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The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
As 1809 nears its end, Natasha attends her first ball, where Andrei falls in love with her with the intent of marriage. However, as her father demands they wait, the prince travels abroad, leaving Natasha in desperate longing. But she meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets Andrei. Part two of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against General Napoleon Bonaparte. Part one of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
A comic drama about a permanently going duel between Traffic Officer and powerful businessman.
A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.
The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the flight" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to Russia. Some of them have understood that they can't live outside Russia and go back maybe to be happy, maybe not, some go back to face sure death for their crimes, some don't go back and know that are going to miss homeland forever, some are comfortably well off (are they?) in exile.
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Mini-series set in times of WW II about Soviet underground fighters led by brave Anna Morozova. They are establishing connection with Polish people who work on German airfield. And even small victories cost a lot sometimes.
Adventures of young Vasilyok who is going to the pre-school for a first time in his life.
A story of court intrigues, love, and betrayal. A vain king is turned into a stag and only true love can save him
An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern Robin Hood.
A story about a love between a Soviet Army officer and an actress set during the WWII.
In 1923 two young guys with different personality traits go on probation to work with newly formed Soviet Union Criminal Investigation Department.
Anton Nikolaevich Skvortsov (O.Yefremov) is a strong and resolute person, for all his life he has been heading a big labor collective, and now he is retired, he interred his wife half a year ago, beared infarction, and now is living in his big flat with a daughter, her husband and a grown-up granddaughter. His attending doctor recommended his daughter to send him to the veterans house, in order that he could live with coevals, surrounded by congenial people and not feel so lonely. Not being able to stand all this, Anton Nikolaevich runs away from his house and goes on a sightseeing tour about Moscow. On the excursion bus he gets acquainted with Anna Konstantinovna (I.Savvina), whos retired on pension. This meeting turnes his life upside-down.
If anything's possible, what's important?
A married woman fresh from the countryside meets a charming cab driver on her first day in Moscow. They spend the day together and their fondness for each other grows...
It is a story about 12 or 13 years old girl in the middle of 60-th in USSR. She is a pioneer. She is in love with her pioneer leader - 16-17 years old boy, who doesn't even notice her. In order to impress him she tries to find someone, who was a member of pioneer squad in 1923 - one of the first Soviet pioneers...
A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man.
Life and works of V.I. Lenin during the difficult period for the country of 1918.
In the house of Daria Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, former beauty and lioness of the capital, who even far from civilization still organizes her salon, a certain Baron, erudite and expert in philosophy, who promised to introduce his scientific research, is waiting. Instead of the expected celebrity arrives Dmitri Nikolaevich Rudin, whom the Baron instructed to deliver his article. Rudin charms everyone with his erudition, originality and logical thinking. Lasunskaya is determined to make the ornament of his salon. During the two months that Rudin spends at Lasunskaya's, he becomes indispensable to her. But Rudin's misfortune is that while he inflames others, he himself remains as cold as ice, never thinking that his words "may confuse and destroy a young heart".
For the first time, Natasha saw Elektron Yevdokimov at the Polytechnic Museum, where she came with Feliks. Then she really liked the confident speaker. Relations with Feliks didn't work out, and Natasha, leaving home, became a flight attendant — that is what she called her new profession. Once in a cafe, before the next flight, Natasha saw Yevdokimov. They met and began to meet. They experience their feelings for each other in different ways. By the power of her love, Natasha makes Yevdokimov understand what love is.
The old choirmaster Vetlugin falls in love with the young Vera, the owner of a wonderful soprano. Having long dreamed of his choir performing Vivaldi's "Gloria", Vetlugin invites the girl to the leading part.
Pyotr, a once-promising neurosurgeon who left his groundbreaking research and career abroad, returns home years later in search of fulfillment. Encountering old friends, strained relationships, and the realities of his choices, Pyotr grapples with regret, identity, and the value of his work.
A few days from the life of a young scientist responsible for the failed trail.
Having worked at a construction site all her life, Zina raised her son alone. Now that her son is almost an adult, Victor has appeared in her life, with whom she feels good and calm. However, her son Boris is too much used to having his mother belong only to him.
Film about the death of an old man, and the people that try to profit from his demise.
An overview of the 75-year history of the Moscow Art Theatre containing unique historical footage, including rare excerpts from various stage productions.
A young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She achieves professional success, for the first time real love comes to her. However, the girl’s happiness was short-lived — a sudden illness of blood interferes in the fate of the dancer, like an echo of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, where her parents lived.
Based on the early stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky. A jealous husband is trying to track down his wife, whom he suspects of cheating. He is persistent and purposeful — it seems that a little more, and the cheat will be brought to light! But men will never surpass women's cunning and resourcefulness.
A love story between a country policeman and a recently separated from her husband woman with three kids.
