Sergei Vladimirovich Ursuliak (Russian: Серге́й Влади́мирович Урсуля́к; born 10 June 1958; Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky) is a Russian film director and screenwriter. He is known for the films Composition for Victory Day (1996) and Long Farewell (2004), and the TV series Liquidation. He has won several awards, including Nika Awards and the State Prize of the Russian Federation.
Release Date:2026-02-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Cinematographer Nastya goes to a remote weather station together with meteorologist Andrey to independently investigate the disappearance of a married couple of meteorologists from the station. As a result, she realizes that Andrei is involved in the disappearance of this couple. But Andrei also suddenly discovers Nastya's connection with the disappeared people…
Release Date:2023-11-09
Department:Production
Job:Producer
The documentary series tells about the history of the new Russian cinema in the context of events that changed Russia forever. The narrative is built in chronological order: from 1992, when the first film was released, where "Russia" was listed in the output data instead of "USSR", to the present. Directors, actors and producers will share their memories of the path in Russian cinema. Among them are Fyodor Bondarchuk, Gosha Kutsenko, Evgeny Tsyganov, Zhora Gooseberry, Pyotr Buslov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Khotinenko, Valeria Guy Germanika, Sergey Selyanov, Egor Konchalovsky and many others.
Release Date:2023-10-08
Episode Count:3
In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.
Release Date:2023-02-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:12
Based on the works of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. The plot of the new comedy is based on the famous miniatures “Odessa Steamboat”, “Two Apples”, “Meeting at the Distillery” and other works by one of the country's most famous humor writers Mikhail Zhvanetsky. In total - 13 miniatures. The fates of the heroes of each story are intertwined, and the viewer will see a panorama of life in which the head of the transport department could not be heard, the plane’s crew wonders if passengers can land the plane, the barmaid stands at the helm of the ship, and the father teaches his son arithmetic, destroying all the apples in the house...
Release Date:2019-12-24
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:11
They returned to their country after Afghanistan, but the country has become completely different. They rely only on themselves. They only trust each other.
Release Date:2018-11-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:3
Release Date:2016-09-16
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
The action begins in 1912. The heroes of the painting - neighbors, villagers, Cossacks from the Tatarsky farm of the village of Vyoshenskaya - have lived on this land for centuries, they are connected by kinship, friendship, love, common labor and military service. But this durable and self-sufficient world with its unique way of life, habits and a special system of views and values is collapsing under the onslaught of bloody turmoil and revolution. Don is divided by hatred. The seemingly immutable age-old foundations of Don life - land, farm, family, military duty - are dissolving in the crucible of fratricidal war. The Melekhov, Korshunov, and Astakhov families are involved in the cycle of military and political events.
Release Date:2015-10-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:14
Vote Count:3
The plot takes place in 1942-1943, during the defense of Stalingrad. The Jew Viktor Strum is a talented nuclear physicist working in one of the country's institutes on the creation of an atomic bomb. At this time, Strum's relatives die in Nazi camps and NKVD dungeons, and persecution begins against him. The inventor can only be saved by his scientific brainchild, which Stalin himself became interested in. The state needs such a powerful weapon as an atomic bomb. The scientist has to make a choice: to remain faithful to science and work for the "leader of the nation" or to abandon his vocation and be destroyed.
Release Date:2012-10-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:5
Konstantin Arkadyevich Raikin recalls his childhood experiences, his first hopes and fears, and his famous parents very frankly, with humor, warmth and even irony.
Release Date:2010-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:5
The series is set in the 1920s. It tells about the first tasks of Isaev. First, he goes to Reval to stop the smuggling of valuables stolen from Gokhran. Upon his return, he is sent to Vladivostok to collect information about the actions of the whites. Then he has to go abroad to monitor counterrevolutionary emigration.
Release Date:2009-10-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:16
Vote Count:3
Liquidation is a highly popular Russian television series, which parallels the famous The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed with notable ethical shift. In the "Meeting Place", chief of criminal investigations Gleb Zheglov had a modus operandi "Thief must go to prison, no matter how I put him there". In Liquidation, chief of criminal investigations David Gotsman's motto has changed to "Thief must go to prison, but lawfully so". The stars of the film include famous Russian actors such as Vladimir Mashkov and Konstantin Lavronenko. Sergei Makovetsky had to replace Andrey Krasko, who died of heart attack during the filming.
Release Date:2007-10-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:14
Vote Count:34
After a young actress finds herself in a love triangle, she has to choose between a hapless writer and a successful playwright.
Release Date:2004-06-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
A film adaptation of the novel by Agatha Christie, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd." The owner of the mansion, Roger Ackroyd, was killed in his own office. The investigation is conducted by two - a local inspector and Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Everyone is suspected: nephew, household, servants, guests. Everyone has an alibi and everyone conceals something, but at the same time hopes for Poirot and a fair outcome of the investigation. All but the true killer. But Poirot is not in a hurry, he patiently accumulates facts, gets rid of contradictions, frees everyone from a burdensome secret and remains face to face with the killer, facts, logic and a difficult human feeling - disappointment ...
Release Date:2002-11-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:4
On the eve of the Victory Day celebrations, three old wartime friends reunite in Moscow. But they don’t get a chance to sit and recall their long-forgotten exploits. Chairman of the Veterans Foundation Kilovatov (O. Yefremov) is accused of dealings with the criminal world and put behind the bars. Former dissident Morgulis (V. Tikhonov), now residing abroad, and participant of protest rallies Dyakov (M. Ulyanov) organize the release of their friend from prison. Confronted with the cruelty of their enemies who masterminded the arrest of their wartime buddy, our heroes involve mafia and security service in the release operation, and then decide to hijack a plane.
Release Date:1999-01-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
The four—part documentary about the first president of Russia is an attempt to understand the controversial personality of Boris Yeltsin without bias. Relatives and friends, allies and opponents tell about his actions in critical situations, about how decisions were made that determined the fate of the country. In addition to the official chronicle, the film uses unique footage of departmental and amateur filming, as well as testimonies from people who have always avoided publicity.
Release Date:1999-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
The film is a confession about the inhabitants of the island of Fire, near Vologda. The pardoned murderers — one hundred and fifty "suicide bombers" for whom the death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment by Presidential Decree — are asking for execution...
Release Date:1997-02-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Representatives of the Russian nobility gathered at the dacha. A young nobleman Vlas, in love with the mistress of the estate, a simpering poetess, a writer who has long stopped writing, a frivolous wife, her lover and a jealous husband. Their lives are measured and unhurried. They talk about nothing, get bored and quarrel, flirt and have fun… But even passionate romances, which are now and then tied up here, usually end at the same time as the holiday season...
Release Date:1995-10-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
In Soviet Union young Misha is dreaming to see USA, but it seems highly unlikely...
Release Date:1993-06-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6