Leonid Bronevoy

As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II, mystic Grigori Rasputin holds great influence over the empire. However, many in St Petersburg begin to regard Rasputin, with his strange practices and mesmerizing qualities, as a liability and plot his assassination. When Rasputin, known to many as the 'Mad Monk', leads Nicholas to embrace an ill-conceived military strategy, a group of determined conspirators set down a plan to eliminate him.

Based on the stories of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.

A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy, yet very merriment, stories, views and behavior is what sets him apart from others. He becomes alienated from the society that failed to grasp his brilliance. In fact, his brilliance is what underlines the faults with the society itself. It's a beautiful yet tragic story that is filled with dense and intellectual dialogue.

Follows the service of Lieutenant Colonel Lubentsov as commandant of the German city of Lauterburg in the first days after the end of the Great Patriotic War.

Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Khobotov's new fiancé. All these people live in one apartment and their lives constantly touch each other's.

A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a buzz in high society with his "magic", he decides to ask the Count to bring the statue to life...

Based on the novel The Gambler by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.

A film about the chairwoman of the city executive committee, Maria Sergeyevna Poroshina, who sees her happiness in serving the people.

Lost comedy, something like a stylization of an old Russian musical.

Polish schoolboy Janek, and Russian girl Tanya are traveling by a plane which ended up in the hands of a gang of drug dealers headed by ex Nazi criminal Henrich Scharf.

A movie about very strange events which happened in the ordinary school after Vasya Lopotukhin got late to a math lesson because of his meeting with aliens.

Based on A. Chekhov's comedy.

Television version of the performance by the "Lenkom" Theatre. Based on the comedy by A.P. Chekhov.

District doctor Katya Luzina has recently graduated from medical school. Her first steps in the profession aren’t easy: at first, she faces patients’ skepticism about her youth, daily routine, and even deceit. But her determination and love for people help Katya become an excellent doctor. She is eventually invited to work at a clinic under a renowned professor.

The entire story unfolds during a wedding. The characters of the play, looking at the happy faces of the newlyweds, recall their own love and weddings. The action gradually unfolds on three levels, in three different time periods, covering the youth and lives of three generations, alongside which the author’s own life has passed.

Detectives B. Kolobok and M. Kolobok are investigating the missing striped elephant.

One day, the crocodile's scary teeth started to hurt. And no one could help him except for a little bird named Tari…

TV adaptation of Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel about Vera Pavlovna, a woman who escapes the control of her family and arranged marriage to seek economic independence.

A new production of Gogol by Lenkom. This is an absolutely incredible event and an endlessly funny and touching story about unsuccessful suitors and a young woman who has stayed too long in the role of a bride-to-be.

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.

Based on the eponymous play by I.S. Turgenev.

PhD holder Nevidimsky is obsessed with the idea of obtaining a doctoral degree. One day, a man named Shapkin shows up at his door, introducing himself as a former classmate, and asks Nevidimsky to read his manuscript. Nevidimsky decides to use the manuscript as the basis for his own doctoral dissertation.

Two cronies Tash and Nazar work as drivers on long-haul flights. They are young, and it seems to them that they have a whole life ahead of them, full of achievements and successes. But very soon each of them realizes that luck does not always make a person happy.

A television play based on A.N. Ostrovsky's play *"The Last Victim"*, filmed for the 180th anniversary of the playwright's birth. This play features the fateful passion of a young woman, an irresistible seducer, vast wealth, and a desire to destroy one's soul in debauchery.

The protagonist of the play is Vasily Vasilyevich Telkin, a surgeon in the clinical department of plastic and cosmetic surgery, who is preparing to celebrate his 60th birthday. However, an anonymous letter was sent from a higher authority to the institute, making absurd accusations against Telkin. Despite Vasily Vasilyevich being highly respected by everyone, his colleagues took this "signal" too seriously and, in doing so, caused an undeserved insult to their friend.

The story of the adventures of a young man – overly ambitious and cynical, who wanted to make a career but ended up failing.

Detectives B. Kolobok and M. Kolobok are pursuing the smuggler Karbofos, who has stolen a striped elephant from the zoo.

The young artist Burtsev goes to Paris about the inheritance left to him by his uncle, who left for France with the first wave of emigrants. There, he is expected by the hostility of some persons interested in the inheritance, and the open sympathies of others - the old man Yerikhonov and his daughter Asya, who fell in love with Burtsev.

The play is about the life of the Soviet intelligentsia in the 1930s. At the center of the performance is the talented surgeon Platon Krechet, a man whose every thought and effort is focused on prolonging human life.

The story of the relationship between King Henry VIII of England and Anne Boleyn.

The modest and indecisive Lebedev in his dreams sees himself as strong and courageous. Mentally, he stands up for an unfairly demoted colleague, but in reality does nothing to help him. Oleg has been following the girl he likes for a whole year and is unable to force himself to get to know her. It is becoming more and more difficult for two Lebedevs to get along in one person ...

The Italians, conquered by the Tatar singer's skill, offer him a contract. By the will of circumstances, Renat gets first to Yalta and only then on the yacht of a drug dealer to Italy. Here the hero finds himself in prison, meets an Italian beauty and is carried away in a hot air balloon...

Two crazy brothers-detectives from a weird provincial town are searching for a rare striped elephant stolen by a suspicious foreigner.

