Aleksandr Kalyagin

Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film's cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he's a Bolshevik... (imdb)

Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general's widow, Anna Petrovna. Sofia, the new wife of Anna's step-son, recognizes Misha, the brother-in-law of one of the widow's admirers: a few years before, they had been idealistic lovers and now she can't believe he has settled for a dim wife and a job as a teacher... (imdb)

Taking a Russian lullaby as its motif, Tale of Tales is a dreamlike 30 minute film which uses a mixture of 2D and stop motion, to evoke the author's childhood memories, and more generally the themes of memory, lost youth, innocence and war. (keyframeonline.com)

In a fashion which combines drama and humor, the film tells the story of a writer's memories of his youth during and after the Second World War, when he was raised as an orphan in state schools. (allmovie.com)

An adaptation of the well-known story by Ivan Turgenev, written in 1854. This film was made in 1987, using the cut-out animation technique. (dailymotion)

Two men, sharing the same first name and living in the same building but each with different background and attitude to life, have to rethink their views in the midst of crowded winter holiday celebration. -IMDB

In 1930s Poland, it was traditional for some Christian boys to live for a time with Jewish families in order to learn a trade from Jewish craftsmen. For this reason, Ivan has gone to live on a large estate with Abraham and his family, has learned Yiddish, and has become Abraham's best friend. But the anti-Semitism born of poverty, ignorance, and superstition is fierce in this community of and the two boys run away into the countryside to flee an imminent conflict. (Eric Wees)

Pavel Chichikov arrives to a small provincial town with a devious scheme in mind: he plans to enter high society by acquiring dead souls - the recently deceased serfs who are still "alive" on paper. (imdb)

Unemployed and homeless Babbs Baberley (Alexander Kalyagin) is being chased by the police who attempt to arrest him for vagrancy. Babbs finds himself in a rich house, where he encounters Charlie and Jackie. Babbs' unsuccessful attempt to disguise himself as a woman gives Charlie and Jackie an idea. (imdb)