Direction: Kira Muratova

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Nina Ruslanova · Vlasimir Vysotskiy · Kira Muratova · Yelena Bazilskaya

Plot Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya's apartment. Valya, who is a member of the local District Committee, does not know that Nadia fell...

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Zinaida Sharko · Oleg Vladimirsky · Tatyana Mychko · Yuri Kayurov

Plot A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. When Sasha grew up to become a teenager, he got tired of the nagging of her...

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 Kira Muratova

Cast Olga Antonova · Viktor Aristov · Sergei Popov · Natalia Buzko

Plot In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got...

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Sergei Chetvyortkov · Uta Kilter · Pavel Makarov · Nikolai Sadnev

Plot The short is made in a typical Muratova style that merges surrealism and reality into a mesmerizing act full of understatement and metaphor. Some trivia: this is nominally Muratova's first...

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Natalia Buzko · Yakov Kucherevckiy · Leonid Kushnir · Yuriy Nevgamovnyi

Plot Kukla by Kira Muratova is a story about the significance of money. A strange man intervenes between ex-spouses on the matter directly related to a large sum of money one...

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Lena Kostyuk · Roma Burlaka · Natalia Buzko · Zhan Daniel

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Nikolai Shatokhin · Irina Kovalenko · Natalya Ralleva · Dasha Koval

Plot Written by Yevgeni Golubenko and Kira Muratova, this leisurely paced comedy tells the affectionate story of an Odessa policeman, who suddenly discovers an adorable baby abandoned in a cabbage patch...

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Svetlana Kolenda · Renata Litvinova · Alvina Skarga

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Sergei Bekhterev · Nina Ruslanova · Natalia Buzko · Philip Panov

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Natalya Leble · Yuriy Shlykov · Vladimir Karasyov · Leonid Voron

Plot Based on Somerset Maugham’s The Letter. A lawyer is preparing to defend a rich, respected man’s wife, who killed a friend of the family who was attempting to sexually assault...

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Natalia Buzko · Renata Litvinova · Mila Musiyenko · Nina Ruslanova

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Natalia Buzko · Sergei Chetvyortkov · Nikolai Sadnev · Zhan Daniel

Plot The movie examines the lives of the not-so-fortunate dregs of society through airy but uneven absurdist comedy. The unfortunates of the title are mentally challenged people, some of whom could...

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 Kira Muratova

Cast Dmitri Milyutenko · Petr Lyubeshkin · Oleg Fandera · Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Nina Ruslanova · Sergei Popov · Aleksei Zharkov · Lyudmila Gurchenko

Plot Michail helps out Nicolai and Lubia giving them a ride to a nearby construction site. They will work there to build a new town and factory.

Direction Kira Muratova · Aleksandr Muratov

Cast Oleg Tabakov · Valentina Khmara · Kira Muratova

Direction Theodore Holcomb · Kira Muratova

Direction Kira Muratova · Aleksandr Muratov

Cast Valeri Isakov · Marchella Chebotarenko · Viktor Markin · Georgiy Svetlani

Plot Senya, a young hunter, hunts for two wolves that have been preying on sheep of various farms in Siberia.

Direction Kira Muratova

Cast Sergey Makovetskiy · Leonid Kushnir · Zhan Daniel · Renata Litvinova

Plot A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he...