Yuriy Yakovlev Movies

TV version of the Vakhtangov's Theater play. The plot makes fun of secular society and shows what can turn cynical attempts to deceive people if they...

Teleplay by the Vakhtangov Theater based on B. Shaw's play of the same name.

A story of court intrigues, love, and betrayal. A vain king is turned into a stag and only true love can save him

A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them...

An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the...

Based on the novel of the same name by Leonid Leonov. Young Polya comes to Moscow: she wants to find her father, Professor Vikhrov, and try to...

A terrible tragedy occurs in the family of a famous general: one of his daughters is killed. The investigator leading the case understands that an...

A Soviet Ukrainian made violent farcical yet quite faithful adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson's book that combines animated sequences...

An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were...

One day Napoleon falls in love with a charming lady, who turns out to be a clever adventuress and easily deceives the great man.

In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by...

Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary...

...People living in the future have comfortable cars, obedient robots, beautiful houses. There are only books missing in these houses. Books are...

A story about one day in the life of insurance agent Vissarion Bulkin. In the life of each of us there are days that turn our whole life upside down....

Announcer Aza Likhitchenko interviews the heroes of this season's premiere performances.

A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her...

Berlin, the 1920s, a boarding house where Russian immigrants live. One of the characters in the film, waiting for his wife's arrival, shows her photo...

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...

Far up north in the Blue Valley lives the Moomin family. Moomin and little Sniff set off on a journey to the sea to find a place for a celebration.