Russian DVDs (individual titles)
Michael Brooke
didn't survive the transition to my system!]
Collection I - DIRECTOR
Andrei Tarkovsky
001 ANDREI RUBLYOV
Year - 1966
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 86+99 min.
Genre - historical drama
Camera - V.Yusov
Starring - Anatoly Solonitsin, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai
Burlyaev, Irma Raush
Russia, XV century. Andrei Rublyov, great Russian painter, tried to find
meaning of life. The first, original title of the movie was "The Andrei
Passion".
002 IVAN'S CHILDHOOD
Year - 1962
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 96 min.
Genre - war drama
Camera - V.Yusov
Starring - Kolya Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Nikolai Grinko
12-years old Ivan becomes an orphan during Second World War (1939-1945).
He decided to avenge the death of his family and goes to army scout-
003 MIRROR
Year - 1974
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 108 min.
Genre - film-memory
Camera - G.Rerberg
Starring - Margarita Terekhova, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nikolai Grinko, Oleg
Yankovsky
Director's memories about his childhood and youth. One of the best
masterpieces of great Russian artist Andrei Tarkovsky
004 SOLARIS
Year - 1972
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 80+89
Genre - drama (after science-fiction novel of S.Lem)
Camera - V.Yusov
Starring - Donatas Banionis, Nikolai Grinko, Natalya Bondarchuk, Yuri
Yarvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Anatoly Solonitsin
The mysterious planet Solaris had intrigued people on Earth for years-
Based on a science-fiction novel of Stanislav Lem.
005 STALKER
Year - 1979
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 163 min.
Genre - drama (after Strugatski brothers)
Camera - A.Knyazhinsky
Starring - Alexander Kaidanovsky, Alisa Frandlikh, Anatoly Solonitsin,
Nikolai Grinko
Stalker - the man, who knows about Zone, a strange place, where all
wishes come true- Based on a popular novel of the famous Strugatski
writers
Nikita Mikhalkov
006 AN UNFINISHED PIECE FOR MECHANICAL PIANO
Year - 1976
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 103 min.
Genre - melodrama (after A.Chekhov)
Camera - P.Lebeshev
Starring - Alexander Kalyagin, Elena Solovey, Yuri Bogatyrev, Yevgenia
Glushenko
Platonov experienced crisis in soul, in relations with his young wife,
with friends- Based on a several novels of Anton Chekhov.
007 AT HOME AMONG STRANGERS, A STRANGER AMONG HIS OWN
Year - 1974
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 97 min.
Genre - psychological action
Camera - P.Lebeshev
Starring - Yuri Bogatyrev, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergei
Shakurov
Civil War in Rissia- The country needs bread. It can be obtained from
abroad, only for gold. The train with this load is exposed to the gang
of Brylov.
008 A SLAVE OF LOVE
Year - 1975
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 94 min.
Genre - melodrama
Camera - P.Lebeshev
Starring - Elena Solovey, Alexander Kalyagin, Rodion Nakhapetov, Oleg
Basilashvili
Olga, a famous actress, falls in love with the underground activist
Pototsky, who tries unsuccessfully to explain to her political events in
Russia.
Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky
009 SIBERIADE
Year - 1978
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 136+139
Genre - historical epic
Camera - L.Paatashvili
Starring - Vladimir Samoilov, Vitaly Solomin, Nikita Mikhalkov, Lyudmila
Gurchenko
Deep in the Siberian wilderness stands the village Yelan. There live two
feuding families - the rich and the poor. In 1917 the revolution comes
to Russia-
Vladimir Menshov
010 MOSCOW DISTRUSTS TEARS
Moscow does not believe in tears
Year - 1979
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 68+82
Genre - melodrama
Camera - Igor Slabnevitch
Starring - Vera Alentova, Aleksei Batalov, Irina Muravyova, Rayisa
Ryazanova
Contemporary story about a self-made woman, who had her share o f love,
betrayal and success
Georgy Danelia
011 MIMINO
Year - 1977
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 97 min.
Genre - lyrical comedy
Camera - A.Petritsky
Starring - Vakhtang Kikabidze, Frunze Mkrtchyan, Elena Proklova, Yevgeny
Leonov
Everybody loves pilot Mimino, who works in the mountains of Georgia as
an agricultural pilot but he dreams about big aviation. The action also
takes place in Moscow.
012 AUTUMN MARATHON
Year - 1979
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 94 min.
Genre - sad comedy
Camera - Sergei Vronsky
Starring - Oleg Basilashvili, Natalia Gundareva, Marina Neyelova,
Yevgeny Leonov
Buzykin, the hero of this movie, doesn't want to bring pain to anyone
and tries to put himself in the shoes of those he meets in life.
Emil Lotyanu
013 A HUNTING INCIDENT
Year - 1978
Studio - Mosfilm, Inter Alliance Film, Germany
Duration - 109 min.
Genre - melodrama
Camera - A.Petritsky, V.Nakhabtsev
Starring - Galina Belyaeva, Oleg Yankovsky, Kirill Lavrov, Leonid Markov
Tragic love story of 16-year-old Olenka, an involuntary toy in the hands
of men. Based on a novel of the great Russian writer Anton Chekhov.
014 THE GYPSY CAMP VANISHES INTO THE BLUE
Year - 1975
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 101 min.
Genre - poetical drama
Camera - Sergei Vronsky
Starring - Grigory Grigoriu, Svetlana Toma, Borislav Brondukov
Beautiful Rada - a star in the gypsy camp. The dashing Luyku Zobar fell
in love with her at first sight. But as the old gypsy proverb says
"Don't love money - they lie, don't love women - they lie. Among all the
wines of the world the strongest is freedom".
Eldar Ryazanov
015 STATION FOR TWO
Year - 1982
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 73+68
Genre - melodrama
Camera - V.Alisov
Starring - Oleg Basilashvili, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikita Mikhalkov
He's an intelligent musician, she's a waitress who has lost faith in
people. They met each other at a railway station and could not separate
016 A CRUEL ROMANCE
Year - 1984
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 74+71
Genre - melodrama
Camera - V.Alisov
Starring - Larisa Guzeeva, Alisa Frandlikh, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei
Petrenko
Sad story of a girl without dowry in old Russia. Based on the play of
Alexander Ostrovsky "Girl without dowry".
Gleb Panfilov
017 THE ONSET
Year - 1970
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 91 min.
Genre - melodrama
Camera - D.Dolinin
Starring - Inna Churikova, Leonid Kuravlev, Valentina Telichkina,
Mikhail Kononov
Simple story about a talented girl who plays her first but not chance
role in movies - Jeanne D'Arc.
Mikhail Romm
018 NINE DAYS OF ONE YEAR
Year - 1961
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 111 min.
Genre - melodrama
Camera - G.Lavrov
Starring - Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Aleksei Batalov, Tatiana Lavrova
Love triangle, two nuclear physicist friends and self-sacrificing
devotion to science.
Grigory Chukhray
019 SKY IS CLEAR
Year - 1961
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 110 min.
Genre - war romance
Camera - S.Poluyanov
Starring - Nina Drobysheva, Yevgeni Urbansky
Dramatical story about the man, who became P.O.W. and came back home
where everything was changed.
Akira Kurosawa
020 DERSU UZALA
Year - 1975
Studio - Mosfilm, Studio-41, Japan
Duration - 72+72
Genre - screen adaptation
Camera - Y.Gantman, F.Dobronravov, A.Nakai
Starring - Maxim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin
The story is based on the novel by prominent Russian scientist and
explorer of the turn of the century Vladimir Arsenyev. The main theme is
Man and Nature, the loving care of Nature by Man which is necessary to
both sides.
021 ELUSIVE AVENGERS
Year - 1966
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 78 min.
Genre - action
Camera - F.Dobronravov
Starring - Valya Kurdyukova, Vitya Kosykh, Misha Metelkin
This film is a vivid comedy version of a story about four teenagers who
become heroes in the civil war in Russia.
022 NEW ADVENTURES OF THE ELUSIVE AVENGERS
Year - 1968
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 82 min.
Genre - adventure, action
Camera - F.Dobronravov
Starring - Valya Kurdyukova, Vitya Kosykh, Misha Metelkin,
Armen Djigarkhanyan
This film is a sequel to "Elusive Avengers", which was a romantic
story about young heroes in the civil war in Russia, about their
daring adventures and exploits-
023 THE CROWN OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
Year - 1971
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 66+68 min.
Genre - adventures
Camera - M.Ardabyevsky
Starring - Valya Kurdyukova, Vitya Kosykh, Misha Metelkin, Yefim
Kopelyan
This is the third film of a series showing the adventures of the elusive
avengers. The brave four will undergo many dangers until they eventually
take an upper hand over their crafty enemies and return the diamond
crown of the Russian Empire to the museum.
