Yuriy Dubrovin

Sir (2006)

A prosperous businessman Nikita after his birthday party finds himself in a tiny village surrounded by swamps, but what's more - all the peasants there call him "My lord" and are sure that they are living in Russia in the beginning of the 19th century. At ...

Second Hand (2005)

Young man buys a "second-hand" jacket. In its pocket there's an invitation to a funeral. He goes to the address specified in the invitation. ...

Shukshin's Stories (2002)

Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people "of the people", contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life's ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - th ...

Казачья быль (1999)

The Outskirts (1998)

The hero is an ordinary farmer, Philip Safronov, whose peaceful life is aggressively interrupted when his land is appropriated by a mysterious group to exploit its oil resources. ...

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)

Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free ...

Musketeers 20 Years Later (1993)

The new adventures of four musketeer friends... Based on Alexandre Dumas père novel "20 Years Later". ...

Elysian Fields (1993)

On the eve of Christmas in the estate "Elysian Fields" landowner Vladimir gathered his friends - young Proinka with her father and their neighbor Vasili. ...

Tram-tararam or Buhty-barahty (1993)

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Hop: Exodus (1991)

The film tells the story of the life of an Old Believer community at the beginning of the last century. The drama of an unusual life, a story of love and human passions. ...

Bloodsuckers (1991)

When a young man wants to marry a poor girl, her cousin envies her very much. She even makes everybody believe that the main character was in love with her. He escapes from many difficulties in order to find his beloved who also became trapped in a luxurio ...

Hop: The Fortress (1991)

Based on the novel of the same name by Alexei Cherkasov. The film tells the story of an Old Believer community at the beginning of the last century. The drama of an unusual life, a story of love and human passions. ...

Gambrinus (1990)

The beginning of the 20th century. Everyone knows the pub "Gambrinus" in the southern seaside town. Here you can always get a mug of fresh beer, meet your friends, have a quick word with the hostess Madame Ivanova and, of course, listen to the inimitable p ...

Art of Living in Odessa (1990)

The plot of the movie is based on books of Isaak Babel about Jewish criminals in city of Odessa before and after the Russian revolution. ...

Doping for Angels (1990)

You dreamed of an angel at night, and in the morning you found a gift under your door. And no matter how real the dream may seem, this gift is more likely from a cunning seducer, and the Angel has nothing to do with it. And if you are also an incorruptible ...

Scourge of God (1989)

After leaving prison, 40 years old Lyashenko robbed a man at the station and, along with the money, stole a passport. Realizing that he had robbed his childhood friend, Lyashenko decided to return the stolen goods. A night conversation between the tramp Le ...

Dress Rehearsal (1989)

A poetic psychological drama about the adolescence of the Ukrainian-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol filmed for Soviet television at A. Dovzhenko Film Studion in 1988. Based on the short story "Gogol-gimnazist" by Vasili Avenarius. ...

The Prisoner of If Castle (1989)

A Russian version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe ...

Tethered to the Runway (1989)

When a man cannot get a health certificate from a veterinary, he leaves his dog at the airport. Abandoned, the dog waits for her master, hoping to meet him off of every plane. ...

Criminal Talent (1988)

A tragicomic story about a long going duel between experienced detective and young and pretty girl in the start of her grafter career. ...

Without A Uniform (1988)

The head of the Pervomaiskaya Railway, at the first stage of perestroika, having accidentally learned that they want to fire him from his job, decides to carry out an experiment he had long planned - to put a super-heavy train on the tracks... ...

Miss Millionersha (1988)

At the beginning of "perestroyka", city authorities are getting ready for another event in keeping with the spirit of stagnant times. A director with a rather "unyielding" character is assigned to make a film about the birth of the one millionth inhabitant ...

Love For Your Neighbor (1988)

The film consists of two short stories: "Monument" and "Love for Neighbor". ...

The Zone (1988)

Based on the play by Mykola Kulish. The film takes place at a time when Soviet power was established, and due to collectivization and excessive withdrawal of funds from grain sales abroad, famine began. Against this backdrop unfolds the story of three comr ...

Insult (1987)

The saleswoman of the village store Pasha Nikitina generously distributed all the money from the proceeds to the villagers in debt, when they were left without a salary through the fault of the Chairman. The audit appeared suddenly — and Pasha began to d ...

Night Crew (1987)

One July evening, a vocational school student nicknamed Rooster, a second-year student Balda and the well-read Kid started a fight. And when they saw the police car, the friends fled, stole the car and took two girls with them. However, the night crew's fu ...

Captain of the Pilgrim (1987)

Junga Dick Sands takes the place of the dead captain and brings the Pilgrim ship to Africa, and not to America, as the vile villain and slave trader Negoro put an ax under the compass. So the fifteen-year-old captain, the wife of the shipowner with his yo ...

I Have the Honor (1987)

Gendarmes arrest Vyacheslav, a free-thinking student. His friend Kirill gives his word of honor that he will release Vyacheslav from the dungeons of the Okhrana, but for this he will have to create a combat squad and engage in a deadly battle with the Blac ...

That's My Village... (1986)

How to save the village? How to keep people in it? How to manage the land adjacent to large construction sites? The last inhabitants of the village are trying to solve these problems. ...

For the Sake of a Few Lines (1986)

The Carpathians, 1944. The truck with the employees of the divisional newspaper was blown up by a mine. Everyone was alive, but the font was scattered by the blast wave — and now, under the bullets of the enemy, the newspapermen must collect the material ...

The First Lad (1986)

Young agronomist Viktor Nozhov makes an extraordinary decision - he leaves a successful state farm and becomes the chairman of a backward collective farm in his native village... ...

Wonder Season (1985)

Vadim, an artist overwhelmed by his family life, borrows a friend's dacha for a creative retreat. ...

A Moment to Look Back (1985)

Boris Zhitkov intends to fulfill his dream and get a job at a shipyard where a vacancy has opened up for a process engineer. At the same time, he writes stories about sea stories, where, according to him, there is not even a fraction of fiction. But before ...

Why Does a Person Need Wings? (1985)

The balaguer and merrymaker Vasya the midwife, a favorite of the village, got his nickname because he often told a story of the war years, at which everyone laughed. One day, his former commander showed up in the village. ...

Men Are Men (1985)

Batallions Ask for Fire (1985)

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII. ...

Stolen Happiness (1984)

Anna and Michailo grow up together, attracted to each other since their earliest days. When Anna's father dies, her brothers force her into marriage with the mean farmer Mikola. After years of absence, Michailo comes home, to get her back. ...

The Legend of Princess Olga (1984)

The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olha of Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rusʹ) at the start of the 11th century. Inspired by chronicles and folk legends this is a story of a common girl Olha who married Prince ...

The Green Van (1983)

It is 1920. After three years of the Russian Civil War, communist government is finally established in Odessa. Young Alyosha Patrikeyv, who dreams of being a detective like Sherlock Holmes, joins the newly forming Odessa Criminal Police. He is assigned to ...

Men Wanted (1983)

Alexey Veryaskin, a new employee, joins the team of concrete carpenters, who left his prosperous family to take an active part in the construction of a large hydroelectric power station. ...

Love by Request (1982)

Two people: Igor, an ex-athlete living aimlessly and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, a dowdy librarian, try to find their luck by planning to fall in love with each other based on "psychological conditioning". ...

Lives of the Holy Sisters (1982)

Timosh, a young village boy, finds himself in the ministry of Father Mikhail, a priest who hides in a convent with him after a scandal with the Count. There Timosh encounters the mundane mores of the monastery, where the abbess and sisters are steeped in g ...

Keep Your Eyes Open! (1982)

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 ...

Sunglasses (1980)

Upon arriving at the resort with his vacation package, the protagonist discovers that it is closed, and he will have to resolve the practical issues of daily life in the resort area on his own. ...

Who Will Pay For Luck? (1980)

Crimea, 1919. The White Guards are preparing a trial of the revolutionary Antonina Chumak. Sailor Kuskov, Cossack Dmitry Chumak and card cheater Fedor Chumar arrive in the city to save her. ...

Punchy Man (1980)

The new young director of the car depot shows energy and the ability to come to an agreement with everyone for the common good, but his principle "you - for me, I - for you" has not yet been approved by the car depot team... ...

School (1980)

The action of the movie takes place during the Bolshevik coup. A fifteen-year-old teenager from the province, becoming a fighter of the Red Army, successfully passes the beginning of a great path of the school of "courage"... ...

Shattered Sky (1979)

1918. A group of Russian aviators who had been training in France return to Russia and join the White Army. However, two pilots soon switch sides and fight in the Red Army's first aviation unit. ...

Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1979)

A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. ...

Cabbages and Kings (1979)

Everything would have gone on as usual in the island of Anchuria, if not for a small suitcase filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars that suddenly turned up at the local barber's, and the mysterious stranger who one day was washed ashore by the waves ...

Errors of Youth (1978)

A young guy decides to try himself in a northern region of USSR after being honorably discharged from Soviet Army. ...

The Feast of the Baked Potato (1978)

Drama about Aleksandra Avramovna Derevskaya (1902-1959), who, between the two wars - the Civil and Great Patriotic War, raised 48 orphan children of different nationalities. After her death, each birthday, her large family gathers at the table, to preserve ...

Lone Wolf (1977)

Based on one of Turgenev's Hunter's Sketches: the Lone Wolf of the title is a forest caretaker for a flippant aristocrat. Though he lives in absolute misery in a hut deep in the woods with two small children to take care of, he's feared for his merciless s ...

