Sofiya Gubaydulina

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's lif ...

Mary, Queen of Scots (2013)

The life and death of the Scottish monarch. ...

The Cardboard Village (2011)

When a group of African immigrants builds a cardboard village between the pews of a church soon to be closed, an elderly priest must choose between his calling and his orders. ...

Ivan Marchuk: "The voice of my soul" (1998)

The figure of the world-famous Ukrainian artist Ivan Fedorovych Marchuk, whose paintings present Ukrainian art on all continents of the world, became the basis of this documentary. ...

The Mill (1992)

A young girl journeys through a strange landscape of dream and memory. ...

The Fire and the Rose (1990)

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina. ...

The Sand-Storm (1989)

In this heavyhanded political allegory, set in the plains and mountains of Central Asia, a tribe of people led by the fanatical Mavrut (Vladimir Msrian) wanders about in the most desolate parts of this already desolate region in search of a mythical "Land ...

The Cat Who Walked by Herself (1988)

Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, and the Cat comes into the room to keep him company. The child grabs her tail, and the Cat angrily reminds him that they agreed a thousand years ago that he ...

Kreutzer Sonata (1987)

A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name. ...

Scarecrow (1983)

A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when they were ...

Kafedra (1982)

The Great Samoyed (1982)

The eventful history of Tyko Vylka, the first Nenets artist, cartographer, polar explorer, participant in World War II, chairman of the Novaya Zemlya Island Council. ...

Feelings Rushing Back (1980)

An immature couple spends their vacation in their homeland, a Tatar village. She's a doctor. He probably works in the field of rocket engineering. Encounters with the forgotten past and loved ones help to restore the lost sincerity and warmth of feelings o ...

The Man And His Bird (1975)

The film is about terrible life of a common man ...

Every day of Dr. Kalinnikova (1974)

The story of a talented woman who dedicated her life to surgery. Patients from all over the country go to her orthopedic laboratory — the doctor's unique methods of treatment are so effective. However, an anonymous complaint is received by the metropolit ...

Stories About the Space (1973)

Two short stories about space ...

The Adventures of Mowgli (1973)

Adventures of Mowgli is an animated feature-length story originally released as five animated shorts of about 20 minutes each between 1967 and 1971 in the Soviet Union. ...

White Explosion (1969)

1942, the German Wehrmacht is trying to capture the Baku oilfields at the Black sea. Their biggest obstacle are the Caucasian Mountains and few Russians soldiers to stop them. The story revolves around an important Mountain Pass, that is heavily contested ...

The Name Day (1968)

A fire suddenly started inside the ship full of passengers is causing dramatic events. ...

The Blacksmith-Sorcerer (1967)

When one blacksmith voices suspicious that there might be sorcery involved in his colleague's work, things get out of hand. Based on the fairy tale by French writer Luda Schnitzer. ...

Vertical (1966)

In the mountains, they stand alone against whatever will happen. For the several days they live in nature, they can rely only on themselves and each other. Elsewhere, there is always a fallback - here one is without a safety. This in itself can bring some ...

If You Want - Believe It, If You Want - Don't (1964)

Roman Kurykin, an amateur jazzman and the owner of an absolute ear for music, cannot reconcile himself to the idea that his son Edik does not show any interest in music. The dejected father, in desperation, suspected that the child could have been replaced ...

The Lost Paradise (2015)

He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels at home in the forests of Estonia and generates therewith - perhaps involuntarily - the impression of a recl ...

Sophia: Biography of a Violin Concerto (2008)

Russian-born composer Sofia Gubaidulina entered the international spotlight at a relatively late age, when the 49-year-old came forward with her premier violin concerto, "Offertorium," in 1980. Gubaidulina authored that piece for Gideon Kremer. Curiously, ...

The Fire and the Rose (1990)

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina. ...