Aleksandr Orlov (Director)

To Remember

Release Date1993-12-09

Charactersd Narrator

Episode Count2

Vote Count7

Stalin

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of Anna Aliluyeva, Stalin’s granddaughter, the film traces the rise of the Bolshevik tyrant from Lenin’s return from exile to his brutal struggle with Trotsky, the creation of his feared secret police and the merciless inner workings of his regime. As Anna recounts her grandfather’s life, viewers gain an intimate, personal perspective on the paranoia and purges that left even his closest circles living in constant fear.

Release Date1992-11-21

Charactersd Guard Officer

Vote Count35

The Last Bread

After going through all the details of the old combine with his own hands, the pioneer virgin landowner granddad Yakushenko met his last great suffering - harvesting bread - in the most dignified manner. Aleksei, Irina and Dmitriy decide to help granddad — and went in the evening to look for spare parts for his combine in neighbouring farms...

Release Date1963-08-19

Charactersd Student at the dance (uncredited)

Vote Count1

A Hero of Our Time: Bela

Russian officer Pechorin falls in love with Bela, the daughter of a local chieftain. By tricking her brother Azamat into abducting her, he calls upon himself the wrath of horseman Kazbich.

Release Date1967-02-01

Charactersd young officer

Vote Count1

A Hero of Our Time

After the death of Bela, Pechorin was unwell for a long time, and then left the fortress and Maxim Maximych and left for Georgia. Since then, the headquarters captain had no news of his friend, often recalled and carefully carried his diaries in his wanderings. Five years have passed... Once at a post station near Vladikavkaz, Maxim Maximych with delight learns that Grigory Pechorin also came here. The long-awaited meeting brings an unbearable pain and bitterness of disappointment to the old warrior. In his hearts, he mercilessly parted with the travel notes of the ensign. And his random companion finds on the yellowed pages the story of the soul of an amazing, extraordinary person who brings misfortune to others all his life.

Release Date1967-02-01

Charactersd Young Officer

Vote Count5

The Hockey Players

Thirty-year-old captain of the hockey team Duganov, a famous and experienced player, decides to fight for the sporting longevity of "old men" like him. Acutely experiencing a quarrel with his favorite girl, Duganov achieves participation in the decisive final match between the two strongest teams and achieves victory.

Release Date1965-02-27

Charactersd Vladimir Vvedenskiy

Sisters Liberty

Two young, simple-minded twin sisters sewing-motorists from a vocational school, who after the death of their mother live separately from their alcoholic father, are charmed by a modernist painter who is indulgent to them and even introduces them into the circle of his "chosen ones". Serge uses the sisters as models and introduces them to his photographer friends.

Release Date1990-12-16

Charactersd Серж

Vote Count2

Arena

In one of the occupied European cities, the commandant of the garrison gathers a troupe of circus performers. Coming from different countries, they are in the humiliating position of people forced to serve their enslavers. Many of them, recruited from camps and workhouses, were quite content with their lot. Only after a chain of subsequent events, the artists raise an uprising. Unarmed people are not able to resist the arrived guards. They die, but at the cost of their lives they regain their lost human dignity.

Release Date1967-08-30

Charactersd Mime

Vote Count1

Attention! The Magician Is in the City!

Release Date1963-04-30

Charactersd magician

Every day of Dr. Kalinnikova

The story of a talented woman who dedicated her life to surgery. Patients from all over the country go to her orthopedic laboratory — the doctor’s unique methods of treatment are so effective. However, an anonymous complaint is received by the metropolitan commission. Now experts have to figure out whether Kalinnikova really creates innovative healing techniques...

Release Date1974-06-10

Charactersd Doctor

Vote Count1

On Knives

The quiet life of the county town ended with the arrival of two young people from the capital, and what followed will remain in the memory of local residents for a long time. Intrigues and passions, meanness and nobility, love and death are closely intertwined in the life of an outwardly decent society.The outstanding Russian writer brought to the pages of his novel a number of famous and vivid characters who prepared the tragic events that happened in Russia in the 20th century through their activities.

Release Date1998-10-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, and Edwin fights Neville Landles, who is in love with Rose, leading to his disappearance.

Release Date1980-09-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Soviet adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll has made a sensational discovery - he has managed to separate good from evil in himself. This discovery he must keep secret, because the bearer of evil, Mr. Hyde, has become uncontrollable.

Release Date1986-06-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

The Train Stops for Two Minutes

A doctor arrives from work in a provincial town from Moscow. At first, he yearns for the capital and friends. In addition, there are no patients. Igor decides to return to Moscow, but getting to know the locals, and even more the feeling that arose between him and nurse Alyona, forces him to change his decision.

Release Date1972-12-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

King Stag

A story of court intrigues, love, and betrayal. A vain king is turned into a stag and only true love can save him

Release Date1970-12-28

DepartmentCrew

JobChoreographer

Vote Count12

The Amazing Boy

After professor creates a robot who looks like blue-eyed boy the criminals become very interested in the invention.

Release Date1970-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Potapov, to the Board!

A story about a school friends, their adventures, fantasies and first love...

Release Date2007-06-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

These... Three True Cards...

Release Date1989-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Uncle's Dream

Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary.

Release Date1981-11-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Woman That Sings

A musical melodrama and semi‐biographical portrait of Alla Pugacheva, here named Anna Streltsova, who repeatedly contemplates leaving the stage until she discovers her true style and songs. Along the way she endures a difficult marriage and divorce, embraces motherhood, and ultimately experiences a profound, life-changing love.

Release Date1979-03-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Exodus

At first they bullied her for a long time and in a sophisticated way. Then they killed her. In the courtroom, it became clear to her father that there was no evidence against the bastards and he would have to decide the trial himself...

Release Date1991-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Monsieur Lenoir, who...

Teleplay based on the play by Armand Salacrou.

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Gobseck

Gobsek the richest and most stragity usurer of Paris. The Countess by Anastasi lays will Gobseck family diamond my husband, for the sake of debt her beloved Maxim. This rash act she reveals to her husband her love affair.

Release Date1987-08-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Family Happiness

The film comprises four novellas: (1) “From Boredom”. A wealthy matron, bored with life, embarks on a romance with her children’s romantic tutor. (2) “Nerves”. Haunted by tales of the supernatural, Vak­s­in can’t sleep and is found in the morning napping on the governess’s chest. (3) “The Avenger”. A husband plans to kill his unfaithful wife but abandons the plot when he dreads the punishment to come. (4) “The Proposal”. A tragicomic matchmaking tale of landowner Lomov wooing his neighbor’s daughter.

Release Date1970-06-08

Vote Count3

Notches For Memory

A difficult historical period in the life of the Moldovan people, who fought in the 1930s against the yoke of royal Romania and for reunification with the Soviet Union.

Release Date1973-06-23