Nikita Arzhakov

Тыгын Дархан

Nikita Arzhakov

Afanasy Afanasyev

The film tells about a difficult period in the fate of the legendary ancestor of the Hangalass clan Tygyn Darkhan. At the turn of the century before the advent of the Russian Cossacks, he waged a difficult struggle to unite the tribes and clans that lived on the territory of modern Yakutia. The film is based on the eponymous work of Vasily Yakovlev-Dalan.

Дьикти саас

Nikita Arzhakov

The film is based on the story "Diikti Saas" (The Wondrous Time) by the people's writer of Yakutia, winner of the State Prize named after P. A. Oyunsky Vasily Yakovlev-Dalan. Director of photography Nikita Arzhakov tried to most accurately reproduce exactly the state and the worldview that was inherent in the Soviet reality, deeply and touchingly depicts the inner world of the young generation, shows the awakening of the first youthful love. The film tells about the life of a simple high school graduate Kesha Popov, who lives in the village, about the wonderful time of youth, about the spring in the soul of the young, about life that is in full swing, about the confusion of feelings, problems, about love, friendship, self-affirmation, in a word, about everything that is inherent in the younger generation.

Журавли над Ильменем

Nikita Arzhakov

A military drama about the fate of yesterday's schoolboy, a modest young man from a remote Yakut village, who became a fearless Soviet warrior in the year of trials. Not having time to experience the joys of family life with a young wife, the hero says goodbye to her and goes to the front. The film highlights the heroic fate of the Yakut soldiers during the Great Patriotic War, based on the true events that took place on Lake Ilmen in the Novgorod region, and the equally tragic fate of those who remained in the rear - Churapchinsky immigrants who were forced to leave their native places.