Vadim Zakharchenko

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 ...

An Essay for Victory Day (1999)

The heroic crew of the fighter jet reunites a quarter of a century later. Fate has separated these comrades-in-arms, significantly altering their characters and worldviews. One became a radical communist, another became the chairman of the Veterans Fund, a ...

White Feast (1996)

Knowing that he will soon pass on, elderly Valentin Grack hires private detective Stanislav to follow him around for an entire day and write down everything that he does. It is a cold day and during Grack's travels he encounters a younger woman who address ...

Lady Into Lassie (1995)

Based on a famous short story by Pushkin, this film tells of a youthful, innocent and pure love story that begins as a girlish joke. Liza is eager to get to know her young neighbor but cannot do so as their fathers are not on speaking terms. Her response i ...

My Family Treasure (1995)

A US mother goes to the USSR, just before its dissolution, to find the priceless Fabergé egg that the Russian Tsar left to her peasant father 70 years ago when the Russian Revolution hit, but the egg got lost in the commotion. ...

Go! (1995)

The villager - excavator Peter Gavrilin - once realized that he had lost all meaning. Despising the bustle, Peter left the family and lay on the rails ... A simple story is tragicomic and sentimental. All you need is a breath of clean air ... ...

Khagi – Tragger (1994)

According to ancient legend, the artist found a mineral that can revive any inanimate thing. To hide the mineral, he inserts it into a doll named Hagi. A century later, Hagi falls into the hands of a puppeteer, and he with horror discovers that the old dol ...

Russian Miracle (1994)

The enterprising Ivan decides to organize a tour in America of the famous Russian psychic Yuri Koshmarovsky and earn some "green" money. However, just before the flight, it was discovered that the maestro was in the hospital. Well, do not cancel the same ...

Nocturne for Drum and Motorcycle (1994)

Lena was betrayed by her lover when he sold her abroad to a brothel. She miraculously managed to escape, and comes back for revenge. ...

The Nick Of Time (1993)

A wealthy American businessman, Mr. Clarke, forces his dissolute but charming nephew James to go with him to Russia, where he buys a Faberge watch that belonged to Nicholas II himself. He is received by Mr. Borsch, who dreams of becoming a minister by sign ...

Stalin's testament (1993)

A middle-aged, alcoholic lawyer inherits a mysterious, unsigned will from his father. ...

Wandering Sagittarius (1993)

After discovering a time tunnel to 1960-ies a journalist decides to make some cash out of it. ...

Alphonse (1993)

Once the actor Rebrov flatly refused to participate in an obscene performance and flew, as they say, out the door. When he came home and found out that his family was going to be replenished, the exemplary family man was not upset, but organized a cooperat ...

Russian Business (1993)

An old tamer uncle Vasya with an old bear Gosha and their friends manage "Russian safari" for strangers where the bear must stay alive. ...

Tram-tararam or Buhty-barahty (1993)

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The Murder at Zhdanovskaya (1992)

The film is based on real events that took place in Moscow in the early 1980s. A KGB officer in plain clothes returning late at night is detained by a police patrol at the Zhdanovskaya metro station. The officer, who began to actively protest against the a ...

The Big Exchange (1992)

USSR. The time of the monetary reform of 1961. One hundred rubles turned into ten overnight. But the reform did not affect copper money. Enterprising administrator of the Park of culture and recreation Prokhor Ignatievich, wanting to increase his capital, ...

Executor of the Sentence (1992)

В основу сюжета фильма положены реальные события. Бывший "афганец" Юрий Кирсанов жил без особых проблем: отдельная квартира, любимая и любящ ...

Damn Drunk (1991)

A light and unassuming comedy based on an anecdote: once a bottle of vodka was found in a lathe... ...

Inhuman (1990)

Criminals kidnapped the son of the chairwoman of the city administration. Feelings of helplessness and fear follow. A series of checks, mocking calls, humiliating requests for help to colleagues in the "shadow business" goes on and on. ...

Human Target (1990)

A detective goes undercover in a small Russian town. ...

Our Cottage (1990)

An old dacha in the Moscow suburbs brought all the relatives together. Lyudmila Kozlova arrived from the city with her son, and everything would have been fine, except that the dacha itself is the subject of a dispute between the two sides of the family. L ...

