Oleg Basilashvili Movies

In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it...

To earn money for married life, a young engaged man takes a job as an engineer on a privately operated oil drilling rig in the far North of Russia. A...

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg,...

A portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a character study in...

Russian countess in 1893 has strange dreams about herself living a life as a dishwasher in 1993' Moscow after dissolution of the USSR.

The love triangle: wife, husband and his mistress, amusingly crumbles because the loving writer is fleetingly infatuated with a third woman, young...

According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he...

TV version of stage play "California Suite" by Neil Simon, performed in Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre.

The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress...

A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin.

In 1979, in one of the northern Soviet cities, the police are investigating the murder of a man who was on his way home from the gold mines. The...

The famous scientist, academician and art critic Andrei Ilyin, who survived with the Hermitage staff the harsh trials of the Leningrad blockade,...

The first attempt in the history of Russian documentalism to understand what was the historical moment in which Anatoly Sobchak appeared in the...

The third and last movie of "Vera and Anfisa" trilogy. Zoology teacher asks Vera's dad to bring his daughter with her pet monkey Anfisa at lesson,...

The second of three films about the girl Vera and her monkey friend Anfisa.

A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons.

Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guard"), "Days of the Turbins".

The film is based on a dialogue between young and older generations about life, profession, fame, love, the mission of art, the destiny of man,...

A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career.