Irina Sokolova

On the Last Journey (2021)

This is a story about an elderly woman, Nina Andreevna Cherkasskaya. She has devoted her whole life to training dogs in the circus and has been living alone for many years. On the eve of the anniversary, Nina comes to the city to perform at a creative even ...

I Am a Clown (2021)

The story of three great actresses applying for one role in the play, each of whom once had an affair with the artistic director of the theater. In the enchanting atmosphere of the backstage, it is highlighted: what roles were played on the stage, and what ...

Petersburg: Selfie (2016)

Petersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story about ...

Morning (2016)

Where does true love begin? At a glance? With mutual sympathy? A random gesture at a trolleybus stop? Or, perhaps, with ordinary stupidity? Polina and Sasha met on an ordinary autumn morning. It was a good morning to meet: she had a bag of lollipops in her ...

Under Electric Clouds (2015)

Russia 2017. The world could be on the verge of a great war. People are anxious that things could fall apart. ...

Serving the Soviet Union! (2012)

USSR, 1941. She is a famous actress, he is a well known journalist. But their meeting point is already set to GULAG. ...

Jolly Fellows (2009)

Veselchaki is a movie centered on a Moscow nightclub owned by Rosa; he performs as part of the drag revue in the club. The movie starts with five cross-dressing men sharing their stories with a reporter. ...

Вербное воскресенье (2009)

Травести (2006)

The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)

Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity. Cologne's young Edelweiss Pirates refuse to submit to the pressure of the Nazi regime. They fight with the Hitler Yo ...

The Lover (2002)

This is a remarkably subtle film–a character study that focuses on Mitya's attempts to cope with each new startling phase of discovery. At first he mourns for his dead wife, but then he discovers that he didn't really know her. ...

War (2002)

During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom. ...

The Turn of the Century (2001)

"The Institute of Conscious Dreams" - the so-called clinic is a mysterious place. True miracles happen here. It is here, during psychedelic sessions, that a door opens into a different reality, into the depths of a person's consciousness and his genetic me ...

His Wife's Diary (2000)

A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid Gurov. ...

Moloch (1999)

In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics. ...

The Castle (1994)

Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job that no one seems to have ordered. Once there, he takes up the struggle against bureaucracy emanating from the cas ...

Cruel Fate (1994)

A Soviet children's television film based on an Italian fairy tale, a fairy-tale play from the series of televised productions of folk tales from around the world. ...

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 ...

Sunset (1990)

Old, rich Jew Mendel Krik falls in love with the beautiful Marusya. But their sons Levka and Bena don't share their dreams... Revolution has come. ...

Return to Zurbagan (1990)

Starks returned after the conclusion of, met with his youthful love Tanya, who has a daughter Nelia over the years. Starkova acquaintance with the girl made him a different look at the relationship with Tanya and "ex-boyfriend". ...

Grief in a Snuffbox (1989)

Based on the work of Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak "Woe to Fear - Happiness Cannot See. ...

Days of Eclipse (1988)

This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier man ...

Mournful Unconcern (1987)

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it reflects the play which inspired it, the ferociously antiwar Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw. A large ...

Ruma Elsa (1981)

The professor's widow Vivi Cassel has three daughters: pretty Irma and Paula and unattractive, but smart, sharp-tongued Elsa, who is humiliated by the condescending attitude of her sisters and mother. She decides to prove that being a woman is much easier ...

Maigret and the Man on the Bench (1981)

The Rest Is Silence (1978)

TV version of the acclaimed stage production of Viña Delmar's script for the film Make Way for Tomorrow. ...

The Strange Mrs. Savage (1976)

Rabbit Reservation (1973)

Negligent, but the enterprising workers of a forest area "Rabbit reserve" unexpectedly wiped out all the rabbits. Now it remains only to wait for a scolding. But suddenly, in the possession of the hapless crooks right from the ground begins to beat the fou ...

The Road to Rübezahl (1971)

The German anti-fascist Max in 1939 emigrated to the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War, he fought in the Soviet partisan detachment and died, performing a responsible mission. After many years, her companion in guerrilla warfare, Lyudmila, was able to r ...