Edgar Smirnov (Writer)

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Works

Ivan's Childhood

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

Release Date1962-05-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count799

Captain Nemo

A Soviet three-part television miniseries directed by Vasily Levin loosely based on the novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Release Date1976-03-29

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count3

Vote Count4

The Cook

Based on the play of the same name by Anatoly Sofronov. In one of the Kuban collective farms, a new beauty-cook has appeared. Many began to look after her, but the girl was not a timid dozen and quickly gave a turn to the unlucky boyfriends from the gate. However, true love found a way to her heart, and although human envy and stupidity have done many troubles, the lovers still managed to unravel this complex tangle of misunderstandings.

Release Date1966-05-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count4

Sindikat-2

A miniseries about the Cheka's destruction of an underground organization led by Boris Savinkov.

Release Date1981-07-29

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

A Great Road Ahead

About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the interests of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Hašek enters the Red Army and, as a commissar of the international brigade, goes the military way from Samara to Irkutsk.

Release Date1963-04-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count2

Mr. Veliky Novgorod

Release Date1984-06-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Girl without an Address

The amusing adventures of the young builder Pasha Gusarov began from the moment when he met and fell in love with Katya on the train, who was going to conquer Moscow. Happiness makes a person careless, and the station is just the place where you can lose it. But it is at the station after all kinds of adventures that they meet again and now they will never part.

Release Date1958-03-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count20

No Return

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...

Release Date1974-04-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count5

Annushka

The main character, Anna Denisova, is a simple Russian woman, on whose shoulders all the hardships of wartime fell. Like all her compatriots, Annushka did everything in her power to bring Victory Day closer. In this war, she lost her husband, Pyotr, but managed to save the lives of her three children — Sasha, Nina and Granata. The trials of Annushka didn't end with the end of the war. In the first years of peace, all survivors had to survive the famine and spend their last strength on rebuilding the country.

Release Date1959-08-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count5

Elder Sister

A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career.

Release Date1967-03-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count7

A Very English Murder

A classic detective story based on one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare, novel "An English Murder" originally published in 1951. The setting of An English Murder seems, at first, to be a very conventional one. A group of family and friends come together for Christmas at a country house, Warbeck Hall. The house is owned by Lord Warbeck, a dying and impoverished peer who wants to be among loved ones for what he thinks will be his last Christmas. The holiday decorations are up and snow is falling fast outside. The guests range from the Lord's difficult son to a visiting Czech historian. There is, of course, a faithful butler and his ambitious daughter. But when the murders begin, there is nothing at all conventional about them - or the manner of their detection...

Release Date1974-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count14

Captain Nemo

For several years as a terrible sea monster drowns ships of the Navy. In a small number of ships that managed to survive, in the sides were found huge holes triangular shape. Now any exit to the sea is deadly, so America sends a special frigate called Blue Star. His goal is to find and destroy the terrible monster. One of the participants of the punitive expedition is a famous Professor from France – Pierre Aronnax. He has a deep knowledge of the mysteries of the deep sea. The search for the monster continues for more than three months, but in the end, the frigate still detects it and immediately starts the attack mode. After an unsuccessful battle with the monster ship goes to the bottom, and the Professor, his servant Conseil and whaler Ned Land get on a submarine and make an amazing journey under water.

Release Date1975-01-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count16

The Ocean

Three classmates of the naval school met many years later in the Northern Fleet. Their fates were different. One of them became the commander of a cruiser, while the other two had complex personal problems. In these circumstances, everyone behaves differently, sometimes not opening up from the best side.

Release Date1974-07-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count1

Across Rus'

Based on Maxim Gorky's early autobiographical short stories "One Day in Autumn", "Konovalov", "Twenty Six and One", "My Companion", "The Conclusion", "On the Salt", "Woman".

Release Date1968-03-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count1

Echo of Distant Snows

The movie takes place in the late 1930s in the Far East. A group of pioneering surveyors led by Kirill Kostomarov is to lay the route of a railroad through remote taiga areas. To avoid unnecessary expenditure of human labor, Kostomarov proposes his own variant of laying - along the rocks, not along the floodplain of the river, as approved by the project assignment.

Release Date1970-02-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Stepmother

Based on novel of the same name by Mariya Khalfina. In Pavel Olevantsev’s family suddenly comes news that his daughter by another woman was orphaned. Pavel did not know about the existence of the girl, nor could his wife know about it... It is not easy to decide to take the child to his house. But it will be much more difficult to endear the girl to them, to return her the joy of childhood and the belief that she is not alone...

Release Date1973-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count11

The Star Inspector

A commander of the Russian space police begins looking for the capitalist space pirates who have been wreaking intergalactic havoc upon the surrounding planets.

Release Date1980-10-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count8

Without Father

After the death of her husband, Tamara gave her daughter Olya to an orphanage and left for the North. There she creates a new family and, years later, calls the matured girl back. Not finding love in her mother's house, Olga left for a Siberian construction site with the plumber Roman. But the first difficulties frightened him, and he left her, never knowing that Olga was expecting a child.

Release Date1976-01-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

On Tomorrow's Street

Release Date1965-09-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count1

Especially dangerous

One of the southern cities of Russia during the NEP. The famous doctor and his wife are killed, the person living opposite Schwartz is kidnapped. The bandits were looking for gold. Then there is a diversion at the factory. The Chekists find out that a man is implicated in everything, posing as a businessman Bespaly, he is Lieutenant Voronov, aka “Chaly” - the leader of the gang. With the selfless efforts of the operatives, the gang manages to neutralize.

Release Date1979-06-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

On the Other Side

Based on the novel of the same name by Viktor Kin. 1921, Far East. Two Komsomol members, Matveyev and Bezais, must cross the front line near Khabarovsk to give the partisans money and a coded message. In Khabarovsk, Matveyev wants to meet a girl, Liza, with whom he is in love, but a serious injury disrupts his plans...

Release Date1958-10-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Investigation

The recidivist Vorobyov planned the robbery of the jewelry department of a department store, while he himself went to serve time in a penal colony to provide himself with an alibi. The accomplices hid a suitcase with gold jewelry worth more than 300,000 rubles (at that time). However, later it was not there, and the accomplices of the robbery began to die one by one.

Release Date1980-12-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count3

Pugachev

Don Cossack Emelyan Pugachev says goodbye to his wife and children and goes to run. The elder Filaret blesses him to lead a rebellion under the name of Peter III of Russia. The insurgents dealt with the feudal lords cruelly. Queen Catherine the Great directs troops against the rioters. Traitors betray Emelyan, and now he is being transported across Russia in an iron cage.

Release Date1979-03-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count8

В нашем городе

Release Date1959-07-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScenario Writer

Secretary of the Regional Committee

The vacation ends, and the secretary of the regional committee, Vasily Denisov, assumes his former duties. On this day, I had to delve into the very difficult case of the old communist Chernogus, the head of the museum, who was prosecuted for possession of weapons.

Release Date1964-09-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

We, The Russian People

Based on a novel by Vsevolod Vishnevsky. January 1917. The workers and peasants of Russia, hunted by the tsarist government in the trenches, forced to defend alien interests of the king, the landowners and exploiters-capitalists. Bolshevik worker Yakov Orel, selflessly performing party mission, said the soldiers the truth about war, about revolution, about what the overthrow of the autocracy does not mean the liberation of the workers from the yoke of landlords and capitalists exploitation. For example, one regiment of the film reflects the events that took place in the whole of the Russian army between February and October 1917.

Release Date1966-01-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count1

Heaven is With Me

Test pilot Ivan Gribov was seriously wounded in battle, captured, and escaped from the camp. He returned to his city after the war and found out that his wife had buried him, got married and was living well. He stopped flying, got married, and tried not to think about the sky...

Release Date1974-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Vote Count2

Gray Mouse

The dramatic story of the moral fall of a former plant director who became addicted to the “green serpent.”

Release Date1988-10-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

At the Dawn of Our Youthful Years

The film tells about the fate of the brilliant Russian poet Alexei Koltsov, who so romantically sang the nature of Rus', the incomparable beauty of Russian women, the incomprehensible mystery of the Russian soul.

Release Date1997-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

A Very English Murder

Release Date1976-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Cafe «Izotop»

Release Date1977-11-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Prince Yuri Dolgoruky

XII century. The Prince of Suzdal Yuri Dolgoruky is trying to unite the Russian lands

Release Date1998-03-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Price of Fast Seconds

Release Date1971-05-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Svetik

Arriving in Moscow, the young, energetic provincial woman quickly joins the circle of booksellers. Having charmed her boss, Svetik got a job in the antiquarian literature department. But soon she herself fell in love, and the gullible bibliomaniac becomes the master of her unspent energy.

Release Date1989-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Crash

The GPU secret service develops and conducts in 1923-24 an operational game aimed at the elimination of the Savinkov anti-Soviet underground.

Release Date1969-05-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

It's Stronger Than Me

Because of the stepfather of his beloved girl, Makar goes to prison. Tanya leaves home and gets a job at a shipyard.

Release Date1974-03-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

To the Bright Light

Release Date1976-04-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Подводная лодка

The American submarine is rushing to the intended target, from where the U.S. ballistic missiles are shot. For the third month the boat has been on a cruise, everyone is tired of this life, the captain is nervous - the speed is at the limit of the machine's capabilities. Only the chief mate, the only person on the boat who will not hesitate to press the fatal button, feels confident ... When the target is only minutes away, the radio operator raises the alarm: the Moscow radio announces that an important government message is about to be announced. The base is silent. Fearing that war has broken out, the captain declares combat readiness, but at the same time Moscow radio reports the launch of the world's first cosmonaut.

Release Date1962-02-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter