
Andrey Fayt
Acting
Known For

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.
Battleship Potemkin

A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.
The Diamond Arm

The very first work of a young scientist Igor Panteleyev caused a sensation. Not surprisingly, they are interested in foreign intelligence. Soviet security officers are taking measures to protect the scientist. The name of Panteleyev disappears from the pages of newspapers and magazines. The scientist is transferred to work in another research institute, changing his surname to Evdokimov. But due to chance, foreign spies found a researcher.
A Shot in the Fog

The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society.
The Great Consoler

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.
Peace to Him Who Enters

A little Mermaid falls in love with a Prince whom she saves during a storm. Using all kinds of magical incantations in exchange for the Mermaid’s beautiful blue hair, a witch replaces her fish tail with human legs, making it possible for the Mermaid to walk and live on earth at the cost of great pain with every step she takes. The Little Mermaid willingly suffers through these trials only to be near her beloved. But the Prince, not realizing how lucky he is, becomes enamored with a beautiful but vain princess.
The Little Mermaid

A young heir of a big fortune Sergey Privalov is coming back to his native town after a long absence. Having visited his owned plants, he breaks out with the idea to rebuild the industrial processes, improve the life of workers, and build schools and hospitals. Though, his interests collide with the interests of local big wigs, to whom the existing situation suits perfectly
Privalov's Millions

Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.
Admiral Ushakov

Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality. Based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev.
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
Nikolai Ivanovich Balagalaev, the leader of the local nobility, planned to finalize the protracted division of the estate between retired collegiate registrar Ferapont Bespandin and his sister Kaurova, an estate they had inherited. He invited the persons interested in the amicable division to breakfast. After long, to the point of exhaustion, bickering and persuasion, there seems to be an agreement and, it seems, the division will be completed, but not so. Kaurova struggles, and a whirlwind of absurd scandals, quarrels and misunderstandings picks up everyone even more strongly.
Breakfast at the Leader's

About the early years of the life of the philosopher and writer Alexander Herzen, about his first and unrequited love, about the throwing of youth and growing up of a young critic and revolutioner. According to his father, he comes from an ancient Russian family, and his mother was a simple German woman. As an illegitimate son, he was not given the name of his father, Yakovlev. In his youth, he was fond of the ideas of freedom, for which it is not a pity to fight, which even then was close to the ideals of the revolution...
The Old House

The true story of the Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov, who, behind enemy lines in Ukraine, infiltrated Hitler's headquarters, kidnapped the commander of the punitive troops and executed the imperial adviser.
Strong with Spirit

In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
Outskirts

When old pirate Billy Bones moved into the Admiral Benbow Inn, young Jim Hawkins had no idea that his life was about to change dramatically. But he was lucky enough to discover a map of Treasure Island in the sea vagabond's chest. And so Jim, accompanied by Dr. Livesey, Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, ship's cook John Silver, and his talking parrot, sets off on a long and dangerous journey...
Treasure Island

A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he's granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of Baghdad and her father fight off an evil sorcerer who's trying to take over the kingdom.
Aladdin and His Magic Lamp

Horn tries to forget the insult caused to his beloved and builds a hut on an island inhabited by a small colony recently founded by the now drunken adventurer Lanfier. Having built the house and restored peace, Horn doesn't know whether to encourage the interest of local beauty Esther... His Majesty Random unexpectedly confronts the hero with a choice: forget the past and start anew, or return and take revenge on the guilty party for his humiliation - which will he choose?
Lanfieri Colony

Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a wealthy boyar. Peter the Great insists the two be married, but Ibrahim goes against the tsar's wishes, refusing to force her to marry him since she doesn't consent. When another man tries to marry her, however, Ibrahim's loyalties and generous nature are put to the test.
Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding

Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka.
Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes

Two six-graders are trying to find the Stalin's pipe and return it to the owner.
Siberians

A film about the national hero of the Bashkir people Salavat Yulaev, the leader of the Bashkirs in the peasant uprising led by Yemelyan Pugachev.