Viktor Avdyushko

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 ...

While the Mountains Still Stand... (1977)

The plot of the film, which tends more towards a psychological drama than a sports and adventure film, is based on a mountain climbing trip, where the essence of everyone will soon manifest itself. ...

Jarosław Dąbrowski (1976)

A film biography of Jarosław Dąbrowski, a Russian officer, Polish independence activist, and communist. ...

The Rider with Lightning in His Hand (1975)

About the feat of Komsomol member Vera Flerova (her prototype in the film is Natasha), the discoverer of the largest tungsten and molybdenum deposit in Kabardino-Balkaria. The film is set in the early 1930s. ...

A Story About a Simple Thing (1975)

In order to carry out subversive work, the Chekist remains in a city occupied by whites. To do this, he moves into the doctor's apartment a singer, a graduate of the conservatory, who was joyfully welcomed by the doctor's family, and then, after the arriva ...

Motherland (1975)

A decade after having been reported missing, war veteran Vladimir goes back to his village. Now back home, he finally realizes how much his family and country mean to him. ...

Происшествие (1974)

And on the Pacific Ocean... (1974)

The last days of the Civil War. Pushed back to the Pacific Ocean by the Red Army, the White Guard troops are trying to hold on to power. They pin their hopes on an armored train that will deliver them ammunition. ...

I Don't Want to Make You Wait (1973)

The film is dedicated to the poet Komsomol member Sergei Chekmarev, who tragically died in 1933. ...

A Man at His Place (1973)

A story about young man who is trying to turn his village into an agricultural center. ...

The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)

In a remote village in Karelia, Sergeant Vaskov commands an anti-aircraft unit that protects a rail depot. While his men are transferred to the front line, he is reprimanded for their unruly behavior. He retorts that he wants replacements that aren't drunk ...

Janus Head (1972)

World-famous geneticist Professor Hülsenbeck is a man of integrity who refuses to mix science and political gain. When his findings are being used to harm humanity, he immigrates to the USA in 1933 in protest against Nazi racial politics. ...

Когда расходится туман (1972)

One day the gamekeeper Peter Dyakonov found himself in the forest near the place where a moose was killed by a high-ranking official and could not pass by, despite the strong pressure on him. After his dismissal, the hero returns to his father's house, to ...

Sun Seekers (1972)

A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control. ...

Russia's Heart (1971)

Reminiscing the 1917 Russian October Revolution, a time when the films' director was 14 years old. ...

A Day and the Whole Life (1970)

A story about a woman who raised her son alone during the difficult war and post-war years. She lives with her memories and hopes and does not demand much from life. ...

Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge (1970)

The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters ...

Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough (1970)

Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they ...

The End of Ataman (1970)

A Kazakh spy thriller: In 1921, at the height of the civil war, a Soviet officer is assigned to kill the ataman Dutov, a White collaborator. In order to get close to the ataman he infiltrates his gang. ...

The Song of Manshuk (1969)

The story of the hero of the Soviet Union, Manshuk Mametova, machine-gunner of the 21st Guards Rifle Division of the 3rd shock army of the Kalinin Front, the guards sergeant in charge. The first woman awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for brave ...

Subject for a Short Story (1969)

The film tells about Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. October 17, 1896. On the facade of the Alexandrinsky Theater — a poster about the premiere of "The Seagull". A few hours are left before the performance. Chekhov and his sister Masha are expecting Lika Mizino ...

Strange People (1969)

A comedy based on three short novels by Vasiliy Shukshin. ...

Ambush (1969)

A Kirghiz adventure film combining documentary and fictional elements. ...

Wedding Day (1968)

Mikhail and Nyura are getting ready for the wedding. Suddenly, Klava returns to the city, Mikhail's first love... ...

The Red and the White (1967)

In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other. ...

The Life and Ascension of Yuras Bratchik (1967)

In ancient times of famine and Tatar raids, the satirist Yuras Bratchik appears to the people in the guise of Christ, and the people believe in a miracle. The cunning monk Bosyatsky decides to use this event. Arrested by order of the Cardinal, Yuras and hi ...

Farewell (1966)

Spring, 1944. The Great Patriotic war. The German fascists are still in Sevastopol. A fierce combat is taking place there. At the same time in Yalta, which has already been freed, life goes on peacefully. People believe that the war has left them, that it ...

A Traveller with Luggage (1966)

Based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Zheleznykov. The story of a boy from an Altai state farm, searching for his father in the vast city of Moscow; about how dreams and thoughts rarely coincide with reality. ...

The Worker's Settlement (1966)

Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Al ...

Where Are You Now, Maxim? (1965)

A story of a young man who is returning to his home town after being evacuated as a boy during WWII. ...

While Defending the Front Line (1965)

Volkhov Front in 1942. The young political instructor of the counter-propaganda department of the headquarters of the division Rusanov is torn to the forefront. Together with an experienced warrior — captain Shaternikov — the hero gets to the forefront ...

Thirty-three (1965)

The dentist of the provincial town of Upper Yamki made an unexpected scientific discovery by finding the thirty-third tooth in the patient's oral cavity, Ivan Sergeyevich Travkin. Travkin, exhausted from pain, was taken to Moscow. Ivan Sergeyevich first b ...

Ordinary Wonder (1964)

In a romantic and philosophical tale of magic and love, a mischievous Sorcerer turns a bear into a young man. Unhappy in his new state, the former bear, with the help of the magician and his beautiful wife, is looking for a princess to kiss in order for hi ...

The Alive and the Dead (1964)

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for th ...

Naked Among Wolves (1963)

Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp. ...

My Son is Somewhere (1962)

An old fisherman spends his days waiting to hear from his son who left the village long time ago. ...

Our Mutual Friend (1962)

A young milkmaid Liza becomes an outcast of society in one of the Kuban collective farms. An honest and hardworking girl finds protection from the brave and sensitive party organizer Prokhor, who stood up for her. ...

Peace to Him Who Enters (1961)

Pregnant German woman is trapped behind Russian lines. When she goes into labor, three Soviet soldiers deliver her to a field hospital: a newly graduated officer, an affable truck driver, and a soldier shell-shocked into muteness. The dangerous trip to the ...

At the Beginning of the Century (1961)

Miraculous One (1960)

Rodka Gulyaev is a pupil of the Gumniskii rural secondary school. One day on the bank of the river he digs out the darkened old icon. Unfortunately for him his grandmother Avdotya, an overbearing and cunning old woman, spreads a rumor that the icon is mira ...

Russian Souvenir (1960)

The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thunderstorm and makes an emergency landing in the Baikal region. In addition to the Soviet citizen Varvara Komarova, all other passengers are foreigners. Usin ...

Fathers and Sons (1959)

About the socio-political conflict between two worldviews, about the relationship between younger and older generations, about the eternal struggle between the old and the new, about true and false values, about creation and destruction, about human streng ...

Gloomy Morning (1959)

The third film in the trilogy ("The Sisters", "The Eighteenth Year", "The Gloomy Morning") based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy "The Road to Calvary". About the fate of the Russian intelligentsia against the background of the collapse of the Russian Empir ...

Everything Begins with Hitting the Road (1959)

On the eve of departure to the Siberian shock construction site, the famous builder and installer Stepan Bobkov throws his wife. However, on the train he meets Annushka, a young concrete worker who also travels to Siberia on a Komsomol ticket. Sympathy ari ...

Hard Happiness (1958)

A young Gipsy boy is growing up in a Russian village during the Civil War. ...

The Year 18th (1958)

Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them. ...

The Tight Knot (1957)

The farm's chairman took the late secretary's teenage son into his house. ...

Prolog (1956)

After the brutal massacre of a peaceful demonstration of the working people on their way to the Tsar, Lenin and other Party members in exile call for an armed uprising of the workers. At Presnya build barricades. The people are arming themselves. But the h ...

Hostile Whirlwinds (1956)

Observing the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky from 1918-1925; in July 1918, as a result of a revolt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, German ambassador Mirbach is killed. Feliks Dzerzhinsky a ...

The Lesson of Life (1955)

On falling in love with Sergey, Natasha gives up studies at a pedagogical institute and accompanies him to a construction site. In a course of time she realizes that her husband is interested only in his work. She leaves him, graduates from the institute a ...

Heroes of Shipka (1955)

Heroes of Shipka was the first solo effort for Soviet director Sergei Vasilyev, who had previously collaborated with his late brother Georgi. The film is set in 1887 during the pivotal battle between the Russians and the Turks at the Shipka Pass. Stressing ...

«Bogatyr» Goes to Marto (1954)

The Soviet steamer Bogatyr delivers construction materials and rafts with timber to the earthquake-stricken city of Marto. However, foreign intelligence is preparing a sabotage operation on the Bogatyr... ...

Admiral Ushakov (1953)

Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War. ...

Andriesh (1952)

A short diploma film based on a fairy tale by Yemelian Bukov and directed by Sergei Parajanov. The film was made in 1952, since that moment it was considered to be lost, but finally it was found in VGIK in 2025. ...

The Miners of Donetsk (1951)

A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm. ...

Cossacks of the Kuban (1950)

In the steppes of the Kuban love is born on two collective farms while wheat is (enthusiastically) gathered. Galina, the energetic chairwoman of one of the two kolkhozes, vies with her male counterpart for the best harvest. At the same time Gordey, her riv ...