The engineer and the reporter arrived at one of the plants of the Altai. They have just completed the institutions and are confident that the future is in their hands. At the plant, all relations are formed around the dubious glory of the Turner Milovidov. A fresh look, self-confidence and each other help friends to expose the "record holder".
Documentary about Anton Chekhov and his descendants in Moscow. Vera Tschechowa, who is the great-grandniece of the poet and writer, meets with family members, writers, and theater professionals. Past and present merge into a poetic journey of discovery into a country that, until then, had been little known in the realm of artistic sensibilities.
...Komsomol member Begench, who served in the army, and his fellow villager Vellek, whom they met in the city, return to the village. The kulaks, led by Kuiki and his son Cherkez, run everything in the village. They are turning people against the collective farm, sabotaging the sowing campaign. The Basmachi kill the chairman of the collective farm. Residents of the village rise up to fight. In the battle with the Basmachi, many of them die. Nevertheless, the supporters of the collective farm system are victorious and go out into the field in the spring.
It consists of Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky's three short stories about the origin of feelings, the expectation of happiness and love...
Agricultural machinery design engineer Mikhail Shcherbakov goes to the countryside instead of taking a vacation. The tractor designed by him does not work in one of the collective farms. Circumstances force him to stay much longer than he expected. Here he meets Klava, who works in the apiary. And far from being on official business, the engineer remains on the collective farm.
The father, the captain of the merchant fleet, had three sons: Cyril - an artist, Yuri - a sailor, Gerka - a musician. It would seem that nothing can interfere with their friendship. But the older and middle brothers are in love with one girl - Svetlana. Rivalry makes them enemies. Yuri can not forgive betrayal, and between the brothers there is a big quarrel. Suddenly, misfortune falls on the family - during a fire on the ship, their father dies. Grief brings the brothers closer together.
Based on Panteleyev’s tale about a boy who wouldn’t leave his post after he gave his word.
The story is about how a metropolitan writer, concerned about the “fifth point of his questionnaire,” instead of the noble or, at worst, rabbit fur assigned to him by rank, was given a “medium fluffy domestic cat” at the Literary Fund, and how he, previously quiet and inconspicuous, ventured to a “mutiny on a ship” confidently cutting through the waters of “socialist realism.”
Driver Mikhail meets Sofia, a distinguished collective farm worker who has come to Moscow. He helps her buy a car and agrees to deliver it to her collective farm. He is a widower, and she has separated from her husband. At Sofia's request, he agrees to take her, her daughter, and son-in-law back home. Mikhail develops deep feelings for Sofia, but her daughter is against it.
In one of the steppe regions of Kazakhstan arrives on Komsomol youth squad. Severe frosts, spring mud flows, exhausting work than their specialty - the development of virgin land does not come easy. But the young are young - they work, enjoy life, fall in love. In the center of the story - the touching romance secretary of the Komsomol organization and tractor driver Anne.
During the twenty years school reunion classmates suddenly learn that one of them - Nadezhda Kruglova - is a proud mother of ten children.
A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.
The film tells about the pioneer Andrew and his friend. They imitate the accident in front of foreign tourists on the water. The young correspondent Egor noticed this, and as a result, the portraits of the pioneer hang wherever possible, he receives an invitation to the radio, people shot a movie about him. And now, when friends wanted to retreat, they began to realize that it would not be as easy as it seems...
From the cycle "Political Theater". The teleplay is built as a kind of investigation into the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, during which, unlike a criminal investigation, not the identity of the criminal is revealed, but the fate of Palme himself, his life principles, views, intentions and dreams.
The heroic crew of the fighter jet reunites a quarter of a century later. Fate has separated these comrades-in-arms, significantly altering their characters and worldviews. One became a radical communist, another became the chairman of the Veterans Fund, and the third lived in exile for many years. At first, the former comrades-in-arms find it difficult to understand each other, but when one of them gets into trouble, the others devise a plan to rescue him.
The film is dedicated to the working class. On the example of the fates of the main characters, their biographies and characters, it reveals such urgent problems as the attitude of a working man to labor, the conformity of his inclinations to his chosen profession. The obsession of the heroes and their complete dedication to their favorite work is the core of the script's dramaturgy. For both Nyurka and Mikhail Antonovich, the factory is their home, with which their entire lives are connected.
School is over, final exams are behind — and Dima was the first to think of waving away from home. The convictions of his elder brother Viktor about a serious attitude to the future life only more “warmed up” the four friends, and for the first time they went to Tallinn for the first time without the bored care of adults...
In Africa, monkeys fell ill. This news was reported to Dr. Aybolit by the monkey Chichi, who escaped from the robber Barmaley. Aybolit and his assistants — Chichi and the dog Avva — are in a hurry to save the monkeys from the disease. But Barmaley and his robbers are trying to stop them.
