Oleg Basilashvili Movies

A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer...

A television film based on the famous production by the Bolshoi Drama Theater is yet another interpretation of Chekhov’s “boring...

The famous scientist, academician and art critic Andrei Ilyin, who survived with the Hermitage staff the harsh trials of the Leningrad blockade,...

Famous actors and ordinary people from all walks of life read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.

A young businessman believes that money and fortune are the most important things in the world. One day he loses all his money and faces the...

Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.

In 1979, in one of the northern Soviet cities, the police are investigating the murder of a man who was on his way home from the gold mines. The...

A film adaptation of A. Sukhovo-Kobylin’s work “The Case,” which reproduces the details of the author’s trial experience.

Great Britain at the beginning of the XVIII century. His daughter Hilaret runs away from the house of a rich merchant to secretly marry her lover....

A television play chronicling the lead-up to the assassination of diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov, dubbed “vazir mukhtar” in...

A television play from John Steinbeck's novel, performed live for Leningrad Television.

After the death of her father, Antonina Staroselskaya has difficulty finding work. A dull life is the cause of illness. A merchant seaman takes care...

Set in the Soviet Union, the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.

The film is based on a dialogue between young and older generations about life, profession, fame, love, the mission of art, the destiny of man,...

Chronicle dramatic scenes of Germany under the rule of fascism.

Drama about the period of F. Dzerzhinsky's activity in 1902-1905, when he, having escaped from the Viluysk prison, lived in Poland.

A middle-aged gentleman, yet utterly naive, sums up his life experience gained over years of traveling around good old England. The comical and...

Based on Leo Tolstoy's story "Holstomer" staged by the Leningrad State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky.

A documentary on the staging of Georgi Tovstonogov's acclaimed production of The Three Sisters at the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater, from the first...

Colonel Chabert, who miraculously survived the battle, returns to his homeland after several years of wandering, but everyone has long considered him...