Inna Churikova

Patient No. 1 (2023)

The end of the Soviet empire. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. "The power is only taken, it is never given away," he repeats. And it is convenient for both the elites and the secret se ...

Peppermint Gingerbread (2022)

"Peppermint Gingerbread" is two stories – two lives. One is extremely sweet and cloying, like a Christmas fairy tale, the second is scary to the point of goosebumps and realistic, like life itself. A life full of children's and adult emotions, experience ...

Audience (2019)

...Every Tuesday, at six o'clock in the evening, the Queen of Great Britain gives an audience to the Prime Minister. No one and nothing obliges them to participate in this ritual, but according to the rules of good form, the Prime minister must inform his ...

Autumn Memories (2016)

After the death of the head of the family, allegedly due to the end of his powers, his family leaves the state cottage. The last hours before departure - packing, chores, confusion... And in this force majeure situation, a stress situation, through the pri ...

The Best Day Ever (2015)

For a successful Road Patrol Service officer time to start a family, but he lives with his mother. When Petia decides to propose Olya marriage, his official car crashes into drunken pop star. ...

No Borders (2015)

Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia. ...

Save My Speech (2015)

This is the story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, recreated at the intersection of the arts and genres: puppet theater, design, computer graphics, documentary. The rebellious spirit of Mandelstam's poetry sounded a challenge to the authorities, and their auth ...

Lie for Salvation (2015)

The action of the play has been transferred to our time. Can a lie be a salvation? Is it possible to save a person by lying? ...

The Land of OZ (2015)

In Yekaterinburg over the Christmas period, shop assistant Lenka Shabadinova experiences a number of incredible events and unexpected meetings. ...

Yankovsky (2015)

This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his personal life. Although it's all in the film: a dramatic fate, unknown pages of biography. Like any great ac ...

Aquitaine Lioness (2013)

A TV play in two acts based on the play "The Lion in Winter" by James Goldman. King Henry II, in his declining years, must announce the name of the heir to the throne. For the sake of this event, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves her prison for a while ...

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel (2011)

The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything h ...

Alexander Abdulov. Romance with Life (2009)

Because It's Me (2009)

The cycle consists of four short stories ("Record", "Havana", "Close Embrace", "Uncle from Chicago") connected by a common idea - to present different portraits of a modern Russian woman. It is planned to add some more interesting stories. All the short st ...

Guilty Without Guilt (2008)

In a small provincial town, a famous actress comes on tour, who once fled from here from the shame of unhappy love. Many years ago, she was forced to leave her illegitimate son to raise strangers. Therefore, when a talented and reckless young actor appears ...

Marriage (2007)

About the hapless bridegroom Podkolesin, who escaped from the bride through the window, and the picky bride Agafya Tikhonovna, who can not choose the right one, Mark Zakharov saw the story of a man who wants to change something in his life, but is not capa ...

Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later (2007)

The author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original. Festive mess in the same House of Culture, where they celebrated the New Year 50 years ago. Now the institution is named after Ogurtsov and is headed by Mr. Kabachkov ...

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 ...

The Wise Man (2004)

The story of the adventures of a young man – overly ambitious and cynical, who wanted to make a career but ended up failing. ...

Bless the Woman (2003)

Tiny Soviet village by the sea, in the years before the Second World War... A very young girl, Vera, falls madly in love with an older military officer who is visiting from out of town. She leaves her home and family to live with him in various military po ...

Casus Belli (2002)

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

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. ...

Ryaba, My Chicken (1994)

In Soviet days an old peasant woman's hen begins to lay golden eggs. Of course, everyone agrees that she should share the wealth like a good citizen. ...

The Year of the Dog (1994)

Former criminal Sergei meets Vera - an elderly unhappy woman who lives in a dormitory. After Sergei commits another crime, they run together and along the way they accidentally get into a zone contaminated by radiation. Sergei decides to stay there, but Ve ...

The Delegation (1993)

Mother (1990)

The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). In ...

Adam's Rib (1990)

The film is based on the story of Anatoly Kurchatkin "House of Women". A tragicomedy about four women of three generations who lives in a tiny Moscow apartment: a sick grandmother, constantly requiring attention; a mother, very peculiar woman, who still h ...

Hamlet (1989)

TV performance of the famous work of Shakespeare. ...

I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman (1988)

This glasnost-era documentary, which incorporates footage from films from the 1920s through the 1980s, looks at the history of women in Russian cinema through the eyes of Russian women directors, actors, and scriptwriters. The film's title refers to a WWII ...

The Cat Who Walked by Herself (1988)

Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, and the Cat comes into the room to keep him company. The child grabs her tail, and the Cat angrily reminds him that they agreed a thousand years ago that he ...

Courier (1986)

Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and wor ...

Dead Souls (1984)

Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to "dead souls" and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small provincial town and begins to proposition the local landowners. These landowners are revealed to be so petty and avaric ...

War-Time Romance (1983)

This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they m ...

Vassa (1983)

For many years, Vassa Zheleznova has been leading the family business and, despite the inconspicuous children, her dissolute husband, alcoholic brother, and revolutionary daughter-in-law, is trying to maintain at least the appearance of a normal family... ...

Khalif the Stork (1981)

A rich caliph is leading a careless life. One day an evil wizard sells him a magic potion that can turn human into any animal he wants. The only condition: one mustn't laugh. ...

Valentina (1980)

A drama about an affair between 18 years old dinning-room waitress and much older police investigator. ...

The Very Same Munchhausen (1979)

A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy, yet very merriment, stories, views and behavior is what sets him apart from others. He becomes alienated from the society that failed to grasp his brillian ...

The Theme (1979)

In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that here people live very differently than in the world familiar to him. By chance, he witnesses someone else' ...

I Wish to Speak (1976)

The mayor of a village sees her son killed in a gun accident. A successful, dedicated bureuacrat, she must reconcile her desire to build a bridge - and the new housing that will come with it - with the reality of resistance from the townspeople and her own ...

The Beginning (1970)

A talented girl from the provincial Russian town Pasha Stroganova dreams of becoming an actress. She plays the role of Baba Yaga in the amateur theatre — and does it so organically that the visiting filmmaker offers her the most difficult role in the his ...

No Path Through Fire (1967)

A talented girl is trying to find happiness amidst the Russian revolution of 1917 and the civil war that split the nation. ...

The Elusive Revengers (1967)

Danka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village brutally ends when their father is killed by a White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge, they join forces with Valerka, an intellectual from big city, and the gipsy Yashka, but before they ca ...

Elder Sister (1967)

A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career. ...

The Cook (1966)

Based on the play of the same name by Anatoly Sofronov. In one of the Kuban collective farms, a new beauty-cook has appeared. Many began to look after her, but the girl was not a timid dozen and quickly gave a turn to the unlucky boyfriends from the gate. ...

You Youth! (1966)

A story about high school students preparing for New Year's Eve and what can happen if the wrong person takes over... ...

Where Are You Now, Maxim? (1965)

A story of a young man who is returning to his home town after being evacuated as a boy during WWII. ...

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 ...

Father Frost (1965)

A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together. ...

Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964)

On a stopover in Moscow, a young writer Volodya makes friends with Kolya, who is returning home from a hard night shift. Just as Kolya is about to take a rest, he is met by his old friend Sasha, who wants help getting a deferral from military service so th ...

Clouds Over Borsk (1961)

Tenth grader Olya Ryzhkova can't find understanding among the people around her. ...

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family (2000)

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918. ...

The Elusive Revengers (1967)

Danka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village brutally ends when their father is killed by a White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge, they join forces with Valerka, an intellectual from big city, and the gipsy Yashka, but before they ca ...