Movies: Valeri Ivchenko

Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come up with something to keep them busy. Two friends, Valerka and Ga...

On the night of the murder of a high-ranking official, the police apprehend a group of young men on motorbikes drinking near the scene of the crime. Captain Rogalev and investigator Avdeev are ordered to solve the murder at any cost....

In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeyi...

The events take place in a fictional South Africa, where a group of neo-fascists conduct secret experiments on people, using psychological weapons....

Rock'n'roll for Princesses (Russian: Рок-н-ролл для принцесс, romanized: Rok-n-roll dlya printsess) is a 1991 Soviet children's fantasy film directed by Radomir Vasilevsky, based on the book Tournament in the Kingdom of Fiofegas by Radiy Pogodin. Ki...

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An adventurous action-packed story about a police officer nicknamed "Sheriff", who, bravely fighting mafia functionaries, easily and simply takes bribes from its bosses....

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Long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves....

Follows the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov’s stories intersect. The hero can easily meet with Stalin or drink vodka with a homeless person in the basement....

In the late Soviet era, a poet faces a midlife crisis....

An entrepreneurial young man organizes an unusual cooperative. Its members are doubles of prominent political figures, each of whom left a noticeable mark in Russian history. Like the propaganda teams of the recent past, this team travels around the ...

The protagonist of the film - Vasily Derzhakov - is a skilled worker. Accustomed to "double morality" as the norm of life, he succumbs to the persuasion of Anna's mistress to hide the stolen things, and becomes an accomplice in crime. After the pre-t...

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A young fitter at a bus stop accidentally pushed a girl, and she fell. This is how they met, although both are dating their other halves. One day, he gathers friends to build his dream house overnight. He found her at a roadside restaurant, and they ...

The action takes place during the time of Ukrainization, at the end of the 1920s. Kharkiv employee Myna Mazaylo decides to change his ukrainian surname to the russian Mazenin, as he considers it more solid....

Follows the turbulent times of the beginning of the century, when Europe and Russia were literally filled with revolutionary moods. Against this backdrop, a love story unfolds. The intelligentsia absorbs the ideas of love of freedom and itself suffer...

The author's interpretation of the story by F. M. Dostoevsky "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" using motifs from the stories by T. Mann "The Clown" and Leo Tolstoy "Notes of a Madman"....

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