Cast: Mikhail Yanshin

Direction Aleksandr Rou

Cast Aleksandr Khvylya · Natalya Sedykh · Eduard Izotov · Georgi Millyar

Synopsis Strange Russian fairy tale dealing with a boy and a girl who go through the strangest situations to be with one another. The boy is transformed by a Mushroom Pixie into a bear, and almost baked by an evil witch...

Direction Aleksandr Ptushko

Cast Vladimir Druzhnikov · Yekaterina Derevshchikova · Tamara Makarova · Nikolai Orlov

Direction Yuli Raizman

Cast Andrei Zhilinsky · Pavel Tamm · Vladimir Popov · Vladimir Taskin

Synopsis About an unsuccessful revolt against a sadistic warden in a Siberian prison camp.

Direction Lev Atamanov

Cast Lyudmila Gnilova · Nina Gulyaeva · Sergei Martinson · Anatoli Papanov

Synopsis The tale follows the romance between a china shepherdess and a china chimney sweep who are threatened by a carved mahogany satyr who wants the shepherdess for his wife.

Direction Isidor Annensky

Cast Aleksei Gribov · Faina Ranevskaya · Zoya Fyodorova · Erast Garin

Direction Yan Frid

Cast Klara Luchko · Alla Larionova · Vadim Medvedev · Mikhail Yanshin

Synopsis Shakespeare’s comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.

Direction Aleksandr Faintsimmer

Cast Mikhail Yanshin · Boris Gorin-Goryainov · Nina Shaternikova · Sofiya Magarill

Synopsis A sarcastic comedy about the Russian-Soviet bureaucracy, based on the eponymous novella by Yuri Tynyanov. Set in the reign of Emperor Paul I. A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words for "the lieutenants, however" into what...

Direction Lev Arnshtam

Cast Boris Chirkov · Vasiliy Merkurev · Mikhail Derzhavin · Vladimir Druzhnikov

Synopsis The Great Glinka is the life story of the famed 19th-century Russian composer. Acclaimed as the first of his breed to incorporate authentic Russian folk songs in his compositions, Glinka, aka Mikkail Ivanovitch, is herein depicted as a "musician of...

Direction Yevgeni Chervyakov

Cast Mikhail Astangov · Mikhail Yanshin · Boris Dobronravov · Vera Yanukova

Direction Aleksey Korenev

Cast Mikhail Kononov · Evgeni Leonov · Rolan Bykov · Aleksandr Zbruev

Synopsis 4 Episodes. A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.

Direction Irina Poplavskaya

Cast Mikhail Yanshin · Lyudmila Kasatkina · Georgiy Vitsin · Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya

Synopsis After Lev Savvich overheard his wife cheating with his best friend who greatly offended him by calling all sort of names, he planned a terrible revenge. Which went terribly wrong.

Direction Rolan Bykov

Cast Yuriy Nikulin · Valentina Telegina · Lyubov Sokolova · Rina Zelyonaya

Direction Abram Room

Cast Mikhail Yanshin · Olga Androvskaya · Vladimir Yershov · Anatoli Ktorov

Direction Vladimir Petrov

Cast Igor Gorbachyov · Yuri Tolubeyev · Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya · Tamara Nosova

Synopsis Khlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. Petersburg. Khlestakov is mistaken for an undercover inspector, and uses...

Direction Mikheil Chiaureli

Cast Pavel Molchanov · Mikheil Gelovani · Boris Andreyev · Marina Kovalyova

Synopsis Soviet propaganda film in two episodes about Stalin's strong and cruel suppression of the 1919 anti-communist uprising in St. Petersburg, Russia. Stalin (played by Gelovani) and Lenin (played by Molchanov) are shown as heroes who destroyed the efforts of anti-communists...