Aleksandr Zhigalkin (Director)

Little is known about Aleksandr Zhigalkin, a figure with a modest footprint in Director. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.

Works

Volchok

Thirteen-year-old nobleman and orphan Vanya Ogarev flees from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod, fleeing assassins sent by his own uncle, who decided to take possession of the boy's inheritance. To protect himself, Vanya hires a random fist fighter named Volchok.

Release Date2025-12-04

Charactersd Vanya's father

Vote Count7

There is Only a MiG

1944. After the hospital or because of problems with vision and speech, several officers are "written off" to a false airfield. The Nazis take this airfield for the real one, and pilot Ivan Polivanov learns about it at the most inopportune moment.

Release Date2025-11-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

The Man from Nowhere

In 1960 a secret rocket launch occurred, preceding the first manned flight into space. The spacecraft is damaged before it enters the orbit and crashes in the remote, frozen part of the world. After he comes to his senses, he realizes that it is the year 2023, and he remembers almost nothing about his life before flying into space. His only memory is the image of a girl from the past. He knows her, but she doesn't know him...

Release Date2023-11-02

Charactersd главный конструктор

Vote Count12

Parents of Parents

Parents of Parents

The Sokolov family has grown significantly and moved to a new house. Timofey and Polina had a second child, and Ilya got married. It would seem that only Max does not think about his personal life and is completely focused on business — a small family bakery. The established order collapses when Max brings Lera, who is several years older than him, and her ten—year-old son into the house.

Release Date2024-09-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Episode Count26

Encore, Once More Encore!

A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Release Date1992-06-06

Charactersd lieutenant

Vote Count19

Exporting Raymond

A documentary on Phil Rosenthal's experiences during the making of "Voroniny," the Russian-language version of "Everybody Loves Raymond".

Release Date2011-04-29

Charactersd Self

Vote Count37

The Voronins

The main characters of the series are an ordinary family. The family consists of the following: Kostya, his wife Vera and their children: Masha and the twins Philip and Kirill. Right on the same landing, where the apartment of the young Voronin family is located, Kostya’s parents live: Galina Ivanovna, Nikolai Petrovich and Lyonya - Kostya's older brother.

Release Date2009-11-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count552

Vote Count47

Daddy's Daughters. New

The curse of the Vasnetsovs overtakes the already grown-up daughters of a family psychotherapist. On the eve of the next wedding anniversary, Dasha runs away from home, leaving the workaholic Veniamin a farewell letter, an engagement ring and four daughters. Now Veniamin, just like his father-in-law once, is forced to become father, mother, and friend for his children. And the resilient Vasnetsov family will help him in this.

Release Date2023-09-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count80

Vote Count7

One for all

Release Date2009-11-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count50

Vote Count5

Thank God You Came!

Thank God You Came!

An improvisational show in which celebrities and stars are covered with a thick layer of makeup and launched into non-standard everyday situations from which they must extricate themselves by showing a sense of humor. It turns out pretty funny. After all, the most interesting thing is when a star gets into a mess! And this is in almost every program. Every game is judged by the referee and the funniest friend is handed a useless gift - a plastic door.

Release Date2006-06-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Родители

Release Date2015-06-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count48

Vote Count1

Kostya-Vera

Kostya and Vera are moving into a new apartment with their children. Her fiance is moving in with Masha (there will be one of the main conflicts around this). And Lenya also joins them. And my grandmother-in-law is moving to the country.

Release Date2024-09-09

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Garages

Garages

The watchman is a joker of the garage cooperative, he is happy to tell funny stories from his life to the guests. He tells a variety of people who come to his lodge. By nature, he is such a philosopher, with an incomprehensible confusing past. He is an expert in many fields. And as the film progresses, it becomes clear that he understands art, philosophy, cinema, and is able to express his opinion effectively. And so he tells the guests different stories. And each story is a separate series, with its own beginning, culmination and denouement. And the main character unites all these stories. And an ironic attitude to all these events.

Release Date2010-12-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Old School

Release Date2025-09-01

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count8

Форс-мажор

Форс-мажор

Russian Comedy

Release Date2017-02-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Братья по обмену

Release Date2013-11-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count22

Vote Count4

Oliva, Igor and Rex

Oliva, Igor and Rex

1980s, USSR. Seven-year-old Olya, whom everyone calls Oliva, grew up in the village. By her side is always her faithful friend, the shepherd Rex. Olive is sure that she understands animals and easily finds a common language with them, be it a dog or a goat. In addition, Olive is a very erudite girl with a precocious adult view of the world, because she accidentally read her grandmother's entire library. Her best friend Igor is a moderately quick—witted, but very economical and wholeheartedly in love with Olive, a boy who is ready to support any of her adventures.

DepartmentCrew

JobDirector of Communications

Episode Count1

Спасская

Release Date2020-09-28

Episode Count16

Vote Count2

Return of the "Battleship"

The naive hero, having read clever books, marries a prostitute with the aim of re-educating her and collides with the famous Sergei Eisenstein, ending in the most unexpected and fatal way...

Release Date1996-04-20

Vote Count6

The Nutcracker and the Mouseking

The fairytale story revolves around a young prince who - along with his entourage - is turned into a nutcracker through his own ungrateful and selfish behaviour, and awaits a kindly soul who'll release him from the spell. The mouse-king seeks the magic that made this happen so that he can become all-powerful. The prince (now a nutcracker) finds hope in the form of a girl who risks everything to help him become real again, while the mouse-king and his armies do everything they can to steal the magic for themselves.

Release Date2004-10-12

Vote Count17

The Lion's Share

They were once a special unit of the FSB, carrying out particularly important missions. But after one unsuccessful operation - a portable nuclear charge was stolen - they were dismissed from service and narrowly avoided prison. However, all unfinished business sooner or later begins to create big problems - the "lost" charge turns out to be in the hands of bandits. And now a successful businessman, a private bodyguard and a drunken unemployed again unite in one team to return the old "debt". From the very beginning, events unfold contrary to the plan. Heroes are under the tight control of criminals, and it can only be due to betrayal...

Release Date2001-01-01

Vote Count3

Клуб Комедии

Release Date2007-01-01

Vote Count3

The Italian Contract

The Italians, conquered by the Tatar singer's skill, offer him a contract. By the will of circumstances, Renat gets first to Yalta and only then on the yacht of a drug dealer to Italy. Here the hero finds himself in prison, meets an Italian beauty and is carried away in a hot air balloon...

Release Date1993-04-26

Vote Count2

Mitrofan Aksenov's Sausage

Mitrofan Aksenov is a genius who anticipated the most important and influential scientific discovery of the twentieth century — the theory of relativity.

Release Date2023-10-20