovyov, Yevgeny Menshov,
Viktor Avdyushko, Valentina Talyzina, Anatoly Solonitsyn
The story is based on a dramatic event: a difficult mountain trek made by a team of climbers.
802 SEMDESYAT DVA GRADUSA NIZHE NULYA
(SEVENTY-TWO DEGREES BELOW ZERO)
1976, 81 min., color
Drama
Director: Sergei Danilin, Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Vladimir Sanin, Zinovy
Yuryev, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic:
Nikolai Martynov, sound: Harry Belenky
Cast: Nikolai Kryuchkov, Valery Kozinets, Oleg Korchikov, Yuri Demich, Mikhail
Kononov, Alexander Abdulov, Oleg Yankovsky
Based on the story of the same title by Vladimir Sanin.
Having delivered the necessary cargo to the group wintering in the “Vostok” polar station, Gavrilov’s
team must return to Mirny. The long polar night is approaching, and no one has yet braved the
Antarctic in this season... but the team has dared to undertake this unprecedented trek...
803 SENTIMENTALNY ROMAN (THE SENTIMENTAL
ROMANCE)
1976, 97 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Igor Maslennikov, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev,
production designer: Marc Kaplan, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya
Zvereva
Cast: Yelena Proklova, Yelena Koreneva, Nikolai Denisov, Stanislav Lyubshin,
Sergei Migitsko, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Mikhail Boyarsky, Valentina Titova, Ivan
Bortnik, Nikolai Karachentsov, Oleg Yankovsky
Based on a novel of the same title by Vera Panova.
The 1920-s. The country lives along the lines of a “peaceful” revolution: turbulent young life with no
idea of weariness or compromise. This greedy, breathless manner of life is shared by the young
newspaperman Shura Sevastyanov. But all of a sudden... love comes his way.
804
SINYAYA PTITSA (THE BLUE BIRD)
1976, 99 min., co-production with “XX-th Century FOX” (USA), color
Fairy tale
Director: George Cucor, screenplay: Alexei Kapler, Hugh Whitemore, Alfred
Hayes, camera: Freddy Young, Ionas Gritsyus, production designers: Brian
Wildsmith, Valery Yurkevich, misic: Irvine Costell, Andrei Petrov, sound: Grigory
Elbert, Gordon Everett, John Bramell
Cast: Elisabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cecily Tison, Ava Gardner, Margarita
Terekhova, Georgy Vitsin, Oleg Popov, Nadezhda Pavlova, Todd Lukinland, Patsy
Kenzitt, Leonid Nevedomsky, Will Gear, Mona Washborn
Based on the play of the same title by Morice Meterlinck.
A Christmas dream led two children, Titil and Mitil, along the path of cognition, helping to acquire
new friends...
805
SLADKAYA ZHENSHCHINA (A SWEET WOMAN)
1976, 98 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Irina Velembovskaya, camera: Vladimir
Kovzel, Semyon Ivanov, production designer: Vasily Zachinyayev, misic: Vasily
Solovyev-Sedoy, sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy, song lyrics: Gleb Gorbovsky
Cast: Natalya Gundareva, Svetlana Karpinskaya, Oleg Yankovsky, Pyotr
Velyaminov, Rimma Markova, Nina Alisova, Georgy Korolchuk, Fyodor Nikitin
Based on Irina Velembovskaya’s short story of the same name.
Anna Dobrokhotova, a worker in a confectionery, used to be called “a sweet woman” for her
unquenchable craving for a “sweet”, replete and thoughtless life. Anna’s egoism, greed and crude
practicism fail to bring her happiness in either personal or family life...
806
STEPANOVA PAMYATKA (STEPAN’S REMINDER)
1976, 85 min., color
Fairy tale
Director: Konstantin Yershov, screenplay: Konstantin Yershov, Gleb Panfilov,
camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designers: Vladimir Kostin, Vladimir
Kostrin, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy
Cast: Larisa Chikurova, Gennadi Yegorov, Irina Gubanova, Natalya Andreychenko,
Igor Kostolevsky, Lev Krugly, Dima Dymov
Loosely based on a folk tale by Pavel Bazhov.
In “Stepan’s Reminder” the spectators meet the characters favored by the famous fairy tale weaver of
the Urals: the Mistress of Copper Mountain, Stepan the stone miner and his daughter Tanyusha.
The narrative in the folklore spirit tells about Tanyusha’s arrival in the Tsar’s Palace in Petersburg to
see the Malachite Chamber.
807
ASYA (ASYA)
1977, 98 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Iosif Heifitz, camera: Henrich Marandzhyan, production
designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Yelena Koreneva, Vyacheslav Yezepov, Igor Kostolevsky
Based on the story of the same title by Ivan Turgenev.
Southern Germany, a god-forsaken town, student festivities, mountainous landscapes... And Asya, the
rather shy, whimsical, queer girl, who scared the main character, N.N., with the force of her love...
808
BYEDA (DISASTER)
1977, 97 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Dinara Asanova, screenplay: Izrail Metter, camera: Nikolai Stroganov,
Anatoly Lapshov, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Yevgeny Krylatov,
sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya, song: Bulat Okudzhava
Cast: Alexei Petrenko, Yelena Kuzmina, Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Georgy
Burkov, Gennadi Dyudyayev, Fyodor Odinokov, Maria Vinogradova
In a small northern town there dwells a family: Alevtina Ivanovna, her son Slavka with his young wife
Zina and their child. They have everything to make them happy, but the household is hit by a disaster:
Slavka starts indulging himself...
809
BLOKADA (THE SIEGE)
1977, Part II, film I — “Leningradsky Metronom” (“The Leningrad Metronome”),
102 min., Film II — “Operatsiya Iskra” (“Operation “Spark”), 61 min., color, wide
screen
Drama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, Alexander Chakovsky,
camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Veniamin
Basner, sound: Irina Volkova
Cast: Yuri Solomin, Yevgeny Lebedev, Irina Akulova, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Roman
Gromadsky, Mikhail Ulyanov, Alexei Presnetsov, Alexander Razin, Boris Gorbatov,
Yuozas Budraitis, Vladimir Zeldin
A screen version of the novel of the same title by Alexander Chakovsky.
The picture tells about the tragic events in the life of the besieged Leningrad between September, 1941
and January, 1943.
810 VTORAYA POPYTKA VIKTORA KROKHINA
(VIKTOR KROKHIN’S SECOND ATTEMPT)
1977, 98 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Edward Volodarsky, camera: Vladimir
Burykin, production designers: Yevgeny Gukov, Mikhail Gerasimov, misic: Vadim
Bibergan, sound: Asya Zvereva, songs: Vladimir Vysotsky
Cast: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikolai Rybnikov, Oleg Borisov, Mikhail Terentyev,
Vladimir Zamansky, Lev Lemke, Sasha Kharashkevich, Vitya Poluektov, Ivan
Bortnik, Gennadi Frolov, Alexander Pashutin, Leonid Dyachkov
Viktor’s childhood fell on the difficult post-war years. His father perished in the war; he was brought
up by his mother and stepfather. The boy grew up reserved and got used to achieving everything on his
own, by any means... We see Viktor Krokhin the boxer fighting for the Gold Medal in the European
Cup...
811 DEVOCHKA, KHOCHESH SNIMATSYA V KINO?
(WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN A MOVIE, GIRL?)
1977, 83 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Adolph Bergunker, screenplay: Yuri Yakovlev, camera: Oleg
Kukhovarenko, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky,
sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Marina Bugakova, Nikolai Volkov, Jr., Tatyana Kislyarova, Ada Rogovtseva,
Valentin Gaft, Lubov Virolainen, Lubov Sokolova, Marina Tregubovich, Natalya
Chetverikova
There lived in Leningrad a united and merry family: Mama, an ambulance doctor, Papa, a vet, and the
nine year old Inga... But disaster struck — and Mama suffered a tragic death... Still, life went on, — a
life with only two of them left: Papa and Inga...
812 ZHDITYE MENYA, OSTROVA! (AWAIT FOR ME,
ISLANDS!)
1977, 79 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Directors: Nikolai Lebedev, Joseph Shapiro, screenplay: Alexander Popov, camera:
Oleg Kukhovarenko, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Vladimir
Maklakov, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Afanasi Kochetkov, Leonid Nevedomsky, Lilya Gurova, Sasha Prokhorov,
Lubov Virolainen, Vadim Yakovlev, Ira Smolina, Sasha Naumov, Svetlana Polyakova
Loosely based on “Run-Away”, an essay by Leonid Pochivalov.
Valerka got a “two” in literature, and it seems that all could have ended well; but learning about the
“two”, his father got angry and accidentally broke the little boat made by Valerka... Valerka runs away
from home...
813
ZHENITBA (THE MARRIAGE)
1977, 99 min., color
Comedy
Written and directed by: Vitaly Melnikov, camera: Yuri Veksler, production
designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Svetlana Kryuchkova, Alexei Petrenko, Oleg Borisov, Vladislav Strzhelchik,
Borislav Brondukov, Yevgeny Leonov, Maya Bulgakova, Valentina Talyzina
Based on Nikolai Gogol’s comedy of the same title.
Advanced in years and pushed by his chum Kochkarev, the clerk Podkolesin seeks in marriage Agafya
Tikhonovna, the overripe girl of merchant origin... Yet, at the last minute, just before the wedding, the
hesitant groom escapes...
814
ZNAK VECHNOSTY (THE MARK OF ETERNITY)
1977, 73 min., color, wide screen
Adventure story
Director: David Kocharyan, screenplay: Alexander Voinov, camera: Valery
Mironov, production designer: Rimma Narinyan, misic: Alexander Mnatsakanynan,
sound: Yevgeny Nesterov, Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Georgy Kulikov, Valery Olshansky, Sasha Karelin, Karen Akopyan, Zhenya
Vorobyeva, Tigran Voskonyan, Alesha Platonov
A settlement on the border, in the south of Armenia, where an archeological expedition is at work. The
boys and girls living here are indefatigable and cheerful... Artyom, Samvel, and Varya. Not always do
they spend their free time thoughtlessly — they are helping the border guards.
815
ZOLOTAYA MINA (THE GOLDEN MINE)
1977, 2 parts, 139 min., color
Detective story
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Pavel Grakhov, Artur Makarov, camera:
Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Isaac Schwartz,
sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Mikhail Gluzsky, Yevgeny Kindinov, Oleg Dal, Larisa Udovichenko, Igor
Yefimov, Lubov Polischuk, Igor Yankovsky, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Igor Dmitriyev,
Lev Lemke, Tatyana Tkach
In a critical, tense situation Colonel Zarubin is investigating the criminal activities of an undercover
jewel trading group...
816 KAK IVANUSHKA DURACHOK ZA CHUDOM
KHODIL (HOW IVANUSHKA THE FOOL WENT AFTER THE
MIRACLE)
1977, 88 min., color, wide screen
Fairy tale
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Mikhail Volpin, camera: Edward
Rozovsky, production designers: Marina Azizyan, Vladimir Kostin, misic: Moisei
Weinberg, sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Oleg Dal, Yelena Proklova, Mikhail Gluzsky, Tatyana Peltzer, Vladimir Etush,
Andrei Popov, Alexander Beniaminov, Mikhail Boyarsky, Igor Dmitriyev, Sergei
Filippov, Maria Barabanova
Loosely based on Russian folklore.
To save his Nastenka from the cruel affliction, Ivanushka sets out to look for a miracle at the other end
of the world...
817
LICHNOYE DELO (PERSONAL FILE)
1977, 27 min., b/w
Director: Tamara Rodionova, screenplay: Dmitry Pisarevsky, camera: Yevgeny
Vargin, production designer: Alexei Sidorov, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound:
Betty Livshits
A photofilm based on cuttings from the negatives of the film of the same title (1932).
818
PAVLOVSK (PAVLOVSK)
1977, 31 min., color
Written and directed by: Semyon Aranovich, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, misic: Viktor
Lebedev, sound: Galina Lukina
A fiction/documentary film about the remarkable monument of the XVIII century Russian culture —
the Pavlovsk Palace and its decorations.
819
OBRATNAYA SVYAZ (FEEDBACK)
1977, 93 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Alexander Gelman, camera: Edward
Rozovsky, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, misic: Alexei Rybnikov,
sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Oleg Yankovsky, Mikhail Ulyanov, Kirill Lavrov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Igor
Vladimirov, Mikhail Pogorzhelsky, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Igor Dmitriyev, Yelena
Stavrogina, Leonid Nevedomsky, Natalya Gundareva, Valentina Talyzina
Based on the play of the same title by Alexander Gelman.
A manager is personally responsible for the cause he has been entrusted with, and in these terms the
production issues are closely intertwined with the lives and jobs of individuals. In a tense situation
arising on a major construction site, the personality of each one of the characters is fully revealed...
820
LOVE)
OBYASNENIYE V LYUBVI (A DECLARATION OF
1977, 2 parts, 135 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ilya Averbakh, screenplay: Pavel Finn, camera: Dmitry Dolinin,
production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, sound: Boris Andreyev, misic: Vivaldi,
Bach, Mahlherb
Cast: Eva Shikulska, Yuri Bogatyryov, Angelina Stepanova, Bruno Freindlich, Kirill
Lavrov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Dasha Mikhailova, Nikita Mikhailovsky, Ivan Bortnik,
Yelena Sanko, Yuri Goncharov, Anatoly Kovalenko
Loosely based on “Four Fourths”, a novel by Yevgeny Gabrilovich.
Filippok, a coeval of the century and a talented man of letters, happened to witness and participate in
historical events of great importance. Neither directly nor easily, but he did manage to find his way,
groping through delusions, vacillations and torturous search of himself and his life’s vocation.
821
OTKRYTAYA KNIGA (AN OPEN BOOK)
1977 — 1979, 9 parts, 596 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Titov, screenplay: Veniamin Kaverin, Vladimir Savin, camera:
Anatoly Ivanov, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Nikolai Martynov,
sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Natalya Dikareva, Georgy Taratorkin, Alyesha Vasilyev, Mikhail
Pogorzhelsky, Yelena Solovey, Oleg Yankovsky, Nina Urgant, Vladimir Basov,
Vsevolod Safonov, Oleg Tabakov, Yelena Drapeko, Iya Savina, Irina Mazurkevich,
Yuri Bogatyryov, Leonid Nevedomsky, Oleg Yefremov, Alexander Kalyagin
Based on the novel of the same title by Veniamin Kaverin.
822
PERVYYE RADOSTI (THE FIRST JOYS)
1977, 3 parts, 218 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Grigory Nikulin, screenplay: Maria Zvereva, camera: Nikolai Zhilin,
production designers: Boris Bykov, Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Alexander
Mnatsakanyan, sound: Vladimir Esterlis
Cast: Yuri Demich, Nikolai Volkov, Jr., Yelizaveta Akulicheva, Irina Pechernikova,
Olya Mashnaya, Yevgeny Lebedev, Anatoly Azo, Roman Gromadsky
Screen version of the novel of the same title by Konstantin Fedin.
823
PRYZHOK S KRYSHI (A JUMP OFF THE ROOF)
1977, 88 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Vladimir Grigoryev, screenplay: Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Solomon Rozen,
camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Adkady
Gagulashvili, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Vitaly Solomin, Maria Solomina, Maya Bulgakova, Anatoly Adoskin, Larisa
Malevannaya, Yuri Solovyov, Zinaida Sharko, Yevdokia Urusova, Alina
Olkhovskaya, Yelizaveta Uvarova
Incapable of standing his ground, the talented scientist Rostislav Lyubeshkin has to leave his Institute.
Kosichkin, an ordinary bookkeeper, attempts to stand up for a person he doesn’t know. Kosichkin is
demoted, his wife considers him a failure, while his colleagues gloat, awaiting the results of the audit...
824
SOBAKA NA SENE (A DOG IN THE MANGER)
1977, 2 parts, 138 min., color
Musical
Written and directed by: Jan Frid, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production
designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Gennadi Gladkov, sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy,
song lyrics: Mark Donskoy
Cast: Margarita Terekhova, Mikhail Boyarsky, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yelena
Proklova, Zinaida Sharko, Viktor Ilyichev, Igor Dmitriyev, Nikolai Karachentsov,
Gelena Ivliyeva, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Vitaly Leonov, Fyodor Nikitin
Based on the comedy of the same title by Lope de Vega.
825 STROGAYA MUZHSKAYA ZHIZN (THE STRICT
MEN’S LIFE)
1977, 92 min., color, wide screen
Thriller
Director: Anatoly Granik, screenplay: Mikhail Kurayev, camera: Lev Kolganov,
Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Nadezhda
Simonyan, sound: Semyon Shumyacher. Song by: Kim Ryzhov
Cast: Anatoly Pustokhin, Anatoly Mateshko, Yuri Kayurov, Roman Gromadsky,
Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Vitaly Yushkov, Antonina Shuranova, Yuri Solovyov,
Nadezhda Karpechenko, Yefim Kamenetsky
Loosely based on “Signal Rockets of Black Smoke”, a story by Alexander Smetanin.
A critical situation among the officers of a tank regiment reveals persons with a different understanding
of their duty as defenders of Motherland...
826
SUMKA INKASSATORA (CASH COLLECTOR’S
BAG)
1977, 93 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: August Baltrushaitis, screenplay: Yuri Nikolin, camera: Alexander
Chechulin, production designer: Mark Kaplan, misic: Edward Balsis, sound: Galina
Gorbonosova
Cast: Georgy Burkov, Donatas Banionis, Yelena Naumkina, Vitautas Tomkus,
Natalya Fateyeva, Anatoly Solonitsyn
A tragic event happened in the night. Three cash collectors died in the car taking the airport’s daily
earnings to the bank. Accident or murder? Where is the money? Who is the criminal?
827 TRUFFALDINO IZ BERGAMO (TRUFFALDINO
FROM BERGAMO)
1977, 2 parts, 138 min., color
Musical comedy
Director: Vladimir Vorobyev, screenplay: Vladimir Vorobyev, Akiba Golburt,
camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Alexander
Kolker, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Konstantin Raykin, Natalya Gundareva, Valentina Kosobutskaya, Viktor
Kostetsky, Lev Petropavlovsky, Irina Driatskaya, Viktor Krivonos
Based on “Servant of Two Masters”, a comedy by Carlo Goldoni.
The merry joker Truffaldino is artfully working on an intrigue, showing an obvious superiority over his
masters both in wit and enterprising ability.
828
UBIT PRI ISPOLNENII... (KILLED IN ACTION...)
1977, 93 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Edward Volodarsky, camera: Vadim
Grammatikov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Nikolai Chervinsky,
sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Vladimir Sedov, Yuri Demich, Stanislav Landgraf, Yuri Sarantsev, Svetlana
Orlova, Dmitry Mirgorodsky, Yuri Lazarev
The picture deals with the last days of Vaclav Vorovsky, one of the first Soviet diplomats, who was
killed in Lozanne in the spring of 1923.
829 VSYE RESHAYET MGNOVENIYE (A MOMENT
DECIDES EVERYTHING)
1978, 100 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Karasyev, screenplay: Valentin Yezhov, Anatoly Salutsky, Viktor
Sadovsky, camera: Viktor Karasyev, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic:
Alexander Zhurbin, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Galina Belyayeva, Olga Ageyeva, Boris Zeidenberg, Natalya Fateyeva,
Alexander Abdulov, Alexander Demyanenko, Anatoly Papanov, Nikolai Ozerov,
Andrei Danilov
Nadya Privalova, a capable young swimmer, is just fifteen. Through a lucky coincidence she is
accepted into the national team of swimmers — and this marks the start of the grinding, exhausting
labor not necessarily resulting in Victory...
830
HOME)
DVOYE V NOVOM DOME (A COUPLE IN A NEW
1978, 81 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Tofik Shakhverdiyev, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, camera: Nikolai
Pokoptsev, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, misic: Isaac Schwartz, sound:
Natalya Levitina
Cast: Maria Solomina, Alexander Abdulov, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Ernst Romanov,
Kira Romanova, Anatoly Gorin, Tatyana Leybel, Tatyana Manevskaya
Nelya and Seryozha got married at nineteen. After five years, they meet their first test, when both of
them, and especially Nelya, must realize that family life is far from easy, and one has to learn to
survive life’s trials...
831
DETI KAK DETI (JUST THE WAY CHILDREN ARE)
1978, 74 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Yuliu Edlis, camera: Nikolai
Stroganov, production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Boris
Tischenko, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Rita Sergeyecheva, Nikita Mikhailovsky, Alexander Kalyagin, Margarita
Terekhova, Ada Rogovtseva, Lubov Sokolova, Anatoly Kuznetsov
The adults don’t get along well. The children, even if they fail to get a full understanding of the family
mess, are helping their parents to sort it out...
832 DOM STROITSYA (THE HOUSE IS UNDER
CONSTRUCTION)
1978, 67 min., color
Melodrama
Directors: Pavel Kogan, Pyotr Mostovoy, screenplay: Alexander Galin, camera:
Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, sound: Mikhail
Lazarev
Cast: Yuri Klepikov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Alexei Resser, Bruno Freindlich,
Svetlana Smirnova, Lev Zolotukhin
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Alexander Ivanov.
833
YOZHIK (A LITTLE HEDGEHOG)
1978, 19 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Nikolai Kovalsky, camera: Vadim Grammatikov,
production designer: Rimma Narinyan, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Irina
Volkova
Cast: Alexander Demyanenko, Seryozha Yeromirtsev, Dima Knyazev
Based on a short story of the same title by Grigory Gorin.
834 ZAVYALOVSKIYE CHUDIKI (THE ZAVYALOV
CRANKS)
1978, a picture almanac based on three short stories by Vasily Shukshin, 70 min.,
color, wide screen
1. KAPRONOVAYA YOLOCHKA (A LITTLE FIR TREE MADE OF NYLON)
Tragical comedy
Written and directed by: Ernest Yasan, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production
designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Ivan Krivoruchko, Mikhail Kokshenov, Natalya Nazarova, Viktor Pavlov
A car with two Zavyalov guys in it broke down on New Year’s Eve; they set off on foot, with a town
man involved in procurement, insisting on accompanying them, who used to visit the local girl
Nyurka...
2. BILYETIK NA VTOROY SEANS (A SECOND SHOW TICKET)
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Anatoly Dubinkin, camera: Alexander Dibrivny,
production designer: Larisa Shilova, sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Vladimir Kashpur, Maya Blinova, Georgy Teich, Viktor Matveyev
All his life Timofei lived for himself, grabbing indiscriminately, and has not made any friends; thus,
when his heart grows heavy, there is indeed no one to sympathize with him...
3. VERSIYA (A VERSION)
Tragical comedy
Written and directed by: Valery Guryanov, camera: Boris Timkovsky, production
designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Nikolai Martynov, sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Valery Zolotukhin, Larisa Burkova, Sergei Parshin
The village’s prime jabberer Sanka tells the local men of his trip up town to get himself a motorcycle
— and the kind of things that happened to him no one would believe... So he takes the driver Yegorka
to town in order to have a witness...
835
KOMEDIYA OSHIBOK (A COMEDY OF ERRORS)
1978, 2 parts, 139 min., color
Comedy
Director: Vadim Gauzner, screenplay: Friedrich Gorenstein, camera: Anatoly
Ivanov, production designer: Mark Kaplan, misic: Valery Ganelin, sound: Gennadi
Korkhovoy
Cast: Mikhail Kozakov, Mikhail Kononov, Olga Antonova, Sofiko Chiaureli, Natalya
Danilova, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Valery Matveyev, Baadur Tsuladze, Giya Peradze,
Alexander Anisimov, Givi Tokhadze
Loosely based on William Shakespeare’ play.
836 KOMISSIYA PO RASSLEDOVANIYU (THE
INVESTIGATION COMMISSION)
1978, 85 min., color, wide screen
Thriller
Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Pyotr Popogrebsky, camera: Vladimir
Ivanov, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Vladislav Uspensky,
sound: Harry Belenky
Cast: Oleg Yefremov, Vladimir Retsepter, Irina Miroshnichenko, Sos Sarkisyan,
Yevgeny Lebedev, Pavel Pankov, Lubov Virolainen, Mikhail Boyarsky, Ernst
Romanov, Mikhail Pogorzhelsky, Vladimir Osobik
An accident occurs at the nuclear power plant, damaging the power reactor. A specially appointed
commission starts an investigation... Some people focus on the search of the actual reasons behind the
accident, while others concentrate on safeguarding the interests of the agencies they represent... The
professional conflict is further enhanced by personal motives.
837 LETNYAYA POYEZDKA K MORYU (A SUMMER
TRIP TO THE SEASIDE)
1978, 89 min., color
Drama
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Yuri Klepikov, camera: Vladimir Ilyin,
production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Galina
Lukina
Cast: Nikolai Skorobogatov, Anatoly Gorin, Igor Fokin, Alexander Kurennoy, Andrei
Zotov, Viktor Proskurin
In the summer of 1942, an expedition of schoolchildren set off from Arkhangelsk for the islands of
Novaya Zemlya to establish stores of food for sailors rescued from wrecked ships.
Unexpectedly, fascists turn up on the island...
838 MLADSHY NAUCHNY SOTRUDNIK (JUNIOR
RESEARCHER)
1978, 27 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Valery Rodchenko, screenplay: Valery Priyemykhov, camera: Viktor
Solovyov, production designer: Rimma Narinyan, misic: Adkady Gagulashvili,
sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Anatoly Romashin, Yelena Smirnova, Yuri Solovyov, Igor Dmitriyev
Loosely based on “High Pressure”, a short story by Viktor Ifantyev.
839
MOLODAYA ZHENA (A YOUNG WIFE)
1978, 99 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Irina Velembovskaya, camera: Vladimir
Kovzel, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Yakov Weisburd, sound:
Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Anna Kamenkova, Vladlen Biryukov, Galina Makarova, Sergei Prokhanov,
Yelena Melnikova, Natalya Nazarova, Valentina Vladimirova, Sonya Dzhishkariani
After the country girl Manya’s two years of waiting for her fiance to return from the Army, he has been
unfaithful to her. Trying to get back at him, Manya rashly marries Alexei Terekhov, a widower with a
five-year-old daughter, whom she doesn’t love. The relationship between Alexei and Manya is far from
easy, but through conflicts, quarrels and separations they come to understand that they love each other.
840
OSHIBKI YUNOSTI (YOUTH’S MISTAKES)
1978, 87 min., color
Drama
Director: Boris Frumin, screenplay: Eduard Topol, Boris Frumin, camera: Alexei
Gambaryan, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound:
Galina Lukina
Cast: Stanislav Zhdanko, Marina Neyelova, Natalya Varley, Mikhail Vaskov, Nikolai
Karachentsov, Afanasi Kochetkov, Nina Mamayeva, Nikolai Penkov, Vladimir
Marenkov, Anatoly Garichev, Yuri Dubrovin, Nina Arkhipova
The mistakes made in his youth, the loss of moral guidelines and criteria threaten to break up the whole
life of the young peasant lad coming to live in the city, who is a strong person, talented in a manner...
841 POZNAVAYA BELY SVET (GETTING TO KNOW
THE WIDE WORLD)
1978, 80 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Kira Muratova, screenplay: Grigory Baklanov, Kira Muratova, camera:
Yuri Klimenko, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Vladimir Silvestrov,
sound: Garry Belenky
Cast: Nina Ruslanova, Sergei Popov, Alexei Zharkov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Natalya
Leble, Lena Shelgunova, Natasha Shelgunova, Vladimir Pozhidayev, Viktor Aristov
The picture features a banal “triangle” including the plasterer Lyuba and two drivers, Mikhail and
Nikolai; through the special form of screen language an ordinary love story is transformed into a
passionate love poem.
842 RYTSAR IZ KNYAZH-GORODKA (THE KNIGHT
FROM KNYAZH-GORODOK)
1978, 76 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Vadim Mikhailov, screenplay: Yuri Lakerbay, camera: Boris Timkovsky,
production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Valery Gavrilin, sound: Irina
Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Nikolai Volkov, Vanya Sukhodolsky, Seryozha Kokovkin, Tanya Sats, Denis
Kozlov, Lev Rubinstein, Konstantin Zakharov, Lev Krugly
The story is focused on the conflict between two young fencers, Dima and Ivan.
Honesty and principles are matched against career ambitions...
843
SEGODNYA ILI NIKOGDA (TODAY OR NEVER)
1978, 88 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Igor Usov, screenplay: Pavel Pavlov, camera: Nikolai Stroganov,
production designer: Mikhail Gerasimov, misic: Sergei Banevich, Olga Petrova,
sound: Natalya Avanesova
Cast: Nikolai Volkov, Jr., Viktor Yefgrafov, Valery Kozinets, Natalya Varley, Masha
Zhukova, Alexander Samoylov, Tatyana Ivanova, Alexander Khochinsky
Loosely based on “I Wait and Hope”, a novel by Boris Nikolsky.
Professor Levandovsky, years ago unjustly dismissed from his position, reassembles his former
disciples. But when the laboratory is ready to go, Levandovsky dies...
844
SLED NA ZEMLE (A TRACE ON EARTH)
1978, 83 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Vladimir Gonik, camera: Alexander Chirov,
production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Irina
Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Viktor Panov, Natalya Gundareva, Vladimir Samoylov, Boris Ivanov, Sergei
Ivanov, Roman Madyanov, Marina Lipartiya, Sergei Zamorev
In a riverside house dwelled the family of Ivan Karnavin, a water protection officer. Ivan Yegorovich
was born and bred in these parts, knew everyone around and deeply felt for what he did... But recently
large industrial combine grew by the river, and so did the officer’s problems grow...
845
SLED ROSOMAKHI (A WOLVERENE’S TRACK)
1978, 71 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Georgy Kropachev, screenplay: Yuri Rytkheu, camera: Valery Mironov,
production designer: Yelena Fomina, misic: Alexander Kneifel, sound: Aliakper
Gasan-zade
Cast: Rauza Tazhibayeva, Yuri Khvan, Nikolai Olzey-Ool, Maria Stepanova,
Nurmukhan Zhanturin, Dorime Sangazhapova
A young hunter happened to fall in love with the Sun’s daughter, but with the last rays of sun, wary of
the cold, the beautiful girl would leave the Earth. So the hunter made up his mind to obtain a
wolverine’s hide for her; but to hunt a wolverine is extremely risky...
A modern interpretation of a Chukcha legend of old times.
846 SLUCHAYNIYE PASSAZHIRY (CHANCE
PASSENGERS)
1978, 80 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Ordovsky, screenplay: Yuri Sbitnev, camera: Vladimir Burykin,
production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Leonid
Shumyacher
Cast: Vladimir Gostyukhin, Larisa Grebenschikova, Zinaida Sharko, Nikolai Grinko,
Natasha Leontyeva, Nina Vakhitova, Marina Alekseyeva, Igor Pchelin, Alyosha
Styopin, Slava Yakovlev
At first sight, the long distance truck driver Ivan Zhaplov would seem reserved and somewhat harsh.
Once, in a hurry to complete his run and return to his wife, who was about to give birth, Ivan came
across a truck abandoned by its driver, containing nine kids from the orphanage accompanied by their
lady teacher...
847
SOL ZEMLI (THE SALT OF THE EARTH)
1978, 7 parts, 489 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Iskander Khamrayev, screenplay: Georgy Markov, Edward Shim, camera:
Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Marat Kamilov,
sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Sofia Pavlova, Pyotr Chernov, Natalya Fateyeva, Gennadi
Yegorov, Yelena Glebova, Mikhail Gluzsky, Ivan Pereverzev
Based on Georgy Markov’s story of the same title.
848
TRASSA (THE ROUTE)
1978, 93 min., co-production with “Barrandov” (Czechoslovakia), color
Thriller
Director: Anatoly Vekhotko, Natalya Troschenko, screenplay: Alexander Gorokhov,
Karel Waltera, Alexander Lukesh, camera: Edward Rozovsky, production designer:
Valery Yurkevich, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Valentina Shendrikova, Jan Kanyza, Boris Scherbakov, Anatoly Solonitsyn,
Vitezslav Jandak, Jan Pogan, Viktor Il’ichev, Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev, Viktor
Gogolev
A team of experienced Czechoslovakian tester engineers arrives in the Soviet Union to develop an
optimal new version of the “Tatra” suitable for use in the Far North. The team includes the cheerful,
light-minded, energetic Karel. The work in the new and complicated conditions, the selfless labor, the
tragically ending love — all of these serve to make the main character develop a different view of
himself...
849 UKHODYA — UKHODYI (LEAVE WHILE YOU ARE
LEAVING)
1978, 91 min., color
Comedy
Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, Viktor Tregubovich,
camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic:
Alexander Kolker, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Viktor Pavlov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Marina Tregubovich, Nikolai Rybnikov,
Natalya Andreychenko, Natalya Gundareva, Mikhail Kononov, Fyodor Odinokov,
Yelena Pavlovskaya, Nikolai Sytin, Natalya Dmitriyeva
The modest unostentatious bookkeeper Sulin often finds himself in half funny, half sad situations: he is
often timid, wary of crossing other people...
Until once a chance occurrence triggered the memory of himself as a resolute and courageous young
man.
850
KHANUMA (KHANUMA)
1978, 2 parts, 147 min., color
Comedy
Directors: Georgy Tovstonogov, Yuri Aksyonov, camera: Dmitry Dolinin,
production designer: Rimma Narinyan, sound: Irina Volkova
Cast: Lyudmila Makarova, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Vadim Medvedev, Valentina
Kovel, Nikolai Trofimov, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Yevdokia Alekseyeva
A screen version of the play of the same title staged in the Leningrad Academic Big Drama Theater
based on a comedy by A. Tsagareli.
851
KHORISTKA (A CHORUS GIRL)
1978, 18 min., b/w
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Alexander Muratov, camera: Anatoly Lapshov,
production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Alexander Mikhailov, sound:
Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Yelena Drapeko, Larisa Kadochnikova, Oleg Tabakov
Based on Anton Chekhov’ short story of the same title.
852 CHELOVEK, KOTOROMU VEZLO (THE MAN WHO
USED TO BE LUCKY)
1978, 84 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Konstantin Yershov, screenplay: Konstantin Yershov, Gleb Panfilov,
camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Marina Azizyan, misic: Vadim
Bibergan, sound: Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Georgy Burkov, Anatoly Adoskin, Galina Antipina, Tatyana Shestakova,
Alexander Porokhovschikov, Ernst Romanov, Irina Petrovskaya, Konstantin Yershov,
Yuri Lazarev
Preferring geology to poetry, giving his outstanding talent to the cause he deemed useful and necessary,
Ishutin followed the hard but glamorous path of a seeker. Thus, he remained in people’s memories (and
first and foremost, in those of his sons) as a selfless and unselfish person.
853
CHUZHAYA (A STRANGE LADY)
1978, 79 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, camera: Vladimir Kovzel,
production designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Albert Preslenev, sound: Vladimir
Yakovlev
Cast: Iya Savvina, Vladimir Zamansky, Inna Kondratyeva, Georgy Zhzhenov, Leonid
Obolensky, Irina Gubanova, Oleg Belov, Lubov Strizhenova
Based on a short story of the same title by Yuri Nagibin.
For many years, the families of the engineer Putyatin and the director of a large factory Kungurtsev
were friends. But one day, on his return from a long business trip, Kungurtsev learns that his friend has
a new wife...
854 YAROSLAVNA, KOROLEVA FRANTSII
(YAROSLAVNA, QUEEN OF FRANCE)
1978, 98 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Historical Adventure
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, camera: Valery
Fedosov, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich,
sound: Asya Zvereva, Boris Andreyev
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Yelena Koreneva, Viktor Yevgrafov, Khanka Mikuch, Nikolai
Karachentsov, Sergei Martinson, Vasily Livanov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Vladimir
Izotov, Igor Dmitriyev, Veslav Golas, Alexander Susnin
Early XI century Russia. Envoys of Henry, King of France, arrive in Kiev to ask Prince Yaroslav for
the hand of his youngest daughter Anna in marriage. Thus Anna Yaroslavna, the future Queen of
France, accompanied by envoys and Russian warriors, sets off..
855
BABUSHKIN VNUK (GRANDMA’S GRANDSON)
1979, 82 min., color, wide screen
Lyrical melodrama
Director: Adolph Bergunker, screenplay: Eduard Akopov, camera: Oleg
Kukhovarenko, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky,
sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Grachiya Mkhitaryan, Nadya Shulzhenko, Nina Ter-Osipyan, Armen
Dzhigarkhanyan, Violetta Gevorkyan, Goar Khachikyan, Marina Bugakova
Once upon a time, a new student joins the class. David Kaloshan, arriving from Armenia, has no idea
that he is soon to cause a split in his class...
856 V MOYEY SMERTY PROSHU VINIT KLAVU KA
(PLEASE BLAME MY DEATH ON KLAVA K.)
1979, 76 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Directors: Nikolai Lebedev, Ernst Yasan, screenplay: Mikhail Lvovsky, camera:
Valery Mironov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Alexander Zhurbin,
sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Nadezhda Gorshkova, Vladimir Shevelkov, Lena Khopshonosova, Natalya
Zhuravlyova, Viktor Kostetsky, Valentina Panina, Lubov Polischuk, Olga Volkova,
Olya Ozeretskovskaya, Maxim Yasan, Veniamin Smekhov, Lubov Malinovskaya
Seryozha was just four when he fell in love with Klava. At the moment they are both fifteen, and
Seryozha is as much in love with Klava as ever, whereas she no longer cares for him, for his attention,
for his incessant watching over her, — the things she sees as preventing herself from being a real
person...
 The film was awarded the Nadyezhda Krupskaya’s State Premium of the RSFSR (1981).
857 VERNYEMSYA OSENYU (WE SHALL RETURN IN
THE FALL)
1979, 88 min., color
Drama
Director: Alexei Simonov, screenplay: Vadim Trunin, camera: Lev Kolganov,
production designer: Mikhail Gerasimov, misic: Alexander Zhurbin, sound:
Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Georgy Drozd, Oleg Korchikov, Igor Vasilyev, Mikhail Danilov, Valentin
Golubenko, Irina Miroshnichenko, Gennadi Yegorov, Igor Molodchinin
Five forty-year old men find themselves in the three-month annual camp. Once, twenty years ago, they
used to be inseparable, but gradually life caused them to part ways..
At this time, their everyday life in camp will become a real test, a true trial of courage...
858 VPERVIYE ZAMUZHEM (MARRIED FOR THE
FIRST TIME)
1979, 99 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Iosif Heifitz, screenplay: Pavel Nilin, Iosif Heifitz, camera: Vladimir
Dyakonov, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound:
Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Yevgenya Glushenko, Nikolai Volkov, Jr., Valentina Telichkina, Svetlana
Smirnova, Igor Starygin
Based on a short story of the same title by Pavel Nilin.
Grudging herself everything, Tonya has raised her daughter all by herself; over the years, she lived
through a marriage that failed and through certain problems... After getting married, Tonya’s daughter
drove her mother out of her home... A true, enduring love was born when Tonya had given up all hope.
859
VTORAYA VESNA (A SECOND SPRING)
1979, 86 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Vengerov, screenplay: Felix Mironer, camera: Rostislav
Davydov, production designers: Viktor Volin, Yuri Smirnov, misic: Isaac Schwartz,
sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Anatoly Kuznetsov, Natalya Yegorova, Nikolai Rybnikov, Tatyana Lavrova,
Svetlana Kryuchkova, Tatyana Golodovich, Yelena Drapeko
Loosely based on Georgy Markov’s novel “The Will”.
In the spring of 1945, Colonel Nesterov arrives in Prirechinsk to continue the work of his friend,
looking for the kaolin deposit discovered back in 1913... The former archaeologist Nesterov turns into a
geologist and arranges an expedition going deep into the taiga...
860
PARTY)
DESANT NA ORINGU (THE ORINGA LANDING
1979, 92 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Herman Baluyev, Samson Polyakov,
camera: Nikolai Pokoptsev, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Vadim
Bibergan, sound: Irina Volkova
Cast: Tatyana Vasilyeva, Timofei Spivak, Tamaz Toloraya, Valery Olshansky, Oleg
Belov, Herman Kolushkin, Yuri Prokofyev, Igor Gorbachev, Yuri Dedovich
In the taiga, advancing along the route of the BAM (Baikal-Amur Railway), works a team of
equipment operators led by Alexander Ivanov. The construction people are aware that Ivanov is
capable of living up to any assignment, but quite often one has to take risks, bypassing the bureaucratic
instructions... At this time, an auditor is coming down from the capital city to check on certain
“unlawful actions” of Ivanov’s...
861
ZHENA USHLA (THE WIFE HAS LEFT)
1979, 91 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Dinara Asanova, screenplay: Viktor Aristov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov,
production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Vladimir Vasilyev, sound:
Edward Vanunz, songs: Bulat Okudzhava
Cast: Valery Priyomykhov, Yelena Solovey, Mitya Savelyev, Yekaterina Vasilyeva,
Alexander Demyanenko, Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Zinovy Gerdt, Maria
Vinogradova, Alexei Zharkov
Engineer Klyuyev’s wife leaves him. She leaves abruptly, without any obvious reasons...
Brooding over his quite “happy” family life, Klyuyev gradually comes to understand that he is the one
to blame.
862
ZAVTRAK (THE BREAKFAST)
1979, 21 min., b/w
Director: Askhab Abakarov, screenplay: Shapi Kaziyev, Askhab Abakarov,
camera: Anatoly Lapshov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, sound: Igor
Vigdorchik
Cast: Anna Dumler
Based on Somerset Maugham ‘s short story of the same title.
A young artist invited a girl for breakfast. She ate delicatessen with good appetite.
863
INZHENER GRAFTIO (ENGINEER GRAFTIO)
1979, 81 min., color, wide screen
Biopic
Director: Gennadi Kazansky, screenplay: Alexander Galin, camera: Semyon
Ivanov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound:
Galina Golubeva
Cast: Anatoly Papanov, Gennadi Yegorov, Sergei Ivanov, Antonina Shuranova,
Vladimir Kozel, Vladimir Markov, Yuri Kamorny, Vitaly Baganov, Igor Yefimov,
Viktor Chekhmariov, Valery Olshansky
Heinrich Osipovich Graftio can be rightly considered the founder of Russian research in the field of
hydraulic power. Yet, in the environment of the tsarist Russia none of his bold projects were
implemented. The implementation of his daring, fantastic ideas, the first of them being Volkhovstroy,
didn’t start till after 1918.
864 KLUB SAMOUBIYTS, ILI PRIKLYUCHENIYA
TITULOVANNOY OSOBY (SUICIDE CLUB, OR A TITLED
PERSON’S ADVENTURES)
1979 — 1980, 3 parts, 206 min., color
Comedy
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Edgar Dubrovsky, camera: Konstantin
Ryzhov, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound:
Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Oleg Dal, Donatas Banionis, Igor Dmitriyev, Lubov Polishchuk, Vitaly Ilyin,
Igor Yankovsky, Yelena Solovey, Vladimir Shevelkov, Yelena Tsyplakova, Askhab
Abakarov, Boris Novikov, Ivan Mokeyev, Yevgeny Kindinov, Mikhail Pugovkin,
Vladimir Basov
Loosely based on short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. Exhausted with boredom, Prince Florizel is
looking to be thrilled, and it so happens that, accompanied by his friend Colonel Gerald, he finds
himself in the Suicide Club... Eventually they get to be in the center of adventure...
865
LETUCHAYA MYSH (THE BAT)
1979, 2 parts, 141 min., color
Musical comedy
Written and directed by: Jan Frid, loosely based on libretto by Nikolai Erdman,
Mikhail Volpin, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Semyon Malkin,
sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy
Cast: Yuri Solomin, Lyudmila Maksakova, Larisa Udovichenko, Vitaly Solomin,
Oleg Vidov, Igor Dmitriyev, Yuri Vasilyev, Yevgeny Vesnik, Olga Volkova, Ivan
Lyubeznov, Sergei Filippov, Glikeria Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Vladimir
Lyakhovetsky
Based on the operetta of the same title by Johann Strauss.
866 LICHNOYE SVIDANIYE (THE MEETING IN
PERSON)
1979, 26 min., color
Drama
Director: Alexei Lebedev, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Ivan Banayev,
production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Evgeny Irshai, sound: Igor
Vigdorchik
Cast: Nathalia Akimova, Sergei Koshunin
A bride visits her bridegroom who had been put to jail for fighting at their wedding party. Their first
night took place in prison…
867
NA SLYOZY LAURY (TO LAURA’S TEARS)
1979, 31 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Valeri Apanansky, screenplay: Valery Priyomykhov, camera: V. Ivanov,
production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Georgy Portnov, sound: Irina
Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Andrei Tolubeev, Nikolai Karachentsov, Viktor Ivanov
A guy fell in Love to a charwoman and wrote lyrics dedicated for her.
868 NEOBYKNOVENNOYE LETO (A REMARKABLE
SUMMER)
1979, 4 parts, 308 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Grigory Nikulin, screenplay: Maria Zvereva, camera: Nikolai Zhilin,
production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound:
Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Yuri Demich, Nikolai Volkov, Jr., Svetlana Orlova, Oleg Palmov, Anatoly Azo,
Yevgeny Lebedev, Irina Pechernikova
Based on “The First Delights” and “A Remarkable Summer” novels by Konstantin Fedin.
869
NESKLADUKHA (NONSENSE)
1979, 26 min., b/w
Ironical fairy tale
Written and directed by: Sergei Ovcharov, camera: Rostislav Davydov,
production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Igor Matsiyevsky, sound:
Grigory Elbert
Cast: Anatoly Rudakov, Yelena Alekseyeva, Vladimir Loparev, Viktor Gogolev,
Alexander Afanasyev, Nikolai Kuzmin
Loosely based on Russian folklore.
870 OTPUSK V SENTYABRE (A VACATION IN
SEPTEMBER)
1979, 2 parts, 145 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: Vitaly Melnikov, camera: Yuri Veksler, production
designer: Bella Manevich, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Oleg Dal, Irina Kupchenko, Irina Reznikova, Natalya Gundareva, Natalya
Mikolyshina, Yuri Bogatyrov, Gennadi Bogachev, Nikolai Burlyayev, Yevgeny
Leonov
Loosely based on “The Duck Hunting”, a play by Alexander Vampilov.
The main character, Zilov, seems to lead a normal, well-to-do life at both his place of work and home.
Yet, Zilov’s indifference, callousness and immorality result in utter devastation and hopelessness..
