Lidiya Shtykan
2021Жила-была девочка
Viktor Eisymont
Nina Ivanova, Natalya Zashchipina
Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.
Once Upon a Girl
Den solntsa i dozhdya
Viktor Sokolov
Aleksandr Barinov, Anatoly Popov
Two 7th graders, a hooligan Mukhin and a good student Kronov do not like each other. They decide to have a peace day together, which changed their attitude both towards each other and towards the world around them...
A Day of Sun and Rain
Дорогой мой человек
Iosif Kheifits
Aleksey Batalov, Inna Makarova
Military doctor Vladimir Ustimenko is a man of duty and honor, committed to the cause he serves, and one single love that he carries through his whole life: Varvara Stepanova is a whimsical girl who dreamed of becoming a great actress but eventually became a geologist. The war will cruelly interfere in the fate of the heroes and confuse their relationship even more.
My Dear Fellow
Mama Got Married
Vitali Melnikov
Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, Oleg Efremov
A sublime, exceptionally well acted film about a single working class mother and her teenage son. She finds a man and marries him, her son is jealous and full of hot air at first but comes to understand her in the end. That's all. The simplicity of the story notwithstanding, this is one of the most sincere and lyrical films to have been produced in the 1960s-1970s Soviet Union. Very realistic, too, showing the life as it was then. Lyusyena Ovchinnikova is superb, it is this film that makes one realize what a wonderful and under-appreciated actress she was. Nikolay Burlyayev is very good as a lanky teenager, the final scene with him carrying a glass of carbonated water for his mother is stunning. Oleg Efremov is very convincing as a working class man who found his happiness at last.
Mama Got Married
Мусоргский
Grigoriy Roshal
Aleksandr Borisov, Nikolai Cherkasov
Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.
Mussorgsky
Вторая весна
Vladimir Vengerov
Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Natalya Yegorova
The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. These searches began his friend before the war, in remote taiga places. Yevdokiya Perevalova — the widow of a deceased friend decides to help Nesterov get to those deaf places...
A Second Spring
Зима тревоги нашей
Roza Sirota
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Lidiya Shtykan
Итен Аллен Хоули, потомок могущественного семейства, получивший высшее образование, знаток истории и литературы, поклонник латыни, вынужден работать продавцом в лавке какого-то макаронника Марулло. Репутация Итена безупречна, но подобно змее, он сбрасывает старую кожу, чтобы явиться в образе чудовища, перед которым будут трепетать даже городские магнаты.
Зима тревоги нашей
Живой труп
Vladimir Vengerov
Aleksey Batalov, Alla Demidova
Based on the play of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he does not have the courage to fight it, and he chooses the third way — to stage suicide.
The Living Corpse
