Tatyana Barysheva

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, Alyosha is ...  (more)

A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.  (more)

Marina Orlova couldn't even imagine how many adventures are expecting to her in a first grade...  (more)

A loose Communist adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel.  (more)

A Russian peasant woman is captured by Nazis and sold into slavery in Germany. Shown in Cannes in 1946.  (more)

Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two of the boys come home with perfectly normal girls, but the youngest brother, Ivanushka, brings home a frog from the ...  (more)

Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking Glass style. ...  (more)

A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.  (more)

A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.  (more)

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Life in a Russian village at harvest time as idealized peasant pastoral, concentrating on the landscapes and folk songs of the region.  (more)

Cheerful and mischievous lad Gritsko offers young Parasya his hand and his heart on the first day of the fair in Sorochyntsi. The girl's father, Cherevik, presents no objection – her stepmother, however, is furious, and refuses to recognise their relationship; ...  (more)

Fabrikant, Ilya Artamonov of the former serfs. His desire to strengthen and develop the business knows no obstacles. He is still associated with the peasants and craftsmen, but with his death, this relationship ends. Between Peter Artamonov, his son, who became the ...  (more)

They met in Moscow - a shy swineherd Glasha and shepherd Musaib. Long and difficult will be their way to love and a new meeting in this classic Soviet musical comedy.  (more)

The plot is built around two charming sisters — a strict, wayward Galina, an assistant professor of mathematics, and a windy, frivolous student Shurochka. Despite the fact that the girls are so different, they are looking, of course, for one thing — love. The ...  (more)

On the evening of May 9, 1945, when Moscow is noisily and cheerfully celebrating the Victory Day, a young girl agronomist Zina Sokolova and a sailor officer Lavrentyev meet in the compartment of the Moscow-Vladivostok train. The sailor takes the lively, direct ...  (more)

Young railroad worker, seemingly accommodating to Nazi overlords at a captured rural depot, secretly spearheads acts of sabotage against the evil occupying forces.  (more)

On New Year's Eve, two lost in the woods toys try to prove to wild and hungry predators that they're not good to eat.  (more)

A naughty kitten runs away from home to take part in a dangerous forest adventure. A special "fluffy effect" was developed for this cartoon to make animals look more lively.  (more)

The tale of the little badger, who did not want to learn to produce their own food and dig burrows. And once, when he told his father that he's hurt his back, and he played and lost, he realized how much need to be able to survive. Because such small animals as he ...  (more)