Mikhail Kononov

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

Svetlana, young pretty girl, works as a trolleybus driver in a small town and almost all her permanent passengers are at least a little bit in love with her.

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.

The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniya Godunova. She has married a Polish military leader who wants to claim the Russian throne in her name so he can rule all of Russia. As the Poles move in on Moscow in an attempt to install the czarina on the throne, Andrei, a serf with a life-long infatuation of the czarina attempts to save her from her brutal Polish husband.

In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. As more people learn about it, they head to Leningrad to find the lion where it is rumoured to be buried.

A love story between a country policeman and a recently separated from her husband woman with three kids.

Platon is travelling by train to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch where he meets Vera, a waitress. He refuses to pay for the food after which a series of unfortunate events unfold for the pair.

Life changes for a Moscow worker when he's made Stalin's personal film projectionist but cannot tell his bride.

6-grader Kolya Gerasimov discovers a time machine in a basement of an old house in Moscow and gets transferred into the 21st century. There he is allowed to look around. Accidentally, Kolya witnesses two space pirates who arrive from Saturn and later try to steal a device called a "Mielophone" (which can read thoughts) from Alisa Seleznyova - a girl that performs experiments with this device and animals. Kolya manages to save the device from the pirates and brings it back to the 20th century. But both pirates and Alisa get there too. Alisa knows where Kolya studies but doesn't know what he looks like. Pirates saw Kolya, but don't know anything about him. Written by Boris Shafir

In 1922, in a small town, the boys formed a pioneer squad and named it "Red Bees."

The film almanac of VGIK's graduates, consisting of films for children: "Otherwise We Are Lost," "Vanderbul Runs Over the Horizon," and "Are You Kidding?"

Two stories about the life of a young boxer Sasha and his friends in Leningrad during a first years after WWII.

War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.

A talented girl is trying to find happiness amidst the Russian revolution of 1917 and the civil war that split the nation.

The queen of a magic kingdom is trying to marry her two daughters...

A hunter, returning to the Taiga forest, finds a dying girl in his cabin. He stoically nurses her back to life, but the differences between them may be too great for them to remain together.

About the funny adventures of a snake, a muskrat, a fox and a badger.

A comic mystery about Vasia Kurolesov who is trying to become a detective.

1927. A retired Red Army commander Constantine Vorontsov is appointed a Criminal Investigation Department head in a principal city of province. An experienced repeater named Korney shows up in the city. Thanks to a successfully performed operation a place of a local thieves gathering place is now known. But Korney, foreboding of an ambush, changes the place at the last moment. Vorontsov doesnt have enough time to warn all his colleagues and heads for the thieves meeting by his own.

Very dreamy boy who is also a young poet, met a fairy who gave him the ability to do good in PE (specifically high jumping) with a condition that he will not say lies; once he commits a smallest lie, his abilities are gone...

Goodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. It's summer, and their main goals are swimming in the Black Sea and wooing the girl all three of them love. However, they are asked to become officers in the military, and slowly their worlds begin changing forever. Their parents oppose them, they begin fearing losing each other and their families, and the military tricks and maneuvers them into joining the army instead of the navy.

The fifth film in a Mosfilm "youth" anthology series comprising three short stories. The first story, 'Vizit' (The Visit), directed by filmmaker turned politician Yevgeni Gerasimov, tells the story of a rural boy visiting his former village girlfriend, now living in Moscow. Next comes a short film by Aleksandr Majorov called 'Zolotye rybki' (Goldfishes), which is based on a story of a magical goldfish brought from a provincial pet store by the late Russian historian and science-fiction and fantasy writer Kir Bulychyov. The final segment and the title of the film, 'Polosa vezeniya' (Streak of Luck), tells the story of a member of staff at a research institute who is offered the job of department head but has second thoughts when he discovers the previous boss was unfairly dismissed.

The protagonist of the film, engineer Barkasov, finds himself in ridiculous and anecdotal situations all day. He is a responsible worker, the head of a large institution and is completely exhausted from pressing urgent matters. On the advice of a doctor, his deputy bought two operetta tickets for his boss and ordered secretary Sofochka to accompany Barkasov at an evening performance...

1921. Three seemingly unrelated terrible events took place in a provincial Siberian town. But Chekist Kamchatov is convinced that there are links between the murders and, moreover, that in the last case, the suicide of a young security guard was, in his opinion, clearly staged...

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Teenagers whose company broke up after the absurd death of one of their friends are afraid to tell their parents about his death and want to bury their friend themselves.

A bride decides to check her fiancé feelings by staging the kidnapping of herself.

Young patriotic young man ends up in the on Chukotka right after the civil war, where he intends to spread ideas of justice and equality among the natives. As it happens, instead he learn the local capitalist ways, and he start profitable fur trading with US, Japanese and other merchants.

A family of a private stud-farm head takes cover from a Civil War in a forsaken estate in Urals steppe. Once an old family friend Victor, lieutenant of White Guard, shows up in the estate and claims that he wants to come out of action and live according to the laws of God. The old man marries his daughter and Victor, but that is the end of peace in this house, taking into account that the white Cossacks are getting nearer

For several years as a terrible sea monster drowns ships of the Navy. In a small number of ships that managed to survive, in the sides were found huge holes triangular shape. Now any exit to the sea is deadly, so America sends a special frigate called Blue Star. His goal is to find and destroy the terrible monster. One of the participants of the punitive expedition is a famous Professor from France – Pierre Aronnax. He has a deep knowledge of the mysteries of the deep sea. The search for the monster continues for more than three months, but in the end, the frigate still detects it and immediately starts the attack mode. After an unsuccessful battle with the monster ship goes to the bottom, and the Professor, his servant Conseil and whaler Ned Land get on a submarine and make an amazing journey under water.

Based on the play of the same name by I. Popov and L. Stepanov, staged by the State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR.

Assia lives in a small Russian village, populated by useless alcoholics. She sells eggs and alcohol to her neighbours, and everybody is happy. However, one day, her hen lays a golden egg, and Assia may have a golden opportunity.

The red-haired boy dreams of becoming a cabin boy, but for now he performs feats in his sleep.

A Baba Yaga's grand-daughter gets into the argument with the young son of Kashchey and decides to leave the magic forest.

Antarctic station "Vostok" threatens conservation due to lack of fuel. Volunteer squad is called to take fuel, but will soon begin "Polar autumn" in Antarctica. No one has walked this way, when the temperature drops below 71 degrees Celsius and freezes fuels.

The film was based on the story of the same name by A. Yakovlev about the most famous pioneer of the thirties of the last century, who was inscribed in the history of the pioneers under number 1.

A talented girl from the provincial Russian town Pasha Stroganova dreams of becoming an actress. She plays the role of Baba Yaga in the amateur theatre — and does it so organically that the visiting filmmaker offers her the most difficult role in the historical drama about Joan of Arc. She was given not only great acting talent, but the talent of deep, selfless love. A dream comes true: she is invited to the main role, and she begins a completely different life, full of real creative torment, insights and true happiness.

This fairy tale film is dedicated to the memory of the great film director Aleksandr Rou, the founder of the genre. Once upon a time there lived a brave and kind hero named Finist the Bright Falcon. He was famous for his strength, courage and a heart of gold. But one day the Russian land was attacked by an evil enemy, Kartaus, who turned our hero into a forest monster. This spell was cast on a condition that Finist might become a man again, should a beautiful girl, Alyonushka, fall in love with him while he was a beast.

A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.

Frosya Burlakova, a talented young woman from a remote Siberian village comes to Moscow with dreams of becoming a professional singer.

In 1993, Nikita Mikhalkov made a feature film “Remembering Chekhov”. After the footage was edited, he realized that the film went wrong. thus he made a difficult decision – not to show it to a wide audience. almost 30 years later, in his documentary “the film that went wrong”, the director tries to understand and analyze the reason for that failure. for the first time he will also show scenes from “remembering chekhov” to the audience.

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

A porcupine, a jerboa, and a turtle build a wooden ship in the desert.

Russian general have to find and bring back to St. Petersburg girl claiming her right to the throne...

A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.

"The Night Before Christmas" is a Russian puppet cartoon that was created by director Ekaterina Mikhailova at the studio "AnimaFilm" of the Moscow Children's Fund with the support of Goskino in 1997.

Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev is not that young of an actor. For many years he plays in the provincial theater in leading roles. The director of a play based on a play that was written for Goryaev takes the young actor for his role. Goryaev at first falls into despair, leaves the theater, turns to friends. After a while he digests what happened and realizes that it is time to leave the stage with dignity.

How the Jerboa gave the Porcupine a shell in which the sea roared.

A cartoon version of the voyage of the Argonauts (Greek Mythology) with the aim of getting the Gold Fleece.

Strangers on a train. Late in 1916, a brave and idealistic Russian officer in his 20s comes to his superiors' attention when he stands up to Rasputin at a nightclub. He's asked to carry important papers from Petersburg to Stockholm by train in the dead of winter, a dangerous mission. The first-class carriage may be full of spies, and soon after the train embarks, the man in the next compartment searches Obozow's luggage. A beautiful stranger approaches him, a woman older than he, on a concert tour; a game of cat and mouse ensues with patriotism and emotion sometimes on opposite sides. Can Obozow consummate the affair, reach Stockholm, and maintain his ideals?

Young prince meets a talking frog who turns out to be a beautiful but cursed princess. To remove the curse, he must go on a quest to find and outsmart the forest witch Baba Yaga.

Young guy Andrey tries to save the daughter of Sun from the evil wizard.

At the beginning of the First World War, Alexander Dragovich went to the front as a teenager. The October Revolution caught the hero in captivity in Russia. Like many of his countrymen, Alexander defected to the revolution. After becoming a chekist, Dragovich was sent to Turkestan. The film tells about the heroic struggle of a special purpose unit with gangs of Basmachi, spies of various stripes and saboteurs, about the adventures of the anarchist Kolya and the tragic love of Mushtari and Dragovich.

Two pairs of twins, once separated, find each other in the comedy finale. But before giving them the joy of this meeting, fate finally forces everyone to go through a series of adventures, sometimes funny, and sometimes dramatic ...

A group of "friends" are trying to solve a mysterious death of a factory director - and find the money he stole from them.

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...

Vasily and Vasilisa had seven children and the village respected the hardworking family. One day Vasily got drunk and laid a hand on his faithful wife. It was just before the war.

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The history of Rus' since inviting of the Varangians, led by Rurik, to converting of Princess Olga to Christianity.

Tsarevich Alexei was one of the smartest people in the state. His father Peter hoped that he would take his place, but Alexei tried with all his might to remain out of power and wished for ordinary human happiness.

In 1919, in Petrograd, a pilot Sevastyanov was asked to help in training flight personnel for the young Hungarian republic, together with a Hungarian journalist he makes a desperate, with many adventures, flight across the front to Hungary ...

Match factory repairman Parfen Loktionov is offered to become a shift foreman. The new position, on the one hand, is associated with increased responsibility, and on the other, with less earnings (the salary is “ten” less). The mother-in-law and wife insist that Parfen, usually submissive to them, refuse the offer made to him. But this time he rebels against domestic tyranny...

Fifteen years old Sasha is dreaming about adventures, falling in love and doesn't know that WWII is approaching...

The recidivist Vorobyov planned the robbery of the jewelry department of a department store, while he himself went to serve time in a penal colony to provide himself with an alibi. The accomplices hid a suitcase with gold jewelry worth more than 300,000 rubles (at that time). However, later it was not there, and the accomplices of the robbery began to die one by one.

This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. The events in it are developing in 20 years during the Civil war, when he sent a geologist searching for copper in the coal mines of the merchant Stasova, and in the 70s, when the head of the Institute. His thoughts and actions as if he reconciles his past, revolutionary romanticism 20-h his life's work was the discovery of a new chemical element. He believes in getting it even when the explosion in the laboratory takes the life of his closest friend and colleague, when his grown-up adopted son, becoming also a chemist, suffered during the experiments. Believe when testing on military ground again fail…

A story about the adventures of two teenage brothers helping ChK during twenties.

A young milkmaid Liza becomes an outcast of society in one of the Kuban collective farms. An honest and hardworking girl finds protection from the brave and sensitive party organizer Prokhor, who stood up for her.

A screen adaptation of the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

In one of the southern cities there is a gang of criminals preparing a coup to seize power. She is opposed by another group, which is also not averse to taking the city into its own hands. For the time being, the gang leaders act together, as they are interested in destabilizing the situation in the city.