Igor Klass

Éternité (2023)

In this short film directed in the style of Andrei Tarkovsky, eternity and the downfall of the Soviet empire are explored in a deeply symbolic and poetic way. The film follows a protagonist as they traverse a desolate landscape, reflecting on the transient ...

Martha's Line (2014)

Moving to a new place of residence, to an old apartment in the slums of St. Petersburg, Olga and her daughter Natasha accidentally discover a letter from the distant blockade of the forty-second year. A letter from the boy Yura for the girl Martha, whom he ...

Once There Was a Woman (2011)

A chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country. ...

The Last Soviet Movie (2003)

A parody of Soviet action films about an author from Brooklyn following in the footsteps of his ancestors, who played a key role in the Bolshevik coup. ...

Master of the "Empire" (2002)

n Belgium he was called Jean, in Russia - Ivan Sergeevich. A world sports star, a Formula 1 hero, returns from exile to become the owner of Empire, a large trading company. He doesn't understand much about modern Russian life. ...

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 ...

Far Away from St. Petersburg (1993)

Iwan Rabcynski, born in St. Petersburg (Florida), writes Russian melodramas under the pseudonym "John F. Romanoff. He gets his inspiration in Brooklyn, his chosen home. His new novel, which is meant to be autobiographical, begins with his Russian great gra ...

And the Wind Returns... (1992)

The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films. ...

Back in the USSR (1992)

A vacationing American and a sultry Russian thief lead police and smugglers on a deadly chase through Moscow. ...

American Spy (1991)

A Soviet warship is on a friendly mission in the United States. A young officer Nikolai Korenev meets an American girl, Mary. A romance begins between them... ...

The Eastern Corridor, or Racket in the Style of... (1990)

In an old castle, the residence of a criminal authority, turned into a torture chamber for «knocking out» money from intractable businessmen, a representative from Moscow is waiting. The purpose of his visit is to pave the way for the territorial redistr ...

Trial on the Road (1986)

Shot in 1971 but banned until 1986, this distinctly Russian war story takes place in 1942 behind enemy lines. A regiment of partisans captures former Red Army lieutenant Lazarev who is dressed in a German uniform. He's a Nazi defector and collaborator but ...

A Secret Walk in the Woods (1985)

Niyole, a Red Army spy is sent behind the enemy lines in order to hunt German general. ...

The Limit of Possible (1984)

Password "Hotel Regina" (1984)

The task of the Chekists fighting the Turkestan counter-revolutionary gang is to eliminate the conspiracy of the TMO (Turkestan Military Organization), uniting former tsarist officers, Basmachi and British interventionists. The chekist Rasul Khusanbekov, d ...

Tender Age (1983)

Kir Lopukhov and Alyosha Mamykin are classmates who have just received a certificate of maturity. The war began and the guys, without hesitation, also act together in the same artillery special school. They are given just three days to visit the front, fo ...

Organized Trip to the Theatre‎ (1982)

A lot of funny stuff is going on in a far way village located between forests and lakes. ...

Teheran '43 (1981)

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world l ...

Bread, Gold, Gun (1981)

An absorbing adventure action film by an acclaimed master of the genre, S. Gasparov ("The Sixth", "Forget the Word 'Death'", "First Run, Last Run"). The Civil War. A foster home teacher is delivering grain for the starving children. Her accidental co-trave ...

Pirates of the 20th Century (1980)

A Soviet cargo ship carrying medical opium gets attacked by pirates of an unknown nationality. The crew is left to die on a sinking ship but they manage to escape and now must fight the pirates for survival. ...

Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1979)

A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. ...

In a New Place (1979)

Inspector Sergey Baev arrives at a fishing collective farm for a new job and begins to fight poaching. This does not please both poachers and the head of the artel Fetisov. Having failed to reach a compromise solution, Fetisov sends the Ermakov brothers to ...

Love and Fury (1978)

At the beginning of the First World War, Alexander Dragovich went to the front as a teenager. The October Revolution caught the hero in captivity in Russia. Like many of his countrymen, Alexander defected to the revolution. After becoming a chekist, Dragov ...

Artyom (1978)

About the life and work of the professional revolutionary Bolshevik F.A. Sergeev (1883-1921), known under the pseudonym Artyom. The film takes place in the period from 1905 to 1921 in Kharkov. ...

Destiny (1977)

A war comes to the life of the heroes of "Earthy Love" (1975). ...

A Slave of Love (1976)

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications. ...

Fiery Childhood (1976)

A small railway station in the Kuban is captured, but the wounded commissar Sabbutin miraculously manages to escape. ...

The Boy and the Moose (1975)

A teenager finds a moose lost in the city and decides to help the animal. ...

Contraband (1975)

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

Cement (1974)

About the restoration of a cement plant destroyed during the Civil War. ...

Comrade General (1974)

1941. Army commander Kapitonov takes the brunt of the German forces, striving to Rostov. Well aware of the tactics of the German General Leynts, Kapitonov brilliantly conducting an operation that was incorporated into the history of the war under the name ...

I Don't Want to Make You Wait (1973)

The film is dedicated to the poet Komsomol member Sergei Chekmarev, who tragically died in 1933. ...

The Lion's Grave (1972)

The prince kidnaps the beautiful bride of the blacksmith Masheka. Masheka and his squad are trying to to take revenge. ...

Treasure Island (1971)

When old pirate Billy Bones moved into the Admiral Benbow Inn, young Jim Hawkins had no idea that his life was about to change dramatically. But he was lucky enough to discover a map of Treasure Island in the sea vagabond's chest. And so Jim, accompanied b ...

The Road Home (1970)

A story about the fate of a woman who has traveled a thorny path from unrequited love to family happiness. ...

Sons of the Fatherland (1969)

Beginning of an Unknown Era (1967)

Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor's vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era: 'Angel' (Olesha ...

Way Home (1967)

Don't Shoot on the 26-th (1966)

1943. Soviet intelligence Saeed Islambek, "26th", manages to infiltrate as an instructor in the SS special school, where defectors from Central Asia study. Loyal to his assistants become a scout-Uzbek Nadia, Secretary of the chief of the special school, an ...

The Conspiracy of Ambassadors (1966)

Arrival Day... Departure Day! (1966)

This simple and therefore especially touching story took place in one town, where four men arrived, each on his own business. They met by chance, but this did not stop them in two short days from taking part in the fate of each of them with good advice, an ...