Ivan Lapikov

Quiet Flows The Don (2006)

With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekh ...

House on the Stone (1994)

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

The Last Saturday (1993)

A soldier returns from the army with his young wife. A local heartbreaker and a drunkard, an imposing man who does not care about anything, takes a fancy to her. He draws the young man into his company, and one evening the wife finds her spouse drowned in ...

Black Devil (1993)

Why? (1991)

The difficult fate of a man who went through the war, the horror of Hitler's and Stalin's camps, but retained fortitude, decency and purity. ...

Our Cottage (1990)

An old dacha in the Moscow suburbs brought all the relatives together. Lyudmila Kozlova arrived from the city with her son, and everything would have been fine, except that the dacha itself is the subject of a dispute between the two sides of the family. L ...

Souvenir for the Prosecutor (1989)

A seemingly ordinary car accident turns out to be a murder investigation... ...

The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants (1989)

The film is based on the story of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A sad story about how the demagogue and idler Foma Opiskin lived in the house of Colonel Rostanev, took possession of the souls and minds of educated, intelligent people. ...

Earthly Joys (1988)

The young soldier Vasily Lemekhov has returned from the hospital and met a young woman Natasha in Chisinau. ...

May I Die, Lord... (1988)

Before the demolition of the orphanage, almost all the children were transferred to other boarding schools, but six girls and their teacher remained. Olga, one of the pupils, receives an invitation to act in films and agrees. Filming and getting to know t ...

A Cossack Galloped Through the Valley (1987)

Senior ship engineer Valentin Kravchuk brings his son to the Kuban to his aunt to go with his wife to rest in the south. In the evening, at the table, he argues with fellow villagers that he alone will be able to grind two hundred tons of bread. In excit ...

Boris Godunov (1986)

Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Iv ...

Return of Budulai (1986)

A continuation of a saga about Budulai started in "Gypsy" (1979). ...

Before We Part (1984)

Stuck due to bad weather at a tiny Far Eastern airport, several random travel companions become witnesses of an amazing meeting. As it turns out, one of the passengers was brought here not by chance. He is the son of an American pilot who ended up at the ...

Young Russia (1984)

The film is set in the era of Peter I The Great, on the Russian North. The plot revolves around the fate of three people: Captain-Commander Sylvester Ievlev, customs army lieutenant Athanasius Krykov vaster and-White Sea Ivan Ryabov. Ivan Ryabov - a real h ...

Bribe. From the Notebook of Journalist V. Tsvetkov (1983)

Employees of the district housing office, Kurikhin and Olovyannikova, extort bribes from those who are legally entitled to receive apartments. They do the same to the family of war veteran Mikhov. When Mikhov, a man of impeccable integrity, finds out that ...

One True Love (1983)

The story is about old village residents who, due to the expansion of the collective farm, have to leave their huts and their homes. ...

Spring (1982)

The villagers dreamed of the happy days to come, but the war came and the men went to defend their land. ...

Front in the Rear of the Enemy (1982)

A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. Colonel Mlynsky ...

At the Beginning of Glorious Days (1980)

Late 17th century. With no access to the sea, Russia suffers great losses in foreign trade. Peter tries to capture the Turkish fortress of Azov, but with no success: he can win only if he has a fleet. Peter's ukases provoke the Boyars' indignation. Europe ...

Little Tragedies (1980)

Based on Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" ("The Miserly Knight", "Mozart and Salieri", "The Stone Guest", "A Feast in the Time of Plague"). ...

Here, on My Own Land (1980)

A large-format movie about the life of the scientist and breeder Academician I.P.Lugovenko. Academician-breeder Lugovenko created a variety of wheat, which is not afraid of the vagaries of nature and gives high yields. The academician recalls his life, how ...

Father and Son (1980)

During the formative years of Soviet power, the first commune was organized in a remote Siberian village. ...

I Wish You Success (1980)

In order to stay in Moscow, biologist Pyotr Severin began working in the field of statistics. An unloved activity gave rise to self-doubt and disappointment in life. One day, a famous scientist and relative who came from the Far East offered him the positi ...

Front Beyond the Front Line (1978)

A second episode in the trilogy about the partisans fighting against the Nazis during the WWII on the territory of Russia. Film is set in the winter of 1943-1944. Major Mlynsky is the commander of the partisan group, that is fighting behind the Nazi's fron ...

Father Sergius (1978)

Prince Stepan Kasatsky is an officer, an ardent, proud young man, and a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social l ...

The Dialogue (1978)

Political TV movie about the joint work of the Soviet journalist Ershov (V. Tikhonov) and the West German director on a documentary film dedicated to the relaxation of international tension. ...

The Steppe (1978)

A boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city. ...

Mama, I’m Alive (1977)

In a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII agree to pose as Red Army soldiers. Are they patriots or traitors, heroes or opportunists? Although they go to the frontlines, their new Russian comrades are initially unsure whether to trust them. ...

They Fought for Their Motherland (1975)

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countr ...

Closing of the Season (1975)

Genka stole a car to go for a ride with friends, and he was immediately taken to the police. ...

My Destiny (1974)

Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, ...

Origins (1974)

The family history (1917-1941) of a hereditary steelworker who began his career before the revolution at the factory of the German industrialist Heitel. ...

Yegor Bulychyov and Others (1973)

In the center of the film is a powerful, peculiar, talented Russian man, the largest timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov. He is experiencing a tragic discord with himself, with the world that surrounds him, with great social injustice, to which his whole life ...

Uninvited Guest (1972)

Based on the story of Emmanuel Kazakevich "In the light of day". A year after the end of the Great Patriotic War, a soldier Sleptsov appears in Olga Nechaeva's Moscow apartment, who went through the war side by side with her husband. His stories about the ...

A Minute of Silence (1971)

A young man Sergey is trying to find a truth about the abandoned tomb of the soldiers suddenly discovered during the building of a highway. ...

Silver Trumpets (1971)

The former Red Army commander begins by reading the first manuscripts to his friends, and soon becomes a famous children's writer. ...

The Roundabout (1971)

Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny". ...

About Friends and Comrades (1970)

In Moscow in 1919 there are still anarchist organizations, whose actions are clearly anti-Soviet in nature. The Chekists have to expose their activities. The case is entrusted to three newly conscripted Komsomol comrades. ...

Those Who Kept the Fire (1970)

The movie takes place in the first years after the Bolshevik coup in Donbas. Bandits blow up the bridge that carries ore to the blast furnace, the director of the plant is seriously wounded. The workers unanimously elect Ivan Klyavin, a mining foreman, as ...

Five Day Rest (1970)

In December 1941. For five days from the front line in besieged Leningrad arrives for re-forming company. The soldiers are placed in barracks outside the city. A young soldier Alexei Kazantsev pays attention to the girl Olya. She comes to the barracks ever ...

Reckoning (1970)

A young man discovers that his father behaved dishonourably during wartime. ...

13 orders (1969)

Supply clerk Chuvilikhin goes to Moscow to fulfill his coworkers' errands. In the hustle and bustle of the capital, he loses the list where the name of the sheet music to be bought for the director's wife was written down. Anatoly Stepanovich rushes around ...

Our Friends (1969)

After the death of her father, Antonina Staroselskaya has difficulty finding work. A dull life is the cause of illness. A merchant seaman takes care of the sick Tona. After the marriage, he is arrested for smuggling, and the care of Tonya is transferred to ...

The Brothers Karamazov (1969)

Based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The tragic story of the Karamazov family takes place in a Russian province in the late 19th century. The relations of their father and three brothers are very complicated and contradictory. One of t ...

The House and the Host (1968)

Egor is a peasant by vocation, a family man. But in search of earnings, he leaves both his land and his family. Both breakups are hard for him, it's even hard to figure out which is bigger. ...

Across Rus' (1968)

Based on Maxim Gorky's early autobiographical short stories "One Day in Autumn", "Konovalov", "Twenty Six and One", "My Companion", "The Conclusion", "On the Salt", "Woman". ...

The Journalist (1967)

A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of th ...

A Horseman over the City (1966)

Schoolboy Kirill has only one flaw—he wears glasses. So when he meets his classmate Aina, he hides them in his pocket and, whenever she asks him about them, he claims he forgot them at home. Meanwhile, Kirill's mother believes that his only flaw is that ...

Andrei Rublev (1966)

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brut ...

Our House (1965)

A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life. ...

Unbidden Love (1965)

About an old Cossack Gavril, who saved a Red Army soldier and loved him like a son. ...

Wagtail's Army (1964)

The civil war in Russia, guerrillas fighting with Kolchak formations. As a result of sabotage, accident with white Russian train takes place. In disaster area the flag with the inscription "Wagtail's Army" is found. Kolchak commanders think that they are B ...

The Chairman (1964)

Year 1947... Yegor Trubnikov is giving all his powers to make life in his own Kolhoz better. ...

If You Are Right (1964)

Having lost her parents during the war, Galya was brought up in an orphanage. When the grandfather was rehabilitated, they began to live together. Galya often called Alyosha to repair the phone. After walking around Moscow at night, they realized that they ...

Business Trip (1962)

Agricultural machinery design engineer Mikhail Shcherbakov goes to the countryside instead of taking a vacation. The tractor designed by him does not work in one of the collective farms. Circumstances force him to stay much longer than he expected. Here he ...

The Boys from Leningrad (1954)

Comedy about brothers Vesnushkin, Sasha and Vasya, who are playing for one team in a National Soccer Competition. However, Sasha falls in love with a beautiful girl and loses his confidence just before the final game, so his brother has to take the lead on ...