Georgi Burkov
Birthday: Born in 1933-05-31 in Perm, RSFSR, USSR
Deathday: 1990-07-19
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (08/11/1980). Father, Ivan G., worked at Motovilikha in the old factory district of Perm. Started with a worker, rose to the chief mechanic of the plant. The character was soft, friendly. Mother, Maria Sergeyevna, has always been for her son the closest person and best friend. He studied at the law faculty of Perm University (1952-1956), in the evening studio at the Perm Drama Theater (1955-1958). Attempts to conquer theatrical universities in Moscow ended in failure. He worked in the theaters of Bereznikov, Perm (1961), Kemerovo (1963). In Kemerovo, he was seen by a well-known Moscow theater journalist and, returning to Moscow, told the acquaintance of the original actor, Boris Lvov-Anokhin, the main director of the Stanislavsky Theater. He invited Burkov to Moscow, to his theater to the Arts Council. So the 32-year-old actor without special education became an artist of the capital's theater. Since 1965 - actor of the Drama Theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky. In 1970-1971 - actor of the Sovremennik Theater. Since 1980 - artist of the Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky. In 1984-1987 - actor of the theater named after A.S. Pushkin. From 1988 to 1990 - artistic director of the V.M. Culture Center Shukshina. He died in the evening of July 19, 1990 in the First City Hospital of Moscow. The actor was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery (plot number 13). The granite cross on the grave of Burkov is made of the same piece of granite as the monument to his close friend Vasily Shukshin (1929-1974). Chapter 38 of the cycle “To Remember” by Leonid Filatov is dedicated to the life and work of the actor. Widow - Tatyana Ukharova, actress of the Stanislavsky Moscow Drama Theater (04.19.1946). Daughter - actress of the same theater Maria Burkova (05.21.1966).
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Трям! Здравствуйте!
Character: Bear (voice)
The amazing adventures of the Little Bear, The Hedgehog and The Hare...
Фитиль
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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"....
Хождение по мукам
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Профессия - следователь
Character: Boris Ivanovich Antonov - sledovatel
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Приключения поросёнка Фунтика
Character: Chocolate the Hippopotamus (voice)
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Гостья из будущего
Character: Alik Borisovich - vrach
Alice Seleznyova, a girl from the future, finds herself 1984. Following her are the space pirates Krys and Joker Y, with most nasty pirate's intentions. Coming to her help is an ordinary boy, Kolya, and his friends from 6th grade. Based on Kir Bulychyov's 1077 novel "One Hundred Years Ahead."...
Остров капитанов
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Nice to Live Not Forbid
Character: дядя Бодрова
A textile factory worker tries to breathe life into women's fashion....
The Cities and the Years
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Soviet war drama....
Peasant Son
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Летние сны
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Cement
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About the restoration of a cement plant destroyed during the Civil War....
Импровизация на тему биографии
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Lights
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A railway engineer tells the story of when he seduced a married woman whom he'd known since she was a schoolgirl, and how after convincing her he loved her he cruelly abandoned her....
Дорогое удовольствие
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Murder of a Witness
Character: Евгений Евгеньевич Крайников, глава преступной организации
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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
Character: Миша
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just ty...
Beginning of an Unknown Era
Character: студент (новелла «Ангел»)
Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era: 'Angel' speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, and 'The Homeland of Electricity' captures its haunting grotesquery....
Zosya
Character: Семёнов
In this WWII drama, Russian soldiers take a break at a scenic farm in Poland, and the unit is able to escape the horrors of war during their brief respite. A Polish farm girl and a Russian officer feel a mutual and unspoken attraction towards each other....
The Red Snowball Tree
Character: «Губа»
A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally....
Happy-Go-Lucky
Character: Виктор Александрович («Конструктор»), поездной вор
A sadly humorous story about a Siberian tractor driver, Ivan Rastorguyev, traveling with his wife to a Black Sea resort, and about their first visit to Moscow....
Funny People!
Character: человек под зонтом (нет в титрах)
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Old Men: Robbers
Character: Фёдор Фёдорович Федяев (начальник Мячикова)
An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen....
Date with Your Youth
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One day, a girl sits in the car of the director of a large plant, Pyotr Semenovich Polyakov, calls herself Varya and shows the found father a photo of her mother. And now, in search of the lost, the director comes to the city where he once loved Varina's mother, Zinaida......
Citizens of the Universe
Character: Planetarium Lecturer
One day, third grade students received “invitation cards” with amazing content: “Dear friend, inhabitant of planet Earth! If you want to meet people of another civilization, come to the dance floor in the old park tonight”. This meeting, of course, did not take place, but there was a reason for good fun and interesting conversation......
Holy Moly!
Character: Участковый
Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Georgy Burkov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Galina Polskikh in a sad comedy by Sergey Nikonenko based on Vasily Shukshin’s short stories “Touches on the Portrait”, “The Stubborn One”, “The Strong Go Further”. Nikolai Knyazev works in a TV repair shop. God has blessed him with golden hands and heart, yet the majority of his fellow-town folk think he’s a bit nutty. And for a good reason: he’s constructing a perpetual motion machine, for years has been writing a philosophical treatise, d...
A Cruel Romance
Character: Robinzon
In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her three daughters. She maintains an “open house”, hoping to attract gentlemen well-off enough to marry a dowry-less girl for love....
The Old New Year
Character: Father-in-law
Two families are trying to fix their problems during the celebration of the New Year....
Zigzag of Success
Character: Petya
Photo studio "Contemporary" in a provincial town lives with its everyday problems. The director is concerned over the failure to fulfill the planned targets, receptionist Alevtina wants to get married, and photographer Vladimir Oreshnikov dreams of becoming a professional photographer. But suddenly luck smiles on Oreshnikov. He takes 20 rubles form the worker's mutual aid fund, buys a government lottery bond and wins 10,000 rubles. Oreshnikov wants to receive the win himself, but his colleagues...
Guest from the Future
Character: Alik Borisovich, vrach
6-grader Kolya Gerasimov discovers a time machine in a basement of an old house in Moscow and gets transferred into the 21st century. There he is allowed to look around. Accidentally, Kolya witnesses two space pirates who arrive from Saturn and later try to steal a device called a "Mielophone" (which can read thoughts) from Alisa Seleznyova - a girl that performs experiments with this device and animals. Kolya manages to save the device from the pirates and brings it back to the 20th century. Bu...
Wounded Game
Character: Sergey Pogartsev
A story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II....
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Character: Arkady Pavlovich
Two reserved people, almost resigned to their loneliness, found each other at the Soviet-era sea resort on the late autumn. Long dinners with senceless conversations transform into a love story....
Otstavnoy Kozy Barabanshchik
Character: Chuprun
Уж пятый десяток пошел герою картины, а он все еще продолжает искать свое место в жизни и этой самой жизни смысл. Перепробовав с десяток профессий, работает сантехником — и считает, что тоже временно. Жена в сердцах называет его «отставной козы барабанщиком».Горожанин Гаврюшко Чупрун после очередной ссоры с женой решил начать "новую" жизнь. Взяв у соседа форму и выдав себя за капитана дальнего плавания, уехал в село, где родился и вырос. Но очень скоро истина стала для всех очевидной - и приехав...
Once Upon a Time there Lived a Dog
Character: Dog (voice)
The day comes when an old watchdog becomes useless but the masters being kind don't decide to drive him away. However they turn exasperated when the Dog stays indifferent during a home theft. The Dog leaves for the forest, where he meets the Wolf, his old enemy....
Winter Evening in Gagry
Character: Fyodor
A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as step became unpopular he lost everything. He hates even this word - 'chechotka' (step dance). But somehow the young man convinces him to become his coach and manager....
Ara, bara, pooh!
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The film is about a child's fantasy that can create a wonderful world of imagination. In an original artistic form, he introduces children to the alphabet in visible, visual images, touching on education, touches on the problem of relationships between adults and children....
The Garage
Character: Fetisov
An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing......
Office Romance
Character: завхоз
Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet ...
The Cat Who Walked by Herself
Character: Man / Dog (voice)
Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, and the Cat comes into the room to keep him company. The child grabs her tail, and the Cat angrily reminds him that they agreed a thousand years ago that he would not do that. Upon seeing that the child doesn't remember, the Cat sighs and decides to tell him the story from the beginning. The story starts when the planet was young and life on Earth is starting with dinosaurs....
Wider Step Maestro!
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One day in the life of doctor....
Investigator by Profession
Character: Detective Boris Ivanovich Antonov
A locker room janitor at the train station notices that a suitcase was put in a locker by a man, but pulled out by another man. This suitcase appeared to be stuffed with money. This incident allows a police detective to uncover a huge criminal organization responsible for theft, smuggling and murder....
