Ilya Rutberg

Gagarin: First in Space (2013)

The film is dedicated to the first steps of mankind on the path of space exploration and direct the fate of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The main motif - the fight for the right to be first: the competition in the first cosmonaut, competition in missi ...

Четверг, 12-е (2012)

My Dad Baryshnikov (2011)

Moscow, 1986, the heat of Perestroika. Borya is an average clumsy teenager who is miraculously admitted to the legendary Bolshoi Ballet School. The boy is convinced that he will become a ballet dancer like his father, Mikhail Baryshnikov. But is this fathe ...

Mum's Better! (2010)

Young unlucky screenwriter Yasha starts a relationship with a beautiful young model. But having flown to the island of Crete to meet her parents, he suddenly falls in love with her mother, who is married to a not too faithful husband. ...

Turn Out the Light (2008)

Suddenly the apartments house looses light on a New Year eve... This brings the perfect opportunity to all the neighbors to meet each other. ...

Spartakiad: Local Warming (2008)

A merry New Year's comedy about how two opposites met and, contrary to their nature, fell in love with each other. And it was like this: a non-poor owner of a factory for the production of New Year's tinsel was going to the office, and found himself at a ...

Falling Leaves Blues (2006)

The young librarian Ksenia, who until recently was solving her numerous family and financial problems, one day becomes the owner of an inheritance - a huge apartment, a bank account and a new Mercedes, and with it many secrets and mysteries. Ksenia underst ...

On Upper Maslovka Street (2005)

A story about a friendship between eighty years old sculptor and a way younger theater director. ...

Витрина (2000)

Shub – Grandma Lyuba! (2000)

Voldya Sidorov, a high school student, is visited by his beloved grandfather, Yegor Kuzmich, who arrives from Nadym and brings a crystal the size of a baby's head as a gift. The grandson and grandfather take the crystal to a pawn shop and ask for three hun ...

The Wedding (2000)

The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no mon ...

A Gun with silencer (1993)

From the American psychiatric hospital run by two maniac, confident that he was a spy, and a transsexual. Very soon they will want to return to their native madhouse — but it will be too late. Because the third psycho sent them on a secret mission to Rus ...

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. ...

One, two - woe, never mind (1989)

Defeating the terrible dragon, the soldier Ivan returns from the war. The Far Far Away rejoices. The king, also Ivan, is very pleased. He awards the namesake with an order with pearls, appoints a field marshal and offers his wife his own daughter Maria Lo ...

Mysterious Heir (1987)

The young artist Burtsev goes to Paris about the inheritance left to him by his uncle, who left for France with the first wave of emigrants. There, he is expected by the hostility of some persons interested in the inheritance, and the open sympathies of ot ...

According to Lopotukhin... (1984)

A movie about very strange events which happened in the ordinary school after Vasya Lopotukhin got late to a math lesson because of his meeting with aliens. ...

Mary Poppins, Goodbye (1983)

A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers. ...

Never Guessed and Didn't Expect (1982)

In an ordinary Soviet apartment, where an ordinary Soviet family lives, suddenly ... the donkey breaks in. All attempts to expel the animal end in vain. Neither the police, nor the veterinary service, nor even the local hooligan can help. And only the ubiq ...

The Swineherd (1980)

The film is based on Andersen's fairy tale "Swineherd". ...

Breakfast on the Grass (1979)

A funny musical comedy about an adventures of children and adults in a summer camp. ...

A Woman That Sings (1979)

A musical melodrama and semi‐biographical portrait of Alla Pugacheva, here named Anna Streltsova, who repeatedly contemplates leaving the stage until she discovers her true style and songs. Along the way she endures a difficult marriage and divorce, embr ...

An Unnamed Star (1978)

"Stars never leave their orbits". The poor astronomy teacher got one more demonstration of this law when he met HER. SHE was "from the another world". SHE was strange and inappropriate in his tiny calm town. Town with slough-like life and citizens who spen ...

You to Me, Me to You (1977)

Ivan Sergeevich Kashkin — the bath attendant of the most prestigious metropolitan bath. It's not easy to get to him: reputable diplomats, well-known footballers, and the heads of the ministry are seeking the honor to steam. But Kashkin himself does not n ...

The Magic Skin (1975)

Struggling with financial loss, a poet receives a shagreen leather from an antiquities shop, fulfilling his wishes ...

The New Adventures of Doni and Mikki (1973)

Nerves... Nerves... (1972)

The misadventures of a cheerful inventor begin when he crashes his motorcycle into a long pipe being carried by workers. ...

The Love of Three Oranges (1971)

The Prince, suffering from melancholy, embarks on a dangerous and fascinating journey in search of three oranges. In one of the oranges, he finds his beloved Adelita and is cured of the blues forever. ...

The Life and Ascension of Yuras Bratchik (1967)

In ancient times of famine and Tatar raids, the satirist Yuras Bratchik appears to the people in the guise of Christ, and the people believe in a miracle. The cunning monk Bosyatsky decides to use this event. Arrested by order of the Cardinal, Yuras and hi ...

Aybolit-66 (1966)

In Africa, monkeys fell ill. This news was reported to Dr. Aybolit by the monkey Chichi, who escaped from the robber Barmaley. Aybolit and his assistants — Chichi and the dog Avva — are in a hurry to save the monkeys from the disease. But Barmaley and ...

A Foreign Woman (1965)

Hoping to receive compensation for the house belonging to her before the revolution, Madame Joubert comes to Odessa with her granddaughter Madeleine. While Madame is at war with enterprising Odessa citizens, her granddaughter meets Soviet peers and realize ...

Thirty-three (1965)

The dentist of the provincial town of Upper Yamki made an unexpected scientific discovery by finding the thirty-third tooth in the patient's oral cavity, Ivan Sergeyevich Travkin. Travkin, exhausted from pain, was taken to Moscow. Ivan Sergeyevich first b ...

Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)

Children rebel against the strict rules and regulations they face during their time in a Communist Young Pioneer camp. ...

Night Without Mercy (1962)

Based on a story by K. Zandner. An American air base is located in the mountainous desert of a Middle Eastern country. Henry Davis (Alexander Belyavsky) dreamed of being an art historian, but became a military pilot. His work is associated with risk, but t ...

No Fear, No Blame (1962)

The Soviet boys, Vadik and Yura, together with the mischievous little girl Tosha, are children with a kind heart and good life philosophy. One day they find money on the street, which must be returned to the owner without fail. But where to find an inatten ...

Look! The Sky! (1962)

The launch of the space rocket is scheduled for Wednesday. Final preparations are underway in the shed. Yulia, Borya, and Petya are waiting for Misha. But Misha has lost interest in the project — it's much more fun to play in the sea. And a garage is abo ...

Sovershenno seryozno (1961)

An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry. ...

Иностранцы (1961)

Zhora Volobuev, a slacker and stylist in search of a client, appears in the lobby of a Moscow hotel and soon meets Frank, the son of a Californian millionaire. Zhora invites Frank to his home, where Frank arranges a kind of press conference. He is interest ...

Breakfast on the Grass (1979)

A funny musical comedy about an adventures of children and adults in a summer camp. ...