Olga Samoshina

Six Degrees of Celebration 5 (2016)

This new year, the beloved characters of Yolki continue to do silly things and hope for a miracle. Borya must somehow restore his family happiness, and to do so, he is prepared to steal a penguin from his best friend Zhenya. ...

Хроника гнусных времен (2014)

The Fool (2014)

The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night. ...

The Admirer (2012)

A story based on love between Anton Chekhov and a young writer Lidiya Avilova. ...

High Security Vacation (2009)

Two escaped convicts pose as children's summer camp staff in order to evade capture and learn about caring for others in the process. Sumrak has been in prison since he was 16 years old but is pushing thirty now, is well acquainted with prison gang culture ...

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. ...

Simple Things (2007)

A dying actor asks a doctor to help him commit suicide in return for a masterpiece. ...

The Ugly Swans (2006)

In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate what's going on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants. Banev's tween daughter Ira is enrolled at a school for g ...

Burdocks (2004)

An eccentric comedy. Love and money have always inspired people to feats, long wanderings and even crimes. It has always been almost impossible to stop such madmen. And what will happen this time — no one knows yet. Only one thing is known — it will ha ...

Don't Make Biscuits in a Bad Mood (2002)

One day in the life of a modern St. Petersburg woman, a woman of post-Balzac age, with whom something is happening. Either a spiritual crisis or a momentary obsession... ...

Khrustalyov, My Car! (1999)

Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot". ...

Crossroads (1998)

Once upon a time, 20 years ago, the rock band "Uncle Alik" rattled all over the country, and its leader, Alik, enjoyed his fame. Now no one remembers them, and the former celebrities work part-time at weddings, or in the club "Old Tram", or even just - in ...

Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998)

General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova lose their way on a fishing trip and wind up in a neighboring country, where they decide to have a good time anyway but end up leaving their vodka and fishing equipment behind. ...

The Fundamental and Pitiful Look (1996)

Forty-year old Alya has been abandoned by her husband and son. Her mother does her best to distract the heroine from her loneliness. However, her clumsy efforts do not help — Alya prefers top escape into the world of her dreams, fantasies and childhood m ...

Winter Cherry 3 (1995)

The main character, whose life seemed to have lost all meaning, suddenly receives an inheritance abroad. This leads to the most unexpected consequences, the most important of which is a new, this time happy, meeting with your beloved. ...

Varenyi's Last Job (1994)

After four years, a young freight forwarder Sizuhin suddenly learns that under the guise of shipments of baby food his firm is involved in drug smuggling. Deciding to understand this case, he begins to fight the mafia and seeks help from a professional thi ...

The Successor (1994)

Eight years after his family was murdered he has returned home to bury his past and discover his future. ...

Love, the Harbinger of Sorrow (1994)

Living With an Idiot (1993)

The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first s ...

Razborchivyy zhenikh (1993)

Arithmetic of a Murder (1991)

A man, a local hooligan and alcoholic, is killed in a gloomy St. Petersburg communal apartment. Each of the residents hated him in their own way, and each had their own motive for the crime. But everyone has an ironclad alibi. A local disabled person under ...

Shell (1990)

Existential drama taking place in the midst of Perestroika. ...

The Initiated (1990)

Volodya, who lives with his mother in the apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gets a pre-revolutionary book on magic rituals of Africa. Reading it, Vladimir realizes that he became an owner the supernatural gift – he can kill people by his own ...

Scream for Help (1988)

Vocational school student, who took upon himself the guilt of another for a large sum of money, finds himself in a very difficult situation. None of his "friends" even tries to come to his aid. He only finds one way out for himself, - a death... ...

Miss Millionersha (1988)

At the beginning of "perestroyka", city authorities are getting ready for another event in keeping with the spirit of stagnant times. A director with a rather "unyielding" character is assigned to make a film about the birth of the one millionth inhabitant ...

Exceptions Without Rules (1986)

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major". ...

Gunpowder (1985)

At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon they will fire their last shot, and after that the defense of the city will be doomed. The film is based on a true event: a small group of fearless soldier ...