Eduard Martsevich

A drama based on a classic short story by Anton Chekhov.

A successful landscape designer Marina is going to get married. Next Saturday, her high-ranking father will meet her fiancé Alexander. Just a day before the significant Saturday Alexander leaves the Marina.

The career of revered Russian filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov is explored in this documentary film comprised of rare behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with French director Claude Lelouch, and conversations with some of the biggest names in contemporary Russian cinema. Kalatozov's grandson Mikhail Kalatozishvili pays tribute to the director of such timeless classics as I Am Cuba, Salt for Svanetia, and The Cranes are Flying as such notable fans as Andrei Konchalovsky, Sergei Solovyov, and Alexei Batalov discuss the remarkable influence Kalatozov had on their own film careers.

A story about Marina and her problematic life after divorce.

The famous artist Vladimir Beletsky stole two valuable paintings from the museum, replacing them with his copies. He was forced to take this step by the extreme circumstances in which his son found himself. Having contacted a suspicious company, the son was deceived and is now forced to pay a large sum of money to scammers. Beletsky invents a reciprocal fraud in order to avenge his son’s offenders.

A young man fall in love with an older woman without knowing that her husband is a known criminal.

An ordinary high school turns into an ordinary model of a totalitarian state. The trivial story of the mysterious theft of a VCR turns into a grotesque and gloomy farce when interim director Viktor Andreyevich, with a callous dictatorial hand, terrorises students and teachers. And now the young "patriots" punish peers-"dissidents", joining the ranks of the "pioneer-jugend." And an ordinary school laboratory turns into a place for torture...

Soviet adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

A Cold War spy thriller made at Dovzehnko Film Studio in 1984 and set in Munich. A Ukrainian poet visiting his emigre cousin is threatened into working for the CIA's operations through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Anton Nikolaevich Skvortsov (O.Yefremov) is a strong and resolute person, for all his life he has been heading a big labor collective, and now he is retired, he interred his wife half a year ago, beared infarction, and now is living in his big flat with a daughter, her husband and a grown-up granddaughter. His attending doctor recommended his daughter to send him to the veterans house, in order that he could live with coevals, surrounded by congenial people and not feel so lonely. Not being able to stand all this, Anton Nikolaevich runs away from his house and goes on a sightseeing tour about Moscow. On the excursion bus he gets acquainted with Anna Konstantinovna (I.Savvina), whos retired on pension. This meeting turnes his life upside-down.

It is 1920. After three years of the Russian Civil War, communist government is finally established in Odessa. Young Alyosha Patrikeyv, who dreams of being a detective like Sherlock Holmes, joins the newly forming Odessa Criminal Police. He is assigned to fight illegal booz production in a small village of Severinovka. When he goes on a chase after a horse thief Krasavchik, Alyosha finds himself up against Cherven - the most dangerous criminal in Odessa.

A group of Soviet soldiers are trying to prevent the chemical weapons trials by German army during WWII.

A poor Chilean Joaquin Murrieta decides to move to California in gold searches. On his way he meets a beautiful girl who becomes his wife. But their happiness is short. Life of the gold diggers is cruel... After his wife dies Joaquin takes up arms to revenge.

Adventures of a boy and his older friend during the time of October Revolution in Belarus.

A detective-mystery film based on the novel of the same name by Wilkie Collins, which takes place in the middle of the last century in Victorian England. The young aspiring artist gets a place as a teacher of painting on the estate of land-owner Fairlie, where his sisters Marian and Laura become his students. Returning home late in the evening, he unexpectedly meets a strange woman, dressed head-to-toe in white on a deserted road...

The events that take place from the evening of one day, until the afternoon of the next, radically change the life of the family of the elderly writer Zharkov.

Soviet WW2 film about operation that resulted in liberation of.Romania and Moldova from the Nazis.

British MP Sir Robert Chiltern is known for his honesty and integrity. To match his wife, Lady Chiltern, who is an example of high morality. However, the past of Sir Robert, as it turned out, is not at all perfect. Famous socialite adventurer Laura Cheveley, with evidence of his long-standing dishonorable act, is trying to blackmail Chiltern. Not only Sir Robert's reputation and career are at stake, but also family happiness. His best friend comes to the rescue — Lord Goring.

Unión Soviética. Durante la guerra civil (1918-1920) que enfrentó al Ejército Blanco (antibolchevique) con el Ejército Rojo, organizado por Troski, diversos personajes se encargan de llevar a cabo dos misiones: una entrega de grano a un orfanato y una entrega de oro para el PCUS.

After his mother death a sixteen years old Sergey suddenly finds out that his father is alive and well.

Based on the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

There were three sisters — Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov. Vera, having survived unhappy love, goes to the monastery, where she gives birth to a child. The child dies, Vera commits suicide. Lyuba and grandmother attend church and maintain relations with priest Aleksandr. To Nadezhda that condemns their religiosity, it seems that Lyuba is in love with father Aleksandr. She comes home to him and demands that he stop dating Lyuba. However, it turns out that Aleksandr is in love with Nadezhda. Knowing him better, she reciprocates him, facing a difficult choice, Aleksandr breaks with religion.

A story about a young boy who must spend a few months in a hospital.

Umberto Nobile (Peter Finch) fue el comandante del dirigible "Italia", que en 1928 voló hacia el Polo Norte y se estrelló, causando un reguero de víctimas mortales. Los fantasmas de los que fallecieron se le aparecen ahora para recordarle su culpabilidad y lo que debía haber hecho tanto antes como después del accidente, durante las labores de rescate de la tripulación.

En 1812, el ejército de Napoleón invade Rusia. Kutuzov le pide a Bolkonsky que se una a él como oficial de estado mayor, pero el príncipe solicita un comando en el campo. Pierre se dispone a observar el próximo enfrentamiento entre los ejércitos. Durante la Batalla de Borodino, se ofrece como voluntario para ayudar en una batería de artillería. La unidad de Bolkonsky espera en la reserva, pero es alcanzada por un proyectil. Tanto Anatol como Bolkosnky sufren heridas graves. El ejército francés sale victorioso y avanza sobre Moscú.

A fines de 1809, Natasha asiste a su primer baile. Andrei se enamora de ella y tiene la intención de casarse con ella, pero su padre exige que esperen. El príncipe viaja al extranjero y Natasha lo anhela desesperadamente. Pero luego conoce a Anatol Kuragin y se olvida de Andrei. En el último momento, se arrepiente y abandona sus planes de fugarse con Anatol. Bolkonsky se entera y declara que su compromiso ha terminado. Pierre, tratando de calmarla, de repente anuncia que la ama.

La primera película de una adaptación en cuatro partes de la novela de Leo Tolstoy de 1869. En San Petersburgo de 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, el hijo ilegítimo de un rico noble, es presentado a la alta sociedad. Su amigo, el príncipe Andrei Bolkonsky, se une al Ejército Imperial Ruso como ayudante de campo del general Mikhail Kutuzov en la Guerra de la Tercera Coalición contra Napoleón.

Campaña napoleónica de 1812. Rusia contempla el implacable avance de las tropas napoleónicas hacia sus fronteras. La idílica vida de los miembros de la alta sociedad (el príncipe Andréi Bolkonsky, el soñador e idealista Pierre Bezukhov o la joven Natacha Rostova) sufrirá un dramático cambio. Antes, los aristócratas, la gente corriente y los siervos vivían en mundos completamente diferentes. Ahora, la necesidad de defender la patria los ha convertido en compañeros de armas.

The main character, Anna Denisova, is a simple Russian woman, on whose shoulders all the hardships of wartime fell. Like all her compatriots, Annushka did everything in her power to bring Victory Day closer. In this war, she lost her husband, Pyotr, but managed to save the lives of her three children — Sasha, Nina and Granata. The trials of Annushka didn't end with the end of the war. In the first years of peace, all survivors had to survive the famine and spend their last strength on rebuilding the country.