Oleg Basilashvili Movies

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

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

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

Summer 1918. As revolutionary Russia remains locked in turmoil, British mission chief Robert Lockhart plots against the Bolshevik government. Seeking...

Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coa...

Baron Karl Ludwig von Oster, the owner of a giant concern, one of the industrial magnates of Germany, convicted at the Nuremberg trials, was released...

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

District doctor Katya Luzina has recently graduated from medical school. Her first steps in the profession aren’t easy: at first, she faces patients’...

A story about the famous Russian weightlifter Ivan Zaikin, who left the circus arena at the peak of his fame to dedicate himself to the art of aviatio...

Platon is travelling by train to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch where he meets Vera, a waitress. He refuses to pay for the food after whi...

To earn money for married life, a young engaged man takes a job as an engineer on a privately operated oil drilling rig in the far North of Russia. A...

Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in hi...

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. The...

The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress...

An ironic and romantic story of the incredible adventures of the famous Russian inventor.

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg,...

Ivan Miroshnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year manda...

A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin.

The story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering.