Movies: Mikhail Zharov

A comedy about an army squad guarding the fake airport during WWII....

A funny comedy about a lost twins and a lot of good people who are involved in a search for twins' parents....

Adaptation of Jack Londos's short story "The South of the Slot". Partially lost....

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR....

This film was a true peculiarity, a filmed version of the great Feodor Chaliapin in one of his most famous roles; the fact that it was a silent film, with title cards, meant that audiences could only appreciate his acting. Another curiosity is that t...

During the good old days of the Russian aristocracy, that is to say, before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow there was a fancy restaurant which catered to the appetites and egos of the rich. In one such establishment works a middle-aged ...

Third and final part of the comedies about the funny adventures of countryside cop named Aniskin....

The film Our Friend Maxim is devoted to the life and work of actor and National Artist of the USSR Boris Petrovich Chirkov. This film includes excerpts from his Maxim trilogy, and significant focus is placed on Chirkov’s role as a pedagogue and mento...

The cinematic adaptation of "The Storm" play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive Katerina marries Tikhon, a violent drunkard, and thus enters the crude milieu of greedy salesmen, the "dark kingdom...

A romantic story about the girl working in the musical instruments store....

A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat and decide to blow up the mine, the women organize a guerrilla action to stop them....

A traveling musician falls in love with a princess who is betrothed to a dictator planning to defeat his enemies with the help of an exploding mutant mosquito....

A story is taking place in West Belarus where local rebels are fighting for the unification with Soviet Union during 1930-ies....

A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII....

Partially lost adventure film for children based on popular short stories by Sergey Grigoryev....

Vacationing in a Crimean sanatorium, Nikolai Nikanorovich Staroseltsev finds someone else's wallet on the beach and gives it to the administration of the sanatorium to return it to the owner. Having become a find for bored mass-entertainers, Nikolai ...

The film takes us back to the summer of 1918 and tells the story of how Voroshilov, under the noses of a 300,000-strong German corps, pulled 80 trains loaded with valuable cargo, materials, ammunition, and equipment out of Donbass. With a 15,000-stro...

The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local party youth organisation finally manage to get her released, after having to cut through lots of red ta...

The tragedy of a talented and strong woman who built the well-being of her family on blood and blood. And well-being turned out to be just as false and ghostly....

Two young people love each other. Both studied in Kiev: he at a teacher training college, she at the conservatory. But their paths diverged: Gleb went to work as a teacher on the virgin lands, while Lisa got married and stayed in Kyiv. Time passes. L...