Movies

The first and second chapters of "Eugene Onegin" performed by Sergei Yursky, filmed live for Leningrad Television.

A screen adaptation of the satirical poem by Eduard Uspensky. Vova Sidorov is the only child in a big family, growing up without a father. Everything...

Two ordinary boys, brothers Paul and Peter, rescue two little dogs from the evil Kaspar Schlich.

After a mail plane crashes in the Siberian taiga, two rivals set off along untrodden paths in search of missing money.

Bek's men kidnap Farukh's fiancee. He goes on a quest, thus violating the warnings of the good Fairy. Farukh and his friend the Fool overcome all...

A cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry.

The hare has lost its magnificent tail - everyone is suspected.

A documentary on the staging of Georgi Tovstonogov's acclaimed production of The Three Sisters at the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater, from the first...

A stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", first staged for Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater and later reworked for Leningrad...

Blending drawings, paintings, filmed interviews, and recorded testimony, this animation-documentary hybrid tells of the tragic fate of the Estonian...

A television version of the award-winning stage adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's tragic farce, mounted in 1994 for Moscow's School of...

The second part of the duology on the famous Estonian artist Ülo Sooster continues his life story, paying homage to many other great artists who...

A live reading of Alexander Pushkin's humorous poem for Leningrad Television.

A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson.

A runaway robot obsessed with an idea of creating a perfect human becomes a household property of a writer through deception.

A television play based on the eponymous poem, letters, and other works by Alexander Pushkin.

A good tale about the inhabitants of a magical city who were shamelessly robbed by the villain Miraclus. He stole their smiles - sly, playful,...

A satirical account of the rise and fall of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.