Aleksandr Zavyalov Movies

This charming comedy tracks the lives of several romantic pairs through trials and tribulations. The main focus of the story is a young soldier with...

The boy writes an essay at school in which he wants to be like his father - with mayonnaise, i.e. "MNS" (junior research fellow).

A man, a local hooligan and alcoholic, is killed in a gloomy St. Petersburg communal apartment. Each of the residents hated him in their own way, and...

The life story of two fellow villagers in the period 1920–50s.

A retro-journalistic drama based on one of the versions of Kirov’s murder, proposed by former NKVD general Orlov, who managed to escape death...

With the money of the gangsters, the director made a film that received prizes at four festivals, but did not raise money. Now he is forced to shoot...

In a year of 1924 a commissar from Soviet Russia is trying to find and kill Finnish general.

An attempt at a parody comprehension of the clichés and techniques of the Soviet adventurous comedy genre of the 50s-70s. This is a story...

A lonely, defenseless, unsettled man meets a beautiful gypsy woman and falls in love with her. Having left the service, having left home, he sticks...

Evgeny Sormatov, a veteran of the special forces detachment, goes to a picturesque lake in Karelia. He carries with him the last letter of comrade...

The group of immigrants who depart to the United States, by chance finds itself in a deserted forest. Cut off from the civilized world, they begin to...

A religious socio-political publicistic drama set in the 1960s-70s in the territory of the USSR.

Based on Russian tales.

A satiric comedy which dissects the iconography of the 'Soviet Hero'. Original footage of a propaganda film from 1941 is the starting point for this...

While detained in one of the Soviet Gulags (prison work camps), Maria fell in love with and had a child by one of the camp guards. However, in order...

A slice of life among Russian intelligentsia on the eve of WWII. A haunting reminder of Stalin's psychotic purge of 1938 and the nightmarish German...

Runaway prisoner goes searching for a treasure to the island populated with poachers and starover cult with his two companions, an intellectual and a...