Valentin Chernykh

Writer

March 12, 1935 (77 years)

† August 6, 2012

Pskov, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Biography

Soviet and Russian screenwriter.

Filmography

7.6

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.

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Airport

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6.0

Bringing Up Cruelty in Women and Dogs

A single woman's and her dog's personalities are affected by tough life circumstances.

4.8

Children of Arbat

Set in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, it tells the story of Sasha Pankratov, a student and loyal Komsomol member from the Arbat neighborhood of Moscow who is unfairly exiled to Siberia. As his family and friends, including his love interest Varya Ivanova, grapple with Sasha's sudden detention and departure, the series shows the growing fear and paranoia that gripped Moscow in the years before the murder of Sergey Kirov and the start of Stalin's Great Purge.

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This is Where the Border Goes

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6.1

4 Days in May

Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly baroness gives shelter to a group of orphan girls and a boy who is determined to continue the fight.

6.5

A Bus Driver

Not young bus driver goes to the next trip. In this trip he recalls his childhood during WW2. But there is another danger people among passengers of the bus.

7.5

Flight with the Astronaut

The purposeful village guy is indifferent to entertainment, but strictly follows the daily schedule, studies languages and exact sciences. There are two goals in his life - to become an astronaut and win the heart of his former classmate.

6.3

Our Own

It is August 1941. With the battle line far away in the east, three soldiers who have managed to escape from captivity find it difficult to hide: the territory is occupied by the enemy. The local woods are not safe: you can easily get embogged. Are the villagers loyal? Nobody can say. There is an old man who offers to help them. Is he reliable enough? He may kill them or report them to the local German authorities. Anything may happen, but one of them, the sniper, is his son who is his youngest, his dearest.

5.3

Love in Russian 3: Governor

Former farmer V.P. Mukhin became governor. His enemies are trying to prevent him from signing an agreement with Belarus on the construction of a bridge. He is given 7 days to think about it. Alone and unarmed, the old man goes to a meeting with representatives of the criminal world...

5.2

Love in Russian

A handful of farmers protect their farm from bandits.

7.0

Brezhnev

A biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev.

5.0

A Taste of Bread

An exploration of “virgin soil” in Kazakhstan through the stories of a party worker, a agronomist, and the director of a state farm.

9.0

Ranger from the Nuclear Zone

Captain 2nd Rank Alexey Barsuk, facing downsizing, returns to his hometown, takes over his father's position as a forester in the Chernobyl zone, and begins a battle against the local mafia.

5.8

A Man at His Place

A story about young man who is trying to turn his village into an agricultural center.

6.8

Earthy Love

A life of a few people during the years before WWII before the events shown in "Destiny" (1977).

10.0

Organized Trip to the Theatre‎

A lot of funny stuff is going on in a far way village located between forests and lakes.

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Clinic

"Era Consultant": The former driver of the Council of People's Commissars was invited to shoot a film about the 30s. Regarding his chauffeur career had began precisely at that time, he agreed, although he perfectly understood that he was invited because of the old Emka, which he still drives and which is unlikely to be driven by anyone else. "Owner": Tractor driver, who is keenly concerned about the collective farm business, drives around the fields at night, loads rotting straw into a trailer and takes it to an abandoned public young farm. "Clinic": Fearing for the patient’s life, surgeon offers his services to a protégé of the hospital head, who is preparing to defend her dissertation. But the patient dies...

6.8

The Man Who Closed the City

A fire causes mayhem in a seaside residence. Alexei Rogov investigates the incident and finds out that the fire was caused by negligence. But he is in love with the person in charge of the residence...

8.0

It's Not Forbidden to Live Nicely

A textile factory worker tries to breathe life into women's fashion.