Irina Kupchenko

Everyone Dreams of a Dog (2024)

Yurka is a self—contained twelve-year-old schoolboy who is grieving the loss of his father. The ordinary course of his life changes when new students appear in the classroom — a brother and a sister. Together they will have to grow up and find out what ...

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 ...

Заступница (2022)

In the center of the plot is the Vatican list of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the main Orthodox shrine of Kazan. The film describes four layers of Russian history: the liberation of Moscow by the militia of Minin and Pozharsky, the battle of Poltav ...

French Master (2022)

A famous massage therapist becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of several of his clients. All the missing women are young girls looking to get away from of the provincial town to live their life in the capital, become professional models, or sim ...

The Film That Went Wrong (2022)

In 1993, Nikita Mikhalkov made a feature film "Remembering Chekhov". After the footage was edited, he realized that the film went wrong. thus he made a difficult decision – not to show it to a wide audience. almost 30 years later, in his documentary "the ...

The Wizard (2019)

The Victory Will Be My Gift To You! (2019)

«The Victory will be my gift to you!». This is the promise, which the 17-year old volunteer soldier makes to a very young hospital nurse, with whom he is madly in love. Many years later following a tragic accident the protagonist of our story will get ho ...

The Last Trial (2018)

The house of culture "Mir" (from Russian: "Peace") is being taken over by masked people. People who came to the premiere of the show have to face death. Now they are to pass a dreadful challenge, preserving their dignity and courage. This is a thriller abo ...

The Teacher (2015)

A gunshot suddenly breaks the silence of the school hallways. A desperate history teacher holds her whole class hostage. But very soon the situation will change, and the teacher herself will become a hostage. ...

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 ...

The Last Moons (2014)

Old age knows no national boundaries or geographical limits. She can be peaceful and happy in the circle of loved ones and become a disaster if you are abandoned by people dear to you. Man is the only living creature in the world who knows that he will die ...

Kalachi (2011)

Egorka Kalach is a guy from a Cossack family. When suddenly it turns out that Egorka is the only one who has not received a summons to the army, it becomes a blow to the whole family. ...

Pier (2011)

The Devil's Flower (2010)

College student Polina dreams of a mysterious flower on the gate of a medieval castle, which has incredible gravity. She tells her friend, who is interested in mysticism, about the dream. Mysteriously, they find an ancient book and discover in it a print d ...

A Pair of Bay (2010)

A young student Irina comes to a small sea shore town to spend some time with her grandmother. ...

Yulenka (2009)

A university professor, who wants to slow down a little, moves with his wife and daughter, from the big city to a small town and starts a new job as a teacher in a girls' gymnasium. Something weird is happening with the class, they seem to hide a secret. A ...

Practical Joke (2008)

Remake film. Russian drama school domination. In the last quarter of graduating class comes a new student, violating all classifications, and an affront to the leader. That, in turn, is ready to do anything not to give up this title until the end of school ...

Kuka (2007)

A woman and a young girl in different cities are struggling to find their way in this world. Will their paths intersect and will that change their destinies? ...

The Three and the Snowflake (2007)

Three friends are traveling to Amsterdam where they suddenly meet Katya - a young girl who soon become very important for the two of them. ...

The Night Is Bright (2004)

Two young teachers In a home for deaf-mute and blind children decide to see if the children they are in charge of are capable of falling in love, but their experiments have unfortunate consequences. ...

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 ...

Spasibo (2003)

Однажды одинокий дьявол, безумно любящий свою бабушку, проснулся в плохом настроении и сказал: "Ненавижу утро. Чтоб оно пропало!" И пропало у� ...

Moscow Suburbs Elegy (2002)

While people's artist of the USSR Sergey Cherkassky "fights" with the role of king Lear, trying to understand the psychology and actions of Shakespeare's character, his own large family presents him with one riddle after another. His daughter Elena, who br ...

Come Look at Me (2000)

The movie is about an old disabled lady who lives with her spinster daughter. The lady desperately wants her daughter to marry, and the daughter, driven by the supposed imminent death of her mother, invites a total stranger home and introduces him as her b ...

Old Hags (2000)

Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia. ...

Poor Liza (2000)

A beautiful peasant girl is romanced and abandoned by a young nobleman. ...

Listen If It's Raining... (1999)

Follows the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov's stories intersect. The hero can easily meet with Stalin or drink vodka with a homeless person in the basement. ...

Summerfolk (1995)

Representatives of the Russian nobility gathered at the dacha. A young nobleman Vlas, in love with the mistress of the estate, a simpering poetess, a writer who has long stopped writing, a frivolous wife, her lover and a jealous husband. Their lives are me ...

Romance, Russian Style (1994)

In Venice, the famous film actress Anna Zakharova meets the artist Mario. The meeting makes a lasting impression on the young man - he is in love. On her return to Russia, Anna is met with failure: she is removed from the role, breaks up with her lover-col ...

Budulai, Whom No-one Waits For (1994)

A new adaptation of the famous story of the gypsy Budulay. After serving 10 years in prison, Budulay returns to the Don village. He learns that his wife died, and the young son was taken up by a Cossack Claudius. The heroes of the film have a hard way to u ...

House on the Stone (1994)

A Russian writer who left the fatherland fifteen years ago comes with his wife for three days to Moscow... ...

Dancing Ghosts (1992)

Choreographic school, young talents are collected here. Behind eight years of study - three months remain before the final performance. And finally, "Giselle" is appointed, roles are distributed, girls are worried - they are afraid of the wording "professi ...

The Inner Circle (1992)

Life changes for a Moscow worker when he's made Stalin's personal film projectionist but cannot tell his bride. ...

The Waltz on the Petschora (1992)

Set in 1937 Stalinist Georgia, the film traces the parallel destinies of a mother, condemned by the government as "an enemy of the people" and exiled to a work camp in Siberia, and her daughter, who meanwhile is sent to an orphanage. Arriving at the overc ...

Nikolay Vavilov (1991)

Biopic devoted to the history of the life of Soviet biologist, academician Nikolai Vavilov. His scientific and personal confrontation with Trofim Lysenko, the subsequent arrest and death of the scientist in prison. ...

Homo Novus (1990)

A divorced young math teacher is tormented by her high school students. ...

The Light Shines in the Darkness (1988)

A man tries to follow his interpretations and behave accordingly, sacrificing his entire private property and living for the poor. ...

Forgotten Tune for the Flute (1987)

A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a "big man's" daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate's sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to m ...

Another Life (1987)

Psychological drama about a university dean who leads a double life. ...

Lonely Woman Seeks Life Companion (1986)

Klava, a lonely woman who is bored with her life, posts an advertisement seeking a male companion. Valentin, a retired circus performer, responds to her message and the two enter a dubious relationship. ...

The Last Road (1986)

About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel and died when he was 37. ...

Misty Shores (1985)

Fall, 1921. Wrangel's army, defeated in Crimea after a short stay in Turkey, found refuge in Bulgaria. White Guard Colonel lives here with his son and daughter, while his wife and youngest daughter were sheltered by the family of the Bolshevik, who've been ...

Without Witness (1983)

In visiting his ex-wife's apartment a man learns that she plans to remarry a scientist named Valentin Shlyakhov. In his past, the man wrote a scathing letter about Shlyakhov which greatly impacted his career. Fearing that this information will come to ligh ...

Homeward! (1983)

A movie about love and betrayal. About war, about returning from war. However, the film does not reflect Platonov's important theme of epiphany. In the story, the protagonist does not just forgive his wife, but begins to realize how hard it was for her in ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2 (1981)

The second part of the Soviet TV adaption. ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1 (1981)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)

When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family. ...

The Last Escape (1981)

The hero of the film Scrubs – a war veteran who works in a school for troubled teens. On the day of release from the special school his favorite pupil Viktor waited in vain for his mother – she did not come for her son, and went out to meet the swimmin ...

Journey to Another Town (1980)

By chance, two middle-aged people met - the telephone operator of the hotel Lina and the chief engineer of the construction department Kirillov, who had arrived on official business from Leningrad in one of the provincial cities of the country. Behind ever ...

The Appointment (1980)

A soft and gentle man suddenly starts to change after being appointed to the manager position. ...

Last Escape (1980)

Siberiade (1979)

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road throu ...

A House Facing the Field (1979)

The indecisiveness and shyness of the village schoolteacher Tretyakov prevent him from confessing his love to Astafyeva, the head of the collective farm's dairy. Not realizing that his feelings are returned, Tretyakov decides to leave the village. ...

September Vacation (1979)

Engineer Zilov, having woken up, finds the funeral wreath at his place – his friends' present. This rather symbolic joke makes him recollect the previous night as well as 2 last months... ...

Ordinary Miracle (1978)

A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who ...

A Strange Woman (1978)

Irina Kupchenko stars in this psychological drama by the renowned director/writer team of Yuli Raizman and Yevgeny Gabrilovich. In the story, she is the entirely respectable wife of a career diplomat, with a teenaged son. Suddenly one day, she decides to l ...

The Turning Point (1978)

The newlyweds return to Moscow after a wonderful sea cruise on the Black Sea. It seems that they will have a happy life ahead, their beloved job, but chance rudely cuts off all dreams: Viktor doesn't have time to slow down and knocks down an elderly woman ...

Other People's Letters (1975)

Zina is sixteen. She is a manipulative schoolgirl living in a small Russian town among sincere and simple people. Zina is nice on the surface, but so unable to enjoy normal life, that she is desperately trying to hurt someone. She tries to seduce and compr ...

The Captivating Star of Happiness (1975)

In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revolution against the autocratic and tyrannical Czar Nikolai I in the wake of his not honoring the draf ...

Romance for Lovers (1974)

Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania waits for his return. Sergei's division is abandoned in favor of helping local residents in distress. During the operation, his armored personnel gets carried i ...

He Came (1973)

Uncle Vanya (1970)

Serebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yeléna, visit their country estate, which funds their urban lifestyle. Vanya, brother of the Professor's first wife, who manages the farm estate, and the local Doctor Astrov, bo ...

A Nest of Gentry (1969)

A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The film portrays the life of Russian landed gentry in the 1840s. After a long travel in Europe, nobleman Lavretsky returns back home. Everything in his estate is so familia ...