Vladimir Kashpur

The Master and Margarita (2011)

The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernat ...

Bastards (2006)

A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin. ...

The White Army (2005)

Play based on the novel "The White Army" by Mikhail Bulgakov. ...

Classic's Head (2005)

A mystery around a search for a lost skull of Nikolay Gogol. ...

Tycoon (2002)

During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. Bu ...

Shukshin's Stories (2002)

Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people "of the people", contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life's ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - th ...

Life is full of fun (2002)

Provincial town near Moscow. Here in a large communal apartment several families live. Each has its own concerns, its interests, its troubles and joys. A communal apartment is not just a habitat. This is a kind of section of society. They are all very diff ...

The Wedding (2000)

The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no mon ...

An Essay for Victory Day (1999)

The heroic crew of the fighter jet reunites a quarter of a century later. Fate has separated these comrades-in-arms, significantly altering their characters and worldviews. One became a radical communist, another became the chairman of the Veterans Fund, a ...

Don't Play the Fool... (1997)

Americans decided to make sure that in the Arkhangelsk region village was found a diamond deposit, and sent there under the command of the submarine black veteran, who accompanied the Allied convoys during the 2nd World War. As a distraction the barrel ful ...

Old Songs about the Main Thing 2 (1997)

Wolfblood (1995)

A story of love and hatred set during the Civil War in Russia. ...

The Fatal Eggs (1995)

Based on the motifs of M. Bulhakow's story with the same title. The thing about the scientist-zoologist Persikow, whose unique invention makes the rate of formation and development of organisms grow thousands of times. The experiment subjects eggs of the a ...

Lyube Zone (1994)

Musical drama ...

Thief (1994)

Arriving in Moscow in search of a better life, the naive provincial woman learns the predatory customs of the stone jungle of the big city. Accused by the metropolitan racket of stealing a family relic, she ends up in jail. According to the laws of the ge ...

Operation "Lucifer" (1993)

Examines the assassination of Russian musician and actor Igor Talkov. ...

A Small Giant of Big Sex (1993)

Based on the story "Oh, Marat!" by Fazil Iskander. The main character of the movie, Marat, lives in a coastal town near the Black Sea, he works as a photographer at the beach and is an editor at the local newspaper. But he is known for an entirely other re ...

About Businessman Foma (1993)

Foma, a kolkhoz employee, decides to build a pay toilet in his village. Bit not all the villagers like the idea... ...

Asleep Passenger (1993)

A Russian plane makes an emergency landing at an airport in the middle of the steppes. Shortly after, one of the passengers, carrying a valuable cargo in his cabin bag, is found dead. ...

Flying Dutchman (1991)

The ropes holding the former ship, now a floating restaurant with the symbolic name "The Flying Dutchman," were cut by a drunk resident of the seaside town, whom the bouncer refused to let "on board" the tavern due to the imminent closure of the drinking e ...

To the Last Limit (1991)

An ex-convict Viktor Dremov, who is also an ex-boxer, tries to mend his ways and start a new life but his former girlfriend is marrying another man (some old antiquarian), while local thugs rob him of his car and press him constantly trying to make him wor ...

Arithmetic of a Murder (1991)

A man, a local hooligan and alcoholic, is killed in a gloomy St. Petersburg communal apartment. Each of the residents hated him in their own way, and each had their own motive for the crime. But everyone has an ironclad alibi. A local disabled person under ...

Taxi Blues (1990)

Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Alexi stiffs Ivan for the fare, so Ivan tracks him down and a love-hate r ...

According to 206... (1990)

Kostya Smagin, a rural tractor driver, was firstly charged with petty hooliganism, but later got caught up in another campaign during perestroika. And his case was blown up almost to a death-penalty case. ...

Ono (1989)

The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Town". In a metaphorical and grotesque form, the film conveys the history of Russia from the calling of the Varangians until the end of the 20th century. The ...

Without A Uniform (1988)

The head of the Pervomaiskaya Railway, at the first stage of perestroika, having accidentally learned that they want to fire him from his job, decides to carry out an experiment he had long planned - to put a super-heavy train on the tracks... ...

New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988)

The plane of the American pilot Hank Morgan got lost in time. The pilot falls into temporary loop and finds himself at the era of the glorious King Arthur. Here he is destined to meet the legendary knights of the Round Table and the insidious Queen Morgana ...

Импровизация на тему биографии (1988)

After successfully graduating from school, the young man was a little confused about his choices. While he was studying, he was interested in many professions, but now he went to work at a factory, knowing that he would not lose anything by learning more a ...

The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)

In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in t ...

The Cabal of Hypocrites (1988)

A play about the life and death of Jean-Baptiste Molière, an artist tired of fighting the world. ...

A Lucky Man (1987)

The always easy-going, sensitive and responsive hero of the film turns out to be the very person whose meeting with whom changes the fate of people for the better. ...

Mozzukhin's Field Guard (1986)

Fyodor Mozzhukhin, having worked for several years on different construction sites of the country, returned to his native village and organized a team of mechanics working on a contract basis in the collective farm. Immediately critics of the new organizat ...

The First Lad (1986)

Young agronomist Viktor Nozhov makes an extraordinary decision - he leaves a successful state farm and becomes the chairman of a backward collective farm in his native village... ...

Meeting Before Separation (1985)

Batallions Ask for Fire (1985)

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII. ...

Anna Firling's Roads (1985)

A tory based on classical theatre play "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht. ...

We Cannot Predict... (1985)

Colleagues consider architect Nesterov not a bad man and a specialist, but his wife - a loser. Having accepted her point of view, he withdrew from active life. One day Nesterov is assigned to save the project and sent on a long business trip to the town wh ...

Parade of the Planets (1984)

A rare astronomical phenomenon — the parade of planets — has a strange effect on several men. The heroes of the film — an astrophysicist, locksmith, salesman, architect, loader, trolley bus driver — are called up for military training, which ends a ...

First Cavalry (1984)

The movie takes us back to the times of the Civil War, when the young Soviet power was defended by the first heroes of this terrible internecine war. Red commanders Semyon Budyonny and Kliment Voroshilov managed to gather an entire army of "red cavalrymen" ...

Lev Tolstoy (1984)

The film consists of two parts: "Insomnia" and "Departure". We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were coming to the great ...

Still Waters are Deep (1984)

At the site where Mikhail Sveshnev was working, the roof collapsed, crushing one of the miners. At the risk of his life, Mikhail saved his comrade, but the foreman lied to Sveshnev and blamed him for the accident. The commission identified the true culprit ...

Hope and Support (1982)

Nikolai Kurkov, a Muscovite, worked at a research institute and dreamed of defending his thesis on agrobiology, but when he arrived in one of the villages of the Non-Chernozem region, he met a childhood friend and stayed, heading a lagging collective farm. ...

Stove Builders (1982)

A literature teacher struggles with a faulty stove, with a village major being called to assist. ...

The Black Hen, or Living Underground (1981)

At a St. Petersburg boarding school, a new life began for the ten-year-old Alyosha, who was accustomed parental attention. Missing his home, Alyosha created an imaginary magic world of underground dwellers, with a king and his subjects who very much resemb ...

The Youth of Peter (1981)

The years of the tsar's adolescence and youth were permeated with deadly danger coming from some of the Boyars, the rebellious Streltsy and Tsarevna Sophia who aspired for power. But already at that early time Peter demonstrates a profound, bright intellec ...

Мятеж (1980)

At the Beginning of Glorious Days (1980)

Late 17th century. With no access to the sea, Russia suffers great losses in foreign trade. Peter tries to capture the Turkish fortress of Azov, but with no success: he can win only if he has a fleet. Peter's ukases provoke the Boyars' indignation. Europe ...

Seeing (1980)

A comedy, based on the sometimes funny and sometimes sad adventures of Sergeant Lyalin. There were two reasons for traveling to the village of Zhuravlikha. The first was personal: he decided to look for a girl he really liked. And the second was a desire t ...

