Oleg Efremov

An Essay for Victory Day (1999)

The heroic crew of the fighter jet reunites a quarter of a century later. Fate has separated these comrades-in-arms, significantly altering their characters and worldviews. One became a radical communist, another became the chairman of the Veterans Fund, a ...

Oh, Why This Night... (1997)

What a Mess! (1995)

A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue. ...

And the Wind Returns... (1992)

The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films. ...

Возможная встреча (1992)

The Hat (1990)

The story is about how a metropolitan writer, concerned about the "fifth point of his questionnaire," instead of the noble or, at worst, rabbit fur assigned to him by rank, was given a "medium fluffy domestic cat" at the Literary Fund, and how he, previous ...

Restless (1989)

The old choirmaster Vetlugin falls in love with the young Vera, the owner of a wonderful soprano. Having long dreamed of his choir performing Vivaldi's "Gloria", Vetlugin invites the girl to the leading part. ...

Bird Flight (1989)

Thirties. Arriving from a provincial town in Moscow, Leka Khrapova did not enroll in law school, as her mother wanted, but entered acting. During her studies, she became interested in the "stargazer" and the sensualist from the observatory, but married a s ...

The Cabal of Hypocrites (1988)

A play about the life and death of Jean-Baptiste Molière, an artist tired of fighting the world. ...

First Encounter - Last Encounter (1987)

The story concerns the events in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War. Private detective Petya Chukhontsev, a law student who has not completed his studies, investigates the case of the murdered inventor Kuklin. He was murdered exactly as he ...

Why Was Olof Palme Killed? (1987)

From the cycle "Political Theater". The teleplay is built as a kind of investigation into the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, during which, unlike a criminal investigation, not the identity of the criminal is revealed, but the fate of ...

The Secret of the Snow Queen (1986)

When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay, his best friend Gerda must overcome many obstacles on her journey to rescue him.. ...

From Pay to Pay (1986)

The shoe factory is undergoing production reform. Poor quality shoes no longer bring savings, the company began to suffer only losses. To get out of this crisis, the factory management decided to produce normal products designed for the wishes of the consu ...

Got Snow Maiden? (1985)

New Year's Eve. An actor was invited to one of the families to play the role of Santa Claus. But the actor got sick and asked his friend to replace him. The friend agreed with joy, because it was his ex-wife who invited the actor. She forbids him to meet t ...

Be Careful, Vasilyok! (1985)

Adventures of young Vasilyok who is going to the pre-school for a first time in his life. ...

Such a Strange Evening in a Small Family Circle (1985)

Twenty-seven years after the war, former radio operator Dina Aleksandrovna reunites with her comrades in an attempt to establish the true cause of the death of the commander and commissar of her partisan unit. ...

A Moment to Look Back (1985)

Boris Zhitkov intends to fulfill his dream and get a job at a shipyard where a vacancy has opened up for a process engineer. At the same time, he writes stories about sea stories, where, according to him, there is not even a fraction of fiction. But before ...

Batallions Ask for Fire (1985)

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII. ...

Another Man's Wife and Husband Under Bed (1984)

Based on the early stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky. A jealous husband is trying to track down his wife, whom he suspects of cheating. He is persistent and purposeful — it seems that a little more, and the cheat will be brought to light! But men will never s ...

Between A Thousand Roads (1984)

A graduate of the journalism department of Moscow State University Veronica Vesnina, the daughter of a famous journalist in the capital, goes to the provincial city to work on the radio... ...

Let the Charms Last Long (1984)

Anton Nikolaevich Skvortsov (O.Yefremov) is a strong and resolute person, for all his life he has been heading a big labor collective, and now he is retired, he interred his wife half a year ago, beared infarction, and now is living in his big flat with a ...

I Don't Want to Be Unhappy (1983)

Old Masters (1983)

A film about outstanding actors of the Soviet stage: Angelina Stepanova, Mark Prudkin, Igor Ilyinsky, Faina Ranevskaya, Veriko Andzhaparidze and others. ...

Traffic Officer (1982)

A comic drama about a permanently going duel between Traffic Officer and powerful businessman. ...

