Aleksandr Zavyalov

The Tolstoy Defence (2018)

The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital's lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progr ...

Gogol. Viy (2018)

A mysterious Dark Horseman slays young girls near the village of Dikanka, and he has already butchered 11 ladies. Nikolai Gogol, a scribe from Saint Petersburg has to take charge of the investigation, but the closer he gets to solving the case, the more fi ...

Skerry-18 (2011)

Evgeny Sormatov, a veteran of the special forces detachment, goes to a picturesque lake in Karelia. He carries with him the last letter of comrade Andrei Egorov, who died several years ago, and the Order of the Hero of Russia, which he was awarded posthumo ...

And Shepilov, Who Joined Them (2011)

The Priest (2009)

Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII. ...

Wild Field (2008)

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

Angel's Aisle (2008)

In a year of 1924 a commissar from Soviet Russia is trying to find and kill Finnish general. ...

White Lilacs (2007)

From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer Serguei Rachmaninov. This film is based on the legend that Rachmaninoff received a bouquet of lilacs from a ...

Посылка с Марса (2004)

Trio (2003)

Three people in the cab of truck: Alexei the driver, his partner Nikolai, and Marina, a prostitute they picked up on their way. Or so it seems... In fact, all three are police detectives. Their task: to uncover a gang that has been robbing long-haul trucks ...

Russian Special Forces (2002)

Fourteen Colors of the Rainbow (2000)

Runaway prisoner goes searching for a treasure to the island populated with poachers and starover cult with his two companions, an intellectual and a prostitute ...

Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998)

General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova lose their way on a fishing trip and wind up in a neighboring country, where they decide to have a good time anyway but end up leaving their vodka and fishing equipment behind. ...

Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)

Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov, ex-CIA agent Craig, and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky. They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian gov ...

Tough Time (1996)

With the money of the gangsters, the director made a film that received prizes at four festivals, but did not raise money. Now he is forced to shoot porn on video. ...

Bullet to Beijing (1995)

When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened because a deadly biochemical ...

Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1995)

A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting party. His flamboyant companions include an Army general, with more than a passing resemblance to Aleksande ...

Everything Will Be All Right (1995)

This charming comedy tracks the lives of several romantic pairs through trials and tribulations. The main focus of the story is a young soldier with a good heart but little ambition and his fiancée, who feels torn when a charming and sophisticated intelle ...

Drumroll (1993)

A tragicomic grotesque fantasy about the adventures of a drum and its owner in a country once called the Soviet Union. ...

Prisoners of Fortune (1993)

A parody of the clichés and techniques of the Soviet adventurous comedy genre of the 1950s-1970s. This is a story about three heroes who return to their home city after escaping from prison. Truthfulness and sincerity help the characters find their place ...

Сикимоку (1993)

Gadzho (1992)

A lonely, defenseless, unsettled man meets a beautiful gypsy woman and falls in love with her. Having left the service, having left home, he sticks to the camp, but even here he finds neither home nor love — only pity. So he remains a "gadjo" for everyon ...

Seven-Forty (1992)

The group of immigrants who depart to the United States, by chance finds itself in a deserted forest. Cut off from the civilized world, they begin to build their "own America". ...

Get Thee Out (1991)

In Russia at the turn of the century, a wealthy Jewish merchant enjoys the best of relations with his Russian neighbours, while his respected home forms the obvious social centre of the entire community. However, the atmosphere grows more tense as the loca ...

Myth About Leonid (1991)

A retro-journalistic drama based on one of the versions of Kirov's murder, proposed by former NKVD general Orlov, who managed to escape death during the "purge" in the "Kirov" case. ...

Arithmetic of a Murder (1991)

A man, a local hooligan and alcoholic, is killed in a gloomy St. Petersburg communal apartment. Each of the residents hated him in their own way, and each had their own motive for the crime. But everyone has an ironclad alibi. A local disabled person under ...

Hop: Exodus (1991)

The film tells the story of the life of an Old Believer community at the beginning of the last century. The drama of an unusual life, a story of love and human passions. ...

Hop: The Fortress (1991)

Based on the novel of the same name by Alexei Cherkasov. The film tells the story of an Old Believer community at the beginning of the last century. The drama of an unusual life, a story of love and human passions. ...

The House Built on Sand (1991)

A slice of life among Russian intelligentsia on the eve of WWII. A haunting reminder of Stalin's psychotic purge of 1938 and the nightmarish German siege of Leningrad. ...

Coma (1990)

While detained in one of the Soviet Gulags (prison work camps), Maria fell in love with and had a child by one of the camp guards. However, in order to save her baby, she was manipulated into a situation where she had to betray her lover. The main attracti ...

Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole (1990)

A satiric comedy which dissects the iconography of the 'Soviet Hero'. Original footage of a propaganda film from 1941 is the starting point for this parody of the ideological cliches of Soviet cinema. It follows the story of a Russian crew across the North ...

Двадцать минут с ангелом (1989)

Decease (1989)

The life story of two fellow villagers in the period 1920–50s. ...

Without A Uniform (1988)

The head of the Pervomaiskaya Railway, at the first stage of perestroika, having accidentally learned that they want to fire him from his job, decides to carry out an experiment he had long planned - to put a super-heavy train on the tracks... ...

The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)

In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in t ...

Our Dad Mayonnaise (1986)

The boy writes an essay at school in which he wants to be like his father - with mayonnaise, i.e. "MNS" (junior research fellow). ...

Exceptions Without Rules (1986)

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major". ...

The Defendant (1985)

Anton Skulov, a war invalid, shot a drunk young man with a hunting rifle who climbed into his garden and ruined rare flowers that his wife, a war veteran, had grown before her death. The investigation was short-lived, the accused immediately admitted his g ...

Flight with the Astronaut (1980)

The purposeful village guy is indifferent to entertainment, but strictly follows the daily schedule, studies languages and exact sciences. There are two goals in his life - to become an astronaut and win the heart of his former classmate. ...