Andrey Dudarenko

The Waiting Room

A 'runaway' homeless man, once a renowned athlete, finds himself marooned in the small, snow-covered town of Zarechensk. Victor lands a job at an orphanage, where he soon meets a young teacher who becomes both a compassionate friend and the love of his life. However, fate doesn't play out simply as good or bad; it unfolds in a way that makes the hero realize one cannot run away from oneself. Consequently, it is in Zarechensk that a train carrying a film crew from the capital, on their way back to Moscow, is compelled to delay their journey for a few days. Remarkably, Zarechensk becomes the place where a director finally discovers the perfect actress for his leading role and encounters a man who has fled from her love. Meanwhile, a producer makes the ultimate decision to select this town as the filming location for her upcoming movie.

Bread

Set around the Volga river, the story begins around 1900, when Russian peasants are let free and allowed to own their farmlands. But soon they suffer from losses during the 1917 Russian Revolution and the following Civil War. Then, the major national catastrophe is started by Stalin: his communist government kills millions of farmers and steals all their food supplies, causing the longest and deadliest famine all over central Russia during the 1920s and 1930s.

Between Life and Death

A professional intelligence officer, Jan, who performed a special assignment at the Abwehr intelligence school during the Second World War, returns home. Along the way, he is ambushed by the "forest brothers", led by his fellow student at the intelligence school. He fabricates evidence, according to which Jan gets a "tower". Instead of executing the sentence, Yan is made a "doll" for NKVD cadets to practice their combat skills. Jan manages not only to survive in unequal battles, but also to escape. Run away to finally see his wife and daughter, to restore justice.

Brunette for 30 Cents

"Male students are not allowed to enter the female dormitory." This sign hangs at the entrance, but the men's still climb into the Windows. Seeing this craving for beauty, the authorities of the provincial town decided to improve the financial situation by opening a brothel, while maintaining the chastity of the fairer sex…

Autumn

In their youth, they loved each other, but broke up. Ilya got married, became a doctor, Sasha learned to become an engineer, got married. And now they are together again, at a small, deaf station. They introduced themselves as husband and wife. In fact, while he is married to another, and she has the experience of a failed marriage. For eight days they will be in a remote stop where no one knows them and no one will interfere with love...

The Comic Lover, or The Amorous Adventures of Sir John Falstaff

A Twig in the Wind

Varya Berezina has just graduated from high school. My parents are getting divorced, my beloved grandmother is pestering me about the meaning of life. Mishka is a good guy — he loves Varka very much, but he doesn't understand a lot. Having not received the documents, she leaves for the city to her sister. My sister has a big new apartment, a good husband and a dear family friend — neighbor Vissarion Arkadyevich. He is a doctor and everyone loves him. He helps Varka to enter the institute, but she has neither documents nor knowledge. My sister is very worried. And Varka gets a job in a hospital, where he can often see a doctor and be with people. When Vissarion Arkadyevich is transferred to Leningrad, Varka returns to the village.

Ivan the Great

The film, based on the war stories by Andrei Platonov, centers on the story of a soldier Ivan Vladyko. The war is over and Ivan begins to search for his son, who disappeared after their native village burned down. During the search he meets a woman with three children who takes a lively part in his fate.

Three People on a Highway

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.

This Guy is Back...

After returning from the army, Rustam easily and naturally fits into the environment of workers from a petrochemical plant. The almost boyish carelessness and irresponsible pastime is replaced by an understanding of one's own need for a common cause, and a sense of inner dignity arises. This is what makes Rustam not reconcile himself to the fact that the brigade in which he works is among the laggards and is characterized by indiscipline. Having become a foreman, Rustam tries to create a healthy working atmosphere, takes part in the fate of Sagat, who recently returned from prison, rejects the attempts of the head of the shop to bribe the trust of the brigade with a "fake" salary. And outside the factory, he acts from a position of active kindness, although sometimes, helping others, he forgets about himself, does not have time to sort out the relationship with his girlfriend Lucy...

The Cold Summer of 1953

In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them.

Andrey Dudarenko. Face from the Portrait

Documentary about Andrey Dudarenko, Soviet and Russian actor whose most famous role was a silent photo in the first Russian horror film "The Touch" (1992).

The Wolves in the Area

Two detectives are fighting a criminal gang which is steeling goods from the abandoned radioactive area.

At the End of Summer

An old man in need of care and attention moves to his son in the city. But soon the son and his wife send the old man to a shelter for the elderly. However, the grandson, who loved his grandfather and understood the cruelty of what is happening, leaves his parents and takes the old man to his future wife.