Mikhail Danilov

The Master and Margarita (2011)

The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernat ...

The Hen (1991)

Alla, the wife of the chief administrator, came to the young artist Nona, nicknamed "The Hen," to "catch" her husband, but in bed with her she finds the chief director, who is going to marry her. Soon her best friend Diana and everyone else will find out a ...

Chernov/Chernov (1990)

The strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real day in the life of the real Moscow architect Alexander Petrovich Chernov, his mental crisis; and the other is Chernov's fiction. There is a different fate, ...

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 ...

The Trial (1990)

Based on materials from real criminal cases, it follows the trial of the trade mafia. ...

A Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, a Red Rose an Emblem of Love (1990)

The story happens mainly around "The Old Arbat Street" in the center of Moscow, where always concentrate vendors, poor young artists and musicians. The hero of this film is a boy named Mitiya,who lives with eccentric elder friend in an apartment house on " ...

Kerosene Salesman's Wife (1989)

A fatal surgical mistake involving the wrong blood type splits the lives of twin brothers. One, the guilt-ridden surgeon, embraces anonymity as a kerosene salesman, while his sibling ascends to become the powerful Chairman of the City Council. When a gover ...

The Story of a Horse (1989)

Based on Leo Tolstoy's story "Holstomer" staged by the Leningrad State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky. ...

Energetic People (1989)

The heroes of Shukshin's play are indeed energetic people in the full sense of the word. Jacks of all trades, quick-witted and dishonest, grabbers and thieves, who can be called businessmen of the era of socialism, for whom there was no use for their pract ...

These... Three True Cards... (1988)

Based on Alexander Pushkin's novel "The Queen of Spades." The modern situation is projected onto the plot of "The Queen of Spades. ...

Island of Rusty General (1988)

Late 21st century. Archeologists unearthed a company of century-old military robots, but lost them during the transportation. Robots hide on an uninhabited island and later kidnap Alisa Seleznyova, a teenage actress playing Little Red Riding Hood, and Baba ...

Here's a Story... (1987)

Two engineers being friends have a competition in a work and in a private life. ...

My Dearly Beloved Detective (1986)

The conceit is that Sherlock Holmes is, as in reality, a fictional creation of Arthur Conan Doyle, but that the place where his office would be is maintained by the brilliant detective Shirley Holmes, who both solves crimes and maintains a museum for peopl ...

Quiet Investigation (1986)

According to the novel by S. Rodionov, "Cambrian Clay". Investigator Ryabinin is instructed to conduct the case of theft of gasoline. His predecessor, having arrested the Toptunov gas station operator and not providing the leadership with evidence, was rem ...

The Pickwick Club (1986)

A middle-aged gentleman, yet utterly naive, sums up his life experience gained over years of traveling around good old England. The comical and absurd situations in which he and his friends constantly find themselves turn the play into a rare and truly tim ...

The Outburst (1986)

The film is based on real events and tells about a major accident that occurred during the construction of another Leningrad metro station in the spring of 1974. ...

Murder Complicity (1986)

Based on the novel of the same name by Judah Waten. Beth Tyson is killed in his mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell, and Detective Filbert have three different versions of this crime... ...

The Hobbit: The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins (1985)

Author J. R. R. Tolkien (Zinovij Gerdt) tells the story of Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and enjoyable hobbit, whose life is turned upside down when he decides to join the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves in an attempt to regain a treasure stolen ...

A Simple Death (1985)

When a middle-aged high-court judge in 19th-century Russia starts to experience a sharp pain in his side, he soon finds himself bedridden with an undiagnosed terminal illness. Face-to-face with his own mortality, he becomes increasingly introspective and e ...

Капитан Фракасс (1984)

Among Grey Stones (1983)

A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry ...

Inspector Losev (1983)

A classic mystery story based on Arkadi Adamov novels. A task force is investigating a series of routine thefts at hotels. Upon closer examination of the case, young criminal investigator Vitaly Losev unexpectedly uncovers major players in the shadow econo ...

No Great Loss... (1983)

Six people get stuck in a lift. No one comes to help them, as the dispatcher who shut down the lift and all the neighbours are passionately watching a football match being broadcast. At first, the characters in the film fight, but when the lift doors open, ...

Mont-Oriol (1982)

Christiane de Ravenel and her husband, William Andermath were attracted by the owners of spa resort at Mont-Oriol by offering luxurious amenities and promising health benefits. However, the plans face numerous challenges, including financial difficulties a ...

Memory Formula (1982)

Research in the field of memory is being conducted under the leadership of Academician Arkhipov. He, like many other thinking people, is not indifferent to the purposes for which scientific discoveries can be used and how modern they are. ...

Maigret and the Man on the Bench (1981)

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 ...

Suicide (1981)

The story of the investigation into the death of student Selivanova, who was involved in currency transactions, which was a big crime at that time. ...

My Father Is an Idealist (1981)

An elderly man - a naive, impractical artist of the musical comedy theater - writes an operetta about goodness. His son is a resuscitation doctor, very businesslike and practical, and teases him all the time. The marriage of Petrov Sr. to the young balleri ...

We'll Be Back in the Fall (1979)

Five middle-aged men already converged in one platoon - people of different professions and different social status are called up as privates for three-month reserve training... ...

An Autumn Story (1979)

An aspiring journalist travels to his hometown after receiving a letter from a respected teacher who claims that she has been forced to retire from her job. ...

Rasmus and the Tramp (1979)

The film takes place in Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century. Rasmus is a boy who lives in a shelter. Unwilling to stay in the orphanage, he escapes and joins a tramp nicknamed Oscar Tumbleweed. ...

An Almost Funny Story (1977)

The younger of two sisters living together suddenly meets the love of her life... ...

The Invisible Man (1977)

Made for Russian television version of the Invisible Man, based on the novel by H. G. Wells. ...

...And Other Officials (1976)

The plot structure of the film is based on a commonplace situation from the practice of foreign trade organizations - the conclusion of a trade agreement with a foreign company. ...

The Ordinary Arctic (1976)

The plot is based on stories by B. Gorbachev: "The Trial of Stepan Grokhot," "Birth on Cucumber Land," "The Merchant Labas," and "The Great Flood." The main circumstance of the plot is five days of blizzard that began immediately after the arrival of a new ...

For the Rest of My Life (1975)

31st Dept. (1972)

The Commissioner of Police has been tasked with conducting an investigation into the threat of a terrorist attack in the building of the press concern. During the investigation, he learns about the existence of the 31st department, created by the managemen ...

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 ...

The Truth! Nothing But the Truth! (1969)

About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate. ...