Valentina Kibardina

Don't Forget... Lugovaya Station

During WWII a troop train is stuck at a small railway station. A young lieutenant gets close to a local girl, then the war separates them. Twenty years later he happens to arrive at the same station and finds out that she'd waited for him for many years.

The Barrier of Uncertainty

The beautiful woman and the brave man disembark the train at the tiny station in the desert. He is the test pilot of the hypersonic nuclear-powered plane called Cyclone, and she is the physicist studying the strange phenomenon encountered by the first flier of the Cyclone jet, named Kazantsev.

First-Year Student

Marina Orlova couldn't even imagine how many adventures are expecting to her in a first grade...

The Youth of Maxim

A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and has particular merits in realistic performance, photography and movement, plus some musical touches in way of folk songs." Written by Les Adams

The Return of Maxim

The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of the working-class in the Duma. Maksim, who just returned from exile, calls the workers to strike as a protest against the firing of six of their colleagues. The traitor Platon Dymba assaults Maksim, wounding him severely. When the strike unfolds the workers demonstrate by the thousands, the news of the outbreak of World War I suddenly arrives. Maksim gets drafted.

Letters for the Living

Based on the real letters of Veronika, a young girl in partizans squad during WWII.

The Vyborg Side

The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in charge of the national bank. With great efforts, he learns the complexies of the banking trade and begins to fight off sabotaging underlings. Dymba, now a violent enemy of the Republic, tries to rob a wine store but is arrested with Maksim's help. Maksim also exposes a conspiracy of a group of tsarist officers who prepare an attempt against Lenin. He then joins the Red Army in its fight against the German occupation.

Foes

Faithful Robot

A runaway robot obsessed with an idea of creating a perfect human becomes a household property of a writer through deception.

Collapse

Kronstadt, 1917. Sailors aboard the revolutionary cruiser Zarya prepare for a general armed uprising. Kerensky's government decides to disarm the ships. The ship's crew expels delegates from the Provisional Government, refusing to obey orders. The cruiser's commander, Bersenev, sides with the sailors. Bersenev's family members react differently to this decision. Thus, a collapse occurs in the family of an old Russian intellectual...