Preface to the catalogue

606 KATERINA IZMAYLOVA (KATERINA IZMAYLOVA)

1966, 121 min., color, wide screen

Film-opera

Director: Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Dmitry Shostakovich, camera: Rostislav Davydov, Vladimir Ponomaryov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk

Cast: Galina Vishnevskaya, Artyom Inozemtsev, Nikolai Boyarsky, Alexander Sokolov, Tatyana Gavrilova, Roman Tkachuk, Vera Titova

Screen version of Dmitry Shostakovich’s opera based on the novel “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” by Nikolai Leskov

607 KTO PRIDUMAL KOLESO? (WHO INVENTED THE WHEEL?)

1966, 83 min., b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Tengiz Abuladze, Anatoly

Grebnev, Tomaz Maliava, camera: Yakov Sklyansky, production designer: Vasily Zachinayev, misic: Isaak Schwarts, sound: Semyon Shumyacher, song lyrics by: Gennady Shpalikov

Cast: Georgy Korolchuk, Galina Nikulina, Natalya Selezneva, Georgy Vitsin, Mikhail Gluzsky, Nikolai Volkov, Sr

Based on Viktor Krakovsky’s novel “Return to the Horizon”.

Seva Losev, a sixteen-year old youth, arrived from the Arctic to the mainland to his uncle to continue his education. As is turned out instead of going to college Seva had to go to work at a chemcal plant.

New life, first problems, first love... the boy is turning into an adult.

608 MALCHIK I DEVOCHKA (THE BOY AND THE GIRL)

1966, 74 min., color

Melodrama

Director: Yuri Fait, screenplay: Vera Panova, camera: Vladimir Chumak, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Boris Tchaikovsky, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev

Cast: Nikolai Burlyayev, Nataliya Bogunova, Lyudmila Shagalova, Yelizaveta Uvarova, Nikolai Gubenko, Lubov Malinovskaya

Two fresh from school young people — a Boy and a Girl — met on a coast of a southern sea. Their brief meeting was warmed up by the sincere and innocent love. And then the Boy went away and the Girl had a son.

609 NA DIKOM BREGE (ON THE WILD SHORE)

1966, 2 parts (1st — 75 min., 2nd — 67 min.), b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Anatoly Granik, screenplay: Georgy Kapralov, Anatoly Granik, Ignat Dvoretsky, camera: Viktor Karasev, Nikolai Zhilin, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Valery Gavrilin, sound: Nikolai Kosarev

Cast: Boris Andreyev, Vsevolod Safonov, Yelizaveta Akuliocheva, Alexei Glazyrin, Oleg Borisov, Alexander Lazarev, Tatyana Bestayeva, Pavel Luspekayev

Based on the novel of the same title by Boris Polevoy

The story is based round the collision of two characters — Petin, the chief engineer, and Litvinov, the chief of the construction. For Petin the most important thing in his life is his career and well-being and he is prepared to sacrifice everything in pursuing his goals. Litvinov is his antipode, a man who cares about the cause he serves to and about the people around him. The story is set on a large-size construction site in Siberia.

610 NACHALNIK CHUKOTKY (THE CHIEF OF CHUKOTKA)

1966, 91 min., b/w, wide screen

Comedy

Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, Viktor

Viktorov, camera: Eduard Rozovsky, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Lev Valter

Cast: Mikhail Kononov, Alexei Gribov, Nikolai Volkov, Sr. Pavel Vinnik, Iosif Konopatsky, Alexei Kozhevnikov

1922. Commissar Glazkov is send to Chukotka to establish Soviet power. On his way to Uigunan, Glazkov dies and the only one who gets to the destination point is his secretary Alyosha. By pure chance this young man becomes the chief of Chukotka.

611 NE ZABUD...STANTSIYA LUGOVAYA (DON’T FORGET...THE LUGOVAYA STATION)

1966, 84 min., b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Nikita Kurikhin, Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Iosif Olshansky, Nina Rudneva, camera: Alexander Chirov, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Yakov Vaisburd, sound: Georgy Salye

Cast: Georgy Yumatov, Alla Chernova, Valentina Vladimirova, Valentina Kibardina, Muza Krenkogorskaya, Yelizaveta Uvarova, Alexander Demyanenko, Oleg Belov

World War II. Troop train and train with refugees are stuck at a small railway station. Young lieutenant Ryabov and Lyusya spent several days on the station together and became very close. The war separates the couple... Twenty years later Ryabov accidentally comes to the station and finds out that Lyusya has been waiting for him for many years.

