860 DESANT NA ORINGU (THE ORINGA LANDING PARTY)
1979, 92 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Herman Baluyev, Samson Polyakov, camera: Nikolai Pokoptsev, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Irina Volkova
Cast: Tatyana Vasilyeva, Timofei Spivak, Tamaz Toloraya, Valery Olshansky, Oleg Belov, Herman Kolushkin, Yuri Prokofyev, Igor Gorbachev, Yuri Dedovich
In the taiga, advancing along the route of the BAM (Baikal-Amur Railway), works a team of equipment operators led by Alexander Ivanov. The construction people are aware that Ivanov is capable of living up to any assignment, but quite often one has to take risks, bypassing the bureaucratic instructions... At this time, an auditor is coming down from the capital city to check on certain “unlawful actions” of Ivanov’s...
861 ZHENA USHLA (THE WIFE HAS LEFT)
1979, 91 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Dinara Asanova, screenplay: Viktor Aristov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Vladimir Vasilyev, sound: Edward Vanunz, songs: Bulat Okudzhava
Cast: Valery Priyomykhov, Yelena Solovey, Mitya Savelyev, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Alexander Demyanenko, Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Zinovy Gerdt, Maria Vinogradova, Alexei Zharkov
Engineer Klyuyev’s wife leaves him. She leaves abruptly, without any obvious reasons...
Brooding over his quite “happy” family life, Klyuyev gradually comes to understand that he is the one to blame.
862 ZAVTRAK (THE BREAKFAST)
1979, 21 min., b/w
Director: Askhab Abakarov, screenplay: Shapi Kaziyev, Askhab Abakarov, camera: Anatoly Lapshov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Anna Dumler
Based on Somerset Maugham ‘s short story of the same title.
A young artist invited a girl for breakfast. She ate delicatessen with good appetite.
863 INZHENER GRAFTIO (ENGINEER GRAFTIO)
1979, 81 min., color, wide screen
Biopic
Director: Gennadi Kazansky, screenplay: Alexander Galin, camera: Semyon Ivanov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Anatoly Papanov, Gennadi Yegorov, Sergei Ivanov, Antonina Shuranova, Vladimir Kozel, Vladimir Markov, Yuri Kamorny, Vitaly Baganov, Igor Yefimov, Viktor Chekhmariov, Valery Olshansky
Heinrich Osipovich Graftio can be rightly considered the founder of Russian research in the field of hydraulic power. Yet, in the environment of the tsarist Russia none of his bold projects were implemented. The implementation of his daring, fantastic ideas, the first of them being Volkhovstroy, didn’t start till after 1918.
864 KLUB SAMOUBIYTS, ILI PRIKLYUCHENIYA TITULOVANNOY OSOBY (SUICIDE CLUB, OR A TITLED PERSON’S ADVENTURES)
1979 — 1980, 3 parts, 206 min., color
Comedy
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Edgar Dubrovsky, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Oleg Dal, Donatas Banionis, Igor Dmitriyev, Lubov Polishchuk, Vitaly Ilyin, Igor Yankovsky, Yelena Solovey, Vladimir Shevelkov, Yelena Tsyplakova, Askhab Abakarov, Boris Novikov, Ivan Mokeyev, Yevgeny Kindinov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Vladimir Basov
Loosely based on short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. Exhausted with boredom, Prince Florizel is looking to be thrilled, and it so happens that, accompanied by his friend Colonel Gerald, he finds himself in the Suicide Club... Eventually they get to be in the center of adventure...
865 LETUCHAYA MYSH (THE BAT)
1979, 2 parts, 141 min., color
Musical comedy
Written and directed by: Jan Frid, loosely based on libretto by Nikolai Erdman, Mikhail Volpin, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy
Cast: Yuri Solomin, Lyudmila Maksakova, Larisa Udovichenko, Vitaly Solomin, Oleg Vidov, Igor Dmitriyev, Yuri Vasilyev, Yevgeny Vesnik, Olga Volkova, Ivan Lyubeznov, Sergei Filippov, Glikeria Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Vladimir Lyakhovetsky
Based on the operetta of the same title by Johann Strauss.
866 LICHNOYE SVIDANIYE (THE MEETING IN PERSON)
1979, 26 min., color
Drama
Director: Alexei Lebedev, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Ivan Banayev, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Evgeny Irshai, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Nathalia Akimova, Sergei Koshunin
A bride visits her bridegroom who had been put to jail for fighting at their wedding party. Their first night took place in prison…
867 NA SLYOZY LAURY (TO LAURA’S TEARS)
1979, 31 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Valeri Apanansky, screenplay: Valery Priyomykhov, camera: V. Ivanov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Georgy Portnov, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Andrei Tolubeev, Nikolai Karachentsov, Viktor Ivanov
A guy fell in Love to a charwoman and wrote lyrics dedicated for her.
