Preface to the catalogue

633 V DEN SVADBY (ON THE WEDDING DAY)

1968, 73 min., b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Vadim Mikhailov, screenplay: Viktor Rozov, camera: Nikolai Prokoptsev, Vladimir Ponomaryov, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Valery Gavrilin, sound: Igor Vigdorchik, song lyrics by: Albina Shulgina

Cast: Larisa Malevannaya, Anatoly Spivak, Yevgeniya Uralova, Lev Krugly, Viktor Avdyushko, Violetta Zhukhimovich, Natalya Krudova, Lubov Malinovskaya, Arkady Trusov

Based on the play of the same title by Viktor Rozov.

The story is set in a small village on the Volga river. Preparations to the wedding of Nyura and Mikhail are almost complete when virtually on the eve of the wedding day Mikhail meets Klava — his old flame. Realizing that the wedding can not be cancelled Mikhail and Klava are

parting. Nyura finds out about their meeting...

634 VIRINEYA (VIRINEYA)

1968, 109 min., b/w, wide screen

Drama

Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, sound: Grigory Elbert

Cast: Lyudmila Chursina, Anatoly Papanov, Vyacheslav Nevinny, Valentina Vladimirova, Vyacheslav Shalevich, Yevgeny Leonov, Oleg Borisov, Stanislav Chekan, Alexei Gribov

Based on the novel of the same title by Lidiya Seifullina.

Life of young Virineya with her invalid husband Vasily whom she never loved was not easy. Unable to bear this life any longer she left her home. After the revolution Virineya became an active supporter of the new regime. She married bolshevik Pavel Suslov. When the Civil War broke out, Virineya, who stayed in the village, stirred the uprising against the White Army and laid down her life for the revolution.

635 VSEGO ODNA ZHIZN (JUST ONE LIFE)

1968, 85 min., b/w, USSR-Norway, “Lenfilm”-“Norskfilm”

Historical drama

Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Odd Bang-Hansen, Sigurd Evensmu, Yuliy Dunsky, Valery Frid, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Isaak Kaplan, misic: M. Senstevol, G. Senstevol, sound: K.Lashkov

Cast: Knut Vigert, Veslemey Haslund, Rolf Sund, Johim Kalmeer, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Arne Os, Yan Gratinsh

The film tells about the most important episodes of the life of Fridtjof

Nansen, the traveler and Arctic explorer: his attempt to reach the North Pole sailing in the “Fram” ship, his career as a diplomat when he struggled for independence of Norway, his activities in the League of Nations and his service to famine stricken Russia.

636 GROZA NAD BYELOY (THUNDERSTOM OVER THE BYELAYA RIVER)

1968, 92 min., b/w, wide screen

Drama

Directors: Yevgeny Nemchenko, Stanislav Chaplin, screenplay: Daniil Del, Leonid Zhezhelenko, camera: Oleg Kukhovarenko, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Semyon Shumyacher

Cast: Alexander Mikhailov, Alexei Yakovlev, Natalya Tenyakova, Georgy Kulikov, Bruno Freinlikh, Yefim Kopelyan, Vladimir Kashpur, Gennady Yukhtin, Emma Popova, Nikolai Volkov, Sr

The Civil War. 1919

Red Army troops commanded by Mikhail Frunze, who reorganized armed forces to create the disciplined efficient army, liberates the city of Ufa on the Byelaya river, occupied by the White Army.

637 ZHIVOY TRUP (THE LIVING CORPSE)

1968, 2 parts (1st — 77 min., 2nd — 65 min.), b/w, wide screen

Drama

Written and directed by: Vladimir Vengerov, camera: Henrich Marandzhyan, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Isaak Schwarz, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov

Cast: Alexei Batalov, Alla Demidova, Oleg Basilashvili, Lidiya Shtykan, Yelena Chernaya, Svetlana Toma, Sofia Pilyavskaya, Oleg Borisov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Nikolai Boyarsky

Based on Lev Tolstoy’s play of the same title.

