Anatoliy Kotenyov

The North Pole (2025)

The beginning of the 1960s, a period of aggravation of the confrontation between the USSR and the USA. In the most difficult weather conditions and with malfunctions on board, the first Soviet nuclear submarine K-3 sets off for a hike under the ice of the ...

Commander (2024)

A boy from a remote Ural village, who grew up without a father in a large family, managed not only to survive the hardships of a wartime childhood and post-war devastation, but also to become at the origins of the creation of the Group A anti-terrorist uni ...

Dads (2022)

Four stories that the viewer can relate to, all about father's love. Our relationships with our fathers are very different. However, no matter how our lives work out, for our dads we always stay kids. Different destinies. Different characters. Different re ...

The Humorist (2019)

The Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships. ...

Fragments of Happiness (2017)

The Spacewalker (2017)

March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is to ...

Chief (2015)

A story about the life of Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer. ...

Племяшка (2014)

Metro (2013)

Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city's underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually ...

Букет (2013)

Love for the poor (2012)

Marusi's father dies on the operating table, and from that moment her life has changed dramatically. In search of work, the girl meets Alexei and his cousin Kostya. Both young men are not indifferent to Marusa - now she has to make a difficult choice. She ...

Novel in letters (2011)

Young poet Tatiana comes to Moscow to enter the literary Institute. Capital meets her surly: first, a cheating taxi driver, then her trying to steal. Everything is changed by a chance meeting with a young architect Denis, who offered to drive a confused g ...

Рысь (2010)

The Apocalypse Code (2007)

Terrorist Jaffad Ben Zayidi steals four nuclear bombs from a sunken American submarine and hides them in four major cities throughout the world. The charges can be activated by an 11-digit code. Zayidi dies and his accomplice, nicknamed "The Executioner," ...

Breakthrough (2005)

Russian paratroopers company meets superior forces of Chechen separatists during raid in mountains and accept uphill battle with no chance to survive. ...

Bless the Woman (2003)

Tiny Soviet village by the sea, in the years before the Second World War... A very young girl, Vera, falls madly in love with an older military officer who is visiting from out of town. She leaves her home and family to live with him in various military po ...

As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)

The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and thr ...

The Guide (2001)

Artem, an unlucky but cheerful student, is undeservedly imprisoned for 15 days. The situation is complicated by the fact that he has a friend, a Rottweiler named Boy, who has absolutely nowhere to go. And yet Artem manages to get him adopted - a charming s ...

Казачья быль (1999)

Love in Russian 3: Governor (1999)

Former farmer V.P. Mukhin became governor. His enemies are trying to prevent him from signing an agreement with Belarus on the construction of a bridge. He is given 7 days to think about it. Alone and unarmed, the old man goes to a meeting with representat ...

Contract with Death (1998)

A talented surgeon becomes a target of various forces after inventing a new organs transplantation technique. ...

Running From Death (1997)

In the house of goldmaker Tikhon Kondratievich Molokov, carnival is celebrated noisily, on a grand scale, with gypsies. Everyone drank pretty, and when the mayor tried to "seduce" the owner's daughter Anisya, the girl's father broke his nose. Frightened by ...

From Hell to Hell (1997)

Focuses on the lives of two married Polish couples (one Jewish, one Catholic) and the personal and social devastation wrought by the Holocaust and its aftermath. ...

Dezertir (1997)

По мотивам романа Александра Звягинцева "Русский Рэмбо". Афганистан 1986 г. Офицер-десантник Игорь Скворцов по прозвищу Скиф сразу после свад� ...

Love in Russian 2 (1996)

Chetvyortaya Planeta (1995)

Three astronauts (two Russians and American) find a very Soviet-alike small town on the fourth planet from Sun. ...

Istanbul Transit (1993)

Another shipment of drugs arrives in Ukraine from Istanbul in a cargo of expensive carpets. The drug traffickers are closely followed by Interpol officers, whose goal is to uncover the entire chain of the criminal business. But it soon turns out that the c ...

White Lake (1992)

A story about two homeless teenagers who have a dream - to visit a beautiful White Lake. ...

Goal at Spasskie Gate (1991)

1952 Olympic Games. A football match between the USSR national team and the SFRY attracts the close attention of the political leaders of these countries who had quarreled by that time... As soon as the football team lost this match, the CSKA team, the "te ...

Sheriff's Star (1991)

1991 television film adaptation of Sidney Sheldon's 1970 novel The Naked Face. ...

The Man from the Dump (1991)

A former boxing champion returns to his native town and takes to drink, but finds the strength to stop: he marries and gets a job at a factory. During perestroika he joins the democratic movement. The authorities declare him a rapist. ...

Déjà vu (1990)

After Mick Nich, a 1930's Chicago gangster, sells out his own gang to the police, the Mafia hires the best hitman in town, Johnny Pollack, to follow him to Odessa, USSR. Upon arrival, Pollack loses his memory and goes on various adventures with a group of ...

Delusion (1989)

Boxer Gennady Stakhov comes to his fiancée - a tenth-grader Maya - to meet her parents. But there he meets Lida, Maya's older sister, with whom he once had an affair. And now the boxer's successes and failures are at the mercy of old love. ...

The Special Visit to German Clinic (1988)

Baku, Year 1920. Secret agent of the Emergency Commission Engineer Mammad Rustamov is sent to Berlin with a special assignment. On the pretext of treating his son's illness, Mammad is endangering his life and people around him. ...

Whose Are You, Old People? (1988)

A story about two old people living in the abandoned faraway village. ...

Pass On (1988)

In the first post-war years, Kostya, an orphanage from the Urals, goes to Odessa to visit his aunt. ...

Special Forces Squad (1987)

We Were Led by Youth... (1986)

About the guys from a working-class village who formed a combat unit to help the Red Army. The action takes place during the Bolshevik coup in Kuban. ...

Secret Fairway (1986)

The year 1944... The year of the victorious turning point in the WWII, but the Baltic theater of naval battles is still quiet. While performing a combat mission, torpedo boat commander Boris Shubin accidentally discovers a secret fairway of an unmarked Ger ...