Yuriy Yakovlev Movies

A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her...

Thirty years have passed since Zhenya and Nadya met—they broke up, and Nadya moved to Leningrad. The friends still go to the bathhouse, and now...

In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by...

A two-part East German documentary tracing Russia’s transformation from the Tsarist Empire to the Soviet Union, from the 1917 October...

About the life and work of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.

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

An unofficial sequel to the movie "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession". The events take place on New Year's Eve 1997-1998, 24 years after the...

A story about a brave Soviet spy working behind the enemy lines during WWII.

Based on the fairy tale by L. Legut.

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

Stop-motion animation. A comet is hurtling towards Earth. Moomintroll and friends travel to a mountaintop observatory to investigate.

Young Polya comes to Moscow: she wants to find her father, Professor Vikhrov, and try to understand why her mother broke up with him. Vikhrov is a...

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

A documentary examining Maoism and its consequences for China

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

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

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

On the life and works of Mikhail Bulgakov.