Yuriy Yakovlev Movies

A documentary examining Maoism and its consequences for China

...People living in the future have comfortable cars, obedient robots, beautiful houses. There are only books missing in these houses. Books are...

A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier,...

The play, traditionally considered a precursor to Uncle Vanya, contains many characters, situations, and fragments of text that were later carried...

Berlin, the 1920s, a boarding house where Russian immigrants live. One of the characters in the film, waiting for his wife's arrival, shows her photo...

Based on Chekhov's short stories "Revenge", "The Ram and the Young Lady", "The Chorus Girl", "The Princess".

Cosmonauts investigate an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They believe that it might be the remains of a planet. Parallels are drawn to the...

Based on the play of the same name by L. Malyugin staged by the State Academic Theater named after Yevgeny Vakhtangov. About the life and work of...

New Year's Eve 2006. Our days, the place is a certain town, where famous artists are brought by chance. The film is based on sketches from popular...

Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was treated in a psychiatric clinic. On the train, on the way to St. Petersburg, the...

A middle-aged magician Pyotr Tarasov vegetates in the circus, receiving a meager salary. But he is a magician, he has a professional family secret:...

Far up north in the Blue Valley lives the Moomin family. Moomin and little Sniff set off on a journey to the sea to find a place for a celebration.

On the life and works of Mikhail Bulgakov.

The story of a nine-year-old boy Denis, who first enters the circus. The new world captures his imagination. He falls in love with a little actress,...

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

Russian Empire, the middle of the XIX century. Aged, beggar dramatic actor Lev Gurych Sinichkin, in search of work, wanders through the cities with...

Three parody stories: “The Leaning Tower of Pisa,” “The Tower of Babel,” and “Nike of Samothrace.”

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...

There is a seven-year war, Russian soldiers are forced to fight for the interests of France and Austria against Prussia. The midshipmen continue to...