868 NEOBYKNOVENNOYE LETO (A REMARKABLE SUMMER)
1979, 4 parts, 308 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Grigory Nikulin, screenplay: Maria Zvereva, camera: Nikolai Zhilin, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Yuri Demich, Nikolai Volkov, Jr., Svetlana Orlova, Oleg Palmov, Anatoly Azo, Yevgeny Lebedev, Irina Pechernikova
Based on “The First Delights” and “A Remarkable Summer” novels by Konstantin Fedin.
869 NESKLADUKHA (NONSENSE)
1979, 26 min., b/w
Ironical fairy tale
Written and directed by: Sergei Ovcharov, camera: Rostislav Davydov, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Igor Matsiyevsky, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Anatoly Rudakov, Yelena Alekseyeva, Vladimir Loparev, Viktor Gogolev, Alexander Afanasyev, Nikolai Kuzmin
Loosely based on Russian folklore.
870 OTPUSK V SENTYABRE (A VACATION IN SEPTEMBER)
1979, 2 parts, 145 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: Vitaly Melnikov, camera: Yuri Veksler, production designer: Bella Manevich, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Oleg Dal, Irina Kupchenko, Irina Reznikova, Natalya Gundareva, Natalya Mikolyshina, Yuri Bogatyrov, Gennadi Bogachev, Nikolai Burlyayev, Yevgeny Leonov
Loosely based on “The Duck Hunting”, a play by Alexander Vampilov.
The main character, Zilov, seems to lead a normal, well-to-do life at both his place of work and home. Yet, Zilov’s indifference, callousness and immorality result in utter devastation and hopelessness..
871 PANI MARIA (MADAM MARIA)
1979, 87 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Natalya Troschenko, screenplay: Samson Polyakov, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Yelena Fomina, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Svetlana Kryuchkova, Georgy Burkov, Sergei Ivanov, Igor Osokin, Jemma Firsova, Vladimir Basov, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Yuri Solovyov, Yelena Fetisenko, Nikolai Timofeyev, Valery Olshansky, Geli Sysoyev
The war is coming to an end. Three soldiers happen to stop for the night in the home of Maria, living in a small Belorussian town. One of them, Ivan, quoted Maria’s name in his personal tag, identifying her as his wife... Having received a notice of Ivan’s death, Maria unexpectedly regards herself as a soldier’s’ widow, and moreover, falls in “posthumous” “love” with her “husband”... Out of the blue, Ivan comes back.
872 POSLEDNYAYA OKHOTA (THE LAST HUNT)
1979, 80 min., color, wide screen
Thriller
Director: Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Arthur Makarov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Edward Vanunz, Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Yuri Bogatyriov, Oleg Borisov, Nikolai Grinko, Maxim Munzuk, Marina Likhun, Algimantas Masyulis, Bolot Beyshenaliyev, Nikolai Rybnikov, Buda Vampilov, Ivan Bortnik, Alexei Zharkov
It was by word of the mouth that the camp of Iglulik knew about the new rule in Russia... Not even the head of the trading station, Shatokhin, or the medicine man Kaeleuege were able to explain clearly.
At this time, the crew of Horsefield’s pirate schooner came ashore to loot as quickly and as much as possible..
873 PROGULKA, DOSTOYNAYA MUZHCHIN (AN OUTING WORTHY OF MEN)
1979, 92 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Vekhotko, screenplay: Mikhail Demidenko, Mikhail Kurayev, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Yelena Glebova, Semyon Morozov, Viktor Ilyichov, Alexander Fatushin, Leonid Varfolomeyev, Natalya Dmitriyeva, Maxim Munzuk, Marina Starykh, Valery Bychenkov
A chance trip of two friends to the North turned out to be a grave test for both of them: one of the characters had to return home, while the other was forced to remain an the oil pipeline construction site...
874 PRISTAN (THE DOCK)
1979, 28 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Vyacheslav Sorokin, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Viktor Ivanov, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Valery Gavrilin, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Alexei Zharkov, Galina Figlovskaya
Anfisa a barmaid in the port meets a lad…
875 PUTESHESTVIYE V DRUGOY GOROD (A TRIP TO ANOTHER CITY)
1979, 93 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, misic: Alexander Kolker, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Irina Kupchenko, Mikhail Pogorzhelsky, Viktor Proskurin, Mikhail Yezepov, Vitaly Yushkov, Tatyana Piletskaya, Igor Gorbachev, Yelena Kondulainen
Traveling on business, the construction engineer Kirillov arrives in a small town. At first his business and his work — everything proceeds as usual, as it should, but unexpectedly a woman named Lina enters Kirillov’s life...
