Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov

When the Lilacs Bloom (2010)

The main heroine lives in a tiny apartment with her elderly mother and young son. To support her family, she has to work hard, leaving her with almost no time for a personal life. Her friend, a housekeeper in a wealthy family, invites her to a gathering at ...

The White She-Bear (2008)

Vadim Golikov, a successful boxing promoter, travels to the taiga to visit his old friend Platoshin, a former boxing champion of the Soviet Union. There, due to a misunderstanding, he is knocked down by Platoshin's granddaughter, Sasha. Immediately recogni ...

Christmas Stories (2005)

The film "Christmas Stories" consists of two short stories, the action of which takes place in Russia at the end of the XIX century on the eve of Christmas. In the first story, a boy, Kolya, wants to see a star of Bethlehem, for which he goes out onto a ba ...

The Attic Story (2005)

The film takes place in the troubled October days of 1993. The characters — Sergey and Lisa — meet under strange circumstances. And then they are overtaken by love, for which everyone is ready to give their lives. ...

Playing Modern (2003)

Under the North Star 2 (2002)

The film takes place in the seventies of the XX century, in a real country of the USSR and with real Soviet people of various levels: from workers to the leaders of the country. This is a patriotic film, with love (the authors especially insist on this) te ...

Lotus Strike 2: Bitter-Sweet Wormwood (2002)

Retired General Pelevin has nothing left but a small piece of ancestral land, granted to his forefathers by the royal family long ago. But now even this last possession is under threat — targeted for the construction of an ultra-modern shopping center. M ...

Offending Women Is Not Recommended (2000)

After her father dies Vera is forced to become a president of his company and continue the business. ...

Right to Choose (2000)

This is a modern story of a prosperous family, in whose harmonious way of life a young man, a former partner of her husband in creating a computer network, breaks into. Involving his wife in a love affair, he pretends to be a messenger from Shambhala. At s ...

The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999)

A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. A bunch of vagabonds lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated, then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake an adequate actions against the scoundrels - prev ...

Tax Collector (1997)

It is hard to know the future. It is even more difficult to feel its inevitability. He is a tax collector. He has an inexplicable, supernatural gift to foresee the future. He is sent to where the impossible is needed. And he does not fail, until - she does ...

Khagi – Tragger (1994)

According to ancient legend, the artist found a mineral that can revive any inanimate thing. To hide the mineral, he inserts it into a doll named Hagi. A century later, Hagi falls into the hands of a puppeteer, and he with horror discovers that the old dol ...

Woyzeck (1994)

Lajos Kovács (WINGS OF DESIRE) stars as the misused Woyzeck, who ekes out a miserable existence sweeping train tracks, running errands for a bullying army captain and acting as a human guinea pig for a local doctor with ideas about free will. When his com ...

Destroy the Thirtieth! (1992)

When a man is forced to return to a secret Russian training camp, he decides to plan his escape, not knowing who to trust. ...

Censorship Has No Access to My Memory (1992)

The protagonist spent a significant part of his life burdened by painful memories of his grandfather, who died during Stalin's repressions. And now the time has come when he could avenge his grandfather. This is one storyline, presented in the form of a fl ...

Everything is Ahead (1991)

An adaptation of the novel by the famous soil writer Vasily Belov, raising the problems of the harmful influence of Western civilization on the Russian mentality. ...

Drums of Fire (1990)

In 1568, Saadi prince Abdelmalek is exiled from Morocco by his brothers, an event that is only the beginning of his adventures: fighting the Spanish Inquisition, taking part in the Battle of Lepanto, being incarcerated in Alicante prison, and assist in the ...

Human Target (1990)

A detective goes undercover in a small Russian town. ...

Evropa tančila valčík (1989)

Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War. It takes place in representative centers of power, in the courts of Vienna, Berlin and Moscow. In parallel, it develops the fate of the Czech archivist, ...

This Fantastic World 14 (1989)

A completely ordinary person, Kolenkin, is experimentally injected into his blood with a drug that makes him unusually accurate when throwing a ball. Having received such opportunities, he gets into the basketball team and participates in important competi ...

86400 Seconds of Police Duty Work (1988)

Based on real events in 1974 in Riga: the robbery of collectors and the murder of the driver. The personnel of the Gorky, Odessa regional executive committees and the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Latvian SSR took part in the film. ...

Can-Can in English Park (1985)

A Ukrainian poet visiting his emigre cousin is threatened into working for the CIA's operations through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. ...

Return from Orbit (1984)

An accident occurs on an orbital space station, as a result of which the ship's commander is seriously injured. He must be urgently delivered to Earth and testing must be continued. It can only be done by the crew of Kuznetsov-Mukhin. ...

The Testament of Professor Dowell (1984)

The film is based on the popular science-fiction novel "Professor Dowell's Head" by Russian writer Alexander Belyaev. For many years, a prominent scientist had been striving to solve the problem of immortality. He shared the results of his daring and risky ...

Until the Snow Fell (1984)

Preparing for a meeting of former classmates, a woman recalls her school years and her first love. ...

Moon Rainbow (1983)

After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions? ...

The Chosen Ones (1983)

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

Heiress in a Straight Line (1982)

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

Fiasco of Operation Terror (1981)

The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of ...

Two Long Hoots in the Fog (1981)

In a deserted tundra on the lake, a seaplane makes an emergency landing, on board of which bank collectors carry a large amount of money. A storm begins and the plane relates to the river delta. An unknown person steals money from an airplane and kills a g ...

Chief Designer (1980)

A story about the creation of T-34 tank in Soviet Union during WWII. ...

Iron Games (1980)

Famous weightlifter Nikolai Basargin is striving to overcome a streak of failures and to end his sports career by setting a new record. The coach does not believe in Basargin's abilities and is trying to replace him on the national team with a young athlet ...

Don't Leave Your Lovers (1980)

Sometimes divorce process could be really painful. This is exactly the case for the heroes of this romantic drama. ...

A Twig in the Wind (1980)

Varya Berezina has just graduated from high school. My parents are getting divorced, my beloved grandmother is pestering me about the meaning of life. Mishka is a good guy — he loves Varka very much, but he doesn't understand a lot. Having not received t ...

Catch the Wind (1979)

A family of a private stud-farm head takes cover from a Civil War in a forsaken estate in Urals steppe. Once an old family friend Victor, lieutenant of White Guard, shows up in the estate and claims that he wants to come out of action and live according to ...

Let's Talk, Brother... (1979)

The City Accepted (1979)

38 Petrovka Street. Here, in the operations room, information about incidents in Moscow flows in. By pure chance, police captain Stanislav Tikhonov and forensic expert Margarita Ushakova meet on duty after six years of separation. In the cycle of accidents ...

And You Will See the Sky (1978)

About the fifteen-year-old hero of the World War II, military pilot, cavalier of the Order of the Red Banner and two orders of the Red Star - Arkady Kamanin. ...

The Man Who Was Lucky (1978)

The life story of gifted geologist Vladimir Ishutin, as seen through the eyes of his sons. ...

Risk Strategy (1978)

A story about an oil worker who went from the head of a geological exploration expedition to the chief geologist of the trust. ...

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1976)

In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher ...

Jarosław Dąbrowski (1976)

A film biography of Jarosław Dąbrowski, a Russian officer, Polish independence activist, and communist. ...

Fiery Childhood (1976)

A small railway station in the Kuban is captured, but the wounded commissar Sabbutin miraculously manages to escape. ...

The Captivating Star of Happiness (1975)

In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revolution against the autocratic and tyrannical Czar Nikolai I in the wake of his not honoring the draf ...

Captain Nemo (1975)

For several years as a terrible sea monster drowns ships of the Navy. In a small number of ships that managed to survive, in the sides were found huge holes triangular shape. Now any exit to the sea is deadly, so America sends a special frigate called Blue ...

At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (1974)

Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov was en ...

Ring (1973)

Investigating the murder of a cash-collector, Major Isaev, a former boxing champion, comes to the conclusion that the killer is a boxer. To catch the criminal, Peter Isaev takes an unconventional decision. He applies to participate in the city's boxing cha ...

The Battle after the Victory (1972)

A third part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII. ...

Navy Officer (1970)

About the heroism and endless devotion to the Motherland of military sailors in Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. ...

A Quiet Day at the End of the War (1970)

As WWII comes to a close, a wounded Soviet soldier and a Kazak woman seek refuge in a church. In this holy place, they take time to rest and appreciate the beauty of their surroundings, as the interior of the building is lined with ornate works of art. A g ...

The Polynin Case (1970)

A story about a love between a Soviet Army officer and an actress set during the WWII. ...

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 ...

Crash (1969)

The GPU secret service develops and conducts in 1923-24 an operational game aimed at the elimination of the Savinkov anti-Soviet underground. ...

Schweik in World War II (1969)

Based on the satirical anti-war comedy of the same name by B. Brecht. ...

Soldiers in Blue Greatcoats (1969)

A story about the work of investigator Strepetov. ...

The Search (1967)

The young architect Severin Sereda receives a telegram with a message about his father's serious illness. But he does not intend to go. Zhenya, his beloved girl, is outraged by such callousness, however, Severin explains that he gave the word to his deceas ...

Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes (1967)

Phone conversation between an abandoned husband and his friend. ...

Lotus Strike 2: Bitter-Sweet Wormwood (2002)

Retired General Pelevin has nothing left but a small piece of ancestral land, granted to his forefathers by the royal family long ago. But now even this last possession is under threat — targeted for the construction of an ultra-modern shopping center. M ...

Censorship Has No Access to My Memory (1992)

The protagonist spent a significant part of his life burdened by painful memories of his grandfather, who died during Stalin's repressions. And now the time has come when he could avenge his grandfather. This is one storyline, presented in the form of a fl ...