Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
The film is based on a true dramatic story of the fate of a wonderful Russian woman - Countess Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya, one of the first Petersburg beauties. The events of the movie take place during the Russian-Turkish war for the liberation of the Bulgarian people from the Turkish yoke. An...
Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".
There lived a poor peasant with his wife. They had three sons: Mats, Peter and Svend. One day there was a drought, and the family had a hard time. And the sons went to work. Mats took his father's old jacket for himself. Peter - a saucepan to sell. And his younger brother Svend got an old rusty...
Colonel Chabert, who miraculously survived the battle, returns to his homeland after several years of wandering, but everyone has long considered him dead. It seems very problematic to prove the opposite - the wife got married again and sharing her fortune is not part of her plans...
Captain Alexander Blinov goes on vacation and has to give a package to Lena. Lena is freelance photo journalist who runs from job to job. She also has a long conflicting relationship with her retired neighbor who thinks that people like her shouldn't live. Somehow, Blinov get's involved in that...
A tired, naive librarian in her fourties, has experienced hard labor, chores, and failed love. Her brittle voice and childish naiveness add to her defenselessness. Despite her stubbornness, she maintains a strong spirit that helps her stay true to herself.
A pioneer boy on the roof meets a blue crow, learns a certain magic word from her, after which he moves back to the Stone Age, then to the musketeers, then during the October Revolution.
A screen adaptation of the ballet to music by D. Gershwin, staged by the Moscow Academic Musical Theatre named after K.S. Stanislavsky and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, choreography by D. Bryantsev.
A beautiful blonde is killed in the women's restroom of a bar-restaurant; after a long and dangerous chase, the murderer-motorcyclist manages to escape from the police...
