Movies by Zoya Fyodorova

A Night in September

A Night in September

Film deals with Stakhanovite movement. Old miners try to sabotage young man's plan to renew methods of getting coal.

The Girl from Leningrad

The Girl from Leningrad

1939-1940 Finnish war. In the very first days, a group of female volunteers goes to the front. Young nurses and nurses in the hospital and on the front line selflessly help doctors to save the wounded soldiers, with weapons in their hands, take part in the fight against the enemy. In severe trials, the friendship and love of the film's characters is tempered and strengthened.

Musical Story

Musical Story

Talented cabbie with aspirations as a singer spends afterhours practicing with an amateur opera company, ignoring his sweetheart, the femme cab dispatcher.

The Girlfriends

The Girlfriends

Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.

The Ugly Story

The Ugly Story

Based on a satirical short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky concerning the escapades of a Russian civil servant.

Obsession

Obsession

Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes.

Shelmenko the Orderly

Shelmenko the Orderly

A military detachment arrived in the village to the landowner Shpak and the young officer fell in love with the owner's daughter. Sly soldier Shelmenko helps lovers get married.

Little Friend

Little Friend

A family comedy about funny adventures of two best friends Mishka and Kolya and their dog called Little Friend, based on Short stories by Nikolai Nosov.

Accordion

Accordion

Igor Savchenko's Accordion (Garmon', 1934) was adapted from a poem by A. Zharov. This film sheds light on the reasons why the mass song came into being. In it, the country boy Timosha stops playing the accordion after being chosen leader of the local Komsomol. When he understands that he must compete with the sad kulak songs played by Tlskliby ("Mournful"), he recognizes his mistake in abandoning his accordion, and in the end he gathers the other youths around him with his lively and merry songs.

Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor

Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor

The story takes place in Summer 1942, when a small force of Black Sea Fleet sailors was surrounded by German troops but broke out the encirclement.

Here Is My Village

Here Is My Village

A story about a group of countryside children playing detectives in their village.

The Pilots

The Pilots

The daredevil pilot Sergei Belyaev takes a risk flying a plane which is not properly maintained and crashes dangerously, landing in hospital, his plane going up in smoke. The aviation student Galya Bystrova, having a crush with Belyaev, unfortunately tends to imitate him in the air. Later, heeding the advice of the wise headmaster Rogachev, they become experienced pilots. Bystrova is assigned to Pamir, and Rogachev, in love with her, is sent to Sakhalin.