Natalya Ryazantseva

Brothel Lights (2011)

In the 1950s Odessa a charming woman is running an underground brothel. She's tired of the business hassles and is dreaming about having a family. Finally the destiny gives her a chance, but there's no way out. ...

One's Own Shadow (2001)

A successful doctor is visited by her old friend, a famous writer. They used to be close, but their friendship ended when they both fell in love with the same man. At first, their reunion seems to be going well, but as they talk, their old grudges and rese ...

I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody (1994)

The hero of the film, afraid of losing both his wife and his mistress, is ultimately left alone. ...

The Long Farewell (1987)

A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father. ...

Bouquet of Mimosa and Other Flowers (1985)

In the life of every working person, one day there comes a difficult moment associated with retirement. And if this is the head of the supply department of a large plant, to whom the heroine of the film devoted her entire life, it is doubly sad. ...

The Voice (1982)

An actress needs to dub her voice after the production of her movie has wrapped. At the same time, she is facing a life crisis that alters her plans: just released from the hospital, she realizes that her illness is more than she can emotionally handle. Ov ...

Portrait of the Artist's Wife (1982)

The events of several days spent by the married couple - artist Pavel Alekseevich and his wife Nina - in a small country boarding house. For him, this is an opportunity to collect his thoughts and finally, after many years, write a new picture. The usual l ...

Parents' Day (1981)

A daughter from her first marriage comes to her father, who has had another family for a long time, intending to enroll in a local pedagogical institute. ...

The Scarlet Flower (1978)

A merchant is living in a fairytale Russia of hundreds of years ago. When he is making a journey to market, his three daughters each ask for a present to be brought back... ...

Other People's Letters (1975)

Zina is sixteen. She is a manipulative schoolgirl living in a small Russian town among sincere and simple people. Zina is nice on the surface, but so unable to enjoy normal life, that she is desperately trying to hurt someone. She tries to seduce and compr ...

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 ...

From Cold to Warm (1972)

Vera Kasatkina, in her youth, experienced an emotional trauma: her husband left her and their child. She is 27 years old and has long given up on the idea of personal happiness. When she meets Volodya Chizhov, who is younger than her, she sincerely offers ...

Private Life of Kuzyayev Valentin (1968)

A high-schooler named Valentin Kuzyayev is invited to appear on a TV show about youth. When he is given a questionnaire, Valentin finds himself unable to answer the simplest questions. To sort himself out, he starts to keep a diary. ...

Wings (1966)

Former fighter pilot turned provincial schoolmistress Nadezhda Petrovna struggles to adapt to peacetime, having internalised military ideals of service and obedience. ...

ВГИК100. Признание в любви (2019)

Furtively About Kira (2019)

In VGIK, she was a student of the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova, and watched Godard's "Last Breath" and thought, nothing more is needed. Everything is already there. But, in the end, without her, without her 22 films, the history of worl ...

Gennady Shpalikov. Life Of A Charming Man (2017)

Gennady Shpalikov. He was 25 when he offered George Danelia a script for the future film "I walk through Moscow". At this time, Shpalikov was already finishing the script for Ilyich's Outpost for Marlen Khutsiyev! Both of these films will be called the man ...

Islands. Larisa Shepitko (2012)

Program on the life and career of Larisa Shepitko was broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura and features interviews with the director's sister Emilia Tutina and son, Anton Klimov. ...

More than Love. Such a Big Short Life... (2012)

This 2012 program exploring the relationship between filmmakers Larisa Shepitko and Elem Klimov was broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura and features interviews with Klimov's brother, the writer German Klimov, and screenwriter Natalya Ryazan ...

Kira (2003)

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova. ...

I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman (1988)

This glasnost-era documentary, which incorporates footage from films from the 1920s through the 1980s, looks at the history of women in Russian cinema through the eyes of Russian women directors, actors, and scriptwriters. The film's title refers to a WWII ...

I Am Twenty (1965)

Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at fi ...