Oleg Basilashvili

Not Waited (2019)

The Chosen Ones (2018)

The film is based on a dialogue between young and older generations about life, profession, fame, love, the mission of art, the destiny of man, heroism and the ideals of our time. Conversations of outstanding figures of Russian culture with actors who have ...

Sobchak. Woe from Wit (2018)

The first attempt in the history of Russian documentalism to understand what was the historical moment in which Anatoly Sobchak appeared in the political arena what his role in the history of the country was and, finally, why he suffered as a politician co ...

No Borders (2015)

Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia. ...

Yankovsky (2015)

This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his personal life. Although it's all in the film: a dramatic fate, unknown pages of biography. Like any great ac ...

The New Adventures of Aladdin (2011)

A new adaptation of the beloved Arabian fairy tale about Aladdin. In this version of the story, Aladdin is a Russian guard Alyosha, who by chance ends up in a distant country, where he receives this name and, of course, finds his princess - the magnificent ...

Вербное воскресенье (2009)

Reading Book of Blockade (2009)

Famous actors and ordinary people from all walks of life read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II. ...

Don't Think About White Monkeys (2008)

A young businessman believes that money and fortune are the most important things in the world. One day he loses all his money and faces the necessity to reconsider and change his life. ...

Bribes are Smooth (2008)

The film is a modern adaptation of Alexander Ostrovsky's unforgettable play "Profitable Place". ...

Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later (2007)

The author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original. Festive mess in the same House of Culture, where they celebrated the New Year 50 years ago. Now the institution is named after Ogurtsov and is headed by Mr. Kabachkov ...

Quartet (2005)

Former opera celebrities live in a nursing home. Four former idols whose lives were once filled with triumph live out their lives filled with memories. The Starkims are offered to perform a quartet from the opera Rigoletto at an upcoming concert. Before gi ...

Azazel (2002)

Based on Boris Akunin's novel 'Azazel' (English title 'The Winter Queen') set in Moscow in 1876. The novel started a long series quite popular in Russia. In 'Azazel' a young police officer - Erast Fandorin - investigates an odd suicide of some rich young m ...

Poisons or the World History of Poisoning (2001)

A story of an actor named Oleg whose wife has been seduced by his neighbor. As he is thoroughly convinced of her infidelity, he would like to poison her. An old man named Prokhorov helps him to get rid of his wife by lecturing about famous deaths caused by ...

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. ...

The Judge is Trapped (1998)

Great Britain at the beginning of the XVIII century. His daughter Hilaret runs away from the house of a rich merchant to secretly marry her lover. The lives of young people are in danger. But despite the intrigues of dishonest law enforcement officers, vic ...

Heads and Tails (1995)

To earn money for married life, a young engaged man takes a job as an engineer on a privately operated oil drilling rig in the far North of Russia. A friend's letter brings the sad news that his fiancée has already married someone else and in desperation ...

Story of the Miracle of Miracles (1994)

An ironic and romantic story of the incredible adventures of the famous Russian inventor. ...

The Prediction (1993)

A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer uses this bizarre situation to change his life and take revenge. ...

Dreams (1993)

Russian countess in 1893 has strange dreams about herself living a life as a dishwasher in 1993' Moscow after dissolution of the USSR. ...

Ticket to Red Theater, or Death of Coffin-Digger (1992)

What do the head of a secret file cabinet, students who don't shy away from a glass, a police lieutenant colonel, and a prisoner's wife have in common? All these people turn out to be the heroes of one story, which began with two friends who decided to ear ...

The Case (1991)

A film adaptation of A. Sukhovo-Kobylin's work "The Case," which reproduces the details of the author's trial experience. ...

Promised Heaven (1991)

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to soc ...

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, ...

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. ...

Zerograd (1988)

Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent. ...

Having Lied Once (1988)

Set in the Soviet Union, the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks. ...

Vera and Anfisa at School (1988)

The third and last movie of "Vera and Anfisa" trilogy. Zoology teacher asks Vera's dad to bring his daughter with her pet monkey Anfisa at lesson, where Vera and Anfisa could be an example for comparing humans and apes as a part of evolution lecture. ...

Uncle Vanya (1987)

A television film based on the famous production by the Bolshoi Drama Theater is yet another interpretation of Chekhov's "boring story" — about the life of an intelligent and conscientious Russian man, Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky, "lost" in the rural backwa ...

End of the World with Symposium to Follow (1987)

Millionaire commissions a play, addressing the threat of nuclear war. ...

Vera and Anfisa Put Out the Fire (1987)

The second of three films about the girl Vera and her monkey friend Anfisa. ...

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 ...

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... ...

Face to Face (1986)

The writer Stepanov became aware that the sketch of Vrubel's painting will be sold at the Sotheby's auction. Leaked information alarmed Western insurance companies - the return of the once stolen from the Rovno Museum masterpiece threatens serious penaltie ...

Courier (1986)

Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and wor ...

About Vera and Anfisa (1986)

The first movie of "Vera and Anfisa" trilogy. Sailor gives a monkey to Vera's dad and he brings the monkey to his household. ...

Confrontation (1985)

In 1979, in one of the northern Soviet cities, the police are investigating the murder of a man who was on his way home from the gold mines. The detectives track down the main suspect, Grigory Milinko. But the further the case progresses, the more complica ...

Don't Be Sad (1985)

And Then Came Bumbo... (1984)

A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin. ...

Вместе с Дунаевским (1984)

Station for Two (1983)

Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgus ...

