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Touches on the V. I. Lenin's Portrait

Life and works of V.I. Lenin during the difficult period for the country of 1918.

The Stone Guest

A TV play based on A.S. Pushkin's play "The Stone Guest" staged by the Leningrad State Academic Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin.

The Lower Depths

A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.

The Last Flight of the 'Albatross'

A film novella about a Soviet spy, a pilot of the 'Condor' Legion, connected to the testing of the jet 'Swallow' by Willy Messerschmitt – the Me-262 (in the film, the 'Albatross') – and the disruption of a promising project during the Great Patriotic War.

Mother and Stepmother

Once, in search of an easy life, Katerina abandoned her daughter, giving her upbringing to an orphanage. Now, many years later, kind and conscientious, she returns to her native village and appears in the house where her daughter grew up ...

Late love

According to the play of the same name A. N. Ostrovsky. About fidelity and cunning, about purity of human feelings and belief in true happiness…

The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin

Heart Is Not a Stone

According to the play of the same name of A. N. Ostrovsky. The merchants already possess the big equities. Money "runs the show". The world of feelings and hearts is degraded.

My Destiny

Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...

Theft

Theft takes place in Washington, DC. Howard Knox is a well-intentioned Congressman crusading for reform. He is scheduled to make a speech in which he will expose the corrupt activities of an industrial magnate and his congressional stooges. The wealthy capitalist in question, Anthony Starkweather, along with his son-in-law and political puppet, Senator Thomas Chalmers, will do everything in their power to foil Knox's great speech and publicly disgrace him. To complicate matters, Margaret Chalmers, wife of Senator Chalmers and daughter of Starkweather, forms a friendship with Knox and begins to sympathize with his cause.

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.

Children of the Sun

A story from the life in the beginning of XX century based on the theater play by Maxim Gorky.

Poem of the Sea

A Soviet dam project means that many old Ukrainian villages will end up under water. There are conflicts between the dam engineers and villagers who don't want to move.

Balalaykin and K

The performance of the Sovremennik Theater directed by G. A. Tovstonogov.

The Days and Years of Nikolai Batygin

Labyrinth

Police are detaining an opposition newspaper journalist on suspicion of murder. The prosecution's evidence is scanty and fragile. But a dirty political fuss has developed around this case. The fate and life of a person become the stake in the struggle for power.