Direction: Rolan Bykov

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Rolan Bykov. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Attention, Turtle!

1970 · Movie · 86 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Rolan Bykov

Cast Aleksei Yershov · Andrei Samotolkin · Mikhail Martirosyan · Galina Budanova

Synopsis Set in 1970's Soviet Union, the story follows a group of young children and a pet turtle. When one of the children becomes ill and taken to hospital, his turtle falls into the hands of two mischievous boys who test...

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The Scarecrow

1984 · Movie · 127 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Rolan Bykov

Cast Christina Orbakaite · Yuriy Nikulin · Yelena Sanayeva · Dmitri Yegorov

Synopsis When the 12-year-old Lena moves into a new town with her grandfather, they are both ostracized because they are different. He is crotchety and eccentric, a collector of old paintings, and she is too shy and anxious to please the...

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Direction Rolan Bykov

Cast Nina Goncharova · Yelena Sanayeva

Synopsis A young girl takes refuge in the woods to escape her mother's rages. Here she reenacts scenes of her physical and sexual abuse using stuffed dolls. It seems she wants her late father back, despite the sexual abuse, for at...

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Summer Is Over

1964 · Movie · 79 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Rolan Bykov · Nikita Orlov

Cast Vladimir Yevstafyev · Sergei Gudko · Zoya Fyodorova · Antonina Dmitrieva

Synopsis Vitya and Zhenya, two ordinary soviet schoolboys, have to spend whole summer in the middle of nowhere aka Vitya's three old aunts house. Instead, Vitya tries to escape this doom and makes Zhenya pretend being himself. But it cames out,...

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