Gennady Karyuk

The End of a Beautiful Epoch (2015)

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

A Dark Room Mystery (2014)

After discovering a dark window which appears on the wall every midnight two boys decide to investigate the mystery of a dark room behind the window. ...

Expiation (2012)

The story about a difficult post-war time. About destiny of the young lieutenant and the young girl, whose love passes through the hardest vital and moral ordeals. ...

Moscow, I Love You! (2010)

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow... ...

The Miracle (2009)

The film is based on real events that took place in Samara in 1956 and known as the "Standing Zoe." During the holiday girl, without waiting her betrothed, removes the icon from the wall and Nicholas begins to dance with her, but suddenly freezes in place. ...

Live and Remember (2008)

Based on Valentin Rasputin's story of the same title. The winter of 1945. In a village on the Angara embankment the women wait the return of their husbands from the front. The young soldier Andrei Guskov, who fled from the hospital, returns as a deserter. ...

Passenger (2008)

A beautiful Russian widow in San Francisco wishes to return to Russia after her American husband loses everything in a speculation and shoots his brains out. Along with her personal maid she is given passage to Hong Kong aboard a Russian naval vessel. ...

May (2007)

Three days in bright May Moscow. Three days, when Senior Lieutenant Pechalin, who has long forgotten the smell of peaceful life, will again feel all its charm. Meet with an old friend Gaevsky, fall in love with a casual acquaintance Victoria, celebrate Vic ...

The Funeral Party (2006)

Based on the novel by Booker Prize Winner Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party is set in August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved ...

Человек в футляре, человек в пальто и человек во фраке (2005)

The Tuner (2005)

A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them. ...

The Certificate (2005)

One day, Grigori appears at the hospital in a state of excitement and informs her that his mother has died. Margarita, who also knew this friendly old lady, is saddened at the news. On the other hand, the announcement makes her hopeful that things might ju ...

Farewell in June (2003)

A young student suddenly must to make a choice between love and career.. ...

Playing Modern (2003)

Second Class Citizens (2001)

The movie examines the lives of the not-so-fortunate dregs of society through absurdist comedy. The unfortunates of the title are mentally challenged people, some of whom could be termed insane - or merely inane. ...

Check (2000)

The plot of this adventurous film revolves around a bank check for $5 million. The tough mafiosi, the police, and even... three teenagers - the young Russian hero Ilya, the Kazakh computer prodigy Akezhan and the girl Sonya - are trying to get him at any ...

Fortune (2000)

Old skipper travels with his old ship called "Fortune" on the Russian river. ...

Letter to America (1999)

Two friends from Odesa try to compose a video message to their pals, emigrants to the United States. One of them rents his apartment to a tricky girl who invents various excuses not to pay the rent. An exceptional story about people on the verge of despair ...

Day of the Full Moon (1998)

Day of the Full Moon, a series of vignettes from Russia past and present, summons the spirit of Ophuls' La Ronde, Altman's Nashville and Short Cuts, and the time-shifting strategies of Resnais (Mon Oncle d'Amérique) to tell provocative, connected stories ...

Three Stories (1997)

A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home ...

Heads and Tails (1995)

To earn money for married life, a young engaged man takes a job as an engineer on a privately operated oil drilling rig in the far North of Russia. A friend's letter brings the sad news that his fiancée has already married someone else and in desperation ...

Passions (1994)

Blonde Lilia and brunette Violetta are fascinated by horse racing, and the young racers are more than a little attracted to them, too. However, the worlds of sporting and romance don't always coexist peacefully as the two girls learn the hard way through a ...

Infinity (1993)

Fifty-year-old Vladimir Ivanovich Prokhorov, relieved of his worldly possessions, takes a journey back in time. Accompanied by a traveling companion barely half his age, he revisits the people and places of his youth and witnesses the dark forces that shap ...

Little People of the Bolshevik Lane, or I Want Beer (1993)

Comedy with elements of the absurd about the absurdity of life, unfulfilled dreams and the mysteries of the Russian soul. The unfortunate Bit about that is after he kicked his wife and threw favorite, decided to be a dwarf and live under the gas stove. ...

The Sentimental Policeman (1992)

In this affectionate, leisurely paced comedy, an Odesa policeman is out walking his beat when he discovers an adorable infant abandoned in a cabbage patch. He does his duty and takes the baby to an orphanage, but later he and his wife, who have an unusuall ...

To the Last Limit (1991)

An ex-convict Viktor Dremov, who is also an ex-boxer, tries to mend his ways and start a new life but his former girlfriend is marrying another man (some old antiquarian), while local thugs rob him of his car and press him constantly trying to make him wor ...

Inhuman (1990)

Criminals kidnapped the son of the chairwoman of the city administration. Feelings of helplessness and fear follow. A series of checks, mocking calls, humiliating requests for help to colleagues in the "shadow business" goes on and on. ...

Arbat Motif (1990)

The action takes place during perestroika in one of the old Moscow houses on the Arbat, intended for demolition. The tenants have long been evicted, and only 80-year-old Vera Vasilievna does not want to leave, claiming that Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov ha ...

Ne Ostrelennaya Muzyka (1990)

История любви бывшего «афганца» к красивой, нежной и беспредельно искренней Оле. ...

The Long Farewell (1987)

A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father. ...

Act According to Situation! (1984)

In the last days of the war after the special task group of the major Gorelov returns to his. Soon tankers learn that fascists are going to blow up secret plant where about two thousand prisoners of war work: french, british and americans. Despite the sma ...

Highly Dangerous (1979)

One of the southern cities of Russia during the NEP. The famous doctor and his wife are killed, the person living opposite Schwartz is kidnapped. The bandits were looking for gold. Then there is a diversion at the factory. The Chekists find out that a man ...

The Miracle Voice of Gelsomino (1977)

Gelsomino finds himself in a topsy-turvy "land of liars," where red is green, bread is ink, and dogs meow. ...

Timur and His Team (1977)

A story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the years before WWII. ...

Contraband (1975)

Borders guard are trying to catch a group of smugglers using the cruise ship to move a contraband. ...

Meetings and Partings (1973)

Uzbek young man Rustam, a helicopter co-pilot, is participating in the construction of a high-voltage line in the Alps. One day in West Germany, where he was sent on a long business trip, the hero meets Uzbek emigrants. The external well-being of the new f ...

The Fight (1972)

Soviet intelligence officer Kraft has a new assignment. This time, acting under the name of engineer Grubbe, he must find and transfer to the center the secret drawings of a new submarine codenamed "Walter". ...

13 orders (1969)

Supply clerk Chuvilikhin goes to Moscow to fulfill his coworkers' errands. In the hustle and bustle of the capital, he loses the list where the name of the sheet music to be bought for the director's wife was written down. Anatoly Stepanovich rushes around ...

A Case from Investigative Practice (1968)

Makartsev, who is serving a sentence for theft, suddenly confesses to a murder he once committed. The case is entrusted to investigator Sukhareva, who in the course of the investigation becomes convinced that many of the possible participants in the murder ...

Brief Encounters (1967)

Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya's apartment. Valya, who is a member of the local District Committee, does not know that Nadia fell in love with her currently absent husband, a geologist named Maksim, when he had visited Nad ...

Comrade Song (1966)

The movie-almanac consists of three novellas dedicated to the song. "Song-password". Lieutenant Marchenko is sent to the Nazi-occupied city to pass a purse with fuses to the underground scouts through the liaison. The password song helps the scouts to find ...

Директор фотографии (2024)

A cinematographer is a person who is most often not particularly visible, but what he is doing is always visible. The Director of Photography is a rare opportunity to talk to filmmakers about filmmakers. This is not a conversation about their life, but abo ...