Barbara Brylska Movies

In a slick ER melodrama from director Jiri Svobada, life's trials and tribulations wend their way through the examination room of a neurosurgeon (Miroslav Machacek in the form of diverse patients with ailments that range from the casual to the fatal. A friend of the doctor's is diagnosed with a tumor, an active and seemingly healthy woman is diagnosed with leukemia, and a little boy has a brain tumor that the doctor believes will be fatal, operation or no operation. When the boy's grandfather insists that the operation be performed, events take an unexpected turn that challenges everyone involved. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

This modestly budgeted, made-for-TV romantic comedy became one of the most popular films in the former Soviet Union and a staple of TV broadcasts on New Year's Eve. It's based on the premise that modern apartment complexes look so much alike that one cannot distinguish one city from another. On New Year's Eve, Muscovite Yevgeny Lukashin (Andrei Myagkov) finally dares to make a marriage proposal to Galya (Olga Naumenko). They plan to celebrate the New Year together quietly, but Lukashin's friends convince him that first he should attend their annual meeting at a bathhouse. The meeting quickly turns into an improvisational bachelor party for Yevgeny. Having consumed large amounts of alcohol, they cannot remember which one of them was supposed to fly to Leningrad to meet his wife. So they put the sleepy Lukashin on a plane. Upon his arrival in the Leningrad airport, Yevgeny gives the taxi driver his Moscow street address and the cab takes him to an apartment complex located on a street with the same name. The building looks very much like his own, so Lukashin, still not quite sober, does not realize that he is in another city. He enters someone else's apartment because his key fits the door lock and he quickly falls asleep on a couch. When the apartment's rightful resident, Nadya (Polish actress Barbara Brylska), comes home, she wakes up the intruder and tells him to get out. The bewildered Yevgeny insists that he is at home and she is the one who should get out. Eventually he sobers and finds out about his predicament. He is about to leave when the situation is further complicated by the arrival of Nadya's straight-laced fiancé Ippolit (Yuri Yakovlev) who does not believe in Lukashin's story and accuses Nadya of being unfaithful. The interaction between the three characters results in Nadya and Yevgeny's gradual falling in love with each other. ~ Yuri German, Rovi

This is the final episode of a five-part epic which was shown every 9th of May in the USSR, as part of the official celebrations for (World War II) Victory Day. It is a kind of response to The Longest Day. This film received the Grand Prize from the All Union Film Festival in 1972. It concerns the last days of Nazi Germany in Berlin, the assault on the Reichstag and erecting the Red Banner over its ruins. It shows the last days of the bunkered leaders of the Third Reich. This film has huge battle scenes with thousands of extras, and was extremely expensive to shoot. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi