Bulat Okudzhava

Still Waters (2000)

Kashtanov, professor of medicine and famous Moscow surgeon, is experiencing midlife crisis. Suddenly he decides to leave everything and escape to the countryside in order to spend some time with old friends. ...

Aktion K (1994)

A documentary about the greatest mass exodus from a nazi concentration camp, which took place at the upper Austrian hills, in 1945. The following hunting is still known there under the cynical title "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" - "The Mühlviertel's hare hunt ...

Výstrel na Bonaparta (1992)

Bulat Okudzhava's novella tells the evocative story of the old general Opochnin, a man who never betrayed morality and humanity. But at the end of his life, he still wanted to do something that would benefit others. ...

Free Fall (1988)

Having once again successfully performed at the competition, five paratroopers, seeing off one of their friends to the airport, witnessed the collective beating of the boy. Without hesitation, the athletes rushed to help, and later learned that a man had d ...

Two Knew the Password (1985)

The 1920s. Count Kabardin, who emigrated to France, sends Colonel Lavrov to Russia with the aim of bringing his daughter Irina to Paris. Irina married Chekist Andrei Slavinsky and joined the revolution. Under the guise of a White Guard lieutenant, Andrei i ...

The Pokrovsky Gates (1983)

Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Kho ...

What Would You Choose? (1981)

Four third-grader friends live in an old Leningrad house, study in the same class and try to understand their parents and teachers. ...

A Second Spring (1980)

The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. Thes ...

The Wife Has Left (1979)

He considered his family life perfect. Normal, and sometimes big wages quite satisfied a beautiful and gentle wife. The child didn't cause much trouble. All that was needed for his happiness was available. But the wife is gone. She left not to another, but ...

The Key That Should Not Be Handed On (1977)

AKirill Sergeyevich, a retired Army officer, becomes the new school Headmaster. Used to a strict and orderly routine, he at first finds the chaotic bustle of everyday school life hard... It is not easy to deal with both the children and the teachers, espec ...

The Last Sacrifice (1976)

The rich merchant widow Yuliya Tugina is practically ruined by her lover, impoverished nobleman Vadim Dulchin, who loves only himself and gambling. Merchant Flor Fedulych in love with a young widow Yuliya Pavlovna. But all her thoughts are occupied by the ...

One-Two, Soldiers Were Going... (1976)

The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle. ...

The Adventures of Buratino (1976)

A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the ...

From Dawn Till Sunset (1976)

The film tells about the events of one day, lived by the collective farm foreman Fyodor Rozhnov. This day turned out to be filled to the limit with work, worries, joys, sorrows, difficult relationships with people and memories of the war years. ...

The Captivating Star of Happiness (1975)

In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revolution against the autocratic and tyrannical Czar Nikolai I in the wake of his not honoring the draf ...

The Executive (1974)

The film shows the daily life of an architecture studio, where a young student comes to work on his dissertation. ...

Tell Me About Yourself (1972)

A simple story of the life and love of a woman who lost her lover at the front. After a failed marriage and many years of loneliness, she finally finds happiness by meeting a man who is not only ready to become her companion, but also a friend to her adult ...

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. ...

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 ...

Eugene, Little Eugene and Katyusha (1967)

War, 1944. Soldier Zhenya Kolyshkin, a fragile intellectual from Arbat, sets out on New Year's Eve to collect a parcel, but stumbles upon a German dugout. He manages to escape, but guard duty is inevitable. Zhenya's predicament is brightened by Zhenechka, ...

July Rain (1967)

Lena, a woman in her late twenties, loves her boyfriend, but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the p ...

Not the Most Lucky Day (1967)

Based on the story by Yulian Semyonov "Dunechka and Nikita." One day in the life of a simple Soviet family. Spouses Stepanov's on that day decided to terminate the marriage, for which they need to appear in the people's court. This day is not the most suc ...

Fidelity (1965)

A story of a first love between two recent high school graduates who meet one another evening before start of the WWII. ...

Returned Music (1965)

Young musicologist Marina Gabrielyan arrives in Leningrad with the aim of finding and restoring the first symphony by renowned composer Sergei Kornilov. Despite the composer's active resistance, she manages to find individual parts of the symphony and, wit ...

The Chain Reaction (1963)

An old pickpocket named "Cardinal", during the days of the International Festival of Youth and Students, decides to gather old "personnels" to prepare small and large thefts from the festival participants. During the "conference" it turns out that a comple ...

Three Days After the Immortality (1963)

It is the 250th day of the defense of Sevastopol. On the outskirts of the bombed-out city, without radios and with only a handful of ammunition, 12 Soviet soldiers are holding out with their last ounce of strength. With them in the shelter are the wounded, ...

My Friend, Kolka! (1961)

Pupils of the ordinary high school organize a "secret society" under the motto "Help the offended and weak, avenge widers and upstarts!" The new pioneer leader supports the children, and soon he manages to make the school life of the children truly fascina ...

Last Salvos (1961)

In the Carpathians during 1945, near the borders with Czechoslovakia, the last battles are going on. No one expects major military operations on this sector of the front. Peaceful life ahead. The German group, leaving the encirclement, is rapidly heading t ...

The End of a Beautiful Epoch (2015)

Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov. ...

Bulat Okudžava - Věčná píseň (2004)

Children of the 20th Congress (1988)

In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties. ...

Guard Me, My Talisman (1986)

The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha and his wife Tania are walking through the plush forest around Boldino when a mysterious figure pops up from behind a tree and asks the couple a ques ...

A Legal Marriage (1985)

At the beginning of the 1941 war, a young talented artist Igor and his theater were evacuated to Tashkent. Here he meets music teacher Olga, who is seriously ill with malaria. Igor understands that only treatment in the capital will save the girl. But they ...

The Story of the Wooden Man (1982)

Actor Evgeny Vesnik tells the story of "The Adventures of Buratino" fairy tale creation which was first written by Carlo Collodi and called "The Adventures of Pinocchio" – the story of a wooden doll. Fragments of the cartoon "The Adventures of Buratino". ...

The Key That Should Not Be Handed On (1977)

AKirill Sergeyevich, a retired Army officer, becomes the new school Headmaster. Used to a strict and orderly routine, he at first finds the chaotic bustle of everyday school life hard... It is not easy to deal with both the children and the teachers, espec ...

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 ...

I Am Twenty (1965)

Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at fi ...

The Chain Reaction (1963)

An old pickpocket named "Cardinal", during the days of the International Festival of Youth and Students, decides to gather old "personnels" to prepare small and large thefts from the festival participants. During the "conference" it turns out that a comple ...