Pyotr Todorovskiy
1925 - 2013The Last Sacrifice
Pyotr Todorovskiy
Margarita Volodina, Oleg Strizhenov
Based on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky. The rich merchant widow Yuliya Tugina is practically ruined by her lover, impoverished nobleman Vadim Dulchin, who loves only himself and gambling. Merchant Flor Fedulych in love with a young widow Yuliya Pavlovna. But all her thoughts are occupied by the handsome Dulchin. But the wise and prudent merchant builds his intrigue, and soon they will have to combine marriage with the unloved, but the rich.
The Last Sacrifice
It Was In May
Marlen Khutsiyev
Aleksandr Arzhilovskiy, Pyotr Todorovskiy
A few days after the unconditional surrender of German troops, a group of Soviet soldiers is billeted at a farmyard which the war somehow never seems to have reached. This apparently peaceful picture is eerily undermined when the Red Army soldiers are confronted with the full extent of Nazi terror.
It Was In May
The Magician
Pyotr Todorovskiy
Zinoviy Gerdt, Alla Larionova
В маленьком провинциальном городке в студенческом общежитии выступил фокусник Виктор Михайлович Кукушкин. Его фокусы не отличались сложностью и не произвели большого впечатления на публику. Но именно этот вечер послужил началом дружбы между фокусником и студентами…
The Magician
War-Time Romance
Pyotr Todorovskiy
Nikolay Burlyaev, Natalya Andreychenko
This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl's father having been killed at the front.
War-Time Romance
По главной улице с оркестром
Pyotr Todorovskiy
Oleg Borisov, Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Vasily Muravin, 50, a teacher at the Moscow Institute of Management, is experiencing a crisis. At work, the place of the head of the department is replaced by the more pragmatic, but limited person Valentin Romanovsky. At home, his wife Lida, who earns at work more than her husband, habitually reproaches him for indecision. It’s hard for Muravin to come to terms with his established attitude to himself, but he is most worried when his wife shows disrespect for his main hobby - playing the guitar. Once, unable to bear the bullying, Muravin suddenly leaves the family (wife and daughter) and from work.
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
Анкор, ещё анкор!
Pyotr Todorovskiy
Valentin Gaft, Irina Rozanova
A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy.
Encore, Once More Encore!
Ретро втроем
Pyotr Todorovskiy
Elena Yakovleva, Sergei Makovetsky
Set in contemporary Moscow, this comedy drama from 72-year-old director Pyotr Todorovsky is a remake of Abram Room's controversial silent film Bed and Sofa (1927). Actor Sergei leaves his wife and drops in on friend Kostya, married to Rita. Rita and Sergei pair off after Kostya goes away on a business trip, and when Kostya returns, they become a threesome. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival.
Retro Threesome
В день праздника
Pyotr Todorovskiy
Nikolai Pastukhov, Lyudmila Zaytseva
About one day of a large mining family. In the center of the picture is a veteran, a former miner, and now a pensioner Panteleimon Dmitriyevich Grinin, who on Victory Day decided to introduce children to his “lady of the heart” hairdresser Zinaida. The action lasts only a day, but a lot happens during this time with the sons, daughters-in-law, daughter and Zinaida...
On the Day of the Holiday
Жизнь забавами полна
Pyotr Todorovskiy
Irina Rozanova, Vladimir Simonov
Provincial town near Moscow. Here in a large communal apartment several families live. Each has its own concerns, its interests, its troubles and joys. A communal apartment is not just a habitat. This is a kind of section of society. They are all very different, members of this "communal dormitory": the intelligent Vera and the philistine Larisa, old-age pensioners who live their lives, and the invalid Lyra, who dreams of a happy life in faraway Australia, the soulless clerk Bozhok and the young scientist Victor, forced to look for tutoring . However, their fates are inextricably linked with events and difficult collisions taking place in the country, with a sense of instability, fear, anxious expectation: something must happen.
Life is full of fun
Riorita
Pyotr Todorovskiy
Aleksey Gorbunov, Anatoliy Gushchin
The former supervisor of the camp of political prisoners, Barkhatov, turned out to be an ordinary corporal in the war, failed, and did not want to change in the new circumstances and remained a camp "turntable". And during the war, being together with naive village people, he arranged a small "puppet" theater, where he became the main "puppeteer".
Riorita
