Aleksandr Filippenko

The mostly black-and-white film begins with a present-day color sequence, then reverts to monochrome and the freezing winter of 1935, when the narrator was nine years old. The boy lived in an apartment with his father and two other men, Police Chief Ivan Lapshin and his officious underling... (All Movie Guide)

Science-fiction, where a scientist from earth is sent to another, more primitive planet. Will his advanced knowledge help him in these barbarous conditions?

Animated short from the Soviet Union about several creatures living in the desert.

Master and Margarita (2005) is a Menippean film based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. Set in Moscow under Stalin and in Jerusalem under Pilate, it has several story-lines where history, religion and politics are intertwined.

Once, a stone lump covered with vague mysterious Egyptian scripts has been brought to city archeological museum. To his surprise the museum ward found a crack in this lump with a mysterious metal object seen in it. Brothers Stas and Kostya came to know about this suspicious lump of stone and sneaked into the museum at night. Inside this rock they found a strange metal capsule, got into it and, quite surprisingly, set out for a time journey. (dvdtalk.com)

The story of "Bednaya Nastya" is set in the XIX century and features a whole tangle of various genres: romance, detective, historical drama and whatnot. The main plot of this soap-opera turns around a young and of course beautiful girl named Anna Platonova - a serf that was brought up by her patron Baron Korf who treated her like his own daughter, much to the seeming displeasure of his son Vladimir. Upon entering the High Society and meeting a noble young man Mikhail Repnin Anna doesn't even gue