Nikolai Simonov

Commissioner Berlach's Last Case (1972)

The last months of Police Commissioner Berlach's life are devoted to tracking down the war criminal, Nazi doctor-examiner Emenberger. Hiding under a false identity, he continues to carry out cruel experiments on human beings even in peaceful days. ...

Mozart and Salieri (1971)

Leningrad State Drama Theatre's staging of Pushkin's play Mozart and Salieri. ...

Before the Storm (1969)

The film takes place between two revolutions - 1905 and 1917. There is no agreement in the family of the Kolomiytsev brothers, bankrupt nobles. The elder brother Yakov is mortally ill. The youngest, Ivan, a gendarme colonel, is completely confused and does ...

On the Same Planet (1966)

Tired of watching the total collapse of the army on the fronts of World War I, left without his scattered squad, Lieutenant Reshetov goes to Petrograd to kill the main culprit of the tragedy of Russia Lenin ... ...

The Worker's Settlement (1966)

Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Al ...

Little Tragedies (1966)

Leningrad State Drama Theatre's staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous Knight, The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri ...

The Enchanted Wanderer (1963)

In 19th-century Russia, a peasant named Ivan Flyagin tells his his life story to fellow travellers aboard a steamship. ...

Before Sundown (1963)

Staged by the Leningrad Drama Theater named after. A.S. Pushkin. ...

My Son is Somewhere (1962)

An old fisherman spends his days waiting to hear from his son who left the village long time ago. ...

Amphibian Man (1962)

People living at a seashore town are frightened by reports of an unknown creature called "the sea devil". Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiander can live under w ...

Anathema (1960)

It is year 1900 in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and Deacon Olympius begins to take interest in secular literature. When he stumbles upon a book by Tolstoy, he is humbled and inspired to lead a just life. Based on a story by Aleksandr Kuprin. ...

Heart Beats Again (1956)

A drama about a daily life of a doctors in a military hospital. ...

The Gadfly (1955)

Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in the activities of the underground organization "Young Italy", envies its leader, Giovanni Bolla, and is jea ...

Heroes of Shipka (1955)

Heroes of Shipka was the first solo effort for Soviet director Sergei Vasilyev, who had previously collaborated with his late brother Georgi. The film is set in 1887 during the pivotal battle between the Russians and the Turks at the Shipka Pass. Stressing ...

The Living Corpse (1952)

The Russian nobleman Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov cannot put up with the hypocrisy of his environment, but is powerless to fight it. He begins to drink, leaves the house and gradually falls. The behavior of Protasov helps to bring his wife Liza closer to a ...

The Battle of Stalingrad (1949)

A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta. ...

Nameless Island (1947)

WWII. The Nazis subject the radio station on Bezymyanny Island to a brutal bombardment and soon land a landing force. The enemy mercilessly destroys all life, but the radio station continues to operate—meteorologist Asya has installed a spare radio on an ...

The Return (1940)

Little Nikita, the son of polar scientist Sergei Ivanov, runs away from home with the intention of reaching the Arctic, where he believes his father works. The boy manages to reach Leningrad, where he ends up at the Arctic Institute. Sergei is tasked with ...

Our Cinema (1940)

Patriot (1939)

A story about the adventures of young boy Kolya Novikov who runs from his home in order to get to the border where his older brother was killed. ...

Peter the First, Part II (1938)

Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him. ...

Peter the First, Part I (1937)

This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs. Rulers like Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great were widely admired for their dedication to Russia and the ...

Hectic Days (1935)

A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer. ...

Chapayev (1934)

An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. ...

Aerograd (1935)

A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government. Work on the new outpost is complicated when tensions develop between worker ...