1100 TRUDNO PERVIYE STO LET (IT'S HARD FOR THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS)
1988, 2 parts, 138 min., color
Drama
Director: Viktor Aristov, screenplay: Georgy Markov, Edward Shim with input from Viktor Aristov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Vladimir Bannykh, misic: Arkadi Gagulashvili, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Lyubov Krasavina, Nikolai Shatokhin, Anna Ovsyannikova, Kostya Shkurko, Natalya Nazarova, Olga Nikolayeva, Natalya Lvova, Yuri Kolobkov, Marina Boldysh, Yuliya Proskurina
The film features the life story of the young woman Varya, a collective farm milkmaid: hers are the grinding routine work, the everyday worries, the empty store counters, the industrious husband who is also worn out and joyless...
This goes on from one day to another: the work, the household duties, the worries...
1101 FONTAN (THE FOUNTAIN)
1988, 104 min., color
Satirical comedy
Director: Yuri Mamin, screenplay: Vladimir Vardunas, camera: Anatoly Lapshov, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Alexei Zalivalov, sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Asankul Kuttubayev, Sergei Dontsov, Viktor Mikhailov, Alexei Zalivalov, Nina Usatova, Zhanna Kermitayeva, Anatoly Kalmykov, Lyudmila Samokhvalova, Lyubov Arkus, Nikolai Adomenaite, Valery Mironov
A regular apartment building with its tenants, household members, and kindly morons from the Housing Maintenance Office lives its regular life, — until a hot water fountain gushes out in the yard (due to a heat supply system accident)...
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The film was awarded the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival in Las Vegas, USA (1990) and the “Silver Fishnet” Prize of the 1st Comedy Film Festival in Torremolinos, Spain (1990).
1102 KHLEB — IMYA SUSHCHESTVITELNOYE (BREAD IS A NOUN)
1988, 8 parts, 9 h. 40 min., color
Drama
Director: Grigory Nikulin, screenplay: Mikhail Alekseyev, Grigory Nikulin, Yuri Tyurin, camera: Sergei Astakhov, production designers: Pavel Parkhomenko, Vladimir Bannykh, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Nikolai Astakhov
Cast: Nikolai Voloshin, Andrei Dudarenko, Sergei Nikonenko, Nina Ruslanova, Natalya Sayko, Alexei Buldakov, Kirill Lavrov, Yuri Votyakov, Vladlen Biryukov, Herman Alitin, Nikolai Mikheyev, Alexander Bashurov
Based on the literary works of Mikhail Alekseyev.
A tragic chronicle of the life of a large village in Saratov Region from the start of the century to mid-1930-s, an original group portrait of the Russian peasantry.
1103 CHEPE RAYONNOGO MASSHTABA (A DISTRICT-WIDE EMERGENCY)
1988, 89 min., color, wide screen
Social drama
Director: Sergei Snezhkin, screenplay: Yuri Polyakov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Nikolai Gavrilov, misic: Alexander Kneifel, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Igor Bochkin, Yelena Anisimova, Vitaly Usanov, Leonard Varfolomeyev, Yuri Demich, Yuri Kuznetsov, Yelena Antonova, Alla Murina, Sergei Volkov, Sergei Voytov, Andrei Smirnov
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Yuri Polyakov.
A chronicle of a few days in the life of the Komsomol elite in the early 1980-s.
The procedure of accepting teenagers into Komsomol was especially hurried: First Secretary was getting a promotion, moving on to a “higher level”. The Bureau members were waiting for the evening to celebrate the occasion in the sauna... And all of a sudden, they were faced with an emergency: the theft of the banner from the district Komsomol Committee office...
1104 SHTANY (THE PANTS)
1988, 83 min., color
Detective drama
Written and directed by: Valery Priyemykhov, camera: Sergei Astakhov, production designer: Mikhail Suzdalov, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Alexander Gruzdev
Cast: Yuri Yakovlev, Valery Priyemykhov, Andrei Krayni, Daniil Lapigin, Yelena Ryzhova, Viktor Mikhailov, Vladimir Knyazev, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Igor Dmitryyev, Ivan Krasko, Zoya Buryak, Yuri Kuznetsov, Nina Usatova
The picture is a study of the lives of the people involuntarily involved (the provincial actor Batsanov and the waiter Chumakov) and of Investigator Mishin rather than of the crime (murder) itself...
