Valentina Smirnova

Lopushansky's second film focuses on a few hours in the life of a soloist musician during the siege of Leningrad, in WWII. The Leningrad philharmonic...

A parody of the clichés and techniques of the Soviet adventurous comedy genre of the 1950s-1970s. This is a story about three heroes who...

Director Lydia Bobrova pictures the bleak life in the Russian countryside by showing some events in the life of three brothers and their families....

The eldest son, who left for St. Petersburg, where he works as a detective, comes to the family of a crooked merchant and shopkeeper Grigory...

"Tale of the Star Child" is a two-part television film, based on the works of Oscar Wilde. Like the earlier film, The Star Boy (1958), The Tale of...

An orphaned boy unlocks terrifying memories from the “kinderheim” concentration camp upon attending a trial of collaborators.

The war caught Pavlik and his mother far from Leningrad, where they lived. Soon they found themselves in the territory occupied by the Nazis. When...