Boris Chirkov

Little Filip (1982)

Filip, also called "Filipok" due to being small, dreams of being able to fly. He also wants to go to school, but his mother won't let him because he's too young. But one day, he's running to the school anyway. ...

The Strogovs (1976)

In the Siberian taiga village of Wolf's Burrows, the Strogov family lives — Matvey with his wife Anna and his parents. Through the fate of this peasant family, a picture of the life of the Siberian region during major historical events — the Russo-Japa ...

Townspeople (1976)

The hero of the film is an ordinary driver of a Moscow taxi, a kind and decent man. Each new working day promises him new meetings, acquaintances — sometimes joyful and pleasant, and sometimes demanding from him severe determination and courage. ...

TsOKS in Alma-Ata (1974)

In August 1941, two largest Soviet film studios Mosfilm and Lenfilm were evacuated to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. There, together with the newly founded Alma-Ata Film Studio, they were merged into TsOKS (Central United Film Studio), which became the main center ...

There Were Three Bachelors (1973)

A funny story about three best friends - young scientists who swear to not get married and concentrate only on science. ...

Our Friend Maxim (1973)

The film Our Friend Maxim is devoted to the life and work of actor and National Artist of the USSR Boris Petrovich Chirkov. This film includes excerpts from his Maxim trilogy, and significant focus is placed on Chirkov's role as a pedagogue and mentor to y ...

At Your Own Request (1973)

Back in school, they decided to devote themselves to art. Polina dreamed of the ballet stage, Kostya imagined himself a poet and dreamed of going to a literary institute. Years passed, and they met again: she is a pop artist, he is a blacksmith. Kostya app ...

Izhora Battalion (1972)

The film is about the fate of the soldiers of the Izhora battalion. Formed from the factory's workers, the battalion took part in decisive battles against the regular units of the Nazi army and ended its heroic journey on the coast of the Baltic Sea. ...

Are You Kidding? (1971)

The film almanac of VGIK's graduates, consisting of films for children: "Otherwise We Are Lost," "Vanderbul Runs Over the Horizon," and "Are You Kidding? ...

Bonivur's Heart (1969)

A young Komsomol member Vitaly Bonivur is fighting for Soviet power in the Far East and Primorye. Red underground workers are not the first day want to arrange an escape of their fellow prisoners. And the brave Bonivur takes part in the organization of the ...

We Are Taking All The Fire (1969)

Mini-series set in times of WW II about Soviet underground fighters led by brave Anna Morozova. They are establishing connection with Polish people who work on German airfield. And even small victories cost a lot sometimes. ...

Seven Old Men and One Girl (1968)

Lara Velichko is a young coach who's dreaming about coaching world champions but suddenly she's forced to train a group of a very grumpy old men. ...

Li-ittle! (1968)

A young girl lives with an elderly couple in a settlement in a distant Siberian village. They liked her. When she dies unexpectedly, they go many miles to holy places to pray for the salvation of her soul. ...

Rebellious Outpost (1967)

The plot is based on events that took place in St. Petersburg in May 1901, when workers at the Obukhov military factory rebelled against the tsar. ...

First Visitor (1966)

An Extraordinary Assignment (1966)

The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo. ...

Musicians of the Same Regiment (1965)

The invaders are leaving the northern town of the young Soviet republic. The brave underground activist Alexei Ilyutinsky infiltrates a musical troupe organized to entertain the White Army command and boost the morale of the population. The new horn player ...

The Blue Cup (1964)

Young family is spending vacations in the summer house. ...

The Island of Miracles (1964)

The film story is dedicated to the heroic oil workers of Oil Rocks, built in the Caspian Sea, as well as to their labor and everyday life. The sea estacade, constructed on steel pillars, stretches for hundreds of kilometers into the sea, where oil rigs and ...

The Alive and the Dead (1964)

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for th ...

Cain the XVIII-th (1963)

A traveling musician falls in love with a princess who is betrothed to a dictator planning to defeat his enemies with the help of an exploding mutant mosquito. ...

Short Stories (1963)

Miniatures of writers from Russia and foreign countries. ...

