Challenge (1981)
Based on the play of the same name by G. Markov and E. Shim. About the difficult yet creative journey of the Siberian scientist Alexei Krayukhin.
Based on the play of the same name by G. Markov and E. Shim. About the difficult yet creative journey of the Siberian scientist Alexei Krayukhin.
Aleksandr Potapov
Zinaida Andreeva
Viktor Korshunov
Evgeni Burenkov
Afanasi Kochetkov
Yaroslav Baryshev
Vladimir Bogin
Nikolay Vereshchenko
Aleftina Evdokimova

The action takes place in France in 1942. The Nazis herded people of different social classes and nationalities into a pre-trial detention cell, facing imminent death. One of them, Prince von Berg, receives the right to freedom. He renounces this right in the name of saving another person.
A dance drama telling of a man's journey back into memory and imagination to escape, and finally overcome, a personal crisis. A convent school dormitory is the setting for a chronicle of fleeting impressions told through dance, music and images ranging from the erotic to the violent, and are infused with a mixture of high romanticism and gritty urban toughness.
In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people on the ground.
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning to his life in a new and uncompromising world.
Inspector Maigret responds to a call from a young woman in the middle of the night, but he then finds himself accused of raping her. He is forced to clear his name, and search for what had really taken place that night.

An orphaned ninth-grader comes to the factory where her father once worked.
A woman is forced to leave her marriage by her violent, over-bearing husband whose objective is to train their young son to follow his evil footsteps.

An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.
Because of her not-so-good looks, Wu Liang's career and love are negatively affected. She has used makeup to make herself look more beautiful. This "mask" slowly grows on to her face, making new troubles for her.

An anonymous artist reveals their true identity.
Jimmy is enlisted as a spy by the Big Top Secret Organization. His mission: find and rescue Agent X - who turns out to be Jimmy's movie hero, Jet Fusion.
A farmer's son falls in love with a young peasant girl despised by the people of the village where she lives.