In 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution, the peoples had to decide between conforming to Bolshevism or national self-determination. In that torn-apart-time, one man, the comedian Volodya, tries to mediate, not between different ideologies, but social life and art. While others just want to wash away their gloom, he reflects on the everyday sorrows and the role of art in that time of changes.
The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films.
The love story in the remote village. Lyuba has a child, Nikolai has a wife. Nikolay, having become a projectionist, now, once a week, brings cinema to the village of Babino, where Lyuba lives. Once they loved each other, but Nikolai, unexpectedly for everyone, married another and since then tried not to be in this village. And now feelings have surged again, and both are unable to resist this love.
A film-concert based on the poems and stories of Alexander Yashin.
Twenty-seven years after the war, former radio operator Dina Aleksandrovna reunites with her comrades in an attempt to establish the true cause of the death of the commander and commissar of her partisan unit.
The farm's chairman took the late secretary's teenage son into his house.
Russia, 1919. A young soldier of the First Cavalry Army, Aleksei Mikhalyov, is sent to work in the provincial Cheka. Here in the south of the country there is a large White Guard underground led by the elusive Markov. Aleksei gets into the gang, where he is mistaken for his own. The day of the operation to eliminate the white underground is appointed. But unforeseen circumstances destroy the plans of the Chekists.
Two stories ("The feat of the soldier Mukhin", "The Last Autumn"). The events of one concern 1917, when Lenin had to hide in Finland, the second takes place in 1923-1924 during the last months of his life in Gorki.
Oleg Yefremov was one of the most beloved actors and directors in Russia. He was the founder of the Sovremennik (Contemporary) Theatre and later became the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre. The film shows him in a moment of extreme dramatic tension: Yefremov has decided to split the repertory company into two. His aim is to re energize a stagnant group of actors and move them away from an artistic "dead end". The company, split into supporters and detractors discusses the situation on very heated terms. The situation mirrors the overall climate of a country and a society shaken by the changes brought about by perestroika.
The hypochondriac Argan wants his daughter to marry a doctor so he can save on his medical bills.
Bandits took away a beautiful horse from peasant Nikita Lykov and left him a nag instead. The peasant began to nurse the horse, which turned out to be a famous Oryol trotter named Lyubushka.
He became a legend in his own lifetime. A Symbolist poet, artist, photographer, art historian, translator, lecturer, and local historian — Maximilian Voloshin, known simply as Max. Everyone loved him, and he loved everyone. He embodied contradictions. He visited the Vatican, the Prado, and the Louvre, witnessed the first car rallies and flying machines, attended Silver Age poetry circles and Montmartre artist gatherings, and took part in literary hoaxes. But no matter where he went, he always returned to Feodosia.
The film tells the story of Olga Sergeevna, a renowned oceanographer. Throughout her life, Olga Sergeevna loved only one man, with whom she was never destined to find happiness.
The new secretary of the NPP party committee is fighting against high results' progress in equipment operation.
Drama based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky.
A young engineer Dmitriy Zherekhov who came to the aircraft plant is trying to prove to the director that it is necessary to switch to new methods of organizing production. He is supported by both experienced test engineer Aleksei Sedykh and test engineer Lyudmila Rudneva. Lyudmila likes Dmitriy, but his rigidity and rationalism complicate their relationship...
Based on the play of the same name by M. Shatrov.
The story concerns the events in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War. Private detective Petya Chukhontsev, a law student who has not completed his studies, investigates the case of the murdered inventor Kuklin. He was murdered exactly as he predicted during a New Year's visit to Chukhontsev. While investigating the Kuklin case, Petya soon realizes that the central figure in this case is the German Scholz, the owner, who cheaply buys up the inventions of Russian craftsmen and hands them over to the spy Siegfried Gay, an advisor to the German embassy. . However, Petya will soon understand that it is better to mind his own business...
When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay, his best friend Gerda must overcome many obstacles on her journey to rescue him..
Thirties. Arriving from a provincial town in Moscow, Leka Khrapova did not enroll in law school, as her mother wanted, but entered acting. During her studies, she became interested in the “stargazer” and the sensualist from the observatory, but married a silent and reliable documentary cameraman. Leka left her husband twice and, burned by her mistakes, returned. But one day she didn’t return...
In December 1941. For five days from the front line in besieged Leningrad arrives for re-forming company. The soldiers are placed in barracks outside the city. A young soldier Alexei Kazantsev pays attention to the girl Olya. She comes to the barracks every day to see her father, Private Koshkin, who among the St. Petersburg volunteers is going to go to the front. Olya is sick, and from hunger she can hardly stand on her feet. Koshkin gives her his tiny ration, which is given to soldiers. Alexei meets Olga and does his best to save the girl. On the eve of Alexei's return to the front, Olga becomes his wife.
The shoe factory is undergoing production reform. Poor quality shoes no longer bring savings, the company began to suffer only losses. To get out of this crisis, the factory management decided to produce normal products designed for the wishes of the consumer. To do this, you must cope with new technologies.
A story about a good doctor - surgeon Mishkin who works in a countryside hospital.
In Moscow in 1919 there are still anarchist organizations, whose actions are clearly anti-Soviet in nature. The Chekists have to expose their activities. The case is entrusted to three newly conscripted Komsomol comrades.
The twenties. Hungry and impoverished country. Lenin signs a decree on the protection of breeding livestock. Nevertheless, Ivanov's experiments become known not only to the country of the Soviets, but also to enemies working for American farmers. The Chekists become involved in Ivanov's research.
Two great aircraft designers, Tupolev and Sikorsky, meet after many years of separation at the Paris Air Show. Once upon a time, one of them stayed in the new Russia, the other left it forever. Different destinies, different paths to the same goal, the conquest of the sky.
The plot is based on the construction of a highway bridge across the Volga River in Saratov. A Moscow correspondent comes to this construction site.
A young Gipsy boy is growing up in a Russian village during the Civil War.
New Year's Eve. An actor was invited to one of the families to play the role of Santa Claus. But the actor got sick and asked his friend to replace him. The friend agreed with joy, because it was his ex-wife who invited the actor. She forbids him to meet the children. Also, the failed father meets the sweet Snow Maiden, who is going through her own personal drama.
A semi-documentary biography film about the life and work of Soviet film actor Pyotr Aleynikov. Includes newsreels from the 1930s, footage from films featuring Aleynikov and interviews with his closest friends and colleagues.
A nuclear power plant accident destroyed the RBMK reactor's technological channel, with the chief engineer and reactor calculations attributed. A special commission found fault and conducted full-scale surveys in Murmansk and Kirovsk.
A film about outstanding actors of the Soviet stage: Angelina Stepanova, Mark Prudkin, Igor Ilyinsky, Faina Ranevskaya, Veriko Andzhaparidze and others.
October 1917. Russian and German soldiers, exhausted by three years of war, began to fraternize. But officers' bullets shot the fraternizers. The survivors - Ilya, Matvey, nurse Olga and German soldier Jakob - swore in front of the fallen soldiers to reach St. Petersburg and achieve peace for all.
Research in the field of memory is being conducted under the leadership of Academician Arkhipov. He, like many other thinking people, is not indifferent to the purposes for which scientific discoveries can be used and how modern they are.
A play about the life and death of Jean-Baptiste Molière, an artist tired of fighting the world.
A story about young man who is trying to turn his village into an agricultural center.
Eight-grader Petya Kopeikin, despite his short stature and nondescript appearance, is constantly in the spotlight. Petya is noble, witty, well versed in literature, he writes wonderful poems. Kopeikin has long been secretly in love with his classmate Masha Goroshkina, and she is passionate about the new student from 9 "A" Kolya Kristallov. Masha tells Petya about her feelings and asks him to hand over a note to Kolya. Deeply worried from unrequited love, Petya not only doesn't stand in the way of a happier rival, but even helps him win Masha's heart. He wants to prove that courage and honor were not only inherent in the times of “musketeer” novels, but exist in our time. Petya chooses to follow the example of the hero of the famous play Edmond Rostan and in his actions copies Cyrano de Bergerac.
A tragic story of two lovers, Boris and Veronica, who were separated forever by the war, and at the same time a story of love that the war could not destroy. The war seen from the lovers' point of view.
For Slava Gorokhov, his next adventure ends with a conditional conviction. By decision of law enforcement agencies, a young man begins to study at a vocational school for re-education. From the first day of being in vocational school, the young man is in the center of attention of students who are not ready to accept a person with a lifestyle that is significantly different from the traditional one for a Soviet citizen. Unexpectedly for many, on the side of Gorokhov is the master Radislav Yershov and Komsomol activist Nadya, in love with Slava. The intrigues unfolding in the school are changing the habitual life of an educational institution, which is becoming the scene of a struggle between two opposing ideologies.
Summer camp becomes a place for not only funny adventures, but also for a first feelings awakening for two fifteen years old teenagers.
A graduate of the journalism department of Moscow State University Veronica Vesnina, the daughter of a famous journalist in the capital, goes to the provincial city to work on the radio...
Boris Zhitkov intends to fulfill his dream and get a job at a shipyard where a vacancy has opened up for a process engineer. At the same time, he writes stories about sea stories, where, according to him, there is not even a fraction of fiction. But before he can fulfill his cherished dream, Boris has to fulfill an errand - to deliver two telegrams.
