Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters...
Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the...
The film is a play based on the novel “An Ordinary History” by Ivan Goncharov directed by the Sovremennik Moscow Theater. The main roles were played by Oleg Tabakov, Mikhail Kozakov, Lyudmila Ivanova, Anastasia Vertinskaya and others.
The well-being of Stepan Sudakov’s family, which he himself believes in, turns out to be shaky. Practical, prudent, successful in business, Sudakov discovers that the family foundations he guarded in the walls of his apartment, in his nest, collapse one after another, and his own children are to...
The young worker Boris learned a lot in his profession, but the development of technology and meetings with people who have received special education convince him of the need to continue his studies.
Oleg Yefremov was one of the most beloved actors and directors in Russia. He was the founder of the Sovremennik (Contemporary) Theatre and later became the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre. The film shows him in a moment of extreme dramatic tension: Yefremov has decided to split the...
Based on the play by Viktor Rozov, staged by Evg. Vakhtangov's State Academic Theater. About the worker Viktor Lesikov, an honest man who gave all his extraordinary abilities to his native production.
The events that take place from the evening of one day, until the afternoon of the next, radically change the life of the family of the elderly writer Zharkov.
On an ordinary Moscow street, a family lives together in an unremarkable house: a mother and four children. But one "fine" day in this family there is a violent conflict over the furniture with which the apartment is packed. However, furniture is just an excuse. In fact, two worldviews collide,...
