Sergey Zamorev

Empire is Under Attack

Митинский - литератор

In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.

Sherlock Holmes

Master armorer

The action takes place in Victorian England in the last quarter of the 19th century. 27-year-old amateur detective Sherlock Holmes becomes a bystander to a crime along with Dr. John Watson, a military doctor who has just returned from the war in Afghanistan. During the investigation, Watson, not yet having an apartment in London, settles with Holmes in Mrs. Hudson's «half board», and then takes part in the affairs of his new friend. Watson gives Holmes boxing lessons. Watson himself is an experienced boxer, able to deal with several opponents with his bare hands. In addition, he is an excellent marksman. Considering Holmes a genius, the doctor decides to tell the whole world about his talent and the mysteries he revealed in his stories, where he often embellishes the events («the true story» of which the series presents). Watson is taught to embellish events by the editor-in-chief of the «Morning Chronicle».

Silver Skates

1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.

Open Book

Виктор Мерзляков

No description available

Plan B

old man

Bruno's plan to win back his ex-girlfriend hits a snag when he becomes attracted to her boyfriend.

Convoy PQ-17

Erich von Roeder

On June 27, 1942, a caravan of ships, codenamed PQ-17, left Reykjavik for Arkhangelsk. The route of the ships with cargo for Russia lay across the North Atlantic, where they were awaited by chilling winds, stormy seas and deadly attacks by German submarines and bombers.

Rasputin

Stürmer

A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.

Secrets Shared with a Stranger

In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond.

Dostoevsky

Biopic covering a large portion of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's life, from the Petrashevsky Circle to the writing of The Brothers Karamazov.

Chekist

family doctor

Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. No one to remember their last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies. Daily, the kangaroo court, the executions, the loading of bodies onto wagons. Srubov is cold, distant, sexually dysfunctional, and a deep thinker, hated by former friends and his family. As he tries to reason the nature of revolution and the purpose of CHEKA, he slowly goes mad.

His Wife's Diary

A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid Gurov. A work of great honesty and piercing psychology.

Moonsund

Captain of a Russian battleship "Novik" Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady Klara who is a German spy. They cannot be together because of the war and their professions. But they are in such love that all the war battles and battleships do not stop them, only their duties do.

Vasilisa

He is a nobleman, and she is a serf. They are not meant to be together. Perhaps this love story would have ended there, had it not been for the war. Napoleon invaded the Russian Empire, and that day changed the usual way of life and class prejudices. The world would never be the same again. War writes a new love story.

Whit Monday

resident of the boarding house

Ivan Khristoforov discovers the strange property of foreseeing explosions. Trying to understand the reason and meaning of this unusual ability, he turns to family history. The attention of the secret public service doesn't bode well for Khristoforov. The imaginary journey of the hero in his past, bearing the imprint of a children's worldview, and the present, at times just like a dream.

Feedback

The film raises acute issues in construction, where, back in the 1970s, all the social shortcomings of large-scale but short-term production projects were concentrated: premature completion of projects, mismanagement, weak control, theft, and fraud.

Contract of the Century

In order to negotiate with West German financiers about the construction of the gas pipeline between Siberia and Western Europe, a delegation of Soviet foreign trade collaborators flies to Germany, where they immediately come under CIA surveillance: U.S. intelligence agencies are interested in disrupting the 'contract of the century.' ”...

Memory Formula

Геннадий Калашников

Research in the field of memory is being conducted under the leadership of Academician Arkhipov. He, like many other thinking people, is not indifferent to the purposes for which scientific discoveries can be used and how modern they are.

We Looked in the Death's Face

duty officer

A young officer organizes a dance group in the blockaded Leningrad in 1942.

Maigret and the Man on the Bench

Luc - Police Inspector

No description available

The Taming of the Shrew

A performance by the Leningrad State Academic Theater named after The Lensoveta based on Shakespeare's play. One of the daughters of a venerable resident of Padua, distinguished by her harsh and scandalous character, was the reason for the refusal of her younger sister's suitors, who were more comely and accommodating. In order for the father to allow the marriage of the younger, applicants for her hand are looking for a groom for the eldest and find the same rude and scandalous young nobleman who is ready to marry anyone for a dowry. However, it is also necessary to obtain the consent of the girl with the obstinate character...