Lidiya Smirnova

A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.

A story about police detectives working on reuniting children and parents who got separated by WWII. Based on Izrail Metter stories.

Four soldiers of different nationalities serve in small garrison on the territory of post-war Germany.

The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Garmash using ideological diversions. In parallel, a story is told about student Rostislav Danchenko who is being recruited by enemy agents. The story is pertinent due to resurgence of ultra-nationalist underground activity in Western Ukraine after World War II.

Children rebel against the strict rules and regulations they face during their time in a Communist Young Pioneer camp.

Screen adaptation of the novel by Yuri Bondarev. The demobilized Sergei Vokhmintsev returns to Moscow and enters the institute. Suddenly, according to the neighbor’s slanderous denunciation, his father is arrested — and Sergei, as the son of an “enemy of the people," is expelled from the party and institute. The guy goes to Kazakhstan, works at a construction site. He has many loyal friends and believes in justice...

This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during the Second World War.

Semyon Frolov returns to his native village of Krutye Gorki, as chairman of the Kolkhoz. The hero will have to sort out the embezzlement, convince and attract to his side the majority of proprietors, reconicle his feelings for Anna, whom he once loved, and give her the right to decide their future, when Anna's husband unexpectedly returns from prison.

A cheerful mix-up takes place at a provincial hotel when a newspaper reporter is mistaken for a famous hypnotist.

Three soldiers make their way into a city occupied by the Nazis.

A good girl, Luda, under the patronage of her father, works in a trade mission and studies in absentia at the Faculty of Economics of a Siberian university.

A textile factory worker tries to breathe life into women's fashion.

The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows soldiers leaving their village for the front; in their absence, the desolate but resolute young women of the village assume responsibility for the business of the farm

When Shura's sister dies, Shura starts taking care of her newly orphaned niece. Her fiancee, Grisha thinks the child may be Shura's own, and his suspicions estrange them. This leaves the way clear for a shy neighbor who has loved her from afar to gain points as a potential mate. Stenberg's design is simple and effective - a strongly-colored portrait of the pensive heroine at a table that provides space for the title and limited credits.

A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.

Twenty years ago, Nastya Samokurova left the village in the city to seek happiness. Lived in the city, easy, easy life, engaged in speculation. And now she came to visit her sister Dasha, who continued to live in the collective farm and was universally respected.

It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasily Panin, a junker of a school of naval engineers, is one of those entrusted with this dangerous task.

The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on the feuilletons and notebooks of famous writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov…

Thirty years after war's end a man in Kazakhstan contacts an old Russian woman to say he is her long-lost son.

About the district officer Fyodor Ivanovich Aniskin, who maintains order and legality in his native collective farm.

Moscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, sees his happiness in marrying a rich bride. Misha images in dreams and fantasies that he is a general or even a king — rich and domineering. In reality, poor Balzaminov is haunted by setbacks.

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

A second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.