1105 ESPERANSA (ESPERANZA)
1988, 2 parts, 135 min., color
Drama
Director: Serhio Olkhovich, screenplay: Valentin Yezhov, Serhio Olkhovich, camera: Anatoly Mukasei, production designers: Boris Burmistrov, Fernando Ramirez, Gabriela Roblez, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Galina Lukina, Diego Garcia, Gennady Korkhovoy
Cast: Dmitry Kharatyan, Leonid Kuravlyev, Boris Tokarev, Claudio Brook, Deliya Kazanova, Vera Glagoleva, Nadezhda Smirnova, Ernst Romanov, Lev Durov, Lyubov Virolainen, Timofei Spivak, Nikita Mikhailovski, Lev Lemke, Vladimir Olkhovski
1917. The Civil war brings discord into the noble Ol’khovsky family. The head of the family, Alexei Olkhovski, sympathizes with the Bolsheviks, his daughter Tamara is for the Red Army, his brother Anatoly is an SR (a member of the Social Revolution Party), his younger son Vladimir leaves Russia on the first tide of emigration and, as fate would have it, remains in Mexico for good...
1106 BRODYACHY AVTOBUS (THE STRAY BUS)
1989, 98 min., color
Drama
Director: Joseph Heifitz, screenplay: Lyudmila Razumovskaya basing on the libretto by Joseph Heifitz, camera: Yuri Shaigardanov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Lev Borisov, Mikhail Zhigalov, Afanasi Trishkin, Sergei Parshin, Nadezhda Yeryemina, Liya Akhedzhakova, Yelena Kozlitina, Oleg Volkov, Irina Rakshina
From one village to another treks a shabby old bus with a small acting company, to stage two or three performances before the scarce spectators. Comprising the company are people in love with the theater in their own special ways...
1107 BUMAZHNYYE GLAZA PRISHVINA (PRISHVIN'S PAPER EYES)
1989, 2 parts, 148 min., color
Drama
Written and directed by: Valery Ogorodnikov, camera: Valery Mironov, production designer: Viktor Ivanov, misic: Edison Denisov, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade
Cast: Alexander Romantsov, Oleg Kovalov, Irina Tsyvina, Yuri Tsapnik, Pavel Rudakov, Yevgeny Barkov, Vladimir Dyatlov, Olga Land, Alla Shelest, Sergei Lavrentyev
The TV director Pavel Prishvin is involved as an actor in his friend's movie picture about Stalinism, cast as a State Security Captain. The picture is meant to be highly competitive, which Pavel, working on a documentary TV show featuring these very times, is well aware of...
1108 V POISKAKH PRAVDY (IN SEARCH OF THRUTH)
1989, 71 min., color
Publicistic fiction
Written and directed by: Pyotr Satunovski, camera: Vadim Grammatikov, production designer: Roza Satunovskaya, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov, Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Lev Kulidzhanov, Yuli Raizman, Boris Tenin, Mikhail Ulyanov, Yuri Kayurov
The picture is following the history of the Soviet pictures devoted to Lenin, mirroring the changing requirements towards art and history...
1109 VASKA (VASKA)
1989, 3 parts, 226 min., color
Tragic farce
Director: Viktor Titov, screenplay: Sergei Antonov, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, Sergei Biryuk, production designers: Vladimir Orlov, Sergei Shemyakin, sound: Nataliya Avanesova
Cast: Tatyana Ilchenko, Irina Mazurkevich, Nikolai Stotski, Sergei Bekhterev, Alexei Zharkov, Alexander Kalyagin, Anatoly Ravikovich, Alexander Romantsov, Stanislav Landgraf, Yuri Lazarev, Lyudmila Shevel
Based on a story by Sergei Antonov.
The life story of Rita Chuguyeva, a young worker of extra high productivity involved in the construction of the first Moscow metro route in the 1930-s, nicknamed Vaska for her stocky figure and directness.
1110 DON CEZAR DE BAZAN (DON CEZAR DE BAZAN)
1989, 133 min., color
Musical
Director: Jan Fried, screenplay: Mikhail Donskoi, Jan Fried, camera: Edward Rozovski, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Gennady Gladkov, sound: Edward Vanunz
Cast: Mikhail Boyarski, Anna Samokhina, Yuri Bogatyriov, Nataliya Lapina, Igor Dmitriyev, Victoria Gorshenina, Mikhail Svetin, Herman Orlov, Yuri Dedovich, Vasily Leonov, Andrei Krasko, Alyesha Podgornov
Loosely based on a play of the same title by Fillippe Dumanoire and Adolf Fillippe D'Hennery.
A romantic love story of the impoverished Count Don Cezar and the street dancer Maritana, who has been so unfortunate as to have been noticed by the King of Spain...
The picture is set in the 18-th century Spain.
1111 ZHENITBA BALZAMINOVA (BALZAMINOV'S MARRIAGE)
1989, 66 min., color
Choreographic fantasy
Written and directed by: Alexander Belinski, camera: Edward Rozovski, production designer: Natalya Vasilyeva, sound: Edward Vanunz
Cast: Dmitry Simkin, Tatyana Kvasova, Yekaterina Muravyeva, Yelena Alekseyeva, Margarita Kullik, Nikolai Kovmir, Igor Solovyev
Based on a trilogy by Alexander Ostrovski.
1112 ZAMRI-UMRI-VOSKRESNI! (FREEZE — DIE — REVIVE!)
1989, 105 min., b/w, “Troitsky Most”
Drama
Written and directed by: Vitaly Kanevski, camera: Vladimir Brylyakov, production designer: Yuri Pashigorev, misic: Sergei Banevich, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Yelena Popova, Valery Ivchenko, Vyacheslav Bambushek, Vadim Yermolayev
The picture is set in 1947 in the small mining town of Suchany resembling a prisoner camp. The teenagers Valerka and Galya live in the same barrack. They just love everything the eye is accustomed to in this godforsaken little town, rather than dream of a happy future...
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The film director Vitaly Kanevsky was awarded the “Golden Camera” Prize of the International Film Festival in Cannes, France (1990).
1113 ZELENINSKI POGOST (THE ZELENINO GRAVEYARD)
1989, 71 min., b/w, “Ladoga”
Drama
Written and directed by: Boris Liznev, camera: Sergei Biryuk, production designer: Mikhail Gavrilov, misic: Alexei Zakharov, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Igor Makhrov, Anna Ovsyannikova, Sergei Polevoi, Yelizaveta Voronina
Viktor arrives in his ravished village to erect a monument to his grandfather. Failing to find the necessary picture in his home, he addresses the village “collector”...
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The film was awarded the Second Premium at the “Okno v Yevropu” (“The Window to Europe”) International Film Festival in Vyborg (1993).
1114 KANUVSHEYE VREMYA (THE SUNKEN TIME)
1989, 118 min., color, ”Ladoga”
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Solomon Shuster, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Boris Tischenko, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Stanislav Lyubshin, Nina Ruslanova, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Oleg Korchikov, Viktor Sergachyev, Vladimir Zeldin, Nikolai Volkov Jr., Alexei Herman, Viktor Pavlov, Vadim Lobanov, Vitautas Kantsrelis, Georgy Kropachyev
Loosely based on “The New Appointment”, a novel by Alexander Bek.
The 1950-s. The manager in charge of steel production industry has been dismissed and appointed Ambassador to a European country. He finds himself with enough time to consider his life and recognize the true reason for his dismissal.
1115 KARAUL (THE GUARDS)
1989, 103 min., color, ”Ladoga”
Drama
Director: Alexander Rogozhkin, screenplay: Ivan Loschilin, camera: Valery Martynov, production designer: Alexander Zagoskin, sound: Nikolai Astakhov
Cast: Alexei Buldakov, Sergei Kupriyanov, Alexei Poluyan, Alexander Smirnov, Taras Denisenko, Renat Ibragimov, Dmitry Iosifov, Valery Kravchenko, Vasily Domrachyev, Alexei Zaitsev
Soldiers of the Home Troops are guarding trains transporting prisoners to their destinations. The oppressive atmosphere, enhanced by the contacts with the “zeks”, makes the soldiers follow the camp laws...
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The film was awarded the Alfred Bauer’s Premium and the FIPRESSI Premium at the International Film Festival in West Berlin, the German Federal Republic (1990).
1116 KOMA (THE COMA)
1989, 68 min., color, “Ladoga”
Drama
Directors: Niyole Adomenaite, Boris Gorlov, screenplay: Nijole Adomenaite, camera: Yuri Makusinski with input from Mikhail Konovalchuk, production designer: Yuri Vorontsov, misic: Algirdas Paulavichius, sound: Leonid Shumyacher
Cast: Nataliya Nikulenko, Alexander Bashurov, Oleg Krutikov, Olga Torban, Tatyana Yegorova, Alexander Zavyalov, Galina Ulanova
The picture is set in a reformatory labor camp in the North.
Maria was arrested after a student party where she read verse by Tsevetayeva.
To save the life of the baby born in the camp, she is forced to inform against the man she loves...
1117 KONCHINA (THE END)
1989, 3 parts, 228 min., color
Drama
Director: Nikolai Koshelev, screenplay: Alexander Getman, camera: Valery Mironov, production designer: Mikhail Suzdalov, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Harry Belenki
Cast: Nikolai Lavrov, Vladimir Gostiukhin, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Valery Zakharov, Alexander Susnin, Herman Kolushkin, Anatoly Azo, Niele Ozhelite, Pyotr Semak
Loosely based on a story of the same title by Vladimir Tendryakov.
Life stories of two residents of the same village who tried, each in his own way, to establish a “collective farm paradise” in their village. The picture is set in the 1920-s — 1950-s.
1118 LICHNOYE DELO ANNY AKHMATOVOY (ANNA AKHMATOVA'S PERSONAL FILE)
1989, 66 min., color
Biographical documentary
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Semyon Aranovich, Yelena Ignatova, camera: Vladimir Myulgaut, Arkadi Reisenthul, Anatoly Shafran, Lyudmila Krasnova, Vadim Ilyin, Alexander Gorkov, Stanislav Okhapkin, production designer: Vladimir Solovyev, misic: Sophya Gubaidulina, Alexander Kneifel, sound: Galina Gorbonosova
The film is dedicated to Anna Akhmatova's 100th birthday anniversary.
The film presents verse by Anna Akhmatova recited by the author. A special place has been given to the reminiscences of Lidiya Chukovskaya.
1119 MUZYKALNIYE IGRY (THE MUSICAL GAMES)
1989, 66 min., color, “Ladoga”
Musical
Director: Vitaly Aksyenov, screenplay: Vitaly Aksyenov, Sergei Kuriokhin, camera: Igor Plaksin, production designer: Natalya Kochergina, misic: Igor Kornelyuk, sound: Alexander Sysolyatin
Cast: Jan Smelyanski, Grigory Traugot, Anatoly Slivnikov, Yevgeny Tilicheyev, Semyon Furman, Gennadi Timchenko, Tatyana Kolesnikova, Leonid Tikhomirov, Alexander Petrov, Edita Pyekha, Andrei Voznesenski, Boris Shtokov
A revue involving variety show stars: “Avgust” Group, etc.
1120 NECHISTAYA SILA (THE EVIL SPIIRITS)
1989, 2 parts, 134 min., color, “Troitsky Most”
Modern fairy tale
Written and directed by: Ernest Yasan, camera: Ivan Bagayev, production designer: Stanislav Romanovski, misic: Edward Artemyev, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Pavel Andreyev, Rimma Markova, Roman Kartsev, Viktor Grigoriuk, Anatoly Slivnikov, Irina Brazgovka, Olga Kabo, Vladimir Shevelkov
Ivan Denisov, Junior Researcher with the Forest Research Institute, is dispatched to participate in the collective mushroom harvesting.
In the forest he encounters a queer old woman who makes him a gift of a little silver horn and a magic club... and after some time, he finds himself in prison, charged with turning out counterfeit money...
1121 ONO (IT)
1989, 124 min., color, “Ladoga”
Satirical phantasmagoria
Written and directed by: Sergei Ovcharov, camera: Valery Fedosov, production designer: Natalya Vasilyeva, misic: Sergei Kuriokhin, sound: Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Natalya Gundareva, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Yelena Sanayeva, Margarita Terekhova, Rolan Bykov, Yuri Demich, Leonid Kuravlyev, Rodion Nakhapetov, Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Shtefanko, Irina Mazurkevich, Alexander Galibin, Viktor Tsoy
Based on literary works by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin.
The picture features on the history of the district city Glupov from the turn of the century to the possible future...
1122 POSVYASCHENNY (THE INITIATED)
1989, 127 min., color, “Troitski Most”
Phantasmagoria
Director: Oleg Teptsov, screenplay: Yuri Arabov, camera: Valery Myulgaut, production designer: Pavel Parkhomenko, misic: Sergei Kuriokhin, sound: Alexander Gruzdev
Cast: Gor Oganisyan, Lyubov Polischuk, Alexander Trofimov, Yelena Bragina, Gabriel Vorobyev, Vladimir Simonov, Olga Samoshina, Yelena Drapeko, Sergei Makovetski, Alisa Fomina, David Oganisyan
A young man comes to possess a puzzling, queer gift: an ability to judge and punish people by the force of his own spirit, — never to make use of his gift...
1123 POSETITEL MUSEYA (THE MUSEUM VISITOR)
1989, 136 min., color, “Troitsky Most”
Anti-utopia
Written and directed by: Konstantin Lopushanski, camera: Nikolai Pokoptsev, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Alfred Schnitke, Viktor Kisin, sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Viktor Mikhailov, Vera Mayorova, Vadim Lobanov, Irina Rakshina, Alexander Rasinski, Joseph Ryklin, Vladimir Firsov
The environmental disaster has struck. It is the last act and the logical ending of the age-old relationship of Man and Nature, built on insatiable consumptionism and thoughtless waste.
The main character is one of the few survivors retaining his human aspect and manner of thought...
The “visitor” has come to atone the humanity's guilt...
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The film was awarded the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival in Madrid, Spain (1990).
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The film director Konstantin Lopushanski was awarded the Prize for the Best Film Director’s Work at the International Film Festival in Madrid, Spain (1990).
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The director of photography Nikolai Pokoptsev was awarded the Prize for the Best Operator’s Work at the International Film Festival in Madrid, Spain (1990).
1124 RYTSARI PODNEBESYA (THE NIGHTS OF THE SKIES)
1989, 22 min., b/w, “Ladoga”
Phantasmagoria
Written and directed by: Yevgeny Yufit, camera: Alexander Burov, production designer: Yevgeny Yufit, sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Alexander Inikiyenko, Sergei Chernov, Igor Bezrukov, Yelena Bogdanova
1125 RYCHAGI (THE LEVERS)
1989, 31 min., color, “Mosfilm”, “Lenfilm”, ”Ladoga”
Satirical drama
Director: Valery Naumov, screenplay: Viktor Petrov, camera: Anatoly Lapshov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, sound: Leonid Izakov
Cast: Viktor Gorkov, Sergei Russkin, Viktor Khozyainov, Alexei Mikhailin, Andrei Andreyev, Marina Pavlikova, Tamara Timofeyeva, Semyen Furman
Based on a short story of the same title by Alexander Yashin.
On the eve of the 20-th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the collective farmers about to go into a meeting in the village club are openly discussing their hard life. The meeting begins — and the people turn into “Party levers”...
1126 SIRANO DE BERZHERAK (CYRANO DE BERGERAC)
1989, 90 min., color, wide screen, wide format
Musical
Director: Naum Bierman, screenplay: Alexander Volodin, camera: Heinrich Marandzhyan, production designers: Stanislav Romanovski, Yelizaveta Urlina, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Grigory Glady, Olga Kabo, Andrei Podoshyan, Valery Ivchenko, Viktor Stepanov, Sergei Migitsko, Mikhail Svetin, Irina Gubanova, Sergei Bekhterev, Igor Dmitriyev
Based on a play of the same title by Edmond Rostand.
1127 SLUCHAYNY VALS (A CASUAL WALTZ)
1989, 96 min., color, “Troitsky Most”
Drama
Director: Svetlana Proskurina, screenplay: Pavel Finn, camera: Dmitry Mass, production designer: Vladimir Yuzhakov, misic: Vyacheslav Gaivoronski, sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Alla Sokolova, Tatyana Bondareva, Alexei Serebryakov, Sergei Parapanov, Viktor Proskurin
Trying to get rid of her melancholy, Tatyana Prokofyevna, a woman well beyond her prime with habits and mannerisms of a beauty, invites young tenants in and begins to take generous care of them...
1128 SPASI I SOKHRANI (SAVE AND KEEP)
1989, 165 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”
Drama
Director: Alexander Sokurov, screenplay: Yuri Arabov, camera: Sergei Yurizditski, production designer: Yelena Amshinskaya, misic: Yuri Khanin, sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Cecile Zervudaki, Robert Waab, Alexander Cherednik, Vyacheslav Rogovoi, Yuri Sternin, Darya Shpalikova
Loosely based on “Madame Bovary”, the novel by Gustave Flaubert.
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