Soviet live-action film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, aired once in 1991 by Leningrad Television and then thought lost. It was rediscovered in 2021. It includes scenes of Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-wight omitted from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy....
The action takes place in Victorian England in the last quarter of the 19th century. 27-year-old amateur detective Sherlock Holmes becomes a bystander to a crime along with Dr. John Watson, a military doctor who has just returned from the war in Afghanistan. During the investigation, Watson, not yet having an apartment in London, settles with Holmes in Mrs. Hudson's «half board», and then takes part in the affairs of his new friend. Watson gives Holmes boxing lessons. Watson himself is an experi...
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In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can....
Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government"....
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'builds communism' and the third searches for oil....
Russians will survive everywhere. And in the desert, and at the bottom of the sea, and in America. They will learn everything and they can teach the Americans a lot ... For example, how to catch criminals. Russian investigator Andrei Somov fell in love with an American dancer and moved with her to America for permanent residence. He wanted to work in the police, but he was not hired. Therefore, he has to wash dishes, look after the sick, clean, wash, walk other people's dogs, cook. But his dream...
In December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek recognition of Finland's independence....
Baron Karl Ludwig von Oster, the owner of a giant concern, one of the industrial magnates of Germany, convicted at the Nuremberg trials, was released by the American military administration and is now testing new weapons. The film is based on a judicial duel between a war criminal and journalist Ingrid Kuhn, the daughter of Professor Peter Kuhn, who paid with his life to prevent Auster from getting atomic weapons into his hands......
The basis of the film story is the creation of a talented football team by a coach, its participation in a qualifying match, and preparation for the World Cup....
Unable to stand up for himself, a talented scientist Rostislav Lyubeshkin is forced to leave the institute. Ordinary accountant Kosichkin is trying to protect a person he doesn't know in general. Kosichkin is demoted, his wife considers him a squabbler and a loser, and colleagues are gloating over the results of the audit......
In 1922, in a small town, the boys formed a pioneer squad and named it "Red Bees."...
A young taxi driver comes across a profitable business: to drive a new Volga to the Caucasus. Having deceived his boss, he arranges for a few days at his own expense and goes on a trip. On the way, risking his life, he saves a bus with children from a disaster, but at the same time the Volga receives serious damage....
After graduating from the institute, biologists Chernov and Bochkin go to the tundra and organize a wildlife preserve. Experiencing constant resistance from the local authorities, Chernov cannot stand the tense situation and decides to return to Moscow. Bochkin regards his friend's act as a betrayal…...
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Before a New Year evening Masha and Vitya decide to go to the forest full of fairy tales creatures....
Three London gentlemen take vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way....
The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka....
Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the film is a puppeteer who lives in a poor and gray world. He composes a fairy tale in which he himself, in the guise of a brave soldier, finds a flint and is helped by a kind wizard. The soldier falls in love with a spoiled, capricious princess who, as befits a princess, poses riddles to her numerous suitors. Her father, the king, is eager to see the soldier as her husband, as he believes the soldie...
A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin....
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil....
The funny adventures of a characters of Russian folk fairy tales in the contemporary world....
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Touching story about love of a young romantic man (Zhenia), who is a soldier of Guard Mortar Division (Division of "Katusha" Reactive Mortars) and a girl-telegraphist (Little Zhenia) at the last months of WW II....
An eccentric comedy. Love and money have always inspired people to feats, long wanderings and even crimes. It has always been almost impossible to stop such madmen. And what will happen this time — no one knows yet. Only one thing is known — it will happen in Lopukhi, in an ordinary Russian village with ordinary Russian citizens....
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Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson....
A middle-aged gentleman, yet utterly naive, sums up his life experience gained over years of traveling around good old England. The comical and absurd situations in which he and his friends constantly find themselves turn the play into a rare and truly timeless bestseller that entertains millions of viewers....
A relations between man and woman become complicate after 20 years of marriage....
German intelligence is sending a terrorist group to the Soviet Union in the beginning of WWII....
