Screenplay: Alexander Pushkin

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Alexander Pushkin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Blizzard

1965 · Movie · 75 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Vladimir Basov

Cast Valentina Titova · Georgi Martynyuk · Oleg Vidov · Mariya Pastukhova

Plot This romantic drama set after the War of 1812 is taken from the classic story by Alexander Pushkin. Vladimir (Oleg Vidov) is a young officer who settles in a small...

6.8

34 votes

6.8

34 votes

Mermaid (S)

1997 · Movie · 10 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Petrov

Plot An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering...

6.7

914 votes

6.7

914 votes

The Stationmaster

1940 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany

Direction Gustav Ucicky

Cast Heinrich George · Hilde Krahl · Siegfried Breuer · Hans Holt

Plot When two russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago...

6.5

21 votes

6.5

21 votes

The Eagle

1925 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Rudolph Valentino · Vilma Bánky · Louise Dresser · Albert Conti

Plot Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest,...

6.4

154 votes

6.4

154 votes

The Queen of Spades

1949 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thorold Dickinson

Cast Anton Walbrook · Edith Evans · Yvonne Mitchell · Ronald Howard

Plot An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about...

6.3

104 votes

6.3

104 votes

The Tale of Tsar Saltan

1984 · Movie · 69 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Ivan Ivanov-Vano · Lev Milchin

Plot Czar marries one of three sisters and they have a son. The other two consumed by jealousy throw the girl and the boy into the sea. They end up on...

6.3

30 votes

6.3

30 votes

Tempest

1958 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Silvana Mangano · Van Heflin · Viveca Lindfors · Geoffrey Horne

Plot A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes...

6.2

31 votes

6.2

31 votes

Onegin

1998 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

Ruslan and Ludmila

1972 · Movie · 150 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Aleksandr Ptushko

Cast Valeri Kozinets · Natalya Petrova · Andrei Abrikosov · Vladimir Fyodorov

Plot The film is the story of the title two characters who are in love. Ludmila is kidnapped on her wedding night and the king, angry at the loss of his...

5.9

36 votes

5.9

36 votes

The Queen of Spades

1916 · Movie · 62 min. · Russia

Direction Yakov Protazanov

Cast Tamara Duvan · Ivan Mozzhukhin · Vera Orlova · Nikolai Panov

Plot While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling...

5.8

58 votes

5.8

58 votes

5.1

26 votes

The Mermaid (S)

1910 · Movie · 9 min. · Russia

Direction Vasili Goncharov

Cast Vasili Stepanov · Aleksandra Goncharova · Andrej Gromov

Plot Based on an opera by Dargomizhsky, and other sources: A prince and a miller's daughter have been involved in a romance together, but now the prince tells her that he...

5.0

92 votes

5.0

92 votes

Queen of Spades (S)

1910 · Movie · 15 min. · Russia

Direction Pyotr Chardynin

Cast Pavel Biryukov · Aleksandra Goncharova · Antonina Pozharskaya · Andrej Gromov

Plot When his friends play faro, German always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying nearby...

4.8

21 votes

4.8

21 votes

Boris Godunov

1986 · Movie · 141 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Sergei Bondarchuk · Alyona Bondarchuk · Gennadi Mitrofanov · Valeriy Storozhik

Plot Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the Terrible had died. At first, things went well for...

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O rybári a rybce (TV)

1986 · Movie · 52 min. · Czechoslovakia

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The Postmaster

1972 · Movie · 66 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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Queen of Spades

2016 · Movie · 120 min. · Russia

Direction Pavel Lungin

Cast Kseniya Rappoport · Ivan Yankovskiy · Igor Mirkurbanov · Mariya Kurdenevich

Plot Once upon a time, the great soprano Sophia Maier conquered the world with her voice, her beauty and the legend she carefully built around herself. Now only the legend remains-...

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Boris Godounov

1989 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Andrzej Zulawski

Cast Ruggero Raimondi · Kenneth Riegel · Pavel Slabý · Wyatscheslaw Polozov

Plot The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early...

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Stories from My Childhood (TV Series)

1998 · Series · 30 min. · Russia

Direction Ivan Ivanov-Vano · Roman Kachanov · Lev Atamanov · Ivan Aksenchuk

Plot It's a show that could be about stories from your childhood.

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The Captain's Daughter

1928 · Movie · 86 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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