Vladimir Balashov

Have You Forgotten What We Used to Play? (2010)

This short film tells the story of a childhood, of a friendship and of growing up. A young man returns to the village where he grew up and discovers that both he and the place have changed. Yet, he soon finds himself immersed in his memories. ...

Anomaly (1993)

Based on Clifford Simak's story "All Flesh is Grass". In the small settlement strange things lately are created, and soon the settlement is cut off from the outside world by an insuperable wall. The scientist Alexander Kartin tries to investigate the unusu ...

Silver Strings (1988)

A film based on the biography of the famous Russian balalaika player Vasili Vasilevich Andreev (1867-1918), a self-taught virtuoso musician, who brought balalaika to the concert stage. ...

Carnival (1981)

A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her. ...

Golden Beasts Parade (1979)

The gold treasure found during archaeological excavations on the Tsarsky Kurgans in Kazakhstan was stolen. Fearing that unique things will be melted into ingots, the museum curator Georgy Zimin himself begins an investigation, but as a result of a non-prof ...

Storm on the Land (1976)

A story about a group of children and their life set at the small Russian seashore town in the year of 1913. ...

No Margin for Error (1975)

A criminal story which happened in a small Russian town. ...

My Destiny (1974)

Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, ...

Discovery (1973)

This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. The events in it are developing in 20 years during the Civil war, when he sent a geologist searching for copper in the coal mines of the merchant Stasova, and ...

Silver Trumpets (1971)

The former Red Army commander begins by reading the first manuscripts to his friends, and soon becomes a famous children's writer. ...

Let's Remember This Day (1968)

The events take place on the eve of the Great October Socialist Revolution. At the center of the film's narrative is the судьба of a revolutionary grenadier regiment that played an important role in securing the victory of Soviet power in Belarus. ...

Sea Stories (1967)

The movie consists of two novellas. "The Affair". Russian sailor Nikolai and former bullfighter Spaniard Jose-Maria are hired on a ship, doomed in advance: the owner of the ship intends to sink it during the voyage to get a large insurance. "Scorpion and ...

A Song in the Woods (1967)

A little girl is walking in the forest while singing a song. All the forest dwellers like the song, and everyone sings it in their own way. ...

Someone Else's Name (1966)

Olga and Butkevich, the head of the convoy, meet at a roadside cafe. They hadn't seen each other since the beginning of the war. During the conversation, it turns out that a man with the surname of Olga's first husband, whom she considers dead, is working ...

The Most, the Most, the Most (1966)

Many different birds and animals have long settled on the shores of Lake Chad. One day they decided to choose a king for themselves and chose Lion. They called him the bravest, the strongest, the wisest and the most beautiful. Then a son was born to the Li ...

Year as Long as Life (1965)

The film takes place in Europe in the 19th century. The film shows the popular uprisings that took place there, as well as the search for truth and the confrontation of Karl Marx and opponents of the revolution. ...

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965)

A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this ...

Loneliness (1964)

Soviet propaganda film on the struggle against counter-revolution in Tambov region in the first years of Soviet power. ...

The Trial of Madmen (1961)

Germany, the 1930s. A young scientist, Professor Johannes Werner discovers rays of life-giving power. The scientist refuses to give up his invention for military use and, breaking the equipment, runs to the USA, where he hides for a long time under the nam ...

First Trials (1960)

The young teacher Lobanovich, who has just graduated from the seminary, comes to the remote Polessky village of Telshino to teach the peasant children to read and write. In the heads of seminarians persistently hammered into the idea that the Tsar-father e ...

Dreams Come True (1960)

The construction of the Kremenchuk hydroelectric power plant is in full swing, but the Dnieper may flood the construction site. In order to save people, the chief engineer Ilchenko decides to blow up the newly built dam... The workers do their best not to ...

Toktogul (1959)

About the life of the famous Kyrgyz akyn. ...

The Man from Planet Earth (1959)

Biographical film story about the first Russian space explorer, inventor scientist, rocket-maker K. E. Tsiolkovsky. ...

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to pr ...

Pages of the Past (1958)

Soviet propaganda film about Alexei, a village boy who comes to Odesa to earn money in 1901. While still on the train, the hero gets acquainted with a young worker Mitya and witnesses the arrest of the underground leader Savva, who distributed Lenin's news ...

Steep Steps (1957)

In 1905 Germany, Evgeny Narezhny, a talented bridge engineer and son of a Russian émigré, rejects lucrative offers to serve Russia. Arriving in St. Petersburg during the 1905 revolution, he focuses on science, believing it can solve global issues, unlike ...

New Attraction (1957)

The little boy dreams of devoting himself to a circus, which struck him with the fearlessness of artists working with wild animals, and, despite the constant risk and disorder of this profession, is achieving its goal. ...

Captain of the «Old Turtle» (1956)

. About the struggle against the counterrevolutionary underground in the south of tcountry in the early years of Soviet power. Based on the novel of the same name by Lev Linkov. ...

The Fire of Immortality (1956)

Flames on the Volga (1956)

Drama of the life of a peasant family, who came to work in the fisheries of Astrakhan. The film is set in the late XIX - early XX centuries. ...

Ivan Franko (1956)

Historical and biographical film about the life and work of Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. ...

The Shadow Near the Pier (1955)

In one of the southern ports, state security authorities detained a spy with a plan for the object of sabotage — a floating dock, prepared for towing to a remote port. Major Lyudov, according to a number of signs, realizes that a whole group of enemies i ...

The Crash of the Emirate (1955)

1920. Western countries are trying to use the Bukhara khanate — a former protectorate of tsarist Russia — to fight the Soviet regime. Arrived in Tashkent by M. V. Frunze and V. V. Kuibyshev to organize the masses to fight counter-revolutionaries and ag ...

The Ship Commander (1954)

Andrei Vysotina, who has just graduated from the Naval Academy, is appointed commander of the ship Derzhavny. The hero challenges the commander of another ship in the Black Sea Fleet, whose wife he was once in love with... ...

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. ...

Maximka (1952)

A black child rescued from by Russian sailors, whom they name Maksimka, having overcome his fear of white people, turns out to be an unusually smart and kind little boy. The rude drunken sailor Ivan Luchkin was especially attached to the boy. Once it was M ...

Mussorgsky (1950)

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country wh ...

The Magic Treasure (1950)

Based on the Buryats - Mongolian fairy tale by Malyarevsky. Once a brave and honest shepherd Bair rescued from the claws of a black vulture a magic bird. The bird thanked the shepherd by presenting him with a magic chest. All that fell into this chest, it ...

Ivan Pavlov (1949)

Russia, 1875: In Riazan', Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov's dismay, he orders the destruction of a beautiful apple orchard. 1894: Experimenting on dogs, Pavlov tries to comprehend the ...

Private Aleksandr Matrosov (1947)

The film is about the exploit of a nineteen-year-old soldier of the Great Patriotic War - Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of the enemy's bunker with his body. ...

Maryte (1947)

The poor Melnik family lives in Zarasai region. Elder Mary parents struggle to send Marry to school but they did this anyway. The horizons of the girl, who until then had learned only from the old grandfather Peter, are spreading there, she, as if seeing h ...

The Vow (1946)

The story of Stalin and the Soviet people. ...

A Noisy Household (1946)

A comedy about an army squad guarding the fake airport during WWII. ...

It Happened in the Donbass (1945)

The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbass and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union. ...

Girl No. 217 (1945)

A Russian peasant woman is captured by Nazis and sold into slavery in Germany. Shown in Cannes in 1946. ...

The Invasion (1945)

A Russian village struggles through the German occupation during World War II in this tense drama from the Soviet Union. As the town doctor finds his home has been taken by German troops, his daughter becomes involved in the anti-Axis resistance, and his s ...

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia ...

Guerrillas in the steppes of Ukraine (1943)

The film tells about the heroic struggle of Ukrainian farmers-partisans with nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic war. ...

The Artamonov Case (1941)

Fabrikant, Ilya Artamonov of the former serfs. His desire to strengthen and develop the business knows no obstacles. He is still associated with the peasants and craftsmen, but with his death, this relationship ends. Between Peter Artamonov, his son, who b ...

The Oppenheim Family (1939)

Based on Lyon Feuchtwanger's novel about the tragedy of society, through a look at the tragedy of one single family. ...