Alexey Rodionov

Empire V (2023)

In modern-day Moscow, disaffected former journalism student Roman follows a cryptic invitation to join "the elite" and finds himself forcibly transformed into a vampire. But not your typical creature of the night. Thanks to a parasitical worm known as the ...

The Party (2017)

Various individuals think they're coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray. ...

Уходящая натура (2014)

Hard to Be a God (2014)

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can the ...

Generation P (2011)

Set in the ground zero of gangster globalism and driven by a truly manic energy, Generation P is at once a comedy, a tragedy and a fantasy about the rise of a poet-turned-adman through Russia's nascent advertising business during the Moscow roaring 1990s. ...

Bedouin (2011)

Rita's daughter is sick with leukemia. In order to obtain the money for a bone marrow transplant, she travels from Ukraine to Russia to become a surrogate mother. The homosexual couple who are the biological parents of the child die in an automobile accide ...

Admiral (2008)

This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. One day he meets Anna, the love of his life and the wife of his best friend. The revolution in his heart ...

Yes (2005)

She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because of his heritage and her loveless marriage. She flies to Havana to sort things out on the beach and in the ...

Summer Rain (2003)

After her foreign husband returns home to Germany, a young Russian woman finds true love with a doctor in Moscow. ...

Where Eskimos Live (2002)

Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and fight t ...

24 Hours (2000)

Feliks, professional killer, has only 24 hours to get to the distant island, where his beloved woman and the money for the custom made is waiting for him. Lyova Shalamov and his brother Garik have also 24 hours to find and to kill Feliks. ...

Eisenstein (2000)

A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. ...

Cinderella (2000)

Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father is won over by a selfish woman named Claudette, Cinderella must keep her new step-mother from murdering the only family she has left. Add in an anti-social ...

Hut (1999)

In a small community in the Ural mountains of Russia in 1953, just after Stalin's death, Barracks begins with the arrival of Olga (Irina Senotova). Olga is alone, her entire family wiped out by a Stalinist purge in Leningrad. ...

Talk of Angels (1998)

This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she finds the sam ...

Passion in the Desert (1997)

Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbari ...

Time (1995)

Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has beco ...

The Muslim (1995)

A Russian soldier who spent ten years in captivity in Afghanistan, returns to his home village and shocks all its inhabitants because of his conversion to Islam. During his absence, his father hanged himself, his brother served a prison term and his former ...

Orlando (1992)

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request. ...

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. ...

Afghan Breakdown (1991)

During the main withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a company of hardened paratroopers under the command of Major Bandura are joined by Steklov, the son of a high-ranking officer. ...

Kerosene Salesman's Wife (1989)

A fatal surgical mistake involving the wrong blood type splits the lives of twin brothers. One, the guilt-ridden surgeon, embraces anonymity as a kerosene salesman, while his sibling ascends to become the powerful Chairman of the City Council. When a gover ...

Shura & Prosvirnjak (1988)

Shura, a telephone operator, is disliked by her management for her straightforward demeanor. One day, a limping newcomer with the strange surname Prosvirnjak arrives, and Shura takes an instant antipathy to him. ...

We Are Cheerful, Happy, Talented! (1986)

A troubled journalist is joining the club which promotes healthy lifestyle. ...

Confrontation (1985)

In 1979, in one of the northern Soviet cities, the police are investigating the murder of a man who was on his way home from the gold mines. The detectives track down the main suspect, Grigory Milinko. But the further the case progresses, the more complica ...

Come and See (1985)

The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya f ...

Meeting Before Separation (1985)

Among Grey Stones (1983)

A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry ...

Farewell (1983)

Matyora is a small village on an eponymous beautiful island; its existence is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam, leaving its citizens forced to bid farewell to their beloved home. ...

The Duenna (1979)

A funny musical based on the comedy "The Duenna" by British dramatist Richard B. Sheridan. ...

The Wife Has Left (1979)

He considered his family life perfect. Normal, and sometimes big wages quite satisfied a beautiful and gentle wife. The child didn't cause much trouble. All that was needed for his happiness was available. But the wife is gone. She left not to another, but ...

Sing a Song, Poet (1973)

About the life and work of the poet Sergei Yesenin, his connection with his native country, its people and nature. Childhood, love, painful searches for his place in the new, revolutionary Russia — everything found a place in Yesenin's lyrics. Frames ill ...

The Petrukha Family (1971)

The young Petrukha couple live in a village - a kind, docile husband and strict wife. Soon, twins are born to them. ...