Sergei Desnitsky

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.

Heavy Water

The film tells about the difficult and dangerous everyday life of submarine officers in love with their profession during the Cold War.

What Is to Be Done?

TV adaptation of Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel about Vera Pavlovna, a woman who escapes the control of her family and arranged marriage to seek economic independence.

Big Little War

An action-packed film about the role of Mikhail Frunze in the liquidation of Father Makhno’s gangs in Ukraine.

Falling Stars

Falling Star is based on three stories by the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Astafyev and centers on a young soldier on the front lines who is wounded and taken to the hospital. Once there, he muses about his childhood and a little girl he had loved - someone who could easily have grown up to be the nurse that is attending to him now. As he recuperates, he and the nurse fall in love and he very much wants to marry her. At this point, the nurse's mother comes for a visit and advises him against such an action because if they were to marry and he were subsequently killed or maimed in action - the fighting is still close to the hospital - the nurse would suffer much more than if he just left her alone. Now it is up to the soldier to make a decision one way or the other.

Three Sisters

A stage production by the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.

Notes of a Hunter

The television play is based on three stories by Turgenev: "A Meeting", "Pyotr Petrovich Karataev", and "Hamlet of Shchigrovsky District".

Mary Stuart

Gorky Moscow Art Theater. A play based on the play of the same name by F. Schiller. About the confrontation between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Queen Mary of Scotland.

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.

Heavy Water

The film tells about the difficult and dangerous everyday life of submarine officers in love with their profession during the Cold War.

What Is to Be Done?

TV adaptation of Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel about Vera Pavlovna, a woman who escapes the control of her family and arranged marriage to seek economic independence.

Big Little War

An action-packed film about the role of Mikhail Frunze in the liquidation of Father Makhno’s gangs in Ukraine.

Falling Stars

Falling Star is based on three stories by the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Astafyev and centers on a young soldier on the front lines who is wounded and taken to the hospital. Once there, he muses about his childhood and a little girl he had loved - someone who could easily have grown up to be the nurse that is attending to him now. As he recuperates, he and the nurse fall in love and he very much wants to marry her. At this point, the nurse's mother comes for a visit and advises him against such an action because if they were to marry and he were subsequently killed or maimed in action - the fighting is still close to the hospital - the nurse would suffer much more than if he just left her alone. Now it is up to the soldier to make a decision one way or the other.

Three Sisters

A stage production by the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.

Notes of a Hunter

The television play is based on three stories by Turgenev: "A Meeting", "Pyotr Petrovich Karataev", and "Hamlet of Shchigrovsky District".

Mary Stuart

Gorky Moscow Art Theater. A play based on the play of the same name by F. Schiller. About the confrontation between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Queen Mary of Scotland.

Favorite

A young, intelligent and lucky guy, nicknamed Favorite, which stuck to him during his student years, is interested in karate. The local mafia notices him and begins to promote him to the People's Deputies of the RSFSR. A girl he meets after a long separation helps the hero understand this situation. The fight for her honor develops into an open battle with a criminal group, from which the guy emerges with honor.

The Cure Against Fear

A police detective is trying to find a murderer who uses a new recently developed drug for his crimes.

The Experiment of Dr. Abst

During WWII Red Army sailor suddenly gets to German underwater swimmers secret base...

Wind Over the City

In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe and tries to keep her close, dreaming and working hard to rebuild a new town while the troupe increasingly faces decline and the end of its run.

Tear of the Prince of Darkness

Tallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to find Tear of the Prince of Darkness, a legendary ring which can bring Satan’s rule over the world.

Pilot Pirx's Inquest

Pirx, an experienced pilot, is hired to go on a top-secret mission to evaluate some 'nonlinears' (an experimental model of android) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and this intriguing crew are sent out to launch two satellites into the rings of Saturn, but he is determined to find out and identify a hostile unhuman coworker among them.

The Curse of Snake Valley

The trio of adventurous pals, a man who is a scientist, a fine lady and a former military pilot are in the Indochina jungles looking for some mysterious vase that holds a metal container that is of no mundane origin.

Ivanov

Based on the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

Action

Summer 1943. Soviet commanders become aware about a spies school in the occupied territory of Ukraine running the traitor Karayev. The group of five is sent to destroy the school.

Moon Rainbow

After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?

The Seagull

A staging of the play by Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Academic Art Theatre.

I Have Done Everything I Could

Autumn 1941. In a Nazi POW camp near Kyiev, a person claiming to be a doctor appears. He convinced Germans to set up a hospital. Raising no suspicions in Germans, he supplied prisoners with weapons and helped them to escape.

So We Will Win!

Based on the play of the same name by M. Shatrov.

And the Wind Returns...

The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films.

In the Name of the Revolution

1918. After the death of the mother, the father decides to take the children to Moscow to see a distant relative. On the way, the guys experience a raid by a White Guard gang on a train, the death of their father, and meet the homeless child Yashka, who brings a plan to Lenin - how to destroy all the bourgeoisie and all the counter-propaganda in one day. The boys become involved in revolutionary events, and ahead is Moscow, a chance meeting and conversation with Lenin and Dzerzhinsky, the fight against counter-revolution...

The Long Road Through the Maze

The protagonists of the film, chekists Sasha Sizov and Ivan Shagin, take the confiscated jewels out of the city captured by the White Guards and deliver them to Kiev. Having returned to the city liberated by the Red Army, they expose a White Guard agent who has infiltrated the Cheka and take part in the defeat of Colonel Sherstev's gang.

State Border

From 1917 to the end of the 1980s, Soviet border guards are stationed on the territory of the USSR from the Far East to the western borders.

Past and Thoughts

Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.

Siberia

Old Fortress

The Soviet propagnda film follows young people from Ukrainian Kamianets-Podilskyi during the revolutionary battles for Soviet power, spanning from pre-revolutionary times to the 1930s. It depicts their experiences in a gymnasium, labour school, cadet dormitory, and their involvement in conflicts against Petliura’s forces and German interventionists, highlighting divisions by social status and political views. It consists of three parts: "Commissar Sergushin" (episodes 1-3); "The Haunted House" (episodes 4-5); "The City by the Sea" (episodes 6-7).