
Maya Markova
Directing
Known For

The film-play tells about a teenage girl with a difficult fate, who by chance ended up in someone else's family, about difficult relationships with the people who sheltered her.
Hurry to Do Good

Journalist Lopatin always remembers those with whom his roads of war brought him together. Memories of them are an integral part of Lopatin’s thoughts about duty, honor, courage, and camaraderie.
We Will Not See You

Based on the eponymous play by K. Čapek, directed by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR. The Macropoulos Method — an elixir of immortality, the possibility of which becomes a test of the characters' human integrity in the play.
The Macropoulos Method

A tragic story of two lovers, Boris and Veronica, who were separated forever by the war, and at the same time a story of love that the war could not destroy. The war seen from the lovers' point of view.
Eternally Alive

The play of the same name by Mamin-Sibiryak, staged by the Vakhtangov State Academic Theater. At the center of the play is the daughter of a bankrupt gold miner, who, faced with cruel morals, herself becomes a predator.
The Golden Depths

About the heroism of the Cuban people, who defended the freedom of their homeland. The action takes place in 1961 during the armed invasion organized by the USA, carried out by Cuban counter-revolutionaries in the area of Playa Girón.
The Birthday of Teresa

Based on the play of the same name by L. Malyugin staged by the State Academic Theater named after Yevgeny Vakhtangov. About the life and work of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in the period from 1883 to 1901.
My Sardonic Happiness

Young family is spending vacations in the summer house.
The Blue Cup

On the heroism and courage of Russian people during the Great Patriotic War.
Russian People

Based on the play by Ignatiy Dvoretsky. Television version of the play by the Lensovet Leningrad Academic Theater.
Kovalyova From the Provinces

Based on the play by A. N. Ostrovsky.
Talents and Admirers

Graduate of Moscow State University, Yevgeny Ogarychev, arrives at the Rīga seaside with his grandmother. There, he meets Katya Batistova, a carefree and frivolous young woman who failed to get into university. Becoming infatuated with Katya, Yevgeny helps her prepare for the entrance exams. At first, Katya relies on the help of his grandmother—a famous actress—hoping to get into the drama school. But gradually, her interaction with the sincere and determined Yevgeny makes her take life more seriously. True love eventually comes to her.
Tutor

Based on the play by E. Kaplinskaya staged by the Maly Theater of the USSR.
The Engineer

The play about the life and love of the great French singer was directed by Boris Shchedrin at the State Academic Theatre of the Moscow Soviet.
Edith Piaf

A play staged by the Moscow Academic Theater of Satire based on S. Mikhalkov's play of the same name. The hero of the play - the head of one of the scientific institutes Makhonin, surrounding himself with sycophants, becomes on the dishonorable path of "buying" the finished dissertation....
Foam

A dramatic legend about the poet Mikhail Svetlov, based on the stage composition by A. Remez and P. Shtein, directed by the Moscow Theater of the Lenin Komsomol.
Grenada

About the last year of Leo Tolstoy's life, disagreements in the family, conflicts with his children and wife, about his leaving home.
Return to the Beginning

Old husband, young wife. And whether she was bought or went for him by calculation - let them sort it out for themselves. Here they are sorting it out - Eulalia, who is going through a big life school in a short period of time, and Sophia, who has long since finished her family "universities".
Bondwomen

A musical puppet show with adventures about one day in the life of a cheerful rabbit family. About a sly Fox and a clever Rabbit teacher. About schoolwork and what can happen on the way to school and how to behave so as not to get into unpleasant situations.
The Rabbit School

The young officer Sergei Lukonin faced severe trials: the war in Spain, an injury, escape from captivity, and the battles at Khalkhin Gol. Yet, he overcomes all hardships, showing courage and conviction in the justice of the cause he is fighting for.