Avangard Leontyev

The Film That Went Wrong (2022)

In 1993, Nikita Mikhalkov made a feature film "Remembering Chekhov". After the footage was edited, he realized that the film went wrong. thus he made a difficult decision – not to show it to a wide audience. almost 30 years later, in his documentary "the ...

Iran Conference (2020)

Representatives of the Danish and world intellectual elite, the best minds of our time are going to a conference in Copenhagen to discuss the urgent "Iranian problem" — violation of rights and freedoms, daily executions, torture and military conflicts in ...

Odessa Steamboat (2019)

Based on the works of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. The plot of the new comedy is based on the famous miniatures "Odessa Steamboat", "Two Apples", "Meeting at the Distillery" and other works by one of the country's most famous humor writers Mikhail Zhvanetsky. In to ...

Van Goghs (2018)

Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to get away from his oppressive father, Viktor, who still supports him f ...

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 ...

Sunstroke (2014)

In a Crimean filtration camp, after the evacuation of the White Army, an unnamed captain is haunted by memories of a brief romance as he tries to understand how the Russian Empire fell apart and who is to blame. ...

The Russian Game (2007)

Italian gambler who is well-skilled in the card trade owes people in authority, and leaves his country to win the money. Arriving in a small Russian town, he tries to show off his tricks to the local card swindlers but is caught and ends up agreeing to a f ...

A Hero of Our Time (2007)

1837. The grueling Caucasian War. The young officer Grigory Pechorin was sent into exile in the active army in the Caucasus for participating in a duel. Pechorin will have to become an unwitting participant in rapidly unfolding events — a battle with smu ...

Park of the Soviet Period (2006)

Oleg, the host of a TV show is asked to cover in his show a new ultramodern amusement park called "Park of the Soviet Period". The life in the park is an exaggerated version of the soviet life - pioneers parading, girls selling soda water on the street, so ...

Мена (2006)

Forest (2006)

Alexander Ostrovsky's textbook comedy in the modern interpretation of Kirill Serebrennikov: about the price of freedom and love in the same ruble equivalent. ...

№13 (2003)

Metamorphosis (2002)

Based on Kafka's story of the same name, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect. ...

The Barber of Siberia (1998)

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: ...

Revizorro (1996)

An adaptation of the play by Ukrainian playwright Mykola Gogol, set in Tsarist Russia during the 19th century. A provincial town plagued by bribery, abuse of power, embezzlement, and other corrupt practices. One day, Mayor Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky summons the ...

Двадцать минут с ангелом (1996)

Hammer and Sickle (1994)

A bizarre tale of a fictional experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger workforce. ...

Katya Ismailova (1994)

A wife finds her life transformed after a torrid affair in this story of murder. Katia is a rather dull young woman who types manuscripts for Irina, her husband's mother and successful writer of romance novels. Katia's husband is a real momma's boy. They g ...

Burnt by the Sun (1994)

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri fro ...

Red Island (1991)

Mister Perrichon's Trip (1990)

Monsieur Perrichon, a rich coachbuilder by profession, is an honest but vain member of the bourgeoisie who decides to take a pleasure trip in the company of his wife Caroline and his daughter Henrietta. The family, deciding on a train journey to the Swiss ...

The Parrot Speaking Yiddish (1990)

About amusing adventures of the young blunderer Yankel during World War II who survives thanks to the sluggishness. The hired legionary he is taken prisoner, will pass across Sicily with the army of allies and it will appear in Indochina. And everywhere he ...

Wagon-Lit (1989)

A story of a four seemingly random vagon lit passengers whose fates are unexpectedly interwoven. ...

This Fantastic World 12 (1987)

Based on science fiction stories about the relationship between man and robot: A. Belyaev's "Open Sesame" about how a robot servant robbed two old men; A. Azimova's "Liar" about a robot who can read minds and turns out to be the most humane among people; F ...

Dark Eyes (1987)

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. ...

The Rooster and the Boyar (1986)

A smart rooster overcomes a greedy boyar (noble) who stole an old couple's magic millstones. Based on a Russian folk tale. ...

The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984)

Tale - this is what is everyone from childhood. Give yourself a chance to once again return to the magical world created by Alexander Pushkin. Adventures brave Tsarevich Guidon, beautiful Swan-Tsar Saltan reminded of that love, loyalty and the spirit alwa ...

The Limit of Possible (1984)

Alone and Unarmed (1984)

1927. A retired Red Army commander Constantine Vorontsov is appointed a Criminal Investigation Department head in a principal city of province. An experienced repeater named Korney shows up in the city. Thanks to a successfully performed operation a place ...

Monsieur Lenoir, Who... (1984)

After Monsieur Lenoir commits a terrible crime, his family members gather together to discuss their damage control options. ...

Everything's the Wrong Way (1982)

A story about a guy and a girl who decided to get married.They want to have their own place and live without parents. They search for apartment to live together because they can't live without each other, they're seriously falling in love, but parents are ...

Adolescence (1981)

Fourteen years old Anutsa is often forced to stay alone while her father leaves for business trips. ...

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. ...

Oblomov (1980)

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful ...

Little Tragedies (1980)

Based on Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" ("The Miserly Knight", "Mozart and Salieri", "The Stone Guest", "A Feast in the Time of Plague"). ...

Hello River! (1979)

Little boy Stepan loved listening to fairy tales his mother made up before bedtime. One day, she told him about the river near where they lived. It was a large and mighty river, but it needed human protection and care. In the morning, his mother couldn't f ...

Twelfth Night (1979)

After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing. ...

Funny People! (1978)

The movie intertwines the plot lines of the stories "In the Bathhouse", "Tears Invisible to the World", "A Conversation between a Man and a Dog" and others. By the will of the film's creators, the viewer gets to the rehearsals of an unusual choir and gets ...

Cousin Pons (1978)

The lack of spirituality and the limitations of the "respectable" bourgeois turn the values of art into a means of profit, into an object of vanity. ...

Eternally Alive (1977)

A tragic story of two lovers, Boris and Veronica, who were separated forever by the war, and at the same time a story of love that the war could not destroy. The war seen from the lovers' point of view. ...

Silk Tassel (1977)

Based on an Altai fairy tale about a girl named Silk Tassel. ...

Maigret and the Old Lady (1974)

Dombey & Son (1974)

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son. ...

Balalaykin and K (1973)

The performance of the Sovremennik Theater directed by G. A. Tovstonogov. ...

The Lower Depths (1972)

A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga. ...

The Student (1969)

Based on Alexander Griboedov's classical play (1817). ...