Aleksandr Zarkhi

Chicherin (1986)

Chicherin - Russian revolutionary, Soviet diplomat, first People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR and the USSR. Member of the USSR Central Executive Committee of 1-5 convocations, member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party. ...

Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky (1981)

Twenty-Six Days in the Life of Dostoyevsky was entered on February 16th at the 1981 Berlin Film Festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Dostoyevsky's death on February 9th, 1881, and won a "Best Actor" award for Anatoly Solonitsyn as Dostoyevsky. ...

Story of an Unknown Actor (1976)

Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev is not that young of an actor. For many years he plays in the provincial theater in leading roles. The director of a play based on a play that was written for Goryaev takes the young actor for his role. Goryaev at first falls into d ...

The Cities and the Years (1974)

The action takes place in Germany and Russia and tells about the events of the First World War, the Revolution and the Civil War. The main character, the artist Andrei Startsev, has to go through a lot before he finds his place in the new world. ...

Anna Karenina (1967)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

My Younger Brother (1962)

School is over, final exams are behind — and Dima was the first to think of waving away from home. The convictions of his elder brother Viktor about a serious attitude to the future life only more "warmed up" the four friends, and for the first time they ...

People on the Bridge (1959)

The end of the 50s. The former head of the department Bulygin is sent from Moscow to Siberia to build a bridge across the Severnaya River. With him goes his family: his wife, son, daughter and his daughter's fiancé. Once an experienced builder, and now ju ...

The Fires of Baku (1958)

Dedicated to the development of the oil industry of Soviet Azerbaijan in the background of the first half of the twentieth century, including their selfless work in strengthening the economic and military might of the USSR. ...

Height (1957)

For the construction of the plant comes a team of ironworkers, they will carry out the installation of the blast furnace according to the new method. A film about the difficult characters of ordinary Soviet people who know how to work, dream, love - to bui ...

Nesterka (1955)

Pavlinka (1952)

About the love of a Belarusian peasant girl Pavlinka and a village teacher Yakim, about the obstacles that stood in their way, about how they fought against them and defended their happiness. ...

The Precious Seed (1948)

A young journalist is sent to the region to prepare her thesis. Here the heroine will have to independently publish several issues of the newspaper, meet people, understand their actions and herself... ...

In the Name of Life (1946)

Three friends, three young surgeons, returning from war, begin working on a complex medical problem. Their hard work does not yield the desired results, and two of them lose faith in success... ...

Defeat of Militaristic Japan (1946)

The Last Hill (1944)

A World War II era Soviet war film, focusing on the role of the Red Navy rather than land forces, and reviving the 1920s concept of the collective hero. ...

His Name Is Sukhe-Bator (1942)

The film tells about the founder of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the leader of the Mongolian People's Revolution - Damdin Sukhe-Bator. ...

Fearless Patriot (1942)

A group of people from Japan who will carry out espionage and sabotage operations have been landed on our border. They got lost in the air and came to the old herdsman, ransacked his house, robbed his belongings, and forced him to show them the way. The ol ...

Member of the Government (1940)

In the 1930s, during Collectivization, we follow Alexandra Sokolova, who having joined a kolkhoz, is promoted by the Party to the management of the farm: she becomes chairman of the kolkhoz, courageously coping with the difficulties of collectivization, th ...

Baltic Deputy (1937)

A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their ...

Hectic Days (1935)

A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer. ...

My Motherland (1933)

In 1929, the Chinese are preparing an attack on the CER, recruiting soldiers to their gang. Among them there is a resident of a lodging house Van. Having recovered after a sudden attack on a Soviet border village, the Red Army squad goes on the offensive. ...

One Day of Mosfilm (1985)

The film tells about the main stages of the history of the country's largest studio "Mosfilm", about the work of the creative team, introduces the viewer to the outstanding masters of Soviet cinematography, with such unique groups such as the Theater-Studi ...

Our Cinema (1940)