Lyudmila Chursina

Happiness Is... Part 2 (2019)

Another seven good-ending stories for a whole family. ...

Pure Art (2016)

Contemporary Russia. Sasha, a beautiful, young photographer, finds her lover, a successful artist, murdered. The police suspect her and the killers want to silence her. She goes on the run from all as she tries to solve this mystery. ...

The Honored Priest: Confession of a Samurai (2015)

An Orthodox priest, Father Nikolay, the brother of a Yakuza boss, is drawn into in a mob war in Japan. He escapes to the small Russian village of Glubokoe, where he finds that war has found him again. ...

7 Main Wishes (2013)

On a New year Eve Masha gets a bird which is ready to fulfill her 7 wishes... ...

Crowned Species (2013)

A journalistic investigation, built not on rumors and assumptions, but on direct evidence, revealing the true mechanisms of podium coronations. Hidden camera footage of negotiations with the owners of the largest national beauty contests and an attempt to ...

Grandma Ada (2011)

Olympic Village (2010)

August 1980. The Soviet authorities are preparing Moscow for the Olympic Games and expelling unreliable citizens from the city. One such citizen is the talented cellist Arseny Chaika, who ends up in the village of Protasovo with his rabbit. Meanwhile, in M ...

Snare (2009)

A box of jewelry belonging to a woman murdered two decades ago is found in a drain pipe. While reporting the story, Vera, the newscaster, begins to have flashbacks. Did she know this woman? Both she and the police want to know. ...

My Husband Is A Genius (2008)

The life of a brilliant scientist who managed to live in the era of "developed" socialism in accordance with his own ideas about freedom and morality did not leave indifferent either his colleagues or the authorities. ...

The Vaccine (2007)

Mysterious and terrible events take place at the Russian Pearl beauty contest from year to year. The first winner of the contest tragically died, the second was splashed with boiling resin in her eyes. And now the participant who reached the semifinals, Na ...

To Make God Laugh (2006)

Stas, a successful businessman, has his favorite business, his own store, his friends, his wife - everything goes as it should. But one day, He gets on a train, where he is beaten, robbed, and thrown into a roadside ditch. Fortunately, he doesn't die, but ...

Khagi – Tragger (1994)

According to ancient legend, the artist found a mineral that can revive any inanimate thing. To hide the mineral, he inserts it into a doll named Hagi. A century later, Hagi falls into the hands of a puppeteer, and he with horror discovers that the old dol ...

The Codex of Disgrace (1993)

Потрясающий актерский состав демонстрирует блестящую игру в этом фильме, основанном на реальных фактах. Вам откроется секрет валютных мах� ...

Grafinya (1991)

Удивительная романтическая история случилась под Новый год в старинной графской усадьбе, в которой расположился сегодня Дом Творчества. З� ...

Not Afraid to Die (1991)

The tragic story of a Russian family forced to make life and death decisions during the Stalinist purges. ...

Love of a Middle-Aged Man (1991)

Volodya, a man of about fifty, is traveling south with his charming mistress Olya. At the same time, he tells his wife that he is going fishing on Solovki. And she also goes south...to her lover Givi. Having accidentally seen an unfaithful wife, the first ...

Murder of a Witness (1990)

White Roses, Pink Elephants (1987)

Molly Egan, an almshouse resident, takes part in picketing a laboratory developing nuclear weapons. Judge Henry Pulaski finds her guilty of "trespassing." Not heeding his warning, Molly again participates in the picket, for which she goes to prison. ...

Primary Russia (1986)

The film takes place in pre-Christian Russia, when Ratibor united the East Slavs into one army against the nomadic Khazars. ...

The Mercedes Man File (1986)

A professional intelligence officer Ingmar Ross, an employee of one of the embassies, is tasked with recruiting a specialist from a Moscow classified company. ...

Such a Strange Evening in a Small Family Circle (1985)

Twenty-seven years after the war, former radio operator Dina Aleksandrovna reunites with her comrades in an attempt to establish the true cause of the death of the commander and commissar of her partisan unit. ...

Jewelry Case (1984)

Battle at the Crossroads (1982)

Soviet propaganda film. The first years of the VChK formation. Nurse Yunna Ruzhich and poet Lafar, who became Chekists, take an active part in uncovering a counter-revolutionary conspiracy in Moscow in 1918. ...

Monomakh's Cap (1982)

A life of eight-grader suddenly changes after he is officially declared genius in his school. ...

Long Road in the Dunes (1982)

The action of the film takes place in Latvia and spans the period from 1939 to the early 1970s. The events that occurred in the country had various effects on the fates of the characters. But throughout it all, love guided them — it scattered and gathere ...

