Stepan Kayukov

Rasteryaeva Street (1961)

Lipa and Vera had been friends since childhood. Now, having finished their boarding school, each of them faces her own path in life. Tormented by poverty, Lipa is forced to marry the old, dull, and cruel Tolokonnikov. However, she cannot bear the tyranny o ...

People on the Bridge (1959)

The end of the 50s. The former head of the department Bulygin is sent from Moscow to Siberia to build a bridge across the Severnaya River. With him goes his family: his wife, son, daughter and his daughter's fiancé. Once an experienced builder, and now ju ...

Over Tissa (1958)

According to the story of the same name by Aleksandr Avdeenko. The end of the 50s. Transcarpathia. Two saboteurs cross the border near Tissa. One dies during detention, and the second, under the guise of a front-line soldier Ivan Belograi, appears at the s ...

New Adventures of Puss in Boots (1958)

Lyuba, a daughter of King of Chess is kidnapped by playing Cards... Young Vanya and his best friend - Puss in the boots - are trying to rescue Lyuba. ...

Journey Beyond Three Seas (1957)

This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the trade way from Europe to India. The film is based on Nikitin's travel notes. Starring in the film are popular R ...

The Wrestler and the Clown (1957)

It's a story about two of the most famous russian personages. They become friends, and then go along on the path of glory in parallel. ...

Team From Our Street (1954)

Putting aside all their planned summer activities, the Pioneer group spends entire days playing ball in the courtyard and on the street. This upsets the building's residents the most. A scandal is brewing, and there's only one solution: build a children's ...

Sadko (1953)

Based on an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was based on a Russian epic tale of the same name. In the old Russian city of Novgorod, the merchants are feasting in a gorgeous palace and Sadko is bragging that he can bring to their land a sweet-voice ...

Maximka (1952)

A black child rescued from by Russian sailors, whom they name Maksimka, having overcome his fear of white people, turns out to be an unusually smart and kind little boy. The rude drunken sailor Ivan Luchkin was especially attached to the boy. Once it was M ...

Dream of a Cossack (1951)

Soviet filmmaker Yuri Raisman once more combines political dogma with solid entertainment values in Dream of a Cossack (aka Cavalier of the Golden Star). The title character, played by future director Sergei Bondarchuk (and billed for obscure reasons as Se ...

First-Year Student (1948)

Marina Orlova couldn't even imagine how many adventures are expecting to her in a first grade... ...

Light over Russia (1947)

Memories of the old Baltic sailor who participated in a revolution and a few wars... ...

Sinegoriya (1946)

A story about the boys and their life during the WWII. Based on Lev Kassil book. ...

A Great Life, Part 2 (1946)

This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during the Second World War. ...

The Stone Flower (1946)

This remarkable film is based on P. Bazhov's fairy tale "The Malachite Box". Little Danila was the most inquisitive apprentice of old Prokopich, a famous stone-carving master. Years passed… Like his teacher, the grown-up Danila has learned to feel the so ...

Hello, Moscow! (1945)

At the amateur talent show the boy, accompanying himself on the accordion, sings a song about Moscow... The plot of the movie is based on the story of the director of the school about how this accordion, once belonging to a cadre worker who died during a d ...

Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor (1944)

The story takes place in Summer 1942, when a small force of Black Sea Fleet sailors was surrounded by German troops but broke out the encirclement. ...

Nasreddin in Bukhara (1943)

Smart Man Nassredin easily penetrates into Bukhara Emir inner circle posing as Wise Man from Damascus. He becomes Emir trusted advisor, and even convinces the tyrant to relax the rule and release a lot of political prisoners (because stars favor this arran ...

The Prince and the Pauper (1942)

Two look-alike boys, one a poor street kid and the other a prince, exchange places to see what the other's life is like. ...

Aleksandr Parkhomenko (1942)

About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Parkhomenko. In 1918, capturing Ukraine, the German occupiers sought to use the Haidamaks, the White Guards and the Greens in their ...

The Magic Seed (1942)

A fairytale about two kids who got a magic seed which can feed all the people... ...

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #8 (1942)

Russian film album for the war ...

Adventures of Korzinkina (1941)

A lyrical comedy about cashier Yana Korzinkina, who loves helping people. To cheer up a budding singer, she accompanies him to the theater and ends up at a pop music competition. ...

My Universities (1940)

My Universities is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable ...

Tractor Drivers (1939)

The story takes place in a Soviet placed in what is now Ukraine. A mechanic arrives in the Soviet, lead by a young independent woman driving tractors and, between many comedy sketches and propaganda mottoes, a love comes to light. ...

The Vyborg Side (1939)

The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in charge of the national bank. With great efforts, he learns the complexies of the banking trade and begins t ...

Friends (1939)

The Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kirov. ...

July 11 (1938)

Civil war. Polish interventionists approach Berezina. The Red Army temporarily leaves Belarusian lands. Partisan detachments are organized, one of which is led by Bolshevik Stepan. His brother, who is in collusion with Polish spy Kapusta, is also in this d ...

The Man with the Gun (1938)

The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin. ...

Маска (1938)

The Miners (1937)

Semyon Primak, in the direction of the regional committee, arrives in one of the small towns of Donbas and immediately enters into battle with the chief of the mine, Chub, who, in a situation of continuous assault, plays into the hands of the Trotskyites a ...

The Return of Maxim (1937)

The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of the working-class in the Duma. Maksim, who just returned from exile, calls the workers to strike as a prot ...

Baltic Deputy (1937)

A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their ...

Late for a Date (1936)

Arriving on a resort muscovites - circus artist Gurov and professor Fedorov are forget the houses of passport. Girl-dispatch on mail, hurrying on an appointment, mixes up envelopes, that entails the row of the comic misunderstanding. ...

The Girlfriends (1936)

Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from ...

Dubrovskiy (1936)

Peasant rebelling, pictures of folk anger - here accent that had to put Ivanovo in a new film. The manuscript of novel was found post mortem Pushkin in his papers. The name he did not have and remained unfinished. Intention of "Dubrovskiy" was prompted by ...

Marriage (1936)

The official Podkolesin is tired of his bachelor life, but at the same time he is afraid to disrupt his usual routine. His friend Kochkarev arranges a marriage between Podkolesin and the merchant's daughter Agafia Tikhonovna. It takes a lot of effort for K ...

Peasants (1935)

The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved. ...

The Youth of Maxim (1935)

A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and has particular merits in r ...

Do I Love You? (1934)

A comedy about the life of a young married couple—Soviet students. Film has not survived. ...

Yudishka Golovlyov (1934)

Film adaptation of The Golovlyov Family ("Господа Головлёвы), a classic novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. In the mid-19th century old-fashioned estate based on serfdom laws and traditions, tough and shrewd Arina Petrovna tries her best ...

Golden Mountains (1931)

Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years earlier: backward lad (Poslavsky) from poor village comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replaceme ...