Mikhail Shveitser
1920 - 2000
Resurrection
Mikhail Shveitser
Tamara Syomina, Yevgeni Matveyev
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
Resurrection
Мертвые души
Mikhail Shveitser
Aleksandr Trofimov, Aleksandr Kalyagin
Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small provincial town and begins to proposition the local landowners. These landowners are revealed to be so petty and avaricious that not even Chichikov’s amazing offer can be worked to his advantage on them. Some stall, some refuse for no obvious reasons, some promise and then renege, and others want “in on the deal.” In the end, Chichikov, having concluded that the landowners are a hopeless lot, leaves for other regions.
Dead Souls
Послушай, Феллини!..
Mikhail Shveitser
Lyudmila Gurchenko
An actress is recording a screen-test for Federico Fellini who, as she's heard, is looking for a Russian actress for his new film. For an hour she's reflecting on the nature of art, the fate of artists, the destiny of Russian people, history of her country and its present day.
Listen, Fellini!..
Время, вперед!
Sofiya Milkina, Mikhail Shveitser
Inna Gulaya, Tamara Syomina
The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...
Time, Forward!
Смешные люди!
Mikhail Shveitser
Evgeni Leonov, Oleg Basilashvili
В фильме переплетаются сюжетные линии рассказов «В бане», «Невидимые миру слезы», «Разговор человека с собакой» и других. По воле создателей киноленты зритель попадает на репетиции необычного хора и знакомится с историями певчих — разнообразными, но неизменно забавными…
Funny People!
Чужая родня
Mikhail Shveitser
Nikolai Rybnikov, Nonna Mordyukova
The young machine operator Fyodor Soloveikov marries Stesha from a neighboring village and moves to live with her parents in a house. Young and energetic, he suffocates in the petty bourgeois world of the family, living away from collective farm life. Quarrels arise between young people, where old men pour oil of discord. Not receiving proper support from his wife, Fyodor leaves home.
Other People's Relatives
Мичман Панин
Mikhail Shveitser
Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Nikita Podgornyj
It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasily Panin, a junker of a school of naval engineers, is one of those entrusted with this dangerous task.
Midshipman Panin
Бегство мистера Мак-Кинли
Konstantin Stenkin, Mikhail Shveitser
Donatas Banionis, Zhanna Bolotova
A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it?
Escape of Mr. McKinley
Тугой узел
Mikhail Shveitser
Viktor Avdyushko, Oleg Tabakov
История о том, как председатель колхоза взял к себе в дом Сашу Комелева, сына умершего секретаря райкома. Парень начал работать в колхозе и поступил на заочное отделение института. Особо тоскливые вечера он проводил с черноокой Катей. А она очень скоро полюбила нового секретаря райкома, который в отличие от Саши был смелым и решительным…
Тугой узел
Карусель
Mikhail Shveitser
Vladimir Basov, Natalya Vorobyova
Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".
The Roundabout
Кортик
Vladimir Vengerov, Mikhail Shveitser
Arkadi Tolbuzin, Bruno Frejndlikh
The teenager Misha Polyakov, being with his mother in a Ukrainian village on vacation with his grandmother and about to return home to Petrograd, offers his best friend Genka to go with him. Suddenly, a white gang of Nikitsky bursts into the village and attacks Misha’s house, where Commissioner Polevoy lives. The purpose of Nikitskiy (aka Nikolskiy) is a dagger located at Polevoy. Saving the commissioner, Misha learns from him the history and secret of the weapon, and receives it for storage with a request to solve the secret. Having returned with adventures to Petrograd, Misha Polyakov with friends begins to unravel the riddle of the dagger, in the handle of which is encrypted text.
The Cutlass
