Preface to the catalogue

2. ZOLOTAYA PUGOVITSA (GOLDEN BUTTON)

17 min., color

Tragicomedy

Director: Alexander Rogozhkin, screenplay: Mikhail Mishin, camera: Valery Martynov, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Algidras Paulavichus, sound: Leonid Izakov

Cast: Semyon Morozov, Yevgeny Artemyev, Tatyana Barkova, Vladimir Bogdanov, Sergei Bryantsev

Drawn to complete absurd situation in life of a dodger who regards his personal interests to be of paramount importance.

3. SKREPKI (PAPER CLIPS)

15 min., color

Satirical comedy

Director: Sergei Baranov, Valery Naumov, screenplay: Mikhail Mishin, camera: Sergei Yurizditsky, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Algidras Paulavichus, sound: Larisa Maslova

Cast: Alexander Galibin, Gennady Bogachev, Olga Volkova, Igor Yefimov

Authors of the film mock the idle talk, formalism and servility of the hero of the story.

4. EKSKURSANT (TOURIST)

38 min., color

Comedy

Director: Viktor Buturlin, screenplay: Mikhail Mishin, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Algidras Paulavichus, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade

Cast: Viktor Bychkov, Olga Samoshina

A toy factory worker due to his amazing likeness to a foreign tourist gets into a number of funny situations.

1040 KAK STAT ZVEZDOY (HOW TO BECOME A STAR)

1986, 2 parts, 52 min., color

Musical show

Written and directed by: Vitaly Aksyonov, camera: Ivan Bagayev, production designer: Stanislav Romanovsky, misic: Viktor Reznikov, sound: Igor Vigdorchik

Cast: Vladimir Tatosov, Valery Leontyev, Anna Tveleneva, Tatyana Gakkel, Raimond Pauls, Harry Bash, Maksim Leonidov, Vyacheslav Polunin

Variety art show in which popular actors and musical stars participate.

1041 KRASNAYA STRELA (RED ARROW)

1986, 92 min., color, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Iskander Khamrayev, Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Edgar Dubrovsky, Alexander Ozhegov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Boris Andreyev

Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Yelena Smirnova, Andrei Smirnov, Vladimir Yeremin, Osvald Berzinsh, Ludmila Arinina, Galina Figlovskaya, Vadim Yakovlev, Maria Lavrova, Zoya Bogomolova, Alexander Vdovin, Artyom Karapetyan, Pyotr Shelokhonov, Vadim Lobanov, Sergei Bekhterev

Director of a large corporation gets an important state order. The story is focused on the analysis of crises of a leader belonging to an old formation.

1042 LEVSHA (LEFT-HANDER)

1986, 89 min., color

Satirical fairy tale

Written and directed by: Sergei Ovcharov, camera: Valery Fedosov, production designer: Nataliya Vasilyeva, misic: Igor Matsiyevsky, sound: Vladimir Persov

Based on Nikolai Leskov’s short story of the same title

A popular tale of a gifted gunsmith the Left-hander is told in a manner imitating the style of Russian traditional popular print.

1043 MIF (MYTH)

1986, 2 parts, 136 min., color

Melodrama

Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Kirill Laskari, camera: Sergei Yurizditsky, production designer: Georgy Kropachev, misic: Alexander Knaifel, sound: Vladimir Persov

Cast: Regina Kuzmicheva, Maris Liepa, Lidiya Bozhozovskaya, Yevgeny Leven, Abessalom Loriya, Vladimir Zamansky, Gali Abaydulov

Loosely based on “The Twenty Third Pirouette”, a short story by Kirill Laskari

The story is focused on life of ballet dancers, their aspirations and searches for new ways in art, their personal dramas, hard exhausting labour and as a reward — brief moments of inspiration and happiness.

1044 NASH PAPA MAYONEZ (OUR DAD MAYONNAISE)

1986, 16 min., color

Grotesque comedy

Director: Yuri Afanasyev, screenplay: Igor Ageyev, camera: Vladimir Brylyakov, production designer: Mikhail Gerasimov, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade

Cast: Lyudmila Arinina, Yelena Ageyeva, Vladimir Yeryemin, Yelena Kondulainen, Ernst Romanov, Illarion Naidenko, Natasha Novysh

1045 PISMA MYORTVOGO CHELOVEKA (LETTERS OF THE DEAD MAN)

1986, 88 min., color, wide screen

Anti-utopia

Director: Konstantin Lopushansky, screenplay: Konstantin Lopushansky, Vyacheslav Ryubakov, Boris Strugatsky, camera: Nikolai Prokoptsev, production designers: Yelena Amshinskaya, Viktor Ivanov, misic: Alexander Zhurbin, sound: Leonid Gavrichenko

Cast: Rolan Bykov, Iosif Ryklin, Viktor Mikhailov, Alexander Sabinin, Nora Gryakalova, Vera Mayorova, Vatslav Dvorzhetsky, Svetlana Smirnova, Nikolai Alkanov

Nuclear blast on an American military base killed the majority of population, those who survived are doomed to die slowly. Among them is a small group of children, hiding in catacombs. Trying to conceal the cause of the disaster a group of militarists uses it as a pretext to start World War III.

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  The film was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers’ State Premium of the RSFSR (1987).
  

1046 PLATA ZA PROYESD (FARE)

1986, 93 min., color

Drama

Director: Vyacheslav Sorokin, screenplay: Pavel Fomin, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Vladimir Bannykh, misic: Eduard Artemyev, sound: Nikolai Astakhov

Cast: Vladimir Knyazev, Anton Bychkov, Galina Dolya, Viktor Tzepayev, Yuri Kochegarov, Viktor Gogolev, Oleg Letnikov, Vladimir Litvinov, Alexander Tkachenok

Loosely based on Ilya Shtemler’s novel “Taxi Park”.

Oleg Sergachev was one of the best drivers in a taxi company. He was on good terms with everybody, knew how to grease people’s palms. He lived without any troubles and enjoyed his life until the day when a new director came to work for the company.

1047 POSLEDNAYA DOROGA (THE LAST TRIP)

1986, 101 min., color

Historical — biographical drama

Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Yakov Gordin, Leonid Menaker, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Oksana Strugina

Cast: Alexander Kalyagin, Vadim Medvedev, Irina Kupchenko, Yelena Karadzhova, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Gediminas Storpirshtis, Andrei Myagkov, Anna Kamenkova, Sergei Sazontyev, Vyacheslav Yezepov, Albert Filozov, Ivan Krasko, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Sergei Zhigunov

The story takes its beginning on the night of January 27, 1837, when all the main events leading to the tragic end of Alexander Pushkin’s life have already happened. Ahead are the Chyornaya river... the duel... the death of the poet.

1048 PRI OTKRYTYKH DVERYAKH (WITH OPEN DOORS)

1986, 2 parts, 134 min., color

Melodrama

Director: Ernest Yasan, screenplay: Valentin Azernikov, camera: Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Georgy Garanyan, sound: Galina Golubeva

Cast: Viktor Mikhailov, Tatyana Vasilyeva, Nina Ruslanova, Stanislav Landgraf, Nikolai Volkov, Jr., Alexei Mironov, Olga Volkova, Semyon Farada, Irina Rozanova, Nina Usatova, Andrei Tolubeyev

Based on Viktor Azernikov’s play of the same title

What prevents heroes of this film from being sincere with each other? Habitual dual moral standards, when there is truth “for oneself” and “for other people”, when it is regarded to be normal to say one thing and to do the other.

1049 PRORYV (BREAK THROUGH)

1986, 99 min., color, wide screen

Catastrophe film

Director: Dmitry Svetozarov, screenplay: Albina Shulgina, camera: Sergei Astakhov, production designer: Mikhail Suzdalov, misic: Andrei Makarevich, Alexander Zaitsev, Alexander Kutikov, sound: Leonid Shumyacher

Cast: Oleg Borisov, Andrei Rostotsky, Yuri Demich, Mikhail Danilov, Alexander Susnin, Yuri Kuznetsov, Andrei Krasko, Vladimir Baranov, Valery Kravchenko, Yuri Oskin, Yuri Solovyev, Nikolai Burov, Natalya Akimova

The story is based on real events: a soil sank on one of the sections of subway being constructed in Leningrad...Subway builders take up the challenge.

1050 PRIKLYUCHENIYA SHERLOKA HOLMSA I DOKTORA VATSONA. DVADTSATY VEK NACHINAYETSYA. (ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR. WATSON. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BEGINS.)

1986, 2 parts, 157 min., color

Detective

Written and directed by: Igor Maslennikov, camera: Yuri Veksler, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Asya Zvereva

Cast: Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Bronislav Brondukov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Boris Kluyev, Alexander Romantsov, Yelena Safonova, Larisa Guseyeva, Igor Yefimov, Viktor Koretsky, Leonid Kuravlyov, Rina Zelionaya

Loosely based on short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.

1051 PROSTI (FORGIVE ME)

1986, 84 min., color, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Ernst Yasan, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, camera: Ivan Bagayev, production designer: Stanislav Romanovsky, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Galina Golubeva

Cast: Natalya Andreichenko, Igor Kostolevsky, Viktor Merezhko, Alexandra Yakovleva, Alisa Freinlikh, Vladimir Menshov, Alexei Zharkov, Tatyana Mikhailova, Masha Merezhko, Alexander Kuznetsov, Olga Volkova

The heroine of the film finds out that her husband has a young mistress and tries to pay him in his own coin. The attempt results in a tragedy. Going through dramatic experience she realises that she should keep her family.

1052 SENTIMENTALNOYE PUTESHESTVIYE NA KARTOSHKY (A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY WITH A HARVESTING TEAM)

1986, 83 min., color, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Dmitry Dolinin, screenplay: Andrei Smirnov, camera: Vladimir Ivanov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vitaly Chernitsky, sound: Alexander Gruzdev

Cast: Filipp Yankovsky, Anzhelika Nevolina, Pyotr Semak, Andrei Gusev, Vasily Arkanov, Nikolai Ustinov, Yevgeniya Barkhan, Fyodor Valikov, Elvira Kolotukhina, Sergei Russkin

A youngster who is a city-dweller and “mother’s darling” enters a college and is sent with a group of students to a collective farm to harvest potatoes. Here he goes through the first painful experiences: getting in love, disappointment and cruelty of human relations.

1053 SKAZANIYE O KHRABROM KHOCHBARE (TALE OF BRAVE KHOCHBAR)

1986, 96 min., color

Poetic parable

Directors: Askhab Abakarov, Mikhail Ordovsky, screenplay: Svetlana Karmalita, camera: Oleg Kukhovarenko, Nikolai Prokoptsev, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Shirvani Chalayev, sound: Mikhail Viktorov

Cast: Konstantin Butayev, Abdurashid Makhsudov, Irina Logunovich, Bogand Magomedov, Omar-Danya Podolsky, Mukhtabek Kantemirov, Magomed Khalilov, Vitasitas Paukshte, Yunus Yusupov

Loosely based on poem by Rasul Gamzatov

The story is set in the 17th century is Dagestan. Young man Khochbar is accompanying Saadat, the daughter of the ruler of Khunzakhsky khanate, married for political reasons to the son of the ruler of Kaspian lands. During the long journey the two young people come to love each other which leads to tragedy.

1054 SKORBNOYE BESCHUVSTVIYE (MOURNFUL INSENSITIVITY)

1986, 97 min., color, wide screen

Drama

Director: Alexander Sokurov, screenplay: Yuri Arabov, camera: Sergei Yurizditsky, production designer: Yelena Amshinskaya, sound: Vladimir Persov

Cast: Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Alla Osipenko, Tatyana Yegorova, Dmitry Bryantsev, Vladimir Zamansky, Viktoriya Amitova, Irina Sokolova, Vadim Zhuk, Andrei Reshetin, Ilya Revin, Vladimir Dmitriyev

Loosely based on Bernard Shaw’s play “Heartbreak House”.

World War I. Full of guests house of old captain Shotover resembles Noah’s Ark. It may seem that life outside the house has nothing to do with the life of its inhabitants: a flirtation turning into a nonsense, love drama which hides the hatred, pain and sorrow in emptiness which is condensing to the point of explosion.

1055 SOSHEDSHIYE S NEBES (DESCENDED FROM HEAVENS)

1986, 80 min., color, wide screen

Drama

Director: Nataliya Troshchenko, screenplay: Vladimir Kunin, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Rimma Narinyan, misic: Diana Smorgonskaya, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya

Cast: Vera Glagoleva, Alexander Abdulov, Yelena Popova, Yuri Belyayev, Kirill Alexeyev, Oleg Melenevsky, Nikolai Ivanov, Viktor Kostetsky

Loosely based on Alexei Kapler’s novel “Two of Twenty Million”

1056 TIKHOYE SLEDSTVIYE (QUIET INVESTIGATION)

1986, 68 min., color, wide screen

Detective

Director: Alexander Pashovkin, screenplay: Alexander Mindadze, camera: Alexander Chechulin, Vladimir Dyakonov, production designer: Yelizaveta Urlina, misic: Mark Minkov, sound: Galina Gorbonosova

Cast: Alexei Buldakov, Vladimir Kuznesov, Mikhail Danilov, Igor Dobryakov, Nikolai Lavrov, Fyodor Odinokov, Valery Priyemykhov, Svetlana Smirnova, Alexei Susnin

Based on Sergei Rodionov’s novel “Cambrian Clay”

Detective Ryabinkin is commissioned to investigate the case of gasoline waste. His predesessor was removed from the investigation. Investigating the case Ryabinkin makes a mistake which results in the death of the suspect.

