Leonid Parfyonov

Russian Georgians. Part 2 (2022)

The second part of Leonid Parfyonov's project "Russian Georgians" will begin with a story about Stalin's design of the Russian patriotic upsurge in the Patriotic War, after which it will capture the post-war period - the Stalinist Russian style and the sho ...

Namedni-2020-2. Tiktok. Beirut. Khabarovsk. Belarus. Karabakh. Morgenstern. Navalny and poison (2021)

Events, people, phenomena that determined the way of life. That, without which it is impossible to imagine us, is even more difficult to understand. Another year - another series. What do you remember about the second half of 2020? Protests in Khabarovsk. ...

In Qvevri Veritas (2021)

Leonid Parfyonov travels to Georgia, where he studies how amphorae are made and grapes are crushed with bare feet, and learns why orange wine is slowly conquering the world. ...

Namedni-2020-1. Covid. Remote. Resetting. Traffic accident with Efremov. Screenlife (2021)

Namedni-1921 Capablanca. Hunger in the Volga region. March 8. Youth Theater. Homeless children (2021)

Listyev. A New Look (2020)

Investigation of the causes of death of Vladislav Listyev. 25 years passed, but the perpetrators of the highest-profile contract murder in Russia in the 1990s were not found. Or didn't you want to? Or found, but silent? Rodion decided to conduct his invest ...

Russian Georgians. Part 1 (2020)

The film is about the historical role of Georgians in Russian, and later - Soviet politics, culture and science. The heroes of the film are Bagration and Shevardnadze, Pirosmani and Danelia, Balanchine and Andronikov. ...

Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948. (2017)

With the assassination in 1948 of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, by the state security, new times begin in the relationship between the Soviet government and the Jews. ...

Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948. (2017)

The second film of the trilogy covers the thirtieth anniversary from 1918 to 1948. Unprecedented until that time in any country of the world, a bright and massive Jewish participation in all spheres of state policy and culture. ...

Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution. (2016)

The history of Jewish people in Russia up until the 1917 revolution. ...

The Term. Beginning of a Big Story (2014)

The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir Putin had just settled into the Kremlin for his third term. The original experimental format of "documentar ...

Russia in Bloom (2013)

A documentary about Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer in color photography of early 20th-century Russia. ...

Eye of God (2012)

The «Eye of God» is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. It shows how progressive and pro-West Russians can be, when it comes to comprehending the essence of beauty. Ivan Tsvetayev, a village priest's son, the founder of the museum, ...

Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных (2012)

Boris Godunov (2011)

Our eternal theme is crime and punishment. In Boris Godunov, the problems of conscience and existential choice are linked to the history of the country. Pushkin says that these things are woven into a mysterious knot or pattern. The choice of each of us is ...

Generation P (2011)

Set in the ground zero of gangster globalism and driven by a truly manic energy, Generation P is at once a comedy, a tragedy and a fantasy about the rise of a poet-turned-adman through Russia's nascent advertising business during the Moscow roaring 1990s. ...

He Came to Give Us Freedom (2011)

Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom before becoming General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and giving this freedom to the people. ...

Zvorykin-Muromets (2010)

Parfenov's documentary is about a brilliant scientist and engineer, born in Russia, but only known on the other side of the ocean. The invention of modern television changed the history of mankind. The invention has an author, who is almost unknown in his ...

Gogol the Bird (2009)

This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the unique style of the author Leonid Parfyonov. Documentary shows that the author of "Dead Souls", "The Inspector General" and "Taras Bulba" is not the founder ...

And Personally Leonid Ilyich (2006)

A famous Russian documentarist Leonid Parfyonov with deep investigation into the life of Leonid Brezhnev. ...

Bashlachev. The Flight of Death (2005)

A documentary film about the life and early death of Russian singer and songwriter Aleksandr Bashlachev through the eyes of his friends, family members and other representatives of rock music scene. ...

Still Waters (2000)

Kashtanov, professor of medicine and famous Moscow surgeon, is experiencing midlife crisis. Suddenly he decides to leave everything and escape to the countryside in order to spend some time with old friends. ...

Old Songs about the Main Thing 2 (1997)

Children of the 20th Congress (1988)

In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties. ...

Russian Georgians. Part 2 (2022)

The second part of Leonid Parfyonov's project "Russian Georgians" will begin with a story about Stalin's design of the Russian patriotic upsurge in the Patriotic War, after which it will capture the post-war period - the Stalinist Russian style and the sho ...

Pocket of Russia (2021)

The film restores the panorama of the centuries. Journalistic narration with extensive use of artistic reconstructions, computer graphics, animation shows that the business tradition in the region was not interrupted. She manifests herself in different way ...

Russian Georgians. Part 1 (2020)

The film is about the historical role of Georgians in Russian, and later - Soviet politics, culture and science. The heroes of the film are Bagration and Shevardnadze, Pirosmani and Danelia, Balanchine and Andronikov. ...

Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948. (2017)

With the assassination in 1948 of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, by the state security, new times begin in the relationship between the Soviet government and the Jews. ...

Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948. (2017)

The second film of the trilogy covers the thirtieth anniversary from 1918 to 1948. Unprecedented until that time in any country of the world, a bright and massive Jewish participation in all spheres of state policy and culture. ...

Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution. (2016)

The history of Jewish people in Russia up until the 1917 revolution. ...

Russia in Bloom (2013)

A documentary about Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer in color photography of early 20th-century Russia. ...

Eye of God (2012)

The «Eye of God» is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. It shows how progressive and pro-West Russians can be, when it comes to comprehending the essence of beauty. Ivan Tsvetayev, a village priest's son, the founder of the museum, ...

Zvorykin-Muromets (2010)

Parfenov's documentary is about a brilliant scientist and engineer, born in Russia, but only known on the other side of the ocean. The invention of modern television changed the history of mankind. The invention has an author, who is almost unknown in his ...

Gogol the Bird (2009)

This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the unique style of the author Leonid Parfyonov. Documentary shows that the author of "Dead Souls", "The Inspector General" and "Taras Bulba" is not the founder ...

And Personally Leonid Ilyich (2006)

A famous Russian documentarist Leonid Parfyonov with deep investigation into the life of Leonid Brezhnev. ...

O World, You Are a Sport! (2004)

A film about Russian athletes at the Athens Olympics. ...

Old Songs about the Main Thing 2 (1997)

Old Songs About the Main Thing (1996)

Children of the 20th Congress (1988)

In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties. ...