Facts of the Past Day (1981)

The action takes place in the early 1980s, in the Arctic, at a mining plant. The long-overdue issue of radical restructuring of production has caused heated debate between the opposing parties. How to ensure the safe work of miners and not reduce labor pro ...

On the Garnet Islands (1981)

Oil reserves have been discovered in the Republic of the Garnet Islands, which have become a subject of US interests. A naval landing is organized against a sovereign state, and CIA agents are sent in. However, one of the foreign journalists manages to lea ...

To Remember or to Forget (1981)

Brothers Rico (1980)

Pursuit Race (1979)

A life of a driver Stephan Chekmenev turns out to be very lucky: healthy children, loving wife, solid loghouse. But once his fellow-villager perishes in a forest. And Chekmenev, considering himself to be the one to blame, in expectation of an imminent retr ...

Personal Happiness (1977)

The distinctive traits of the Doroshin family are hard work, courage, and principledness. Pavel Nikolaevich is a war veteran and the chief engineer of a factory, while Anastasia Mikhailovna is the head of a university department and an active participant i ...

Personal Opinion (1976)

Psychologist Petrov and sociologist Burtsev are invited by Basov, the director of a factory, to study the basic problem of production. ...

Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding (1976)

Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a w ...

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 ...

Promise of Happiness (1974)

It consists of Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky's three short stories about the origin of feelings, the expectation of happiness and love... ...

Privalov's Millions (1973)

A young heir of a big fortune Sergey Privalov is coming back to his native town after a long absence. Having visited his owned plants, he breaks out with the idea to rebuild the industrial processes, improve the life of workers, and build schools and hospi ...

At the Corner of Arbat and Bouboulina (1973)

Soviet journalist Ksenia Troitskaya meets Greek film director Memos Yanidis in Moscow, where he is working on an anti-fascist film. As they stroll along the Arbat, they dream of one day meeting again at the corner of Arbat and Bouboulina Street in Athens. ...

The Fight (1972)

Soviet intelligence officer Kraft has a new assignment. This time, acting under the name of engineer Grubbe, he must find and transfer to the center the secret drawings of a new submarine codenamed "Walter". ...

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? ...

Olesya (1971)

Drama based on the book by Kuprin. A young man from the city falls in love with a girl from the country side. She is not accepted by the village community: people think she is a witch. ...

Lyubov Yarovaya (1970)

The years of civil war. Teacher Lyubov Yarovaya is on the side of the revolution. Her husband Mikhail is a White Guard officer. Mikhail fiercely fights against Soviet power. The struggle in the woman's soul between her love for her husband and her revoluti ...

Ugryum-River (1969)

Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become his own man. He takes his fathers order and goes trough the woods to deliver the furs to the byer in the n ...

A Little Crane (1969)

Based on the novel of Mikhail Alekseyev "Bread — as a Noun." About the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and post-war life. After the war, those few who survived at the front returned to their native village. But Marfa's husb ...

Virinea (1969)

A life of a countryside woman Virineya during the October Revolution in Russia in 1917. ...

Across Rus' (1968)

Based on Maxim Gorky's early autobiographical short stories "One Day in Autumn", "Konovalov", "Twenty Six and One", "My Companion", "The Conclusion", "On the Salt", "Woman". ...

Spring on the Oder (1968)

The action unfolds in the last months of the WWII in Germany. Major Lubentsova meets a military doctor Tanya Koltsova, with whom once, in 1941, they once got out of the encirclement together. After that, their paths diverged. But in April 1945, during the ...

Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show (1967)

Young detective investigates a complex crime starting with a two movie tickets found in the pocket of one of the criminals. ...

Andromeda Nebula (1967)

Humans on spaceship named "Tantra" are exploring the unknown part of the Universe. The spaceship gets trapped by the mysterious Iron Star. The Iron Star's powerful force of gravity is to hold the spaceship for 20 years. The humans are facing a very tough s ...

Chase (1966)

Screen adaptation of Yuri Nagibin's novel of the same name about a gamekeeper who pursues a poacher. ...

A Tale of Don (1964)

Wife of the Red cossack Yakov Shibalok turns out to be a spy of the Whites, as she confesses to him during childbirth. Now Yakov is faced with a difficult choice between revolutionary duty and love for his wife. Based on short stories by Mikhail Sholokhov. ...

Morning Trains (1963)

The film is about the working youth of a giant factory in Moscow - the story of a young girl Asya, who had to endure a lot of disappointments before she found true friends ...

Four Winds of Heaven (1962)

A young girl Svetlana just arrived to the small town when a war begun. Her fiancé Igor did not meet Svetlana so she stayed alone to wait for him. ...

When the Trees Were Tall (1961)

The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf. ...