POSLE SVADBY (AFTER THE WEDDING)

Based on a novel by Daniil Granin

All goes well in Igor's life. He works as a mechanic at a Leningrad

plant and has recently married the girl he loves. Naturally, he was not very enthusiastic about an offer to go to work in a remote backward collective farm. Eager to prove that there can be a normal life in a village, he convinces himself to go there. He encounters many difficulties at first, but finally he sets things right, and when a year later he has the opportunity to return to the city he refuses to do it.

One evening Grisha dares to approach Polinka, a girl from the

neighbouring village he has admired for a long time. They begin to date and all goes well until the day when Grisha's impudent friend Kostya decides to ridicule Polinka in public. Grisha, instead of standing up for the girl, cowardly joins his friend…

It could have put the end to their love, but Grisha gathers up the

courage to apologize to Polinka and though his friends mock him, he

stubbornly continues to court Polinka.

Flight 713 is fine until the moment when the passengers of airliner

begin to suspect that something is wrong. It turned out that terrorists

knocked out the crew of the aircraft, and the airplane is operated by

automatic pilot.

The danger brings the passengers — all very different people – together and makes them forget their vanity and false pride. At the end, the plane makes a safe landing.

The brothers Pyotr and Trofim Bakhrushin choose two different ways in life. Pyotr has lived all his life in his native village and became the chairman of a collective farm. Trofim emigrated to America after the Russian Civil War, deserting his wife and daughter. 40 years later he comes to his native village as a guest.

Based on Dmitry Shostakovich’s musical comedy “Moscow-Cheryomushki”

The young architect, Lida Baburova, has finally received a long awaited apartment in a new district of Moscow. Along with other new tenants in the apartment building Lida and her father hurry up to Cheryomushki to see the place where they are going to live. At first it takes her much trouble to get the keys, and when she finally gets them she is shocked to see that a wall in her new apartment has been pulled down. A high-ranking official decided to expand his apartment at the expense of hers.

560 CHORNAYA CHAIKA (BLACK SEAGULL)

1962, 95 min., b/w

Drama

Written and directed by: Grigory Koltunov, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Isaak Kaplan, misic: Antonio Spadavekkia, sound: Nikolai Kosarev

Cast: Nikolai Volkov, Yuri Savela, Alexei Loktev, Dzheikhun Dzhamal, Sergei Yursky, Anatoly Adoskin, Yevgeny Matveyev

Manolo is an imaginative boy, and fancies himself to be as brave and courageous as his friend Sardinka. Life in liberated Cuba would have been free and jolly if American fighters had not been flying low over the island and if there had not been a sniper hiding in bushes killing harmless people.

There is a rumour that this sniper is the father of Sardinka, Manolo’s best friend.

561 VSYO OSTAYOTSYA LYUDYAM (EVERYTHING IS LEFT TO HUMANITY)

1963, 100 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Georgy Natanson, screenplay: Samuil Alyoshin, camera: Sergei Ivanov, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, music: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Boris Antonov

Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Sofia Pilyavskaya, Andrei Popov, Elina Bystritskaya, Igor Ozerov, Igor Gorbachev

Loosely based on the play of the same title by Samuil Alyoshin

Professor Dronov is very ill, and will hardly live longer than one year. Doctors prescribe him rest. However, the researcher can not leave his project unfinished. He is working on an new engine vitally important for development of astronautics. Besides, Dronov is a deputy of the Supreme Soviet. So he can and he must help people.

Having a strong spirit, Dronov acts according to his conscience and

obeys the call of duty.

562 DVA VOSKRESENYA (TWO SUNDAYS)

1963, 83 min., color

Melodrama

Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, camera: Semyon Ivanov, production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky

Cast: Lyudmila Dolgorukova, Vladimir Koretsky, Lyudmila Makarova, Viktor Maksimov, Tatyana Pankova

Lyusya is a bank teller in a small town. Accidentally she wins a large sum of money and decides to spend it on a trip to Moscow.

In Moscow she meets Volodya. The young couple spends all day together and makes a date for the next weekend. But Lyusya is late for the date and when she finally comes Volodya has already left.

Lyusya returns home and writes Volodya a letter. She hopes that there will be more such meetings in her life, and that her life will be full of wonderful surprises.

It was a chance meeting. Alexander, a young ambulance doctor, saw a pretty woman and acting on impulse made her acquaintance. This fluke meeting grows into a deep love. Shura is married, however, and the situation in her family is a complicated one. Her husband, a geologist, blames himself for the accidental death of his colleagues, and leaves geology to do odd jobs. He does not allow his wife to go to work and Shura is tired of being idle at home. Finally, Shura decides to change her life. She goes to live in a village and is prepared to make a fresh start.

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  The film was awarded the Honorary Diploma of the International Film Festival in Locarno (1964).
  

Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Vadim Kozhevnikov.

For many years, the civil engineer, Pavel Baluyev has been moving from one place to another all over the country, laying gas pipelines across rivers. Again he is going to a new construction site and again he is parting with his wife. On the new place he has to solve complicated technical problems and also to adapt himself to the people he is working with. For Baluyev his work is a spiritual necessity. He captivates people by his optimism and enthusiasm. This man will always be a winner.

565 KAIN VOSEMNADTSATIY (CAIN XVIII)

1963, 87 min., color

Comedy

Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Yevgeny Schwartz, Nikolai Erdman, camera: Eduard Rozovsky, production designer: Valery Dorer, Abram Veksler, misic: Antonio Spadavekkia, sound: Ilya Volk

Cast: Erast Garin, Lydia Sukharevskaya, Yuri Lyubimov, Mikhail Zharov, Alexander Demyanenko, Rina Zelyonaya

Loosely based on the fairy-tale of the same title by Eugene Schwarz.

Two friends, wandering musicians named Jan and Jean, are going to the country ruled by king Cain XVIII — a police state where treachery and meanness are praised as merits. The thing is that Jan is in love with a princess and the princess' mother wants her daughter to marry the king. The two friends decide to do their best to break the engagement.

566 KREPOSTNAYA AKTRISA (A SERF ACTRESS)

1963, 101 min., color, wide screen, wide format

Musical comedy

Director: Roman Tikhomirov, screenplay: A. Zakharov (Leonid Trauberg), loosely based on script by Yefim Gerken, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Nikolai Strelnikov, sound:Grigory Elbert

Cast: Tamara Syomina (Tamara Milashkina singing), Dmitry Smirnov (Yevgeny Raikov singing), Sergei Filippov, Yevgeny Leonov, Sergei Yursky (Lev Morozov singing), Glykeria Bogdanova-Chesnokova

Loosely based on Nikolai Strelnikov's operetta “Indentured Maiden”.

In the country estate of count Kutaisov, they are preparing for the arrival of Anastasiya Batmanova, a famous actress coming back home from Paris. Anastasiya is a former serf, but when she was a small child she was set free from bondage. At the same time, Andrei arrives at the estate. He is secretly in love with Anastasiya. Andrei is a stepbrother of the hussar, Nikita, who is his father's illegitimate son with one of Kutaisov's serfwomen. Andrei's papers certifying that he is a freed serf go missing. Loosing hope to win Anastasiya's affection, Kutaisov decides to marry Anastasiya off to his serf Andrei in order to have her in his full power.

567 MANDAT (MANDATE)

1963, 80 min., b/w, wide screen

Drama

Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexander Vlasov, Arkady Mlodik, camera: Anatoly Karpukhin, production designer: Vladimir Savostin, misic: Vladimir Maklakov, sound: Anna Volokhova

Cast: Igor Bogolyubov, Nikolai Rozhdestvensky, Oleg Letnikov, Nikolai Kuzmin, Borya Shcherbakov, Volodya Lebedev

1919. Gleb Prokhorov, the leader of a small group of workers, goes to villages to confiscate grain from the peasants. All the members of the group are killed in an uneven fight with the kulaks (rich peasants). But Glebka, Prokhorov's son, with the help of several boys, accomplishes his father's mission and delivers grain to the starving people in Petrograd.

The engineer Shirokov got into a road accident at the time when at the factory the future of his new project was at stake. He also Had some serious unsolved problems in his personal life. The loving care of people around him, and their unselfish assistance helps Shirokov to overcome his ailment and return to active life.

Alyosha Utochkin is a quite young man, a dreamer. Accidentally he joins a band of disreputable youngsters headed by Valetov. At a factory where Alyosha got the job he is regarded as one of Valetov's gang, which complicates his life. Alyosha falls in love with his supervisor, Liza, and manages not only to break off with Valetov but even begins a struggle against him. The end of the story is a tragic one. Members of the band kill Alyosha.

Based on a novel of the same title by Fyodor Knorre

A tank sergeant during World War II, Fedotov, is on his way home from the hospital when he meets Sonya, a young woman working on a ferry. She has three small children.

Falling for Sonya, Fedotov spends all his brief leave in her house and returns to her when the war ends.

But their happiness did not last long. Sonya dies after an operation. And a new trouble comes: all of a sudden father of Sonya’s children shows up, prepared to take care of his family...