638 ISTOCHNIK (THE SPRING)

1968, 87 min., b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Anatioly Granik, screenplay: Ignaty Dvoretsky, camera: Ernst Yakovlev, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Valery Gavrilin, sound: Asya Zvereva

Cast: Dzidra Ritenbergs, Vladimir Kashpur, Leonid Nevedomsky, Alexei Chernov, Natalya Rybakova, Stanislav Sokolov, Lyudmila Nilova

Savely and Lelya are leading a quiet peaceful life in a forest

reserve, in a small village with a mineral spring, where Savely brought his seriously ill wife. The seemingly routine life can not hide deep and tender love that came a bit too late...

639 LYEBEDINOYE OZERO (THE SWAN LAKE)

1968, 83 min., color, wide format

Film-ballet

Director: Apollinary Dudko, Konstantin Sergeyev, screenplay: Isaak Glikman, Apollinary Dudko, Konstantin Sergeyev, choreography: Marius

Petipa, Leonid Ivanov, Konstantin Sergeyev, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designers: Viktor Volin, Boris Bykov, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev

Cast: Yelena Yevteyeva, John Markovsky, Makhmud Esambayev, Valery Panov, Alla Kabarova, Viktor Ryazanov

Screen version of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet of the same name.

640 MYORTVY SEZON (THE LOW SEASON)

1968, 2 parts (1st — 70 min., 2nd — 68 min)., b/w, wide screen

Political detective

Director: Savva Kulish, screenplay: Vladimir Vladimirov, Alexander

Shlepyanov, camera: Alexender Chechulin, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Andrei Volkonsky, sound: Galina Gavrilova

Cast: Donatas Banionis, Rolan Bykov, Sergei Kurilov, Gennady Yukhtin, Bruno Freindlikh, Yuri Yarvet, Svetlana Korkoshko, Laimonas Noreika, Leonhard Merzin, Anda Zaitse, Mairi Raus

Soviet secret service agent Ladeinikov gets the information that doctor Hass, a former World War II criminal, works for one of foreign research institutes. Ladeinikov and actor Savushkin, who knows Hass by sight, come under assumed names to Dorgeit, a small resort town, where Hass is working. After a long and complicated search they finally identify Hass. But Hass, in his turn, also recognizes Savushkin.

641 MOABITSKAYA TETRAD (MOABIT NOTEBOOK)

1968, 93 min., b/w, wide screen

Drama

Director: Leonid Kvinikhidze, screenplay: Vladimir Grigoryev, Edgar

Dubrovsky, Sergei Potepalov, camera: Vyacheslav Fastovich, production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Vladislav Uspensky, sound: Irina Volkova

Cast: Pyotr Chernov, Azgar Shakirov, Aivars Bagdanovich, Laimonas Noreika, Anatoply Shvedersky, Alexander Mikhailov, Dmitry Barkov, Sergei Svistunov

The story is focused on the dramatic life of the talented Tatar poet Musa Dzhalil: his struggle against fascism, the ordeal of being in a German prisoner-of-war camp, his courage and his imperishable fame.

642 NA VOINE KAK NA VOINE (A LA GUERRE COMME A LA GUERRE)

1968, 90 min., b/w, wide screen

Drama

Written and directed by: Viktor Kurochkin, camera: Yevgeny Mezentsev, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Gennady Portnov, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya

Cast: Mikhail Kononov, Oleg Borisov, Fyodor Odinokov, Viktor Pavlov, Valentin Zubkov, Mikhail Gluzsky, Boris Arakelov, Pyotr Gorin, Irina Zamotina, Pyotr Lyubeshkin

The film is set at the end of World War II. Junior lieutenant Maleshkin, fresh from the military college, is appointed the commander of a self propelled gun. His subordinates are experienced war veterans who took part in many battles. The film tells about their everyday life, about their happy moments and troubles, their courage and heroism.

643 SNEGUROCHKA (SNOW MAIDEN)

1968, 86 min., color, wide screen

Fairy tale

Director: Pavel Kadochnikov, screenplay: Daniil Del, Pavel Kadochnikov, camera: Alexander Chirov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic:Vladislav Kladnitsky, sound: Tigran Silayev

Cast: Yevgeniya Filonova, Yevgeny Zharikov, Irina Gubanova, Boris Khimichev, Pavel Kadochnikov, Sergei Filippov, Lubov Malinovskaya, Valentina Pugacheva, Valery Malyshev, Gennady Nilov, Stepan Krylov

Screen version of Alexander Ostrovsky’s play “The Spring Tale”.

