Vladimir Tochilin

Respected Leshy (1988)

An old witch Baba Yaga tricks Leshy - a shy forest spirit - to turn into all sort of monsters in order to lure little Ivanushka into forest and frighten him. Because "fear means respect". ...

Women's Club (1987)

My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well. ...

Glass Beads (1978)

Big changes are coming to the life of twelve year old Masha after vacations on Kamchatka island. Her father spends most of his time sailing and lives in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, while the girl lives with her mother in Odessa. Masha had long dreamed of tr ...

At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (1974)

Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov was en ...