Valentina Ushakova
2021
It Can't Be!
Leonid Gayday
Mikhail Pugovkin, Nina Grebeshkova
The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
It Can't Be!
Разные судьбы
Leonid Lukov
Tatyana Piletskaya, Yulian Panich
Young Leningraders, yesterday’s schoolchildren, are entering adulthood. Sonya is in love with Styopa, but he loves Tanya, and Tanya prefers Fedya. The rejected Styopa leaves for a distant Siberian city and starts working at the factory, studying at the evening institute. Sonya leaves after him and gets a job at the same factory. Tanya and Fedya, having married, go to college, and the young husband has to earn some money as a driver to support his family. The selfish nature of Tanya refuses to put up with the modest position in which the newlyweds are forced to be, and she starts an affair with an elderly composer...
Different Fortunes
The Mire
Grigoriy Chukhray
Nonna Mordyukova, Vadim Spiridonov
The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. Peasant Matryona Bystrova loses her husband at the front, then her eldest son goes missing. Matryona decides to save the youngest son at all costs and shelters him from being drafted into the army in the attic of the house until the end of the war. But it turns out that saving her son, she condemns him to spiritual death, and herself to torment of conscience. A private story about the mother of a deserter grows to epic proportions...
The Mire
Отцы
Arkadiy Sirenko
Boris Shcherbakov, Oleg Borisov
Second half of the 1960s. Novikov, an employee of the apparatus, is a charming and successful functionary, married to the daughter of a former party leader. His life is a success — he has a status, a family, two children, as well as a young mistress — student Tanya, for whom he will never divorce... During the conflict at a youth construction site in Siberia, which he must repay, Novikov shows himself as an experienced dodger and a provocateur. Tanya's father, a war veteran and an honest worker, Ivan Dronov considers himself entitled to punish this scoundrel...
Fathers
Time of Desires
Yuli Raizman
Vera Alentova, Anatoli Papanov
Svetlana Vasilievna is a young, energetic woman who often changes jobs, accustomed to achieving the goals that she has set for herself in life. Her next desire is to marry a "creative, intelligent" person. After a lengthy search, she chose an elderly, but well-mannered, intelligent official Vladimir Dmitrievich Lobanov. Svetlana believes that with the help of connections and sober calculation, you can achieve everything: well-being, respectability, even personal happiness. She does not notice that the fulfillment of her desires does not at all make the person close to her happy. The payback turns out to be unexpected and terrible.
Time of Desires
Запасной игрок
Semyon Timoshenko
Georgiy Vitsin, Vsevolod Kuznetsov
Comedy about brothers Vesnushkin, Sasha and Vasya, who are playing for one team in a National Soccer Competition. However, Sasha falls in love with a beautiful girl and loses his confidence just before the final game, so his brother has to take the lead on the field in order to save the game.
The Boys from Leningrad
Anna Karamazoff
Rustam Khamdamov
Jeanne Moreau, Yelena Solovey
This film is of interest primarily because it contains within it the entire surviving footage of an unfinished 1974 film by the same director, Slave of Love, which was successfully remade shortly thereafter by another director, Nikita Mikhalkov.The "cover" story is about a woman (Jeanne Moreau) newly released from prison camps in the 1940s back into Russian society, who finds that there is no place for her in the world she has come back to. However, this painterly film is so filled with striking and surreal imagery that it would be misleading to say that the story is of any great importance in relation to that.
Anna Karamazoff
Счастливая, Женька!
Aleksandr Pankratov
Yelena Tsyplakova, Andrey Molotkov
Женя давно развелась и одна растит пятилетнего сына, работает в клинике, подрабатывает на «скорой помощи». Она оптимистка — и на жизнь не жалуется. Коллеги ее называют счастливой. Неожиданная встреча Жени с новым доктором может, вероятно, многое изменить в жизни…
Счастливая, Женька!
Улица младшего сына
Lev Golub
Boris Bityukov, Valentina Ushakova
В приморском городе Керчь живет мальчишка Володя Дубинин. На уроках зачитывается книгой о Чкалове. Конструирует планеры, которые летают дальше других, возится с малышами из подшефного класса. С отцом-капитаном ездит на рыбалку. Когда начинается Великая Отечественная война, отец уходит на фронт, а Володя добивается, чтобы его взяли в партизанский отряд...
Ulitsa mladshego syna
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
Ночной патруль
Vladimir Sukhobokov
Lev Sverdlin, Mark Bernes
The accountant of the commodity base discovers a small mistake in the documents, as told by the manager of the base. That night, someone hacked and robbed a safe with accounting documents, and committed the killing of an accountant. The case for the search for criminals was entrusted to police commissioner Krechetov and lieutenant Kasyanov.
Night Guard
Возврата нет
Alexey Saltykov
Nonna Mordyukova, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
According to the story of the same name by Anatoli Kalinin. The love story of Antonina and the battalion commander Nikitin, whom she sheltered after a severe wound. Antonina Kashirina is wanted to be excluded from the party, accusing the Don Cossack woman living in the territory occupied by the Germans during the war. They don't believe that she hid and treated a wounded Soviet officer. Unable to withstand insulting suspicions, she leaves the party committee bureau. On the way home, Tonya recalls how she picked up a bleeding artillery — the battalion commander Nikitin, she hid him and treated him as she fell in love...
No Return
