Aleksandr Kalyagin
1942 (83 года)Park
Rasim Ojagov
Fakhraddin Manafov, Galina Belyayeva
Практицизм и эгоизм не принесли Другу успехов и благополучия, к которым он так стремился. И теперь вся надежда только на Марата, бригадира нефтяников, который хоть и знал его хорошо с самого детства, но эксперимент, обещающий значительное увеличение нефти, должен разрешить. Ведь тогда Марат получит премию, а он, в случае удачи, защитит диссертацию. С этим предложением Друг и посетил Марата, озабоченного, как никогда, текущим планом нефтедобычи...
Park
Эзоп
Oleg Ryabokon
Aleksandr Kalyagin, Valentin Gaft
Это веселая и поучительная история о греческом рабе Эзопе, подарившем мировой литературе свои гениальные произведения, и о его глупом хозяине, обладающем деньгами и властью, но начисто лишенным доброты и порядочности. Действие фильма-спектакля происходит в Самосе, во времена Древней Греции. По пьесе Гильерме Фигейредо "Лиса и виноград".
Esop
Interrogation
Rasim Ojagov
Aleksandr Kalyagin, Hasan Mammadov
The investigator Seyfi Ganiyev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from public funds. Abiyev is also accused of the murder of an underage girls that occurred in Riga shortly after Abiyev saw her. He denies his guilt, but does not name the perpetrators though he knows them, despite the fact that he is facing the death penalty. The investigator understands that some high-ranking officials stand behind Abiyev, but he has no proof. Ganiyev seeks to obtain from the prisoner the whole truth to bring the criminals to justice.
Interrogation
Сказка сказок
Yuri Norstein
Aleksandr Kalyagin
Skazka Skazok (Tale of Tales) is a 27-minute animated short film, considered the masterpiece of influential Russian animator Yuri Norstein. Told in a non-narrative style by free association, the film employs various techniques including puppets, cut-outs, and traditional cell animation. Using classical music and '30s jazz tunes instead of dialogue.
Tale of Tales
Gogol the Bird
Sergey Nurmamed, Ivan Skvortsov
Leonid Parfyonov, Liya Akhedzhakova
This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the unique style of the author Leonid Parfyonov. Documentary shows that the author of "Dead Souls", "The Inspector General" and "Taras Bulba" is not the founder of realism in Russian literature, but a modern and actual avant-garde writer who created works hitherto unprecedented, full of magic and phantasmagoria.
Gogol the Bird
An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano
Nikita Mikhalkov
Aleksandr Kalyagin, Yelena Solovey
At the dilapidated country estate of Anna Petrovna Voinitseva, a group of feckless Russian aristocrats whiles away a summer afternoon. Unbeknownst to their respective spouses, local schoolteacher Platonov and the wife of Anna's stepson, Sophia, are former lovers whose meeting revives both passion and regret. Thrilled to see each other, they are nevertheless haunted by the loss of their youthful ideals.
An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano
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
Игроки
Roman Viktyuk
Aleksandr Kalyagin, Valentin Gaft
The play is about the Game, about creativity, which this time turned into the form of a brilliant speck. Skillfully, talentedly and artistically, the victim of the same players as himself, Ikharev does not suffer a catastrophe, because his "Adelaide Ivanovna" remains with him. Tool and mascot of his game. His secret manuscript ...
Players
Дети как дети
Ayan Shakhmaliyeva
Nikita Mikhajlovsky, Aleksandr Kalyagin
Four years ago, Igor, Olya's father, fell in love with another woman, Tatyana, and left his wife. Tatyana has a son, Dima, whom Igor is adopting. And one day Igor can not meet Olya, and sends Dima instead. Children get acquainted. There is a paradox. Olya hates Dima and his mother, he is friendly. Children have to cross the line of love and hate.
Children as children
In Front of a Closed Door
Rasim Ojagov
Rodion Nahapetov, Nasiba Zeynalova
Любимец всего двора Мурад только что вернулся из тюрьмы, куда попал, взяв на себя вину за преступление своего друга. Все это время его ждала невеста Гюля, и теперь они собираются пожениться. Тем временем из-за одной из дверей выходящих во двор Мурада то и дело доносится крик женщины, но соседи ничего не предпринимают. Сможет ли Мурад возвыситься над всеобщим равнодушием к делам соседа и помочь несчастной женщине?
In Front of a Closed Door
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
Раба любви
Nikita Mikhalkov
Yelena Solovey, Rodion Nahapetov
Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film's cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he's a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centred life. Love blooms. Will the Red forces arrive in time to save them from a suspicious White military leader? Will she find courage?
A Slave of Love
