Movies: Mikhail Zhigalov

Journalist Lopatin always remembers those with whom his roads of war brought him together. Memories of them are an integral part of Lopatin’s thoughts about duty, honor, courage, and camaraderie....

During the Second World War a big plant in Urals region gets an order from the State Defence Committee: to double the output of the tanks T-34 within 24 hours. All physical and emotional strength of all plant workers needs to be exerted to fulfill th...

Spring of 1584. The Magi predict the death of King John within 24 hours. Warring boyars are rebelling and are ready to unite against Boris Godunov. The royal court is in turmoil. The already unstable moral principles become completely unbridled. Mosc...

Every Saturday fireman Anton Kalashnikov welcomes his 14-year-old daughter Kira from the dance. TV, dumplings for dinner - a standard set of entertainment from a Saturday dad for a teenage girl. But on this day, everything went wrong. Kira rings the ...

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On the Eastern front in 1941, German troops attack a Red Army's field hospital destroying it and causing a massive loss of life. The surviving soldiers try to fight back but have to retreat, among them a young pilot , Vyacheslav with his dog Red. Hav...

On the eve of his wedding, a young doctor leaves Moscow to see his mother who lives in a nature reserve. Things are complicated by the fact that the doctor's ex-girlfriend is also there, and she is expecting a child....

A crime drama depicting the complicated relationship between the Chief of the Criminal Police and a professional thief....

A young boy is experiencing a lot of problems in his life. But he also have one real friend....

In the early 70-ies during the war in the middle East, the plane of the Soviet military pilot Oleg Zorov was shot down. The officer was still alive but in an unconscious state was captured. After his recovery, the Americans granted him political asy...

Story of life of Fyodor Kuzkin, who shared all the burdens of the 30s Stalins terror and after, WW2 and post-war years....

The cruel and unprincipled chairman of the district executive committee learns that the official should be sent to retirement. However, the rumors were erroneous, and then the chairman, fearing for his own career, organizes the murder....

Captain Rykov cracks the most complex dead-end cases. His reputation precedes him; his adamant logic, cynicism and experience contribute to his success. He's so good at what he does some say he's supernaturally gifted. Well, let's just say that his s...

A love story which happened in the small village during a visit of two rich city boys....

Spring 1942. Moscow schoolgirl Katya is corresponding with a cadet of the naval school Kostya, who is unknown to her. When sent to the front, his echelon must pass through Moscow, and they have a chance to meet ... Our days. Muscovite Katya, a talent...

Anton Skulov, a war invalid, shot a drunk young man with a hunting rifle who climbed into his garden and ruined rare flowers that his wife, a war veteran, had grown before her death. The investigation was short-lived, the accused immediately admitted...

A few women, wives of a big communist bosses are blackmailed into prostitution but no one is trying to escape this business....

In this three-part series, Nikolai Irteniev reminisces and reflects on his life; he is eager to find answers to the most important questions of life. "How to be? how to do the right thing? What goals to strive for?" Based on Lev Tolstoy's autobiogra...

Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves in the occupied territory in the area of operations of the Belarusian partisan detachment. T...

The story of Ermak Timofeevich, whose campaign for the Ural mountains served to annex the Siberian lands to the Moscow kingdom, in the second half of the 16th century....