The daughter of a sailor who died at sea, she lives in a port city with her mother. The shipowner threatens to kick them out of the house if they don't pay for six months or if she doesn't marry him. The handsome sailor and rebel appears in the city, and makes her fall in love with him. Shipowner finds out about this. When the police commissioner shows him the photograph of the rebel sent, he recognizes the sailor, who got a job with him on a ship on which weapons are transported under the guise...
A drama about Cossack life based on the short stories by Mikhail Sholokhov....
Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life....
The modest shop assistant in a grocery shop Nastya dreamed about happiness. She dreamed about miracle, which would have made her beautiful. She dreamed all day and all night. And one day the miracle happened ......
The 16-year-old Tanya Canareykina decided to drastically change her life. For starters she fell in love with a pilot who played the trumpet and had sad, dreaming eyes. Because of him, she stopped seeing Misha whom she’d known since early childhood. She did like Misha, but he wasn’t romantic at all…...
About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate....
Tractor driver Pronka Lagutin comes to the city. Meeting the director's assistant unexpectedly turns into an invitation to him to play the role of a rural guy who moves to the city. Pronka rehearses with pleasure, but realizing that staying means never seeing her native village again, she runs away from the director....
Olya, a young girl just after high school, is pretending to be a boy and is accepted to the group of young men as Kolya....
A single mother arrives at a Black Sea resort with her young son but can’t find a place to stay—landlords refuse to rent to women with children. Spotting a modest pediatrician vacationing alone, she convinces him to pretend to be her husband so they can secure a room. What begins as a practical arrangement quickly turns into a web of humorous deceptions, nosy neighbors, and emotional surprises, as the two strangers are forced to play the perfect couple under the curious eyes of everyone around t...
Pavel Ivanovich Shumov is a public assessor of the court, an engineer, and a good family man. At the next court hearing, some circumstances of the defendant’s life convince the hero that this is his son. Shumov is looking for the defendant’s mother and, not recognizing her as the woman he once loved, returns home......
A new boy impressed everybody by his knowledge during the history lesson but this impression didn't last long....
In one big country there was a small village of Khlyupovo. And there lived in that village old men and old women, and small children. But one day, tired of the constant auditors and visiting bosses, the village decided to separate from the country......
A music teacher is trying to organize a choir in the school he works in....
Once upon a time, a young and cheerful painter named Makar was invited to the king's palace... There he saw a beautiful woman trying on a crown. Makar fell in love, but was expelled from the palace. After undergoing all kinds of trials and heroic deeds, the former painter came to the palace to ask for the princess's hand in marriage, but saw before him a capricious ugly woman—and realized that he had been enchanted by the servant Katya....
Funny adventures of two friends in a summer camp....
The Darling family children receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place....
Six years old boy decides to start school and going by himself to first grade instead of kindergarten....
A story of two boys who obstinately, in spite of everything and everyone run to the front when the war was almost over....
The story is about two teenage brothers and their mother. All three of them are very fond of each other. But the younger Danilka is a gifted artist going through a "creative crisis", and the older Boris is trying to convince his mother that he is an adult and capable of making independent decisions....
A classical romantic comedy set in Tbilisi, Georgia in the beginning of XX century....
This Azerbaijani romantic drama depicts the love affair between Zaur, a man from an affluent family, and Tahmina, a divorced woman doing her best to survive in a conservative society....
The boy Mitya fell in love with the girl Olya, but Mitina’s mother suddenly became angry, petty and arrogant. And then true friends, grandparents came to help lovers ......
As a rule, a person’s life is a swimming flowing from one to another. Radically changes the direction of this size. In an ambulance, he was riding a bus and met a beautiful stranger. They turned out to be Alexandra Nikolaevna, he - Alexander Nikolaevich, lost in the crowd. The outstanding geophysicist, the husband of Alexandra Nikolaevna, did not go on another expedition, stayed at home with his wife, arranged for himself “a day of happiness,” and lost his job ......
A Russian town is terrorized by a monstrous vampire, named Upyr. Upyr turns everyone into a slave, then kills. Even the Russian Mafia boss is killed, and others are in fear, because Upyr cannot be killed by a bullet. Only one fearless man brings hope to people. He sets up a trap for Upyr, by using the Mafia boss's daughter as bait....
This is a last of 3 movies about 3 friends (the other two are "Kortik" and "Bronzovaya Ptitsa"). The gang has grown up and in this movie they discover and help to stop criminal activity on the factory and in their neighborhood....
The construction crew led by foreman Kuznetsov worked efficiently and in perfect coordination. This was largely because the foreman had a talent for teaching, which greatly helped him connect with the younger workers. But then, a newcomer arrived—someone who refused to adapt to the rest......
The events that are crucial to the fate of the heroes take place during one night shift at one of the country's largest construction sites....
The film raises acute issues in construction, where, back in the 1970s, all the social shortcomings of large-scale but short-term production projects were concentrated: premature completion of projects, mismanagement, weak control, theft, and fraud....
The protagonist of the film is a female microbiologist and inventor of penicillin. The discovery of this life-saving drug was preceded by many years of scientific research, which Dr. Lebedev conducted in his laboratory in a small provincial town at the beginning of the century... Tanya, a girl from the neighborhood, accidentally finds herself in the doctor's house, where she first encounters the mysterious world of science......
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Two strangers meet in an ambulance train during WWII....
A brief encounter between two strangers, Victor and Lena, who meet on a bus. Victor, a performer traveling with an acting troupe, and Lena, a young woman on her way to visit her father, spend a day together, drawn to each other despite their different paths....
Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes are integrated in this marvelous Russian adaptation by fairytale master Nadezhda Kosheverova....
A simple story of the life and love of a woman who lost her lover at the front. After a failed marriage and many years of loneliness, she finally finds happiness by meeting a man who is not only ready to become her companion, but also a friend to her adult son....
A nugget from Russia is hiding from the police in a Dutch prison....
New Year's Eve. An actor was invited to one of the families to play the role of Santa Claus. But the actor got sick and asked his friend to replace him. The friend agreed with joy, because it was his ex-wife who invited the actor. She forbids him to meet the children. Also, the failed father meets the sweet Snow Maiden, who is going through her own personal drama....
The film tells the story of the life of an Old Believer community at the beginning of the last century. The drama of an unusual life, a story of love and human passions....
A poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well....
A conversation between famous politician and a teenager changes both of them......
A high-rise building's residents and firefighters who arrived to extinguish the house, which broke out from a “love” spark......
The director of the Kartashov textile factory was killed in a car accident. The circumstances of his death prompted the internal affairs authorities to investigate the factory's documentation, for which senior OBKhSS inspector Shubnikov arrived from Moscow under the guise of a representative of the Light Industry Research Institute....
1921. Three seemingly unrelated terrible events took place in a provincial Siberian town. But Chekist Kamchatov is convinced that there are links between the murders and, moreover, that in the last case, the suicide of a young security guard was, in his opinion, clearly staged......
The inhabitants of the St. Petersburg communal apartment are not relatives, but just neighbors with their habits and dreams. They are given the opportunity to part, and then they understand how much they value each other....
Communist Anna Dronova, a participant in the civil war, returns to her native village. Having become the chairman of the village council, Anna rallies the poor around her and fiercely fights with the kulaks for a new life. Meanwhile, a gang of Pantelei Lychkov successfully operates in the vicinity. By killing his own brother Yakov, who took Anna's side, he makes it clear to everyone and especially Anna that nothing wouldn't stop him....
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One day, the elephant—the pride of the zoo—leaves its enclosure and goes for a walk around the city. All attempts by the keepers to bring it back are unsuccessful. Only a five-year-old boy manages to establish contact with the giant animal....
The protagonist of the novel is a woman. The main theme is freedom. At the very beginning of the play, Vera Pavlovna utters a text that becomes the manifesto of her life: “I want to be free, I do not want to be indebted to anyone, I do not want anyone to tell me: you must do this for me! I want to do only what I want. And let others do the same; I don’t want to demand anything from anyone, I don’t want to restrict freedom and I want to be free myself. ”...
