Yuriy Yakovlev Movies

A documentary examining Maoism and its consequences for China

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

It consists of Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky's three short stories about the origin of feelings, the expectation of happiness and love...

A rich caliph is leading a careless life. One day an evil wizard sells him a magic potion that can turn human into any animal he wants. The only...

Cosmonauts investigate an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They believe that it might be the remains of a planet. Parallels are drawn to the...

Based on the play of the same name by L. Malyugin staged by the State Academic Theater named after Yevgeny Vakhtangov. About the life and work of...

Short Soviet puppet animation based on Gogol's novel Dead Souls.

For several years, the head of a major construction trust Melnikov was accused of embezzlement, bribe-taking and immoral behavior in anonymous...

Daniel Corban reports his wife Elizabeth missing to the police. A priest arrives and says he has found her. When he brings her in, Corban insists she...

Berlin, the 1920s, a boarding house where Russian immigrants live. One of the characters in the film, waiting for his wife's arrival, shows her photo...

The authors, like Isaac Babel, rejected the depiction of battles, the simplification, and varnishing of reality, instead conveying the dramatic...

Robert and Freda Caplan are entertaining guests at their country retreat. A chance remark by one of the guests ignites a series of devastating...

The characters remember their youth, which took place during the Civil War. The events of those years had a decisive impact on their lives - Kolobov...

The film tells about Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. October 17, 1896. On the facade of the Alexandrinsky Theater — a poster about the premiere of...

A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier,...

Screen version of the popular play of the 1960’s about people of a generation, whose lives were affected in different ways by the main...

The pot-bellied bucket samovar Ivan Ivanovich gathers the whole large family for a tea party. And only a small cup of tea is not enough for a lazy...

Three interlocutors are having a sedate conversation in a cozy hallway...

One day Napoleon falls in love with a charming lady, who turns out to be a clever adventuress and easily deceives the great man.