Oblomov (1980)

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful ...

Nine Days and a Lifetime (1980)

Follows the life feat of doctor L.S.Soboleva, who saved people during three outbreaks of the plague. ...

Say a Word for the Poor Hussar (1980)

The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will eventually be de ...

Autumn Marathon (1979)

Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's a kind man with a weak character. The lies he is telling his wife all the time are inc ...

Identification Marks None (1979)

Drama about the period of F. Dzerzhinsky's activity in 1902-1905, when he, having escaped from the Viluysk prison, lived in Poland. ...

Funny People! (1978)

The movie intertwines the plot lines of the stories "In the Bathhouse", "Tears Invisible to the World", "A Conversation between a Man and a Dog" and others. By the will of the film's creators, the viewer gets to the rehearsals of an unusual choir and gets ...

Leningrad (1978)

Colonel Chabert (1978)

Colonel Chabert, who miraculously survived the battle, returns to his homeland after several years of wandering, but everyone has long considered him dead. It seems very problematic to prove the opposite - the wife got married again and sharing her fortune ...

Office Romance (1977)

Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's oth ...

The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce (1977)

A West German concern is conducting secret negotiations on the production of an atomic bomb with an interested state. The son of the head of the concern, realizing the monstrosity and scale of his father's activities, interrupts the negotiations and return ...

Days of the Turbins (1976)

Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guard"), "Days of the Turbins". ...

A Slave of Love (1976)

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications. ...

Always With Me (1976)

The famous scientist, academician and art critic Andrei Ilyin, who survived with the Hermitage staff the harsh trials of the Leningrad blockade, returned to his hometown after many years. The whole life of Ilyin is connected with Leningrad. A life that in ...

The Balloonist (1975)

A story about the famous Russian weightlifter Ivan Zaikin, who left the circus arena at the peak of his fame to dedicate himself to the art of aviation. ...

Did You Call the Doctor? (1975)

District doctor Katya Luzina has recently graduated from medical school. Her first steps in the profession aren't easy: at first, she faces patients' skepticism about her youth, daily routine, and even deceit. But her determination and love for people help ...

Choice of Purpose (1975)

A story of the creation of the atomic bomb in America, Germany and the USSR. ...

Day of Admittance on Personal Matters (1974)

One of the days in a life of a department manager... ...

Identification (1974)

Baron Karl Ludwig von Oster, the owner of a giant concern, one of the industrial magnates of Germany, convicted at the Nuremberg trials, was released by the American military administration and is now testing new weapons. The film is based on a judicial du ...

The Spyglass (1973)

A young boy learns that his parents own a spyglass which allows them to keep track of his every move. ...

A.P. Chekhov's Scenes (1973)

A filmed stage performance by the Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Three miniatures based on short stories by A.P. Chekhov: The Darling Dog, The Wrongdoer, The Groom and the Papa, exploring the absurdity of existence. In each miniature, one of the characters inevita ...

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 ...

The Return Of The 'Saint Luke' (1970)

In the first movie colonel Zorin is trying to find a stolen "Saint Luke" painting. ...

The Ballad of Bering and His Friends (1970)

The story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering. ...

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 Living Corpse (1969)

According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he does not have the courage to fight it, and he chooses the third way — to stage suicide. ...

Our Friends (1969)

After the death of her father, Antonina Staroselskaya has difficulty finding work. A dull life is the cause of illness. A merchant seaman takes care of the sick Tona. After the marriage, he is arrested for smuggling, and the care of Tonya is transferred to ...

The Death of Vazir Mukhtar (1969)

A television play chronicling the lead-up to the assassination of diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov, dubbed "vazir mukhtar" in his position as Russia's ambassador to Tehran. ...

The Seventh Companion (1967)

A portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a character study in General Adamov (Andrei Popov), a law professor in the tsarist army, who is incarcerated by the Bolshevik se ...

Elder Sister (1967)

A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career. ...

Eccentrics (1967)

The love triangle: wife, husband and his mistress, amusingly crumbles because the loving writer is fleetingly infatuated with a third woman, young and inexperienced, rightly believing that an artist needs a muse every day, not a wife and mistress. ...

The Conspiracy of Ambassadors (1966)

Oblomov (1965)

Based on the novel of the same name by I.A. Goncharov. ...

The Garnet Bracelet (1965)

The story of a sublime unrequited love of a petty official for a young socialite. ...

Fear and Despair in the Third Empire (1965)

Chronicle dramatic scenes of Germany under the rule of fascism. ...

Kyukhlya (1963)

A television play based on the life and death of Russian poet and Decembrist Wilhelm "Kyukhlya" Küchelbecker. ...

Rembrandt (1963)

Several episodes from the Life of the Dutch Painter Harmens van Rijn Rembrandt. Based on the eponymous work by Dmitry Kedrin. ...

The Winter of Our Discontent (1963)

A television play from John Steinbeck's novel, performed live for Leningrad Television. ...

Hot Soul (1960)

Young steelworker Fyodor Shebalin raises questions with his superiors about the organization of production and puts forward a number of proposals. The naive young man is ordered to work as he should. The young man does not give up and involves the factory' ...

The Bride (1956)

Nadya Shumin is engaged to be married to Andrey Andreitch, the son of a local priest. Nadya lives on her grandmother's estate with her mother, "a fair-haired woman tightly laced in, with a pince-nez, and diamonds on every finger." While Nadya is a woman wi ...