Olga Zhizneva Movies

The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Garmash using ideological...

A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky),...

Film-opera based on Tschaikovsky's adaptation of Gogol's story, 'Noch' pyered Rozhdestvom.'

The film’s content makes no concessions to the usual expectations of Soviet audiences of the 1930s. The cast of characters is extremely...

A story of the adventures of two young boys during WWII.

About the struggle of a Soviet agronomist to create a drought-resistant variety of wheat. His work is hampered by bureaucracy. When excellent...

Fred, a young British sailor who accidentually finds himself in the USSR and after a number of comic adventures he, attracted by Soviet youth...

The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the...

A famous painter lives in idleness in the estate of the landlord Belokurov. Once he meets a family of Volchaninov's living in the neighborhood, in...

A TV film based on the stories by K. Paustovsky "Verdi's Music" and "Valor".

A story about a life of a small village in Western Ukraine during 30-ies.

While a factory director is distracted by production problems, his adolescent son suffers from loneliness. His mother is dead, and the father –...