024 AIR CREW
Year - 1980
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 84+60
Genre - action, crash
Camera - V.Shuvalov
Starring - Georgy Zhenov, Anatoly Vasiliev, Leonid Filatov, Alexandra
Yakovleva
A plane crew taking food stuffs and medicines to a distant country that
had suffered from an earthquake. It was an extraordinary flight-
025 COORDINATES OF DEATH
Year - 1985
Studio - Gorky Film Studio, Fafim (Vietnam)
Duration - 78 min.
Genre - political drama
Camera - S.Filippov
Starring - Alexander Galibin, Tatiana Lebedeva, Yuri Nazarov, V.Bao,
L.Van
This movie is about the events of the American-Vietnamese war.
026 PIRATES OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Year - 1979
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 83 min.
Genre - adventure, action
Camera - A.Rybin
Starring - Nikolai Yeremenko, Pyotr Velyaminov, Talgat Nigmatulin,
Dilorom Kambarova
A soviet vessel with a cargo of narcotics met pirates in search of rich
loot-However, a group of Soviet sailors managed to survive.
027 THE WHITE SUN OF DESERT
Year - 1969
Studio - Mosfilm, Lenfilm
Duration - 85 min.
Genre - adventure
Camera - E.Rozovsky
Starring - Anatoly Kuznetsov, Pavel Luspekayev, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi
Kavsadze
The movie tells about the exciting adventures of experienced soldier
Fyodor Sukhov in the sands of Central Asia, how he saved nine women from
the blood-thirsty Abdulla. Best example of classical istern.
028 TERRIBLE CENTURY/ TERRIBLE AGE
Year - 1976
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 91 min.
Genre - historical drama
Camera - V.Derbenyov, V.Pichalnikov
Starring - Yuri Vladimirov, Natalia Bessmertnova, Boris Akimov
Screen version of ballet "Ivan Terrible" with the music of Sergei
Prokofiev.
029 OPERATION TIGER
Year - 1961
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 83 min.
Genre - eccentric comedy
Camera - D.Meskhyev
Starring - Margarita Nazarova (the famous animal tamer), Yevgeny Leonov,
Ivan Dmitriyev. Alexey Gribov
Tigers'cage is open! This is an amusing story of the adventures that
befell the crew of an ocean liner transporting tigers from Ceylon to
Odessa.
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Collection II - ORIGINAL STORY BY
L.Tolstoy
001 ANNA KARENINA
Year - 1967
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 77+68 min.
Genre - melodrama
Direction - Alexander Zarkhi
Camera - Leonid Kalashnikov
Starring - Tatyana Samoilova, Vasiliy Lanovoi, Anastasiya Vertinskaya,
Nikolai Gritsenko
A film version of great writer Lev Tolstoy's novel of the same title.
All the world knows the story of Anna Karenina's tragic love for
Vronsky.
002 WAR AND PEACE
Year - 1966-1967
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 147+100+84+100 min.
Genre - epic story
Direction - Sergei Bondarchuk
Camera - Anatoly Petritsky
Starring - Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergei Bondarchuk,
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Screen version of Lev Tolstoy's masterpiece. Beginning of the past
century in Russia, war with France, the traditions and society of that
time, the people's psychology and heroism, the glory of Russian arms -
all this is shown in the film with great authenticity, artistic cogency,
accurate and thorough realism, and inspired pathos.
F.Dostoevsky
003 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Year - 1969
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 112+109
Direction - Lev Kulidzhanov
Camera - V.Shumsky
Starring - Georgi Taratorkin, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Tatyana Bedova,
Yefim Kopelyan
Based on the novel of great Russian writer F.Dostoeyvsky. 19th century,
a young student by the name of Rascolnikov commits a crime-
N.Gogol
004 VIY OR SPIRIT OF EVIL
Year - 1967
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 78 min
Genre - fantasy
Direction - Konstantin Yershov, Georgi Kropachev
Camera - F.Provorov, V.Pichalnikov
Starring - Leonid Kuravlev, Natalia Varley, Alexei Glazirin
Horror movie is based on the novel of N.Gogol. Viy is a mixt of vampire
and werewolf.
005 EVENINGS ON A FARM NEAR DIKANKA
Year - 1961, reconstruction 1970
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 69 min
Genre - fantasy
Direction - Alexander Row
Camera - D.Surensky
Starring -Alexander Khvylya, Yuri Tavrov, Lyudmila Khityaeva
Dikanka - a very beautiful village in Ukraine, where live nice people,
witches and little devils, who like to have a good time!
