Konstantin Adashevsky

The Rivals (1985)

A young talented athlete Natalia Ozernikova, having retired from swimming due to age, began to practice single kayaking. She loves her job, devoting many hours of grueling training to it. But at the competitions she does not manage to rise above the second ...

And Then Came Bumbo... (1984)

A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin. ...

Let the Fireweed Bloom!.. (1984)

A touching story about the friendship of guys who help two lonely old people meet after almost half a century of separation. ...

Donkey's Hide (1982)

At the festivities marking the christening of princess Theresa, daughter of King Gaston IX, a wicked fairy made a mysterious prophecy about the girl's life. Seventeen years later, Theresa falls in love with a poor prince named Jacques. Then the prophecy st ...

This is the Music... (1981)

A young graduate of a Musical teacher's training school, having got an allocation to one of the collective farms of Nonblack Soil Zone, she goes there with one desire return to city as soon as possible and continue her career of pop singer. Villagers are r ...

I'm An Actress (1980)

A film about the great Russian actress Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya (1864–1910). ...

The Nightingale (1980)

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes. ...

Rafferty (1980)

The story of the trial of the trade union boss Jack Rafferty. With great force and astute critical insight, corruption and crime are exposed, accompanying the advancement of Western leaders to power. ...

All the Evidence is Against Him (1975)

Chauffeur Movilyanu is arrested at his own wedding, accused of running over a man — all the evidence points to his guilt. However, during the investigation, police colonel Chekan uncovers that the driver was framed, and the real criminals are still at la ...

Tsarevich Prosha (1974)

Here Is Our Home (1974)

A young and ambitious engineer comes into conflict with old-fashioned structures that don't acknowledge his honesty. ...

Fear of Misery - No Happiness (1973)

A musical based on Russian folklore and fairytales. ...

The Twelve Months (1973)

A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months. ...

Ten (1971)

The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a matter of national importance, because her husband will become the new king. But unlike many "sui ...

The Owner (1971)

After the end of the civil war, sailor Ivan Ivanov, who dreams of working at the legendary Putilov factory, arrives in Petrograd to build a new life. ...

The Red Diplomat (1971)

The TV movie is based on several dramatic episodes from the life of the red diplomat Leonid Krasin. ...

Green Signals (1970)

Three boys are helping Soviet Intelligence to catch German spies during WWII. ...

Angle of Incidence (1970)

The plot is based on the defense of Petrograd from Yudenich's troops in 1919. ...

Crime and Punishment (1970)

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess. ...

Fortune's Fool (1970)

Performance by the Leningrad Academic Theater named after. A.S. Pushkin based on the comedy by I.S. Turgenev. ...

Dead Souls (1969)

In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, "something terrifying", "he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - de ...

Honore de Balzac's Mistake (1969)

It is a story of the relationship of A French writer and a beautiful duchess Ganskaya. The events take place in a picturesque estate of the aristocrat on the Ukrainian land, which is under the power of Polish landowners. Ganskaya is considered to be the mo ...

Tatyana's Day (1968)

The fate of Tanya Ognevaya, whose image reflects the features of Liza Pylaeva (1898-1926), the first chairwoman of the Socialist Youth Union. ...

Rebellious Outpost (1967)

The plot is based on events that took place in St. Petersburg in May 1901, when workers at the Obukhov military factory rebelled against the tsar. ...

Bracelet-2 (1967)

Bracelet-2 is a grey trotter at a Russian race track stable. Daily beatings from a cold-hearted trainer turns him into an unreliable emotional wreck, and in race after race he breaks his trot and finishes at a gallop, resulting in disqualification. To the ...

The Chief of Chukotka (1967)

Young patriotic young man ends up in the on Chukotka right after the civil war, where he intends to spread ideas of justice and equality among the natives. As it happens, instead he learn the local capitalist ways, and he start profitable fur trading with ...

12 Chairs (1966)

Who was the first to bring the great novel "12 Chairs" to the screen? You say "Leonid Gaidai" - and it will be a mistake. In our country, the first director was Alexander Belinsky (Leningrad television, 1966). Filming the favorite books of millions is a di ...

Katerina Izmailova (1966)

Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and h ...

Musicians of the Same Regiment (1965)

The invaders are leaving the northern town of the young Soviet republic. The brave underground activist Alexei Ilyutinsky infiltrates a musical troupe organized to entertain the White Army command and boost the morale of the population. The new horn player ...

Two Lives (1961)

In the center of the film - two lives, two destinies. A simple, illiterate soldier Vostrikov of the Tsar's Army during the years of Soviet power grew into a devoted fighter of the revolution, he became a general of the Soviet Army, respected by all. A guar ...

Be Careful, Grandma! (1961)

Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her grandmother and her 'old guards'. Look out Lena's enemies. Here's ...

First Trials (1960)

The young teacher Lobanovich, who has just graduated from the seminary, comes to the remote Polessky village of Telshino to teach the peasant children to read and write. In the heads of seminarians persistently hammered into the idea that the Tsar-father e ...

Toktogul (1959)

About the life of the famous Kyrgyz akyn. ...

Soldiers Were Walking (1959)

October 1917. Russian and German soldiers, exhausted by three years of war, began to fraternize. But officers' bullets shot the fraternizers. The survivors - Ilya, Matvey, nurse Olga and German soldier Jakob - swore in front of the fallen soldiers to reach ...

His Time Will Come (1958)

Kazakh scientist and traveler, Chokan Valikhanov studied at St. Petersburg University and was well known in Russia. When sent to war against the Kazakhs, Valikhanov was forced to make a choice between Tzar and native land. ...

Red Leaves (1958)

A story is taking place in West Belarus where local rebels are fighting for the unification with Soviet Union during 1930-ies. ...

Tambu-Lambu (1958)

The adventures of two guys looking for a man who left his address book in a telephone booth. ...

Baltic Glory (1958)

A film about the struggle of Baltic Fleet sailors for revolutionary Petrograd in the autumn of 1917. The film focuses on the fates of a sailor and a naval officer who join the ranks of those fighting for the revolution. ...

Street Is Full of Surprises (1958)

Chief accountant Porfiry Petrovich Smirnov-Alyansky, who took a good walk on the anniversary of his colleague cashier Ivan Zakharovich Vodnev, climbs into the traffic controller's booth and disrupts traffic on one of the streets of Leningrad. However, the ...

October Days (1958)

Historical drama depicting the events leading up to the 1917 October Revolution produced to celebrate the 40th anniversary. ...

Road of Truth (1956)

An optimistic drama about an ordinary Moscow worker who, thanks to her integrity, intelligence and justice, won everyone's trust and was elected as a people's judge. ...

Two Captains (1955)

From childhood, Sanya Grigoryev was able to achieve success in any business. He grew up a courageous and brave man. The dream of finding the remnants of Captain Tatarinov's expedition led him to the ranks of polar explorers. The life of Captain Grigoryev i ...

Mikhail Lomonosov (1955)

A biopic about the life of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - Russian polymath, scientist and writer. ...

The Gadfly (1955)

Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in the activities of the underground organization "Young Italy", envies its leader, Giovanni Bolla, and is jea ...

Footprints in the Snow (1955)

The post-war years. Yakut hunter Bykadyrov discovers mysterious footprints in the taiga leading to a village where the head of a geological expedition has just been murdered. A group of state security officers arrives from Moscow to investigate the crime. ...

The Cutlass (1954)

The teenager Misha Polyakov, being with his mother in a Ukrainian village on vacation with his grandmother and about to return home to Petrograd, offers his best friend Genka to go with him. Suddenly, a white gang of Nikitsky bursts into the village and at ...

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 ...

Belinsky (1953)

A biopic based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848). The production of the film was completed in 1951, but it was not released until 1953, following the reshooting of various scenes demanded by Stalin. ...

Zhambyl (1953)

The film tells about the life and work of the famous singer of the Kazakh people akyn Dzhambul Dzhabayev. ...

The Forest (1953)

Based on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. Two poor actors, Neschastlivtsev and Schastlivtsev, — no money, no work, no tobacco and that, having put on fake orders, armed with a pistol and a guitar, decide to visit the rich Neschastlivtse ...

Hot Heart (1953)

A love story based on a classic play by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy. ...

The Living Corpse (1952)

The Russian nobleman Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov cannot put up with the hypocrisy of his environment, but is powerless to fight it. He begins to drink, leaves the house and gradually falls. The behavior of Protasov helps to bring his wife Liza closer to a ...

Mussorgsky (1950)

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country wh ...

Ivan Pavlov (1949)

Russia, 1875: In Riazan', Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov's dismay, he orders the destruction of a beautiful apple orchard. 1894: Experimenting on dogs, Pavlov tries to comprehend the ...

Cinderella (1947)

In the fairy kingdom live stepmother, her evil daughters — Anna and Maryana, a limp husband-forester and his daughter from his first marriage — Cinderella. The stepmother exploits the poor girl as a housekeeper. With the help of her godmother-fairy, Ci ...

Russian Ballerina (1947)

A graduate of a choreographic school is looking for a new style for her part in the ballet "Sleeping Beauty". Alexei, a conservatory student, falls in love with the young ballerina. ...

Simple People (1945)

A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev b ...

The Girl from Leningrad (1941)

Set during the 1939–1940 Winter War, the film follows a group of young women from Leningrad who volunteer for service at the front. Working as nurses in hospitals and on the battlefield, they devote themselves to saving the lives of wounded soldiers, whi ...

Defeat of Yudenich (1941)

About the struggle of the red Army and the revolutionary workers of Petrograd against the white guards in 1919.... ...

Man in a Shell (1939)

The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a case, on the principle: "no matter what happens". By this principle, he literally "terrorized" the gymnasium an ...

Enemies (1938)

The eve of the 1905 Russian revolution was unquiet at the Skrobotova and Bardin factory. In response to the fair demand of the workers to dismiss the cruel and rude master, the masters close the factory and call in the troops. They shoot of one of the work ...

Great Citizen (1938)

A biography drama about Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union. ...

Маска (1938)

The Girlfriends (1936)

Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from ...

Moonstone (1935)

Geological expedition is looking for a rare element in Pamir mountains. ...