Who was the first to bring the great novel "12 Chairs" to the screen? You say "Leonid Gaidai" - and it will be a mistake. In our country, the first director was Alexander Belinsky (Leningrad television, 1966). Filming the favorite books of millions is a difficult task. The audience knows the plot in detail. Winged phrases have long gone to the people. Everyone has their own idea of the main characters. In general, dissatisfied will be sure. So the version of "12 chairs", proposed by Alexander ...
In the Siberian taiga village of Wolf's Burrows, the Strogov family lives — Matvey with his wife Anna and his parents. Through the fate of this peasant family, a picture of the life of the Siberian region during major historical events — the Russo-Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War is outlined....
The German anti-fascist Max in 1939 emigrated to the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War, he fought in the Soviet partisan detachment and died, performing a responsible mission. After many years, her companion in guerrilla warfare, Lyudmila, was able to realize their common dream — to climb to the top of Mount Rübezahl....
Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid Keshka, is stealing a collection of paintings and sculptures from the abandoned estate owners. Hoping to transport her abroad, criminals wander with a circus troupe, and in their wake goes a tireless criminal investigator — Makar Ovchinnikov....
A high-schooler named Valentin Kuzyayev is invited to appear on a TV show about youth. When he is given a questionnaire, Valentin finds himself unable to answer the simplest questions. To sort himself out, he starts to keep a diary....
A romantic and funny fantasy about the events occurred during the building of a first railroad in Russia....
Soviet propaganda film. It is 1917. Sergei Shelekhov, a graduate of a junker school, is sent to Sevastopol. His acquaintance with the Bolshevik Zinchenko largely determines Sergei's attitude to the political situation in Russia on the eve of the revolution. The hero joins the Bolshevik sailors and stands up to defend Sevastopol from the Provisional Government....
Russian Empire, 1919. By a twist of fate, young idealist Osip Zadunaisky meets an infamous con artist and self-proclaimed Turkish subject Ibrahim Bender. A man of pure thought and aristocratic upbringing, Osip would never have associated with a cunning and unscrupulous swindler, but Bender comes up with an offer Osip cannot refuse. A precious royal relic, a diamond-encrusted golden scepter is hidden somewhere in town; Bender needs a partner on his mission to find it, and offers Osip a share of t...
The war caught Pavlik and his mother far from Leningrad, where they lived. Soon they found themselves in the territory occupied by the Nazis. When his mother was arrested on the traitor's denunciation, Pavlik went on foot to Leningrad. The partisan scout Savely brought the boy to his house, and two winters later Pavel, having matured, became a soldier and returned to Leningrad with a partisan supply train....
A documentary grotesque in which even the walls speak. Famous directors of St. Petersburg cinema recall their lives and work, and images of old films come to life to remind the viewer of themselves....
A circus arrives in a provincial town. Without any malicious intent, the local kids steal a trained bear named Gavrila from the circus to set him free......
Famous weightlifter Nikolai Basargin is striving to overcome a streak of failures and to end his sports career by setting a new record. The coach does not believe in Basargin's abilities and is trying to replace him on the national team with a young athlete......
Anna Alexeyevna, once married not for love, had long since come to terms with both her boring husband and her unhappy life. One day, her husband brought a guest into their home — a landowner named Pavel Konstantinovich Alekhin. Anna Alexeyevna immediately felt a kindred spirit in him......
A televised play based on the work of Bertolt Brecht....
Batmanova, once a serf, sets Paris aflame with her singing and now returns to the court of the Prince in 19th-century Russia. The Prince wants Batmanova for himself, but she loves a young nobleman who is technically still a serf because his papers have been lost....
Musical TV show based on "Naughty tales" by Josef Lada....
A television play chronicling the lead-up to the assassination of diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov, dubbed “vazir mukhtar” in his position as Russia's ambassador to Tehran....