Svetlana Konovalova

It Is Easy to Die (1999)

When you love, your life changes beyond recognition. When you are loved, you may not even suspect it. But if your life turns into a continuous nightmare, if every minute you are waiting for news of the death of another loved one - such love cannot be overl ...

Love in Russian 2 (1996)

Love in Russian (1995)

A handful of farmers protect their farm from bandits. ...

General (1992)

A biopic about a Soviet general V. Gorbatov. ...

Gongofer (1992)

Cossacks Kol'ka and Zarubin travel to Moscow to buy an ox. Their trip turns chaotic when a local witch seduces Kol'ka and replaces his brown eyes with blue ones. The pair must fight against a supernatural underworld to get his original eyes back. ...

Ravines (1990)

Communist Ivan Platonov is actively involved in the collectivization of his native land, even the death of his wife does not stop him. One by one, rebellions of discontented peasants break out. Platonov's propaganda work takes on a different quality, the h ...

About Love, Friendship and Destiny (1987)

They met Antipov on a train carrying evacuees to Kazakhstan in the fall of 1941. A young woman with a young son warmly accepted his help and support. ...

Attack (1986)

Young lieutenant arrives to tank regiment stationed in the Central Asia. He uses unusual for Soviet Army methods to train his soldiers. It predictably leads to tensions with superiors and subordinates. However later it pays back during live exercises. ...

Once Upon a Time There Was a Brave Captain (1985)

The main character, nineteen-year-old Anastasiy Chizhov, was appointed commander of the Zver patrol ship. Under his leadership, the old fishing vessel becomes a strong fighting unit. ...

In the Last Place (1982)

In April 1945, Senior Lieutenant Smirnov arrives in Moscow. He just got out of the hospital. His main task is to neutralize the bandits who raid freight trains. Later, Smirnov realize that the leader of the gang of raiders is the one he least suspected. ...

Kin (1982)

The story follows Maria Konovalova who travels from her rural village to visit her daughter Nina in the city. Maria's arrival exposes the stark contrasts between rural and urban lifestyles and reveals deep-seated family tensions. Interestingly, Родня ...

Particularly Important Task (1981)

Strategical factory should be evacuated. The movie shows how destinies of those working on the factory and their families are being broken. And yet - they have no choice, but to live. ...

Investigation (1980)

The recidivist Vorobyov planned the robbery of the jewelry department of a department store, while he himself went to serve time in a penal colony to provide himself with an alibi. The accomplices hid a suitcase with gold jewelry worth more than 300,000 ru ...

Glass Beads (1978)

Big changes are coming to the life of twelve year old Masha after vacations on Kamchatka island. Her father spends most of his time sailing and lives in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, while the girl lives with her mother in Odessa. Masha had long dreamed of tr ...

The Orphans (1977)

A story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II. ...

Speech for the Defence (1977)

Valya supported her lover, denied herself everything, devotedly and sincerely loved him. He answered her with black ingratitude. Struck in the very heart, Valya decides to commit suicide with him. ...

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 ...

Au-u! (1976)

The film comprises three cinematic novellas: (1) "And They Arrived at the Peasant's Hut… or the Adventures of Writer Senya in Search of the Hidden Word," in which writer Senya draws inspiration for his rural novels from his housekeeper Yermolayevna's tal ...

At the World's Limit (1976)

Story of an Unknown Actor (1976)

Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev is not that young of an actor. For many years he plays in the provincial theater in leading roles. The director of a play based on a play that was written for Goryaev takes the young actor for his role. Goryaev at first falls into d ...

The Last Meeting (1974)

Writer Pavel Snegirev comes to the village where during the war there was an orphanage where he spent his childhood, and meets his old friend Klim Avilov. The collective farm foreman does not understand and does not accept the writer, who did not keep his ...

If You Want To Be Happy (1974)

Andrei and Tanya love each other, which is why frequent partings are so difficult for them: Andrei is a test pilot, and Tanya works on television, and both are constantly on business trips. They have two sons — twins. For eight years of marriage, they ca ...

The Stepmother (1973)

In Pavel Olevantsev's family suddenly comes news that his daughter by another woman was orphaned. Pavel did not know about the existence of the girl, nor could his wife know about it... It is not easy to decide to take the child to his house. But it will b ...

Looking for a Man (1973)

At the heart of the movie - true stories about separations and meetings, about search of relatives, the proceeding many years after war. ...

The Siberian Woman (1973)

Maria Odintsova, a young engineer, is a leader, secretary of the district committee of a small district, which is beginning to acquire important economic significance: it is decided to build a large hydroelectric power plant here. The heroine's conflict wi ...

Yesterday, Today and Always (1972)

About the Karabanovs, who continued the work of educator A.S. Makarenko. The 1930s. A tragic accident cut short the life of the Karabanovs' three-year-old son. After what happened, Semyon Afanasyevich and Galina Konstantinovna came to work at an orphanage ...

Deadly Enemy (1971)

Based on the Don stories by Mikhail Sholokhov. Soviet power was only established on the Don, and a conflict broke out in the first commune: the wife of the commune's leader Arseniy Klyukvin, having believed the promises of the white officer, fell in love ...

Own (1970)

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 ...

Wake Mukhin Up! (1968)

During lectures on literature, evening student Sasha Mukhin, a subway driver, sleeps and dreams. In approximate accordance with the subject of the lectures, he either tries to prevent Pushkin's duel with Dantes, either intervenes in the events of Spartak' ...

Operation 'Trust' (1968)

A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia. ...

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. ...

The Road to 'Saturn' (1967)

A first part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII. ...

War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967)

As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are ...

I Loved You... (1967)

First love is always not simple. Especially when you are outcast and she is ballet dancer in the beginning of her carrier. ...

Uncle's Dream (1967)

An important event is taking place in a small provincial town, an elderly rich prince arrives. The local "lioness" Maria Alexandrovna Moskaleva decides to marry him to her daughter Zinochka. But the "noble" Mordassov society is by no means inclined to volu ...

On Thin Ice (1966)

Two KGB agents are fighting against foreign spies before and during WWII. ...

Man Without a Passport (1966)

A group of Soviet counterintelligence officers manage to neutralize spies sent to the territory of the country to obtain secret information about the construction of a large military-industrial complex in Priozersk. ...

Null kolm (1965)

Olga is a doctor of an ambulance crew - she is a sincere, straightforward and warm-hearted woman who has firm views on human relationships, medical duties, friendship and love. When Olga falls in love with doctor Aleksandr Tennov, she expects him to share ...

The Big Ore (1964)

A story of Victor, a young man who is working in a big mine as driver. ...

Ordinary Wonder (1964)

In a romantic and philosophical tale of magic and love, a mischievous Sorcerer turns a bear into a young man. Unhappy in his new state, the former bear, with the help of the magician and his beautiful wife, is looking for a princess to kiss in order for hi ...

Ираклий Андроников рассказывает (1964)

Irakli Andronikov tells about his youth, when his talent as an imitator manifested itself, about his work as a lecturer at the Leningrad Philharmonic, shares his memories of the musicologist and literary scholar I.I.Sollertinsky, about the artists V.I.Kach ...

Сокровища республики (1964)

Two on the Steppes (1962)

In the summer of 1942, the Soviet army is fighting the Germans on the Don River. Young lieutenant Ogarkov gets lost in the steppe and fails to deliver a redeployment order. For that, he is sentenced to death. Now, another soldier has to lead him across the ...

Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961)

World War II separates lovers Oksana and Anton. The young man is taken prisoner by the Germans, while his beloved abandons her studies at the conservatory to become a frontline nurse. Despite all the hardships, their paths cross again. ...

Machinist Drove the Trains (1961)

Olga, who was taken to the West by Hitler's invaders, works as a switchman at a railway station. Echelons with prisoners of war - convicts - pass by her every day. Olga gets acquainted with the machinist Fyodor and with his help organizes the escape of her ...

The Tight Knot (1957)

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