Anatoli Katsinsky

The authors, like Isaac Babel, rejected the depiction of battles, the simplification, and varnishing of reality, instead conveying the dramatic tension of the post-revolutionary years: the explosion of awakened human energy and the tragic collisions of destinies.

Teleplay by the Vakhtangov Theater based on B. Shaw's play of the same name.

A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia.

Based on the play of the same name by L. Malyugin staged by the State Academic Theater named after Yevgeny Vakhtangov. About the life and work of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in the period from 1883 to 1901.

A day in the life of the factory director Druyanov, who transformed a once backward enterprise into one of the leading companies in the industry.

Based on the eponymous novel by A.F. Pisemsky. A play about the all-powerful influence of money and the morals of the bureaucratic world that destroy everything honest, good, and humane.

The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades.

Vasily Gubanov, the son of the film “The Communist”’s hero, arrived in Moscow not on call or for a business trip. Instead, he came to raise the issue with government authorities about halting the construction of a chemical plant. Despite being the author of the project, which was in full swing, millions of state funds had been spent, and thousands of people’s lives were tied to its completion.

A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.

Bolshevik Mravin, under the name of engineer Pyotr Ivanovich Lednev, risking his life, takes V.I. Lenin’s “Letter to the American Workers” to America. With the help of John Reed, he publishes it in one of the newspapers.

The last days of the Second World War in Prague.

The series is about the operation code-named "Trest", which under the leadership of F.E.Dzerzhinsky was carried out by the VChK to identify and eliminate the counter-revolutionary and monarchist underground on the territory of the USSR, associated with foreign white-emigrant organizations.