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579 ZHAVORONOK (SKYLARK) 1964, 83 min., b/w Drama Director: Nikita Kurikhin, Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Mikhail Dudin, Sergei Orlov, camera: Nikolai Zhilin, Viktor Karasyov, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Yakov Vaisburd, sound: Konstantin Lashkov Cast: Vyacheslav Gurenkov, Gennady Yukhtin, Vladimir Pogoreltsev, Valentin Skulme, Bruno Oya, Olev Tinn, Ervin Abel, Heino Mandri 1942. The Nazis are testing the new anti-tank missiles and bring to the firing ground Russian tankers — prisoners of war. The crew of the tank commanded by Ivan breaches away from the firing ground and is getting in a German town destroying everything on its way. The story has the tragic end. All the crew of the tank perishes. 580 ZAICHIK (RABBIT) 1964, 80 min., color Comedy Director: Leonid Bykov, screenplay: Mikhail Ginn, Henrich Ryabkin, Kim Ryzhov, camera: Sergei Ivanov, production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Berta Livshits Cast: Leonid Bykov, Olga Krasina, Igor Gorbachev, Sergei Filippov, Georgy Vitsin, Alexei Smirnov, Igor Dmitriyev Zaichik (the name means 'rabbit') is a theatre make up artist. Honest and kind hearted, he is known to be shy and timid. But this quiet man turns out to be a real fighter. He is not going to put up with red tape and stagnation in his theatre.
The action of the film takes place during “Leningradskoye Leto” -the Leningrad summer musical festival. Among the participants of the festival are popular music stars and entertainers. During this lively and jolly festival Svetlana meets a young police lieutenant.
One day in Praskovya's house, appears Katerina who says that she is the natural mother of the girl adopted by Praskovya 9 years ago. This dramatic situation is further complicated for Praskovya by problems at her work and by the intrigues of her envious old enemy, Smaltchikha. The woman mobilizes all her courage and wisdom to win in the end.
Based on Vera Panova's novel “Companions” People of different ages, characters and habits come to work in the hospital train going to the front. They spend several years together, working and fighting in a war. They go through a lot of hardships and when the war ends the peaceful life they are dreaming about will seem strange and unfamiliar to them.
Loosely based on the short stories by Yuri Nagibin “Battle for a High Ground” and “Pavlik”. 1942. Action takes place on the Volkhovsky front. A young army political instructor, Rusakov, had poor military training and though he is far from being a coward, he finds his first battle an extremely hard experience. He goes through a lot of hardships. Katya, the girl he loves, is killed. But the severeraw reality of war strengthens his character and makes Rusakov a courageous soldier. 585 POMNI, KASPAR (REMEMBER ME KASPAR) 1964, 80 min., b/w, wide screen Drama Written and directed by: Grigory Nikulin, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Grigory Elbert Cast: German Zhuravlev, Anatoly Romashin, Zinaida Dorogova, Alexander Mikhailov, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Vladimir Lippart A German soldier, Kaspar, who narrow escaped death in an air fight, has lost his way in the Byelorussian woods. He comes across Russian lieutenant Denis Marasev, who escaped from a German POW camp. Their encounter helps Kaspar to change his attitude to war and fascism. 586 SPYASHCHAYA KRASAVITSA (SLEEPING BEAUTY) 1964, 100 min., color, wide format Filmed ballet Director: Apollinary Dudko, screenplay: Konstantin Sergeyev, Iosif Shapiro, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Tamara Vasilkovskaya, Vsevolod Ulitko, sound: Alexander Bekker, choreography: Marius Petipa, Konstantin Sergeyev Cast: Alla Sizova, Yuri Solovyov, Irina Bazhenova, Natalya Dudinskaya, Olga Zabotkina, Natalya Makarova Screen version of the Tchaikovsky’s ballet of the same name. 587 FRO (FRO) 1964, 45 min., b/w Melodrama Director: Rezo Esadze, screenplay: Feliz Mironer, camera: Konstantin Sobol, Valery Fedosov, production designer: Vyacheslav Zachinayev, misic: Isaak Schwartz, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev Cast: Alexandra Zavyalova, Nikolai Trofimov, Gennady Yukhtin, Alisa Freinlikh, Nina Korn, Vsevolod Kuznetsov Based on a story of the same title by Andrei Platonov The film is set in the 30-s, the time of the first 5-year plans, large-scale construction projects, and development of remote regions of the USSR. Frosya's husband, Fyodor, is leaving for the Far East. After his departure, Frosya looses interest in life. Her father, Nefiod Stepanovich, finds it difficult to understand his daughter's depression. For him, work is the only importantant thing in life and he takes his retirement pretty hard. Gradually Frosya is beginning to realize that she should take a more active part in life.