Memory Formula (1982)

Research in the field of memory is being conducted under the leadership of Academician Arkhipov. He, like many other thinking people, is not indifferent to the purposes for which scientific discoveries can be used and how modern they are. ...

Father Had Three Sons (1981)

The father, the captain of the merchant fleet, had three sons: Cyril - an artist, Yuri - a sailor, Gerka - a musician. It would seem that nothing can interfere with their friendship. But the older and middle brothers are in love with one girl - Svetlana. R ...

Driver for One Trip (1981)

Driver Mikhail meets Sofia, a distinguished collective farm worker who has come to Moscow. He helps her buy a car and agrees to deliver it to her collective farm. He is a widower, and she has separated from her husband. At Sofia's request, he agrees to tak ...

Once Upon a Time Twenty Years Later (1980)

During the twenty years school reunion classmates suddenly learn that one of them - Nadezhda Kruglova - is a proud mother of ten children. ...

When I Will Become a Giant (1979)

Eight-grader Petya Kopeikin, despite his short stature and nondescript appearance, is constantly in the spotlight. Petya is noble, witty, well versed in literature, he writes wonderful poems. Kopeikin has long been secretly in love with his classmate Masha ...

Active Zone (1979)

The new secretary of the NPP party committee is fighting against high results' progress in equipment operation. ...

Poem about Wings (1979)

Two great aircraft designers, Tupolev and Sikorsky, meet after many years of separation at the Paris Air Show. Once upon a time, one of them stayed in the new Russia, the other left it forever. Different destinies, different paths to the same goal, the con ...

The Imaginary Invalid (1979)

The hypochondriac Argan wants his daughter to marry a doctor so he can save on his medical bills. ...

The Last Chance (1979)

For Slava Gorokhov, his next adventure ends with a conditional conviction. By decision of law enforcement agencies, a young man begins to study at a vocational school for re-education. From the first day of being in vocational school, the young man is in t ...

The Investigation Commission (1979)

A nuclear power plant accident destroyed the RBMK reactor's technological channel, with the chief engineer and reactor calculations attributed. A special commission found fault and conducted full-scale surveys in Murmansk and Kirovsk. ...

Enemies (1978)

Drama based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky. ...

Word of Honour (1978)

Based on Panteleyev's tale about a boy who wouldn't leave his post after he gave his word. ...

Заседание парткома (1977)

Rudin (1977)

In the house of Daria Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, former beauty and lioness of the capital, who even far from civilization still organizes her salon, a certain Baron, erudite and expert in philosophy, who promised to introduce hi ...

Eternally Alive (1977)

A tragic story of two lovers, Boris and Veronica, who were separated forever by the war, and at the same time a story of love that the war could not destroy. The war seen from the lovers' point of view. ...

There, Beyond the Horizon (1976)

A young engineer Dmitriy Zherekhov who came to the aircraft plant is trying to prove to the director that it is necessary to switch to new methods of organizing production. He is supported by both experienced test engineer Aleksei Sedykh and test engineer ...

The Days of Surgeon Mishkin (1976)

A story about a good doctor - surgeon Mishkin who works in a countryside hospital. ...

Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life (1976)

A semi-documentary biography film about the life and work of Soviet film actor Pyotr Aleynikov. Includes newsreels from the 1930s, footage from films featuring Aleynikov and interviews with his closest friends and colleagues. ...

Olga Sergeevna (1975)

The film tells the story of Olga Sergeevna, a renowned oceanographer. Throughout her life, Olga Sergeevna loved only one man, with whom she was never destined to find happiness. ...

Forest Swing (1975)

Summer camp becomes a place for not only funny adventures, but also for a first feelings awakening for two fifteen years old teenagers. ...

Moscow, My Love (1974)

A young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She achieves professional success, for the first time real love comes to her. However, the girl's happiness was short-lived — a sudden illness ...

Promise of Happiness (1974)

It consists of Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky's three short stories about the origin of feelings, the expectation of happiness and love... ...

A Man at His Place (1973)

A story about young man who is trying to turn his village into an agricultural center. ...

Responsible for Everything (1972)

Hello and Goodbye (1972)

A love story between a country policeman and a recently separated from her husband woman with three kids. ...

You and Me (1971)

Pyotr, a once-promising neurosurgeon who left his groundbreaking research and career abroad, returns home years later in search of fulfillment. Encountering old friends, strained relationships, and the realities of his choices, Pyotr grapples with regret, ...

Вся королевская рать (1971)

The Life of Nyurka (1971)

The film is dedicated to the working class. On the example of the fates of the main characters, their biographies and characters, it reveals such urgent problems as the attitude of a working man to labor, the conformity of his inclinations to his chosen pr ...

The Flight (1971)

The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the run" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to ...

King Stag (1970)

A story of court intrigues, love, and betrayal. ...

Own (1970)

The Polynin Case (1970)

A story about a love between a Soviet Army officer and an actress set during the WWII. ...

About Friends and Comrades (1970)

In Moscow in 1919 there are still anarchist organizations, whose actions are clearly anti-Soviet in nature. The Chekists have to expose their activities. The case is entrusted to three newly conscripted Komsomol comrades. ...

Five Day Rest (1970)

In December 1941. For five days from the front line in besieged Leningrad arrives for re-forming company. The soldiers are placed in barracks outside the city. A young soldier Alexei Kazantsev pays attention to the girl Olya. She comes to the barracks ever ...

Mama Got Married (1969)

Having worked at a construction site all her life, Zina raised her son alone. Now that her son is almost an adult, Victor has appeared in her life, with whom she feels good and calm. However, her son Boris is too much used to having his mother belong only ...

Shine, Shine, My Star (1969)

In 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution, the peoples had to decide between conforming to Bolshevism or national self-determination. In that torn-apart-time, one man, the comedian Volodya, tries to mediate, not between different ideologies, but s ...

We Are Taking All The Fire (1969)

Mini-series set in times of WW II about Soviet underground fighters led by brave Anna Morozova. They are establishing connection with Polish people who work on German airfield. And even small victories cost a lot sometimes. ...

Only Three Nights (1969)

The love story in the remote village. Lyuba has a child, Nikolai has a wife. Nikolay, having become a projectionist, now, once a week, brings cinema to the village of Babino, where Lyuba lives. Once they loved each other, but Nikolai, unexpectedly for ever ...

Save the Drowning Man (1968)

The film tells about the pioneer Andrew and his friend. They imitate the accident in front of foreign tourists on the water. The young correspondent Egor noticed this, and as a result, the portraits of the pioneer hang wherever possible, he receives an inv ...

Once More About Love (1968)

For the first time, Natasha saw Elektron Yevdokimov at the Polytechnic Museum, where she came with Feliks. Then she really liked the confident speaker. Relations with Feliks didn't work out, and Natasha, leaving home, became a flight attendant — that is ...

Three Poplars on Plyuschikha Street (1968)

A married woman fresh from the countryside meets a charming cab driver on her first day in Moscow. They spend the day together and their fondness for each other grows... ...

War and Peace (1968)

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army. ...

Direct Line (1967)

A few days from the life of a young scientist responsible for the failed trail. ...

Touches on the V. I. Lenin's Portrait (1967)

Life and works of V.I. Lenin during the difficult period for the country of 1918. ...

The Road of the Burning Van (1967)

...Komsomol member Begench, who served in the army, and his fellow villager Vellek, whom they met in the city, return to the village. The kulaks, led by Kuiki and his son Cherkez, run everything in the village. They are turning people against the collectiv ...

Aybolit-66 (1966)

In Africa, monkeys fell ill. This news was reported to Dr. Aybolit by the monkey Chichi, who escaped from the robber Barmaley. Aybolit and his assistants — Chichi and the dog Avva — are in a hurry to save the monkeys from the disease. But Barmaley and ...

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966)

As 1809 nears its end, Natasha attends her first ball, where Andrei falls in love with her with the intent of marriage. However, as her father demands they wait, the prince travels abroad, leaving Natasha in desperate longing. But she meets Anatol Kuragin ...

Beware of the Car! (1966)

An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood. ...