612 RESPUBLIKA SHKID (THE REPUBLIC OF SHKID)

1966, 103 min., b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Gennady Poloka, screenplay: Leonid Panteleyev, camera: Dmitry Dolinin, Alexander Chechulin, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Sergei Slonimsky, sound: Galina Gavrilova

Cast: Sergei Yursky, Yuliya Burygina, Pavel Luspekayev, Alexander Melnikov, Vera Titova, Anatoly Stolbov, Lev Vainshtein, Viktor Perevalov, Sasha Kavalerov

Loosely based on the novel of the same title by Gennady Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev

The 20-s. Viktor Nikolaievich Sorokin, the director of a boarding school, a refined intellectual, gathers in his school homeless children, aggravated and embittered by the difficult life they had. Step by step he is shaping the souls and characters of children, developing them into conscious citizens.

613 SEGODNYA — NOVIY ATTRAKTSION (TODAY — THE NEW PERFORMANCE)

1966, 95 min., color, wide screen

Comedy

Directors: Nadezhda Kosheverova, Apollinary Dudko, screenplay: Yuliy

Dunsky, Valery Frid, story by: Konstantin Konstantinovsky, camera: Vladimir Burykin, Vladimir Korotkov, Konstantin Solovyov, productiondesigners: Igor Vuskovich, Valery Dorrer, misic: Karen Khachaturyan, sound: Igor Lashkov

Cast: Marina Polbentseva, Otar Koberidze, Faina Ranevskaya, Geliy Sysoyev, Igor Gorbachev, Mikhail Gluzsky

Marat Miskheyev, an assistant of a famed tamer, begins to work on his own. His partner in the new performance is his wife Valya. Their star turn — tamed tigers — has a great success with the audience.

The fame turns Valya’s head and she forgets who stands behind her success. After one of their quarrels Marat leaves the circus and soon after that during the tour Valya has a bad accident...

614 SNEZHNAYA KOROLEVA (THE SNOW QUEEN)

1966, 85 min., color, wide screen

Fairy tale

Director: Gennady Kazansky, screenplay: Yevgeny Schwarts, camera: Sergei Ivanov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Anna Volokhova

Cast: Lena Proklova, Natalya Klimova, Nikolai Boyarsky, Slava Tsyupa, Yevgeny Leonov, Era Ziganshina, Irina Gubanova, Valery Nikitenko, Georgy Korolchuk, Olga Viklandt, Vera Titova

Screen version of the play of the same title by Yevgeny Schwarts, loosely based on Andersen’s fairy tale. Kay and Gerda live together with their old grandmother. One day the evil Snow Queen takes Kay away to keep him forever in her ice castle. But courageous Gerda sets off to rescue her brother.

615 TRI TOLSTYAKA (THREE FAT MEN)

1966, 92 min., color, wide screen, wide format

Fairy tale

Director: Alexei Batalov, Iosif Shapiro, screenplay: Alexei Batalov, Mikhail Olshevsky, camera: Suren Shakhbazyan, production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Nikolai Sidelnikov, sound: Boris Antonov

Cast: Lina Braknite, Petya Artemyev, Alexei Batalov, Valentin Nikulin, Rina Zelionaya, Yevgeny Morgunov, Pavel Luspekayev, Alexei Smirnov

Based on the fairy tale of the same title by Yuri Olesha

A fairy tale state is autocratically ruled by three fat man. Their autocracy is opposed by poor folk and the brave rope-walker Tibul, who is helped by the doll girl Suok and the kind doctor Kaspar.

616 BRASLET-DVA (BRACELET-2)

1967, 74 min., b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Directors: Lev Tsutsulkovsky, Mikhail Shamkovich, screenplay: Albina

Shulgina, Vadim Mikhailov, camera: Yevgeny Mezentsev, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Murad Kazhlayev, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya

Cast: Oleg Zhakov, Vladimir Vorobyov, Vasily Livanov, Vladimir Trukhanov, Sergei Plotnikov, Prov Sadovsky, Konstantin Adashevsky

Based on the novel of the same title by L. Brandt

Bracelet-2 is a race horse. In the days of the Civil War he is used as a usual draft horse. In the course of a fight Bracelet is shell-shocked. The famous race horse was cured and later on triumphantly participated in a race which turned out to be the last in Bracelet’s life.

