Natalya Vilkina

The School Waltz

The ten-graders Gosha and Zosya are in love with each other. The last school waltz has been played and it seems nothing stands any longer in the way of the young people being together. However, getting the news that he’s going to be a father soon, Gosha chooses a “free life” and… marries Dina who has long been in love with him, though with no reciprocity. But already at the registry office, the lucky winner realizes that getting Gosha as her husband doesn’t mean getting his love, that unintentionally she made her loved one unhappy and they have no future together…

Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa

Genoa, 1547. Count Fiesco di Lavagna is to lead an uprising against the ruler of Genoa, Count Doria. But in the chaos surrounding the struggle for power, innocent people perish...

Summer Walks

The young part-time student Boris Kulikov, upon arriving in the village of Kardymovka, learns that Buneev, the pier chief who lived there until his death, was his father. Interested in his father’s past, Boris discovers that Buneev once gave up his career as an architect after his bridge design was rejected. Boris strives to prove that his father’s ideas were innovative and valuable.

Before Sundown

A staging of the play of the same name at the State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR.

Long Day's Journey Into Night

About the tragedy of a family whose members are subjected to such terrible vices as drug addiction and alcoholism. The prototypes of the drama are the writer's relatives.

The Precipice

Television play based on the novel by Ivan Goncharov.

Either a Man or a Woman

This story is about the interweaving of times and human destinies. The temporary segment that covers the film is two hundred years: the action has been developing in the present in the present and during the Patriotic War of 1812.

Messrs. Golovlevs

Teleplay based on the novel of the same name by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, staged at the USSR State Academic Maly Theater.

The School Waltz

The ten-graders Gosha and Zosya are in love with each other. The last school waltz has been played and it seems nothing stands any longer in the way of the young people being together. However, getting the news that he’s going to be a father soon, Gosha chooses a “free life” and… marries Dina who has long been in love with him, though with no reciprocity. But already at the registry office, the lucky winner realizes that getting Gosha as her husband doesn’t mean getting his love, that unintentionally she made her loved one unhappy and they have no future together…

Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa

Genoa, 1547. Count Fiesco di Lavagna is to lead an uprising against the ruler of Genoa, Count Doria. But in the chaos surrounding the struggle for power, innocent people perish...

Summer Walks

The young part-time student Boris Kulikov, upon arriving in the village of Kardymovka, learns that Buneev, the pier chief who lived there until his death, was his father. Interested in his father’s past, Boris discovers that Buneev once gave up his career as an architect after his bridge design was rejected. Boris strives to prove that his father’s ideas were innovative and valuable.

Before Sundown

A staging of the play of the same name at the State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR.

Long Day's Journey Into Night

About the tragedy of a family whose members are subjected to such terrible vices as drug addiction and alcoholism. The prototypes of the drama are the writer's relatives.

The Precipice

Television play based on the novel by Ivan Goncharov.

Either a Man or a Woman

This story is about the interweaving of times and human destinies. The temporary segment that covers the film is two hundred years: the action has been developing in the present in the present and during the Patriotic War of 1812.

Messrs. Golovlevs

Teleplay based on the novel of the same name by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, staged at the USSR State Academic Maly Theater.

The Zykovs

Based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky, staged by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR.

Lena Kostenetskaya

The civil war separated families on opposite sides of the barricades. How to understand this situation for a young girl who is being raised by a rich aunt, while her father leads a partisan detachment.

Love

Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel.

The Cherry Orchard

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

Risk Strategy

A story about an oil worker who went from the head of a geological exploration expedition to the chief geologist of the trust.

For the Second Time in Crimea

The main character of the film is a veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the general who remained in the ranks, who once traveled from Khalkhin-Gol to Berlin, has the largest awards. A strong and reliable person who has lost his son in a war treats everyone with whom fate brings him with sympathy and understanding. One day he comes to Crimea - to those places where he used to be happy in his youth, to see the house where his family lived. There he meets an elderly woman and her two grandchildren. One of the boys, Nikolay, reminded him of his own son. The friendship begins between an adult and a child, so necessary for each of them.

Partners in Crime

A story about deep connection between young criminal and detective investigating him.

Eccentrics

Gorky's play raises themes of the Russian intelligentsia's struggles and search for the meaning of life. The characters argue a lot, quarrel, tease each other, trying to change, if not their lives, then at least their outlook on it.

Risk Strategy

A story about an oil worker who went from the head of a geological exploration expedition to the chief geologist of the trust.