Maksim Ruf

Historical drama depicting the events leading up to the 1917 October Revolution produced to celebrate the 40th anniversary.

Two old Leningrad workers, Sukhov and Solyanov, have a long-standing friendship — they worked at the same plant, lived in the neighborhood. Now Solyanov, at the insistence of his son, decides to retire. But it is not so easy to part with his native plant, which, as it turned out, still needs an old personnel officer...

Professor August Miilas has succeeded in hiding in his private house from the war. He thinks this is mainly caused by his complete devotion to science. As August is not interested in anything that is going on outside his citadel, his family members avoid disturbing him. However, the political situation disrupt August's quietude. Right in the middle of his domestic citadel, the professor finds out about dangerous secrets so that he must give up this apolitical attitude and open up for the new reality.

The television adaptation of the play by the Leningrad Comedy Theatre, staged and designed by Nikolai Akimov.

A biographical film about the life and work of the outstanding physicist-electrical engineer, inventor of radio communications Alexander Semenovich Popov.

A performance by the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky.