Valentin Kataev

Our Father (1990)

A young Jewish woman, having received an order from the occupation authorities to report to the assembly point, goes into town with her son. They approach the ghetto, but realizing what awaits them, they leave. They wander around the city, not daring to vi ...

I, Son of the Working People (1983)

The action takes place during the German occupation of Ukraine in 1919. The main characters are folklore characters - the brave soldier Semyon Kotko and the beautiful maiden Sofya. ...

Son of the Regiment (1981)

Summer 1943. A group of scouts from an artillery division stumbles upon a 12-year-old boy during a raid behind enemy lines. The scouts are shocked by his appearance - completely wild, dirty, ragged, angry and hungry - a real "wolf cub". The scouts take him ...

The Last Petal (1977)

Zhenya is a young girl who find a old beautiful house in the city when she followed a dog that he stole her donuts. At the old house, a old woman lives. The old woman offers to Zhenya a magic flower. When Zhenya pull up a petal of the flower, she can make ...

Farm in the Steppe (1971)

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

Happy Kukushkin (1970)

A young worker, Kukushkin, falls in love with the innkeeper's daughter and asks for her hand in marriage. Having been refused, Kukushkin begins to practice throwing rings. The day comes when the lover wins all the property of a nepman and becomes a wealthy ...

Je veux voir Mioussov (1969)

Valentin Kataev's Humoresque (1968)

Based on the stories of V. Kataev "The Diary of a Bitter Drunkard", "Fur Coat" and "Pearl". ...

The Flower with Seven Colors (1968)

The girl Zhenya receives a wonderful gift from the sorceress - a seven-flower flower. If you tear one petal from it, you can make any wish and it will surely come true. However, there are only seven petals. ...

Time, Forward! (1965)

The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Khar ...

The Husbands and The Knives (1964)

Poet (1956)

Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin. ...

For the Power of the Soviets (1956)

Petya meets his father from a partisan detachment in the Odessa Catacombs. ...

Crazy Day (1956)

A funny comedy about a kindergarten manager who tries to make all the preparations before the start of a school year. ...

Karikák (1956)

The movie is based on a short story by V. Kataev. A young tractor driver Duri loves Dorka, the daughter of the owner of a ring-throwing attraction. The girl's father is against the marriage. Durie makes a cunning plan: he starts practicing ring throwing. A ...

The Pipe and the Pitcher (1950)

Girl named Zhenya goes berry picking with her family but struggles to find any berries. She meets an old forest spirit who offers her a magical pipe that reveals hidden berries in exchange for her jug. After realizing the pipe doesn't help her gather the b ...

Pages of Life (1948)

The story of a young woman who, after her years at university in the city, returns to her hometown an engineer and begins work on a huge new power plant. She continues to supervise work on the plant throughout the war. ...

The Flower with Seven Colours (1948)

A little girl is walking around the city with a bunch of bagels. All the bagels are eaten by a dog that follows her while the little girl was looking around. The girl is upset, but she is comforted by her grandmother, who gives her a magic flower that gran ...

Son of the Regiment (1946)

During the war years, russian soldiers pick up an orphaned boy. He refuses to go to the rear and becomes a scout, and then remains with the artillery battery. When the calculation of the battery dies in battle with the German tanks that have broken through ...

There Was a Soldier From the Front (1939)

The film takes place during the German occupation of Ukraine in 1919, the main characters are folk characters - the brave soldier Semon Kotko and the beautiful girl Sofya. ...

The Lonely White Sail (1937)

Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. ...

Circus (1936)

An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR. ...

Call to Arms (1936)

This is a film from the series of so-called "defense" films, which presents a hypothetical "scenario" of a future war. The crew of test pilot Sergei Novikov makes a long non-stop flight on an airplane of a new design. Novikov's son, Yurka, a passionate inv ...

Homeland is calling (1936)

The Upright Sinner (1931)

Leopold Pichler is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urgently needs on a trip to Vienna. Due to some circumstances, getting the money takes a little longer than ex ...

Встреча в Концертной студии Останкино: Валентин Катаев (1978)