Yuri Yakovlev Movies
- 1994
This Russian-Hungarian backed concept film is set at a giant Siberian steelworks and focuses upon the exploits of one spectacularly bored employee while subtly commenting on larger issues. Conditions at the works, which produces armor alloys for the military, are grim, dangerous, and barely tolerable. The story presents several episodes from workers' lives but focuses particularly upon young Ignat. When not working, his only entertainment stems from stealing sheep from wandering shepherds, and robbing a train at gunpoint. To find a little more excitement, he enters the annual fight between the strongest metal worker and the strongest miner. This provides the film's climax. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Yevgeny Sidikhin, Alexander Kalyagin, (more)
- 1987
In this drama, Christina is a busy professional woman who also happens to be the married mother of a son -- and she also has a lover on the side. She is so busy, in fact, that the people she is supposedly close to rarely see her. Instead, she can be found running a radio station or pursuing her children's book-writing career in one fashion or other. When her son goes into a state of grief, shock, and inactivity after being involved in an accident which caused the death of another child, she sees that he needs her. As she shifts her attention to her son, she begins to notice that all her loved ones are in need of more attention from her than she has been giving, lately. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- 1986
Some reviewers mistook this historical drama for a children's film, but it's not exactly a children's film. It's based on a satirical story by 19th-century Russian writer Nikolai Leskov. Though he also wrote a number of serious novels (one of them, Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk was made into an opera by Dmitry Shostakovich), "Levsha" (The Lefty) remains his most well-known and popular work in Russia. The story of Levsha was both a satire on Russian bureaucracy and a celebration of the ingeniousness of ordinary Russian people. In the film, set in 19th-century England, Tsar Alexander I has found a mechanical marvel for his collection of unusual objects from around the world. It is a tiny mechanical flea made of steel -- so small that it can only be properly viewed through a microscope. When its tiny key is wound, it performs a little dance. The next Tsar, Nicholas I, shows the flea to the craftsmen of Russia, with the wish that they might improve on the marvel in some fashion which will highlight Russian genius. A trio of poverty-stricken craftsmen including a man called Lefty agree to take on that task, and soon enough return the flee with their typically Russian improvement: they have put shoes on the flea's feet, with their names engraved on them. These engaging rogues have other adventures as well. The film's director Sergey Ovcharov was awarded at the annual young cinema showcase in Leningrad in 1987. ~ Yuri German, Rovi
- Starring:
- Nikolai Stotsky, Vladimir Gostyukhin, (more)
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