Yuriy Yakovlev Movies

Imaginary story of the first Soviet woman diplomat loosely based on real story of Alexandra Kollontai. In the difficult years of the Great Patriotic...

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....

Young Polya comes to Moscow: she wants to find her father, Professor Vikhrov, and try to understand why her mother broke up with him. Vikhrov is a...

The play, traditionally considered a precursor to Uncle Vanya, contains many characters, situations, and fragments of text that were later carried...

The characters remember their youth, which took place during the Civil War. The events of those years had a decisive impact on their lives - Kolobov...

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

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...

A middle-aged magician Pyotr Tarasov vegetates in the circus, receiving a meager salary. But he is a magician, he has a professional family secret:...

Three interlocutors are having a sedate conversation in a cozy hallway...

Thirty years have passed since Zhenya and Nadya met—they broke up, and Nadya moved to Leningrad. The friends still go to the bathhouse, and now...

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 story about a brave Soviet spy working behind the enemy lines during WWII.

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

About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the...

Filmed in the context of the fortieth anniversary of the creation of the Komsomols, the League of Young Communists, tells the story of three youth...

A documentary examining Maoism and its consequences for China

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...

The authors, like Isaac Babel, rejected the depiction of battles, the simplification, and varnishing of reality, instead conveying the dramatic...

Robert and Freda Caplan are entertaining guests at their country retreat. A chance remark by one of the guests ignites a series of devastating...