Innokenti Smoktunovsky

This short film by Yuri Norstein tells the story of two would-be lovers, Heron and Crane, whose pride and self-importance continually prevent them from accepting each other's proposals of marriage, despite their desire for each other. (keyframeonline.com)

Aboard a ship late in the 19th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks filmed almost entirely in creams, whites, and ochers, the clownish and superfluous Romano Patroni leaves his wife's opulent home to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman whose marriage is a horror... (imdb)

The hero of the film is an insurance agent who is also a car thief. He steals cars only from various crooks and never from the good people. Then he sells those stolen cars and gives all the money to charity. His best friend is a cop who is working on this case. (imdb)

The film is based on the eponymous book by Valery Osipov. Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.

Russian version of Hamlet

The delicate, pretty, sensitive Dorotea and the sedate middle-aged composer Antoni meet by chance. He gives her shelter in his house. She says she is able to fly, drawing him into her half real world, where miracles happen. It turns out that Dorotea has the supernatural gift of divining and forecasting people thoughts and intentions. (imdb)

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. For many years the brother (Uncle Vanya) has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself. Sonya, the professor's daughter, who is about the same age as his new wife, also lives on the estate. (imdb)

Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover (imdb)

1986 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about Sherlock Holmes. It is the fifth film in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson film series directed by Igor Maslennikov. The film is based on four stories by Conan Doyle - "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Second Stain", "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans", "His Last Bow". (Wikipedia)

The film illustrates how Tchaikovsky's life and work were virtually one in the same. (allmovie.com)

When radio signals reach Earth from a planet in a far distant star system, the starship Dawn is readied for immediate dispatch to search for signs of intelligent life. But as the ship will take decades to reach the planet, a young inventor proposes that a group of the best and brightest schoolchildren be sent in place of adult cosmonauts, as they will reach the planet in their prime of life. But naturally, things don't go quite as planned... (mubi.com)

Modern story of Romeo and Juliette.

The second part of the trilogy of films based on the drawings, poems and letters of Pushkin.

Short film based on drawings and manuscripts of Pushkin.

The film is put on the motives of ancient Greek myth. Admet was predicted to the untimely death from which he could be rescued if someone instead of him agrees to descend in the empire of Aid. Wife of Admet - Alkesta - offered herself for the sake of him. Hercules fights with the god of death and rescues Alkesta. (dailymotion.com)

Young Caliph is bored and wishes to turn into a stork. A magic powder gives him an ability to become any bird or insect or any other animal. But as an animal he must not laugh, otherwise he will forget the magic word which allows him to transform. Yet, once, being a stork, he breaks the rule. He has to find the evil sorcerer, the master of the powder, to become human again. During his search he meets a girl the old man turned into a salamander... (kinoglaz.fr)

He is overly intelligent. He is genius. And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia. (imdb)