Yuri Medvedev

A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.

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Vyacheslav Tikhonov's roles are discussed by his colleagues.

The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East. The Russian military command suspects hostile intent from Germany and so arranges for its spies to infiltrate ranks of the German military and the SS. Alexander Belov is a Russian spy, who travels from Soviet-held Latvia to Nazi Germany under an alias of Johann Weiss. His mastery of the German language, steel nerves and an ability to manipulate others help him to use his connections in the SS to ascend the ladder of the German intelligence. He uses his position to identify sympathetic Germans, who help him to procure vital intelligence, and to help local resistance movements in their collective fight against Nazism.

Mr. Johnny First goes to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph, and the lives of everyone in the frontier town of Santa Carolina change as a result of this.

On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair.

Former fighter pilot turned provincial schoolmistress Nadezhda Petrovna struggles to adapt to peacetime, having internalised military ideals of service and obedience.

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

Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become his own man. He takes his fathers order and goes trough the woods to deliver the furs to the byer in the nearest town. He tries to take the shorter way and get`s lost. At the highest point of this, his fathers servant, Abdulla, who is sent with him to guard him almost shoots him driven by hunger, but comes to the senses and saves his life by continuing to go on.

Several children go on a lifelong space mission to Cassiopeia because they don't want to go to school.

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.

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People living at a seashore town are frightened by reports of an unknown creature called "the sea devil". Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiander can live under water. This gives him certain advantages, but also creates a lot of problems.

A military detachment arrived in the village to the landowner Shpak and the young officer fell in love with the owner's daughter. Sly soldier Shelmenko helps lovers get married.

Ten years old Alik is invited to star in a movie as a young partisan but almost loses the opportunity.

The port town of one of the small southern countries. After the Nazi occupiers left, the port's berths were empty, the steamers did not smoke, cargo cranes stood. Fearing retaliation for collaborating with enemies, port owner Georg Stan fled the city. After waiting a while and securing the support of local authorities, Stan nonetheless returns - and loading operations begin in the port. While loading oranges, the sailor Yango and the beautiful Stella are preparing for the wedding. Suddenly, Stan makes a proposal to the girl and tricks her into agreeing. Upon learning of the deception, the girl runs away to Yango. Having discovered weapons intended to support fascism in the drawer of the hold, the heroes do everything possible to make the boxes fall to the bottom of the sea.

The action takes place in the early 1950s. The endless meetings of the rural district party committee occupy almost all of the simple collective farmers' time, preventing them from working and solving their everyday problems...

A satirical fairy tale about an old tsar Dadon and a golden cockerel who guarded the borders of his kingdom.

Artak has served his military service in the Russian countryside where he meets Valya. But Valya's mother refuses to send her only daughter to “these far highlands, where earthquakes happen all the time”. Artak is forced to ask his contrasting and numerous relatives –Armenian villagers– to visit a remote Russian village to bring a bride to Armenia.

A young painter Sasha is dreaming to become an actress...

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Going to vacation at his grandmother’s in a village, the boy Mitya could never imagine that he would become a participant of the extraordinary adventures in a fairy-tale land.

A parody of lawlessness and organized crime, terrorism and murder, violence and sexual assault, adventurous ups and downs.

An animated film based on the fairy tale of the same name by Korney Chukovskiy about how a crocodile swallowed the sun, and it became dark and sad on Earth. But the bear overcame the crocodile and returned the sun to the sky.

Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...

A family movie about a life of Trubachyov's pioneers detachment during the years before WWII.

About rural projectionist Nikita Zudov, a passionate film lover who makes amateur films that expose and ridicule bureaucrats, parasites and bribe-takers.

Funny stories about four friends and their adventures in a big city.

A satirical express train sets off on its way. The driver S. Mikhalkov gives a farewell beep ... On the first carriage an inscription - "Summer cottage". The following are 8 short stories ...

A story of young serving in the Soviet Army boy and his adventures during WWII.

Claudia Ivanovna is concerned about her daughter's future and the development of her career as a scientist. In accordance with her own ideas of happiness, she is trying to build a girl's personal life, unceremoniously destroying her relationship with her driver Sasha.

A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.

A family comedy about a funny adventures of the children in a summer camp during three summer sessions.

Tractor driver Matvey Morozov returns to his native village from the prison. And he recalls the story of his marriage, his fatal love, failed betrayal and committed reckless “crime”, in which he doesn't repent at all.

Military doctor Vladimir Ustimenko is a man of duty and honor, committed to the cause he serves, and one single love that he carries through his whole life: Varvara Stepanova is a whimsical girl who dreamed of becoming a great actress but eventually became a geologist. The war will cruelly interfere in the fate of the heroes and confuse their relationship even more.

Eugene returned from the army, and his friend Kostya Sila — from the penal colony. Having met, heroes decided to leave the city: one didn't wait for the beloved girl, another doesn't want to see sympathetic views of former acquaintances. But the meeting with the police major — a talented teacher — changed their intent. All summer heroes devoted to wrest from the influence of the bully the group of boys.

Based on the play of the same name by I. Turgenev, in the production of the Moscow Theatre named after M.N. Ermolova.

A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is.

A crafty swindler, appointed to be a coach of an amateur sports team, came up with a cheat plan for victory - secretly recruit a number of professional players to his team.

Schoolboy Vasya and his little sister Klasha live on the shore of a picturesque lake, in which trout are bred. With the help of their friends, the dogs of the Quiver and the horse Strelka, the guys detain the poachers.

District inspector Pavel Khrapuntsov is “monitoring” a sect with a mystical bent in his neighborhood. The signals received by the police describe the actions of a certain Clementine, who knows how to turn people into animals and plants... A convinced materialist, Khrapuntsov does not immediately understand the complex world of Clementine and her friends.

The November Revolution of 1918 in Germany, famine and social upheaval evoke a response from the young Soviet government in Russia. To provide food assistance, trains with bread are being formed. One of them, on the personal instructions of V.I. Lenin is accompanied by the young revolutionary Tatyana . On the way, she meets a former German prisoner of war, Kurt . A romantic relationship arises between them. The train with bread, despite all the difficulties, was delivered. In a clash with a detachment of counter-revolutionary German troops, Tatyana was wounded. She returns to Moscow, and Kurt goes to Berlin to continue the revolutionary struggle.

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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.

Based on Mayakovsky's twentieth-century morality play, in which workers receive the awards of the blessed, and monarchs and capitalist politicians are consigned to eternal damnation.

Ivan Sergeevich Kashkin — the bath attendant of the most prestigious metropolitan bath. It’s not easy to get to him: reputable diplomats, well-known footballers, and the heads of the ministry are seeking the honor to steam. But Kashkin himself does not need to achieve anything, everything is at his service — from black caviar to tickets to the conservatory. And the hero’s cloudless life would have flowed, but then his twin brother Sergei fell ill and asked Ivan to replace him in his equally strange work.

A biographical film about the famous Russian pilot Sergei Utochkin, about the first conquerors of the sky who paved the way for Russian aviation.

Brief imaginary period in the famed Russian writer's life that encapsulates one of his darker moments in 1866. At that time he was still a relatively unknown writer whose first widely acclaimed work, Crime and Punishment, was just on the horizon. His life was at a very low ebb as he struggled with debts he could not pay, and as he fought depression over the loss of his wife to tuberculosis, and the death of his brother, who was very close to him. His first literary journal had to be scrapped because of political reasons, and the second venture needed funding.

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In order to carry out subversive work, the Chekist remains in a city occupied by whites. To do this, he moves into the doctor's apartment a singer, a graduate of the conservatory, who was joyfully welcomed by the doctor's family, and then, after the arrival of the whites, introduces himself as the husband of this singer, a businessman Couturier.

A graduate of a technical university starts working in the supply department of a large factory. Enthusiastic, the hero doesn't get bored; instead, he successfully implements the latest advancements in electronic computing technology into the factory's operations.

Drama about the period of F. Dzerzhinsky's activity in 1902-1905, when he, having escaped from the Viluysk prison, lived in Poland.

According to the play of the same name of A. N. Ostrovsky. The merchants already possess the big equities. Money "runs the show". The world of feelings and hearts is degraded.

Alexei hadn’t seen his father since he divorced his mother. Before enrolling in the literary institute, the son decided to visit his father—and regretted the time he’d lost. At the time, his father flatly refused to understand him. Disheartened, Alexei left and didn’t enroll in the institute until his fourth year. Before starting his studies, the son came to visit his father again...

A test mechanic at a tractor plant resolutely opposes defectors and fulfilling the plan at any cost.

The farm's chairman took the late secretary's teenage son into his house.

The main character is a talented, but timid writer of the Filippok experiencing with his country the difficult years of revolution, devastation and war. Adversity helps him overcome the unrequited and faithful love for the widow of Commissioner Zinochka, who bossily manages his career, not hesitating to start novels with other men. Filippok will describe the story of his life in a book that at the end of days will be presented by a terminally ill, but still dearly beloved wife, with gratitude for the experience.

Fourteen-year-old Vera Telegina sees the sea, which she had dreamed of since childhood. She is here only because her parents were repressed and she is left alone. The police chief Stavridi, having learned about the girl's misfortune, places her in a boarding school. Vera has to go through a lot. But with the concernment of new friends and sympathy of adults Vera survives until the spring of 1953, when the long-awaited telegram from her parents arrives.

The story about the wild creatures of the wild forest and one impudent Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

An old man suddenly realizes that both his daughters aren't happy so he decides to help them to find happiness.

Young engineer Pavel Kaurov goes to his first destination — to the port city of Sibirsk. He is appointed to lead a group of cranes: gantry and floating. After several troubles Pavel mastered the port work and received a serious assignment. Meanwhile, his fiancee Nina, an architect by profession, is arriving in Siberia. However, besides Pavel, fellow students came to the station to meet her — Petunin's brother and sister, in whose house she is staying. Soon Annushka, who has long loved Pavel, arrives. From that day on, he had trouble after trouble. After a crane accident, which happened through his fault, the hero pulls himself together and does everything to regain the confidence of the brigade...

About the friendship of a boy Taborka with a dog named Vulcan and their adventures. The boy lives in Brest and his friends play the war in the Brest Citadel, where the echoes of World War II are alive...

A film-play based on three stories by Australian writers John Morrison and F. Hardy.

A young graduate of a Musical teacher's training school, having got an allocation to one of the collective farms of Nonblack Soil Zone, she goes there with one desire return to city as soon as possible and continue her career of pop singer. Villagers are rejoiced by arrival of a new club head, and do all their best to make her stay: give good lodging, telephone, color TV-set, and even accordion. And the farms head (B.Nevzorov) is not intended to let her go before the set date, moreover, he falls in love with her. A skeptical modern city girl, mixing with villagers and step-by-step delving into their routine life and chores, gets filled with local beauties and engulfing feeling towards a young farms head, starts hesitating.

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The Prince, suffering from melancholy, embarks on a dangerous and fascinating journey in search of three oranges. In one of the oranges, he finds his beloved Adelita and is cured of the blues forever.

A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life.

Biographical film story about the first Russian space explorer, inventor scientist, rocket-maker K. E. Tsiolkovsky.

In the village club of Ershovka, a trial is underway against Yakov Vorobyov, who is accused of intentionally setting fire to the forest. Gradually, the trial turns into a public gathering, where the villagers openly discuss the rampant alcoholism that plagues their community.

Based on the story of Galina Galakhova "The Singing Reed".

The sensual, aging artist Modest, seeking to test the strength of his feelings, kills Natalya Polonskaya’s husband; the young revolutionary and Natalya’s lover takes his own life; Natalya herself, along with her sister, who is also her lover, flees to Italy…

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Two pairs of partridges, Brovkins and Podkovkins, hatch by twelve chicks. Podkovkins get acquainted with the lark, and both the Brovkins family are killed by a falcon. Podkovkin's wife, the Orange Neck, decides to adopt chicks as their own. In the autumn, she brings twenty-four chicks to a meeting of partridges, and she is chosen as the main chicken.

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A merry prankster and jester, Colas Breugnon loves life and knows how to enjoy it. Even when fate throws him a sour face, he finds a joke to lift his spirits.

A certain number of French fighter pilots who will not accept the Second Armistice at Compiègne nor Vichy's orders decide to join the USSR. Once they have reached Moscow they resume training and form a squadron they call "Normandie". Reinforced in 1944, the squadron wins many victories. Following the acts of valor displayed by its pilots during the Battle of the Nieman River, it becomes the "Normandie-Niemen" squadron for the rest of times...

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The Trubachyov's pioneers detachment is stuck in the occupied territories during WWII. The children are trying to fight the enemy...

A "fairy" who owns a toy store gives toys to good children who can pay for them on New Year's. The little boy Francesco really wants a train called "The Blue Arrow" but has no money, so the toys decide to step in. Based on "La freccia azzurra" by Italian writer Gianni Rodari.

In a bustling location, Vukol Ermolayevich Bessudny set up his inn: by day, a hospitable host, by night – a robber and thief. He welcomes wealthy merchants, drugs them with a sleep potion, and robs them on the forest road. Meanwhile, his wife, Yevgeniya Mironovna, waits for her lover, the handsome landowner Milovidov, whenever Vukol goes off on his nightly raids. Vukol's sister, Annushka, is also in love with the young nobleman. The dense forests, harsh customs, merchant bravado, and jealous women… Trouble is brewing!

Andrey Yarchuk, the foreman of the collective farm construction team, leaves for the city after Marinka, who was sent by the collective farm to study at an agricultural institute. After learning that the villagers are mocking Andrei, Marinka is transferred to the correspondence department and returns to the village. However, pride does not allow Andrey to return. Lovers will have to go through many adventures before they meet in their native Kohanovka.

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The eternal “housing question” in Russia is taken on by Serafimov, a young and principled city council deputy, who is determined to help his constituents. In the end, he manages not only to secure a new building for the veterans of the brick factory—made from the very bricks they once produced—but also to have them all housed under one roof, so they wouldn’t feel the pain of separation after leaving their crowded communal apartments.

A small town in southern Germany. A party of students, mountain scenery and Asya - a wild, flighty strange girl who frightened N. N., the hero of the movie, with the strength of her love.

It's a story about two of the most famous russian personages. They become friends, and then go along on the path of glory in parallel.

In a small trust Gortopsantekhochochistvod are preparing for the New Year. Everyone has a lot of worries. The accountant Ivy with his bureaucratic seriousness prepares a toast corresponding to the solemn moment. But in the pre-holiday hustle and bustle, everyone forgot about the customer who came to receive the equipment. On New Year's Eve, he found himself locked in the basement of the warehouse.

Best friends and mischievous third-graders Vasya Petrov and Petya Vasechkin, despite their differences, share a love for adventures. Romantic Vasya falls for his serious, excellent classmate Masha and writes her an anonymous love note. However, the quick-witted Masha identifies Vasya due to his errors and rejects him harshly. Upset, Vasya confides in Petya, who then devises a cunning plan to win Masha over.

Four swindlers - Kamol-aka, Gafur, Gafar, and Murodi - set up a marriage bureau at a photo studio. The first grooms appear, and soon a well-known horseman, Saidbek, becomes a client of the bureau. He wants to marry Malika, but she rejects him. The swindlers kidnap the girl.

For the first time in his married life, People's Artist Ostapchuk had the opportunity to spend a vacation with his beloved wife, a film actress, in Crimea. But his wife was "kidnapped" on the doorstep of their home by a brazen film director. And instead of Crimea, Ostapchuk ended up in his native village of Lebedyanka, but without his wife...

One of the neighbors, Viktor Efimovich Rachkov, was repeatedly visited by the devil. He went to the police, but they asked for a description of the offender. Well, what kind of description can you give for the devil? So, he had to move out of his apartment, and in his place settled his mysterious nephew – a soloist of a gypsy ensemble. And where there's one gypsy, there are others. But let’s not reveal the whole intrigue...

A small railway station in the Kuban is captured, but the wounded commissar Sabbutin miraculously manages to escape.

A father takes he six years old son to the nature in order to make him a real man.

Having very skillfully organized the food production of "worse quality, but more quantity", the Tonap share partnership began to gain power. Khristoforov, the underground organization's head, is concerned about the spoiled products' sale, and he developed an operation to get closer to the city industrial council: asked for a meeting, and by Monday he ordered Stryapkov to find a gift. However, an incident occurred: the crown from the gold watch of Evlampius Kokin, a master of the sausage shop, was found in the sausage. Kokin, who had long been tormented by fear, without consulting with the leadership, came to the police himself.

An aging train engineer, Nikolai Yegorovich, retires and decides to revive the railway brass band that once existed in his youth. He sets out to convince its former members to return, but not everyone shares his enthusiasm or understands his vision.

Based on the short story of the same name by Yuri Sotnik. The first-grader Lyosha, when he was left home alone, decided to spend this first independent day of his life calmly and sensibly. But the neighborhood kids disrupted Leshya's plans. They used his apartment to rehearse an amateur performance.

A play about newlyweds and their friends, and how important it is not to lose old feelings in everyday life.

Five best friends have only one problem to deal with: where to get something to drink...

At the peak of the harvesting season, when there is a shortage of machinery and the new one needed adjustment, the chairman of the collective farm entrusts the combine harvesters to the Steppe Squadron of high school students. Only two of them run away from the hard work, the rest carry the labor watch under Sergey Lotarev till the very end with honor. Having learned that his favorite girl betrayed him and began to openly accept the advances of a visiting student, Lotarev decides to leave for the city, but suddenly a hurricane struck the village - and the hero rushes to the aid of his underaged brigade....

Teleplay by the Moscow Ermolova Theater based on A.N. Ostrovsky's play of the same name.

Based on the story by V.G. Korolenko “In a Bad Society.”

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Funny and entertaining story about the history of the film "Funny guys"by G. Alexandrov.

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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.