Yuriy Sherstnyov

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Zerograd (1988)

Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Karen Shakhnazarov
CAST:  Leonid Filatov  •  Oleg Basilashvili  •  Vladimir Menshov  •  Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Karen Shakhnazarov
CAST:  Leonid Filatov  •  Oleg Basilashvili  •  Vladimir Menshov  •  Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

The Master and Margarita (1994)

Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. Victimized by their harassment, Master throws his manuscript into the fire, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yuriy Kara
CAST:  Anastasiya Vertinskaya  •  Viktor Rakov  •  Valentin Gaft  •  Mikhail Ulyanov

Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. Victimized by their harassment, Master throws his manuscript into the fire, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yuriy Kara
CAST:  Anastasiya Vertinskaya  •  Viktor Rakov  •  Valentin Gaft  •  Mikhail Ulyanov

Lost in Siberia (1991)

The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aleksandr Mitta
CAST:  Anthony Andrews  •  Vladimir Ilin  •  Yelena Majorova  •  Irina Mikhalyova

The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aleksandr Mitta
CAST:  Anthony Andrews  •  Vladimir Ilin  •  Yelena Majorova  •  Irina Mikhalyova

Defence Counsel Sedov (1988)

Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks upon a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Evgeny Tsymbal
CAST:  Vladimir Ilin  •  Albina Matveyeva  •  Tamara Chernova  •  Татьяна Рогозина

Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks upon a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Evgeny Tsymbal
CAST:  Vladimir Ilin  •  Albina Matveyeva  •  Tamara Chernova  •  Татьяна Рогозина

Boris Godunov (1986)

Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergey Bondarchuk
CAST:  Sergey Bondarchuk  •  Alena Bondarchuk  •  Georgi Burkov  •  Irina Skobtseva

Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergey Bondarchuk
CAST:  Sergey Bondarchuk  •  Alena Bondarchuk  •  Georgi Burkov  •  Irina Skobtseva

Assassin of the Tsar (1991)

A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Karen Shakhnazarov
CAST:  Malcolm McDowell  •  Oleg Yankovskiy  •  Armen Dzhigarkhanyan  •  Yuriy Sherstnyov

A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Karen Shakhnazarov
CAST:  Malcolm McDowell  •  Oleg Yankovskiy  •  Armen Dzhigarkhanyan  •  Yuriy Sherstnyov

Moscow Heat (2004)

After a U.S. policeman is killed by black market weapons dealers, his partner, Rudy (Robert Madrid), and the murdered cop's father, ex-British Intelligence agent Roger Chambers (Michael York), head to Moscow to find the killers. The two begin to track down their ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jeff Celentano
CAST:  Michael York  •  Alexander Nevsky  •  Richard Tyson  •  Robert Madrid

After a U.S. policeman is killed by black market weapons dealers, his partner, Rudy (Robert Madrid), and the murdered cop's father, ex-British Intelligence agent Roger Chambers (Michael York), head to Moscow to find the killers. The two begin to track down their ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jeff Celentano
CAST:  Michael York  •  Alexander Nevsky  •  Richard Tyson  •  Robert Madrid

Mute Witness (1995)

Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister's boyfriend, Andy, Billy finds herself trapped in the studio one night and is horrified to see a snuff film being made. Billy ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anthony Waller
CAST:  Marina Zudina  •  Fay Ripley  •  Evan Richards  •  Igor Volkov

Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister's boyfriend, Andy, Billy finds herself trapped in the studio one night and is horrified to see a snuff film being made. Billy ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anthony Waller
CAST:  Marina Zudina  •  Fay Ripley  •  Evan Richards  •  Igor Volkov

You I Love (2004)

Vera and Tim are successful young professionals. Everything changes one night when Tim hits a young Kalmyk immigrant to Moscow, Uloomji, with his car. The two men begin a affair while Vera struggles to comprehend their bond and her boyfriend's erratic behavior. She ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dmitry Troitsky  •  Olga Stolpovskaya
CAST:  Damir Badmaev  •  Lyubov Tolkalina  •  Evgeny Koryakovsky  •  Nina Agapova

Vera and Tim are successful young professionals. Everything changes one night when Tim hits a young Kalmyk immigrant to Moscow, Uloomji, with his car. The two men begin a affair while Vera struggles to comprehend their bond and her boyfriend's erratic behavior. She ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dmitry Troitsky  •  Olga Stolpovskaya
CAST:  Damir Badmaev  •  Lyubov Tolkalina  •  Evgeny Koryakovsky  •  Nina Agapova

One-Two, Soldiers Were Going... (1976)