1057 FUETE (FOUETTE)

1986, 100 min., color

Melodrama

Directors: Vladimir Vasilyev, Boris Yermolayev, screenplay: Boris Yermolayev, Savva Kulish, camera: Valery Mironov, production designers: Mikhail Shcheglov, Yelizaveta Urlina, music from compositions by Bach, Mozart, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Oleg Karavaychuk, A. Bolchev, sound: Garri Belenky

Cast: Yekaterina Maksimova, Vladimir Vasilyev, Nataliya Bolshakova, Angelina Kabarova, Valentin Gaft, Konstantin Zaklinsky, Alla Osipenko, Olga Samoshina, Aristarkh Livanov, Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, Maria Berggolts, Yevgeny Kolobov, Vladimir Vorobyov

Ballerina Yelena Knyazeva is going through a crises in her artistic life, further complicated by personal problems.

1058 APELLYATSIYA (THE APPEAL)

1987, 91 min., color, wide screen

Drama

Director: Valery Guryanov, screenplay: Edward Volodarsky, camera: Vadim Grammatikov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Diana Smorgonskaya, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya

Cast: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Vladimir Konkin, Vsevolod Sanayev, Vsevolod Shilovski, Vadim Lobanov, Marina Troshina, Viktor Kartashov, Igor Yefimov, Anatoly Rudakov

Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Viktor Grebeniuk.

Pressured by First Secretary of the District Party Committee, the meeting of the Party Bureau dismissed the collective farm agronomist Boris Kholmovoy and stripped him of Party membership, allegedly for arbitrary conduct. Disagreeing with the decision of the District Party Committee, he appeals against it...

1059 BASHNYA (THE TOWER)

1987, 89 min., color

Drama

Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Alexander Alexandrov, camera: Valery Myulgaut, production designers: Grachiya Mekinyan, Mikhail Gavrilov, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Natalya Levitina

Cast: Olga Ostroumova, Vadim Lobanov, Georgy Burkov, Sergei Sazontyev, Ivan Agafonov, Raisa Ryazanova, Irina Apeximova, Alexei Yasulovich, Svetlana Gaitan

Close to the highway there is a water tower, with the mechanic, his wife and adopted invalid son living inside the fencing. Shortly they are joined by a family living in the capital, forced to seek shelter due to their car's failure. The visitors' stay is going to be extensive, later to develop into a tragedy...

1060 BELOYE PROKLYATIYE (THE WHITE CURSE)

1987, 81 min., color, wide screen

Melodrama

Director: Nikolai Kovalsky, screenplay: Igor Fyodorov, camera: Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Viktor Lebedev, sound: Harry Belenky

Cast: Lembit Ulfsak, Alexandra Aasmae (Yakovleva), Viktor Bychkov, Larisa Guzeyeva, Igor Dmitriyev, Gennady Nilov, Anna Tveleneva

Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Viktor Sanin.

1061 VEZUCHY CHELOVEK (THE LUCKY MAN)

1987, 2 parts, 139 min., color

Melodrama

Director: Igor Sheshukov, screenplay: Yuri Chernyakov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Vladislav Orlov, misic: Vadim Bibergan, sound: Leonid Gavrichenko

Cast: Vladimir Kashpur, Alexander Pashutin, Lev Borisov, Yuri Demich, Alexei Krychenkov, Alexander Susnin

Loosely based on “A Lapse”, a novel by Yuri Chernyakov

The main character is a tactful, sympathetic person; as often as not, he just gets lucky. His ability to change the lives of those close to him to the better, springing from the traits of his personality, is fully revealed...

1062 VZLOMSCHIK (THE BURGLAR)

1987, 90 min., color

Melodrama

Director: Valery Ogorodnikov, screenplay: Valery Priyemykhov, camera: Valery Mironov, production designer: Viktor Ivanov, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Aliakper Gasan-zade

Cast: Oleg Yelykomov, Konstantin Kinchev, Yuri Tsapnik, Svetlana Gaytan, Polina Petrenko, Mikhail Parfyenov, Pyotr Semak, Oleg Garkusha

After the death of his mother, the thirteen-year-old Semyon steps in to assume the responsibility for his family. He dreams of his father's giving up his drinking and of his elder brother's fully developing his talent for performing rock music. For their sakes, Semyon will do anything...

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  The film was awarded the Special FIPRESSI Premium at the International Film Festival in Venice (1987).
  

1063 VICTORIA (BUMAZHNY PATEFON) (VICTORIA (THE PAPER GRAMOPHONE)

1987, 87 min., color

Melodrama

Director: Dmitry Dolinin, screenplay: Alexander Chervinski, camera: Lev Kolganov, production designer: Vladimir Kostin, misic: Gennady Banschikov, sound: Boris Andreyev

Cast: Lika Nevolina, Gleb Soshnikov, Yelizaveta Nikischikhina, Nikolai Pastukhov, Grazhina Baykshtite, Bayba Indriksone

Loosely based on “O My Fortune”, a play by Alexander Chervinski.

The first post-war years. Life is still very hard. Two young people longing for love and warmth, a very young schoolteacher and a cadet, chance to meet...

1064 VSPOMNIM, TOVARISCH! (LET US REMEMBER, COMRADE!)

1987, 85 min., color

Publicistic fiction

Written and directed by: Joseph Heifitz, camera: Yuri Shaigardanov, production designer: Yelena Fomina, music arrangement: Algidras Paulavichus, sound: Igor Vigdorchik

Cast: Nikolai Kryuchkov, Boris Tenin, Vladik Gubin, Sasha Afonin, Konstantin Trofimov

Joseph Heifitz, a long-time “Lenfilm” director, is telling about his film studio.

1065 GOST (THE GUEST)

1987, 85 min., b/w

Mystical drama

Written and directed by: Alexander Kaydanovsky, camera: Sergei Yurizditsky, production designer: Marina Azizyan, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya

Cast: Nikolai Ispolatov, Levan Abashidze, Levan Pilpani

Loosely based on” Gospel by Mark”, a short story by Jorge Louis Borges.

1066 YEDINOZHDY SOLGAV (HAVING LIED ONCE)

1987, 96 min., color

Drama

Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Arkadi Inin, Vladimir Bortko, camera: Anatoly Lapshov, production designer: Nataliya Vasilyeva, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Harry Belenki

Cast: Yuri Belyayev, Yelena Solovey, Irina Skobtseva, Irina Rozanova, Grigory Vesnik, Yuri Kuznetsov, Natalya Sayko, Nikolai Grinko, Alexei Buldakov, Tatyana Zhuravlyeva

The picture features a few weeks of life of a prosperous forty-year-old painter. Back during the “stagnation” years he absorbed and accepted “double standard” as a mode of life — and at this time, he is suffering a difficult, agonizing enlightenment and realization of his past...

1067 ZHELAYU VAM... (I WISH YOU...)

1987, 26 min., b/w

Comedy

Director: Yuri Mamin, screenplay: Vyacheslav Leykin, Yuri Mamin, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, sound: Leonid Gavrichenko

Cast: Modest Tsirulin, Natalya Skvortsova, Juzef Mironenko, Yevgeny Sakharov

Unattractive clerk has a wonderful gift – all his good wishes come true.

But one day he wished bad…

1068 INTERVENTSIYA (THE INTERVENTION)

1987, 107 min., color

Eccentric tragicomedy

Written and directed by: Gennady Poloka, camera: Vladimir Burykin, Yevgeny Mezentsev, production designer: Mikhail Scheglov, misic: Sergei Slonimski, sound: Lev Valter, Eleonora Kazanskaya, song lyrics and rendition: Vladimir Vysotsky

Cast: Vladimir Vysotski, Valery Zolotukhin, Olga Aroseva, Gelena Ivleva, Yephim Kopelyan, Rufina Nifontova, Vladimir Tatosov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Yuliya Burygina, Sergei Yurski, Yekaterina Bulavina, Marlen Khutsiyev, Georgy Schtil, Yuri Katin-Yartsev

Based on the play of the same title by Lev Slavin.

Odessa, 1919. The residents are waiting for the foreign troops to land. The local bourgeois are heartily welcoming the French occupants. Special gallantry is displayed by Monsieur Voronov...

Nobody suspects that he is not who he says he is...