617 V OGNE BRODA NET (“O Tane Tiotkinoy i yeyo risunkakh”) (THERE IS NO PASSAGE IN FIRE) (“About Tanya Tetkina and Her Drawings”)

1967, 95 min., wide screen

Drama

Director: Gleb Panfilov, screenplay: Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Gleb Panfilov, camera: Dmitry Dolinin, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Georgy Salye

Cast: Inna Churikova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Mikhail Gluzsky, Maya Bulgakova, Vladimir Kashpur, Yevgeny Lebedev, Mikhail Kononov, Mikhail Kokshenov, Lubov Malinovskaya

Tanya Tetkina is a nurse in a hospital train taking the wounded soldiers from Civil War battle fields. The plain shy and semi-illiterate young girl is sincerely devoted to the cause she serves.

She does not realize the importance of the events she is taking part in but has a vague feeling that the time she lives in is a just time. Tanya has a rare gift of a true original artist and that makes her death even more tragic.

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  The film was awarded the “Golden Leopard” — the main prize of the International Film Festival in Locarno (1969).
  
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  The actress Inna Churikova was honored the Premium for the Best Lead Part at the International Film Festival in Locarno (1969).
  

618 DEN SOLNTSA I DOZHDYA (THE SUNNY AND RAINY DAY)

1967, 71 min., b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Edward Radzinsky, camera: Vladimir Chumak, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Gennady Portnov, sound: Betty Livshits

Cast: Sasha Barinov, Tolya Popov, Alexander Sokolov, Yelizaveta Time, Svetlana Savelova, Mikhail Kozakov, Tatyana Piletskaya, Iosif Konopatsky, Alexei Petrenko

Two 7-th grade students Kolya Mukhin and Alyosha Kronov have known each other for a long time but they don’t cherish any kind feelings for each other. The day they spent together and events that happened during this day not only helped them to know each other better but also in some

way changed their attitude to the world around them.

619 YEGO ZVALI ROBERT (HIS NAME WAS ROBERT)

1967, 80 min., color, wide screen

Comedy

Director: Ilya Olshvanger, screenplay: Lev Kuklin, Yuri Printsev, camera: Edgar Shtyrtskober, production designer: Dmitry Afanasyev, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Mikhail Lazarev

Cast: Oleg Strizhenov, Marianna Vertinskaya, Vladimir Pobol, Mikhail Pugovkin, Nina Mamayeva

A young researcher, the chief of an experimental laboratory, created the biochemical model of a man.

The robot is an exact replica of its creator. As an experiment the robot named Robert is sent to communicate with people...

620 ZHENYA, ZHENECHKA I “KATYUSHA” (ZHENYA, ZHENECHKA AND “KATYUSHA”)

1967, 81 min., color

Comedy

Director: Vladimir Motyl, screenplay: Bulat Okudzhava, Vladimir Motyl, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Viktor Volin, misic: Isaak Schwarts, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov

Cast: Oleg Dal, Galina Figlovskaya, Mikhail Kokshenov, Georgy Shtil, Mark Bernes, Pavel Morosenko, Vladimir Ilyin, Lubov Malinovskaya

Everyone seems to be in love with the charming Zhenechka Zemlyanikina — the signaller in a rocket barrage regiment. As to Zhenya Kolyshkin, in his regiment he has the reputation of a romantic and extremely disorganized person.

However, love and war made the young man grow up and realize that the world was not just the place for amusing adventures.

621 ZELYONAYA KARETA (THE GREEN COACH)

1967, 101 min., color, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Jan Frid, screenplay: Alexander Gladkov, camera: Lev Sokolsky, Anatoly Nazarov, production designers: Mikhail Krotkin, Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Semyon Shumyacher

Cast: Natalya Tenyakova, Vladimir Chestnokov, Igor Dmitriyev, Lidiya Shtykan, Igor Ozerov, Irina Gubanova, Tatyana Piletskaya, Yulian Panich, Alexander Susnin, Alexander Borisov, Alexander Sokolov, Geliy Sysoyev

Varvara Asenkova is the great Russian actress of the 1st half of the 19th century. Her first performance on the stage won immediate recognition of the audience. She was taken in the staff of the imperial theatre company but practically never played the parts worth her talent. The biographical film centers on the tragic artistic career and the early death of the actress.

