Andrey Smirnov

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 ...

Love Story (2022)

Taxi driver and unsuccessful actor Seva Gorelov accidentally meets his first love Masha Sokolova, once a young and carefree girl, and now a thirty-year-old spoiled kept woman. Seva works part-time in a taxi, and Masha accidentally becomes his client. To go ...

The Tolstoy Defence (2018)

The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital's lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progr ...

How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home (2017)

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn't love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, ...

Two Days (2011)

A two days from the life of Pyotr Drozdov, a highly ranked official from Moscow, which he spends with young museum employee Masha. ...

Elena (2011)

After suffering from a heart attack, a wealthy elderly Russian man plans to will most of his estate to his estranged daughter, but his titular wife has other plans. ...

Sodankylä Forever (2010)

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has playe ...

Fathers and Sons (2008)

The familiar generational conflict. The same age Arkady Kirsanov and Evgeny Bazarov are absolutely different in outlook people. While the former is more inclined to rely on the opinion of the older generation, the latter completely denies it. ...

Keep Forever (2007)

Diplomat Volodin is going to work in the States for a responsible job. But, having crossed the ocean, he immediately went over to the Americans. And not empty-handed: he calls the American embassy from a pay phone and gives the appearance of a Soviet intel ...

Persona non grata (2005)

A Polish ambassador finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife. ...

The Music of Love: Beethoven's Secret Love (2004)

The year is 1817. Minon, a five-year-old girl, leaves her aunt Therese of Brunswick, who has raised her like a mother since her birth, to go and live with her parents, the Count and Countess von Stakelberg. One day, Gabrielle, her housekeeper, who is no lo ...

His Wife's Diary (2000)

A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid Gurov. ...

Gisele's Mania (1995)

A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle. It was Giselle who immortalized her name in 1924. It was "Giselle" that caused the psychic catastrophe in 1942. ...

Khagi – Tragger (1994)

According to ancient legend, the artist found a mineral that can revive any inanimate thing. To hide the mineral, he inserts it into a doll named Hagi. A century later, Hagi falls into the hands of a puppeteer, and he with horror discovers that the old dol ...

Idiot Dreams (1993)

The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury! New time requires a new image of the Turkish national Ostap Bender. He still selflessly loves money. As in the days of the NEP, his big blue dream remains white pants and distant Rio de Janeiro. His methods of ach ...

The Delegation (1993)

Chernov/Chernov (1990)

The strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real day in the life of the real Moscow architect Alexander Petrovich Chernov, his mental crisis; and the other is Chernov's fiction. There is a different fate, ...

The Red Arrow (1987)

The Red Arrow is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Kropotov (Lavrov) is communist CEO of a big industrial company in Leningrad. He is crafty and successful in getting a ...

My Favorite Clown (1987)

Film is based on the eponymous book by V. Livanov. About a boy, who is adopted by the divorced man. ...

The Acolyte (1985)

After losing his parents in the war, the boy ended up in an orphanage, from which he escaped and was taken in by a village teacher. Following in the footsteps of his tutor, Valya Kandaurov graduated from the Pedagogical Institute and began working in a rur ...

The White Sun of the Desert (1969)

The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his ...

The Girl and the Bugler (1965)

It is a story about 12 or 13 years old girl in the middle of 60-th in USSR. She is a pioneer. She is in love with her pioneer leader - 16-17 years old boy, who doesn't even notice her. In order to impress him she tries to find someone, who was a member of ...

Nine Days of One Year (1962)

Set in the Soviet scientific community, Nine Days of One Year follows two dedicated physicists whose close friendship unfolds amid dangerous nuclear research, shaped by their shared affection for a strong-willed woman. As radiation exposure, scientific amb ...

Here's to You and Us! (2023)

Moscow, 1952, mid-October, the XIX Congress of the CPSU had just ended. A communal apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovka. In one of the rooms lives the Petkevich family: Ariadna with her husband Boris and her parents, professor of philosophy Peter Kazimirovich a ...

The Frenchman (2019)

In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional on ...

Once There Was a Woman (2011)

A chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country. ...

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 ...

I Have Done Everything I Could (1986)

Autumn 1941. In a Nazi POW camp near Kyiev, a person claiming to be a doctor appears. He convinced Germans to set up a hospital. Raising no suspicions in Germans, he supplied prisoners with weapons and helped them to escape. ...

A Sentimental Trip to Potatoes (1986)

Having entered the institute, the hero of the film, along with his new comrades, goes to the village "for potatoes". A month spent in the "open air" not only fills the life of a spoiled urban youth with interesting acquaintances and impressions, but also g ...

By Faith and Honor (1979)

The question is what to build — palaces designed to last for centuries, or cheap concrete blocks that offer a quick fix to the housing crisis. Behind each of these choices stand scholars, architects, and Party officials. ...

Autumn (1974)

In their youth, they loved each other, but broke up. Ilya got married, became a doctor, Sasha learned to become an engineer, got married. And now they are together again, at a small, deaf station. They introduced themselves as husband and wife. In fact, wh ...

Byelorussian Station (1971)

Four former soldiers reunite 25 years after the war. Last time they saw each other on the Byelorusian railway station in the summer of 1945. Now they've come together to mourn the death of a friend. ...

Beginning of an Unknown Era (1967)

Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor's vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era: 'Angel' (Olesha ...

A Joke (1966)

Based on the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov. ...

A Span of Land (1964)

The film is about the hot war summer of 1944. A group of several gun crews defends a tiny bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester. The fates of the main characters: the front-line soldier-battalion commander Babin, the young lieutenant Motovilov, the ...

Yurka, the Pantsless Team (1961)