A.Grin
006 CRIMSON SAILS
Year - 1961
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 88 min
Genre - fairy-tale play
Direction - Alexander Ptushko
Camera - G.Tsekavy, V.Yakushev
Starring - Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Vasili Lanovoy, Ivan Pereverzev
Once an old story-teller made a prophecy- Years later young captain Grey
came to Liss-city on a boat, flying crimson sails, and Assol's happy day
came at last.
I.Turgenev
007 NEST OF THE GENTRY
Year - 1969
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 111 min
Genre - melodrama
Direction - Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky
Camera - Georgi Rerberg
Starring - Irina Kupchenko, Leonid Kulagin, Beata Tishkevich, Victor
Sergachev
The film shows Russian life in the forties of the last century- A
Russian nobleman returned home to Russia after long travels in Europe
and met a young neighbor, Lisa-
A.Chekhov
008 LADY WITH A DOG
Year - 1960
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 83 min
Genre - melodrama
Direction - Iosif Kheyfits
Camera - A.Moskvin, D.Meskhiyev
Starring - Iya Savvina, Alexei Batalov, Nina Alisova
Eternal love story between a married woman & a married man-
M.Sholokhov
009 A MAN'S FATE
Year - 1959
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 103 min
Genre - drama
Direction - Sergei Bondarchuk
Camera - V.Monakhov
Starring - Sergei Bondarchuk, Pavlik Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko
Second World War. The hero of the film lost all family and met a little
boy-orphan, for whom he becomes a father-
010 QUIET FLOWS THE DON
Year - 1957-1958/1974
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 110+117+123
Genre - historical drama
Direction - Sergei Gerasimov
Camera - V.Rappaport
Starring - Pyotr Glebov, Lyudmila Khityaeva, Elina Bystritskaya
Epic story of the Russian cossacks ("kazachestvo") over a period of many
years. Love, war, victory and betrayals.
I.Goncharov
011 SEVERAL DAYS FROM LIFE OF I.I.OBLOMOV
Year - 1979
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 143 min
Genre - drama
Direction - Nikita Mikhalkov
Camera - P.Lebeshev
Starring - Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Bogatyrev, Elena Solovey, Andrei Popov
Based upon Ivan Goncharov's novel "Oblomov".
M.Bulgakov
012 THE FLIGHT
Year - 1970
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 95+102
Genre - drama
Direction - Alexander Alov, Vladimir Naumov
Camera - L.Paatashvili
Starring - Mikhail Ulyanov, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Alexei Batalov,
Lyudmila Saveliyeva
In the late of 1920s, during Civil war in Russia, so many people ended
up in emigration. They dream of returning home-
W. Shakespeare
013 HAMLET
Year - 1964
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 70+70 min
Genre - tragedy
Direction - Grigory Kozintsev
Camera - Y.Gritsus
Starring - Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Elza Radzinya
Film version of the great tragedy by W.Shakespeare.
014 KING LEAR
Year - 1970
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 71+69
Genre - tragedy
Direction - Grigory Kozintsev
Camera - E.Rozovsky
Starring - Yuri Yarvet, Valentina Shendrikova, Oleg Dal, Elza Radzinya,
Galina Volchek
Film version of the great tragedy by W.Shakespeare.
M.Cervantes
015 DON QUIXOTE
Year - 1959
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 99 min
Genre - comedy
Direction - Grigory Kozintsev
Camera - A.Moskvin, A.Dudko
Starring - Nikolai Cherkasov, Yuri Tolubeev, Serafima Birman
Don Quixote - an eternal knight, who knows how to make battle with
windmills.
Ch.Aitmatov
016 ADIEU, GYULSARY!
Year - 1968
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 82 min
Genre - drama
Direction & camera - Sergei Urusevsky
Starring - Nurmukhan Zhanturin, Farida Sharipova
The film is about the life of a horse herdsman and his faithful friend
and favorite steed, Gyulsary.
017 JAMILYA
Year - 1968
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 83 min
Genre - melodrama
Direction - Irina Poplavskaya
Camera - K.Kydyraliev
Starring - Natalia Arinbasarova, Suymenkul Chokmorov
The story of difficult love soldier's wife to outsider in village
018 TREASURE ISLAND
Year - 1971
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 86 min.
Genre - adventure
Direction - Yevgeni Fridman
Camera - V.Bazylev
Starring - Boris Andreev, Laymonas Noreyka, Algimantas Masulis
A screen version of the adventure novel of Robert L.Stevenson about
legendary search of the treasures of the captain Flint.
019 THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN
Year - 1972
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 100 min.
Genre - adventure
Direction - Vladimir Vaynshtok
Camera - K.Ryzhov
Starring - Oleg Vidov, Lyudmila Savelieva, Eslinda Nunies
Based on a novel of the same title by Mayne Reid. Texas. Middle of
the19th century. Love story of Morris Gerald, the freedom-loving
mustanger, and Louise Pointdeckster, the daughter of a plantation owner.
020 WILL OF PROFESSOR DOWEL
Year - 1984
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 91 min.
Genre - science fiction
Direction - Leonid Menaker
Camera - V.Kovzel
Starring - Olgert Kroders, Igor Vasiliev, Natalia Sayko
Head of professor Dowel lives on its own- Based on the science fiction
novel of Alexander Belyaev.
021 AMPHIBIAN MAN
Year - 1961
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 97 min.
Genre - science fiction
Direction - Gennadi Kazansky, Vladimir Chebotarev
Camera - E.Rozovsky
Starring - Vladimir Korenev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov
Based on the adventure fiction novel of the same name by Alexander
Belyaev. A small seacoast town is full of rumors about a "sea devil"-
022 CAPTAIN GRANT'S CHILDREN
Year - 1936
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 89 min.
Genre - adventure
Direction - Vladimir Vaynshtok
Camera -
- A.Koltsaty
Starring - Yuru Yuriev, Olga Bazanova, Yakov Segel
Based on the adventure novel of great French writer Jules Vern.
Captain Grant has disappeared, his children turn for help to lord
Glenarvan-
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Collection III - FAIRY TALES
001 ILYA MUROMETS
Year - 1956
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 94 min.
Direction - Alexander Ptushko
Camera - F.Provorov
Starring - Boris Andreev, Andrei Abrykosov, Natalia Medvedeva
The film is based upon the Russian folklore and old legends. Ilya
Muromets, an epic hero from Murom goes to the old capital of Russia -
Kiev. On his way he achieves many a victory - he beats the Tugars,
rescues his bride Vassilisa. 106 thousands soldiers-extras and 1100
horses participated in this movie (by P.Robertson's "New book of
Guinness records of movies", 1993).
002 RUSLAN AND LUDMILLA
Year - 1972
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 78+71min.
Direction - Alexander Ptushko
Camera - I. Geleyn, V.Zakharov
Starring - Natalia Petrova, Vladimir Kozinets
This film is made after Pushkin's poem. Ludmilla, the daughter of the
Kiev prince Vladimir, was kidnapped from the embrace of her bridegroom
Ruslan-
003 SADKO
Year - 1952
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 90 min.
Direction - Alexander Ptushko
Camera - F.Provorov
Starring - Sergei Stolyarov, Alla Larionova, Mikhail Troyanovsky
Based upon Russian folklore. -Sadko returns to his native Novgorod, an
ancient Russian city. His songs and his dream to find the "bird of
happiness" bring him to the daughter of the Ocean King.
004 THE TALE OF TIME LOST
Year - 1964
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 80 min.
Direction - Alexander Ptushko
Camera - S.Rubashkin
Starring - Grisha Plotkin, Oleg Anofriev, Vera Volkova, Lyudmila
Shagalova
What a loss! But it's very seriously: children grew old too fast because
they did not value the time.
005 THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN
Year - 1966
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 87 min
Direction - Alexander Ptushko
Camera - I. Geleyn, V.Zakharov
Starring - Vladimir Andreev, Larisa Golubkina, Oleg Vidov, Sergei
Martinson
The tale of Tsar Saltan, of his son - prince Guidon, the renowned and
mighty hero - and of the the Fair Tsarevna Swain. it's a masterpiece of
the great Russian poet Alexandre Pushkin.
006 BARBARA THE FAIR WITH THE SILKEN HAIR
Year - 1969
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 85 min.
Direction - Alexander Row
Camera - D.Surensky
Starring - Tatyana Klueva, Mikhail Pugovkin, Georgi Millyar, Anatoly
Kubatsky
Once upon a time there lived a Tsar by the name of Yeremei. Another tsar
by the name Chudo-Yudo demanded from him a ransom: tsar Yeremei must
give him that which he knew nothing about in his kingdom-
007 VASILIY BUSLAYEV
Year - 1982
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 72 min.
Direction - Gennady Vasiliev
Camera - A.Garibyan
Starring - Dmitry Zolotukhin, Lyudmila Khityaeva, Irina Alferova
Young Buslayev takes the field to save the land of Novgorod from
affliction - the enemies. The campaign was full of dangerous adventures
and ended with Buslayev's victory.
008 VASSILISA THE BEAUTIFUL
Year - 1939, reconst. 1966
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 72 min.
Direction - Alexander Row
Camera - I.Gorchilin
Starring - Georgi Millyar, Nikita Kondratiev, Lev Potemkin, Sergei
Stolyarov
A beautiful Vassilisa was kidnapped by a dragon and kept captive for
three years-
009 ALADDIN'S MAGIC LAMP
Year - 1966
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duratuon - 84 min.
Direction - Boris Rytsarev
Camera -V.Dultsev, L.Ragozin
Starring - Boris Bystrov, Dodo Chogovadze, Andrei Fayt, Ekaterina
Verulashvili
This film is based on a colourful oriental fairy-tale from the cycle
"1001 night".
010 GOLDEN HORNs
Year - 1972
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 74 min.
Direction - Alexander Row
Camera - Y.Dyakonov, V.Okunev
Starring - Raisa Ryazanova, Ira Chigrinova, Lena Chigrinova, Georgy
Millyar
Mashenka and Dashenka went into the woods to pick mushrooms and forgot
their mother's warnings- It was a long search for Yevdokia but she
rescued her daughters from Baba-Yaga's house.
011 KASCHEI, THE IMMORTAL
Year - 1944, reconst. 1962
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 63 min.
Direction - Alexander Row
Camera - Mikhail Kirillov
Starring - Georgy Millyar, Sergei Stolyarov, Alexander Shirshov
Nikita, a brave hero, is after Kashchei when the Immortal invades the
Russian land
012 ______ / THE KINGDOM OF CROOKED MIRRORS
Year - 1963
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 79 min.
Direction - Alexander Row
Camera -V.Dultsev, L.Akimov
Starring - Olya Ukina, Tanya Ukina, Tamara Nosova, Andrei Fayt, Lidiya
Vertinskaya
Olya never listened to her grandmother, but once- Due to an old and
magic mirror, Olya met her reflection - Yalo. Together they found
themselves in the kingdom of crooked mirrors where you won't find
ordinary mirrors, because all people want to see themselves better than
they are.
013 MARIA, THE WONDERFUL WEAVER/MARIA, THE SKILLFUL
Year - 1959
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 79 min.
Direction - Alexander Row
Camera - D.Surensky
Starring - Mikhail Kuznetsov, Ninel Myshkova, Anatoly Kubatsky, Georgi
Millyar
Based upon Russian folk tales. After a long time in the army, a fearless
Russian soldier is returning home. On his way he hears gruesome stories
about a monster that came to dwell in the vicinity-
014 FATHER CHRISTMAS
Year - 1964
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 84 min.
Direction - Alexander Row
Camera - D.Surensky
Starring - Natalia Sedykh, Eduard Izotov, Inna Churikova, Alexander
Khvylya
Once a nasty stepmother sent Nastenka to the dark frozen forest for the
big grey wolf to eat her up. But Father Christmas, a good wizard, saw
Nastenka and saved her, because she was kindhearted and patient.
015 THROUGH FIRE AND WATER
Year - 1968
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 86 min.
Direction - Alexander Row
Camera - D.Surensky
Starring - Natalia Sedykh, Alexei Katyshev, Georgi Millyar, Vera
Altayskaya
There is a saying in Russian which goes "to pass through fire, water and
brass trumpets". This means to endure severe trials of life, to
accumulate experience, to gain many impressions and to steel one's will.
016 THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA
Year - 1976
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 89 min.
Direction - Boris Rytsarev
Camera - V.Yegorov, A.Machilsky
Starring - Irina Malysheva, Andrei Podoshiyan, Innokenti Smoktunovsky,
Alise Freindlikh
Based on a tale by H.C.Andersen. In one of the kingdoms it was time for
the prince to get married, but the bride had to be a real princess. A
sign was put up on the gates: "A princess wanted".
017 THE LITTLE MERMAID
Year - 1976
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 81 min.
Direction - Vladimir Bychkov
Camera - E.Vagenstein
Starring - Vika Novikova, Valentin Nikulin, Yuri Senkevich, Mikhail
Pugovkin, Galina Volchek
The film is dedicated to the memory of great Danish writer Hans
Christian Andersen and is based upon one of his best fairy-tales. This
sad story tells about a little tender Mermaid who once upon a time saved
the life of a Prince and fell in love with him-
018 FINIST, THE FALCON
Year - 1975
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 79 min.
