Movies: Aleksei Shakhdin

The films hero is a metal worker named Ignat who is as strong and tough as the steel that his sprawling factory produces in the Ural Mountains. Its a great cheerless environment; life is arduous and dangerous; conditions at the plant are nearly subhu...

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At forty-five, a writer decides to change his life and devote himself entirely to his art. Leaving behind a troubled family, he moves into an abandoned house…...

Having his life come to a dead end, Vladimir is thinking about suicide. He is saved by a girl and spends the night at her home. The next morning, Vladimir wants to leave, but finds himself trapped by the house: the staircase seems to have no end, aga...

An unclaimed corpse, revived as a result of the experiments of psychics, was left at the “burnt out” funeral service cooperative....

Based on a famous short story by Pushkin, this film tells of a youthful, innocent and pure love story that begins as a girlish joke. Liza is eager to get to know her young neighbor but cannot do so as their fathers are not on speaking terms. Her resp...

It would seem that nothing is keeping the main character in Ivanovsk, especially since her sister Tamarka has settled well in Chicago and has been calling her for a long time. But she doesn’t go to America and doesn’t even want to....

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The hero of social drama, a young prosecutor, is engaged in repressed cases in the mid-50s. Behind each of the fabricated charges is a human tragedy; together they form a monstrous picture of lawlessness triumphing in the country. However, there are ...

The ropes holding the former ship, now a floating restaurant with the symbolic name "The Flying Dutchman," were cut by a drunk resident of the seaside town, whom the bouncer refused to let "on board" the tavern due to the imminent closure of the drin...