Elena Mayorova

Listen If It's Raining... (1999)

Follows the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov's stories intersect. The hero can easily meet with Stalin or drink vodka with a homeless person in the basement. ...

Strange Time (1997)

A woman's view of the generation of thirty-year-old men, who fell to the lot of Afghanistan, and the "criminal revolution", and the drug wave, and AIDS... ...

The Career of Arturo Ui (1996)

When the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel - how many opportunities there are for a funny comedy... ...

Return of the "Battleship" (1996)

The naive hero, having read clever books, marries a prostitute with the aim of re-educating her and collides with the famous Sergei Eisenstein, ending in the most unexpected and fatal way... ...

White Feast (1996)

Knowing that he will soon pass on, elderly Valentin Grack hires private detective Stanislav to follow him around for an entire day and write down everything that he does. It is a cold day and during Grack's travels he encounters a younger woman who address ...

Little Devil (1995)

A small provincial town. The inhabitants are bored, apathetic and bitter... Peredonov, a modest high school teacher, dreams about a promotion and moving to the capital. Gradually his dream becomes an obsession. Varvara, his second cousin who dreams about m ...

Makarov (1993)

"Makarov" both a popular Russian name, and also slang for the word "gun," serves as a metaphor for the brutal reality of life in a post-totalitarian society. The story's protagonist, Makarov, embodies this struggle as he becomes more mechanical and less sp ...

The Delegation (1993)

Бездна, круг седьмой (1993)

Lost in Siberia (1991)

The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a ...

The Law (1990)

The hero of social drama, a young prosecutor, is engaged in repressed cases in the mid-50s. Behind each of the fabricated charges is a human tragedy; together they form a monstrous picture of lawlessness triumphing in the country. However, there are other ...

Unidentified Face (1990)

They have the same appearance, but different personalities. They have a tempting opportunity to switch places, that is, to "taste" someone else's life. But it doesn't always work out the way you hope. And an innocent game can end tragically. Whose is the f ...

Was There Karotin? (1990)

The beginning of the 30s of the last century. A leak of classified information was found at the Soviet shipbuilding plant. Arriving under the guise of a scientist, the legendary chekist Karotin begins to unravel the threads of the conspiracy of the fascis ...

Fast Train (1988)

The train waitress decides not to travel around the world anymore, but to raise her son from boarding school and be with her loved one, the local theater director in native Ferzinki. ...

The Ship (1988)

A group of teenagers find themselves abandoned in a cozy dacha village without parental supervision. ...

Two and One (1988)

Two men are united around a six years old daughter whose mother recently died. ...

Forgotten Tune for the Flute (1987)

A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a "big man's" daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate's sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to m ...

Lucky (1987)

The famous athlete Tatyana Bolshakova, having met in the south with the lonely and somewhat gloomy Boris, fell in love for the first time. For ridiculous reasons, they broke up, and after a while she had twins. And now it's hard for her, but she knows that ...

Zina-Zinulya (1986)

Being such an amazingly honest, straightforward person like Zina unfortunately means making your life very difficult. But what can you do—it's her nature! Faced with fraud at work, the film's heroine tries with all her might to defend the truth. The culp ...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1986)

Soviet adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll has made a sensational discovery - he has managed to separate good from evil in himself. This discovery he must keep secret, because the bearer of evil, ...

Parade of the Planets (1984)

A rare astronomical phenomenon — the parade of planets — has a strange effect on several men. The heroes of the film — an astrophysicist, locksmith, salesman, architect, loader, trolley bus driver — are called up for military training, which ends a ...

Malva (1984)

Based on the story of the same name by Maxim Gorky. ...

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 ...

Our Calling (1984)

Привет с фронта (1983)

Offered for Singles (1983)

Vera Golubeva, a textile worker, lives in a hostel. In her spare time, she arranges the fate of her friends. Although the class is disinterested and informal, Faith comes up to him professionally: working with the press, send out wedding announcements acro ...

Parents are not Chosen (1983)

Nikolai Burlakov was raised by his grandmother in the village. His mother always promised to take him with her, but she always broke her promise. His first love, Masha, didn't even promise to wait for him to return from the army and left with her best frie ...

Whose Are You, Old People? (1982)

Kasian Nefedovich decides to convey his last wish, of burying him beside his wife's grave, to his daughter Zinke and spend some time with her. But she doesn't allow him to stay with her family. ...

34th Express (1981)

Fast train N34 went exactly on schedule. The passengers were quietly getting ready for bed when the empty compartment from the outstanding cigarette lit up the curtain. Soon the wagon caught fire. Disaster is imminent. ...

Uncle's Dream (1981)

Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary. ...

Could One Imagine? (1981)

Two high school kids meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because of that, the boy's mother is very jealous and ...