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.
Ivan Baikalov, the secretary of the District Committee, is the first person to come to him with any question: grain harvesting machines, alimony, crankshafts... - the party leader of the Altai village should know and be able to do everything. The wife of a young doctor came to seek protection from Baikalov - her husband is cheating! And from Lebyazhego they inform that in three days rains will fall, and the only one who will be able to organize the work and not to rot the bread is Pyotr Ivlev. But on the secretary's desk is an anonymous letter: the district doctor has had an affair with Pyotr's wife. What is more important - grain harvesting or the family of a young party member?
A school boy finds a fallen pilot in the forest during the fire started by enemies.
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.
A young schoolboy tries to help the girl he likes to pass a test.
Phone conversation between an abandoned husband and his friend.
A screen adaptation of the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.
A man tries to escape from his wife in order to visit an exhibition, where he sees a painting representing his own house.
A young woman dreams of marrying a rich and influential man, but her heart treacherously beats for a simple guy from the village of Medvedkino.
A kaleidoscopic living diary of the underground rock scene in Leningrad just before perestroika.
The boy writes an essay at school in which he wants to be like his father - with mayonnaise, i.e. "MNS" (junior research fellow).
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.
A short film about young delinquents terrorizing a neighbourhood.
A down on his luck peasant goes to fight in World War I and returns home a hero. Partially lost.
The absence of speech of the characters, and the only dialogue is whistled, because you can feel, but you can't talk.The background sounds like parallel, fictional worlds - worlds that exist simultaneously with ours, but independently of it, especially the sounds of radios (as the reference to the search of "another life" in the radio broadcasts).
The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.
Kasian Nefedovich decides to convey his last wish, of burying him beside his wife's grave, to his daughter Zinke and spend some time with her. But she doesn't allow him to stay with her family.
