Oleg Basilashvili Movies

The story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering.

A middle-aged gentleman, yet utterly naive, sums up his life experience gained over years of traveling around good old England. The comical and...

Set in the Soviet Union, the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.

Drama about the period of F. Dzerzhinsky's activity in 1902-1905, when he, having escaped from the Viluysk prison, lived in Poland.

According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he...

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg,...

About the beginning of M. Gorky's literary activity. Arriving in the provincial town of Samara, Alexey Peshkov publishes one after another...

The first attempt in the history of Russian documentalism to understand what was the historical moment in which Anatoly Sobchak appeared in the...

A portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a character study in...

Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.

The love triangle: wife, husband and his mistress, amusingly crumbles because the loving writer is fleetingly infatuated with a third woman, young...

Based on Leo Tolstoy's story "Holstomer" staged by the Leningrad State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky.

The film is based on a dialogue between young and older generations about life, profession, fame, love, the mission of art, the destiny of man,...

About the work of Georgy Alexandrovich Tovstonogov — People's Artist of the USSR, professor, laureate of the State and Lenin Prizes, and chief...

A filmed stage performance by the Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Three miniatures based on short stories by A.P. Chekhov: The Darling Dog, The Wrongdoer, The...

To earn money for married life, a young engaged man takes a job as an engineer on a privately operated oil drilling rig in the far North of Russia. A...

Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guard"), "Days of the Turbins".

A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin.

A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons.

Nadya Shumin is engaged to be married to Andrey Andreitch, the son of a local priest. Nadya lives on her grandmother's estate with her mother, "a...