Feliks Yavorsky
1932 - 1983
Карнавальная Ночь
Eldar Ryazanov
Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko
It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.
Carnival Night
Zigzag of Success
Eldar Ryazanov
Evgeni Leonov, Irina Skobtseva
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 object to him, because the money that he spent on the bond were public, hence the win should be divided equally among all workers. It creates a controversial situation, which is successfully resolved on the very eve of the New Year, under the chiming clock...
Zigzag of Success
Совесть
Yuri Kavtaradze
Dalvin Shcherbakov, Alexandr Martynov
Из фашистского концлагеря в конце войны бегут трое советских военнопленных. Им помогает и бежит вместе с ними один из охранников. Спустя много лет этот бывший немецкий прихвостень приходит к мысли об уничтожении всех беглецов, с кем он когда-то совершил побег из концлагеря. Свой жестокий план он начинает приводить в действие…
Совесть
Бессмертный гарнизон
Eduard Tisse, Zakhar Agranenko
Vasili Makarov, Vladimir Yemelyanov
The Immortal Garrison is set in June of 1941, at the outset of the Nazi invasion of Russia. A group of Soviet servicemen, languidly biding their time at the Brest fortress on the Polish border, are suddenly galvanized into action. All desires to return home to their wives and sweethearts are swept aside as the courageous garrison unites to thwart a common enemy. The siege of Brest has served as story material for countless Russian films: in lieu of contradictory evidence, Immortal Garrison must be adjudged the best of these films. For its American release, Immortal Garrison was double-featured with another Soviet production, The Mexican.
The Immortal Garrison
Запасной игрок
Semyon Timoshenko
Georgiy Vitsin, Vsevolod Kuznetsov
Comedy about brothers Vesnushkin, Sasha and Vasya, who are playing for one team in a National Soccer Competition. However, Sasha falls in love with a beautiful girl and loses his confidence just before the final game, so his brother has to take the lead on the field in order to save the game.
The Boys from Leningrad
Битва в пути
Vladimir Basov
Mikhail Ulyanov, Natalya Fateeva
He was appointed as the new chief engineer of a tractor factory. The presence of this man, direct, hard and uncompromising, creates a lot of conflict - primarily between him and the director of the plant. However, clashes in the production are nothing compared with the pain that causes the loss of the beloved hero ...
Battle on the way
La vita è bella
Grigoriy Chukhray
Giancarlo Giannini, Ornella Muti
Antonio is a retired aviator in an unnamed country ruled by a military junta which violently suppresses any free thought. He falls in love with a member of the resistance against the dictatorship. He is arrested but escapes with his love. The code word among the resisters is: ‘Life is Beautiful’.
Life Is Beautiful
Фронт без флангов
Igor Gostev
Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Oleg Zhakov
A first episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazi occupation of Russia during WWII. The film is set in August of 1941, when the Nazi forces invaded and occupied the European part of Russia. Major Mlynsky is in charge of the special group of partisans. His group is absorbing other small groups of Russian soldiers, who managed to survive from the attacks of the overwhelming Nazi forces. The Nazi Armies are advancing to Moscow. Major Mlynsky is organizing the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazis, behind the enemy lines.
Front Without Flanks
Преступление: Нетерпимость, Преступление: Обман
Yevgeni Tashkov
Igor Ozerov, Elena Gabets
Часть 1 «Преступление: Нетерпимость». Десятиклассник — усвоил от отца простую истину: с позиции силы можно жить без проблем. Впервые попав на скамью подсудимых за кражу и получив условное наказание, он сделал простой вывод о своей победе над законом. В результате герой совершает второе и уже тяжкое преступление — покушается на жизнь человека… Часть 2 «Преступление: Обман» ставит своей задачей понять причины, приведшие главного героя первой части , подростка, к убийству. Здесь расследуются преступления Каретникова-отца, начальника цеха ткацкой фабрики, занимавшегося крупными хищениями.
Преступление: Нетерпимость, Преступление: Обман