876 RANNIYE ZHURAVLY (THE EARLY CRANES)
1979, 96 min., co-production with “Kirghizfilm”, color
Drama
Director: Bolotbek Shamshiyev, screenplay: Chingiz Aitmatov, Bolotbek Shamshiyev, camera: Sergei Taraskin, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Alexander Knaifel, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Emil Boronchiyev, Suymenkul Chokmorov, Gulsara Adzhibekova, Khasan Abdraimov, Suyutay Shamshiyeva, Altynay Abdiyeva, Akyl Kulanbayev
Loosely based on a story of the same title by Chingiz Aitmatov.
The menacing echo of war has eventually reached the small Kirghiz village: the fathers and elder brothers have gone to battle.
The collective farm Chairman is asking the teenagers to help prepare for the ploughing. So the kids name their team “The Aksay Landing Party”...
877 SOLOVEY (THE NIGHTINGALE)
1979, 85 min., color, wide screen
Musical fairy tale
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Mikhail Volpin, camera: Edward Rozovsky, production designer: Marina Azizyan, Vladimir Kostin, misic: Mikhail Weinberg, sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Svetlana Smirnova, Yuri Vasilyev, Alexander Vokach, Zinovy Gerdt, Nikolai Trofimov, Alexander Demyanenko, Sergei Filippov, Konstantin Adashevsky, Nikolai Karachentsov, Maria Barabanova, Georgy Shtil, Boris Arakelov
The unexpected forest encounter of the poor young apprentice Evan with a magician brings a radical change in his life: suddenly, he is nominated heir to the throne in place of the deceased monarch...
Thus he finds himself in a world of lies and hypocrisy, of flatterers and toadies...
878 STARSHINA (FIRST SERGEANT)
1979, 87 min., color
Drama
Director: Nikolai Koshelev, screenplay: Vladimir Kunin, camera: Alexei Gambaryan, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Harry Belenky, song lyrics by: Alexander Tvardovsky
Cast: Vladimir Gostyukhin, Natalya Sayko, Ivan Bortnik, Alexander Vasilyev, Alexander Zhdanov, Andrei Danilov, Ramaz Abushadze, Vladimir Yuryev, Igor Komarov, Nikolai Lavrov
Discharged from the hospital, Katsuba is posted to an Air Force Flying School as First Sergeant of a training squadron.
At first it appeared to the 17-year-old trainees that the strict, reserved Katsuba was just picking at them, yet by and by they began to see their instructor as a kind, sympathetic and decent person...
879 TAYOZHNAYA POVEST (A TAIGA TALE)
1979, 99 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Mikhail Kononov, Svetlana Smekhnova-Blagoyevich, Yevgeny Kindinov
Loosely based on “The Tsar Fish”, a novel by Viktor Astafyev.
In a wild faraway forest the hunter Akim comes across the dying Elya who chanced to be in his hunting lodge... Akim virtually saves her, patiently nursing her back to health, caring for her as he would for a child, and then takes her back to civilization, never to see again...
880 TROYE V LODKE, NE SHCHITAYA SOBAKI (THREE MEN IN A BOAT, TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG)
1979, 2 parts, 135 min., color
Musical comedy
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Semyon Lungin, camera: Heinrich Marandzhyan, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Alexander Kolker, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Andrei Mironov, Alexander Schirwindt, Mikhail Derzhavin, Larisa Golubkina, Alina Pokrovskaya, Irina Mazurkevich, Zinovy Gerdt, Georgy Shtil, Tatyana Peltzer, Olga Volkova, Viktor Ilyichev, Grigory Spiegel
Loosely based on a story of the same title by Jerome K. Jerome.
Three young friends make up their minds to spend their vacation on the Thames, with no household amenities or comfort... and naturally, — “no women”!
881 FANTAZII FARYATYEVA (FARYATYEV’S FANTASIES)
1979, 2 parts, 152 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Ilya Averbach, camera: Dmitry Dolinin, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Alfred Schnitke, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Marina Neyolova, Andrei Mironov, Zinaida Sharko, Lilya Gritsenko, Yekaterina Durova, Maxim Britvenkov
Loosely based on the play of the same title by Alla Sokolova.
882 SHERLOK HOLMS I DOKTOR VATSON (SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR. WATSON)
1979, 2 parts, 142 min., color
Detective
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Yuli Dunsky, Valery Frid, camera: Yuri Veksler, production designer: Mark Kaplan, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya Zvereva, Boris Andreyev
Cast: Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Rina Zelionaya, Maria Solomina, Gennadi Bogachev, Fyodor Odinokov, Borislav Brondukov, Igor Dmitriyev, Nikolai Karachentsov, Viktor Aristov
Loosely based on short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
A tale of the adventures of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his indispensable friend Dr. Watson.
