Anatoli Grachyov

Dinner for Four Hands (2000)

Leipzig, 1747. Handel, the darling of the public and the powerful, invites Bach, the cantor of St. Thomas Church and the father of twenty children, who has just been admitted to the "Society of Musical Sciences," to dinner at a hotel. The aggressive tone o ...

Bukharin: Enemy of the People (1991)

The tragic story of the life of revolutionary and romantic Nikolai Bukharin and his failed attempt to refute the charges against him. In parallel with the trial of Nikolai Bukharin, the whole life of this amazing man, who was ready to die for his ideals, f ...

Green Goat Fire (1990)

One day in the life of a young man named Nikita on his birthday. He is turning twenty-five. At night, Nikita dreams about his childhood, his father, his brother, and his grandmother's gift—a figurine of a goat glowing green. In the morning, it's the usua ...

Бывший папа, бывший сын (1989)

Selfportrait of an Unknown Man (1988)

A strange combination of circumstances leads the forty-year-old engineer Igor into the hall of the old cinema, where the film session has already begun. The main character of the picture is the poet Belov, the same romantic loser, disappointed in himself a ...

The Jester (1988)

Taking advantage of his intellectual superiority, the teenager Valya Uspensky subtly and mercilessly takes revenge on others for small and big offenses. The young mathematics teacher Igor Aleksandrovich also falls into the field of his interests, whose int ...

Male Portraits (1987)

Alexei Yuryev chose the profession of literature teacher largely under the influence of his uncle, the actor Alexander Vasnetsov. The difficulties he faced at the vocational school could find their resolution when he met with his uncle, with whom he corres ...

For the Sake of a Few Lines (1986)

The Carpathians, 1944. The truck with the employees of the divisional newspaper was blown up by a mine. Everyone was alive, but the font was scattered by the blast wave — and now, under the bullets of the enemy, the newspapermen must collect the material ...

Attention, All Posts! (1985)

A former army paratrooper starts working in the police and almost immediately is forced to fight a dangerous criminal. ...

Reporting from the Line of Fire (1985)

Vladimir Rudnev, a VGIK graduate, newsreel cameraman, and his assistant Sashenka, assistant director of the Moscow Newsreel Studio, are filming the Red Army's combat operations during the Great Patriotic War. Not everything works out at once - they have no ...

Two Hussars (1984)

Drama on the novel of the same name L. N. Tolstoy. Two hussars - father and son - two morals, two worldviews. And although older Turbin frivolous in love, but reliable in friendship and principled in matters of honor. Junior Turbines do not stand up to com ...

Plead Guilty (1983)

Criminal Investigation Officer Sergei Voronin takes his position by vocation. He created a club of young friends of the police, in which the guys go in for sports and meet interesting people. But he is worried about the company of guys who fell under the i ...

The Cat Started It All (1982)

The film is based on Yuri Tomin's story "Everything's the Other Way Around Today" and tells the tale of children who decide to stage a "Disobedience Day." Galka, Yurka, and Slavik make a pact to listen to no one and do only what they want. Their bewilder ...

A Child's World (1982)

A middle-aged jeweler is falling in love with a glorious woman. She, raising a son alone, is in no hurry to reciprocate a fan. ...

I'm Staying with You (1981)

The last years of writer Arkady Gaidar's life. ...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1980)

In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, and Edwin fights Neville Landles, who is in love with Rose, leading to his disappearance. ...

Steep Field (1980)

Stepan Kochkarin, the chairman of one of the leading Altai collective farms, a former front-line soldier, intends to unite the machinery and personnel of the neighboring backward farms into a single complex on the central farmstead, but not everyone suppor ...

Little Nothings of Life (1980)

A day in the life of one not too secured family. The spouses are going to divorce and reconcile connected with this formalities. It is needed somehow to divide the property, deal with the housing. And in addition the nature gives a surprise – a flood. ...

Something with the Telephone (1979)

Based on the fantastic story by Kir Bulychyov "Can You Ask for Nina?". Guests gathered in Vadim Nikolayevich's apartment to celebrate the 1979's New Year with a cheerful company. The landlord unsuccessfully tries to reach his friend Nina. He, dialing a nu ...

Scarlet Straps (1979)

A story of a young cadets of Suvorovsky army school - based on Boris Iziumskii novel. ...

The Last Chance (1979)

For Slava Gorokhov, his next adventure ends with a conditional conviction. By decision of law enforcement agencies, a young man begins to study at a vocational school for re-education. From the first day of being in vocational school, the young man is in t ...

The Last F (1978)

Once a very curious sixth grader lost interest in studying for unknown reasons. He even reconciled that he would remain in the second year. ...

Speech for the Defence (1977)

Valya supported her lover, denied herself everything, devotedly and sincerely loved him. He answered her with black ingratitude. Struck in the very heart, Valya decides to commit suicide with him. ...

Who’s Behind the Wall? (1977)

The near future. A fantastic experiment using the test of the mathematician Alan Turing, in which an examiner, a human, and a robot take part. During the test, the examiner must determine who is behind the wall: a person or a thinking machine. The experime ...

...And Other Officials (1976)

The plot structure of the film is based on a commonplace situation from the practice of foreign trade organizations - the conclusion of a trade agreement with a foreign company. ...

My Calling (1976)

The protagonist of the film, Druyanov, is the director of a large boiler manufacturing plant — a talented man with vast life experience, capable of understanding current challenges and looking into the future. However, he is about to be dismissed from hi ...

Wolves Pack (1975)

A story about few partisans hiding in the Belarusian woods and fighting German Army during WWII. ...

The Boy Named Captain (1973)

A story about a young hero of the Great Patriotic War, scout Yasha Gordienko. A short, stocky boy who dreamed of becoming a military sailor was a liaison of a partisan detachment in Odesa occupied by the Nazis. Captured on the denunciation of a traitor, he ...

Outsider (1973)

An employee leaves the company, lured away by a "competing company", but his boss doesn't want to let him go at all, not handing over the documents, instead of saying goodbye through the secretary, that he doesn't want him to leave, and gives three months ...

Varka's Land (1970)

Varya Kravets remains on her native collective farm after graduating from school. Her first love also came to her. The death of her beloved is all the more unexpected for her. Fellow villagers are helping to overcome the crisis. ...

Thirst Over the Stream (1969)

In search of an interesting life, Lisa goes not to the south, but to the tundra, and there gets a job as an assistant to the hydrologist of the search party, Lyosha. Soon the young people decide to get married. Due to a long snowstorm, no guests come to th ...

Spring on the Oder (1968)

The action unfolds in the last months of the WWII in Germany. Major Lubentsova meets a military doctor Tanya Koltsova, with whom once, in 1941, they once got out of the encirclement together. After that, their paths diverged. But in April 1945, during the ...

Beloved (1965)

After graduating high school Ira Yegorova starts working in the construction... ...

Alyonka (1962)

Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alyonka Muratova is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovi ...

Clear Skies (1961)

For many years, Sasha Lvova has been waiting for the return of her lover, pilot Aleksei Astakhov, refusing to believe in his death at the front. And he really returns to her and his son after captivity, but this is a completely different person, rejected b ...