Elena Safonova

Dad the Terrible (2022)

Tsar Ivan The Terrible wounds his son to death after they have a !ight – just like in the famous painting by Repin. To !ix what happened Tsar attempts to travel back to the past using a magic spell book. Yet things don't go according to the plan, and Tsa ...

Виктория (2021)

Crooked Mirror (2018)

Жили-были мы (2017)

Moscow Never Sleeps (2017)

The volatile intersections of contemporary Moscow and the intimate lives of five people. ...

Портрет любимого (2016)

Карусель (2010)

Romance, in Russian ...

Crawfishlike (2009)

Michal Michalych who almost felt like "had it all" suddenly meets a young girl who never ate "crawfishlike"... ...

Мой осенний блюз (2008)

Your Will Not Leave Me (2006)

The film takes place in 1951 in a large provincial city. The young wife returns from the resort, and after her comes the "spa card" from the man with whom she somehow walked along the shore, listening to the surf under the starry night sky. A husband recei ...

Tycoon's Interpreter (2006)

Ira is Russian. Ivan Tashkov, too. She is 23 years old, lives in Geneva with her mother and knows very little about her homeland. Tashkov is a supposed gangster of the Russian mafia, and is in jail waiting to be judged. Ira, who is searching for her roots ...

A Hare over the Abyss (2006)

Once upon a time, in the seventy-first year of the last century, the relived two bureaucrats in Moldova: the First Secretary and the Second Secretary of the Communist party. The Second Secretary was more important than the First Secretary, since he had bef ...

Young and Happy (2005)

Не привыкайте к чудесам… (2003)

Full of irony melodrama about a long history of love, which received an unexpected continuation after many years. About her hero, trying to guess his future and, to his own surprise, sometimes guessing it. ...

Woman's Own (1999)

A student is trying to build a career in theater using not his talent but looks and sexuality. ...

The Admirer (1999)

Parents of thirteen years old Lena just got divorced. Lena wants to prove that they live nicely even with her mother alone and that she is independent. The girl goes to work at post office utilizing there her resourcefulness and charm. At work everyone tal ...

Alissa (1998)

The son of an editor discovers that one of his father's writers is a former criminal from the Eastern bloc. ...

The Princess and the Beans (1997)

A wealthy businessman tries to change his not so good sounding last name by marrying the heir of aristocratic family. ...

Music for December (1995)

This beautifully photographed Russian drama set in St. Petersburg centers on Alexander Larin, a Russian native who has spent the last six years living in the US. He went there to escape a relationship before it developed into an unhealthy love triangle bet ...

Winter Cherry 3 (1995)

The main character, whose life seemed to have lost all meaning, suddenly receives an inheritance abroad. This leads to the most unexpected consequences, the most important of which is a new, this time happy, meeting with your beloved. ...

Mademoiselle O (1994)

About a young boy growing up to become a great artist. Set basically in St. Petersburg and a country dacha in Vyra during the aftermath of the 1905 Russian Revolution. ...

The Telegraph Route (1994)

This French film chronicles the amazing-but-true story of Lisa Alling who in 1928 successfully walked from New York City to Siberia via the Bering Straight by following telegraph poles. It was shot entirely in the Ukraine. Lisa, a chambermaid, has had enou ...

The Accompanist (1992)

In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene's husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, taking on t ...

Butterflies (1991)

In an abandoned apartment there are former spouses. Barricaded, the husband, thus, trying to escape from the criminals who hunt for compromising photos. But the ex-wife is there not by chance — she is the mistress of one of the kidnappers. But with an u ...

Taxi Blues (1990)

Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Alexi stiffs Ivan for the fare, so Ivan tracks him down and a love-hate r ...

Philipp Traum (1990)

A story based on "The Mysterious Stranger" novel by Mark Twain. ...

Winter Cherries 2 (1990)

Olga, married to a reach American businessman, returns to Russia after six years. ...

Assuage My Sorrows (1989)

After his marriage with Lyuba breaks down, Boris begins to search for an apartment of his own. He locates an apartment for couples which is being inhabited by a lone old lady who is supposed to move in with her sister. The old lady doesn't want to go, and ...

Extension of the Family (1989)

Not far from the military airfield there is a looted and dilapidated ancient monastery. A group of local enthusiasts and metropolitan restorers are trying to restore the destroyed monastery by all means... ...

The Gambler (1989)

The story of a player who entered the environment of professional gamblers in the hope of breaking a big jackpot. ...

Lucky Man (1988)

23-year-old Vanya Nechkin was a great driver, and a car mechanic from God. He loved life, and women, provided vigorous joke and elegant conversation. He could pretend to be an Italian tenor and a traffic inspector, understood human weaknesses and forgave a ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1 (1988)

The final film of the television series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson." It is based on the late and little-known stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, united by the theme of the approaching world war and the struggle of the legendary detective ...

Clinic (1987)

"Era Consultant": The former driver of the Council of People's Commissars was invited to shoot a film about the 30s. Regarding his chauffeur career had began precisely at that time, he agreed, although he perfectly understood that he was invited because of ...

Where Is Enohp Located? (1987)

An unmarried shy 40-year-old can't find the courage to ask a woman on a date, so his womanizer friend, who promised to his friend's parents he'd find him a girlfriend, sets out to find the perfect match. ...

The Spy (1987)

1916: on the verge of being evicted from his apartment, unable to find a job, with a desperate wife and a sick child, a man wrestles with his conscience about whether to turn police informer for money. ...

Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century (1987)

This film version was released before the premiere of the full two-part television version (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches). In this version the entire plot of the story Bruce-Partington Drawings was dele ...

Dark Eyes (1987)

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

Chosen by Fate (1987)

One day Napoleon falls in love with a charming lady, who turns out to be a clever adventuress and easily deceives the great man. ...

The Confrontation (1986)

In the apartment of Anna, who, judging by her testimony to the investigation, was on a business trip, a fire broke out at night. The son was saved, but as a result of a nervous shock he was speechless. The investigation, the mother and father of the child ...

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1986)

A film about the remarkable life of Russian mathematician Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), the first woman to become a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Sofia Kovalevskaya's life was full of complex and dramatic twis ...

Winter Cherries (1985)

Olga, is a young intelligent woman who raises a young son. She ends up falling in love with a married man who does not dare to leave his family. ...

When They Become Adults (1985)

Volodya Kuznetsov, a factory worker, entered the institute. Hoping to have more free time to study, he went to work as a master-mentor in a vocational school. Soon Volodya realizes how responsible and interesting his work is. He can no longer think of hims ...

Two Under One Umbrella (1983)

‎Juggler Dan is beautiful and carefree and not too eager to become the circus main star. However, the meeting with Olga, who has no doubts about his talent, makes Dan think about a creation of anew circus show. ...

The Return of Butterfly (1983)

Dedicated to the life and work of the Ukrainian singer Solomiya Krushelnytska (1873-1952), the owner of a voice of extraordinary beauty and strength. In 1893-1939 she performed in opera theaters in Europe and America, in 1939 she returned to her homeland. ...

The Voice (1982)

An actress needs to dub her voice after the production of her movie has wrapped. At the same time, she is facing a life crisis that alters her plans: just released from the hospital, she realizes that her illness is more than she can emotionally handle. Ov ...

Thanks to All! (1981)

Young mathematician Dmitry hard going through the care of his wife. Having accidentally got to the shooting of the film, the hero suddenly begins to realize that the plot is based on the memories of his ex-wife. ...

Looking for My Fate (1975)

There were three sisters — Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov. Vera, having survived unhappy love, goes to the monastery, where she gives birth to a child. The child dies, Vera commits suicide. Lyuba and grandmother attend church and maintain relations with pries ...