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The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.
Mar 1979
The absence of speech of the characters, and the only dialogue is whistled, because you can feel, but you can't talk.The background sounds like parallel, fictional worlds - worlds that exist simultaneously with ours, but independently of it, especially the sounds of radios (as the reference to the search of "another life" in the radio broadcasts).
Mar 1988
Since early childhood I have been playing different games. And the older I get, the more dangerous it is for me to lose, and the more dangerous it is for others to win. God! Leave me one game - hide and seek. This is the only game I agree to play for the rest of my life.
Jan 1989
Elem Klimov's diploma film at VGIK.
Jan 1962
A short film about young delinquents terrorizing a neighbourhood.
Jan 1961
Ivan Baikalov, the secretary of the District Committee, is the first person to come to him with any question: grain harvesting machines, alimony, crankshafts... - the party leader of the Altai village should know and be able to do everything. The wife of a young doctor came to seek protection from Baikalov - her husband is cheating! And from Lebyazhego they inform that in three days rains will fall, and the only one who will be able to organize the work and not to rot the bread is Pyotr Ivlev. But on the secretary's desk is an anonymous letter: the district doctor has had an affair with Pyotr's wife. What is more important - grain harvesting or the family of a young party member?
Feb 1960
A group of Swedish tourists are on the way to a Russian village to witness the so called 'Festivity of Neptunus', in which the inhabitants take a dive in a hole in the ice. This tradition, however, does not exist at all. The inhabitants try to make a good impression by starting the 'tradition' to please the tourists.
Oct 1986
The young Petrukha couple live in a village - a kind, docile husband and strict wife. Soon, twins are born to them.
Jan 1971
Musical fantasy based on the play by M. Gorky.
Feb 1978
Phone conversation between an abandoned husband and his friend.
May 1967
A down on his luck peasant goes to fight in World War I and returns home a hero. Partially lost.
Jan 1921
Interviews with the veterans of the Great Patriotic War and VGIK alumni Grigory Chukhrai, Valentin Ezhov, Rostislav Yurenev, Vasily Ordynsky, Peter Todorovsky, Vasily Solovyov and the writer and a scriptwriter Boris Vasiliev about their war experience and war cinema.
Jan 1985
Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom are scarred by the trauma of the Russian Empire of yesteryear.
Sep 1987
Kasian Nefedovich decides to convey his last wish, of burying him beside his wife's grave, to his daughter Zinke and spend some time with her. But she doesn't allow him to stay with her family.
Jan 1982
A screen adaptation of the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.
Jan 1973
Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.
May 1959
A surreal film done in the style of a silent farce.
Jun 1967
Lost among the mountains is the small town of Achisai with a mine - the embodiment of the ideal Stalinist paradise.
Feb 1988
Oct 1966
After a performance, a girl gets behind the scenes and sees without masks all those whom she so feared, loved and hated.
Dec 1968