Прямая трансляция (1989)

The funeral of the next General Secretary K.U. Chernenko. Sergey Eremin, an editorial worker, decides to finally publish the story of his friend, whom he once betrayed. But the manuscript has disappeared, and Sergei decides to have a frank conversation wit ...

I Want to Make a Confession (1989)

Nikolai, together with his wife, whom he loves dearly, comes to the village to visit his mother. After a series of events, Nikolai decides to stay in the village and work on a collective farm... ...

Strollers (1989)

Pre-Petrine Russia, Semyon Lazarev, one of the instigators of the "Copper Riot", is forced to flee, as a result of which he ends up in the army of the leader of the peasant uprising Stepan Razin. ...

How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea (1989)

In this farcical dark comedy/melodrama, Lena manages to lose her place at college by virtue of throwing a minor hissy-fit when she catches her erstwhile boyfriend in bed with another girl. Instead of penalizing the boy for his behavior, Lena gets stuck wit ...

Two and One (1988)

Two men are united around a six years old daughter whose mother recently died. ...

Little Vera (1988)

Vera is a troubled teenager fresh out of school feeling trapped in her provincial port town during the turbulent times of perestroika. Her days and nights are filled with drinking, sex, and family dysfunction. ...

May I Die, Lord... (1988)

Before the demolition of the orphanage, almost all the children were transferred to other boarding schools, but six girls and their teacher remained. Olga, one of the pupils, receives an invitation to act in films and agrees. Filming and getting to know t ...

Name (1988)

Импровизация на тему биографии (1988)

After successfully graduating from school, the young man was a little confused about his choices. While he was studying, he was interested in many professions, but now he went to work at a factory, knowing that he would not lose anything by learning more a ...

Holy Moly! (1988)

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Georgy Burkov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Galina Polskikh in a sad comedy by Sergey Nikonenko based on Vasily Shukshin's short stories "Touches on the Portrait", "The Stubborn One", "The Strong Go Further". Nikolai Knyazev works in a TV repair ...

The Secret of the Golden Breguet (1988)

A detachment of Red Army soldiers is ambushed, from where only the boy can escape. ...

The Lynx Returns (1987)

The old forester dies in a fight with poachers, and his faithful friend, the lynx Kunak, goes into the taiga. The new forester Drozdov wants to bring Kunak back and patiently accustoms the lynx to himself. ...

With No Expiration Date (1987)

Leaving the seaside town at the end of the Great Patriotic War, the SS men hid lists of secret agents. A few years later, Sam Page, a former fascist mercenary Semyon Paygin, and two other agents come to the USSR in order to search for the archive. After al ...

Time to Fly (1987)

Nothing like this has ever happened and could not happen in any of the airports. However, according to the authors of the film-parable, this tragicomic story is directly related to reality. It turns out that in order to properly fly airplanes, sometimes i ...

Women's Club (1987)

From Pay to Pay (1986)

The shoe factory is undergoing production reform. Poor quality shoes no longer bring savings, the company began to suffer only losses. To get out of this crisis, the factory management decided to produce normal products designed for the wishes of the consu ...

Experiment 200 (1986)

Based on K.Bulychev's story "Jubilee-200" about the humanization of chimpanzees. ...

One Second for a Feat (1985)

Day of Wrath (1985)

Dr. Fiedler, in a secret underground laboratory located in the reserve, is working on experiments to create bestial creatures endowed with human intelligence. It would seem that contact with the beasts on an equal footing took place, but devoid of human mo ...

Skydrivers (1984)

At the flying club Zina met a cameraman aerial filming Sergey Leninym, very seriously engaged in parachuting and after a while in international competitions has become one of the contenders for the gold medal. But soon fell into the gorge, the helicopter ...

Copper Angel (1984)

An international geological expedition led by a Russian engineer works in an inaccessible area of one of the Latin American countries. Scientists are held hostage by a nearby gang that trades in the drug trade. Geologists are in mortal danger ... ...

Inspector Losev (1983)

A classic mystery story based on Arkadi Adamov novels. A task force is investigating a series of routine thefts at hotels. Upon closer examination of the case, young criminal investigator Vitaly Losev unexpectedly uncovers major players in the shadow econo ...

Look Back! (1983)

Unable to come to terms with the death of her husband and struggling to emotionally connect with her teenage son, Tatiana reaches out to an old friend for support. ...

Alarm (1983)

The gullible stewardess Katya Vasilchikova did not know that, having undertaken to carry on board her plane a briefcase-"diplomat" allegedly with collectible cognacs for the handsome newlyweds Andrei and Tanya flying on the same flight, she became an unwit ...

There Was No Sorrow (1983)

Take Care of the Men! (1983)

She is a business, courageous and energetic woman. He is spineless, awkward and also not amenable to "correction." It goes to divorce. Moreover, an ardent admirer of her beauty suddenly appears on the horizon. However, this circumstance, ultimately, leads ...

It's Up to You (1983)

A young girl visits her family in a village and mistakenly identified by local children as a swimming champion. ...

The Secret Agent's Return (1982)

After returning from the USSR, Tulyev was subjected to rigorous verification of his former "owners". He continues his work in Western intelligence, but already as a Soviet intelligence officer through the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. In a ...

Married Bachelor (1982)

After meeting Tamara during the long trip on the train Sergey decided to pose as Tamara's husband in front of her parents. ...

Paramon and Apollinaria (1981)

Paramon is a 6-years old boy that loves to spend time with village elders. He runs through the whole village to his grandma Apollinaria every morning. Her husband that left her long ago now tends to come back. ...

Born by the Storm (1981)

Ukraine, 1918. Underground worker Sigismund Raevsky organizes a Komsomol cell and gathers young people to fight against the German invaders... ...

The Order: Do Not Open Fire (1981)

A movie about a Soviet soldiers on the Japanese borders during 1941. ...

We, the Undersigned (1981)

The main events unfold in the train. The acceptance committee from Moscow, revealing deficiencies in the constructed bakery, did not sign the act of its delivery. But the fate of not only many people associated with the construction, but also the life of t ...

Silver Lakes (1980)

The handsome Sergei Kovalev decided that engineering was not his profession and left to live with relatives in the provincial town of Serebryanye Ozera. There he met the family of a young artist, unexpectedly became angry, and decided to take revenge on hi ...

The Detective (1979)

A story about a rookie detective in the beginning of his investigative career. ...

The Garage (1979)

An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the de ...

A Taste of Bread (1979)

An exploration of "virgin soil" in Kazakhstan through the stories of a party worker, a agronomist, and the director of a state farm. ...

Troublemaker (1979)

A graduate of the village school Pyotr Gorokhov from the village of Dyadkovo comes to Moscow to enter a prestigious economic university; he succeeds, albeit literally by a miracle. However, Petya was always helped out by chance and mysticism. Compared to ...

Polar Fox Napoleon III (1979)

A young arctic fox Napoleon III, having escaped from animal farm, ended up in the village of Kovylkino. Following him, hunters, trappers, animal farm workers, a police detachment and correspondents came into the village. Thanks to the six-year-old preschoo ...

During a Beautiful Childhood (1979)

A musical comedy about one day from the life of five year old Petya's grandfather. ...

In a New Place (1979)

Inspector Sergey Baev arrives at a fishing collective farm for a new job and begins to fight poaching. This does not please both poachers and the head of the artel Fetisov. Having failed to reach a compromise solution, Fetisov sends the Ermakov brothers to ...

The Fight in the Taiga (1978)

Komsomol member Zorik arrives at the distant taiga station Suetikha. He manages to attract the guys to his side and organize a youth squad. Having contacted the partisans, they stop and disarm the enemy armored train. ...

Aniskin Again (1977)

Third and final part of the comedies about the funny adventures of countryside cop named Aniskin. ...

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained (1977)

The thirty-year-old decathlete leaves the big sport and becomes a stunt performer in the cinema. About how the movie is shot, and about the development of personal relationships between the main characters. ...

The Poseidon Rushes to Help (1977)

About young graduates of the maritime academy and their first voyage at sea. About the difficult test of professional and human endurance that had to be endured by both the crew of the trawler "Kaira," which suffered a disaster during a storm, and the crew ...

A Collar for Marquis (1977)

A family drama about a friendship between horse and 10 years old boy. ...

A Lullaby for Men (1977)

A single mother for years had an amazing relationships with her son. But all ended when a young girl joined the family. ...

