Vyacheslav Butenko

Week

About one of the most difficult weeks after the Civil War in a small Ural city in the spring of 1921, in which the situation was very serious. Famine is on the agenda; if seeds are not delivered to the general sowing, then not only the city, but the entire region will starve. To deliver them by rail, fuel is needed, which is also not available, and twelve miles from the city there is a forest where firewood can be prepared for the trains. In addition to all this, there is an unsolved counter-revolutionary conspiracy in the city...

Edith Piaf

The play about the life and love of the great French singer was directed by Boris Shchedrin at the State Academic Theatre of the Moscow Soviet.

The Little Mermaid

A little Mermaid falls in love with a Prince whom she saves during a storm. Using all kinds of magical incantations in exchange for the Mermaid’s beautiful blue hair, a witch replaces her fish tail with human legs, making it possible for the Mermaid to walk and live on earth at the cost of great pain with every step she takes. The Little Mermaid willingly suffers through these trials only to be near her beloved. But the Prince, not realizing how lucky he is, becomes enamored with a beautiful but vain princess.

Version

A television play based on the life and works of Russian poet Alexander Blok performed by the cast of Moscow's Mossovet Theatre.

Our House

A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life.

Vasiliy Tyorkin

Based on the eponymous poem by A. Tvardovsky, directed by the State Academic Theatre of the Moscow Soviet.

On Golden Pond

At the house on Golden Pond, where an elderly couple lives, their daughter Chelsea arrives with her fiancé and his son Billy. This changes the couple's life. The boy brings joy and chaos into the home of the elderly couple.

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

The second part of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk's epic biography of John Reed. It is October 1917 and the American journalist has found himself and his wife, Louise Bryant, in Petrograd on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution.

The Banishment

While vacationing in the countryside at his childhood home, a woman suddenly reveals to her husband that she is expecting a child – but not his.

Arrival Day is a Departure Day

Psychologists Petrov and Burtseva come from Moscow to a small town at the request of the plant director to find out the reasons for the tense situation at the enterprise and the increasing number of workers' layoffs.

Dance Teacher

The Spanish "comedy of cloak and sword", in which there is both all-consuming love, and withering jealousy, and sophisticated cunning.

Don't Wake Up Madam

Julien Paluch is principled in everything: in his work and in his life. The formula "genius and debauchery" is not for him. His fanatical passion for new theatrical ideas attracts a wide variety of people to him. But one day in the director's life there comes a moment when Palyush begins to doubt that he is talented, and that his actions and relationships with people were selfless, sincere, and humane.

The White Gauntlet

The distant 17th century, where noble and courageous gentlemen, beautiful ladies and... insidious villains act, and where there are mysteries, adventures and always ardent love at first sight.

Boris Godunov

Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the Terrible had died. At first, things went well for Godunov (played by Bondarchuk), but when the Russian people began to believe he had killed Ivan the Terrible's son in order to gain the throne, an alliance sprang up against the new Czar. Events continued to spin out of control as a young monk was presented as the son Godunov had supposedly killed. Now he was openly accused of failing an assassination attempt, which seems to be even worse than succeeding. In addition to these woes, Boris Godunov began to suffer serious health problems. So much for the joys of kingship.

The End of the "Black Knights"

About the exposure by Soviet intelligence officers of the neo-Nazi organization "Black Knights", which tried to revive the fascist movement in Europe.

Angel Pavement

Twig and Darsingham's offices were in Angel Street, London. The company's business is going badly, but suddenly a sales representative shows up in the office. With his arrival, the company began to prosper and the people who worked there had high hopes for the future. However, they were not destined to come true. Golspie's agent turned out to be a fraud who bankrupted the company.

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