Yuri Averin

After his son's death, a military surgeon retires and settles in a small town. But one day, when he is asked to perform a complicated surgery, he agrees to it.

A young Congressman finds himself working against a group of old-time politicians whose dishonesty prompts him to try some unconventional methods. Based on the play "Both Your Houses" by Maxwell Anderson.

The illiterate kaffir Mpele receives a message from the prison farm about his... death, as well as the “property of the deceased”: a pipe, a pen and a notebook... The perplexed Mpele, who has never even been under arrest, turns to the police...

Based on the opera of the same name by N. Rimsky-Korsakov and the drama by L. May.

The story of a sublime unrequited love of a petty official for a young socialite.

In 1933 Berlin, Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov is caught up in the Reichstag fire trials when Nazis seek to frame communists. Despite orchestrated provocations and mass repression, Dimitrov’s defiant courtroom defense exposes the baseless charges, forcing his acquittal and securing him political asylum in the Soviet Union.

The story of a man whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory...

The German intelligence officer Sturmer, under the guise of captain Voron, commits sabotage one after another with the aim of reaching the commander of the partisan detachment of Stration. Galinka, the daughter of Stration, who fell in love with Voron, invades their duel.

Based on the eponymous play by A. Ostrovsky and N. Solovyov, directed by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR.

The play “Zykovs” was written in 1912, during a time of confusion and depression in Russian society, a period of pre-war spiritual and moral decline. The state of the world is depicted here with a single phrase: “there was confusion of concepts”... The film-performance based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky, directed by the Moscow Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin.