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The soloist of the popular band "NA-NA" Vladimir Levkin is late for a concert and the bandleader Bari Alibasov expels him from the ensemble. At this time, the band goes on tour on the ship "Dmitry Shostakovich". The guys advise Volodya Levkin to change into a woman's dress and go on a cruise with everyone. After a fun adventure, everything works out and in the finale the band performs the song in full.
The Thief of Bagdad is as bright as an Eastern robe and as sweet as tahini halva. It soars in dance, immerses itself in music, and dies from laughter. At the time, when work on the play began, no one could have guessed that this charming, captivating trifle, based on a famous Eastern story, would play a significant role in the life of the theatre and its actors.
A princess falls in love with a musician and separates from her husband, for which she is separated from her daughter Eliza and expelled from home. In her new marriage, she has a second daughter, Liza, and the sisters do not yet know about each other's existence. One fine day the royal family comes to the city where they live...
The Italians, conquered by the Tatar singer's skill, offer him a contract. By the will of circumstances, Renat gets first to Yalta and only then on the yacht of a drug dealer to Italy. Here the hero finds himself in prison, meets an Italian beauty and is carried away in a hot air balloon...
September 28, 1991, at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, was described as "the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history" and had a crowd estimated between 150,000 and 500,000 people, with some unofficial estimates as high as 1,600,000.
Surreal New Year special TV musical.
Musical benefit of Lyudmila Gurchenko.
An unofficial sequel to the movie "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession". The events take place on New Year's Eve 1997-1998, 24 years after the events of the movie. According to the plot, the main characters (Shurik, Bunsha, Zina and Ulyana Andreyevna) are going to celebrate New Year's Eve, and the engineer Alexander Sergeyevich Timofeev (Shurik) decides to present his recreated (and modernized) time machine to the guests. Having gone to the XVI century, they find there an aged Georges Miloslavsky, who has been sitting as regent for 25 years instead of Ivan the Terrible, who has run away; the Tsar was so inspired by the profession of Zina and Yakin that he decided to try his hand at filmmaking and went to "Mosfilm" instead of the Tsar's chambers. In an effort to correct the disruption of the course of history, the heroes re-engage the time machine and travel back to the 1970s in search of the Tsar, who dreams of becoming an actor.
A romantic parable based on real events. He and She are lovers who want to unite their fate by marriage. But by the will of fate, the lovers get into an accident and find themselves on an island washed by the sea of Uncertainty.
What do you give the youth of Moscow for standing down the coup and ending the reign of Communism in Russia? 700,000 Watts of Head-banging Power. With Exclusive live performances and behind-the-scenes footage, FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK captures five heavy metal bands and 500,000 fans in historic celebration of freedom at the concert that almost didn't happen.
The beginning of the 20th century. The recklessness of fanatics is pushing humanity towards the abyss. A revolution begins in Russia. Crazy Dr. Farkus induces an orgasm of inanimate matter. White Moroccan dwarfs are becoming active. A second Sun appears in the sky. In this difficult environment, captains selflessly confront the forces of chaos, maintaining the cosmic balance of history.
A young man lives in a small town outside of space and time. One day, his measured life is disrupted by a musical group that comes on tour. Once at the concert, the main character realizes that this is exactly the kind of music that haunts him...
Musical drama
A humorous New Year's TV show dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Eldar Ryazanov. The plot parodies the 1956 film Carnival Night. The role of Ogurtsov is being tried on by Ryazanov himself.
Visiting musician Antonio (aka Anton), inseparable from his trumpet, drops in for a few hours in the city of his childhood, where his friends, partners in inspired boyish outrages, are slowly going crazy from the daily routine. And he can’t leave. Perhaps because the alarm clock with the inscription “Antosha from his mother”, collecting dust in the abandoned barracks of his childhood, just won’t start.
Alexander Podbolotov is called the "Russian Pavarotti." He sings wherever he can — in the park by the pond, in the museum among the statues, in small living rooms. Nature and seasons change. And the voice still sounds light, strong and beautiful.
A musical film based on the vocal cycle "The Road to Pushkin".
This delightful ballet tells the story of Dr Coppelius, an eccentric toymaker, who attempts to bring life to his beautiful doll Coppélia. He is foiled by the mischevious Swanilda, who masquerades as Coppélia and saves her love, Franz, from the Doctor's magic. Performed by the Kirov Ballet.
A dazzling film version of three favourite ballets from the Diaghilev Ballets Russes seasons in Paris.
A musical Christmas story, told by little five-year-old girl and her fellows. This magnificent musical film is based on old Russian Christmas fairy tales, nativity scenes and authentic melodies that have accompanied this holiday for many centuries.
An adaptation of John Cage's Lecture On Nothing.
