Ivan Zhevago

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The Diamond Arm (1969)

In the southern town, a gang of "currency traders" is operating, led by the Chief and his assistant Kozodoyev. A modest Soviet clerk and an exemplary family man Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov goes on a foreign cruise on a motor ship, on which Kozodoyev also sailed, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leonid Gaidai
CAST:  Yuriy Nikulin  •  Andrey Mironov  •  Anatoli Papanov  •  Nina Grebeshkova

In the southern town, a gang of "currency traders" is operating, led by the Chief and his assistant Kozodoyev. A modest Soviet clerk and an exemplary family man Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov goes on a foreign cruise on a motor ship, on which Kozodoyev also sailed, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leonid Gaidai
CAST:  Yuriy Nikulin  •  Andrey Mironov  •  Anatoli Papanov  •  Nina Grebeshkova

War and Peace (1966)

A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergey Bondarchuk
CAST:  Sergey Bondarchuk  •  Ludmila Savelyeva  •  Vyacheslav Tikhonov  •  Oleg Efremov

A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergey Bondarchuk
CAST:  Sergey Bondarchuk  •  Ludmila Savelyeva  •  Vyacheslav Tikhonov  •  Oleg Efremov

The Elusive Revengers (1967)

Dan'ka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village has been brutally ended when their father was killed by the White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge they join forces with an intellectual from the city Valerka and jipsy Yashka, but before they get ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edmond Keosayan
CAST:  Viktor Kosykh  •  Vasili Vasilyev  •  Mikhail Metyolkin  •  Valentina Kurdyukova

Dan'ka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village has been brutally ended when their father was killed by the White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge they join forces with an intellectual from the city Valerka and jipsy Yashka, but before they get ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edmond Keosayan
CAST:  Viktor Kosykh  •  Vasili Vasilyev  •  Mikhail Metyolkin  •  Valentina Kurdyukova

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973)

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leonid Gaidai
CAST:  Aleksandr Demyanenko  •  Yuriy Yakovlev  •  Leonid Kuravlyov  •  Mikhail Pugovkin

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leonid Gaidai
CAST:  Aleksandr Demyanenko  •  Yuriy Yakovlev  •  Leonid Kuravlyov  •  Mikhail Pugovkin

Journey Beyond Three Seas (1957)

This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the trade way from Europe to India. The film is based on Nikitin’s travel notes. Starring in the film are popular Russian ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vasily Pronin  •  Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
CAST:  Nargis  •  Oleg Strizhenov  •  Padmini  •  Prithviraj Kapoor

This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the trade way from Europe to India. The film is based on Nikitin’s travel notes. Starring in the film are popular Russian ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vasily Pronin  •  Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
CAST:  Nargis  •  Oleg Strizhenov  •  Padmini  •  Prithviraj Kapoor

12 Chairs (1971)

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leonid Gaidai
CAST:  Archil Gomiashvili  •  Sergei Filippov  •  Mikhail Pugovkin  •  Nina Grebeshkova

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leonid Gaidai
CAST:  Archil Gomiashvili  •  Sergei Filippov  •  Mikhail Pugovkin  •  Nina Grebeshkova

War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967)

As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergey Bondarchuk
CAST:  Ludmila Savelyeva  •  Sergey Bondarchuk  •  Vyacheslav Tikhonov  •  Viktor Stanitsyn

As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergey Bondarchuk
CAST:  Ludmila Savelyeva  •  Sergey Bondarchuk  •  Vyacheslav Tikhonov  •  Viktor Stanitsyn

The Only Road (1975)

Partisans attack a column of hundred german trucks cisterns, that carry fuel to the front. However, their action is difficult, as Germans have chained Soviet prisoners to the driving wheels. The mission is to stop and destroy the column and save the lives of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vladimir Pavlovich
CAST:  Anatoliy Kuznetsov  •  Vladimir Vysotsky  •  Lev Durov  •  Gleb Strizhenov

Partisans attack a column of hundred german trucks cisterns, that carry fuel to the front. However, their action is difficult, as Germans have chained Soviet prisoners to the driving wheels. The mission is to stop and destroy the column and save the lives of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vladimir Pavlovich
CAST:  Anatoliy Kuznetsov  •  Vladimir Vysotsky  •  Lev Durov  •  Gleb Strizhenov

Flames on the Volga (1956)

Drama of the life of a peasant family, who came to work in the fisheries of Astrakhan. The film is set in the late XIX - early XX centuries.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Grigoriy Roshal
CAST:  Mikhail Merkulov  •  Rufina Nifontova  •  Vsevolod Platov  •  Tatyana Konyukhova

Drama of the life of a peasant family, who came to work in the fisheries of Astrakhan. The film is set in the late XIX - early XX centuries.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Grigoriy Roshal
CAST:  Mikhail Merkulov  •  Rufina Nifontova  •  Vsevolod Platov  •  Tatyana Konyukhova

An Easy Life (1964)

