Movies: Gennadi Mitrofanov

Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir...

After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relations...

A free adaptation of Franz Kafka’s diary entries. A celebrated writer is widely regarded as a genius. But behind the mask of a thoughtful, smiling face hides an unhappy man with his own demons, fears, creative torment, and endless search for self and...