Category
page 1Films based on Russian short stories

Ikiru
is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

Destiny of a Man
1959 film by Sergei Bondarchuk

Ashik Kerib
1988 film by Sergei Parajanov

Mumu
1959 Soviet film by Yevgeny Teterin

Formula of Love
1984 film by Mark Zakharov

Song of Triumphant Love
1915 film directed by Yevgeni Bauer

Lefty
1964 film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano

Don Tale
1964 film by Vladimir Fetin

Kasba
1991 film by Kumar Shahani

Chuk and Gek
1953 film by Ivan Lukinsky

Barons of Crime
1988 film by Yuri Kara

The Aristocratic Peasant Girl
1995 film by Aleksey Sakharov

The Lame Gentleman
1929 film by Konstantin Eggert

The Left-Hander
1987 Soviet film by Sergey Ovcharov

Za co?
1995 film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Tale about the Boy-Kibalchish
1964 film

The Colt
2005 television film