Sergei Yursky

Karski & The Lords of Humanity (2015)

The film tells the story of a member of the Polish underground who acted as a courier during World War II and whose most prominent mission was to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust. ...

Handmade Clouds (2015)

Five stories depicting five different kinds of love, from childhood to old age. ...

The Master and Margarita (2011)

The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernat ...

Regarding the Bald Singer... (2009)

Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco. ...

A Room and a Half (2009)

A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972. ...

The Gift to Stalin (2008)

A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a tr ...

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. ...

Korolev (2007)

In the fall of 1938, the NKVD arrested Sergei Korolyov. Under torture, the investigators are trying to extract from him a confession of anti-Soviet activities, each time citing incriminating facts from the biography of the young scientist. Plunging into Ko ...

Osobennyy (2006)

Sashka is a normal boy from a small provincial of Koshkin whose dream is to become special. One day he notices that everyone around him have started to behave strangely. As he finds out that he is the "special" one not affected by Uncle Tolik's mind contro ...

A Cat and a Half (2003)

A documentary-fiction hybrid film based on the works of Joseph Brodsky. ...

Woe to Wit or Eisenstein and Meyerhold: a Two-fold Portrait in the Interior of the Epoch (2003)

The film is about the complex, passionate and at the same time deeply respectful relationship between two genius directors, a teacher (Meyerhold) and a student (Eisenstein). In the most difficult conditions of the totalitarian regime, adherence to eternal ...

Secrets Shared with a Stranger (1996)

In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond. ...

Zadoc and Happiness (1995)

Small, hunchbacked and unlucky, Zadoc dreams of finding love. Chased from his village, he is propelled towards the unknown. ...

Diary in a Marble (1994)

A story about the life of a woman, two men of her life and her son, Janek Garbus, seen through the eyes of the latter - "conceived by an NKVD uncle on the night after the Soviet army entered". ...

A Gun with silencer (1993)

From the American psychiatric hospital run by two maniac, confident that he was a spy, and a transsexual. Very soon they will want to return to their native madhouse — but it will be too late. Because the third psycho sent them on a secret mission to Rus ...

The Gamblers: XXI (1992)

A filmed version of Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers", transposed into modern-day Russia and performed by an all-star cast. ...

Ooh, Train Robbery (1991)

A high-crime investigator goes to the scene where corruption and crime have taken on new and sophisticated forms in the mountainous southern region of the country. Under the guise of a random train robbery, individual cars loaded with waste from metallurgi ...

The Psychic (1991)

Due to a brain injury received in a street fight, Gera Romanov begins to fall into parallel worlds, where he dies painfully every time. ...

School of Fine Arts (1990)

An animated film in two parts, about the tragic fate of Estonian artist Ülo Sooster and about his work. ...

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, ...

School of Fine Arts. Return (1990)

The second part of the duology on the famous Estonian artist Ülo Sooster continues his life story, paying homage to many other great artists who were spiritually consonant with his work. ...

Interpretation of Dreams (1990)

Using extensive quotes from several Freudian works still banned by the Soviet censorship at the time, the film interprets the pivotal points of European history of the past century from a psychoanalytical point of view. ...

The Painting (1989)

An engineer's hotel stay is interrupted by a visit from a stranger. ...

The Story of One Billiard-Room (1988)

The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society. ...

This Fantastic World 13 (1987)

The consequences of a nuclear war are destruction, hunger. The surviving people have even lost the memory of their former civilization. At the center of the play is the Old Man, the only person who remembers the past, because without the past humanity cann ...

School of Fine Arts. Juniper Landscape (1987)

Blending drawings, paintings, filmed interviews, and recorded testimony, this animation-documentary hybrid tells of the tragic fate of the Estonian artist Ülo Sooster. ...

Star Counter (1987)

Germany in the thirties. ...

