Valery Todorovsky

Danube (2021)

The introvert Russian girl Nadia goes on holiday to Belgrade, inhabited by extrovert Serbians. She lives according to a plan, while the Belgraders live for joy. At first, Nadia is involved with the local guy Nesha, and then with his relaxed, semi-vagrant w ...

Hypnosis (2020)

Teenage boy Misha attends hypnosis sessions with psychotherapist Volkov to recover from sleepwalking. As a result, Misha falls under the influence of a hypnologist to such an extent that he ceases to understand where reality is and where illusion is. After ...

The Frenchman (2019)

In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional on ...

Odessa (2019)

Odessa, August 1970. A heat wave. The city is full of tourists. Boris, a journalist and foreign affairs specialist, and his eight-year-old son Valeri arrive from Moscow to visit Boris' in-laws, Grigori Iosifovich and Raisa Irovna Davidov. But on the day of ...

Tutor (2018)

The 17-year-old Savva is getting ready to enrol at university. His parents go on vacation, conferring the responsibility for preparing the entrance exams onto the son. Savva finds a foreign literature teacher on the Internet site "Your Tutor". ...

The Bolshoi (2016)

Young and extremely talented dancer Yulya Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a "happy ticket": she is noticed by a former ballet dancer Pototsky and he promises her a future of great ballerina, worthy of the main stage of the country. However, in o ...

Jolly Fellows;) (2014)

The beginning musician Kostya Potekhin, in order to win the favor of a beautiful girl, agrees to participate in a musical television contest. But you only need to participate with your musical group, which he does not have. Within a few days, he will have ...

The Iron Ivan (2014)

He was called the Champion of Champions. The strength and strong-willed character Poddubniy composed legends. And 50 great fighter effortlessly overcame young athletes, and questions of honor and justice did not know compromises. ...

The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013)

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students i ...

Love the Healing Power (2012)

Anya has a great joy — she wins the beauty contest. It would seem that a great reason for happiness, but there is bad news: taking advantage of the circumstances, Rita's friend decides to get the groom Ani Andrew. Rita's plan is only partially fulfilled ...

Payback for Love (2011)

Masha is coming from the city to help hold a village wedding. During the celebration for her rude stick host club and the local rich semen. Girl rescues Sasha, working on Seeds. Sasha accompanies Masha home, and soon their tender friendship grows into a r ...

PG 16... (2010)

Kir, Leya, Dasha and Max are student. Almost every experience is for a first time to them - first love, first disappointment, first betrayal... ...

Kandahar (2010)

A docudrama about the escape of Russian pilots after being taken hostage by the Taliban in 1996. ...

PickUp: With no Rules (2009)

Three young guys are spending their days and nights trying to pick up as many girls as possible. ...

Oxygen (2009)

Two people play out a story of love and desperation that's enacted through music in this drama from writer and director Ivan Vyrypaev. Sasha (Alexei Filimonov) is a man in his twenties who lives in the small town of Serpukhov and has fallen in love with a ...

Life on Loan (2009)

Denis Komarov, who was raised in an orphanage and never knew his real parents, accidentally met the Adamov family. These people treated him kindly and began to invite him to visit them. Communication was a great pleasure for everyone. ...

The Road Leading to Happiness (2009)

After witnessing a car accident, Victor falls into a deep depression. To get out of it, he finds the daughter of the driver who died in the incident - Lenochka. They immediately develop sympathy for each other. But the place next to Lenochka is occupied ...

Hipsters (2008)

In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew. ...

Fathers and Sons (2008)

The familiar generational conflict. The same age Arkady Kirsanov and Evgeny Bazarov are absolutely different in outlook people. While the former is more inclined to rely on the opinion of the older generation, the latter completely denies it. ...

S.S.D. (2008)

On TV a new reality show, "Pionerlager", has started. Following the results of a casting, five young men and five girls, led by young TV presenter Alice Ten, go to the thrown pioneer camp. The rules state that every week someone would be eliminated from th ...

