Movies: Nikolay Trofimov

A television film based on the famous production by the Bolshoi Drama Theater is yet another interpretation of Chekhov’s “boring story” — about the life of an intelligent and conscientious Russian man, Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky, “lost” in the rural ba...

What do the head of a secret file cabinet, students who don’t shy away from a glass, a police lieutenant colonel, and a prisoner’s wife have in common? All these people turn out to be the heroes of one story, which began with two friends who decided ...

After serving in the army, Nikolai Semenov, nicknamed Kurai Tumbleweed by his fellow villagers, returns to the fishing collective farm and goes to work as a mechanic on a seiner....

Autumn 1941. German tank troops are making another attempt to break through to the Uritsk and Pulkovo Heights. During heavy fighting, Soviet troops managed to stop the offensive of fascist tanks one and a half kilometers south of the Pulkovo Observa...

A farmer who has been bankrupted by bankers goes to Moscow in search for the truth....

The film is based on history of the Russian Military garrison in Sveaborg (Suomenlinna, near Helsinki) in Finland, which was an autonomous part of Russian Empire. In 1906 Russia had about 12 thousand troops stationed in Sveaborg fortress. The riots w...

A documentary on the staging of Georgi Tovstonogov's acclaimed production of The Three Sisters at the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater, from the first table read to the opening night....

The 1930s were a time of five-year plans, construction projects, and the development of remote areas of the country. Frosya's husband leaves her and goes to the Far East. Unable to cope with her loneliness, Frosya sends her husband a telegram informi...

A television play based on Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's satirical family chronicle....

A story about the tragic events in the life of besieged Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1943....

The action takes place at the end of the 19th century in the Russian North, near the White Sea. Orphan Matvey is still 12 years old. His abilities are noticed by the master shipbuilder Quake and takes to his artel. While studying carpentry, Matvey sa...

A lonely, defenseless, unsettled man meets a beautiful gypsy woman and falls in love with her. Having left the service, having left home, he sticks to the camp, but even here he finds neither home nor love — only pity. So he remains a "gadjo" for eve...

A television play chronicling the lead-up to the assassination of diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov, dubbed “vazir mukhtar” in his position as Russia's ambassador to Tehran....

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Grandfather Sliva, an unthinkable braggart and confounder, has these strange dreams. Then he dreamed of chivalrous times, of musketeer duels between Stepney Kazantz and Serafimushka Seagull against masked opponents. Then the old man saw himself in th...

Negina, a talented actress at a provincial theater, must leave the stage because her purity of behavior is incompatible with theatrical customs. She loves the student Meluzov, and both dream of an honest, hard-working life. Harsh reality destroys her...

In this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard....

Television performance, tragicomedy based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky by the Leningrad BDT named after M. Gorky (first staged in 1966)....

Based on the novel by M. Panin "Matyushenko promised to remain silent." The story of lonely people who found themselves in human communication and family happiness....

A television play based on the life and death of Russian poet and Decembrist Wilhelm "Kyukhlya" Küchelbecker....