Mihai Volontir

Gypsy

Budulay

A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life, and the difficult love to a Russian woman.

Return of Budulai

Будулай Романов

For more than six months, Budulay, who had been brutally beaten by gangsters, had no memory. A chance encounter with his son Vanya, who had learned from his mother that his real father was Budulay, restored the boy's memory.

The Fourth

American journalist gets a sensational material but is afraid to publish it...

In the Zone of Special Attention

warrant officer Volentir

Action film about the Soviet paratroopers.

Gypsy

Budulaj

A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life and the difficult love to Russian woman.

The Centaurs

Evaristo

A political conspiracy is brewing in an unnamed Latin American country. Everything is in play: blackmail, bribery, political assassinations, newspaper slander. The operation, code-named "Centaur", is conceived in Washington.

Unanswered Love

Passerby

About the dramatic fate of provincial actress Larisa Dobrynina. The death of a friend, betrayal of her lover, failures on stage and heart disease caused her premature death.

Return of Budulai

Budulai

A continuation of a saga about Budulai started in "Gypsy" (1979).

Incident at Map-Grid 36-80

Skiba

Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.

Bridges

The war, with its immorality and cruelty, touched the foundations - the "bridges of life" - of a simple Moldovan village...

Deer Hunting

Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves in the occupied territory in the area of operations of the Belarusian partisan detachment. To find the people's avengers, the Nazis decide to use children.

I Am Responsible for You

The heroine of the film is an employee of an automobile factory, a person with a whole generous character. Always ready to help those who need her help, she doesn't worry about how her personal life is going, but she's quite happy.

Am I Guilty?..

About the family, where both husband and wife are alcoholics. He trades stolen plumbing, she is experiencing his moral decline.

Agent of the Secret Service

Ignat Balutse

Musician Stefan meets a young attractive woman Lidia. Stefan is going on tour to Austria, and Lydia, "accidentally" remembering her Viennese acquaintance, asks to give her a souvenir from Moldova. In Vienna, Stefan is met by people who are well aware of his private life and even familiar with his diary. The musician begins to suspect something is wrong, but when his daughter's well-being is threatened, Stefan becomes truly worried...

Return Move

Volentir

Second movie of a dilogy about Russian paratroopers started with "V zone osobogo vnimaniya"

Don't Believe the Cry of a Night Bird

Ion Mustyatse

Immediately after the war, veteran Vasile Karuntu came to the machine-building plant where Ion worked, who soon became a foreman. They both fell in love with Maria, but she married Vasile. With Maria, he created a family, raised four children, three of whom are adopted orphans. And now, many years after the first rivalry, the management of the plant releases Jonah from the foreman and appoints Vasile instead...

Knock on the Door

Ваня Медведь

...1949. Baulin, a school principal in a small Moldovan town, is summoned at night to the district party committee. He is tasked with leading a group that is carrying out an action in the area to evict so-called fascist collaborators. We will see only a day in the life of the main character. He walks around the huts, sees people included in the “black lists”, understands that they could not possibly be traitors.

From Bug to Vistula

Вершигора

The Soviet war film tells the story of the last raid by the Ukrainian partisan division named after S. A. Kovpak, led by P. P. Vershigora, into enemy territory in 1943-1944, its advance to the state border between the USSR and Poland, and its international assistance to the Polish people in their liberation from the fascist invaders.

Root of Life

Lukyan Batyr (Kolkhoz Chairman)

Fascinated by the idea of creating an industrial inter-collective farm garden, scientist Andrei Barbu interrupts his work at the institute and moves to the district...

Ten Winters in One Summer

Four short stories tell about the inhabitants of the Moldovan village of Redu Mare. Stefan, a former front-line cowman, returned from the army and found unpleasant changes for himself. His beloved girlfriend got married... Originally from Redu Mare, the hero of the second novel is the power juggler Ion Ciocanu. The third novel tells about a young rural saint. His love for a random girl he met awakened a craving for a "mundane" life. But Valentine is lucky... The film ends with a story about Toolbarel, a cheerful and wise old man. He appears in all the other novels.