Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere." First part: "The Ashes of Claes". XVI century. The freedom-loving and cheerful people of the Netherlands under the...
In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their...
Communist Ivan Platonov is actively involved in the collectivization of his native land, even the death of his wife does not stop him. One by one, rebellions of discontented peasants break out. Platonov's propaganda work takes on a different quality, the hero takes up arms and is not afraid of...
Interstellar expedition equipped by "pioneers"(soviet scouts) reached Alpha Kassiopea and found that smart robots took control on hole planet. Their only goal - to make happy, as they understand, their masters. Happines was, actually, sutisfactions of primitive needs, and removing "disturbing"...
In the 23rd century, a reconnaissance craft discovers an unknown destroyed spaceship in deep recesses of space. The crew discovers the sole survivor - the mysterious Niya, an artificial being who appears to be the last of her kind, who possesses unique and unimaginable powers. Taken in by a family...
Based on the novel of the same name by A. Bakhvalov. The plot is based on a story-interview about the testing of the new strategic missile carrier Tu-22K and Tu-22M2/M3 (for well-known reasons, in close-ups, instead of them, the film shot the then less secret Tu-134 UBL - a combat training...
1932. Ural, city of Krasnouralsk. The power plant has been sabotaged. The turbine is out of order. Having put the guards to sleep, someone poured sand into the turbine oil. In Moscow, the leadership of the OGPU received a secret cipher. From it it becomes known about the conspiracy of German...
The beginning of the 20s. In the North Caucasus, a gang led by the “Head of the Gorgon” is preparing a counter-revolutionary rebellion. The Red Army soldier Svetlov, returning home from the front, becomes a victim of the bandits who attacked him and finds himself in the hospital, the very...
Misfortune brings the lonely and elderly sailor together with Claudia, who comes to his house to help bury his mother and take care of him during the first difficult days after the funeral. Anatoly at first sees her actions as nothing but calculation. But gradually he begins to realize that he is...
After being demobilized, Ivan Cheprasov came to work in the motorcade. The chief assigns Ivan an ancient wreck that no one has bothered to repair. 'Colombina'—as the drivers jokingly nicknamed the old car—became a 'touchstone' for Ivan, testing his resilience and skill. Additionally, Colombina...
Two great aircraft designers, Tupolev and Sikorsky, meet after many years of separation at the Paris Air Show. Once upon a time, one of them stayed in the new Russia, the other left it forever. Different destinies, different paths to the same goal, the conquest of the sky.
1941. Army commander Kapitonov takes the brunt of the German forces, striving to Rostov. Well aware of the tactics of the German General Leynts, Kapitonov brilliantly conducting an operation that was incorporated into the history of the war under the name "Dyakovo defense."
The life of Pavla Brus, a middle-aged, modest but principled woman, suddenly changes with a crush on a drilling foreman. Unable to restrain her feelings, she decides to cheat on her husband, divorce and leave the family. But her youngest son Kuzma, a teenager with an intelligent and piercing look...
After the death of her father, Antonina Staroselskaya has difficulty finding work. A dull life is the cause of illness. A merchant seaman takes care of the sick Tona. After the marriage, he is arrested for smuggling, and the care of Tonya is transferred to a neighbor, who beats her from time to...
A TV film about how the hard days of the siege of Leningrad united the residents of a communal apartment. 1941. Teenager Petya is taken in by a neighboring family after the death of his mother. The boy goes to work at the factory, and when his younger brother Vovka is found, Petya strives to...
The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of the city of Simferopol entered the underground group Sokol. The activities of the underground members were diverse: they put up leaflets with information from...
Germany in the thirties. Soviet spy Yaroslava Soboleva (aka Sophie Weinert) manages to destroy stocks of a new type of bacteriological weapon at the cost of her own life
Before the demolition of the orphanage, almost all the children were transferred to other boarding schools, but six girls and their teacher remained. Olga, one of the pupils, receives an invitation to act in films and agrees. Filming and getting to know the other world harden her - and she already...
