Andrei Popov

It’s Christmas in the Ukrainian village of Dikanka and the blacksmith Wakula is unhappily in love with Oksana, daughter of a landowner. She only wants to marry him on the condition that he gets her the Tsarina's golden shoes. In desperation, Wakula turns to the devil to fly him to the capital and help him procure the shoes. Will this be enough to win the hand of Oksana?

Ardently falling in love with the daughter of a pawnbroker, dashing hussar could not imagine to what extent the future father-in-law is greedy. But the hussar was no fool and took the same old sensualist and hunks around your finger, producing money from him.

Caballero y empleado oficial, Ilya Ilych Oblómov (Oleg Tabakov) se ha convertido en un hombre abúlico y negligente, pasando los días en el sofá de su casa campestre, durmiendo y haciendo pereza, mientras su mayordomo Zakhar (Andrei Popov), se ocupa de todo lo que necesita mientras le reclama actividad. Será la llegada de su antiguo amigo, Andrei Stolz (Yuri Bagatyryov) y el conocer a Olga Ilyinskaya (Elena Solovei), lo que quizás de un vuelco a la vida de este aristócrata malogrado.

A story about Ivanushka the Fool based on classic Russian fairytales.

A TV movie inspired by Ivan Turgenev's Torrents of Spring.

Making another operation, Professor Krymov did not even guess what place this patient would occupy in his life. After some time, they will meet by chance in Yalta and realize that they are very necessary to each other. Only their attitude to love is completely different ...

Five sad and funny romantic stories about love...

La película transcurre en Rusia en julio de 1942 durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Las tropas nazis se aproximan a Stalingrado y los rusos están exhaustos y sobrepasados en número. Pero después de una batalla sangrienta, los invasores nazis son detenidos en Stalingrado.

A music teacher is trying to organize a choir in the school he works in.

About Russian space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.

An ancient blade with diamonds is stolen from the museum where Alexei Gurov works as a restorer. Soon an old icon is stolen from Gurov's apartment. Head of the crime investigation is the police colonel Georgy Arefyev. Everyone knows that Gurov is obsessed with collecting rarities, so suspicion falls heavy on him.

German apparently disavowed this, his first film, because of his co-director Grigori Aranov's more classical approach (and his kowtowing to Soviet authority); too bad, because it's something of a knockout. A brilliant, gripping portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a superlative character study in General Adamov (Andrei Popov), a law professor in the tsarist army, who is incarcerated by the Bolshevik secret police along with many other members of the bourgeoisie. Finally released into the new world of the Soviet Union, the resigned officer finds that he has lost everything from his old life except a mantel clock that he carries through the night from place to place, until he ends up, like Rossellini's inmate seeking readmission to prison in Dovè la liberta?, back where he started.

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

A female poet and author faces the harsh realities of a besieged Leningrad. Based on Olga Berggolts' memoir of the same name.

Renowned scientist Dronov works in Novosibirsk on the creation of ultra-modern engine. He has a bad heart, he was afraid not to have time to finish the job, and test engine at a factory in Moscow, unfortunately, is not the first time passes unsuccessfully. Dronov abandons the rest of the work, even the leadership of the Institute entrusts to his disciple Morozov.

Classic adaptation of the even more classic play by William Shakespeare.

Una mujer se suicida lanzándose desde una ventana. Su marido comienza a recordar pasajes de su vida. De esta forma se irán conociendo las causas que la llevaron a tomar tal desición... Basado en el relato "Una criatura gentil" de Dostoievsky.

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.

Love story filmed in Russia.

The end of the XIX century. Petya, an eight-year orphan who has been cast in training German acrobat Karl Becker, who curses and beatings would incorporate the new assistant to the circus profession and ruthlessly exploited child in their speeches. The only consolation, brightens the harsh life gutta-percha boy, as referred to Petya on the posters, is the concern of the carpet clown Edwards, who regretted the fatherless and secretly taught him this circus arts...

About the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky in 1918-1925. The film covers the most important episodes of his biography. In July 1918, as a result of a revolt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, the German ambassador Mirbach was killed. Feliks Dzerzhinsky alone goes to the headquarters of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Anarchists, he manages to persuade ordinary soldiers and sailors, participants in the rebellion, who are now cracking down on their leaders. In 1921, Dzerzhinsky was aimed at combating homelessness, as a result of which, by 1925, former homeless children, having completed their studies, were sent to the construction of Yugostal, the largest industrial plant in Ukraine.

Soviet film of the Shakespeare play.

A group of semitrailers is moving through a snow storm - and no one doesn't know that there is a spy between the drivers.

Policemen investigate a murder and find out astonishing facts.

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.

Soviet propaganda film in two episodes about Stalin's strong and cruel suppression of the 1919 anti-communist uprising in St. Petersburg, Russia. Stalin and Lenin are shown as heroes who destroyed the efforts of anti-communists led by White Russians with support from "bad" British capitalists headed by Sir Winston Churchill and Lloyd George.

Durante la época en que Mussorgsky vivió en el pueblo, observó cosas que le dejaron una fuerte marca en su alma y que le influiría en su estilo artístico. Su asociación con 'El Grupo de los Cinco', los discursos apasionados del crítico musical Vladimir Stasov, los encuentros con la artista Ilya Repin y su obra 'Boris Godunov', son episodios que revelan el talento excepcional y la fuerte personalidad del compositor ruso.