A ship with doubles sails from the pier on the Moscow River, heading with a show program to one of the provincial Russian cities. The murder of Thatcher's look-alike that happened on board is being investigated by police captain Zharov.

A prominent statesman orders the secret services to assassinate a certain banker who is planning to run for president. The perfect hitman must be extracted from the zone where he is serving time for murder and must remain silent. The guy has been serving 15 years for the accidental death of a drunken general during a hunting trip. He is also known by the nickname "The Mute." You couldn't come up with a better candidate. But the perfect hitman goes out of control.

A dying actor asks a doctor to help him commit suicide in return for a masterpiece.

Chicherin - Russian revolutionary, Soviet diplomat, first People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR and the USSR. Member of the USSR Central Executive Committee of 1-5 convocations, member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party. Musicologist, author of a book about Mozart. In memory of Chicherin.

A film about the different destinies of the sixties during the period of perestroika. The young sociologist sacrificed his scientific career for the underground development of his ideas, which became common during the era of “perestroika”. This is a film about the “children of Khrushchev’s thaw” who took a breath of freedom after the 20th Party Congress...

In a small provincial town, a famous actress comes on tour, who once fled from here from the shame of unhappy love. Many years ago, she was forced to leave her illegitimate son to raise strangers. Therefore, when a talented and reckless young actor appears on the way of a now rich and famous woman, she certainly wants to help him. The actress begins to take an active part in the fate of the young man.

Funny adventures of two friends in a summer camp.

Operation "Resident", which lasted 15 years, is coming to an end. But the indestructible agent of "Nadezhda" has one important mission left. Agent Carl Brockmann, who intends to steal the work of Academician Nikolai Nesterov in the defense sector, has been abandoned in the USSR. KGB leadership asks Mikhail Tulyev to return to the Soviet Union to find the spy. Meanwhile, Brockmann recruits former fascist collaborator Mikhail Kutepov for involvement in a dangerous operation.

Three murders are committed in a sanatorium under the poetic name "Cherry Orchard". But the police inspector does not have to break his head for a long time in search of killers - he knows almost everything: who, when and how were killed, the killers - the only thing left to figure out are the reasons...

America’s Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed here in pursuit of enrichment. Among them was Gabriel Conroy, a man absolutely helpless in the world of business. When fountains of oil started gushing on his plot of land, the local moneybags Peter Damphy decided to appropriate the land, and succeeded in it by blackmailing Conroy’s wife and his former mistress Julie...

About the hapless bridegroom Podkolesin, who escaped from the bride through the window, and the picky bride Agafya Tikhonovna, who can not choose the right one, Mark Zakharov saw the story of a man who wants to change something in his life, but is not capable of doing anything.

A musical and television performance film dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the children's film magazine Yeralash.

The mayor of a village sees her son killed in a gun accident. A successful, dedicated bureuacrat, she must reconcile her desire to build a bridge - and the new housing that will come with it - with the reality of resistance from the townspeople and her own grief.

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Episodes from the life of Molière with scenes from his play, revealing the tragic picture of the confrontation between the great playwright and the authorities.

Short animation of a Russian folk tale, made in 1981. A parody of the fable by Ivan Krylov "The Crow and the Fox".

The film shows the daily life of an architecture studio, where a young student comes to work on his dissertation.

Alexander Dunaev was the chief director of the Malaya Bronnaya Theater from 1967 to 1984.

After returning from the USSR, Tulyev was subjected to rigorous verification of his former "owners". He continues his work in Western intelligence, but already as a Soviet intelligence officer through the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. In a new capacity, he establishes the whereabouts of Hitler’s criminal Hoffmann, who was once sentenced to death, and helps the authorities arrest him. However, as a result of the conflict within NATO intelligence, Charlie Brighton, Hoffman's assistant, begins to hunt for him. At the same time, Tulyev manages to establish the identity of the murderer of his father, Karl Brockmann, with whom they crossed in the service of mercenaries somewhere in hot countries. He wants revenge, but, by an evil irony of fate, he must help prepare Brockmann for being cast as a spy in the Soviet Union.

Grigory Pechorin, a dashing Byronic figure, arrives in Pyatigorsk and gets entangled in a web of romantic ploys and deceptions. Based on "Princess Mary", the longest novella in Mikhail Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time".

This little-seen and little-discussed film combines animation with self-reflexive, live action segments to embody the anarchic, satiric spirit of the poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930). The film also showcases Sergei Yuktevich's fondness for formal experimentation. It is nominally adapted from Mayakovsky's play "The Bedbug" and his screenplay "Forget All About the Fireplace."

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...

An employee leaves the company, lured away by a “competing company”, but his boss doesn't want to let him go at all, not handing over the documents, instead of saying goodbye through the secretary, that he doesn’t want him to leave, and gives three months to say goodbye to them or not. Nevertheless, he leaves, while grossly violating party discipline. A new venture awaits him, there he will be a big boss, an “outsider.” They have high hopes for it, but they are in no hurry to immediately reveal all the features and hidden production problems.

The story of a couple chasing their dreams amid the challenges of life in the postwar Soviet Union. Based on Aleksei Arbuzov's play.

Vasily Gubanov, the son of the film “The Communist”’s hero, arrived in Moscow not on call or for a business trip. Instead, he came to raise the issue with government authorities about halting the construction of a chemical plant. Despite being the author of the project, which was in full swing, millions of state funds had been spent, and thousands of people’s lives were tied to its completion.