A Sinful Angel (1963)

Fourteen-year-old Vera Telegina sees the sea, which she had dreamed of since childhood. She is here only because her parents were repressed and she is left alone. The police chief Stavridi, having learned about the girl's misfortune, places her in a boardi ...

A Trip Without a Load (1963)

Based on the story of the same name by Sergei Antonov. The young journalist of the central newspaper Sirotkin came to the Siberian timber industry to write an essay about the glorious driver Khromov. But soon Sirotkin's inquiring mind calculated the trick ...

Horizon (1962)

Twelve graduates of the tenth "A" arrive to the virgin lands. Freed from childhood illusions, yesterday's schoolchildren get used to the unsettled life, to hard work on combines, tractors, on the threshing floor. Soon other difficulties are discovered. ...

A Head on One's Shoulders (1961)

After finishing school in their native village, Tolyasha (Igor Pushkarev) and Valya take exams to enter the pedagogical institute, but both fail. They return to their Green Shores. Valya works on a poultry farm and soon becomes a famous poultry farmer, and ...

Heirs (1960)

A youth brigade at one of Kyiv's factories is competing for the title of Communist Labor Brigade. They are assisted by an old worker, Yakov Sereda. However, two people actively interfere with the Komsomol members: the rogue Yevgeny, who pretends to be a se ...

Dreams Come True (1960)

The construction of the Kremenchuk hydroelectric power plant is in full swing, but the Dnieper may flood the construction site. In order to save people, the chief engineer Ilchenko decides to blow up the newly built dam... The workers do their best not to ...

The Lost Photography (1960)

A young boy from Prague is trying to find a Soviet soldier from the old 1945 picture. ...

The Anxious Night (1958)

The action takes place on one of the nights in October 1917 and is limited to the walls of a St. Petersburg apartment occupied by the wealthy noble family of the Starodubtsevs. The elder sister Anna (Elena Kuzmina) is a helpless, spoiled woman, far from li ...

The Kyiv Resident (1958)

The story of the growing up of the orphan Gali between the Revolution and the Great Patriotic War. Large-scale historical drama with Nina Ivanova. ...

My Dear Fellow (1958)

Military doctor Vladimir Ustimenko is a man of duty and honor, committed to the cause he serves, and one single love that he carries through his whole life: Varvara Stepanova is a whimsical girl who dreamed of becoming a great actress but eventually became ...

Next to Us (1957)

The engineer and the reporter arrived at one of the plants of the Altai. They have just completed the institutions and are confident that the future is in their hands. At the plant, all relations are formed around the dubious glory of the Turner Milovidov. ...

With your own hands (1956)

The secretary of the district committee Borzov, trying to fulfill the plan, does not care about the rise of the entire economy. The second secretary of the district committee Martynov does not agree with his methods of work... ...

For the Power of the Soviets (1956)

Petya meets his father from a partisan detachment in the Odessa Catacombs. ...

People of Dimitrovgrad (1956)

The construction of the first socialist town in Bulgaria - Dimitrovgrad. ...

Miraculous Well (1956)

Once upon a time there were two stepsisters. One girl dropped a bucket into a deep wonderful well, and she had to go down into the well for the bucket, to the kingdom of Santa Claus. ...

The tale about the priest and his worker Balda (1956)

The Frog Princess (1954)

A prince discovers an enchanted beauty turned into a frog by Koschei the Immortal. After Koschei steals her again, the prince goes on a dangerous quest to free the land of the evil. ...

True Friends (1954)

Alexander, Boris and Vasily are old friends, who now rarely see each other as they're busy with their professional life. They embark on long-planned voyage on a raft down the Volga river, which turns into a series of comical accidents but also strengthens ...

The Parasite (1953)

After a long absence from St. Petersburg, a young landowner Yeletskaya comes to her estate with her husband. ...

Kashtanka (1952)

After getting lost in the street, a dog is adopted by a kindly clown. ...

Dream of a Cossack (1951)

Soviet filmmaker Yuri Raisman once more combines political dogma with solid entertainment values in Dream of a Cossack (aka Cavalier of the Golden Star). The title character, played by future director Sergei Bondarchuk (and billed for obscure reasons as Se ...

The Miners of Donetsk (1951)

A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm. ...

A Wonder Mill (1951)

The greedy king takes away the magic mill from the grandfather and the animals. Cartoon about the joint struggle for justice. ...

Three Encounters (1950)

The film consists of short stories about participants of the Great Patriotic War, who returned from the front and entered a peaceful life. The heroes of the tape are fellow soldiers: Major Kornev, formerly a domain engineer; petty officer Samoseev, in the ...

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish (1950)

The tale about an old, henpecked man whose new friend fulfills all desires of his wife. ...

Spring Tale (1949)

About the return of the leader of the geese Gumennik and his flock from African regions to their native places in Russia. ...

Court of Honor (1949)

The movie tells about the life of Soviet scientists. Professor Dobrotvorsky, together with his colleague Losev, is on his way to completing a scientific work of great importance in medicine. Professor Dobrotvorsky's friend Academician Vereisky learns from ...

The Great Glinka (1946)

About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka. ...

Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor (1944)

The story takes place in Summer 1942, when a small force of Black Sea Fleet sailors was surrounded by German troops but broke out the encirclement. ...

Front (1943)

Directed by Sergey Vasilev and Georgi Vasilyev. ...

1812 (1943)

A biopic about Prince Kutuzov, the defeater of Napoleon Bonaparte. ...

Guerrillas in the steppes of Ukraine (1943)

The film tells about the heroic struggle of Ukrainian farmers-partisans with nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic war. ...

Aleksandr Parkhomenko (1942)

About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Parkhomenko. In 1918, capturing Ukraine, the German occupiers sought to use the Haidamaks, the White Guards and the Greens in their ...

Antosha Rybkin (1941)

Before the attack on the village, captured by the Nazis, the commander decides to carry out a distraction — a concert of the front-line brigade of artists. Chef Antosha Rybkin is assigned to play the role of... a German corporal. Dressed in an enemy uni ...

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #3 (1941)

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #1 (1941)

The movie collection consists of three novellas. "Meeting with Maxim." On the screen are the last shots of the movie "Vyborg Side". The movie ends and the hero goes off the screen. He addresses the audience with a patriotic appeal. "A Dream in the Hand." T ...

We Await Your Victorious Return (1941)

The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. ...

The New Teacher (1939)

A young teacher comes to work in his native village, plans to build a new school. The arrival of the teacher causes confusion in the soul of the young neighbor Agrafena Shumilina. ...

Minin and Pozharsky (1939)

Historical film about the invasion of the Poles in the Moscow Empire (1611), the creation of Minin and Pozharsky people's militia. The beginning of the XVII century. Already the sixth year the Muscovite land under the yoke of intervention. In the fall of 1 ...

The Vyborg Side (1939)

The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in charge of the national bank. With great efforts, he learns the complexies of the banking trade and begins t ...

Great Citizen (1938)

A biography drama about Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union. ...

The Defense of Volotchayevsk (1938)

Japanese forces land in the port of Vladivostok during Russian civil war, supporting anti-communist forces, while local population joins Far Eastern Republic and partisans in the struggle against the intervention and White army. ...

The Man with the Gun (1938)

The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin. ...

The Return of Maxim (1937)

The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of the working-class in the Duma. Maksim, who just returned from exile, calls the workers to strike as a prot ...

Helen and Grapes (1936)

The second part of pretending schoolgirl's adventures, wine's prenatal stage and two scarecrows running on Sommera street. ...

The Girlfriends (1936)

Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from ...

Peasants (1935)

The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved. ...

The Youth of Maxim (1935)

A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and has particular merits in r ...

Chapayev (1934)

An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. ...

Song of Happiness (1934)

A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state. ...

Golden Mountains (1931)

Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years earlier: backward lad (Poslavsky) from poor village comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replaceme ...

Alone (1931)

A young teacher is sent to a remote province, separating her from her lover, and sets about the difficult task of building a school there. ...