Lev Lemke

Genius (1992)

He is overly intelligent... He is genius... And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia. ...

And the Wind Returns... (1992)

The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films. ...

Bukharin: Enemy of the People (1991)

The tragic story of the life of revolutionary and romantic Nikolai Bukharin and his failed attempt to refute the charges against him. In parallel with the trial of Nikolai Bukharin, the whole life of this amazing man, who was ready to die for his ideals, f ...

Jokes (1990)

Vasily Kutuzov, the namesake of the famous commander, ends up in a mental hospital because of his talent for making up jokes. Everyone in his family had this gift, and many suffered because of it. The authorities didn't like that the Kutuzovs were botherin ...

Rogonosets (1990)

After several years of happy married life, the wife cheated on her husband. For the man, this is a real tragedy. He is faced with questions: how to move on? Should he forgive the betrayal? Is it possible to continue loving after betrayal? The painful exper ...

Hope (1988)

At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new country, totally unknown to him but that will bring him a new life. ...

The Second Attempt of Viktor Krokhin (1987)

During the flight, the hero of the film, the boxing champion, recalls his life's journey. The hero's childhood was in the first post-war years. He grew up without a father, his mother was busy with work, his older brother was in prison, the relationship wi ...

The Left-Hander (1986)

When the British, wanting to surprise the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich, presented a clockwork miracle flea, they did not know into the hands of which craftsman it would fall on Russian soil. ...

The Feat of Odesa (1985)

The plot is based on the true facts of the heroic defense of Odesa during the Second World War. The first series, based on documentary material, is a series of events related to the defense of the city. The second series consists of individual novels dedic ...

Davydov and Goliath (1985)

Seventh-grader Vitya Davydov is sent to a factory for practical training. His mentor, a worker nicknamed Goliath, gives him an assignment, unaware that their relationship is about to become a battle of wits. ...

Applause, Applause... (1984)

Lyudmila Gurchenko's brilliant performance in a musical drama about a life of the struggling singer. ...

At the Pike's Behest (1984)

The tale about a magic fish that too literally understands the wishes of lazy fool. ...

A Dangerous Age (1981)

A relations between man and woman become complicate after 20 years of marriage. ...

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981)

As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II, mystic Grigori Rasputin holds great influence over the empire. However, many in St Petersburg begin to regard Rasputin, with his strange practices and mesmerizing qualities, as a liability and plot his assassinatio ...

Leningraders, My Children (1981)

1942, Great Patriotic War. Thousands of orphaned children evacuated from besieged Leningrad and other cities found shelter and care in Uzbek families and orphanages. ...

The Adventures of Four Friends (1980)

About the life and adventures of four animal friends. The owner of the animals, a forest ranger, is training three dogs to be friends with a cat. ...

Colonel Chabert (1978)

Colonel Chabert, who miraculously survived the battle, returns to his homeland after several years of wandering, but everyone has long considered him dead. It seems very problematic to prove the opposite - the wife got married again and sharing her fortune ...

Golden Mine (1977)

The film is set in the 1970s Leningrad, Russia. Fugitive Brunov is a dangerous criminal, who escaped from jail. He is after the treasure that was hidden by him years ago at his former country-house. He is having plastic surgery to hide his identity, while ...

The Retired Colonel (1977)

Korney Korneevich Polunin is a career military officer, a retired colonel. His wife died when his son was one and a half years old, Alexey had already grown up, became independent, and they rarely see each other. Unable to stay at home, Polunin goes to the ...

Mark Twain Against... (1976)

Blokada: Pulkovo Meridian (1975)

Autumn 1941. German tank troops are making another attempt to break through to the Uritsk and Pulkovo Heights. During heavy fighting, Soviet troops managed to stop the offensive of fascist tanks one and a half kilometers south of the Pulkovo Observatory. ...

The Siege: The Luga Defense Line (1974)

In June 1941, the Extraordinary Defense Headquarters of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov forced units of the front to withdraw, and on July 9, Pskov was also a ...

Tsarevich Prosha (1974)

Open Book (1974)

The protagonist of the film is a female microbiologist and inventor of penicillin. The discovery of this life-saving drug was preceded by many years of scientific research, which Dr. Lebedev conducted in his laboratory in a small provincial town at the beg ...

The New Adventures of Doni and Mikki (1973)

The Last Days of Pompeii (1973)

A team of pop artists arrives in a small resort town and hopes to make money easily. But the guest performers are not given a provincial reception. Vacationing students of the theater university expose the hacks and declare a boycott against them... ...

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. ...

Are You Kidding? (1971)

The film almanac of VGIK's graduates, consisting of films for children: "Otherwise We Are Lost," "Vanderbul Runs Over the Horizon," and "Are You Kidding? ...

No Road Back (1971)

A Very Old Story (1968)

Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the film is a puppeteer who lives in a poor and gray world. He composes a fairy tale in which he himself, in the guise of a brave soldier, finds a flint and is ...

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 ...

New Attraction Today (1966)

A new girl becomes circus star despite her husband objective. ...

The City of Masters (1965)

After their town is occupied the citizens are trying to fight the enemy. Based on Tamara Gabbe fairy tale. ...

Mercy Train (1965)

Two strangers meet in an ambulance train during WWII. ...

Fear and Despair in the Third Empire (1965)

Chronicle dramatic scenes of Germany under the rule of fascism. ...

State Offender (1964)

A young detective is trying to find a hiding Nazi collaborationist who is responsible for deaths of a hundreds of people during WWII. ...

The Serf Actress (1963)

Batmanova, once a serf, sets Paris aflame with her singing and now returns to the court of the Prince in 19th-century Russia. The Prince wants Batmanova for himself, but she loves a young nobleman who is technically still a serf because his papers have bee ...

Cherry Town (1963)

Lida Baburova, a tour guide of an architectural museum, unexpectedly receives a warrant for a two-room apartment in the new district of Zarechye, among the new settlers called "our Cheryomushki". Lida and her father go to inspect the apartment, but it tur ...