Aleksandr Zavyalov Movies

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".

This charming comedy tracks the lives of several romantic pairs through trials and tribulations. The main focus of the story is a young soldier with...

A lonely, defenseless, unsettled man meets a beautiful gypsy woman and falls in love with her. Having left the service, having left home, he sticks...

While detained in one of the Soviet Gulags (prison work camps), Maria fell in love with and had a child by one of the camp guards. However, in order...

In a year of 1924 a commissar from Soviet Russia is trying to find and kill Finnish general.

An attempt at a parody comprehension of the clichés and techniques of the Soviet adventurous comedy genre of the 50s-70s. This is a story...

A slice of life among Russian intelligentsia on the eve of WWII. A haunting reminder of Stalin's psychotic purge of 1938 and the nightmarish German...

Runaway prisoner goes searching for a treasure to the island populated with poachers and starover cult with his two companions, an intellectual and a...

A tragicomic grotesque fantasy about the adventures of a drum and its owner in a country once called the Soviet Union.

A man, a local hooligan and alcoholic, is killed in a gloomy St. Petersburg communal apartment. Each of the residents hated him in their own way, and...

Evgeny Sormatov, a veteran of the special forces detachment, goes to a picturesque lake in Karelia. He carries with him the last letter of comrade...

Three people in the cab of truck: Alexei the driver, his partner Nikolai, and Marina, a prostitute they picked up on their way. Or so it seems... In...