Aleksei Smirnov

Diplomats Reluctantly (1978)

For the first time in his married life, People's Artist Ostapchuk had the opportunity to spend a vacation with his beloved wife, a film actress, in Crimea. But his wife was "kidnapped" on the doorstep of their home by a brazen film director. And instead of ...

The Most Beautiful Horse (1977)

A serious passion for equestrian sports helped the F student become one of the best in the class. ...

These Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams (1977)

Amazing Berendeev (1976)

After starting learning in a technical school a young student Sergey Berendeev proves to everybody that he's a real inventor. ...

To the Bright Light (1976)

Circus in the Circus (1976)

To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), Bri ...

Shepherd Yanka (1976)

A young shepherd Yanka tries to save his beloved girl Marinka with the help of his magic fife. ...

Finest, the Brave Falcon (1975)

This fairy tale film is dedicated to the memory of the great film director Aleksandr Rou, the founder of the genre. Once upon a time there lived a brave and kind hero named Finist the Bright Falcon. He was famous for his strength, courage and a heart of go ...

Change a Dog for a Train (1975)

Ten years old Alik is invited to star in a movie as a young partisan but almost loses the opportunity. ...

A Star of the Screen (1974)

A young actress before playing in the movie legendary partisan, looking for everyone who knew her character. And suddenly learns that the fearless guerrilla is alive and works as the Director of resort hotel where the film crew stopped. ...

The Classified City (1974)

Children's pioneer camp on the coast of Black Sea. On the eve of the war game "The Classified City" - annual and traditional , someone steals the team bugle - a source of pride for the entire squad. ...

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974)

Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of ...

Car, Violin and Blot the Dog (1974)

A fantasy story about five-grades - musician and engineer, their friend - the most beautiful girl in the world, her brother who dreams to turn all cats into monkeys, his dog Klyaksa and a lot more stuff… ...

The New Adventures of Doni and Mikki (1973)

Cipollino (1973)

In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic produce, Cipollino fights the unjust treatment of his fellow vegetable townsfolk by the fruit royalty (Prince Lemon and the overly proud Lord Tomato) in the garden kingdom. ...

The Last Days of Pompeii (1973)

A team of pop artists arrives in a small resort town and hopes to make money easily. But the guest performers are not given a provincial reception. Vacationing students of the theater university expose the hacks and declare a boycott against them... ...

Golden Horns (1973)

A long time ago a splendid deer with golden antlers lived in the woods, always protecting the poor and weak and disdaining evil. In a little village nearby the woods widow Yevdokya lived with her twin daughters Mashenka and Dashenka, her son and her old fa ...

A Circle (1972)

Police captain Aleshin is investigating a case related to the theft of opium at a chemical factory warehouse. Everything suggests that the offender must be sought among the employees of the enterprise. One of the workers, Frolov, is familiar to Alyoshin in ...

The Large Amber (1972)

A band arrives late at the competition. They try to find the jury and show their performance. ...

White Queen's Move (1972)

A ski coach in a midlife crisis is about to quit his career in sports. ...

Boba and the Elephant (1972)

One day, the elephant—the pride of the zoo—leaves its enclosure and goes for a walk around the city. All attempts by the keepers to bring it back are unsuccessful. Only a five-year-old boy manages to establish contact with the giant animal. ...

Where are you, Knights? (1971)

Young musician Zhenya Kovalchuk falls in love with aerobatic pilot Yulia. The feeling is mutual, but Yulia cannot bring herself to reveal her feelings to Zhenya. Then the famous, but not yet elderly, Doctor of Science Kressovsky, who also hopes for Yulia's ...

The Owner (1971)

After the end of the civil war, sailor Ivan Ivanov, who dreams of working at the legendary Putilov factory, arrives in Petrograd to build a new life. ...

Spring Tale (1971)

A fairytale based on the play by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy. ...

"Margarita" is Raging (1970)

Wait For Me, Anna (1969)

A love story during wartime. ...

Not Under the Jurisdiction (1969)

In a training flight, the Il-28 plane crashes. Shooter-radio operator Sorokin without an order leaves the plane, lands first and writes a denunciation to the pilot Yegorov. Yegorov has to leave military service, his beloved girlfriend Nadya is leaving him. ...

The White Grand Piano (1969)

Musicologist Alla Arsenyeva arrives in Tadjikistan on a mission. Her goal is to find a unique white grand piano, known to be made in France in the nineteenth century. Rumours say it was last seen in the republic's capital Dushanbe. The local authorities, h ...

Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes (1968)

Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka. ...

The Scouts (1968)

WWII, 1945. There are fights for the city on the Danube. The river is mined by the Germans, and this fetters the action of our troops. In addition, a city with a million people was left without food. And downstream are Soviet food barges. The command instr ...

Goal! Another Goal! (1968)

A drama about football coaches and players. ...

Seven Old Men and One Girl (1968)

Lara Velichko is a young coach who's dreaming about coaching world champions but suddenly she's forced to train a group of a very grumpy old men. ...

Save the Drowning Man (1968)

The film tells about the pioneer Andrew and his friend. They imitate the accident in front of foreign tourists on the water. The young correspondent Egor noticed this, and as a result, the portraits of the pioneer hang wherever possible, he receives an inv ...

The Golden Watch (1968)

Street kid Petka stole a gold watch. But once in the orphanage, he learns the price of human kindness, warmth and care, the joy of friendship, mutual assistance and loyalty. After all, he returns the watch to its owner. ...

The Trial (1968)

Based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov. ...

Good Wind, 'Blue Bird'! (1967)

The beautiful "Blue Bird" schooner is sailing along the Adriatic sea coast. The passengers of the schooner are children of different nationalities, winners of the competition "For Peace and Mutual Understanding". During this wonderful sea voyage children f ...

Wedding in Malinovka (1967)

The movie takes place during Russia's civil war between the Reds (Bolsheviks) and the Whites (Mensheviks). Andrejka and Yarinka are a young betrothed couple in the village of Malinovka, caught between the battle lines. Gritsian is the leader of a Menshevik ...

Red, Blue, Green (1967)

They Were Known Only By Their Faces (1967)

Explosions are raging in one of the ports in the territory occupied by the German fascist invaders. An old and experienced military leader, Admiral Reinhardt, arrives to investigate these emergencies. Together with the head of the Gestapo, SS Standartenfue ...

The Life and Ascension of Yuras Bratchik (1967)

In ancient times of famine and Tatar raids, the satirist Yuras Bratchik appears to the people in the guise of Christ, and the people believe in a miracle. The cunning monk Bosyatsky decides to use this event. Arrested by order of the Cardinal, Yuras and hi ...

12 graves of Khoja Nasreddin (1967)

Soviet film following Nasreddin ...

Give Me a Paw, My Friend! (1967)

A little girl takes in a German Shepherd puppy and the dog grows up to be her and her family's best friend. ...

This Solid Ground (1967)

The test pilot arrived in his native village disappointed, emotionally traumatized, and physically exhausted. Meeting with people dear to him, visiting places close to his heart, and touching his native soil revived him and restored his strength and self-c ...

Aybolit-66 (1966)

In Africa, monkeys fell ill. This news was reported to Dr. Aybolit by the monkey Chichi, who escaped from the robber Barmaley. Aybolit and his assistants — Chichi and the dog Avva — are in a hurry to save the monkeys from the disease. But Barmaley and ...

In the Town of S. (1966)

A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator. ...

Three Fat Men (1966)

A fairy tale film about the clever tightrope walker Tibule, who fights alongside the armorer Prospero and all the working people against the tyrants, the three Fat Men, who rule the state until the young heir Tutti comes of age. The freedom fighters are ai ...

It Also Happens (1966)

The film consists of three short stories: "The Runaway Car," "Apollo's Skeleton," and "Night Show. ...

The Sleeping Lion (1965)

After a shy bank employee helps to catch two robbers he becomes a totally different person. ...

Storm over Asia (1965)

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly. ...

Returned Music (1965)

Young musicologist Marina Gabrielyan arrives in Leningrad with the aim of finding and restoring the first symphony by renowned composer Sergei Kornilov. Despite the composer's active resistance, she manages to find individual parts of the symphony and, wit ...

Mercy Train (1965)

Two strangers meet in an ambulance train during WWII. ...

Two Sundays (1964)

Lyuska, an employee of the only savings bank in the very young town of Radiozavodsk, wins a nylon fur coat on a lottery ticket. Her colleagues advise her to get the money and buy something useful. Lyuska goes to the regional capital, receives the money, an ...

Little Hare (1964)

How can anyone take a person seriously when his last name is Zaychik (Little Hare). Everyone can manipulate and make fun of him. And Zaychik never strikes back just because he is too shy. But to the surprise of everyone love makes a lion out of little hare ...

The Mandate (1964)

1919. Gleb Prokhorov, a worker from St. Petersburg, is sent on a mission by the party to lead a small food supply detachment with a mandate signed by Lenin to a village to get bread for starving Petrograd. But in an unequal battle with the kulaks, the enti ...

Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)

Children rebel against the strict rules and regulations they face during their time in a Communist Young Pioneer camp. ...

A Tale of Don (1964)

Wife of the Red cossack Yakov Shibalok turns out to be a spy of the Whites, as she confesses to him during childbirth. Now Yakov is faced with a difficult choice between revolutionary duty and love for his wife. Based on short stories by Mikhail Sholokhov. ...

Mother and Stepmother (1964)

Once, in search of an easy life, Katerina abandoned her daughter, giving her upbringing to an orphanage. Now, many years later, kind and conscientious, she returns to her native village and appears in the house where her daughter grew up ... ...

A Hard Day's Monday (1964)

Having very skillfully organized the food production of "worse quality, but more quantity", the Tonap share partnership began to gain power. Khristoforov, the underground organization's head, is concerned about the spoiled products' sale, and he developed ...

The Bicycle Tamers (1964)

A comedy about a young inventor girl, a brave veterinarian, his athletic friend and funny cycling races, where not strongest wins, but true friendship and love. ...

Spring Chores (1964)

Meet Baluyev (1963)

In 1960-ies, Baluev, the head of the construction site of the main gas pipeline, decides to lay the track straight through the swamp, not giving a damn about the approved project. In addition to his basic boss duties, Baluyev actively engages in educationa ...

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 ...

Strictly Business (1963)

Three stories based on O. Henry novels. (1) Bob Tidball recovers $30,000 in pristine credit cards from a bandit's sack and races across the plains until his horse breaks its leg. Forced to mount Dodson's stallion, he's ambushed and killed by "Shark" Dodson ...

General and Daisies (1963)

A simple Polish man, Władek Lekowski, a former pilot, finds himself in exile after World War II due to a ridiculous accident. Poor and without a job or shelter, he sleeps on the beach. There, he meets and falls in love with Zosia, another Polish emigrant ...

Business Trip (1962)

Agricultural machinery design engineer Mikhail Shcherbakov goes to the countryside instead of taking a vacation. The tractor designed by him does not work in one of the collective farms. Circumstances force him to stay much longer than he expected. Here he ...

Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1961)

The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) ...

Striped Trip (1961)

A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, letting the tigers and lions out. Poor passengers and crew have no place to run. The captain abandons his post out of fear ...

Roman and Francesca (1961)

A Soviet trading ship sank into the Italian port. Sailor Roman went ashore. In one of the squares he heard singing. It was sung by Francesca. The sailor was delighted with her voice and beauty. They wandered for a long time that day on ancient streets and ...

Man with Future (1961)

At first, everyone treated Ivan Kondakov, a young inventor, with irony. But a mine is a mine. And so his absent-mindedness, tardiness, and other frivolous behavior were often ridiculed in the miners' newspaper. His school friend Lelia, who had graduated fr ...

Resurrection (1960)

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeemin ...

Hot Soul (1960)

Young steelworker Fyodor Shebalin raises questions with his superiors about the organization of production and puts forward a number of proposals. The naive young man is ordered to work as he should. The young man does not give up and involves the factory' ...

A Friend in Court Is Better... (1959)

Director of Museum of local lore Ivan Bazhanov, being an enthusiast of the business, went treasure hunting, taking with him a few accidentally encountered people. They understand in pursuit of the treasure that sincere friendship is priceless. ...

Kochubey (1958)

A story of Kochubey - a hero of Russian Civil War. ...

Baltic Glory (1958)

A film about the struggle of Baltic Fleet sailors for revolutionary Petrograd in the autumn of 1917. The film focuses on the fates of a sailor and a naval officer who join the ranks of those fighting for the revolution. ...