Everybody Knows Kadkin (1977)

The returning soldier Kuzma Kadkin on the train tells how well he lived before the war, and that everyone in the area knows him. An accidental fellow traveler, a young mother, leaves her child, a one and a half year old boy, Kadkin, to run away at the junc ...

Widows (1977)

The film tells about two elderly widows who live in the same house. They are united not only by tragedy, but also by common concern, namely the grave of two unknown soldiers, which they have been guarding for over 30 years. And suddenly the managers of the ...

Spring of the Twenty-Ninth (1976)

Follows the builders of the first five-year plan. The hero of the film is the director of construction of the tractor plant Grigory Guy, a man of inexhaustible energy, selflessly devoted to the cause, who managed to rally the team for early completion of c ...

Love at First Sight (1975)

Murad Rasulov, a simple 16-year-old Azerbaijani, raised in Tbilisi, and a passionate fan of football, falls in love for the first time in his life with Anya, a Belarusian girl who is studying at the same institute in Baku, two years older than him. The dif ...

Red Rooster Plymouth Rock (1975)

Valka is a young boy whose dream is to get a red Plymouth Rock breed rooster and teach him to dance. ...

Escape from the Palace (1975)

A family drama about life of a few children in Ukraine during thirties. ...

Cement (1974)

About the restoration of a cement plant destroyed during the Civil War. ...

Workdays of the Criminal Investigation (1973)

For several months, the investigation into the robbery of the cashier in the village of Airport. Assistants to the chief of criminal investigation department Mironov managed to find the direct traces leading to the thief-the recidivist Panasyuk serving sen ...

Sea of Our Hope (1973)

A fire starts on board a foreign ship. Sailors of the Soviet merchant fleet come to the aid of those in distress in the ocean. ...

Dauria (1972)

A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the time of the October Revolution. The age-old foundations are crumbling, the process of social stratification is underway and, as a result, some people go to def ...

Audacity (1971)

A group of Red Army scouts are trying to find a secret Hitler's headquarters in Ukraine during WWII. ...

Prisoners of Beaumont (1971)

Soviet intelligence officer Kraft has a new assignment. This time, acting under the name of engineer Grubbe, he must find and transfer to the center the secret drawings of a new submarine codenamed "Walter". ...

Sevastopol (1970)

Soviet propaganda film. It is 1917. Sergei Shelekhov, a graduate of a junker school, is sent to Sevastopol. His acquaintance with the Bolshevik Zinchenko largely determines Sergei's attitude to the political situation in Russia on the eve of the revolution ...

Volchiy Island (1970)

The year is 1962. Returning after an important mission, the polar aviation pilot Tagilov saves a young woman, Tatyana, who is stranded on a chipped ice floe. She is a doctor. ...

Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge (1970)

The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters ...

Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough (1970)

Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they ...

Varka's Land (1970)

Varya Kravets remains on her native collective farm after graduating from school. Her first love also came to her. The death of her beloved is all the more unexpected for her. Fellow villagers are helping to overcome the crisis. ...

At War as at War (1969)

Junior Lieutenant Maleshkin, an unshooted graduate of the school, commands the crew of the self-propelled gun SU-100. All the subordinates of Maleshkin are older than him and much more experienced. The authority of the young commander is tested at every st ...

White Clouds (1968)

A man is notified of his father's imminent death. He travels to his father in a remote Ukrainian village, recalling his childhood during the disastrous forced collectivization and artificial famine (Holodomor) of the 1930s by the Soviet regime. The film wa ...

Love Awaits Those Who Return (1968)

Follows a young soldier and poet at the beginning of World War II in 1941. After being wounded while trying to save his commander, he finds himself behind enemy lines and goes through an arduous journey of survival and trials as he makes his way to a parti ...

Sergey Lazo (1968)

A historical drama about the Communist leader Sergey Lazo. ...

Dissenting Opinion (1967)

A man's corpse is found on the seashore. Conducting a thorough investigation, the young investigator Kovalev establishes the identity of the murdered man and his pursuer - in the past a provocateur, who gave the Hitlerites a group of underground fighters. ...

No Password Necessary (1967)

A spy game between Reds and Whites is in full motion during Russian Civil War. ...

First Visitor (1966)

The Alive and the Dead (1964)

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for th ...

Boys from Our Courtyard (1961)

A short film about young delinquents terrorizing a neighbourhood. ...

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 ...

Лавина с гор (1959)

Spring of 1917. Soldiers of the former Wild Division are returning to their villages. Anzor, a footman of Prince Naurbek, commander of the Kabarda regiment, finds poverty and ruin at home - his mother and many other villagers have fallen into bondage debts ...

The Killers (1956)

The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky ...