Elza Lezhdey

Death at the Start (1983)

Propaganda film about Soviet inventor Igor Krymov and his entrapment by foreign spies. ...

Responsible for Everything (1979)

The main character of the film, Nikolai Alekseevich Kurylenko, works as a master mentor at a computer factory. He helps his students not only to master the basics of mastery, but also to get out of difficult life collisions... ...

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained (1977)

The thirty-year-old decathlete leaves the big sport and becomes a stunt performer in the cinema. About how the movie is shot, and about the development of personal relationships between the main characters. ...

At the World's Limit (1976)

To Be a Brother (1976)

About workers whose fate is inextricably linked to the factory and the problems of factory life. ...

Every day of Dr. Kalinnikova (1974)

The story of a talented woman who dedicated her life to surgery. Patients from all over the country go to her orthopedic laboratory — the doctor's unique methods of treatment are so effective. However, an anonymous complaint is received by the metropolit ...

Listen, on the Other Side (1972)

Soldiers of the Russian-Mongolian Joint Special Detachment, who are carrying out a special mission, went to the front line of the war and assumed the responsibility of conducting a sharp emotional and ideological battle with words and sounds. Therefore, th ...

Direct Line (1967)

A few days from the life of a young scientist responsible for the failed trail. ...

Dissenting Opinion (1967)

A man's corpse is found on the seashore. Conducting a thorough investigation, the young investigator Kovalev establishes the identity of the murdered man and his pursuer - in the past a provocateur, who gave the Hitlerites a group of underground fighters. ...

The Squadron Turns Westward (1966)

The action takes place in Odesa in 1918-1919. At the request of General Denikin, a French squadron arrives in Odesa to restore order in the city. Odesa Bolsheviks are trying to convince the sailors to leave the city. At the center of the story is the heroi ...

An Extraordinary Assignment (1966)

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

Goodbye, Boys! (1966)

Goodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. It's summer, and their main goals are swimming in the Black Sea and wooing the girl all three of them love. However, they are asked to becom ...

The Hockey Players (1965)

Thirty-year-old captain of the hockey team Duganov, a famous and experienced player, decides to fight for the sporting longevity of "old men" like him. Acutely experiencing a quarrel with his favorite girl, Duganov achieves participation in the decisive fi ...

Attack and Retreat (1964)

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II. ...

In Death's Noose (1963)

A biographical film about the famous Russian pilot Sergei Utochkin, about the first conquerors of the sky who paved the way for Russian aviation. ...

Life Anew (1962)

The Second World War has ended. With the victory in Moscow, front-line friends, Antonina, Fyodor and Alexey, move into Fyodor's huge apartment, which was empty in the first years of the war, when his wife left him. Alexey loved Antonina all his life, but w ...

In Transit (1961)

An elderly man takes in his orphaned niece after the death of his younger brother. On the way home, on the train, in communication with various people, the true traits of his character are revealed. ...

Ballad of a Soldier (1959)

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosh ...

The Wind (1959)

Filmed in the context of the fortieth anniversary of the creation of the Komsomols, the League of Young Communists, tells the story of three youth delegates from the League in 1918, who must make the dangerous journey to Moscow during the civil war to part ...

Soldiers Were Walking (1959)

October 1917. Russian and German soldiers, exhausted by three years of war, began to fraternize. But officers' bullets shot the fraternizers. The survivors - Ilya, Matvey, nurse Olga and German soldier Jakob - swore in front of the fallen soldiers to reach ...

Six O'Clock at the Airport (1958)

The nine-year-old Prague boy Pepiček flies to Moscow as an involuntary stowaway on an airplane. Together with the Soviet pioneer Mischa, he pursues an alleged agent in the hustle and bustle of the World Festival and is flown back to Prague in the evening. ...

Pavel Korchagin (1956)

A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered". ...

The First Echelon (1955)

In one of the steppe regions of Kazakhstan arrives on Komsomol youth squad. Severe frosts, spring mud flows, exhausting work than their specialty - the development of virgin land does not come easy. But the young are young - they work, enjoy life, fall in ...

The Frigid Sea (1954)

Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ... ...