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About the hapless bridegroom Podkolesin, who escaped from the bride through the window, and the picky bride Agafya Tikhonovna, who can not choose the right one, Mark Zakharov saw the story of a man who wants to change something in his life, but is not capable of doing anything.
Sep 2007
Based on two plays by Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy – "The Death of John the Terrible" and "Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich".
Feb 2011
Yesterday's victorious soldier cannot stay with the woman he loves because of the ban on marriages with foreigners imposed by politicians.
Nov 2010
A high school student lives with his mother, an honest Soviet worker in an ordinary communal apartment. Her boyfriend, who is engaged in small-scale commercial adventures, introduces the guy to a spirited, intelligent girl, who opens up to him a whole world of beautiful, great, but persecuted literature - the poets of the Silver Age. The atmosphere thickens...
Feb 2008
An almost unknown girl Frida accompanied Aleksandr Volodin to the front. When he returned, he married her. A sense of duty and gratitude bound them, but this did not prevent him from continuing to search for a female ideal... The name of the poet and playwright Aleksandr Volodin is familiar to everyone who loves russian cinema and theater. The films Elder Sister, Five Evenings, The Magician, Autumn Marathon, the famous performances of the Tovstonogov's BDT and Efremov's Sovremennik, staged according to his plays, were remembered for their unique intonation, the soft, not at all edifying voice of a person who knows something about life that we pass by without noticing. Most of Volodin's works are autobiographical, he writes about his generation, about the generation "scorched by war".
Apr 2006
Movie inspired by life of saintly Elder Paisios (1924 1994) and other Orthodox monks. Severeal stories of young and old monk life. Sometimes funny, but all about true christian love.
Oct 2012
A young man arrives in a village to visit his uncle, a retired colonel, and finds the local community "enslaved" by a man who, according to him, "will remain in history." The situation develops into a tragicomedy and takes on elements of phantasmagoria.
Mar 1999
A visiting German entrepreneur, Hugo Pectoralis, discovers the secrets of the Russian character and the absurdities of Russian life. This proves to be precisely the case when calculation, confronted with naive stupidity, proves powerless against it. As usual, three intellectuals at a table, whether today or in Leskov's time, signify the same thing: an eternal and never-ending debate about the mysteries of the Russian soul and the twists and turns of the national character.
Apr 1998
Old age knows no national boundaries or geographical limits. She can be peaceful and happy in the circle of loved ones and become a disaster if you are abandoned by people dear to you. Man is the only living creature in the world who knows that he will die.
Dec 2014
The story of the adventures of a young man – overly ambitious and cynical, who wanted to make a career but ended up failing.
Feb 2004
Based on the play by A.P. Chekhov. TV version of the performance by the Maly Theatre.
Mar 1998
The ruined barber Svirid Petrovich Golokhvosty decides to improve his situation by marrying the unattractive daughter of the wealthy merchant Prokop Serko. However, at the same time, he encounters the beautiful Galina.
Feb 2001
Based on the novel The Gambler by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.
Mar 2005
Television version of the solo performance by the Saint Petersburg Academic Theatre named after Lensovet. The play features two main characters: a boy, Oscar, who is terminally ill, and the Pink Lady, one of the caregivers dressed in pink, who looks after sick children. The Pink Lady, or as Oscar calls her, Pink Mama, offers the boy a game — every day he "lives" 10 years of his life. In the 10 days remaining before the boy's death, his entire life unfolds: from childhood, youth, and marriage, to old age and death. Additionally, on the Pink Lady's advice, Oscar turns to God and writes Him letters.
Feb 2007
Based on the eponymous short story by A.S. Pushkin, performed by the "Monplaisir" Theatre (St. Petersburg).
Mar 2000
TV version of the performance by the Maly Theatre. Based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky.
The performance features shadow scene performers and the "Sirin" ensemble under the direction of Andrei Krotov.
Jul 2008
TV version of the performance by the Mossovet Theatre, based on the play by Neil Simon.
Feb 2002
Based on the play "The Last Victim" by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky.
Mar 2004
Based on the eponymous drama by A.S. Pushkin. TV version of the performance by the Drama and Comedy Theatre on Taganka (director Yuri Lyubimov).
Jul 1999