Anatoli Efros

A Noisy Day

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, different ideas about life values...

Two on the Steppes

In the summer of 1942, the Soviet army is fighting the Germans on the Don River. Young lieutenant Ogarkov gets lost in the steppe and fails to deliver a redeployment order. For that, he is sentenced to death. Now, another soldier has to lead him across the steppes to his death.

The Tempest

The evil spirit Caliban tries to oppose the world of Good that Prospero creates around him. The dual image of Prospero-Ariel represents two human souls, striving to unite people divided by hatred... This is a version of the play directed by Anatoly Efros in 1983 as part of the December Evenings at the A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. It was specially revived for a television recording in 1988 to mark the anniversary of Efros’s death.

Platon Krechet

The play is about the life of the Soviet intelligentsia in the 1930s. At the center of the performance is the talented surgeon Platon Krechet, a man whose every thought and effort is focused on prolonging human life.

The Unwomanly Face of War

A woman’s perspective on the reality of wartime is a simple human truth, filled with piercing details that seem unbelievable. It is a truth that is not mentioned in official documents, films, or books from the Soviet era, and it is even absent from the memoirs of male veterans. This is a play about life, where concepts like honor, love for the motherland, and compassion held great significance.

Classes

The art of theater is a complex craft. In 19 minutes, you can’t convey everything that is taught over five years. Our film is only a short walk through the Lunacharsky State Institute of Theatre Arts, a cinematic panorama of three directing classes. The classes of M. O. Knebel, A. A. Goncharov, and A. V. Efros.

Misanthrope

A performance by the Taganka Theatre based on a play by Molière. The last work of Anatoly Efros. The production features music by Duke Ellington.

A Month in the Country

Based on the eponymous play by I.S. Turgenev.

A Noisy Day

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, different ideas about life values...

Two on the Steppes

In the summer of 1942, the Soviet army is fighting the Germans on the Don River. Young lieutenant Ogarkov gets lost in the steppe and fails to deliver a redeployment order. For that, he is sentenced to death. Now, another soldier has to lead him across the steppes to his death.

The Tempest

The evil spirit Caliban tries to oppose the world of Good that Prospero creates around him. The dual image of Prospero-Ariel represents two human souls, striving to unite people divided by hatred... This is a version of the play directed by Anatoly Efros in 1983 as part of the December Evenings at the A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. It was specially revived for a television recording in 1988 to mark the anniversary of Efros’s death.

Platon Krechet

The play is about the life of the Soviet intelligentsia in the 1930s. At the center of the performance is the talented surgeon Platon Krechet, a man whose every thought and effort is focused on prolonging human life.

The Unwomanly Face of War

A woman’s perspective on the reality of wartime is a simple human truth, filled with piercing details that seem unbelievable. It is a truth that is not mentioned in official documents, films, or books from the Soviet era, and it is even absent from the memoirs of male veterans. This is a play about life, where concepts like honor, love for the motherland, and compassion held great significance.

Classes

The art of theater is a complex craft. In 19 minutes, you can’t convey everything that is taught over five years. Our film is only a short walk through the Lunacharsky State Institute of Theatre Arts, a cinematic panorama of three directing classes. The classes of M. O. Knebel, A. A. Goncharov, and A. V. Efros.

Misanthrope

A performance by the Taganka Theatre based on a play by Molière. The last work of Anatoly Efros. The production features music by Duke Ellington.

A Month in the Country

Based on the eponymous play by I.S. Turgenev.

Dear Liar

A play based on correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell.

Outsider

An employee leaves the company, lured away by a “competing company”, but his boss doesn't want to let him go at all, not handing over the documents, instead of saying goodbye through the secretary, that he doesn’t want him to leave, and gives three months to say goodbye to them or not. Nevertheless, he leaves, while grossly violating party discipline. A new venture awaits him, there he will be a big boss, an “outsider.” They have high hopes for it, but they are in no hurry to immediately reveal all the features and hidden production problems.

Romeo and Juliet

This TV version of the world-famous play by William Shakespeare stands out for its unusual production design and mise-en-scene.

Boris Godunov. Scenes from the Tragedy

The Rest Is Silence

TV version of the acclaimed stage production of Viña Delmar's script for the film Make Way for Tomorrow.

A Leap Year

On the streets of the regional city, a cheerful holiday bustle reigns. The apartment of the Kupriyanovs is also noisy — friends of their youngest daughter Yulka are preparing for the New Year. The old driver Leonid Kupriyanov will not have to celebrate the holiday with his family, he should go on the next trip. Preparing for the New Year, none of the heroes imagined what dramatic events would fall on them, how difficult and unexpectedly the destinies of three families would intertwine, how difficult it would be to recover from their experiences ...

Tanya

The story of a couple chasing their dreams amid the challenges of life in the postwar Soviet Union. Based on Aleksei Arbuzov's play.

Marat, Lika and Leonidik

The story of three young men during the siege who were looking for an apartment that had survived the bombing, but found each other for life. Marat and Lika (she loved the proud Marat, but married Leonidik, who had lost his arm at the front) fled from their own happiness and are now painfully returning to it, learning to be happy again with such difficulty, as if learning to walk again. And Leonidik, for whom the burden of his love has become unbearable, unbearable, is learning to be free again with the same difficulty.

On Thursday and Never Again

On the eve of his wedding, a young doctor leaves Moscow to see his mother who lives in a nature reserve. Things are complicated by the fact that the doctor's ex-girlfriend is also there, and she is expecting a child.

Vanishing August

Sometimes he allowed himself to drink for real. One morning after a night of drinking, having found a woman in his bed, whom, as it turned out, had prevented from leaving for Odessa, he proposed to her and invited the girl on a road trip…

Pages from Pechorin's Journal

Grigory Pechorin, a dashing Byronic figure, arrives in Pyatigorsk and gets entangled in a web of romantic ploys and deceptions. Based on "Princess Mary", the longest novella in Mikhail Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time".

Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière

Episodes from the life of Molière with scenes from his play, revealing the tragic picture of the confrontation between the great playwright and the authorities.

Fantasia

A TV movie inspired by Ivan Turgenev's Torrents of Spring.

Tartuffe

Legends of Cinema

Islands in the Stream

TV version of a play based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel.