Semyon Aranovich

Torpedo Bombers

In 1944 a Soviet marine air force unit stationed near Murmansk is fighting off the German bombers attacking the British navy convoys supplying the Soviet Union with war materials under the lend-lease agreement.

Summer Trip to the Sea

A story about a group of Arkhangelsk kids during 1942.

People of Earth and Sky

The heroic romance of the profession is in the story about the life of test pilot Yuri Garnaev, who tragically died with his crew while extinguishing forest fires in France in 1967.

Confrontation

In 1979, in one of the northern Soviet cities, the police are investigating the murder of a man who was on his way home from the gold mines. The detectives track down the main suspect, Grigory Milinko. But the further the case progresses, the more complicated it becomes, as it turns out that the real Milinko died during the war. So someone stole his name. The criminal is declared wanted throughout the Soviet Union, but the crimes continue.

Leningrad

A chronicle-poetic film about St. Petersburg-Leningrad from the Italian television documentary series "Cultural Capitals of Europe" (seventh film).

The Broken Horseshoe

Based on the novel by Jules Verne "Drama in Livonia". French aeronaut Jules Ardan, traveling in a hot air balloon, accidentally finds himself in Reval. Here he meets Dr. Peterson and his daughter Leida. The gendarmes are hunting for Leida's fiance. The banker's son is being murdered in the city. Suspicion falls on Peterson. Jules Ardan takes over the investigation of the crime.

The Year of the Dog

Former criminal Sergei meets Vera - an elderly unhappy woman who lives in a dormitory. After Sergei commits another crime, they run together and along the way they accidentally get into a zone contaminated by radiation. Sergei decides to stay there, but Vera does not leave him. At that moment three looters come to the territory.

Pavlovsk

A concert film about the Pavlovsk Palace near Leningrad. Music from the 18th and 19th centuries is featured. Ballet dancers from Leningrad theaters participated in the filming.

Torpedo Bombers

In 1944 a Soviet marine air force unit stationed near Murmansk is fighting off the German bombers attacking the British navy convoys supplying the Soviet Union with war materials under the lend-lease agreement.

Summer Trip to the Sea

A story about a group of Arkhangelsk kids during 1942.

People of Earth and Sky

The heroic romance of the profession is in the story about the life of test pilot Yuri Garnaev, who tragically died with his crew while extinguishing forest fires in France in 1967.

Confrontation

In 1979, in one of the northern Soviet cities, the police are investigating the murder of a man who was on his way home from the gold mines. The detectives track down the main suspect, Grigory Milinko. But the further the case progresses, the more complicated it becomes, as it turns out that the real Milinko died during the war. So someone stole his name. The criminal is declared wanted throughout the Soviet Union, but the crimes continue.

Leningrad

A chronicle-poetic film about St. Petersburg-Leningrad from the Italian television documentary series "Cultural Capitals of Europe" (seventh film).

The Broken Horseshoe

Based on the novel by Jules Verne "Drama in Livonia". French aeronaut Jules Ardan, traveling in a hot air balloon, accidentally finds himself in Reval. Here he meets Dr. Peterson and his daughter Leida. The gendarmes are hunting for Leida's fiance. The banker's son is being murdered in the city. Suspicion falls on Peterson. Jules Ardan takes over the investigation of the crime.

The Year of the Dog

Former criminal Sergei meets Vera - an elderly unhappy woman who lives in a dormitory. After Sergei commits another crime, they run together and along the way they accidentally get into a zone contaminated by radiation. Sergei decides to stay there, but Vera does not leave him. At that moment three looters come to the territory.

Pavlovsk

A concert film about the Pavlovsk Palace near Leningrad. Music from the 18th and 19th centuries is featured. Ballet dancers from Leningrad theaters participated in the filming.

I Was Stalin's Bodyguard

This controversial documentary created a storm in Russia by taking the cloak off a violent, repressive period of Soviet history. Filmmaker Semyon Aranovich found the last surviving personal bodyguard of Joseph Stalin, Alexey Robin, who began working for the dictator in the 1930s.

The Anna Akhmatova File

A documentary about the life of one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, her battles with and tragedies under the Soviet regime.

Gorky's Friend — Andreyeva

The love story of writer Maxim Gorky and actress Maria Fedorovna Andreeva.

The Premiere is Tonight

A documentary on the staging of Georgi Tovstonogov's acclaimed production of The Three Sisters at the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater, from the first table read to the opening night.

...And Other Officials

The plot structure of the film is based on a commonplace situation from the practice of foreign trade organizations - the conclusion of a trade agreement with a foreign company.

Rafferty

The story of the trial of the trade union boss Jack Rafferty. With great force and astute critical insight, corruption and crime are exposed, accompanying the advancement of Western leaders to power.

Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola

The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many archives, at one time censored by the Soviet government. A brief take on his life, from his transition as an early prodigy to a first rate artist, his celebrated compositions and the final years with a declining health.

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I Worked For Stalin

Gain an inside look into the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin's reign of terror through eyewitness testimonies, archival photographs and rare film footage, which reveal the real-life backstabbing and power plays among Stalin's inner circle. This documentary follows the stories of such high-ranking officials as Andrei Zhdanov, Nikita Khrushchev and Georgy Malenkov as they battled to secure their place in history by becoming Stalin's successor.

The Great Concert of Nations, or The Breath of Cheyne-Stokes

A film about the destruction of the Jewish intelligentsia - from the defeat of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to the “Doctors’ Plot.”

Confrontation

Operatives are looking for a killer who has appropriated someone else's identity. The story of a real case based on the story of Yulian Semyonov.

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Young Catherine

A Prussian princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and intrigues against her.