Aleksandr Kovalyov

Taiji Bay (2024)

Anka's once-large family is falling apart: her younger brother was killed at school, and her own mother pretends that this did not happen, diligently trying to convince everyone around her of this. Anka's grandfather unsuccessfully struggles with progressi ...

Last Illusion (2020)

Russia. 1910. The once famous magician Arseny Vilsky has lost his popularity and drags out a miserable existence as a traveling circus performer. Gathering his remaining strength, he prepares to perform, to fulfill his last illusion. ...

Ferry Number Seven (2018)

Very little time has passed since the beginning of World War II. The young captain of the ship receives a crucial task - to deliver a secret cargo. But besides this, prisoners are brought on board. During swimming, convicts riot. At the same time, an enemy ...

Panfilov's 28 Men (2016)

USSR, November, 1941. Based on the account by Vasiliy Koroteev this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight Red Army soldiers commanded by General Ivan Panfilov, that stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four Nazi ta ...

Boys Won't Make You Happy (2014)

The Secret Service Agent's Memories 2 (2014)

Russia in the early 18th century: Naval officer Plakhov has fallen in love with a young woman. When she is threatened by a stranger, he kills him and is thereby sentenced to death. However, the head of the secret service decides to send Plakhov on a missio ...

Dubrovsky (2014)

A modern take on the classic novel by Alexander Pushkin. Vladimir is a successful banker and a regular at trendy night clubs. Masha is a diligent graduate of a British college and a loving daughter. It looks like they have bright future ahead. However, an ...

Vanka (2013)

Overweight Dasha works as a proof-reader for a glossy magazine. Commonsense and previous experience have taught her not to harbour any illusions concerning a happy private life. So instead, she finds solace in detective novels, television and cakes, which ...

The Horde (2012)

It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price o ...

The Secret Service Agent's Memories (2011)

These are the dark times around 1720 in Russia. Tsar Peter the Great dies and his highly esteemed partner and friend Prince Menshikov rules the country from now on. But there are also those who oppose the prince. Messenger Ivan, an army officer, fails one ...

Wild Field (2008)

A young doctor relocates to a remote region of central Asia, thinking his fiancee soon will join him ... ...

Shultes (2008)

Lesha Shultes, a pickpocket, leads the ordinary life of an average urban creature. The only extraordinary thing about Shultes is that he carries a little notebook with him and notes down everything. This minimalist drama of a 'small man' in a metropolis de ...

A Savage (2002)

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) th ...

I Won't Let You Go Anywhere (1993)

Moscow, the 1990s: there is a girl whose mother has died and whose father is an alcoholic under constant hospital care. On her sixteenth birthday, she leaves her parents' house to start a completely independent life, hoping to find an interesting job, frie ...

A Sacrifice for the Emperor (1992)

The film is based on documentary facts and tells the story of an officer in the Japanese General Staff who received the task under the name of Captain Rybnikov to infiltrate the military circles of St.Petersburg. It was exposed after the famous Tsushima ba ...

Gongofer (1992)

Cossacks Kol'ka and Zarubin travel to Moscow to buy an ox. Their trip turns chaotic when a local witch seduces Kol'ka and replaces his brown eyes with blue ones. The pair must fight against a supernatural underworld to get his original eyes back. ...

Chicha (1991)

The film tells about a kind artist who throughout his life sang in a strange voice. ...