Direction - Gennadi Vasiliev
Camera - Y.Malinovsky
Starring - Svetlana Orlova, Vyacheslav Voskresensky, Mikhail Pugovkin,
Lyudmila Khityaeva
The film tells about the victory of a hero by the name of Finist, the
Falcon
019 HOW IVAN THE SIMPLETON WENT FOR A WONDER
Year - 1976
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 88 min.
Direction - Nadezhda Kosheverova
Camera - E.Rozovsky
Starring - Oleg Dal, Elena Proklova, Mikhail Gluzski, Tatyana Peltser
To save beloved Nastenka, Ivanushka performs a miracle-
020 THE DONKEY'S SKIN
Year - 1982
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 85 min.
Direction - Nadezhda Kosheverova
Camera - E.Rozovsky
Starring - Vladimir Etush, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Vera Novikova, Alexander
Galibin
Based to the tale of the great French writer Charles Perrault.
At the christening of Theresa, daughter of the destitute King Gaston IX,
the wicked witch prophesies hard trials to be in stock for her-
021 The blue bird
Year - 1976
Studio - Lenfilm, XX century Fox
Duration - 100 min.
Direction - George Cukor
Camera - F.Young, I.Gritsus
Starring - Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Margarita Terekhova, Nadezhda
Pavlova
This fantasy is based on a popular play by M.Meterlink. It's a first
American-Soviet coproduction.
022 SNOW MAIDEN
Year - 1968
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 93 min.
Direction - Pavel Kadochnikov
Camera - A.Chirov
Starring - Yevgenia Filonova, Iraida Gubanova, Boris Khimichev, Yevgeni
Zharikov
The film is a screen version of a play of the same title written by
Alexander Ostrovsky, the great Russian playwright. It tells about magic
land - kingdom of Berendei, about ancient Russia, about lovely
Snow-Maiden, who was the daughter of Father Christmas.
023 THE SNOW QUEEN
Year - 1966
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 85 min.
Direction - Gennadi Kazansky
Camera - S.Ivanov
Starring - Lena Proklova, Natalia Klimova, Yevgeny Leonov
The film is based on the wonderful fairy-tale by Hans Christian
Andersen.
Wonderful journey of a modest and trustful little girl by the name of
Herda, who seeks her little friend Kai at Snow Queen's palace, is full
of many amusing and interesting adventures.
024 AN OLD, OLD TALE
Year - 1968
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 90 min.
Direction - Nadezhda Kosheverova
Camera - K.Ryzhov
Starring - Marina Neyelova, Oleg Dal, Vladimir Etush
The young owner of a puppet-show who gave performances at roadside inns,
loved the daughter of the master of the tavern he was staying at. They
had planned to run away and live happily ever after in some distant
land-
025 THE THREE FAT MEN
Year - 1966
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 92 min.
Direction - Alexei Batalov, Iosif Shapiro
Camera - S.Shakhbazian
Starring - Lina Braknite, Alexei Batalov, Valentin Nikulin, Yevgeny
Morgunov
Fairy kingdom of the three fat men was the kingdom of tyranny. But
gunsmith Prospero and gymnast Tibul led the people to storm the Palace
of the Three Fat Men.
026 OLD KHOTABYCH
Year - 1956
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 86 min.
Direction - Gennadi Kazansky
Camera - M.Shukurov
Starring - Nikolai Volkov, Alyosha Litvinov, Yefim Kopelyan, Yevgeny
Vesnik
While swimming in the Moscow river one summer day, Volka, a 12-year old
schoolboy, finds a queer-looking old jug. There was an old man in an
oriental robe inside - Khotabych.
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Collection IV - WAR
001 BALLAD OF A SOLDIER
Year - 1959
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 90 min.
Genre - drama
Direction - Grigory Chukhrai
Camera - V.Nikolaev, E.Savelyeva
Starring - Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maximova,
Yevgeni Urbansky
He is one in a thousand. He was no superman, a Russian soldier Alesha,
who barred the road to the fascists- However, battle episodes don't take
much of the film's time.
002 THE CRANES ARE FLYING
Year - 1957
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 97 min.
Genre - drama
Direction - Mikhail Kalatozov
Camera - S.Urusevsky
Starring - Tatyana Samoylova, Alexei Batalov, Vassily Merkuriev,
Alexander Shvorin
Tragic story of love and fidelity. Boris was killed, but Veronique did
not believe he was dead and continued to wait for him. Life for her was
love-
003 AT DAWN IT'S QUIET HERE
Year - 1972
Studio - Gorky Film Studio
Duration - 190 min.
