Leonid Parfyonov Movies

A chronicle of Russia's transition from communism to capitalism.

The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir...

This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the unique style of the author Leonid Parfyonov....

In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties.

Kashtanov, professor of medicine and famous Moscow surgeon, is experiencing midlife crisis. Suddenly he decides to leave everything and escape to the...

The «Eye of God» is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. It shows how progressive and pro-West Russians can be, when...

Second part of Documentary project

Parfenov's documentary is about a brilliant scientist and engineer, born in Russia, but only known on the other side of the ocean. The invention of...

The history of Jewish people in Russia up until the 1917 revolution.

A documentary film about the life and early death of Russian singer and songwriter Aleksandr Bashlachev through the eyes of his friends, family...

Our eternal theme is crime and punishment. In Boris Godunov, the problems of conscience and existential choice are linked to the history of the...

Leonid Parfyonov travels to Georgia, where he studies how amphorae are made and grapes are crushed with bare feet, and learns why orange wine is...

A famous Russian documentarist Leonid Parfyonov with deep investigation into the life of Leonid Brezhnev.

Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom before becoming General Secretary of the Communist...

Events, people, phenomena that determined the way of life. That, without which it is impossible to imagine us, is even more difficult to understand....

A documentary about Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer in color photography of early 20th-century Russia.