A Host of White Princesses

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.

The film is based on three events in February 1987: the release of the film "Repentance", an exhibition-competition in the Manege of projects for the Victory Monument on Poklonnaya Gora and the 150th anniversary of the death of Alexander Pushkin.

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

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

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.

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 film is dedicated to the development of culture in Russia. The musical basis of the film is Alexander Gradsky's suite "Nostalgia", written on poems by Vladimir Nabokov.

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

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?

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.