A melodramatic love story with three main heroes: Vera, a waitress; Platon, a pianist; and⦠a train station where these two, already not young, people met. The differences in the heroesâ characters and professions, the plight that Platon found himself in (he is to be arrested and undergo trial) trigger a host of both amusing and sad situations which serve as a backdrop for their unfolding love. Platon is innocent of the crime he is being accused of. He simply took the blame for his wifeâs driving over a pedestrian. But this is known only to Platonâs wife and Vera in whom he confided. However, after the verdict has been passed, Platonâs life is of no interest to his wife, although Vera is ready to wait for his releaseâ¦
The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. âAll happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, â goes the novelâs opening sentence. The melodrama centers around a tragic story of love and infidelity, the destiny of a woman who irrevocably changes her life for the sake of a passion. Anna Karenina finds it impossible to renounce her feelings for the loved one. She rejects the morals of society and tries to defend her right to love. Her husband bars Anna from her son, her acquaintances turn their backs on her⦠Starring in the title role was the famous Russian actress Tatiana Samoilova (âThe Cranes Are Flyingâ).
The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. âAll happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, â goes the novelâs opening sentence. The melodrama centers around a tragic story of love and infidelity, the destiny of a woman who irrevocably changes her life for the sake of a passion. Anna Karenina finds it impossible to renounce her feelings for the loved one. She rejects the morals of society and tries to defend her right to love. Her husband bars Anna from her son, her acquaintances turn their backs on her⦠Starring in the title role was the famous Russian actress Tatiana Samoilova (âThe Cranes Are Flyingâ).
A heroic drama, based upon the title novel by Yuri Bondarev (novels âQuietâ, âThe Shoreâ, âThe Choiceâ, novella âBattalions Ask for Fireâ). The film recounts the story of one battle of the Great Patriotic War, the battle on the Volga. The authors focus their attention on the fate of Soviet soldiers and officers in just one battery, who, at the price of heroic efforts and their own lives, did not let the enemy tanks through. â¦And staying in our memory forever will be his terse, from overflowing emotions, phrase: âI wish I could do moreâ, and the scene when the seven surviving men, all that remained of the regiment, crowded, frozen, in a shell-dug crater, cried and drank their vodka ration to the newly-won decorations.
Ruslan and Ludmila is a magnificent fairy tale, a mythic epic with a nominal basis in historical events but featuring witches and wizards, giants and dwarves, heroes and villains. Part epic mythology, part tongue-in-cheek fantasia, the film delivers on all scores â itâs a true crowd-pleaser in the best sense of the term. Director Aleksandr Ptushko, the master of Soviet fantasy, pulled out all the stops for this, the last film (in fact, a film in two parts that took four years to film) that he would make before dying in 1973. The story is (very) loosely based on a famous epic poem by Pushkin, most beloved of Russian writers, and the action is set sometime in the 9th or 10th century. Ruslan is a great knight - defender of the medieval Russian principality of Kiev. As a reward for his bravery in crushing the Pecheneg Tartars, Ruslan is given the hand of the Grand Princeâs daughter, Ludmila, in marriage (good thing too, as they love each other). However, she is mysteriously abducted on the night of their wedding and the Grand Prince, consumed with grief, declares that whomever is able to restore her to him may be her new husband.
Third film based on Boris Akunin's series of novels about Erast Fandorin. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation...
The Russian writer Andrei Gortchakov comes to Italy to research the life of a serf musician, Pavel Sosnovsky, who had once visited those places. The search for signs of the musicianâs days in emigration unites Gortchakov with interpreter Eugenia who tries to find the reason for her Russian friend's melancholy. Soon Gortchakov begins to realize that the musicianâs life story in a large part resembles his own: he feels he is a stranger in Italy, but he cannot return home, either. He lapses into a depressing inertia; his homesickness turns to an illness⦠The film is dedicated to the memory of the directorâs mother, Maria Ivanovna Vishnyakova.
When you visit museum of Sherlock Holmes in London, Baker St., first thing that you see on the second floor is a number of pictures of all actors who ever played Holmes in the movies, and in the middle of that compilation you can see the biggest photo - the photo of Vasiliy Livanov. All world cinematographers (including British ones) have admitted that Vasiliy Livanov is the best Sherlock Holmes that ever appeared on screen. And it is true. There were made several movies about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson for Russian TV in the late 70's and early 80's, including such films as The Meeting, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Bloody Script and many more (about 10 total number)...
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