Vladimir Martynov

Hymn of the Plague (2024)

In an old Soviet music hall, an orchestra is recording a composition based on Pushkin's "Feast During the Plague". An invisible and frightening force is interfering with the musicians - whether it is the spirits of the past or the echo of war, but no one n ...

Empire V (2023)

In modern-day Moscow, disaffected former journalism student Roman follows a cryptic invitation to join "the elite" and finds himself forcibly transformed into a vampire. But not your typical creature of the night. Thanks to a parasitical worm known as the ...

Into_nation of Big Odesa (2018)

In the world, there is a city-port Odesa, which was specially created as a refuge for people of different nationalities and religions. Humor is a special language that helps people from Odesa to communicate and get along with each other. Legends are spread ...

The Island (2006)

Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future. ...

Vocal Parallels (2006)

Vocal Parallels is a surreal, impressionistic concert of classical opera pieces performed by several retired Soviet opera divas: Roza Dzhamanova, Araksiia Davtian, Bibigul' Tulegenova, and the late Erik Salim-Meriuert (Kurmangaliev), a fantastic counterten ...

Trio (2003)

Three people in the cab of truck: Alexei the driver, his partner Nikolai, and Marina, a prostitute they picked up on their way. Or so it seems... In fact, all three are police detectives. Their task: to uncover a gang that has been robbing long-haul trucks ...

Russian Riot (2000)

The end of the XVIII century. The reign of Catherine II. In the deep Russian provinces, among the vast steppes of the Ural escaped convict Yemelyan Pugachev proclaimed himself Emperor Peter III of Russia. Under the banner of the Pretender embarked detachme ...

Who, If Not Us (1998)

This movie deals with two friends, 13-14 year old boys. One comes from a more or less stable home (although he is growing up with single mom) and another comes from a broken up family. One day the kids break into a store to pretty much have fun and get som ...

Ask and It Will Be Yours (1992)

Several days from the life of a landowner's estate on the eve of Christmas are shown through the perception of a boy. The action takes place in Russia in the second half of the 19th century. ...

Nikolay Vavilov (1991)

Biopic devoted to the history of the life of Soviet biologist, academician Nikolai Vavilov. His scientific and personal confrontation with Trofim Lysenko, the subsequent arrest and death of the scientist in prison. ...

Drums of Fire (1990)

In 1568, Saadi prince Abdelmalek is exiled from Morocco by his brothers, an event that is only the beginning of his adventures: fighting the Spanish Inquisition, taking part in the Battle of Lepanto, being incarcerated in Alicante prison, and assist in the ...

Looking for Oulen (1990)

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 ...

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 ...

Gipsy Happiness (1981)

A story about a gypsy boy who lives with his mother in the South-Russian village. ...

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 ...

The Wise Gudgeon (1979)

On the motives of Saltikov-Shedrin's fairy tale, the film derides aimless and senseless being. ...

The Late Berry (1979)

The life of Pavla Brus, a middle-aged, modest but principled woman, suddenly changes with a crush on a drilling foreman. Unable to restrain her feelings, she decides to cheat on her husband, divorce and leave the family. But her youngest son Kuzma, a teena ...

Highly Dangerous (1979)

One of the southern cities of Russia during the NEP. The famous doctor and his wife are killed, the person living opposite Schwartz is kidnapped. The bandits were looking for gold. Then there is a diversion at the factory. The Chekists find out that a man ...

Dawns Are Kissing (1978)

Collective farmer, foreman and tractor driver come to the city, where they find themselves in funny situations. ...

Miracles in the Sieve (1978)

A bizarre cartoon based on English nursery rhymes. ...

The Turning Point (1978)

The newlyweds return to Moscow after a wonderful sea cruise on the Black Sea. It seems that they will have a happy life ahead, their beloved job, but chance rudely cuts off all dreams: Viktor doesn't have time to slow down and knocks down an elderly woman ...

Pick, the Baby Mouse (1978)

Animation story about a little mouse, who was so tiny, that everybody could offend him. ...

Dogada (1977)

Based on a Russian fairy-tale joke about stupid men. ...

The Silver Hoof (1977)

An old man Kokovanya took to live to itself in a forest hut orphan Darenka. In the forest they saw an unusual goat who had a silver hoof. At what point will he stamped with his hoof — there will be a gemstone. ...

Speech for the Defence (1977)

Valya supported her lover, denied herself everything, devotedly and sincerely loved him. He answered her with black ingratitude. Struck in the very heart, Valya decides to commit suicide with him. ...

Tryn-grass (1976)

The love story of combine harvester Stepan Kalashnikov to his own wife Lydia. A student who has come to practice suddenly intervenes in the relationship of the characters and complicates their already difficult family life... ...

The House That Jack Built (1976)

Story about the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. ...

A Box With Secret (1976)

It is a musical imagination on the theme of the fairy tale of V.Odoevsky "Small town in a snuffbox". The film represents an original tiny rock opera. Source : www.animator. ...

It's a Wonderful Day (1975)

The cartoon based on the works of Alexander Pushkin was created on the basis of drawings from the exhibition "Pushkin through the eyes of children". ...

Prodelkin at School (1974)

The story of a restless schoolboy and his adventures at the school. ...

Ваня Датский (1974)

Maybe This Movie Is About You? (1973)

About a girl that takes up all businesses, but brings none to a conclusion. ...

Attacca (2018)

Audiovisual performance becomes a space for dialogue between composer Vladimir Martynov and young electronic musicians. ...

A Box With Secret (1976)

It is a musical imagination on the theme of the fairy tale of V.Odoevsky "Small town in a snuffbox". The film represents an original tiny rock opera. Source : www.animator. ...