Isaak Shvarts

The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiancée - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion.

A new screen version of the play of the same name, written by Aleksandar Ostrovski. After a long time spent traveling abroad, the aging landowner Aleksandar Ashmetev returns to his mansion. He soon informs his spouse Maria Petrova (whom he doesn't love) that intends to leave again for Paris, away from dull provincial life. In despair, Maria thinks up a cunning plan. She introduces Aleksandar to Varya Zubareva, a young beauty from the neighboring mansion, in the hope that she will keep him there for longer. But, the mock intrigue takes a serious turn when it becomes obvious that Aleksandar has become seriously interested in Varya. Aleksandar now begins to think about how he can turn his passion into a real romance with the young temptress.

Student Ivan falls in love with Nadia, the wife of a rich businessman. The passion that has engulfed them prompts Nadia to leave her husband, and Ivan to give up his prestigious lawyer job in Moscow.

Knowing that he will soon pass on, elderly Valentin Grack hires private detective Stanislav to follow him around for an entire day and write down everything that he does. It is a cold day and during Grack's travels he encounters a younger woman who addresses him as professor. He then meets a prostitute who turns out to be his daughter, and finally he meets an old woman, his worried wife who has been searching eight days for him. In between meeting the women, Grack finds himself in some almost surreal situations and having flashbacks about his youth.

About a young boy growing up to become a great artist. Set basically in St. Petersburg and a country dacha in Vyra during the aftermath of the 1905 Russian Revolution.

A wealthy and elderly husband hires two people to watch over a young and windy wife who is sailing with her friends on a Mediterranean cruise. A sea voyage brings together by no means accidental passengers who find themselves in unpredictable - difficult and comic - situations.

An actress is recording a screen-test for Federico Fellini who, as she's heard, is looking for a Russian actress for his new film. For an hour she's reflecting on the nature of art, the fate of artists, the destiny of Russian people, history of her country and its present day.

Andrei is the head of a gang of antisemitic skinheads clinging to the old communist ideals in post-Communist Moscow. When he learns that his long lost father actually is a Jewish bohemian living in Moscow, rather than an Afghanistan war hero, he traces him down in order to kill him. But the intriguing father and his "reactionary" lifstyle soon fascinates Andrei which leads to a clash with his gang.

The waiter of the seaside restaurant decides to become an honest man. He stops short-counting visitors, refuses to take a tip, trying to shame his own leadership. The results do not take long to wait — a respected member of society becomes an outcast, the Director of the restaurant expels him from work, and his wife from home…

White King, Red Queen is a Russian film. The composer Isaak Schwarz won a Nika Award from the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences for the film's music.

He and she met by chance in a backwater hotel, poor. In their hunger ideas an idea is born — "catch the bait" crazed provincial melancholy men, ready to be wined and dined charming girl…

After coming out of jail a sneak thief "Chibis" plans a big afaire.

About amusing adventures of the young blunderer Yankel during World War II who survives thanks to the sluggishness. The hired legionary he is taken prisoner, will pass across Sicily with the army of allies and it will appear in Indochina. And everywhere he will be accompanied by glory.

The psychologist Natalya by the nature of the office activity understands tangled family dramas of everyday life by the clients, finding proper words and arguments. To keep foreign families - her work. However, will of a case, falls to Natalya's lot to endure treachery, jealousy and loneliness. The husband who has fallen in love with the young circus performer has decided to leave her.

At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new country, totally unknown to him but that will bring him a new life.

A story about two old people living in the abandoned faraway village.

In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant plots… One of the most vivid staples of the postwar childhood were pigeons. They could be bought, sold or stolen. One day a beautiful white dove appeared over the town. Risking his life, Ivan caught the White. And immediately became the target of the "pigeon" mafia…

Kraskov and Vera have long loved each other. They are unable to part, however, and connect their destinies can not and have already accepted the circumstances of life: he has a family, three children. A chance meeting in Moscow with a young couple, familiar with the rest in the South, pushes them to a decisive step…

This distinctly Russian war story takes place in 1942 behind enemy lines. A regiment of partisans captures former Red Army lieutenant Lazarev who is dressed in a German uniform. He’s a Nazi defector and collaborator but now desires to switch back and fight with Russian partisans.

Captain Alexander Blinov goes on vacation and has to give a package to Lena. Lena is freelance photo journalist who runs from job to job. She also has a long conflicting relationship with her retired neighbor who thinks that people like her shouldn't live. Somehow, Blinov get's involved in that conflict and all other Lena's crazy adventures, and falls in love.

The young scientist has everything - an apartment, a car, a position in the scientific community, but his soul is as if immersed in hibernation. And only the death of his mother and a meeting with his matured daughter, who had her first and unrequited love, awaken his soul, which has fallen into lethargy.

An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.

A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Columbia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich.

A story about a teenage girl who loves poetry and thinks of herself as A.S. Pushkin heiress.

A story about a high school student Asya and her complicated relationship with literature teacher Larikov.

Egor Polushkin (Stanislav Lyubshin) is a kind-hearted, nature loving, artistic family man who is living in a small village. To his neighbors and even his wife (Nina Ruslanova) he is a walking disaster, so they frown at him and call him Bedonosec (engl. misfortune bearer). Only Egors son (Viktor Anisimov) shares his enthusiasm for the beautiful things of live. As Egor becomes the new forest ranger, this new position brings him not only joy, but it is also the source of great suffering to come, as his fondness for the living nature and especially the newly acquired white swans is in conflict with the interests of others...

Drama based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky.

A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.

Em 1902, uma expedição do exército russo vai explorar a Sibéria sob o comando do capitão Vladimir Arseniev. Ele faz amizade com Dersu Uzala, um caçador Goldi (Nanai), e o convida para ser o guia da expedição através da floresta até chegar no Lago Khanka. Ao longo da jornada, Arsentiev descobre que Dersu é um homem com uma alma bonita, e eles se tornam amigos íntimos. Quando termina a sua missão, Dersu diz adeus a Arseniev. Em 1907, o capitão Arseniev vai em outra expedição no rio Ussuri. Quando ele reencontra Dersu na floresta, o caçador solitário se junta a sua equipe e orienta o grupo. No entanto, ele está mais velho e tem problemas com sua visão, e o capitão Arseniev convida Dersu Uzala para viver com sua família em Khabarovsk. Mas o velho não se adapta ao estilo de vida urbano e decide voltar para a floresta. Em 1910, o capitão Arseniev é chamado para Korfovskaïa para identificar o corpo de um homem que tem seu cartão de visitas e pode ser Dersu Uzala.

Short-length feature film directed by Valentin Gorlov, based on "Deniska's stories" by Victor Dragunsky.

In the early 19th century a traveler returns to the remote outpost he’d visited years before, anxious to see the station master’s lovely daughter once again. There the brokenhearted old man tells him the story of the dashing fellow from Petersburg who whisked her away one winter morning.

Omnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov

O Exército vermelho, no periodo pós-revolução, combate bandos de ladrões contra-revolucionários. E o soldado Fyodor Sukhov está a caminho de seu lar atravessando o deserto, onde o bando do brutal Abdulla está agindo. Ele então acaba sendo encarregado de escoltar o harém de Abdulla, um homem que mantém diversas mulheres detidas. Sukhov entra numa batalha de defesa dessas mulheres.

The love story in the remote village. Lyuba has a child, Nikolai has a wife. Nikolay, having become a projectionist, now, once a week, brings cinema to the village of Babino, where Lyuba lives. Once they loved each other, but Nikolai, unexpectedly for everyone, married another and since then tried not to be in this village. And now feelings have surged again, and both are unable to resist this love.

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.