Aleksandr Zavyalov Movies

A young doctor relocates to a remote region of central Asia, thinking his fiancee soon will join him ...

A tragicomic grotesque fantasy about the adventures of a drum and its owner in a country once called the Soviet Union.

With the money of the bandits, the director made a film that received prizes at four festivals, but did not raise money. The bandits filed a complaint...

An attempt at a parody comprehension of the clichés and techniques of the Soviet adventurous comedy genre of the 50s-70s. This is a story about three...

While detained in one of the Soviet Gulags (prison work camps),Maria fell in love with and had a child by one of the camp guards. However, in order t...

Three people in the cab of truck: Alexei the driver, his partner Nikolai, and Marina, a prostitute they picked up on their way. Or so it seems... In f...

A mysterious Dark Horseman slays young girls near the village of Dikanka, and he has already butchered 11 ladies. Nikolai Gogol, a scribe from Saint P...

A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting p...

A slice of life among Russian intelligentsia on the eve of WWII. A haunting reminder of Stalin's psychotic purge of 1938 and the nightmarish German si...

A man, a local hooligan and alcoholic, is killed in a gloomy St. Petersburg communal apartment. Each of the residents hated him in their own way, and...

This charming comedy tracks the lives of several romantic pairs through trials and tribulations. The main focus of the story is a young soldier with a...

The head of the Pervomaiskaya Railway, at the first stage of perestroika, having accidentally learned that they want to fire him from his job, decides...

A retro-journalistic drama based on one of the versions of Kirov’s murder, proposed by former NKVD general Orlov, who managed to escape death during t...

The boy writes an essay at school in which he wants to be like his father - with mayonnaise, i.e. "MNS" (junior research fellow).

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".

Evgeny Sormatov, a veteran of the special forces detachment, goes to a picturesque lake in Karelia. He carries with him the last letter of comrade And...

The life story of two fellow villagers in the period 1920–50s.