Directing
Leonid Menaker
Born September 12, 1929 · Leningrad, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
Died April 21, 2012 · aged 82
No biography available.
Known For
The Testament of Professor Dowell · 1984The Testament of Professor Dowell
★ 5.31984
MovieAdventureDrama
For many years, a prominent scientist had been striving to solve the problem of immortality. He shared the results of his daring and risky experiments with his colleagues. But one day something happened that no one could have foreseen: the professor had disappeared. The best student and follower of Professor Dowell tries to use the results of his scientific research for criminal purposes.
Dogs' Feast · 1990Dogs' Feast
★ 3.91990
MovieDrama
A woman who cleans toilets has dreams of meeting a lover and finding happiness.Will these dreams, in the winter of a USSR in its last years, come true?
The Lark · 1964The Lark
★ 5.41964
MovieActionDrama
Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that death is near, the brave Russians run amok and tear down German monuments before heading out to a field where female slave laborers are working.
Identification · 1974Identification
★ 4.51974
MovieDrama
Baron Karl Ludwig von Oster, the owner of a giant concern, one of the industrial magnates of Germany, convicted at the Nuremberg trials, was released by the American military administration and is now testing new weapons. The film is based on a judicial duel between a war criminal and journalist Ingrid Kuhn, the daughter of Professor Peter Kuhn, who paid with his life to prevent Auster from getting atomic weapons into his hands...
Don't Forget... Lugovaya Station · 1966Don't Forget... Lugovaya Station
★ 6.91966
MovieWarDrama
During WWII a troop train is stuck at a small railway station. A young lieutenant gets close to a local girl, then the war separates them. Twenty years later he happens to arrive at the same station and finds out that she'd waited for him for many years.
City and Song · 1968City and Song
1968
MovieMusic
The music film was shot against the backdrop of Leningrad, the Black Sea coast and the birch forest. With the participation of artists of the Leningrad Lenin Komsomol Theater, ballet dancers of the Leningrad Music Hall, singers of the Fedorov sisters, the pantomime ensemble of the Leningrad Miniature Theater.
The Last Escape · 1981The Last Escape
★ 7.51981
MovieDrama
The hero of the film Scrubs – a war veteran who works in a school for troubled teens. On the day of release from the special school his favorite pupil Viktor waited in vain for his mother – she did not come for her son, and went out to meet the swimming man, Vitya's stepfather. Then the teacher took home Vitya – Aleksey Ivanovich. But when Viktor saw the house merry company, his resentment prevailed, and the stubborn kid runs away from the bush, and the caretaker does not do anything but go in search of the fugitive
The Last Road · 1986The Last Road
★ 4.51986
MovieDramaRomance
About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel and died when he was 37.
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