Marina Azizyan

The Nose or Conspiracy of Mavericks (2021)

An exploration of 20th century Russia, following the fusing of the Party and the state after the Russian Civil War, which opened the doors to corruption, resulting in the exiling of the left and right opposition. Described using a combination of historical ...

A Room and a Half (2009)

A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972. ...

And Then Came Bumbo... (1984)

A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin. ...

The Precipice (1984)

Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic lov ...

Donkey's Hide (1982)

At the festivities marking the christening of princess Theresa, daughter of King Gaston IX, a wicked fairy made a mysterious prophecy about the girl's life. Seventeen years later, Theresa falls in love with a poor prince named Jacques. Then the prophecy st ...

The Nightingale (1980)

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes. ...

The Man Who Was Lucky (1978)

The life story of gifted geologist Vladimir Ishutin, as seen through the eyes of his sons. ...

How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder (1977)

A story about Ivanushka the Fool based on classic Russian fairytales. ...

The Blue Bird (1976)

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entiti ...

Tsarevich Prosha (1974)

Monologue (1973)

Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. He rai ...

Drama from the Old Life (1971)

A love story between a barber and a serf actress who find themselves in an environment that combines savagery with a veneer of enlightenment. Based on Nikolai Leskov's short story "The Toupee Artist". ...

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 ...

Swan Lake (1968)

Swan Lake, a screen adaptation of the ballet of the same name by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Performed by Kirov Ballet, starring Yelena Yevteyeva as Odette and directed for film by Appolinariy Dudko and Konstantin Sergeyev. Produced by Lenfilm studios in 1968. Orc ...

Wedding in Malinovka (1967)

The movie takes place during Russia's civil war between the Reds (Bolsheviks) and the Whites (Mensheviks). Andrejka and Yarinka are a young betrothed couple in the village of Malinovka, caught between the battle lines. Gritsian is the leader of a Menshevik ...

1 Newton Street (1963)

Timofey Suvernev comes to Moscow from a distant island to study. Tim successfully passes the exams at the institute, and immediately plunges into a turbulent student life. Through hard work and study, he achieves brilliant success, his student work, which ...

Cain the XVIII-th (1963)

A traveling musician falls in love with a princess who is betrothed to a dictator planning to defeat his enemies with the help of an exploding mutant mosquito. ...

A Room and a Half (2009)

A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972. ...

Aleksandr Volodin. Gloomy Marathon (2006)

An almost unknown girl Frida accompanied Aleksandr Volodin to the front. When he returned, he married her. A sense of duty and gratitude bound them, but this did not prevent him from continuing to search for a female ideal... The name of the poet and play ...