Vladimir Khotinenko

The Lenin Factor (2019)

Having dedicated his life to the preparation of the revolution in the Russian Empire, Vladimir Lenin, living in exile in Switzerland, desperately seeks a way back to Russia to take control. Options are few when Lenin receives an offer from Alexander Parvus ...

Independent Money (2015)

The film shows several episodes from the lives of different people, which turn out to be connected by a single monetary bill. ...

The Priest (2009)

Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII. ...

1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time (2007)

The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniy ...

Evening Bell (2004)

In the center of the plot is a screenwriter hired to create a new film. He writes a script about his childhood in the post-war Moscow courtyard. About how the boys were at enmity with the firemen, how they tried to blow up the fire, and how the firemen too ...

72 Meters (2004)

The film begins in the 1980s Soviet Union. Two best friends, Orlov and Muravyev, are serving at the Black Sea Navy Base in Sevastopol, Crimea. Both fall in love with one beautiful girl Nelly, and their friendship suffers a first blow. Because she picks Mur ...

По ту сторону волков (2002)

Passion Boulevard (1999)

One fine morning, the stoker of an ancient stokehouse in Moscow woke up with a hangover, found a hefty black raven on his window, which turned out to be talking and boozing. ...

The Arrival of a Train (1996)

Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema. ...

The Muslim (1995)

A Russian soldier who spent ten years in captivity in Afghanistan, returns to his home village and shocks all its inhabitants because of his conversion to Islam. During his absence, his father hanged himself, his brother served a prison term and his former ...

Makarov (1993)

"Makarov" both a popular Russian name, and also slang for the word "gun," serves as a metaphor for the brutal reality of life in a post-totalitarian society. The story's protagonist, Makarov, embodies this struggle as he becomes more mechanical and less sp ...

Patriotic Comedy (1992)

In the old house, but in the heart of the big city lives a Russian intellectual Chekhov's tailoring Ilyin. ...

Swarm (1990)

The story of the Siberian Zavarzin family, which has long lived by bee trade. After an incomprehensible virus entered the hives one day, accusations between two neighboring farms reached the intensity of a real war. After all, if there are no bees, then th ...

Wagon-Lit (1989)

A story of a four seemingly random vagon lit passengers whose fates are unexpectedly interwoven. ...

Mirror for a Hero (1987)

Sergei and Andrei are walking through a city park and see that a film shoot set just post World War II is taking place . They climb over the park fence to get a better view but hit some cable lying on the ground and find themselves in the past - on May 8, ...

In the Shooting Solitude (1986)

1918. A Red Army soldier Fyodor Krohov, authorized to withdraw farmers corn surpluses, comes to a small village, where White Guard can show up any day. He must persuade peasants to hand over the surpluses. But men are hesitating, some lend an ear to a weal ...

Alone and Unarmed (1984)

1927. A retired Red Army commander Constantine Vorontsov is appointed a Criminal Investigation Department head in a principal city of province. An experienced repeater named Korney shows up in the city. Thanks to a successfully performed operation a place ...

Cossack Outpost (1982)

Follows the adventures of the Amur Cossack Alexei Butov. As he went to the front in the First World War, so it went. ...

This is the Music... (1981)

A young graduate of a Musical teacher's training school, having got an allocation to one of the collective farms of Nonblack Soil Zone, she goes there with one desire return to city as soon as possible and continue her career of pop singer. Villagers are r ...

Smoke of the Fatherland (1980)

The Great Russian scientist, famous politician and poet M.Lomonosov is severely ill. Understanding that there is not much time left for him to live, he decides to visit his beloved small native town. Taking a coach, he heads for the motherland of his ances ...

Pursuit Race (1979)

A life of a driver Stephan Chekmenev turns out to be very lucky: healthy children, loving wife, solid loghouse. But once his fellow-villager perishes in a forest. And Chekmenev, considering himself to be the one to blame, in expectation of an imminent retr ...

Life is a Thrill (2020)

This is a story about an amazing person who devotes his life to his students. Vladimir Fenchenko lit the hearts of hundreds of young filmmakers with love for cinema. ...

Александр Балуев. В меня заложен этот шифр (2018)

Independent Money (2015)

The film shows several episodes from the lives of different people, which turn out to be connected by a single monetary bill. ...

Plane's Flying to Russia (1994)

Former prisoners captured plane. But on the way there was a failure, and to alleviate the weight of the aircraft, they throw overboard box with three hostages. The hostages managed to land safely. Now they have to stick together. And around a foreign land ...

Wagon-Lit (1989)

A story of a four seemingly random vagon lit passengers whose fates are unexpectedly interwoven. ...

Whom Is Singer Married To? (1988)

A middle-aged woman Ksenia (N. Yegorova) has a usual regular life: routine work in typography, home without husband, whom she has long divorced, 17-year old daughter with teenage problems, a friend, trying to give her in marriage. In short, nothing special ...

Cossack Outpost (1982)

Follows the adventures of the Amur Cossack Alexei Butov. As he went to the front in the First World War, so it went. ...

Kin (1982)

The story follows Maria Konovalova who travels from her rural village to visit her daughter Nina in the city. Maria's arrival exposes the stark contrasts between rural and urban lifestyles and reveals deep-seated family tensions. Interestingly, Родня ...