Kirill Lavrov

The 1968 film shows Fedor Karamazov as a stingy old man, who's three sons are after his money. The Karamazov brothers, Dmitri, a gambler, Ivan, a thinker, and Aleksei, a monk, are living through their different problems. Ivan is trying to save the world by making a story of "The Great Inquisitor". Dmitri, who lost money in gambling, is begging his father to help him. But the father gives a lot of money to his mistress Grushenka. (imdb)

Little moments in the course of a very brief romance make up the bulk of this tender, lyrical film. On a bus filled with young people going for an outing to the theater, Victor, a scruffy geologist, and Lena, a young factory worker, strike up a conversation. He has traveled to many interesting places, she is young, recently divorced, and has a child. When she invites him to join the group at the theater, he says that he's too grungy to go there.

Most of the film takes place on the estate of Count Volsky, where the lovely Olga is forced into a loveless marriage with Volsky's overseer. Standing wistfully on the sidelines is provincial magistrate Petroff, who loves Olga but dares not speak up. Petroff's inability to express himself at the right time, coupled with Olga's inevitable fall from respectability, results in tragedy. (allmovie.com)

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

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.

A propaganda film about Lenin and Finnish independence

1930. Young Andrei Bashkirtsev, just graduated from school, goes to Moscow with drawings of a self-constructed airplane. Illiterate drawings are rejected, but Bashkirtsev does not abandon his dream - to build a jet-engine aircraft. But life disposes differently, and Bashkirtsev becomes the first person in Soviet rocket engineering. (Peter-Patrick76)

Thief in law Yuriy Mikheev (Baron) and his accomplice rob an apartment filled with valuables belonging to Mikhail Monakhov, a banker with close ties to criminal underworld. Along with all the valuables they steal Rembrandt's painting "Egina".

Journalist Ivan Sintsov news of the treacherous attack by Nazi Germany during the catches of southern vacation. As a war correspondent, he becomes a witness to the difficult events of the first months of the war - many departures in 1941. (imdb)

A two part sequel to the director's 1964 epic, The Living and The Dead, follows it's two main characters Sintsov and Serpilin to Stalingrad. (imdb)