Svetlana Kryuchkova

Ba (2020)

Five-year-old Sasha often listens to the opera Madame Butterfly. It is shown on TV and broadcast on the radio. The story of Madame Butterfly becomes for Sasha the key to the dramas that take place in the family, but which she still cannot understand. ...

Odessa Steamboat (2019)

Based on the works of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. The plot of the new comedy is based on the famous miniatures "Odessa Steamboat", "Two Apples", "Meeting at the Distillery" and other works by one of the country's most famous humor writers Mikhail Zhvanetsky. In to ...

Sherlock Holmes (2013)

A Russian crime drama series, based on the Sherlock Holmes detective stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ...

F 63.9 Love Sickness (2013)

A comedy about the love between a doctor who specializes in sexually transmitted diseases and an astronaut, and a covert space experiment. ...

The Admirer (2012)

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

Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (2009)

A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to "shelter" her beloved grandson at all cost. ...

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. ...

Thumbelina (2007)

Based on famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. ...

Artists (2007)

Группа неудачливых артистов собирается вокруг одного человека, одержимого идеей создания нового театра. Бригада артистов едет в поездку п� ...

Brezhnev (2005)

A biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev. ...

Old Hags (2000)

Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia. ...

The Totalitarian Novel (1998)

Autumn, 1968. Nadia, a young woman with strict views on life, a methodologist at the regional House of Culture, goes to the cinema with her friend Sasha. The premiere of the film "Three Poplars on Ivy" took place in their city. Suddenly it turns out that t ...

From Hell to Hell (1997)

Focuses on the lives of two married Polish couples (one Jewish, one Catholic) and the personal and social devastation wrought by the Holocaust and its aftermath. ...

Sinful Love (1997)

The ancient northern monastery has a guide Tatyana. Two former classmates seek her favors: medical student Ivan and young businessman Yves (that is, also Ivan). As a result of a fall from a balloon, the girl is in a coma. Only Ivan Voronov can deduce from ...

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. ...

The Flood (1995)

This is 1920: Sophia and Trofim Ivanytch have been living on Vassilievski Island, which is part of Petrograd, for thirteen years. In their house, which looks like a ship wreck, the atmosphere is gloomy. Sophia cannot have children and she is aware that, be ...

Burnt by the Sun (1994)

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri fro ...

And Always Come Back... (1993)

About the post-war years in a small town in the Urals, where fate brought the Kalmyk boy Jirgalu. He will soon have to face the hatred of war-bitten locals. Hungry times force the boy to look for money for food, not disdaining theft. But a friend appears, ...

Dark (1992)

This story of the beginning of the century about a terrorist and a prostitute combined the inhumanity and sacrifice of terrorism - a disastrous and noble delusion that originated in Russia and spread throughout the world. ...

Eyes (1992)

They can't see, but they really must... Because they love each other! ...

Seven-Forty (1992)

The group of immigrants who depart to the United States, by chance finds itself in a deserted forest. Cut off from the civilized world, they begin to build their "own America". ...

In That Region of Heaven… (1992)

Genka is a schoolboy from Moscow. Having seen enough American action movies, he longs for adventure and the opportunity to try himself in a real man's business. His imagination is filled with visions of his idols - Schwarzenegger, Stallone, star humanoids ...

The Hen (1991)

Alla, the wife of the chief administrator, came to the young artist Nona, nicknamed "The Hen," to "catch" her husband, but in bed with her she finds the chief director, who is going to marry her. Soon her best friend Diana and everyone else will find out a ...

Art of Living in Odessa (1990)

The plot of the movie is based on books of Isaak Babel about Jewish criminals in city of Odessa before and after the Russian revolution. ...

The Royal Hunt (1990)

Russian general have to find and bring back to St. Petersburg girl claiming her right to the throne... ...

My Husband Is an Alien (1990)

An ordinary family is a faithful wife, a walking husband. One night, Victor tells his wife that he is an alien and disappears. For a long time, the inconsolable Lucy waited for the return of the faithful, until one day she met a man in the subway who, like ...

First Floor (1990)

Although he is only eighteen, twenty-year-old Nadia permits Sergei to move into her apartment and share her bed. However, his callowness swiftly bores her, and she is unable to hide her increasing disdain for him. Understandably, this is a matter of some d ...

Killer (1990)

In a sudden rush Smirnovyh family tragedy: their underage daughter Tanyu raped three guys. One of them - the son of director of the factory where his father Thani. The investigator refuses to parents, girls in the criminal complaint: the body has no signs ...

Ono (1989)

The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Town". In a metaphorical and grotesque form, the film conveys the history of Russia from the calling of the Varangians until the end of the 20th century. The ...

Bright Personality (1989)

By chance the main character of the picture becomes invisible. This curiosity causes a chain of eccentric events that allow the authors to ridicule in a grotesque form such enduring vices as bureaucratism, swagger, careerism and familialism. Based on satir ...

Restless (1989)

The old choirmaster Vetlugin falls in love with the young Vera, the owner of a wonderful soprano. Having long dreamed of his choir performing Vivaldi's "Gloria", Vetlugin invites the girl to the leading part. ...

Wagon-Lit (1989)

A story of a four seemingly random vagon lit passengers whose fates are unexpectedly interwoven. ...

Prince Udacha Andreyevich (1989)

Two young boys are trying to prevent a massive antiquities theft. ...

It Happened Near the Sea (1989)

The events of the film take place in a resort area South of the seaside city, beautiful and alien. The heroine of the film - girls orphanage for children with a sick spine, physical energy of the characters looking out in painfully cruel scheme of mutual r ...

Amazon (1986)

The city philistine Domna Platonovna-a merchant of lace, and sometimes... and "live goods" - is engaged in pimping. Fate confronts her with a young intelligent woman-a noblewoman, a colonel, Lekanida Petrovna, whose difficult life trials led to a moral dec ...

I Hate You (1986)

The plot is based on the story of a meeting and reconciliation after many years of separation of the Mikhailovs, the realization of a mistake they made in their youth. Once they were too lazy to understand each other. He left for the construction site in a ...

Courier (1986)

Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and wor ...

Snake Catcher (1986)

The former director of a large deli Pavel Shorokhov, having returned from prison and not received the expected reception from his wife, who forbade him to see his son, temporarily settles with Kotov, the owner of the lists of participants in the unaccounte ...

Winter Cherries (1985)

Olga, is a young intelligent woman who raises a young son. She ends up falling in love with a married man who does not dare to leave his family. ...

To Marry the Captain (1985)

Captain Alexander Blinov goes on vacation and has to give a package to Lena. Lena is freelance photo journalist who runs from job to job. She also has a long conflicting relationship with her retired neighbor who thinks that people like her shouldn't live. ...

Olga and Konstantin (1984)

A Georgian truck driver falls in love with Olga. The film follows their adventures and misadventures as they try to overcome the obstacles of distance, culture, and bureaucracy to be together. ...

According to Lopotukhin... (1984)

A movie about very strange events which happened in the ordinary school after Vasya Lopotukhin got late to a math lesson because of his meeting with aliens. ...

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 ...

Burn, Burn Bright (1983)

Match factory repairman Parfen Loktionov is offered to become a shift foreman. The new position, on the one hand, is associated with increased responsibility, and on the other, with less earnings (the salary is "ten" less). The mother-in-law and wife insis ...

Phenomenon (1983)

One soviet programmer has problems in his job. He is laughed at by women, they think he is too awkward. His chiefs are giving no rest to him. In addition to that they give him very difficult project to be done very soon. Overcoming himself he does impossib ...

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 ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2 (1981)

The second part of the Soviet TV adaption. ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1 (1981)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)

When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family. ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: King of Blackmailers (1980)

Mycroft Holmes hands Sherlock Holmes the case of the Master Blackmailer. ...

A Second Spring (1980)

The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. Thes ...

Pani Mariya (1980)

1944, WWII. Fierce fighting is underway in the Warsaw area. In a provincial rear town, soldier Ivan and merchant Marya meet, unaware that this meeting will change their destinies... ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980)

The film is based on three short stories by Conan Doyle: "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton", "The Final Problem", and "The Adventure of the Empty House". ...

Uncle Au in the City (1979)

Uncle Au is an usual wood goblin loving to frighten and misbehave. Once he woke up and surprised, how the world changed around. And even children now are not afraid of him. ...

A Declaration of Love (1978)

The main character is a talented, but timid writer of the Filippok experiencing with his country the difficult years of revolution, devastation and war. Adversity helps him overcome the unrequited and faithful love for the widow of Commissioner Zinochka, w ...

Marriage (1978)

Based on the comedy of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. Succumbing to the persuasion of his friend Kochkaryov, a middle-aged court adviser Podkolyosin wooed to the overripe girl Agafya Tikhonovna, a merchant's daughter. At the very last moment, having gone ...

An Unnamed Star (1978)

"Stars never leave their orbits". The poor astronomy teacher got one more demonstration of this law when he met HER. SHE was "from the another world". SHE was strange and inappropriate in his tiny calm town. Town with slough-like life and citizens who spen ...

Mama, I’m Alive (1977)

In a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII agree to pose as Red Army soldiers. Are they patriots or traitors, heroes or opportunists? Although they go to the frontlines, their new Russian comrades are initially unsure whether to trust them. ...

Old Times in Poshekhonye (1977)

The film consists of three short stories: 'The Unhappy Matryonka', 'Brother Fedos' and 'Vanka-Cain'. ...

Always With Me (1976)

The famous scientist, academician and art critic Andrei Ilyin, who survived with the Hermitage staff the harsh trials of the Leningrad blockade, returned to his hometown after many years. The whole life of Ilyin is connected with Leningrad. A life that in ...

Long Miles of War (1976)

It Can't Be! (1975)

The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, ...

The Elder Son (1975)

Two students are late for the last commuter train and have to spend a night in a strange town. They rack their brains about where to find shelter and quite by chance they overhear a talk between father and son. The son is an adolescent who is head over hee ...

Происшествие (1974)

Flight Is Postponed (1974)

During the WWII, Olga and Sergey loved each other, but after the war ended Sergey did not want to bind himself with responsibilities of a married life and lied to Olga to make her believe that their marriage is impossible. Years passed by and they met acci ...

My Friends (1974)

The Bonus (1974)

A small construction team led by Potapov suddenly refuses to receive a bonus payment from their company for exceeding performance targets. The team accuses its construction company HQ with artificially reducing the targets, so they can be easily exceeded. ...

There Were Three Bachelors (1973)

A funny story about three best friends - young scientists who swear to not get married and concentrate only on science. ...

Two on the Road (1973)

Olya Chumakova returns to her native village on vacation, where she meets a young sailor who had previously sent her a letter with his photograph. However, their meeting deeply wounds her pride. With the help of her sister Katya, Olya decides to teach him ...

The Long Recess (1972)

A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school. ...