Movies: Aleksandr Gruzinsky

In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the upcoming confrontation between the armies. During the Battle of Borodino, he ...

A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army....

The student rowing team of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) was defeated in the competition. The coach drops the team and leaves, taking the best rowers with him. The remaining athletes decide to assemble a new team, and the management of the inst...

A female poet and author faces the harsh realities of a besieged Leningrad. Based on Olga Berggolts' memoir of the same name....

My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches ma...

Based on a satirical short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky concerning the escapades of a Russian civil servant....

It is a screen version of an Indian national fairy tale. Malicious and greedy rajah wishes to get a wonderful antelope who strikes gold coins by hoofs. The country boy rescues an antelope, but rajah, threatening the boy, compels the antelope to serve...

Eugénie Grandet is set in the town of Saumur. Eugénie's father Felix is a former cooper who has become wealthy through both business ventures and inheritance (having inherited the estates of his mother-in-law, grandfather-in-law, and grandmother all ...

In the focus of the film is the fate of Varvara Basova, whose painfully soulless, philistine-gray existence, devoid of ideals and moral content. Relevant today, the picture sounds like a verdict to all who are mired in vulgarity, who have exchanged l...

Faith Vans, an employee of one of the departments of the US State Department, receives a summons to the commission to investigate un-American activities, and her prosperous, calm life begins to collapse. But Faith doesn't give up, and she fights for ...

A group of young men bursts into a hotel where several guests are already staying, not long after they had run over a motorcyclist and his passenger with their car. Brandishing a knife, they demand that the guests give them a car....

The hero saw among his colleagues a man whom he had met during the war in the dungeons of the Gestapo. This man reported that a thief from the same cell was trying to escape. The “thief” was shot, and later it turned out that he was the leader of the...

The film was based on the story of the same name by A. Yakovlev about the most famous pioneer of the thirties of the last century, who was inscribed in the history of the pioneers under number 1....