644 STARAYA, STARAYA SKAZKA (OLD, OLD TALE)

1968, 90 min., color, wide screen

Fairy tale

Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Yuli Dunsky, Valery Frid, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designers: Marina Azizyan, Igor Vuskovich, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Boris Khutoryansky, song lyrics by: Alexander Galich

Cast: Oleg Dal, Marina Neyolova, Vladimir Etush, Georgy Vitsin, Vera Titova, Igor Dmitriyev, Lev Lemke, Viktor Perevalov, Georgy Shtil

Based on fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen.

A brave soldier who falls in love with a malicious and capricious princess, a kind magician who helps him to obtain his happiness and a wicked witch are familiar personages of any fairy tale.

645 STEPEN RISKA (THE DEGREE OF RISK)

1968, 95 min., b/w

Melodrama

Written and produced by: Ilya Averbakh, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Vasily Zachinayev, sound: Mikhail Lazarev, misic: fragments from compositions by Caesar Frank

Cast: Boris Livanov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Alla Demidova, Ivan Dmitriyev, Yuri Grebenshchikov, Leonid Nevedomsky, Viktor Ilyichev

Screen version of surgeon Nikolai Amosov’s novel “Thoughts and Heart”.

Heart surgeries performed by talented cardiologist Sedov are unique but involve great risk. Sasha Kirillov, a young gifted mathematician, comes to Sedov’s clinic. Sedov realizes that in this particular case the risk is too high and chances for successful operation are too small...

646 UDAR! YESHCHO UDAR! (KICK AT THE BALL! ANOTHER KICK!)

1968, 89 min., color, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Viktor Sadovsky, screenplay: Viktor Sadovsky, Vladimir Kunin, camera: Rostislav Davydov, Alexander Dibrivny, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Valdlen Chistyakov, sound: Anna Volokhova, song lyrics by: Lev Kuklin

Cast: Viktor Korshunov, Yuri Volkov, Alexander Grave, Valentin Smirnitsky, Galina Yatskina, Yuri Tolubeyev, Vladimir Kenigson, Vladimir Treshchalov, Boris Bystrov, Yuri Dedovich, Alexei Kozhevnikov

Tamantsev, coach of ‘ Zarya’ football team, and Berger, coach of one of the strongest European football teams, meet on a championship in Stockholm. The next game is scheduled to take place in Leningrad. The film tells about the game — and the circumstances attending the contest.

647 BYELY FLYUGER (WHITE WEATHERCOCK)

1969, 82 min., b/w, wide screen

Adventure story

Director: David Kocharyan, screenplay: Alexander Vlasov, Arkady Mlodik, camera: Vladimri Kovzel production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky

Cast: Leva Orlov, Vova Magdenkov, Katya Ovsyannikova, Vitya Perevalov, Mikhail Kononov, Viktor Chekmaryov, Oleg Belov, Vitaly Konyaev, Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, Ivan Krasko

The summer of 1920. The struggle of bolsheviks against counter-revolutionaries is going on. Two brothers, Fedka and Karpushka Dorokhov, help adults.

648 BEREG YUNOSTI (THE SHORE OF YOUTH)

1969, 81 min., b/w, wide screen

Drama

Director: Lev Tsutsulkovsky, screenplay: Georgy Kholopov, camera: Yevgeny Mesentsev, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vladislav Uspensky, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya

Cast: Arik Kazaryan, Tanya Cherednikova, Misha Ilyin, Kolya Ananyev, Gennady Yukhtin, Igor Gorbachev

Based on the novel “Granada” by Georgy Kholopov

The first years of Soviet power in Baku. Tha main characters of the film are the boy Garegin and his friends, children belonging to different nationalities. They learn to be friends, master cooperation and solidarity. These children form the first in Baku team of young pioneers.

649 GOLUBOI LYOD (BLUE ICE)

1969, 71 min., color, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, Caesar Solodar, camera: Alexender Chechulin, production designers: Alexander Kompaneyets, Alexander Black, misic: Yakov Vaisburd, sound: Betty Livshits

Cast: Alexander Gorelik, Natalya Sedykh, Mare Khellaste, Anatoly Babienko

Husband and wife Berestov are figure skating stars. The story is centered on the couple’s hard work, their achievements and failures in sports and on problems they face in their private life.

650 YEYO IMYA — VESNA (HER NAME IS SPRING)

1969, 70 min., color

Drama

Written and directed by: Iskander Khamrayev, camera: Rostislav Davydov, production designer: Emmanuil Kalantarov, misic: Marat Kamilov, sound: Galina Gavrilova, song lyrics: Alexei Shcherbakov

Cast: Talgat Nigmatulin, Larisa Zubkovich, Yefim Kopelyan, Nina Ruslanova, Razzak Khamrayev, Hamza Umarov, Georgy Shtil, Olga Antonova, Valentin Zubkov, Nikolai Kryukov, Pavel Luspekayev

Loosely based on Sharadf Rashidov’s novel “Mighty Wave”.

The days of World War II. A hydroelectric power station is being constructed in Uzbekistan. The main hero of the film is a young man Pulat, who is eager to go to the front. The story is focused on his strong love for Bahor, on his determination and courage.

651 ZAVTRA, TRETYEGO APRELYA (TOMORROW, ON THE THIRD OF APRIL)

1969, 70 min., color, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutsky, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Viktor Volin, misic: Alexender Kolker, sound: Asya Zvereva, song lyrics by: Kim Ryzhov

Cast: Eneken Aksel, Lyudmila Volynskaya, Viktor Ilyichev, Pavel Luspekayev, Alexander Demyanenko, Natasha Danilova, Larisa Malevannaya, Alexei Kozhevnikov

Based on short stories by Ilya Zverev.

The 1st of April is known as “The April Fools’ Day” when people tell each other lies and play all sorts of tricks on their friends. Pupils of a Leningrad junior school decided to establish “The Day of Spaking Truth” — and chose the date — the 3rd of April. The film tells about results of this action.

652 KNYAZ IGOR (PRINCE IGOR)

1969, 105 min., color, wide screen, wide format

Film-opera

Director: Roman Tikhomirov, screenplay: Isaak Glikman, Roman Tikhomirov, camera: Alexander Chirov, production designers: Vasily Zachinayev, Alexei Fedotov, sound: Grigory Elbert

Cast: Boris Khmelnitsky (Vladimir Kinayev singing), Nelli Pshennaya (Tamara Milashkina singing), Boris Tokarev (Virgulius Noreika singing), Alexander Slastin (Valery Malyshev singing), Bimbulat Vatayev (Yevgeny Nesterenko singing)

Screen version of Alexander Borodin’s opera, loosely based on the Russian national epic “The Song of Igor’s Campaign”.

653 MALCHISHKI (BOYS)

1969, 88 min., b/w

1. NOVENKY (NEW BOY)

Melodrama

Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Igor Yefimov, camera: Yakov Sklyansky, production designers: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, Yuri Borovikov, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Galina Golubeva

Cast: Andrei Konstantinov, Maya Bulgakova, Tatyana Doronina

After the end of war Boris returns with his mother to Leningrad. For the boys in the neighborhood Boris is a new boy, a stranger. Boris feels drawn to Tolya, the leader of the neighborhood boys. The story is centered on relations of the two boys.

2. ETO IMENNO YA (THIS IS JUST WHAT I AM)

Melodrama

Director: Leonid Mararychev, screenplay: Valery Popov, camera: Boris Timkovsky, Vadim Grammatikov, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, music: Vladislav Kladnitsky, sound: Lev Valter

Cast: Vitya Zhukov, Larisa Taranenko, Gena Dyudayev, Vladimir Retsepter

Life of the 8th grade schoolboy Sasha changes when his new teacher of sports decides to make him a boxing champion. The collision of the film lies in the inner struggle of the boy for his true personality.

654 MAMA VYSHLA ZAMUZH (MY MAMMY GOT MARRIED)

1969, 85 min., color

Melodrama

Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Yuri Klepikov, camera: Dmitry Dolinin, production designer: Isaak Kaplan, misic: Oleg Karavaichuk, sound: Konstantin Lashkov

Cast: Lyusyena Ovchinikova, Oleg Yefremov, Nikolai Burlayev, Vikror Ilyichev, Lyudmila Arinina, Larisa Burkova, Arkady Trusov

Zina brought up her son Borka by herself and now when the son has almost grown up a new man — Viktor — appears in her life. The film tells about relations of Zina’s son with his stepfather and about the new life of two middle aged people.

655 NA PUTI V BERLIN (ON THE WAY TO BERLIN)

1969, 92 min., b/w

War drama

Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Boris Vasilyev, Kirill Rapaport, Yuri Chulyukin, camera: Nikolai Zhilin, Viktor Karasev, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev

Cast: Vasily Krasnov, Nikolai Trofimov, Stepan Krylov, Antonina Shuranova, Gennady Karnovich-Valois, Yuri Fisenko, Geliy Sysoyev, Nikolai Kuzmin

Spring 1945. The last battles of World War II. The film is about the most important battle — the battle for Berlin, about preparatiions to operation and conducting of the battle, about its participants and heroes.

656 NEVEROYATNIY IYEGUDIIL KHLAMIDA (INCREDIBLE IYEGUDIIL KHLAMIDA)

1969, 100 min., b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexander Gladkov, camera: Semyon Ivanov, production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Vladimir Maklakov, sound: Anna Volokhova

Cast: Afanasy Kochetkov, Alexandra Otmorskaya, Alexander Grave, Oleg Basilashvili, Alexander Demyanenko, Galina Korotkevich, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Nina Titova, Igor Yefimov

The story is focused on the early period of the life of Maxim Gorky, the years when he lived in Samara and worked for “Samarskaya Pravda” newspaper. The film tells about formation of the writer’s character, his seeking and striving for the new ways in art.

657 PRIYATNY SYURPRIZ (A PLEASANT SURPRISE)

1969, 11 min., color

Director: Mark Genin, screenplay: Alik Mkrtchyan, Yuri Tikhonov, Mark

Genin, camera: Muzakir Shurukov, production designers: Grachiya Mekinyan, Nona Izbinskaya, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Semyon Shumyacher

Cast: Mikhail Vodyanoy, Olga Aroseva, Pavel Sukhanov, Valery Nikitenko

A life insurance advertising.

658 PYATERO S NEBA (FIVE FROM THE SKY)

1969, 87 min., b/w, wide screen

Drama

Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Leonid Braslavsky, camera: Oleg Kukhovarenko, production designers: Andrei Vagin, Alexander Kompaneyets, misic: Boris Klyuzner, sound: Semyon Shumyacher

Cast: Gleb Selyanin, German Yushko, Roman Gromadsky, Alexander Chirkov, Viktor Semenovsky, Ditmar Rikhter

The Nazis delivered to the Eastern front new chemical weapons which they intend to test in field conditions. In order to prevent the catastrophe a group of five paratroopers is sent to the enemy’s rear. Immediately after landing they face a serious problem: Gestapo arrested their messenger. Overcoming all the difficulties paratroopers reach the designated area and successfully carry out the operation. Feature based on real events.

659 RAZVYAZKA (OUTCOME)

1969, 92 min., b/w, wide screen

Detective

Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Anatoly Romov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, misic: Nikolai Chervinsky, sound: Boris Antonov

Cast: Yuri Gusev, Nikolai Timofeyev, Nikolai Gritsenko, Alexei Yakovlev, Pyotr Shelokhonov, Tatyana Mayorova, Galina Shmakova, Valery Smolyakov, Gennady Nekrasov

Security service agency shadows a man who received a package from a foreigner. Shortly after that the man gives himself up to the police and confesses that he had been working for a foreign secret service and soon has to pass another report...

660 ROKIROVKA V DLINNUYU STORONY (CASTLING)

1969, 96 min., color, wide screen

Detective

Director: Vladimir Grigoryev, screenplay: Yuri Vasilyev, Vladimir

Grigoryev, camera: Vladimir Chumak, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Arkady Gagulashvili, sound: Irina Volkova

Cast: Alexander Demyanenko, Algimantas Masyulis, Irina Vavilova, Pavel Luspekayev, Gennady Poloka, Stoyapas Kosmauskas, Natalya Zhuravel

By chance young researcher Boris Lebedev gets involved in a struggle against foreign secret service agents. Pursuing his goals the enemy uses all the methods including blackmail, bribery, threats...