Aleksandr Proshkin (Directing)
Little is known about Aleksandr Proshkin, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Back to the Sarmatian Steppe
A mosaic of unusual destinies of our contemporaries. People shoot, speed forward in Jeeps, gallop on horseback… Strong men and beautiful women, enmity and quest for one’s roots… And all this amidst the beautiful and impressive nature: the steppes of Orenburg, the southern edge of Russian borderline between Europe and Asia, between settlements and nomads, between the familiar and the incredible.
Release Date: 2020-08-23
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Security
A story of a young girl Claudia who works as a security guard on a slowly dying metal plant.
Release Date: 2016-03-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Paradise
A powerful life takeoff. A career breakthrough. A renewed passion in a relationship with a wonderful, smart, beautiful wife. Moving to the elite quarter, to the "thickets" of the local provincial paradise. Victor is showered with gifts of fate, he is happy to an incredible extent. Why is it so difficult for him to accept these gifts?
Release Date: 2015-06-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Expiation
The story about a difficult post-war time. About destiny of the young lieutenant and the young girl, whose love passes through the hardest vital and moral ordeals.
Release Date: 2012-11-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 10
The Miracle
The film is based on real events that took place in Samara in 1956 and known as the "Standing Zoe." During the holiday girl, without waiting her betrothed, removes the icon from the wall and Nicholas begins to dance with her, but suddenly freezes in place. This state continues for many months. Residents of the provincial town are frightened by this extraordinary event, which is cluttered with rumors and speculation. To try to understand the situation, there goes metropolitan newspaper journalist ...
Release Date: 2009-10-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 8
Live and Remember
Based on Valentin Rasputin's story of the same title. The winter of 1945. In a village on the Angara embankment the women wait the return of their husbands from the front. The young soldier Andrei Guskov, who fled from the hospital, returns as a deserter. In his remote winter hut only his wife Nastena visits him : she is the only person whom he can trust with his life - of an eternal fugitive doomed to loneliness. Only she loves him. She lives in the present, remembers the past and does not believe in the future. She will have a child, and to the entire village she is an unfaithful wife who did not wait for her husband to return...
Release Date: 2008-06-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 12
Doctor Zhivago
Russian TV miniseries of Boris Pasternak's classic novel.
Release Date: 2006-04-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Trio
Three people in the cab of truck: Alexei the driver, his partner Nikolai, and Marina, a prostitute they picked up on their way. Or so it seems... In fact, all three are police detectives. Their task: to uncover a gang that has been robbing long-haul trucks.
Release Date: 2003-09-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
And in the Morning They Woke Up
Eight men, eight stories about the morning after party...
Release Date: 2003-08-15
Department: Camera
Job: Camera Operator
Vote Count: 17
Russian Riot
The end of the XVIII century. The reign of Catherine II. In the deep Russian provinces, among the vast steppes of the Ural escaped convict Yemelyan Pugachev proclaimed himself Emperor Peter III of Russia. Under the banner of the Pretender embarked detachments of Cossacks, fugitive serfs, and many spirited people. In these troubled times in the God-forsaken Belogorsk young officer Pyotr Grinyov meets his first love - Masha, the daughter of Captain Mironov. Recklessly passionate love with each other did not want to notice the signs of impending trouble. They did not know that soon they will be an ordeal. They could not imagine how bizarre way their fates intertwined with the fate of the self-proclaimed king, and what an incredible effort will be worth it to save their lives and feelings in the bloody chaos of Russian riot.
Release Date: 2000-04-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 8
The Black Veil
A rich, smart, charming philanthropist from Saint-Petersburg Andrei Rokshin is found dead at home. The culprit is a woman wearing a black veil. Investigator Sinev takes the case.
Release Date: 1995-03-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
A Small Giant of Big Sex
Based on the story "Oh, Marat!" by Fazil Iskander. The main character of the movie, Marat, lives in a coastal town near the Black Sea, he works as a photographer at the beach and is an editor at the local newspaper. But he is known for an entirely other reason: no woman can resist him. Making love is a serious thing for Marat, although his adventures will make the viewers die with laughter...
Release Date: 1993-02-08
Vote Count: 6
To See Paris and Die
In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.
Release Date: 1992-06-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Nikolay Vavilov
Biopic devoted to the history of the life of Soviet biologist, academician Nikolai Vavilov. His scientific and personal confrontation with Trofim Lysenko, the subsequent arrest and death of the scientist in prison.
Release Date: 1991-01-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
The Cold Summer of 1953
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them.
Release Date: 1988-12-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 39
Solovky Power
"Solovky Power" is a documentary about the first Soviet labor camp created by Lenin in 1923. Solovky was established in a complex of ancient monasteries on a cluster of islands off the remote White Sea coast. Though its name derives from the Russian word for nightingale, the title of the film echoes the term 'Soviet power', stressing the fact that from the very beginning the Soviet penal colonies were a world unto themselves.
Release Date: 1988-04-01
Character: Narrator
Vote Count: 4
Mikhaylo Lomonosov
The history of Russia of the 18th century through the life and work of the outstanding scientist and writer Mikhail Lomonosov.
Release Date: 1984-11-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 9
Vote Count: 5
A Dangerous Age
A relations between man and woman become complicate after 20 years of marriage.
Release Date: 1981-10-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5
Частное лицо
Release Date: 1980-11-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Inspector Goole
Sudden arrival of a police inspector in the middle of a bourgeois family's dinner party reveals various sordid and shameful secrets that may have contributed to the recent suicide of an impoverished young woman.
Release Date: 1979-09-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5
Risk Strategy
A story about an oil worker who went from the head of a geological exploration expedition to the chief geologist of the trust.
Release Date: 1978-11-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Ph.D
Release Date: 1976-04-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Olga Sergeevna
Release Date: 1975-10-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Olga Sergeevna
Release Date: 1975-10-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 1
He Came
Release Date: 1973-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Записки Пиквикского клуба
Release Date: 1972-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Sluchay v gostinitse
Release Date: 1967-08-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Mitya
The chief engineer of a large enterprise is waiting for a meeting with the minister on an important issue and at the same time is trying to return the woman he loves.
Release Date: 1967-04-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director