Movies: Mikhail Svetin

In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a magician). A jealous Apollon Sataneev tells her boss Kira Shemahandskaya that Sanina is going to marr...

The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. H...

Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination....

The first private enterprises are started in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. A gang of bad guys, owners of a private restroom, kidnap a good guy - owner of a toy store. Private eye Dmitri's first job is to try and free the store owner....

A classic mystery story based on Arkadi Adamov novels....

From the American psychiatric hospital run by two maniac, confident that he was a spy, and a transsexual. Very soon they will want to return to their native madhouse — but it will be too late. Because the third psycho sent them on a secret mission to...

An inventor called Sergey becomes smitten by a woman called Lena...

Mefody, a wise master, comes to a weird village one day to teach local men wisdom and life. The strange thing about the village is all the men living there are of different nationalities: German, Jewish, Ukrainian, Russian, Uzbek, Gypsy etc.. Mefodi ...

Because of the accident, Grinya - a shy and unsound bachelor - loses his hand. However, the geniuses of Russian medicine are saved by sewing someone else's hand. And who would have thought that a new hand belonging to a famous adventurer and a scampe...

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A story about a life of a young musician in the USSR....

Co-operator Konstantin, returning from a business trip, finds a stranger at home. As it turned out, his friend gave the keys to Kostya’s apartment to his fellow students who were supposed to get married. But the bride Svetlana was late in the regist...

The daughter of a sailor who died at sea, she lives in a port city with her mother. The shipowner threatens to kick them out of the house if they don't pay for six months or if she doesn't marry him. The handsome sailor and rebel appears in the city,...

Mr. Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph....

The film takes place in pre-Christian Russia, when Ratibor united the East Slavs into one army against the nomadic Khazars....

Dasha thirty years, she was finally disappointed in men and wants to bring child into world from a very handsome guy with good genes. She succeeded to search a firm in that rendered similar services, but from this undertaking nothing went out. During...

The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunk...

Story of 38-years-old Rita whose fiance didn't show up at their wedding....

The film is based on the stories Anton Chekhov. It is a tribute to the actor Boris Andreyev. He plays a major role that keeps up for the duration of the film. Lively and intelligent Valery Spout largely mitigates underline the drama of the protagonis...

A witty comedy, that has fun and philosophy in one. Inspired by short stories of O`Henry....