Mikhail Vasserbaum

Happy Ending (2010)

The private part of a young man leaves the owner and starts his own adventure... ...

Шпильки (2009)

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. ...

Everybody Dance Now! (2006)

A musical retro drama. The story of the heroes of the film "Everyone is Dancing!" is inspired by the poetry of Leningrad lyricists of the 50s and 60s and partly by the motives of Fazil Iskander's story "Retribution". The film tells about the Ligovka distri ...

Peculiarities of the National Politics (2003)

General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova now are going into politics. ...

Tycoon (2002)

During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. Bu ...

Mechanical Suite (2002)

Two colleagues go to fetch the body of their co-worker from a neighboring town where that man died unexpectedly. As this person has no kin, the director of the factory chooses to send Markerants and Mityagin to deal with the whole business. And here the ad ...

American Bet (1997)

A story about a love between two teenagers set in the small Russian town during sixties. ...

The Story of Richard, Milord, and the beautiful Firebird (1997)

To Whom Will God Send (1994)

Starting 1970s. Marina Rodionova gives birth to a child from a donor. Grown up son Andrei she tells the legend of the deceased father. It takes many years. Son of a student accidentally discovers that his father is a professor Hlyuzdin who teaches at his i ...

Living With an Idiot (1993)

The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first s ...

Chekist (1992)

Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five ...

Shugaley 3: The Return (2021)

Maxim Shugaley and Samer Sueifan are finally returning to Russia after a long captivity in the Libyan prison "Mitiga". A few months later, a former bank manager in Tripoli, Farid, comes to Shugalei and offers to meet in Egypt — he has new information abo ...

Hotsunlight (2021)

Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows firsthand what war is. Having seen enough of the horrors of war in his t ...

Burdocks (2004)

An eccentric comedy. Love and money have always inspired people to feats, long wanderings and even crimes. It has always been almost impossible to stop such madmen. And what will happen this time — no one knows yet. Only one thing is known — it will ha ...