The End of Eternity (1987)

Directed by Andrei Yermash, and written by Isaac Asimov, Budimir Metalnikov, and Andrei Yermash, «Konets vechnosti» is a 1987 Science Fiction film, starring Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergei Yursky, Gediminas Girdvainis and Boris Iva ...

Intervention (1987)

The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen' ...

The Magic Bells (1987)

A good tale about the inhabitants of a magical city who were shamelessly robbed by the villain Miraclus. He stole their smiles - sly, playful, tender, affectionate - and melted them into golden bells! The Miracle dungeon was filled with a quiet, clear ring ...

My Favorite Time (1987)

A full-length animated film based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin, which includes all three pictures of Andrey Khrzhanovsky's Pushkin trilogy: "I Am Flying to You as a Memory..." (1977), "With You I Am Again..." (1980) and "Autumn" (1982). ...

The Road to One's Self (1986)

After coming into conflict with the administration of his research institute, engineer Krylov files his resignation and starts working as a stuntman. ...

Doctor Aybolit (1986)

A funny comedy about doctor Aybolit and his assistants and patients - all animals. ...

About Sidorov Vova (1985)

A screen adaptation of the satirical poem by Eduard Uspensky. Vova Sidorov is the only child in a big family, growing up without a father. Everything he cherished, but a summons from the recruitment office turns everything on its head! ...

Love and Pigeons (1985)

In a remote Siberian village, a work injury sends Vasily Kuziakin on a paid trip to a Black Sea resort as compensation. There, he meets femme fatale Raisa Zaharovna and decides to stay with her. Such is the beginning of a new life for him, exciting and str ...

The Constellation of Love (1985)

Bek's men kidnap Farukh's fiancee. He goes on a quest, thus violating the warnings of the good Fairy. Farukh and his friend the Fool overcome all difficulties on the way to love, understanding the power of friendship, justice, good and evil. ...

The Lonely Businessman's Big Score (1984)

A movie about a little man - a little funny and a little sad - a Latino businessman, owner of a loss-making shop. And about a big moral problem. A child has fallen down a deep well. He's alive, but it's almost impossible to get him out. What is more dignif ...

Monsieur Lenoir, Who... (1984)

After Monsieur Lenoir commits a terrible crime, his family members gather together to discuss their damage control options. ...

Plyukh and Plikh (1984)

Two ordinary boys, brothers Paul and Peter, rescue two little dogs from the evil Kaspar Schlich. ...

The Hare's Tail (1984)

The hare has lost its magnificent tail - everyone is suspected. ...

Fairy-Tales of an Old Magician (1984)

A princess is born to the king and queen of a fairy-tale kingdom. The wicked witch, who resents not having been invited to the princess's birthday party, curses her: on the day the princess turns 16, she will be pricked by the spindle of a spinning wheel a ...

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1983)

A cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry. ...

Али-Баба и сорок разбойников (1983)

Look for a Woman (1982)

The story begins when Alice Postique, who had to stay late at work, discovers her boss Roche with a knife in his back. When the police detective arrives, Alice recognizes him as her old friend. ...

Dragon's Cave (1982)

A parable about an evil dragon who has captured the "magic light", without which people are forced to live in darkness. Mother Earth gives birth to three sons-heroes, who one by one set out to bring light to people. But the insidious dragon exposes the her ...

The Fall of Condor (1982)

A military dictator in a fictional country, modeled on early-1970s Chile, has risen from butcher to junta leader but now, isolated and distrustful, confides only in his guard Manuel. Manuel, who once shared the dictator's humble origins, betrays him withou ...

A Vintage Detective Story (1982)

A two-part television play based on "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Hunted Down" by Charles Dickens. ...

Autumn (1982)

The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts. ...

Uncle's Dream (1981)

Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary. ...

Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You (1981)

In early 20th-century Azerbaijan, two circus artists travel to a village where one of them was born, unaware of the danger and adventure that await them. ...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1980)

In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, and Edwin fights Neville Landles, who is in love with Rose, leading to his disappearance. ...

