Andrei Bubashkin

Amidst hunger, devastation, typhus, and complete chaos, a young soldier, Eumen, maimed by the civil war, and a girl, Maria, travel in a dilapidated freight car. Thus, on the terrible road of life, two lonely people begin to develop deep and pure feelings...

Full of unusual adventures, searches, discoveries, music, and spectacle, the story of the Seagull Boy, who, in defense of nature, engages in a struggle with the Fire Shooter, a human hunter. The children, the passengers of the boat, help the seagull — and emerge victorious.

Based on the short story by Leonid Andreev "Ivan Ivanovich". A Perestroika look at the events that took place after the 1905 Revolution. The young defender of the barricades shows weakness and releases the captured gendarme. After a while, he is not spared in a similar situation.

Young agronomist Viktor Nozhov makes an extraordinary decision - he leaves a successful state farm and becomes the chairman of a backward collective farm in his native village...

A love story which happened in the small village during a visit of two rich city boys.

Based on the novel of the same name by Yuri Smolich about the struggle of young people to establish Soviet power in Ukraine.

A story about a difficult childhood of two twin brothers Boris and Gleb during the first years after WWII.

Focuses on the lives of two married Polish couples (one Jewish, one Catholic) and the personal and social devastation wrought by the Holocaust and its aftermath.

The beautiful Franka, the daughter of a Polish official, marries a peasant Pavel and cannot accept her happy fate: before her marriage, she had to be a laundress in rich houses and a prostitute. And now Franka's restless soul longs for repentance.

Somewhere on the coast, away from the village, a team of road workers lives and works - several families. Their work is hard and meaningless - the road they are constantly repairing leads nowhere and is not needed by anyone. The monotony of this life is broken by a couple who have settled next to each other in a tent, traveling by car. These are people of a different social stratum, a different culture. Their relationship, lifestyle attract the hero of the film - twelve-year-old Yurka. The boy gets closer to the visitors. This leads to a serious conflict with parents and makes them think about their lives.

A film about time and timelessness, about personality and facelessness, about the need for change and the desire to get used to what is - The drama of a man whose fate was predetermined at the moment of birth. "Chekist orphan" - he was obliged to go through his terrible path and could not go through it. He became what he became - a KGB colonel.

A trinity of aliens, who arrived on Earth in order to find out the state of the intellect of its inhabitants, settled in a camping tent not far from a small Tajik village. Batur, a local guy - savvy and cheerful - with the ease of a child prodigy disables guests' equipment and charms a blue-eyed alien.

Prosecutor Azhogin, who sent many criminals to prison, by the will of fate himself ends up behind bars. He is placed in a cell with juvenile lawbreakers. The situation is far from the worst one. So thinks the Azhogin, who eventually becomes a true friend and mentor of his fourteen-year-old inmates...

A 'runaway' homeless man, once a renowned athlete, finds himself marooned in the small, snow-covered town of Zarechensk. Victor lands a job at an orphanage, where he soon meets a young teacher who becomes both a compassionate friend and the love of his life. However, fate doesn't play out simply as good or bad; it unfolds in a way that makes the hero realize one cannot run away from oneself. Consequently, it is in Zarechensk that a train carrying a film crew from the capital, on their way back to Moscow, is compelled to delay their journey for a few days. Remarkably, Zarechensk becomes the place where a director finally discovers the perfect actress for his leading role and encounters a man who has fled from her love. Meanwhile, a producer makes the ultimate decision to select this town as the filming location for her upcoming movie.