Nikolay Penkov

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family (2000)

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918. ...

Murder of a Witness (1990)

From the Life of Potapov (1986)

A novella about the head of a large team working in the defense industry, a major scientist, who took the responsibility in difficult conditions to continue the failed experiments. The ensuing heart attack gave reason for his re-election, and his closest f ...

Auction (1983)

During the war, the Germans exported breeding horses from Russia, among which was Ermakov's favorite. After the war, he managed to find her and return her to Russia, but the tribal certificate was lost. And now, forty years later, the granddaughter of this ...

The Secret of the Notebook (1981)

Chief Designer (1980)

A story about the creation of T-34 tank in Soviet Union during WWII. ...

Strange Beast (1980)

A New Year's story about children's friendship with unusual creatures: an animal made of cubes, a snag-horned beetle and a potato man, based on a fairy tale by Svetlana Letova. ...

Brothers Rico (1980)

I'll Be Waiting... (1980)

Nikita Voronov, a student at the Institute of Foreign Languages, was fine: just a year before graduation, athletic success-he is a master of sports in judo, a good family, a beloved girl who agreed to wait a year before getting married. Nikita has a great ...

Rain in a Foreign City (1979)

Based on the novel of the same name by Daniil Granin. Engineer Chizhegov often travels on business to a small town, where he meets a woman who reciprocates his feelings. The protagonist faces a difficult problem: he is married, and his family lives in Leni ...

Pursuit Race (1979)

A life of a driver Stephan Chekmenev turns out to be very lucky: healthy children, loving wife, solid loghouse. But once his fellow-villager perishes in a forest. And Chekmenev, considering himself to be the one to blame, in expectation of an imminent retr ...

Ippodrom (1979)

After one horse racing Sunday the body of a jockey is found on the racetrack. Was it an accident or a murder connected to bet fixing? ...

Our Debts (1977)

An interesting life was lived by Ivan Krutov. He served in the Navy, was a fisherman on trawlers, and visited many countries. For the first time, having felt the approach of old age, I remembered my native village. And when he arrived, it turned out that t ...

The Liberation of Prague (1977)

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discuss ...

One White Horse (1977)

About a horse who visited all his friends in one day, and forgot about his old granny again. ...

Mark Twain Against... (1976)

Ice Goes Into the Ocean (1972)

About the workdays of a team of dockers. ...

Strict Girl (1969)

An orphaned ninth-grader comes to the factory where her father once worked. ...

Truth-Teller (1968)

1920s. The Krestyanskaya Pravda correspondent comes to the village where was an attempt on the young selkor. He learns about the gang of kulak members, led by the deputy chairman of the village council. ...

Lebedev vs. Lebedev (1965)

The modest and indecisive Lebedev in his dreams sees himself as strong and courageous. Mentally, he stands up for an unfairly demoted colleague, but in reality does nothing to help him. Oleg has been following the girl he likes for a whole year and is unab ...

The Teacher of Literature (1965)

Based on the story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov. ...