Movies: Sergey Lando

A performance by the Alexandrinsky Theatre based on the eponymous play by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. The production is based on the stage version by Vsevolod Meyerhold and M. Korenyev (GOSTIM, 1926), directed by Valery Fokin....

A school teacher wasn't expecting to find a dead man corpse in her apartment during a party....

At the turn of 80-90, film director Alexei Yurievich German created a film workshop for the first film, which became famous for the paintings of young debutant directors, who later became famous masters. The film tells about how the Master selected t...

A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle. It was Giselle who immortalized her name in 1924. It was "Giselle" that caused the psychic catastrophe in 194...

When the war, going somewhere far away, becomes ordinary, you begin to notice it only when it comes to the house, killing and mutilating the young and the best. The hero of the film, who has returned from the Chechen war as a cripple, rejects his for...

The main character of this one - Antonina - a wife, mother, mistress of the house, wakes up after an unusually bright dream and realizes that she has not lived her whole life as she wanted. There were strangers around, people she didn't like, and it ...

An eccentric comedy. Love and money have always inspired people to feats, long wanderings and even crimes. It has always been almost impossible to stop such madmen. And what will happen this time — no one knows yet. Only one thing is known — it will ...

A film director Nikolai Khudokormov is on the brink of his 50th anniversary. He has the whole life rich in events under his belt: creative quests, several marriages and children. Now he has to live with an old insane Mother and seems to be indifferen...

The documentary explores the life of Klara Yusupzhanova, celebrated actress-turned-director, through the perspectives of her colleagues, husband, and daughter, unfolding in three parts: her acting career, her journey as a filmmaker, and her unfinishe...

One day in the life of a modern St. Petersburg woman, a woman of post-Balzac age, with whom something is happening. Either a spiritual crisis or a momentary obsession......

The film is based on a video made by Sergey Lando on the Petersburg Recording Studio at the end of March 2009, before the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol. Next day, Oleg Karavaichuk took the footage and assembled film. It was first shown on April ...

Film-portrait of documentary filmmaker, photographer and screenwriter Sergei Skvortsov. Sergei Skvortsov was a filmmaker and cameraman at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Documentary Film Studio, who shot a number of iconic works that had a noticeable ...

An inside look at life in the Alay Valley, a dry and picturesque expanse in southern Kyrgyzstan....

A film about the life and work of cinematographer Sergei Astakhov, who has directed more than seventy full-length films, including the cult films “Brother” and “Brother-2”, the public’s favorite film “In Love of His Own Will”, and the most complex fi...

Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death but when it was alleged that one of his victims had sexually harassed him, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Tenderly revealing two lives lived in li...

The film is dedicated to a unique artistic phenomenon—the work of musician Oleg Karavaichuk, who with great strength embodied the understanding of “The Spirit of St. Petersburg” in our time. About this film composer who wrote music for more than 100 ...

Nikolai Petrovich comes to St. Petersburg to organize a revolution against the oligarchy....

The Russians left the small Turkmen village. What remains is an abandoned mine, an insane asylum and local residents surviving in the new post-Soviet reality....

This film is about Oleg Karavaichuk, eccentric musical genius and famous St. Petersburg composer, who takes his final stroll through Komarovo, a bay-side summer community just outside St. Petersburg where he spent his whole life and wrote most of his...

Everyone knows that Perm is a theater and ballet city. Here is the famous opera and ballet theater, the famous ballet school, whose graduates dance at the best stages of the world, and grateful, understanding and appreciating art public. But, probabl...