Trans-Siberian Express (1977)

An espionage thriller set aboard the train of the title. A group of agents try to thwart the Japanese-Soviet trade agreement by assassinating a Japanese businessman. ...

The Legend of Till (1977)

Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere." First part: "The Ashes of Claes". XVI century. The freedom-loving and ch ...

Without Father (1977)

After the death of her husband, Tamara gave her daughter Olya to an orphanage and left for the North. There she creates a new family and, years later, calls the matured girl back. Not finding love in her mother's house, Olga left for a Siberian constructio ...

Duck Village (1976)

In the village called Utka (Duck), in an old larder, there lived a house sprite, Shishok. A real one, with horns and in a fur coat, jolly and mischievous. He could walk through walls and find lost things. The only thing distressing Shishok was that the chi ...

The Lost Expedition (1975)

An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918. ...

Parking - Three Hours (1975)

Traveling along the Volga River, a worker from Kaunas, Jonas Budris, while stopping the ship in one of the Volga towns, searched for the house where his old friend Petr lived. After learning that after Peter's death his wife was hospitalized, his eldest so ...

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 ...

Происшествие (1974)

Birds Over the City (1974)

Andryusha and his fifth-grade comrades in a pile of scrap raw materials found poorly bound typewritten pages with the inscription "Attack." The guys enthusiastically read this collection of frontline stories. Their author Bukin, it turns out, lives nearby, ...

Land, Poste Restante (1973)

Based on a true story about Soviet spy Lev Manevich. He lives in Italy and operates in the Nazi Germany and Austria. Manevich, who is posing as a businessman, collects information about the latest German airplanes made by Messerschmitt for Luftwaffe. On hi ...

The Boy from 5B (1972)

The fifth-grader Borya, a fidget and an inventor, was appointed a counselor in the first class. Not taking this at first seriously, the boy gradually became interested in new and unexpected duties for him. ...

Happy-Go-Lucky (1972)

On their way to a Black Sea resort, a Siberian tractor driver and his wife make new friends and take a detour to Moscow. ...

Farm in the Steppe (1971)

Young friends participate in the Odessa Bolshevik underground's activity in the pre-revolutionary years (1910-1912). ...

The Secret Agent's Destiny (1970)

After Tulyev's arrest, Soviet counterintelligence continues the radio game with the enemy, sending encryptions signed "Nadezhda" to the Western intelligence center. KGB officer Sinitsyn, friendly towards Tulyev, tries to persuade him to take his side — h ...

Deniska's Stories (1970)

A funny stories about a young boy Deniska and his best friend Mishka. ...

Coach (1969)

Innocent, a new coach in gymnastics, who arrived in the Siberian town, is a risk to his students to believe in themselves, in senior competitions replaces them strong competitors and get the expected result. ...

13 orders (1969)

Supply clerk Chuvilikhin goes to Moscow to fulfill his coworkers' errands. In the hustle and bustle of the capital, he loses the list where the name of the sheet music to be bought for the director's wife was written down. Anatoly Stepanovich rushes around ...

Men's Talk (1969)

Sasha Larionov, is in the eighth grade and still doesn't know that his mother has left the family. Sasha's father, a decent and very honest person, was used to telling people only the truth. But here he doesn't now how to tell his son that the mother left ...

Chapay's Eaglets (1968)

Adventures of a group of children during Civil War in Russia. ...

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' ...

The Secret Agent's Blunder (1968)

In the spring of 1961, KGB officers received information that an experienced intelligence officer Mikhail Zarokov, son of the Russian emigrant Count Tulyev, with extensive international experience and knowledge in various operations was abandoned on the te ...

Direct Line (1967)

A few days from the life of a young scientist responsible for the failed trail. ...

Viy (1967)

A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads ...

Then in January... (1967)

Elecampane is a healing root like ginseng. According to Kuban belief, dug out in the forest on New Year's Eve, it cures any disease. Children from the Kuban village of Black Erik learn about Lenin's illness and decide to help him. ...

The Journalist (1967)

A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of th ...

The Places Here Are Quiet (1967)

Based on the novel of the same name by Grigory Svirsky. 1942 year. The Great Patriotic War. The navigator Bratnov was shot down during the war, was captured, fled, returned to his people, was demoted and sent to serve in the construction battalion. His old ...

Such a Big Boy (1967)

In the first days of the Second World War, a young woman with three children is evacuated from the front-line zone to the Urals. After some time, she receives a funeral for her husband. But she has her little sons with her. The eldest son Kolya becomes a r ...

On Thin Ice (1966)

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

Your Son and Brother (1966)

Based on short stories by Vasiliy Shukshin. About the life and people of the modern Soviet village. Old Yermolai lived all his life in one village. He has four sons, each with their own problems. The youngest foolishly ended up in jail and, three months b ...

Distant Countries (1965)

An aviation colonel comes to the Western Urals, to a large village of industrial importance. He remembers running here as a barefoot boy with his friend in the early 1930s. Then there was only a small crossing and a small village. About how they lived and ...

Early in the Morning (1965)

A story about the beginning of life. Having lost their parents early, Alyosha and Nadya were not left alone - the father's friend and the people around them helped the children remain kind and open in this difficult world of adults ... ...

What Is It, the Sea? (1964)

An adventures of a young boy in a fishermen village on a sea coast. ...

I Am Bereza (1964)

About the scout girl "Bereza", her dangerous work behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Twenty years later, a journalist is looking for the heroine and interviews her... ...

Big "Wick" (1964)

A satirical express train sets off on its way. The driver S. Mikhalkov gives a farewell beep ... On the first carriage an inscription - "Summer cottage". The following are 8 short stories ... ...

Cheka Employee (1964)

Based on the novel of the same name by Aleksandr Lukin and Dmitriy Polyanovskiy. Russia, 1919. A young soldier of the First Cavalry Army, Aleksei Mikhalyov, is sent to work in the provincial Cheka. Here in the south of the country there is a large White Gu ...

Shurka Chooses the Sea (1963)

The main character, Shurka, at the beginning of the movie is full of childish illusions and false romantic notions about the sea and the life of sailors, about long voyages and big ships. With these illusions he begins his voyage. But book romance gives wa ...

They Conquer the Skies (1963)

The end of the 1940s. Test pilot Aleksei Kolchin was commissioned for the first time to fly the first Soviet jet fighter. The tests are successful, but it is necessary to improve the aircraft. When performing a test flight, Kolchin dies, his last words are ...

Fellows (1962)

A three stories all related to children and sea travels. ...

Little Bugger (1962)

Bolshevik Foma Korshunov returns to his village. Soon his son, seven-year old Mishka gets a new nickname - "little communist". When bandits come to the village Mishka, knowing that the reds are close, saddles his horse and hurry to warn them about the dang ...

Men and Beasts (1962)

The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign coun ...

Funny Stories (1962)

Funny stories about four friends and their adventures in a big city. ...

A Sleepless Night (1960)

Young engineer Pavel Kaurov goes to his first destination — to the port city of Sibirsk. He is appointed to lead a group of cranes: gantry and floating. After several troubles Pavel mastered the port work and received a serious assignment. Meanwhile, his ...

The Rescued Generation (1960)

Antonina Vasilyevna, as a member of the bureau of the district committee of the party, was instructed to save the Leningrad children, whom the war overtook in the suburban camps. She took them to the Kirov region. After twelve days of hard travel, the chil ...

The Green Van (1959)

It is 1920. After three years of the Russian Civil War, communist government is finally established in Odessa. Young Volodya Kozachenko, who dreams of being a detective like Sherlock Holmes, joins the newly forming Odessa Criminal Police. ...

The Day the War Ended (1959)

The film tells the story of Soviet soldier Mikhail Platonov, who died in a small German town in the first peaceful days of 1945. ...

On the Other Side (1958)

Based on the novel of the same name by Viktor Kin. 1921, Far East. Two Komsomol members, Matveyev and Bezais, must cross the front line near Khabarovsk to give the partisans money and a coded message. In Khabarovsk, Matveyev wants to meet a girl, Liza, wit ...

An Ordinary Trip (1958)

An ordinary trip suddenly becomes dangerous for two previously conflicted drivers. ...

Quiet Flows the Don (1957)

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks o ...

Two Lives (1957)

Twenty years ago, Nastya Samokurova left the village in the city to seek happiness. Lived in the city, easy, easy life, engaged in speculation. And now she came to visit her sister Dasha, who continued to live in the collective farm and was universally res ...

The Forty-First (1956)

An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer. ...