871
PANI MARIA (MADAM MARIA)
1979, 87 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Natalya Troschenko, screenplay: Samson Polyakov, camera: Alexander
Chechulin, production designer: Yelena Fomina, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan,
sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Svetlana Kryuchkova, Georgy Burkov, Sergei Ivanov, Igor Osokin, Jemma
Firsova, Vladimir Basov, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Yuri Solovyov, Yelena Fetisenko,
Nikolai Timofeyev, Valery Olshansky, Geli Sysoyev
The war is coming to an end. Three soldiers happen to stop for the night in the home of Maria, living in
a small Belorussian town. One of them, Ivan, quoted Maria’s name in his personal tag, identifying her
as his wife... Having received a notice of Ivan’s death, Maria unexpectedly regards herself as a
soldier’s’ widow, and moreover, falls in “posthumous” “love” with her “husband”... Out of the blue,
Ivan comes back.
872
POSLEDNYAYA OKHOTA (THE LAST HUNT)
1979, 80 min., color, wide screen
Thriller
Director: Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Arthur Makarov, camera: Vladimir Burykin,
production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Edward
Vanunz, Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Yuri Bogatyriov, Oleg Borisov, Nikolai Grinko, Maxim Munzuk, Marina
Likhun, Algimantas Masyulis, Bolot Beyshenaliyev, Nikolai Rybnikov, Buda
Vampilov, Ivan Bortnik, Alexei Zharkov
It was by word of the mouth that the camp of Iglulik knew about the new rule in Russia... Not even the
head of the trading station, Shatokhin, or the medicine man Kaeleuege were able to explain clearly.
At this time, the crew of Horsefield’s pirate schooner came ashore to loot as quickly and as much as
possible..
873 PROGULKA, DOSTOYNAYA MUZHCHIN (AN
OUTING WORTHY OF MEN)
1979, 92 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Vekhotko, screenplay: Mikhail Demidenko, Mikhail Kurayev,
camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Igor
Tsvetkov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Yelena Glebova, Semyon Morozov, Viktor Ilyichov, Alexander Fatushin,
Leonid Varfolomeyev, Natalya Dmitriyeva, Maxim Munzuk, Marina Starykh, Valery
Bychenkov
A chance trip of two friends to the North turned out to be a grave test for both of them: one of the
characters had to return home, while the other was forced to remain an the oil pipeline construction
site...
874
PRISTAN (THE DOCK)
1979, 28 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Vyacheslav Sorokin, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Viktor Ivanov,
production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Valery Gavrilin, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Alexei Zharkov, Galina Figlovskaya
Anfisa a barmaid in the port meets a lad…
875 PUTESHESTVIYE V DRUGOY GOROD (A TRIP TO
ANOTHER CITY)
1979, 93 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, camera: Dmitry
Meskhiyev, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, misic: Alexander Kolker,
sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Irina Kupchenko, Mikhail Pogorzhelsky, Viktor Proskurin,
Mikhail Yezepov, Vitaly Yushkov, Tatyana Piletskaya, Igor Gorbachev, Yelena
Kondulainen
Traveling on business, the construction engineer Kirillov arrives in a small town. At first his business
and his work — everything proceeds as usual, as it should, but unexpectedly a woman named Lina
enters Kirillov’s life...
876
RANNIYE ZHURAVLY (THE EARLY CRANES)
1979, 96 min., co-production with “Kirghizfilm”, color
Drama
Director: Bolotbek Shamshiyev, screenplay: Chingiz Aitmatov, Bolotbek
Shamshiyev, camera: Sergei Taraskin, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov,
misic: Alexander Knaifel, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Emil Boronchiyev, Suymenkul Chokmorov, Gulsara Adzhibekova, Khasan
Abdraimov, Suyutay Shamshiyeva, Altynay Abdiyeva, Akyl Kulanbayev
Loosely based on a story of the same title by Chingiz Aitmatov.
The menacing echo of war has eventually reached the small Kirghiz village: the fathers and elder
brothers have gone to battle.
The collective farm Chairman is asking the teenagers to help prepare for the ploughing. So the kids
name their team “The Aksay Landing Party”...
877
SOLOVEY (THE NIGHTINGALE)
1979, 85 min., color, wide screen
Musical fairy tale
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Mikhail Volpin, camera: Edward
Rozovsky, production designer: Marina Azizyan, Vladimir Kostin, misic: Mikhail
Weinberg, sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Svetlana Smirnova, Yuri Vasilyev, Alexander Vokach, Zinovy Gerdt, Nikolai
Trofimov, Alexander Demyanenko, Sergei Filippov, Konstantin Adashevsky, Nikolai
Karachentsov, Maria Barabanova, Georgy Shtil, Boris Arakelov
The unexpected forest encounter of the poor young apprentice Evan with a magician brings a radical
change in his life: suddenly, he is nominated heir to the throne in place of the deceased monarch...
Thus he finds himself in a world of lies and hypocrisy, of flatterers and toadies...
878
STARSHINA (FIRST SERGEANT)
1979, 87 min., color
Drama
Director: Nikolai Koshelev, screenplay: Vladimir Kunin, camera: Alexei
Gambaryan, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound:
Harry Belenky, song lyrics by: Alexander Tvardovsky
Cast: Vladimir Gostyukhin, Natalya Sayko, Ivan Bortnik, Alexander Vasilyev,
Alexander Zhdanov, Andrei Danilov, Ramaz Abushadze, Vladimir Yuryev, Igor
Komarov, Nikolai Lavrov
Discharged from the hospital, Katsuba is posted to an Air Force Flying School as First Sergeant of a
training squadron.
At first it appeared to the 17-year-old trainees that the strict, reserved Katsuba was just picking at them,
yet by and by they began to see their instructor as a kind, sympathetic and decent person...
879
TAYOZHNAYA POVEST (A TAIGA TALE)
1979, 99 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, sound:
Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Mikhail Kononov, Svetlana Smekhnova-Blagoyevich, Yevgeny Kindinov
Loosely based on “The Tsar Fish”, a novel by Viktor Astafyev.
In a wild faraway forest the hunter Akim comes across the dying Elya who chanced to be in his hunting
lodge... Akim virtually saves her, patiently nursing her back to health, caring for her as he would for a
child, and then takes her back to civilization, never to see again...
880 TROYE V LODKE, NE SHCHITAYA SOBAKI
(THREE MEN IN A BOAT, TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG)
1979, 2 parts, 135 min., color
Musical comedy
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Semyon Lungin, camera: Heinrich
Marandzhyan, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Alexander Kolker, sound:
Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Andrei Mironov, Alexander Schirwindt, Mikhail Derzhavin, Larisa Golubkina,
Alina Pokrovskaya, Irina Mazurkevich, Zinovy Gerdt, Georgy Shtil, Tatyana Peltzer,
Olga Volkova, Viktor Ilyichev, Grigory Spiegel
Loosely based on a story of the same title by Jerome K. Jerome.
Three young friends make up their minds to spend their vacation on the Thames, with no household
amenities or comfort... and naturally, — “no women”!
881 FANTAZII FARYATYEVA (FARYATYEV’S
FANTASIES)
1979, 2 parts, 152 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Ilya Averbach, camera: Dmitry Dolinin, production
designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Alfred Schnitke, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Marina Neyolova, Andrei Mironov, Zinaida Sharko, Lilya Gritsenko,
Yekaterina Durova, Maxim Britvenkov
Loosely based on the play of the same title by Alla Sokolova.
882 SHERLOK HOLMS I DOKTOR VATSON
(SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR. WATSON)
1979, 2 parts, 142 min., color
Detective
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Yuli Dunsky, Valery Frid, camera: Yuri
Veksler, production designer: Mark Kaplan, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound:
Asya Zvereva, Boris Andreyev
Cast: Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Rina Zelionaya, Maria Solomina, Gennadi
Bogachev, Fyodor Odinokov, Borislav Brondukov, Igor Dmitriyev, Nikolai
Karachentsov, Viktor Aristov
Loosely based on short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
A tale of the adventures of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his indispensable friend Dr.
Watson.
883
ALTER EGO (ALTER EGO)
1980, 4 min., b/w
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Yuri Mamin, camera: Valery Martynov
Cast: Viktor Shagin, Lyudmila Samokhvalova, Kseniya Samokhvalova
884 BLAGOCHESTIVAYA MARTA (THE PIOUS
MARTHA)
1980, 2 parts, 145 min., color
Musical comedy
Director: Jan Frid, screenplay: Mikhail Donskoy, Jan Frid, camera: Edward
Rozovsky, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Gennadi Gladkov, sound:
Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Margarita Terekhova, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Nikolai Karachentsov, Svetlana
Toma, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Pavel Kadochnikov, Yekaterina Raykina, Oleg Vidov
Based on a comedy of the same title by Tirso de Molina.
Donna Martha is meant to be married to a rich old man, Captain Urbino.
The girl is devastated. She comes up with various tricks, so that the wedding day would never come...
At this time Don Felix, the one whom Martha wants to tie her life with, gains access into the house,
disguised as a street urchin.
885 VZVEYTES, SOKOLY, ORLAMI (FALCONS, SOAR
AS EAGLES DO)
1980, 77 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Vladimir Kunin, camera: Vadim
Grammatikov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky,
sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Ivan Shabaltas, Svyatoslav Kopylov, Yuri Sarantsev, Irina Kraslavskaya,
Alexei Inzhevatov, Yuri Dubov, Alexander Polyakov
The film features the story of the three generations of circus acrobats since 1913...
886
VRAGI (THE ENEMIES)
1980, 20 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Andrey Druzhkov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production
designer: Marina Azizyan, misic: Adkady Gagulashvili, sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Georgy Kropachov, Viktor Varkin, Lyudmila Arzhannikova
887 DVA DOLGIKH GUDKA V TUMANE (TWO LONG
WHISTLES IN THE FOG)
1980, 80 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Valery Rodchenko, screenplay: Edgar Dubrovsky, camera: Vladimir
Ilyin, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Adkady Gagulashvili, sound:
Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Nikolai Grinko, Alexander Porokhovschikov, Yelena Kapitsa, Dagun Omayev,
Lubov Virolainen, Viktor Proskurin, Andrei Tolubeyev, Alexander Kovalenko,
Alexander Susnin, Nikolai Fedortsov
On a passenger steamer on its last run before the close of the navigation season, there is a rather motley
group who at first glance seem to hardly know each other.
Unexpectedly, a dead body is discovered in one of the cabins...
888 DEN NA RAZMYSHLENIYE (ONE DAY TO
RECONSIDER)
1980, 84 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: August Baltrushaitis, screenplay: Alexander Gorokhov, camera: Nikolai
Stroganov, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Alexander Flyarkovsky,
sound: Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Vsevolod Safonov, Yuri Solovyov, Alexander Zakharov, Irina Gubanova, Elza
Lezhdey, Artem Inozemtsev, Viktor Chekhmarov
The head of the board of an important shipping company hands in his notice. Kolosov is given one day
to reconsider.
Through extensive reminiscences, he sees that the current quiet and peaceful life is alien to his active
nature.
889
KRIK GAGARY (THE LOON’S SHRIEK)
1980, 83 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Sergei Linkov, screenplay: Mikhail Kurayev, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev,
production designers: Igor Vuskovich, Rimma Narinyan, misic: Grigory Frid,
sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Anatoly Vasilyev, Alexei Zharkov, Pavel Ivanov, Olga Perveyeva, Yelena
Drapeko, Grigory Gay, Vasily Korzun, Anna Aleksakhina
An important army drill was underway. Major Bragin was to command his regiment... but errors piled
one upon another, and eventually Lieutenant Colonel Korenev, Chief of Headquarters, was offered to
take over...
890
KUST SIRENI (THE LILAC BUSH)
1980, 30 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Yevgeny Stavrov, screenplay: Alexei Simonov, Viktor Zlobin, camera:
Yuri Veksler, production designer: Bella Manevich, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Oleg Palmov, Yelena Popova, Ernst Romanov, Boris Kokovkin
Based on Alexander Kuprin’s short story of same name
Almazov entering Akademy of General Headquarters made a blot on topographic plane he designed.
His life was saved by his wife who suggested to plant a bush of lilac…
891
LES (THE FOREST)
1980, 83 min., color, wide format
Tragical comedy
Written and directed by: Vladimir Motyl, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, production
designer: Valery Kostrin, misic: Alexander Zhurbin, sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy
Cast: Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Boris Plotnikov, Vyacheslav Kirilichev, Stanislav
Sadalsky, Mikhail Pugovkin, Yelena Borzova, Alexander Solovyov, Kira KreylisPetrova, Viktor Tsepayev
Loosely based on a play of the same title by Alexander Ostrovsky.
892 LYALKA-RUSLAN I YEGO DRUG SANKA
(LYALKA-RUSLAN AND HIS FRIEND SANKA)
1980, 69 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Maria Zvereva, camera: Vladimir
Burykin, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound:
Asya Zvereva
Cast: Dima Aristarkhov, Timur Khalikov, Oksana Poznyakova, Stasik Lashin,
Mikhail Pugovkin, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Anna Lisyanskaya, Oksana Nikitina
Loosely based on “Come to Visit Us, Do Come...”, a story by Viktor Golyavkin.
893 MOY PAPA-IDEALIST (MY DADDY IS AN
IDEALIST)
1980, 88 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Alla Sokolova, camera: Eduard Rozovsky,
production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Natalya
Avanesova
Cast: Vladislav Strzhelchik, Yuri Bogatyriov, Natalya Varley, Irina Skobtseva, Ivan
Dmitriyev, Alexander Belinsky, Igor Dmitriyev, Vladimir Retsepter, Boris Sokolov,
Vsevolod Gavrilov, Vadim Yakovlev, Natalya Kustinskaya
Sergei Yuryevich Petrov, a musical comedy actor and an enthusiastic idealist, and his son Boris, a
doctor in the intensive care, who is an ironical and pragmatic person, find it difficult to get on
together...
The marriage of Petrov Senior to the young ballet dancer Al’ona does little to improve their
relationship.
Yet, on a hard day (with many events happening at the same time) both of them suddenly come to
understand just how much they need each other.
894 MY SMERTI SMOTRELI V LITSO (WE LOOKED
DEATH IN THE FACE)
1980, 74 min., color
Drama
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Yuri Yakovlev, camera: Heinrich
Marandzhyan, production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: extracts from
compositions by Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Igor Vigdorchik, lyrics by: Olga
Bergholz
Cast: Oleg Dal, Lubov Malinovskaya, Larisa Tolkacheva, Yura Zhukov, Borya
Naumov, Olga Kuznetsova, Yulya Slezkinskaya, Sasha Dovgalev, Sasha Zenkevich,
Igor Kustov, Vladimir Zamansky, Valentin Nikulin
The story of the picture is based on real events: early in 1942 the ballet master A. Obrant (named Boris
Korbut in the picture) puts together a dancing company consisting of students of the Leningrad
Pioneers’ Palace; the company proceeded to deliver over 3, 000 performances at the front-line...
895
NACHALNIK (THE BOSS)
1980, 31 min., color
Director: Dmitry Gindenshtein, screenplay: Alexander Gorokhov, camera:
Rostislav Davydov, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Viktor Kisin,
sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Viktor Guschin, Sergei Pizhel, Yuri Solovyov, Viktor Petrenko, Viktor
Yevgrafov
896 NIKUDYSHNAYA (THE GIRL GOOD FOR
NOTHING)
1980, 94 min., color
Drama
Director: Dinara Asanova, screenplay: Valery Priyomykhov, camera: Nikolai
Pokoptsev, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound:
Edward Vanunz
Cast: Olya Mashnaya, Mikhail Gluzsky, Anvar Asanov, Nikolai Lavrov, Lydia
Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Alexander Demyanenko, Galina Saburova, Maria
Vinogradova, Valery Matveyev, Irina Brazgovka, Andrei Krasko, Valery
Priyomykhov
An unbalanced teenage girl fails to achieve mutual understanding with those close to her partly due to
her stutter, partly through the neglect of her parents who concentrate on their own affairs.
Trying to escape her aggressiveness, the parents pack their daughter off to the country.
897
OCHKI OT SOLNTSA (SUNGLASSES)
1980, 36 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Dmitry Svetozarov, camera: Yuri Veksler, production
designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Yuri Dubrovin, Leon Dzigashvili
The main character spends his vacation in the sanatorium but instead of
enjoying his rest he goes in for contriving.
898
PLYVUT MORZHI (WALRUSES SWIMMING)
1980, 89 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Vasilyev, screenplay: Tatyana Kaletskaya, camera: Ivan
Bagayev, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Lusyena Ovchinnikova, Andrei Dudarenko, Lyudmila Arinina, Dmitry
Kharatyan
At the time when the young scientist Nina Klementyeva was in the process of establishing her
laboratory, the lab assistant Zoya became her dedicated helper.
Eventually, after many years, having lived a hard enough life and brought up three children, Zoya
meets San Sanych, a kind but weak person addicted to alcohol. Her relationship with Nina
Klementyeva goes wrong...
899
POZDNIYE SVIDANIYA (LATE DATES)
1980, 100 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Grigoryev, screenplay: Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Alexei
Gabrilovich, camera: Valery Mironov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic:
Vadim Bibergan, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Larisa Malevannaya, Yuri Platonov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Sergei Nikonenko,
Alina Olkhovaya, Alexander Chaban, Galina Shepetnova
Two not very young people met and fell in love. He sacrificed his family for her, while she sacrificed
her accustomed freedom.
Life together proved to be far from easy, with the chain of quarrels and reconciliations bringing
destruction: Vera and Nikolai Yeremeyevich fail to stay together...
900
POSLEDNY POBEG (THE LAST ESCAPE)
1980, 92 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Alexander Galin, camera: Vladimir Kovzel,
production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Yakov Weisburd, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Mikhail Ulyanov, Aliosha Serebryakov, Irina Kupchenko, Leonid Dyachkov,
Valery Gatayev, Yevgenya Khanayeva, Viktor Pavlov
On the day of his release from the school for criminally disposed children, Vitya waited in vain for his
mother: rather than coming to get her son, she went to meet the returning ship bringing her husband,
Vitya’s stepfather. A teacher, Alexei Ivanovich, took Vitya home. But when Vitya saw the group
making merry in his home, his resentment prevailed, and the boy ran away...
901 PRIKLYUCHENIYA SHERLOKA HOLMSA I
DOKTORA VATSONA (THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK
HOLMES AND DR. WATSON)
1980, 3 parts, Part I — “The King of Blackmail”, 67 min., Part II — “The Mortal
Fight”, 68 min., Part III — “The Tiger Hunt”, 68 min., color
Detective story
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, camera: Yuri Veksler,
production designer: Marc Kaplan, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya
Zvereva, Boris Andreyev
Cast:
“Korol Shantazha” (“The King of Blackmail”): Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin,
Rina Zelionaya, Valentina Panina, Borislav Brondukov, Boris Ryzhukhin
“Smertelnaya Skhvatka” (“The Mortal Fight”): Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin,
Rina Zelionaya, Borislav Brondukov, Viktor Yevgrafov, Alexander Zakharov,
Nikolai Kryukov
“Okhota na Tigra” (“The Tiger Hunt”): Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Rina
Zelionaya, Borislav Brondukov, Igor Dmitriyev, Viktor Yevgrafov, Alexander
Zakharov, Nikolai Kryukov
Screen version of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
902
RAZZHALOVANNIY (REDUCED TO THE RANKS)
1980, 31 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Sokurov, camera: Sergei Yurizditsky,
production designer: Yuri Kulikov, misic: Alexander Mikhailov, sound: Igor
Vigdorchik
Cast: Ilya Rivin, Nina Krayeva, Viktoria Yurizditskaya, Yelena Mischenko, Andrei
Petrov
As fate would have it, the head of the local State Traffic Police office becomes a taxi driver…
903
RAFFERTI (RAFFERTY)
1980, 3 parts, 210 min., color
Drama
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Semyon Nagorny, camera: Heinrich
Marandzhyan, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Alexander Kneifel,
sound: Eduard Vanunz
Cast: Oleg Borisov, Yevgenya Simonova, Larisa Malevannaya, Armen
Dzhigarkhanyan, Alexander Kaydanovsky, Alexei Resser, Yuri Strenga
Based on a novel of the same title by Lionel White.
The story of the trade union leader Jack Rafferty is the career story of somebody transformed from a
“nice guy” into a cynical, unscrupulous boss serving two lords — the big business and the criminal
world...
904
SVET V OKNE (THE LIGHT IN THE WINDOW)
1980, 81 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Maria Zvereva, camera: Konstantin
Ryzhov, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Boris Tischenko, sound:
Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Yuri Solomin, Tamara Degtyaryova, Margarita Sergeyecheva
Loosely based on the essay of the same title by Tatyana Tass.
The mother dies giving birth to the second baby. Olya and her farther, both inconsolable after the hard
loss have to bring up the little sister.
905 SERGEI IVANOVICH UHODIT NA PENSIYU
(SERGEI IVANOVICH IS RETIRED)
1980, 84 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Solomon Shuster, screenplay: Nikolai Nikolayev, camera: Alexander
Chechulin, production designer: Georgi Kropachev, misic: Boris Tischenko, sound
Boris Andreyev
Cast: Boris Andreyev, Alisa Freindlich, Georgi Burkov, Ernst Romanov, Zhanna
Bolotova, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Oleg Zhakov, Elza Radzinya, Gennadi Bogachev,
Zinaida Sharko, Alexei German
Retiring, Sergei Ivanovich decides to help his children, taking on household duties and bringing up his
grandchildren... But his daughter has problems with her new husband... The son living in Moscow and
his wife are accomplished philistines... For some reason, Sergei Ivanovich doesn’t feel comfortable
with the other son living in Leningrad...
906 SITSILIANSKAYA ZASHCHITA (THE SICILY
DEFENCE)
1980, 91 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Igor Usov, screenplay: Pavel Grakhov, Jusef Printsev, camera: Vladimir
Ivanov, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Olga Petrova, sound: Natalya
Avanesova
Cast: Nikolai Volkov, Jr., Alexander Samoylov, Alexander Abdulov, Nadezhda
Pavlova, Vladlen Davydov, Tatyana Kanayeva, Tatyana Ivanova, Pavel Kadochnikov,
Irina Gubanova, Artiom Inozemtsev, Alexander Pashutin, Valery Kuzin, Valentin
Nikulin, Lyudmila Shagalova
In a car they stopped, officers of the State Traffic Police discover an exquisite chandelier; yet,
examination reveals it as a clever imitation. Anonymous letters incriminating Lieutenant Colonel
Streltsov who is investigating the case start to come in...
This clearly means that the criminal is getting nervous...
907
SOLO (SOLO)
1980, 29 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Konstantin Lopushansky, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Anatoly
Lapshov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Nikolai Grinko, Lyudmila Arzhannikova, Valentina Smirnova
The besieged Leningrad in the winter of 1942. The soloist of the symphonic orchestra is working on
Chaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. The performance is to take place in Leningrad Philarmonic Society, to
be broadcasted to London...
908
MAN)
TAINSTVENNY STARIK (THE MYSTERIOUS OLD
1980, 74 min., color
Adventure
Director: Leonid Makarychev, screenplay: Adkady Minchkovsky, camera:
Alexander Chirov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Gennadi Gladkov,
sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Igor Pchelin, Misha Latyshev, Zhenya Osipov, Tanya Shishkina, Anatoly
Solonitsyn, Vladimir Tatosov, Sergei Filippov, Boris Ivanov, Alexei Goryachev,
Tatyana Bedova
1927. In the small Russian town of Krutov live three friends: Mitrya, Andrian and Lionka. From the
director of the Museum of Local Lore the kids learn that a valuable painting stolen from the Museum is
somewhere in the town... So the kids start looking.
909
VOTE)
TAYNOYE GOLOSOVANIYE (CONFIDENTIAL
1980, 90 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Valery Guryanov, screenplay: Anatoly Strelyany, camera: Boris
Timkovsky, production designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Ivar Wiegner, sound:
Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Mikhail Kuznetsov, Vladlen Biryukov, Sergei Plotnikov, Natalya Nazarova,
Alexander Anisimov, Galina Makarova, Lubov Sokolova, Vladimir Olekseyenko,
Valery Zolotukhin, Boris Arakelov, Vera Titova
For forty years in a row Foma Lukash remained Chairman of the collective farm. The people truly
loved and respected him, but his health began to fail, and something went wrong also with his work...
So, Foma Mikhaylovich makes up his mind to hold the election of a new Chairman before his term of
office is over...
910
TROSTINKA NA VETRU (A REED IN THE WIND)
1980, 2 parts, 149 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Aristov, screenplay: Georgy Markov, Edward Shim, camera: Yuri
Vorontsov, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Adkady Gagulashvili,
sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Olga Melikhova, Alexander Porokhovschikov, Andrei Dudarenko, Andrei
Tolubeyev, Tatyana Lebedkova, Alexei Alfiorov, Zinaida Adamovich, Viktor
Mikhailov, Nikolai Nasonov
Based on a story of the same title by Georgy Markov.
Graduating from school, Varya leaves her village for the city where her elder sister lives. She believes
that this is when real life will begin...
911
TY DOLZHEN ZHIT (YOU MUST LIVE)
1980, 84 min., color
Drama
Director: Vladimir Chumak, screenplay: Maya Chumak, camera: Dmitry
Meskhiyev, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: extracts from pieces by
Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Galina Gorbonosova, verse: Andrei Voznesensky
Cast: Vladimir Puchkov, Yevgeny Steblov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Marina Dyuzheva,
Nina Kavtaradze, Irina Muravyeva, Igor Kvasha, Edward Martsevich, Sergei
Nikonenko, Alexei Aybozhenko, Alexei Zharkov, Anton Tabakov, Alexander
Sokurov, Boris Nevzorov
Loosely based on “The May Winds”, a story by Sergei Smolyanitsky.
In a battle close to the end of the war the fighter plane piloted by Lieutenant Volynin made an
emergency landing in the enemy territory.
The gunner and the pilot managed to reach their troops... and the everyday life at the front-line goes on.
But the war is not yet over, which means that the trials continue...
912
KHOLOSTYAKI (THE BACHELORS)
1980, 28 min., “Lenfilm” – “Mosfilm” production, color
Tragicomedy
Director: Mikhail Nikitin, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, camera: Dmitry
Meskhiyev, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Georgy Portnov,
sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Sergei Nikonenko, Leonid Dyachkov, Tamara Siomina, Yelena Koroleva
A tale of two men wooing girls who are old friends...
913
ENDSHPIL (ENDGAME)
1980, 4 min., b/w
Director: Viktor Buturlin, sound: Natalya Avanesova
Cast: Oleg Borisov, E. Baranov, M. Kazakova
914
YA — AKTRISA (I AM AN ACTRESS)
1980, 99 min., color
Drama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Semyon Lungin, camera: Valery Fedosov,
production designer: Mikhail Scheglov, misic: Alexander Kneifel, sound: Leonid
Gavrichenko
Cast: Natalya Sayko, Oleg Vavilov, Afanasi Kochetkov, Pyotr Merkuryev, Grazhina
Baykshtite, Vladimir Korenev, Alexander Romantsov, Bruno Freindlich
The film is a screen portrait of the great Russian actress Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya.
Her life was full of dramatic and tragic events, but Komissarzhevskaya’s talent, courage and starchness
helped the actress become the “first-rate star of the theater skies” (a quotation from A. Lunacharsky).
915
BARABANIADA (THE TALE OF A DRUM)
1981, 16 min., color
Surrealistic grotesque
Written and directed by: Sergei Ovcharov, camera: Rostislav Davydov,
production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Igor Matsiyevsky, sound: Harry
Belenky
Cast: Sergei Ovcharov, Viktor Antonov, Tatyana Buchneva, Alexander Grigoryev,
Mikhail Ivanov
The young character of the film quite unexpectedly finds out that a drum has got stuck to his
stomach…
NB: See “Barabaniada” (1993)
916
20TH))
DVADTSATOYE DEKABRYA (DECEMBER, THE
1981, 4 parts, 276 min., color
Drama
Director: Grigory Nikulin, screenplay: Julian Semyonov, camera: Ivan Bagayev,
production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Vladimir
Yakovlev
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Mikhail Kozakov, Andrei Tolubeyev, Igor Komarov, Vladimir
Golovin, Anatoly Rudakov, Georgy Drozd, Sergei Yursky, Emmanuil Vitorgan,
Leonid Nevedomsky, Gennadi Bortnikov
1917. Troubled times. To establish order in the country, VChK (the All-Union Emergency
Commission), the future KGB (the State Security Committee), has been founded...
 The film was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers’ State Premium of the RSFSR (1983).
917 DVE STROCHKI MELKIM SHRIFTOM (TWO LINES
IN SMALL PRINT)
1981, 96 min., color, “Lenfilm”-“DEFA” (Germany) production
Drama
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Mikhail Shatrov, Vladlen Loginov, Vitaly
Melnikov, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designers: Vladimir Svetozarov,
Johann Keller, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Sergei Shakurov, Jan Shpitzer, Nina Ruslanova, Lydia Konstantinova, Pavel
Kadochnikov, Sofia Garrel, Anatoly Romashin, Yevgeny Gurov, Sergei Kurilov, Oleg
Borisov, Yuri Bogatyriov, Valery Barinov, Horst Drinda, Klaus-Peter Tiele, Vladlen
Biryukov
The historian Fyodor Golubkov comes across a queer fact: the existence of ambivalent opinions about
the undercover agent Tishkov, who went down in history as an agent provocateur...
The search for documents and evidence starts...
918
DEVUSHKA I GRAND (THE GIRL AND GRAND)
1981, 94 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sadovsky, screenplay: Valentin Yezhov, Viktor Sadovsky, camera:
Viktor Karasyov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Alexander Zhurbin,
sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy
Cast: Marina Dyuzheva, Aristarkh Livanov, Vladimir Yevgrafov, Ernst Romanov,
Nina Urgant, Oleg Zhakov, Nikolai Ozerov, Alexander Demyanenko, Nikolai
Skorobogatov, Nikolai Kryukov, Svetlana Kolysheva, Nikolai Lavrov
Ever since she was a child, Marina Koshevaya dreamed about becoming a jockey. At a certain time she
saves a colt, naming it Grand and rearing a great horse...
But prior to becoming an established leader in sports events, Grand and his jockey must go through a
lot...
919
DEREVENSKAYA ISTORIYA (A COUNTRY STORY)
1981, 84 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vitaly Kanevsky, screenplay: Viktor Poteykin, camera: Nikolai
Pokoptsev, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Valery Gavrilin, sound:
Natalya Avanesova
Cast: Sergei Prokhanov, Yelena Solovey, Viktor Pavlov, Alexander Anisimov, Oleg
Shtefanko, Yefim Kamenetsky, Alexei Mironov, Fyodor Odinokov, Igor Komarov,
Viktor Shulgin, Yuri Dubrovin, Tatyana Govorova
Released from the Army, Grigory Gorelov had been looking for his place in life until he came to
realize that it is right here, on his native land, at the collective farm... Understanding as much, he begins
to act as a true master — so that he is not afraid to confront the Chairman of the collective farm,
asserting his views...
920 DRUGI IGRISHCH I ZABAV (FRIENDS OF PLAY
AND AMUSEMENT)
1981, 24 min., color
Tragicomedy
Director: Mikhail Nikitin, screenplay: Viktor Kiseliov, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev,
production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Georgy Portnov, sound: Galina
Gorbonosova
Cast: Sergei Vlasov, Leonid Dyachkov, Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Galina
Shepetnova, Oleg Borisov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Vasily Shukshin.
921
KOMENDANTSKY CHAS (CURFEW)
1981, 81 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Natalya Troschenko, screenplay: Samson Polyakov, camera: Alexander
Chechulin, production designer: Yelena Fomina, misic: Vladislav Uspensky, sound:
Grigory Elbert
Cast: Galina Makarova, Irina Reznikova, Andrei Tolubeyev, Ivan Sidorov, Yuri
Solovyov, Adkady Trusov, Natasha Vasilyeva, Olya Vasilyeva, Anton Granat, Daniil
Ginkas, Sonya Dzhishkariani, Olya Kanayeva
In a small Belorussian town occupied by the Nazis Vera Gerasimova is rescuing children orphaned by
the war, gathering them under her own roof to save from death and captivity...
922 KUDA ISCHEZ FOMENKO? (WHERE HAS
FOMENKO VANISHED?)
1981, 75 min., color
Tragicomedy
Director: Vadim Gauzner, screenplay: Semyon Zlotnikov, camera: Heinrich
Marandzhyan, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Viktor
Kisin, sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Liya Akhedzhakova, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Viktor Pavlov, Rolan Bykov,
Yevgenya Khanayeva, Sergei Filippov, Yelena Sanayeva, Nina Usatova
When those in the office and at home realized that Fomenko has fled to escape from his life and his
boring circumstances, his family and colleagues, seeing their deficiencies and agreeing the actions of
both parties, came to each other’s rescue...
923 LICHNAYA ZHIZN DIRECTORA (THE DIRECTOR’S
PRIVATE LIFE)
1981, 2 parts, 137 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Valentin Mikhailov, Igor Shevtsov,
camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic:
Albert Preslenev, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Valery Priyemykhov, Valentina Panina, Valentin Smirnitsky, Alexei German,
Natalya Fateyeva, Roman Gromadsky
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Viktor Gedeyko.
Igor Sergeyevich Novikov is the director of a large industrial enterprise. He is a responsible,
outstanding person, incapable of compromising with his conscience... But what about his private life?
According to the character himself, he doesn’t even know the boundary between his public and private
life.
924 LICHNOY BEZOPASNOSTI NE GARANTIRUYU (I
CANNOT GUARANTEE YOUR PERSONAL SAFETY)
1981, 91 min., color, wide screen
Thriller
Director: Anatoly Vekhotko, screenplay: Gennadi Bekarevich, camera: Alexander
Chechulin, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound:
Grigory Elbert
Cast: Ivar Kalnynsh, Semyon Morozov, Natalya Brazhnikova, Leonhard Merzin,
Viktor Pavlov, Natalya Bogunova, Nina Ruslanova, Nikolai Kuzmin, Galina
Omelchenko, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Tatyana Govorova, Mikhail Kokshenov, Valery
Agafonov, Alexei Krymov
The front fighter Andrei Bolotov arrives in a remote border area on assignment to ensure the supply of
construction wood. Gangs of Nazis’ accomplices are still lingering on in the forests, keeping the local
villagers in awe...
925 NESRAVNENNY NAKONECHNIKOV (THE
INCOMPARABLE NAKONECHNIKOV)
1981, 25 min., color
Tragicomedy
Director: Yuri Anikeyev, screenplay: Pavel Finn, camera: Lev Kolganov,
production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Sergei Losev, Mikhail Boyarsky, Mikhail Pugovkin, Lubov Polischuk
Based on an unfinished play by Alexander Vampilov.
926 NOCH NA CHETVYORTOM KRUGE (THE NIGHT
IN THE FOURTH CIRCLE)
1981, 77 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Igor Usov, screenplay: Pyotr Popogrebsky, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Grigory
Elbert
Cast: Nikolai Volkov Jr., Yevgeny Kindinov, Olga Ageyeva, Valery Zakharyev,
Alexander Samoylov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Tatyana Ivanova, Alexander Pashutin,
Kirill Grachev, Lyudmila Shagalova, Valery Kuzin, Natasha Simonova
The official on duty receives a message: a cargo, a nuclear reactor, has come into the railway terminal.
It has been delayed, breaking the schedule, yet the instruction is: “let it through”. But letting it through
would mean disrupting the traffic in a section about to launch south-bound passenger trains...
927
POD ODNIM NEBOM (UNDER THE SAME SKY)
1981, 77 min., color, “Lenfilm” — “Boyana film”(Bulgaria)
Melodrama
Director: Iskander Khamrayev, screenplay: Vladimir Kunin, Iskander Khamrayev,
camera: Georgy Georgyyev, production designers: Rimma Narinyan, Eva
Yordanova, misic: Alexander Yosifov, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Naum Shopov, Vladimir Menshov, Tsvetana Maneva, Natalya Fateyeva, Zoya
Kircheva, Dimitr Khadzhiysky, Olga Lebzak
After working together in Siberia for four long years, the Bulgarian Angel Naydionov and the Russian
Nikolai Pavlov have come to be true friends. At this time, meeting his friend at the Sofia airport,
Naydionov is reminiscing about their mutual joys and problems...
928 PRAVDA LEYTENANTA KLIMOVA (LEUTENANT
KLIMOV’S TRUTH)
1981, 90 min., color
Drama
Director: Oleg Dashkevich, screenplay: Leonid Krein, camera: Boris Timkovsky,
production designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Harry
Belenky
Cast: Andrei Rostotsky, Yuri Kamorny, Pavel Ivanov, Pyotr Shelokhonov, Igor
Dobryakov, Boris Khimichev, Irina Guseva, Yelena Kondulainen, Margarita
Matveyeva, Vasily Petrenko, Anatoly Gorin
The brilliant young officer Pavel Klimov is unexpectedly demoted and transferred to the Northern
Fleet; the reason being his fight with Lieutenant Zvyagin... Neither Zvyagin nor Klimov would give
any explanation... Klimov bears his punishment with dignity, asserting his competence in action.
929 PRIDUT STRASTI-MORDASTI (FRIGHTFUL
HORRORS TO COME)
1981, 69 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Ernest Yasan, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production
designer: Yelena Fomina, misic: Alexander Zhurbin, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Dmitry Kuzmin, Anton Granat, Lyudmila Shevel, Yelena Komissarenko,
Vladimir Vikhrov, Andrei Alekseyev, Ivan Krasko, Valentina Talyzina
Lyonka has graduated from the eighth form, and his teachers advise him to proceed to the PTU
(Professional Technical School). At home, opinions differ: the guy is at the crossroads, with love affair
on top of this – Lyonka falls in love...
930 PRIKLYUCHENIYA SHERLOCKA HOLMSA I
DOKTORA VATSONA. SOBAKA BASKERVILEY (THE
ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR. WATSON.
THE BASKERVILLE DOG.)
1981, 2 parts, 154 min., color
Detective story
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Igor Maslennikov, Yuri Veksler, camera:
Dmitry Dolinin, Vladimir Ilyin, production designer: Bella Manevich, misic:
Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Rina Zelionaya, Irina Kupchenko, Nikita
Mikhalkov, Alla Demidova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Borislav Brondukov, Sergei
Martinson, Oleg Yankovsky, Yevgeny Steblov, Alexander Adabashyan
Screen version of the story of the same title by Arthur Conan Doyle.
931 PROPAVSHIYE SREDI ZHIVYKH (THE LOST
AMONG THE LIVING)
1981, 85 min., color, wide screen
Detective story
Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Sergei Vysotsky, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro,
production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Gennadi
Korkhovoy
Cast: Mikhail Dolginin, Pavel Kadochnikov, Irina Bogdanova, Ernst Romanov,
Alexander Demyanenko, Sergei Ivanov, Vladimir Yuryev
Based on a novel of the same title by Sergei Vysotsky.
In the course of several months cars have been getting stolen in the city; nothing would help — neither
the alarm systems, nor “secret” locks...
But when the investigator is finally on to the criminal, the latter is found murdered...
932 PUTESHESTVIYE V KAVKAZSKIYE GORY (A
JOURNEY TO THE CAUCASUS)
1981, 76 min., color
Comedy
Director: Mikhail Ordovsky, screenplay: Svetlana Karmalita, camera: Vladimir
Burykin, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound:
Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Fyodor Ordovsky, Galina Nikulina, Nina Menshikova, Alexander Demyanenko
The sixteen-year-old Bobka living in a big city with his mother is dreaming of going to the Caucasus
where his father is posted...
The trip is forever postponed, but Bobka doesn’t forsake his dream...
933
RODITELSKY DEN (PARENTS’ VISITING DAY)
1981, 30 min., color, “Mosfilm” production with input from “Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Director: Svetlana Kolganova, screenplay: Natalya Ryazantseva, camera: Vladimir
Ilyin, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Asya
Zvereva
Cast: Viktor Proskurin, Natalya Yegorova, Darya Mikhailova, Alya Nikulina, Marina
Korzakova
Unexpectedly, the family relationship of the characters is put to the test: the husband’s daughter from
his first marriage turns up...
934
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SEM SCHASLIVYKH NOT (THE SEVEN HAPPY
1981, 2 parts, 136 min., color
Musical
Director: Yevgeny Mezentsev, Lev Rakhlin, screenplay: Vyacheslav Verbin, Lev
Rakhlin, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic:
Maxim Dunayevsky, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade, Galina Lukina
Cast: Irina Guscheva, Igor Gorbachev, Olga Aroseva, Olga Vardasheva, Mikhail
Svetin, Eduard Khil, Valentin Baglayenko
A review based on the best choreographic turns selected from the Music Hall performances...
935
SILVA (SILVA)
1981, 2 parts, 147 min., color
Musical
Director: Jan Frid, screenplay: Mikhail Mishin, Jan Frid, camera: Eduard
Rozovsky, production designer: Marina Azizyan, misic: Imre Kalman, sound:
Eduard Vanunz
Cast: Zhanna Glebova, Ivar Kalnynsh, Vitaly Solomin, Maria Solomina, Igor
Dmitriyev, Tatyana Piletskaya, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Svetin, Viktoria
Gorshenina, Vladimir Basov, Nina Alisova
Screen version of a musical comedy of the same title by Imre Kalman.
Count Edwin falls in love with the gorgeous Silva Waresku, the charming variety show star...
The Count’s parents resent the marriage.
936 SNEG NA ZELIONOM POLE (SNOW ON THE
GREEN FIELD)
1981, 75 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Valentin Morozov, screenplay: Edward Shim, camera: Alexander
Dibrivny, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Alexander Mnatsakanyan,
sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Rufina Nifontova, Vladimir Yeryomin, Yuri Solovyov, Alexander
Demyanenko, Olga Ageyeva, Dima Veselkov, Sasha Gladkoborodov, Olga
Durenkova
The “unpromising” small village of Zhukovka witnesses the developing conflict between the teacher
Studentsov and Luk’yanova, the schoolmaster in charge of Academic Activities... Infinitely devoted to
their teacher, the students become involved in the differences of the adults...
937 TAYNA SINIKH GOR (THE MYSTERY OF THE
BLUE MOUNTAINS)
1981, 77 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Askhab Abakarov, screenplay: Alexander Gorokhov, camera: Vladimir
Ivanov, production designer: Marzen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Shirvani
Chalayev, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Gairbek Aliyev, Nanish Gadzhiyeva, Magomed Magomedov, Magomed
Polupanov
Murat and Maysarat are in love. But the girl has been promised to another since she was a child... to
cross the parents would mean to break the old Dagestan customs...
938 TOVARISHCH INNOKENTY (COMRADE
INNOKENTY)
1981, 90 min., color
Drama
Directors: Yevgeny Mezentsev, Joseph Shapiro, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, camera:
Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Isaac Schwartz,
sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Sergei Martynov, Antonina Shuranova, Mikhail Kozakov, Nikolai
Karachentsov, Rufina Nifontova, Igor Yasulovich, Leonid Nevedomsky, Svetlana
Kryuchkova, Ernst Romanov, Valentin Nikulin, Anna Tveleneva, Vitaly Konyayev,
Fyodor Odinokov, Alexander Demyanenko
Loosely based on “Do Shine, O My Star”, a novel by Sergei Sartakov.
The professional revolutionary Joseph Fyodorovich Dubrovsky (one of his party code names being
“Innokenty”) was first exiled in Yaransk back in 1897... 1905 sees him as a leader of the Moscow
armed uprising...
939
TRIZHDY O LYUBVI (THRICE ABOUT LOVE)
1981, 89 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Budimir Metalnikov, camera: Nikolai
Pokoptsev, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, misic: Georgy Portnov,
sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Sergei Prokhanov, Marina Tregubovich, Marina Levtova, Nadezhda
Shumilova, Valentina Kovel, Alexei Mironov, Yelena Obleukhova, Alexei Zharkov,
Ivan Agafonov
The private life of the collective farm driver Vaska Lobanov has not yet taken shape; he is as nice and
handsome hard-working lad as they come...
It seemed to him that his destiny would lie with the librarian Lena, who came to live in the village with
the young daughter born of her husband who lives in town.... Yet, she fails to become his destiny after
all...
940 CHTO BY TY VYBRAL? (WHAT WOULD YOU
CHOOSE?)
1981, 79 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Dinara Asanova, screenplay: Alexander Kurgatnikov, camera: Vladimir
Ilyin, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound:
Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Felix Ravdonikas, Anvar Asanov, Marina Krivitskaya, Nastya Nikolskaya,
Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Yelena Solovey
The film about life, adventures and problems of the children aged 8 — 10 and their parents living in the
old house in Leningrad.
941 STURMOVOYE PREDUPREZHDENIYE (A STORM
WARNING)
1981, 81 min., color
Drama
Director: Vadim Mikhailov, screenplay: Arcadi Vaksberg, Albina Shulgina,
camera: Anatoli Lapshov, Valentin Komarov, production designer: Yuri Pugach,
misic: Alexander Zhurbin, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Alexei Zharkov, Natalya Yegorova, Alexander Zakharov, Valentina Talyzina,
Galina Makarova, Viktor Pavlov, Alexander Kovalenko, Natalya Guschina, Yuri
Solovyov, Mikhail Bobrov, Oleg Yefremov, Valeri Zakharyev
Based on “The Storm”, an essay by Arcady Vaksberg.
The group of tourists crossed the pass on its way to the sea.The weather was fine, so they wandered
light, without any special equipment… The storm came all of a sudden. Overwhelmed by the panic, the
people rushed down the slope, sliding and hurting themselves… It resulted in an extremely dramatic
situation…
942
ANYUTA (ANYUTA)
1982, 71 min., color
Musical
Directors: Alexander Belinsky, Vladimir Vasilyev, screenplay: Alexander Belinsky,
camera: Heinrich Marandzhyan, production designer: Bella Manevich, misic:
Edward Vanunz, sound: Edward Vanunz, choreography: Vladimir Vasilyev
Cast: Yekaterina Maksimova, Vladimir Vasilyev, Gali Abaydulov, John Markovsky,
Anatoly Gridin, Marat Daukayev
A screened ballet to the music of Valery Gavrilin, loosely based on
“Anna around the Neck”, a short story by Anton Chekhov.
 The film was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers’ State Premium of the RSFSR (1984).
943 BEZ VIDIMYKH PRICHIN (WITHOUT ANY
OBVIOUS REASONS)
1982, 81 min., color
Detective
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Sergei Aleksandrov, camera: Konstantin
Ryzhov, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound:
Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Ernst Romanov, Irina Alfiorova, Lev Prygunov, Georgy Drozd, Mikhail
Kononov, Yevgeny Kindinov, Igor Dmitriyev, Nikolai Lavrov, Vladimir Shevelkov,
Emmanuil Schwartzberg, Yevgeny Artemyev, Georgy Shtil
1921. Several things happen simultaneously in a small Siberian town: the Komsomol members working
in the fields get killed; the former White Army officer Kunitsyn gives himself up to the CheKa (the
Emergency Commission); the Red Army soldier Yamshchikov shoots himself on the stage of the
amateur theater...
944 V STARYKH RITMAKH (ALONG THE LINES OF
THE OLD BEATS)
1982, 90 min., color
Comedy
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Dmitry Ivanov, Vladimir Trifonov, camera:
Nikolai Zhilin, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Oleg Khromushin,
sound: Irina Volkova
Cast: Semyon Morozov, Anastasia Glez, Nikolai Trofimov, Zoltan Lokker, Sergei
Filippov, Mikhail Schetinin, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Tatyana Piletskaya, Alexander
Zakharov, Mikhail Aptekman
The 1930-s. The extremely shy young provincial Nikita Fyodorov fails his entrance exams to the
Conservatoire...
Devastated, he makes up his mind to drown himself, but is saved by the militiaman Koshkin; moreover,
Koshkin arranges a militia job for Fyodorov...
945
VARVARIN DEN (VARVARA’S DAY)
1982, 68 min., color
Drama
Directors: Anatoly Dubinkin, Joseph Shapiro, screenplay: Irina Velembovskaya,
camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Veniamin
Basner, sound: Galina Lukinets, Oksana Strugina
Cast: Natalya Brazhnikova, Viktor Mikhailov, Gennadi Voronin, Galina Makarova,
Olga Osipova, Natalya Chetverikova, Fyodor Odinokov, Alexander Demyanenko
The time that Varvara and Pavel Zhdanov had together was but brief. The war started, and Pavel left
for the front-line, while the young woman took on the burden of the hard, grueling work in the
smelter...
946 VLYUBLYEN PO SOBSTVENNOMY ZHELANIYU
(IN LOVE ON HIS OWN INITIATIVE)
1982, 89 min., color
Lyrical comedy
Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Sergei Mikaelyan, Alexander Vasinsky,
camera: Sergei Astakhov, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Igor
Tsvetkov, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Oleg Yankovsky, Yevgenya Glushenko, Vsevolod Shilovsky, Irina Reznikova,
Yuri Dubrovin, Vladimir Belousov, Ivan Ufimtsev
Under the circumstances, the extremely handsome ex-sportsman Igor’ Bragin and the plain but keenly
affectionate librarian Vera Silkova make an unusual agreement: to fall in love with each other through
self-training...
 The actress Yevgenya Glushenko was awarded the “Silver Bear” Prize of the International Film
Festival in Berlin (1983).
947
GOLOS (THE VOICE)
1982, 92 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ilya Averbach, screenplay: Natalya Ryazantseva, camera: Dmitry Dolinin,
production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Nikolai Karetnikov, sound: Boris
Andreyev
Cast: Natalya Sayko, Leonid Filatov, Georgy Kalatozishvili, Yelizaveta
Nikischikhina, Vsevolod Shilovsky, Sergei Bekhterev, Tatyana Lavrova, Yelena
Safonova, Vasily Bochkarev, Pyotr Shelokhonov, Tatyana Pankova, Nina Usatova
The young actress Yulia Martynova is gravely ill. She has just one role left to play. Aware of this, she
is doing everything in her power to complete the work on her current picture. It’s just the wiring of her
character that remains when Yulya winds up in hospital...
948
GRIBNOY DOZHD (THE MUSHROOM RAIN)
1982, 77 min., color
Drama
Director: Nikolai Koshelev, screenplay: Anatoly Sosnin, camera: Alexei
Gambaryan, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound:
Harry Belenky
Cast: Vladimir Zamansky, Tatyana Kravchenko, Ernst Romanov, Yekaterina
Vasilyeva, Rimma Bykova, Vladimir Gostyuikhin, Yelena Drapeko, Alexei Zharkov,
Lubov Malinovskaya, Georgy Drozd, Alexander Potapov, Oleg Korchikov
On their Saturday off the employees of a small printing house take the bus to go mushroom-hunting.
The unexpected development during this peaceful outing turned out to be a test for each of them.
949
ZHIZN BERLIOZA (THE LIFE OF BERLIOZ)
1982, 6 parts, the TV of France, the TV of the USSR, Patais Cinema, the TV of
Biopic
Hungary, the Radio Canada and “Lenfilm” production with input from the TV of
Belgium and Switzerland, color
Director: Jacques Trebutas, director of Parts 4, 5, 6: Viktor Sergeyev, screenplay:
Francois Boillais, camera: Emmanuel Machel, camera of Parts 4, 5, 6: Valentin
Komarov, production designer: Jacques d’Eauvidiot, sound: Max Olivier
Cast: Daniel Mesgiche, Robert Rembeau, Nadine Halary, Ronda Bachmann, Jocelyn
Boisseau, Roger Karel, Peter Trokan, Alan Adert, Noel Chatelet, Marina Levtova,
Boris Klyuyev, Ann-Laure Merry, Boris Plotnikov, Anatoly Shvedersky, Vladimir
Dyukov, Anna Tveleneva, Renee Fort, Nikolai Kryukov, Tatyana Piletskaya
The plot features the life and creative activity of the outstanding French composer Hector Berlioz.
950
ZA SHCHASTYEM (IN SEARCH OF LUCK)
1982, 74 min., color, wide screen
Comedy
Director: Nikolai Kovalsky, screenplay: Yuri Sbitnev, camera: Vadim
Grammatikov, production designer: Rimma Narinyan, misic: Viktor Lebedev,
sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Anatoly Rudakov, Marina Dyuzheva, Svetlana Kharitonova, Tanya Ivanova,
Viktor Ilyuichev, Semyon Morozov, Alexander Demyanenko, Marina Tregubovich
Watching happy families, Katya arrives at a simple conclusion: the further the husband is from home,
the wealthier the household. Thus, the young wife packs her husband off to a distant construction site...
951
LYUDMILA (LYUDMILA)
1982, 81 min., color
Drama
Directors: Valentin Morozov, Sergei Danilin, screenplay: Oleg Koppe, camera:
Valery Mironov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Alexander
Mnatsakanyan, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Nadezhda Shumilova, Aristarkh Livanov, Georgy Drozd, Yuri Dedovich,
Natalya Andreychenko, Oleg Korchikov, Boris Arakelov, Fyodor Odinokov
During the Civil War, Lyudmila Makiyevskaya, a daughter of wealthy parents graduated from the
Smolny Institute, comes to command an armored train... to die a tragic death in a battle.
952
NIKKOLO PAGANINI (NICCOLO PAGANINI)
1982, 4 parts, 256 min., color, joint production with the of TV of Bulgaria
Biopic
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Oleg Stukalov-Pogodin, Leonid Menaker,
camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designers: Valery Yurkevich, Dimitr Zhelev,
misic: Sergei Banevich, sound: Oksana Strugina, rendition of the music by Paganini:
Leonid Kogan
Cast: Vladimir Msryan, Stefan Vasilyev, Albert Filozov, Alla Chernova, Armen
Dzhigarkhanyan, Vladimir Samoylov, Donatas Banionis, Vania Tsvetkova, Vsevolod
Shilovsky, Olgherd Croders, Yuozas Budraitis
The story of life and work of the Italian genius composer and violinist Niccolo Paganini, full of tragic
collisions.
Paganini’s life story is relayed by a number of people attached to him through devotion or hostility.
953
OSLINAYA SHKURA (THE DONKEY’S HIDE)
1982, 85 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Fairy tale
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Mikhail Volpin, camera: Edward
Rozovsky, production designers: Marina Azizyan, Vladimir Kostin, misic: Mikhail
Weinberg, sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Vladimir Etush, Svetlana Nemolyayeva, Vera Novikova, Alexander Galibin,
Zinovy Gerdt, Tatyana Peltzer, Valentina Panina, Nikolai Karachentsov, Lyudmila
Makarova, Sergei Parshin, Boris Arakelov, Sergei Filippov
Loosely based on fairy tales by Charles Perrot.
At the christening of Theresa, daughter of the destitute King Gaston IX, the wicked witch prophesies
hard trials to be in stock for her...
954
OSTROV SOKROVISCH (THE TREASURE ISLAND)
1982, 3 parts, 205 min.., color
Director: Vladimir Vorobyov, screenplay: Nikolai Semyonov, camera: Alexander
Adventure
Chechulin, production designer: Yelena Fomina, misic: Yevgeny Ptichkin, sound:
Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Fedya Stukov, Oleg Borisov, Viktor Kostetsky, Vladislav Strzhelchik,
Konstantin Grigoryev, Leonid Markov, Olga Volkova, Nikolai Karachentsov, Georgy
Teich, Valery Zolotukhin, Gennadi Yukhtin, Georgy Shtil, Geli Sysoyev, Nikolai
Kryukov
Based on Robert Stevenson’s novel of the same title.
The brave Jim Hawkins and his friends set out on their search for treasures, but as fate would have it,
the vessel they hired for their purpose is a pirate ship...
955
PIKOVAYA DAMA (QUEEN OF SPADES)
1982, 92 min., color
Drama
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Alexander Shlepyanov, camera: Yuri
Veksler, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, sound: Asya Zvereva, misic: extracts
from pieces by Dmitry Bortnyansky, text rendition: Alla Demidova
Cast: Viktor Proskurin, Irina Dymchenko, Yelena Gogoleva, Vitaly Solomin,
Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Konstantin Grigoryev, Alexander Zakharov
Based on Alexander Pushkin’s story of the same title
956 PROZRACHNOYE SOLNTSE OSENI (THE
TRANSPARENT AUTUMN SUN)
1982, 31 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Buturlin, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, camera: Vladimir
Vasilyev, production designer: Natalya Avanesova, misic: Hendrius Kupriavichius,
Tynu Aare, performed by the groups “Argo” and “Apelsin”
Cast: Oleg Borisov, Oleg Tabakov, Sergei Gordeyev, Alexander Rapakov, football
players of the “Spartak” Society
Based on Yuri Trifinov’s story of the same title.
The former school-fellows chance to meet in the airport: the talented
football player who became a sports trainer and a lucky “average person”, now a successful sports
administrator in the capital city…
957 PROSTRANSTVO DLYA MANYEVRA
(MANOEUVERING SPACE)
1982, 2 parts, 138 min., color
Drama
Director: Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Yuri Chernyakov, camera: Vladimir
Burykin, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound:
Harry Belenky
Cast: Vladimir Yeriomin, Anatoly Romashin, Yevgenya Uralova, Alexandra
Yakovleva, Nikolai Karachentsov, Galina Shepetnova, Andrei Tolubeyev, Nikolai
Grinko
The newly appointed chief of the design office quite unexpectedly starts to implement the new methods
and ideas … It is quite all right, however, he is slightly ahead of the time…
958
RODILSYA V SIBIRI (BORN IN SIBERIA)
1982, 80 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Adolph Bergunker, screenplay: Yuri Yakovlev, camera: Oleg
Kukhovarenko, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky,
sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Alexei Zharkov, Igor Kvasha, Irina Akulova, Natalya Yegorova, Alexei
Buldakov, Mikhail Zhigalov, Daniil Titus
A native of Siberia, Valery Zavyalov is the headmaster of a school in Turgus where he was born and
bred. He has been in the Army and has graduated from the Pedagogical Institute. The village
communists respect him, electing him Secretary of the District Party Committee by a majority vote...
959 RODITELEY NE VYBIRAYUT (OUR PARENTS ARE
NOT FOR US TO CHOOSE)
1982, 101 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Vadim Trunin, camera: Vadim
Grammatikov, Nikolai Pokoptsev, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic:
Yevgeny Krylatov, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Andrei Smolyakov, Vladik Gradov, Pyotr Yurchenkov, Andrei Fyodorov,
Marina Shimanskaya, Yelena Mayorova, Diana Gradova, Yuri Kuzmenkov, Yelena
Drapeko, Anatoly Rudakov, Nikolai Skorobogatov, Zinaida Abramovich
Nikolai Burlakov was brought up by his grandmother. His mother has never bothered to get her son
back from the village. Released from the Army, Nikolai goes to work in the North, but learning that his
mother sent her daughter to the orphanage, he gets his little sister and returns to the village...
960 S TEKH POR, KAK MY VMESTE (EVER SINCE WE
HAVE BEEN TOGETHER)
1982, 86 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Grigoryev, screenplay: Svyatoslav Tarakhovsky, camera: Sergei
Yurizditsky, production designer: Georgy Kropachyev, misic: Dina Smorgonskaya,
sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Svetlana Smirnova, Adris Lielais, Antonina Shuranova, Yuri Platonov, Alexei
Olennikov, Sergei Kudryavtsev, Alla Motoyeva, Natalya Danilova, Natalya Akimova,
Ramaz Ioseliani, Mamuka Kikaleyshvili, Sergei Parshin
The characters are young people, freshmen at the Institute; their falling headlong in love presents
various tricky problems, including the need to consider each other’s principles and weaknesses.
961 SEANS ODNOVREMENNOY IGRY (A
SIMULTANEOUS PERFORMANCE)
1982, 68 min., color
Lyrical comedy
Director: Alexei Lebedev, screenplay: Adkady Krasilschikov, camera: Konstantin
Ryzhov, production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Yevgeny Irshan, sound: Asya
Zvereva
Cast: Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev, Yevgenya Simonova, Nikolai Trofimov, A.
Sheren, Georgy Shtil, Lubov Tischenko
A young taxi driver undertook the task of driving a personal “Volga” vehicle from Leningrad to
Piatigorsk… Many adventures awaited him on the way.
962
DEATH)
SEM CHASOV DO GIBELI (SEVEN HOURS TO
1982, 71 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Anatoly Vekhotko, screenplay: Vladimir Akimov, camera: Semyon
Ivanov, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound:
Grigory Elbert
Cast: Yevgeny Zharikov, Natalya Gvozdikova, Leonid Markov, Yuri Demich,
Alexander Zbruyev, Herman Dmitriyev, Nikolai Gorlov, Yuri Malyshev
The forty-year-old surgeon Alexei Shulgin believes himself a failure and intends to leave the Far North.
But an accident happens on a ship, with a seaman heavily injured by a broken rope. Shulgin performs
brilliant surgery and comes to acquire confidence.
963
SKVOZ OGON (THROUGH FIRE)
1982, 74 min., color
Drama
Director: Leonid Makarychev, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Alexander
Chirov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky, sound:
Grigory Elbert, Yelena Demidova
Cast: Borya Krichevsky, Alexei Buldakov, Tatyana Bedova, Alexander Susnin,
Georgy Shtil, Valentin Bukin, Era Ziganshina, Natalya Dmitriyeva, Mikhail
Semyonov, Svetlana Kireyeva, Valentina Smirnova
Loosely based on a story of the same title by A. Popov.
The war surprised Pavlik and his mother far from Leningrad. The fascists proceeded to occupy the area.
After his mother was betrayed by a traitor and captured, Pavlik set off for his native city on his own...
964
TAMOZHNYA (THE CUSTOMS)
1982, 78 min., color
Thriller
Director: Alexander Muratov, screenplay: Vladimir Mazur, Igor Konstantinov,
camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic:
Alexander Mikhailov, sound: Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Mikhail Boyarsky, Valentin Gaft, Vadim Yakovlev, Vladimir Yeryomin,
Tatyana Tashkova, Valery Zakharyev, Yuri Bashkov, Viktor Ilyichev, Vyacheslav
Sorokin, Ivan Krasko
It becomes known that an engineer disappeared off the ship named “Amur” during its run. The customs
examination reveals smuggled gold concealed in the engine compartment. The ship’s doctor Viktor
Malyshev vanishes without a trace.
The case is assigned to the young customs official Yuri Khorunzhev...
965
SHAPKA MOMOMAKHA (MONOMAKH’S HAT)
1982, 68 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Iskander Khamrayev, screenplay: Margarita Mosyakova, Tamara Likhotal,
camera: Lev Kolganov, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, sound: Gennadi
Korkhovoy
Cast: Kolya Feofanov, Dasha Malchevskaya, Gabriel Vorobyev, Olya Ozertsovskaya,
Natasha Latynskaya, Sofia Pavlova, Lyudmila Chursina, Mikhail Svetin, Olga
Volkova
As a result of a misunderstanding, the inconspicuous average eighth-year student Petrov is suddenly
pronounced a near-genius in his school... This incident is behind the plot of the picture containing
numerous lively particulars of school life.
966
SHUROCHKA (SHUROCHKA)
1982, 98 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: Iosif Heifitz, camera: Dmitry Dolinin, production
designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Yelena Finogeyeva, Andrei Nikolayev, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Konstantin
Grigoryev, Stanislav Sadalsky, Nikolai Skorobogatov, Valentin Smirnitsky, Ivan
Dmitriyev, Nikolai Ferapontov, Yuri Medvedev, Roman Ilyutkin
A screen version of “The Duel”, a story by Alexander Kuprin.
967
VOLNY VETER (FREE WIND)
1983, 2 parts, 134 min., color
Musical
Director: Jan Frid, screenplay: Mikhail Mishin, Jan Frid, camera: Nikolai
Stroganov, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Isaac Dunayevsky,
sound: Gennady Korkhovoy
Cast: Larisa Belogurova, Andrei Kharitonov, Tatyana Dogileva, Alexander
Ryshchenkov, Mikhail Vodyanoy, Georgy Shtil, Nikolai Trofimov, Yevgeny Vestnik,
Viktoria Gorshenina, Mikhail Svetin
Screen version of musical comedy of the same title by Isaac Dunayevsky.
968
VYSOKAYA PROBA (HIGH HALLMARK)
1983, 3 parts, 204 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Igor Usov, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, camera: Rostislav Davydov,
production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Olga Petrova, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Anatoly Kuznetsov, Ada Rogovtseva, Irina Gubanova, Yevgeny Menshov,
Tatyana Lavrentyeva, Alexander Samoilov, Valery Zakharyev
Based on Yevgeny Voyevodin’s novel “One’s Own Fault”
969
GORI, GORI YASNO... (SHINE, SHINE BRIGHTLY...)
1983, 2 parts, 143 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Oleg Stukalov-Pogodin, camera:
Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Eduard
Artemyev, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Andrei Martynov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina,
Anatoly Romashin, Nikolai Pastukhov, Lev Durov, Mikhail Kononov
Based on the novel of the same title by Alexander Krivonosov.
970 DOLGAYA DOROGA K SEBE (A LONG ROAD TO
ONESELF)
1983, 81 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Nataliya Troshchenko, screenplay: Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Solomon Rozen,
Henrich Marandzhyan, production designer: Rimma Narinyan, misic: Vladislav
Uspensky, sound: Yelena Demidova
Cast: Yevgeniya Simonova, Nikolay Karachentsev, Liliya Gritsenko, Tatyana
Lavrova, Viktor Yevgrafov, Larisa Malevannaya, Vladimir Letenkov
Indifferent to art husband is tired of his wife’s selflessness devoltion to art. He does not believe in her
talent and puts all kinds of obstacles on her way to gaining recognition which at the end ruins their
family.
971 DUBLYOR NACHINAYET DEISTVOVAT
(UNDERSTUDY STARTS ACTING)
1983, 90 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Ernest Yasan, screenplay: Valentin Chernykh, Pyotr Koryakin, Ernest
Yasan, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Yelena Fomina, misic:
Vadim Bibergan, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Boris Plotnikov, Mikhail Gluzsky, Igor Gorbachev, Alexander Vdovin, Pyotr
Yurchenkov, Alexander Romantsov, Natalya Danilova, Rimma Korostylyova, Olga
Volkova, Ivan Krasko, Ludmila Shevel, Varvara Shabalina
As an experiment, a large plant with the permission of a Ministry gives all the leading positions at the
plant for one month to young professionals.
972
KAZHDY DESYATY (EVERY TENTH)
1983, 70 min., color, wide screen
Adventure
Director: Mikhail Ordovsky, screenplay: Yulian Dunsky, Valery Frid, camera:
Vladimir Ivanov, production designer: Mikhail Gerasimov, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Raisa Zaitseva, Lev Borisov, Vladimir Yeryomin, Igor Ivanov, Vladimir
Osipchuk, Alexander Yatsenkovsky, Nikolay Kuzmin, Nikolai Volkov
Civil War in Siberia. White Army bandits take prisoners a group of Red Army soldiers and sentence
every tenth to be shot. But on the eve of the execution the Reds escape from captivity...
973
MAGISTRAL (MAIN LINE)
1983, 93 min., color
Traffic drama
Written and directed by: Viktor Tregubovich, camera: Eduard Rozovsky,
production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Alexei Rybnikov, sound: Nataliya
Levitina
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Marina Tregubovich, Pavel Semenikhin,
Ludmila Gurchenko, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Igor Dmitriyev, Ivan Agafonov, Sergei
Prokhanov, Mikhail Pogorzhelsky, Boris Sokolov, Yuri Demich, Vladimir Menshov,
Fyodor Odinokov
Traffic capacity of a railway main line is lower than required which results in an accident: a passenger
train crashes into a freight train killing locomotive driver’s assistant. Authors of the film attempt to
reveal circumstances that led to the accident.
974 MAGIYA CHERNAYA I BELAYA (BLACK AND
WHITE MAGIC)
1983, 76 min., color, wide screen
Comedy
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Valery Priyomykhov, camera: Genrich
Marandzhyan, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Alexander Zhurbin,
sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Pavel Plisov, Anton Granat, Margarita Ivanova, Alexander Lenkov, Marianna
Kazennaya, Denis Levin, Sasha Sukhanov, Natasha Popova, Andrei Puzanov, Nikolay
Volkov, Jr
Two chums- schoolboys Seva and Vitya- are liers, always full of mischief. Nobody could manage them
until one day a new girl, Elya Sabonite, comes to their school…
975
MESTO DEISTVIYA (SCENE OF ACTION)
1983, 2 parts, 141 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Granik, screenplay: Rudolf Tyurin, camera: Viktor Karasyov,
production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Irina
Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Alexander Parra, Yelena Shanina, Viktor Mikhailov, Alexander Kuzin, Sergei
Parshin, Ernst Romanov, Ivan Krasko, Igor Yefimov, Alexander Demyanenko
Based on Alexander Prokhanov’s novel of the same title.
976 NA BEREGAKH PLENITELNYKH NEVY (ON THE
CHARMING BANKS OF THE NEVA RIVER)
1983, 69 min., color
Documentary/landscape
Director: Ilya Averbakh, screenplay: Yelena Ignatova, Ilya Averbakh, Semyon
Aranovich, camera: Vladimir Dyakonov, production designer: Vladimir
Svetozarov, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Asya Zvereva, voice over: Alexander
Demyanenko
Topical poetic film on Leningrad- part of Italian TV serial “Cultural Capitals of Europe”.
977
NEBYVALSHCHINA (COCK-AND-BULL STORY)
1983, 82 min., color
Comedy
Written and directed by: Sergei Ovcharov, camera: Valery Fedosov, production
designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: I. Matsiyevsky, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya,
Boris Andreyev
Cast: Alexander Kuznetsov, Alexei Buldakov, Sergei Bekhterev, Igor Ivanov, Nina
Usatova, Margarita Matveyeva, Vyacheslav Polunin, Nikolai Terentyev, Valery
Zakharyev
Loosely based on Vsevolod Shishkov’s short story “Divers” and also on Russian legends, songs, tales
and folk verse.
Characters of the film are traditional personages of folk epos: a peasant, an iron-smith, a soldier. The
film tells about their adventures — on earth, below ground and in the skies.
978
OBRYV (THE PRECIPICE)
1983, 2 parts, 144 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Vengerov, camera: Anatoly Zabolotsky,
production designer: Marina Azizyan, misic: Isaac Shwarz, sound: Konstantin
Lashkov
Cast: Georgy Antonov, Yelena Finogeyeva, Nikolai Kochegarov, Rimma Markova,
Marina Rostotskaya, Yelena Solovey, Vitaly Shapovalov, Nikolai Ivanov, Tamara
Lebedeva, Oleg Korchikov, Alla Tekshina, Oleg Shtefanko, Stepan Krylov
Based on Ivan Goncharov’s novel of the same title.
979
OBYEZDCHIK (A MOUNTED WARDEN)
1983, 31 min., color, “Mosfilm”, “Lenfilm”
Drama
Director: Alexander Bibartsev, screenplay: Mikhail Varfolomeyev, camera:
Anatoly Lapshov, production designer: Vladimir Bannykh, misic: Marat Kamilov,
sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Alexander Karin, Olga Ponomarenko, Alexei Zaitsev, Tamara Fursova, Sergei
Vinokurov
Loosely based on a short story by Yevgeny Nosov.
Ignat returns to his native village after the victorious war. It would seem everything turns out well in
his life — he has a beautiful wife and a job he likes... The problem is that his heart is hardened by the
war..
980
PATSANY (BOYS)
1983, 97 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Dinara Asanova, screenplay: Yuri Klepikov, camera: Yuri Veksler,
production designers: Natalya Vasilyeva, Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Viktor Kisin,
sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade, songs by Vitaly Krinitsky, song lyrics by:Viktor
Bolshakov
Cast: Valery Priyemykhov, Andrei Zykov, Sergei Naumov, Olga Mashnaya,
Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Zinovy Gerdt, Marina Levtova, Yevgeny Nikitin, Alexei
Poluyan, Vladimir Gusev, Viktor Mikheyev, Yuri Moroz
Antonov, the director of a summer sports/labour camp gathered in his camp problem teenagers, many
of whom have a criminal record. He faces a different task – to become a friend and a tutor to these
boys.
 The film was awarded the Participant Diploma of the International Film Festival in Moscow
(1983) and the State Premium of the USSR (1985).
981
PLYVI, KORABLIK …(GO, LITTLE BOAT)
1983, 73 min., color
Drama
Director: Grigory Aronov, screenplay: Sergei Alexandrovich, Grigory Aronov,
camera: Viktor Karasyov, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, Gennady
Savelyev, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Garry Belenky
Cast: Stefania Stanyuta, Pavlik Shagin, Tatyana Ivanova, Alexander Sokolov, Oleg
Belov, Olga Ageyeva
For many years an elderly woman, who lost her husband and her son during the war, has been living
alone, retreating into the shell of her grief. All of a sudden her isolated world is disturbed by
unceremonious intrusion.
982 PRIKLYUCHENIYA SHERLOKA HOLMSA I
DOKTORA VATSONA. SOKROVISHCHA AGRY.
(ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DOCTOR
WATSON. THE TREASURES OF AGRA).
1983, 2 parts, 151 min., color
Detective
Written and directed by: Igor Maslennikov, camera: Yuri Veksler, production
designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Rina Zelionaya, Borislav Brondukov,
Yekaterina Zinchenko, Viktor Proskurin, Sergei Shakurov, Pavel Kadochnikov
Based on short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
983
SKOROST (SPEED)
1983, 93 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Drama
Director: Dmitry Svetozarov, screenplay: Maria Zvereva, camera: Sergei Astakhov,
production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Andrei Makarevich, Alexander Kutikov,
Alexander Zaitsev, sound: Leonid Shumyacher, Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Alexei Batalov, Dmitry Kharatyan, Marle Talvik, Vsevolod Shilovsky,
Angelina Stepanova, Baadur Tsuladze
A sensation took place on car races — the races were won by an unknown amateur driver Grigory
Yakovlev who managed to leave behind noted race drivers on the automobile that he had designed and
constructed himself.
He is invited to work in an experimental lab of a design office...
984
SRED BYELA DNYA (IN BROAD DAYLIGHT)
1983, 91 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Valery Guryanov, screenplay: Arkady Vaksberg, Albina Shulgina,
camera: Valery Mironov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Nikolai
Martynov, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Lyubov Virolainen, Valery Zolotukhin, Andrei Tolybeyev, Viktor Shulgin,
Svetlana Nemolayeva, Valentina Kovel, Valery Sergeyev, Yelena Alekseyeva, Yuri
Platonov, Yelena Kuznetsova, Igor Smirnov, Pyotr Yurchenkov
Based on feature story by Arkady Vaksberg
Worker Mukhin, defending his wife and child killed the hooligans’ gang leader. During the trial the
Prosecutor withdrew the charges, however the court sentenced Mukhin to prison term of seven years.
The Prosecutor insists on a not guilty award…
985
TORPEDONOSTSY (TORPEDO BOMBERS)
1983, 96 min., color
War drama
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Svetlana Karmalita, camera: Vladimir
Ilyin, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Alexander Knaifel, sound: Galina
Lukina
Cast: Rodion Nakhapetov, Alexei Zharkov, Andrei Boltnev, Stanislav Sadalsky,
Tatyana Kravchenko, Vera Glagoleva, Nadezhda Lukashevich, Vsevolod Shilovsky,
Sergei Bekhterev, Alexander Filippenko, Yuri Kuznetsov, Eduard Volodarsky
Loosely based on short war stories by Yuri German.
1944. A marine air force regiment is stationed at a small garrison. This garrison is both — the front and
the rear. Pilots live here with their families. They give parties and go to concerts. And, at the same
time, any operational flight can turn out to be the last in their lives.
 The film was awarded the Participant Diploma of the International Film Festival in Berlin (1985)
and the State Premium of the USSR (1986).
986 TREBUYUTSA MUZHCHINY (MEN ARE
REQUIRED)
1983, 81 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Valery Rodchenko, screenplay: Valery Popov, camera: Nikolai
Stroganov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Alexander Knaifel,
sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Algirdas Latenas, Ivan Gavrilyuk, Yuri Dubrovin, Valery Zakharyev, Bekzot
Khamrayev, Galina Shepetnova, Yevgeny Kindinov, Yuri Kuznetsov, Yuri
Stroganov, Yuri Goncharov, Artyom Ivanov, Yuri Gusev, Nadezhda Shumilova
A new worker, Alexei Veryaskin, joins the team of carpenters. The story is centered around the conflict
of two strong personalities: Alexei and the foreman. During the strenuous days at the construction site
the two men come to realise that for the sake of their work they are capable and have to waive a lot of
things.
987
UNIKUM (UNIQUE)
1983, 90 min., color
Fantastical comedy
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Alexander Zhitinsky, Vitaly Melnikov,
camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Viktor
Kisin, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Vasily Bochkarev, Yevgeniya Glushenko, Olya Starostina, Tatyana Plotnikova,
Stanislav Sadalsky, Galina Volchek, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Svetlana Kryuchkova,
Mikhail Kozakov, Yevgeny Leonov, Yuri Bogatyryov, Baadur Tsuladze, Zinaida
Sharko
Based on Alexander Zhitinsky’s novel “You See Me In Your Dreams”.
Kostya Shaposhnikov, an ordinary computer engineer at a research institute, discovers in himself a
unique telepathic ability: he can transmit his dreams to other people. People working at the institute
immediately found application to this phenomenon.
988 EKHO DALNEGO VZRYVA (ECHO OF A FARAWAY BLAST)
1983, 73 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Valentin Morozov, screenplay: Alexander Kurgatnikov, camera: Vladimir
Ilyin, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Alexander
Mnatsakanyan, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Andrei Tolubeyev, Lubov Virolainen, Yuri Demich, Vatslav
Dvorzhetsky, Ivan Krasko, Alexander Demyanenko, Ernst Romanov, Galina
Nikulina, Alexander Mikhailichenko, Larisa Leonova, Yelena Antonova
Damage of gas pipe line caused an explosion, people were killed in the accident.
Investigation of the accident revelas errors committed on the design stage. However, none of eight
engineers who designed the project considers himself guilty.
989 YA TEBYA NIKOGDA NE ZABUDU (I SHALL
NEVER FORGET YOU)
1983, 86 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Pavel Kadochnikov, camera: Alexander Chirov,
production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky, sound: Yevgeny
Nesterov
Cast: Irina Malysheva, Yevgeny Karelskikh, Viktor Shulgin, Lubov Sokolova,
Gennady Nilov, Yelena Drapeko, Anatoly Rudakov, Ludmila Kupina, Vladimir
Tatosov, Tatyana Ivanova, Lubov Malinovskaya
Fyodor and Polina met at front, the girl had practically saved the wounded soldier.
Their meeting. Love. Parting.
Fyodor goes to the front again. He is taken prisoner and is regarded to be missing.
When the war ends he returns home and finds out that Polina was looking for him, that she had visited
his parents’ house together with her daughter.
990 APLODISMENMTY, APLODISMENTY…
(APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE…)
1984, 77 min., color
Musical melodrama
Director: Viktor Buturlin, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, camera: Vladimir
Vasilyev, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Alexander Morozov,
sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Tabakov, Olga Volkova, Alexander Filippenko,
Tatyana Parkina, Karina Moritz, Alexander Shirvindt
A variety show actress gets hold of a screenplay about dramatic life of a woman who was fighting at
war and about her love story. Lera is absolutely sure that she can play this part. But it is not easy for her
to convince the film director...
991
BEZ SEMYI (WITHOUT FAMILY)
1984, 2 parts, 163 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Nataliya Bortko, camera: Eduard Rozovsky,
production designer: Rimma Narinyan, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound:
Nataaliya Avanesova
Cast: Sasha Vasilyev, Jan Khviler, Yelena Solovey, Eugenia Pleshkite, Yustina
Shervinskaite, Zinovy Gerdt, Yuri Gorobets, Tamara Urzhumova
Losely based on Hector Malot’s novel of the same title.
The story is set in the 19th century. Little Remi is wandering around many places looking for the
family he lost... and finally he finds his relatives.
992 BLONDINKA ZA UGLOM (A BLOND ROUND THE
CORNER)
1984, 83 min., color, wide screen
Tragicomedy
Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Alexander Chervinsky, camera: Ivan
Bagayev, Valentin Komarov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic:
Isaac Shwarz, sound: Nataliya Avanesova
Cast: Tatyana Dogileva, Andrei Mironov, Mark Prudkin, Yevgeniya Khanayeva,
Yelena Solovey, Anatoly Slivnikov, Baadur Tsuladze, Pavel Kadochnikov, Anatoly
Ravikovich, Alexei Zharkov, Sergei Bekhterev
A former astrophysicist takes the job of a labourer in a supermarket and falls in love with a shop
assistant from the vegetable department — a practical and cheerful girl. He decides to marry her and
does his best to make her life different, but finally... escapes right from his own wedding.
993 BUKET MIMOZY I DRUGIYE TSVETY (BOUQUET
OF MIMOSA AND OTHER FLOWERS)
1984, 73 min., color
Director: Mikhail Nikitin, screenplay: Nataliya Ryazantseva, camera: Sergei
Astakhov, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound:
Galina Lukina
Cast: Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Andrei Petrov, Andrei Sergeyev, Sergei
Bekhterev, Larisa Luppian, Svetlana Smirnova, Elizaveta Nikishchikhina, Maya
Lagutina, Seryozha Boyarsky
Sooner or later every working person has to face a difficult moment — his retirement. And if the
person is the chief of department of a large plant the moment is particularly difficult.
994
VOSEM DNEI NADEZHDY (EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE)
1984, 75 min., color
Drama
Director: Alexander Muratov, screenplay: Eduard Volodarsky, camera: Boris
Liznev, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Alexander Mikhailov,
sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Valentin Gaft, Vadim Yakovlev, Nikolai Karachentsov, Dmitry Kharatyan,
Alexei Buldakov, Nikolai Fedortsov, Nikolai Sektimenko, Pyotr Yurchenkov, Igor
Dobryakov, Viktor Terekhov, Valentin Bukin, Ivan Krasko, Igor Yasulovich
A tragedy happens in a coal mine — as a result of a landslide several miners got trapped in a coal
face...
995 ZHIL-BYL DOKTOR (ONCE UPON A TIME THERE
LIVED A DOCTOR)
1984, 86 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vyacheslav Sorokin, screenplay: Dmitry Pritula, Edgar Dubrovsky,
camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Vladimir Bannykh, misic:
Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Alexander Tkachenok, Tamara Lebedeva, Tatyana Rasskazova, Sergei
Koshonin, Tatyana Kulish, Tatyana Baltushevich, Nikolay Berezin, Yuri Nazarov
The story is centered around life of a village doctor, his everyday cares, problems, his responsibility for
people who sometimes is their only hope for salvation.
996 ZAVESHCHANIYE PROFESSORA DOUELYA (LAST
WILL OF PROFESSOR DOUEL)
1984, 91 min., color
Science fiction
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Leonid Menaker, Igor Vinogradsky,
camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Sergei
Banevich, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Olgerd Kroders, Igor Vasilyev, Valentina Titova, Natalya Saiko, Alexei
Bobrov, Nikolai Lavrov, Alexander Porokhovshchikov, Ernst Romanov, Boris
Tsymba
Based on science fiction novel “The Head of Professor Douel” by Alexander Belyayev.
997 I VOT PRISHEL BUMBO... (AND HERE COMES
BUMBO...)
1984, 78 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Melodrama
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Yuri Dunsky, Valery Frid, camera:
Eduard Rozovsky, production designer: Marina Azizyan, misic: Mikhail Vainberg,
sound: Betty Livshits, Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Oleg Basilashvili, Valery Zolotukhin, Tatyana Peltser, Svetlana Nemolyayeva,
Zinovy Gerdt, Alexander Pankratov-Chorny, Sergei Filippov, Natasha Shinakova,
Sergei Parshin, Georgy Shtil, Svetlana Karpinskaya, Olga Volkova
Based on short stories by Alexander Kuprin
998
KOLYE SHARLOTTY (CHARLOTTE’S NECKLACE)
1984, 3 parts, 209 min., color
Detective story
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Arthur Makarov, Anatoly Romov, camera:
Yuri Veksler, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Alexander Zhurbin, sound:
Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Vadim Ledogorov, Yuri Kuznetsov, Yelena Solovey, Igor
Yankovsky, Valentina Volkova, Yevgeny Kindinov, Vladimir Soshalsky, Zhanna
Prokhorenko, Lev Prygunov, Sergei Vinogradov, Marina Belkina
Based on Anatoly Romanov’s story “Customs Examination”.
Investigation of a murder which at first looked like an ordinary crime put police on the trail of a
criminal group illicitly conveying jewels abroad — and this case falls under the jurisdiction of the
KGB.
999 MAKAR-SLEDOPYT (MAKAR — THE
PATHFINDER)
1984, 3 parts, 202 min., color
Adventure story
Director: Nikolay Kovalsky, screenplay: Anatoly Kozak, camera: Alexander
Chechulin, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound:
Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Maksim Minin, Sergei Savateyev, Angelina Polyanchukova, Alexander
Lenkov, Andrei Rostotsky, Ivan Krasko, Vladimir Etush, Oleg Borisov
Based on Leonid Ostroumov’s novel of the same title.
Young 10 — 12-year old characters of the film take active part in the events of the Civil War and go
through all kinds of fascinating adventures.
1000 MILY, DOROGOY, LYUBIMY, YEDINSTVENNY...
(DEAR, BELOVED, THE ONE AND ONLY...)
1984, 69 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Dinara Asanova, screenplay: Valery Priyomykhov, camera: Vladimir
Ilyin, production designer: Natalya Vasilyeva, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Aliakper
Gasan-zade
Cast: Olga Mashnaya, Valery Priyomykhov, Lembit Ulfsak, Lora Umarova, Nikolai
Lavrov, Alexander Demyanenko
Nineteen-year old Anna kidnaps a child to pass it for her own and thus to win back the lover who has
grown cold to her. Callousness and egoism of the young girl nearly results in a tragedy.
1001 MOI DRUG IVAN LAPSHIN (MY FRIEND IVAN
LAPSHIN)
1984, 101 min., color
Drama
Director: Alexei German, screenplay: Eduard Volodarsky, camera: Valery Fedosov,
production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Arkady Gagulashvili, sound: Nikolai
Astakhov
Cast: Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrei Mironov, Alexei Zharkov, Alexander
Filippenko, Anatoly Slivnikov, Zinaida Adamovich, Yuri Kuznetsov, Valery Filonov,
Andrei Dudarenko, Semyon Farada, Nina Usatova
Loosely based on short stories by Yuri German.
Ivan Lapshin is the chief of the police criminal investigation department in a small town of Uchansk. A
man of few words, he does what he has to and does it extremely well. May be, he is a bit too tough, but
he is never indifferent to people. He has friends and there is a woman he loves...
 The film was awarded the “Bronze Leopard” – the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival
in Locarno (1986) and the Vasilyev Brothers’ State Premium of the RSFSR (1986).
 The film was honored the FIPRESSI Premium at the International Film Festival in Locarno
(1986).
1002 OGNI (LIGHTS)
1984, 88 min., color
Drama
Director: Solomon Shuster, screenplay: Alexander Chervinsky, camera: Dmitry
Dolinin, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Boris Tishchenko, sound:
Boris Andreyev
Cast: Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev, Tatyana Dogileva, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Georgy
Burkov, Oleg Korchikov, Vladimir Osipchuk, Viktor Novikov, Yuri Polonsky, Alexei
Pankov
Loosely based on short stories by Anton Chekhov.
A St. Petersburg engineer Nikolai Ananyev comes for a few days to the town where he lived in his
youth and meets Kisochka, the girl he was passionately in love with. She has married a wealthy banker
but it looks like she is unhappy. She meets Ananyev and is prepared to go away with him... But she is
not destined to do this.
1003 OLGA I KONSTANTIN (OLGA AND CONSTANTINE)
1984, 67 min., color, wide screen
Lyrical comedy
Director: Yevgeny Mezentsev, screenplay: Arthur Makarov, camera: Eduard
Rozovsky, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Isaac Shwarz, sound:
Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Vakhtang Kikabidze, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Mikhail Gluzsky, Nina Usatova,
Olga Volkova, Nina Semyonova, Andrei Dudarenko, Kostya Bashkatov, Boris
Arakelov, Anatoly Rudakov, Viktor Smirnov, Vladimir Yuryev
Jovial and communicative driver Konstantin Goguadze was going from Siberia to Georgia. On a small
railway station he saw a woman, got out of carriage, stayed on the platform — and soon got invitation
from Olga to come and visit her.
1004 PERIKOLA (LA PERIKOLE)
1984, 83 min., color
Operetta
Written and directed by: Alexander Belinsky, camera: Genrich Marandzhyan,
production designer: Igor Vuskovich, Rimma Narinyan, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Galina Belyayeva, Alexander Blok, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Spartak Mishulin,
Vladislav Strzhelchik, Gali Abaidulov, Inna Ulyanova, Nikolay Parkhomenko, Ivan
Solovyev, Liliya Yevstigneyeva, Sergei Filippov
Based on Jacques Offenbach’s opera-buff of the same title.
1005 PODSLUSHANNY RAZGOVOR (OVERHEAD
CONVERSATION)
1984, 77 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Sergei Potepalov, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov,
production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Oleg Kutsenko, sound: Nikolai
Astakhov
Cast: Giya Dumbadze, Alexei Poluyan, Olga Agapova, Dmitri Sukhariov, Olga
Ozeretskovskaya, Olga Volkova, Alena Ionicheva, Alexander Tyaglo, Larisa
Solovyeva, Alexander Alexandrov
Andrei kept apart from his school fellows. He considered himself to be an independent person and his
friends were not numerous. But one day his imaginary independence failed — he believed the slander
and behaved in a manner unworthy of a man…
1006 PREFERANS PO PYATNITSAM (CARD GAME ON
FRIDAYS)
1984, 92 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Edgar Dubrovsky, camera: Ivan Bagayev,
production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Asya
Zvereva
Cast: Alexander Smirnov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Kirill Lavrov, Vera Glagoleva, Yuri
Gorobets, Ludmila Arinina, Alexei Mironov, Vladimir Yeremin, Alexander Pashutin,
Marina Yurasova, Alexander Susnin
Death of his father came as a shock to Alexei Shaposhnikov: a man who was far from being old and
was full of life suddenly died of a heart failure. Alexei decides to make some investigation and finds
out that father and his friends are paramount partners not only in card game they used to play every
Fridaty but also are his partners in illegal trade operations...
1007 PROKHINDIADA ILI BEG NA MESTE (TALE OF A
SMART FELLOW OR RINNING ON THE SPOT)
1984, 89 min., color
Comedy
Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, camera: Valery
Mulgaut, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Alexei Rybnikov, sound:
Natalya Levitina
Cast: Alexander Kalyagin, Ludmila Gurchenko, Tatyana Dogileva, Irina Dymchenko,
Viktor Zozulin, Igor Gorbachev, Vladimir Soshalsky, Yuri Kuznetsov, Nikolai
Ispolatov, Igor Nefedov, Valentin Smirnitsky, Valentina Kovel
San Sanych Lyubomudrov, a charming swindler, never says “no” to “important” people. A lot of
people find him indispensable and he does his best to be useful to people.
1008 REBYACHY PATRUL (CHILDREN’S PATROL)
1984, 69 min., color
Adventure
Director: Leonid Makarychev, screenplay: Arkady Krasilshchikov, Igor Shevtsov,
camera: Nikolai Pokoptsev, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Vladislav
Kladnitsky, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Pasha Plisov, Grisha Shchegal, Zhenya Popov, Dima Kravtsovich, Katya
Romanova, Sasha Makarycheva, Leonid Nevedomsky, Natalya Dmitriyeva, Ernst
Romanov, Vladimir Nosik, Vera Titova
Loosely based on short stories by Yuri Tretyakov
Children living in a village organise their own patrol service to fight poaches fishing in local lakes.
1009 TRI PROTSENTA RISKA (THREE PER CENT OF
RISK)
1984, 68 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Shredel, Yegor Gorashchenko, camera: Oleg
Kukhovarenko, production designer: Mikhail Shcheglov, misic: Veniamin Basner,
sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Ivan Bortnik, Alexender Demyanenko,
Valery Zolotukhin, Irina Reznikova, Georgy Drozd, Yuri Dedovuch, Vladimir
Nekrasov, Arkady Shalolashvili, Tatyana Vasilyeva, Gelena Ivlieva
Based on literary works by Mark Gallai
A pilot testing a new fighter gets into an accident, crashes the plane and goes out of operation. The
command commits Yevgeny Fetisov to conduct ten remaining flights, declining his application for
leave.
1010 CHELYUSKINTSY (CHELYUSKINTSY)
1984, 2 parts, 135 min., color
Historical drama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Oscar Kurganov, camera: Nikolay Zhilin,
production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Oleg Khromushin, sound: Irina
Volkova
Cast: Yevgeny Gvozdev, Oleg Belonuchkin, Alexander Lazarev, Pyotr Velyaminov,
Igor Komarov, Valery Kravchenko, Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev, Semyon Morozov,
Yurti Lazarev, Vladimir Osipchuk, Georgy Teikh, Alexander Alekseyev, Gennady
Chernayev, Valery Doronin
In February 1933 in the Chukotsky Sea the S.S. “Chelyuskin” was crashed by ice and sank. The ship
crew and participants of the polar research expedition landed on an ice float waiting to be rescued.
However, the rescue party was able to come only two months later.
1011 CHUZHAYA ZHENA I MUZH POD KROVATYU
(SOMEBODY ELSE’S WIFE AND A HUSBAND UNDER THE
BED)
1984, 67 min., color
Tragicomedy
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, camera: Yuri Veksler,
production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Timur Kogan, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Yefremov, Marina Neyelova, Nikolay Burlyaev, Stanislav
Sadalsky, Marina Shimanskaya, Yuri Bogatyrev
Loosely based on early short stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1012 VIYTI ZAMUZH ZA KAPITANA (TO MARRY A
CAPTAIN)
1985, 90 min., color
Lyrical comedy
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Valentin Chernykh, camera: Boris Liznyev,
production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Isaak Schwarts, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Vera Glagoleva, Viktor Proskurin, Vera Vasilyeva, Nikolai Rybnikov, Yuri
Demich, Tatyana Rudina, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Fyodor Odinokov
A border guard officer, Alexander Blinov, goes on vacation. As a favor to his regiment major, he
delivers a parcel to his friend, Elena Zhuravlyova, a freelance reporter working for the local TV
company. Due to circumstances Blinov must accompany Elena on her assignments. At the same time,
he attempts to “improve” the young woman since she is a bit too careless…
1013 GRYADUSHCHEMU VEKU (FOR THE DAYS TO
COME)
1985, 5 parts., 349 min., color
Drama
Director: Iskander Khamrayev, screenplay: Georgy Markov, Eduard Shim, camera:
Lev Kolganov, production designer Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Eduard
Artemyev, sound: Gennady Korkhovoy
Cast: Yuozas Kiselyus, Yelena Proklova, Grazhina Baikshite, Otar Koberidze,
Vsevolod Shilovsky, Donatas Banionis, Ivan Krasko
Based on a novel by Georgy Markov.
The last part of the trilogy on several generations of the Strogovs. (The first two films were “The
Strogovs” and “The Salt of the Earth”). Set in mid 1980s the film narrates the story of Maxim Strogov
— the secretary of a regional party committee in the Urals, who was promoted to this high post during
perestroika.
1014 ZIMNYAYA VISHNYA (THE WINTER CHERRY)
1985, 91 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, camera: Yury Veksler,
production designer Bella Manevich, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya
Zvereva
Cast: Yelena Safonova, Nina Ruslanova, Larisa Udovichenko, Vitaly Solomin,
Alexander Lenkov, Ivar Kalnynsh, Sergei Parshin, Alla Osipenko
Olga lives alone with her five year old son, and cherishes the hope that she will be happy with Vadim,
the man she loves. But he is married and their rare hasty meetings leave Olga with bitter feelings of
resentment. One day, a real prince charming, Herbert, appears in Olga's life. He is intelligent,
handsome and well-off. Only when he offers her marriage, doesVadim realize what he is loosing, but…
1015 VOSKRESNY PAPA (DADDY FOR SUNDAYS)
1985, 85 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Edward Akopov, camera: Henrich
Marandzhyan, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Veniamin Basner,
sound: Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Dima Grankin, Yuri Duvanov, Tamara Akulova, Galina Polskikh, Boris
Shcherbakov, Viktor Shulgin, Nina Urgant, Vera Glagoleva, Anya Nakhapetova,
Mikhail Kokshenov
One day a week, on Sundays, the six year old Alyosha meets his daddy. Half a year ago, his parents,
Dima and Masha, were separated. On this 'daddy's' day Alyosha tries all sorts of tricks aimed at
bringing his mommy and daddy together again.
1016 VOT MOYA DEREVNYA (HERE IS MY VILLAGE)
1985, 92 min., color
Comedy
Written and directed by: Viktor Tregubovich, camera: Vladimir Burykin,
production designer: Viktor Amelchenko, misic: Aleksei Rybnikov, sound: Natalya
Levitina
Cast: Alexei Buldakov, Larisa Grebenshchikova, Alexander Fatyushin, Natalya
Yegorova, Alexander Pashutin, Nina Usatova, Nina Ruslanova, Yuri Dubrovin,
Vsevolod Kuznetsov
The hero of the film, the chairman of a collective farm, Pavel Zuzenok is anxious to save his village,
the land and its people. Their existence is threatened by a large-size construction project. So Pavel
comes up with a rather unusual solution of the problem. He realizes that the village must be preserved
and, moreover, that it can benefit the project.
1017 VSTRETIMSYA V METRO (MEET ME IN THE
METRO)
1985, 2 parts, 134 min., color
Drama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Viktor Sokolov, Albina Shulgina, camera:
Vladimir Dyakonov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Andrei Petrov,
sound: Larisa Maslova
Cast: Pyotr Velyaminov, Lilita Ozolinya, Nikolai Ivanov, Larisa Guzeyeva, Yelena
Popova, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktor Shulgin, Anzhelika Nevolina
On the eve of the outbreak of World War II a team of Moscow metro builders come to Leningrad to
begin construction of the 'underground railway.' Instead they have to fulfill the most difficult and
dangerous task — to build the legendary 'Road of Life' to save the city, besieged by the Nazis.
1018 KONTRAKT VEKA (THE CONTRACT OF THE
CENTURY)
1985, 2 parts, 134 min., color
Drama
Director: Aleksander Muratov, screenplay: Eduard Volodarsky, Vasily
Chichkov, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov,
misic: Alexander Mikhailov, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Vladimir Gostyukhin, Nikolai Karachentsev, Oleg Borisov, Vadim Yakovlev,
Olgert Kroders, Elle Kull, Valentin Gaft, Lembit Ulfsak
An international agreement on a gas pipeline construction from Siberia to western Europe was called
“the contract of the century.” The signing of the contract was complicated by certain dramatical
situations — often connected with the world of 'big politics.'
1019 MARITSA (MARITSA)
1985, 67 min., color
Musical comedy
Director: Aleksander Belinsky, screenplay: Vladimir Konstantinov, Boris Ratzer,
camera: Eduard Rozovsky, production designer: Rimma Narinyan, sound: Yelena
Demidova
Cast: Natalya Andreichenko, Timofey Spivak, Maria Mironova, Vladimir Zeldin,
Vera Sitnikova, Igor Sklyar, Inna Makarova
A young wealthy widow, Maritsa, is a tasty morsel for men hunting for a rich wife. To get rid of her
suitors, Maritsa declares that she is going to marry the one and only man — and she utters the first
name that comes to her mind. However, it turns out that such a man does exist and he is hurrying to
meet his 'fiancee.'
1020 NAM NE DANO PREDUGADAT (IT IS NOT IN OUR
POWER TO FORETELL)
1985, 29 min., color
Drama
Director: Olga Narutskaya, screenplay: Nadezhda Kozhushannaya, camera:Valery
Martynov, production designer: Aleksei Rudyakov, misic:Algirdas Paulavichyus,
sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Yevdokiya Germanova, Konstantin Vorobyov, Alexei Prede, Olga Yeliseyeva
A young girl working on a factory in Leningrad during the Nazi seige meets a young lieutenant going
with his battalion to the front line. As it turned out, this meeting was the first and the last one.
1021 PODSUDIMY (THE DEFENDANT)
1985, 91 min., color
Drama
Director: Iosif Kheifits, screenplay: Boris Vasilyev, Iosif Heifits, camera: Valery
Blinov, production designer: Yelena Fomina, music from pieces by: Sergei
Rachmaninov, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Mikhail Zhigalov, Tatyana Shestakova, Rolan Bykov, Yuri Kuznetsov
Based Boris Vasilyev’s novel “Before the Verdict Is On...”
A murder case is being heard in a court. The defendant is an old man and a disabled war veteran. What
made this man, who fought for his country, pull the trigger of his sporting gun in peacetime?
1022 POROKH (GUNPOWDER)
1985, 92 min., color
War drama
Director: Viktor Aristov, screenplay: Viktor Aristov, Artur Makarov, camera: Yuri
Vorontsov, production designer: Vladimir Bannykh, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Yuri Belyayev, Svetlana Bragarnik, Lubov Kalyuzhnaya, Vadim Makarovsky,
Nozheri Choneshvilli, Vladimir Varentsov, Konstantin Sarynin, Logman Kerimov
At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon
they will fire their last shot, and after that the defense of the city will be doomed. The film is based on a
true event: a small group of fearless soldiers transported a large supply of gunpowder through enemy
lines to Leningrad.
1023 PROVERKA NA DOROGAKH (BEING PROVEN ON
THE ROADS)
1985, 97 min., b/w. Made in 1971 under original title “‘Happy New Year’ Operation”
Drama
Director: Alexei German, screenplay: Eduard Volodarsky, camera: Yakov
Sklyansky, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Isaak Shwarts, sound:
Tigran Silayev
Cast: Rolan Bykov, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Oleg Borisov, Fyodor Odinokov, Aida
Zaitse, Gennady Dyudyayev, Nikolai Burlyayev, Viktor Pavlov, Vladimir Zamansky
Based on war stories by Yuri German.
Alexander Lazarev, a former Red Army sergeant, finds himself in a German camp for prisoners of war.
Lacking spirit, he agrees to collaborate with the Nazis. Later, regretting his cowardice, he joins a
partisan detachment. There is a strong disagreement between the commander and the commissar of the
detachment over Lazarev. Finally, the commander insists on giving Lazarev a chance: they will put him
through the test in a reconnaissance operation scouting out the area roads.
 The film was awarded the State Premium of the USSR (1988).
1024 PROSTAYA SMERT (A SIMPLE DEATH)
1985, 67 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Aleksander Kaidanovsky, camera: Yuri Klimenko,
production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Alisa Freindlikh, Valery Priyomykhov, Vitautas Paukshte, Mikhail Danilov
Loosely based on Lev Tolstoy’s short story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”
The world and life itself, seen through the eyes of the hero of the film, turn out to be totally indifferent
to his pain and sufferings. Unexpectedly, at the very moment of his death he experiences a sense of
relief and tranquility.
1025 PROTIVOSTOYANIYE (CONFRONTATION)
1985, 5 parts, 392 min., color
Detective
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Yulian Semyonov, camera: Valery
Fedosov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Alexander Knaifel,
sound: Eduard Vanunts
Cast: Oleg Basilashvili, Andrey Boltnev, Yuri Kuznetsov, Murman Dzhinoriya,
Viktor Gogolev, Olga Semyonova, Alexander Filippenko, Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina,
Stanislav Sadalsky, Sergei Bekhterev, Natalya Saiko, Valdimir Golovin, Vitautas
Paukshte
Based on Yulian Semyonov’s novel of the same title.
The same “hand” can be traced to involvement in several dreadful crimes committed years apart.
Colonel Kostenko, investigating the case realizes that in order to find the criminal he will have to look
into the years of World War II.
1026 RADI NESKOLKIKH STROCHEK (FOR A FEW
LINES)
1985, 77 min., color
War drama
Director: Alexander Rogozhkin, screenplay: Arkady Krasilshchikov, camera: Ivan
Bagayev, production designer: Stanislav Romanovsky, misic:Algidras
Paulavichyus, sound: Nikolai Astakhov
Cast: Nikita Mikhailovsky, Nelly Popova, Vladimir Olekseyenko, Anton Adasinsky,
Vladimir Yeriomin, Anatoly Grachev, Yuri Dubrovin, Aleksei Buldakov, Valery
Zakharyev, Sergei Prokhanov
Loosely based on Mikhail Alekseyev’s novel “A Division Newsletter”
Advancing Red Army troops have reached the Soviet state border in the Carpathian mountains. The
division newspaper office is located near the front line. The film describes the everyday work of war
reporters, shows the brief encounters between people, love and loss.
1027 REIS DVESTI DVADTSAT DVA (FLIGHT 222)
1985, 2 parts, 130 min., color
A political detective
Written and directed by: Sergei Mikaelyan, camera: Sergei Astakhov, production
designer: Elizaveta Urlina, misic: Sergei Banevich, sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Larisa Polyakova, Nikolai Kochnev, Nikolai Alyoshin, Alexander Babanov,
Yevgeny Yakhontov, German Katyushenko, Vilnis Bekkeris, Georgy Karelsky
American authorities prevent the departure of a Soviet airliner because they are trying to persuade a
Soviet actress to defect.
1028 SNEGUROCHKU VYZYVALI? (DID YOU CALL THE
SNOW MAIDEN?)
1985, 67 min., color
Musical comedy
Director: Valentin Morozov, screenplay: Nina Davydova, Stanislav Alexandrov,
camera: Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic:
Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound: Mikhail Viktorov
Cast: Irina Alfyorova, Vladimir Menshov, Olga Volkova, Ivan Krasko, Nikolai
Lavrov, Kolya Ivanovsky
Every year at the end of December Svetlana Nechayeva, a drama theatre actress, puts on the costume of
the Snow Maiden. This year the unexpected an happens: her partner, who usually plays the part of
Santa Claus, suddenly falls ill and their driver Sergeyev volunteers to play his part.
1029 SON V RUKU ILI CHEMODAN (A DREAM COME
TRUE OR THE SUITCASE)
1985, 67 min., color
Comedy
Director: Ernest Yasan, screenplay: Vladimir Lobanov, camera: Vladimir Burykin,
production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Galina
Golubeva
Cast: Vladimir Basov, Jr., Irina Malysheva, Alexander Kuznetsov, Natalya
Yagunova, Zoya Kratirova, Vladimir Yeremin, Ernst Romanov, Olga Volkova
A young reporter, Pavel Tyurin, has been recently released from military service. He gets his first
serious assignment: to write a satirical story, that offends some very influential persons.
1030 SOPERNITSY (THE RIVALS)
1985, 87 min., color
Sports drama
Director: Viktor Sadovsky, screenplay: Valentin Yezhov, Viktor Sadovsky, camera:
Viktor Karasyov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vladlen
Chistyakov, sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Larisa Guseyeva, Yuri Demich, Oleg Shtefanko, Viktoriya Sadovskaya, Boris
Zaidenberg, Georgy Vitsin, Pyotr Shelokhonov
After failing to win the gold medal in rowing and ending up with the silver, Natalya Ozernikova spends
her vacation with her grandfather in the Crimea. There she meets wind-surfing enthusiasts. Fascinated
by the beautiful and daring sport the heroine decides to take part in an international contest and finally
regains her winning spirit.
1031 SOFIA KOVALEVSKAYA (SOFIA
KOVALEVSKAYA)
1985, 3 parts, 218 min., color
Biopic
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Dmitry Vasiliu, Boris
Dobrodeyev, camera: Sergei Yurizditsky, production designer: Georgy Kropachev,
misic: Isaak Shwarts, sound: Konstantin Lashkov, Vladimir Persov
Cast: Yelena Safonova, Vladimir Letenkov, Aristarkh Livanov, Nataliya Sayko,
Algimantas Masyulis, Yelena Solovey, Alexander Filippenko, Yelena Arzhanik,
Lembit Ulfsak, Stanislav Landgraf, Yuri Solomin
The life and achievements of the prominent Russian mathematician, Sofia Kovalevskaya.
1032 CHUZHIYE ZDES NE KHODYAT (ALIENS ARE
FORBIDDEN)
1985, 76 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Anatoly Vekhotko, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, Pavel Finn, Roman
Yershov, camera: Aleksander Chechulin, production designer: Vladimir Kostin,
misic: Yefrem Podgayts, sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Vladimir Basov, Jr., Larisa Guzeyeva, Yuri Belyayev, Leonard Varfolomeyev,
Sergei Kozyrev, Sergei Bekhterev
A crime has been committed; someone has stolen money from the safe of the fishermen's cooperative.
The case is investigated by a young police lieutenant. According to one of the versions the suspect is
the hardened criminal nicknamed ‘Chuma’ (the plague), who is hiding nearby.
1033 EI, NA LINKORE! (AHOY, ON A BATTLESHIP!)
1985, 41 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Sergei Snezhkin, screenplay: Valery Mnatsakanov, camera: Valery
Martynov, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic:Sergei
Banevich, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Rolan Bykov, Mikhail Matveyev, Igor Strunin, Vakhtang Panchulidze
Three seamen, people of different ages, find themselves in a Leningrad hospital ward. The relations of
ordinary roommates grow into true friendship.
1034 DETSKAYA PLOSHCHADKA (CHILDREN’S
PLAYGROUND)
1986, 77 min., color
Drama
Director: Svetlana Proskurina, screenplay: Pavel Finn, camera: Tatyana Loginova,
production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Leonid
Gavrichenko
Cast: Darya Shpalikova, Vadim Lyubshin, Nikolai Lavrov, Viktor Proskurin, Natalya
Yegorova
Jeanna, who grew up in an orphanage, works at a factory. Roman is an ambulance car driver. The
young couple lived happily until the moment when Roman got involved in activities of a gang of
thieves.
1035 DZHEK VOSMYORKIN — AMERIKANETS (JACK
VOSMYORKIN — AN AMERICAN)
1986, 3 parts, 201 min., color
Musical comedy
In 1987 a 2-part cineversion was released
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Arkady Tyagai, Anatoly Kozak, Yevgeny
Tatarsky, camera: Valery Mulgaut, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov,
misic: Alexander Zhurbin, sound: Mikhail Viktorov
Cast: Alexander Kuznetsov, Lubov Malinovskaya, Irina Rakshina, Mikhail Vaskov,
Lev Durov, Nadezhda Smirnova, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Alexander Galibin
Yasha Vosmyorkin came to America when he was a small boy. When he heard that the Revolution
took place in Russia he decided to return home. This is how Yasha, who changed in America his name
to Jack, became a farmer in Russia and began to realise his American ideas in Russia.
1036 ZHIZN KLIMA SAMGINA (KLIM SAMGIN’S LIFE)
1986, 14 parts, 16 h. 46 min., color
Drama
Director: Viktor Titov, screenplay: Alexander Lapshin, Viktor Titov, camera:
Vladimir Ilyin, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Nikolay Martynov, sound:
Nataliya Avanesova
Cast: Andrei Rudensky, Yelena Solovey, Ernst Romanov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Valentina Yakunina, Sergei Koltakov, Yakov Stepanov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Sergei
Bekhterev, Mikhail Gluzsky, Natalya Yegorova, Natalya Gundareva, Alexei Zharkov,
Irina Mazurkevich, Larisa Guzeyeva, Yevgeniya Glushenko, Alexander Galibin,
Svetlana Smirnova, Andreis Zhagars, Alexander Kalyagin, Natalya Lapina, Andrei
Boltnev, Igor Vladimirov
Based on Maxim Gorky’s novel of the same title.
Life of an intellectual Samgin is shown against backdrop of grand panorama of life in Russia in period
of 1877 — 1917. A complicated and exceptional personality, Samgin is trying to find his way to
preserve his individuality in difficult times of social cataclysms in Russia.
1037 ZA VETLUGOI REKOI (BEHIND THE VETLUGA
RIVER)
1986, 88 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Sergei Linkov, screenplay: Radiy Kushnerovich, camera: Konstantin
Ryzhov, production designer: Yelena Fomina, misic: Stanislav Vazhov, sound:
Nataliya Levitina
Cast: Yanina Lisovskaya, Vasiliy Mishchenko, Maria Pastukhova, Nina Ruslanova
Life of a young woman living in village is quite commonplace... However, even the most prosaic
everyday life can be full of poetry, turning everything that surrounds it in a kind of a song.
1038 ZNAYU TOLKO YA (I AM THE ONLY ONE TO
KNOW)
1986, 89 min., color
Drama
Director: Karen Gevorkyan, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, camera: Genrich
Marandzyan, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound:
Eduard Vanunts
Cast: Pyotr Velyaminov, Tatyana Tashkova, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Yuri Shlykov,
Olga Melikhova, Sergei Kharchenko, Yuri Mogiltsev, Viktor Vorobyev, Maria
Prizvan-Sokolova
A house is falling apart at our eyes. Trip of the lead character of the film, a famous architect into the
past, his attempts to realise the full extent of his responsibility for the things that happened lead to a
complete crash of his life.
1039 ISKLYUCHENIYE BEZ PRAVIL (EXEPTIONS
WITHOUT RULES)
1986, almanach of short films based on short stories by Mikhail Mishin
1. GOLOS (VOICE)
25 min., color
Fantastic comedy
Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Mikhail Mishin, camera: Anatoly Lapshov,
production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound:
Gennady Korkhovoy
Cast: Semyon Farada, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Vsevolod
Shilovsky, Alexander Belinsky, Anatoly Slivnikov, Anatoly Rudakov
Say what you think and not what you are expected to say. This is the morale of this amusing tale, the
hero of which all of a sudden began to use “stock phrases” in his everyday life.
2. ZOLOTAYA PUGOVITSA (GOLDEN BUTTON)
17 min., color
Tragicomedy
Director: Alexander Rogozhkin, screenplay: Mikhail Mishin, camera: Valery
Martynov, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Algidras
Paulavichus, sound: Leonid Izakov
Cast: Semyon Morozov, Yevgeny Artemyev, Tatyana Barkova, Vladimir Bogdanov,
Sergei Bryantsev
Drawn to complete absurd situation in life of a dodger who regards his personal interests to be of
paramount importance.
3. SKREPKI (PAPER CLIPS)
15 min., color
Satirical comedy
Director: Sergei Baranov, Valery Naumov, screenplay: Mikhail Mishin, camera:
Sergei Yurizditsky, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Algidras
Paulavichus, sound: Larisa Maslova
Cast: Alexander Galibin, Gennady Bogachev, Olga Volkova, Igor Yefimov
Authors of the film mock the idle talk, formalism and servility of the hero of the story.
4. EKSKURSANT (TOURIST)
38 min., color
Comedy
Director: Viktor Buturlin, screenplay: Mikhail Mishin, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev,
production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Algidras Paulavichus, sound:
Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Viktor Bychkov, Olga Samoshina
A toy factory worker due to his amazing likeness to a foreign tourist gets into a number of funny
situations.
1040 KAK STAT ZVEZDOY (HOW TO BECOME A STAR)
1986, 2 parts, 52 min., color
Musical show
Written and directed by: Vitaly Aksyonov, camera: Ivan Bagayev, production
designer: Stanislav Romanovsky, misic: Viktor Reznikov, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Vladimir Tatosov, Valery Leontyev, Anna Tveleneva, Tatyana Gakkel,
Raimond Pauls, Harry Bash, Maksim Leonidov, Vyacheslav Polunin
Variety art show in which popular actors and musical stars participate.
1041 KRASNAYA STRELA (RED ARROW)
1986, 92 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Iskander Khamrayev, Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Edgar Dubrovsky,
Alexander Ozhegov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Yevgeny
Gukov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Yelena Smirnova, Andrei Smirnov, Vladimir Yeremin, Osvald
Berzinsh, Ludmila Arinina, Galina Figlovskaya, Vadim Yakovlev, Maria Lavrova,
Zoya Bogomolova, Alexander Vdovin, Artyom Karapetyan, Pyotr Shelokhonov,
Vadim Lobanov, Sergei Bekhterev
Director of a large corporation gets an important state order. The story is focused on the analysis of
crises of a leader belonging to an old formation.
1042 LEVSHA (LEFT-HANDER)
1986, 89 min., color
Satirical fairy tale
Written and directed by: Sergei Ovcharov, camera: Valery Fedosov, production
designer: Nataliya Vasilyeva, misic: Igor Matsiyevsky, sound: Vladimir Persov
Based on Nikolai Leskov’s short story of the same title
A popular tale of a gifted gunsmith the Left-hander is told in a manner imitating the style of Russian
traditional popular print.
1043 MIF (MYTH)
1986, 2 parts, 136 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Kirill Laskari, camera: Sergei
Yurizditsky, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Alexander Knaifel,
sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Regina Kuzmicheva, Maris Liepa, Lidiya Bozhozovskaya, Yevgeny Leven,
Abessalom Loriya, Vladimir Zamansky, Gali Abaydulov
Loosely based on “The Twenty Third Pirouette”, a short story by Kirill Laskari
The story is focused on life of ballet dancers, their aspirations and searches for new ways in art, their
personal dramas, hard exhausting labour and as a reward — brief moments of inspiration and
happiness.
1044 NASH PAPA MAYONEZ (OUR DAD MAYONNAISE)
1986, 16 min., color
Grotesque comedy
Director: Yuri Afanasyev, screenplay: Igor Ageyev, camera: Vladimir Brylyakov,
production designer: Mikhail Gerasimov, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Lyudmila Arinina, Yelena Ageyeva, Vladimir Yeryemin, Yelena Kondulainen,
Ernst Romanov, Illarion Naidenko, Natasha Novysh
1045 PISMA MYORTVOGO CHELOVEKA (LETTERS OF
THE DEAD MAN)
1986, 88 min., color, wide screen
Anti-utopia
Director: Konstantin Lopushansky, screenplay: Konstantin Lopushansky,
Vyacheslav Ryubakov, Boris Strugatsky, camera: Nikolai Prokoptsev, production
designers: Yelena Amshinskaya, Viktor Ivanov, misic: Alexander Zhurbin, sound:
Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Rolan Bykov, Iosif Ryklin, Viktor Mikhailov, Alexander Sabinin, Nora
Gryakalova, Vera Mayorova, Vatslav Dvorzhetsky, Svetlana Smirnova, Nikolai
Alkanov
Nuclear blast on an American military base killed the majority of population, those who survived are
doomed to die slowly. Among them is a small group of children, hiding in catacombs. Trying to
conceal the cause of the disaster a group of militarists uses it as a pretext to start World War III.
 The film was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers’ State Premium of the RSFSR (1987).
1046 PLATA ZA PROYESD (FARE)
1986, 93 min., color
Drama
Director: Vyacheslav Sorokin, screenplay: Pavel Fomin, camera: Yuri Vorontsov,
production designer: Vladimir Bannykh, misic: Eduard Artemyev, sound: Nikolai
Astakhov
Cast: Vladimir Knyazev, Anton Bychkov, Galina Dolya, Viktor Tzepayev, Yuri
Kochegarov, Viktor Gogolev, Oleg Letnikov, Vladimir Litvinov, Alexander
Tkachenok
Loosely based on Ilya Shtemler’s novel “Taxi Park”.
Oleg Sergachev was one of the best drivers in a taxi company. He was on good terms with everybody,
knew how to grease people’s palms. He lived without any troubles and enjoyed his life until the day
when a new director came to work for the company.
1047 POSLEDNAYA DOROGA (THE LAST TRIP)
1986, 101 min., color
Historical — biographical drama
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Yakov Gordin, Leonid Menaker, camera:
Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Andrei
Petrov, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Alexander Kalyagin, Vadim Medvedev, Irina Kupchenko, Yelena Karadzhova,
Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Gediminas Storpirshtis, Andrei Myagkov, Anna
Kamenkova, Sergei Sazontyev, Vyacheslav Yezepov, Albert Filozov, Ivan Krasko,
Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Sergei Zhigunov
The story takes its beginning on the night of January 27, 1837, when all the main events leading to the
tragic end of Alexander Pushkin’s life have already happened. Ahead are the Chyornaya river... the
duel... the death of the poet.
1048 PRI OTKRYTYKH DVERYAKH (WITH OPEN
DOORS)
1986, 2 parts, 134 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ernest Yasan, screenplay: Valentin Azernikov, camera: Nikolai
Stroganov, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Georgy Garanyan, sound:
Galina Golubeva
Cast: Viktor Mikhailov, Tatyana Vasilyeva, Nina Ruslanova, Stanislav Landgraf,
Nikolai Volkov, Jr., Alexei Mironov, Olga Volkova, Semyon Farada, Irina Rozanova,
Nina Usatova, Andrei Tolubeyev
Based on Viktor Azernikov’s play of the same title
What prevents heroes of this film from being sincere with each other? Habitual dual moral standards,
when there is truth “for oneself” and “for other people”, when it is regarded to be normal to say one
thing and to do the other.
1049 PRORYV (BREAK THROUGH)
1986, 99 min., color, wide screen
Catastrophe film
Director: Dmitry Svetozarov, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Sergei
Astakhov, production designer: Mikhail Suzdalov, misic: Andrei Makarevich,
Alexander Zaitsev, Alexander Kutikov, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Oleg Borisov, Andrei Rostotsky, Yuri Demich, Mikhail Danilov, Alexander
Susnin, Yuri Kuznetsov, Andrei Krasko, Vladimir Baranov, Valery Kravchenko, Yuri
Oskin, Yuri Solovyev, Nikolai Burov, Natalya Akimova
The story is based on real events: a soil sank on one of the sections of subway being constructed in
Leningrad...Subway builders take up the challenge.
1050 PRIKLYUCHENIYA SHERLOKA HOLMSA I
DOKTORA VATSONA. DVADTSATY VEK NACHINAYETSYA.
(ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR. WATSON.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BEGINS.)
1986, 2 parts, 157 min., color
Detective
Written and directed by: Igor Maslennikov, camera: Yuri Veksler, production
designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Bronislav Brondukov, Innokenty
Smoktunovsky, Boris Kluyev, Alexander Romantsov, Yelena Safonova, Larisa
Guseyeva, Igor Yefimov, Viktor Koretsky, Leonid Kuravlyov, Rina Zelionaya
Loosely based on short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
1051 PROSTI (FORGIVE ME)
1986, 84 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Ernst Yasan, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, camera: Ivan Bagayev,
production designer: Stanislav Romanovsky, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Galina
Golubeva
Cast: Natalya Andreichenko, Igor Kostolevsky, Viktor Merezhko, Alexandra
Yakovleva, Alisa Freinlikh, Vladimir Menshov, Alexei Zharkov, Tatyana Mikhailova,
Masha Merezhko, Alexander Kuznetsov, Olga Volkova
The heroine of the film finds out that her husband has a young mistress and tries to pay him in his own
coin. The attempt results in a tragedy. Going through dramatic experience she realises that she should
keep her family.
1052 SENTIMENTALNOYE PUTESHESTVIYE NA
KARTOSHKY (A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY WITH A
HARVESTING TEAM)
1986, 83 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Dmitry Dolinin, screenplay: Andrei Smirnov, camera: Vladimir Ivanov,
production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vitaly Chernitsky, sound: Alexander
Gruzdev
Cast: Filipp Yankovsky, Anzhelika Nevolina, Pyotr Semak, Andrei Gusev, Vasily
Arkanov, Nikolai Ustinov, Yevgeniya Barkhan, Fyodor Valikov, Elvira Kolotukhina,
Sergei Russkin
A youngster who is a city-dweller and “mother’s darling” enters a college and is sent with a group of
students to a collective farm to harvest potatoes. Here he goes through the first painful experiences:
getting in love, disappointment and cruelty of human relations.
1053 SKAZANIYE O KHRABROM KHOCHBARE (TALE
OF BRAVE KHOCHBAR)
1986, 96 min., color
Poetic parable
Directors: Askhab Abakarov, Mikhail Ordovsky, screenplay: Svetlana Karmalita,
camera: Oleg Kukhovarenko, Nikolai Prokoptsev, production designer: Valery
Yurkevich, misic: Shirvani Chalayev, sound: Mikhail Viktorov
Cast: Konstantin Butayev, Abdurashid Makhsudov, Irina Logunovich, Bogand
Magomedov, Omar-Danya Podolsky, Mukhtabek Kantemirov, Magomed Khalilov,
Vitasitas Paukshte, Yunus Yusupov
Loosely based on poem by Rasul Gamzatov
The story is set in the 17th century is Dagestan. Young man Khochbar is accompanying Saadat, the
daughter of the ruler of Khunzakhsky khanate, married for political reasons to the son of the ruler of
Kaspian lands. During the long journey the two young people come to love each other which leads to
tragedy.
1054 SKORBNOYE BESCHUVSTVIYE (MOURNFUL
INSENSITIVITY)
1986, 97 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Alexander Sokurov, screenplay: Yuri Arabov, camera: Sergei
Yurizditsky, production designer: Yelena Amshinskaya, sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Alla Osipenko, Tatyana Yegorova, Dmitry Bryantsev,
Vladimir Zamansky, Viktoriya Amitova, Irina Sokolova, Vadim Zhuk, Andrei
Reshetin, Ilya Revin, Vladimir Dmitriyev
Loosely based on Bernard Shaw’s play “Heartbreak House”.
World War I. Full of guests house of old captain Shotover resembles Noah’s Ark. It may seem that life
outside the house has nothing to do with the life of its inhabitants: a flirtation turning into a nonsense,
love drama which hides the hatred, pain and sorrow in emptiness which is condensing to the point of
explosion.
1055 SOSHEDSHIYE S NEBES (DESCENDED FROM
HEAVENS)
1986, 80 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Nataliya Troshchenko, screenplay: Vladimir Kunin, camera: Alexander
Chechulin, production designer: Rimma Narinyan, misic: Diana Smorgonskaya,
sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Vera Glagoleva, Alexander Abdulov, Yelena Popova, Yuri Belyayev, Kirill
Alexeyev, Oleg Melenevsky, Nikolai Ivanov, Viktor Kostetsky
Loosely based on Alexei Kapler’s novel “Two of Twenty Million”
1056 TIKHOYE SLEDSTVIYE (QUIET INVESTIGATION)
1986, 68 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Alexander Pashovkin, screenplay: Alexander Mindadze, camera:
Alexander Chechulin, Vladimir Dyakonov, production designer: Yelizaveta Urlina,
misic: Mark Minkov, sound: Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Alexei Buldakov, Vladimir Kuznesov, Mikhail Danilov, Igor Dobryakov,
Nikolai Lavrov, Fyodor Odinokov, Valery Priyemykhov, Svetlana Smirnova, Alexei
Susnin
Based on Sergei Rodionov’s novel “Cambrian Clay”
Detective Ryabinkin is commissioned to investigate the case of gasoline waste. His predesessor was
removed from the investigation. Investigating the case Ryabinkin makes a mistake which results in the
death of the suspect.
1057 FUETE (FOUETTE)
1986, 100 min., color
Melodrama
Directors: Vladimir Vasilyev, Boris Yermolayev, screenplay: Boris Yermolayev,
Savva Kulish, camera: Valery Mironov, production designers: Mikhail Shcheglov,
Yelizaveta Urlina, music from compositions by Bach, Mozart, Pyotr Tchaikovsky,
Oleg Karavaychuk, A. Bolchev, sound: Garri Belenky
Cast: Yekaterina Maksimova, Vladimir Vasilyev, Nataliya Bolshakova, Angelina
Kabarova, Valentin Gaft, Konstantin Zaklinsky, Alla Osipenko, Olga Samoshina,
Aristarkh Livanov, Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, Maria Berggolts, Yevgeny Kolobov,
Vladimir Vorobyov
Ballerina Yelena Knyazeva is going through a crises in her artistic life, further complicated by personal
problems.
1058 APELLYATSIYA (THE APPEAL)
1987, 91 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Valery Guryanov, screenplay: Edward Volodarsky, camera: Vadim
Grammatikov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Diana Smorgonskaya,
sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Vladimir Konkin, Vsevolod Sanayev, Vsevolod
Shilovski, Vadim Lobanov, Marina Troshina, Viktor Kartashov, Igor Yefimov,
Anatoly Rudakov
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Viktor Grebeniuk.
Pressured by First Secretary of the District Party Committee, the meeting of the Party Bureau dismissed
the collective farm agronomist Boris Kholmovoy and stripped him of Party membership, allegedly for
arbitrary conduct. Disagreeing with the decision of the District Party Committee, he appeals against it...
1059 BASHNYA (THE TOWER)
1987, 89 min., color
Drama
Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Alexander Alexandrov, camera: Valery
Myulgaut, production designers: Grachiya Mekinyan, Mikhail Gavrilov, misic: Igor
Tsvetkov, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Olga Ostroumova, Vadim Lobanov, Georgy Burkov, Sergei Sazontyev, Ivan
Agafonov, Raisa Ryazanova, Irina Apeximova, Alexei Yasulovich, Svetlana Gaitan
Close to the highway there is a water tower, with the mechanic, his wife and adopted invalid son living
inside the fencing. Shortly they are joined by a family living in the capital, forced to seek shelter due to
their car's failure. The visitors' stay is going to be extensive, later to develop into a tragedy...
1060 BELOYE PROKLYATIYE (THE WHITE CURSE)
1987, 81 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Kovalsky, screenplay: Igor Fyodorov, camera: Nikolai Stroganov,
production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Harry Belenky
Cast: Lembit Ulfsak, Alexandra Aasmae (Yakovleva), Viktor Bychkov, Larisa
Guzeyeva, Igor Dmitriyev, Gennady Nilov, Anna Tveleneva
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Viktor Sanin.
1061 VEZUCHY CHELOVEK (THE LUCKY MAN)
1987, 2 parts, 139 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Yuri Chernyakov, camera: Vladimir
Burykin, production designer: Vladislav Orlov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound:
Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Vladimir Kashpur, Alexander Pashutin, Lev Borisov, Yuri Demich, Alexei
Krychenkov, Alexander Susnin
Loosely based on “A Lapse”, a novel by Yuri Chernyakov
The main character is a tactful, sympathetic person; as often as not, he just gets lucky. His ability to
change the lives of those close to him to the better, springing from the traits of his personality, is fully
revealed...
1062 VZLOMSCHIK (THE BURGLAR)
1987, 90 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Valery Ogorodnikov, screenplay: Valery Priyemykhov, camera: Valery
Mironov, production designer: Viktor Ivanov, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Aliakper
Gasan-zade
Cast: Oleg Yelykomov, Konstantin Kinchev, Yuri Tsapnik, Svetlana Gaytan, Polina
Petrenko, Mikhail Parfyenov, Pyotr Semak, Oleg Garkusha
After the death of his mother, the thirteen-year-old Semyon steps in to assume the responsibility for his
family. He dreams of his father's giving up his drinking and of his elder brother's fully developing his
talent for performing rock music. For their sakes, Semyon will do anything...
 The film was awarded the Special FIPRESSI Premium at the International Film Festival in Venice
(1987).
1063 VICTORIA (BUMAZHNY PATEFON) (VICTORIA
(THE PAPER GRAMOPHONE)
1987, 87 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Dmitry Dolinin, screenplay: Alexander Chervinski, camera: Lev
Kolganov, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Gennady Banschikov,
sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Lika Nevolina, Gleb Soshnikov, Yelizaveta Nikischikhina, Nikolai Pastukhov,
Grazhina Baykshtite, Bayba Indriksone
Loosely based on “O My Fortune”, a play by Alexander Chervinski.
The first post-war years. Life is still very hard. Two young people longing for love and warmth, a very
young schoolteacher and a cadet, chance to meet...
1064 VSPOMNIM, TOVARISCH! (LET US REMEMBER,
COMRADE!)
1987, 85 min., color
Publicistic fiction
Written and directed by: Joseph Heifitz, camera: Yuri Shaigardanov, production
designer: Yelena Fomina, music arrangement: Algidras Paulavichus, sound: Igor
Vigdorchik
Cast: Nikolai Kryuchkov, Boris Tenin, Vladik Gubin, Sasha Afonin, Konstantin
Trofimov
Joseph Heifitz, a long-time “Lenfilm” director, is telling about his film studio.
1065 GOST (THE GUEST)
1987, 85 min., b/w
Mystical drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Kaydanovsky, camera: Sergei Yurizditsky,
production designer: Marina Azizyan, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Nikolai Ispolatov, Levan Abashidze, Levan Pilpani
Loosely based on” Gospel by Mark”, a short story by Jorge Louis Borges.
1066 YEDINOZHDY SOLGAV (HAVING LIED ONCE)
1987, 96 min., color
Drama
Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Arkadi Inin, Vladimir Bortko, camera:
Anatoly Lapshov, production designer: Nataliya Vasilyeva, misic: Vladimir
Dashkevich, sound: Harry Belenki
Cast: Yuri Belyayev, Yelena Solovey, Irina Skobtseva, Irina Rozanova, Grigory
Vesnik, Yuri Kuznetsov, Natalya Sayko, Nikolai Grinko, Alexei Buldakov, Tatyana
Zhuravlyeva
The picture features a few weeks of life of a prosperous forty-year-old painter. Back during the
“stagnation” years he absorbed and accepted “double standard” as a mode of life — and at this time, he
is suffering a difficult, agonizing enlightenment and realization of his past...
1067 ZHELAYU VAM... (I WISH YOU...)
1987, 26 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Yuri Mamin, screenplay: Vyacheslav Leykin, Yuri Mamin, camera: Yuri
Vorontsov, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Modest Tsirulin, Natalya Skvortsova, Juzef Mironenko, Yevgeny Sakharov
Unattractive clerk has a wonderful gift – all his good wishes come true.
But one day he wished bad…
1068 INTERVENTSIYA (THE INTERVENTION)
1987, 107 min., color
Eccentric tragicomedy
Written and directed by: Gennady Poloka, camera: Vladimir Burykin, Yevgeny
Mezentsev, production designer: Mikhail Scheglov, misic: Sergei Slonimski,
sound: Lev Valter, Eleonora Kazanskaya, song lyrics and rendition: Vladimir
Vysotsky
Cast: Vladimir Vysotski, Valery Zolotukhin, Olga Aroseva, Gelena Ivleva, Yephim
Kopelyan, Rufina Nifontova, Vladimir Tatosov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Yuliya Burygina,
Sergei Yurski, Yekaterina Bulavina, Marlen Khutsiyev, Georgy Schtil, Yuri KatinYartsev
Based on the play of the same title by Lev Slavin.
Odessa, 1919. The residents are waiting for the foreign troops to land. The local bourgeois are heartily
welcoming the French occupants. Special gallantry is displayed by Monsieur Voronov...
Nobody suspects that he is not who he says he is...
1069 ISCHU DRUGA ZHIZNI (I AM LOOKING FOR A
LIFETIME FRIEND)
1987, 97 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Arkadi Krasilschikov, camera: Viktor
Karasev, production designers: Mikhail Ivanov, Alexei Schkele, misic: Oleg
Khromushin, sound: Irina Volkova
Cast: Yuri Astafyev, Alexandra Aasmae (Yakovleva), Andrei Gogol, Nikolai
Trofimov, Yuri Solovyev, Vera Titova, Jan Tsapnik, Sergei Losev, Yelena
Skorokhodova, Yuliya Yakovleva
Loosely based on “Matyushenko Made a Vow of Silence”, a story by Mikhail Panin.
1070 MOY BOYEVOY RASHCHET (MY GUNNER TEAM)
1987, 99 min., color
Adventure
Director: Mikhail Nikitin, screenplay: Svetlana Karmalita, camera: Valery
Martynov, production designer: Viktor Ivanov, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Galina
Gorbonosova
Cast: Valery Smirnov, Natalya Yegorova, Svetlana Kopylova, Valery Priyemykhov,
Lev Borisov, Lyudmila Polyakova, Liliya Morozkina, Alexander Semyenov, Nikolai
Biryukov, Vladimir Matyukhin, Yuri Vyalkov
1945. The war is over, and Sergei Kruzhkoy, Junior Sergeant of the Guards, returned home after being
badly wounded. Learning of a gang of criminals operating in the city, he decides to help the law
enforcement authorities and embarks on an investigation of his own...
1071 MOONZUND (MOONZUND)
1987, 2 parts, 142 min., color
War drama
Director: Alexander Muratov, screenplay: Eduard Volodarski with input from
Galina Muratova, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designers: Yevgeny
Gukov, Mikhail Gerasimov, misic: Alexander Mikhailov, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Oleg Menshikov, Vladimir Gostykhin, Lyudmila Nilskaya, Nikolai
Karachentsov, Yuri Belyayev, Boris Klyuyev, Viya Artmane, Alexei Buldakov,
Vladimir Baranov, Yevgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Sergei
Garmash
Loosely based on the novel of the same title by Valentin Pikul.
The film is set on the Baltic Sea, in 1915 — 1917.
Encountering a German squadron, Senior Officer Artemyev assumed command of the ship “Novik”,
“Novik” emerged victorious from the unequal battle...
Neither did the Russian sailors fail their honor on the banks of Zerel protecting the Straits of Irben and
Moonzund...
1072 NEOBYKNOVENNYYE PRIKLYUCHENIYA
KARIKA I VALI (KARIK AND VALYA'S REMARKABLE
ADVENTURES)
1987, 2 parts, 128 min., color
Fairy tale fantasy
Director: Valery Rodchenko, screenplay: Alexander Alexandrov, camera: Oleg
Kukhovarenko, Oleg Plaksin, production designer: Vera Zelinskaya, misic: Viktor
Babushkin, sound: Yelena Demidova
Cast: Vasily Livanov, Anya Dikul, Alyesha Chertsov, Yelena Popova, Viktor
Mikhailov, Olga Volkova, Mikhail Svetin
Based on a story of the same title by Jan Larry.
Is so happened that Karik and Valya, the main characters, remarkably shrank in size, their whole
habitual world acquiring unusual contours and unusual features...
1073 ODINOKY GOLOS CHELOVEKA (A SOLITARY
HUMAN VOICE)
1987, 76 min., color
Drama
Director: Alexander Sokurov, screenplay: Yuri Arabov, camera: Sergei Yurizditski,
misic: extracts from compositions by K. Penderetski, Otmar Nussio, A. Burdov,
sound: Irina Zhuravlyeva
Cast: Tatyana Goryacheva, Andrei Gradov, Vladimir Degtyarev, Lyudmila
Yakovleva, Nikolai Kochegarov, Sergei Shukhaylo, Vladimir Gladyshev, Ivan
Meganov, Yevgeniya Volkova
Based on “Reka Potudan”, etc. literary works by Andrei Platonov.
 The film was awarded the “Bronze Leopard” — the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival
in Locarno (1987).
1074 OSTROV POGIBSHIKH KORABLEY (THE ISLAND
OF LOST SHIPS)
1987, 2 parts, 138 min., color
Musical fantasy
Directors: Yevgeny Ginzburg, Rauf Mamedov, screenplay: Arkadi Klyenov,
Yevgeny Ginzburg, camera: Valery Mironov, production designers: Boris Bykov,
Mikhail Scheglov, misic: Alexander Basilai, Georgy Garanyan, Alexander Zatsepin,
Vladimir Chekasin, Vladimir Davydenko, Yuri Saulski, David Tukhmanov, sound:
Alexander Gruzdev
Cast: Larisa Belogurova, Gediminas Storpirshtis, Nikolai Lavrov, Konstantin Raykin,
Nataliya Lapina, Arunas Storpirshtis
Based on the story of the same title by Alexander Belyayev.
Two men and a girl surviving a shipwreck wind up on the Island of Lost Ships lost in the ocean. The
islanders are sailors, pirates, travellers... The girl is to be a wife of the one drawing the lucky lot...
1075 OCHEN VAS VSEKH LYUBLU (I DO SO LOVE YOU
ALL)
1987, 91 min., color
Biographical documentary
Written and directed by: Igor Alimpiyev, camera: Victoras Radziavichus, Vladimir
Brylyakov, sound: Alexander Sysolyatin
The picture is focused on the work of the “Lenfilm” director Dinara Asanova.
1076 PERVAYA VSTRECHA, POSLEDNYAYA
VSTRECHA (FIRST MEETING, LAST MEETING)
1987, 92 min., color
Tragic farce
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutski, camera: Yuri Veksler,
production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Timur Kogan, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Mikhail Morozov, Grazhina Shapolovska, Oleg Yefremov, Boris Plotnikov,
Yuri Bogatyrev, Sergei Shakurov, Mikhail Kononov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Innokenti
Smoktunovski, Nikolai Kuravlyev, Olga Mashnaya, Sergei Migitsko, Stanislav
Sokolov, Gali Abaydulov
Queer, dramatic happenings occur in Petersburg during the Christmas week preceding the New Year of
1914...
1077 PETROGRADSKIYE GAVROSHI (THE PETROGRAD
GAVROCHES)
1987, 97 min., color, wide screen
Adventure
Director: Sergei Snezhkin, screenplay: Valery Mnatsakanov, Sergei Snezhkin,
camera: Yevgeny Gurevich, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic:
Alexander Kneifel, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Yevgeny Lebedev, Valya Groznov, Adolf Ilyin, Andrei Alexandrov, Dima
Alifanov, Seryozha Balabolenkov, Sergei Bekhterev
A chronicle of two days in October, 1917, proving decisive for the orphanage kids taking part in the
revolutionary events in Petrograd.
1078 PRAZDNIK NEPTUNA (THE NEPTUNE FESTIVAL)
1987, 54 min., color
Satirical comedy
Director: Yuri Mamin, screenplay: Vladimir Vardunas, camera: Anatoly Lapshov,
production designer: Georgy Kropachev, sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Viktor Mikhailov, Violetta Zhukhimovich, Robert Kurlyandchik, Yakov
Stepanov, Viktor Tsepayev, Anatoly Bystrov
A group of Swedish “walruses” is coming to a northern village to attend a planned club event named
“Den Neptuna” (“Neptune's Day”) (sometime put on the program by somebody smack in the middle of
winter)...
The village club manager is stunned: the event has been planned, and thus has to be arranged...
1079 SADOVNIK (THE GARDENER)
1987, 100 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Buturlin, screenplay: Valery Zolotukha, camera: Vladimir
Vasilyev, production designer: Alexander Zagoskin, misic: Algirdas Paulavichius,
sound: Alexander Gruzdev
Cast: Oleg Borisov, Lev Borisov, Yevgeniya Smolyaninova, Kostya Yukhov,
Varvara Shabalina, Irina Rakshina, Vadim Lobanov, Nina Usatova, Viktor Bychkov,
Pyotr Drotskoi, Andrei Yurenev, Boris Voytsekhovski
A story of somebody who has grown and is tending an apple orchard — an actual life story and,
simultaneously, a generalized image of a person living for the sake of others.
1080 SVOYAKI (BROTHERS-IN-LAW)
1987, 29 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Viktor Aristov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production
designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Arkadi Gagulashvili, sound: Mikhail Lazarev
Cast: Herman Orlov, Anatoly Bystrov, Lyudmila Staritsyna, Lydiya Vorontsova
Based on “Svoyak Sergei Sergeyevich”, a short story by Vasily Shukshin.
1081 SEREBRYANIYE STRUNY (THE SILVER STRINGS)
1987, 97 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Melodrama
Director: Pavel Kadochnikov, screenplay: Pavel Kadochnikov, Georgy Smirnov,
camera: Alexander Chirov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Vladislav
Kladnitski, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov, Yevgeny Nikulski
Cast: Alexander Galibin, Pavel Kadochnikov, Irina Malysheva, Yelena Solovey,
Natalya Kadochnikova, Ernst Romanov, Igor Gorbachev, Vladimir Balashov,
Rosaliya Kotovich, Oleg Letnikov, Valery Olshanski, Alexander Polyakov, Vera
Titova
The picture features the life story of Vasily Andreyev, creator of the first Russian folk instrument
orchestra, artist, composer, and director.
1082 SKAZKA PRO VLYUBLENNOGO MALYARA (THE
TALE OF THE PAINTER IN LOVE)
1987, 80 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Fairy tale
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Mikhail Volpin, Valery Fried,
camera: Edward Rozovski, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic:
Myacheslav Weinberg, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Nikolai Stotski, Nina Urgant, Olga Volkova, Valery Ivchenko, Yekaterina
Golubeva, Dmitry Iosifov, Alexander Grave, Sergei Filippov, Georgy Schtil, Mariya
Barabanova, Igor Dmitriyev, Georgy Teikh, Boris Arakelov
The young painter Makar happened to be invited to Drizofila's palace. Seeing the beautiful girl trying
on her crown, Makar fell in love, only to be banished from the palace. After many trials and feats
Makar came to ask for the Princess's hand...
1083 SOBLAZN (THE TEMPTATION)
1987, 106 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Vyacheslav Sorokin, screenplay: Yuri Klepikov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov,
production designer: Mikhail Zhuravlyev, misic: Antonio Vivaldi, Mikhail Glinka,
Robert Schumann, sound: Leonid Izakov
Cast: Alisa Zykina, Yuni Davydov, Nataliya Sorokina, Sergei Luchnikov, Yelena
Rufanova, Olga Bogdanova, Tatyana Grigoryeva, Alexander Tkachyenok, Irina
Seleznyeva, Tatyana Sharkova-Kapitonova
Zhenya Trofimova, a senior school student, has a hard time trying to resist the temptation to join the
cream of her class. She would also like to ride in a car, wear fashionable clothes and draw everybody's
attention...
1084 SCHASLIVO OSTAVATSYA! (GOOD LUCK!)
1987, 32 min., color, “Mosfilm” with input from “Lenfilm”
Drama
Director: Sergei Beloshnikov, screenplay: Vladimir Vardunas, camera: Boris
Timkovski, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Sergei Kuriokhin, sound:
Harry Belenki
Cast: Nadezhda Smirnova, Yuliya Atlasova, Yuliya Bochanova, Mariya
Tkhorzhevskaya, Sergei Parshin, Arkadi Volgin
Learning that the coach is trying to coax the girls in her team to sleep with him, the fencer Mariya
decides to openly speak up in defense of her friends, but finds no support: their apprehension of being
left out from the foreign trip to participate in a prestigious competition proves to be stronger...
1085 CHAPLINIANA (CHAPLININANA)
1987, 68 min., color
Filmed ballet
Written and directed by: Alexander Belinski, camera: Heinrich Marandzhyan,
production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Charles Chaplin, sound: Larisa
Maslova
Cast: Gali Abaydulov, Yekaterina Maximova, Nataliya Kirichek, Konstantin
Zaklinski, Andrei Bosov
The picture is based on some fancifully interlaced collisions borrowed from the popular Charley
Chaplin pictures, to the accompaniment of music from his pictures.
1086 BEZ MUNDIRA (WITH HIS UNIFORM OFF)
1988, 95 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Drama
Director: Dmitry Svetozarov, screenplay: Alexander Gorokhov, camera: Alexander
Ustinov, Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Mikhail Suzdalov, misic:
Andrei Makarevich, Alexander Zaytsev, Alexander Kutikov, sound: Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Anatoly Vasilyev, Andrei Nikolayev, Viktor Proskurin, Viktor Yegunov,
Vladimir Kashpur, Olga Mashnaya, Pyotr Scherbakov
During the first phase of the Perestroika, chancing to find out that he is to be dismissed, the Manager of
Pervomayskaya Railway makes up his mind to carry out a long-planned experiment and run an extra
heavy train...
1087 BOLSHAYA IGRA (PLAYING BIG)
1988, 6 parts, (Part 1 — 70 min., Part 2 — 70 min., Part 3 — 63 min., Part 4 — 63
Political thriller
min., Part 5 — 62 min., Part 6 — 62 min.), color, “Lenfilm”, “Boyana film”
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Julian Semyonov, camera: Valery
Fedosov, Christo Totev, Atanas Tasev, production designers: Vladimir Svetozarov,
Bogoya Sapundzhiyev, misic: Alexander Kneifel, sound: Galina Gorbonosova,
Christo Christov
Cast: Vladimir Gostyukhin, Elina Kalinova, Vasily Rankov, Naum Shopov, Sergei
Desnitski, Alexander Kalyagin, Oleg Basilashvili, Larisa Udovichenko, Stanislav
Sadalski, Leonid Bronevoi, Viktor Avilov
Based on “The Press Center”, a novel by Julian Semyonov.
During a military coup in a Latin American country the millionaire Grazio, who had been financing a
nation-wide unified power system project, was killed. Shortly, a Bulgarian reporter was badly
wounded; thereafter, the Russian writer Dmitry Stepanov joined in the investigation...
1088 VY CHYE, STARICHYE? (TO WHOM DO YOU
BELONG, OLD FOLKS?)
1988, 92 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: Joseph Heifitz, camera: Yuri Shaigardanov, production
designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Mikhail Pakhomenko, Lev Borisov, Yelena Melnikova, Yevgeny
Kryzhanovski, Tatyana Sharkova
Based on a story of the same title by Boris Vasilyev.
The picture features the life stories of two solitary, lonely old people, totally abandoned and forgotten
in the everyday bustle...
1089 GOSPODIN OFORMITEL (MISTER DECORATOR)
1988, 100 min., color
Mystical drama
Director: Oleg Teptsov, screenplay: Yuri Arabov, camera: Anatoly Lapshov,
production designer: Natalya Vasilyeva, misic: Sergei Kuriokhin, sound: Alexander
Gruzdev
Cast: Viktor Avilov, Anna Demyanenko, Mikhail Kozakov, Ivan Krasko, Vadim
Lobanov, Valentina Malakhiyeva
Loosely based on “The Grey Car”, a short story by Alexander Grin.
Russia on the brink of World War One. The downfall of the era has turned the colors of the fatal
flowers of withering, the heat of passions, the fracture of spirit and souls...
Mystical motives rule the life of the characters...
1090 DEN ANGELA (THE NAME DAY)
1988, 71 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Sergei Selyanov, Nikolai Makarov, screenplay: Mikhail Konovalchuk,
camera: Sergei Astakhov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Arkadi
Gagulashvili, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Leonid Konovalov, Alexander Belov, Vyacheslav Govallo, Alyosha Annenkov,
Yekaterina Kuklina, Lyudmila Yampolskaya, Larisa Shumilkina
Based on the short story of the same title by Mikhail Konovalchuk.
The teenage Maphusail tells about his own life and that of his kin: his father, a Civil War hero, his elder
brother, a thief and burglar, his middle brother, a counterfeiter, his industrious sister Katherine...
1091 DINARA (DINARA)
1988, 70 min., color
Biographical documentary
Written and directed by: Viktor Titov, camera: Georgy Vargin, Nikolai Yudin,
production designer: Nikolai Martynov, sound: Nataliya Avanesova, text
rendition: Svetlana Gaytan
Reminiscences of the movie director Dinara Asanova.
1092 DNI ZATMENIYA (THE DAYS OF THE ECLIPSE)
1988, 2 parts, 125 min., color, wide screen, “Troitsky Most”
Philosophical science fiction
Director: Alexander Sokurov, screenplay: Yuri Arabov with input from Arkadi
Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Pyotr Kadochnikov, camera: Sergei Yurizditski,
production designer: Yelena Amshinskaya, misic: Yuri Khanin, sound: Vladimir
Persov
Cast: Alexei Ananishnov, Eskender Umarov, Irina Sokolova, Vladimir Zamanski,
Alexei Yankovski, Kirill Dudkin
Loosely based on “A Billion Years Before the End of the World”, a story by Arkadi and Boris
Strugatsky.
The young doctor Dmitry Malyanov works in a provincial Middle Asian Town. The ancient exotics of
the Orient has a fanciful way of coexisting with shabby urbanism, adding up to a special, ever
contradictory world...
1093 KRIK O POMOSCHI (A CRY FOR HELP)
1988, 2 parts, 133 min., color
Detective story
Director: Sergei Potepalov, screenplay: Sergei Potepalov, Semyon Vinokur, misic:
Sergei Kuriokhin, sound: Leonid Izakov
Cast: Vladimir Merzlyakov, Anton Sychev, Natalya Novikova, Dmitry Sukharev,
Oleg Ilyinski
Looking forward to his compensation, a sixteen-year-old technical college student assumes somebody
else's fault. But, totally confused, he crashes riding his motorcycle.
1094 MISS MILLIONERSHA (MISS MILLIONAIRESS)
1988, 90 min., color, wide screen, “Troitsky Most”
Comedy
Director: Alexander Rogozhkin, screenplay: Anatoly Usov, camera: Ivan Bagayev,
production designer: Alexander Zagoskin, misic: Vladislav Panchenko, sound:
Larisa Maslova
Cast: Nikolai Karachentsov, Tatyana Mikhalyevkina, Yuri Dubrovin, Yelena
Melnikova, Natalya Nazarova, Oksana Mysina, Nikita Mikhailovsky
In the course of selecting the person to be the millionth resident of the city, some misunderstanding
occurred, which could, in a certain sense, be quite an embarrassing situation…
1095 POLYET PTITSY (A BIRD'S FLIGHT)
1988, 2 parts, 137 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Grigoryev, camera: Nikolai Pokoptsev,
production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Mikhail
Victorov
Cast: Yelena Yakovleva, Alina Olkhovaya, Rodion Nakhapetov, Avtandil
Makharadze, Oleg Yefremov, Yuri Bogatyriov, Vsevolod Shilovski, Viktor
Kharitonov, Sergei Koshonin, Sergei Bekhterev, Zinaida Sharko, Viktor Smirnov
Loosely based on “A Shawl on the Wall”, a story by Yevgeny Gabrilovich.
Arriving in Moscow from a small provincial town, Lena Khrapova didn't apply to the law college, as
she had been planning, applying instead to the acting college...
She married, not very happily, left her husband twice, came back...
Yet, there came a time when she didn't return.
1096 PREDLAGAYU RUKU I SERDTSE (I AM OFFERING
MY HAND AND HEART)
1988, 87 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Sergei Nikolayev (Alexander Galin), camera:
Edward Rozovski, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Nikolai Grinko, Svetlana Nemolyayeva, Irina Rozanova, Emanuel Vitorgan,
Irina Mazurkevich, Svetlana Kharitonova, Lyudmila Dolgorukova, Roza
Makagonova, Yuri Tsannik
The failed actress Lyudmila and the former history professor Nikolai Mikhailovich Chmutin have been
brought together by some practical relatives of theirs. But the lonely woman charmed him, and he was
happy to offer his hand and heart to her...
1097 PREZUMPTSIYA NEVINOVNOSTY (THE
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENSE)
1988, 88 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”
Comedy
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Arkadi Tigay, camera: Yuri Veksler,
production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Alexander Zhurbin, sound: Igor
Vigdorchik
Cast: Lyubov Polischuk, Yuri Bogatyriov, Stanislav Sadalski, Nikolai Pastukhov,
Leonid Kuravlyev, Vasily Funtikov, Irina Rakshina, Oleg Garkusha, Yelena
Kovalyeva, Lyubov Malinovskaya, Valentina Lugachyeva, Pavel Pervushin
A lady passenger of a “Krasnaya Strela” sleeping car is missing her blazer; gone with it is the foreign
passport which the variety show star must use for her trip...
Two stowaway passengers are passing themselves for investigators...
1098 PRODLENIYE RODA (THE CONTINUATION OF
THE FAMILY)
1988, 89 min., color, “Troitsky Most”
Drama
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Sergei Alekseyev, Vladimir Valutski,
camera: Valery Myulgaut, production designer: Nataliya Kochergina, misic:
Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Yelena Safonova, Igor Ageyev, Valery Priyemykhov, Konstantin Vorobyev,
Nikolai Trofimov, Fyedor Odinokov, Vladimir Ivangin, Lyubov Malinovskaya
In the vicinity of an Air Force air field there is a semi-ruined ancient monastery. A group of local
enthusiasts and restorers coming from the capital is trying to rehabilitate the ruined cloister.
1099 SOBACHYE SERDTSE (A DOG'S HEART)
1988, 2 parts, 130 min., color
Tragicomedy
Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Nataliya Bortko, camera: Yuri
Shaigardanov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Vladimir
Dashkevich, sound: Harry Belenki
Cast: Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Olga
Melikhova, Nina Ruslanova, Lika Nevolina, Roman Kartsev, Yevgeny Kuznetsov,
Alexei Mironov, Nataliya Fomenko, Ivan Ganzha, Valentina Kovel, Sergei Filippov,
Roman Tkachuk
Based on a story of the same title by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Russia. The 1920-s. Devastation. The Petersburg professor Preobrazhenski performs a genius surgery,
transplanting a human hypophysis to a common mongrel... And a miracle follows: the dog begins to
acquire the appearance of a Homo sapiens...
1100 TRUDNO PERVIYE STO LET (IT'S HARD FOR THE
FIRST HUNDRED YEARS)
1988, 2 parts, 138 min., color
Drama
Director: Viktor Aristov, screenplay: Georgy Markov, Edward Shim with input from
Viktor Aristov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Vladimir Bannykh,
misic: Arkadi Gagulashvili, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Lyubov Krasavina, Nikolai Shatokhin, Anna Ovsyannikova, Kostya Shkurko,
Natalya Nazarova, Olga Nikolayeva, Natalya Lvova, Yuri Kolobkov, Marina
Boldysh, Yuliya Proskurina
The film features the life story of the young woman Varya, a collective farm milkmaid: hers are the
grinding routine work, the everyday worries, the empty store counters, the industrious husband who is
also worn out and joyless...
This goes on from one day to another: the work, the household duties, the worries...
1101 FONTAN (THE FOUNTAIN)
1988, 104 min., color
Satirical comedy
Director: Yuri Mamin, screenplay: Vladimir Vardunas, camera: Anatoly Lapshov,
production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Alexei Zalivalov, sound: Leonid
Gavrichenko
Cast: Asankul Kuttubayev, Sergei Dontsov, Viktor Mikhailov, Alexei Zalivalov,
Nina Usatova, Zhanna Kermitayeva, Anatoly Kalmykov, Lyudmila Samokhvalova,
Lyubov Arkus, Nikolai Adomenaite, Valery Mironov
A regular apartment building with its tenants, household members, and kindly morons from the
Housing Maintenance Office lives its regular life, — until a hot water fountain gushes out in the yard
(due to a heat supply system accident)...
 The film was awarded the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival in Las Vegas, USA (1990)
and the “Silver Fishnet” Prize of the 1st Comedy Film Festival in Torremolinos, Spain (1990).
1102 KHLEB — IMYA SUSHCHESTVITELNOYE (BREAD
IS A NOUN)
1988, 8 parts, 9 h. 40 min., color
Drama
Director: Grigory Nikulin, screenplay: Mikhail Alekseyev, Grigory Nikulin, Yuri
Tyurin, camera: Sergei Astakhov, production designers: Pavel Parkhomenko,
Vladimir Bannykh, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Nikolai Astakhov
Cast: Nikolai Voloshin, Andrei Dudarenko, Sergei Nikonenko, Nina Ruslanova,
Natalya Sayko, Alexei Buldakov, Kirill Lavrov, Yuri Votyakov, Vladlen Biryukov,
Herman Alitin, Nikolai Mikheyev, Alexander Bashurov
Based on the literary works of Mikhail Alekseyev.
A tragic chronicle of the life of a large village in Saratov Region from the start of the century to mid1930-s, an original group portrait of the Russian peasantry.
1103 CHEPE RAYONNOGO MASSHTABA (A DISTRICTWIDE EMERGENCY)
1988, 89 min., color, wide screen
Social drama
Director: Sergei Snezhkin, screenplay: Yuri Polyakov, camera: Vladimir Burykin,
production designer: Nikolai Gavrilov, misic: Alexander Kneifel, sound: Aliakper
Gasan-zade
Cast: Igor Bochkin, Yelena Anisimova, Vitaly Usanov, Leonard Varfolomeyev, Yuri
Demich, Yuri Kuznetsov, Yelena Antonova, Alla Murina, Sergei Volkov, Sergei
Voytov, Andrei Smirnov
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Yuri Polyakov.
A chronicle of a few days in the life of the Komsomol elite in the early 1980-s.
The procedure of accepting teenagers into Komsomol was especially hurried: First Secretary was
getting a promotion, moving on to a “higher level”. The Bureau members were waiting for the evening
to celebrate the occasion in the sauna... And all of a sudden, they were faced with an emergency: the
theft of the banner from the district Komsomol Committee office...
1104 SHTANY (THE PANTS)
1988, 83 min., color
Detective drama
Written and directed by: Valery Priyemykhov, camera: Sergei Astakhov,
production designer: Mikhail Suzdalov, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Alexander
Gruzdev
Cast: Yuri Yakovlev, Valery Priyemykhov, Andrei Krayni, Daniil Lapigin, Yelena
Ryzhova, Viktor Mikhailov, Vladimir Knyazev, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Igor
Dmitryyev, Ivan Krasko, Zoya Buryak, Yuri Kuznetsov, Nina Usatova
The picture is a study of the lives of the people involuntarily involved (the provincial actor Batsanov
and the waiter Chumakov) and of Investigator Mishin rather than of the crime (murder) itself...
1105 ESPERANSA (ESPERANZA)
1988, 2 parts, 135 min., color
Drama
Director: Serhio Olkhovich, screenplay: Valentin Yezhov, Serhio Olkhovich,
camera: Anatoly Mukasei, production designers: Boris Burmistrov, Fernando
Ramirez, Gabriela Roblez, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Galina Lukina, Diego
Garcia, Gennady Korkhovoy
Cast: Dmitry Kharatyan, Leonid Kuravlyev, Boris Tokarev, Claudio Brook, Deliya
Kazanova, Vera Glagoleva, Nadezhda Smirnova, Ernst Romanov, Lev Durov,
Lyubov Virolainen, Timofei Spivak, Nikita Mikhailovski, Lev Lemke, Vladimir
Olkhovski
1917. The Civil war brings discord into the noble Ol’khovsky family. The head of the family, Alexei
Olkhovski, sympathizes with the Bolsheviks, his daughter Tamara is for the Red Army, his brother
Anatoly is an SR (a member of the Social Revolution Party), his younger son Vladimir leaves Russia
on the first tide of emigration and, as fate would have it, remains in Mexico for good...
1106 BRODYACHY AVTOBUS (THE STRAY BUS)
1989, 98 min., color
Drama
Director: Joseph Heifitz, screenplay: Lyudmila Razumovskaya basing on the libretto
by Joseph Heifitz, camera: Yuri Shaigardanov, production designer: Vladimir
Svetozarov, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Lev Borisov, Mikhail Zhigalov, Afanasi Trishkin, Sergei Parshin, Nadezhda
Yeryemina, Liya Akhedzhakova, Yelena Kozlitina, Oleg Volkov, Irina Rakshina
From one village to another treks a shabby old bus with a small acting company, to stage two or three
performances before the scarce spectators. Comprising the company are people in love with the theater
in their own special ways...
1107 BUMAZHNYYE GLAZA PRISHVINA (PRISHVIN'S
PAPER EYES)
1989, 2 parts, 148 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: Valery Ogorodnikov, camera: Valery Mironov,
production designer: Viktor Ivanov, misic: Edison Denisov, sound: Aliakper
Gasan-zade
Cast: Alexander Romantsov, Oleg Kovalov, Irina Tsyvina, Yuri Tsapnik, Pavel
Rudakov, Yevgeny Barkov, Vladimir Dyatlov, Olga Land, Alla Shelest, Sergei
Lavrentyev
The TV director Pavel Prishvin is involved as an actor in his friend's movie picture about Stalinism,
cast as a State Security Captain. The picture is meant to be highly competitive, which Pavel, working
on a documentary TV show featuring these very times, is well aware of...
1108 V POISKAKH PRAVDY (IN SEARCH OF THRUTH)
1989, 71 min., color
Publicistic fiction
Written and directed by: Pyotr Satunovski, camera: Vadim Grammatikov,
production designer: Roza Satunovskaya, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Yevgeny
Nesterov, Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Lev Kulidzhanov, Yuli Raizman, Boris Tenin, Mikhail
Ulyanov, Yuri Kayurov
The picture is following the history of the Soviet pictures devoted to Lenin, mirroring the changing
requirements towards art and history...
1109 VASKA (VASKA)
1989, 3 parts, 226 min., color
Tragic farce
Director: Viktor Titov, screenplay: Sergei Antonov, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, Sergei
Biryuk, production designers: Vladimir Orlov, Sergei Shemyakin, sound: Nataliya
Avanesova
Cast: Tatyana Ilchenko, Irina Mazurkevich, Nikolai Stotski, Sergei Bekhterev, Alexei
Zharkov, Alexander Kalyagin, Anatoly Ravikovich, Alexander Romantsov, Stanislav
Landgraf, Yuri Lazarev, Lyudmila Shevel
Based on a story by Sergei Antonov.
The life story of Rita Chuguyeva, a young worker of extra high productivity involved in the
construction of the first Moscow metro route in the 1930-s, nicknamed Vaska for her stocky figure and
directness.
1110 DON CEZAR DE BAZAN (DON CEZAR DE BAZAN)
1989, 133 min., color
Musical
Director: Jan Fried, screenplay: Mikhail Donskoi, Jan Fried, camera: Edward
Rozovski, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Gennady Gladkov, sound:
Edward Vanunz
Cast: Mikhail Boyarski, Anna Samokhina, Yuri Bogatyriov, Nataliya Lapina, Igor
Dmitriyev, Victoria Gorshenina, Mikhail Svetin, Herman Orlov, Yuri Dedovich,
Vasily Leonov, Andrei Krasko, Alyesha Podgornov
Loosely based on a play of the same title by Fillippe Dumanoire and Adolf Fillippe D'Hennery.
A romantic love story of the impoverished Count Don Cezar and the street dancer Maritana, who has
been so unfortunate as to have been noticed by the King of Spain...
The picture is set in the 18-th century Spain.
1111 ZHENITBA BALZAMINOVA (BALZAMINOV'S
MARRIAGE)
1989, 66 min., color
Choreographic fantasy
Written and directed by: Alexander Belinski, camera: Edward Rozovski,
production designer: Natalya Vasilyeva, sound: Edward Vanunz
Cast: Dmitry Simkin, Tatyana Kvasova, Yekaterina Muravyeva, Yelena Alekseyeva,
Margarita Kullik, Nikolai Kovmir, Igor Solovyev
Based on a trilogy by Alexander Ostrovski.
1112 ZAMRI-UMRI-VOSKRESNI! (FREEZE — DIE —
REVIVE!)
1989, 105 min., b/w, “Troitsky Most”
Drama
Written and directed by: Vitaly Kanevski, camera: Vladimir Brylyakov,
production designer: Yuri Pashigorev, misic: Sergei Banevich, sound: Oksana
Strugina
Cast: Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Yelena Popova, Valery Ivchenko,
Vyacheslav Bambushek, Vadim Yermolayev
The picture is set in 1947 in the small mining town of Suchany resembling a prisoner camp. The
teenagers Valerka and Galya live in the same barrack. They just love everything the eye is accustomed
to in this godforsaken little town, rather than dream of a happy future...
 The film director Vitaly Kanevsky was awarded the “Golden Camera” Prize of the International
Film Festival in Cannes, France (1990).
1113 ZELENINSKI POGOST (THE ZELENINO
GRAVEYARD)
1989, 71 min., b/w, “Ladoga”
Drama
Written and directed by: Boris Liznev, camera: Sergei Biryuk, production
designer: Mikhail Gavrilov, misic: Alexei Zakharov, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Igor Makhrov, Anna Ovsyannikova, Sergei Polevoi, Yelizaveta Voronina
Viktor arrives in his ravished village to erect a monument to his grandfather. Failing to find the
necessary picture in his home, he addresses the village “collector”...
 The film was awarded the Second Premium at the “Okno v Yevropu” (“The Window to Europe”)
International Film Festival in Vyborg (1993).
1114 KANUVSHEYE VREMYA (THE SUNKEN TIME)
1989, 118 min., color, ”Ladoga”
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Solomon Shuster, camera: Alexander Chechulin,
production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Boris Tischenko, sound: Natalya
Levitina
Cast: Stanislav Lyubshin, Nina Ruslanova, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Oleg Korchikov,
Viktor Sergachyev, Vladimir Zeldin, Nikolai Volkov Jr., Alexei Herman, Viktor
Pavlov, Vadim Lobanov, Vitautas Kantsrelis, Georgy Kropachyev
Loosely based on “The New Appointment”, a novel by Alexander Bek.
The 1950-s. The manager in charge of steel production industry has been dismissed and appointed
Ambassador to a European country. He finds himself with enough time to consider his life and
recognize the true reason for his dismissal.
1115 KARAUL (THE GUARDS)
1989, 103 min., color, ”Ladoga”
Drama
Director: Alexander Rogozhkin, screenplay: Ivan Loschilin, camera: Valery
Martynov, production designer: Alexander Zagoskin, sound: Nikolai Astakhov
Cast: Alexei Buldakov, Sergei Kupriyanov, Alexei Poluyan, Alexander Smirnov,
Taras Denisenko, Renat Ibragimov, Dmitry Iosifov, Valery Kravchenko, Vasily
Domrachyev, Alexei Zaitsev
Soldiers of the Home Troops are guarding trains transporting prisoners to their destinations. The
oppressive atmosphere, enhanced by the contacts with the “zeks”, makes the soldiers follow the camp
laws...
 The film was awarded the Alfred Bauer’s Premium and the FIPRESSI Premium at the
International Film Festival in West Berlin, the German Federal Republic (1990).
1116 KOMA (THE COMA)
1989, 68 min., color, “Ladoga”
Drama
Directors: Niyole Adomenaite, Boris Gorlov, screenplay: Nijole Adomenaite,
camera: Yuri Makusinski with input from Mikhail Konovalchuk, production
designer: Yuri Vorontsov, misic: Algirdas Paulavichius, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Nataliya Nikulenko, Alexander Bashurov, Oleg Krutikov, Olga Torban,
Tatyana Yegorova, Alexander Zavyalov, Galina Ulanova
The picture is set in a reformatory labor camp in the North.
Maria was arrested after a student party where she read verse by Tsevetayeva.
To save the life of the baby born in the camp, she is forced to inform against the man she loves...
1117 KONCHINA (THE END)
1989, 3 parts, 228 min., color
Drama
Director: Nikolai Koshelev, screenplay: Alexander Getman, camera: Valery
Mironov, production designer: Mikhail Suzdalov, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound:
Harry Belenki
Cast: Nikolai Lavrov, Vladimir Gostiukhin, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Valery Zakharov,
Alexander Susnin, Herman Kolushkin, Anatoly Azo, Niele Ozhelite, Pyotr Semak
Loosely based on a story of the same title by Vladimir Tendryakov.
Life stories of two residents of the same village who tried, each in his own way, to establish a
“collective farm paradise” in their village. The picture is set in the 1920-s — 1950-s.
1118 LICHNOYE DELO ANNY AKHMATOVOY (ANNA
AKHMATOVA'S PERSONAL FILE)
1989, 66 min., color
Biographical documentary
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Semyon Aranovich, Yelena Ignatova,
camera: Vladimir Myulgaut, Arkadi Reisenthul, Anatoly Shafran, Lyudmila
Krasnova, Vadim Ilyin, Alexander Gorkov, Stanislav Okhapkin, production
designer: Vladimir Solovyev, misic: Sophya Gubaidulina, Alexander Kneifel, sound:
Galina Gorbonosova
The film is dedicated to Anna Akhmatova's 100th birthday anniversary.
The film presents verse by Anna Akhmatova recited by the author. A special place has been given to
the reminiscences of Lidiya Chukovskaya.
1119 MUZYKALNIYE IGRY (THE MUSICAL GAMES)
1989, 66 min., color, “Ladoga”
Musical
Director: Vitaly Aksyenov, screenplay: Vitaly Aksyenov, Sergei Kuriokhin,
camera: Igor Plaksin, production designer: Natalya Kochergina, misic: Igor
Kornelyuk, sound: Alexander Sysolyatin
Cast: Jan Smelyanski, Grigory Traugot, Anatoly Slivnikov, Yevgeny Tilicheyev,
Semyon Furman, Gennadi Timchenko, Tatyana Kolesnikova, Leonid Tikhomirov,
Alexander Petrov, Edita Pyekha, Andrei Voznesenski, Boris Shtokov
A revue involving variety show stars: “Avgust” Group, etc.
1120 NECHISTAYA SILA (THE EVIL SPIIRITS)
1989, 2 parts, 134 min., color, “Troitsky Most”
Modern fairy tale
Written and directed by: Ernest Yasan, camera: Ivan Bagayev, production
designer: Stanislav Romanovski, misic: Edward Artemyev, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Pavel Andreyev, Rimma Markova, Roman Kartsev, Viktor Grigoriuk, Anatoly
Slivnikov, Irina Brazgovka, Olga Kabo, Vladimir Shevelkov
Ivan Denisov, Junior Researcher with the Forest Research Institute, is dispatched to participate in the
collective mushroom harvesting.
In the forest he encounters a queer old woman who makes him a gift of a little silver horn and a magic
club... and after some time, he finds himself in prison, charged with turning out counterfeit money...
1121 ONO (IT)
1989, 124 min., color, “Ladoga”
Satirical phantasmagoria
Written and directed by: Sergei Ovcharov, camera: Valery Fedosov, production
designer: Natalya Vasilyeva, misic: Sergei Kuriokhin, sound: Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Natalya Gundareva, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Yelena Sanayeva, Margarita
Terekhova, Rolan Bykov, Yuri Demich, Leonid Kuravlyev, Rodion Nakhapetov, Oleg
Tabakov, Oleg Shtefanko, Irina Mazurkevich, Alexander Galibin, Viktor Tsoy
Based on literary works by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin.
The picture features on the history of the district city Glupov from the turn of the century to the
possible future...
1122 POSVYASCHENNY (THE INITIATED)
1989, 127 min., color, “Troitski Most”
Phantasmagoria
Director: Oleg Teptsov, screenplay: Yuri Arabov, camera: Valery Myulgaut,
production designer: Pavel Parkhomenko, misic: Sergei Kuriokhin, sound:
Alexander Gruzdev
Cast: Gor Oganisyan, Lyubov Polischuk, Alexander Trofimov, Yelena Bragina,
Gabriel Vorobyev, Vladimir Simonov, Olga Samoshina, Yelena Drapeko, Sergei
Makovetski, Alisa Fomina, David Oganisyan
A young man comes to possess a puzzling, queer gift: an ability to judge and punish people by the
force of his own spirit, — never to make use of his gift...
1123 POSETITEL MUSEYA (THE MUSEUM VISITOR)
1989, 136 min., color, “Troitsky Most”
Anti-utopia
Written and directed by: Konstantin Lopushanski, camera: Nikolai Pokoptsev,
production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Alfred Schnitke, Viktor Kisin,
sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Viktor Mikhailov, Vera Mayorova, Vadim Lobanov, Irina Rakshina, Alexander
Rasinski, Joseph Ryklin, Vladimir Firsov
The environmental disaster has struck. It is the last act and the logical ending of the age-old
relationship of Man and Nature, built on insatiable consumptionism and thoughtless waste.
The main character is one of the few survivors retaining his human aspect and manner of thought...
The “visitor” has come to atone the humanity's guilt...
 The film was awarded the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival in Madrid, Spain (1990).
 The film director Konstantin Lopushanski was awarded the Prize for the Best Film Director’s
Work at the International Film Festival in Madrid, Spain (1990).
 The director of photography Nikolai Pokoptsev was awarded the Prize for the Best Operator’s
Work at the International Film Festival in Madrid, Spain (1990).
1124 RYTSARI PODNEBESYA (THE NIGHTS OF THE
SKIES)
1989, 22 min., b/w, “Ladoga”
Phantasmagoria
Written and directed by: Yevgeny Yufit, camera: Alexander Burov, production
designer: Yevgeny Yufit, sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Alexander Inikiyenko, Sergei Chernov, Igor Bezrukov, Yelena Bogdanova
1125 RYCHAGI (THE LEVERS)
1989, 31 min., color, “Mosfilm”, “Lenfilm”, ”Ladoga”
Satirical drama
Director: Valery Naumov, screenplay: Viktor Petrov, camera: Anatoly Lapshov,
production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, sound: Leonid Izakov
Cast: Viktor Gorkov, Sergei Russkin, Viktor Khozyainov, Alexei Mikhailin, Andrei
Andreyev, Marina Pavlikova, Tamara Timofeyeva, Semyen Furman
Based on a short story of the same title by Alexander Yashin.
On the eve of the 20-th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the collective farmers
about to go into a meeting in the village club are openly discussing their hard life. The meeting begins
— and the people turn into “Party levers”...
1126 SIRANO DE BERZHERAK (CYRANO DE
BERGERAC)
1989, 90 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Musical
Director: Naum Bierman, screenplay: Alexander Volodin, camera: Heinrich
Marandzhyan, production designers: Stanislav Romanovski, Yelizaveta Urlina,
misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Grigory Glady, Olga Kabo, Andrei Podoshyan, Valery Ivchenko, Viktor
Stepanov, Sergei Migitsko, Mikhail Svetin, Irina Gubanova, Sergei Bekhterev, Igor
Dmitriyev
Based on a play of the same title by Edmond Rostand.
1127 SLUCHAYNY VALS (A CASUAL WALTZ)
1989, 96 min., color, “Troitsky Most”
Drama
Director: Svetlana Proskurina, screenplay: Pavel Finn, camera: Dmitry Mass,
production designer: Vladimir Yuzhakov, misic: Vyacheslav Gaivoronski, sound:
Vladimir Persov
Cast: Alla Sokolova, Tatyana Bondareva, Alexei Serebryakov, Sergei Parapanov,
Viktor Proskurin
Trying to get rid of her melancholy, Tatyana Prokofyevna, a woman well beyond her prime with habits
and mannerisms of a beauty, invites young tenants in and begins to take generous care of them...
1128 SPASI I SOKHRANI (SAVE AND KEEP)
1989, 165 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”
Drama
Director: Alexander Sokurov, screenplay: Yuri Arabov, camera: Sergei Yurizditski,
production designer: Yelena Amshinskaya, misic: Yuri Khanin, sound: Vladimir
Persov
Cast: Cecile Zervudaki, Robert Waab, Alexander Cherednik, Vyacheslav Rogovoi,
Yuri Sternin, Darya Shpalikova
Loosely based on “Madame Bovary”, the novel by Gustave Flaubert.
1129 STO SOLDAT I DVE DEVUSHKI (A HUNDRED
SOLDIERS AND TWO GIRLS)
1989, 100 min., color, “Ladoga”
Drama
Written and directed by: Sergei Michaelyan, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, production
designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Kirill Kuzmin
Cast: Maya Meldere, Alexander Saiko, Alexander Timoshkin, Nikolai Ustinov,
Alexei Yasulovich, Vladimir Polyakov, Vladimir Yavorski
World War II. The main character is Anya Bulavina, a medical orderly. Contacts with her, her
generosity of spirit and ready sympathy support the soldiers' faith in their being expected and loved
back home...
1130 TORMOZHENIYE V NEBESAKH (THE BLOCKING
IN HEAVEN)
1989, 81 min., color, “Ladoga”
Tragic farce
Director: Viktor Buturlin, screenplay: Roman Solntsev with input from Roman
Buturlin, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Vladimir Bannykh,
misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Leonid Izakov
Cast: Viktor Smirnov, Nina Ruslanova, Yuri Kuznetsov, Viktor Tsepayev, Lev
Borisov, Igor Nikitin, Yuri Mazhuga, Boris Scherbakov, Alexander Fatyushin,
Tamara Kolesnikova, Larisa Leonova
After seeing off the General Secretary of the Central Communist Party Committee departing from the
regional seat, Makhonin, First Secretary of the Regional Party Committee, gave his team a dressingdown...
It was just his luck that all of it was recorded by a TV camera operating in the automatic mode...
The lady director thought it a sensational piece, but getting it over to Moscow proved far from easy!
1131 UBEGAYUSHCHIY AVGUST (THE ESCAPING
AUGUST)
1989, 78 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Dmitry Dolinin, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, Anatoly Efros, camera:
Lev Kolganov, production designer: Mikhail Gerasimov, misic: Gennadi
Banschikov, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Anzhelika Nevolina, Alexander Filippenko, Svetlana Gaitan, Nikolai Ivanovski,
Alexei Luschin, Lyubov Malinovskaya
Loosely based on “The Phrygian Cornflowers, a short story by Georgy Semyonov.
It so happened that Kraskov, a middle-aged single man, after one of his drinking sprees discovered a
strange nice-looking young woman in his bed.
It turns out that the previous day he prevented her from leaving for Odessa for her vacation. To atone
his guilt, Kraskov offers his lady to take a car trip...
1132 FA-MINOR (F MINOR)
1989, 29 min., color, ”Ladoga”
Fantasy
Written and directed by: Andrei Chernykh, camera: Alexander Ustinov, sound:
Vladimir Persov
Cast: Nikolai Pavlov, Ingeborge Dapkunaite, Marina Krutikova, Oleg Lomanski,
Mark Galesnik, Yuliya Sobolevskaya, Sergei Maltsev, Viktor Chernykh, T. Abolin
 The film was awarded the Premium for the Best Debut at the International Film Festival in
Clermont Ferraine, France (1990).
1133 FILIPP TRAUM (PHILIP TRAUM)
1989, 2 parts, 137 min., color, ”Petropol”
Adventure
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Igor Adamatsky, Yevgeny Schmidt,
camera: Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Nataliya Kochergina, misic:
Viktor Kisin, sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Gabriel Vorobyev, Philip Kozlov, Dima Suvorov, Dima Mamontov, Iya
Parulava, Yevgeny Vesnik, Alexei Zubarev, Yuri Yarvet, Yelena Safonova
Loosely based on “The Mysterious Stranger”, a story by Mark Twain.
The Middle Ages. The rule of the sombre inquisition...
Unexpectedly, none other but Satan Junior appears in a small European town in the guise of handsome
young man...
1134 FUFLO (THE FAKE)
1989, 94 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”
Criminal drama
Director: Alexei Lebedev, screenplay: Kirill Laskari, camera: Vladimir Brylyakov,
production designer: Sergei Kokovkin, misic: Merab Gagnidze, sound: Asya
Zvereva
Cast: Andrei Rudenski, Alexander Romantsov, Lyubov Polischuk, Tatyana
Manevskaya, Yelena Aminova
The main character is a womanizer conquering virtually any woman he meets. His erotic adventures are
tightly interwoven with the criminal traits inspiring his queer friendship — enmity with a criminal drug
addict...
1135 ETO BYLO U MORYA (IT HAPPENED AT THE
SEASIDE)
1989, 97 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”
Drama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Viktor Klykov, camera: Sergei
Yurizditski, production designer: Georgy Kropachyev, misic: Alexander Kneifel,
sound: Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Nina Ruslanova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Nina Turbina, Katya Politova, Danya
Mishin, Vanya Kuzmin, Anya Yekaterininskaya, Ira Annina, Valentina Titova,
Nikolai Lavrov, Yevgeny Zuyev, Valentina Voilkova, Valentina Ananyina, Alla
Mescheryakova
The main characters are girls who are charges of a specialized orphanage for children with spinal cord
afflictions. The kids' physical energy is bursting to expend itself in the painfully rigid inter-relationship
diagram...
Thus, it turns out that friendship is more like enmity, while love works out as treachery...
1136 YA SLUZHIL V OKHRANE STALINA, ILI OPYT
DOCUMENTALNOY MIFOLOGIYI (I SERVED WITH STALIN'S
GUARDS, OR A STUDY IN DOCUMENTARY MYTHOLOGY)
1989, 75 min., color, “Ladoga”
Publicistic documentary
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Yuri Klepikov, camera: Sergei Sidorov,
production designer: Vladimir Solovyev, misic: Alexander Kneifel, sound: Galina
Gorbonosova
A narrative spun by A. Rybin, retired Major with the People's Commissariat of Domestic Affairs
1137 ANEKDOTY (THE JOKES)
1990, 78 min., color, “Neva”, “Lenfilm”
Comedy
Director: Vladimir Titov, screenplay: Vladimir Vardunas, Alexander Kuznetsov,
camera: Vladimir Ilyin, production designers: Vladimir Svetozarov, Edward Isayev,
misic: Nikolai Fomenko, sound: Nataliya Avanesova
Cast: Alexander Abdulov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Nina Usatova, Yakov Stepanov,
Andrei Vasilyev, Boris Sokolov, Yevgeny Filatov, Vadim Lobanov
The talented joke teller Kutuzov, a patient in a lunatic asylum, is holding discussions on actual issues
with Marx, Stalin, Brezhnev... Vasily Ivanovich Kutuzov absorbed jokes at his mother's breast,
carrying them through his long-suffering life. And wherever fate takes him, he will remain faithful to
his talent in spite of any threats, bans or repressions, for nothing can possibly extinguish a people's
ability to laugh and joke.
1138 BAKENBARDY (THE WHISKERS)
1990, 94 min., color, ”Golos”, “Leninterfilm”, “Lenfilm”
Satirical pamphlet
Director: Yuri Mamin, screenplay: Vyacheslav Leikin, camera: Sergei Nekrasov,
production designer: Pavel Parkhomenko, misic: Alexei Zalivalov, sound: Leonid
Gavrichenko
Cast: Viktor Sukhorukov, Alexander Medvedev, Arthur Vaha, Alexander Lykov,
Viktor Mikhailov, Olga Alabysheva, Yuri Mamin
Two whiskered young people carrying canes and wearing the “winged” coats of the kind favored by
Pushkin disembarked in a modern provincial city, where punks, metal fans, rockers, and other informal
youth groups were playing their pranks at large. The whiskered eccentric guys were made fun of.
Nobody could imagine that the queer pair would soon gain local popularity and influence...
 The film was awarded the FIPRESSI Premium at the International Film Festival in San
Sebastiano, Spain (1990).
1139 DUKHOV DEN (WHIT MONDAY)
1990, 110 min., color, “Golos”, “Lenfilm”
Mystical drama
Director: Sergei Selyanov, screenplay: Mikhail Konovalchuk, Sergei Selyanov,
camera: Sergei Astakhov, production designer: Viktor Ivanov, misic: Yuri
Shevchuk, sound: Kirill Kuzmin
Cast: Yuri Shevchuk, Borya Golyatkin, Yuri Demich, Sulev Sujk, Angelica Nevolina,
Stanislav Landgraf
Ivan Khristoforov is a creative person with the characteristic bright luminous moments and breakthroughs. His ability to cause explosions is a metaphor used to describe the sensual contacts between
his tragic, passionate nature and the surrounding world. He yearns to break out of the burned-out
mythological space that is Russia's dwelling place and discover his own place in the endless succession
of generations replacing one another in the boundless Russian plain. Ivan Khristoforov tries all the
classical ways of gaining freedom: escape into himself, abroad, into his childhood, “among the
people”...
1140 ZIMNYAYA VISHNYA — DVA (THE WINTER
CHERRY -2)
1990, 87 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”
Melodrama
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutski, camera: Vladimir
Brylyakov, production designer: Natalya Kochergina, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich,
sound: Alexander Gruzdev
Cast: Vitaly Solomin, Yelena Safonova, Irina Miroshnichenko, Irina Klimova, Nina
Ruslanova, Larisa Udovichenko, Viktor Avilov
In the sequel, the lonely, single main character of the first “Zimnyaya Vishnya” (“The Winter Cherry”)
picture is happily settled: wife of a respectable American businessman, mother of a charming five-yearold daughter...
For her former lover Vadim, the clock seems to have stopped. Every morning he duly makes breakfast
for his spouse; he obediently makes love to the young, prematurely developed Sveta nicknamed Slonik
— a reasonably pragmatic and selfless creature, yet, given a chance, quite willing to take the spineless
Dashkov in hand. He is forever listening to his friends advising him not to miss his chance. But it is not
a lost chance that matters; what matters is that this person is no longer able or willing to look for any.
1141 NOVAYA SHAKHEREZADA (THE NEW
SHAKHERIZADA)
1990, 2 parts, 125 min., color, ”Petropol”, “Lenfilm”, commissioned by Gosteleradio,
USSR
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Nikitin, screenplay: Valery Popov, camera: Fyedor Tokmakov,
production designer: Vladimir Amelchenkov, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound:
Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Nadezhda Rezon, Vladimir Baranov, Alexander Slastin, Svetlana Smirnova,
Natalya Vilkina, Igor Erelt, Alexander Dolski
A dramatic story of a provincial girl coming to a big city under the municipal limited hiring quota.
1142 KOGDA SVYATIYE MARSHIRUYUT (WHEN THE
SAINST MARCH)
1990, 90 min., color, ”Golos”, “Lenfilm”
Musical
Director: Vladimir Vorobyev, screenplay: Alexander Zhitinski, camera: Heinrich
Marandzhyan, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: David Goloschyekin,
sound: Mikhail Victorov
Cast: Vera Alentova, Vladimir Steklov, Emanuel Vitorgan, Alexander Dolski,
Alexander Khochinski, David Goloschyekin, Igor Dmitriyev, Alla Balter, Dmitry
Vorobyev
The picture is focused on jazz musicians, featuring a meeting of those who were young in the 1960-s.
In their past they have a common problem: the imprisonment of an orchestra member who assumed the
fault for the publication of a unofficial magazine “Diski” (“The Disks”) featuring American jazz. The
disaster separated them rather than united. The ones who overcame the fear of the undeserved
punishment and remained faithful to their vocation are now getting together.
1143 KRUG VTOROY (CIRCLE TWO)
1990, 93 min., color, “Troitsky Most”, Creative Initiative Centre, Soviet Culture
Foundation, Leningrad Branch, “Zerkalo” Cinema Fans Club (Syktyvkar)
Drama
Director: Alexander Sokurov, screenplay: Yuri Arabov, camera: Alexander Burov,
production designer: Vladimir Solovyev, misic: Otmar Nussio, sound: Vladimir
Persov
Cast: Pyotr Alexandrov, Nadezhda Rodnova, Tamara Timofeyeva, Alexander
Bystryakov, Sergei Krylov
The main character, whose father is dying a terrible and painful death, passes through all the circles a
human is destined to traverse at a tragic time like this: the torture of guilt, the torture of inability to
help, and the torture of helpless sympathy. The authors of the picture set the task of achieving a closest
possible approach to a deep emotional state, a fictitious personification of this extreme pole of spiritual
tension.
 The film was awarded the FIPRESSI Prize at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam,
Holland (1990) and the Dutch Cinema Critics’ Prize “For the Vanguard Development in Cinema”
at the XX International Film Festival in Rotterdam, Holland (1991).
1144 PALACH (THE EXECUTIONER)
1990, 152 min., color, ”Ladoga”, “Lenfilm”, “Russkoje Video”
Criminal drama
Director: Viktor Sergeyev, screenplay: Sergei Beloshnikov, camera: Nikolai
Stroganov, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Edward Artemyev, sound:
Asya Zvereva
Cast: Irina Metlitskaya, Andrei Sokolov, Larisa Guzeyeva, Sergei Gazarov, Boris
Galkin, Stanislav Sadalski, Aristarkh Livanov, Yelena Arzhanik, Algis Matuleonis
The main character, Olga, who has suffered a gang rape, makes up her mind to take revenge on her
offenders one by one. She hires professionals, members of a widespread Mafia network. The brutality
displayed by the Mafia from the very start terrifies Olga...she does her best to stop the criminal
machine she herself has started... but to no avail... Her own life is ruined, her once vital soul is utterly
devastated...
1145 PANTSYR (THE SHELL)
1990, 91 min., b/w, “First and Experimental Film”, “Lenfilm”
Psychological drama
Director: Igor Alimpiyev, screenplay: Igor Alimpiyev with input from Pyotr
Kozhevnikov, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic:
L. Hovanez, sound: Leonid Izakov
Cast: Pyotr Kozhevnikov, Alexander Sporykhin, Anna Bychkova (Perminova), Olga
Samoshina, Olga Yakovleva, Sergei Erdenko, Sergei Dobrotvorski, Vladimir
Yermilov
Who wants you when you are over thirty, and your best is past? Where are those who used to be close?
One is in his coffin (having departed this life), another has turned militiaman (having become a model
soldier of Home Troops) and is spying on yet another one, who used to be the most gifted of the three
of us, the pride of our school, nowadays making bread (money) in the Nevsky...
 The film was awarded the Bronze Prize of the International Film Festival in Rimini, Italy (1990).
1146 PEREKHOD TOVARISCHA CHKALOVA CHEREZ
SEVERNY POLYUS (COMRADE CHKALOV'S CROSSING THE
NORTH POLE)
1990, 23 min., b/w, “First and Experimental Film”, “Lenfilm”
Eccentric comedy
Written and directed by: Maxim Pezhemski, camera: Valery Mironov, production
designer: Vladislav Orlov, misic: Sergei Kurekhin, sound: Larisa Maslova
Cast: Alexander Zavyalov, Viktor Bychkov, Semyon Furman, Vladimir Baranov
The picture is stylized to reproduce the aesthetics of the silent films, being a parody of the ideological
stamps of the classical Soviet movies of the 1920s- 30s.
 The film was awarded the Participant Diploma of the International Film Festival in Cannes,
France (1991) and the Main Prize for the Best Short Film at the IX International Film Festival in
Turin, Italy (1991).
1147 SLUCHAYNY VALS (A CASUAL WALTZ)
1990, 96 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”, “Lenfilm”
Psychological drama
Director: Svetlana Proskurina, screenplay: Pavel Finn, camera: Dmitry Mass,
production designer: Vladimir Yuzhakov, misic: Vyacheslav Gaivoronski, sound:
Vladimir Persov
Cast: Alla Sokolova, Tatyana Bondareva, Alexei Serebryakov, Sergei Parapanov,
Tatyana Bondareva, Viktor Proskurin
Trying to get rid of her melancholy, Tatyana Prokofyevna, an elderly woman who owns a house on a
hill-side, invites young tenants in and begins to take generous care of them... Hers and theirs is a
parallel, almost similar existence: unsure, indistinct, and solitary. She makes them learn sense, and it is
going to take them time to feel the danger of this tutelage; they get entangled in the web of hopeless
dependence on a stranger's strong evil will. Shortly, the ominous house on the slope turns the spineless
boys into murderers.
 The film was awarded the “Golden Leopard” – the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival
in Locarno, Switzerland (1990) and the “Mancion Speciale” – the Grand Prix of the XIII
International Film Festival in Creitel, France (1991).
1148 SATANA (SATAN)
1990, 108 min., color
Psychological thriller
Written and produced by: Viktor Aristov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production
designer: Vladimri Bannykh, misic: Arkady Gagulashvioli, sound: Nikolai Astakhov
Cast: Svetlana Bragarnik, Sergei Kupriyanov, Veniamin Malochevsky, Maria
Averbach, Mikhail Starodubov
Daughter of Alyona Pavlova, one of the leaders of the local Mafia was kidnapped. The crime
was committed by Vitaly, m a young man who had been working as a courier in the City Council. He
promises to release the girl in return for a large sum of money.
 Silver Bear, 41st Berlin IFF (1990)
1149 SOBACHIY PIR (THE DOGS' FEAST)
1990, 100 min., color, ”Ladoga”, “Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, camera: Vladimir Kovzel,
production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Alexander
Sysolyatin
Cast: Natalya Gundareva, Sergei Shakurov, Larisa Udovichenko, Anna Polikarpova,
Christina Denga
On a holiday eve, everyone, especially one tired and chilly, does so need at least one living soul at one's
side: it is bad to meet a holiday alone with oneself. Thus, on a New Year's Eve, the main characters
meet, — a meeting of two solitudes. Chance brought two persons of disorderly lives together in a
railway terminal.... kindling the hope for a normal, pure human life, the kind others have...
 The actress Natalya Gundareva was honored the Premium for the Best Actress’ Work at the
International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada (1990) and was awarded NIKA — the highest
annual professional Premium of the Cinematographers’ Union — for the Best Lead Part (1991).
1150 STRASTI PO VLADIMIRU (THE TRIALS OF
VLADIMIR)
1990, 110 min., color, ”Golos”, “Leninterfilm”, commissioned by “Tonis”
Satirical comedy
Written and directed by: Mark Rozovsky, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production
designer: Yevgeny Gukov, sound: Harry Belenky
Cast: Vladimir Dolinski, Galina Borisova, Vera Ulik, Igor Staroseltsev, Alexander
Lukash, Semyon Farada
The picture based on the famous performance titled” Vysotsky's Concert at a Research Institute” staged
by “U Nikitskikh Vorot” (By the Nikitskiye Gate”) Studio Theater features a common occurrence of
the early 1970-s: the ban of Vysotski's concert at a Research Institute.
The picture is actual and satirically poignant in the sense that today, when the outward bans have been
lifted, the inner ones linger to mar people's lives, preventing them from overcoming their fear and
servility and obstructing the “germination” of free thinking and human rights.
1151 TAKSI-BLYUZ (THE TAXI BLUES)
1990, 111 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”, “Lenfilm”, ASK, MK-2 PRODUCTION
(France), Goskino USSR
Eccentric drama
Written and directed by: Pavel Lungin, camera: Denis Yevstigneyev, production
designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Vladimir Chekasin, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaichenko, Natalya Kolyakanova, Yelena Safonova,
Vladimir Kashpur, Sergei Gazarov, Yevgeny Gerchakov, Dmitry Prigov, Igor
Zolotovitski, Valery Khlevinski, Yelena Stepanova, Alexander Buyanov, Sergei
Galkin, Alexander Inshakov
The taxi driver Ivan Shlykov becomes an unwilling witness and participant of the musician Lyosha
Seliverstov's drinking spree. He drives his bohemian chums around Moscow, sells them his vodka, only
to see his client disappear without paying. The taxi driver is mad to be so insulted by a pathetic loafer, a
puny nothing of a music player. Shlykov finds Seliverstov, thus setting off the tragic story of their
relationship involving a blind hate, an unshared love, an overpowering weakness, a lack of a common
language and a crazy hope to find one.
 The film director Pavel Lungin was awarded the Prize of the Jury for the Best Film Director’s
Work at the International Film Festival in Cannes, France (1990). The director of photography
Denis Yevstigneyev was awarded NIKA -the highest annual professional Premium of the
Cinematographers’ Union – for the Best Operator’s Work (1991).
1152 TORMOZHENIYE V NEBESAKH (THE BLOCKING
IN HEAVEN)
1990, 76 min., color, ”Ladoga”, “Lenfilm”
Tragic farce
Director: Viktor Buturlin, screenplay: Roman Solntsev with input from Roman
Buturlin, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Vladimir Bannykh,
misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Leonid Izakov
Cast: Viktor Smirnov, Nina Ruslanova, Yuri Kuznetsov, Viktor Tsepayev, Lev
Borisov, Igor Nikitin, Yuri Mazhuga, Boris Scherbakov, Alexander Fatyushin,
Tamara Kolesnikova, Larisa Leonova
Recognizing his doom, Makhonin, First Secretary of the Regional Party Committee, flesh of the flesh
of his time, is still trying to hold on to his power and privileges with all his strength.
1153 FUFLO (THE FAKE)
1990, 94 min., color, “Troitsky Most”, “Lenfilm”
Erotic detective story
Director: Alexei Lebedev, screenplay: Kirill Laskari, camera: Vladimir Brylyakov,
production designer: Sergei Kokovkin, misic: Merab Gagnidze, sound: Oksana
Strugina
Cast: Andrei Rudenski, Alexander Romantsov, Lyubov Polischuk, Tatyana
Manevskaya, Yelena Aminova
Viktor Kaloshin is a womanizer, all but instantly conquering virtually any woman he meets. His erotic
adventures, love adventures involving outright criminal actions, comprise the contents of the picture
with its the moral charge aimed at exposing consumership tendencies both in a person and in society in
general.
All the transformations of the ill-starred scum nicknamed “Balerunok” are set against variety show and
ballet scenes, against a queer friendship — enmity with a criminal drug addict going by the nickname
of Bury, to result in murder.
1154 TSARSKAYA OKHOTA (THE TSAR'S HUNT)
1990, 121 min., color, ”Golos”, “Lenfilm”, “Sojuzkinoservis”, “Barrandov”
(Chekoslovakia), “Ekccelsiorfilm” (Italy)
Historical drama
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Leonid Zorin, camera: Yuri Veksler,
production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Edison Denisov, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Nikolai Yeremenko, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Anna Samokhina, Mikhail
Kononov, Oleg Tabakov, Alexander Romantsev, Alexander Goloborodko, Anatoly
Shvederski, Svetlana Smirnova, Alexander Novikov
The screenplay features the tragic fate of the impostor Princess Tarakanova, a pretender to the Russian
throne. It is one of the most dazzling subjects presented to art by the Russian history. Leonid Zorin
came up with his own view of the hunt put up by Tsarina Catherine II in pursuit of Princess
Tarakanova.
In the eyes of many Count Orlov, the executor of the Empress's will, was an accomplished villain. The
playwright renounced this simple description. Orlov was too much of an individual to turn into a
common executioner. The extent of his suffering might have exceeded that of the victim herself; for he
truly fell in love with Princess Yelizaveta Tarakanova, the one he betrayed.
 The costume designer Larisa Koknikova was awarded NIKA – the highest annual professional
Premium of the Cinematographers’ Union – for the Best Designer’s Work (1991).
 The actress Svetlana Kryuchkova was awarded NIKA for the Best Minor Part (1991).
1155 GENIY (THE GENIUS)
1991, 162 min., color, ”Ladoga”, “Vilon”
Detective
Director: Viktor Sergeyev, screenplay: Igor Ageyev, camera: Sergei Sidorov,
production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Eduard Artemyev, sound: Asya
Zvereva
Cast: Aleksander Abdulov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Larisa Byelogurova, Yuri
Kuznetsov, Valentina Talyzina, Sergei Prokhanov, Viktor Ilyichov
A gifted innovator, Sergei Nenashev, who is an underpaid engineer at a research institute, has the walls
of his toilet covered with his useless diplomas and patents. He then decides to start his own business.
Equipped with sophisticated electronic devices, Sergei blackmails dishonest rich men.
1156 DEISTVUY, MANYA! (GO AHEAD, MANYA!)
1991, 110 min., color, ”Diapazon”, Sovkino, NIISK
Comedy
Director: Roman Yershov, screenplay: Igor Vinnichenko, Roman Yershov, camera:
Valery Mulgaut, Radik Askarov, production designer: Sergei Shemyakin, misic:
Andrei Andersen, sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Julia Menshova, Sergei Bekhterev, Yevgeny Vestnik, Stanislav Sadalsky,
Georgy Millyar, Yevgeny Morgunov, Viktor Bychkov, Semyon Furman
A young biologist and a young computer programmer create a super-robot Mania designed to fight the
mafia. Like Pygmalion, the young researcher falls in love with his creation…
1157 DOM NA PESKE (HOUSE STANDING ON SAND)
1991, 85 min., color, ”Petropol”, Sojuztelefilm
Director: Niyole Adomenaite, screenplay: Nataliya Chepik, camera: Aleksander
Shumovich, production designers: Yelena Zhukova, Eduard Zyuzikov, misic:
Algirdas Paulavichus, sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Yelena Shiffers, Yelena Shachkova, Yuri Astafyev, Vladimir Yeryomin,
Vladimir Kuznetsov, Ivan Latyshev
Film version of Tatyana Tolstaya’s short story “Sonya”
Lyrical drama about a young girl living in a large friendly family of Leningrad intellectuals. The story
is mixed with the description of people surrounding her and of the atmosphere of Leningrad in the 30’s
— beginning of the 40’s.
1158 MOLODAYA YEKATERINA (YOUNG CATHERINE)
1991, 188 min., color
Historical melodrama
Written and directed by: Michael Anderson, camera: Ernest Day, production
designer: Harold Trasher, Natalya Vasilyeva, misic: Isaak Schwartz, sound: Galina
Gorbonosova
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Chistopher Plummer, Franko Nero, Martha Keller,
Maximillian Shell, Julia Ormond, Katya Golitsyna
Prussian princess Sophia arrives in St. Petersburg. Sge is fated to become Catherina the Great, the most
famous Russian empress.
 ACE award, USA cable TV for best supporting role for Vanessa Regrave
1159 IZYDI... (GO AWAY...)
1991, 89 min., color and b/w
Tragicomedy
Director: Dmitry Astrakhan, screenplay: Dmitry Astrakhan, Oleg Danilov, camera:
Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Sergei Kokovkin, Maria Petrocva, misic:
Alexander Pantykin, sound: Alexander Sysolyatin
Cast: Otar Megvinetukhutsesi, Tamara Skhirtladze, Yelena Anisimova, Tatyana
Kuznetsova, Vladimir Kabalin, Valentin Bukin, Viktor Mikhailov, Alexander Lykov,
Viktor Bychkov
Loosely based on novels by Sholom Aleichem, Alexander Kuprin, Isaak babel Motl Rabinovich started
his own business — opened a dairy store. A womanizer, a drunkard and a hard worker he was nor
worse and was not better then his neighbors, the only difference was in the shape of his nose and color
of his curly hair. All the village came to Motl celebrate opening of his store. The villagers were having
a great time and no one could suspect that there was trouble ahead.
 Ecumenical Jury prize, XVII Moscow IFF, 1991
 Best male role for Otar Megvinetukhutsesi (Tokyo IFF, 1991)
1160 LOSHAD, SKRIPKA...I NEMNOGO NERVNO (A
HORSE, A VIOLIN...AND SOME NERVOUSNESS)
1991, 30 min., color
Director: Irina Yevteyeva, screenplay: Irina Yevteyeva, Yuri Krtavtsov, camera:
Genrikh Marandzhyan, misic: Algirdas Paulavichus, music pieces by Dmitry
Shostakovich, animation: Irina Yevteyeva, L. Tomashevskaya, A. Vasilyev, sound:
Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Georgy Traugot, Margarita Bychkova, Semyon Furman, Alexander Petrov,
Boris Cherdyntsev, Tatyana Arkhangelskaya
An experimental film made on the intersection of different types of films — documentary, feature and
animation.
1161 ARIFMETIKA UBIISTVA (ARITHMETIC OF
MURDER)
1991, 102 min., color
Psychological thriller
Director: Dmitry Svetozarov, screenplay: Mikhail Popov, Dmitry Svetozarov,
camera: Sergei Astakhov, production designer: Yelena Zhukova, misic: Andrei
Makarevich, Alexander Krutikov, sound: Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Sergei Bekhterev, Zinaida Sharko, Yuri Kuznetsov, Lev Borisov, Olga
Samoshina, Vladimir Kashpur, Vyachslav Yakovlev
Based on Mikhail Popov’s novel “Let’s Talk!”.
Investigation of a murder committed in a communal apartment. Each of the tenants is a suspect.
 Grand-Prix, “Kinoshock” IFF (1992)
1162 ZHERTVA DLYA IMPERATORA (A SACRIFICE
FOR THE EMPEROR)
1991, 91 min., color, “First and Experimental Film”, “Lenfilm”
Drama
Director: Roza Orynbasarova, screenplay: Vitaly Moskalenko, camera: Sergei
Yurizditsky, production designer: Sergei Kokovkin, misic: Andrei Sigle, sound:
Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Alexander Sporykhin, Sergei Kushakov, Alexei Guskov, Svetlana Svirko,
Mikhail Shchetinin, Dao Dae
Adaptation of Aleksander Kuprin’s short story “Junior Captain Rybnikov”
The film portrays a Japanese General Staff officer infiltrates the military circles of St. Petersburg.
1163 YEVREISKOYE SCHSATYE (JEWISH FORTUNE)
1991, 50 min., color, “First and Experimental Film”
Psychological drama
Director: Vitaly Mansky, screenplay: Georgy Ostrovsky, camera: Sergei
Yurizditsky, production designer: Oleg Tagel, misic: Kharkovsky, sound:Boris
Andreyev
Cast: Yevgeny Steblov, Anna Matyuhina, Lyudmila Narovchatskaya
The lead character of the film, Mark, is going to emigrate to Israel. Before leaving for the homeland of
his ancestors, Mark pays a visit to his native town where he spent his childhood. Here he meets his
death — in what seems to be an absurd accident.
1164 KOLTSO (THE TERMINAL)
1991, 85 min., color, ”Lenfilm”, All-Union Cinema and Television Centre for
Children and Youth
Melodrama
Director: Valery Martynov, screenplay: Aleksander Galin, Valery Martynov,
camera: Valery Martynov, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Andrei Sigle,
sound: Aleksander Shulga
Cast: Platon Martynov, Tatyana Rasskazova, Igor Chernyevich, Irina Tychinina,
Vladimir Yeryomin, Boris Sokolov
The mother of the 7-year old Platon sends him to his grandmother's and goes away with her lover on
the Christmas vacation. However, the boy's grandmother does not recognize her grandson and on New
Year's eve Platon is left on his own. At first he enjoys himself immensely getting together with his
friends and riding for long hours on a tram. But then he finds himself in a police station among
homeless children. The tram driver Viktor helps Platon get out of the police station…
1165 AFGANSKY IZLOM (AFGHAN BREAKDOWN)
1991, 140 min., color, ”Ladoga”, “Russkoje Video”, “Clemi Cinematografica” (Italy)
War drama
Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Alexander Chervinsky, Mikhail
Leshchinsky, Leonid Bogachuk, Ada Petrova, camera: Valery Fedosov, Pavel
Zasyadko, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich,
sound: Kirill Kuzmin
Cast: Micele Placido, Tatyana Dogileva, Mikhail Zhigalov, Filipp Yankovsky, Alexei
Serebryakov, Nina Ruslanova, Nikolai Ustinov, Artur Uvarov
During the last days of the war in Afghanistan, one battalion, which is providing cover to withdrawing
Soviet troops, is ambushed. All the men, including their brave commander major Bandura, lay down
their lives to save their comrades.
1166 BYELIYE NOCHI (THE WHITE NIGHTS)
1991, 90 min., color, ”Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Director: Leonid Kvinikhidze, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, camera: Eduard
Rozovsky, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Maxim Dunayevsky, sound:
Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Anna Matyukhina, Vadim Lyubshin, Galina Polskikh, Nikolai Yeryomenko,
Vitaly Usanov
Fiodor Dostoyevsky's novel of the same title takes place in modern
times. One summer night, Mitya, a bread vagon driver, meets a girl and gives her a ride home. They
make a date. During their next meeting, the girl tells Mitya how boring her life was until a new tenant
appeared in their flat.
1167 MIF O LEONIDE (THE MYTH OF LEONID)
1991, 90 min., color, “Lenfilm” studio
Political drama
Director: Dmitry Dolinin, screenplay: Pavel Finn, camera: Lev Kolganov,
production designer: Vladimir Bannykh, misic: Gennady Banshchikov, sound:
Alexander Sysolyatin
Cast: Sergei Gamov, Niyole Narmontaite, Anzhelika Nevolina, Boris Birman, Olga
Tarasenko, Valery Kravchenko, Gabriel Vorobyov, Viktor Bychkov, Boris
Kozhemyakin
The film is focused on the versions of the Leningrad Bolsheviks’ leader Kirov's assassination as
suggested by Orlov, the ex- KGB general who narrowly escaped death in Stalin purges.
1168 LAPA (PROTECTION)
1991, 87 min., color, “Golos”, “Lenfilm”
Criminal drama
Director: Yuli Koltun, screenplay: Edgar Dubrovsky, camera: Yuri Shaigardanov,
production designer: Vladimir Yuzhakov, misic: Mark Samoilov, sound: Garri
Belenky
Cast: Yuri Orlov, Vyachslav Bambushek, Varery Kosoi, Tatyana Kabanova,
Anastasiya Vlasova, Ilya Zmeyev
The action of the film begins in the 70's and ends up in our days. The story is pivoted on the conflict of
two strong and exceptional characters. The main hero of the film is appointed head of a large foreign
trade company and his new job immediately draws attention of the chief of a corporation engaged in an
illegal business. We see the metamorphosis of one of the characters and find out what happens to the
other hero six years later. We also see what methods the mafia is using today.
1169 MECHENIYE (THE BRANDED))
1991, 126 min., color, “Lenfilm”
Thriller
Director: Vyacheslav Sorokin, screenplay: Andrei Romanov, camera: Igor Markov,
production designer: Mikhail Gavrilov, misic: Stanislav Vazhov, sound: Artur
Shchikhov
Cast: Aleksei Nilov, Sergei Varchuk, Yelena Starostina, Vadim Lobanov, Margarita
Zvonaryova
Two young boys punish the mobsters connected with corrupt policemen.
1170 NEVOZVRASHCHENETS (THE DEFECTOR)
1991, 123 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”, “Tekhnopolisbank”
Political anti-utopia
Director: Sergei Snezhkin, screenplay: Alexander Kabakov, Sergei Snezhkin,
camera: Vladimir Burikin, production designer: Pavel Parkhomenko, misic:
Alexander Khaifel, sound: Aliakper Gasan-Zade
Cast: Yuri Kuznetsov, Nikolai Yeryomenko, Sr., Nadyezhda Zhivodyorova, Yuri
Oskin, Viktor Aristov, Yelena Anisimova, Era Ziganshina
Loosely based on Alexander Kabakov’s novel of the same title. The lead character of the film is a
journalist and TV reporter. He is also a dissident and a police informer, who has long complicated
relations with the authorities. Tired and dissatisfied with everything and above all, with himself, he
decides to concentrate on his purely professional activities. Accidentaly he gets hold of the original
documents about preparation of a communist coup. The journalist makes his choice — he will never
return to his former life. Any danger, any punishment would be better than lies and compromises with
his conscience.
1171 LOKH – POBYEDITEL VODY (GOOFBALL — THE
CONQUEROR OF VODA)
1991, 91 min., color, “Troitsky Most”
Criminal drama
Written and directed by: Arkady Tigay, camera: Yuri Veksler, production
designer: Mikhail Suzdalov, misic: Sergei Kuriokhin, sound: Aliakper Gasan-Zade
Cast: Sergei Kuriokhin, Larisa Borodina, Vladimir Yeryomin, Andrei Krasko, Oleg
Kasavnenko, Aleksander Glazun, Andrei Ponomarev, Valentin Zhilyaev
Pavel Gorelikov together with his friend Kostya opens a small workshop where they use scrap metal
and various fragments to assemble elementary computer games for children. However, this little
humble place is attacked by racketeers. Realizing that police failed to protect them the helpless
impractical Pavel, a goofball, declares war on the gangsters...
1172 OPYT BREDA LYUBOVNOGO OCHAROVANIYA
(EXPERIENCE THE ENCHANTMENT AND DELIRIUM OF
LOVE)
1991, 109 min., color, “Lenfilm”
Tragic farce
Written and directed by: Valery Ogorodnikov, camera: Sergei Nekrasov,
production designer: Viktor Ivanov, misic: Edison Denisov, sound: Larisa Maslova
Cast: Masha Pyrenkova, Sergei Afanasyev, Alexander Romantsov, Alexander
Vorobyov, Svetlana Gaitan, Aleksei Zubarev
The tragic love story in which the heroes — Pasha and Angel — are patients at a mental hospital. In
this cruel world they choose death…
1173 PYUSHCHIYE KROV (BLOOD-SUCKERS)
1991, 108 min., color, “Lenfilm”
Phantasmagoric melodrama
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Artur Makarov, camera: Konstantin
Ryzhov, production designer: Isaak Kaplan, misic: Sergei Kuriokhin, sound: Igor
Vigdorchik
Cast: Marina Vladi, Donatas Banionis, Andrei Sokolov, Marina Maiko, Konstantin
Afonsky, Andrei Urgant, Igor Murugov
Loosely based on Aleksei Tolstoy's short story “Vampire.” The vivid film focuses on the story of a
grandmother who is a vampire.
1174 PAPA, UMER DED MOROZ (DADDY, SANTA CLAUS
IS DEAD)
1991, 71 min., b/w, “First and Experimental Film”, “Lenfilm”
Ironical horror
Director: Yevgeniy Yufit in co-operation with Vladimir Maslov, screenplay:
Vladimir Maslov, camera: Alexander Burov, production designer: Yevgeny Yufit,
sound: Mikhail Podtakui
Cast: Anatoly Yegorov, Ivan Ganzha, Lyudmila Koslovskaya, Boris Ilyasov, Maxim
Gribov, Olga Shramko, Valery Krishtapenko, Sasha Lyalin
Loosely based on Alexei Tolstoy's short story “Vampire's Family.”
The action of the novel takes place in modern times. Can Santa Claus die? And if the answer is “yes,
“does it mean that time will also stop? Everyone knows that it is Santa Claus who brings the New Year
and starts the new cycle of life. A young biologists looks for a secluded place where he can continue
his research. He finds a village inhabited by some strange people, everyone seems to be possessed by
some mystical maniacal ideas.
 The film was awarded the “Gold R” – the Grand Prix of the Art Film Festival in Rimini, Italy
(1993).
1175 TMA (THE DARKNESS)
1991, 58 min., color, “Troitsky Most”, “La Sept” (Channel 7 of TV, France),
“Sodaperaga” (France)
Drama
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Jacques Baynac, camera: Vladimir
Brylyakov, production designer: Natalya Kochergina, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich,
sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Oleg Yankovsky, Kseniya Kachalina, Yevgeny Vesnik, Svetlana Kryuchkova
Based on Leonid Andreyev’s short story of the same title.
At the turn of the century when Leonid Andreyev was working on this story, some people believed that
terrorism was liberating, noble and self-sacrificing. This story of a terrorist and a prostitute reflects this
disastrous and romantic delusion of its time.
1176 OI, VY, GUSI... (OH, YOU, GEESE...)
1991, 87 min., color, b/w, ”First and Experimental Film”, ”Lenfilm”
Drama
Written and directed by: Lydia Bobrova, camera: Sergei Astakhov, production
designer: Gennady Popov, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Vyacheslav Sobolev, Yuri Bobrov, Vasily Frolov, Nina Usatova, Galina
Volkova, Sveltana Gaitan, Marina Kusnetsova
A dying father leaves his three sons an accordion, an old house and a clock…
 The author of the screenplay and the film director Lydia Bobrova was awarded the Grand Prix of
the IY European Festival of the First Films in Angere, France for the Best Screenplay and Film
(1991).
1177 RUKOPIS (THE MANUSCRIPT)
1991, 57 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”, “La Sept” (Channel 7 of TV, France),
”Sodaperaga” (France)
Social drama
Director: Aleksei Muratov, screenplay: Jacques Baynac, camera: Vladimir Ilyin,
production designer: Mikhail Gerasimov, misic: Andrei Sigle, sound: Oksana
Strugina
Cast: Vladimir Ivashov, Irina Brazgovka, Zinovy Gerdt, Andrei Zaikov, Alexander
Kalyagin, Boris Kluyev, Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Zoya Buryak
In a countryside writers' colony, a young writer is working on her autobiographical story dealing with
the arrest and death of her husband. She is is mad with fear, suspicion, mistrust andanxiety. The film
shows how a totalitarian state intrudes upon people's private lives and their creative work, how it
mutilates souls and distorts relations between people.
1178 SADY SKORPIONA (THE GARDENS OF THE
SCORPION)
1991, 102 min., color, b/w, ”First and Experimental Film”, Creative Initiative Centre,
“Zerkalo” (Syktyvkar)
Fragments combined
Written and directed by: Oleg Kovalov, camera: Anatoly Lapshov, sound: Garri
Belenky, music from pieces by: Carl Orph, Bela Bartok, Dmitry Shostakovich, Nino
Rota, Krsistof Penderetsky
This political film has elements of satire and philosophical lyricism about the epoch of Great
Expectations. It is a surrealistic collage, and a free combination of fragments of Soviet films made in
the 20s — 30s. These films were both great and ordinary, feature films and documentaries, instructive
films and animations.
1179 TRAVA I VODA (GRASS AND WATER)
1991, 50 min., color, “First and Experimental Film”
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Viktor Tikhomirov, camera:Vladimir Vasilyev,
production design: Viktor Tikhomorov, misic: Boris Grebenshchikov, sound:
Mikhail Belovolov
Cast: Venya Kravchuk, Yuri Nazarov, Natasha Tikhomirova
Set in the days of Khrushchev's thaw, the film centers on the complicated relations of a father and his
teenager son. The film shows the awakening of artistic and creative impulses in a young man standing
on the threshold of his independent life.
1180 SOKRAT (SOCRATES)
1991, 121 min., color, “Petropol”, “Sojuztelefilm”
Drama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay:Mikhail Kurayev, camera: Eduard Rosovsky,
production designers: Larisa Shilova, Elvira Karatyshkina, misic: Shandor Kallosh,
sound:Galina Potseluyeva
Cast: Olga Mateshko, Grigory Aredakov, Yevgeny Merkuryev, Boris Klyuyev,
Alexander Galko, Valery Kukhareshin, Avgustin Milovanov, Saulus Kisas, Valentina
Yakunina, Viktor Gogolev
Adaptation of the play “Barefoot in Athens” by American playwright Maxwell Anderson.
The film centers on the tragic last period of Socrates's life. The long war with Sparta ended up with
Athens completely humbled, deprived of its might and prosperity. In the atmosphere of general despair
and irritation, democracy is replaced first by tyranny and then by oligarchy. And at that time, a strange
old man is wandering about the streets and markets, entering into conversations and asking confusing
questions. Gradually the man becomes the focus of public irritation. After all he was the friend and
teacher of the most famous Athenian citizens: Aristides, Harmodius and Critas who led the city-state to
defeat and collapse.
1181 SCHASTLIVIYE DNI (THE HAPPY DAYS)
1991, 97 min., b/w, “First and Experimental Film”
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexei Balabanov, camera: Sergei Astakhov, production
designer: Sergei Karnet, sound: Galina Golubyeva, misic: Richard Wagner, G.
Warren
Cast: Viktor Sukhorukov, Anzhelika Nevolina, Yevgeny Merkuryev, Georgy Teikh,
Nikolai Lavrov
Loosely based on Samuel Beckett's play of the same title.
We see how the inner world of a man collapses when the world around him goes to pieces. We watch
the degradation of the lead character who gives up love, friendship and basic moral standards because
the society around him does not need these values. Gradually his ties to the world are getting thinner
and thinner. One day he comes across a boat in a courtyard and lies down in it like in a coffin and
closes the lid. At the end of the film we see the flooded streets of the city and a tram that comes to a
dead stop.
1182 TRETYA PLANETA (THE THIRD PLANET)
1991, 99 min., color, ”Lenfilm”
Written and directed by: Aleksander Rogozhkin, camera: Nikolai Stroganov,
production designers:Aleksander Zagoskin, Pavel Novikov, misic: Gennady
Byelolipetsky, sound: Nikolai Astakhov
Cast: Anna Matyukhina, Boris Sokolov, Svetlana Mikhalchenko, Konstantin
Polyansky, Gosha Pankratov
Sci-fi. Philosophic anti-utopia on the fragility of human life...
Anton is desperate. His daughter is suffering from a serious ailment and has been discharged from the
clinic without any signs of improvement. He takes his last chance: he will try his luck in the so called
“zone” — the site of a nuclear catastrophe that happened many years ago. Now this place is inhabited
by strange human mutants. These people are super-healers and they are his last resort.
1183 ULYBKA (A SMILE)
1991, 97 min., color, “First and Experimental Film”
Phantasmagoria
Director: Sergei Popov, screenplay: Dmitry Lazarev, Sergei Popov, camera: Yuri
Vorontsov, production designer: Oleg Tagel, misic: Arkady Gagulashvili, sound:
Igor Terekhov
Cast: Natalya Lvova, Nadezhda Zharikova, Galina Zakhurdayeva, Pyotr
Kozhavnikov, Igor Nikitin, Valery Poletayev, Viktor Gogolev
Loosely based on a book by Dmitry Lazarev.
Basically the film is set in a mental hospital. However, absurdity has no bounds. A man is just a
random victim of the universal madness. In this world of total madness, the heroes of the film try to
find answers and, moreover, they feel it necessary to give answers to the questions put before them.
1184 KHMEL (INTOXICATION)
1991, 246 min., 3 parts, color, “Ladoga”
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Viktor Tregubovich, camera: Ivan Bagayev, production
designers: Stanislav Romanovsky, Andrei Vasin, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound:
Moris Vendrov
Cast: Fyodor Odinokov, Marina Vybornova, Alexander Blok, Andrei Ponomaryov,
Viktor Tregubovich, Alexei Buldakov, Alexander Zavyalov, Yuri Dubrovin, Boris
Arakelov, Viktor Bychkov
Loosely based on the novel by Alexei Cherkasov of the same title.
The film is set in 1827 in Siberia. The aristocrat, Loparev, has been convicted for participation in a
revolt against tsar. He escapes from prison and takes refuge in a settlement of Old believers, the
dissident Orthodox sect hiding in the forests from the persecution of the official church and state
authorities. This film first opened the unknown world of the Old Believers, their customs and
traditions. The film offers the vivid story of fatal love between Loparev and Yefimia, as well as the
description of exceptional Russian characters, it meditates on the inevitable fall of tyranny.
1185 TSINIKI (CYNICS)
1991, 106 min., color, ”Lenfilm”, “Diapazon”, “Podmoskovye”
Melodrama
Director: Dmitry Meskhiyev, screenplay: Valery Todorovsky, camera: Yuri
Shaigardanov, production designer: Vladimir Yuzhakov, misic: Vadim Golutvin,
sound: Garri Belenky
Cast: Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrei Ilyin, Irina Rozanova, Viktor Pavlov, Yuri
Belyayev, Sergei Batalov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Loosely based on Anatoly Marienhof’s novel of the same title. The hero of the film is a university
professor, a historian and a bookworm. The heroine is a daughter of wealthy parents who emigrated
from the country after the first decrees of Soviet power.
They are the so called 'blue blood', outcasts who can not adjust to realities of post-revolutionary life
and to the “building of the new world.' The film offers a cynical view on the events that were taking
place in Russia in 1918 — 1924.
1186 CHERNOYE I BELOYE (BLACK AND WHITE)
1991, 85 min., color, “Troitsky Most”, “Sovexportfilm”, “Elegant Logic”
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Boris Frumin, camera: Vladimir Il’yin, production
designer: Mary Keith Willett, sound: Eduard Vanumts, Michel Carman
Cast: Yelena Shevchenko, Gilbert Giles, Patrick Godfry, Gina Dellio
A little Russian girl lost in a foreign country, makes friends with a black janitor, who is also another
lonely outcast excluded from society.
 The film was awarded the Second Prizr at the Art Film Festival in Rimini, Italy (1993).
1187 CHICHA (CHICHA)
1991, 88 min., color, “Golos”, “Rosich” Cinema Centre
Comedy
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Vladimir Vardunas, camera: Valery
Mulgaut, production designer: Andrei Vasin, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Asya
Zvereva
Cast: Mikhail Dorofeyev, Nina Usatova, Sergei Sazont’yev, Borislav Brondukov,
Lera Mulakevich, Misha Kabatov, Vanya Smirnov
The funny and moving story of Stepan Chichulin, the shy soloist in a provincial folk group, who has
been imitating the voices of other singers all his life.
1188 CHEKIST (CHEKIST)
1991, 57 min., color, “Troitsky Most”, “La Sept” (Channel 7 of TV, France),
“Sodaperaga” (France)
Tragic farce
Director: Alexander Rogozhkin, screenplay: Jacques Baynac, camera: Valery
Mulgaut, production designer: Grigory Obraztsov, misic: Dmitry Pavlov, sound:
Nikolai Astakhov
Cast: Igor Sergeyev, Alexei Poluyan, Mikhail Vasserbaum, Sergei Isanin, Vasily
Domrachev, Alexander Medvedev, Nina Usatova
Loosely based on the novel “Chip” by Vladimir Zazubrin.
The film takes place in the gloomy days of the Red Terror when within a short period of time millions
of people representing the best part of Russian society were executed without any investigation or trial.
The film is centred on a psychological portrait of a executioner- a man who has power over both the
murderers and their victims.
1189 SANKT-PETERBURG VES NA LADONI (ALL ST.
PETERSBURG IN YOUR PALM)
1991, 27 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”
Documentary
Written and directed by: Vitaly Aksyonov, camera: Vladimir Smirnov, production
designer: Stanislav Romanovsky, sound: Alexander Sysolyatin
A bird's eye view of the city
1190 RUSSKIY BALET BEZ ROSSII (RUSSIAN BALLET
WITHOUT RUSSIA)
1991, 30 min., color, “Troitsky Most”
Documentary
Director: Pavel Kogan, screenplay: Erlena Karakoz, camera: Viktor
Mikhalchenko, production designer: Dmitry Volkov, sound: Sergei Litvyakov
A film about the destinies of those who fled Russia after the revolution of 1917. It is a reminiscence of
turn of the century Russian ballet, when the world was amazed by this new wonder. On the screen we
see very old people who gave their lives to the art: Nina Vyrubova, Nina Tikhonova, Marina
Chelidova, Irina Grzhebina, Olga Debazil, Dmitry Bushen, Irina Nizhinskaya. Their names are very
well known to all those who have every right to be proud of the great contribution of Russian art to the
world ballet history.
1191 TANTSUYET FARUKH RUZIMATOV (FARUKH
RUSIMATOV IS DANCING)
1991, 48 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”
Documentary
Written and directed by: Svetlana Chizhova, camera:Vasily Seryi, Yevgeny
Guzeyev, production designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Timur Kogan
The authors of the film take a close-up of Farukh Ruzimatov, a brilliant ballet soloist who successfully
performed in America and Japan. The dancer's life is shown — long exhausting rehearsals that later
result in the ethereal lightness of his dance on the stage, his attempts to seek his own style, his desire to
express the music sounding in his heart through his dance, and his constant feeling of dissatisfaction
with himself which is a distinctive feature of a true artist.
1192 CHELOVYEK SO SVALKI (A MAN FROM A
GARBAGE DUMP)
1991, 4 parts, 285 min., color, “Petropol”, “Sojuztelefilm”
Melodrama
Director: Boris Gorlov, screenplay: Viktor Petrov, camera: Vladimir Kovzel,
production designer: Vladislav Orlov, misic: Algirdas Paulavichus, sound:
Alexander Bershadsky
Cast: Anatoly Kotenyov, Era Ziganshina, Yelena Kondratyeva, Alexander Lykov,
Alexander Kavalerov, Svetlana Repitina, Pyotr Merkuryev
The story of Gerasim Dyagilev, a young man working at a factory in Siberia. In the 60's, when he was a
child, he lived in a working class neighborhood located near the large municipal garbage dump. A
strong willed boy, Gerasim makes several attempts to break away from his surroundings. He makes a
brilliant career in sports, and becomes the European champion in boxing. However, the world of sports
has its laws and one day Gerasim drops out from among the sport elite. 1984... He returns to his native
town, to his mother's hut standing near the dump. He goes to pot, and starts drinking. However, his
strong character saves him from complete degradation. He gets a job at the factory and marries a girl he
went to school with.
1193 OTRAZHENIYE V ZERKALE (REFLECTION IN A
MIRROR)
1992, 87 min., color “Lenfilm” with input from “Kanar” LTD
Psychological drama
Director: Svetlana Proskurina, screenplay: Andrei Chernykh, camera: Dmitry Mass,
production designer: Yuri Pashigorev, misic: Vyacheslav Gaivoronsky, sound:
Vladimir Persov
Cast: Viktor Proskurin, Inna Pivars, Yevgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Natalya Pavlova
The hero of the film is a well-known actor. Reflecting himself in the characters he plays on stage, in
eyes of women, in the silent awe of the audience he looses touch with his ego. His attempts to reach his
inner self are blocked by habits, illusions and self-deception. He behaves in a way that earlier would
seem to him unthinkable and crazy. His life resembles a theatrical production, lost in search of lost
reality — with no director, no author and no applause.
