Mikhail Volpin

Feature films (as screenwriter and lyricist)

1938 – Volga-Volga (Волга-Волга) – with Nikolai Erdman and Grigori Aleksandrov 1940 – Shining Path (Светлый путь) – lyricist, with Anatoly D'Aktil 1940 – The Old Horseman (Старый наездник) 1943 – The Actress (Актриса) – with Nikolai Erdman 1945 – Hello Moscow! (Здравствуй, Москва!) – with Nikolai Erdman 1949 – Cossacks of the Kuban (Кубанские казаки) – lyricist, with Mikhail Isakovsky 1950 – Brave People (Смелые люди) – with Nikolai Erdman (for which the duo won the Stalin Prize) 1951 – Lofty Hill (Высокая горка) 1951 – Sporting Honour (Спортивная честь) – with Nikolai Erdman 1953 – Mountain Outpost (Застава в горах) – with Nikolai Erdman 1956 – On the Stage (На подмостках сцены) 1957 – Gutta-percha Boy (Гуттаперчевый мальчик) 1957 – Tales of Lenin (Рассказы о Ленине) – with Nikolai Erdman and Yevgeny Gabrilovich 1964 – Jack Frost (Морозко) – with Nikolai Erdman 1967 – Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes (Огонь, вода и… медные трубы) – with Nikolai Erdman 1974 – Prince Prosha (Царевич Проша) 1976 – How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder (Как Иванушка-дурачок за чудом ходил) 1979 – Nightingale (Соловей) – adapted from the story by Hans Christian Andersen 1982 – Donkeyskin (Ослиная шкура) – adapted from the story by Charles Perrault 1986 – The Tale of the Painter's Lover (Сказка про влюблённого маляра) – with Valeri Frid