622 LICHNAYA ZHIZN KUZYAYEVA VALENTINA (PRIVATE LIFE OF VALENTIN KUSAYEV)

1967, 68 min., b/w

Melodrama

Directors: Igor Maslennikov, Ilya Averbakh, screenplay: Nataliya

Ryazantseva, camera: Boris Timkovsky, production designer: Yuri Kulikov, misic: Alexander Kolker, sound: Asya Zvereva

Cast: Viktor Ilyichev, Tamara Konovalova, Zinaida Krasnova, Inna Sergeyeva, Avgust Baltrushaitis, Alexei Kozhenvnikov, Georgy Shtil

The slow and lazy schoolboy Valentin Kuzyayev accidentally becomes the object of a TV public opinion poll. This seemingly minor event made

Kuzyayev start pondering about his life, his relations with his

friends and family, about his inner world.

623 MYATEZHNAYA ZASTAVA (REBELLOUS DISTRICT)

1967, 93 min., b/w, wide screen

Drama

Director: Adolf Bergunker, screenplay: Alexander Vlasov, Arkady Mlodik, camera: Oleg Kukhovarenko, production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya

Cast: Boris Chirkov, Vyacheslav Nevinny, Oleg Borisov, Yelena Chernaya, Alexei Eibozhenko, Kseniya Minina, Natalya Rudnaya, Iosif Konopatsky, Konstantin Adashevsky

St. Petersburg, 1901. Workers of the Obukhovsky plant rose in rebellion against the tsar’s autocracy.

These dramatic events find their reflection in the life of the Yepifanov family, the family of hereditary workers.

624 PERVOROSSIYANE (RUSSIAN PIONEERS)

1967, 78 min., color, wide screen

Drama

Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Olga Bergholtz, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Mikhail Shcheglov, misic: Nikolai Karetnikov, sound: Tigran Silayev

Cast: Vladimir Chestnokov, Vladimir Zamansky, Larisa Danilina, Inna Kondratyeva, Gennady Nikov, Yulian Panich, Ivan Krasko, Natalya Klimova, Olga Volkova

Based on the poem of the same title by Olga Bergholtz

1918. Workers from Petrograd come to Altai region to establish the first agricultural commune. In spite of the hostility of the local White Army cossacks the workers build houses, cultivate land. The poor peasants are turning towards the commune. However, White Army cossacks take vengeance on the members of the commune.

625 POPUTNOGO VETRA, “SINYAYA PTITSA!” (FAIR WIND TO YOU, “BLUE BIRD”!)

1967, 80 min., co-production with “Avala-film” (Jugoslavia), color

Adventure story

Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Stanislav Borislavlevich, Fyodor

Shkubonya, Yuri Printsev, camera: Milorad Markovich, production designers: Viktor Volin, Vlastimir Gavrik, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev

Cast: Blazhenka Katalinich, Radmila Karaklaich, Vitaly Doronin, Boris Amarantov, Milenko Iovanovich, Yevgeniya Vetlova, Alexander Gavrilov, Valery Komlev, Vladimir Pak, Larisa Taranenko

Based on the novel of the same title by B. Kasper

The beautiful “Blue Bird” schooner is sailing along the Adriatic sea coast. The passengers of the schooner are children of different nationalities, winners of the competition “For Peace and Mutual Understanding”. During this wonderful sea voyage children find out that there are smugglers on board the ship...

626 PROISSHESTVIYE, KOTOROGO NIKTO NE ZAMETIL (THE UNNOTICED INCIDENT)

1967, 70 min., b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Written and directed by: Alexander Volodin, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov, Galina Gavrilova

Cast: Zhanna Prokhorenko, Vera Titova, Yevgeny Lebedev, Vitaly Solomin, Georgy Shtil, Zinaida Slavina, Pavel Luspekayev, Lidiya Shtykan, Arkady Trusov

Plain and shy shop assistant Nastya who has never been happy in love wished she were as beautiful as the Venus on the painting by Boticelli. And the miracle has occurred! As it turned out the new situation brought the girl many unexpected delights, anxieties and troubles... And though the miracle happened only in her imagination — it made her understand many things and change her attitude to many aspects of life.

