Aleksandr Potapov

The Miracle (2009)

The film is based on real events that took place in Samara in 1956 and known as the "Standing Zoe." During the holiday girl, without waiting her betrothed, removes the icon from the wall and Nicholas begins to dance with her, but suddenly freezes in place. ...

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №1. Testament of the Emperor (2000)

Russia, January 25, 1725. "Give it all...". The emperor's weakening hand was able to write in his will only these two short incomprehensible words that kept Russia in a bloody struggle for the crown for a century. ...

Love in Russian 2 (1996)

Love in Russian (1995)

A handful of farmers protect their farm from bandits. ...

Nastya (1994)

A young Russian store clerk has a drab existence in times of shortages and is berated by her ailing mother for not seeing men. So she brings home an unknown young man who she met on the tram. She dreams many things but pines for this man. ...

I Wanted to See Angels (1992)

Twenty-year-old Bob rides 1000 km to Moscow on his vintage motorbike to collect a bad debt for his boss; the city chews up and spits out this naive country boy, whose head is full of Easy Rider dreams. ...

Serious Game (1992)

The former policeman dismissed from the criminal investigation Department for abuse of authority, entrusted to engage in the search for gunner burglary and for conspiracy, in the interests of the investigation, it is prescribed by the district. ...

Lyumi (1991)

Half-wolf, half-man, 7 feet tall. He came from mountains to rewrite the "Red Riding Hood" story... ...

Merry Christmas in Paris! or The Gang of Lesbians (1991)

Four women—Redhead, Blackie, May Lily and Irina—survive 1990s Russia by luring wealthy drunks and desperate men into their flat with booze and promises, then robbing and sometimes killing them. Their hulking bodyguard Baban keeps their crimes quiet (an ...

A Captive in the Land (1990)

An American meteorologist attempts to rescue an injured Soviet airman. A killer storm soon maroons them both and the unlikely duo must learn to overcome their differences in order to survive the real life terrors of the Arctic. ...

Lingonberries in the Forest (1989)

Avariya - Cop's Daughter (1989)

A teenage girl nicknamed Avariya - "Crash" - is a rebel child that just can't get along with her family members that try to persuade her to behave normally - that is as other people do. But when Avariya gets gang-raped, his father (who is a cop) breaks all ...

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 ...

Accelerate (1987)

Young girl is dreaming to become a cop - so she starts her own investigation into a group of car thieves. ...

Where is Your Son? (1987)

After leaving the army, Victor Koltsov (the main guy in the movie "Attention! All Posts...") starts working for the police. While looking into a burglary, Victor comes across an 11-year-old boy who ran away from an orphanage. However, the hero does not tak ...

Male Portraits (1987)

Alexei Yuryev chose the profession of literature teacher largely under the influence of his uncle, the actor Alexander Vasnetsov. The difficulties he faced at the vocational school could find their resolution when he met with his uncle, with whom he corres ...

The Will (1986)

Ivan Yegorovich - a front-line soldier, secretary of the rural district party committee in Siberia - receives a directive on reclamation of the area, but he believes that irrigation work will disrupt the water balance and adversely affect crops. Not having ...

Snow in July (1985)

The plot is based on a conflict situation that arose during the delivery of a new building. ...

First Cavalry (1984)

The movie takes us back to the times of the Civil War, when the young Soviet power was defended by the first heroes of this terrible internecine war. Red commanders Semyon Budyonny and Kliment Voroshilov managed to gather an entire army of "red cavalrymen" ...

Still Waters are Deep (1984)

At the site where Mikhail Sveshnev was working, the roof collapsed, crushing one of the miners. At the risk of his life, Mikhail saved his comrade, but the foreman lied to Sveshnev and blamed him for the accident. The commission identified the true culprit ...

Lethargy (1983)

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 ...

It's Up to You (1983)

A young girl visits her family in a village and mistakenly identified by local children as a swimming champion. ...

Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants (1983)

Based on the works of Nikolai Gogol - 'The Old World Landowners', 'The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich', 'Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt'. ...

Mushroom Rain (1982)

The staff of the printing house went to the whole team for mushrooms. As they set out on their way back, they noticed that one woman was missing. Colleagues easily believed that she had left earlier in a passing car, and drove home themselves. In fact, the ...

The Order: Cross the Border (1982)

A movie about a Soviet soldiers on the Japanese borders during 1945. ...

Take Alive (1982)

On the fate of a soldier Vasily Romashkin, yesterday's tenth grader, who went through all the trials of the WWII and ended his combat journey as an intelligence officer. ...

