Academician Saburova, a famous surgeon, decided on a very difficult operation according to the method once developed by her. Professor Sadovnikov revealed Saburova a bitter truth: various symposiums, meetings and meetings distanced her from practical surgery, and it would be better to entrust the operation to another doctor. Strong in nature, Saburov’s man took the advice of his colleague as a serious offense ...
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest more
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers. close
Osip Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist. From nine o'clock more
Osip Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist. From nine o'clock in the morning and in the forenoon accepts patients, then goes to open corpses. But its income is hardly enough for a covering of expenses of the wife mad about talents and celebrities in the art and artistic environment whom it daily accepts in the house. close
Engineer Zilov, having woken up, finds the funeral wreath at his place – his friends' present. This rather symbolic joke makes him recollect the previous night as well as 2 last months...
Engineer Zilov, having woken up, finds the funeral wreath at his place – his friends' present. This rather symbolic joke makes him recollect the previous night as well as 2 last months... close
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's more
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations. close
Boris Nirenburg,
Evgeniy Simonov,
Evgeniy Karelskih
Drama Boris Nierenburg “Irkutsk story”, based on the play of Alexei Arbuzov, tells about love and how a strong personality can affect a lost person. Not more
Drama Boris Nierenburg “Irkutsk story”, based on the play of Alexei Arbuzov, tells about love and how a strong personality can affect a lost person.
Not far away Valya works in a grocery store on one of the construction sites and in her 25 years does not think much about her behavior, for which she received the nickname Valka-cheshevka. Vali's friend, electrician Victor, introduces her to Sergei, the machinist of a walking excavator. Victor does not want to marry Valais because he does not want to be bound. And then Sergey himself marries a girl. They subsequently have two children. . . close