
Anatoli Kalinin
Writing
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A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life, and the difficult love to a Russian woman.
Gypsy

For more than six months, Budulay, who had been brutally beaten by gangsters, had no memory. A chance encounter with his son Vanya, who had learned from his mother that his real father was Budulay, restored the boy's memory.
Return of Budulai

A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life and the difficult love to Russian woman.
Gypsy

A continuation of a saga about Budulai started in "Gypsy" (1979).
Return of Budulai

A new adaptation of the famous story of the gypsy Budulay. After serving 10 years in prison, Budulay returns to the Don village. He learns that his wife died, and the young son was taken up by a Cossack Claudius. The heroes of the film have a hard way to understanding, love and simple family happiness.
Budulai, Whom No-one Waits For

According to the story of the same name by Anatoli Kalinin. The love story of Antonina and the battalion commander Nikitin, whom she sheltered after a severe wound. Antonina Kashirina is wanted to be excluded from the party, accusing the Don Cossack woman living in the territory occupied by the Germans during the war. They don't believe that she hid and treated a wounded Soviet officer. Unable to withstand insulting suspicions, she leaves the party committee bureau. On the way home, Tonya recalls how she picked up a bleeding artillery — the battalion commander Nikitin, she hid him and treated him as she fell in love...
No Return

Based on the story of the same name by Anatoliy Kalinin. A young village woman, Klavdiya Pukhlyakova, the mother of a newborn girl, finds a gypsy boy at the crushed kibitka under the tanks. Having pity on the child, she takes him home and raises him as her own son. 17 years pass. Once in the village appears a lonely gypsy Budulai, who has experienced a lot. He very quickly gained the sympathy of Pukhlyakova's adoptive son. Suspecting that Budulai is the father of her gypsy boy, Klavdiya fears that the peace of the family will be disturbed...