892 LYALKA-RUSLAN I YEGO DRUG SANKA (LYALKA-RUSLAN AND HIS FRIEND SANKA)
1980, 69 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Maria Zvereva, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Dima Aristarkhov, Timur Khalikov, Oksana Poznyakova, Stasik Lashin, Mikhail Pugovkin, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Anna Lisyanskaya, Oksana Nikitina
Loosely based on “Come to Visit Us, Do Come...”, a story by Viktor Golyavkin.
893 MOY PAPA-IDEALIST (MY DADDY IS AN IDEALIST)
1980, 88 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Alla Sokolova, camera: Eduard Rozovsky, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Natalya Avanesova
Cast: Vladislav Strzhelchik, Yuri Bogatyriov, Natalya Varley, Irina Skobtseva, Ivan Dmitriyev, Alexander Belinsky, Igor Dmitriyev, Vladimir Retsepter, Boris Sokolov, Vsevolod Gavrilov, Vadim Yakovlev, Natalya Kustinskaya
Sergei Yuryevich Petrov, a musical comedy actor and an enthusiastic idealist, and his son Boris, a doctor in the intensive care, who is an ironical and pragmatic person, find it difficult to get on together...
The marriage of Petrov Senior to the young ballet dancer Al’ona does little to improve their relationship.
Yet, on a hard day (with many events happening at the same time) both of them suddenly come to understand just how much they need each other.
894 MY SMERTI SMOTRELI V LITSO (WE LOOKED DEATH IN THE FACE)
1980, 74 min., color
Drama
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Yuri Yakovlev, camera: Heinrich Marandzhyan, production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: extracts from compositions by Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Igor Vigdorchik, lyrics by: Olga Bergholz
Cast: Oleg Dal, Lubov Malinovskaya, Larisa Tolkacheva, Yura Zhukov, Borya Naumov, Olga Kuznetsova, Yulya Slezkinskaya, Sasha Dovgalev, Sasha Zenkevich, Igor Kustov, Vladimir Zamansky, Valentin Nikulin
The story of the picture is based on real events: early in 1942 the ballet master A. Obrant (named Boris Korbut in the picture) puts together a dancing company consisting of students of the Leningrad Pioneers’ Palace; the company proceeded to deliver over 3, 000 performances at the front-line...
895 NACHALNIK (THE BOSS)
1980, 31 min., color
Director: Dmitry Gindenshtein, screenplay: Alexander Gorokhov, camera: Rostislav Davydov, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Viktor Guschin, Sergei Pizhel, Yuri Solovyov, Viktor Petrenko, Viktor Yevgrafov
896 NIKUDYSHNAYA (THE GIRL GOOD FOR NOTHING)
1980, 94 min., color
Drama
Director: Dinara Asanova, screenplay: Valery Priyomykhov, camera: Nikolai Pokoptsev, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Edward Vanunz
Cast: Olya Mashnaya, Mikhail Gluzsky, Anvar Asanov, Nikolai Lavrov, Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Alexander Demyanenko, Galina Saburova, Maria Vinogradova, Valery Matveyev, Irina Brazgovka, Andrei Krasko, Valery Priyomykhov
An unbalanced teenage girl fails to achieve mutual understanding with those close to her partly due to her stutter, partly through the neglect of her parents who concentrate on their own affairs.
Trying to escape her aggressiveness, the parents pack their daughter off to the country.
897 OCHKI OT SOLNTSA (SUNGLASSES)
1980, 36 min., color
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Dmitry Svetozarov, camera: Yuri Veksler, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Yuri Dubrovin, Leon Dzigashvili
The main character spends his vacation in the sanatorium but instead of
enjoying his rest he goes in for contriving.
898 PLYVUT MORZHI (WALRUSES SWIMMING)
1980, 89 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Vasilyev, screenplay: Tatyana Kaletskaya, camera: Ivan Bagayev, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Lusyena Ovchinnikova, Andrei Dudarenko, Lyudmila Arinina, Dmitry Kharatyan
At the time when the young scientist Nina Klementyeva was in the process of establishing her laboratory, the lab assistant Zoya became her dedicated helper.
Eventually, after many years, having lived a hard enough life and brought up three children, Zoya meets San Sanych, a kind but weak person addicted to alcohol. Her relationship with Nina Klementyeva goes wrong...
899 POZDNIYE SVIDANIYA (LATE DATES)
1980, 100 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Grigoryev, screenplay: Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Alexei Gabrilovich, camera: Valery Mironov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Larisa Malevannaya, Yuri Platonov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Sergei Nikonenko, Alina Olkhovaya, Alexander Chaban, Galina Shepetnova
Two not very young people met and fell in love. He sacrificed his family for her, while she sacrificed her accustomed freedom.
Life together proved to be far from easy, with the chain of quarrels and reconciliations bringing destruction: Vera and Nikolai Yeremeyevich fail to stay together...
900 POSLEDNY POBEG (THE LAST ESCAPE)
1980, 92 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Alexander Galin, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Yakov Weisburd, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Mikhail Ulyanov, Aliosha Serebryakov, Irina Kupchenko, Leonid Dyachkov, Valery Gatayev, Yevgenya Khanayeva, Viktor Pavlov
On the day of his release from the school for criminally disposed children, Vitya waited in vain for his mother: rather than coming to get her son, she went to meet the returning ship bringing her husband, Vitya’s stepfather. A teacher, Alexei Ivanovich, took Vitya home. But when Vitya saw the group making merry in his home, his resentment prevailed, and the boy ran away...
901 PRIKLYUCHENIYA SHERLOKA HOLMSA I DOKTORA VATSONA (THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR. WATSON)
1980, 3 parts, Part I — “The King of Blackmail”, 67 min., Part II — “The Mortal Fight”, 68 min., Part III — “The Tiger Hunt”, 68 min., color
Detective story
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, camera: Yuri Veksler, production designer: Marc Kaplan, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya Zvereva, Boris Andreyev
Cast:
“Korol Shantazha” (“The King of Blackmail”): Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Rina Zelionaya, Valentina Panina, Borislav Brondukov, Boris Ryzhukhin
“Smertelnaya Skhvatka” (“The Mortal Fight”): Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Rina Zelionaya, Borislav Brondukov, Viktor Yevgrafov, Alexander Zakharov, Nikolai Kryukov
“Okhota na Tigra” (“The Tiger Hunt”): Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Rina Zelionaya, Borislav Brondukov, Igor Dmitriyev, Viktor Yevgrafov, Alexander Zakharov, Nikolai Kryukov
Screen version of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
902 RAZZHALOVANNIY (REDUCED TO THE RANKS)
1980, 31 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Sokurov, camera: Sergei Yurizditsky, production designer: Yuri Kulikov, misic: Alexander Mikhailov, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Ilya Rivin, Nina Krayeva, Viktoria Yurizditskaya, Yelena Mischenko, Andrei Petrov
As fate would have it, the head of the local State Traffic Police office becomes a taxi driver…
903 RAFFERTI (RAFFERTY)
1980, 3 parts, 210 min., color
Drama
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Semyon Nagorny, camera: Heinrich Marandzhyan, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Alexander Kneifel, sound: Eduard Vanunz
Cast: Oleg Borisov, Yevgenya Simonova, Larisa Malevannaya, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Alexander Kaydanovsky, Alexei Resser, Yuri Strenga
Based on a novel of the same title by Lionel White.
The story of the trade union leader Jack Rafferty is the career story of somebody transformed from a “nice guy” into a cynical, unscrupulous boss serving two lords — the big business and the criminal world...
904 SVET V OKNE (THE LIGHT IN THE WINDOW)
1980, 81 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Maria Zvereva, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Boris Tischenko, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Yuri Solomin, Tamara Degtyaryova, Margarita Sergeyecheva
Loosely based on the essay of the same title by Tatyana Tass.
The mother dies giving birth to the second baby. Olya and her farther, both inconsolable after the hard loss have to bring up the little sister.
905 SERGEI IVANOVICH UHODIT NA PENSIYU (SERGEI IVANOVICH IS RETIRED)
1980, 84 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Solomon Shuster, screenplay: Nikolai Nikolayev, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Georgi Kropachev, misic: Boris Tischenko, sound Boris Andreyev
Cast: Boris Andreyev, Alisa Freindlich, Georgi Burkov, Ernst Romanov, Zhanna Bolotova, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Oleg Zhakov, Elza Radzinya, Gennadi Bogachev, Zinaida Sharko, Alexei German
Retiring, Sergei Ivanovich decides to help his children, taking on household duties and bringing up his grandchildren... But his daughter has problems with her new husband... The son living in Moscow and his wife are accomplished philistines... For some reason, Sergei Ivanovich doesn’t feel comfortable with the other son living in Leningrad...
906 SITSILIANSKAYA ZASHCHITA (THE SICILY DEFENCE)
1980, 91 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Igor Usov, screenplay: Pavel Grakhov, Jusef Printsev, camera: Vladimir Ivanov, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Olga Petrova, sound: Natalya Avanesova
Cast: Nikolai Volkov, Jr., Alexander Samoylov, Alexander Abdulov, Nadezhda Pavlova, Vladlen Davydov, Tatyana Kanayeva, Tatyana Ivanova, Pavel Kadochnikov, Irina Gubanova, Artiom Inozemtsev, Alexander Pashutin, Valery Kuzin, Valentin Nikulin, Lyudmila Shagalova
In a car they stopped, officers of the State Traffic Police discover an exquisite chandelier; yet, examination reveals it as a clever imitation. Anonymous letters incriminating Lieutenant Colonel Streltsov who is investigating the case start to come in...
This clearly means that the criminal is getting nervous...
907 SOLO (SOLO)
1980, 29 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Konstantin Lopushansky, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Anatoly Lapshov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Nikolai Grinko, Lyudmila Arzhannikova, Valentina Smirnova
The besieged Leningrad in the winter of 1942. The soloist of the symphonic orchestra is working on Chaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. The performance is to take place in Leningrad Philarmonic Society, to be broadcasted to London...
908 TAINSTVENNY STARIK (THE MYSTERIOUS OLD MAN)
1980, 74 min., color
Adventure
Director: Leonid Makarychev, screenplay: Adkady Minchkovsky, camera: Alexander Chirov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Gennadi Gladkov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Igor Pchelin, Misha Latyshev, Zhenya Osipov, Tanya Shishkina, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Vladimir Tatosov, Sergei Filippov, Boris Ivanov, Alexei Goryachev, Tatyana Bedova
1927. In the small Russian town of Krutov live three friends: Mitrya, Andrian and Lionka. From the director of the Museum of Local Lore the kids learn that a valuable painting stolen from the Museum is somewhere in the town... So the kids start looking.
909 TAYNOYE GOLOSOVANIYE (CONFIDENTIAL VOTE)
1980, 90 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Valery Guryanov, screenplay: Anatoly Strelyany, camera: Boris Timkovsky, production designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Ivar Wiegner, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Mikhail Kuznetsov, Vladlen Biryukov, Sergei Plotnikov, Natalya Nazarova, Alexander Anisimov, Galina Makarova, Lubov Sokolova, Vladimir Olekseyenko, Valery Zolotukhin, Boris Arakelov, Vera Titova
For forty years in a row Foma Lukash remained Chairman of the collective farm. The people truly loved and respected him, but his health began to fail, and something went wrong also with his work...
So, Foma Mikhaylovich makes up his mind to hold the election of a new Chairman before his term of office is over...
910 TROSTINKA NA VETRU (A REED IN THE WIND)
1980, 2 parts, 149 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Aristov, screenplay: Georgy Markov, Edward Shim, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Adkady Gagulashvili, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Olga Melikhova, Alexander Porokhovschikov, Andrei Dudarenko, Andrei Tolubeyev, Tatyana Lebedkova, Alexei Alfiorov, Zinaida Adamovich, Viktor Mikhailov, Nikolai Nasonov
Based on a story of the same title by Georgy Markov.
Graduating from school, Varya leaves her village for the city where her elder sister lives. She believes that this is when real life will begin...
911 TY DOLZHEN ZHIT (YOU MUST LIVE)
1980, 84 min., color
Drama
Director: Vladimir Chumak, screenplay: Maya Chumak, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: extracts from pieces by Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Galina Gorbonosova, verse: Andrei Voznesensky
Cast: Vladimir Puchkov, Yevgeny Steblov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Marina Dyuzheva, Nina Kavtaradze, Irina Muravyeva, Igor Kvasha, Edward Martsevich, Sergei Nikonenko, Alexei Aybozhenko, Alexei Zharkov, Anton Tabakov, Alexander Sokurov, Boris Nevzorov
Loosely based on “The May Winds”, a story by Sergei Smolyanitsky.
In a battle close to the end of the war the fighter plane piloted by Lieutenant Volynin made an emergency landing in the enemy territory.
The gunner and the pilot managed to reach their troops... and the everyday life at the front-line goes on. But the war is not yet over, which means that the trials continue...
912 KHOLOSTYAKI (THE BACHELORS)
1980, 28 min., “Lenfilm” – “Mosfilm” production, color
Tragicomedy
Director: Mikhail Nikitin, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Georgy Portnov, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Sergei Nikonenko, Leonid Dyachkov, Tamara Siomina, Yelena Koroleva
A tale of two men wooing girls who are old friends...
913 ENDSHPIL (ENDGAME)
1980, 4 min., b/w
Director: Viktor Buturlin, sound: Natalya Avanesova
Cast: Oleg Borisov, E. Baranov, M. Kazakova
914 YA — AKTRISA (I AM AN ACTRESS)
1980, 99 min., color
Drama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Semyon Lungin, camera: Valery Fedosov, production designer: Mikhail Scheglov, misic: Alexander Kneifel, sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Natalya Sayko, Oleg Vavilov, Afanasi Kochetkov, Pyotr Merkuryev, Grazhina Baykshtite, Vladimir Korenev, Alexander Romantsov, Bruno Freindlich
The film is a screen portrait of the great Russian actress Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya.
Her life was full of dramatic and tragic events, but Komissarzhevskaya’s talent, courage and starchness helped the actress become the “first-rate star of the theater skies” (a quotation from A. Lunacharsky).
915 BARABANIADA (THE TALE OF A DRUM)
1981, 16 min., color
Surrealistic grotesque
Written and directed by: Sergei Ovcharov, camera: Rostislav Davydov, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Igor Matsiyevsky, sound: Harry Belenky
Cast: Sergei Ovcharov, Viktor Antonov, Tatyana Buchneva, Alexander Grigoryev, Mikhail Ivanov
The young character of the film quite unexpectedly finds out that a drum has got stuck to his stomach…
NB: See “Barabaniada” (1993)
916 DVADTSATOYE DEKABRYA (DECEMBER, THE 20TH))
1981, 4 parts, 276 min., color
Drama
Director: Grigory Nikulin, screenplay: Julian Semyonov, camera: Ivan Bagayev, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Mikhail Kozakov, Andrei Tolubeyev, Igor Komarov, Vladimir Golovin, Anatoly Rudakov, Georgy Drozd, Sergei Yursky, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Leonid Nevedomsky, Gennadi Bortnikov
1917. Troubled times. To establish order in the country, VChK (the All-Union Emergency Commission), the future KGB (the State Security Committee), has been founded...
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The film was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers’ State Premium of the RSFSR (1983).
917 DVE STROCHKI MELKIM SHRIFTOM (TWO LINES IN SMALL PRINT)
1981, 96 min., color, “Lenfilm”-“DEFA” (Germany) production
Drama
Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Mikhail Shatrov, Vladlen Loginov, Vitaly Melnikov, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designers: Vladimir Svetozarov, Johann Keller, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Sergei Shakurov, Jan Shpitzer, Nina Ruslanova, Lydia Konstantinova, Pavel Kadochnikov, Sofia Garrel, Anatoly Romashin, Yevgeny Gurov, Sergei Kurilov, Oleg Borisov, Yuri Bogatyriov, Valery Barinov, Horst Drinda, Klaus-Peter Tiele, Vladlen Biryukov
The historian Fyodor Golubkov comes across a queer fact: the existence of ambivalent opinions about the undercover agent Tishkov, who went down in history as an agent provocateur...
The search for documents and evidence starts...
918 DEVUSHKA I GRAND (THE GIRL AND GRAND)
1981, 94 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sadovsky, screenplay: Valentin Yezhov, Viktor Sadovsky, camera: Viktor Karasyov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Alexander Zhurbin, sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy
Cast: Marina Dyuzheva, Aristarkh Livanov, Vladimir Yevgrafov, Ernst Romanov, Nina Urgant, Oleg Zhakov, Nikolai Ozerov, Alexander Demyanenko, Nikolai Skorobogatov, Nikolai Kryukov, Svetlana Kolysheva, Nikolai Lavrov
Ever since she was a child, Marina Koshevaya dreamed about becoming a jockey. At a certain time she saves a colt, naming it Grand and rearing a great horse...
But prior to becoming an established leader in sports events, Grand and his jockey must go through a lot...
919 DEREVENSKAYA ISTORIYA (A COUNTRY STORY)
1981, 84 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vitaly Kanevsky, screenplay: Viktor Poteykin, camera: Nikolai Pokoptsev, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Valery Gavrilin, sound: Natalya Avanesova
Cast: Sergei Prokhanov, Yelena Solovey, Viktor Pavlov, Alexander Anisimov, Oleg Shtefanko, Yefim Kamenetsky, Alexei Mironov, Fyodor Odinokov, Igor Komarov, Viktor Shulgin, Yuri Dubrovin, Tatyana Govorova
Released from the Army, Grigory Gorelov had been looking for his place in life until he came to realize that it is right here, on his native land, at the collective farm... Understanding as much, he begins to act as a true master — so that he is not afraid to confront the Chairman of the collective farm, asserting his views...
920 DRUGI IGRISHCH I ZABAV (FRIENDS OF PLAY AND AMUSEMENT)
1981, 24 min., color
Tragicomedy
Director: Mikhail Nikitin, screenplay: Viktor Kiseliov, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Georgy Portnov, sound: Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Sergei Vlasov, Leonid Dyachkov, Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Galina Shepetnova, Oleg Borisov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Vasily Shukshin.
921 KOMENDANTSKY CHAS (CURFEW)
1981, 81 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Director: Natalya Troschenko, screenplay: Samson Polyakov, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Yelena Fomina, misic: Vladislav Uspensky, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Galina Makarova, Irina Reznikova, Andrei Tolubeyev, Ivan Sidorov, Yuri Solovyov, Adkady Trusov, Natasha Vasilyeva, Olya Vasilyeva, Anton Granat, Daniil Ginkas, Sonya Dzhishkariani, Olya Kanayeva
In a small Belorussian town occupied by the Nazis Vera Gerasimova is rescuing children orphaned by the war, gathering them under her own roof to save from death and captivity...
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