Vladimir Balashov Movies

This short film tells the story of a childhood, of a friendship and of growing up. A young man returns to the village where he grew up and discovers...

Based on Clifford Simak's story "All Flesh is Grass". In the small settlement strange things lately are created, and soon the settlement is cut off...

The movie consists of two novellas. "The Affair". Russian sailor Nikolai and former bullfighter Spaniard Jose-Maria are hired on a ship, doomed in...

Soviet propaganda film about Alexei, a village boy who comes to Odesa to earn money in 1901. While still on the train, the hero gets acquainted with...

Historical and biographical film about the life and work of Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko.

The little boy dreams of devoting himself to a circus, which struck him with the fearlessness of artists working with wild animals, and, despite the...

The story of Stalin and the Soviet people.

Soviet propaganda film on the struggle against counter-revolution in Tambov region in the first years of Soviet power.

The 1961 Nominee of the Palme d'Or as the Best Short Film.

Olga and Butkevich, the head of the convoy, meet at a roadside cafe. They hadn't seen each other since the beginning of the war. During the...

A black child rescued from by Russian sailors, whom they name Maksimka, having overcome his fear of white people, turns out to be an unusually smart...

Germany, the 1930s. A young scientist, Professor Johannes Werner discovers rays of life-giving power. The scientist refuses to give up his invention...

Russia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov’s ...

A Russian peasant woman is captured by Nazis and sold into slavery in Germany. Shown in Cannes in 1946.

This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as...

The former Red Army commander begins by reading the first manuscripts to his friends, and soon becomes a famous children's writer.

A criminal story which happened in a small Russian town.

A Russian village struggles through the German occupation during World War II in this tense drama from the Soviet Union. As the town doctor finds his...