The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film, produced when he was a student at the State Institute of Cinematography.
Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.
The main characters of the film are members of the group "Nastya" Nastya Poleva and Yegor Belkin. The half-hour half-documentary tape included footage taken by Balabanov in 1985-1990. In addition to the main characters, the documentary footage captured many prominent figures of Sverdlovsk rock club, in particular Vyacheslav Butusov, Leonid Porokhnyu, and local actors.
A man tries to escape from his wife in order to visit an exhibition, where he sees a painting representing his own house.
The story is about a nasty boy who blackmails his older sister and the young man who is in love with her.
Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom are scarred by the trauma of the Russian Empire of yesteryear.
Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.
A kaleidoscopic living diary of the underground rock scene in Leningrad just before perestroika.
Short adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine.
A group of Swedish tourists are on the way to a Russian village to witness the so called 'Festivity of Neptunus', in which the inhabitants take a dive in a hole in the ice. This tradition, however, does not exist at all. The inhabitants try to make a good impression by starting the 'tradition' to please the tourists.
A short film about young delinquents terrorizing a neighbourhood.
A young schoolboy tries to help the girl he likes to pass a test.
Since early childhood I have been playing different games. And the older I get, the more dangerous it is for me to lose, and the more dangerous it is for others to win. God! Leave me one game - hide and seek. This is the only game I agree to play for the rest of my life.
Young rapper Chizaru wakes up in a prison cell the morning after a wild party and tries to remember how he ended up in it.
This is the subject of ongoing discovery of the beauty of the world, that man makes in his life and in his work, which is being developed as part of a big city, presented during a day's work. This film starts and ends with the rotating image of the sculpture of Rodin the Thinker; this famous sculpture has long since become the symbol of the unchanging expression of human thought.
Aquarium Fish of This World is the story of the relationship between the captain and the boatswain, temporarily written off ashore, with a young guy who dreams of becoming a cabin boy.
A down on his luck peasant goes to fight in World War I and returns home a hero
A story about the life of the "head" of a family who, in the absence of his wife, has to cope with both the care of his little son and all the domestic duties.
In their first collaboration Melkonian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov film two neighbour families that both claim ownership of a huge mulberry tree growing in the middle of their two houses.
