Vladimir Dorofeyev

His right hand having been wounded during the war, concert pianist Andrei Balashov is unable to perform his art. As a result, the young man feels so depressed that he considers his life wasted. One day, he decides to leave the capital and flee from the woman he loves, Natasha, a rising singing star. Andrei takes refuge in Siberia, his native land. Once there, he gets a job in a sawmill, where he entertains his fellow-workers playing the accordion during leisure hours. Some time later, Natasha and her company are expected in America where they are to do a tour. But an airplane breakdown forces the pilot to land next to the village in which Andrei lives and works...

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.

The Maiden Spring choreographic ensemble goes on tour in the Volga cities. In love with the soloist of the ensemble Galina, the optician Volodya could not be among the passengers of the ship on which the artists sailed: on the occasion of the special flight, tickets for the ship were not sold. And then Volodya gets a job as an assistant cook in the galley (the only vacant place on the ship). A lot of adventures have befallen the new nutrition worker. The galley’s female team received him with pleasure, and the beautiful Nastya even fell in love with the young man a little, causing Gali’s jealousy ...

This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during the Second World War.

An elderly woman reproaches her husband for his carefree attitude. In truth, she is worried about their children, who have moved to the city and no longer write. The husband does not deny her accusations. In fact, he is willing to do whatever it takes to make her happy.

Young Leningraders, yesterday’s schoolchildren, are entering adulthood. Sonya is in love with Styopa, but he loves Tanya, and Tanya prefers Fedya. Rejected, Styopa leaves for a distant Siberian city and starts working at the factory, studying at the evening institute. Sonya leaves after him and gets a job at the same factory. Tanya and Fedya, having married, go to college, and the young husband has to earn some money as a driver to support his family. The selfish nature of Tanya refuses to put up with the modest position in which the newlyweds are forced to be, and she starts an affair with an elderly composer...

In the steppes of the Kuban love is born on two collective farms while wheat is (enthusiastically) gathered. Galina, the energetic chairwoman of one of the two kolkhozes, vies with her male counterpart for the best harvest. At the same time Gordey, her rival, a former soldier, is (and has been for ages) in love with her. On her part, Dasha a collective farm worker, has heartbeat for a young technician of the competing kolkhoz...

Based on the story "The Chicken God" by Y. Zbanatsky. Six-year-old Sergei from the Yantarny kindergarten finds a magical stone – "the chicken god." When he looks through a hole in the stone, the world becomes magical and beautiful. With this treasure, Seryozha sets off on a journey, meeting all kinds of people, until his teachers find him.

About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the interests of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Hašek enters the Red Army and, as a commissar of the international brigade, goes the military way from Samara to Irkutsk.

The film was set in Russia during World War II and is about a 5 year old girl searching for her partisan leader father while escaping from the Nazis. Nazis, trying to catch 5 years old girl to make her their hostage, because her father is the Soviet partisan commander, and young boy trying to save her. For some time, when little baby was lost in the forest alone or when Nazis finally caught two children your hope is almost broken.

The movie is based on the the same name novel of the Nobel Prize In Literature Winner Mikhail Sholokhov. The action is taken place in 20-30-s years of the XX century in the Russian countryside going through an uneasy process of collectivization.

In northward far camp NKVD arrives echelon with the group of prisoners. Among them there are an engineer Sadovskiy and inveterate criminal Kostya, that quickly becomes the ringleader of barrack and forbids to all the appearances at work. The officials of cheka begin a persistent and tactful fight for the change of these people.

1910 year. Mexican patriots are preparing an uprising against the dictatorship of Diaz. Young Felipe Rivera joins the revolutionary junta, whose father and mother were shot by dictators. The hour of rebellion is near, but the heroes lack weapons. To get the necessary amount of money, Rivera decides to perform in the ring against Ward, America’s strongest boxer...

On the evening of May 9, 1945, when Moscow is noisily and cheerfully celebrating the Victory Day, a young girl agronomist Zina Sokolova and a sailor officer Lavrentyev meet in the compartment of the Moscow-Vladivostok train. The sailor takes the lively, direct character of the girl for windiness and frivolity. Sokolova also reacted frowningly and mockingly to the satellite. To get to know each other better, travelers are helped by nuisance: they are behind the train, and the rest of the way they are together, getting to know people and the life of the country along the way.

