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Vladimir Ilin has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by A Dog Named Palma.
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My Penguin Friend
2024
Family · Adventure

Vicky and Her Mystery
2021
Adventure · Family

The Railway Children Return
2022
Drama · Family

Naples to New York
2024
Drama · Adventure

Turning Tide
2013
Adventure · Drama

Fly Away Home
1996
Adventure · Drama

Medicine Man
1992
Adventure · Drama

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019
History · Family

The film is inspired by an incredible story of a shepherd dog named Palm who was inadvertently left in the airport by her owner. She befriends nine-year old Nicholas whose mother dies leaving him with a father he barely knows - a pilot who finds the dog at the airport. It's a story of amazing adventures, true friendship and unconditional love.
Dir. Alexandr Domogarov Jr. · With Victor Dobronravov, Leonid Basov, Vladimir Ilin

Near future. Lera Arabova is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family in Vladivostok. Lera's father has been working at the orbiting space station "Mira" for many years and has long lost contact with his daughter, turning only into a voice on the phone. After a meteor shower hits the city, Lera has only one chance to save her loved ones and the city from a new disaster. Her father helps her in this - through satellite surveillance systems and the telephone, he uses every opportunity to send a message to his daughter, watching from above from the station her every step.
Dir. Dmitry Kiselev · With Anatoliy Belyy, Darya Moroz, Veronika Ustimova

March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown. They were supposed to do what no man has done before—and no man imagined what would happen next.
Dir. Dmitry Kiselev · With Evgeny Mironov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Ilin

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov · With Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov · With Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

WWII, 1945. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white German Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.
Dir. Karen Shakhnazarov · With Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaly Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko
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