Anatoli D. Papanov (31 October 1922 – 7 August 1987) was a Russian film and theatre actor. Papanov starred in some well-known Soviet films, often together with his friend, Andrei Mironov. Mostly known for his great performances in comedies, he also had serious and dramatic roles, such as that of the political prisoner in Cold Summer of 1953. Anatoli Papanov was named as a People's Artist of the USSR in 1973.
Follows the comical adventures of a mischievous yet artistic wolf [Volk], trying to catch a hare [Zayats]. The series has additional characters that usually either help the hare or interfere with the wolf's plans....
Set in late-1920s Soviet Union, Ostap Bender and Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov are after a stash of diamonds hidden in one of the chairs in 12-chair set. They are forced to go on a cross-country chase when the chairs are auctioned off....
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Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to the thief to infiltrate his gang and learn the location of the stolen artifact. He finds the gangsters are unexpectedly similar to his students- they also need love and care....
A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds....
Elk, who ran through the forest during a thunderstorm, was crushed by a fallen tree. A brazen and treacherous magpie told the wolves about it all through the forest. Good forest animals decided to help to free the elk. The first was a hedgehog, then a hare and his mom, a family of squirrels, a mouse, a frog. Decisive in saving the elk from the wolves was the contribution of the smallest character - an ant....
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About one of the pioneers of the Russian hydropower industry, a hydroengineer, the author of daring, fantastic projects, a participant in drawing up the GOELRO plan, academician Henry Osipovich Graftio (1869-1949)....
The performance of the Moscow Theater of Satire, based on the play by N.V. Gogol....
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Multiply love stories are going around the young family including the newlyweds parnts and even... a grandmother....
"Come Tomorrow" (1963), directed by Yevgeny Tashkov, is a much-loved comedy about Frosya Burlakova, a talented young woman from a remote Siberian village who comes to Moscow with dreams of becoming a professional singer. The film explores themes of hope, talent, perseverance and the pursuit of dreams, while also highlighting the contrast between the practical city dwellers and the idealistic villagers, suggesting that wisdom and truth can be found in both perspectives....
In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia. The main character is probably based on Yeti....
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A story about a boy walking across the town following sun....
A group of young motivated people are trying to convert old "Oduvanchik" restaurant in to a youth club....
A funny comedy about a daily life of a three adventurous men: Lukov-Father, Lukov-Son and Lukov-Grandson....
An insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood....
Tank crew Officer-member Fedotov on the way from a hospital on visiting home became acquainted with young Sonya, mother of three children. After demobilization went back to her. Happiness of them was short. Sonya became ill and died. Soon her husband arrived after children, but left with a father only junior....
Lara Velichko is a young coach who's dreaming about coaching world champions but suddenly she's forced to train a group of a very grumpy old men....
Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day....
A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing....
A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol....
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them....
Soviet cartoon film, filmed in 1953 by the director-animator Olga Khodataeva based on the Russian folk tale....
Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way......
Adventures of Mowgli is an animated feature-length story originally released as five animated shorts of about 20 minutes each between 1967 and 1971 in the Soviet Union....
This time the Volk stumbles upon Zayats while Zayats is marching while playing a drum....
As Volk is walking through the city he sees Zayats on a balcony of an apartment block watering the plants. Imagining him as as a tasty meal Volk tries to climb up the balcony. A chase ensures, the first of many....
Along a country road Volk is chasing Zayats who is riding on a bicycle....
Volk and Zayats try themselves out at sports to varying results....
In which Volk and Zayats go skydiving!...
Volk desperately tries to get onto a cruise ship to get Zayats....
Volk is spying on Zayats with a spyglass "hidden" in a birdhouse.....
Volk and Zayats hang out at a ski resort, and celebrate the New Year....
Pursuing Zayats Volk discovers Soviet showbiz....
Volk goes to a circus only to find Zayats there. The nature of subsequent events can be easily predicted....
Volk and Zayats participate in the 1980 Olympic Games....
At a concert that Zayats is hosting Volk tries to catch him yet again....
Volk tries to make amends with Zayats but it doesn't go as planned. Some other time he follows Zayats to a science fair, but finds there something he won't be able to handle....
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Zayats goes to a museum where Volk already waits for him, but not to learn history together....
It's 1993 and the Soviet Union has collappsed two years ago. This new social reality brings unexpected changes to the lives of even Volk and Zayats....
After suffering a sunstroke Volk finds himfself in a world of fairytales....
The 90s only keep getting worse for Volk and Zayats....
"Belorussian Station" is a Soviet drama directed by Andrei Smirnov, completed in 1969 and released in 1971 after censorship delays due to its critical portrayal of post-war Soviet society and veterans' challenges. The film revolves around four former soldiers who reunite 25 years after World War II. They come together to mourn the death of a friend and reflect on their shared past and their personal struggles. "Belorussian Station" poignantly explores themes of friendship, memory, and the enduri...
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An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry....
The blacksmith Foka accidentally saves the princess from foreign suitors....
Episode 1. A small child falls into the jungle in the wolf family. He liked the mother wolf Raksha, which gave him the tiger Sher Khan. The wolves raised a human baby named Mowgli. But life in a wolf pack is subject to the law of the jungle. The Council of the pack should decide whether Mowgli live among the beasts or eaten by Shere Khan....
The continuation of a story started by Alexander Stolper epic movie "Zhivye i Myortvye"....
Episode 2. Mowgli — the adopted son of a wolf family. He grows quickly and learns from his mentors. The rumor that the wolf pack living human child, comes to banderlogs. The monkey tribe, decided to make Mowgli their leader. They steal Mowgli and transfer it into a towns ruins in the jungle....
Episode 5. Mowgli stood the leader of the wolf pack. It's time to settle with the main enemy of Mowgli tiger Shere Khan. In addition, the jungle comes the time of renewal, blossom and love. Mowgli feels vaguely disturbing. It's time to leave the jungle and return back to the people....
In a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII agree to pose as Red Army soldiers. Are they patriots or traitors, heroes or opportunists? Although they go to the frontlines, their new Russian comrades are initially unsure whether to trust them. Three of them then accept a mission behind German lines, but they are unprepared to fire upon their countrymen and it ends up costing the life of a Russian soldier. In the meantime, the fourth man has fallen in love with Russian radio operator...
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A life of a countryside woman Virineya during the October Revolution in Russia in 1917....
A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator....
A valiant mongoose enters into an unequal battle with two snakes while tries to protect a human family....
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A story about lives of an ambulance employees and their relationships....
A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life....
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....
A schoolboy meets all the undone by him homework's heroes in their country....
Poor chimney sweep Ivan and Princess Zabava fall in love with each other. They dream of their future happy life, but the difference in their social status and the treacherous Polkan, who dreams of marrying a royal daughter and becoming a ruler, stand in their way. To avoid marriage with the royal adviser, Zabava informs that she will marry only the one who can build a flying ship. Now Ivan has to solve this problem by all means....
When one blacksmith voices suspicious that there might be sorcery involved in his colleague's work, things get out of hand. Based on the fairy tale by French writer Luda Schnitzer....
Life and works of V.I. Lenin during the difficult period for the country of 1918....
The Adjutant of His Excellency is a Soviet television mini-series which was produced in 1969 and is set during the Russian civil war...
Based on the satirical anti-war comedy of the same name by B. Brecht....
The tale follows the romance between a china shepherdess and a china chimney sweep who are threatened by a carved mahogany satyr who wants the shepherdess for his wife....
About the heroism and endless devotion to the Motherland of military sailors in Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War....
About how the pike settled next to the beaver dam and lay in wait for the beaver cubs. In response, the beavers built an underwater vehicle to drive away the pike and its assistant crayfish, but adult beavers also had to be called in for help....
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A story about a young girl Oksana from Soviet Union who is mistakenly identified as a queen of a far away kingdom....
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The old man and woman lived in a hut, and they became quite old. They had no children, only a goat. And he decided to help with the housework. He began to carry water, chop wood, cook cabbage soup. A goat went to the forest for mushrooms and met seven wolves....
Svetlana Vasilievna is a young, energetic woman who often changes jobs, accustomed to achieving the goals that she has set for herself in life. Her next desire is to marry a "creative, intelligent" person. After a lengthy search, she chose an elderly, but well-mannered, intelligent official Vladimir Dmitrievich Lobanov. Svetlana believes that with the help of connections and sober calculation, you can achieve everything: well-being, respectability, even personal happiness. She does not notice t...
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A little train is always late....
Greedy Wolf robs the forest. It deprives animals of their property. Once Hare found a hunting trap, and decided to find the owner "disappearance". Sly Fox, decided to punish the gray robber sent to Wolf Hare. Wolf because of his greed, took a trap for the valuable thing, and was punished for it....
This film tells about the discovery achieved at the intersection of many sciences: cybernetics, astrophysics, telepathy and veterinary medicine. Soviet scientists made a sensational invention - the device "TV-1" (a transistor of time) was designed. Trial samples were disguised in household items: they were equipped with beads, a flower and a cane. The owners of experimental devices were random people....
On the day of coming of age, the parents took the Guy out into the big world and blessed him to find his own way in life (in the film, it is shown as a long road with milestones-years). And to make it easier to go, they gave him a good helper - strong Health: it will always protect its carrier if he takes care of him. And the Guy went along the road of life, performing labor feats, and Health always rescued him: both when he saved a girl from a hole, and while receiving a higher education on the...
Various dwellers of the Russian forest: Leshiy (forest goblin), Vodyanoy (water spirit), Ovinni (barn spirit) Domovoy (house spirit), Anchutka (gremlin) and Rusalka (mermaid) meet at Baba Yaga's chicken-legged hut and receive an esteemed guest who appears from nowhere. They gather around one table to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new, that is until the guest grows bored with their antics and seeks fun elsewhere....
A clumsy bear gets stuck in a beehive. Who will help him? On the plot of a Russian folk tale....
Theatrical movie based on an ordinary life of an average soviet family...
Miniatures of writers from Russia and foreign countries....
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A cartoon version of the Greek myth of Labyrinth....
After watching the show "In the World of Animals", the king of beasts feels sorry for the weakest animal, the bunny, and decides to send a gift by mail "for the weakest". Once word gets out, every beast is keen to appear worthy of receiving the package....
A new pilot arrives to a far away airport forcing the old veteran to retire....
A fifteen years old boy is dreaming to become a tractor driver in the kolkhoz where he lives....
It is a New Year's fairy tale about Ded Moroz who hastened with the gifts for children's holiday, and about the Wolf who tried to prevent him to do it....
A clerk fakes his own death in order to get a big fortune....
A young piglet in trouble....
Having lived for his pleasure most of his life, floor polisher Ivan Karetnikov, on the threshold of his 60th birthday, did not for the first time leave his next wife himself, but she abandoned him, moreover, in public. In addition to these troubles, he was fired from his job, replaced by a mechanical polisher. In this difficult moment, Karetnikov remembered the first wife, and then the second and third. But turning to each of them, he seems to begin to lose hope of seeing compassion for himself...
Once upon a time there lived a poor fisherman in a dilapidated dugout on the seashore. He went to the sea on a boat, he was fishing. And once he caught an old bottle on which was the inscription that the one who opens this bottle, will receive untold treasures, become noble and rich. The fisherman, of course, without hesitation, opened the bottle, and from there the Genie burst out. He laughed at the fisherman, called him a bitch, but he fulfilled the promise, giving him a lot of gold. And the f...
Having saved money for a summer cottage and having chosen a suitable house, the couple of Petrovs decided without hesitation to enter into ownership rights. Right from the savings bank, the wife goes to the garden plot, and the husband has to pay the owners in Moscow. However, a thick bundle of money disappears from his pocket ......
One of the days in a life of a department manager......
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 ......
Based on the story of the same name by Sergei Antonov. The young journalist of the central newspaper Sirotkin came to the Siberian timber industry to write an essay about the glorious driver Khromov. But soon Sirotkin’s inquiring mind calculated the trick of Khromov, who, noting one kilometer in the vouchers, traveled a short route he knew only, draining the remaining gasoline from the curbside. Having revealed yet another fraud, in which the director was also involved, Sirotkin realized that h...
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Hare carries bag of apples for 4 sonnies and lovely daughter. But along the way he gives all apples to forest dwellers leaving his children hungry....
A miller has three sons. When he dies the eldest son inherites the mill, the middle one a donkey and the youngest son gets only a cat. At frist the youngest son is very disappointed but the cat turns out to be pretty resourceful....
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A cunning fox tricks a wolf again and again....
Rusalochka opens in modern day Copenhagen, Denmark. Several tourists gather around the capital's famous mermaid statue, as a tour guide explains its significance. A fish in the water below the tourists scoffs at their foolishness, and then, proceeds to tell about the doomed love of the mermaid. Upon reaching her 15th birthday, the Little Mermaid is allowed to swim up to the surface above. As soon as she does, however, the Mermaid spots a young prince caught up in a dreadful storm. She admires th...
The tale about the wolf-proprietor and the inhibited animals without their own opinion....
