Mikhail Zharov Movies

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.

Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him.

Soviet film based on Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel of his prison experiences in Tsarist days.

Zoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hospital. There she meets the wounded...

The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local...

A father and son, both clowns, are to perform together for the first time, but the civil war separates them, and the elder Buldy, tempted for a...

The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a...

This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs....

A production of the State Academic Maly Theater. The film, dedicated to the memory of Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, includes fragments of plays...

A second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.

Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is...

The film is about the sailors who fought on torpedo boats in the Great Patriotic war.

The first Russian talking picture which won a prize at the 1st Venice IFF. The action is set in 1923. The USSR is struggling with hunger and economic...

A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII.

Based on Leo Tolstoy's drama "The Power of Darkness, or the Claw is Faded, the whole bird is lost" staged by the State Academic Maly Theater of the...

A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat and...

The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of...

As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin...

A funny comedy about a lost twins and a lot of good people who are involved in a search for twins' parents.

Young man comes to collect a debt owed to him by the widow Popova's late husband. They argue, duel with pistols and fall in love while all of this is...