Vasili Lanovoy

The Mystery of Snow Queen (2015)

A new interpretation of the most known and beloved fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen - "Snow Queen" ...

The Last Moons (2014)

Old age knows no national boundaries or geographical limits. She can be peaceful and happy in the circle of loved ones and become a disaster if you are abandoned by people dear to you. Man is the only living creature in the world who knows that he will die ...

Martha's Line (2014)

Moving to a new place of residence, to an old apartment in the slums of St. Petersburg, Olga and her daughter Natasha accidentally discover a letter from the distant blockade of the forty-second year. A letter from the boy Yura for the girl Martha, whom he ...

The Three Musketeers (2013)

Young d'Artagnan comes to Paris to be a musketeer. There, he meets three old musketeers, members of the glorious King's Guard, but actually realizes that they are not the great fighters who he thinks they are. While joining the musketeers he is faced with ...

Alexander Belyavsky. Fox's Personal File (2012)

People's Artist of Russia Alexander Belyavsky has played in more than a hundred films, but the first thing that viewers remember is his role as Fox in Stanislav Govorukhin's legendary film "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed." Despite the success of the f ...

Pier (2011)

Error of investigation (2010)

Retired investigator Klimov comes with his granddaughter to his country house to rest before a complicated heart operation. ...

One Love of My Soul (2007)

Офицеры (2006)

The Golden Head on a Scaffold (2005)

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. ...

Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun (2004)

The second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; "The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". The film depicts the life and reign of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich of Kiev, known in legends as Vladimir the Red Sun. The story begins in 972 AD, after the ...

The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga (2004)

The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; "The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tells the story of pagan Rus' during the time of Prince Igor, his murder by the Drevlyans, Olga's revenge, Olga's repentance and adoption of Christianity. ...

Interviews with Filmmakers: Vasiliy Lanovoy (2003)

Actor Vasili Lanovoy, talks about his early encounters with Tolstoy and Russian literature, landing the role of Anatole Kuragin in the film War and Peace, the reaction to the film on its release, and even recalls a couple of anecdotes about the filming. ...

Night on the Cordon (2001)

A grandfather tells his grandson about the events of 1942 that he experienced as a child. ...

A Chivalrous Romance (2000)

The action of the movie is set in the late 11th century Constantinople during the time of the 1st Crusade. The crusaders need the help of the emperor Alexius to get to Jerusalem while the latter tries to do his best to get rid of the unwelcome guests. At t ...

Invisible Traveller (1998)

At the heart of the picture is a common legend about the last days of Emperor Alexander the First Blessed. ...

An Unfamiliar Weapon, or Crusader 2 (1998)

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 ...

The Falling (1993)

A detective investigates the sudden suicide of his father who was one of a responsible for hiding Communist Party money persons. ...

Tear of the Prince of Darkness (1993)

Tallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to find Tear of the Prince of Darkness, a legendary ring which can bring Satan's rule over the world. ...

Black Square (1992)

While investigating an ordinary homicide a group of detectives suddenly find a connection to a very first faces of USSR government. ...

Бес в ребро (1990)

Defeat (1987)

A 4-part made-for-television feature film. Two young physicists, engaged in the problems of atmospheric electricity and the study of thunderstorm phenomena, both disciples of Professor Dankevich, a talented, straightforward, incorruptible man, unwavering i ...

Thirteenth Chairman (1987)

The trial of the collective farm chairman Sagdaev, who deviated from some outdated rules of law in order to develop collective farm production. ...

Start Liquidation (1983)

Army and police are trying to fight crime in West Belarus during Spring of 1945. ...

Battle at the Crossroads (1982)

Soviet propaganda film. The first years of the VChK formation. Nurse Yunna Ruzhich and poet Lafar, who became Chekists, take an active part in uncovering a counter-revolutionary conspiracy in Moscow in 1918. ...

Ogaryova Street, Number 6 (1981)

Detective Kostenko is traveling between Moscow and Sukhumi trying to find the responsible for double homicide. ...

Dark Sun (1980)

A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive "Krakatit" and soon confronts manipulative agents and imperialist conspiracies. Realizing his invention's threat, he fights to prevent its misuse, ris ...

Antony and Cleopatra (1980)

The love story of the great Roman commander Anthony and the oriental beauty Cleopatra, the tragic suicide of both, is recreated. ...

Petrovka Street, Number 38 (1980)

Employees of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department - Colonel Alexei Pavlovich Sadchikov, Major Vladislav Nikolaevich Kostenko and Senior Lieutenant Valentin Roslyakov are investigating the impudent robberies carried out by a group wearing dark glass ...

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 ...

The Leader (1978)

The leader of a flock of geese talks about the cruelty of people, but not all of them. ...

The Man with the Gun (1977)

The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades. ...

Soldiers of Freedom (1977)

A World War II historical drama and the sequel to the 1970-71's film series Liberation. The film reflects the following events of World War II: the capitulation of Friedrich Paulus's Sixth Army as a result of the failed assault on Stalingrad during Operati ...

The Bourgeois Gentleman (1977)

A recording of the Vakhtangov Theatre's production of the play by Jean-Baptiste Molière. "The Bourgeois Gentleman" is a brilliant, sparkling comedy by the great French literary classic Jean-Baptiste Molière. The attempts of an uneducated, ignorant, and ...

Meeting on a Distant Meridian (1977)

Days of the Turbins (1976)

Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guard"), "Days of the Turbins". ...

Anna and Commander (1975)

Researching for a script about a famous scientist who tragically passed away, a writer meets his wife Anna who's been struggling with the loss. A tale of the couple's life and love unfolds. ...

Hello Doctor (1974)

A young surgeon Alexander came to the village for a vacation. He is pleased with himself, everything is going well in his life: he is behind the institute, preparing his thesis, working in a famous clinic. However, soon Alexander decides to stay to work in ...

Sea Cadet of Northern Fleet (1973)

The screen story of four teenagers, on whom the horrors of war had left an indelible mark. Their relatives' deaths and their yearning for fighting the Nazis led them, one way or another, to a sea cadet school that had been opened on Solovetski Islands at t ...

Irkutsk Story (1973)

Fifty-Fifty (1972)

A Soviet KGB agents are trying to prevent British-American operation of stealing information about an important scientific project from USSR. ...

Princess Turandot (1971)

Officers (1971)

Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20s to the Soviet conflict in Finland, from China to the Urals. ...

A Thousand Souls (1971)

Based on the eponymous novel by A.F. Pisemsky. A play about the all-powerful influence of money and the morals of the bureaucratic world that destroy everything honest, good, and humane. ...

Lyubov Yarovaya (1970)

The years of civil war. Teacher Lyubov Yarovaya is on the side of the revolution. Her husband Mikhail is a White Guard officer. Mikhail fiercely fights against Soviet power. The struggle in the woman's soul between her love for her husband and her revoluti ...

The Sixth of July (1968)

Political thriller based on a story of coup against Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party in Moscow on 6–7 July 1918. They assassinate German ambassador in Moscow in hope of gaining public support and dragging the country into new war with ...

Solaris (1968)

Kris Kelvin joins the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to find its two crew members plagued by "phantoms," creations of Solaris. Kelvin is soon confronted with his own phantom, taking the shape of his dead wife Hari. ...

War and Peace (1968)

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army. ...

No Password Necessary (1967)

A spy game between Reds and Whites is in full motion during Russian Civil War. ...

Anna Karenina (1967)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967)

In 1812, as Napoleon's army invades Russia, Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the armies' impending confrontation. As the Battle of Borodino rages, he volunteers ...

North-West of Berlin (1967)

A military unit freed a soldier from captivity. It turned out that his fiancee serves as a nurse in this unit. But the soldier, whose face was disfigured by the Nazis, didn't dare to meet her. ...

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966)

As 1809 nears its end, Natasha attends her first ball, where Andrei falls in love with her with the intent of marriage. However, as her father demands they wait, the prince travels abroad, leaving Natasha in desperate longing. But she meets Anatol Kuragin ...

War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966)

In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition a ...

Comrade Song (1966)

The movie-almanac consists of three novellas dedicated to the song. "Song-password". Lieutenant Marchenko is sent to the Nazi-occupied city to pass a purse with fuses to the underground scouts through the liaison. The password song helps the scouts to find ...

Going Inside a Storm (1965)

Sergei Krylov and Oleg Tulin, are promising young physicists in the field of thunderstorms. They dream of weather control. But later their ways in science parted - Oleg is ready to tradeoff his standpoints for personal success, but Sergei knows that the tr ...

Shares in Murder (1964)

Beth Tyson is murdered in her mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell and Detective Philbert present three different versions of this crime. ...

Collegues (1962)

A drama about the group of young people starting their adult lives. ...

Striped Trip (1961)

A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, letting the tigers and lions out. Poor passengers and crew have no place to run. The captain abandons his post out of fear ...

Scarlet Sails (1961)

When Assol was a little girl, she met a wizard who foretold that it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail would arrive and the noble prince would take her away to the world of her dreams where she will be loved and happy. The ne ...

Stronger Than a Hurricane (1961)

The Soviet training sailing ship Albatross arrived in Jakarta. Having loaded with rice intended for the starving population of an African country, the ship was ready for departure. A senior officer of the West German "Norden", having learned that the "Alba ...

Three Hundred Years Ago... (1956)

In the middle of the 17th century, Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks rose up to fight against the Polish gentry rule. About the events of the National Liberation War in Ukraine under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who with a firm hand led the insurge ...

Pavel Korchagin (1956)

A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered". ...

Problem Child (1954)

A drama about a high school conflict based on the novel by Liya Geraskina. ...