Aleksandr Shirvindt

Crazies

A romantic and funny fantasy about the events occurred during the building of a first railroad in Russia.

Incognito from St.Petersburg

A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.

Do You Know How to Live?

From the childhood Natasha Korolyuk showed talent for music. She graduated from the conservatory in a small town and was ready to begin new and exciting activities. But her life plans changed when she met pianist Alexander. She married him and moved to Moscow. But soon the girl realizes that her husband is the usual mediocrity and seedy bohemian who wants to live idly. Active Natasha does not want to cast in lot with this man and returns to her homeland.

Old Men: Robbers

An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen.

Silver Revue

Lena, a fantasist and dreamer, a soloist of the ice ballet, dreams of staging a fairy-tale magic performance. One day the heroine meets Yura, a dreamer like herself, and leaves him a phone number without giving her name...

She Loves You

A shy Zoo worker falls in love with a girl from a magazine cover and decides to send her a letter.

Moliere (The Cabal of Saints)

Classical history, not devoid of mysteries and mysticism, develops in different historical epochs – from Louis the Sun to the present day. Rhythms, mores, manners, and fashion are changing. Powdered wigs and doublets will be replaced by tailcoats and top hats, jackets and jackets. Only art and Bulgakov's plot remain eternal, in which the themes are intricately intertwined: the artist and power, love and betrayal, talent and envy.

The Circus Princess

The whole city is rushing to the circus to see the deadly act of the famous masked artist, the mysterious Mr. X. Among the guests is a rich widow, Countess Palinskaya, for whom any man is ready to perform a feat. But only the mysterious X is able to ignite the flame of love in the heart of the inflexible Countess...

Crazies

A romantic and funny fantasy about the events occurred during the building of a first railroad in Russia.

Incognito from St.Petersburg

A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.

Do You Know How to Live?

From the childhood Natasha Korolyuk showed talent for music. She graduated from the conservatory in a small town and was ready to begin new and exciting activities. But her life plans changed when she met pianist Alexander. She married him and moved to Moscow. But soon the girl realizes that her husband is the usual mediocrity and seedy bohemian who wants to live idly. Active Natasha does not want to cast in lot with this man and returns to her homeland.

Old Men: Robbers

An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen.

Silver Revue

Lena, a fantasist and dreamer, a soloist of the ice ballet, dreams of staging a fairy-tale magic performance. One day the heroine meets Yura, a dreamer like herself, and leaves him a phone number without giving her name...

She Loves You

A shy Zoo worker falls in love with a girl from a magazine cover and decides to send her a letter.

Moliere (The Cabal of Saints)

Classical history, not devoid of mysteries and mysticism, develops in different historical epochs – from Louis the Sun to the present day. Rhythms, mores, manners, and fashion are changing. Powdered wigs and doublets will be replaced by tailcoats and top hats, jackets and jackets. Only art and Bulgakov's plot remain eternal, in which the themes are intricately intertwined: the artist and power, love and betrayal, talent and envy.

The Circus Princess

The whole city is rushing to the circus to see the deadly act of the famous masked artist, the mysterious Mr. X. Among the guests is a rich widow, Countess Palinskaya, for whom any man is ready to perform a feat. But only the mysterious X is able to ignite the flame of love in the heart of the inflexible Countess...

Little Comedies in a Big House

Theatrical movie based on an ordinary life of an average soviet family

The Benefit. Larisa Golubkina

Heartbreak House

September evening, an unusual ark house, resembling a ship in shape, for its owner, the gray-haired old man, captain Châtover, sailed the whole life through the seas. A strange house where people behave differently. Young beauty sisters reign in this house, beckoning true gentlemen, as the light of a lamp beckons moths. This house fences its inhabitants from the outside world. Talk about the meaning of life, home entertainment, hopeless novels. And a premonition of trouble: at the same time, clouds of the First World were gathering over the good old England ...

Tablet Under the Tongue

A Little Time Machine

This film tells about the discovery achieved at the intersection of many sciences: cybernetics, astrophysics, telepathy and veterinary medicine. Soviet scientists made a sensational invention - the device "TV-1" (a transistor of time) was designed. Trial samples were disguised in household items: they were equipped with beads, a flower and a cane. The owners of experimental devices were random people.

Inspector General

The performance of the Moscow Theater of Satire, based on the play by N.V. Gogol.

A Million in a Wedding Basket

In the densely populated slums live large but poor family of charming and talented signor Leonido Popogatto. Under the guise of an important person he enters the secular parties and steals drinks and food from the tables.

Three Men in a Boat

Three London gentlemen take vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

What a Smile You Got

Sergey Savinov, a yesterday's schoolboy, who failed at his entry exams, is at the crossroads. Where to go to work? After working as a stand-by in a local recreation-and-entertainment park, he tries himself as a proof-reader in typography, a laboratory assistant in a plant and exhausts all his stock of photos for passes. To replenish it, he heads for a nearest photo saloon, and makes a conclusion, that his calling, which he long considered as a hobby, is photography. A work which brings so much happiness both to him and to other people.

Eastern Dentist

A musical comedy based on the story of Hakob Paronian. The film adaptation of the comedy classic of Armenian literature. The action takes place at the end of the 19th century, in Constantinople, in the Armenian environment.

The Outlaw Ballad

1830s, Moldavia. The groom Todor fell in love with his master's maid, Yustinia. Having found himself in hard labor, Todor organized an escape and, with a group of like-minded people, took refuge in the codry. So, under the leadership of Ataman Todor Tobultok, the Moldavian rebels, who called themselves haiduks, began to fight against the tyranny of the landowners.

The Siege of Venice

Venice, eighteenth century. The young Rosanna, widowed on her wedding day, discovers that she is the sole heir to an enormous patrimony, becoming in this way the most coveted party of the Serenissima.

The Benefit. Lyudmila Gurchenko

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...

Вовка-тренер

Station for Two

Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's fiancé, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedov. Vera learns that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to prison in the Far East for a car accident he isn't guilty for. During the few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other...

Fuse

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

KVN Major League

KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.

Hello, Andrey!

Guests are invited to the studio to have conversations with Andrey Malakhov, where they talk about their personal and professional successes, as well as anything else that interests them. Through these open discussions on air, viewers get a complete impression of the guest's life and their perspective on various issues.

To Remember

Projectorparishilton

Four hosts discuss some current news and comment on different issues in politics and economics, similar to 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe. The show's name is a reference to the 80s TV program "Прожектор Перестройки" - a program that was discussing current events on Soviet television during the times of Perestroika - and American socialite Paris Hilton, who, according to Svetlakov, symbolizes lack of taste. Thus, the name of the show implies that this is a current events program that shouldn't be taken seriously.

Legends of Cinema

The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini

Аліса в країні чудес

Самый маленький гном

Major 'Whirlwind'

The Nazis plant explosives to blow up the cities of Krakow and Prague, but the underground resistance in Poland works with the Russians to stop the disaster.