Igor Ugolnikov

Saving Legacy (2021)

The place where the great poet Pushkin crafted his works. The fascist forces occupied Mikhailovskoye. Each of the local residents "follows his own path". Some join the partisans, some collaborate with the occupiers. Among them — Sergey. A professor of l ...

The Heart and How to Use It (2021)

They are very different, but they have one dream - to reach heaven. The famous Moscow stand-up comedian Ilya Pogorelov was publicly accused of lying by his ex, and now he needs to "just" survive. And the shy provincial Sanyok wants to break out of his coco ...

Deeper! (2020)

A rather unlucky young theater director finds himself without work and means of subsistence. To somehow make ends meet, on the advice of a friend, he decides to become a director of pornographic films, using creativity and psychological aspects in his work ...

The Eternal Life of Alexander Christoforov (2018)

The misanthrope Alexander Christoforov, nicknamed "Alec", is a hopeless loser. The actor, who was celebrated in the Soviet era as the hero of "Eugene Onegin", is carving out a depressing existence as a bad paid figure of a ridicule historical show. Despise ...

Salyut-7 (2017)

USSR, June 1985. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life. Based on actual events. ...

The Stars Have Aligned (2016)

An English correspondent arrives in Astana to interview the named Leader of the Nation Nazarbayev. Nazarbayev is hosting an English guest. The interview turns into Nazarbayev's story about life, fate and the difficult path of gaining independence. The Pres ...

Ghost (2015)

An aircraft designer becomes a ghost after a sudden death. Now he needs to engage a help of seven-grader in order to finish all his unaccomplished tasks. ...

Short Stories (2012)

A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big Moscow publishing house. The manuscript stays at the office and mysteriously influences the lives of anyone who opens it and reads at least one page. There are four stories in the manuscript, and ...

On the Hook! (2011)

Rita, a figure skating coach, wants to prevent her school bankruptcy and closing by trying to push the famous millionaire to fall in love with her. ...

A Man in My Head (2009)

Suddenly Alyona start talking to a stranger man who lives... inside her head. ...

Keep Forever (2007)

Diplomat Volodin is going to work in the States for a responsible job. But, having crossed the ocean, he immediately went over to the Americans. And not empty-handed: he calls the American embassy from a pay phone and gives the appearance of a Soviet intel ...

Carnival Night 2 (1996)

New years tele-vaudeville based on Eldar Ryazanov's "Carnival Night". ...

What a Mess! (1995)

A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue. ...

Moscow Parade (1992)

The drama of a former noblewoman who became the wife of an NKVD officer in the 1930s, and the almost anecdotal story of how a spirited stallion was prepared for Marshal Budyonny's parade and, in the end, a reliable mare was "slipped in" instead. The realit ...

Время вашей жизни (1992)

Meet Me in Tahiti (1991)

Chernov/Chernov (1990)

The strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real day in the life of the real Moscow architect Alexander Petrovich Chernov, his mental crisis; and the other is Chernov's fiction. There is a different fate, ...

Saving Legacy (2021)

The place where the great poet Pushkin crafted his works. The fascist forces occupied Mikhailovskoye. Each of the local residents "follows his own path". Some join the partisans, some collaborate with the occupiers. Among them — Sergey. A professor of l ...

V2. Escape from Hell (2021)

Mikhail Devyatayev, a captured Soviet pilot who leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft. ...

The Last Frontier (2020)

The story of the Podolsk cadets' heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, yo ...

The Battalion (2015)

Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917. ...

Fortress of War (2010)

The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by t ...

Casus Belli (2002)

A gentleman hires a female private detective to spy on his wife - and suddenly falls in love. ...