Close Afar (1979)

Sergei Bukreyev arrives with a team of meliorators in another village and immediately draws attention to the director of the farm Anna Talnikova. Her dedication to work scares Sergei, he even wants to persuade her to leave the farm, but understands that An ...

Taiga Story (1979)

A hunter, returning to the Taiga forest, finds a dying girl in his cabin. He stoically nurses her back to life, but the differences between them may be too great for them to remain together. Based on the short story 'Dream of the White Mountains' by Vikt ...

The Zavyalov Weirdos (1979)

A film anthology featuring three stories: 1) "The Capron Christmas Tree" - Two men and a city dandy, courting a village girl, return home on New Year's Eve, with the dandy's nylon Christmas tree gift offending the men. 2) "A Ticket for the Second Showing" ...

A Trip Through the City (1979)

The TV film consists of two short stories. "Love Under a Pseudonym": A comedy about a modern Don Juan, in which the funny and the sad intertwine, forcing the characters to reflect on life... "A Trip Through the City": A comedy about people's responsibility ...

The Boys (1978)

A story about the boys and their life during the WWII. Based on Lev Kassil book. ...

Players (1978)

The play is about the Game, about creativity, which this time turned into the form of a brilliant speck. Skillfully, talentedly and artistically, the victim of the same players as himself, Ikharev does not suffer a catastrophe, because his "Adelaide Ivanov ...

The Fight in the Taiga (1978)

Komsomol member Zorik arrives at the distant taiga station Suetikha. He manages to attract the guys to his side and organize a youth squad. Having contacted the partisans, they stop and disarm the enemy armored train. ...

Red Chernozem (1978)

About the combat activities of rural Komsomol members (a sequel of "The Great Beggars"). Philip Kasatkin arrives in the village of Glukhovka on behalf of the district Komsomol committee with the aim of convincing the peasants of the advantages of the colle ...

Заседание парткома (1977)

The Legend of Till (1977)

Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere." First part: "The Ashes of Claes". XVI century. The freedom-loving and ch ...

Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding (1976)

Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a w ...

Mark Twain Against... (1976)

One Times One (1975)

Having lived for his pleasure most of his life, floor polisher Ivan Karetnikov, on the threshold of his 60th birthday, did not for the first time leave his next wife himself, but she abandoned him, moreover, in public. In addition to these troubles, he was ...

The Only Road (1975)

Partisans attack a column of hundred german trucks cisterns, that carry fuel to the front. However, their action is difficult, as Germans have chained Soviet prisoners to the driving wheels. The mission is to stop and destroy the column and save the lives ...

Memory (1975)

A story about the first post-war years in Leningrad. The film's protagonist, Maria, a Leningrad native, was left a widow with three children after the war. Life is hard and difficult, and suddenly the family is struck by new grief—the death of her eldest ...

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, ...

Comrade General (1974)

1941. Army commander Kapitonov takes the brunt of the German forces, striving to Rostov. Well aware of the tactics of the German General Leynts, Kapitonov brilliantly conducting an operation that was incorporated into the history of the war under the name ...

I, Shapovalov T.P. (1973)

The film traces the path of the hero (formerly an ensign and a Knight of St. George, and then a talented commander of the Red Army) from the Civil War to the Great Patriotic War. ...

Cheerful Frogscreamers (1973)

The film tells the story of the life and customs of a Ukrainian village in the distant past. After a heavy drinking binge, the village elder, having lost track of the days, decides to drink every second day instead of every day. Angry that no one was teari ...

The Commander of the Lucky 'Pike' (1973)

1942, Polar region. The Germans are preparing to capture Murmansk. The submarine Sch-721 is considered lucky, and its captain Aleksei Strogov has the ability to extricate himself from the most difficult situations. He also develops tactics for a periscope- ...

The Love of Mankind (1973)

A film about young architects who are building a new city in Siberia (Norilsk), their anxieties, concerns, and victories. ...

Ice Goes Into the Ocean (1972)

About the workdays of a team of dockers. ...

The Sea in Flames (1972)

The film recreates the heroic epic of the defense of Sevastopol in 1941-1942. The fall of 1941. Having broken through the defense at Perekop and seized Crimea, the fascist troops begin the siege of Sevastopol. The Soviet fleet is withdrawn to Novorossiysk. ...

Peace to the Huts, War to the Palaces (1971)

A Soviet propaganda film about the Bolshevik coup in 1917-18. Along with the portrayal of fictional characters, the film recreates the images of historical figures from this period. ...

Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow (1971)

This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign. ...

The Polynin Case (1970)

A story about a love between a Soviet Army officer and an actress set during the WWII. ...

Harsh Kilometers (1969)

In the Siberian wilderness, on one of the car depots, bad stories occur. It all starts with theft, and leads to murder. And neither the police nor the leadership of the base can put things in order. Moreover, the main character, Alexei, seems that he is co ...

Our Friends (1969)

After the death of her father, Antonina Staroselskaya has difficulty finding work. A dull life is the cause of illness. A merchant seaman takes care of the sick Tona. After the marriage, he is arrested for smuggling, and the care of Tonya is transferred to ...

Thunderstorm Over Belaya (1968)

The film is set in 1919. The film tells about an episode of the Civil War, when the troops under the command of M. V. Frunze took the city of Ufa away from the White Guards. ...

Badgers (1968)

Two village boys - brothers Semyon and Pavel - serve a Moscow merchant-shopkeeper. They face harsh exploitation and hard forced labor. The brothers' life paths diverge. Unable to withstand the merchant's bullying, Pavel goes to the factory, becomes a worke ...

The End of 'Saturn' (1968)

A second part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII. ...

Spring (1968)

Savely and Lelya are leading a quiet peaceful life in a forest reserve, in a small village with a mineral spring, where Savely brought his seriously ill wife. The seemingly routine life can not hide deep and tender love that came a bit too late... ...

Poem About the Ax (1968)

A teleplay based on the play of the same name by N. Pogodin about the creation of a new grade of steel at a large metallurgical plant. ...

No Path Through Fire (1967)

A talented girl is trying to find happiness amidst the Russian revolution of 1917 and the civil war that split the nation. ...

The Road to 'Saturn' (1967)

A first part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII. ...

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 ...

The Kremlin Chimes (1967)

Performance of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater based on the play by N. Pogodin. ...

Eastern Corridor (1966)

This film is war parabola with expressive visual style. This not typical point of view about the war for Soviet cinema. ...

Roll Call (1966)

General Zhuravlev fought on the fronts of World War II, and is now designing spacecraft. Sending a rocket with astronaut Borodin on the flight, he recalls the namesake of the astronaut - a young tankman whom he had the chance to meet on the roads of war .. ...

Time, Forward! (1965)

The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Khar ...

Crash (1965)

Driver Panachuk, who took «left» passengers, is in a hurry to Gorsk. Panachuk tells the policeman who stopped him that he saw a murdered doctor in a crashed «Moskvich» car on the way. ...

Summer is Short in the Mountains (1964)

About a young girl who came to a distant land for geological practice. ...

Third Time (1963)

The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team of Soviet prisoners of war, former "Dinamo". It happened in Kiev on June 22, 1942. Anticipating the possibility of losing, the Germans made a condition � ...

Collegues (1962)

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

In a Hard Hour (1961)

1941 year. The Siberian carpenter Kuzma Kroykov arrived in Moscow as part of a rifle company. In a line of fighters, he walked through the streets of Moscow at night and in a village near Moscow met Varvara Oknova. Resolute, tall and beautiful, she won his ...

Adventures of Krosh (1961)

The school year is over. The former nine-graders begin their summer internship, which proved for the kids to be a real school of grown-up life with its intricate laws. Not everyone stood the test. ...

Jump at Dawn (1961)

About the everyday life of soldiers in the airborne units of the Soviet Army. ...

Ballad of a Soldier (1959)

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosh ...