Leonid Parfyonov Movies

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

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

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

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

Third movie in the series.

Second part of Documentary project

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

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

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

The film restores the panorama of the centuries. Journalistic narration with extensive use of artistic reconstructions, computer graphics, animation...

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

The film is about the historical role of Georgians in Russian, and later - Soviet politics, culture and science. The heroes of the film are Bagration...

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...

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...

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

The second part of Leonid Parfyonov's project "Russian Georgians" will begin with a story about Stalin's design of the Russian patriotic upsurge in...