Elena Rayskaya (Writer)

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A gripping war drama that tells the story of Maria Petrova, in whose fate, as in a mirror, the fate of the country was reflected: the daughter of a priest, who renounced her father and the faith, she serves in the NKVD. On the eve of the battle for Moscow, Maria meets the clairvoyant eldress Matrona, and soon it is Maria who is tasked to deliver to Moscow the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, located behind the front line in the occupied territory...

Release Date2022-01-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count18

The End of the Season

The touching drama “The End of the Season” tells the life story of three sisters and is inspired by the same-name play by Anton Chekhov. Vibrant and compelling characters are performed by an all-star feminine cast: Yuliya Peresild, Yulia Snigir and Anna Chipovskaya.

Release Date2019-12-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count7

The President and his Granddaughter

Moscow Year New Year's Eve 1987. In the 25th hospital on duty are the obstetrician and the nurse. They make the rounds, after which sit down to celebrate the New Year. Suddenly, the hospital ambulance arrives with a pregnant woman - daughter of the general, who had an accident and she started the premature birth. Despite the exhortations of doctors that gestational age is a tragic turn for the child, a fierce general, threatening with a pistol, forcing him to take delivery. A child is born dead, and intimidated doctor decides to replace it for a living. On the same day another woman gave birth to twin-girls, one of which is changed. Ironically, the two girls called Masha.

Release Date2000-12-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

Butterflies

In an abandoned apartment there are former spouses. Barricaded, the husband, thus, trying to escape from the criminals who hunt for compromising photos. But the ex-wife is there not by chance — she is the mistress of one of the kidnappers. But with an unusual date, the former feelings take over, the lovers decide to deceive the bandits and go on the run.

Release Date1991-09-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Empire is Under Attack

In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.

Release Date2000-10-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count5

Vote Count6

Sophia

In 15th Century Russia, the last Byzantium Princess, Sophia Palaiologina, moves from Rome to distant Moscow to marry Czar Ivan III. Destined to become the first influential female figure of the Russian Empire, Sophia overcomes court intrigue and betrayals, and helps Ivan consolidate the fragmented country, push Mongolian invaders out, and build the Kremlin, the most magnificent symbol of Russia.

Release Date2016-11-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count8

Vote Count4

Once Upon a Time in Rostov

USSR, June 2, 1962. After the reduction of wages and price increases, residents of Novocherkassk went to a peaceful demonstration. But passions quickly heated up and led to a tragedy - the shooting of protesting workers, despite the protests of General Shaposhnikov. The authorities manage to hush up the tragedy, they take a non-disclosure agreement from witnesses, and all those who disagree receive prison sentences.

Release Date2012-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count24

Vote Count4

Таинственная страсть

Release Date2016-10-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count13

Зоннентау

Release Date2012-06-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count8

Manka

Every day, the postwoman Manka goes through the forest to the fishermen on a long voyage. And every time an orphan girl, knowing with what impatience men are waiting for news, shouts out outlandish spells. And Manka does not know how to tell his beloved Porfiry that his Lenka was carried away by visiting sailors and forgot about the fisherman...

Release Date1984-05-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Подозрение

Release Date2001-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

Tender May

In 1985, perestroika began in the Soviet Union and the Laskovy May group appeared. At their concerts there were only full houses, from unrequited love for them, suicides were committed. The figure of Mikhail Gorbachev faded in the glory of the creator of "Tender May" - Andrei Razin. An accidental photo taken on the beach, where Andrei Razin, as a child, was captured with the Gorbachev family, turned his fate upside down. It was with the help of this photograph that he became Gorbachev's nephew. He did not say this directly - just hinted, and he was instantly believed. Functionaries of all ranks acted without delay: the doors of television and radio opened before him, the Soviet stage lay at his feet. Razin traveled to all the orphanages of the Soviet Union in search of gifted children for his twin groups.

Release Date2009-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count15

Другая жизнь

Release Date2003-09-04

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

The President and His Woman

A future president must have no secrets from the voters — not even in his personal life. Intimate details can become powerful weapons in the hands of political opponents. And so, the presidential candidate is forced to publicly introduce his first wife — a woman he once loved passionately… and then betrayed.

Release Date1996-12-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Victim

The hero of the film is senior police commissioner Kuzmin. The plot is based on the robbery of a savings bank, an attack on a woman with the theft of a bag, the fate of a talented artist driven into a dead end by life and, finally, the problems of fathers and children...

Release Date1990-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

I, A Russian Soldier

Release Date1995-07-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Прямая трансляция

The funeral of the next General Secretary K.U. Chernenko. Sergey Eremin, an editorial worker, decides to finally publish the story of his friend, whom he once betrayed. But the manuscript has disappeared, and Sergei decides to have a frank conversation with the author.

Release Date1989-06-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Super-Mother-in-Law For Loser

Леонид - злоумышленник средней руки. Он ищет потерянный шифр от банковского сейфа. Если он не вызволит запертые бриллианты, то его, скорее всего, убьют бандиты посерьезнее. Спортивный репортер Сергей случайно похитивший этот шифр, тоже очень хочет выбраться невредимым из чужой гангстерской истории. Но шансов мало... Незнакомых мужчин объединяет не только желание еще пожить но и общая знакомая. С девушкой Леной Сергей встречался раньше, сейчас она невеста Леонида. О темных делах жениха Лена не догадывается, ей нравится только, что через полгода после расставания с неудачником Сергеем, у нее появился серьезный и успешный поклонник. В течении фильма Сергей пытается раскрыть Лене глаза на ее нового ухажера. Лена будет разбираться кого же из двух странноватых кавалеров она все-таки любит.

Release Date2003-06-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

О нём

Release Date2012-04-08

DepartmentSound

JobOriginal Music Composer

The Role

An actor by vocation and a moving mannequin by profession, having said goodbye to his wife, who is leaving for America, he himself decides to leave this country, where, in order to somehow preserve his Self, he has long ago become a “foreigner” for everyone. But the adventure in which the hero gets involved before leaving returns him the ability to speak his native language and gives him a chance for love...

Release Date1993-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector