Preface to the catalogue

691 NOCH NA CHETYRNADTSATOY PARALLELI (A NIGHT ON LATITUDE 14)

1971, 84 min., b/w, wide screen

Detective

Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Vladimir Shredel, Julian Semyonov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Vasili Zachinyayev, misic: Murad Kazhlayev, sound: Semyon Shumyacher, Galina Golubeva

Cast: Valentin Gaft, Vsevolod Platov, Yelena Kozelkova, Zhanna Kovenchuk, Nataliya Arinbasarova, Talgat Nigmatullin, Gennadi Poloka, Herman Yushko

Based on “He Killed Me Near Launt-Prabang”, a story by Julian Semyonov.

The picture is set in one of the countries of Indo-China. The people are engaged in a centuries-old struggle against the US aggression. The Soviet reporter Dmitri Stepanov returns from the battlefield, in a hurry to give the report to his paper. His car is being pursued by an American helicopter... The pilot is Ed Stuart, who used to be Stepanov's friend...

692 PRISTAN NA TOM BEREGU (THE PIER ACROSS THE RIVER)

1971, 64 min., b/w

Melodrama

Director: Solomon Shuster, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Georgi Kropachyev, misic: Boris Tischenko, sound: Irina Volkova

Cast: Inna Gulaya, Stanislav Lyubshin, Oleg Korchikov, Maya Bulgakova, Antonina Bendova

Based on a story by Yuri Nagibin.

693 PROSHCHANIYE S PETERBURGOM (A FAREWELL TO PETERSBURG)

1971, 98 min., color, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Jan Fried, screenplay: Anatoli Grebnev, camera: Oleg Kukhovarenko, production designer: Mikhail Krotkin, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev

Cast: Girt Yakovlev, Tatyana Bedova, Tatyana Piletskaya, Vasili Merkuryev, Pavel Kadochnikov, Igor Dmitriyev, Sergei Karnovich-Valois

The picture features a few episodes of life of “ The Waltz King” — the great Austrian composer Johann Strauss: his arrival in Petersburg, his dramatic love for Olga which inspired the composer to create beautiful music, and their parting.

694 RAZRESHITE VZLYET (I REQUEST CLEARANCE TO TAKE OFF)

1971, 96 min., b/w, wide screen

Melodrama

Directors: Anatoli Vekhotko, Natalya Troschenko, screenplay: Vladimir Kunin, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Igor Vigdorchik

Cast: Anatoli Papanov, Semyon Morozov, Artyom Inozemtsev, Valentin Gaft, Larisa Malevannaya, Maya Bulgakova, Viktor Perevalov

Having received his brand-new pilot's certificate, Solomentsev starts his flying career at an airfield lost in the steppe. Now the old flier Sakhno must give up the vocation he loves. But before moving on to become an air controller, he will help the crew of a passenger plane on an emergency landing.

695 RASSKAZHI MNE O SEBE (TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF)

1971, 93 min., color, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Budimir Metalnikov, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Galina Gorbonosova, song composed and rendered by: Bulat Okudzhava

Cast: Tamara Syomina, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Vitaly Solomin, Victor Pavlov, Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina, Georgi Shtil

The nurse Kseniya lost her beloved in the war; an unhappy marriage and long solitary years followed.

Yet, when Kseniya's son is a grown-up and her youth is well past, she encounters love...

696 TYEN (THE SHADOW)

1971, 92 min., color, wide screen

Musical comedy

Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Yuli Dunski, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designers: Vladimir Dorrer, Vladimir Kostin, misic: Andrei Eshpai, sound: Boris Khutoryanski

Cast: Oleg Dal, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Marina Neyelova, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Andrei Mironov, Sergei Filippov, Vladimir Etush, Zinovi Gerdt, Georgi Vitsin, Konstantin Adashevski, Alexei Polevoi

Based on the play of the same title by Yevgeni Schwarz.

The traditional fairy-tale struggle of the Good against the Evil is impersonated in the opposition of the kind and honest Scientist and his mean and paltry Shadow.

