773 LUBOV S PERVOGO VZGLYADA (LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT)
1975, 90 min., color, joint production with “Gruzia-Film”
Comedy
Director: Rezo Esadze, screenplay: Bella Abramova, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Yakov Bobokhidze, sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy, Zurab Nadaraya, song lyrics: Bulat Okudzhava
Cast: Vakhtang Panchulidze, Natalya Yurizditskaya, Ramaz Chkhivadze, Kakhi Kavsadze, Salomeia Kancheli, Vladimir Novikov, Valida Khizroyeva
The picture is a story of the first love of an ardent football fan enamored of a girl two years his senior.
Certain circumstances, namely the family traditions, prevent the lovers from being together, but the story has a happy end.
774 NOVOGODNIYE PRIKLYUCHENIYA MASHI I VITI (MASHA AND VITYA’S ADVENTURES ON THE NEW YEAR’S EVE)
1975, 71 min., color
Comedy
Director: Igor Usov, Gennadi Kazansky, screenplay: Pavel Finn, camera: Semyon Ivanov, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, sound: Irina Volkova
Cast: Natasha Simonova, Yura Nakhratov, Igor Yefimov, Irina Borisova, Nikolai Boyarsky, Mikhail Boyarsky, Lubov Virolainen, Georgy Shtil
A merry New Year’s Eve picture for and about children.
775 ODINNADTSAT NADEZHD (ELEVEN HOPES)
1975, 101 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sadovsky, screenplay: Valentin Yezhov, Viktor Sadovsky, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Anatoly Papanov, Lubov Virolainen, Yuri Demich, Alexander Goloborodko, Igor Dobryakov, Boris Scherbakov, Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev, Igor Gorbachev, Nikolai Ozerov, Mikhail Vodyanoy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Vasily Vasiliyevich Vorontsov, an honored trainer, adept tactician and teacher, has made a commitment to form a new football team to play for the country. He believes that the members of the team should share the same views, which would rule out any incompatibility... The trainer has set himself a difficult task, and the game to be played with the Spanish team in the World Cup will become the main test...
776 PAMYAT (THE MEMORY)
1975, 3 parts, color
Melodrama
Director: Grigory Nikulin, screenplay: Rita Belyakovskaya, camera: Oleg Kukhovarenko, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Larisa Malevannaya, Alexander Goloborodko, Alesha Vasilyev, Natasha Dikareva, Sasha Zhezlyayev, Lubov Malinovskaya, Nina Urgant
The war left Maria, the main character of the film, widowed with three children. Her life is hard and tough; all of a sudden, the family is plagued with yet another loss: the unexpected death of the elder son Sergei... When Igor, recently back from the front-line, wants to offer Maria and her children assistance and care, the family is torn apart by a conflict: Maria’ daughter Marina will not have her father’s memory forsaken...
777 POLKOVNIK V OTSTAVKE (THE RETIRED COLONEL)
1975, 94 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Maya Chumak, camera: Vladimir Chumak, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Nikolai Grinko, Lilya Gritsenko, Tatyana Kanayeva, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Oleg Yankovsky, Vladimir Zeldin, Valentin Nikulin, Vladimir Zamansky, Zinaida Sharko
Loosely based on “Eternal Tree”, a novel by Viktor Dyagilev.
Korney Korneyevich Polunin is a career military man, a retired colonel. An active and energetic person, he cannot bear being idle, so he decides to resume his initial vocation and go back to being a machine-tool operator... It is hard to start afresh, hard to find oneself an apprentice in his advanced years, but Polunin is not one to give in to problems... On top of this, the factory has hired a group of teenagers, boisterous lads — and who but Polunin should become their patron.
778 PRIZVANIYE (THE VOCATION)
1975, 78 min., color
Drama
Director: August Baltrushaitis, screenplay: Sergei Yegorov, Vadim Mashkin, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Vladislav Uspensky, sound: Asya Zvereva, Grigory Elbert
Cast: Yuri Kamorny, Yuri Grigoryev, Yevgenya Vetlova, Lyudmila Arinina, Irina Borisova, Mikhail Vladimirov, Anatoly Gorin, Andrei Tolubeyev
All of a sudden, a renowned racer cyclist discovers his ability as a trainer. Having lost to his young trainee, he sincerely welcomes the young sportsman’s success and does everything to improve the latter’s skill.
779 PROSHU SLOVA (MAY I HAVE THE FLOOR, PLEASE)
1975, 2 parts, 145 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Written and directed by: Gleb Panfilov, camera: Alexander Antipenko, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Edward Vanunz
Cast: Inna Churikova, Nikolai Gubenko, Vitaly Zhabovsky, Katya Volkova, Leonid Bronevoy, Vasily Shukshin, Valentina Kovel, Dmitry Bessonov, Vadim Medvedev, Ernst Romanov
Yelizaveta Uvarova is trusted with the post of Chairman of the City Council; there is a lot to be done, with countless “problem areas”... But everything Uvarova will undertake she does honestly and wholeheartedly, putting to use all of her ability; she is nothing but a tough person. Being a survivor, she is outgoing, emotional, capable of feeling keenly about things and making others feel the same... The picture is a story of an outstanding person who has been through a personal tragedy coping at her “high post”.
780 RASSKAZ O PROSTOY VESCHI (A STORY OF A SIMPLE MATTER)
1978, 86 min., color
Drama
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Vladich Nedelin, Leonid Menaker, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Yakov Vaisburd, sound: Semyon Shumyacher
Cast: Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Alla Chernova, Mikhail Gluzsky, Oleg Borisov, Viktor Avdyushko, Vladimir Zamansky, Sergei Ivanov
Based on the short story of the same title by Boris Lavrenev.
781 STARSHY SYN (THE ELDER SON)
1975, 2 parts, 140 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Vitaly Melnikov, camera: Yuri Veksler, production designer: Bella Manevich, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Yevgeny Leonov, Natalya Yegorova, Vladimir Izotov, Nikolai Karachentsov, Mikhail Boyarsky, Svetlana Kryuchkova
Based on the play of the same title by Alexander Vampilov.
Late for the last commuter train and reluctant to spend the night outdoors, two young lads trick the Sarafanovs to gain access into their apartment shared by the musician father, the student daughter and the teenage son... One of the lads passes himself for a bastard elder son of the owner of the apartment...
782 STROGOVY (THE STROGOVS)
1975 — 1976, 8 parts, 559 min., color
Drama
Director: Vladimir Vengerov, screenplay: Georgy Markov, Edward Shim, Vladimir Vengerov, camera: Lev Kolganov, Edward Rozovsky, misic: Isaac Schwartz, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Boris Borisov, Lyudmila Zaitseva, Herman Novikov, Lyudmila Arinina, Maya Bulgakova, Viktor Pavlov, Geli Sysoyev, Valery Kravchenko, Rita Gladunko, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Viktor Tregubovich, Valery Barinov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Boris Chirkov, Igor Dmitriyev
Based on the novel of the same title by Georgy Markov.
783 CHUZHIYE PISMA (SOMEBODY ELSE’S LETTERS)
1975, 93 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ilya Averbakh, screenplay: Natalya Ryazantseva, camera: Dmitry Dolinin, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Edward Vanunz
Cast: Irina Kupchenko, Svetlana Smirnova, Sergei Kovalenkov, Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Yankovsky, Maya Bugakova, Ivan Bortnik, Natalya Skvortsova
Zinka Begunkova, in her ninth year of school in a small Central Russian town, is a girl with a complicated life story: fatherless and motherless, living with her brother... At sixteen, Zinka is blindly following the standard principles of “propriety”; having neither compassion nor love of mankind, stubborn and obstinate, she is trying to reshape the very lives of those close to herself along the lines of her own understanding...
784 SHAG NAVSTRECHU (A STEP TOWARDS)
1975, 76 min., color
Lyrical comedy
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Emil Braginsky, camera: Alexander Chirov, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Stanislav Pozhlakov, sound: Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikolai Volkov Jr., Andrei Popov, Yelena Tsyplakova, Yevgeny Leonov, Yelena Solovey, Lev Durov, Vladimir Basov, Yelena Drapeko, Boris Scherbakov, Andrei Mironov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Pavel Pankov, Georgy Vitsin, Lyudmila Ivanova, Anatoly Rudakov
Each of the five short stories comprising the picture has its own main character, its own plot and genre, but all the five are tied together by the same idea: with the complicated and rapidly changing times we live in, the most important things are the human person’s heart and feelings, vulnerability and kindness, the urge to love and be loved....
785 VDOVY (THE WIDOWS)
1976, 90 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Yuri Dunski, Valery Frid, camera: Vladimir Chumak, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Galina Makarova, Galina Skorobogatova, Borislav Brondukov, Yuri Kayurov, Mikhail Pogorzhelsky, Nina Mamayeva, Gennagy Lozhkin, Raisa Maksimova, Vladimir Pitsek, Boris Morozov, Lubov Shustova
As their old age approaches, two soldiers’ widows, Alexandra Matveyevna and Yelizaveta Yegorovna, have come to share a home. They have been brought together not solely by their misery and solitude, but also by a common concern, i.e. the grave of two unknown soldiers which they have been taking care of for over 30 years, ever since the war...
At this time the women are faced by an actual disaster: their District administration has decided to turn “their” humble grave into a memorial...
786 VESYELOYE SNOVIDENIYE, ILI SMEKH SKVOZ SLYEZY (MERRY DREAM, OR LAUGHING WITH ONE EYE AND WEEPING WIH THE OTHER)
1976, 2 parts, 133 min., b/w
Fairy tale
Director: Igor Usov, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, camera: Alexander Dibrivny, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Seryezha Krupennikov, Yulya Shulepova, Sergei Filippov, Vladimir Trukhanov, Georgy Vitsin, Valentina Kovel, Oleg Popov, Valentin Nikulin
Loosely based on Sergei Mikhalkov’ s play “Laughter and Tears”
787 VSEGDA SO MNOYU (WITH ME FOREVER)
1976, 101 min., color
Drama
Director: Solomon Shuster, screenplay: Leonid Zorin, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Vladislav Strzhelchik, Alisa Freindlich, Ivan Solovyov, Angelina Stepanova, Alla Demidova, Nikolai Burlyayev, Oleg Basilashvili, Larisa Udovichenko
In his youth, the art critic Andrei Ilyin happened to go through the severe trials of the siege of Leningrad. Together with his friends he took part in the rescue of the Hermitage treasures. After many years, as a renowned scientist and Academician, he returns to his native city. Reevaluating his life at this stage, he is trying to measure it with a high measure: that of the courage displayed by the defenders of Leningrad.
788 GOROD. OSEN. RITM (CITY. FALL. RHYTHM)
1976, 36 min., color
Musical review
Director: Vadim Gauzner, screenplay: Viktor Sokolov, camera: Valery Fedosov, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy
The review familiarizes its viewers with the best Russian jazz groups.
789 DVADTSAT DNEY BEZ VOYNY (TWENTY WARLESS DAYS)
1976, 101 min., b/w, wide screen
Drama
Director: Alexei German, screenplay: Konstantin Simonov, camera: Valery Fedosov, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Yuri Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Alexei Petrenko, Angelina Stepanova, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Nikolai Grinko, Lusyena Ovchinnikova, Liya Akhedzhakova, Mikhail Kononov
Based on the story of the same title by Konstantin Simonov.
At the end of 1942, twenty days without war fell to the military correspondent Lopatin. He meant to forget all about the war in Tashkent, a city well away from the front-line; yet, the echoes of the war will catch up with him anywhere...
790 DIKY GAVRILA (THE WILD GAVRILA)
1976, 72 min., color
Comedy
Director: Leonid Makarychev, screenplay: Valery Priyemykhov, camera: Boris Timkovsky, production designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Stanislav Pozhlakov, sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Natasha Bubnova, Vitaly Buyanov, Andrei Zharenov, Kostya Tolstov, Mikhail Boyarsky, Mikhail Devyatkin
Without any malicious intent, the kids living in a small town steal the trained bear Gavrila from the visiting circus, meaning to set him free...
791 DLINNOYE, DLINNOYE DELO (A LENGTHY LENGTHY BUSINESS)
1976, 92 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Directors: Grigory Aronov, Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Yuri Nikolin, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Semyon Malkin, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Yevgeny Leonov, Vladimir Zamansky, Mikhail Gluzsky, Oleg Yankovsky, Oleg Belov, Nikolai Karachentsov, Nina Urgant, Roman Medyanov
The investigator with the District Prosecutor’s Office is a modest, mild and kind person... Yet, when it comes to his job which often involves people’s lives and heartbreak, he knows how to be strict and inflexible.
792 ZHITEYSKOYE DELO (AN EVERYDAY BUSINESS)
1976, 92 min., 3 war stories almanach, b/w
1. GDE TY, LUBOV DUNYASHOVA? (WHERE ARE YOU, LUBOV DUNYASHOVA?)
Melodrama
Director: Yuri Solovyov, screenplay: Vladimir Tendryakov, camera: Anatoly Bakhrushin, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Alexander Kharitonov, Yevgeny Menshov, Boris Arakelov, Yuri Solovyov
Summer, 1942. A unit of signal service is withdrawn for a brief break. A young soldier happens to come across a pack of letters which failed to reach their addressees. The young soldier and his friend decide to answer one of the letters...
2. U TEBYA YEST YA (YOU HAVE ME)
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Sergei Potepalov, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Kostya Smirnov, Ira Fominskaya, Tatyana Bedova, Era Ziganshina
Winter, 1944. An orphanage is moving to another city. It so happens that it is joined by a teenage girl going to her aunt’s... This is how Sasha and Vitka meet.
3. ZHITEYSKOYE DELO (AN EVERYDAY BUSINESS)
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Ordovsky, screenplay: Valery Priyemykhov, camera: Vladimir Ivanov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Oleg Borisov, Larisa Malevannaya, Olga Volkova, Sergei Dvoretsky, Alexei Petrenko
Based on the short story of the same title by Andrei Platonov.
Released from the Army, the soldier Anton Gvozdaryev is looking for his missing son. His quest brings him to the home of a soldier’s widow, who is the mother of three children...
793 ...I DRUGIYE OFITSIALNIYE LITSA (...AND OTHER OFFICIALS)
1976, 89 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Alexander Gorokhov, camera: Henrich Marandzhyan, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Miroshnichenko, Anatoly Grachev, Vsevolod Sanayev, Ernst Romanov, Vsevolod Yakut, Gunnar Kilgas, Lev Durov, Alexander Galibin, Lev Krugly, Nikolai Volkov, Sr., Yevgenya Khanayeva
The story is focused on a common occurrence in the everyday activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: the execution of a trading agreement with a foreign company... this is the background for the unfolding of the outstanding personalities of the characters.
794 KADKINA VSYAKY ZNAYET (EVERYONE KNOWS KADKIN)
1976, 79 min., color, wide screen
Comedy
Directors: Anatoly Vekhotko, Natalya Troschenko, screenplay: Pavel Vasilyev, Anatoly Vekhotko, Natalya Troschenko, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Grigory Elbert, Natalya Avanesova
Cast: Georgy Burkov, Lyudmila Zaitseva, Yelena Fetisenko, Maya Bulgakova, Boris Novikov, Stepan Krylov, Roman Medyanov
Fyodor Kadkin returns from the war. A soldier, who has followed a cruel and bloody track, has managed to keep intact his humanity, his gift of compassion, his mildness, and his bragging habit. This is exactly the quality “helping” him to get involved in unusual and amusing situations.
795 KLYUCH BEZ PRAVA PEREDACHI (A KEY NOT TO BE TRANSFERRED)
1976, 99 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Dinara Asanova, screenplay: Georgy Polonsky, camera: Yuri Veksler, Dmitry Dolinin, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Yevgeny Krylatov, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Yelena Proklova, Alexei Petrenko, Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Lubov Malinovskaya, Zinovy Gerdt, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Marina Levtova, Yelena Tsyplakova, Andrei Lavrikov, Kostya Nikolayev, Sasha Bogdanov
Kirill Sergeyevich, a retired Army officer, becomes the new school Headmaster. Used to a strict and orderly routine, he at first finds the chaotic bustle of everyday school life hard... It is not easy to deal with both the children and the teachers, especially with the students’ favorite Marina Maximovna who teaches Literature. Well then, wasn’t Marina surprised to discover the “martinet” Nazarov to be a perceptive and tactful person and an experienced tutor.
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The film was awarded the Special Prize of the Jury in the Contest of Films for Children and Youth at the International Film Festival in Moscow (1977).
796 MENYA ETO NE KASAYETSYA (IT IS OF NO CONCERN TO ME)
1976, 95 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Gerbert Rappaport, screenplay: Edgar Dubrovsky, Gerbert Rappaport, camera: Alexander Chirov, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound: Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Alexander Zbruyev, Irina Ponarovskaya, Yuri Demich, Bruno Freindlich, Irina Grigoryeva, Boris Ivanov, Lyudmila Arinina, Alexander Anisimov, Ivan Dmitriyev, Pavel Pankov, Georgy Shtil, Gennadi Nilov
Kartashov, director of a weaving factory, dies in a car crash. Shubnikov, senior inspector with the Socialist Property Plunder Prevention Department (OBHSS), starts the investigation...
Gradually it is revealed that a whole team of plunderers is active at the factory.
797 NEBESNYYE LASTOCHKY (CELESTIAL SWALLOWS)
1976, 2 parts, 135min, color
Musical
Written and directed by: Leonid Kvinikhidze, camera: Nikolai Zhilin, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Iya Ninidze, Andrei Mironov, Sergei Zakharov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Alexander Shirvindt, Irina Gubanova
Loosely based on “Mademoiselle Nitouche”, story by A. Mellaque, A. Milleau and composer F. Hervais
798 OBYKNOVENNAYA ARKTIKA (JUST THE REGULAR ARCTIC)
1976, 2 parts, 160 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexei Simonov, camera: Rostislav Davydov, production designers: Alexei Rudyakov, Yelena Fomina, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Oleg Dal, Oleg Yefremov, Afanasi Kochetkov, Rolan Bykov, Georgy Korolchuk, Valentin Yerofeyev, Viktor Pavlov
Based on the book of the same title by Boris Gorbatov.
799 OBYCHNY MESYATS (JUST A REGULAR MONTH)
1976, 3 parts, 203 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Iskander Khamrayev, screenplay: Ilya Shtermler, Albina Shulgina, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Marat Kamilov, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Natalya Fateyeva, Roman Gromadsky, Igor Vladimirov, Vladimir Retsepter, Ivan Solovyov, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Alexander Goloborodko
Based on the novel of the same title by Ilya Shtermler.
800 PERVY REYS (THE FIRST RUN)
1976, 78 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Wolf Dolgy, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Isaac Schwartz, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Boris Andreyev, Mikhail Vaskov, Irina Rumyantseva, Oleg Anofriyev, Alla Mescheryakova
A young lad is going through his life’s first practical assignment: finally finding a job he likes, he is setting off on his first run...
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