Little Tragedies (1980)

Based on Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" ("The Miserly Knight", "Mozart and Salieri", "The Stone Guest", "A Feast in the Time of Plague"). ...

With You I Am Again... (1980)

The second part of a trilogy of films based on Pushkin's drawings, poems and letters. ...

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979)

Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the depart ...

Rasmus and the Tramp (1979)

The film takes place in Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century. Rasmus is a boy who lives in a shelter. Unwilling to stay in the orphanage, he escapes and joins a tramp nicknamed Oscar Tumbleweed. ...

A Country House for One Family (1978)

On the seashore, the mother and father decided to build a country house where their three sons, daughter, daughters-in-law and grandchildren could gather together. But neither the sons nor the daughter can find time to visit and help their parents. Only th ...

The Lion Ran Away from the House (1977)

A musical fairy tale about a lion who got bored living in the zoo and goes wandering around the city of Baku, where he met and became friends with a boy Rustam. ...

One Fine Day (1977)

A film almanac consisting of two short stories, united by a common idea of the need to maintain harmony between private and public interests: "Suite" and "One Fine Day". The hero of the story "Suite" is a lifeguard on the shore. The events taking place at ...

I Am Flying to You as a Memory... (1977)

The film is based on the drawings and manuscripts of A.S.Pushkin. ...

The Darvish Detonates Paris (1976)

A famous botanist, Monsieur Jordan is a guest in Garabagh to Hatamkhan Agha. Hatamkhan Agha's nephew wants to go to France with Jordan in order to study. His family and lover try to discourage him and consult to Darvish Mastali Shah. Mastali Shah decides t ...

Choice of Purpose (1975)

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

The Broken Horseshoe (1973)

Based on the novel by Jules Verne "Drama in Livonia". French aeronaut Jules Ardan, traveling in a hot air balloon, accidentally finds himself in Reval. Here he meets Dr. Peterson and his daughter Leida. The gendarmes are hunting for Leida's fiance. The ban ...

King Stag (1970)

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

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 Truth! Nothing But the Truth! (1969)

About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate. ...

The Golden Calf (1968)

A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire. ...

Eugene Onegin (1967)

The first and second chapters of "Eugene Onegin" performed by Sergei Yursky, filmed live for Leningrad Television. ...

The Republic of ShKID (1966)

The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and edu ...

Time, Forward! (1965)

The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Khar ...

Faithful Robot (1965)

A runaway robot obsessed with an idea of creating a perfect human becomes a household property of a writer through deception. ...

A Long Cat Tale (1965)

In this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard. ...

Conscience Doesn't Forgive (1964)

Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life. ...

Kyukhlya (1963)

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

The Serf Actress (1963)

Batmanova, once a serf, sets Paris aflame with her singing and now returns to the court of the Prince in 19th-century Russia. The Prince wants Batmanova for himself, but she loves a young nobleman who is technically still a serf because his papers have bee ...

Black Gull (1962)

A young boy in Cuba finds himself in mortal peril as his fishing village gets infiltrated by malign forces. ...

The Man from Nowhere (1961)

In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia. The main character is probably base ...

The Story about Newlyweds (1960)

A drama about a complications in a newlyweds life. ...

Dostigayev and Others (1959)

July-December 1917, the country is undergoing a revolution. "The pillars of society" are alarmed by the looming on them menacing events. ...

Street Is Full of Surprises (1958)

Chief accountant Porfiry Petrovich Smirnov-Alyansky, who took a good walk on the anniversary of his colleague cashier Ivan Zakharovich Vodnev, climbs into the traffic controller's booth and disrupts traffic on one of the streets of Leningrad. However, the ...

Regarding the Bald Singer... (2009)

Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco. ...

The Gamblers: XXI (1992)

A filmed version of Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers", transposed into modern-day Russia and performed by an all-star cast. ...

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, ...

Eugene Onegin (1967)

The first and second chapters of "Eugene Onegin" performed by Sergei Yursky, filmed live for Leningrad Television. ...