Leonid Zorin

Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Khobotov's new fiancé. All these people live in one apartment and their lives constantly touch each other's.

Gordei Kabachkov, a professional con man, decided to pursue a career in science and was very successful. Having settled in a certain Institute of Ancient Culture, he easily wraps his finger around the numerous "kind men" - members of the academic council - and defends his thesis. Using his "talents" and the kindness of the staff of the Institute of Ancient Culture, Kabachkov makes a rapid take-off on the career ladder...

An omnibus of comical shorts.

During World War II, the Frenchman Léon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from the Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Léon, who became a journalist, and his friends came to the USSR to make a report and find Boris in the meantime. In Moscow he doesn't found, and for the sake of meeting with a friend, Garros has to travel around the country by car... The foreigners are accompanied by Nikolai, the translator, who, in turn, is looking for his brother's runaway bride, Natasha.

Chess player Sergei Khlobnikov never set winning as his goal in the game. Emotional and averse to pragmatism, he rarely won tournaments. But eventually, his time came.

Retro-drama based on Leonid Zorin’s play of the same title. Screen version of the popular play of the 1960’s about people of a generation, whose lives were affected in different ways by the main developments in the Soviet Union from the 30’s and 60’s.

Pregnant German woman is trapped behind Russian lines. When she goes into labor, three Soviet soldiers deliver her to a field hospital: a newly graduated officer, an affable truck driver, and a soldier shell-shocked into muteness. The dangerous trip to the hospital ends up a rite of passage for all concerned.

In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia. The main character is probably based on Yeti.

Based on a satirical short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky concerning the escapades of a Russian civil servant.

The famous scientist, academician and art critic Andrei Ilyin, who survived with the Hermitage staff the harsh trials of the Leningrad blockade, returned to his hometown after many years. The whole life of Ilyin is connected with Leningrad. A life that in the distant years of World War II would have seemed to have no future, but which, despite the unbearable horror of hunger and devastation, continued only in the name of the future ...

Russian general have to find and bring back to St. Petersburg girl claiming her right to the throne...

Alexander Dunaev was the chief director of the Malaya Bronnaya Theater from 1967 to 1984.

The subversive masterpieces of Russian-Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel challenged the reality of life under rising totalitarianism, and led to his arrest and execution in 1940. In Finding Babel, Andrei Malaev-Babel confronts complex traces of a turbulent history that echo in his grandfather's writing and in the conflicts of today's Ukraine and Russia. Babel's fiction is woven into Andrei's search with ethereal animation that puts the viewer, like Babel's readers, between fantasy and reality.

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Yesterday's victorious soldier cannot stay with the woman he loves because of the ban on marriages with foreigners imposed by politicians.

As an honorary guest, Claudia Alekseevna arrives at the opening of the branch of the Institute of Culture. She will have to visit her mother, ex-husband, teachers, forgotten friends and girlfriends in her homeland...

A lyrical story of Helena, a girl from Warsaw, and Viktor, a young man from Moscow, who meet by chance at a concert in the conservatory in the final days of 1946, just before the New Year.

The story of a Moscow academic family, rapidly "falling apart" after the death of its head. Yet, the family members strive to preserve their inner nobility and find a foundation in their new life.

Man turned to the psychoneurological dispensary to issue a certificate stating that he isn't registered here.

The famous football player Lavrov decides to leave the big sport. The hero spends the last match in an unfamiliar small town. Here he accidentally meets a woman he loved when he was not yet a famous football player.