Cinematography: Vyacheslav Shumsky

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Vyacheslav Shumsky. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Crime and Punishment

1970 · Movie · 221 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

7.6

348 votes

7.6

348 votes

The Dawns Here are Quiet

1972 · Movie · 188 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Stanislav Rostotsky

Cast Yelena Drapeko · Yekaterina Markova · Olga Ostroumova · Irina Shevchuk

Plot Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far...

7.2

168 votes

7.2

168 votes

White Bim Black Ear

1977 · Movie · 182 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Stanislav Rostotsky

Cast Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Valentina Vladimirova · Mikhail Dadyko · Ivan Ryzhov

Plot A touching story about a white setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich (Vyacheslav Tikhonov), a man far from being young,...

7.2

46 votes

7.2

46 votes

It Began This Way...

1956 · Movie · 98 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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May Stars

1959 · Movie · 95 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Stanislav Rostotsky

Cast Aleksandr Khanov · Misa Staninec · Ladislav Pesek · Jana Dítetová

Plot May 1945. On the outskirts of Prague, people greet Soviet liberation soldiers with tears of joy in their eyes. In the first days of calm, someone remembers life before the...

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The Maiden’s Spring

1960 · Movie · 98 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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Geroy nashego vremeni

1967 · Movie · 83 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Stanislav Rostotsky

Cast Vladimir Ivashov · Aleksei Chernov · Svetlana Svetlichnaya · Aleksandr Orlov

Plot In an adaptation of Mikhail Lermontov's classic 19th century Russian novel "A Hero of Our Time", soldier Pechorin battles with love and fate in the Caucasus.

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Tri plyus dva

1963 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Genrikh Oganisyan

Cast Natalya Kustinskaya · Natalya Fateyeva · Andrey Mironov · Yevgeni Zharikov

Plot Three men vacation on a deserted beach near The Black Sea, trying to get away from women and society. However, two women arrive and try to claim the vacation spot...

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The House I Live In

1957 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Lev Kulidzhanov · Yakov Segel

Cast Valentina Telegina · Nikolai Yelizarov · Vladimir Zemlyanikin · Yuri Myasnikov

Plot The film shows people and their dreams and hopes ruined by the war.

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Trees Grow on the Stones Too

1985 · Movie · 116 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Stanislav Rostotsky · Knut Andersen

Cast Aleksandr Timoshkin · Petronella Barker · Tor Stokke · Torgeir Fonnlid

Plot Vikings attack Kuksja's village, and end up bringing him along on their ship because they believe he is good luck. After proving himself in a battle against the dreaded Danes,...

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We'll Live Till Monday

1968 · Movie · 106 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Stanislav Rostotsky

Cast Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Irina Pechernikova · Nina Menshikova · Mikhail Zimin

Plot Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal...

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