Vsevolod Safonov

Back in the USSR (1992)

A vacationing American and a sultry Russian thief lead police and smugglers on a deadly chase through Moscow. ...

Déjà vu (1990)

After Mick Nich, a 1930's Chicago gangster, sells out his own gang to the police, the Mafia hires the best hitman in town, Johnny Pollack, to follow him to Odessa, USSR. Upon arrival, Pollack loses his memory and goes on various adventures with a group of ...

With No Expiration Date (1987)

Leaving the seaside town at the end of the Great Patriotic War, the SS men hid lists of secret agents. A few years later, Sam Page, a former fascist mercenary Semyon Paygin, and two other agents come to the USSR in order to search for the archive. After al ...

Seven Screams Across the Sea (1986)

A fantastical fable based on a play by Alejandro Casona. ...

The Feat of Odesa (1985)

The plot is based on the true facts of the heroic defense of Odesa during the Second World War. The first series, based on documentary material, is a series of events related to the defense of the city. The second series consists of individual novels dedic ...

You are My Delight, My Torment (1984)

The owner of a beautiful voice, Nikolai Bakhin, dreaming of getting into the Bolshoi Theater, takes vocal lessons from the famous singer and teacher Irina Tarnopolskaya. Bakhin is taken to the theater. After an internship at La Scala, success comes to the ...

Anna Pavlova (1983)

The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor health, learning for her becomes unbearably difficult, but dreams of a ballerina career make her stubbornly deal with adversity. Anna's performance and determi ...

Such a Tough Game As Hockey (1983)

A new coach appears in the team - and after a while the hockey players get the long-awaited success. But the tough methodology of the coach changes the moral climate in the team. Krynin, the captain of the team, stands up to defend the dignity of the playe ...

To My People! (1983)

A man reconnects with the people he grew up with in a Soviet orphanage. ...

Tenderness for the Roaring Beast (1982)

Based on the novel of the same name by A. Bakhvalov. The plot is based on a story-interview about the testing of the new strategic missile carrier Tu-22K and Tu-22M2/M3 (for well-known reasons, in close-ups, instead of them, the film shot the then less sec ...

Deer Hunting (1982)

Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves in the occupied territory in the area of operations of the Belarusian partisan detachment. To find ...

The Black Triangle (1981)

Soviet television feature film of 1981, a three-part historical detective. In January 1918, one of the most notorious crimes of the first years of the Revolution took place - the Patriarchal sacristy of the Moscow Kremlin was robbed. The investigation is c ...

Old Debts (1980)

After returning from the war, Andrei Petrovich Kochnev became a metallurgical engineer. Passionate about his work, he immediately took an active part in managing the plant—and soon became its director. While installing equipment to implement his long-sta ...

Spanish Version (1980)

Soviet spy works in Spain during the second half of Thirties. Based on Yulian Semyonov novel. ...

Silver Lakes (1980)

The handsome Sergei Kovalev decided that engineering was not his profession and left to live with relatives in the provincial town of Serebryanye Ozera. There he met the family of a young artist, unexpectedly became angry, and decided to take revenge on hi ...

Spring Trip (1979)

Summer, sea, holiday home. Lena meets Arthur. The days fly by instantly, and now weekdays are coming. However, the "holiday romance", as Arthur considered his acquaintance with Lina, was not over. Chance forced me to find Lina in the city. Upon learning th ...

Responsible for Everything (1979)

The main character of the film, Nikolai Alekseevich Kurylenko, works as a master mentor at a computer factory. He helps his students not only to master the basics of mastery, but also to get out of difficult life collisions... ...

Risk Strategy (1978)

A story about an oil worker who went from the head of a geological exploration expedition to the chief geologist of the trust. ...

Right of First Signature (1978)

An employee of the foreign trade association Kazakov makes an offer to the American businessman Vikas to invest in the construction of a chemical plant. It was decided to build it on the site of a gasification station in Nizhne-Pechorsk. Vikas' decision to ...

