Rostislav Katansky

A Month in the Country

Based on a play by Ivan Turgenev.

The First President

A teleplay about the life and work of the first chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov.

You!

The teleplay was based on V. Mayakovsky’s poems “You!”, “Listen!”, “Conversation with Comrade Lenin” and other works of the poet.

Eccentrics

The love triangle: wife, husband and his mistress, amusingly crumbles because the loving writer is fleetingly infatuated with a third woman, young and inexperienced, rightly believing that an artist needs a muse every day, not a wife and mistress.

Conscience Doesn't Forgive

Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life.

Fairy Tale

The heroes strive, at the cost of any trials and sacrifices, to discover the gold-bearing veins and placer deposits the country so desperately needs. Meanwhile, hardened villains operate alongside them, doing everything they can to thwart their plans and intentions—this drives the dramatic tension and the intense events of the production…

The Last Alternative

Detective Al Bailey is invited to one of the outer worlds, Solaria, where a mysterious murder has occurred. Solaria is characterized by the isolation of its inhabitants from each other (even husbands and wives see each other on a schedule), which makes the murder all the more incredible. From childhood, people grow up surrounded by robots, and as adults, personal contact is considered inappropriate and a difficult challenge. The unpreparedness of the inhabitants for the murder leads them to accept the invitation to bring in an Earthling. Upon arriving on the planet, Al Bailey meets his old acquaintance, the robot Dan, and they begin their investigation together.

Nail From Home

There lived a poor peasant with his wife. They had three sons: Mats, Peter and Svend. One day there was a drought, and the family had a hard time. And the sons went to work. Mats took his father's old jacket for himself. Peter - a saucepan to sell. And his younger brother Svend got an old rusty nail...