Cast: Aleksandr Belyavsky

Direction Eldar Ryazanov

Cast Andrey Myagkov · Barbara Brylska · Yuri Yakovlev · Georgi Burkov

Synopsis The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (TV Miniseries) (1975) is a classic Soviet television miniseries that follows a group of lifelong friends who have a yearly tradition of visiting a public bathhouse on New Year's Eve. After an...

Direction Marlen Khutsiev

Cast Yevgeniya Uralova · Aleksandr Belyavsky · Yuri Vizbor · Aleksandr Mitta

Synopsis July Rain (1966) delves into the existential crisis of a woman navigating the void in her life. Lena, portrayed by Yevgenya Uralova, is a woman in her late twenties who finds herself in a relationship with Volodya, played by Aleksandr...

Direction Marek Piestrak

Cast Sergei Desnitsky · Aleksandr Kaidanovsky · Vladimir Ivashov · Tõnu Saar

Synopsis Test pilota Pirxa (1978) is an adaptation of Stanisław Lem's short story "Rozprawa." The narrative revolves around "finite nonlinears," robots that are nearly indistinguishable from humans and are designed to surpass human capabilities. These robots are intended to eventually take...

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Cast Konstantin Khabenskiy · Elizaveta Boyarskaya · Sergey Bezrukov · Yuriy Yakovlev

Synopsis The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your New Happiness! (2007) unfolds three decades after the fateful New Year's Eve encounter between Zhenya Lukashin (Andrei Miagkov) and his former love, Nadya (Barbara Brylska). Their relationship has since dissolved, and Nadya has...

Direction Yegor Konchalovsky

Cast Yuriy Kutsenko · Mikhail Ulyanov · Sergey Shakurov · Alexander Baluev

Synopsis Antikiller (2002) follows the story of Major Korenev, a former criminal investigator known by the moniker "Fox," who is freed from prison after being wrongfully convicted due to fabricated evidence. His release was not part of a plan to settle...

Direction Sergei Yutkevich

Cast Maksim Shtraukh · Mariya Pastukhova · Anastasiya Lissianskaya · Oleg Efremov

Direction Gil-sen Om · Shin Sang-ok · Eldor Urazbaev

Cast Andrei Martynov · Chhan-su Chve · Oleg Anofriev · Yon-hi Chon

Synopsis One Second for a Feat (1985) follows the journey of junior lieutenant Yakov Novichenko, who, after the liberation of the North Korean Red Army from Japanese rule in August 1945, chooses to stay with the Koreans to assist in rebuilding...

Direction Jerzy Passendorfer

Cast Barbara Soltysik · Aleksandr Belyavsky · Anatoli Golik · Janusz Bukowski

Direction Sergei Snezhkin

Cast Yuriy Kuznetsov · Viktor Aristov · Yuriy Oskin · Nikolai Yeryomenko Sr.

Direction Jeff Celentano

Cast Michael York · Alexander Nevsky · Richard Tyson · Robert Madrid

Synopsis Moscow Heat (2004) follows the intense journey of a former diplomat and an NYPD detective as they relentlessly hunt down a deranged killer in the bustling streets of Moscow. When the detective sustains injuries and the diplomat faces arrest, they...

Direction Aloiz Brench

Cast Vitautas Tomkus · Rolands Zagorskis · Valentina Titova · Aleksandr Vokach

Synopsis Rallijs (Ралли) (1978) is set in 1944, following the German army's retreat from the Riga Art Museum, where a painting titled "Rafael and Fornarin" by the 19th-century French artist Jean Ogis Engra vanished. During an international rally, two competitors stumble...

Direction Sergei Gerasimov

Cast Dmitri Zolotukhin · Tamara Makarova · Natalya Bondarchuk · Nikolai Yeryomenko Jr.

Direction Stanislav Govorukhin

Cast Vlasimir Vysotskiy · Sergei Yursky · Vladimir Konkin · Aleksandr Belyavsky

Synopsis Can't Change the Meeting Place (TV Miniseries) (1979) follows the journey of Volodya Sharapov, a young officer who returns to Moscow after World War II to join the MUR, or Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There, he crosses paths...

Direction Lev Kulidzhanov

Cast Ventzislav Kisyov · Valentina Klyagina · Renate Blume · Aleksandr Safronov