War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966)

In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition a ...

A Bridge is Being Built (1965)

The plot is based on the construction of a highway bridge across the Volga River in Saratov. A Moscow correspondent comes to this construction site. ...

The Girl and the Bugler (1965)

It is a story about 12 or 13 years old girl in the middle of 60-th in USSR. She is a pioneer. She is in love with her pioneer leader - 16-17 years old boy, who doesn't even notice her. In order to impress him she tries to find someone, who was a member of ...

Cheka Employee (1964)

Based on the novel of the same name by Aleksandr Lukin and Dmitriy Polyanovskiy. Russia, 1919. A young soldier of the First Cavalry Army, Aleksei Mikhalyov, is sent to work in the provincial Cheka. Here in the south of the country there is a large White Gu ...

The Alive and the Dead (1964)

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for th ...

Three Fat Men (1963)

My Younger Brother (1962)

School is over, final exams are behind — and Dima was the first to think of waving away from home. The convictions of his elder brother Viktor about a serious attitude to the future life only more "warmed up" the four friends, and for the first time they ...

Business Trip (1962)

Agricultural machinery design engineer Mikhail Shcherbakov goes to the countryside instead of taking a vacation. The tractor designed by him does not work in one of the collective farms. Circumstances force him to stay much longer than he expected. Here he ...

The Academician From Askania (1962)

The twenties. Hungry and impoverished country. Lenin signs a decree on the protection of breeding livestock. Nevertheless, Ivanov's experiments become known not only to the country of the Soviets, but also to enemies working for American farmers. The Cheki ...

Lyubushka (1961)

Bandits took away a beautiful horse from peasant Nikita Lykov and left him a nag instead. The peasant began to nurse the horse, which turned out to be a famous Oryol trotter named Lyubushka. ...

Probation (1960)

In 1923 two young guys with different personality traits go on probation to work with newly formed Soviet Union Criminal Investigation Department. ...

Soldiers Were Walking (1959)

October 1917. Russian and German soldiers, exhausted by three years of war, began to fraternize. But officers' bullets shot the fraternizers. The survivors - Ilya, Matvey, nurse Olga and German soldier Jakob - swore in front of the fallen soldiers to reach ...

Hard Happiness (1958)

A young Gipsy boy is growing up in a Russian village during the Civil War. ...

The Death of Pazukin (1958)

Film about the death of an old man, and the people that try to profit from his demise. ...

Stories About Lenin (1957)

Two stories ("The feat of the soldier Mukhin", "The Last Autumn"). The events of one concern 1917, when Lenin had to hide in Finland, the second takes place in 1923-1924 during the last months of his life in Gorki. ...

Next to Us (1957)

The engineer and the reporter arrived at one of the plants of the Altai. They have just completed the institutions and are confident that the future is in their hands. At the plant, all relations are formed around the dubious glory of the Turner Milovidov. ...

The Tight Knot (1957)

The farm's chairman took the late secretary's teenage son into his house. ...

Wishes Come True (1957)

If anything's possible, what's important? ...

The First Echelon (1955)

In one of the steppe regions of Kazakhstan arrives on Komsomol youth squad. Severe frosts, spring mud flows, exhausting work than their specialty - the development of virgin land does not come easy. But the young are young - they work, enjoy life, fall in ...

Misha's Anniversary (1994)

The Old New Year (1980)

Two families are trying to fix their problems during the celebration of the New Year. ...

Заседание парткома (1977)

Eternally Alive (1977)

A tragic story of two lovers, Boris and Veronica, who were separated forever by the war, and at the same time a story of love that the war could not destroy. The war seen from the lovers' point of view. ...

Соло для часов с боем (1974)

Save the Drowning Man (1968)

The film tells about the pioneer Andrew and his friend. They imitate the accident in front of foreign tourists on the water. The young correspondent Egor noticed this, and as a result, the portraits of the pioneer hang wherever possible, he receives an inv ...

A Bridge is Being Built (1965)

The plot is based on the construction of a highway bridge across the Volga River in Saratov. A Moscow correspondent comes to this construction site. ...