883 ALTER EGO (ALTER EGO)
1980, 4 min., b/w
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Yuri Mamin, camera: Valery Martynov
Cast: Viktor Shagin, Lyudmila Samokhvalova, Kseniya Samokhvalova
884 BLAGOCHESTIVAYA MARTA (THE PIOUS MARTHA)
1980, 2 parts, 145 min., color
Musical comedy
Director: Jan Frid, screenplay: Mikhail Donskoy, Jan Frid, camera: Edward Rozovsky, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Gennadi Gladkov, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Margarita Terekhova, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Nikolai Karachentsov, Svetlana Toma, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Pavel Kadochnikov, Yekaterina Raykina, Oleg Vidov
Based on a comedy of the same title by Tirso de Molina.
Donna Martha is meant to be married to a rich old man, Captain Urbino.
The girl is devastated. She comes up with various tricks, so that the wedding day would never come...
At this time Don Felix, the one whom Martha wants to tie her life with, gains access into the house, disguised as a street urchin.
885 VZVEYTES, SOKOLY, ORLAMI (FALCONS, SOAR AS EAGLES DO)
1980, 77 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Vladimir Kunin, camera: Vadim Grammatikov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky, sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Ivan Shabaltas, Svyatoslav Kopylov, Yuri Sarantsev, Irina Kraslavskaya, Alexei Inzhevatov, Yuri Dubov, Alexander Polyakov
The film features the story of the three generations of circus acrobats since 1913...
886 VRAGI (THE ENEMIES)
1980, 20 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Andrey Druzhkov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Marina Azizyan, misic: Adkady Gagulashvili, sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Georgy Kropachov, Viktor Varkin, Lyudmila Arzhannikova
887 DVA DOLGIKH GUDKA V TUMANE (TWO LONG WHISTLES IN THE FOG)
1980, 80 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Valery Rodchenko, screenplay: Edgar Dubrovsky, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Adkady Gagulashvili, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Nikolai Grinko, Alexander Porokhovschikov, Yelena Kapitsa, Dagun Omayev, Lubov Virolainen, Viktor Proskurin, Andrei Tolubeyev, Alexander Kovalenko, Alexander Susnin, Nikolai Fedortsov
On a passenger steamer on its last run before the close of the navigation season, there is a rather motley group who at first glance seem to hardly know each other.
Unexpectedly, a dead body is discovered in one of the cabins...
888 DEN NA RAZMYSHLENIYE (ONE DAY TO RECONSIDER)
1980, 84 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: August Baltrushaitis, screenplay: Alexander Gorokhov, camera: Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Alexander Flyarkovsky, sound: Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Vsevolod Safonov, Yuri Solovyov, Alexander Zakharov, Irina Gubanova, Elza Lezhdey, Artem Inozemtsev, Viktor Chekhmarov
The head of the board of an important shipping company hands in his notice. Kolosov is given one day to reconsider.
Through extensive reminiscences, he sees that the current quiet and peaceful life is alien to his active nature.
889 KRIK GAGARY (THE LOON’S SHRIEK)
1980, 83 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Sergei Linkov, screenplay: Mikhail Kurayev, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designers: Igor Vuskovich, Rimma Narinyan, misic: Grigory Frid, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Anatoly Vasilyev, Alexei Zharkov, Pavel Ivanov, Olga Perveyeva, Yelena Drapeko, Grigory Gay, Vasily Korzun, Anna Aleksakhina
An important army drill was underway. Major Bragin was to command his regiment... but errors piled one upon another, and eventually Lieutenant Colonel Korenev, Chief of Headquarters, was offered to take over...
890 KUST SIRENI (THE LILAC BUSH)
1980, 30 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Yevgeny Stavrov, screenplay: Alexei Simonov, Viktor Zlobin, camera: Yuri Veksler, production designer: Bella Manevich, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Oleg Palmov, Yelena Popova, Ernst Romanov, Boris Kokovkin
Based on Alexander Kuprin’s short story of same name
Almazov entering Akademy of General Headquarters made a blot on topographic plane he designed. His life was saved by his wife who suggested to plant a bush of lilac…
891 LES (THE FOREST)
1980, 83 min., color, wide format
Tragical comedy
Written and directed by: Vladimir Motyl, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, production designer: Valery Kostrin, misic: Alexander Zhurbin, sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy
Cast: Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Boris Plotnikov, Vyacheslav Kirilichev, Stanislav Sadalsky, Mikhail Pugovkin, Yelena Borzova, Alexander Solovyov, Kira Kreylis-Petrova, Viktor Tsepayev
Loosely based on a play of the same title by Alexander Ostrovsky.
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