Karen Shakhnazarov

The Woman Who Built Cities

The picture is dedicated to the fate of Lyudmila Mikhailovna Kusakova - production designer of the Mosfilm film studio, who created costumes and sets for the cult Soviet films Anna Karenina, Pomegranate Bracelet, Aybolit-66, Ordinary Miracle, Pokrovskie Gates and many , many others.

Release Date2021-08-28

Charactersd Himself

Легенды кино

Release Date2016-09-16

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Моя мелодия

The heroes of this program have conquered many creative peaks, they are popular and loved by the audience. And everyone has their own melody that warms the soul, helps to love and believe in the future. The heroes will have to meet face to face with their "secret song" - because they do not know what kind of musical gift their relatives, friends or colleagues are preparing for them. The star guests of the show are in for unexpected surprises and vivid emotions, and their fans will have a unique opportunity to learn about the important moments that changed the fate of their idols and hear touching stories.

Release Date2023-03-17

Charactersd Self - receives a surprise

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Fuse

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

Release Date1962-06-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count8

Day of the Full Moon

Day of the Full Moon, a series of vignettes from Russia past and present, summons the spirit of Ophuls’ La Ronde, Altman’s Nashville and Short Cuts, and the time-shifting strategies of Resnais (Mon Oncle d’Amérique) to tell provocative, connected stories illustrating the waltz of years and whim of memory. In 1948, a young man, a boy, and a waiter are captivated during the full moon by a mysterious woman in a lilac dress. The effects of this event ripple across the years, washing over more than 80 characters, including a disc jockey, a fairy princess, a gangster, Alexander Pushkin, and a nostalgic dog. But which of these are dreams, and which reality? Director Shakhnazarov continues his career-long focus on the intersection of past and present with this mysterious, exhilarating mosaic of humankind, which in the end both seduces and satisfies.

Release Date1998-08-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

A House ‎for Rent with All the Inconveniences

Russian comedy drama

Release Date2016-06-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count11

Goodbye Mom

A story about a chance encounter that momentarily destroyed a successful and happy family life. All of a sudden the woman found passion and desire more important than her loving husband and cherished child. The father and son suffer from the realization that they are no longer needed, but try to understand and forgive. The woman, who failed to become happy, is in turmoil.

Release Date2014-06-19

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Producer

Vote Count6

In the Moscow Slums

Moscow, 1902. The famous director Konstantin Stanislavsky, in search of inspiration for staging a new play, decides to get acquainted with the life of the city "bottom". He turns to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a recognized expert on the Moscow slums, for help.

Release Date2023-05-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

Love in the USSR

This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories.

Release Date2014-02-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Star

In the summer of 1944, the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven snipers named "Zvezda" is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind the enemy lines in the back of the Nazi Tank Division. Two previous Russian groups never came back. The seven Russians know that they are going to an almost certain Death for the sake of Victory.

Release Date2002-05-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count39

Ward No. 6

Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how easy it is to become what we fear most.

Release Date2009-06-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count20

Anna Karenina

In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. An eight part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" from Vronsky's point of view.

Release Date2017-04-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count8

Vote Count4

White Tiger

WWII, 1945. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white German Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.

Release Date2012-05-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count105

Courier

Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and works as a courier at a Russian newspaper. Through his job, he meets patronizing Professor Kuznetzov and his rebellious daughter Katya. To annoy the professor, Ivan claims to have an affair with Katya. To his surprise, Katya backs his story up.

Release Date1986-06-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count131

Road to Berlin

Based on a novella by the well-known Soviet writer, Emmanuil Kazakevich "Two in the Steppe" and the war diaries of Konstantin Simonov. It's the summer of 1942, communications officer Ogarkov and private Dzhurabaev are fighting their way through the German encirclement. Finding themselves in difficult situations, they learn to trust one another, becoming true friends in the process.

Release Date2015-05-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count31

Kind Men

Based on the play of the same name by Leonid Zorin. Gordei Kabachkov, a professional con man, decided to pursue a career in science and was very successful. Having settled in a certain Institute of Ancient Culture, he easily wraps his finger around the numerous "kind men" - members of the academic council - and defends his thesis. Using his "talents" and the kindness of the staff of the Institute of Ancient Culture, Kabachkov makes a rapid take-off on the career ladder...

Release Date1980-07-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Decision: Liquidation

The ruthless extremist Bazgaev responsible for terrorist attacks which lead to deaths of hundreds of civilians, among them school children, is planning new actions. A group of security officers is to track and destroy him. Based on a true story.

Release Date2018-06-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count10

Zerograd

Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.

Release Date1988-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count62

The Rider Named Death

In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.

Release Date2004-04-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

Winter Evening in Gagry

A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as step became unpopular he lost everything. He hates even this word - 'chechotka' (step dance). But somehow the young man convinces him to become his coach and manager.

Release Date1985-12-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count27

Anna Karenina. Vronsky's Story

There is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path. Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her choice, leaving her son Sergei to grow up struggling to understand why his mother took such a tragic and terrible path, and Count Vronsky haunted by the memory of the woman for whose death he still blames himself 30 years later. In 1904, in the aftermath of one of the battles of the Russo-Japanese war, Sergei Karenin and Alexei Vronsky find themselves thrown together in a remote Manchurian village, where fate offers them a chance to return to the events long past and, finally, to find the answers both have long been seeking.

Release Date2017-06-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count25

Vladivostok

Having accidentally committed a crime, Victor tries to evade responsibility and flees. He meets Nika and falls in love with her. The young people are trying to arrange Victor's illegal escape abroad, but events take an unexpected turn.

Release Date2021-12-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

Who, If Not Us

This movie deals with two friends, 13-14 year old boys. One comes from a more or less stable home (although he is growing up with single mom) and another comes from a broken up family. One day the kids break into a store to pretty much have fun and get something to eat, short time after they get caught and one kid is sent to juvenile prison (14 year old) and another one is released to his being too young to be tried (13 years old). The younger kid feels bad about such decision, feels guilty and tries to help his friend in any way possible. While trying to help he is meeting a guy, who is ex-cop and now down-on-his-luck drunk(played by Priyomykhov himself)... the two become friends. In the finale, the ex-cop has to go one of the PTA meeting at school (his mother could not get away from work and knows nothing about the ex-cop) where suddenly his mother appears and meets the "father"...

Release Date1998-06-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

Vanished Empire

This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.

Release Date2008-02-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count18

Poisons or the World History of Poisoning

A story of an actor named Oleg whose wife has been seduced by his neighbor. As he is thoroughly convinced of her infidelity, he would like to poison her. An old man named Prokhorov helps him to get rid of his wife by lecturing about famous deaths caused by poisoning. It is from Prokhorov we learn that many famous and not so famous like Cesare Borgia and Caligula were killed as they were poisoned.

Release Date2001-07-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

In the Encirclement

Short film created from footage that has not been incorporated in the final cut of the film "The White Tiger" In June 1944 the Soviet arm encircled 53 army corps of General Gollwitzer in the Vitebsk area. The Germans fiercely defended themselves, and the Soviet army tightened the rina...

Release Date2013-10-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Children of Iron Gods

The films hero is a metal worker named Ignat who is as strong and tough as the steel that his sprawling factory produces in the Ural Mountains. Its a great cheerless environment; life is arduous and dangerous; conditions at the plant are nearly subhuman. The only excitement in the grimy industrial town is provided by robbing a train at gunpoint or stealing sheep from the Bashkiri tribe. The most renowned diversion, however, is the annual fist fight between the strongest metal worker and the strongest miner from the region. Against his better judgment, but with the support of his co-workers, Ignat decides to take part in this perilous venture.

Release Date1993-04-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count9

Dreams

Russian countess in 1893 has strange dreams about herself living a life as a dishwasher in 1993' Moscow after dissolution of the USSR.

Release Date1993-09-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count18

Mot Ne

Based on a real case in Siberia, a woman lost in the taiga is forced to wander with several families engaged in hunting.

Release Date2017-12-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

White King, Red Queen

Aleksey and Katerina separated twenty years ago. He left for the West, she stayed in the East. They will meet again in Switzerland under troubling circumstances.

Release Date1993-07-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

Ladies Invite Gentlemen

Anna Pozdnyakova is already over 30 years old and, despite the fact that she is kind and pretty, she cannot find herself a man with whom she could find family happiness. Already it seems like a suitable candidate in the person of a prominent military man, Viktor, has taken a liking, but at first sight he falls in love with Anna's friend Raisa and marries her. Then Anya takes out a vacation at her own expense and goes south to Sochi.

Release Date1981-05-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

American Daughter

A lonely Russian man is trying to see his daughter, who lives with her mother far away in the USA.

Release Date1995-07-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count21

We're from Jazz

A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.

Release Date1983-06-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count29

Hello from Charlie the Trumpeter

Release Date1998-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

She

A young Tajik girl, Maija (Nilufar Faizieva), flies to Russia following her fiancé, Khamid(Makhsum Abdullaev), where he works as a guest worker and lives in the slums with other workers like him. He promises to marry her, but eventually leaves her with barely known people and returns back toTajikistan for a marriage arranged by his parents.

Release Date2013-08-08

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

Assassin of the Tsar

A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...

Release Date1991-10-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count24

Wider Step Maestro!

One day in the life of doctor.

Release Date1975-12-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

With the Ball to Britain

About the legendary tour of the Soviet football club Dynamo (Moscow) in Great Britain in 1945.

Release Date2019-03-01