Lumiere's The Arrival Of A Train in Russian.
Incredible phantasmagoria of merry-go-round people, who are usually called the dregs of society . The clip of the band "Holy Hares" ("Inflatable pistol"). Vocalist Slava Martov.
The film is based on the events of the 4th International Orthodox Music Festival held in Moscow in February, 1992. The Festival featured not only such famous works as Rakhmaninov's "The All Night Service" and "Liturgy" but also the first performance of the latest interpretations of ancient Russian songs and the sensational first performance of Sviridov's cycle of "spiritual songs".
A provincial socio-psychological drama.
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life and for love. Her husband, though, is impotent; her father-in-law a tyrant. No wonder, then, that she longs to free herself from this yoke. When Sergei starts work on the family estate, she sees in him a chance for salvation. However, their subsequent affair marks the beginning of a descent into crime.
The film is shot during the band's 10th anniversary live performance in St. Petersburg.
A concert film taken from concert album of the same name by russian rock band DDT.
The 1998 live tour promoting the new album
Biblical motifs combined with Suprematism, plus a brilliant idea of integrating the movement of water in the Volga–Don Canal into the action.
The name of Alexander Rosenbaum, inseparably linked with Leningrad–Petersburg, is among the most renowned in Russia. His persona has become a symbol of our great, tragic, and transformative era. Poet and singer Alexander Rosenbaum is a true child of Leningrad. To him, Leningrad is, above all, the old city, the old buildings, the old courtyards. Childhood has long since passed, yet his songs still often carry a gentle sorrow for the old courtyards of Leningrad. He frequently returns to the past of his beloved city...
The film is based on live show of the band in Minsk, Belarus in 1994 and shooting at DDD Studios in St. Petersburg in 1997
The Band's 15th anniversary live show held on June 26, 1995 at the Petrovsky Stadium in St. Petersburg.
A film about the early chamber music ensemble "Kurant." Based on filming from 1986-1988. A concert featuring the ensemble was filmed in Leningrad, at the S. P. von Derviz mansion at 33 Galernaya Street, (then the Mayak club of the Admiralty Plant, 33 Krasnaya Street). Part of the filming took place inside the Rotunda at 57 Gorokhovaya Street. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the Rotunda regularly hosted informal gatherings of Leningrad youth. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Rotunda gained fame as a cult venue, attracting representatives of various subcultures—rockers, hippies, and punks.
The pop opera "Eugene Onegin" is an attempt by the authors to "kill two birds with one stone" - A.S. Pushkin and P.I. Tchaikovsky, making their works accessible to the widest audience.
Reflections of the brilliant film composer Oleg Karavaichuk on life and art.
A hypnotic travelogue about an ancient river in the days following the summer solstice.
A musical etude.
In ancient Russian mythology Sirin is a bird with the head of a woman, a Slavic image of the Greek sirens. The ensemble of ancient Russian sacred music "Sirin" was created to revive ancient Orthodox singing traditions. It is an outstanding musical project performing folk sacred songs. The film tells about the unique work of musicians collecting half-forgotten melodies in the most remote corners of Russia.
The story is about a musician, the conflict is based on the confrontation of classical jazz and alternative music.
The Maid of Orleans is an opera in 4 acts, 6 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was composed during 1878–1879 to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on several sources: Friedrich Schiller's The Maid of Orleans.
Sergei Prokofiev's eighth and last ballet, written between 1948 and 1953. It is based on the Russian Ural folk tale The Stone Flower by Pavel Bazhov and is also the last of the trilogy of ballets Prokofiev wrote in the Russian ballet tradition. It was premiered posthumously in 1954, conducted by Yuri Fayer.
Many older people have nostalgia for the hits of their youth. Knowing this, we decided to create a musical film where popular melodies of 30-40 years were played, such as "Splash of Champagne", "Carioca", "Tiko-tiko", "Joseph", "No need to be sad", etc. The film is structured as a conversation between a pop singer (Vera Beradze) and a collector of old records (Boris Shcherbakov). After the selected record is put on the gramophone and a familiar melody sounds, the old collector suddenly appears in the frame with the singer and transforms into a brave Mexican, then a playboy, or a guy from the outskirts of Moscow, depending on the song being played.
Soviet film reels were found in an abandoned cinema and decided to be projected onto a white screen like a slide film.
An experimental collage of archives and animation, dedicated to the director's journey with his friends.
The film is dedicated to the memory of Valery Borisovich Agafonov (1941-1984), an outstanding performer of Russian romances.
Cinema offers a unique opportunity to synthesize a special multilayered space, whose dramaturgy cannot be limited to the traditional Hollywood-style concept of plot, but instead relies primarily on the interaction of several layers that give rise to the Image: music, visuals, text, and form.