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After an apple falls on a donkey's head, he loses his memory and goes off to search for his fortune...
The peasant sends his sons in search of rejuvenating apples. The eldest sons go to a tavern, and the youngest, with the help of a Gray Wolf, gets apples for his father and marries a beautiful Blue-eyed woman....
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Sergei Krylov and Oleg Tulin, are promising young physicists in the field of thunderstorms. They dream of weather control. But later their ways in science parted - Oleg is ready to tradeoff his standpoints for personal success, but Sergei knows that the truth is more critical....
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September evening, an unusual ark house, resembling a ship in shape, for its owner, the gray-haired old man, captain Châtover, sailed the whole life through the seas. A strange house where people behave differently. Young beauty sisters reign in this house, beckoning true gentlemen, as the light of a lamp beckons moths. This house fences its inhabitants from the outside world. Talk about the meaning of life, home entertainment, hopeless novels. And a premonition of trouble: at the same time, cl...
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The legendary love story of Ferhat and Sirin....
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Omnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov...
Historical drama based on the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy. Junker Olenin, a representative of St.Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St.Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he falls in love with the beautiful Maryana and is ready to marry her, but she loves the Cossack Lukashka and is not going to exchange him for the master......
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The film is a cautionary tale about the need to develop good work habits, personal responsibility and conscience in life....
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The red-haired boy dreams of becoming a cabin boy, but for now he performs feats in his sleep....
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In one city lived the Black Robber, the Pink King, the Blue Lady, the Green Bear and the Golden Boy. The first four heroes think that the boy is literally golden, and dream of getting him in order to fulfill their dreams....
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Ivan Czarevich is led by his servant to the castle of Kashchey to rescue the beautiful czarevna. But a lazy and silly knight could hardly be the real hero of this fairy tale....
The Dragon, the lord of the sea, fell seriously ill. The court doctor Jellyfish, prescribed him a liver of Monkey. So they had to look for someone who could leave the sea and go to the land. They chose a Turtle. The Turtle brings the Monkey to the Dragon on the pretext that there are growing peeled bananas there. However, the Monkey, having learned from the Dolphin the plans of the Turtle, deceives her and forces to return to the island....
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Boy Borya reads a book about pirates instead of doing homework. He tears off the handkerchief from the parrot's cage, flaps it and exclaims: "I would like to be on an uninhabited island!" The mirror on the wall grows and opens directly to a tropical island, Borya's desire is fulfilled. Quite quickly, Borya discovers the magic properties of the scarf and calls friends to him: Yura and Mila....
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Based on the famous Soviet song "Orlyonok" about a young trumpeter - a hero of the Civil War....
The sea is raging near the shore. Fishes are merrily circling in the water. Meanwhile, numerous shells were sleeping peacefully at the bottom. Suddenly a ray of sunlight comes through the sea. One shell woke up and, seeing a glowing (as it seemed to her) fish, was very surprised by this. The fish explains that this is the reflection of the sun on its scales. Intrigued, the shell asks the fish to bring her some sun, but fish says that this is impossible....
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A satire on human nature projected on mushrooms and peas, based on a Russian fairy tale....
Self-confident, arrogant Seryozha is not friendly with anyone. His only friend is puppy named Martyn, yet he treats him rudely. One day Martyn runs away and Seryozha has no one to help him in his searches....
One day, the Cuckoo left the clock and temporarily flew away to the forest on business. Her neighbors are different animals, and they decided to help her, replace her. But nothing good came of it. Based on the fairy tale by Sofia Prokofieva....
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Puppet film for primary schoolchildren. It ridicules arrogance and a frivolous attitude towards work and praises the resourcefulness, hard work and ingenuity of children. The film uses drawings, toys and embroidery by children of the Central Palace of Pioneers....
The story of how the witty Khoja Nasreddin taught the greedy rich a lesson....
Based on the fairy tale by L. Ashkenazi about little mischief makers who caught a moon in a pond and hid it in a cave....
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Children end up in Ancient Greece, where they learn the laws of physics from Archimedes....
The history of the creation of means of communication familiar to humans....
To surprise his grandmother, the boy climbs into someone else's garden....
Adaptation of a short story by famous Czech writer Milos Macourek. It is about small frost Frantishek who drew not white, but color patterns on the window....
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A cartoon about beavers whose school pike was stolen one day during a lesson. And so the little beaver detectives follow the trail of the kidnapper....
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