Kind Men
Character: Gordey Kabachkov
Based on the play of the same name by Leonid Zorin. Gordei Kabachkov, a professional con man, decided to pursue a career in science and was very successful. Having settled in a certain Institute of Ancient Culture, he easily wraps his finger around the numerous "kind men" - members of the academic council - and defends his thesis. Using his "talents" and the kindness of the staff of the Institute of Ancient Culture, Kabachkov makes a rapid take-off on the career ladder......
The Winter's Tale
Character: Bear [Medvezhonok] (voice)
As winter comes, little Bear decides to eat all the snow around him, but soon falls ill....
The Polynin Case
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A story about a love between a Soviet Army officer and an actress set during the WWII....
They Fought for Their Motherland
Character: pvt. Alexander Kopytovsky
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland....
Someone Has to...
Character: Константин Константинович Селянин
Based on the story of the same name by D. Granin, which tells about scientists and moral choice....
Boris Godunov
Character: Varlaam
Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the Terrible had died. At first, things went well for Godunov (played by Bondarchuk), but when the Russian people began to believe he had killed Ivan the Terrible's son in order to gain the throne, an alliance sprang up against the new Czar....
The Petrukha Family
Character: многодетный отец
The young Petrukha couple live in a village - a kind, docile husband and strict wife. Soon, twins are born to them....
Tryam! Which means Hello!
Character: Bear [Medvezhonok] (voice)
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Tower
Character: Sanya Kopytov
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Banquet
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A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer....
Cash Collector's Bag
Character: Aleksandr Sanin
Two cash collectors are found burned with their car but the bag is missing. Two detectives - Aleksandr Sanin and Aleksey Tulyakov are investigating the crime....
Nose
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A fantasy about an official whose nose has escaped....
A Gullible Dragon
Character: street sweeper
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Akairo
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The plot is based on a Japanese folk tale....
A Man at His Place
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A story about young man who is trying to turn his village into an agricultural center....
Салон красоты
Character: Иван Андреевич
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Punisher
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A sad story about a series of tragic events which happened in Greece during the seventies....
Trouble
Character: Маслаков
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Roll over Your Head
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Heroes of this movie are cat, dog, two birds, snake and also ten years old girl named Anya......
Be Careful, Vasilyok!
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Adventures of young Vasilyok who is going to the pre-school for a first time in his life....
The Beginning of the Legend
Character: Aleksei Ivanovich
The film tells about the childhood of Yuri Gagarin, about that time of life, which, in his own words, played an important role in shaping his character: war, the occupation of their villages by the Germans, famine, the theft of the elder brother and sister to Germany, the expulsion of the Nazis from Smolensk, moving family in the city of Gzhatsk....
Cheburashka Goes to School
Character: Salesman (voice)
Fourth animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Gena finds out that Cheburashka is unable to read. Luckily, the next day is September 1, the first day of school, and Gena decides to take Cheburashka to school so he can learn. After failing to buy a school uniform, they go to the school anyway, only to find it is closed for repair. Shapoklyak uses Lariska the Rat to stimulate the workers to repair the school quickly. As the school also doesn't have enough teachers, Gena and Shapoklyak volunteer to b...
Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
Character: Артюхов, слуга Мерзляева
The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will eventually be defeated by the nobility, loyalty and love....
Autumn Ships
Character: The Bear (voice)
Autumn. Little Hedgehog dreams of his own sea with ships. Alas, there's only a small forest lake....
A Wonderful Barrel
Character: The Bear (voice)
It's spring outside, everything's blooming. Little Bear also plants an acorn to grow a barrel of honey. And he succeeds - but not quite well....
Day of Admittance on Personal Matters
Character: Коваленко
One of the days in a life of a department manager......
Time Barred
Character: Nozdryov
Grigory Bozovkin, in his youth, beat up a man out of jealousy and was put under investigation. By escaping from the prison cell with the passport of the deceased, Grigory thereby severed all ties with the past. But one day he met Natalya and fell in love with her. And now, awaiting the expiration of the statute of limitations for what he committed....
The Key
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Newlyweds-builders are handed the keys to the apartment at the Komsomol wedding. Having learned that the house has not yet been completed, the young decide to take the office of the secretary of the Komsomol committee of the construction site....
We Weren't Married in a Church
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Amnesty
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The Man Who Was Lucky
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Preferring geology, poetry, giving his exceptional talent to the cause, which he considered useful and necessary, Ishutin was difficult but glorious path finder. And remained in the memory of people (and especially sons) a selfless and dedicated. The prize "For the best direction" K.Ershovu 12-Union Film...
Birds Over the City
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Andryusha and his fifth-grade comrades in a pile of scrap raw materials found poorly bound typewritten pages with the inscription "Attack." The guys enthusiastically read this collection of frontline stories. Their author Bukin, it turns out, lives nearby, in the next quarter. The man is middle-aged and sickly; however, he does not succumb to the blows of fate. He devotes all his strength to the preservation of forest wealth, and in his free time from these worries he continues to write stories,...
Байка
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Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Character: Sergeant
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear....
Father Sergius
Character: merchant
A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The main character of the film is Prince Stepan Kasatsky, an officer, an ardent, proud young man — a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky....
Рассказы о Кешке и его друзьях
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Sergey Ivanovich Retires
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Accountant Sergey Ivanovich is retiring. Finally, he will be able to devote all his free time to his family: he will help his daughter Natalya with the housework, raise his granddaughter, visit his sons who live in different cities... But it turns out that adult children do not need parental care, and Sergei Ivanovich feels uneasy at work......
С весельем и отвагой
Character: Gorshenin
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The Steppe
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A boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city....
Two and One
Character: Frolov
Two men are united around a six years old daughter whose mother recently died....
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Character: Russian soldier
This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign....
Liberation: The Break Through
Character: Sgt.
A grandiose military film epic, which does not know analogues in world cinema: the history of the Great Patriotic War from the Battle of the Kursk Bulge to the installation of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag - "Liberation"....
Неуловимый фунтик
Character: Chocolate the hippopotamus / бегемот Шоколад
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Фунтик и сыщики
Character: Chocolate the hippopotamus / бегемот Шоколад
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Фунтик в цирке
Character: Chocolate the hippopotamus / бегемот Шоколад
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Фунтик и старушка с усами
Character: Chocolate the hippopotamus / бегемот Шоколад
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Cat Kotofeyevitch
Character: The Cat (voice)
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Vasily and Vasilisa
Character: Narrator (voice)
Was have Vasily and Vasilisa seven children. They lived together, the village respected the working family. But one day something happened to the owner: washed down the man and raised his hand to the faithful wife. And then Vasilisa evicted her husband in the barn. It was just before the war.…...
Take-Off
Character: Rokotov
A biographical film about the life of the great Russian scientist, inventor of rocket technology and the founder of theoretical astronautics — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the hard spiritual work of the thinker, overcoming the stagnation of the surrounding and dramatic events of his family life....
Farewell, Punks of Zamoskvorechye...
Character: Егор, отец Богдана
Moscow outskirts, spring 1956. In memory and soul of the sixteen-year-old hero of the movie, the son of the political prisoner, this time will remain forever. He meets and loses his first love, encounters with blunt brutality of the criminal world, to bid farewell to childhood, to regain his father......
Pani Mariya
Character: Иван Пётух
English: 1944 - The Great Patriotic War. Fierce fighting is underway in the Warsaw area. In a provincial rear town, soldier Ivan and merchant Marya meet, unaware that this meeting will change their destinies......
Yegor Bulychyov and Others
Character: Alexei
In the center of the film is a powerful, peculiar, talented Russian man, the largest timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov. He is experiencing a tragic discord with himself, with the world that surrounds him, with great social injustice, to which his whole life has been given. The idea of the film is to determine the purpose and meaning of the existence of the human person, consider its polysyllabic and versatile connections with the world....
Everybody Knows Kadkin
Character: Kuzma Kadkin
The returning soldier Kuzma Kadkin on the train tells how well he lived before the war, and that everyone in the area knows him. An accidental fellow traveler, a young mother, leaves her child, a one and a half year old boy, Kadkin, to run away at the junction for water, but lags behind the train. Kuzma has no choice but to bring the baby home......
Family Happiness
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Omnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov...
Our Friends
Character: Contrabandist
After the death of her father, Antonina Staroselskaya has difficulty finding work. A dull life is the cause of illness. A merchant seaman takes care of the sick Tona. After the marriage, he is arrested for smuggling, and the care of Tonya is transferred to a neighbor, who beats her from time to time. A chance meeting with the builders of a residential area awakens the desire to be closer to people, to become needed by someone - and Tonya comes to the construction site......
Sea Voyage of Solnyshkin
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The red-haired boy dreams of becoming a cabin boy, but for now he performs feats in his sleep....
The Amorous Crow
Character: The wolf (voice)
About a fickle crow who changed the objects of her hobbies without thinking about their feelings....
A Fairy Tale About A Little Thing
Character: Narrator (voice)
A little girl is told a fairy tale about a little bug who doesn't know what she should do with her life as she explores the big, wondrous world. Based on the story by Dmitriy Mamin-Sibiryak....