The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leonid Bykov
CAST:  Leonid Bykov  •  Vladimir Konkin  •  Nikolay Grinko  •  Yelena Shanina

The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leonid Bykov
CAST:  Leonid Bykov  •  Vladimir Konkin  •  Nikolay Grinko  •  Yelena Shanina

Listener (2004)

The Wave Runner (1967)

A pianist named Garvey, while traveling on a tour, gets off the train to buy cigarettes, and learns from a salesgirl that the cities imagined by Grin really exist. Forgetting about his tour, he goes to one of these cities, where he meets the captain of “The Waverunner”…  (more)

DIRECTION:  Valery Pendrakovsky
CAST:  Aleksey Petrenko  •  Mikhail Gorevoy  •  Igor Yatsko  •  Diana Morozova

A pianist named Garvey, while traveling on a tour, gets off the train to buy cigarettes, and learns from a salesgirl that the cities imagined by Grin really exist. Forgetting about his tour, he goes to one of these cities, where he meets the captain of “The Waverunner”…  (more)

DIRECTION:  Valery Pendrakovsky
CAST:  Aleksey Petrenko  •  Mikhail Gorevoy  •  Igor Yatsko  •  Diana Morozova

The Daytime Representative (2004)

Матерый вампир граф Дарлак возвращается в свой замок после столетнего отсутствия. У него прекрасный аппетит, и вскоре начинают пропадать и умирать люди. И только слуга графа, человек по имени Адам, остается жив и здоров. Хотя единственное его желание... самому ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vitaly Vorobyev
CAST:  Juozas Budraitis  •  Tatyana Arntgolts  •  Elena Polyakova  •  Grigory Kalinin

Матерый вампир граф Дарлак возвращается в свой замок после столетнего отсутствия. У него прекрасный аппетит, и вскоре начинают пропадать и умирать люди. И только слуга графа, человек по имени Адам, остается жив и здоров. Хотя единственное его желание... самому ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vitaly Vorobyev
CAST:  Juozas Budraitis  •  Tatyana Arntgolts  •  Elena Polyakova  •  Grigory Kalinin

Antikiller 2: Antiterror (2003)

Colonel Fox is in charge of a counter terrorism group that will now have the complicated mission to help the police to prevent a dangerous Chechen terrorist organization that wants to free its leader at any cost, even if it has to destroy the whole place.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Egor Konchalovsky
CAST:  Gosha Kutsenko  •  Lyubov Tolkalina  •  Aleksey Serebryakov  •  Sergey Veksler

Colonel Fox is in charge of a counter terrorism group that will now have the complicated mission to help the police to prevent a dangerous Chechen terrorist organization that wants to free its leader at any cost, even if it has to destroy the whole place.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Egor Konchalovsky
CAST:  Gosha Kutsenko  •  Lyubov Tolkalina  •  Aleksey Serebryakov  •  Sergey Veksler

Antikiller (2002)

Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Fox is released from prison. He has been detained there as a result of planted incriminating evidence of unlawful investigation techniques. Setting accounts with Shaman - a big criminal boss, who ordered the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Egor Konchalovsky
CAST:  Sergey Shakurov  •  Aleksandr Baluev  •  Gosha Kutsenko  •  Mikhail Ulyanov

Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Fox is released from prison. He has been detained there as a result of planted incriminating evidence of unlawful investigation techniques. Setting accounts with Shaman - a big criminal boss, who ordered the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Egor Konchalovsky
CAST:  Sergey Shakurov  •  Aleksandr Baluev  •  Gosha Kutsenko  •  Mikhail Ulyanov

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 love and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vladimir Vengerov
CAST:  Georgiy Antonov  •  Elena Finogeeva  •  Nikolay Kochegarov  •  Rimma Markova

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 love and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vladimir Vengerov
CAST:  Georgiy Antonov  •  Elena Finogeeva  •  Nikolay Kochegarov  •  Rimma Markova

Alice and the Bookseller (1992)

The star of Russian cinema Dmitry Singers has earned a reputation as a strong guy and won a lot of women's hearts in his previous works. This time his hero is the owner of a magnificent collection of ancient books. Mafia structures are not averse to warm your hands ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aleksei Rudakov
CAST:  Dmitriy Pevtsov  •  Olga Drozdova  •  Sergey Gazarov  •  Aleksandr Berda

The star of Russian cinema Dmitry Singers has earned a reputation as a strong guy and won a lot of women's hearts in his previous works. This time his hero is the owner of a magnificent collection of ancient books. Mafia structures are not averse to warm your hands ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aleksei Rudakov
CAST:  Dmitriy Pevtsov  •  Olga Drozdova  •  Sergey Gazarov  •  Aleksandr Berda
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