Lidiya Smirnova

There is No Death For Me (2000)

It is a documentary story about five legends of russian cinema: Nonna Mordyukova, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Tatyana Samoylova, Lidiya Smirnova and Vera Vasileva. These wonderful women tell about their lifes and careers in hour interview. ...

The Totalitarian Novel (1998)

Autumn, 1968. Nadia, a young woman with strict views on life, a methodologist at the regional House of Culture, goes to the cinema with her friend Sasha. The premiere of the film "Three Poplars on Ivy" took place in their city. Suddenly it turns out that t ...

Shelter comedians (1995)

The life of the former actress Nelly Evgenievna and her neighbor Klim Efremovich passed by the sea. Now they live old age in a small resort town, spending days in memory of past youth, quarreling, reconciling, philosophizing ... But suddenly the granddaugh ...

The Hat (1990)

The story is about how a metropolitan writer, concerned about the "fifth point of his questionnaire," instead of the noble or, at worst, rabbit fur assigned to him by rank, was given a "medium fluffy domestic cat" at the Literary Fund, and how he, previous ...

Loan for a Marriage (1988)

The reason for serious reflection by the staff of one of the typical enterprises in the country was the lack of powder necessary for production and the money to purchase it. The employees came up with a reason to get money from the director's fund. Having ...

I Believe in Love (1987)

The film is a fantasy about how the destinies of Sergei and Varya Lukonin, a brave tanker and theater actress, could have turned out. ...

One Day of Mosfilm (1985)

The film tells about the main stages of the history of the country's largest studio "Mosfilm", about the work of the creative team, introduces the viewer to the outstanding masters of Soviet cinematography, with such unique groups such as the Theater-Studi ...

Calm is Cancelled (1983)

Sergeant Nikolai Gorovoy returns to his native village after serving in the Army and, overcoming all sorts of difficulties, raises the collective farm amateur art organization to a proper height. His intentions, persistence and enviable patience were not i ...

The Journey Will Be Pleasant (1983)

A good girl, Luda, under the patronage of her father, works in a trade mission and studies in absentia at the Faculty of Economics of a Siberian university. ...

It's Not Forbidden to Live Nicely (1982)

A textile factory worker tries to breathe life into women's fashion. ...

Carnival (1981)

A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her. ...

Foam (1979)

Makhonin buys dissertations from people who sell their knowledge and intellect, preparing candidate and doctoral dissertations for false scientists, because to defend themselves, you need connections, and they do not have them. Journalist Prosov exposes a ...

Rudin (1977)

In the house of Daria Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, former beauty and lioness of the capital, who even far from civilization still organizes her salon, a certain Baron, erudite and expert in philosophy, who promised to introduce hi ...

Aniskin Again (1977)

Third and final part of the comedies about the funny adventures of countryside cop named Aniskin. ...

The Son's Return (1977)

Thirty years after war's end a man in Kazakhstan contacts an old Russian woman to say he is her long-lost son. ...

Life on a Sinful Earth (1973)

Country House (1973)

Having saved money for a summer cottage and having chosen a suitable house, the couple of Petrovs decided without hesitation to enter into ownership rights. Right from the savings bank, the wife goes to the garden plot, and the husband has to pay the owner ...

Aniskin and Fantomas (1973)

A second story about countryside cop named Aniskin. ...

Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram (1972)

The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on the feuilletons and notebooks of famous writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov… ...

A Fakir for an Hour (1972)

A cheerful mix-up takes place at a provincial hotel when a newspaper reporter is mistaken for a famous hypnotist. ...

The Village Detective (1969)

Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate. ...

Uncle's Dream (1967)

An important event is taking place in a small provincial town, an elderly rich prince arrives. The local "lioness" Maria Alexandrovna Moskaleva decides to marry him to her daughter Zinochka. But the "noble" Mordassov society is by no means inclined to volu ...

Заблудший (1966)

In the difficult post-war years, Evsei did not want to work in the ruined collective farm and, leaving his family, went to the city. However, after many years the hero began to agonize over the separation from his native place and decided to establish rela ...

The Marriage of Balzaminov (1964)

Based on the trilogy of Aleksandr Ostrovsky. Moscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, sees his happiness in marrying a rich bride. Misha images in dreams and fantasies that he is a general or even ...

Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)

Children rebel against the strict rules and regulations they face during their time in a Communist Young Pioneer camp. ...

Secretary of the Regional Committee (1964)

The vacation ends, and the secretary of the regional committee, Vasily Denisov, assumes his former duties. On this day, I had to delve into the very difficult case of the old communist Chernogus, the head of the museum, who was prosecuted for possession of ...

In the Name of the Revolution (1964)

1918. After the death of the mother, the father decides to take the children to Moscow to see a distant relative. On the way, the guys experience a raid by a White Guard gang on a train, the death of their father, and meet the homeless child Yashka, who br ...

Silence (1964)

Screen adaptation of the novel by Yuri Bondarev. The demobilized Sergei Vokhmintsev returns to Moscow and enters the institute. Suddenly, according to the neighbor's slanderous denunciation, his father is arrested — and Sergei, as the son of an "enemy o ...

It Happened at the Police Station (1963)

A story about police detectives working on reuniting children and parents who got separated by WWII. Based on Izrail Metter stories. ...

Остров Ольховый (1962)

Many years ago, the geologist Ilya, together with his friend Peter, came to the island of Olkhovy near Sakhalin. Here they were searching for iron ore. Peter died during the prospecting work, while Ilya successfully continued the search. ...

Midshipman Panin (1960)

It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasil ...

Разноцветные камешки (1960)

Three Came Out of the Woods (1958)

After the partisans Julia, Pavel and Sergei went out on a combat mission, the detachment was surrounded and destroyed by punishers. Years later, a document was discovered stating that one of the three was a traitor. ...

Two Lives (1957)

Twenty years ago, Nastya Samokurova left the village in the city to seek happiness. Lived in the city, easy, easy life, engaged in speculation. And now she came to visit her sister Dasha, who continued to live in the collective farm and was universally res ...

Телеграмма (1957)

It Can Not Be Forgotten (1954)

The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Garmash using ideological diversions. In parallel, a story is told about student Rostislav Danchenko who is being recruited by enemy ...

The Miners of Donetsk (1951)

A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm. ...

New Home (1947)

A Great Life, Part 2 (1946)

This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during the Second World War. ...

The Road Home (1946)

In one of the regions of Latvia occupied by the Nazis, the Germans arrest a peasant boy named Janis. His first escape ends in another arrest. This time, he is detained by his younger brother, who has become a policeman. After his next escape, his wife Ilga ...

Naval Battalion (1946)

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

Native Shores (1943)

Three soldiers make their way into a city occupied by the Nazis. ...

No Greater Love (1943)

The first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler son die before her eyes. She and the other villagers leave to go into the woods. Pasha leads the villagers to fight some German troops. Coming out victories, the ...

Lad from Our Town (1942)

In the summer of 1932, Sergei Lukonin, a young man from Saratov, leaves his hometown for the distant city of Omsk to attend tank school. His fiancée, Varenka, who soon became an actress, remained in Saratov. In 1936, Sergei went to fight in the Spanish Ci ...

Incident on a Volcano (1941)

Andrei Latonin had jumped with a parachute many times before, but on the day of the holiday he got scared and stayed in the cockpit of the plane. Deeply upset by his failure, Latonin decides to leave his homeland forever and joins a steamship as a sailor. ...

Two Friends (1941)

Two officers of the Red Army find themselves in a struggle against foreign intelligence agents. ...

We Await Your Victorious Return (1941)

The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. ...

My Love (1940)

When Shura's sister dies, Shura starts taking care of her newly orphaned niece. Her fiancee, Grisha thinks the child may be Shura's own, and his suspicions estrange them. This leaves the way clear for a shy neighbor who has loved her from afar to gain poin ...

The New Moscow (1938)

A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a "New Moscow." The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it. ...