Movies: Nora Gryakalova

"Heart of a Dog" is a Soviet film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic novella. Set in 1920s Moscow, it tells the satirical and darkly humorous story of a stray dog named Sharik, who is transformed into a human by Professor Preobrazhensky through ...

Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 19th-century St. Petersburg....

In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will ne...

It is the future, the world is in ruins and a large portion of the population consists of deformed mutants living in reservations. In this world a man decides to spend his vacation visiting the ruins of a museum that is now buried under the sea....

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 Tsybukin. Parents decide to marry him - his son is already 28 years old. They find a poor, but beautiful, cle...

This story of the beginning of the century about a terrorist and a prostitute combined the inhumanity and sacrifice of terrorism - a disastrous and noble delusion that originated in Russia and spread throughout the world....

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 is going to play Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, which is to be broadcast to England. The soloist, like ...

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Homeless, all thrown Mephistopheles is suffering from idleness and boredom. In a market where you can buy everything - from gralic to books on Russian history, he manages to find the soul of a ballet dancer....

In one big country there was a small village of Khlyupovo. And there lived in that village old men and old women, and small children. But one day, tired of the constant auditors and visiting bosses, the village decided to separate from the country......

The main criminal authority - Antibiotic, seemingly a virtuoso and elusive genius of the underworld, invulnerable to a bullet, knife and authorities, sooner or later retribution must overtake. Journalist Seregin, acting at his own peril and risk, bre...

У них - одна внешность, но разные характеры. Им выпала искусительная возможность поменяться местами, то есть "вкусить" чужую жизнь. Но не всегда получается так, как надеешься. И невинная игра может окончиться трагично. Чье же оно - лицо смерти?...

While the bride is late for the wedding, the guests tell various marriage stories, which confuse the groom....

Actors adapting Mikhail Lermontov's "Bela" are imbued with the lives of their characters, shown from the perspective of the Russian officer scouting locations in the Chechen landscape....

A film director Nikolai Khudokormov is on the brink of his 50th anniversary. He has the whole life rich in events under his belt: creative quests, several marriages and children. Now he has to live with an old insane Mother and seems to be indifferen...

After the war, the instructor of the district committee Kolychev comes to the village of Usachyovka, which was burned by the Germans, in order to help people move to new lands. But not everyone wanted to leave their homes. Many flatly refused to leav...

A mafia caper comedy set in early post-Soviet Ukraine about a woman who disguises herself as a man to join a ruthless Odessa drug ring, not realizing there is a hapless guy who looks exactly like her trying to make small-time money selling household ...