1194 ANGELY V RAYU (ANGELS IN HEAVENS)
1992, 98 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”, ”Ognon Pictures” National Centre of French
Cinematography (Paris)
Social drama
Written and directed by: Yevgeny Lungin, camera: Valery Mulgaut, production
designers: Sergei Kokovkin, Boris Petrushansky, misic: Andrei Makarevich, sound:
Eduard Vanunts
Cast: Konstantin Gayekha, Yelena Svintsova, Dinara Drukarova, Andrei Tolubeyev,
Vladimir Kabalin, Olga Volkova
Loosely based on Pyotr Kozhevnikov’s novel of the same title.
Story of silly youngsters living in the gloomy “stagnation” times, when lie was often presented as truth,
ugliness — as beauty. Life of its heroes rather resembles hell — although they do not realize it. There
will be no other life and they are content with this one — with its love, betrayal, death, fights, disco,
vodka and vague uncertain future…
1195 NEOBYKNOVENNYYE PRIKLYUCHENIYA
IBIKUSA V SANKT PETERBURGE (AMAZING ADVENTURES
OF IBIKUS IN ST. PETERSBURG
1992, 81 min., color
Director: Roman Yershov, screenplay: Yevgeny Yurkov, Irina Gonchar, camera:
Vladimri Vasilyev, production designer: Galina Lukina
Cast: Sergei Bekhterev, Natalya Fisson
Russian language course for foreigners.
1196 OSTROV MYURTVYKH (THE ISLAND OF THE
DEAD)
1992, 86 min., color
Written and directed by: Oleg Kovalov, camera: Vladimir Snmirnov, production
designer: V. Cheiskauskas, D. Pakhomov, sound: Garri Belyenky, Marina
Polyanskaya, misic: Mozart, Beethoven, Meyerbeer, Saint-Saens, Bartok
Cinema variation on the theme of the Russian history of the beginning of the 20th century. A
surrealistic collage where fragments from early Russian feature, documentary and animated films
acquire a new unexpected meaning. The film is dedicated to the memory of Vera Kholodnaya, the
famous Russian film star.
 Grand-Prix, Open Russian film festival, Sochi, 1993
1197 PUSTELGA (A KESTREL)
1992, 87 min., color
Lyrical drama
Written and directed by: Sergei Rusakov, camera: Alexander Chugunov,
production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, music: Andrei Misin, sound: Garri
Byelenky
Cast: Nina Ruslanova, Sergei Garmash, Galina Makarova, Igor Sukachev, Alyosha
Igushkin, Roma Baryshev
The film is set in Russia in the ‘70s.
A boy nicknamed “Shumilka” (“Noisy”) lives in a remote village on a shore of a cold sea. A
mischievous mocker with the soul of Charlie Chaplin, he dreams of the fame of the Great Mime.
Loathing morals and manners of a small provincial town, its miserable and half drunk inhabitants,
Shumilka is prepared to take vengeance on the surrounding world.
 Prize for debut and Children’s Jury Prize “For the best film for youth” (Children international
Film Festival, Moscow, 1994).
1198 VOLOGDA ROMANCE
1992, 85 min., colour, Lenfilm — “Vybor” (Lennauchfilm)
Scientific-popular
Director: Alexander Sidelnikov, screenplay: Alexander Sidelnikov, Anatoly
Ekhalov, camera: Alexander Nazarov, music: Vladimir Sokolov, sound: Svetlana
Akmanova
Footage shot by camera men Vacily Sery and Vladimir Petukhov is used in the film
 Russian folk songs and romanes performed by engine-driver Vladimir Gromov, soloist of Kolon
theater, engineer Konstantin Link (Buenos-Aires) etc. Mikhail Sopin reads his lyrics.
 NIKA, annual professional prize for the best scientific-popular film (1993)
1199 VOSTOCHNY ROMAN (ORIENTAL ROMANCE)
1992, 92 min., color, “Golos”
Historic and social drama
Director: Viktor Titov, screenplay: Pavel Lungin, Aleksander Chervinsky, camera:
Sergei Astakhov, production designers: Sergei Shemyakin, Yelena Zhukova, misic:
Nikolai Martynov, sound: Nataliya Avanesova
Cast: Larisa Belogurova, Nikolai Yeryomenko, Jr., Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Ramaz
Chkhikvadze, Nonna Petrosyan, Olga Volkova
The story of the lead character of the film is the story of her rise and moral degradation. We see
Mamlakat when she is a child, a young girl and a mature woman. A typical character of her epoch, she
is stuffed with its slogans. Pursuing her goals she easily discards ethical standards. Her life was not an
easy one: love, life with a man she did not love, a labor camp, again love and a reciprocal feeling,
earthquakes, fires, post-war devastation. She ruins her own family and takes part in deceiving people of
her country.
1200 NA IRTYSHE (ON THE BANKS OF THE IRTYSH)
1992, 58 min., color, “Troitsky Most”, “La Sept”, “Sodaperaga” (France)
Historical drama
Director: Vyacheslav Sorokin, screenplay: Jacques Baynac, camera: Nikolai
Stroganov, production designer: Mikhail Gavrilov, sound: Alexei Shulga
Cast: Stepan Chaizov, Nikolai Pavlov, Viktor Gogolev, Yegor Chiglev, Viktor
Khozyainov, Elena Rufanova
Loosely based on the novel by Sergei Zalygin of the same title.
The film is set in the tragic period in Russian history — the so called agricultural “collectivization”,
when for the sake of a wrong idea agricultural land was ruthlessly confiscated from its true owners —
Russian peasants, hard workers who were feeding the country.
1201 KLUCH (THE KEY)
1992, 58 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”, ”La Sept”, “Sodaperaga” (France)
Detective
Director: Pavel Chukhrai, screenplay: Jacques Baynac, camera: Ivan Bagayev,
production designer: Sergei Kokovkin, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Anatoly Kuznetsov, Anatoly Romashin, Veniamin Smekhov, Aleksander
Kalyagin, Maryana Polteva, Alexei Serebryakov
Loosely based on Mark Aldanov’s novel of the same title.
The film is set in St. Petersburg in winter of 1917, on the eve of the February revolution. The secret
police investigators, rich merchants and their families, journalists, bankers and military engineers live
with the premonition of approaching disaster which will spare no one.
1202 TAINA (MYSTERY)
1992, 106 min., color, ”Russkoje Video” with the input from “Golos”
Detective story
Written and directed by: Gennady Beglov, camera: Aleksander Chechulin,
production designer: Mikhail Gavrilov, misic: Boris Grabovskiy, sound: Maxim
Belovolov
Cast: Povilas Gaidis, Natalya Fateyeva, Povilas Stankus, Sergei Mezhov, Laima
Kernyute, Vitautas Kantsleris, Era Ziganshina
Private detective Sam Patrick has to solve the mystery of an old chest lost in the house belonging to an
ex-pilot. The atmosphere is getting very tense, one murder is followed by another until Sam Patrick
himself almost falls a victim of this intrigue...
1203 GADZHO (GADZHO)
1992, 90 min., color, “Panorama”, “Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Director: Dmitry Svetozarov, screenplay: Dmitry Svetozarov, Mikhail Popov,
camera: Alexander Ustinov, Valery Revich, production designer: Yelena Zhukova,
misic: Timur Kogan, sound: Konstantin Zarin, gipsy songs rendition: Aliona
Buzylyova
Cast: Sergei Bekhterev, Natalya Inozemtseva, Sasha Chorny, Stefan Sukhovsky,
Lidia Oglu, Lazar Tumarkin, Nikolai Trofimov
The hero of the film, Rodion Chechunov, a musician playing in a small provincial operetta orchestra
falls in love with a beautiful gipsy. He leaves his family and joins the wandering gipsy band. He finds
neither new home, nor love -only pity. For the gipsy people he will always remain “Gadzho” – the
stranger...
1204 POSLEDNYAYA TARANTELLA (THE LAST
TARANTELLA)
1992, 36 min., color, “Petropol”, “Accord-film”
Film-ballet
Written and directed by: Alexander Belinsky, camera: Eduard Rozovsky,
production designer: Natalya Vasilyeva, misic: Timur Kogan, sound: Natalya
Avanesova
Cast: Olga Chenchikova, Anna Plisetskaya, Makhar Vazilev, Masha Vazileva, Gali
Abaidulov, Nikolai Kovmir
Loosely based on Maxim Gorky’s “Tales of Italy”
1205 DNEVNIK NAIDENNIY V GROBY (DIARY FOUND
IN A COFFIN)
1992, 110 min., color, ”Barmaley”, ”Lenfilm”, “Gambit Production”(Poland)
Written and directed by: Jan Kidawa-Blonsky, Iatsek Kondratsky, Zenen
Oleinichak, camera: Zdzhislav Naida, production designer: Barbara Novak, Vlad
Orlov, misic: Mikhail Lorents
Cast: Olaf Lobashenko, Olga Kabo, Marzhena Trybala, Katarina Skrzhinetska, Anna
Maicher, Edward Linde-Lyubashenko, Boguslav Linda
An eccentric Melodrama with a tragic end.
1206 KAMEN (STONE)
1992, 83 min., b/w, ”Lenfilm”, “Piermskaya kinostudiya”
Drama
Director: Alexandr Sokurov, screenplay: Yuri Arabov, camera: Alexander Burov,
production designer: Vladislav Solovyev, music from pieces by Piotr Tchaikovsky,
W.-A. Mozart, Gustav Mahler, sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Leonid Mozgovoy, Pyotr Alexandrov, Vadim Semyonov
The main character of the film, the Guest, returns after his death to his house, guarded by the young
Watchman. The only other alive creature near him is the crane...
1207 ZAL OZHIDANIYA (WAITING ROOM)
1992, 58 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”, “La Sept”, “Sodaperaga” (France)
Drama
Director: Roza Orynbasarova, screenplay: Alexander Belsky, Rosa
Orynbasarova, camera: Sergei Lando, production designer: Alexander Boronkin,
misic: Andrei Sigle, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Alexander Chaban, Andrey Pavlovets, Alexander Vedyakin, Felix Agadzanyan,
Veronica Bel'skaya
The new rich businessmen and entrepreneurs, “the new Russians” who have the power to restore the
city’s past glory. It is not easy for them to find common language with vulnerable St. Petersburg
intellectuals, accustomed to their life full of troubles in the old dilapidated city and fearful of the
“coming brutes”.
1208 RAKET (RACKET)
1992, 175 min., 5 parts, color, “Vilon”, “Petropol”, “Ekran”
Thriller
Director: Ernest Yasan, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, camera: Ivan Bagayev,
production designer: Eduard Isayev, misic: Sergei Banevich, sound: Mikhail
Viktorov
Cast: Vladimir Yeryomin, Sergei Shkalikov, Natalya Danilova, Anna Samokhina,
Irina Klimova, Viktor Ilyichov, Alexander Demyanenko
A popular TV reporter Alexei Kornilov who covers the most sensational city news, often shows people
who would rather prefer to keep in the background. The film begins with the scene of funerals of the
head of the city. However, Kornilov’s reportage of this event is not shown in the TV news and the man
who could shed some light on this situation is found dead. Kornilov begins his own investigation of the
murder.
Capitain Glazkov, an Afghan war veteran and now the deputy chief of the police department for fight
with organized crime, helps Kornilov. They trace a criminal group that unites former Party
functionaries, merchants and corrupt members of city administration... A tough struggle begins...
1209 TARTYUF (LE TARTUFFE)
1992, 95 min., color, “Petropol”, “Sojuztelefilm”, “Assotsiatsiya Sankt-Peterburg”
A musical
Director: Yan Frid, screenplay: Yan Frid, Boris Ratser, Vladimir
Konstantinov, camera: Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Alexandr
Rudyakov, misic: Gennady Gladkov, sound: Eduard Vanunts
Cast: Mikhail Boyarsky, Larisa Udovichenko, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Irina
Muravyova, Igor Sklyar, Viktoria Gorshenina, Igor Dmitriyev, Anna Samokhina,
German Orlov, Alexander Samokhin
Loosely based on Jean-Baptiste Moliere’s comedy “Le Tartuffe”
“We are lucky that there fools in this world”, sings Tartuffe about the family of Orgon. Authors of the
film believe that stupidity is the greatest misfortune — it allows all the tartuffes, swindlers and crooks
to triumph over honest people. Lively colourful film is immensely popular among wide range of
viewers.
1210 OKNO V PARIZH (A WINDOW TO PARIS)
1992, 120 min., color, ”Films du Bouloi”, “La Sept” (France), “Fontan”, “Troitsky
Most”, INEX
Fantastic comedy
Director: Yuri Mamin, Vladimir Vardunas, screenplay: Yuri Mamin, Arkady Tigai,
Vladimir Vardunas, Vyacheslav Leikin, camera: Sergei Nekrasov, Anatoly Lapshov,
production designer: Vera Zelinskaya, sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Agnes Sorel, Sergei Dontsov (Dreiden), Viktor Mikhailov, Nina Usatova,
Andrei Urgant, Kira Kreilis-Petrova, Yelena Drapeko
After a heavy drinking party several people living in a dreadful St.
Petersburg communal apartment find in it a window that opens...on Paris. This is the beginning of a
series of funny adventures
of the Russians in the “city of their dreams” and of incredible
experience of French “guests” on the banks of the Neva river. Russian
personages of the film enjoy their wanderings down Paris streets while the French go through all the
ordeals of every day life in Russia...
 The film was awarded the Prize for the Film Director’s Work at the KINOSHOK Festival in Anapa
(1993); the Special Prize of “Yunge Welt” news-paper at the International Film Festival in Berlin
(1994).
1211 SOTVORENIYE ADAMA (CREATION OF ADAM)
1992, 93 min., color, ”Javashir Kamandar”, “Neva”, ”Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Director: Yuri Pavlov, screenplay: Vladimir Maslov, Vitaly Moskalenko, camera:
Sergei Machilsky, production designer: Mikhail Suzdalov, misic:Andrei Sigle,
sound: Alexander Bershadsky
Cast: Saulyus Balandis, Sergei Vinogradov, Irina Metlitskaya, Anzhelika Nevolina,
Alexander Strizhenov
The guardian angel comes to Andrei in one of the most miserable days of his life. The angel calls
himself Filipp and looks like an ordinary man. Andrei who takes all his words and actions for a stupid
and cruel joke, tries to avoid Filipp. Gradually, endless patience and loving care of Filipp stir the deep
emotion of love in Andrei’s heart. Filipp disappears but the brief encounter has changed Andrei,
allowed him to discover his vast resources of love and humanism and to obtain confidence in himself.
1212 NEVESTA IZ PARIZHA (BRIDE FROM PARIS)
1992, 85 min., color, “Diapazon”, “Lenfilm”
Comic melodrama
Director: Otar Dugladze, screenplay: Boris Ratzer, Vladimir
Konstantinov, Otar Dugladze, camera: Alexander Chirov, production designer:
Alexei Fedotov, misic: Oleg Khromushin, sound: Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Galina Polskikh, Nikolai Trofimov, Stanislav Sadalsky, Alexandra Zakharova,
Andrei Sokolov
This story began when Madame Dubois, a tourist from Paris, broke her heel on a St. Petersburg street
and went in a shoe repair shop. Some time later the family of one of the workers of the shop plays host
to Orlette — a young niece of Madame Dubois.
1213 UDACHI VAM, GOSPODA! (GOOD LUCK,
GENTLEMEN!)
1992, 102 min., color, “Lenfilm”-“2-B-2” production
A comedy
Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Vladimir Bortko, Nataliya Bortko, Arkady
Inin, Semyon Altov, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Marksen
Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound:Garry Belenky
Cast: Nikolai Karachentsev, Andris Zhagars, Darya Mikhailova, Viktor Pavlov,
Bronislav Brondukov, Valentina Talyzina, Valentina Kovel, Semyon Furman
Two Afghan war veterans and a young provincial girl who is dreaming to become an actress unite in an
effort to survive and to achieve success in life. After a series of adventures all their wishes come true
— but in a different way... Vladimir marries Olga and Oleg becomes a successful businessman.
1214 STRANNYE MUZHCHINY SEMYONOVOY
YEKATERINY (STRANGE MEN OF SEMYONOVA
YEKATERINA)
1992, 152 min., 2 parts, color, ”Ladoga”, “Lenfilm”
Criminal melodrama
Director: Viktor Sergeyev, screenplay: Andrei Romanov, camera: Sergei Sidorov,
Anatoly Rodionov, production designers: Yevgeny Gukov, Boris Poroshin, misic:
Andrei Petrov, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Natalya Fisson, Alexander Abdulov, Andrei Sokolov, Yuri Kuznetsov, Nikolai
Lavrov, Alexander Khochinsky
The main character of the film, Katerina, is a drama theatre actress.
Far from being a star, awkward, eccentric and extravagant she is capable of working rare wonders —
the wonders of compassion, kindness, selflessness and love, reminding us the old truth: our salvation is
in ourselves — if only we could come to our senses and remember that we are human beings.
1215 DEREVNYA KHLYUPOVO VYKHODIT IZ SOYUZA
(THE VILLAGE OF KHLYUPOVO SEPARATES FROM THE
SOVIET UNION)
1992, 88 min., color, ”Baltfilm”, “Lenfilm”
Satirical comedy
Director: Anatoly Vekhotko, screenplay: Gennady Chernayev, camera: Valentin
Sidorin, production designer: Alexander Grebaus, misic: Igor Tzvetkov, sound:
Yevgeny Nesterov, Irina Volkova
Cast: Georgy Shtil, Katya Chernayeva, Sergei Isavnin, Lyudmila Tishchenko, Igor
Yefimov
Once upon a time in one large country there was a village Khlyupovo. And one day all the residents of
the village — young and old — got so sick and tired of all the ministers with and without portfolios
that they decided that their village should separate from the country.
1216 KOMEDIYA STROGOGO REZHIMA (A PRISON
COMEDY)
1992, 78 min., color, ”Crown”, “Igris”, “Lenfilm”
Grotesque comedy
Director: Vladimir Studennikov, Mikhail Grigoryev, screenplay: Vladimir
Studennikov, Mikhail Grigoryev, camera: Anatoly Lapshov, production design:
Yuri Pashigorev, Pavel Parkhomenko, misic: Viktor Pleshak, sound: Leonid
Gavrichenko
Cast: Viktor Sukhorukov, Ivan Krivoruchko, Lev Kubarev, Stanislav Kantsevich,
Nadezhda Zharikova, Viktor Mikhailov, Viktor Solovyov
Loosely based on Sergey Dovlatov’s story “Zone”
On the eve of the all-union festival, the centenary of Lenin’s birthday, attempting to win attention of
higher authorities administration of a Colony decides to stage in the prison a play on October
revolution.
 Engrossed in their roles the inmates start thinking and acting like the personages they play on the
stage. The actor Viktor Sukhorukov was awarded the Prize for the Besr Actor’s Work at the III
Russian Film Festival in Onfleur, France.
1217 DYM (SMOKE)
1992, 183 min., color, TV film, 3 parts, ”Petropol”, “Ekran”, ”Polifon Film und
Fernsee, GmBH”
Melodrama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Nataliya Ryazantseva, camera:Sergei
Yurizditsky, production designers: Georgy Kropachev, Adreas Lupp, misic: Vadim
Bibergan, sound: Eduard Vanunts
Cast: Larisa Menshova, Vladislav Vetrov, Alexander Romantsov, Stanislav
Lyubshin, Oksana Kiryushchenko, Alla Meshcheryakova, Viktor Stepanov, Tatyana
Vasilyeva, Sergei Bekhterev, Gali Abaidulov
Loosely based on the novel “Smoke” by Ivan Turgenev.
1218 LABIRINT LYUBVI (LABYRINTH OF LOVE)
1992, 91 min., color, ”Nautilus” with input from Kombank Murman, “Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Tamara Lapigina, camera: Valery Mironov, production
designer: Boris Kozlov, misic: Andrei Sigle, sound: Larisa Maslova
Cast: Maria Ignatova, Alexander Baluyev, Andrei Tolubeyev, Alexander Dolsky
The heroine of the film, Yelena, comes to the Baltic sea coast to visit her friend. In spite of all her
efforts she can not tear actor Shuvalov out of her heart. Her vacation is over and she returns to her daily
routine — the hectic world of film-making. During shooting of a film Shuvalov is killed. Yelena can
not find her way out of the impasse.
1219 DVADTSAT VTOROVO IYUNYA, ROVNO V
CHETYRE CHASA (ON JUNE 22, AT 4 A.M. SHARP)
1992, 91 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Boris Galkin, screenplay: Vadim Trunin, camera: Igor Bogdanov,
production designer: Yelena Galkina, sound: Aleksei Shulga
Cast: Sergei Parshin, Alexander Parshin, Irina Rozanova, Antonina Shuranova,
Natalya Dikareva, Nikolai Kryukov
It is not a war film, it is a film about happiness lost. So many of these people — brimming over with
life, kind, loving and loved, will be separated forever by World War II. The last minutes before the
outbreak of the war: the clock on a lively square of a sunlit southern town shows 4 a.m., June 22, 1941.
1220 LESTNITSA SVETA (STAIRCASE OF LIGHT)
1992, 88 min., color, “Universal-film, Ltd”, The Baltic Trade and Industry House,
“Liquid-film” (Ireland), “Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Gerard Michael McCarthy, camera: Valery Martynov,
production designer: Vladimir Yuzhakov, misic:Neil Burn, sound: Yelena
Demidova
Cast: Zhenya Korkhin, Igor Kostolevsky, Viktoria Korkhina, Andrei Urgant, Inga Ilm
The story of an 11-year old Petersburg boy Misha Orlov and his mother Julia. Misha loves watching
“Murderer”, the TV psychological serial. “Once he sees the car of actor Borodin, who plays the main
character in the serial and follows him up to the film studio. The boy meets people belonging to the
“dreamland of cinema” and watches the process of shooting films.
Looking for her son Julia comes to the studio, meets Borodin and falls in love with him...
Julia gives up her job of a waitress, which she feels sick and tired of, and starts working at the studio.
Her sudden death breaks the usual cinema illusion. However, Misha, still living in the psychological
world of “Murderer” has already made up his mind: he would destroy this place, which produces
nightmares instead of dreams…
1221 ELEGIYA IZ ROSSII (ELEGY FROM RUSSIA)
1992, 70 min., color, joint production of Russian Cinematography Committee,
“Lenfilm”, St.Petersburg Documentary Film Studio
Documentary
Written and directed by: Alexander Sokurov, camera: Alexander Burov, misic:
Pyotr Chaikovsky, sound: Vladimir Persov, photography:Maxim Dmitriyev
Russia, end of the 19th century, European news-reels, beginning of the 20th century.
Natural combination of documentary and poetic elements is a characteristic feature of Sokurov’s films.
The sound, the image and photographs of the end of the 19th century Russia are intertwined to create
an artistic symbol, making us nostalgic for the past times which we have never seen or experienced...
1222 MY YEDEM V AMERIKU (WE ARE GOING TO
AMERICA)
1992, 123 min., color, ”Universal-film”, “Unirem-film”(Switzerland) with input from
“Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Director: Yefim Gribov, screenplay: Yefim Gribov, Arkady Krasilshchikov,
camera: Pavel Barsky, Denis Shcheglovsky, production designer: Yelena
Amshinskaya, misic: Mikhail Gluz, sound: Aliakper Gasan-Zade
Cast: Dima Davydov, Lubov Rumyantseva, Semyon Strugachev, Vadim Danilevsky,
Danuta Slavgorodska, Baiba Kranats
Loosely based on Sholom Aleichem’s story “Mottle Boy”.
The lead character of the film, set at the end of the 19th — beginning of the 20th century, is an elevenyear- old Jewish boy with an amazingly fantastic concept of the world and people around him.
1223 ORLANDO (ORLANDO)
1992, 92 min., color, ”Adventure Pictures”(London) with the input from “Lenfilm”
Fantastic drama
Written and directed by: Sally Porter, camera: Alexei Rodionov, production
designers: Ben Van Os, Jan Rolfse, sound: Jean Louis Duquari
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zahne, Lothar Bluto, John Wood, Charlotta Valandri,
Hithcout Williams, Alexander Medvedev
Loosely based on Virginia Wolf’s novel “Orlando”.
Tells the story of the person who is travelling in time. He has been living for 400 years — at first in the
disguise of a man, later — in that of a woman.
1224 NIKOTIN (NICOTINE)
1992, 70 min., b/w, ”Salamat”, ”Centre”, ”Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Director: Yevgeny Ivanov, screenplay: Sergei Dobrotvorsky, Maxim
Pezhemsky, camera: Valery Martynov, production designer: Vladimir Yuzhakov,
misic: Sergei Kuriokhin, sound: Aliakper Gasan-Zade
Cast: Natalya Fisson, Igor Chernevich, Oleg Kovalov
The story narrated by Jean-Luc Godard in his famous “A Bout de
Souffle” has been transferred by the film director into modern St.
Petersburg. A boy meets a girl and she betrays him.This simple fairy-tale is plunged into the
atmosphere of screen myths and legends.
1225 DITYA (CHILD)
1992, 56 min., color, “Troitsky Most”, “La Sept”, “Sodaperaga” (France)
Drama
Director: Viktor Titov, screenplay: Jacques Baynac, camera: Sergei Astakhov,
production designers: Sergei Shemyakin, Yelena Zhukova, sound:Natalya
Avanesova
Cast: Natalya Danilova, Andrei Pavlovets, Alexander Zavyalov, Armen
Mirzakhanyan, Berch Bokhosyan
Loosely based on Vsevolod Ivanov’s short story of the same title.
The small episode of the cruel civil war times, story of defenselessness of human life in front of
unreasoning violence.
1226 CHKHAYA O “SAIGONE” (A TALE OF “SAIGON”
IN AN OFFHAND MANNER)
1992, 27 min., color, ”Lenfilm”, “Kinodocument”
Combination of a documentary and a feature film
Written and directed by: Vladimir Vitukhnovsky, camera: Valentin Sidorin, Sergei
Nekrasov, sound: Sergei Vartsan
Participating: Yevgeny Pritsker, Andrei Gnezdnikov, Viktor Krivulin, Mikhail
Petrenko
In the 60’s the cafe nicknamed “Saigon” was the favourite meeting place of Lenigrad artistic youth,
belonging to the generation of Brodsky, Dovlatov, Shemyakin. These people represented the so called
“second culture”. The cafe does not exist any longer, as there does not exist the underground art.
However, there are people in St. Petersburg who still belong to “Saigon” and continue to live in accord
with the “carnival” art traditions. The film gives a series of portraits of the most colorful
representatives of the “second culture”.
1227 GREKH NERASKAYANNY (SIN WITHOUT
REMORSE)
1992, 46 min., b/w, ”Lenfilm”
Journalistic feature film
Written and directed by: Yuri Afanasyev-Shirokov, camera: Yevgeny Shermergor,
misic: Vladislav Panchenko, sound: Svetlana Akmanova, Sergei Abramov
Participating: I.P. Zhukov, M.Z. Bratilov, L.F. Grigoryev, A.F. Malugin, F.K.
Tokarev
The film is based on real facts related to the Stalinist era of the
30’s  40’s and is about real people: police informer, NKVD executioners, sons of the killed man and
his executioner. Action of the film takes place in 1991, in Minusinsk, a provincial town in southern
Siberia. What are the thoughts and feelings of these horrible old people, whose life will soon be over,
who are standing on its last threshold?
1228 RAZBORCHIVY ZHENIKH (A FASTIDIOUS
FIANCEE)
1992, 98 min., color, ”Petropol”, “Lenfilm” with input from “Ekran”
Lyrical comedy
Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Sergei Mikaelyan, Alexander
Vasinsky, camera: Eduard Rozovsky, production designer: Boris Burgomistrov,
misic: Yuri Loza, sound: Igor Terekhov
Cast: Alexander Lykov, Yulia Menshova, Anna Matyukhina, Alexander Blok, Sergei
Vybornov
Dima is so different from a typical modern cinema hero that sometimes he seems to be an
extraterrestrial. He is stubbornly seeking for a true love and in his search is ready to go as far as Italy
where one of his “ideals” fled to. His friends are honestly trying to help Dima which only leads to a
series of incredible adventures.
1229 SNY O ROSSII (KODAYU) (DREAMS OF RUSSIA
(KODAYU)
1992, 124 min., color, ”Daiei Co., Ltd “, “Dentsu Inc.” (Japan), “Lenfilm”
A historical film
Director: Dzunya Sato, screenplay: Tatsuo Nogami, Fumio Konami, Dzunya Sato,
camera: Matsuo Naganumo, production designers: Hiroshi Tokuda, Valery
Yutkevich, misic: Masaru Hoshi, sound: Jasuo Hashimoto
Cast: Ken Ogata, Tosiyuki Nishida, Marina Vladi, Oleg Yankovsky, Yevgeny
Yevstigneyev, Yelena Arzhanik, Yuri Solomin, Takudzo Pavatani
Loosely based on the novel by Yasusi Inoue.
This amazing trip started on December 13, 1782 when captain Deikokuya Kodayu with sixteen sailors
went on sailing along the coast of Japan. Having suffered a shipwreck near the Siberian coast the
captain and his crew find themselves in the horrible reality of the 18th century Russia and go through a
number of extraordinary adventures, full of sufferings, love, despair and wonders. Nobody expected
that a several day trip will turn into nine years of wanderings, big losses and misfortunes.
1230 BARABANIADA (TALE OF A DRUM)
1993, 93 min., color
Written and directed by: Sergei Ovcharov, camera: Alexander Ustinov,
production designers: Yevgeny Gukov, Viktor Ivanov, sound: Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Alexander Polovtsev, Andrei Urgant, Viktor Semenovsky
A drummer of a funeral orchestra comes into a possession of a “Stradivarius” drum and can not get rid
of the instrument. The drum follows its owner in good and bad times and when the drummer looses his
job the drum keeps following him in his wanderings all over the Soviet Union standing on the verge of
crisis. This is the story of a “Russian Buster Keaton”, who gets out of one tragicomic situation only to
get into another. There is no spoken text in the film. The music by Beethoven, Mozart, Minkus,
Mussorgsky, Gavrilin and Glinka.
 The film was awarded the Special Prize of the Jury and the Christian Jury Prize of the
International Film Festival in Moscow (1993); the Prize for the Film Director’s Work in the Art
Film Contest at the Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi (1993); “The Golden Eagle” – the Grand
Prix of the International Film Festival in Georgia (1993); the Crystal Prize at the “Arsenal”
International Film Festival in Riga (1994)
1231 GOLUBYYE TANTSOVSHCHITSY (BLUE
DANCERS)
1993, color, video, 30 min
Written and directed by: Dmitry Svetozarov, idea by: Timur Kogan, camera:
Alexander Ustinov, production designer: Olga Zhukova, misic: Timur Kogan,
sound: Konstantin Zarin, choreographer: Oleg Ignatyev
Cast: Larisa Lezhnina, Yuri Andreyev
Choreographic version of the famous American film “The Waterloo Bridge”. The role of Maira is
performed by Larisa Lezhnina, a rising star of the Mariinsky Theatre.
1232 DRUG VOINY (A FRIEND OF WAR)
1993, 27 min., b/w
Written and directed by: Gennady Novikov, camera: Alexander Korneyev, sound:
Alexander Sysolyatin
Cast: Sergei Dontsov, Maxim Konovalchuk, German Zhuravlyov, Viktor Krivonos
Based on Albert Camus’s story “Letters of the German Friend”.
1233 “BOZHE, OSVETI NAS LITSOM TVOIM” (“LORD,
LET YOUR FACE SHINE A LIGHT ON US”)
1993, 60 min., color
Documentary
Written and directed by: Vladimir Dyakonov, camera: Vladimir Dyakonov, sound:
Leonid Lerner
The film tells about contemporary Russian Orthodox Church icon painters, about wonder-working
icons and their impact on people and surrounding world.
One of the main heroes of the film is father Zenon, the Archimandrite of Pskov-Pechersky Monastery.
 2nd price at The Open non-feature film festival “Russia” (full length) Ekaterinburg, 1993.
1234 PROKLYATIYE DURAN (THE CURSE OF DURAN)
1993, 120 min., color, TV
Director: Viktor Titov, screenplay: Vyachslav Verbin, Viktor Titov, camera:
Dmitry Maas, production designer: Yelena Zhukova, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound:
Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Yevgeny Platokhin, Ivan Latyshev, Konstantin Komarov, Alexei Nilov, Irina
Sabanova, Nikolai Kabanov, Gennady Voropayev, Lidia menshikova, Yelena
Korikova, Nikolai Lavrov, Olga Antonova, Olga Samoshina, Alexander Zavyalov,
Yulia Aug
Adventure story loosely based on Ponson du Terrail’s novel “Adventures of Rocambole”.
1235 VIVA, CASTRO! (VIVA CASTRO!)
1993, 75 min., color, SPHERA, “Star-kino-video”, Roskomkino with the input from
“Lenfilm”
Detective
Written and directed by: Boris Frumin, camera: Sergei Yurizditsky, production
designer: Yuri Pashigorev, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Galina Lukina, Oksana
Strugina
Cast: Pavel Zharkov, Yuliya Sobolevskaya, Sergei Dontsov, Olga Bykova, Sergei
Snezhkin, Anatoly Slivnev, Valentin Ushakov, Natalya Kononova, Sasha Baikov,
Yuri Oskin, Arkady Tigai
Antique coins have been stolen from a Leningrad museum. Matvei Levitin, the suspect, disappears
during the investigation of the case. Failing to find him the police arrests his wife. When a year later his
mortally ill father returns, Kolya tries to arrange for him a meeting with his mother, using the
opportunity of expected visit of Cuban leader Fidel Castro to the town of Gatchina.
 The actress Yuliya Sobolevskaya was awarded the Jury Prize for the Actor’s Debut at the Open
Russian Film Festival in Sochi 1994.
1236 VLADIMIR SVYATOY (SAINT VLADIMIR)
1993, 70 min., color, “DALEX”, “NEVA”
Historical drama
Director: Yuri Tomoshevsky, screenplay: Yelena Dzhordzh, camera: Alexander
Ustinov, production designer: Mikhail Suzdalov, music from pieces: by Alfred
Shnitke, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Vladislav Strzhelchik, Natalya Danilova, Sergei Dontsov(Dreiden), Yelena
Dzhordzh, Oleg Melnik, Irina Arlageva
The year of 1015. Kiev. It is night. Vladimir, the prince of Kiev, is lying on his deathbed. He recollects
the past times. In his restless mind he continues his last combat with his rebellious wife — pagan
Rogneda.
1237 GREKH. ISTORIYA STRASTI (SIN. STORY OF
PASSION)
1993, 105 min., color, “Nikola-film” with the input from “Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sergeyev, screenplay: Yevgeny Kozlovsky, camera: Dan Shmelev,
Pavel Lebeshev, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Eduard Artemyev,
sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Alexander Abdulov, Olga Ponizova, Boris Kluyev, Olga Antonova, Nina
Ruslanova, Valentin Nikulin, Sergei Snezhkin, Vladimir Soshalsky, Georgy
Matrirosyan, Andrei Urgant
Love story of a monk Agafangel (original name — Sergei) and a young girl Ninka does not have much
to do with the notion of love. Father Agafangel is haunted by the horror of crime committed in his
young days which eventually leads to tragic denouement and later continues to haunt Ninka who takes
the veil and prays the God to forgive her sin.
1238 ZHIZN S IDIOTOM (LIVING WITH AN IDIOT)
1993, 68 min., color, “Troitsky Most”
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Rogozhkin, camera: Valery Mulgaut,
production designer: Viktor Zhelobinsky, sound: Nikolai Astakhov
Cast: Anzhelika Nevolina, Alexander Romantsov, Sergei Migitsko, Viktor Bychkov,
Viktor Mikhailov, Viktor Khozyainov, Yuri Serov, Mikhail Kirilyuk, Olga Samoshina
The film is based on Viktor Yerofeyev’s novel of the same title.
An intellectual, for humanitarian reasons, takes and idiot to his house. He regards it as a kind of his
mission. However, life with an idiot is full of surprises...Neither the lead character — the intellectual,
nor his young wife were prepared to the seduction by violence in the face of the raving lunatic.
1239 KON BELY (WHITE HORSE)
1993, 10 parts, 52 min each, color, “Lada-Bank”, “Lada-2”, “Diapazon” (”Lenfilm”)
Historical drama
Written and directed by: Geliy Ryabov, camera: Oleg Plaksin, production
designer: Yelizaveta Urlina, misic: Dmitry Smirnov, sound: Yelena Demidova,
Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Gennady Glagolev, Anatoly Guzenko, Veronika Izotova, Vladimir Simonov,
Yekaterina Belikova, Elina Suvorova, Valery Doronin, Anatoly Petrov, Alexander
Baluyev, Andrei Krasko, Igor Kartashov, Anna Afanasyeva, Geliy Sysoyev, Vladimir
Belousov, Nikolai Burov
The film tells the story of Admiral Kolchak’s coming to power and tragic circumstances of his death,
about exodus of the White Army and many other historical events. It also tells about the tragic end of
Russian Royal Family and about the investigation of their execution conducted by investigator Sokolov
on the instructions of Kolchak.
1240 MADEMUAZEL O (MADEMOISELLE O)
1993, 92 min., color, “TelFrance” (France), “Petropol”(Russia)
Melodrama
Director: Jerome Fulon, screenplay: Sandra Joks, Jerome Fulon, camera; Valery
Martynov, production designer: Mikhail Suzdalov, misic: Isaak Shvarts
Cast: Maite Nair, Yelena Safonova, Alexander Arbat, Vernon Dobcheff, Anton
Mineshkin, Grisha Haustov, Sergei Bekhterev, Alexander Baranov
Based on Vladimir Nabokov’s short story.
The film tells about the early years of Vladimir Nabokov and his brother Sergei which coincided with
revolutionary events of the beginning of the 20th century. These events sharply changed the world
history as well as the live of the Nabokovs. Despite the tragic episodes of Nabokov’s youth (the tragic
death of his father, the death of Maksim, an associate and friend of Nabokov, Sr.) love is the main
subject of the film
1241 NAD TYOMNOY VODOY (OVER THE DARK
WATER)
1993, 96 min., color, “Aurora-film” (Germany), “Nikola-film” with the input from
“Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Director: Dmitry Meskhiyev, screenplay: Valery Todorovsky, camera: Pavel
Lebeshev, production designer: Natalya Kochergina, misic: Sergei Kuryokhin,
sound: Kirill Kuzmin
Cast: Kseniya Kachalina, Alexander Abdulov, Yuri Kuznetsov, Tatyana Lyutayeva,
Vladimir Ilyin, Viktor Pavlov, Sergei Kuryokhin, Ivan Chuzhoy (Okhlobystin)
This is the legend of the intellectuals of the 60’s, full of direct and hidden references to the cinema of
the 60’s, and, above all, to the creative work of Marlen Khutsiyev.
This is the film about a man who always wanted to live a different life, but lived the life he had.
He wanted to love truly, but was unfaithful, he wanted to be a good friend, but betrayed his friends. It is
the love story of parents told by their children — with love.
1242 OSTROVA (ISLANDS)
1993, 91 min., color, “Kinodokument”, “Lenfilm”, “SHIN-EIZO” (Japan)
Feature-documentary
Director: Semyon Aranovich, Hiroshi Ozuka, screenplay: Semyon Aranovich,
camera: Sergei Astakhov, Koshiro Ozu, Igor Plaksin, production designer: Viktor
Okovity, misic: Oleg Karavaichuk, Alexander Knaifel, sound: Galina Gorbonosova,
Osami Fukuoka
The film offers two points of view (of current inhabitants and of the natives) on the problem of the
Kuril islands.
 The film was awarded the Second Prize of the “Balticum Film” International Festival in
Bornholm, Denmark (1994); the Prize of the Aecumenic Jury of the “Message to Man”
Documentary Film Festival in St.Petersburg (1994)
1243 PAROM “ANNA KARENINA” (“ANNA KARENINA”
FERRY)
1993, min., color
Melodrama
Director: Alexandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, screenplay: Grigory Filimonov, camera:
Yuri Shaigardanov, misic: Isaak Shvarts
Cast: Alexandra Yakovleva- Aasmyae, Yuri Belyayev, Saulus Balandis, Lidiya
Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Andrei Ponomarev, Yevgeny Sidikhin, Valery Nosik
Zhenya, a reporter at the St. Petersburg TV studio, meets a parachute-jumper — a kind, loving and
absolutely decent fellow. Bored with his virtues the heroine marries a famous journalist who continues
to play dirty tricks on the parachute-jumper. Finally, Zhenya comes to her senses and asks an old friend
to help her. Her friend, the director of a shipping company, first helps the parachute-jumper to leave the
country and later helps Zhenya to find her beloved one in Hamburg.
1244 PLENNIKI UDACHI (PRISONERS OF LUCK)
1993, 80 min., color, “Lenfilm”, PARAMEDIA with the input from ROSKOMKINO
Burlesque comedy
Director: Maksim Pezhemsky, screenplay: Viktor Petrovich, Maksim Pezhemsky,
camera: Ilya Demin, production designers: Oleg Tagel, Andrei Pastushenko, misic:
Sergei Kuryokhin, sound: Larisa Maslova
Cast: Vitaly Solomin, Semyon Furman, Sergei Batalov, Yekaterina Semyonova,
Viktor Sukhorukov, Oleg Garkusha
The story is built round an ironic interpretation of cliches and stereotypes of Soviet genre films of the
50s — 70s. It is the story of three characters who escaped from prison and returned to their native
town.
1245 POSLEDNEYE DELO VARENOGO (THE LAST
BUSINESS OF VARYONY)
1993, 77 min., color, “GOLOS”, “Lenfilm” in association with “Kramdsfilm” with
the input from ROSKOMKINO
Adventure comedy
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Vladimir Zaikin, camera: Valery Mironov,
production designer: Andrei Vasin, misic: Andrei Sigle, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Viktor Stepanov, Vitaly Skvorkin, Olga Mashnaya, Andrei Urgant, Yelena
Drapeko, Olga Samoshina, Galina Baranova, Galina Zudova, Ira Deryagina, Era
Ziganshina, Lev Yeliseyev, Yevgeny Kal, Roma Kalinsky
An humble forwarding agent Sizukhin is shocked to find out that for the last four years he has been
working for drug dealers delivering cocaine instead of baby food all over the Soviet Union. Sizukhin
decides to “get even” with the Mafia. For this purpose he engages a severe gangster Varyony.
1246 PREDSTAVLENIYE DLYA... (THE PERFORMANCE
FOR...)
1993, 70 min., color, “ERIDAN”, “Lenfilm”
Grotesque
Written and directed by: Yuri Kiyashko, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production
designer: Yuri Kiyashko, music from pieces by: Bach, Vivaldi, Guiyo, sound:
Sergei Moshkov
Cast: Sergei Krasotin, Larisa Yakovenko, Irina Chernova, Igor Dobryakov,
Konstantin Demidov, Ivan Makeyev, Azamat Bagirov
The film is a striking example of a conceptualistic cinema.
Finding himself in a strange and unusual theatre the hero tries to understand its laws. However, his
attempts only further complicate his feelings, awakening some deep unknown powers in him.
May be the theatre, that enchanted the hero, is nothing but his own inner world.
On the face of it, the film is composed of chaotic episodes of hero’s existence which later form a
system inexorably drawing the hero to a vague aim.
1247 PROVINTSIALNY BENEFIS (A BENEFIT
PERFORMANCE IN THE PROVINCES)
1993, 88 min., color, “AKKORD FILM”, “Bibliopolis”, “Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Alexander Belinsky, camera: Eduard Rozovsky,
production designer: Natalya Vasilyeva, misic: Valery Gavrilin, sound: Natalya
Avanesova
Cast: Galina Vishnevskaya, Yelena Rostropovich, Svetlana Nemolayeva, Alexander
Lazarev Jr., Anzhelika Nevolina, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Vyacheslav Tikhonov,
Vladimir Samoilov, Leonid Kuravlyov, Valentin Smirnitsky, Vsevolod Kuznetsov,
Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina
Loosely based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s plays “Guilty Without Fault”, “Forest”, “Talents and
Admirers”.
Many years ago Luybov Ivanovna Otradina, betrayed by the man she loved and deprived of her son,
had to flee from the town of Murom. A famous opera singer, she returns to her native town to give her
last concert before leaving the stage forever. The actors Schastlivtsev and Neschastlivtsev, Sasha
Negina and Smelskaya are among the residents of the town…
1248 PUTESHESTVIYE V SCHASTLIVUYU ARAVIYU (A
TRIP TO HAPPY ARABIA)
1993, 87 min., color, “Petropol”, “Lentelefilm” with the input from KINI-AVTO
Psychological thriller
Director: Valery Naumov, screenplay: Andrei Pastushenko, camera: Anatioly
Rodionov, Sergei Sidorov, production designer: Nikolai Subbotin, misic: Leonid
Rezetdinov, sound: Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Alexander Lykov, Valeria Likhodei, Leonid Leikin, Viktor Smirnov, Vadim
Lobanov, Andrei Urgant, Viktor Zozyainov, Yuliya Yakovleva
Unlucky actor, upset by unsuccessful audition, hails a passing car driven by a pretty young woman. All
of a sudden they become hostages of gangsters who are trying to get out of the city with the freight they
received at the airport.
1249 RUSSKAYA NEVESTA (RUSSIAN BRIDE)
1993, 111 min., color, “EAE”, “Letny Sad” with the input from “Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Gennady Solovsky, camera: Ivan Bagayev, production
designer: Andrei Vasin, music from pieces by: Tomado Albioni, Antonio Vivaldi,
Wolfgang-Amadeus Mozart, Alfred Shnitke, sound: Alexander Sysolyatin
Cast: Alla Murina, Kseniya Rappoport, Alexander Blok, Dao Dae, Ludmila Wagner,
Lubov Virolainen, Alexei Zalivalov
A Russian beauty Yuliya tired of routine hardships of her everyday life decides to leave her husband
and marry a rich foreigner.
