Gennady Sayfulin

Based on the stories of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.

The basis of the picture is not only the storylines of the heroes, but also the principle of continuous action of actors with the audience. Each of the five different short stories leads to the fact that for the decision: to maintain relationships or destroy them? This choice has to be made by the viewer himself.

The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.

At the heart of the story is a rural schoolteacher who, in 1944, leaves his native Bessarabia as the Red Army advances with heavy fighting. The gentle, cultured Sebastian Radu has every reason to avoid meeting the so-called liberators. And not just because one of the new regime’s first measures will be a background check, and Radu will have to write “noble” in the “social origin” field. The point is, our protagonist already has some experience dealing with representatives of the “new world.”

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.

A young student Masha and doctor Zhenya found each other in the city. But their way to love was not so easy...

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.

Шестнадцатилетняя Люська сбегает из дома, где отчим не дает ей прохода, и знакомится с карточным шулером по фамилии Бристоль. Друзья ласково называют, уже далеко немолодого Константина, Котей. И вот старик и почти еще ребенок сдружились и вместе начинают опасную авантюру.

Having lost her parents during the war, Galya was brought up in an orphanage. When the grandfather was rehabilitated, they began to live together. Galya often called Alyosha to repair the phone. After walking around Moscow at night, they realized that they loved each other. Once, after another call, Aleksei was slandered. The boss, not wanting to delve into the essence of the client's complaint, invited Aleksei to apologize. The guy refused — and he was fired from his job. Friends helped him find another job, but he could not convince Galya that he was right. The girl reproached him for cowardice — and the heroes quarrelled...

The film depicts the events of 1964 when Nikita Khrushchyov was forcibly replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as a head of USSR.

An action-packed film about the role of Mikhail Frunze in the liquidation of Father Makhno’s gangs in Ukraine.

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

A story about a relations between two friends who compete both in life and on the fencing track.

Because of the shepherd's negligence, a herd of cows almost died. Many people immediately took advantage of this circumstance to settle personal scores with the collective farm chairman Birulin, a very stroppy and harsh but knowledgeable leader. The bureau of the district committee, where not everyone was happy with him, recommends the collective farm board to remove the chairman. However, the collective farmers do not agree with this decision. The new secretary of the district committee comes to the collective farm and is convinced that the bureau has made a mistake. But the decision to reconsider the case is delayed: Birulin is hospitalized with a heart attack.

The tragic story of the life of revolutionary and romantic Nikolai Bukharin and his failed attempt to refute the charges against him. In parallel with the trial of Nikolai Bukharin, the whole life of this amazing man, who was ready to die for his ideals, flies before us.

About the feat of the young Red Army soldier Pyotr Trofimov, who, on a mission, delivers a package with a report to the headquarters of the Budyonny army.

The characters remember their youth, which took place during the Civil War. The events of those years had a decisive impact on their lives - Kolobov became a career officer, and Svedomsky became a famous pianist.

Dina is 32 years old. She is a brilliant surgeon, works in a maternity hospital, and lives alone with her sister Marga. Once in the hospital, a woman refused a child. Dina adopted a baby, and unexpected troubles changed the lives of both sisters. Meanwhile, the conscientious Marga, secretly from Dina, began to look for Seryozha's father — what if they rushed to adopt, because the father knows nothing about his son. And soon Dmitry Savich began to visit their house often. He had actually met Seryozha's mother once and was now ready to take an active part in raising his son.

Struggling with financial loss, a poet receives a shagreen leather from an antiquities shop, fulfilling his wishes

Once a famous singer Valentin Ozernikov, returning from another tour, thinks about his fast flowing life and tried to formulate his criteria for figs further existence.

A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.

In the years following the end of WWII, test pilots and designers risk their lives to master new jet technologies.

In the summer of 1942, the Soviet army is fighting the Germans on the Don River. Young lieutenant Ogarkov gets lost in the steppe and fails to deliver a redeployment order. For that, he is sentenced to death. Now, another soldier has to lead him across the steppes to his death.

A film-play based on the works of Arkady Gaidar, depicting the heroic struggle of cadets from the Ninth Command Courses of the Red Army against the Petliurists.

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.

A story about last three days of the PE-2 soviet diving bomber crew - the three young men about 20: a former school teacher, musician and artist. Set during WWII.

1941 year. The Siberian carpenter Kuzma Kroykov arrived in Moscow as part of a rifle company. In a line of fighters, he walked through the streets of Moscow at night and in a village near Moscow met Varvara Oknova. Resolute, tall and beautiful, she won his heart. But soon the protracted terrible battles for Moscow began...

The family history (1917-1941) of a hereditary steelworker who began his career before the revolution at the factory of the German industrialist Heitel.

Fall, 1921. Wrangel's army, defeated in Crimea after a short stay in Turkey, found refuge in Bulgaria. White Guard Colonel lives here with his son and daughter, while his wife and youngest daughter were sheltered by the family of the Bolshevik, who've been sent to Bulgaria for propaganda work among Russian soldiers.

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...

Follows the love between journalist Anna Knyazeva and Nikolai Malyshev, a surgeon at one of the city hospitals.

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In the port of Danzig, the military transport Tyrol is preparing to leave, on board which are selected SS units and seventy naval crews. The commander of the Soviet submarine "S-31", which received serious damage, receives the task of detecting and attacking enemy transport...

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Machine tool fitter Ivan Mityushkin arrives to work in a small taiga village. After traveling through several cities and seeing a lot, the young man decides to drop anchor in a quiet harbor and live a quiet family life. Ivan falls in love with a young widow, Tatyana, and wants to marry her. Mityushkin manages to win over his beloved's six-year-old son and even befriends the boy. However, the woman is uncooperative. The fact is that Tatyana cannot forget her deceased husband, whom she loved dearly.

Mid 20th century. Industry is developing rapidly and the need for workers in factories is growing. After graduating from the tenth year, Viktor Chernyshyov, now a city dweller, did not bother to continue his education and went to the plant as a turner. He considered it quite normal that the guys enthusiastically listened to the stories of his peer Kolya, a lounger who boasted of victories over women, and participated in his dubious amusements. Only one of them, Pyotr — a real worker, a doctor, tried to reason with Kolya and the others.

The film reproduces the events of the summer of 1921, when Kotovsky, at the head of a separate cavalry brigade, completed the defeat of the Antonov counterrevolutionary rebellion in the Tambov region, destroying Matyukhin's gang.

Three heavily drunk friends break into the Zoo and kill a few deer...

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

Klava Ivanova and Pyotr Spirin work in the same railroad depot. They have a strange relationship. Clava, who tenderly and devotedly loves the frivolous Pyotr, one day decides to break up with him.

A school boy finds a fallen pilot in the forest during the fire started by enemies.

In June of 1941, at the outset of the Nazi invasion of Russia, a group of Soviet servicemen languidly biding their time at the Brest fortress on the Polish border, are suddenly galvanized into action. All desires to return home to their wives and sweethearts are swept aside as the courageous garrison unites to thwart a common enemy.

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Writer Pavel Snegirev comes to the village where during the war there was an orphanage where he spent his childhood, and meets his old friend Klim Avilov. The collective farm foreman does not understand and does not accept the writer, who did not keep his promised word and did not return after the army, thereby betraying both their friendship and the love of Anichka, who had been waiting for Pavel all this time. Their meeting is the last in their lives.

Sailor Andrew, going on vacation, witnesses the fraud of young people extorting money at train stations. He is attracted by the heroine of the "scam" - Svetlana. Andrew sympathizes with the girl, trying to help her break out of the vicious circle ... But it turns out that this is just a specially directed action, invented by an avant-garde director to revive "dying" theatrical forms. However, life turned out to be more inventive than any theater. No one could even guess how this "performance" would end...

A former army officer is trying to find crime in his home town.

About the everyday work of the rural Komsomol district committee.