Movies: Mikhail Zharov

A story is taking place in West Belarus where local rebels are fighting for the unification with Soviet Union during 1930-ies....

A second story about countryside cop named Aniskin....

A funny comedy about a lost twins and a lot of good people who are involved in a search for twins' parents....

Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him....

As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells cigarettes on the side...

Vacationing in a Crimean sanatorium, Nikolai Nikanorovich Staroseltsev finds someone else's wallet on the beach and gives it to the administration of the sanatorium to return it to the owner. Having become a find for bored mass-entertainers, Nikolai ...

The tragedy of a talented and strong woman who built the well-being of her family on blood and blood. And well-being turned out to be just as false and ghostly....

The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the go...

Third and final part of the comedies about the funny adventures of countryside cop named Aniskin....

This film was a true peculiarity, a filmed version of the great Feodor Chaliapin in one of his most famous roles; the fact that it was a silent film, with title cards, meant that audiences could only appreciate his acting. Another curiosity is that t...

Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red army during the Russian civil war....

A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career....

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR....

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The film Our Friend Maxim is devoted to the life and work of actor and National Artist of the USSR Boris Petrovich Chirkov. This film includes excerpts from his Maxim trilogy, and significant focus is placed on Chirkov’s role as a pedagogue and mento...

Two young people love each other. Both studied in Kiev: he at a teacher training college, she at the conservatory. But their paths diverged: Gleb went to work as a teacher on the virgin lands, while Lisa got married and stayed in Kyiv. Time passes. L...

The piano tuner Murkin, an elderly and sickly man, sets out in the morning to find his boots, in which his neighbor's overnight guest has mistakenly left....

Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate....

The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War....

The film takes us back to the summer of 1918 and tells the story of how Voroshilov, under the noses of a 300,000-strong German corps, pulled 80 trains loaded with valuable cargo, materials, ammunition, and equipment out of Donbass. With a 15,000-stro...