Nikolai Godovikov

The White Sun of the Desert (1969)

The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his wife, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vladimir Motyl
CAST:  Anatoliy Kuznetsov  •  Spartak Mishulin  •  Pavel Luspekayev  •  Nikolai Godovikov

The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his wife, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vladimir Motyl
CAST:  Anatoliy Kuznetsov  •  Spartak Mishulin  •  Pavel Luspekayev  •  Nikolai Godovikov

The Republic of ShKID (1966)

The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gennadi Poloka
CAST:  Sergei Yursky  •  Yuliya Burygina  •  Pavel Luspekayev  •  Vera Titova

The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gennadi Poloka
CAST:  Sergei Yursky  •  Yuliya Burygina  •  Pavel Luspekayev  •  Vera Titova

Eugene, Little Eugene and Katyusha (1967)

Touching story about love of a young romantic man (Zhenia), who is a soldier of Guard Mortar Division (Division of "Katusha" Reactive Mortars) and a girl-telegraphist (Little Zhenia) at the last months of WW II.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vladimir Motyl
CAST:  Oleg Dal  •  Galina Figlovskaya  •  Georgiy Shtil  •  Pavlo Morozenko

Touching story about love of a young romantic man (Zhenia), who is a soldier of Guard Mortar Division (Division of "Katusha" Reactive Mortars) and a girl-telegraphist (Little Zhenia) at the last months of WW II.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vladimir Motyl
CAST:  Oleg Dal  •  Galina Figlovskaya  •  Georgiy Shtil  •  Pavlo Morozenko

Охотник за браконьерами (1975)

Schoolboy Vasya and his little sister Klasha live on the shore of a picturesque lake, in which trout are bred. With the help of their friends, the dogs of the Quiver and the horse Strelka, the guys detain the poachers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mariya Muat
CAST:  Vasili Funtikov  •  Sasha Kravchenko  •  Igor Rogozhin  •  Gennadi Frolov

Schoolboy Vasya and his little sister Klasha live on the shore of a picturesque lake, in which trout are bred. With the help of their friends, the dogs of the Quiver and the horse Strelka, the guys detain the poachers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mariya Muat
CAST:  Vasili Funtikov  •  Sasha Kravchenko  •  Igor Rogozhin  •  Gennadi Frolov

In the Black Sands (1973)

There is a civil war in Central Asia. Bai-rapist kills the whole family of a Turkmen young man, the shepherd Chara Esenov. The surviving Chara, avenging the scolded honor of her young sister, single-handedly pursues Shamurad Khan, the head of the local Basmachi ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Iskander Khamrayev
CAST:  Dagun Omaev  •  Bimbulat Vatayev  •  Gennadi Nilov  •  Leonhard Merzin

There is a civil war in Central Asia. Bai-rapist kills the whole family of a Turkmen young man, the shepherd Chara Esenov. The surviving Chara, avenging the scolded honor of her young sister, single-handedly pursues Shamurad Khan, the head of the local Basmachi ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Iskander Khamrayev
CAST:  Dagun Omaev  •  Bimbulat Vatayev  •  Gennadi Nilov  •  Leonhard Merzin