A tale based on a classic novel by Alexander Pushkin.

A boy breeds horses on the plains between Belarus and the Caucasus. When the German invasion comes he joins the partisans as a horseman.

Historical film about the invasion of the Poles in the Moscow Empire (1611), the creation of Minin and Pozharsky people's militia. The beginning of the XVII century. Already the sixth year the Muscovite land under the yoke of intervention. In the fall of 1610 Polish pans in deceitfully seized the Kremlin and tried to break through to the north. Everywhere rebellions broke out, but well-armed interventionists smashed the scattered peasant detachments. The liberation movement was led by Nizhny Novgorod merchant Kuzma and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.

The secretary of the district committee Borzov, trying to fulfill the plan, does not care about the rise of the entire economy. The second secretary of the district committee Martynov does not agree with his methods of work...

Young projectionist Mikhail Anokhin, while preparing for the elections, becomes an agitator of his microdistrict, makes friends and enemies, and helps those who need help.

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov. About how collectivization was carried out on the Don in sharp contradictions, difficult and tense.

A spy game between Reds and Whites is in full motion during Russian Civil War.

Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Russia and Austria against Napoleon.

Roma boy and his bear find themselves at the heart of Civil War. Being fearless and smart, they choose to side with the Red Army.

About Trofimov, a well-known rider who goes on taking part in races in spite of the advanced age, until he realizes his time has gone and passes his experience on to his granddaughter’s fiance

The story of a young woman who, after her years at university in the city, returns to her hometown an engineer and begins work on a huge new power plant. She continues to supervise work on the plant throughout the war.

The film consists of three short stories: “King of the Mountains” - about a giant bear; “Loyalty” is a touching love story between two storks; “The Loop” is about a proud deer.

A drama about a high school conflict based on the novel by Liya Geraskina.

A feature film that depicts scenes from the census of Imperial Russia in 1882 and the upcoming census of the Soviet Union as of January 17, 1939. The census takers interview citizens, fill out census forms in the homes of urban residents, collective farmers, and among the guests of the "Moscow" hotel.

Young railroad worker, seemingly accommodating to Nazi overlords at a captured rural depot, secretly spearheads acts of sabotage against the evil occupying forces.

Grishka Hamuraru, the grandson of the underground fighter Samson Hamuraru, who is still unjustly considered a traitor in the Moldovan village of Vioreni for having led a partisan group to ruin during the war, decides to conduct his own investigation and restore his grandfather's good name.

Don Cossack Stepan Razin vowed to take revenge on the boyars for his tortured friends. Having led the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of an entire army. Humiliated and insulted people flock to him from all over the Russian land.

An intimate drama set in a remote railway station that grows into a tragedy of the whole generation and epoch, based on a Gorki story.

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 friendship made at the international pioneer camp in Artek is sealed by the gift of a live bear cub... Educators feared that the film might inspire young viewers to unscripted acts, but even the children didn't take this much-imagined story seriously...

Two young people from the country arrive to Leningrad hoping to get into university. She succeeds, and he fails but stays in the city to try again in the next year. She helps him but starts having troubles with her own studies...

Communist Anna Dronova, a participant in the civil war, returns to her native village. Having become the chairman of the village council, Anna rallies the poor around her and fiercely fights with the kulaks for a new life. Meanwhile, a gang of Pantelei Lychkov successfully operates in the vicinity. By killing his own brother Yakov, who took Anna's side, he makes it clear to everyone and especially Anna that nothing wouldn't stop him.

Far up north, in one of the nature reserves, a group of kids finds a moose calf whose mother has been mauled by a bear, and they help little Ryzhik survive. Time goes by. The leader of the moose herd is killed by a poacher, and Ryzhik takes his place. About the grandeur and beauty of nature, and the difficult and selfless work of the nature reserve staff.

Three friends, three young surgeons, returning from war, begin working on a complex medical problem. Their hard work does not yield the desired results, and two of them lose faith in success...

A girl from a small village goes to the big city to realize her dream of driving trains.

The best foremen of the two competing collective farms, Olga Stepanova and Maxim Orlov, have long been in love with each other. But between the bride and groom there is a quarrel on the industrial soil, and everything goes to the gap.

A story about first love...