Based on Igor Vsevolozhsky’ s story “Farmstead Team” The film tells about childhood of Semyon Budenny, Marshall of the Soviet Union.
Driver Panchuk finds on a country road a smashed Moskvitch car and a dead body and calls the police. Young prosecutor Chizhov who conducts the case does not give himself the trouble to look into the matter and from the very beginning starts suspecting Panchuk. It is the irony of fate that pretty soon he finds himself in a similar situation. 590 DRUZYA I GODY (FRIENDS AND YEARS) 1965, 2 parts, 1st — 63 min., 2nd — 67 min., b/w, wide screen Melodrama Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Leonid Zorin, camera: Eduard Rozovsky, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Georgy Salye Cast: Alexander Grave, Natalya Velichko, Yuri Yakovlev, Zinoviy Vysokovsky, Nina Veselovskaya, Oleg Anofriyev, Vladimir Kenigson, Sofya Pilavskaya, Vyacheslav Nevinny, Igor Pushkarev Based on the play of the same title by Leonid Zorin 1934. Former schoolmates — Yura, Volodya, Grisha and Tanya got together in a small seacoast town. All three friends are in love with Tanya. They have just graduated from colleges and are going to start an independent life. What will they loose and acquire, in what way will they survive the war years, what will they turn out to be? The film traces their lives from pre-war years to the 1960’s. 591 ZALP “AVRORY” (GUNSHOT OF “AURORA”) 1965, 89 min., b/w, wide screen, wide format Drama Director: Yuri Vyshinsky, screenplay: Boris Lavrenev, Yuri Vyshinsky, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designers: Semyon Malkin, Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, sound: Tigran Silayev Cast: Mikhail Kuznetsov, Vladimir Tatosov, Yulyen Balmusov, Sergei Yakovlev, Izil Zabludovsky, Kirill Lavrov, Georgy Epifantsev, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Yefim Kopelyan Petrograd, October 1917. On the meeting of the central Party Committee Lenin raises the question of armed uprising... Erikson, commander of “Aurora” cruiser, receives the order from Provisional Government to put the cruiser to sea. However, Belyshev, the chairman of the cruiser’s committee cancels the order... All the dramatic events taking place on the eve of the October revolution end with the historic gunshot of “Aurora” cruiser — the signal to armed uprising and the storming of the Winter Palace. 592 ZNOINIY IYUL (HOT JULY) 1965, 69 min., b/w, wide screen Melodrama Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Sergei Antonov, camera: Muzakir Shurukov, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Anna Volokhova Cast: Alexei Glasyrin, Alexander Borisov, Liliya Gritsenko, Nina Urgant, Valentina Telegina, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Boris Arakelov Zakhar Stoletov, who after political rehabilitation becomes the chairman of a backward collective farm faces many problems. Among the hardest problems is his conflict with a young agronomist Svetlana Nikitina and the accidental meeting with the regional party worker Dedyukhin who slandered Stoletov in 1937... Dramatic situation is further aggravated by the fact that Svetlana turns out to be Stoletov’s daughter — many years ago her mother, Lyudmila Sergeyevna, renounced her repressed husband...
Based on the novel of the same title by Daniil Granin The story told in the film begins in 1952 and covers 10 years. Lives of two friends — Sergei Krylov and Oleg Tulin went in two different ways. Shortly after graduating from university Tulin is assigned to work on a serious project, while Krylov is expelled from university for his refusal to consider cybernetics to be “a false science”. Showing great persistency Krylov grabs the opportunity to work in a research institute under the guidance of the noted scientist Dankevich, but in a difficult moment cowardly leaves the project and goes on a research expedition to collect materials for his theses. Having achieved success and having got the position of the chief of a laboratory Krylov begins a new research project and invites Tulin to work together, but fate finally pays him back for leaving the project.
Based on Anton Chekhov’s short story “Kalkhas” After his benefit performance old comic theatre actor Svetlovidov fell asleep in the empty theatre. He wakes up with a poignant feeling that he is an old lonely man, who lost everything in his life. And his only compassionate listener is the old prompter Nikitin who lives in the theatre.
Invaders, frightened by the offensive of the Red Army are hastily leaving the town. Commanders of the White Army hurry up to kill arrested bolsheviks. Among the arrested is Makeyev, the leader of the bolshevik underground organization. To save his comrade, the brave member of the organization Ilyutinsky penetrates into a musical squad specially created to entertain the White Army officers.
The film tells about one day in the life of Vladimir Lenin beginning from the evening, December 31, 1917 and ending on January 1, 1918. Thick with the tenseness of the epoch, this day is filled with unique task set before the first in the world state of workers and peasants. 597 PERVAYA BASTILIYA (THE FIRST BASTILLE) 1965, 70 min., b/w, wide screen Drama Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Yuri Yakovlev, camera: Dmitry Dolinin, Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Galina Gavrilova, Boris Khutoryansky Cast: Valery Golovnenkov, Yelizaveta Solodova, Yevgeny Matveyev, Nina Sikorskaya, Sergei Belyatsky Beginning of the revolutionary activities of Vladimir Lenin, a student of the Kazan University. 598 PERVIY POSETITEL (THE FIRST VISITOR) 1965, 73 min., b/w, wide screen Drama Director: Leonid Kvinikhidze, screenplay: Daniil Granin, camera: Moisei Magid, Lev Sokolsky, Alexander Black, misic: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, sound: Lev Valter Cast: Yuri Dubrovin, Rufina Nifontova, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Igor Yasulovich, Igor Gorbachev, Sergei Filippov, Boris Chirkov, Alisa Freinlikh The film is set in period of October 24 — 29, 1917. Peasant Vasily Shubin comes to Petrograd to lodge a complaint to the Provisional Government about the illegal confiscation of his horse for public use. He fails to find justice from the Provisional Government he decides to appeal to Lenin.
The film centers on Vasily Shulgin, a former political opponent of Soviet power, the living witness and active participant of many historicevents. Dialogue between the Historian and Shulgin is unfolding like a philosophical and political debate on February Revolution, and the fate of emigrants.
Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. He drowns his sorrows in drink, tormenting his wife Maria and teenager son Lyonka. Maria decides to leave her husband. She goes with her son to Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. Together they drag out a miserable existence till the moment when Griogory Shalagin, an old friend of Pleshcheyev, returns from the army. He awakes in Leonid’s heart the feeling of self dignity and the pride of a soldier.
Marius Petipa (1818 — 1910) immigrated from France to Russia and found his new home, love and vocation in this country. The great ballet master and choreographer, he glorified Russian ballet and won the world-wide fame. Many ballets choreographed by Petipa are included in repertoire of modern ballet theatres as the outstanding pieces of Russian cultural heritage.
Based on Anton Chekhov’s short story “Ionych” 603 DVA BILYETA NA DNEVNOY SEANS (TWO TICKETS FOR THE DAY-TIME SHOW) 1966, 90 min., b/w, wide screen Detective Director: Herbert Rappaport, screenplay: Boris Chirskov, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound: Boris Khutoryansky Cast: Alexander Zbruyev, Zemfira Tsakhilova, Igor Gorbachev, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Nikita Podgorny, Bruno Freindlich, Lyudmila Chursina, Alexander Yanvarev, Stanislav Chekan, Vladimir Kenigson, Galina Nikulina Young police officer Alyoshin working for the economic crimes investigation department is going to leave the police service. His boss gives him the last and a seemingly simple task — to double check a minor detail of a recent police operation. Solving the mystery of two used cinema tickets Alyoshin gets involved in complicated events that end up with exposure of a large gang of plunderers. 604 DOLGAYA SHCHASTLIVAYA ZHIZN (LONG AND HAPPY LIFE) 1966, 70 min., b/w, wide screen Melodrama Written and directed by: Gennady Shpalikov, camera: Dmitry Meckhiyev, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya Cast: Inna Gulaya, Kirill Lavrov, Pavel Luspekayev, Georgy Shtil, Larisa Burkova, Alla Tarasova Two young people — Lena and Viktor — met by chance and spent a Night together. Mutual attraction could have developed into a deeper feeling. However, in the morning they both felt awkward and embarrassed and used the insignificant pretext to part without even trying to sort out their feelings. 605 ZIMNEYE UTRO (WINTER MORNING) 1966, 83 min., b/w, wide screen Melodrama Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Sokrat Kara, camera: Semyon Ivanov, production designer: Alexei Fedorov, misic: Vladimir Maklanov, sound: Boris Livshits Cast: Tanya Soldatenkova, Kostya Kornakov, Nikolai Timofeyev, Vsevolod Kuznertsov, Liliya Gurova, Lubov Malinovskaya Based on the novel “The Seventh Symphony” by T. Tsinberg. The film is set in Leningrad besieged by the Nazis. During the air raid the girl Katya saves a little boy. She names the boy Seryozha. But one day the real father of the boy appeares looking for his missing family.
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