Cast: Alla Demidova

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Margarita Terekhova · Philip Yankovsky · Ignat Daniltsev · Oleg Yankovskiy

Plot Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family....

Direction Igor Maslennikov

Cast Vasili Livanov · Vitali Solomin · Rina Zelyonaya · Irina Kupchenko

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Georgi Deliyev · Alla Demidova · Renata Litvinova · Nina Ruslanova

Plot A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.

Direction Igor Talankin

Cast Innokenti Smoktunovsky · Antonina Shuranova · Kirill Lavrov · Vladislav Strzhelchik

Plot Biography of the Russian composer Peter Tchaikovski.

Direction Sofiya Milkina · Mikhail Shvejtser

Cast Oleg Yankovskiy · Aleksandr Trofimov · Irina Seleznyova · Dmitriy Pokrovskiy

Plot During a discussion about love and marriage on a train, Poznyshev (Oleg Yankovsky) announces that he murdered his wife. He then begins to tell another passenger his story and the...

Direction Igor Talankin

Cast Sergey Bondarchuk · Valentina Titova · Vladislav Strzhelchik · Nikolai Gritsenko

Direction Yuli Karasik

Cast Alla Demidova · Vladimir Chetverikov · Nikolai Plotnikov · Lyudmila Savelyeva

Plot Based on Chehov's homonymus play the seagull narrates the story of a disturbed family and their aquiantances during summer time in the countryside. Mixed feeling resurface in the authentic chehovian...

Direction Vladimir Vengerov

Cast Aleksey Batalov · Alla Demidova · Oleg Basilashvili · Lidiya Shtykan

Plot Fyodor Protasov, a spendthrift and drunkard, abandons Liza, his wife, and baby son, choosing to cavort most of the time with gypsies. He’s sure that Liza rather find happiness in...

Direction Irina Povolotskaya

Cast Marina Ilyichyova · Lev Durov · Alla Demidova · Aleksei Chernov

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Oleg Tabakov · Alla Demidova · Renata Litvinova · Sergey Makovetskiy

Plot A woman is paid a surprise visit by her long-forgotten classmate, who needs her advice: should he choose a wife or a lover? An outrageously burlesque mise-en-scène is repeated many...

Direction Vladimir Basov

Cast Stanislav Lyubshin · Vladimir Basov · Oleg Yankovskiy · Juozas Budraitis

Direction Rustam Khamdamov

Cast Svetlana Nemolyaeva · Anna Mikhalkova · Sergey Koltakov · Elena Morozova

Plot Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove, story takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his bedroom a metaphysical story about a...

Direction Yuli Karasik

Cast Vasili Lanovoy · Alla Demidova · Heinz Braun · Yuri Kayurov

Plot In 1918, V.I. Lenin and Dzerzhinsky are destroying opponents and strengthening dictatorship using the Soviet secret police, predecessor of KGB.

Direction Yevgeni Karelov

Cast Oleg Yankovskiy · Rolan Bykov · Anatoli Papanov · Nikolay Kryuchkov

Plot Two soldiers become best friends during the Civil War in Russia in the 1920's.

Direction Larisa Shepitko

Cast Leonid Dyachkov · Yuri Vizbor · Alla Demidova · Natalya Bondarchuk