Aleksandr Adabashyan
1945 (80 лет)----- Content From 12 Presskit: http://www.sonyclassics.com/12/externalLoads/12_presskit.pdf -----
Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона: Собака Баскервилей. Часть 1
Igor Maslennikov
Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 1
Five Evenings
Nikita Mikhalkov
Lyudmila Gurchenko, Stanislav Lyubshin
Based on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Volodin "Five Evenings". The end of the 1950s. Aleksandr Petrovich Ilyin travels to the city where he lived before the war. Visiting the telephone operator Zoya, he sees a familiar house through the window and decides to go there for only fifteen minutes. So Aleksandr gets into a communal apartment, where the love of his youth Tamara Vasilyevna lives. They met twenty years ago and fell in love, but the war separated them. Now Ilyin and Tamara Vasilyevna met again, and love broke out with renewed vigor...
Five Evenings
12
Nikita Mikhalkov
Sergei Makovetsky, Nikita Mikhalkov
История о 12-ти присяжных, обсуждающих, виновен ли 18-летний юноша, обвиняемый в убийстве своего отчима — офицера Российской армии, воевавшего в Чечне. Все улики свидетельствуют против обвиняемого, и одиннадцать из двенадцати человек, собравшихся в школьном спортзале, готовы осудить юношу. Но один из присяжных уверен, что всё не так однозначно, как кажется на первый взгляд, и предлагает коллегам более вдумчиво рассмотреть дело.
12
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Roman Balayan
Oleg Yankovskiy, Oleg Menshikov
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Nikita Mikhalkov
Yuri Bogatyryov, Nikita Mikhalkov
Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov was entrusted with is stolen, initially by a group of assassins and then by a group of bandits. In tracking the gold’s whereabouts, Shilov’s motives are questioned and he is suspected of treason, in part because his brother was a devoted White. In an effort to clear his name, Shilov locates the gold, but he also discovers rampant greed and corruption.
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Kin
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nonna Mordyukova, Svetlana Kryuchkova
One of the most popular movies tells, in an ironic manner, about complicated relationships between close people. Among the film’s achievements is not only splendid acting, but also the fact that “Kinfolk” remains as contemporary and topical as before. The relations between a son-in-law and a mother-in-law are as everlasting a theme as love itself. Especially when the role of the son-in-law Stasik is brilliantly played by Yuri Bogatyryov, and that of the mother-in-law by the incomparable Nonna Mordyukova. Marusya Konovalova, a kind, simple-hearted country woman, comes to Moscow to visit her only daughter (Svetlana Kryuchkova) and tries to help “glue together” her broken-up family. Acting with best intentions, she cannot understand why her interference provokes a stormy protest… Ruscico.com
Kin
Собачий рай
Anna Tchernakova
Igor Gordin, Konstantin Vorobyov
Moscow, summer of 1953. Tanya, an eleven-year old girl, meets a boy, Mitya. Mitya and his family have just returned from exile in the Russian Far East. Tanya learns that Mitya had to leave behind his best friend, a dog called Hector. Mitya is eager for Hector to join him in Moscow, but the adults declare it impossible - a large city is no place for a dog. In an attempt to prove the adults wrong and convince them to bring over Hector, Mitya and Tanya decide to create the perfect home for him - a dog's paradise in an empty sealed room they find in the building...
Dog's Paradise
Настя
Georgiy Daneliya
Polina Kutepova, Irina Markova
A young Russian store clerk has a drab existence in times of shortages and is berated by her ailing mother for not seeing men. So she brings home an unknown young man who she met on the tram. She dreams many things but pines for this man.
Nastya
Храни меня, мой талисман
Roman Balayan
Oleg Yankovskiy, Tatyana Drubich
The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha and his wife Tania are walking through the plush forest around Boldino when a mysterious figure pops up from behind a tree and asks the couple a question on an esoteric point of Pushkin scholarship. From that strange beginning, the man, whose name is Klimov, starts to ease himself into the couple's private space, and trouble ensues. Complementing this story is the festival itself, enactments of Pushkin's works, and emotional debates among the festival-goers over the meaning of his poetry.
Guard Me, My Talisman
Slon
Vladimir Karabanov
Aleksandr Adabashyan, Pavel Drozdov
На арене цирка идёт представление. А за кулисами волнение: любимец публики cлон Бодхи заболел. Руководство цирка решает слона усыпить. Наутро за Бодхи приезжает трейлер. Но вместо печальной поездки Бодхи, вместе с водителем трейлера Зарезиным и милой цирковой девочкой Бонни, отправляется в чудесное путешествие, полное приключений, погонь, неожиданных поворотов и радостных встреч…
Elephant
Mado, poste restante
Aleksandr Adabashyan
Marianne Groves, Oleg Yankovskiy
In this gentle comedy, Mado (Marianne Groves) is the letter-carrier for her small town, and she is constantly on the lookout for a good Catholic man who shares her enthusiasm for sunrises. She even puts up posters on trees and walls advertising her interest. The townspeople make fun of her, but she isn't discouraged. Her best friend is Germaine (Isabelle Gelinas), a pretty girl whose moral standards are not as strict as Mado's. When a film director (Oleg Yankovsky) arrives in town, everyone is agog, but Mado is particularly keen to find out about him. However, it seems that he has his eye on Germaine, and he isn't really in her league anyhow.
Mado, poste restante
Поцелуй
Roman Balayan
Oleg Yankovskiy, Aleksandr Abdulov
The film is based on the short story by Anton Chekhov. Gentlemen invited to tea by the local landowner, a retired major-General von Rebbeca.. Lieutenant ryabovich lost in the darkness, in the rooms of the old house, suddenly kissed a stranger.
The Kiss
