Lyudmila Ivanova

Little boy Stepan loved listening to fairy tales his mother made up before bedtime. One day, she told him about the river near where they lived. It was a large and mighty river, but it needed human protection and care. In the morning, his mother couldn't find Stepan — he had gone to look for the source of the river. Thus began Stepa's adventures.

Once a very curious sixth grader lost interest in studying for unknown reasons. He even reconciled that he would remain in the second year.

A tragic story of two lovers, Boris and Veronica, who were separated forever by the war, and at the same time a story of love that the war could not destroy. The war seen from the lovers' point of view.

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Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary.

Due to bad weather, gymnast Katya Prokhorova, going to international competitions, ends up in her hometown of Razlelsk and, arriving at the school where she once studied, meets a young singing teacher and falls in love with him. A few days later she leaves, and upon returning from the competition, she confesses to him that she has fallen in love with someone else. Time passes. The singing teacher becomes a famous composer, but does not stop loving and waiting for Katya...

A TV journalist, formerly orphanage resident, collects material about disadvantaged children, delves into their problems and tries to help them.

Rich Italian Luciana Farini goes to Russia to her ancestral homeland, where she wants to bury her beloved dog. A light detective intrigue, the absurdities of Russian life and love at first sight.

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...

Nadya Klyueva is a single woman. Persuaded by her friend, she decides to charm her co-worker whom she doesn't really love, but who is the most popular man around.

Valya supported her lover, denied herself everything, devotedly and sincerely loved him. He answered her with black ingratitude. Struck in the very heart, Valya decides to commit suicide with him.

On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...

The story revolves around two young schoolboy pioneers, Petya Vasechkin and Vasya Petrov, as they navigate their attempts at self-discovery and their shared affection for their friend, Masha Startseva.

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The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.

The famous engineer Sergey Volgin developed the project for the Moscow Metro. His design was rejected by the Tsarist officials. However, the project didn't get lost among the millions of other proposals.

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".