Vladimir Pokrovskiy

Richard III (1982)

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual ...

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. ...

Tracer Element (1972)

KGB agents are organizing the disinformation campaign for a western spy. ...

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. ...

Crash (1969)

The GPU secret service develops and conducts in 1923-24 an operational game aimed at the elimination of the Savinkov anti-Soviet underground. ...

Fate Plays with a Man (1968)

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. ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1968)

The Portrait of Dorian Gray had an amazing property: it took upon itself all the sins of the "original", as well as the passage of time. In real life, Dorian Gray did not change, not a single wrinkle appeared on his face, but the portrait aged for him... ...

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. ...

Kremlin Courier (1967)

Bolshevik Mravin, under the name of engineer Pyotr Ivanovich Lednev, risking his life, takes V.I. Lenin's "Letter to the American Workers" to America. With the help of John Reed, he publishes it in one of the newspapers. ...

The Tale of Young Spouses (1964)

A story about two young people who begin to build a life together, and after going through many difficulties and disappointments, they realize that they truly need each other. ...

Miraculous One (1960)

Rodka Gulyaev is a pupil of the Gumniskii rural secondary school. One day on the bank of the river he digs out the darkened old icon. Unfortunately for him his grandmother Avdotya, an overbearing and cunning old woman, spreads a rumor that the icon is mira ...

Midshipman Panin (1960)

It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasil ...

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 ...

The Magpie (1959)

Aneta, the serf actress of Knyaz Skalinsky, amazes with her beauty and talented performance of Shchepin. After the performance, a frank conversation ensues between them. The interlocutor learns that Skalinsky, pursuing the actress for a long time, gave her ...

A Weary Road (1956)

The station keeper Kruglikov was exiled to a remote Siberian village many years ago for shooting his superior, a general, who demanded that he go with him as a matchmaker to Kruglikov's favorite girl, Raya. A political exile is brought to the station. She ...

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 ...

The Safety Match (1954)

A man of big status disappears in a small provincial town. An old bored investigator and his young hyperactive assistant are on a trail of a bloody murderer. ...

The Fall of Berlin (1950)

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei ...

Lenin in October (1937)

Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917. ...