A chemist by training, Alexandr Bochkin manages a Moscow dry-cleaning operation, but lives a very comfortable life, taking orders on the side for his speculative "private enterprise," run in conjunction with "Queen Margot". But when his old friend from the chemical ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Venyamin Dorman
CAST:  Yuriy Yakovlev  •  Faina Ranevskaya  •  Nadezhda Rumyantseva  •  Ninel Myshkova

A chemist by training, Alexandr Bochkin manages a Moscow dry-cleaning operation, but lives a very comfortable life, taking orders on the side for his speculative "private enterprise," run in conjunction with "Queen Margot". But when his old friend from the chemical ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Venyamin Dorman
CAST:  Yuriy Yakovlev  •  Faina Ranevskaya  •  Nadezhda Rumyantseva  •  Ninel Myshkova

Resurrection (1960)

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikhail Shveitser
CAST:  Tamara Syomina  •  Yevgeni Matveyev  •  Pavel Massalsky  •  Aleksandr Khvylya

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikhail Shveitser
CAST:  Tamara Syomina  •  Yevgeni Matveyev  •  Pavel Massalsky  •  Aleksandr Khvylya

The Enchanted Desna (1964)

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yuliya Solntseva
CAST:  Vladimir Goncharov  •  Yevhen Bondarenko  •  Zinaida Kirienko  •  Boris Andreyev

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yuliya Solntseva
CAST:  Vladimir Goncharov  •  Yevhen Bondarenko  •  Zinaida Kirienko  •  Boris Andreyev

Little Tragedies (1980)

A feature film based on the three-part adaptation of the poetic and dramatic cycle of Alexander Pushkin  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikhail Shveitser
CAST:  Georgi Taratorkin  •  Sergei Yursky  •  Valeriy Zolotukhin  •  Leonid Kuravlyov

A feature film based on the three-part adaptation of the poetic and dramatic cycle of Alexander Pushkin  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikhail Shveitser
CAST:  Georgi Taratorkin  •  Sergei Yursky  •  Valeriy Zolotukhin  •  Leonid Kuravlyov

An Optimistic Tragedy (1963)

1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Samson Samsonov
CAST:  Margarita Volodina  •  Boris Andreyev  •  Vyacheslav Tikhonov  •  Vsevolod Sanayev

1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Samson Samsonov
CAST:  Margarita Volodina  •  Boris Andreyev  •  Vyacheslav Tikhonov  •  Vsevolod Sanayev

White Bim Black Ear (1977)

A touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hunting and nature, took a puppy to live with him, despite the dog's black ear being a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stanislav Rostotsky
CAST:  Vyacheslav Tikhonov  •  Irina Shevchuk  •  Mikhail Dadyko  •  Mikhail Zimin

A touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hunting and nature, took a puppy to live with him, despite the dog's black ear being a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stanislav Rostotsky
CAST:  Vyacheslav Tikhonov  •  Irina Shevchuk  •  Mikhail Dadyko  •  Mikhail Zimin

The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers (1968)

The action takes place in 1920 during the Civil War. Crimea on the eve of complete liberation from the White Guards. Returning from patrol, the four brave “elusive” knocked down an airplane. In the field bag of the captured pilot, they find a secret report, which ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edmond Keosayan
CAST:  Viktor Kosykh  •  Mikhail Metyolkin  •  Vasili Vasilyev  •  Valentina Kurdyukova

The action takes place in 1920 during the Civil War. Crimea on the eve of complete liberation from the White Guards. Returning from patrol, the four brave “elusive” knocked down an airplane. In the field bag of the captured pilot, they find a secret report, which ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edmond Keosayan
CAST:  Viktor Kosykh  •  Mikhail Metyolkin  •  Vasili Vasilyev  •  Valentina Kurdyukova

The Long Recess (1972)

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A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aleksei Korenev
CAST:  Mikhail Kononov  •  Evgeni Leonov  •  Aleksandr Zbruev  •  Rolan Bykov

A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aleksei Korenev
CAST:  Mikhail Kononov  •  Evgeni Leonov  •  Aleksandr Zbruev  •  Rolan Bykov

Alyonka (1962)

Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alenka Muratova (Ovodova) is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Boris Barnet
CAST:  Natalya Ovodova  •  Irina Zarubina  •  Vasiliy Shukshin  •  Erast Garin

Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alenka Muratova (Ovodova) is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Boris Barnet
CAST:  Natalya Ovodova  •  Irina Zarubina  •  Vasiliy Shukshin  •  Erast Garin

Young-Green (1962)

The beginning of the 1950s. Nikolai Babushkin, a young specialist in one of the taiga construction sites, who had just been elected a deputy of the district council, was sent behind a brick to the city of Dzhegor. He is already familiar with the bold project of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Konstantin Voynov
CAST:  Oleg Tabakov  •  Ada Sheremetyeva  •  Ivan Pereverzev  •  Yuriy Nikulin

The beginning of the 1950s. Nikolai Babushkin, a young specialist in one of the taiga construction sites, who had just been elected a deputy of the district council, was sent behind a brick to the city of Dzhegor. He is already familiar with the bold project of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Konstantin Voynov
CAST:  Oleg Tabakov  •  Ada Sheremetyeva  •  Ivan Pereverzev  •  Yuriy Nikulin
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