The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce (1977)

A movie based on Julian Semyonov's novel "A Bomb for the Chairman". A West German concern is conducting secret negotiations on the production of an atomic bomb with an interested state. The son of the head of the concern, realizing the monstrosity and scal ...

Eleven Hopes (1976)

The basis of the film story is the creation of a talented football team by a coach, its participation in a qualifying match, and preparation for the World Cup. ...

To Be a Brother (1976)

About workers whose fate is inextricably linked to the factory and the problems of factory life. ...

All the Evidence is Against Him (1975)

Chauffeur Movilyanu is arrested at his own wedding, accused of running over a man — all the evidence points to his guilt. However, during the investigation, police colonel Chekan uncovers that the driver was framed, and the real criminals are still at la ...

Front Without Flanks (1975)

A first episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazi occupation of Russia during WWII. The film is set in August of 1941, when the Nazi forces invaded and occupied the European part of Russia. Major Mlynsky is in charge o ...

Repeated Wedding (1975)

Mrs. Shelton's Journey (1975)

A Soviet motor ship chartered by an English tourist firm sets off from London on a round-the-world voyage. A competing firm prepares a provocation on the ship. Mrs. Shelton, having learned that her husband is cheating on her, goes on this cruise to survive ...

Conscience (1974)

Three Soviet prisoners of war escape from a fascist concentration camp at the end of the war. One of the guards helps them and runs with them. Many years later, this former German henchman meets one of the escapees and comes up with the idea of ​​\u200 ...

Tales of Keshka and His Friends (1974)

Fun-loving Keshka, fidgety Borka, romantic Sima, businesswoman Anechka and extremely serious Tolyan, suddenly taken up with sports, quite seriously take up the construction of the map. ...

The Sky Behind the Clouds (1973)

In the years following the end of WWII, test pilots and designers risk their lives to master new jet technologies. ...

Listen, on the Other Side (1972)

Soldiers of the Russian-Mongolian Joint Special Detachment, who are carrying out a special mission, went to the front line of the war and assumed the responsibility of conducting a sharp emotional and ideological battle with words and sounds. Therefore, th ...

Taming of the Fire (1972)

About Russian space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961. ...

The End of the Lyubavines (1972)

Based on the novel by Vasiliy Shukshin "The Lyubavines". In the winter of 1922, the Rodionovs, Vasiliy Platonovich and his nephew Kuzma, came to the remote Siberian village of Baklan, disguised as teachers sent from the district center to organize and bui ...

The Sea in Flames (1972)

The film recreates the heroic epic of the defense of Sevastopol in 1941-1942. The fall of 1941. Having broken through the defense at Perekop and seized Crimea, the fascist troops begin the siege of Sevastopol. The Soviet fleet is withdrawn to Novorossiysk. ...

Declaration of Love to G.T. (1971)

Dr. Gisa Tonius, a physicist in her thirties who has a nearly adult stepdaughter, cherishes the desire to have her own child. Suddenly, a big interdisciplinary research project threatens to significantly change Gisa′s life. Uncertain whether to look for ...

Byelorussian Station (1971)

Four former soldiers reunite 25 years after the war. Last time they saw each other on the Byelorusian railway station in the summer of 1945. Now they've come together to mourn the death of a friend. ...

Career (1971)

Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to become the head of a division—on the condition that he find a reason to fire Zacharias, a communist and the work ...

My Street (1971)

The old Zabrodins have always lived honestly, according to their conscience. What is happening in the family of the eldest son, and especially the way the youngest son, a famous soccer player, behaves is not only incomprehensible to his parents, but makes ...

Far to the West (1969)

Spring of 1944. The war is nearing its end. Thousands of concentration camp inmates were brought to the Normandy coast to repair the defenses damaged by Allied aircraft. On one of the islands, a small group of prisoners, led by Colonel Zakharov, prepares a ...

Liberty or Death (1969)

In а short but heroic campaign, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev leads a band of rebels from the Danube to the Balkan Range. ...

The Russians Are Coming (1968)

It's the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During the hunt for a forced labourer who is on the run, Günter catches him and watches as he is shot to death. He proudly a ...

Wild Honey (1967)

1943 year. On the instructions of the military newspaper, the photojournalist Varvara Knyazhich goes to the front line to take some pictures of the knocked-down powerful German tank "Tiger". In a combat situation, she has to face a difficult relationship b ...

On the Wild Shore (1967)

The story of the confrontation between chief engineer Petin, a careerist and a fraudster, and Litvinov, an experienced construction supervisor, a solid, direct and generous man. ...

How Do I Call You Now?.. (1965)

A story about a brave Soviet spy working behind the enemy lines during WWII. ...

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965)

A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this ...

An Easy Life (1964)

A chemist by training, Alexandr Bochkin manages a Moscow dry-cleaning operation, but lives a very comfortable life, taking orders on the side for his speculative "private enterprise," run in conjunction with "Queen Margot". But when his old friend from the ...

Silence (1964)

Screen adaptation of the novel by Yuri Bondarev. The demobilized Sergei Vokhmintsev returns to Moscow and enters the institute. Suddenly, according to the neighbor's slanderous denunciation, his father is arrested — and Sergei, as the son of an "enemy o ...

An Optimistic Tragedy (1963)

1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorg ...

Hello, Gnat! (1963)

During the construction of an oil pipeline, an unexploded bottom mine was discovered. The dangerous situation brings back memories of wartime events for diver Gnat. ...

The Law of the Antarctic (1963)

On the eve of the New Year, a Belgian plane carrying a group of Antarctic researchers crashes in the area of the Pearl Mountains. Only the Soviet expedition responds to their call for help. For several days, Soviet pilots, despite the weather conditions an ...

The Law of the Antarctic (1963)

Zakon Antarktidy/The Law of the Antarctic (Soviet 1963) – Sovscope 70. Optically converted to 3-strip Kinopanorama. ...

The Cossacks (1961)

Historical drama based on the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy. Junker Olenin, a representative of St.Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St.Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he ...

Five Days, Five Nights (1961)

Five Days, Five Nights (Fünf Tage, Fünf Nächte) takes place in Dresden in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. While Dresden is in ruins, over two thousand paintings by artists including Rembrandt, Raphael, Rubens, Giorgione, and Vermeer hav ...

On the Eve (1959)

The story is set in the 1800s.Elena and Inzarov,a revolutionary Bulgarian ,fall in love.After secretly marrying they decide to join the liberation, but on the eve of departure Dmitry dies. Elena takes Inzarov's body to the Balkans . ...

Fellows (1959)

A coming-of-age story about the three girl friends who had just graduated school. ...

On the Other Side (1958)

Based on the novel of the same name by Viktor Kin. 1921, Far East. Two Komsomol members, Matveyev and Bezais, must cross the front line near Khabarovsk to give the partisans money and a coded message. In Khabarovsk, Matveyev wants to meet a girl, Liza, wit ...

The Variegateds Case (1958)

Sergey's girlfriend desperately wants him to quit dangerous police job. But Sergey doesn't want to abandon his new case which proves to be quite difficult. ...

The Purpose of His Life (1958)

Alexei Kostrov goes a difficult way through luck and defeat to the cherished goal - to become a test pilot. ...

Storm (1957)

In the winter of 1918, a provincial Russian town is faced with a shortage of food, firewood, and medicine. Discontent is brewing in the Red Army regiment stationed in the town, as former Tsarist officers sow seeds of discord in an attempt to organize a cou ...

Soldiers (1956)

Set in Russia during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War. The war is shown through the eyes of simple soldiers, who are dreaming about love and being loved in a peaceful life, which most of them will never have. ...