Acting
Sergei Yurievich Yursky was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, author and playwright.
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
In this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard.
In a remote Siberian village, a work injury sends Vasily Kuziakin on a paid trip to a Black Sea resort as compensation. There, he meets femme fatale Raisa Zaharovna and decides to stay with her. Such is the beginning of a new life for him, exciting and strange, but lacking his home, his wife and children, and his pigeons.
A two-part television play based on "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Hunted Down" by Charles Dickens.
Germany in the thirties. Soviet spy Yaroslava Soboleva (aka Sophie Weinert) manages to destroy stocks of a new type of bacteriological weapon at the cost of her own life
Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary.
In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia. The main character is probably based on Yeti.
A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.
In the fall of 1938, the NKVD arrested Sergei Korolyov. Under torture, the investigators are trying to extract from him a confession of anti-Soviet activities, each time citing incriminating facts from the biography of the young scientist. Plunging into Korolev's memories, the viewer sees what an extraordinary and enthusiastic person he was, how much creative energy and vitality Sergei Pavlovich gave to the development of world cosmonautics.
The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka.
The first and second chapters of "Eugene Onegin" performed by Sergei Yursky, filmed live for Leningrad Television.
The strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real day in the life of the real Moscow architect Alexander Petrovich Chernov, his mental crisis; and the other is Chernov’s fiction. There is a different fate, a different country, a different life. It is into this very life that Chernov strives to get into - and for the sake of a trip to Spain he will have to commit betrayal. There, for a moment, the doubles will be nearby and both will be on the verge of death. Who will die in the spring of 1978?
Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.
A filmed version of Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers", transposed into modern-day Russia and performed by an all-star cast.
A stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", first staged for Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater and later reworked for Leningrad Television.