697 KHOD BELOY KOROLEVY (THE WHITE QUEEN'S MOVE)

1971, 95 min., color

Melodrama

Director: Viktor Sadovski, screenplay: Lev Kassil, Viktor Sadovski, camera: Boris Timkovski, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Anna Volokhova, Eleonora Kazanskaya

Cast: Svetlana Golovina, Kirill Lavrov, Victoriya Fyedorova, Nikolai Ozerov, Kostya Kornakov, Yevgeni Yevstigneyev, Iosif Konopatski, Leonid Kuravlyev, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Alexei Smirnov, Vera Kuznetsova, Anatoli Papanov

Based on the story by of the same title by Lev Kassil.

A coach makes up his mind to leave sports, but his trainee, the future “white queen” who won the ski championship in the High Tatry, brings him back to the career he loves.

698 KHOLODNO — GORYACHO (COLD — HOT)

1971, 65 min., b/w

Melodrama

Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Nataliya Ryazantseva, camera: Nikolai Zhilin, production designer: Andrei Vagin, misic: Nikolai Chervinski, sound: Irina Volkova

Cast: Yelena Odintsova, Platon Andryushin, Lidiya Shtykan, Irina Kondratyeva, Valentina Vladimirova

Loosely based on “Mesalliance”, a short story by Nikolai Chukovski.

699 CHERNIYE SUKHARI (THE DRIED RYE CRUST)

1971, 86 min., “Lenfilm”, “Defa” (Germany), color, wide screen

Drama

Director: Herbert Rappaport, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Edith Gorrish, camera: Eduard Rozovski, Rudolf Schrade, production designers: Vsevolod Ulitko, R. Schmidt, misic: Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound: Grigori Elbert, E. Nietzsche

Cast: Yuri Kayurov, Vladimir Tatosov, Natalya Varlei, Nikolai Merzlikin, Bruno Oya, Yuri Medvedev, Rutger Joswig, Vladimir Antonik, Artyom Karapetyan, Svetlana Sukhovei, Valentina Talyzina

Loosely based on the novel of the same title by Yelizaveta Drapkina.

1918. A train loaded with grain is sent from Germany to Russia as an aid to the proletariat who gained victory in the November Revolution. The attendants, the war prisoner Kurt and the Russian girl Tanya, have a long and difficult way ahead of them...

700 SHELMENKO — DENSHCHIK (SHELMENKO, THE BATMAN)

1971, 95 min., color, wide screen

Musical comedy

Written and directed by: Andrei Tutyshkin, camera: Rostislav Davydov, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Vasili Solovyev-Sedoi, sound: Grigori Elbert

Cast: Mikhail Pugovkin, Vladimir Dalski, Zoya Fyodorova, Lyudmila Senchina, Yuri Medvedev, Olga Aroseva, Lyubov Koreneva, Igor Ozerov, Marina Lolbentseva

Loosely based on a comedy of the same title by Grigori Kvitka-Osnovyanenko.

The unit led by Captain Skvortsov is billeted in landowner Shpak's village. The young officer falls in love with Shpak's daughter Prisinka. But the bridegroom is poor, and the parents are against their union. The captain's batman Shelmenko volunteers to help the young people...

701 SHUTITE? (ARE YOU KIDDING?)

1971, 85 min., almanac, b/w, wide screen

1. INACHE MY PROPALI (OR WE ARE LOST)

Comedy

Director: Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Valeri Popov, camera: Valentin Sidorin, production designer: Yuri Kulikov, sound: Irina Volkova

Cast: Zhenya Utkin, Zhenya Sushkov, Slava Chernyayev, Lev Lemke, Victor Sergachyev, Mikhail Ivanov

The schoolboy Sergeyev rigged up a bell under his desk, connecting it to the school bell. This marked a new life for the 6 “B” pupils...

2. VANDERBUL BEZHIT ZA GORIZONT (VANDERBUL RUNS BEYOND THE HORIZON)

Comedy

Directors: Nikolai Koshelev, Valentin Morozov, screenplay: Radi Pogodin, Nikolai Koshelev, Valentin Morozov, camera: Alik Gambaryan, production designer: Georgi Kropachyev, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Boris Andreyev

Cast: Seriozha Nosov, Valeriya Zhukhimovich, Pyotr Merkuryev

Having invented a new name of Vanderbul, the boy Vasya does senseless things to prove his courage, such as trying to have a healthy tooth extracted, dipping his hand in boiling water...

3. SHUTITE? (ARE YOU KIDDING?)

Comedy

Director: Valeri Chechunov, screenplay: Radi Pogodin, Valeri Chechunov, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Nikolai Martynov, sound: Grigori Elbert

Cast: Slava Burmistrov, Mikhail Kononov, Valeri Ryzhakov, Valentina Kovel

Two conservatory students came to a village to record chastooshki – the humorous folk songs. Their accommodation turned out to be a hut with a shattered roof. Rather than having it mended, the Chairman of the collective farm promised to have a stove made. The teenage Grisha set about this task...

702 BOBA I SLON (BOBA AND THE ELEPHANT)

1972, 63 min., color

Comedy

Director: Avgust Baltrushaitis, screenplay: Victor Golyavkin, camera: Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Stanislav Pozhlakov, sound: Arnold Shargorodski

Cast: Denis Kucher, Arina Arakelova, Geli Sysoyev, Irina Kuberskaya, Georgi Shtil, Yuri Solovyev, Boris Arakelov

The story started at the Zoo where the five-year-old Boba was taken by his father on a Sunday. The boy spent much time in front of the elephant's open-air cage, and he thought he understood why the elephant was so sad... At night, the elephant left the Zoo and went to look for his small friend...

703 V CHERNYKH PESKAKH (IN THE BLACK SANDS)

1972, 82 min., color, wide screen

Thriller

Director: Iskander Khamrayev, screenplay: Sergei Potepalov, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Vasili Zachinyayev, misic: Marat Kamilov, sound: Galina Lukina

Cast: Dagun Osmayev, Bimbulat Vatayev, Gennadi Nilov, Leonhard Merzin, Larisa Zubkovich

Loosely based on a novel of the same title by M. Simashko.

In the 1920-s, the Basmatchi (counter-revolutionary bandit gangs) were committing outrages in Central Asia. Chasing the leader of the local gang Shamurad whose brother violated his sister, the shepherd Chary Esenov comes to a Red Army detachment...

Eventually, he progresses from a solitary fighter to a conscientious revolutionary and brings Shamurad to the detachment to stand lawful trial.

704 GONSHCHIKI (THE RACERS)

1972, 81 min., color, wide format

Melodrama

Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Yuri Klemanov, Iosif Olshanski, Nina Rudneva, Igor Maslennikov, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Vladimir Gasilov, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya Zvereva

Cast: Yevgeni Leonov, Oleg Yankovski, Yuri Ivin, Larisa Luzhina, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Leonhard Merzin, Nikolai Feranontov, Boris Arakelov

For many years, the metal worker Kukushkin and his navigator Sergachyev were a team, winning many car races. With the years, Kukushkin's eyesight started to fail, and Sergachyev decided to look for a new partner. This is their first race as rivals...

705 GROSSMEYSTER (THE GRAND MASTER)

1972, 93 min., color, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Sergei Mikaelyan, screenplay: Leonid Zorin, camera: Yevgeni Mezentsev, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Betty Lievschitz

Cast: Vladimir Tatosov, Anna Tveleneva, Andrei Myagkov, Larisa Malevannaya, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Yefim Kopelyan, Viktor Korchnoi, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Nikolai Volkov Sr., Anatoli Solonitsin, Vladimir Tatosov, Mikhail Tal

Sergei Khlebnikov is a chess player. Sergei is not after the victory, the game is rather the clash of brains and personalities for him.. An emotional person who is not focusing on just the practical side of things, he seldom made it to the top in tournaments...

Yet, finally, through summoning all his resources and looking for new creative solutions, he achieved victory in the international title claimants' match...

706 DVENADTSAT MESYATSEV (TWELVE MONTHS)

1972, 2 parts, 135 min., color

Fairy tale

Written and directed by: Anatoli Granik, camera: Rostislav Davydov, production designer: Mikhail Shcheglov, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Natalya Levitina

Cast: Larisa Zhvaniya, Nikolai Volkov Sr., Marina Maltseva, Tatyana Peltser, Lev Lemke, Konstantin Adashevski

Based Samuil Marshak’s play of the same title.

707 DELA DAVNO MINUVSHIKH DNEY (DONE IN THE TIME LONG PAST)

1972, 100 min., b/w, wide screen

Detective

Director: Vladimir Schredel, screenplay: Alexander Chervinski, Anatoli Bezuglov, Yuri Klarov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Yevgeni Gukov, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev

Cast: Ivan Nasonov, Valeri Olshanski, Bruno Freindlich, Mikhail Lobanov, Pyotr Merkuryev, Yelizaveta Uvarova, Natalya Chetverikova, Mikhail Kokshenov, Mikhail Gluzski, Vladimir Etush

1926 witnessed the murder of the antiquarian Bogoyavlenski. Nowadays the bearer of a hundred-ruble note he owned can get a substantial sum for the deposit held in a Swiss bank...

After many years the murder case is solved.

708 ZDRAVSVUY I PROSHCHAY (HELLO AND FAREWELL)

1972, 95 min., color

Comedy

Director: Vitaly Melnikov, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, camera: Yuri Veksler, production designer: Bella Manevich, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Konstantin Lashkov

Cast: Lyudmila Zaitseva, Oleg Yefremov, Mikhail Kononov, Alexander Demyanenko, Natalya Gundareva, Viktor Pavlov, Borislav Brondukov, Tanya Doronina, Sasha Vedernikov, Zhanna Blinova

Shura Yarmonok's married life has not turned out well: her husband Mitka left for the city to look for “his life's meaning”, abandoning her and their three children. But her meeting with the new local militiaman Georgi Burov, a kind and warm-hearted person, reshaped her life and her former idea of happiness...

709 IGROK (THE GAMBLER)

1972, 100 min., “Lenfilm” – “Barandov” (Czechoslovakia), color

Drama

Director: Alexei Batalov, screenplay: Mikhail Olshevski, camera: Dmitri Meskhiyev, production designers: Isaac Kaplan, Bogumil Kulich, misic: Oleg Karavaichuk, sound: Asya Zvereva

Cast: Nikolai Burlyayev, Tatyana Ivanova, Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Vasili Livanov, Alexander Kaidanovski, Itka Zelenogorska, Fyodor Nikitin, Georgi Teikh

Based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel of the same title.

710 IZHORSKI BATALYON (THE IZHORA BATTALLION)

1972, 94 min., b/w, wide screen

Drama

Director: Gennadi Kazanski, screenplay: Sergei Davydov, Oleg Shestinski, Gennadi Kazanski, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Igor Vigdorchik

Cast: Viktor Zhukov, Irina Yurevich, Boris Chirkov, Vadim Yakovlev, Sergei Plotnikov, Vasili Korzun, Sergei Priselkov, Leonid Nevedomsky, Gleb Selyanin, Inna Kondratyeva

1941 is one of the most tragic years of the Great Patriotic War.

The workers of the Izhora Factory came to the defense of Leningrad...

The picture is focused on the stopping of the enemy in the city outskirts.

711 KARPUKHIN (KARPUKHIN)

1972, 92 min., b/w, wide screen

Drama

Director: Vladimir Vengerov, screenplay: Grigori Baklanov, camera: Vladimir Chumak, production designer: Victor Volin, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Konstantin Lashkov

Cast: Vasili Korzun, Sergei Danilin, Nikolai Yeremenko Sr., Alexander Borisov, Fyodor Nikitin, Boris Kokovkin, Lyubov Malinovskaya

Based on the novel of the same title by Grigori Baklanov.

One evening, the agronomist Mishakov was hit by a truck in the vicinity of a small town. The truck driver Karpukhin became an inintentional murderer. The investigation reveals that Karpukhin is not to blame; yet, yielding to the prejudiced prosecutor, investigator Nikonov is willing to view the facts differently...

712 KRASNIYE PCHYELY (THE RED BEES)

1972, 72 min., color

Drama

Director: Leonid Makarychev, screenplay: Leonid Vlasov, Arkadi Mlodik, camera: Boris Timkovski, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Vladislav Kladnitski, sound: Galina Golubeva

Cast: Volodya Leletko, Dima Zharkovski, Natasha Shishkina, Mikhail Kononov, Yuri Medvedev, Ivan Krasko, Georgi Shtil, Andrei Krupenin, Arkadi Trusov

In 1922, the kids living in a small town established a new Pioneer unit, naming it “The Red Bees”.

713 KRUG (THE CIRCLE)

1972, 94 min., b/w, wide screen

Detective

Director: Herbert Rappaport, screenplay: Edgar Dubrovsky, Herbert Rappaport, camera: Alexander Chirkov, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound: Boris Khutoryanski

Cast: Alexander Zbruyev, Igor Gorbachyev, Pyotr Gorin, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yevgeniya Uralova, Nikolai Rybnikov, Alexei Kozhevnikov, Svetlana Nemolyayeva, Svetlana Korkoshko, Panteleimon Krymov, Roman Gromadski

The characters of the picture are shared with the one titled “Two Tickets for the Day-time Show”. This time, they are in charge of the investigation of an opium theft from the storage of a Leningrad chemical and pharmaceutical plant.

714 LENFILM (LENFILM)

1972, 11 min., b/w

Feature/documentary

Director: Viktor Sadovski, screenplay: Dmitri Ivaneyev, Victor Sadovski, camera: Nikolai Zhilin

Host — Boris Chirkov

The picture features the 50-year history of “Lenfilm” Studio since its foundation.

715 MECHENY ATOM (THE RADIOACTIVE TRACER)

1972, 99 min., b/w, wide screen

Detective

Director: Igor Gostev, screenplay: Fyodor Shakhmagonov, camera: Lev Kolganov, production designer: Valeri Yurkevich, misic: Raphail Khozak, sound: Semyon Shumyacher

Cast: Georgi Zhzhyenov, Vladimir Samoilov, Georgi Taratorkin, Mikhail Pogorzhelski, Yuri Tolubeyev, Semyon Morozov, Lyubov Sokolova, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Vladimir Pokrovski, Pavel Kormunin

A western Intelligence Service sends Agent Salge to the USSR to identify the country's defense capacity. Salge's activities are supported by persons trying to escape from the Soviet justice. The officers with the Special Service controlling the agent are supplying him with fake data...

716 MONOLOG (THE MONOLOGUE)

1972, 100 min., color

Drama

Director: Ilya Averbakh, screenplay: Yevgeni Gabrilovich, camera: Dmitri Meskhiyev, production designer: Marina Azizyan, misic: Oleg Karavaichuk, sound: Eduard Vanunz

Cast: Mikhail Gluzski, Marina Neyelova, Margarita Terekhova, Stanislav Lyubshin, Yevgeniya Khanayeva, Leonid Nevedomski, Leonid Gallis, Valeri Matveyev, Ernst Romanov

A prominent scientist, Academician Sretenski is leading a steady, measured life; he is reconciled to his joys and sorrows, selflessly loving his granddaughter whom his daughter long ago abandoned for him to bring up... Unexpectedly, the “prodigal” daughter returns with yet another husband; his granddaughter Nina is going through her first personal drama, while his young colleague is trying to convince him to revert to his long-forgotten research...

717 MOYA ZHIZN (MY LIFE)

1972, 3 parts, 200 min., b/w

Drama

Directors: Grigori Nikulin, Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Viktor Sokolov, camera: Dmitri Dolinin, production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Sergei Slonimski, sound: Betty Lievschitz

Cast: Stanislav Lyubshin, Margarita Terekhova, Alisa Freindlich, Yuri Solomin, Nonna Terentyeva, Nikolai Sergeyev

Based on the novel of the same title by Anton Chekhov.

The main character is a nobleman, the son of a mediocre architect; faking activity based of nothing is alien to him... Those around him are puzzled by his wish and yearning to engage in “rough” physical labor, to say the least of it... Yet, if a person truly aspires to something...

718 POSLEDNIYE DNI POMPEYI (THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEI)

1972, 77 min., color, wide screen

Musical comedy

Director: Joseph Shapiro, screenplay: Boris Laskin, Leonid Likhodeyev, camera: Vadim Grammatikov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Alexander Kolker, sound: Yevgeni Nesterov

Cast: Ivan Dmitriyev, Lyudmila Arinina, Lev Lemke, Alexander Demyanenko, Igor Dmitriyev, Alexei Smirnov

Some hack-workers of art came to a small resort as part of a visiting company... As their bad luck would have it, vacationing there were some students of a Theatre Institute, who ardently rose against the banality and spiritual surrogate offered by the variety show “actors”...