Sergei Yursky Movies

A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons.

In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the...

Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old...

A princess is born to the king and queen of a fairy-tale kingdom. The wicked witch, who resents not having been invited to the princess's birthday...

A young boy in Cuba finds himself in mortal peril as his fishing village gets infiltrated by malign forces.

In this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a...

A two-part television play based on "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Hunted Down" by Charles Dickens.

The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.

Blending drawings, paintings, filmed interviews, and recorded testimony, this animation-documentary hybrid tells of the tragic fate of the Estonian...

After coming into conflict with the administration of his research institute, engineer Krylov files his resignation and starts working as a stuntman.

Using extensive quotes from several Freudian works still banned by the Soviet censorship at the time, the film interprets the pivotal points of...

A cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry.

A television play chronicling the lead-up to the assassination of diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov, dubbed “vazir mukhtar” in...

An engineer's hotel stay is interrupted by a visit from a stranger.

A television play based on the eponymous poem, letters, and other works by Alexander Pushkin.

Small, hunchbacked and unlucky, Zadoc dreams of finding love. Chased from his village, he is propelled towards the unknown.

A stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", first staged for Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater and later reworked for Leningrad...

The hare has lost its magnificent tail - everyone is suspected.

The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society.

Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.