Yevgeni Kashkevich

La película de 1968 muestra a Fedor Karamazov como un viejo tacaño, cuyos tres hijos persiguen su dinero. Los hermanos Karamazov, Dmitri, un jugador, Ivan, un pensador, y Aleksei, un monje, están viviendo sus diferentes problemas. Ivan está tratando de salvar al mundo haciendo una historia de "El gran inquisidor". Dmitri, quien perdió dinero en el juego, le ruega a su padre que lo ayude. Pero el padre le da mucho dinero a su amante Grushenka.

Khoma, un estudiante en un monasterio en Kiev, se pierde en el bosque mientras viaja a casa al final del trimestre con dos compañeros seminaristas. Al caer la noche encuentran alojamiento en la casa de una anciana. Khoma se mete en el establo y se acuesta a dormir, pero su descanso se ve perturbado por la anciana, que a la primera oportunidad, salta sobre su espalda y las dos salen volando con una escobapor el cielo nocturno. Al darse cuenta de que ha sido atrapado por una bruja, Khoma lucha por liberarse y golpea a la anciana en el suelo con un palo. Ante sus ojos, la bruja moribunda se transforma en una hermosa joven y Khoma huye de la escena. De regreso al monasterio, una delegación llega exigiendo que Khoma los acompañe de vuelta a su aldea para rezar por el cadáver de una joven durante tres noches. Al llegar a la aldea, el estudiante pronto descubre que debe pasar las noches encerrado solo en la iglesia con el cuerpo de la bruja que había dejado por muerta...

A group of Soviet counterintelligence officers manage to neutralize spies sent to the territory of the country to obtain secret information about the construction of a large military-industrial complex in Priozersk.

En el año 1923, un joven maestro es enviado por los bolcheviques en el poder para que enseñe en un pequeño pueblo. La gente le recibe con indiferencia, excepto una joven que se siente conmovida con sus enseñanzas. Film considerado como uno de los símbolos de la renovación del cine soviético.

In the wealthy noble family of Popelsky, the only son Petrik is blind from birth. His mother Anna Mikhailovna, infinitely loving and pitying the boy, educates him as a rare fragile flower. And only Uncle Maxim, who fought under the banner of Garibaldi in his youth, is trying to accustom the boy to independence. The boy begins to recognize the world by touch, and one day his fingers find the keys of a piano. But, still not knowing the price of his talent, he leaves with the tramps "to seek the truth." And now only love can reconcile him with the world of the sighted.

The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thunderstorm and makes an emergency landing in the Baikal region. In addition to the Soviet citizen Varvara Komarova, all other passengers are foreigners. Using a stop, they explore new cities and get acquainted with the life, work and rest of Soviet people.

The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.

The propaganda documentary about the readiness of the Red Army to repulse any enemy is based on documentary shots taken during the real maneuvers of the Red Army. Armadas of tanks, immense columns of infantry, dozens of fighters and bombers, thousands of cavalry, legendary divisions of the Civil War. The film glorifies Soviet military power and shows the Soviet people what the war will be like when the imperialists attack the USSR — quick, victorious, almost bloodless.

Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.