Aleksandr Demyanenko

Old Songs About the Main Thing 3 (1998)

An unofficial sequel to the movie "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession". The events take place on New Year's Eve 1997-1998, 24 years after the events of the movie. According to the plot, the main characters (Shurik, Bunsha, Zina and Ulyana Andreyevna) ...

Old Songs about the Main Thing 2 (1997)

The Story of Richard, Milord, and the beautiful Firebird (1997)

A Dream in Polar Fog (1994)

Canadian sailor John McLennan, who was wrecked off the coast of Chukotka, is being rescued by local residents. From that moment, he begins a new life, which he is no longer able to change. ...

Seven-Forty (1992)

The group of immigrants who depart to the United States, by chance finds itself in a deserted forest. Cut off from the civilized world, they begin to build their "own America". ...

Racket (1992)

Ticket to Red Theater, or Death of Coffin-Digger (1992)

What do the head of a secret file cabinet, students who don't shy away from a glass, a police lieutenant colonel, and a prisoner's wife have in common? All these people turn out to be the heroes of one story, which began with two friends who decided to ear ...

Emperor's Steps (1991)

Game for Millions (1991)

And to Hell with Us! (1991)

The Chernomorsk city is preparing to hold a holiday of laughter. Come here popular actors of theatre and cinema. ...

Victim (1990)

The hero of the film is senior police commissioner Kuzmin. The plot is based on the robbery of a savings bank, an attack on a woman with the theft of a bag, the fate of a talented artist driven into a dead end by life and, finally, the problems of fathers ...

The Catalyst (1990)

In an ordinary city prison the unbelievable happens: the wall of the building collapses. The management of the city and the prison is forced to urgently find new apartments for their wards, and they honorably get out of this difficult situation in a very o ...

Bright Personality (1989)

By chance the main character of the picture becomes invisible. This curiosity causes a chain of eccentric events that allow the authors to ridicule in a grotesque form such enduring vices as bureaucratism, swagger, careerism and familialism. Based on satir ...

Tamara Aleksandrovna's Husband and Daughter (1988)

Daughter and husband of a teacher of the high school live in the old house at different floors of multifamily unit. When the former wife gets to hospital the girl leaves in father's care who is a weak but kind-hearted man. ...

Silver Strings (1988)

A film based on the biography of the famous Russian balalaika player Vasili Vasilevich Andreev (1867-1918), a self-taught virtuoso musician, who brought balalaika to the concert stage. ...

Ballad of Old Weapons (1986)

An old woman from Caucasian Mountains goes to the front line do give her sons weapons of their ancestors. ...

When They Become Adults (1985)

Volodya Kuznetsov, a factory worker, entered the institute. Hoping to have more free time to study, he went to work as a master-mentor in a vocational school. Soon Volodya realizes how responsible and interesting his work is. He can no longer think of hims ...

Three Percent of Danger (1985)

The test pilot of a new fighter gets into an accident and is disabled. The management assigns Evgeny Fetisov to conduct the final ten flights, and thus rejects his request for a long—awaited vacation. ...

Sleep in Your Hand, or a Suitcase (1985)

After being demobilized from the army, journalist Pavel Tyurin returned to his hometown, where his beloved girlfriend was no longer waiting for him. In addition, his room was given to another tenant. Pasha joined the newspaper's editorial office, where he ...

Well Begun Is Half Done (1985)

A new modern communist youth shoe store The shoe house is opening in a city. School graduates headed by Tamara Berezina are sent there on a business trip for work. Now all kind of problems and defects of modern services sector are in front of them. And Tam ...

A Moment to Look Back (1985)

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 ...

Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique... (1985)

Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a newborn baby. Vadim is forced to spend the rest of his day with Anna, helping her untangle herself from unpleasant, dramatic, and even tragic situations – ...

Traces Remain (1984)

On the legal and moral education of youth. ...

Fairy-Tales of an Old Magician (1984)

A princess is born to the king and queen of a fairy-tale kingdom. The wicked witch, who resents not having been invited to the princess's birthday party, curses her: on the day the princess turns 16, she will be pricked by the spindle of a spinning wheel a ...

The Green Van (1983)

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 ...

Action Scene (1983)

Petr Konstantinovich is the powerful Director of Petrochemical Industry, which is being built from scratch in a small Siberian town. ...

I Don't Want to Be Unhappy (1983)

Seven Crosses in a Notebook (1983)

Varvara's Day (1983)

Varvara and Pavel Zhdanov did not live long together. The war broke out and Pavel went to the front, and a hard, exhausting job at a metallurgical plant fell on the shoulders of a young woman... ...

Leningrad (1983)

A chronicle-poetic film about St. Petersburg-Leningrad from the Italian television documentary series "Cultural Capitals of Europe" (seventh film). ...

For Happiness (1982)

Watching happy families, Katya made a simple conclusion for herself: the further away from home her husband is, the more prosperity and happiness there is in the house. And the young wife sends her husband to a distant construction site... ...

‎The Girl and Grand‎ (1982)

Marina is a girl who saves a colt from being put down because of a trauma, and she gives him the name - Grand. ...

Never Guessed and Didn't Expect (1982)

In an ordinary Soviet apartment, where an ordinary Soviet family lives, suddenly ... the donkey breaks in. All attempts to expel the animal end in vain. Neither the police, nor the veterinary service, nor even the local hooligan can help. And only the ubiq ...

It Was Behind the Narva Outpost (1981)

In St. Petersburg, behind the Narva outpost, there is great excitement - the revolutionary Nechaev has appeared, who will incite the workers to fight. Neither the policeman, nor the policeman, nor the owner of the tavern - no one knows what he looks like. ...

Missing among the Living (1981)

Militia Colonel Kornilov is leading a complex investigation related to multiply carjackings. ...

Snow on a Green Field (1981)

The conflict between the young school teacher Studentsov and the head teacher Lukyanova divided the residents of the village of Zhukovka into two parts. The eighth graders supported their teacher, who was genuinely worried not so much about the fate of eac ...

The Useless Girl (1980)

A teenage girl considered by everybody as "difficult" is sent to the village to live with her grandfather. ...

The Nightingale (1980)

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes. ...

The Adventures of a Little Dad (1979)

A little girl is dreaming about what would happen if her dad would be her age... ...

Everything Is Decided in a Moment (1979)

A sports drama about a Soviet girl, a natural-born swimmer, who easily sets world records in training but cannot overcome her fear of competing in international competitions in front of packed stands. ...

Breakfast on the Grass (1979)

A funny musical comedy about an adventures of children and adults in a summer camp. ...

The Wife Has Left (1979)

He considered his family life perfect. Normal, and sometimes big wages quite satisfied a beautiful and gentle wife. The child didn't cause much trouble. All that was needed for his happiness was available. But the wife is gone. She left not to another, but ...

The Bat (1979)

Eisenstein gets in trouble for shooting a grouse. He is told that he must go to prison for his crime. However, his friend has invited him to an aristocratic ball. Eisenstein, despite being married, wants to go to the ball to meet women. Eisenstein lies to ...

Hedgehog (1979)

Follows the preschooler Slavka and his father, a researcher, an avid fan of the lottery "Sport Lotto". One day Slavka brought home a hedgehog, which he exchanged with a friend for a lottery ticket from his dad. ...

Crane in the Sky (1978)

After his wife left him for another man, Andrey unsuccessfully tried to found a new woman. Meanwhile, he found an orphan which was looking for his mother. ...

Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street... (1978)

An omnibus of comical shorts. ...

Meeting at the End of Winter (1978)

These Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams (1977)

Eleven Hopes (1976)

The basis of the film story is the creation of a talented football team by a coach, its participation in a qualifying match, and preparation for the World Cup. ...

The Only One (1976)

Kolya Kasatkin, who saw in his wife Tanyusha the ideal of female charm, tenderness, kindness, who loved her to the point of oblivion, was at a loss before the idle conversations of well-wishers about his wife's betrayal. Having found his wife with the choi ...

Strange Adults (1975)

In front of theater lighting technician Peter Ryabikov, a first-grade girl runs across the road in front of a nearby watering machine. Pyotr catches her and, wanting to punish her, decides to take her home to her parents. However, when he takes her there, ...

The Last Day of Winter (1975)

Open Book (1974)

The protagonist of the film is a female microbiologist and inventor of penicillin. The discovery of this life-saving drug was preceded by many years of scientific research, which Dr. Lebedev conducted in his laboratory in a small provincial town at the beg ...

Of Those I Remember And Cherish (1974)

An Unknown Heir (1974)

The construction crew led by foreman Kuznetsov worked efficiently and in perfect coordination. This was largely because the foreman had a talent for teaching, which greatly helped him connect with the younger workers. But then, a newcomer arrived—someone ...

These Restless Students (1974)

About student riots in the West in 1968. ...

Smart Things (1973)

There is a noisy bazaar inconspicuous shop with a sign "Smart Things". And the goods in it completely wonderful no ordinary thing to find. Anyone who would go to the store, they can buy there thing and pay high seller does not require. That's just not ever ...

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973)

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973. ...

Privalov's Millions (1973)

A young heir of a big fortune Sergey Privalov is coming back to his native town after a long absence. Having visited his owned plants, he breaks out with the idea to rebuild the industrial processes, improve the life of workers, and build schools and hospi ...

The Last Days of Pompeii (1973)

A team of pop artists arrives in a small resort town and hopes to make money easily. But the guest performers are not given a provincial reception. Vacationing students of the theater university expose the hacks and declare a boycott against them... ...

Not a Word about Football (1973)

Thirteen year old Slavik has always wanted to play football, but in order to play on the children's team he lies and pretends to be 12 years old. When they win, his life could not be better. But when his little sister finds out what he's done and threatens ...

A Teacher of Singing (1972)

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

Dauria (1972)

A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the time of the October Revolution. The age-old foundations are crumbling, the process of social stratification is underway and, as a result, some people go to def ...

Hello and Goodbye (1972)

A love story between a country policeman and a recently separated from her husband woman with three kids. ...

Find Me, Lenya! (1971)

A story of a friendship between a boy and a girl during a pre-revolutionary times in Russia. ...

Mission in Kabul (1971)

On the formation of young Soviet diplomacy and the struggle of the mission in Kabul with the internal reaction and representatives of the Western powers for the signing of the Cooperation Agreement. A Russian diplomatic mission was sent to Kabul. The frien ...

Drama from the Old Life (1971)

A love story between a barber and a serf actress who find themselves in an environment that combines savagery with a veneer of enlightenment. Based on Nikolai Leskov's short story "The Toupee Artist". ...

King Lear (1970)

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns f ...

Castling in the long side (1970)

The young Soviet biologist is forced to contend with ... agents of imperialist intelligence. But, as befits a Soviet citizen, he steadfastly fights against the machinations of the enemy and emerges victorious. ...

Tomorrow, on April 3rd... (1969)

A group of high school students, after all the lies on April 1st, decide to do a Day of Truth on April 3rd. ...

Ugryum-River (1969)

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 n ...

Pages From The Autobiography (1968)

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)

Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina t ...

War Under the Roofs (1967)

How Many Years, How Many Winters! (1966)

Don't Forget... Lugovaya Station (1966)

During WWII a troop train is stuck at a small railway station. A young lieutenant gets close to a local girl, then the war separates them. Twenty years later he happens to arrive at the same station and finds out that she'd waited for him for many years. ...

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly. ...

Obsession (1965)

Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes. ...

While Defending the Front Line (1965)

Volkhov Front in 1942. The young political instructor of the counter-propaganda department of the headquarters of the division Rusanov is torn to the forefront. Together with an experienced warrior — captain Shaternikov — the hero gets to the forefront ...

Returned Music (1965)

Young musicologist Marina Gabrielyan arrives in Leningrad with the aim of finding and restoring the first symphony by renowned composer Sergei Kornilov. Despite the composer's active resistance, she manages to find individual parts of the symphony and, wit ...

State Offender (1964)

A young detective is trying to find a hiding Nazi collaborationist who is responsible for deaths of a hundreds of people during WWII. ...

Cheka Employee (1964)

Based on the novel of the same name by Aleksandr Lukin and Dmitriy Polyanovskiy. Russia, 1919. A young soldier of the First Cavalry Army, Aleksei Mikhalyov, is sent to work in the provincial Cheka. Here in the south of the country there is a large White Gu ...

The First Trolleybus (1963)

Svetlana, young pretty girl, works as a trolleybus driver in a small town and almost all her permanent passengers are at least a little bit in love with her. ...

Cain the XVIII-th (1963)

A traveling musician falls in love with a princess who is betrothed to a dictator planning to defeat his enemies with the help of an exploding mutant mosquito. ...

A Trip Without a Load (1963)

Based on the story of the same name by Sergei Antonov. The young journalist of the central newspaper Sirotkin came to the Siberian timber industry to write an essay about the glorious driver Khromov. But soon Sirotkin's inquiring mind calculated the trick ...

Bang, Drum! (1962)

Only the Statues Are Silent (1962)

Soviet specialists are building a hydroelectric power station in a Middle Eastern country. To continue the work, it is necessary to carry out an explosion... But no one even suspects that an old German ammunition depot is hidden nearby, underground. An acc ...

Adult Children (1961)

Anatoli Kuzmich retired and received a separate apartment in a new house. He and his wife are happy and make bright plans for the future: how they will go to theaters, museums, read their favorite books. But their daughter Lyusya suddenly gets married. No ...

Peace to Him Who Enters (1961)

Pregnant German woman is trapped behind Russian lines. When she goes into labor, three Soviet soldiers deliver her to a field hospital: a newly graduated officer, an affable truck driver, and a soldier shell-shocked into muteness. The dangerous trip to the ...

Dima Gorin's Career (1961)

Dmitry Gorin is awaiting the post of branch manager of a savings bank. But one day he accidentally gives an extra amount to a person who works in the taiga on the construction of the Siberia-Ural power transmission line. To return the money, Dmitry has to ...

Five Days, Five Nights (1961)

While Dresden is in ruins in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, over two thousand paintings by artists including Rembrandt, Raphael, Rubens, Giorgione, and Vermeer have disappeared from the city's Old Masters Picture Gallery. Red Army captain ...

The Wind (1959)

Filmed in the context of the fortieth anniversary of the creation of the Komsomols, the League of Young Communists, tells the story of three youth delegates from the League in 1918, who must make the dangerous journey to Moscow during the civil war to part ...

Everything Begins with Hitting the Road (1959)

On the eve of departure to the Siberian shock construction site, the famous builder and installer Stepan Bobkov throws his wife. However, on the train he meets Annushka, a young concrete worker who also travels to Siberia on a Komsomol ticket. Sympathy ari ...