Valentin Smirnov

Tsar Ivan the Terrible

Adaptation of 'Prince Serebrenni' by A. K. Tolstoy.

The Flight

The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the flight" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to Russia. Some of them have understood that they can't live outside Russia and go back maybe to be happy, maybe not, some go back to face sure death for their crimes, some don't go back and know that are going to miss homeland forever, some are comfortably well off (are they?) in exile.

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

The thirty-year-old decathlete leaves the big sport and becomes a stunt performer in the cinema. About how the movie is shot, and about the development of personal relationships between the main characters.

The Ambassador of the Soviet Union

Based on the book "Ambassador Extraordinary" by the Tur Brothers. The film tells about the life and work of the first Soviet woman diplomat (the prototype was A. M. Kollontai). In the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War, Elena Koltsova, Soviet ambassador to a neutral Scandinavian country, works hard to expose the provocations of Hitler's Germany.

Unknown Pages from the Life of a Scout

The Soviet intelligence officer, abandoned on the territory occupied by the Germans, finds himself in a tragic situation: high-ranking state security officials put him in the position of an outcast. However, he continues to act - at his own peril and risk ...

12 Chairs

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.

Promised Heaven

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...

The Lost Expedition

An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918.

Why?

The difficult fate of a man who went through the war, the horror of Hitler’s and Stalin’s camps, but retained fortitude, decency and purity.

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 Anna Cross

Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll has made a sensational discovery: he has managed to separate good from evil in himself. This discovery he must keep secret, because the bearer of evil, Mr. Hyde, has become uncontrollable.

Ten Years Without Right to Write Letters

After the war, the hero of the film comes to Moscow to take revenge on the scammer, through whose fault his father died in the 37th. He carries out his sentence and is ready to answer for it according to the law. His girlfriend becomes an involuntary participant in the drama

Seventh Skies

Life in a distant south town become to difficult for the young girl Ksana from Moscow...

Clinic

"Era Consultant": The former driver of the Council of People's Commissars was invited to shoot a film about the 30s. Regarding his chauffeur career had began precisely at that time, he agreed, although he perfectly understood that he was invited because of the old Emka, which he still drives and which is unlikely to be driven by anyone else. "Owner": Tractor driver, who is keenly concerned about the collective farm business, drives around the fields at night, loads rotting straw into a trailer and takes it to an abandoned public young farm. "Clinic": Fearing for the patient’s life, surgeon offers his services to a protégé of the hospital head, who is preparing to defend her dissertation. But the patient dies...

Neutral Waters

About the heroic feat of the crew of the cruiser Gordeli, who successfully completed the Soviet command's mission to suppress provocations in neutral waters.

Right to Jump

The hero of the film, the world record holder in the high jump, after a car accident according to the conclusion of doctors, should forever leave the sport. But against all odds, he is doing everything possible to return to the national team. Chance brings him together with a surgeon, also fanatically devoted to his work - and the hero again wins international competitions.

And on the Pacific Ocean...

The last days of the Civil War. Pushed back to the Pacific Ocean by the Red Army, the White Guard troops are trying to hold on to power. They pin their hopes on an armored train that will deliver them ammunition.

Origins

The family history (1917-1941) of a hereditary steelworker who began his career before the revolution at the factory of the German industrialist Heitel.

Seventeen Moments of Spring

A Soviet spy is tasked with disrupting the negotiations between Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles taking place in Switzerland, aimed at forging a separate peace between Germany and the Western Allies.

Mikhaylo Lomonosov

The history of Russia of the 18th century through the life and work of the outstanding scientist and writer Mikhail Lomonosov.