Vladimir Osenev

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981)

As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II, mystic Grigori Rasputin holds great influence over the empire. However, many in St Petersburg begin to regard Rasputin, with his strange practices and mesmerizing qualities, as a liability and plot his assassinatio ...

Miracles in the Sieve (1978)

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

The Golden Depths (1978)

The play of the same name by Mamin-Sibiryak, staged by the Vakhtangov State Academic Theater. At the center of the play is the daughter of a bankrupt gold miner, who, faced with cruel morals, herself becomes a predator. ...

The Man with the Gun (1977)

The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades. ...

The Bourgeois Gentleman (1977)

A recording of the Vakhtangov Theatre's production of the play by Jean-Baptiste Molière. "The Bourgeois Gentleman" is a brilliant, sparkling comedy by the great French literary classic Jean-Baptiste Molière. The attempts of an uneducated, ignorant, and ...

Ladies and Hussars (1976)

The action takes place on the estate of a major, where his friends, inveterate bachelors, and the sisters of the major, who came to marry him with his niece, meet. But the niece has long loved Lieutenant Edmund, and then a plan matures to persuade the majo ...

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1976)

In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher ...

Keys to Paradise (1976)

Successful work and life of a brave militia captain who does not know much about human psychology. ...

About the Gnome Which Left the Home (1976)

The story about the gnome and his anthropomorphic house which is afraid of the dark. ...

Soldier of the Motherland (1975)

About the famous fortification scientist, Lieutenant General of Engineering Troops Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev. Before the war, he led the work on strengthening the Brest Fortress and the approaches to Leningrad. In 1940 he was 60 years old. The beginnin ...

Light at the End of the Tunnel (1974)

A load of gold is stolen. Detectives make criminals play by their rules. ...

Upside Down (1974)

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 ...

The Millionairess (1974)

Teleplay by the Vakhtangov Theater based on B. Shaw's play of the same name. ...

Much Ado About Nothing (1973)

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well. ...

Land, Poste Restante (1973)

Based on a true story about Soviet spy Lev Manevich. He lives in Italy and operates in the Nazi Germany and Austria. Manevich, who is posing as a businessman, collects information about the latest German airplanes made by Messerschmitt for Luftwaffe. On hi ...

Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day (1972)

Another Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh story. This time the donkey, known from the Pooh stories as Eeyore, is sad because he has no tail. Pooh goes in search of one and finds it attached to a bell that hangs from the treehouse of one Owl. ...

Fifty-Fifty (1972)

A Soviet KGB agents are trying to prevent British-American operation of stealing information about an important scientific project from USSR. ...

Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting (1971)

The second of the Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh series. This one had Pooh and Piglet visiting Rabbit for a meal with honey. ...

Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man (1971)

TV version of the Vakhtangov's Theater play. The plot makes fun of secular society and shows what can turn cynical attempts to deceive people if they want to get to power and money. ...

A Thousand Souls (1971)

Based on the eponymous novel by A.F. Pisemsky. A play about the all-powerful influence of money and the morals of the bureaucratic world that destroy everything honest, good, and humane. ...

The Flight (1971)

The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the run" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to ...

Subject for a Short Story (1969)

The film tells about Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. October 17, 1896. On the facade of the Alexandrinsky Theater — a poster about the premiere of "The Seagull". A few hours are left before the performance. Chekhov and his sister Masha are expecting Lika Mizino ...

Winnie-the-Pooh (1969)

According to Winnie-the-Pooh himself, bears love honey very much. That's why it always runs out very quickly. And you can't do without honey, so Winnie, along with Piglet, sets off for a tall tree with a beehive hanging from it. Winnie fearlessly climbs u ...

The Brothers Karamazov (1969)

Based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The tragic story of the Karamazov family takes place in a Russian province in the late 19th century. The relations of their father and three brothers are very complicated and contradictory. One of t ...

The Seventh Companion (1967)

A portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a character study in General Adamov (Andrei Popov), a law professor in the tsarist army, who is incarcerated by the Bolshevik se ...

Man Without a Passport (1966)

A group of Soviet counterintelligence officers manage to neutralize spies sent to the territory of the country to obtain secret information about the construction of a large military-industrial complex in Priozersk. ...

Under the Chestnut Trees of Prague (1965)

The last days of the Second World War in Prague. ...

Shares in Murder (1964)

Beth Tyson is murdered in her mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell and Detective Philbert present three different versions of this crime. ...

Much Ado About Nothing (1956)

Leonato, governor of sunny Messina in Sicily, warmly welcomes Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, to his home. Don Pedro has arrived in the city accompanied by his retinue after the victorious conclusion of the war. The retinue includes the prince's friends, youn ...

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. ...

The Great Glinka (1946)

About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka. ...