Andrei Popov

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant... (imdb)

The film is set in St. Petersburg, Russia after the Russian revolution of 1917. Based on the eponymous book by Boris Lavrenev. Maj. General Yevgeni Pavlovich Adamov (Popov) was a lawyer in the Tzar's Army and a professor of law at the Military Academy before the Russian Revolution. In the fall of 1918 he was arrested on false accusations and suffered the loss of all his property and honors. (imdb)

"A Gentle Creature" (Russian: Кроткая, Krotkaya), sometimes also translated as "The Meek One", is a short story written by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1876. It chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop. (scalisto.blogspot.com)

Othello is a highly esteemed general in the service of Venice. Iago is his ambitious friend. Othello promotes Michael Cassio to the position of personal lieutenant and Iago is jealous, so begins an evil and malicious campaign the hero.

Grateful pupils give the singing teacher a red dog Ting, whom he brings to his cramped apartment, where he lives with his wife and children. (imdb)

Police Commissioner Berlach (Nikolay Simonov) in post-war Switzerland is looking for hiding Nazi criminals. Upon learning that a former Nazi doctor is running one of the clinics under an assumed name, the seriously ill Berlach is sent there for treatment. The film is based on the novel "Suspicion" by Friedrich Durenmatt. (Odesa Film Studio)

In May 1919, the city of Petrograd, the Bolsheviks' stronghold in Russia, is attacked by the counter-revolutionary White Army of General Nikolai Yudenich, who is supported by the imperialist British, and especially by the warmongering Winston Churchill. The city's High Soviet is demoralized and about to order an evacuation, while the White fifth column inside it plots an insurrection... (GusF)

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. (Guy Bellinger)

"In the City of S." is a Soviet film adaptation of one of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's most famous short stories "Ionich". This is a story about a young promising doctor Dmitry Ionich Startsev, who moves to a county town where he was appointed a doctor. (imdb)