CHUZHAYA ZHENA I MUZH POD KROVATYU (SOMEBODY ELSE’S WIFE AND A HUSBAND UNDER THE BED)

Loosely based on early short stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A border guard officer, Alexander Blinov, goes on vacation. As a favor to his regiment major, he delivers a parcel to his friend, Elena Zhuravlyova, a freelance reporter working for the local TV company. Due to circumstances Blinov must accompany Elena on her assignments. At the same time, he attempts to “improve” the young woman since she is a bit too careless…

Based on a novel by Georgy Markov.

The last part of the trilogy on several generations of the Strogovs. (The first two films were “The Strogovs” and “The Salt of the Earth”). Set in mid 1980s the film narrates the story of Maxim Strogov — the secretary of a regional party committee in the Urals, who was promoted to this high post during perestroika.

1014 ZIMNYAYA VISHNYA (THE WINTER CHERRY)

1985, 91 min., color

Melodrama

Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, camera: Yury Veksler, production designer Bella Manevich, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya Zvereva

Cast: Yelena Safonova, Nina Ruslanova, Larisa Udovichenko, Vitaly Solomin, Alexander Lenkov, Ivar Kalnynsh, Sergei Parshin, Alla Osipenko

Olga lives alone with her five year old son, and cherishes the hope that she will be happy with Vadim, the man she loves. But he is married and their rare hasty meetings leave Olga with bitter feelings of resentment. One day, a real prince charming, Herbert, appears in Olga's life. He is intelligent, handsome and well-off. Only when he offers her marriage, doesVadim realize what he is loosing, but…

One day a week, on Sundays, the six year old Alyosha meets his daddy. Half a year ago, his parents, Dima and Masha, were separated. On this 'daddy's' day Alyosha tries all sorts of tricks aimed at bringing his mommy and daddy together again.

The hero of the film, the chairman of a collective farm, Pavel Zuzenok is anxious to save his village, the land and its people. Their existence is threatened by a large-size construction project. So Pavel comes up with a rather unusual solution of the problem. He realizes that the village must be preserved and, moreover, that it can benefit the project.

On the eve of the outbreak of World War II a team of Moscow metro builders come to Leningrad to begin construction of the 'underground railway.' Instead they have to fulfill the most difficult and dangerous task — to build the legendary 'Road of Life' to save the city, besieged by the Nazis.

An international agreement on a gas pipeline construction from Siberia to western Europe was called “the contract of the century.” The signing of the contract was complicated by certain dramatical situations — often connected with the world of 'big politics.'

A young wealthy widow, Maritsa, is a tasty morsel for men hunting for a rich wife. To get rid of her suitors, Maritsa declares that she is going to marry the one and only man — and she utters the first name that comes to her mind. However, it turns out that such a man does exist and he is hurrying to meet his 'fiancee.'

A young girl working on a factory in Leningrad during the Nazi seige meets a young lieutenant going with his battalion to the front line. As it turned out, this meeting was the first and the last one.

Based Boris Vasilyev’s novel “Before the Verdict Is On...”

A murder case is being heard in a court. The defendant is an old man and a disabled war veteran. What made this man, who fought for his country, pull the trigger of his sporting gun in peacetime?

1022 POROKH (GUNPOWDER)

1985, 92 min., color

War drama

Director: Viktor Aristov, screenplay: Viktor Aristov, Artur Makarov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Vladimir Bannykh, sound: Leonid Shumyacher

Cast: Yuri Belyayev, Svetlana Bragarnik, Lubov Kalyuzhnaya, Vadim Makarovsky, Nozheri Choneshvilli, Vladimir Varentsov, Konstantin Sarynin, Logman Kerimov

At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon they will fire their last shot, and after that the defense of the city will be doomed. The film is based on a true event: a small group of fearless soldiers transported a large supply of gunpowder through enemy lines to Leningrad.

Based on war stories by Yuri German.

Alexander Lazarev, a former Red Army sergeant, finds himself in a German camp for prisoners of war. Lacking spirit, he agrees to collaborate with the Nazis. Later, regretting his cowardice, he joins a partisan detachment. There is a strong disagreement between the commander and the commissar of the detachment over Lazarev. Finally, the commander insists on giving Lazarev a chance: they will put him through the test in a reconnaissance operation scouting out the area roads.

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Loosely based on Lev Tolstoy’s short story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”

The world and life itself, seen through the eyes of the hero of the film, turn out to be totally indifferent to his pain and sufferings. Unexpectedly, at the very moment of his death he experiences a sense of relief and tranquility.

1025 PROTIVOSTOYANIYE (CONFRONTATION)

1985, 5 parts, 392 min., color

Detective

Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Yulian Semyonov, camera: Valery Fedosov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Alexander Knaifel, sound: Eduard Vanunts

Cast: Oleg Basilashvili, Andrey Boltnev, Yuri Kuznetsov, Murman Dzhinoriya, Viktor Gogolev, Olga Semyonova, Alexander Filippenko, Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina, Stanislav Sadalsky, Sergei Bekhterev, Natalya Saiko, Valdimir Golovin, Vitautas Paukshte

Based on Yulian Semyonov’s novel of the same title.

The same “hand” can be traced to involvement in several dreadful crimes committed years apart. Colonel Kostenko, investigating the case realizes that in order to find the criminal he will have to look into the years of World War II.

1026 RADI NESKOLKIKH STROCHEK (FOR A FEW LINES)

1985, 77 min., color

War drama

Director: Alexander Rogozhkin, screenplay: Arkady Krasilshchikov, camera: Ivan Bagayev, production designer: Stanislav Romanovsky, misic:Algidras Paulavichyus, sound: Nikolai Astakhov

Cast: Nikita Mikhailovsky, Nelly Popova, Vladimir Olekseyenko, Anton Adasinsky, Vladimir Yeriomin, Anatoly Grachev, Yuri Dubrovin, Aleksei Buldakov, Valery Zakharyev, Sergei Prokhanov

Loosely based on Mikhail Alekseyev’s novel “A Division Newsletter”

Advancing Red Army troops have reached the Soviet state border in the Carpathian mountains. The division newspaper office is located near the front line. The film describes the everyday work of war reporters, shows the brief encounters between people, love and loss.

1027 REIS DVESTI DVADTSAT DVA (FLIGHT 222)

1985, 2 parts, 130 min., color

A political detective

Written and directed by: Sergei Mikaelyan, camera: Sergei Astakhov, production designer: Elizaveta Urlina, misic: Sergei Banevich, sound: Galina Lukina

Cast: Larisa Polyakova, Nikolai Kochnev, Nikolai Alyoshin, Alexander Babanov, Yevgeny Yakhontov, German Katyushenko, Vilnis Bekkeris, Georgy Karelsky

American authorities prevent the departure of a Soviet airliner because they are trying to persuade a Soviet actress to defect.

Every year at the end of December Svetlana Nechayeva, a drama theatre actress, puts on the costume of the Snow Maiden. This year the unexpected an happens: her partner, who usually plays the part of Santa Claus, suddenly falls ill and their driver Sergeyev volunteers to play his part.

A young reporter, Pavel Tyurin, has been recently released from military service. He gets his first serious assignment: to write a satirical story, that offends some very influential persons.

After failing to win the gold medal in rowing and ending up with the silver, Natalya Ozernikova spends her vacation with her grandfather in the Crimea. There she meets wind-surfing enthusiasts. Fascinated by the beautiful and daring sport the heroine decides to take part in an international contest and finally regains her winning spirit.

The life and achievements of the prominent Russian mathematician, Sofia Kovalevskaya.

A crime has been committed; someone has stolen money from the safe of the fishermen's cooperative. The case is investigated by a young police lieutenant. According to one of the versions the suspect is the hardened criminal nicknamed ‘Chuma’ (the plague), who is hiding nearby.

Three seamen, people of different ages, find themselves in a Leningrad hospital ward. The relations of ordinary roommates grow into true friendship.

Jeanna, who grew up in an orphanage, works at a factory. Roman is an ambulance car driver. The young couple lived happily until the moment when Roman got involved in activities of a gang of thieves.

Yasha Vosmyorkin came to America when he was a small boy. When he heard that the Revolution took place in Russia he decided to return home. This is how Yasha, who changed in America his name to Jack, became a farmer in Russia and began to realise his American ideas in Russia.

Based on Maxim Gorky’s novel of the same title.

Life of an intellectual Samgin is shown against backdrop of grand panorama of life in Russia in period of 1877 — 1917. A complicated and exceptional personality, Samgin is trying to find his way to preserve his individuality in difficult times of social cataclysms in Russia.

1037 ZA VETLUGOI REKOI (BEHIND THE VETLUGA RIVER)

1986, 88 min., color

Melodrama

Director: Sergei Linkov, screenplay: Radiy Kushnerovich, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Yelena Fomina, misic: Stanislav Vazhov, sound: Nataliya Levitina

Cast: Yanina Lisovskaya, Vasiliy Mishchenko, Maria Pastukhova, Nina Ruslanova

Life of a young woman living in village is quite commonplace... However, even the most prosaic everyday life can be full of poetry, turning everything that surrounds it in a kind of a song.

A house is falling apart at our eyes. Trip of the lead character of the film, a famous architect into the past, his attempts to realise the full extent of his responsibility for the things that happened lead to a complete crash of his life.

Say what you think and not what you are expected to say. This is the morale of this amusing tale, the hero of which all of a sudden began to use “stock phrases” in his everyday life.