Grigoriy Gay

The Battle after the Victory

A third part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.

The Road to 'Saturn'

A first part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.

Operation 'Trust'

A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia.

Failure of Engineer Garin

A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.

Letters for the Living

Based on the real letters of Veronika, a young girl in partizans squad during WWII.

The Red Tent

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

Hamlet

Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.

Life Has Passed By

Proffesional thief called "Sharks" escapes from the prison and tries to continue his thieving craft. But for this he needs the help of old friends. However, time has passed and none of them wants to remember the past and once again embark on a slippery slope. One of them - Innokenty Stepanov (Yuri Sarantsev) works in the Komsomol team on construction site.

The Battle after the Victory

A third part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.

The Road to 'Saturn'

A first part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.

Operation 'Trust'

A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia.

Failure of Engineer Garin

A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.

Letters for the Living

Based on the real letters of Veronika, a young girl in partizans squad during WWII.

The Red Tent

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

Hamlet

Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.

Life Has Passed By

Proffesional thief called "Sharks" escapes from the prison and tries to continue his thieving craft. But for this he needs the help of old friends. However, time has passed and none of them wants to remember the past and once again embark on a slippery slope. One of them - Innokenty Stepanov (Yuri Sarantsev) works in the Komsomol team on construction site.

King Lear

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

Trust

In December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek recognition of Finland's independence.

Crime: Deception

31st Dept.

The Commissioner of Police has been tasked with conducting an investigation into the threat of a terrorist attack in the building of the press concern. During the investigation, he learns about the existence of the 31st department, created by the management of the concern with the aim of eliminating the opposition press.

Retribution

The continuation of a story started by Alexander Stolper epic movie "The Alive and the Dead".

Personal Happiness

The distinctive traits of the Doroshin family are hard work, courage, and principledness. Pavel Nikolaevich is a war veteran and the chief engineer of a factory, while Anastasia Mikhailovna is the head of a university department and an active participant in the partisan movement. Their eldest son, Ilya, a sanitary doctor, demands the closure of one of the city's enterprises. However, war criminals, who are hiding from retribution, know that the Gestapo archives are hidden in the building's basement and fear that the documents might be discovered. Terrified of exposure, they try to prevent Ilya from carrying out this action and attempt to discredit the Doroshins.

Contraband

Borders guard are trying to catch a group of smugglers using the cruise ship to move a contraband.

A Train to a Distant August

A participant in the war with the fascist regime, a Soviet soldier Chigorin, who bravely fought in Odessa, decides to return to the black sea city and walk through the memorable places where a lot of blood of brave defenders was shed for every inch of land. On the train, a random companion of the man becomes Katya, a charming young girl who asks Chigorin to tell about those events. Going headfirst into the memories, the former soldier begins his story, in which there is a place for selflessness, friendship, mutual assistance, love and heroism…

The Death of Vazir Mukhtar

A television play chronicling the lead-up to the assassination of diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov, dubbed “vazir mukhtar” in his position as Russia's ambassador to Tehran.

The End of 'Saturn'

A second part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.

For the Rest of My Life

The Bread Smells of Gunpowder

Based on the story "Echelon to Germany" by Ivan Shamyakin.

Fiesta

A stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", first staged for Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater and later reworked for Leningrad Television.

On the Road of Immortality

You Can't Cross the Bridge

Machinist Drove the Trains

Olga, who was taken to the West by Hitler's invaders, works as a switchman at a railway station. Echelons with prisoners of war - convicts - pass by her every day. Olga gets acquainted with the machinist Fyodor and with his help organizes the escape of her camp mates. But the plan fails, and the escapees are shot. Fyodor, who miraculously survived, gets to the homeland. And after the war, chance again brings him together with Olga, when the hero with severe burns after an accident falls into the hospital...

Failure of Engineer Garin

At the end of the 1920s, in Petrograd, on Krestovsky Island, the corpse of a man similar to the engineer Garin was found. Garin himself managed to take advantage of the brilliant discovery of the scientist Mantsev and designed an apparatus with destructive power. A dangerous hunt begins for this invention. Having faked the death, he emigrated from Russia and, under the guise of a French businessman, tries to establish contacts with the head of one of the European financial concerns, Rolling. Garin's ultimate goal is power over the world...

Operation 'Trust'

The series is about the operation code-named "Trest", which under the leadership of F.E.Dzerzhinsky was carried out by the VChK to identify and eliminate the counter-revolutionary and monarchist underground on the territory of the USSR, associated with foreign white-emigrant organizations.

The Ruins Are Firing…

The film is based on real events described in the documentary novel by Soviet writer Ivan Novikov, Ruins Shoot Point Blank, dedicated to the heroes of the Minsk underground during the WWII.