Aleksandr Filippenko

Two Prosecutors (2025)

In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate. ...

Мирные огоньки - 2024 (2023)

Patient No. 1 (2023)

The end of the Soviet empire. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. "The power is only taken, it is never given away," he repeats. And it is convenient for both the elites and the secret se ...

The World Champion (2021)

Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korc ...

Petr Vail. Movie about me (2015)

The tape is dedicated to writer, publicist, long-term employee and editor-in-chief of the Russian service of Radio Liberty Peter Vail. Filming took place in New York, Prague and Venice. The film uses rare archive photo, video and audio materials. Vail's te ...

The Master and Margarita (2011)

The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernat ...

Happy Ending (2010)

The private part of a young man leaves the owner and starts his own adventure... ...

Сон Гафта, пересказанный Виктюком (2010)

The Extraordinary Adventures of Diego Diegovich in The Country of The Bolsheviks (2007)

The fate of Diego Rivera, a Mexican muralist who glorified the Mexican Revolution with his art, is connected with Russia in many ways. Russian artists Angelina Belova and Maria Vorobyova-Stebelskaya bore him children, for a long time he was friends with Tr ...

Elka (2007)

This fairy tale takes place on the New Year's Eve. Elka, a polar bear cub, finds a Magic Tunnel of Friendship near his home. This Tunnel connects the Northern and the Southern Poles. With the help of the Tunnel, Elka gets a friend - a penguin girl Tasha. S ...

Conspiracy (2007)

Aziris Nuna (2006)

Brothers Stas and Kostya find themselves in 2506 as the prisoners of Space Prison then get in touch with the unusual people of the future to play a strange game with them. Later, they are captured by the fantastic sphinx Shidla who guards them from various ...

The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga (2004)

The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; "The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tells the story of pagan Rus' during the time of Prince Igor, his murder by the Drevlyans, Olga's revenge, Olga's repentance and adoption of Christianity. ...

About Ivan-the-Fool (2004)

A fairy tale from the cycle "Mountain of gems" about how Ivan sold a goat and guarded the door, but suddenly married a princess. ...

Tartarin of Tarascon (2002)

Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. But one day he becomes a real hero... ...

Lady for One Day (2002)

What should I do if life has failed? What should I do if my daughter's happiness depends on the future visit of the groom — the heir of the Spanish grandee? What should I do if the groom's father is obsessed with titles and wealth? The only way out is to ...

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family (2000)

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918. ...

Prince Yuri Dolgoruky (1998)

XII century. ...

The Career of Arturo Ui (1996)

When the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel - how many opportunities there are for a funny comedy... ...

Game of Imagination (1995)

Upon returning from a business trip, Pavel Antoshin learns from his wife that she wants to leave him. The man is shocked by this news, because it happened after twenty years of marriage. But Pavel was even more surprised that his wife offered him her girl ...

I'm Alone (1993)

Bandits kill Sergei in front of his wife and son. The son of the murdered man loses the power of speech. Nadezhda, Sergei's wife, is also unable to bear the blow. The murder of her husband literally stands before her eyes day and night. The militia, as it ...

Ne Strelyayte v Passazhira (1993)

Писатель пишет книгу. Ее герой — молодой журналист, он же и герой фильма. Писатель пишет, а персонаж, подчиняясь его воле, существует по зако� ...

Anomaly (1993)

Based on Clifford Simak's story "All Flesh is Grass". In the small settlement strange things lately are created, and soon the settlement is cut off from the outside world by an insuperable wall. The scientist Alexander Kartin tries to investigate the unusu ...

One in a Million (1992)

Elena Meshcheryakova is a veterinarian at an animal clinic. One day, she spots a stranger in a crowd who leaves an unforgettable impression on her. But how can she gather the courage to simply approach him and introduce herself? Fate intervenes when he sho ...

Murder at Sunshine-Manor (1992)

Professor Ian Drummond, whose new invention was of interest to the Russians and Americans, is murdered at his Sunshine Menor mansion in full attendance. The writer Joe Alex, who arrived on the eve of the murder together with actress Sarah, and detective Be ...

And the Wind Returns... (1992)

The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films. ...

Demons (1992)

The Inner Circle (1992)

Life changes for a Moscow worker when he's made Stalin's personal film projectionist but cannot tell his bride. ...

Death macaroni, or Professor Buggensberg's mistake (1992)

A surreal fairy tale for adult viewers, mixing animated and live performances. Wasn't finished due to budget problems. ...

Woman for Everyone (1991)

Maria is a single mother of two children. When Maria dies unexpectedly, the children are looked after by Anna, who lives next door. Meanwhile, Nikolai, who wanted to marry Maria, decides to stay with Anna to help raise Maria's kids. ...

Emperor's Steps (1991)

Trap for Bambr (1991)

The insidious and angry Hunter Stump kidnaps the Cat in order to exchange it for Bambra. Bambre agrees to the exchange and surrenders to the hunter. But loyal friends - Hermit, Mouse and Bird - do not abandon a friend in trouble and save the Cat. ...

Mariya Magdalina (1990)

The dissolute way of life of Mariya Egorova, nicknamed "Magdalene", abruptly ends - her friend, driving her into debt and putting her "on the counter", taking her passport, through a pimp she knows, offers her to work as a prostitute. During the conversati ...

Mister Perrichon's Trip (1990)

Monsieur Perrichon, a rich coachbuilder by profession, is an honest but vain member of the bourgeoisie who decides to take a pleasure trip in the company of his wife Caroline and his daughter Henrietta. The family, deciding on a train journey to the Swiss ...

The Hole (1990)

A few days from the life of average brothel in early XX century Russia. Based on the classical novel by Aleksandr Kuprin. ...

Aurora Borealis (1990)

The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s. ...

Hard to Be a God (1990)

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the ...

Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God" (1990)

Mother of Hurricane (1990)

In the Footsteps of the Bambr (1990)

Bambr, Hermit, Bird, Cat and Mouse - already familiar from the film Ferocious Bambre, are faced with the insidious Hunter, who planned to turn Bambre into a hunting dog. But friendship and mutual assistance win this time as well. ...

Vanishing August (1989)

Sometimes he allowed himself to drink for real. ...

Strollers (1989)

Pre-Petrine Russia, Semyon Lazarev, one of the instigators of the "Copper Riot", is forced to flee, as a result of which he ends up in the army of the leader of the peasant uprising Stepan Razin. ...

Today in Our City... (1989)

Our Armoured Train (1988)

The events of the film take place in the first days of May 1966. Nikolai Kuznetsov, a distinguished veteran of the Great Patriotic War and former camp guard, accidentally meets one of his former prisoners. This encounter leads to new meetings—and new ins ...

To Kill a Dragon (1988)

Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only win, if all people become free from fear, that is feeding the Dragon's power. Dragon's multiple personalities, ...

Dead Souls (1988)

Visiting the Minotaur (1987)

The detective story is based on the search for Antonio Stradivari's missing violin. This is one storyline of the film, but there is also a second, historical storyline that takes the viewer back to the 17th century and focuses on the life of the Master and ...

Dark Eyes (1987)

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. ...

I Have Done Everything I Could (1986)

Autumn 1941. In a Nazi POW camp near Kyiev, a person claiming to be a doctor appears. He convinced Germans to set up a hospital. Raising no suspicions in Germans, he supplied prisoners with weapons and helped them to escape. ...

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1986)

A film about the remarkable life of Russian mathematician Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), the first woman to become a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Sofia Kovalevskaya's life was full of complex and dramatic twis ...

From the Life of Potapov (1986)

A novella about the head of a large team working in the defense industry, a major scientist, who took the responsibility in difficult conditions to continue the failed experiments. The ensuing heart attack gave reason for his re-election, and his closest f ...

Wings, Legs and Tails (1986)

An ostrich is trying to learn how to fly in a dessert. ...

I Did Everything I Could (1986)

In the fall of 1941, a man who called himself a doctor appeared in a prisoner of war camp near Kiev and convinced the Germans of the need to organize a hospital outside the camp. ...

Confrontation (1985)

In 1979, in one of the northern Soviet cities, the police are investigating the murder of a man who was on his way home from the gold mines. The detectives track down the main suspect, Grigory Milinko. But the further the case progresses, the more complica ...

Forget About the Return (1985)

In the port of Danzig, the military transport Tyrol is preparing to leave, on board which are selected SS units and seventy naval crews. The commander of the Soviet submarine "S-31", which received serious damage, receives the task of detecting and attacki ...

Faith, Hope, Love (1985)

A young poet Ivan is experiencing a lot of funny and tragic adventures during the years of Civil War in Russia. ...

The Black Arrow (1985)

Adventurous movie based on classical Robert Louis Stevenson novel. ...

Goldfish (1985)

The action takes place in the hotel "goldfish", the administration of which fulfills the various wishes of its guests. ...

My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well. ...

Copper Angel (1984)

An international geological expedition led by a Russian engineer works in an inaccessible area of one of the Latin American countries. Scientists are held hostage by a nearby gang that trades in the drug trade. Geologists are in mortal danger ... ...

Applause, Applause... (1984)

Lyudmila Gurchenko's brilliant performance in a musical drama about a life of the struggling singer. ...

Seven Elements (1984)

The Earth is facing great problems in the nearest future it is in the lack of sun light. Physicist Olmin is leading the project to build a special tunnel - made of elementary fractions - from the sun to the earth, in order to the earth could get much more ...

Romeo and Juliet (1983)

This TV version of the world-famous play by William Shakespeare stands out for its unusual production design and mise-en-scene. ...

Torpedo Bombers (1983)

In 1944 a Soviet marine air force unit stationed near Murmansk is fighting off the German bombers attacking the British navy convoys supplying the Soviet Union with war materials under the lend-lease agreement. ...

The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (1983)

Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the nobility in England was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows the Saxon protagonist, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who is out of favor with his father for his allegiance to the Norm ...

Start Liquidation (1983)

Army and police are trying to fight crime in West Belarus during Spring of 1945. ...

The Companions (1983)

Richard III (1982)

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual ...

Star and Death of Joaquin Murrieta (1982)

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 reven ...

Along Unknown Paths (1982)

Going to vacation at his grandmother's in a village, the boy Mitya could never imagine that he would become a participant of the extraordinary adventures in a fairy-tale land. ...

Throw (1982)

Ensign-border guard Kalitkin, having retired due to shell shock, works as a guide for a scientific expedition in the border zone. One day, noticing violators in the border zone, Kalitkin without hesitation enters into an unequal battle with the enemy... ...

Tony Wendice's Mistake (1981)

An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. ...

The Morning Round (1980)

Doctor Nechayev lives by the concerns of his patients. This is a man of remarkable mental qualities and a highly qualified specialist in cardiology, but he is completely unadapted to life in everyday life and imperceptibly lost himself, did not do much of ...

Who Will Pay For Luck? (1980)

Crimea, 1919. The White Guards are preparing a trial of the revolutionary Antonina Chumak. Sailor Kuskov, Cossack Dmitry Chumak and card cheater Fedor Chumar arrive in the city to save her. ...

On the Day of the Holiday (1978)

About one day of a large mining family. In the center of the picture is a veteran, a former miner, and now a pensioner Panteleimon Dmitriyevich Grinin, who on Victory Day decided to introduce children to his "lady of the heart" hairdresser Zinaida. The act ...

The Man with the Gun (1977)

The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades. ...

Blue Hares, or a Musical Journey (1974)

Young clown Sasha is having trouble performing his act with his donkey Gena. After another failure, he decides to go on a journey with Gena. After traveling across the country, the friends return to their hometown and perform for the audience once again. ...

Stop Potapov! (1974)

A film based on the story of the same name by Grigory Gorin. An employee of a certain SRI Potapov is a liar and an opportunist. But he does not even know that he is committing low things. ...

I Am His Bride (1969)

The court undeservedly passes a harsh sentence on a young worker Volodya Kharlamov. His girlfriend Valya, whom Volodya once saved from hooligans, and the people's assessor Mitrokhin actively insist on a review of the case. In the end, they are joined by ot ...

Shine, Shine, My Star (1969)

In 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution, the peoples had to decide between conforming to Bolshevism or national self-determination. In that torn-apart-time, one man, the comedian Volodya, tries to mediate, not between different ideologies, but s ...