Anatoliy Shvederskiy

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 ...

The Golden Mean (2010)

Alex is a fashionable showbiz character. One day he comes across an article about a big win in a casino in colonial Cambodia in a French magazine with a vintage photograph. In the photo, Hero recognizes his grandfather, who everyone thought was dead. He as ...

Травести (2006)

Russian Ark (2002)

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history. ...

Moloch (1999)

In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics. ...

Khrustalyov, My Car! (1999)

Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot". ...

Bullet to Beijing (1995)

When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened because a deadly biochemical ...

The Scoundrel 2 (1994)

The Successor (1994)

Eight years after his family was murdered he has returned home to bury his past and discover his future. ...

Window to Paris (1993)

Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, a ...

Sin: A Story of Passion (1993)

Young girl Nina is falling in love with the orthodox priest with a criminal past. ...

Night of the Sinners (1991)

Hiding from the police, a terrorist Aleksei accidentally gets into a brothel, where he meets a prostitute Lyubka. This just one night was worth two lives. ...

Socrates (1991)

The long-term war with Sparta ends. The power and prosperity of Athens has sunk into the past; in an atmosphere of general despair and irritation, democracy, tyranny, and oligarchy replace each other. Against this background, the last, tragic period of Soc ...

Cyrano de Bergerac (1989)

Long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves. ...

My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well. ...

La Vie de Berlioz (1983)

Miniseries on the life and work of the outstanding composer Hector Berlioz. ...

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World (1982)

The second part of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk's epic biography of John Reed. It is October 1917 and the American journalist has found himself and his wife, Louise Bryant, in Petrograd on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution. ...

Mont-Oriol (1982)

Christiane de Ravenel and her husband, William Andermath were attracted by the owners of spa resort at Mont-Oriol by offering luxurious amenities and promising health benefits. However, the plans face numerous challenges, including financial difficulties a ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Hunting the Tiger (1980)

Dr. Watson executes Sherlock Holmes' will, who faced death after exposing Moriarty and his gang in the previous episode. ...

The Siege: Operation "Iskra" (1977)

"Iskra" is the codename for the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of Leningrad. In January 1943, the blockade of Leningrad was broken. A corridor 8-11 km wide was formed between Lake Ladoga and the front line. ...

The Siege: Leningrad Metronome (1977)

A story about the tragic events in the life of besieged Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1943. ...

Blokada: Pulkovo Meridian (1975)

Autumn 1941. German tank troops are making another attempt to break through to the Uritsk and Pulkovo Heights. During heavy fighting, Soviet troops managed to stop the offensive of fascist tanks one and a half kilometers south of the Pulkovo Observatory. ...

The Gambler (1972)

This lavish Soviet/Czech co-production is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel, The Gambler, which tells the story of a Russian living in Germany, in a gambling resort. This film is set at the turn of the century, and was filmed in Karlovy Vary (Carl ...

The Night at 14th Parallel (1972)

The Death of Vazir Mukhtar (1969)

A television play chronicling the lead-up to the assassination of diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov, dubbed "vazir mukhtar" in his position as Russia's ambassador to Tehran. ...

Intervention (1968)

The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen' ...

First Visitor (1966)