Aleksandr Zhukov

Foma Gordeyev (1959)

Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The mind is sickened by the dirt and injustice of life around him. Foma is seeking solace in a drunken rampage and wild antics. After many years of desolation, ...

New Adventures of Puss in Boots (1958)

Lyuba, a daughter of King of Chess is kidnapped by playing Cards... Young Vanya and his best friend - Puss in the boots - are trying to rescue Lyuba. ...

Special Assignment (1958)

Quiet Flows the Don (1957)

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks o ...

Precious Gift (1956)

The inveterate fisherman Karp Trofimovich has his birthday during competition of fishermen so his nephew clings a huge pike to the uncle's hook . ...

The Anna Cross (1954)

Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is r ...

True Friends (1954)

Alexander, Boris and Vasily are old friends, who now rarely see each other as they're busy with their professional life. They embark on long-planned voyage on a raft down the Volga river, which turns into a series of comical accidents but also strengthens ...

The Frigid Sea (1954)

Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ... ...

May Night, or the Drowned Maiden (1952)

The son of an obstinate mayor cannot get his father's consent to wed the beautiful Hanna. He receives unexpected assistance from evil, mysterious forces – Satan, witches, and rusalki – who work together to bring the couple happiness, bringing mayhem a ...

The Village Teacher (1947)

A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people and examples by 1880s revolutionary "People's Will" member teachers, a young woman spent her life ...

A Girl with Character (1939)

A young girl is traveling from Siberia to Moscow in order to get help with the mink farm she is working in and which is suffering under incompetent management. ...

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)

Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to his warm-hearted grandmother, who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse. ...

Friends From the Camp (1938)

Wish Upon a Pike (1938)

Adapted from four different Russian folk-tales, this early Soviet fantasy film tells the story of Emelya the Fool, who, fishing one day, catches a talking pike who pleads for his life and in return grants Emelya wishes for a life spared. ...

By the Bluest of Seas (1936)

Two men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm, where they work on its fishing boats and woo the young woman leading the fishermen. ...

Marionettes (1934)

Fearing the Soviet Union, rich businessmen who want more influence in Europe decide to give the nation of Boufferia a new king, an easy to handle drunkard. ...

Ruddy's Career (1934)

The movie tells about the first years of Nazism. In the center of the plot is a German student graduating from an institute and receiving a diploma with a gold medal for success in science. The same is honored by his Jewish friend Joseph Voltmeyer. During ...

Outskirts (1933)

In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism. ...

The Thaw (1931)

A story about capitalistic corruption in a small village and the personal struggles of Anka (Vera Marinich) as she is pregnant and abandoned by her lover. ...