Alla Demidova

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet...

Four parallel stories: "Ship", "Port", "Pompeia" and "Theater" are connected with the fate of the captain of a training warship Andrei Glebov, who...

Formerly a squadron commander, the hero worked at the small airfield for many years. Komesk - as his colleagues call him in a friendly manner - is...

A merchant is living in a fairytale Russia of hundreds of years ago. When he is making a journey to market, his three daughters each ask for a...

A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.

Events unfold on the estate of Pyotr Sorin, which brought together representatives of secular society - actress Irina Arkadina, the host's sister and...

Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and...

The heroine of the film is a young attractive woman whose motto is “you need to become depraved to feel like a saint.” She is convinced that men...

The mistress of a once prosperous, but now frustrated estate, wants to improve her affairs at the expense of neighboring possessions belonging to the...

Hermann is an officer of the engineers in the Imperial Russian Army. He constantly watches the other officers gamble, but never plays himself. One...

A drama based on the daily life of a hospital and its doctors.

According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he...

The film is dedicated to the tragic fate of the outstanding theater director, founder of the famous Chamber Theater Alexander Tairov. Tairov's...

When a small state is threatened with capture by a much stronger one, only one thing can save it: the emergence of a competitor comparable to the...

Based on Anna Ahmatova's translation of Korean poem about eternal love.

A woman is paid a surprise visit by her long-forgotten classmate, who needs her advice: should he choose a wife or a lover? An outrageously burlesque...

From Alla Demidova's book "Akhmatova Mirrors": "When I began to decipher the "Poem without a hero", the more I found doubles in it, which, in turn,...

The film is set in 1890s London. Sarah lived happily in India with her father, but when he was drafted into military service he placed Sarah in a...

A drama from the life of two generations of a big family from Leningrad. Loosely based on a novel by Yuriy Nagibin.

Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev is not that young of an actor. For many years he plays in the provincial theater in leading roles. The director of a play...

The young hero's father, a famous test pilot, dies in an airplane crash. But comes the first deep feeling for the girl Tanya - and the hero finds the...

The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, of...

A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of...

The main motive of the film - a tragic love of Lesya Ukrainka to Marxist revolutionary Sergei Merzhinskiy. The film is about the poetess' trip to her...

Political thriller based on a story of coup against Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party in Moscow on 6–7 July 1918. They...

A story from the life in the beginning of XX century based on the theater play by Maxim Gorky.

When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the...

A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name.

Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove, story takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his...

Pyotr, a once-promising neurosurgeon who left his groundbreaking research and career abroad, returns home years later in search of fulfillment....

Prince Stepan Kasatsky is an officer, an ardent, proud young man, and a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he...

In a compartment of the Moscow-Novosibirsk train, a young physicist meets famous film actors. The conversation accidentally comes to Einstein, and...

In the spring of 2017, the Investigation Committee conducted the first searches in the criminal case, which everyone now knows as the...

Falling Star is based on three stories by the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Astafyev and centers on a young soldier on the front lines who is...

Crimea, 1787. Despite the Manifesto of the Russian Empress Catherine and the Kuchuk-Kainardzhi peace treaty, which forever united Crimea with Russia,...

At the heart of the picture is a common legend about the last days of Emperor Alexander the First Blessed.

The famous scientist, academician and art critic Andrei Ilyin, who survived with the Hermitage staff the harsh trials of the Leningrad blockade,...

Charming young Olga marries a successful businessman. It is surrounded by luxury and well-being. A wealthy husband is ready to fulfill any whim of a...

A female poet and author faces the harsh realities of a besieged Leningrad. Based on Olga Berggolts' memoir of the same name.

Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the...

The second part of the Soviet TV adaption.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third...

Blending drawings, paintings, filmed interviews, and recorded testimony, this animation-documentary hybrid tells of the tragic fate of the Estonian...

The second part of the duology on the famous Estonian artist Ülo Sooster continues his life story, paying homage to many other great artists who...

An animated film in two parts, about the tragic fate of Estonian artist Ülo Sooster and about his work.

Alla Demidova ranks among the greatest actresses to have graced the Russian-language stage over the past six decades, as well as screens big and...

Pushkin and Puschin met at the Tsarskoye Selo Lycee. After the Decembrist revolt of 1825, Puschin was exiled to Siberia while Pushkin was allowed to...

A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons.

A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson.

The basis of the play is the eponymous poem and the poems of Alexander Blok.

Poems by A. Blok, letters and memoirs of L.D. Mendeleeva-Blok, excerpts from V. Orlov's book "Paths and Destinies" are heard.

The poems of Alexander Blok are read by Alla Demidova and Vladimir Simonov.

Little Sasha is growing up without a father, but he really wants to have one. He has already called three strangers "dad." One day, a friend of...

The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East....