Yelena Solovey

The Lost City of Z (2017)

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it. ...

The Immigrant (2013)

1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island. ...

The Air Inside Her (2011)

When six year-old Katya explores the experience of death, she discovers life like she has never seen before. ...

We Own the Night (2007)

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen. ...

Anna Karamazoff (1991)

The story of a woman returning from a labor camp. She is looking for a person, on whose denunciation she was arrested, in order to take revenge on him, but having completed her judgment, she realizes that revenge is meaningless. ...

Rogonosets (1990)

After several years of happy married life, the wife cheated on her husband. For the man, this is a real tragedy. He is faced with questions: how to move on? Should he forgive the betrayal? Is it possible to continue loving after betrayal? The painful exper ...

The Artist from Gribov (1989)

The film is about a movie actress who has arrived to conquer Moscow from a distant village. Started career doesn't add up. To the bad luck in the profession added disorder of personal life. Trying to do away with the unfortunate past, the heroine decides t ...

The Days of a Man (1989)

Fortieth Day (1988)

A man died. Right near his home – he got hit by a car. On the fortieth day, his family and friends gather to honor his memory. A familiar situation – division of inheritance. Everyone is given the right to show their best and worst qualities. Not every ...

Friend (1988)

Looking for the money for a drink, an alcoholic gets a Newfoundland dog as a present from a stranger at a bird fair. He'll soon find out that the animal is not only able to speak, but to get him to give up drinking as well. Now he's determined to get rid o ...

Having Lied Once (1988)

Set in the Soviet Union, the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks. ...

Silver Strings (1988)

A film based on the biography of the famous Russian balalaika player Vasili Vasilevich Andreev (1867-1918), a self-taught virtuoso musician, who brought balalaika to the concert stage. ...

Time to Fly (1987)

Nothing like this has ever happened and could not happen in any of the airports. However, according to the authors of the film-parable, this tragicomic story is directly related to reality. It turns out that in order to properly fly airplanes, sometimes i ...

Lonely Woman Seeks Life Companion (1986)

Klava, a lonely woman who is bored with her life, posts an advertisement seeking a male companion. Valentin, a retired circus performer, responds to her message and the two enter a dubious relationship. ...

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1986)

A film about the remarkable life of Russian mathematician Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), the first woman to become a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Sofia Kovalevskaya's life was full of complex and dramatic twis ...

On the Eve (1985)

Elena Nikolaevna Stakhova, a girl from a noble family, is full of lofty ideals. Seeking "active good" and heroism and not finding the use of her powers in her environment, she falls in love with the Bulgarian student Insarov, a poor commoner democrat. Elen ...

Charlotte Necklace (1984)

While investigating a murder KGB detectives discover a criminal group which transfers a stolen artworks abroad . ...

Until the Snow Fell (1984)

Preparing for a meeting of former classmates, a woman recalls her school years and her first love. ...

The Blonde Around the Corner (1984)

An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception. ...

Without Family (1984)

A story about an orphan boy, abandoned by his family. He was raised by his kind adopted mother, and was sold by his adopted father in hardship to a traveling man who eventually, became his teacher and a father-figure. With his teacher, he learned to play m ...

The Precipice (1984)

Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic lov ...

Quarantine (1983)

Masha, an adventurous five years old girl tries to find what to do while her preschool is closed for quarantine. ...

Лишний билет (1983)

A month after the wedding, the newlyweds began to quarrel. And then a kind but unhappy wizard appeared, whose credo is to make others happy. ...

There Was No Sorrow (1983)

I'm Sorry (1982)

Pranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the airport and driven to his native village by a childhood friend Jonas, who works there as a doctor. ...

Look for a Woman (1982)

The story begins when Alice Postique, who had to stay late at work, discovers her boss Roche with a knife in his back. When the police detective arrives, Alice recognizes him as her old friend. ...

Mont-Oriol (1982)

Christiane de Ravenel and her husband, William Andermath were attracted by the owners of spa resort at Mont-Oriol by offering luxurious amenities and promising health benefits. However, the plans face numerous challenges, including financial difficulties a ...

Crazy Money (1981)

Moscow mid-XIX century. Middle-aged provincial businessman Savva Gennadievich Vasilkov falls in love with local beauty Lidiya Yuryevna Cheboksarova. Wanting to meet her, he asks his new acquaintance Telyatev to introduce himself as Cheboksarov. Telyatev an ...

Village Story (1981)

The fate of the main character, Grisha Gorelov, a young tractor driver who dreams of happiness for the hardworking people of his village, becomes entangled in a complex knot. He is convinced that there is nothing more important than land that is sown on ti ...

Fact (1981)

Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a f ...

Could One Imagine? (1981)

Two high school kids meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because of that, the boy's mother is very jealous and ...

Thanks to All! (1981)

Young mathematician Dmitry hard going through the care of his wife. Having accidentally got to the shooting of the film, the hero suddenly begins to realize that the plot is based on the memories of his ex-wife. ...

What Would You Choose? (1981)

Four third-grader friends live in an old Leningrad house, study in the same class and try to understand their parents and teachers. ...

Oblomov (1980)

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful ...

Light in the Window (1980)

A girl's mother dies and she is left with her newborn sister and father, both inconsolable in their grief... ...

The Guest (1980)

On New Year's Eve, a small company gathered. An unexpected call interrupted the fun. Behind the door stood a neighbor whom the owners did not like. They turned off the light, pretending that there was nobody at home. After some time, shame seized everyone. ...

And the Eternal Battle... From the Life of Alexander Blok (1980)

TV film-monograph. Filmed for the centenary of Alexander Blok's birth. ...

The Wife Has Left (1979)

He considered his family life perfect. Normal, and sometimes big wages quite satisfied a beautiful and gentle wife. The child didn't cause much trouble. All that was needed for his happiness was available. But the wife is gone. She left not to another, but ...

The Adventures of Prince Florisel (1979)

A mostly comical tale of all-powerful and wealthy Bavarian prince adventures that started when prince was seeking to deal with the boredom. Joining the Club of Suicide society, he uncovered the mastermind criminal behind it, and vowed to get rid of him by ...

Enemies (1978)

Drama based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky. ...

Funny People! (1978)

The movie intertwines the plot lines of the stories "In the Bathhouse", "Tears Invisible to the World", "A Conversation between a Man and a Dog" and others. By the will of the film's creators, the viewer gets to the rehearsals of an unusual choir and gets ...

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano (1977)

On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate. ...

A Slave of Love (1976)

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications. ...

Step Forward (1975)

Five sad and funny romantic stories about love... ...

The Diaries of a School Principal (1975)

The everyday life of a Soviet high school principal, a WWII veteran and an unfulfilled writer, whose vocation is teaching kids. ...

Concerto for Two Violins (1975)

The main characters are two graduates of a music school, gifted violinists. Andrei is ambitious, able-bodied, absorbed in the desire to achieve recognition. The other is Ladya Bragin, simple and reckless. On the day of the exam at the conservatory, he meet ...

Under a Stone Sky (1974)

In the autumn of 1944, contrary to the order of the Nazi command to evacuate to the south, residents of the Norwegian town of Kirkenes took refuge in an abandoned mine. The command of the Soviet Army became aware of the intentions of the Nazis to blow up t ...

Vanyushin's Kids (1974)

On the surface, everything appears respectable in the Vanyushin family; life flows as it does in any merchant household. But a deep, insurmountable chasm separates the parents from their children—and just as wide a gulf lies between the children themselv ...

Yegor Bulychyov and Others (1973)

In the center of the film is a powerful, peculiar, talented Russian man, the largest timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov. He is experiencing a tragic discord with himself, with the world that surrounds him, with great social injustice, to which his whole life ...

Unexpected Joy (1972)

Unfinished and lost film directed by Rustam Khamdamov, shot in 1972-1974. ...

Drama from the Old Life (1971)

A love story between a barber and a serf actress who find themselves in an environment that combines savagery with a veneer of enlightenment. Based on Nikolai Leskov's short story "The Toupee Artist". ...

The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev (1971)

After a photo of Konstantin Zbruyev got published in the magazine he got a lot of letters. So now it's a time for travel across the country in order to find a bride. ...

And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning (1971)

A drama based on Boris Lavrenev's play "The Rift", telling about the participation of Baltic Fleet sailors in the Bolshevik coup of 1917. ...

King Stag (1970)

A story of court intrigues, love, and betrayal. ...

A Ballad of Love (1970)

Leningrade. Galina works as a restorer at Catherine Palace; she is a sculptor as well and takes her profession very seriously and enthusiastically. Vera, a friend from art school, sees her loneliness and introduces her to her husband's colleagues - friendl ...

Belated Flowers (1969)

Princess Marusya once fell in love with the serious, businesslike doctor Toporkov, and it took her whole life for this man to one day turn away from his business and look into her eyes. Her days were already numbered. And she herself, and her love, and his ...

My Heart Is in the Highlands (1967)

A surreal film done in the style of a silent farce. ...