Natalya Vavilova
1959 (67 лет)
Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding
Aleksandr Mitta
Vladimir Vysotsky, Aleksey Petrenko
Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a wealthy boyar. Peter the Great insists the two be married, but Ibrahim goes against the tsar's wishes, refusing to force her to marry him since she doesn't consent. When another man tries to marry her, however, Ibrahim's loyalties and generous nature are put to the test.
Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding
Practical Joke
Vladimir Menshov
Dmitriy Kharatyan, Yevgeniya Khanayeva
At high school, some pupils decide to play a 'practical joke' on their teacher. On the day of midterm exam all of them say they she had told them the wrong date for the exam. She almost believed them, but then asked a girl known for her honesty and the girl could not lie. As a result everyone in the class gets an F for that midterm. That's a real problem for some of them - with an F they cannot have perfect GPA and will not enter prestige Universities. They want revenge...
Practical Joke
Нас венчали не в церкви
Boris Tokarev
Aleksandr Galibin, Natalya Vavilova
Дочь священника фиктивно выходит замуж за революционера-народника. Молодежная коммуна организовала им свадьбу и устроила переезд в город. Со временем молодые люди полюбили друг друга. Когда его осуждают и отправляют на каторгу, она добровольно следует за ним…
Нас венчали не в церкви
Полоса везения
Semyon Morozov, Aleksandr Majorov
Oleg Shtefanko, Natalya Vavilova
Polosa vezeniya (literally) 'Streak of Luck' is the fifth film in a Mosfilm "youth" anthology series and comprises three short stories. The first story, 'Vizit' (The Visit) directed by film maker turned politician Yevgeni Gerasimov tells the story of a rural boy visiting his former village girlfriend, now living in Moscow. Next comes a short film by Aleksandr Majorov called 'Zolotye rybki' (Goldfishes) which is based on a story of a magical goldfish brought from a provincial pet store by the late Russian historian and science-fiction and fantasy writer Kir Bulychyov. The final segment and the title of the film, 'Polosa vezeniya' (Streak of Luck) tells the story of a member of staff at a research institute who is offered the job of the department head, but has second thoughts when he discovers the previous boss was unfairly dismissed.
Streak of Luck
Шофёр на один рейс
Vadim Zobin
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Natalya Vavilova
Колхозница Софья, которая наконец-то накопила на автомобиль, приезжает в Москву, где знакомится с человеком, который помогает ей в покупке и соглашается доставить авто до места жительства. Все это время героев поджидают жизненно-комические ситуации, которые делают фильм легким и смешным.
Шофёр на один рейс
Бармен из «Золотого якоря»
Viktor Zhivolub
Yevgeni Gerasimov, Andrei Rostotsky
A barman from an elite bar for Soviet nomenklatura is greedy and not a true Leninist at all. Someone who in the Soviet Union often becomes an 'easy pray' for evil CIA agents. The barman from the "Golden Anchor" is about to become a CIA agent himself but his friends and families help him to find some Soviet patriotism inside his soul.
The Barman from 'Golden Anchor'
Стервятники на дорогах
Samvel Gasparov
Nina Ruslanova, Oleg Fomin
The Vultures on the Road - an organized gang of robbers and murderers, which includes even the police. They kill the truck driver's friend, whose wife is expecting a baby. The police (which is cooperating with the bandits), of course, does nothing, so he begins to take revenge on the scum, crushing their cars by his truck.
The Vultures on the Road