571 SOBIRAYUSHCHIY OBLAKA (COLLECTOR OF CLOUDS)

1963, 19 min., b/w

Melodrama

Director: Alexei Igishev, screenplay: Yuri Yakovlev, camera: Dmitry Dolinin, production designer: Viktor Mushnikov, misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov

Cast: Seryozha Kokorev, Svetlana Druzhinina, Fyodor Nikitin, Grenada Mnatsakanova, Svetlana Loshchinina

Loosely based on a story of the same title by Yuri Yakovlev.

Malyavkin loves to watch the fantastic shapes clouds take. Whatever he is doing — at school or collecting scrap paper — from time to time he looks up the sky, at the flock of his unusual friends.

One day, the boy gets very upset. He sees how the assistant school

manager burns the scras paper the boy had collected and he thinks that his white clouds are turning into the black smoke and going down the pipe.

572 ULITSA NYUTONA, DOM ODIN (NEWTON STREET, 1)

1963, 93 min., b/w

Melodrama

Director: Teodor Vulfovich, screenplay: Edward Radzinsky, Teodor

Vulfovich, camera: Viktor Karasev, Nikolai Zhilin, production designers: Vsevolod Ulitko, Tamara Vasilkovskaya, misic: Moisei Vainberg, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev

Cast: Larisa Kadochnikova, Yevgeny Fridman, Yuri Ilyenko, Yevgeny Agafonov, Vladimir Lippart

A talented young man, Timofei Suverenev comes to Moscow from the remote Tyuleniy island.

Determined to become a scientist he achieves brilliant results. The research work made in collaboration with his fellow student Galtsov is awarded a golden medal. It seems that all is going extremely well when it suddenly turns out that there is an error in their research work. Galtsov suggests to keep it a secret. Not willing to compromise, Timofei breaks off with his friend and returns home to continue the research work by himself.

573 BARBOS V GOSTYAKH U BOBIKA (BARBOS PAYS A VISIT TO BOBIK)

1964, 20 min., color

Comedy

Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Nikolai Nosov, camera: Mikhail Shamkovich, Alexander Dibrivny, production designer: Isaak Kaplan, misic: Murad Kazhlayev, sound: Lev Valter

Cast: Lhasa apse Mishka, mongrel Luks, Maltese Amishka, boxer Ero, Siamese cat Tau

Barbos the dog lives in an old cold kennel while the lazy spoiled lap dog Bobik, finds it extremely tiresome to comply with Grandfather's simple commands. One day, in Grandfather's absence, Bobik invites Barbos to his place and starts boasting about his life. After eating, playing and taking a bath both friends fell asleep in Grandfather's bed. And at that moment the master of the house returns home.

The young factory worker, Zhenya, decides to plant trees and shrubs on the factory premises in her free time. Other young workers enthusiastically join Zhenya and though not everything is going smoothly — there is a lot of arguing and some guys try to avoid the work — at the end of the film, the factory garden is blooming.

A young musical critic, Marina Gabrielyan, is working on her theses about the composer Sergei Kornilov. She decides to reconstruct the score of the symphony destroyed by the composer who regarded it as a failure. The idea of the story is prompted by true story from the biography of Sergei Rachmaninoff, who destroyed his first symphony after its unsuccessful first performance.

1964, 2 parts, 70 min. each, wide screen

Based on William Shakespeare’s tragedy of the same title, translated by Boris Pasternak

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  The film was awarded the Special Premium and the Honorary Diploma of the Jury of the International Film Festival in Venice (1964); the Special Premium and the Diploma of the Jury of the International Film Festival in San Sebastiano (1965); the Special Premium and the Diploma of the Jury of the National Cinema Club Federation at the International Film Festival in San Sebastiano (1965).
  

The film tells about the work of state security agents, who after a long persistent search, have found and neutralized a dangerous criminal who in the times of World War II put to death hundreds of Soviet people.

Loosely based on Mikhail Sholokhov’s short stories “Shibalok's Seed” and “Birthmark.”

Period of the Civil War on the Don… Shibalok, is a soldier in a Cossack detachment who is pursuing the Koshevoy gang. Shibalok comes to the mill and in a barn he finds Darya, a young woman who, he believes, was raped by the gangsters. Dara stays with the detachment. This is the beginning of Shibalok's sad love story.

One night the unarmed detachment was attacked by the gang and many Cossacks were killed in the uneven battle. Later Darya, being in difficult labor, confesses to Shibalok that she secretly passed the information about the detachment to the gang. After the child is born Shibalok kills Darya.