627 SVADBA V MALINOVKE (WEDDING IN MALINOVKA)

1967, 95 min., color, wide screen

Musical comedy

Director: Andrei Tutyshkin, screenplay: Leonid Yukhvid, camera: Vyachslav Fastovich, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Boris Alexandrov, sound: Grigory Elbert

Cast: Vladimir Samoilov, Lyudmila Alfimova, Valentina Lysenko, Yevgeny Lebedev, Mikhail Pugovkin, Zoya Fyodorova, Andrei Abrikosov, Tamara Nosova, Mikhail Vodyanoy, Nikolai Slichenko, Alexei Smirnov

Based on the musical comedy by Boris Alexandrov, story by Leonid Yukhvid

Civil war in Ukraine. A peaceful small village inhabited mostly by old people and small children is often raided by White Army gangs. To do away with the gang of Balyasny the Red Army commander Nazar disguised as a White Army liason officer comes to the village — and gets right to the wedding: Balyasny is going to marry Nazar’s daughter Yarinka against the girl’s will.

628 SEDMOY SPUTNIK (THE SEVENTH SATELLITE)

1967, 83 min., b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Directors: Grigory Aronov, Alexei German, screenplay: Yuri Klepikov, Edgar Dubrovsky, camera: Eduard Rozovsky, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Isaak Schvarz, sound: Boris Antonov

Cast: Andrei Popov, Alexander Anisimov, Georgy Shtil, Pyotr Chernov, Vladimir Osenev, Sofia Giatsintova, Georgy Yumatov, Alexei Batalov, Alexei Glasyrin, Vladimir Erenberg, Panteleimon Krymov

Based on the novel of the same title by Boris Lavrenev.

Yevgeny Pavlovich Adamov, professor of history of law, sympathizes with the revolution and sizes up the new power. He goes through terrible ordeals and after some serious pondering finally makes up his mind: he will give all his energy and abilities to the new state.

629 SEM NOT V TISHINE (SEVEN NOTES IN SILENCE)

1967, 77 min., b/w, wide screen

Director: Vitaly Aksyonov, screenplay: Vitaly Aksyonov, Mark Rozovsky, camera: Leonid Volkov, production designer: Yuri Kulikov, sound: Igor Vigdorchik

The film is composed of several episodes each dealing with peculiarities of a certain musical genre and the place it takes in the spiritual life of a contemporary man.

630 SUD (THE TRIAL)

1967, 28 min., color

Drama

Written and directed by: David Kocharyan, camera: Valery Fedosov, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Georgy Portnov, sound: Asya Zvereva

Cast: Viktor Ilyichev, Evgeni Lebedev, Nikilai Trofimov, Georgy Shtil, Alexei Trusov

Loosely based on the story by Anton Chekhov.

631 KHRONIKA PIKIRUYUSHCHEGO BOMBARDIROVSHCHIKA(CHRONICLE OF A DIVE BOMBER)

1967, 78 min., b/w, wide screen

Drama

Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Vladimir Kunin, Naum Birman, camera: Alexander Chirov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Alexander Kolker, sound: Boris Khutoryansky

Cast: Gennady Saifulin, Oleg Dal, Lev Vainshtein, Yuri Tolubeyev, Alexander Grave, Pyotr Shcherbakov, Georgy Korolchuk, Yelena Sanko, Viktor Ilyichev, Boris Arakelov, Konstantin Sorokin

1944. Young lads, former students and high school graduates — “the air workers of the war” — are fighting the enemy. A minor episode of war days – the search for the hidden airport of the enemy — is the pivot of the story and the cause of the heroes’ death.

632 CHETYRE STRANITSY ODNOY MOLODOY ZHIZNI (FOUR PAGES OF YOUNG MAN’S LIFE)

1967, 84 min., b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Rezo Esadze, screenplay: Vera Panova, camera: Ernst Yakovlev, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Isaak Schvarz, sound: Irina Volkova

Cast: Boris Rudnev, Natalya Velichko, Boris Savitsky, Alexandra Zavyalova, Lyudmila Arinina, Boris Arakelov

Sasha Agafonov, a young lad is just beginning his adult life. He left his home and works as a driver at a large construction site. His new dramatic life experience changes Sasha’s character turning the boy into

a grown up man.