Challenge (1981)

Based on the play of the same name by G. Markov and E. Shim. About the difficult yet creative journey of the Siberian scientist Alexei Krayukhin. ...

White Dance (1981)

The 20s. Stepan Khomutov returns to the Kuban village of Talitsy from the front of the Civil War and decides to organize a commune in the former princely manor. The peasants, fearing both bandits and communards, wait for the outcome of the struggle. In thi ...

The Order: Do Not Open Fire (1981)

A movie about a Soviet soldiers on the Japanese borders during 1941. ...

Beyond The Seven Mountains (1981)

Small group of Armenian construction workers leave for Siberia to earn money. ...

Once Upon a Time Twenty Years Later (1980)

During the twenty years school reunion classmates suddenly learn that one of them - Nadezhda Kruglova - is a proud mother of ten children. ...

Air Crew (1980)

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains. ...

Siberiade (1979)

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road throu ...

Sun in the String Bag (1979)

Incredible comedy about the adventures of Oleg Popov, the Sun Clown ...

Blízke diaľavy (1979)

Soft-Boiled Boots (1978)

The film is based on the stories Anton Chekhov. It is a tribute to the actor Boris Andreyev. He plays a major role that keeps up for the duration of the film. Lively and intelligent Valery Spout largely mitigates underline the drama of the protagonist, whi ...

Destiny (1977)

A war comes to the life of the heroes of "Earthy Love" (1975). ...

The Liberation of Prague (1977)

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discuss ...

The Drummer's Fate (1976)

A young boy is trying to find his family and fights enemies of the state. ...

Long Miles of War (1976)

Duck Village (1976)

In the village called Utka (Duck), in an old larder, there lived a house sprite, Shishok. A real one, with horns and in a fur coat, jolly and mischievous. He could walk through walls and find lost things. The only thing distressing Shishok was that the chi ...

Afonya (1975)

The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wif ...

Return (1975)

The story is about two friends living in one of the provinces of central Russia. Pyotr Vasilyevich decides to marry off his young friend, Boris Andreyich. They visit a widow, two sisters of marriageable age, and the Barsukov family, which consists of two m ...

Earthy Love (1975)

A life of a few people during the years before WWII before the events shown in "Destiny" (1977). ...

The Siberian Woman (1973)

Maria Odintsova, a young engineer, is a leader, secretary of the district committee of a small district, which is beginning to acquire important economic significance: it is decided to build a large hydroelectric power plant here. The heroine's conflict wi ...

Rabbit Reservation (1973)

Negligent, but the enterprising workers of a forest area "Rabbit reserve" unexpectedly wiped out all the rabbits. Now it remains only to wait for a scolding. But suddenly, in the possession of the hapless crooks right from the ground begins to beat the fou ...

To New Shores (1969)

On a gloomy March 1881, an old, sick man was dying in the Nikolaevsky military land hospital in St. Petersburg. Delirium tremens had done its dirty work: there was no hope for recovery. And this "old man" had just turned 42 years old, and it was the great ...

Neutral Waters (1968)

About the heroic feat of the crew of the cruiser Gordeli, who successfully completed the Soviet command's mission to suppress provocations in neutral waters. ...

Let's Remember This Day (1968)

The events take place on the eve of the Great October Socialist Revolution. At the center of the film's narrative is the судьба of a revolutionary grenadier regiment that played an important role in securing the victory of Soviet power in Belarus. ...

The Incident at the Hotel (1967)

A group of young men bursts into a hotel where several guests are already staying, not long after they had run over a motorcyclist and his passenger with their car. Brandishing a knife, they demand that the guests give them a car. ...

A Royal Regatta (1966)

The student rowing team of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) was defeated in the competition. The coach drops the team and leaves, taking the best rowers with him. The remaining athletes decide to assemble a new team, and the management of the institute ...

Fidelity (1965)

A story of a first love between two recent high school graduates who meet one another evening before start of the WWII. ...

Whistle Stop (1963)

Moscow academician Pavel Pavlovich comes to a picturesque village on the seashore to calmly spend his vacation here. Whiling away the time for sketches, he manages to get acquainted with the local guys, the restless Grishka and the daughter of the foreman ...

The Serf Actress (1963)

Batmanova, once a serf, sets Paris aflame with her singing and now returns to the court of the Prince in 19th-century Russia. The Prince wants Batmanova for himself, but she loves a young nobleman who is technically still a serf because his papers have bee ...

By the Ravine (1962)

Senya, a young hunter, hunts for two wolves that have been preying on sheep of various farms in Siberia. Kira Muratova and husband Oleksandr Muratov's diploma film. ...