
Mikhail Ivanov
Acting
Known For

A TV play based on the novel by F.Dostoevsky's "Double. The Petersburg poem". The film uses music from the works of A. Schnittke.
The Double

Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works a former German war criminal, Dr. Hass, who is finishing the creation of a deadly chemical gas RH development that he began during World War II, experimenting on POWs. Since Ladeynikov doesn't know Dr. Hass's appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who, during the war, escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together, they must identify and stop him before he finishes and unleashes his weapon of mass destruction.
The Dead Season
The TV movie is based on several dramatic episodes from the life of the red diplomat Leonid Krasin.
The Red Diplomat

Based on a famous fairytale by Yuri Olesha. A fairy tale film about the clever tightrope walker Tibule, who fights alongside the armorer Prospero and all the working people against the tyrants, the three Fat Men, who rule the state until the young heir Tutti comes of age. The freedom fighters are aided by the kind Dr. Gaspar and the brave acrobat girl Suok, who has to pretend to be a doll to sneak into the palace and free Prospero.
Three Fat Men

Inspired by the life of Varvara Asenkova, a 19th-century actress who earned great acclaim on St. Petersburg stage before her death at the age of 24.
The Green Carriage

About the beginning of M. Gorky's literary activity. Arriving in the provincial town of Samara, Alexey Peshkov publishes one after another incriminating feuilletons under the pseudonym Yehudiel Chlamydia. Acquires enemies, friends, becomes a famous writer and leaves for Moscow.
The Incredible Yehudiel Chlamydia

On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair. After a short time, she returns to Saratov, he to Moscow, believing it’s good-by forever. All winter he is miserable, enervated, distracted by tristesse. In desperation, he contrives to go to Saratov, surprising her at a concert. Fearing discovery in her home town, she promises to come to Moscow. Will they cast aside reputation to live together, or will theirs be an affair of infrequent encounters in hotel rooms?
Lady with the Dog

The Commissioner of Police has been tasked with conducting an investigation into the threat of a terrorist attack in the building of the press concern. During the investigation, he learns about the existence of the 31st department, created by the management of the concern with the aim of eliminating the opposition press.
31st Dept.

A film about the struggle of Baltic Fleet sailors for revolutionary Petrograd in the autumn of 1917. The film focuses on the fates of a sailor and a naval officer who join the ranks of those fighting for the revolution.
Baltic Glory

The film almanac of VGIK's graduates, consisting of films for children: "Otherwise We Are Lost," "Vanderbul Runs Over the Horizon," and "Are You Kidding?"
Are You Kidding?

Grekov, the chief engineer of the instrument—making plant, is looking for a way out of the difficult situation at the plant: suppliers fail - they have to resort to assault, technology is disrupted, and quality suffers. The Institute of Production Management Problems, to which Grekov is seeking help, suggests introducing a new, as yet untested automated control system at the plant. Grekov agrees, although his colleagues, as one, believe that he chose the wrong time for this.
A Typical Month

Grekov, the chief engineer of the instrument—making plant, is looking for a way out of the difficult situation at the plant: suppliers fail - they have to resort to assault, technology is disrupted, and quality suffers. The Institute of Production Management Problems, to which Grekov is seeking help, suggests introducing a new, as yet untested automated control system at the plant. Grekov agrees, although his colleagues, as one, believe that he chose the wrong time for this.
A Typical Month

About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate.
The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!

Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life.
Conscience Doesn't Forgive

The action of the film takes place in a provincial town in pre-revolutionary Russia. Two friends, Semka and Alyosha, decide to run away to America. The owner of the pawnshop, where the guys bring a white fluffy cat, not only accepts the amazing pledge but also helps the boys figure out their lives...
Amazing Wager

Viktor Burdin demands complete clarity from the KGB: when and under what circumstances his father, now rehabilitated, died.
And in Russia the Damned Days Strike Again

Praskovya Ivanovna works as a postman, helps everyone who needs her. Pasha, finding himself in the hospital, accidentally meets Grigory. She will soon be discharged, but she, sympathizing with him, continues to visit her new acquaintance. A friendship began. But then one day Grigory turns to her with a strange request, to go to his home on an overnight boat and see if his wife is cheating on him...
People are Like Rivers...

The young chairman of the collective farm, Roman Baklanov, once made a mistake: having given in to his wife and her relatives, he helped out his father-in-law, who drank the collective farm's hay, and gave him a fictitious certificate. Then, due to Baklanov’s fault, an honest guy was arrested, and he again did not find the strength to correct the situation. But when the scammers demanded that Baklanov himself directly participate in their dark affairs, Roman went to the secretary of the district committee for support...
The Value of Everything

Film about the death of an old man, and the people that try to profit from his demise.
The Death of Pazukin

A performance by the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky.