Leonid Obolensky

Was Not There (1987)

High school student Vasily Serov, a troubled teenager equally capable of both good and bad deeds, falls in love with Irina Zvyagintseva, the daughter of the school principal. Friendship with Ira sharpens in him feelings of justice, nobility. One day Vasya ...

A Million in a Wedding Basket (1985)

In the densely populated slums live large but poor family of charming and talented signor Leonido Popogatto. Under the guise of an important person he enters the secular parties and steals drinks and food from the tables. ...

European Story (1984)

Two candidates are vying for the post of mayor of one of the major Western European cities - the Social Democrat Dr. Hayden and the "free nationalist" Alden. On the eve of the election, an independent journalist receives documents confirming Alden's connec ...

Zudov, You're Fired! (1984)

About rural projectionist Nikita Zudov, a passionate film lover who makes amateur films that expose and ridicule bureaucrats, parasites and bribe-takers. ...

The Legend of Princess Olga (1984)

The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olha of Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rusʹ) at the start of the 11th century. Inspired by chronicles and folk legends this is a story of a common girl Olha who married Prince ...

Strange Passions (1983)

It is the post-war era on the Latvian border, and the Lithuanian girl Maryte has located her relative, Antanas. Having been a farmhand on a rich farm as well as the lover of the owner's wife, upon his return from the war Antanas hopes to gain as much as he ...

Forgotten Things (1982)

Soul (1981)

A famous singer is going through the dark period of her life... ...

Fact (1981)

Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a f ...

At the End of Summer (1980)

An old man in need of care and attention moves to his son in the city. But soon the son and his wife send the old man to a shelter for the elderly. However, the grandson, who loved his grandfather and understood the cruelty of what is happening, leaves his ...

Mainai (1979)

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov. ...

Mainai (1979)

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov. ...

Someone Else's (1978)

Factory director Kungurtsev returns from a trip abroad and finds out that his longtime and only friend engineer Alexei Putyatin is going to marry Vera, who is very different from everyone's beloved Lipa, Alexei's first wife. ...

Walnut Bread (1977)

Lithuania, 1977. Memories of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provincial town, shown through complexity of human relations at this periodical film. ...

Yuliya Vrevskaya (1977)

The film is based on a true dramatic story of the fate of a wonderful Russian woman - Countess Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya, one of the first Petersburg beauties. The events of the movie take place during the Russian-Turkish war for the liberation of the Bulga ...

A Very English Murder (1974)

A classic detective story based on one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare, novel "An English Murder" originally published in 1951. The setting of An English Murder seems, at first, to be a very conventional one. A group of family and fr ...

Starling and Lyre (1974)

Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German s ...

Silence of Doctor Ivens (1974)

In the surreal aftermath to a plane crash at sea Dr. Iven an eminent scientist is the only survivor to be taken into the confidence of the alien rescuers. He learns that the world with its weapons of mass destruction is not ready for the wonders of the cul ...

Residence Permit (1972)

A young talented doctor Rostislav Saveliev, who believes that he is not valued enough in his homeland, taking advantage of a tourist trip, stays in one of the European countries. But failing to find a job in his specialty, he is forced to agree to a propos ...

Roll Call (1966)

General Zhuravlev fought on the fronts of World War II, and is now designing spacecraft. Sending a rocket with astronaut Borodin on the flight, he recalls the namesake of the astronaut - a young tankman whom he had the chance to meet on the roads of war .. ...

Wait for Letters (1960)

A group of young people comes to a Siberian construction site. They form a brigade, one of their tasks being cutting of a track for a power line. Different reasons made these people go to taiga and become pathfinders. One of them, a former taxi-driver Leon ...

An Ordinary Trip (1958)

An ordinary trip suddenly becomes dangerous for two previously conflicted drivers. ...

Pursuing Fame (1957)

Siberians (1940)

Two six-graders are trying to find the Stalin's pipe and return it to the owner. ...

Marionettes (1934)

Fearing the Soviet Union, rich businessmen who want more influence in Europe decide to give the nation of Boufferia a new king, an easy to handle drunkard. ...

The Great Consoler (1933)

The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov's most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what ...

Diary of a Revolutionist (1932)

The secret police agent finds that factory director wife is counterrevolutionary but dies from the heart attack. The director reads the diary of an agent and turns his wife to police. ...