1250 SENSATSIYA (SENSATION)
1993, 90 min., color, “Neva” with the input from ROSKOMKINO
Adventure, science fiction. Film for children
Director: Boris Gorlov, screenplay: Vladimir Vardunas, camera: Nikolai Stroganov,
production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Andrei Sigle, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Alexei Petrenko, Tom Bel, Misha Kapralov, Tatyana Pankova, Sasha Stovbur,
Masha Antipova, Artyom Khabutdinov
Forester Yuri Savushkin, enthusiast of nature conservation, protects animals and plants in
Ugryumovsky forest reserve.
However, the quiet life in the reserve is disturbed by “researchers”, the young amateur naturalists, an
American zoologist, an academician of zoology and others, seeking ecological rarities Children find a
unique specimen — Glasyuka, but Savushkin the junior, Andy and the forester do their best to save this
amazing creature from scientific experiments.
1251 SIKIMOKU (SIKIMOKU)
1993, 82 min., color, “MIST” with the input from “Neva” and “Lenfilm”
Christmas fairy tale
Director: Olga Zhukova, screenplay: Olga Zhukova, Viktor Mikheyev, camera:
Vadim Semyonovykh, production designer: Boris Golodnitsky, misic: Viktor
Mikheyev, sound Pavel Drozdov
Cast: Viktor Mikheyev, Yevgeny Lebedev, Yuri Olennikov, Olga Lapshina, Olga
Golodnitskaya
A night-shift ambulance is patrolling the streets on a New Year’s Eve. It picks up those who need help
— and in many cases not only medical help. It picks up people who are lonely, offended, forgotten...
1252 SUMERKI NADEZHD (TWILIGHT OF HOPES)
1993, 106 min., color, “Malenky Prints”, “Lenfilm”
Historical drama
Directed by: Ruslan Khachemizov, Kassei Khochegogu, screenplay: Nalbiy Kuyek,
Rusklan Khachemizov, camera: Nikolai Zhilin, production designer: Abdulakh
Bersirov, misic: Yevgeny Umarov, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Zaur Zekhov, Nurbiy Achmiz, Vadim Misostov, Murat Kukan, Kanshoubi
Khashev, Marina Guchetl, Zuret Kobleva, Chatib Paranuk, Akhmed Vorkozhokov
The story is set in the beginning of the 19th century when Adygei people, confronted by the
approaching trouble, realized the necessity to unite. This theme is revealed through the conflict of
Dzhambot, the wise tutor of young Adygei noblemen, and prince Yedidz, the advocate of independent
principalities.
 The film was awarded the “Asturias” Prize at the III European Film Festival in Kandas, Spain
(1993).
1253 SCHASTLIVY NEUDACHNIK (HAPPY FAILURE)
1993, 85 min., color, “Barmaley”, “Lenfilm” with the input from ROSKOMKINO
Melodrama
Director: Valery Bychenkov, screenplay: Alexander Getman, camera: Valery
Mironov, production designer: Vladimir Bannykh, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound:
Andrei Volkov
Cast: Semyon Mendelson, Anzhelika Nevolina, Olga Volkova, Anna Matyukhina,
Yuri Mogilevtsev
Screen version of Vadim Shefner’s novel of the same title.
Although the film is set up in Leningrad of the 30’es there are neither arrests and executions, nor
agression and everyday betrayal. The life is unstable, hysterical and even absurd. Nevertheless, the boy
who is the lead character of the film, is happy. His early years are blissful, love is real, people around
him are good-natured and cheerful.
 The film was awarded the Special Prize of the XYI International Festival of Films for Children and
Youth in Moscow (19940; the Main Prize of the 1st International Festival of Films for Children
and Youth in St.Petersburg (1994); the Grand Prix of the International Children Film Festival in
Chicago, USA (1994); the Main Premium of the “Okno v Yeropu” (“The Window to Europe”)
International Film Festival in Vyborg (1994); the “Spectators’ Favourite” Prize at the
International Festival of Films for Children and Youth in Zlin, Czechia (1994).
1254 TIKHIYE STANITSY (QUIET PAGES)
1993, 80 min., color, “Severny Fond”, “Eskomfilm” with the input from “Lenfilm”
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Sokurov, dialogues: Yuri Arabov, Andrei
Chernykh, camera: Alexander Burov, production designer: Vera Zelinskaya, misic:
Gustav Mahler, Friedrich Rukkert’s “Songs of Dead Children”, vocalist: Lina
Mkrtchyan, sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Alexander Cherednik, Yelizaveta Koroleva, Sergei Barkovsky, Galina
Nikulina, Olga Onishchenko, Valery Kozinets
The film is loosely based on Russian prosaic works of the 19th century. Alexander Sokurov re-reads
the pages of the famous prose in his own manner. Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” was
chosen as ideological pivot, a historical landmark but not the basis of the story.
Gustav Mahler’s vocal cycle was recorded by vocalist Lina Mkrtchyan specially for this film.
1255 TY U MENYA ODNA (YOU ARE MY ONE AND
ONLY)
1993, 94 min., color, “Lenfilm”, “Informpresservice”, “Astur”
Melodrama
Director: Dmitry Astrakhan, screenplay: Oleg Danilov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov,
production designer: Masha Petrova, misic: Alexander Pantykin, sound: Alexander
Dudarev
Cast: Alexander Zbruyev, Marina Neyolova, Svetlana Ryabova, Viktor Glagolev,
Irina Mazurkevich, Alexander Lykov, Vladimir Kravchenko
Yevgeny Timoshin, an ex-boxer and now an ordinary engineer gets the opportunity to change his life.
Young and beautiful Asya who has been in love with Timoshin since childhood offers him to go to
America with her. She loves him as ever and is prepared to offer him a job and take him to America for
training. But Timoshin is fond of his wife. Having overcome a number of temptations and trials
husband and wife stay together...
 The film was awarded the Grand Prix of the Presidential Council at the Open Russian Film
Festival in Sochi (1993); the “Silver Pyramid” Prize and the Prize for the Best Actress’ Work of
Marina Neyolova at the International Film Festival in Capri (1993). The NIKA Prize for the Best
Actress’ Work went to Marina Neyolova (1993).
1256 TYUREMNY ROMANS (PRISON ROMANCE)
1993, 99 min., color, “Tabivy-film”, “Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Sergei Solovyov, camera: Pavel Lebeshev,
production designer: Natalya Kochergina, misic: Sergei Kuryokhin, sound: Igor
Vigdorchik
Cast: Marina Neyolova, Alexander Abdulov, Aristarkh Livanov, Yuri Kuznetsov,
Boris Sokolov, Lev Vigdorov, To Su An
The film is based on a true story that was extensively covered by the Russian mass media and caused a
sensation on TV. A young woman — police officer investigating especially dangerous crimes — falls
in love with the man under investigation, hands him a weapon and attempts to help him escape from
prison.
1257 YUNOSHA IZ MORSKIKH GLUBIN (A YOUTH
FROM THE DEEP SEA)
1993, 69 min., b/w
Fairy tale
Written and directed by: Gennady Novikov, camera: Leonid Konovalov,
production designer: Viktor Zhelobinsky, sound: Alexander Sysolyatin
Cast: Olga Bykova, Vyacheslav Mikhailov, Alexander Khochinsky, Sergei Dontsov
(Dreiden), Yuri Sergeyev, German Zhuravlev, Andrei Krasko, Yuri Serov
The film is based on the short story of the same title by a German writer Hans Erich Nossak.
A fairy tale story of a girl Hanna and a young man from the deep sea alternates with the pictures of life
in the provincial German town in the days of World War II and the reminiscences of Hanna’s first love.
Fantasy and reality, spiritual and mundane are flicking through the memory of the heroine...Fantasy
and reality, spiritual and mundane are interweave in the film to create a fusion of black and white
images with Bach’s music.
1258 AKT (ACT)
1994, 86 min., color, “Troitsky Most”, “OGNON Pictures” (France)
Detective melodrama
Written and directed by: Alexander Rogozhkin, camera: Valery Mulgaut,
production designer: Viktor Zhelobinsky, sound: Nikilai Astakhov
Cast: Igor Sergeyev, Katya Migitsko, Sergei Migitsko, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Valery
Mironov, Yuri Orlov, Viktor Bychkov, Igor Golovin, Danya Gudkovskaya, Alexei
Poluyan, Boris Cherdyntsev
The film tells about the misfortunes of an ordinary man, Igor Sergeyev, who by chance came into
possession of a case with a lot of money in it.... As it turns out, it is not easy to find a decent use of the
money and at the end the hero realizes the old truth — “it is not money that makes people happy”.
1259 GOD SOBAKI (THE YEAR OF DOG)
1994, 133 min., color, “Kinodokument”, “Lenfilm”, “Golos”, “Sodaperaga” (France)
Melodrama
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Semyon Aranovich, Albina Shulgina,
Vadim Mikhailov, Zoya Kudrya, camera: Yuri Shaigardanov, production designer:
Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Oleg Karavaichuk, sound: Aliakper Gasanzade
Cast: Inna Churikova, Igor Sklyar, Alexender Feklistov, Mikhail Dorofeyev, Sergei
Bobrov, Era Ziganshina, Valentina Kovel, Gennady Menshikov, Robert Vaab, Diana
Shishlyayeva, Irina Polyanskaya
Ex-convict Sergei and a lonely woman Vera find their brief happiness in an abandoned village located
on the radiation contaminated territory. It is here, on this piece of land left by people and by God, that
the two people start a new life, getting acquainted and attached to each other. It is here that they
experience love — for the first time in their lives.
 The film was awarded the “Silver Bear” Prize and the Prize of Peace at the 44th International
Film Festival in Berlin (1994); the “Silver Sail” Prize at the 2nd Festival of Russian Cinema in
San Raphael, France; the Prize for the Best Actor’s Work at the Open Russian Film Festival in
Sochi (1994).
1260 DOZHDI V OKEANE (RAIN IN THE OCEAN)
1994, 76 min., color, “Lenfilm”, “ULISS” with the input from ROSKOMKINO
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Viktor Aristov (finished by Yuri Mamin), camera: Yuri
Vorontsov, production designer: Masha Petrova, misic: Arkady Gagulashvili,
sound: Nikolay Astakhov
Cast: Anna Molchanova, Yuri Belyayev, Sergei Razhuk, Svetlana Slanskene, Diana
Rubanova
Loosely based on Alexander Belyayev’s novel “The Island of Lost Ships”.
The firm is set in the beginning of the century. Three people meet on an ocean liner: a young girl,
dreaming of love, a police agent and a man he follows — a young engineer accused of committing a
murder. As fate has willed it they find themselves overboard in life jackets in the open sea. The current
takes them to an abandoned drifting barge. Here takes its beginning the love intrigue which will have a
tragic end.
 The film was awarded the Special Prize of the Jury at the 3rd KINOSHOK Festival in Anapa
(1994); the “Swan Song” Prize to the film director Victor Aristov; the Prize for the Best Actress’
Work to Anna Molchanova at the 3rd KINOSHOK Festival; the Crystal Prize of the Participant at
the “Arsenal” International Film Festival in Riga; the NIKA Prize to Nikolay Astakhov for the
Best Sound Producer’s Work (1994).
1261 ISPOVED NEZNAKOMTSY (CONFESSION TO A
STRANGER)
1994, 92 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: George Bardaville, camera: Yuri Klimenko, misic: Henry
Lolashvili
Cast: William Hert, Sandrin Bonnair, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Larisa Guzeyeva,
Alexander Kaidanovsky, Sergei Yurski, Alisa Freinlikh, Olga Volkova, Gennady
Bogachev
Based on Valery Bryusov’s novel “Last Pages of Diary of a Woman”.
The film is set in St. Petersburg in 1907.
Young and independent Natalie has everything one needs to be happy: a charming child, a rich, loving
and generous husband. Nevertheless, her encounter with a stranger on a bird market changes her life...
1262 ZAMOK (CASTLE)
1994, 110 min., color, “DVA PE I KA”, “Lenfilm” with the input from
ROSKOMKINO, “Orient-express” (France)
Philosophical parable
Director: Alexei Balabanov, screenplay: Alexei Balabanov, Sergei Selyanov,
camera: Sergei Yurizditsky, Andrei Zhegalov, production designer: Sergei
Shemyakin, Vladimir Kartashev, misic: Sergei Kuryekhin, sound: Kirill Kuzmin
Cast: Nikolay Stotsky, Svetlana Pismichenko, Viktor Sukhorukov, Anvar Libabov,
Alexei German, Olga Antonova, Andrei Smirnov, Igor Shibanov
Based on Franz Kafka’s novel of the same title.
The hero of the film — the Land Surveyor — has been invited by the Castle to do some work. Coming
to the Village he is surprised to find out that no one expects him. He tries to assert his rights but runs
into impregnable blank wall of hostile world. Penetration into the Castle becomes the purpose of his
life. For the sake of this purpose he betrays the woman he loves, experiences humilations, deceives and
loses himself...
 The film was awarded the Cinema Club Prize at the KINOTAVR-95 Open Russian Film
Festival;the NIKA Prize for the Best Production Designer’s Work went to Vladimir Kartashev
(1994); the NIKa Prize for the Best Costume Designer’s Work went to Nadyezhda Vasilyeva
(1994).
1263 KOLESO LUBVI (WHEEL OF LOVE)
1994, 89 min., color, “DVA PE I KA”, “Lenfilm”
Erotic comedy
Director: Ernest Yasan, screenplay: Vadim Mikhailov, Albina Shulgina, Ernest
Yasan, camera: Ivan Bagayev, production designer: Natalya Kochergina, misic:
Andrei Sigle, sound: Mikhail Viktorov
Cast: Mikhail Porechenkov, Maria Lipkina, Anna Samokhina, Zoya Buryak, Ivan
Krasko, Igor Dmitriyev, Valentina Kovel, Yelena Rud, Yevgeny Yermolin, Artashes
Aleksanyan, Anatoly Gorin, Tatyana Grigoryeva
The handsome hero of the film is compelled to work off his debt in a rather unusual way: by the oldest
trade.
1264 KOLECHKO ZOLOTOYE, BUKET IZ ALYKH ROZ
(GOLDEN RING, BOUQUET OF RED ROSES)
1994, 100 min., color, “Lenfilm”, ROSKOMKINO, “Lentelefilm”, “AKV”
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Dmitry Dolinin, camera: Lev Kolganov, production
designer: Vladimir Bannykh, misic: Gennady Banshchikov, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Yelena Korikova, Viktor Pavlov, Olga Volkova, Olga Shorina, Sergei Gamov,
Sergei Yushkevich, Viktor Bychkov, Zoya Buryak, Sergei Batalov, Gelena Ivliyeva,
Viktor Gogolev, Sergei Selin
Loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s story “In a Gorge”.
A simple life story of the Tsybukins close merchant family is turning first into a drama and eventually
into a tragedy. The episodes of the film are in tune with our days: a drive for making easy money,
police bribery, false money, unpunished murders...
1265 LUBOV, PREDVESTIYE PECHALI (LOVE, THE
OMEN OF SORROW)
1994, 96 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sergeyev, screenplay: Vladimir Yeremin, camera: Yuri
Shaigardanov, production designer: Viktor Zhelobinsky, misic: Sergei Kuryekhin,
sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Irina Metlitskaya, Andrei Sokolov, Olga Drozdova, Yuri Balabanov, Olga
Samoshina, Svetlana Gaitan, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Yuri Tomashevsky, Galina
Zakhurdayeva, Gali Abaidulov
The film tells about the sinful fatal love of a young artist for the wife of his close friend. Young goodlooking people live solely by their emotions and passions. However, the trivial situation is heated by
premonition of mortal danger which eventually overtakes the lovers.
1266 NA KOGO BOG POSHLET (A GIFT FROM HEAVEN)
1994, 77 min., color, “Lenfilm” in association with “First and Experimental Film”,
ROSKOMKINO
Comedy
Written and directed by: Vladimir Zaikin, camera: Mikhail Levitin, Vladimir
Vasilyev, production designer: Pavel Parkhomenko, misic: Alexander Yakovel,
sound: Alexei Shulga
Cast: Larisa Udovichenko, Stanislav Sadalsky, Leonid Torkiani, Maria Lobacheva,
Sergei Migitsko, Yevgeny Lebedev, Igor Dmitriyev
Love story of heroes of the comedy unfolds in a rather unusual way — from having their adult son to
introduction and first kiss.
1267 OKHOTA (HUNTING)
1994, 88 min., color, “R”studios with the support from V.Shevtsov (Tyumen),
“Pulkovskoye” hotel complex, LENTRANSGAZ
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Vitaly Solomin, camera: Vladimir Brylyakov, production
designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Gennady Gladkov, sound: Igor Terekhov
Cast: Tatyana Abramova, Alexander Lazarev, Jr., Alisa Freindlikh, Natalya
Inozemtseva, Vasily Livanov, Nikolay Lavrov, Yaroslav Baryshev, Alexander
Karpenko, Sergei Yezhenkov, Fyodor Odinokov
Based on “Krutoyarskaya Tzarevna”, a novel by Yevgeniya Tur.
The film is set in Russia of 1773. The sixteen-year old owner of Krutoyarsk estate, the richest fiancee,
a beauty and an orphan is a tasty morsel for bachelors.
 The actress Tatyana Abramova was awarded the “Mother of Pearl” Prize for the Best Actress’
Work and the actor Alexander Lazarev was awarded the “Mother of Pearl” Prize for the Best
Actor’s Work at the International Film Festival in Riga.
1268 POLIGON-ODIN (TRAINING GROUND-1)
1994, 87 min., color, “Lenfilm” with the input from ROSKOMKINO
Adventure
Director: Valery Rodchenko, screenplay: Valery Rodchenko, Vladimir Popov,
camera: Igor Plaksin, production designer: Sergei Shemyakin, misic: Andrei Sigle,
sound: Yelena Demidova
Cast: Andrei Tolubeyev, Viktor Mikhailov, Viktor Kravchenko, Volodya Rozhin,
Igor Kiverin, Alexei Kozhevnikov
The film tells about the incredible fantastic adventures of boys who became subject of a scientific
experiment. Children find themselves in “The Wild West”, among space monsters, in the world of
fantastic wild life.
1269 PROKHINDIADA-DVA (TALE OF A SMART
FELLOW-2)
1994, 94 min., color, “Lenfilm”, “Ladoga”, “Vesant”, “Milena-film”
Satirical comedy
Director: Alexander Kalyagin, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, camera: Ivan
Bagayev, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Andrei Sigle, sound: Igor
Terekhov
Cast: Alexander Kalyagin, Ludmila Gurchenko, Maxim Vitorgan, Tatyana Dogileva,
Irina Rozanova, Marina Tregubovich, Vladimir Soshalsky, Alexei Zharkov, Viktor
Zozulin, Vladimir Permyakov, Ludmila Gvozdikova, Sergei Parshin
Characters of the popular film made by Viktor Tregubovich in the 80s live in our times. Nothing has
changed in family life of San Sanych Lyubomudrov during the last ten years: he is still running off his
feet like a squirrel in a cage. However, times have changed. Shady business of “smart fellows” of the
stagnation years became legal and those who used to denounce San Sanych became “new Russians”
and turned out to be much tougher than the hero himself. Attempt of Lubomudrov to steal a march on
one of them leads to a dramatic end.
1270 RUSSKAYA SIMFONIYA (RUSSIAN SYMPHONY)
1994, 115 min., color, “Lenfilm”, “DVA PE I KA”, “Orient-express” (France),
ROSKOMKINO
Mystery story
Written and directed by: Konstantin Lopushansky, camera: Nikolay Pokoptsev,
production designers:
Valery Chernyavsky, Larisa Shilova, misic: Andrei Sigle, sound: Natalya Avanesova
Cast: Viktor Mikhaiov, Alexander Ilyin, Valentina Golubyonok, Kira Kreilis-Petrova,
Valentina Kovel, Mikhail Khrabrov, Natalya Akimova, Nora Gryakalova
A parable on the theme of the Last Judgement that is beginning in Russia in our days. One day, all of a
sudden the Last Judgement begins — this is how the characters of the film interpret numerous
catastrophic events. But it turned out to be not as simple as it seemed to. There was a certain ambiguity,
a kind of a game behind the events. And there was a terrible suspicion that the things going on were
some kind of a performance, a theatrical production
 The film director Konstantin Lopushansky was awarded the Aecumenic Jury Prize of the 45th
International Film Festival in Berlin (1994).
1271 RUSSKIY TRANZIT (RUSSIAN TRANSIT)
1994, 6 parts, 52 min. each, color, “St.-Petersburg Arts Centre”, “Lenfilm”, “Regional
TV’, “Slava-film”
Detective
Director: Viktor Titov, screenplay: Vyacheslav Barkovsky, Otar Dugladze, Viktor
Titov, camera: Valery Mulgaut, production designer: Sergei Shemyakin, misic:
Nikolai Martynov, Yuri Shevchuk, sound: Alexei Shulga
Cast: Yevgeny Sidikhin, Anna Samokhina, Andrei Urgant, Igor Dmitriyev, Vladimir
Illarionov, Igor Golovin, Viktor Kostetsky, Anatoly Ravikovich, Viktor Stepanov,
Semyon Furman, Sergei Parshin, Lubov Tishchenko, Yuri Shevchuk
Ex-professional athlete Alexander is working as a doorman at a restaurant. He is a lone hero, who can
fight for his friends and himself. Driven into a corner he discloses a gang of drug-trafficers operating in
Russia.
1272 SEKRET VINODELIYA (SECRET OF WINEMAKING)
1994, 67 min., color, “Lenfilm’, “Severny Fond”, ROSKOMKINO
Phantasmagoria
Written and directed by: Andrei Chernykh, camera: Alexander Ustinov,
production designer: Viktor Ivanov, sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Marina Solopchenko, Tatyana Titova, Semyon Strugachev, Sergei Shcherbin,
Vadim Yermolayev, Fedya Larionov, Leonid Yeliseyev
Poetic film about the family of wine -makers — father, mother, son and daughter who start incest
relations.
“The man is feeling when he is drinking!.. Romance — understand?” — These are the main life
principles of the family.
1273 FRANTSUZSKIY VALS (FRENCH WALTZ)
1994, 93 min., color, “Petropol”, “Lentelefilm”, ROSKOMKINO
Melodrama
Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Lev Arkadyev, Sergei Mikaelyan, camera:
Valery Mulgaut, production designer: Sergei Mikaelyan, misic: Igor Tsvetkov,
sound: Artur Shikhov
Cast: Irina Lachina, Dona Giber, Robert Parti, Ivan Shvedov
Romantic love story of a French guerilla Henry and a Russian girl Lena who escaped from the fascist
prison camp located on the territory of France. After parting for fifty years heroes of the film meet
again.
The film is based on a true story.
1274 ELIKSIR (ELIXIR)
1994, 50 min., color, “Lenfilm” in association with “First and Experimental Film”,
ROSKOMKINO
Fairy tale
Director: Irina Yevteyeva, screenplay: Irina Yevteyeva, Yuri Kravtsov, camera:
Genrikh Marandzhan, production designer: Viktor Zhelobinsky, animation: Irina
Yevteyeva, misic: Gennady Banshchikov, sound: Eduard Vanunts
Cast: Sveltana Svirko, Semyon Strugachev, Sergei Shcherbin, Sergei Bekhterev
(voice over)
Fantasy in Ernst Theodor Hoffmann’s manner
Experimental film made on the border of animation and feature cinema. This philosophical fairy tale is
centered on the story of Hoffmann’s hero traveling ‘ Behind the Looking Glass’. Imagine the wold
inhabited by salamanders and black dragons: the fairy land who has just been created by some kind of a
winged spirit who not only breathed in life but also left the Talisman that can support this life.
 The film was awarded the Special Prize of the “Okno v Yevropu” (“ The Window to Europe”)
International Film Festival in Vyborg (1993).
1275 VREMYA PECHALI YESHCHO NE PRISHLO (TIME
FOR SORROW HAS NOT YET COME UP)
1995, 97 min., color, STV, “Lenfilm”, Roskomkino
Ironic parable
Director: Sergei Selyanov, screenplay: Mikhail Konovalchuk, Sergei Selyanov,
camera: Denis Shcheglovsky, production designer: Vera Zelinskaya, misic:
Vladimir Radchenkov, sound: Kirill Kuzmin
Cast: Marina Levtova, Valery Priyomykhov, Mikhail Svetin, Pyotr Mamonov,
Semyon Strugachev, Viktor Dement, Yuris Strenga
Inhabitants of a Russian village — a Russian, a Tartar, a German, a Jew and a Gipsy go away to
different countries but later get together again in their beloved place...With love and irony authors of
the film examine comic and tragic elements in life of the heroes, their hopes and aspirations and
through them — Russia’s historical fate.
 The film was awarded The Third Premium at the International Festival of the East-European
Cinema in Kottbus, the German Federal Republic and “The Spectators’ Favourite” Prize at the
International Film Festival in Chicago, USA. The film director Sergei Selyanov got the Special
Prize of the Main Contest Jury at KINOTAVR-95 (the Open Russian Film Festival).
1276 VSYO BUDET KHOROSHO (EVERYTHING WILL
BE FINE)
1995, 112 min., color, ”Nikola-film”, “Fora-film”, “Lenfilm”, Roskomkino
Melodrama
Director: Dmitry Astrakhan, screenplay: Oleg Danilov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov,
production designer: Sergei Kokovkin, misic: Alexander Pantykin, sound: Nikolai
Astakhov, Mikhail Viktorov
Cast: Alexander Zbruyev, Olga Ponizova, Valentin Bukin, Andrei Zhuravlov,
Mikhail Ulyanov, Irina Mazurkevich
One day a millionaire Konstantin Smirnov, who is neither a slob nor a gangster but simply a good
person, returns to a remote Russian provincial town together with his son Petya who is not a snob
thinking too much of himself but simply the youngest in the world winner of Nobel prize. Why does he
do it? To reunite with his friends and relatives, and instead of harassing people and destroying things
— to build the magic Disneyland in his native town and find his long awaited love.
 The film was awarded the Main Prize of the International Festival of Love Story Films in Varna,
Bulgaria.
1277 DEREVYANNAYA KOMNATA (WOODEN ROOM)
1995, 65 min., b/w, ”Mzhalala-Film”
Phantasmagoria
Director: Yevgeny Yufit, screenplay: Vladimir Maslov, Yevgeny Yufit, camera:
Roman Lugovskoy, production designer: Yevgeny Yufit, sound: Mikhail Podtakuy
Cast: Tatyana Verkhovskaya, Vladimir Maslov, Igor Bezrukov, Sergei Tsvetkov
The film deals with problems of ecology and environmental protection. The lead character of the film
is making documentary films and is obsessed with recording of certain marginal phenomena of life
around him. Coming to the phenomena closer and closer with his camera lens he involuntary becomes
their participant and victim.
1278 DUKHOVNYE GOLOSA (SPIRITUAL VOICES)
1995, 326 min., 5 parts (1st — 38 min., 2nd — 33 min., 3rd — 87 min., 4th — 77
min., 5th — 92 min), color, video, “Severny Fond”, “Eskomkino” (Syktyvkar),
“Lenfilm”, “Pandora” (Japan), Roskomkino
War documentary
Written and directed by: Alexander Sokurov, camera: Alexander Burov, Alexei
Fedorov, production designer, misic: Toru Takemitsu, sound: Sergei Moshkov
From war diaries.
“Mozart, Messian, Beethoven, uninhabited North of Russia and bloody war in Tajikistan. Harmony and
chaos, classics and modernism, death and a final revelation of the sense of life, beauty growing out of
ugly clots of matter.
Faces and bodies of soldiers left at the end of the Universe, spiritual voices piercing the thickness of
darkness — these are the dominant themes of the film shot in extreme circumstances of war” (“Seance”
magazine No. 11)
The first non-feature motion picture made in circumstances of modern war, sometimes directly during
the actions. Alexander Sokurov for the first time used video camera because the use of a film camera
and film shooting equipment for shooting scenes from life of the 11th post of Moscow detachment of
Russian Border service in Tajikistan was determined by the situation as well as by financial problems.
 The film was awarded the “Sony” Prize at the International Film Festival in Locarno,
Switzerland.
1279 ZIMNYAYA VISHNYA (WINTER CHERRY)
1995, 58 min., color, video, ”Troitsky Most”, ”Peterburg-Pyaty kanal”
Melodrama
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, camera: Valery
Mulgaut, production designer: Natalya Kochergina, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich,
sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Yelena Safonova, Larisa Udovichenko, Nina Ruslanova, Vitaly Solomin, Irina
Miroshnichenko, Olga Samoshina, Irina Klimova, Yelena Yunger, Viktor Avilov,
Alexander Lenkov, Pyotr Velyaminov, Antonina Shuranova, Vladimir Yeremin,
Tanya Bugayeva, Samuel Labart
Two earlier made films “Winter Cherry-1” and “Winter Cherry-2” reedited, additional shooting made
with the use of videocamera. Olga, heroine of “Winetr Cherry 1 and 2” comes from America to Russia.
She is rich and beautiful as ever.
1280 KONTSERT DLYA KRYSY (CONCERT FOR A RAT)
1995, 103 min., color, b/w, ”Lenfilm”, “Ermitazhny Most”, Roskomkino
Tragicomedy
Director: Oleg Kovalov, screenplay: Timur Baulin, Vladimir Maslov, Oleg Kovalov,
camera: Yevgeny Shermegor, production designer: Viktor Ivanov, sound: Marina
Polyanskaya
Cast: Yelena Savina, Pyotr Zaichenko, Fyodor Konovalov, Katya Tamnitskaya,
Alexander Sheff, Valery Smorygo, Alexei Muravyev
Loosely based on literary works by Daniil Khrams (1939)
“Concert for a rat” is a tragic and comic panorama of pre-war life, full of lyricism and black humour.
The film is set in a totalitarian state which resembles Germany and the USSR of the 30-es. One of the
aims of the film is to reveal the complicated connection between Kharms’ attitude to life and the time
he lived in.
 The film director Oleg Kovalov was awarded the Special Prize at the KINOSHOK-95 Film
Festival.
1281 MANIYA ZHIZELI (MANIA OF GISELLE)
1995, 86 min., color, ”Rok”, ”Lenfilm”, Roskomkino
Biographic story
Director: Alexei Uchitel, screenplay: Dunya Smirnova, camera: Sergei Lando,
production designer: Nikolay Samonov, misic: Leonid Desyatnikov, sound: Leonid
Lerner
Cast: Galina Tyunina, Mikhail Kozakov, Yevgeny Sidikhin, Andrei Smirnov, Sergei
Vinogradov, Leonid Roskoshny
The film tells about the tragic fate of Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva who emigrated from Russia in
the 20-es. Story of brilliant career and dramatic life story of the great dancer are told in the film not as a
biographical document but as a theme of love enchantment delirium which was the most important
theme in Spesivtseva’s art. This theme is the leit-motif of the story revealing the close connection
between gift and madness, art and obsession, will and fate.
 The actress Galina Tyunina was awarded the Prize for the Best Actor’s Debut at the “Molodost”
(“Youth”) International Film Festival in Kiev, the Ukraine.
 The film was awarded the Main Prize of the III Russian Cinema Festival in Onfleur, France.
1282 OSOBENOSTI NATSIONALNOY OKHOTY
(PECULIARITIES OF NATIONAL HUNTING)
1995, 90 min., color, ”Lenfilm”, ”Roskomkino”
Comedy
Written and directed by: Alexander Rogozhkin, screenplay: Andrei Zhegalov,
production designer: Igor Timoshenko, Valentina Atsikayevskaya, misic: Vladislav
Panchenko, sound: Nikolay Astakhov
Cast: Ville Haapassalo, Alexei Buldakov, Viktor Bychkov, Semyon Strugachev,
Sergei Kupriyanov, Sergei Russkin, Sergei Gusinsky, Igor Sergeyev, Igorv
Dobryakov, Yuri Makusinsky, Zoya Buryak, Boris Cherdyntsev, Alexander Zavyalov
A Young Finn named Raive who is working on a book on peculiarities of national hunting in different
countries comes to Russia. With a company comprising men of different standing he goes to a remote
forestry officer’s post.
Hunting a large beast turns into a traditional Russian drinking party. Together with Russian hunters the
Finn gets into all sorts of comic situations...
 The film was awarded the Grand Prix in the main contest at KINOTAVR-95 (the Open Russian
Film Festival); the Special Prize of the Jury at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary; the
Prize of the Russian Cinema Critics’ Guild at the International Film Festival in Sochi; the Grand
Prix of the “Okno v Yevropu” (“The Window to Europe”) International Film Festival in Vyborg.
1283 PRIBYTIYE POYEZDA (ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN)
1995, almanach of 5 novels, commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to mark the 100th
anniversary of cinema
1. TROFIM (TROFIM)
25 min., color, STV, ROSKOMKINO
Drama
Director: Alexei Balabanov, screenplay: Alexei Balabanov and Sergei Selyanov,
camera: Sergei Astakhov, production designer: Sergei Shemyakin, misic: Sergei
Prokofyev, sound: Maxim Belovolov
Cast: Sergei Makovetsky, Zoya Buryak, Semyon Strugachev, Alexei Balabanov,
Alexei German, Igor Shibanov, Vladimir Bogdanov, Lyudmila Alexandrova, Viktor
Poluektov, Dmitry Meskhiyev, Sergei Barkovsky
An ordinary Russian story. A husband jealous of his brother, killed him with an axe and escaped to St.
Petersburg where he was later arrested in a brothel.
2. EKZERSIS NOMER PYAT (EXERCISE NO. 5)
20 min., color, “Ostrov”, ROSKOMKINO, KINOFORUM
Melodrama
Director: Dmitry Mekskhiyev, screenplay: Arkady Tigai, camera: Sergei
Machilsky, production designer: Viktor Tikhomirov, sound: Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Irina Metlitskaya, Alexei Serebryakov, Andrei Krasko, Yuri Kuznetsov, Nina
Usatova, Alexander Polovtsev, Viktor Tikhomirov, Leonid Gromov, Ivan Shvedov,
Oleg Mel’nik, Vladimir Bogdanov, Yekaterina Golubeva
A film is being shot. The crew is waiting for the right weather. Some people are drinking coffee, some
are trying to rehearse, some are sorting out personal problems. And they are watched by an impassive
camera, forgotten to be turned off.
1284 RUSSKIY PAROVOZ (RUSSIAN LOCOMOTIVE)
1995, 77 min., color, ”Barmaley”, ROSKOMKINO, ”Opalfilmproduktion”
(Germany)
Risky adventure film for children
Director: Nenad Dyapich, screenplay: Nenad Dyapich, Goran Radovanovich, Martin
Teo Kriger, camera: Vladimir Burykin, Artyom Melkumyan, production designer,
music: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Arthur Shikhov
Cast: Yelena Sanayeva, Rolan Bykov, Mikhail Gluzsky, Masha Kapitskaya, Artiom
Urvachev, Denis Serd’iukov
During vacation a curator of Berlin Museum of Transport comes with his son Peter to St. Petersburg
planning to make a videofilm about the local museum of transport. Having learned that there exists a
rare copy of an old locomotive heroes of the film start looking for it and come to a small town where
local dealers are ready to sell the relic abroad as scrap metal. Peter and his friends start their struggle
for the locomotive.
1285 SERGEI EIZENSHTEIN. AVTOBIOGRAPHIYA
(SERGEI EISENSTEIN. AUTOBIOGRAPHY)
1995, 89 min., color, b/w, STV, Gosfilmofond Rossiyi, ROSKOMKINO
Arrangement
Written and directed by: Oleg Kovalov, camera: Vladimir Smirnov, production
designers: Vig Cheikauskas, Dmitry Pakhomov, sound: Marina Polyanskaya, Maxim
Belovolov
The film is devoted to the 100th anniversary of Russian cinema and marks the centenary of Sergei
Eisenstein. All events shown on the screen reflect the tragic period in Russia’s life in period between
the two revolutions and Stalinist terror. The events and their participants are chosen to stress the special
place Eisensten’s art occupies in the 20th century culture.
1286 CHETVYORTAYA PLANETA (THE FOURTH
PLANET)
1995, 92 min., color, ”Astrakhan-lumex-studiya”, “MIKO-film”with the input from
“Lenfilm”
Science Fiction
Director: Dmitry Astrakhan, screenplay: Oleg Danilov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov,
production designer: Sergei Kokovkin, misic: Alexander Pantykin, sound: Galina
Lukina
Cast: Anatoly Kotenev, Daniel McVickar (USA), Olga Belyaeva, Yuri Orlov,
Vladimir Khrapunov
Loosely based on Oleg Danilov’s play of the same title.
Having landed at an unknown planet astronauts find themselves in their past. The science fiction story
loosely based on Ray Bradbury’s and Stanislav Lem’s motives is used by the authors of the film as a
backdrop for human behaviour study in a non-typical situation.
1287 YA IDU ISKAT (I AM GOING TO SEARCH)
1995, 13 min., color, ”Lenfilm”, ROSKOMKINO, VGIK
Ironic thriller
Director: Vasily Chiginsky (workshop of Vladimir Naumov), screenplay: Ramil
Yamaleyev, camera: Anton Antonov, production designer: Fyodor Savelyev, misic:
Mikhail Ekimyan, sound: Natalya Avanesova
Cast: Darya Muzychenko, Yuri Pavlov, Yelena Kucherenko, Vladimir Shevelov,
Georgy Kervalishvili, Vera Tarasova, Igor Korniyenko, Igor Kozlov-Sakhalinsky,
Vladimri Borisov, Alexei Zasetsky
1288 PRINTSIPIALNY I ZHALOSTLIVY VZGLYAD
(PRINCIPAL AND COMPASSIONATE LOOK)
1996, 90 min., color, ”Lenfilm” with the input from ROSKOMKINO
Drama
Director: Alexander Sukhochev, screenplay: Renata Litvinova, camera: Alexander
Korneyev, Artyom Melkumyan, production designers: Vladimir Yuzhakov, Yelena
Zhukova, music, sound: Yelena Demidova, Larisa Maslova
Cast: Natalya Kolyakanova, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Milena Tontegode, Olga
Samoshina, Valery Barinov, Sergei Russkin
Forty-year old Alya has been abandoned by her husband and son. Her mother does her best to distract
the heroine from her loneliness. However, her clumsy efforts do not help — Alya prefers top escape
into the world of her dreams, fantasies and childhood memories.
 The film was awarded the Main Prize of the “Okno v Yevropu” (“The Window to Europe”)
International Film Festival in Vyborg; the Third Premium of the “Molodost” (“Youth”)
International Film Festival in Kiev (1996). The actress Natalya Kolyakanova was honored the
Prize for the Best Actress’ Work at the Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi (1996).
1289 AMERIKANKA (THE AMERICAN LADY)
1997, 90 min., color, “Lenfilm”, Goskino
Melodrama
Director: Dmitry Meskhiyev, screenplay: Yuri Korotkov, camera: Sergei Machilski,
production designer: Natalya Kochergina, misic: Irina Tseslukevich, sound:
Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Sergei Vasilyev, Natalya Danilova, Oleg Fyodorov, Alisa Grebenschikova,
Pavel Stogov, Yuri Kuznetsov, Nina Usatova, Viktor Bychkov, Andrei Krasko
The early 1970-s. Liosha Kolyadko, in his ninth year of school, lives in a provincial town with his elder
brother and sister. His brother dies in a motorcycle crash... Liosha's personal tragedy is further
complicated by his old and secret love for his dead brother's girlfriend Tanya. For her, his first love, he
is willing to do anything — including the most crazy “feats”...
1290 BOMBA (THE BOMB)
1997, 72 min., color, ”Nikola-film”
Erotic comedy
Director: Dmitry Meskhiyev, screenplay: Sergei Radlov, camera: Sergei Machilski,
production designer: Natalya Kochergina, misic: Yevgeny Pusser, sound:
Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Viktor Bychkov, Alexander Polovtsev, Olga Tarasenko, Olga Tolostetskaya,
Vasilina Strel’nikova
The story is set in the 1910-s. Accompanied by three charming girls, two underground revolutionaries
conduct a complicated scientific experiment.
1291 BRAT (THE BROTHER)
1997, 96 min., color, STV
Criminal drama
Written and directed by: Alexei Balabanov, camera: Sergei Astakhov, production
designer: Vladimir Kartashov, misic: Vyacheslav Butusov, sound: Maxim
Belovolov
Cast: Sergei Bodrov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Viktor Sukhorukov, Maria Zhukova,
Sergei Shurzin, Yuri Kuznetsov, Vyacheslav Butusov, Chizh, Sergei Debizhev, Irina
Rakshina, Anatoly Zhuravlyov, Andrei Fedortsev
Dismissed from the Army, Danila Bagrov returns to a provincial town, from which he proceeds to
Petersburg on a visit to the elder brother whom he hasn't seen for a long time. His brother, who became
a hired killer, is trying to draw Danila into his business...
1292 V TOY STRANE (IN THAT COUNTRY)
1997, 90 min., color, ”Lenfilm”, Goskino, ”Narodny Film”
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Lydiya Bobrova, camera: Sergei Astakhov, Valery
Revich, production designer: Gennadi Popov, misic: Gennadi Zavolokin, sound:
Igor Terekhov
Cast: Dmitry Klopov, Vladimir Borchaninov, Anna Ovsyannikova, Alexander
Stakheyev, Andrei Dunayev, Svetlana Gaitan, Zoya Buryak
The film has three main characters representing the three main elements of the Russian personality: the
worker team leader Chapurin (power on village level), the meek industrious Skuridin and Timofei
Ivanovich, drowning his mental discord in wine...
Through their personalities we follow the course of life in a distant province with its joys, worries and
grieves.
 The film was awarded the Prize of Peace at the 47th International Film Festival in Berlin (1998);
the Press Prize at the KINOSHOK International Film Festival in Anapa (1998); the Special
Mention of the FIPRESSI Jury at the 47th International Film Festival in Berlin (1998).
1293 ISTORIYA PRO RICHARDA, MILORDA I
PREKRASNUYU ZHAR-PTITSU (THE STORY OF RICHARD,
MILORD AND THE BEATIFUL FIREBIRD)
1997, 80 min., color, ”Barmaley”, Goskino, ”Lenfilm”
Adventure
Director: Nino Akhvlediani, screenplay: Yelena Prokhorova with input from Nino
Akhvlediani, camera: Lomer Akhvlediani, production designer: Valery Yurkevich,
misic: Igor Stravinskki, Antonin Dvorzhak, sound: Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Misha Wasserbaum, Igor Kopylov, Georgy Schtil, Kira Kreilis-Petrova, Roma
Dyudin, Anatoly Ravikovich, Alexander Demyanenko
The former professional theater director Dima Kamentsev discovers a fascinating pastime: he stages a
play by William Shakespeare, using teenage club amateur actors...
He engaged the “difficult” teenager nicknamed “Milord” for the part of Richard III...
1294 SERGEY EIZENSHTEIN. MEKSIKANSKAYA
FANTAZIYA (SERGEI EISENSTEIN. A MEXICAN FANTASY)
1997, 100 min., color, STV, “Gosfil’mofond”
Arrangement
Written and directed by: Oleg Kovalov, camera: Dmitry Pakhomov, production
designer: Vyacheslav Gayvoronski, sound: Marina Polyanskaya
The sequel of a two-part picture about Sergei Eisenstein. The author offers his version of the Master's
uncompleted picture titled “Da Zdravstvuyet Meksika” (“Long Live Mexico”).
1295 TSAREVICH ALEXEY (TSAREVICH ALEXEI)
1997, 80 min., color, ”Golos”, Goskino, ”Lenfilm”
Historical drama
Written and directed by: Vitaly Melnikov, camera: Ivan Bagayev, production
designers: Sergei Kokovkin, Valery Yurkevich, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Asya
Zvereva
Cast: Alexei Zuyev, Viktor Stepanov, Natalya Yegorova, Stanislav Lyubshin,
Vladimir Menshov, Mikhail Kononov, Fyedor Stukov, Lyudmila Zaitseva, Yekaterina
Kulakova
Having received a report saying that his son Alexei is plotting against him, Tsar Pyotr orders Count
Tolstoi to bring Tsarevich and Yefrosinya, his companion, to Petersburg.
Yezopka, dispatched by Tolstoi, cunningly lures Alexei back to his motherland. Pyotr interrogates his
son, inducing him to inherit the power. But Alexei chooses the fate of a common person...
In a fit of rage, the Tsar orders to subject his son to the tortures which he doesn't survive...
 The film was awarded the Grand Prix of the Russian Film Festival in Onfleur, France; the Main
Prize of the “Okno v Yevropu” (“The Window to Europe”)International Film Festival in Vyborg.
The actor Alexei Zuyev was honored the Prize for the Best Actor’s Work at the “Okno v Yevropu”
International Film Festival in Vyborg (1997).
1296 TSIRK SGOREL, I KLOUNY RAZBEZHALIS (THE
CIRCUS BURNED DOWN, AND THE CLOWNS DISPERSED)
1997, 100 min., color, ”Lenfilm”, Goskino
Drama
Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Vladimir Bortko with input from Nataliya
Bortko, camera: Sergei Lando, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic:
Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Natalya Avanesova
Cast: Nikolai Karachentsov, Mariya Shukshina, Tanya Yu., Nina Ruslanova, Sergei
Dreiden, Zinaida Sharko, Kseniya Kachalina
A fifty-year-old movie director, once famous and prosperous, nowadays altogether unwanted, is
summarizing his life. Once upon a time he encountered Death...
1297 SHIZOFRENIYA (SCHIZOPHRENIA)
1997, 2 parts, 160 min., color, ”Lenfilm”, “Stabilnaya Liniya”, Roskomkino
Political thriller
Director: Viktor Sergeyev, screenplay: Alexander Abdulov, Yevgeny Kozlovski,
Viktor Nevski (Sergeyev), camera: Yuri Shaigardanov, production designer: Viktor
Zhelobinski, misic: Andrei Makarevich, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Alexander Abdulov, Alexander Zbruyev, Kirill Lavrov, Leonid Bronevoi, Yuri
Kuznetsov, Darya Kabolova, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Nikolai Trofimov, Boris
Klyuyev, Viktor Stepanov, Leonid Nevedomski
A certain Russian politician of high standing orders the State Security bodies to kill the manager of a
large financial corporation intending to run for President...
The prospective killer Golubchik, convicted for murder, is selected from among prisoners. He goes by
the nickname “Nemoy”. But “Nemoy” comes to be beyond control...