Genre - drama
Direction - Stanislav Rostotsky
Camera - V.Shumsky
Starring - Andrei Martynov, Irina Shevchuk, Olga Ostroumova, Irina
Dolganova
When a nazi landing detachment was discovered in the forest, five girls
met the challenge of battle. Five inexperienced girls against sixteen
nazis, armed to the teeth.
004 TORPEDO PLANES
Year - 1983
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 96 min.
Genre - drama
Direction - Semyon Aranovich
Camera - V.Ilyin
Starring - Rodion Nakhapetov, Vera Glagoleva, Alexei Zharkov, Andrei
Boltnev
Loosely based on short war stories by Yuri German. 1944. A marine air
force regiment is stationed at a small garrison. Pilots live here with
their families. -Any operational flight can turn out to be the last in
their lives.
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Collection V - HISTORY
001 AGONY
Year - 1974-1981
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 78+74
Genre - historical drama
Direction - Elem Klimov
Camera - L.Kalashnikov
Starring - Alexei Petrenko, Anatoly Romashin, Alise Freindlikh
Dramatical period in Russian history before the Romanov abdication.
First World War. The country is in the hands of Rasputin-
002 LOVE OF ARTIST (BURN, MY STAR)
Year - 1969
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 94 min.
Genre - heroic comedy
Direction - Alexander Mitta
Camera - Y.Sokol
Starring - Oleg Tabakov, Lena Proklova, Oleg Yefremov, Leonid Dyachkov
Iskremas, a wandering artist during Civil War in Russia, makes his
choice.
003 OCTOBER
Year - 1927, reconst.1967
Studio - Sovkino
Duration - 105 min.
Genre - epic
Direction - Sergei Eizenstein
Camera - Eduard Tisse
Starring - worker Vassily Nikandrov, Nikolai Popov, Boris Livanov
Great October Revolution in the eyes of a contemporary. Impressions
of the 1917 Russia by American writer John Reed, which he called
"10 Days That Shook the World".
004 COMRADES-IN-ARMS
Year - 1968
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 99 min.
Genre - heroic comedy
Direction - Yevgeni Karelov
Camera - M.Ardabyevsky
Starring - Oleg Yankovsky, Rolan Bykov, Vladimir Vysotsky, Alla Demidova
Two friends during Civil War in Russia had so many adventures-For one of
them all events were engraved on film-
005 FORTY FIRST
Year - 1956
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 93 min.
Genre - drama
Direction - Grigory Chukhrai
Camera - Sergei Poluyanov
Starring - Nina Drobysheva, Yevgeny Urbansky, Vitaly Konyaev
He was the forty first target for her and- her first impossible love
006 THE COLD SUMMER OF 1953...
Year - 1988
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 102 min.
Genre - drama
Direction - Alexander Proshkin
Camera - B.Brozhovsky
Starring - Valery Priemykhov, Anatoly Papanov, Victor Stepanov, Nina
Usatova
Band of criminals against two former convicts
007 TCHAIKOVSKY
Year - 1969
Studio - Mosfilm
Duration - 77+80 min.
Genre - biopic, historical
Direction - Igor Talankin
Camera - Margarita Pilikhina
Starring - Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Antonina Shuranova, Yevgeni Leonov,
Maya Plisetskaya
The film is about the great Russian composer, his life and activities,
about the musician who has enriched mankind with works of music.
008 COMISSAR
Year - 1967 (1987)
Studio - Gorky Film Studio, Mosfilm
Duration - 110 min.
Genre - drama
Direction - Alexander Askoldov
Camera - V.Ginzburg
Starring - Nonna Mordukova, Rolan Bykov, Raisa Nedashkovskaya
Civil war in Russia, 1920s. Woman-comissar leaves her child-
009 YAROSLAVNA, QUEEN OF FRANCE
Year - 1978
Studio - Lenfilm
Duration - 98 min.
Genre - historical
Direction - Igor Maslennikov
Camera - V.Fedosov
Starring - Elena Koreneva, Kirill Lavrov, Nikolai Karachentsov, Sergei
Martinson
Early XI century Russia. Anna, youngest daughter of Prince Yaroslav,
will married to Henry, King of France-
010
Year - 1957
Studio - Mosfilm, Naya Sansar (India)
Duration - 76 min.
Genre - historical, biography
Direction - Vassily Pronin, Khodzha Akhmed
Camera - V.Nikolayev, Y.Andrikanis, R.Singkh
Starring - Oleg Strizhenov, Nargis, Pritkhviradzh Kapur
The movie is dedicate to Aphanasiy Nikitin, Russian merchant, who opened
great trade route from Europe to India in the beginning of 11 century.