In Search of A Portrait

Teachers and students are in different parts of the country. The First of September is celebrated by first—graders in Ulyanovsk, history and literature lessons in an Azerbaijani village, music in the Lithuanian city of Siauliai, biology in Leningrad.

About mass forms of youth recreation. The object of the film was one of the evenings of rest in a working dormitory.

Follows the fate of a simple Russian peasant woman who came from the provinces to the big city Leningrad.

The documentary concert consists of performances by Soviet pop performers such as Anne Veski, Alexander Gradsky, Nani Bregvadze, and others.

The film is about an amazing woman, rural paramedic Anna Avzayeva, who was born on the day of the formation of the USSR. She went through the front and the Stalinist camps, where she dreamed of a model of heaven on earth in the spirit of N.G. Chernyshevsky's utopias, about which she wrote to the newspaper. Like the heroine of her idol N.G. Chernyshevsky, Vera Pavlovna from the novel "What to Do?", Anna Andreevna has dreams in which she meets V.I. Lenin.

A film from the TV trilogy dedicated to the fortieth anniversary of the Great Patriotic War's Victory.

The film is dedicated to the mother of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Anna Timofeevna Gagarina.

The film is a portrait of a milkmaid who became chairwoman of a collective farm. Malinina was regularly featured in film magazines, and a lot was written about her. And it is not surprising — she is a great person by Soviet standards: a laureate of the State Prize, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, "innovator of collective farm production." Traditionally, such people were filmed exclusively in production and in the stands, with a cheerful announcer commenting on their outstanding achievements. Obukhovich showed it quite differently. And not "at the machine", but in a completely different environment.

Film portrait of twice Hero of Socialist Labor, foreman of the Baltic Shipyard V.A.Smirnov.

The film is based on the concert of "Pop Mechanics" under the direction of Sergey Kuryokhin.

About the General director of the Leningrad association "Electrosila" B.I.Fomin.

The art of theater is a complex craft. In 19 minutes, you can’t convey everything that is taught over five years. Our film is only a short walk through the Lunacharsky State Institute of Theatre Arts, a cinematic panorama of three directing classes. The classes of M. O. Knebel, A. A. Goncharov, and A. V. Efros.

These songs are born on long hikes, around campfires in moments of joy and sadness. Here, in the Leningrad club "Vostok", they take the stage for the first time. And is it possible to remain indifferent when the argument turns to the song?

On April 8, 1894, a young princess from the Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, to the great joy of the heir to the Russian throne, Nicholas, finally agrees to convert to Orthodoxy and become his wife. So begins the story of the family of the last Russian emperor. Their letters, diary entries, drawings, photographs and documentary films of the pre-revolutionary years create a kind of family chronicle.

By means of documentary films, the authors try to explore the deep essence of Stalinism as a phenomenon that was and is based on the historical, psychological and social traditions of Russian society.

A young boy helps war veteran who suddenly feels bad on the street to get into a hospital.