Directing
Gleb Panfilov
Born May 21, 1934 · Magnitogorsk, USSR (Russia)
Died August 26, 2023 · aged 89
Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov (Russian: Глеб Анатольевич Панфилов; 21 May 1934 – 26 August 2023; Magnitogorsk) was a Soviet and Russian film director noted for a string of mostly historical films starring his wife, Inna Churikova. His first film "No Path Through Fire" won the Golden Leopard at the 22nd Locarno International Film Festival (1969). He also won the Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin Internat…
Known For
Stepan's Remembrance · 1977Stepan's Remembrance
★ 6.01977
MovieFamilyFantasy
The heiress of a gem mage travels to St. Petersburg to fulfill her father's dream and her destiny.
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus · 2010Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
★ 4.72010
MovieDramaWar
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in the front-lines. His daughter, Nadia, who survived a rape attempt by Nazi soldiers, is now a nurse risking her own life to save others. In the war-torn nation even former enemies are fighting together to defend their land. People stand up united for the sake of victory. Written by Steve Shelokhonov
No Path Through Fire · 1967No Path Through Fire
★ 6.01967
MovieDramaWar
A talented girl is trying to find happiness amidst the Russian revolution of 1917 and the civil war that split the nation.
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel · 2011Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
★ 4.12011
MovieDramaWar
The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything has changed and he will have to fight again for his name, for his honor, and for his love.
Mother · 1990Mother
★ 4.61990
MovieDramaHistory
The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). In the story, "the mother" has no other recourse than to watch her decent, kindly husband turn into an animalistic, drunken brute as a result of working in the inhuman conditions of a steel mill in the town of Sormovo. When he begins to express his suppressed rage by beating her, she is defended by her teenaged son Pavel. After his father's death, Pavel is forced to go to work in the same factory. However, Pavel and his friends begin investigating Marxism and socialist thought, and work to organize their fellow workers.
100 Minutes · 2021100 Minutes
★ 6.92021
MovieDrama
100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only ‘crime’ was to get caught. Stalin’s justice meted out on the prisoners who returned home was swift: ten years of forced labour in the Siberian camps. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?
The Romanovs: A Crowned Family · 2000The Romanovs: A Crowned Family
★ 5.22000
MovieRomanceHistory
The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.
Valentina · 1981Valentina
★ 5.41981
MovieDramaRomance
A drama about an affair between 18 years old dinning-room waitress and much older police investigator.















