Valery Kravchenko

Выход (2000)

Essays (2000)

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Efim Chestnyakov. ...

I Saw You First (1998)

A fourth-grader is looking for her father with the help of a friend. ...

Chetvyortaya Planeta (1995)

Three astronauts (two Russians and American) find a very Soviet-alike small town on the fourth planet from Sun. ...

Everything Will Be All Right (1995)

This charming comedy tracks the lives of several romantic pairs through trials and tribulations. The main focus of the story is a young soldier with a good heart but little ambition and his fiancée, who feels torn when a charming and sophisticated intelle ...

Russian Symphony (1994)

The protagonist finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme of the Last Judgment, numerous catastrophic events reveal a certain ambiguity in their origins, acc ...

A Golden Ring, a Bouquet of Scarlet Roses (1994)

The eldest son, who left for St. Petersburg, where he works as a detective, comes to the family of a crooked merchant and shopkeeper Grigory Tsybukin. Parents decide to marry him - his son is already 28 years old. They find a poor, but beautiful, clean and ...

Proving Ground 1 (1994)

About the incredible adventures of hallucinating teenagers from a children's colony, who, as a result of a scientific experiment by their teachers, end up in the "Wild West", among space monsters, in a world of fantastic nature and all sorts of political s ...

Creation of Adam (1994)

On the same day, Andrei's wife Nina asks for a divorce, his colleague Natasha tells him she's attracted to him, he's assigned a new project under the direction of Philip (a well-dressed, authoritative, and even arrogant stranger who keeps touching him), an ...

Love, the Harbinger of Sorrow (1994)

Act (1993)

The film tells about the misadventures of an ordinary person who happened to have a suitcase with a lot of money... It turns out that it is not at all easy to find a worthy use for such money, and in the final it turns out a simple truth — "happiness is ...

Window to Paris (1993)

Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, a ...

Travel to Happy Arabia (1993)

Upset after a failed audition actor "vote a ride" driven by a pretty young woman. ...

Good Luck, Gentlemen! (1993)

Oleg, a veteran of the German Army, arrives in St. Petersburg at the call of his old comrade-in-arms Vladimir. Instead of the expected well-paid job and decent accommodation, he finds himself in a pine forest, where former army captains and majors live in ...

Big Trap, or solo for cat under full moon (1992)

A large government official from Moscow, having come to rest at home, falls into a trap organized for him by two sisters working in the former state house. Sincerely falling in love with one of them, he does not suspect that he is becoming the object of bl ...

Ghost (1991)

The unexpected death of his brother, a fishery inspector, changes the life of a drunken former athlete who was predicted to have a brilliant career. Suspecting local poachers, he decides to take revenge... ...

Myth About Leonid (1991)

A retro-journalistic drama based on one of the versions of Kirov's murder, proposed by former NKVD general Orlov, who managed to escape death during the "purge" in the "Kirov" case. ...

Lost in Siberia (1991)

The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a ...

Hop: Exodus (1991)

The film tells the story of the life of an Old Believer community at the beginning of the last century. The drama of an unusual life, a story of love and human passions. ...

Jokes (1990)

Vasily Kutuzov, the namesake of the famous commander, ends up in a mental hospital because of his talent for making up jokes. Everyone in his family had this gift, and many suffered because of it. The authorities didn't like that the Kutuzovs were botherin ...

The Guard (1990)

​Young soldiers in the Soviet Internal Troops are subjected to systematic abuse during their dedovshchina (hazing). The plot unfolds primarily aboard a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts. ...

Operation "Wonderland" (1989)

In 1942, the Far North was home to an icebreaker, almost devoid of weapons. Despite this, it stood as a formidable force, blocking the path of a German cruiser. Led by Captain Anatoly Kacharava, a small detachment of sailors held back the enemy for over th ...

Burn (1989)

The protagonist of the film - Vasily Derzhakov - is a skilled worker. Accustomed to "double morality" as the norm of life, he succumbs to the persuasion of Anna's mistress to hide the stolen things, and becomes an accomplice in crime. After the pre-trial d ...

Reed Paradise (1989)

A young man is abducted by mafia and forced to work in the underground factory. ...

The Fountain (1988)

A story of a Moscow's apartment building that is slowly falling apart, literally. First, the hot water has been cut off by an old man from Asia, who could not stand it being wasted. Then the roof is starting to collapse. Finally, the electricity has been c ...

Whose Are You, Old People? (1988)

A story about two old people living in the abandoned faraway village. ...

The Outburst (1986)

The film is based on real events and tells about a major accident that occurred during the construction of another Leningrad metro station in the spring of 1974. ...

Exceptions Without Rules (1986)

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major". ...

Got Snow Maiden? (1985)

New Year's Eve. An actor was invited to one of the families to play the role of Santa Claus. But the actor got sick and asked his friend to replace him. The friend agreed with joy, because it was his ex-wife who invited the actor. She forbids him to meet t ...

Come and See (1985)

The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya f ...

The Chelyuskinites (1985)

In February 1934, the steamship Chelyuskin was crushed by ice and sank in the Chukchi Sea. The ship's crew and members of the scientific expedition landed on a drifting ice floe, where they remained for two months. How did people live on the ice floe? How ...

The Third Dimension (1982)

About the crew of a nuclear submarine of the Northern Fleet. The submarine commander Yuri Bukreev, a strong-willed and energetic man, confidently leads a complex team, achieving high results in solving training and combat tasks. But his rather complex char ...

Гиблое дело (1981)

A train passenger discovered a bag containing money from the sale of a house was missing. All passengers on the train are suspects. ...

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 ...

If I Fall in Love (1976)

About the first expedition of Shura, a graduate of the Geological Institute, and her first love. ...

The Strogovs (1976)

In the Siberian taiga village of Wolf's Burrows, the Strogov family lives — Matvey with his wife Anna and his parents. Through the fate of this peasant family, a picture of the life of the Siberian region during major historical events — the Russo-Japa ...

There's Still Time (1974)

The hero of the film, a Komsomol member of a large youth construction site, decides whether it is possible to sacrifice people's lives in the name of a great goal. ...

To Be Happy! (1973)

A young fitter at a bus stop accidentally pushed a girl, and she fell. This is how they met, although both are dating their other halves. One day, he gathers friends to build his dream house overnight. He found her at a roadside restaurant, and they walked ...