Direction: Vladimir Bortko

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


Idiot (TV Miniseries)

2003 · Movie · 550 min. · Russia

Direction Vladimir Bortko

Cast Yevgeny Mironov · Vladimir Mashkov · Lidiya Velezheva · Olga Budina

Synopsis The thrilling drama based on the world's greatest masterpiece by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Half-sane Prince Myshkin returns from Swiss psycho-clinic to face the glamorous world of St Petersburg. Here vice, money and extortion rule. Myshkin finds himself in the whirlpool of...

7.6

22 votes

7.6

22 votes

Master and Margarita (TV Miniseries)

2005 · Series · 500 min. · Russia

Direction Vladimir Bortko

Cast Anna Kovalchuk · Aleksandr Galibin · Oleg Basilashvili · Vladislav Galkin

Synopsis Master and Margarita (2005) is a Menippean film based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. Set in Moscow under Stalin and in Jerusalem under Pilate, it has several story-lines where history, religion and politics are intertwined. The sacrifices...

7.6

35 votes

7.6

35 votes

Taras Bulba

2009 · Movie · 129 min. · Russia

Direction Vladimir Bortko

Cast Vladimir Vdovichenkov · Mikhail Boyarsky · Vladimir Ilyin · Boris Khmelnitsky

Synopsis Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.

5.0

341 votes

5.0

341 votes

No Family

1984 · Movie · 163 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Vladimir Bortko

Cast Aleksandr Vasilyev · Sos Sargsyan · Yan Khviler · Yelena Solovey

Synopsis The events take place in the nineteenth century and tell the story of an orphan boy and a vagrant trainer, whose paths crossed and gave them an unforgettable journey. Vagrancy helped the boy in many ways, tempering his character.

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O lyubvi

2017 · Movie · 97 min. · Russia

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The Soul of a Spy

2015 · Movie · 110 min. · Russia

Direction Vladimir Bortko

Cast Ariyon Bakare · Helen Banks · Richard Banks · Sandrine Bonnaire

Synopsis The story of a Russian spy to performing a task in London. The main character has to solve complex problems related to the very essence of the work of a spy: bribery, blackmail and even murder.

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Direction Vladimir Bortko

Cast Tatyana Dogileva · Andrey Mironov · Mark Prudkin · Yevgeniya Khanayeva

Synopsis An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.

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Afghan Breakdown

1990 · Movie · 140 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Vladimir Bortko

Cast Michele Placido · Tatyana Dogileva · Mikhail Zhigalov · Philip Yankovsky

Synopsis The film opens with a scene of an Islamic circumcision. After the opening credits, a line of Mujahedin are shown approaching a roadway where a squad of Soviet soldiers has been slaughtered...

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