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The young landowner Astakhov comes to check the affairs of his distant estate. He meets his neighbors and among them two young girls. The arrival of Astakhov destroys the calm of the usual estate life....
Boris and his accomplices decide to "throw" the famous artist Kirill for a large sum of money. The bandits are trying to kidnap Cyril's daughter. And if it weren't for the arrival of Kirill's brother Dmitry, who is fluent in hand-to-hand combat, the deadly ending cannot be avoided....
Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolit...
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Niyole, a Red Army spy is sent behind the enemy lines in order to hunt German general....
A story about an oil worker who went from the head of a geological exploration expedition to the chief geologist of the trust....
The film takes us back to Crimea, during Nazi occupation. Hayk Margaryan, a member of an underground organization, saves a painting by Aivazovsky, which Hitler's soldiers tried to smuggle from Theodosia....
A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia....
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A group of police detectives are trying to prevent shipping abroad of stolen art valuables....
On the participation of the intelligentsia in the revolution and post-revolutionary transformations of the Soviet country....
A film adaptation of Pavel Bazhov's short story....