Lidiya Shtykan

A Second Spring (1980)

The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. Thes ...

Step Forward (1975)

Five sad and funny romantic stories about love... ...

From Cold to Warm (1972)

Vera Kasatkina, in her youth, experienced an emotional trauma: her husband left her and their child. She is 27 years old and has long given up on the idea of personal happiness. When she meets Volodya Chizhov, who is younger than her, she sincerely offers ...

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 ...

Mama Got Married (1969)

Having worked at a construction site all her life, Zina raised her son alone. Now that her son is almost an adult, Victor has appeared in her life, with whom she feels good and calm. However, her son Boris is too much used to having his mother belong only ...

The Living Corpse (1969)

According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he does not have the courage to fight it, and he chooses the third way — to stage suicide. ...

A Day of Sun and Rain (1968)

Two 7th graders, a hooligan Mukhin and a good student Kronov do not like each other. They decide to have a peace day together, which changed their attitude both towards each other and towards the world around them... ...

The Trial (1968)

Based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov. ...

The Green Carriage (1967)

Inspired by the life of Varvara Asenkova, a 19th-century actress who earned great acclaim on St. Petersburg stage before her death at the age of 24. ...

In the Town of S. (1966)

A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator. ...

Faithful Robot (1965)

A runaway robot obsessed with an idea of creating a perfect human becomes a household property of a writer through deception. ...

While a Person is Alive (1965)

Fear and Despair in the Third Empire (1965)

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

Before Sundown (1963)

Staged by the Leningrad Drama Theater named after. A.S. Pushkin. ...

The Winter of Our Discontent (1963)

A television play from John Steinbeck's novel, performed live for Leningrad Television. ...

My Dear Fellow (1958)

Military doctor Vladimir Ustimenko is a man of duty and honor, committed to the cause he serves, and one single love that he carries through his whole life: Varvara Stepanova is a whimsical girl who dreamed of becoming a great actress but eventually became ...

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 ...

Konstantin Zaslonov (1949)

Young railroad worker, seemingly accommodating to Nazi overlords at a captured rural depot, secretly spearheads acts of sabotage against the evil occupying forces. ...

Naval Battalion (1946)

Soviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists. ...

The Turning Point (1945)

The film tells the story of those who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, which became a turning point in the Great Patriotic War. For five months, the city resisted the Nazi offensive. Surrendering Stalingrad to the enemy would have meant losin ...

Once There Was a Girl (1944)

Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a const ...