Love as a Motive (2008)

Dina's mother moves to live with her daughter and almost immediately tension and conflicts arise between her and her son-in-law Pasha. Mother is trying to open Dina's eyes on her husband, but she does not want to listen to anything. Mother decides to go to ...

A Real Dad (2008)

Roman Shilo, a known criminal, suddenly must deal with his fourteen years old daughter and not only with her but with her little stepbrother and stepsister as well. ...

Swing (2008)

The life of a characters of this movie can be described as a swing - up and down, up and down; each day, each week... ...

Vice (2007)

The film follows Denis, a young aspiring DJ who, although poor, has everything else in his favor: a calling in life as a musician, good friends and a faithful companion. Denis's fall from grace begins with a drug deal, which he agrees to out of the need fo ...

Joke (2007)

Lyudochka Salnikova belongs to a rare type of happy women who are absolutely satisfied with how their lives have turned out. Timur's loving husband, caring father — what more could you wish for? One day Mila and her husband go on vacation to the village. ...

The Vaccine (2007)

Mysterious and terrible events take place at the Russian Pearl beauty contest from year to year. The first winner of the contest tragically died, the second was splashed with boiling resin in her eyes. And now the participant who reached the semifinals, Na ...

Nine Days Until Spring (2007)

The major of special forces Ilya is young, beautiful and, we can say, happy! He marries, and for him it is a profitable party — his wife is not beautiful, but the daughter of rich parents. However, on the wedding day begins a nightmare. Yana Yanovskaya â ...

Seven Booths (2007)

What, it would seem, could be more innocent than a women's toilet being renovated? In his booths you can hide from the bustle of the big city, discuss lovers, drink, cry, sleep, smoke and have sex... And you can also hide in it what no one should find. An ...

A Room With a View of the Lights (2007)

One day, Anna was betrayed by everyone she sincerely loved and considered her loved ones. Her husband, colleagues, and friends turned away from the unhappy woman overnight. Desperate, the heroine wrote a suicide note, indicating in it the names of all thos ...

Countdown (2006)

There will be an explosion exactly in 48 hours in Moscow. The information was provided by an agent who was killed this very second. All departments of special ops work on it, but the only hope is for recently organized independent team. They are a hacker g ...

The Last Bottomhole (2006)

A drama about a life of ordinary people in a small mining town. ...

Butterfly Kiss (2006)

He is the genius of industrial espionage. She is a Chinese. She has nothing, she does not even have a name. They love each other madly, but they belong to the system. Go away from the system can only be to the madhouse, or to the grave. ...

Piranha Hunt (2006)

Agent of special department "Piranha" Kirill Mazur and his colleague Olga go to the far north with the assignment to liquidate an underwater secret weapon lab in the guise of a mutual vacation. All of a sudden, they find themselves in the world where civil ...

The Count of Montenegro (2006)

Andrey inherits a map to his great-grandmother's treasure, a gift from her lover, and hidden since the early 19th century. He and Mikhail, the descendant of his great-grandmother's lover, follow the map's clues to Montenegro. ...

My Step Brother Frankenstein (2004)

One day Pavel, a young man wounded in the war, suddenly shows up at the home of a Moscow scientist name Krymov and claims to be his illegitimate son. Krymov denies this, but out of compassion he helps arrange a necessary operation for Pavel. Then certain t ...

The Lover (2002)

This is a remarkably subtle film–a character study that focuses on Mitya's attempts to cope with each new startling phase of discovery. At first he mourns for his dead wife, but then he discovers that he didn't really know her. ...

Tartarin of Tarascon (2002)

Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. But one day he becomes a real hero... ...

Lady for One Day (2002)

What should I do if life has failed? What should I do if my daughter's happiness depends on the future visit of the groom — the heir of the Spanish grandee? What should I do if the groom's father is obsessed with titles and wealth? The only way out is to ...

Woman's Own (1999)

A student is trying to build a career in theater using not his talent but looks and sexuality. ...

The Admirer (1999)

Parents of thirteen years old Lena just got divorced. Lena wants to prove that they live nicely even with her mother alone and that she is independent. The girl goes to work at post office utilizing there her resourcefulness and charm. At work everyone tal ...

Country of the Deaf (1998)

Strana Glukhikh is about an unusual relationship between two women, one of them a deaf-mute dancer and the other on the run from the mafia. Yaya, the deaf girl, offers to hide Rita whose boyfriend, Alyosha owes gambling debts to the mafia, but in return sh ...

The Source of Snakes (1997)

Provincial story, beautifully played out in the spirit of the sinister detective. Dina, the student of Pedagogical Institute, comes to the practice to the little town paralyzed with fear. A series of mysterious murders seemingly dissimilar girls forcing re ...

Katya Ismailova (1994)

A wife finds her life transformed after a torrid affair in this story of murder. Katia is a rather dull young woman who types manuscripts for Irina, her husband's mother and successful writer of romance novels. Katia's husband is a real momma's boy. They g ...

Over the Dark Water (1993)

Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him. ...

Cracked (1992)

A movie producer tries to find a double for a diva with drug problems. ...

Love (1991)

Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel. ...

Sea Wolf (1991)

Humphrey Van-Weyden, a young literary man, decides to visit a friend. On the ferry "Martinez" he sails from San Francisco to the other side of the bay. In the fog, the ferry collides with a large vessel and sinks in minutes. Finding himself in the water, H ...

Cynics (1991)

1918, Petrograd. The young historian Vladimir meets Olga, the daughter of the wealthy parents who have emigrated from the country after the first decrees of the Soviet power. Olga both hates revolution, and is fascinated by her. ...

Gambrinus (1990)

The beginning of the 20th century. Everyone knows the pub "Gambrinus" in the southern seaside town. Here you can always get a mug of fresh beer, meet your friends, have a quick word with the hostess Madame Ivanova and, of course, listen to the inimitable p ...

Distraction for the Soul (1990)

Based on the novel by same name by Vladimir Makanin. A cabinetmaker falls in love with a poetess who is courted by a university professor. The cabinetmaker has a wife and two high school sons. He is confronted with a difficult choice between family and be ...

Katafalk (1990)

What you won't do for the happiness of your only daughter! Successfully get rid of the "beloved child" and not go broke at the same time - that's the only dream of a punchy mother. An old car - once a chic symbol of well-being - will be given as a dowry t ...

Scourge of God (1989)

After leaving prison, 40 years old Lyashenko robbed a man at the station and, along with the money, stole a passport. Realizing that he had robbed his childhood friend, Lyashenko decided to return the stolen goods. A night conversation between the tramp Le ...

A Man of a Retinue (1987)

According to the story of the same name by Vladimir Makanin. Mitya Rodiontsev, a young employee of the research institute, for some time now became one of those who were in the close circle of the secretary of the director Aglaya Andreyevna and felt well ...

The Double (1986)

A man sees his picture on a 'Most Wanted' board and after going to police he meets someone who looks suspiciously similar to him. ...

ВГИК100. Признание в любви (2019)

Into_nation of Big Odesa (2018)

In the world, there is a city-port Odesa, which was specially created as a refuge for people of different nationalities and religions. Humor is a special language that helps people from Odesa to communicate and get along with each other. Legends are spread ...

Yankovsky (2015)

This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his personal life. Although it's all in the film: a dramatic fate, unknown pages of biography. Like any great ac ...

PG 16... (2010)

Kir, Leya, Dasha and Max are student. Almost every experience is for a first time to them - first love, first disappointment, first betrayal... ...

A Strange Woman (1978)

Irina Kupchenko stars in this psychological drama by the renowned director/writer team of Yuli Raizman and Yevgeny Gabrilovich. In the story, she is the entirely respectable wife of a career diplomat, with a teenaged son. Suddenly one day, she decides to l ...