Yakov Shamshin

The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part II (2027)

The heroes journey to the Purple Country and confront the witch Bastinda. ...

Steppe Gods (2026)

In the summer of 1945, between the Victory over Germany and the war with Japan, 10-year-old Petka from a Far Eastern village tries to save a dying friend from a mysterious illness. But the only one who can help him is the Japanese prisoner Hirotaro from a ...

Wings Above Berlin (2022)

The year is 1941. Nazi Germany has declared war on the USSR and begins launching air assaults on Moscow and St. Petersburg. Stalin immediately orders a retaliatory air campaign under the code name "Wings over Berlin." The closest entry point to Berlin from ...

The Riot (2022)

The film's plot is based on a true story about a 10-year-old boy from a village, Ilya,whose father is killed. The criminal remains unpunished. Nobody around this situation is particularly worried, except the child, who arranges a real hunt for the murderer ...

Immortals (2022)

The story of four friends, former fellow soldiers from Afghanistan, who meet on the eve of Victory Day to see off a comrade on his last journey. ...

Cold Gold (2021)

There is no escape from the war... 1942. While all the forces of the country are thrown into the fight against fascist Germany, in the southern part of Yakutia there are gangs robbing gold mines. The largest of them is the elusive and brutal Popov gang, w ...

Major Grom: Plague Doctor (2021)

In present day St. Petersburg, police major Igor Grom, an honest and skilled cop with unconventional methods, pursues a vigilante murderer in the mask of a plague doctor. ...

Inner Fire (2020)

Kalashnikov AK-47 (2020)

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sket ...

The Ninth (2019)

Petersburg at the end of the 19th century was embraced by a massive enthusiasm for the occult sciences and esotericism. British medium Olivia Reed arrives in the capital of the Russian Empire on tour and gathers crowds of people at her public spiritualisti ...

In The Port of Cape Town (2019)

Sailor, Tillage and Salazhonok. They met only once, in the summer of 1945, in the Far East, in arms and with serious intentions. Everything ended in a firefight, and each of the participants is sure that he killed the other two. However, fate gave them all ...

The Beginning (2016)

A failed suicide attempt became the beginning of a long and happy life. ...

The Battalion (2015)

Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917. ...

The Role (2013)

The Role is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life - the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolution ...

Vacation (2012)

Ivan, the police captain, on his day off, which, incidentally, doesn't often happen to him, went with his wife Sveta to the cinema. Khan, Anna and Sergey also decided to spend the day together. Only they are not going to the movies or just taking a walk. T ...

Once There Was a Woman (2011)

A chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country. ...

Loner (2010)

KGB agent film about Gromova. Illegally sentenced to 12 years. His fight for justice interpretation. ...

Love Without Rules (2010)

He is a star of theater and cinema, his day is scheduled by the minute – shooting in blockbusters, starring roles on the stage, broadcasts of central channels, photo shoots for the covers of glamorous magazines. She is a modest girl from the province, he ...

Strawberry Field (2010)

I Am (2009)

The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after intensive compulsory treatment. Has a documentary film maker he gets involved in the Chechen conflict, where h ...

Riorita (2009)

The former supervisor of the camp of political prisoners, Barkhatov, turned out to be an ordinary corporal in the war, failed, and did not want to change in the new circumstances and remained a camp "turntable". And during the war, being together with naiv ...

Paper Soldier (2008)

In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts. ...

We Are from the Future (2008)

Four present-day Russian men dig for Nazi memorabilia at a WWII battlefield. A wormhole lake sends them back to a battle in 1942 USSR. ...