Zoya Buryak
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1966-11-06
Locus Natus: Krasnoyarsk, USSR, (now Russia)
Et ut: Зоя Буряк
Checkpoint
A group Russian soldiers is send to an outpost to guard the area. They pass the day patroulling the area, while being shot at from the forest. They...
release : 1998.08.15popularis : 2.698
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel
The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly...
release : 2011.05.05popularis : 6.263
Operation 'Happy New Year'!
A comedy about a New Year Eve celebration in one very funny hospital.
release : 1996.01.01popularis : 1.642
The Arrival of a Train
Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema.
release : 1996.10.08popularis : 2.11
Mechanical Suite
Two colleagues go to fetch the body of their co-worker from a neighboring town where that man died unexpectedly. As this person has no kin, the...
release : 2002.01.17popularis : 5.771
Two on the Bare Ground
Having abandoned his family many years ago, a father meets his grown-up son...
release : 1990.05.01popularis : 2.47
Hitler's Kaput!
A Russian WW2 spy spoof following misadventures of a clueless Soviet secret agent trapped inside Hitler's inner circle.
release : 2008.09.18popularis : 5.982
We Are from the Future
Four present-day Russian men dig for Nazi memorabilia at a WWII battlefield. A wormhole lake sends them back to a battle in 1942 USSR.
release : 2008.02.21popularis : 12.057
Myth About Leonid
A retro-journalistic drama based on one of the versions of Kirov’s murder, proposed by former NKVD general Orlov, who managed to escape death...
release : 1991.06.20popularis : 0.358
The Taming of the Shrews
A few rich and glamorous people are flying to Nice, but instead of South France they land in the heart of the Sibir.
release : 2009.10.29popularis : 0.694
Peculiarities of the National Politics
General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova now are going into politics.
release : 2003.01.01popularis : 2.764
Peculiarities of the National Hunt
A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting...
release : 1995.06.15popularis : 4.163
Lost in Siberia
Matthias Bleuel, a logistician of a german mail order company is send to Kemorovo in Siberia to teach some russian subsidiary company the german work...
release : 2012.05.10popularis : 2.18
Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to...
release : 1994.10.20popularis : 5.433
The Admirer
A story based on love between Anton Chekhov and a young writer Lidiya Avilova.
release : 2012.01.24popularis : 1.728
The Cold Summer of 1953
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story...
release : 1988.12.03popularis : 5.77
Russian Money
The mistress of a once prosperous, but now frustrated estate, wants to improve her affairs at the expense of neighboring possessions belonging to the...
release : 2006.06.06popularis : 1.624
Pants
A murder has occurred, for which the famous artist Botsanov takes responsibility. However, the matter was not as simple as it might seem at first....
release : 1989.12.01popularis : 3.26
We Are from the Future 2
Two young Russian historians are going to Ukraine to take part in the reconstruction of the Lvov-Sandomierz operation in July 1944. On sight they...
release : 2010.02.18popularis : 17.424
The Fatal Eggs
Based on the motifs of M. Bulhakow's story with the same title. The thing about the scientist-zoologist Persikow, whose unique invention makes the...
release : 1995.05.05popularis : 1.888
A Golden Ring, a Bouquet of Scarlet Roses
The eldest son, who left for St. Petersburg, where he works as a detective, comes to the family of a crooked merchant and shopkeeper Grigory...
release : 1994.04.13popularis : 3.462
Crime & Punishment
Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above...
release : 2007.12.03popularis : 3.513
The Wheel of Love
A romantic comedy about a twenty three years old Kirill who suddenly decides to become a gigolo.
release : 1994.11.11popularis : 4.238
In That Land
Deaf Russian village - a real bearish corner. People live here like a hundred years ago, in their quiet and seemingly inconspicuous life there is...
release : 1998.02.14popularis : 1.078
Tsar Ivan the Terrible
Adaptation of 'Prince Serebrenni' by A. K. Tolstoy.
release : 1991.03.21popularis : 1.977
Winter Cherry 3
The main character, whose life seemed to have lost all meaning, suddenly receives an inheritance abroad. This leads to the most unexpected...
release : 1995.01.01popularis : 2.053
Ragin
Based on a short story Room number 6 by Chekhov. A doctor taking particular interest in his mental health patients ends up institutionalized himself.
release : 2004.12.23popularis : 3.532
When There is No Love
Tamara becomes a victim of circumstances. Her lover left her. She nearly lost her best friend. Even in her own apartment Tamara does not feel safe -...
release : 2008.10.11popularis : 0.545
Trofim
One of the three films that comprise Arrival of a Train, a collection of shorts made to celebrate the centenary of cinema. Set at the turn of the...
release : 1995.10.07popularis : 1.297
Only Time...
The last day of the year ends. At the Christmas market, where a lot of people were still bustling during the day, in the evening there were only...
release : 2002.01.01popularis : 2.45
Trio
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...
release : 2003.09.05popularis : 2.703
Most Valuable
The main character in the hospital remembers how a soldier shared food that helped him survive during the war. And then he himself saves the child...
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 1.693
Gu-Ga
A story about the soldiers of Soviet punishment battalion during WWII. Month of service in a punishment battalion was equated to ten years in...
release : 1989.08.23popularis : 1.337
A Small Giant of Big Sex
Based on the story "Oh, Marat!" by Fazil Iskander. The main character of the movie, Marat, lives in a coastal town near the Black Sea, he works as a...
release : 1993.02.08popularis : 3.297
I Want To Go To Prison
A nugget from Russia is hiding from the police in a Dutch prison.
release : 1998.12.31popularis : 6.186
The Day Before
Since the morning, the entire population of the planet has been concerned about one news: a red comet is approaching the Earth. A year ago,...
release : 2016.01.15popularis : 3.113
Couture Dress
The story unfolds in St. Petersburg during the season of White Nights, when night becomes curiously indistinguishable from day. Masha has struck it...
release : 2007.09.18popularis : 0.707
Lucky Loser
A 1993 Russian comedy film directed by Valeri Bychenkov, based on Vadim Shefner's poetry.
release : 1993.12.31popularis : 0.533
Russian Riot
The end of the XVIII century. The reign of Catherine II. In the deep Russian provinces, among the vast steppes of the Ural escaped convict Yemelyan...
release : 2000.04.28popularis : 2.852