Vitaliy Shapovalov

May (2007)

Three days in bright May Moscow. Three days, when Senior Lieutenant Pechalin, who has long forgotten the smell of peaceful life, will again feel all its charm. Meet with an old friend Gaevsky, fall in love with a casual acquaintance Victoria, celebrate Vic ...

Vovochka (2002)

This light, hilarious story, sparkling with good-natured humour, will amuse both children and their parents. Our Vovochka is not the hero of popular anecdotes, but a real-life ten-year-old boy, spontaneous and indefatigable, an ever-inventive daredevil, wh ...

Clan (1992)

Two Moscow investigators, investigating the corruption case, become a serious obstacle for the southern mafia. Trying to interfere with the investigators, the criminals go to any lengths - from the murder of dangerous witnesses to the intervention in the i ...

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 ...

Déjà vu (1990)

After Mick Nich, a 1930's Chicago gangster, sells out his own gang to the police, the Mafia hires the best hitman in town, Johnny Pollack, to follow him to Odessa, USSR. Upon arrival, Pollack loses his memory and goes on various adventures with a group of ...

The Humble Cemetery (1989)

The main character Vorobei is a professional grave digger and alcohol addict, who runs away from hospital to dig graves instead of treating his head broken by his brother. He comes to cemetery and keeps on working, instead of his friends' advice to stay in ...

Ten Days That Shook the World (1987)

A folk performance in two acts with pantomime, buffoonery, and shooting, performed by the troupe of the Drama and Comedy Theater on Taganka. ...

On the Eve of Departure (1986)

A test mechanic at a tractor plant resolutely opposes defectors and fulfilling the plan at any cost. ...

Perfil and Foma (1985)

The Precipice (1984)

Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic lov ...

No Great Loss... (1983)

Six people get stuck in a lift. No one comes to help them, as the dispatcher who shut down the lift and all the neighbours are passionately watching a football match being broadcast. At first, the characters in the film fight, but when the lift doors open, ...

Lenin in Paris (1981)

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associations, this time is intertwined with the events of the Paris Commune, the October Revolution and the poli ...

The Woman in White (1981)

Young aspiring artist gets a place as a teacher of painting on the estate of land-owner Fairlie, where his sisters Marian and Laura become his students. Returning home late in the evening, he unexpectedly meets a strange woman, dressed head-to-toe in white ...

What the Hell Do You Want? (1975)

A satirical story of how spouses Misha and Masha chase fashion. ...

Fearless Ataman (1973)

A biographical novella based on I. Vsevolzhsky's novel "Hutor's Team". ...

Summer Dreams (1973)

Grandfather Sliva, an unthinkable braggart and confounder, has these strange dreams. Then he dreamed of chivalrous times, of musketeer duels between Stepney Kazantz and Serafimushka Seagull against masked opponents. Then the old man saw himself in the form ...

In the azure steppe (1971)

Three novellas based on M. Sholokhov's early stories about the first years of the formation of Soviet power on the Don. (1) "Koloverť". Two Cossack brothers and their elderly father fight for the Bolsheviks, but when only Ignat and his father return to th ...

The Road Home (1970)

A story about the fate of a woman who has traveled a thorny path from unrequited love to family happiness. ...

Mystery-Bouffe (1969)

Based on Mayakovsky's twentieth-century morality play, in which workers receive the awards of the blessed, and monarchs and capitalist politicians are consigned to eternal damnation. ...