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I was reminded of people who were not exactly "healthy" according to everyday logic, but were nevertheless genius: Vrubel, Fedotov, Van Gogh. And always—Dostoevsky. Who would have benefited if all these great artists had been healthy? Illness caused them a great deal of suffering, but, when expressed through their creativity, it still brought about such stunning results. So, here it is entirely appropriate to ask: is it necessary to cure them? - Valeriy Fokin.
A high school student becomes convinced that the world is lost to evil and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults surrounding him.
A traditional ritual for policemen of one town is the illegal entry into the house of their abuser. The intern, who came to his first practice, must undergo this baptism of fire.
Accidentally, Alyona finds herself alone in her lover's country-house on Christmas Eve. All she can see from the window is a snow-covered desert, and a cat is the only living creature who is near. The heating is turned off, her mobile phone battery is low. Alyona tries to get out of the country-house, but the more external circumstances she overcomes the deeper she sinks into her inner hell. At the end of the day her desire to escape suddenly evolves into desire to die. There are three layers in the film: physical, symbolical and metaphysical. All Alyona's activity is a surface that hides her struggle with her inner demons, her existential solitude and her inability to cope with it. Trying to escape the swamp of unsolved issues Alyona sinks only deeper and deeper to reach the bottom, then push off and start her way to inner resurrection. The only thing we are never given enough is love. The only thing we never give enough is love.
The northern military town on the eve of the New Year is filled with snow, fear and hope: one of the submarines has an accident, it is being towed to the base without moving, there are victims. This is all that is known from the short report. On New Year's Eve, Warrant Officer Seryogin, appointed by Santa Claus, comes to the house where little Bear is waiting for his dad from the campaign ...
The mother and daughter face the question of whether to keep the pregnancy or terminate it. Both are under pressure from relatives, friends, and doctors. Both are going through a difficult decision-making process. Each episode of the artistic part shows the life circumstances and the path that a woman in a crisis situation goes through. In documentary inserts, representatives of various professions (psychologists, lawyers, gynecologists, clergymen) tell how they face the problem of abortion in their lives.
Returning from another day of work at the vivarium, laboratory assistant Julia finds out that her husband wants to get a divorce, because the only thread that sealed their marriage is the mortgage paid. For Julia, her husband's decision is a surprise. She was sure that everything was fine with them, just like everyone else. Yulia wants to glue their relationship together by taking care of Oleg as her wards in the vivarium. Her goal is to form conditioned reflexes in her husband.
The film depicts the events of 1964 when Nikita Khrushchyov was forcibly replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as a head of USSR.
Antonina, an artist from Saint Petersburg, follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north province of Russia. As she starts teaching art in a local school, she finds herself opposed by a twelve-year-old boy, Misha, whose brother is a feared local gang leader.
This film is dedicated to all medical professionals who tirelessly fight for our lives! We sincerely thank all those who hourly help us to live a healthy and fulfilling life.
He was called the Champion of Champions. The strength and strong-willed character Poddubniy composed legends. And 50 great fighter effortlessly overcame young athletes, and questions of honor and justice did not know compromises. And only love could put Russian Heroes on both blades
Nadya was born with a pathology. She has a large red-burgundy hemangioma on her small face. In the native village Nadya faces the hostility and ridicule of others, furthermore her own family does not accept the girl as she is. Nadya grandmother tries to treat her illness with all religious methods she knows, while Nadya mother constantly dreams of a surgical operation in Moscow. Nadya just wants to be herself. Her only wish is to sing in the choir. After getting into another mess, she ends up in a Moscow hospital, where meets people like her. But even after the physical problem has been resolved nothing changes in her family life.
A youngster Andis, 21 offers a friend of his grandmother Mara, 80, who is dying, to fulfil her every wish in exchange for her apartment after her death. This agreement lets both of them rethink their attitude for what they actually want.
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.
A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin.
Nina is a young woman of thirty years, who lives in St. Petersburg. She has to bury her mother in a winter day. The ceremony is an opportunity for her to meet her younger brother Andrei, who lives elsewhere.
Ilya Goryunov has spent seven years in prison on false charges of drug trafficking. When Ilya is free he realizes that the old life that he yearned for is no more. Although he did not intend to take revenge on the man who sent him to prison, now there is no other way out.
Is youth a burden or a gift? New stars of Russian cinema say goodbye to illusions
Sasha is an ordinary boy whose life is not much different from the everyday life of an average schoolboy. Sasha's parents are divorced, so they put their personal ambitions above the interests of their son. From lack of attention, Sasha begins to withdraw into himself. Everything changes when, after school, Sasha meets a new friend – a strange cleaner in a pilot's jumpsuit.
A very first adaptation of the black tales written by Ludmila Petrushevskaya, the living classic of Russian literature. Black Coat, a mid-length movie that tells about adventures of two suicided women between life and death, has been shooting in Norilsk, the most Northern industrial city of the world, in winter time when the normal temperature is below -50 Celcium degrees. A pilot for a feature film or/and series.
A year after winning the Night Hockey League, the Hockey Dads returned to their usual lifestyle. Now their children, the Harsh Tigers team, together with coach Andrey, are showing excellent results in hockey at the new ice palace and are entering the top division of the youth hockey tournament. But everything changes when they find out that the new management of the club has other plans for the team. And now the only way to restore justice is to participate in the International tournament "Games of the Future". The dads of young hockey players are ready to put on their skates again and, together with their teenage children, compete with the best teams in the world.
Hoping to distract the boy from the loss of his mother, his father takes him to his grandfather for winter fishing. But the family falls into a blizzard and is lost on the ice of the largest lake in the world. Love and the mysterious powers of Baikal will help them overcome grief and find each other.
The loser Innocent wants to commit suicide by jumping from the roof. At the moment when he is almost taking a step, the main character appears on the roof. She convinces Innocent not to jump with a funny, daring, sometimes tough, but very logical and somewhat sincere conversation, because, among other things, he has not yet fulfilled his purpose…
The story of an emotionally detached backup dancer named Athena, who must return home to Florida to help care for her estranged father, Jack, after he gets diagnosed with cancer. There, she must contend with Jack’s irresponsible lifestyle, while looking after six year old Honey Bunny, who is only beginning to grasp the err in Jack’s ways.
Lech, by his 30s, has already burned himself in a relationship and is now enjoying bachelor life in an apartment with a friend. But a friend suddenly grows up and decides to move in with his girlfriend, whom he found in the STPP — "Potential Partner Selection Bureau". Lech does not immediately, but decides to also try to find "compatibility love" based on computer modulations. And finds it! But there is a problem: she has already found love for herself, and this is not Lech.
Upset after a failed audition actor "vote a ride" driven by a pretty young woman. Suddenly they become hostages of the bandits seeking to get out of the city with the cargo received at the airport…
A story about a relationships between man and wolf set in a very far away Russian village.
A watchman and a librarian in a ruined book depository are reading the pages of a torn diary of a girl named Yu-Yu, who came to them in an unknown way.
Zhenya fells unhappy because he broke up with his girlfriend. He decides to commit a suicide. But there is a problem - he could not choose the method of killing himself. Jenya decides to flip a coin, but every time he does it, something stays on his way.
When you are eleven years old, it seems that anything can happen to you. Especially when your grandmother comes to visit you, who knows how to do magic. You can even learn magic yourself, and then your life will become like a dream: sometimes scary, sometimes intoxicating, then completely unlike anything else. But in order to find a talent in yourself, or save a friend, or just make sure that at least someone really loves you, then you have to try yourself. And no magic will help here.
A man is sitting on a balcony while life is going on outside the window
Nina Petrovna and Yegor Ilyich have been living in urban apartments with children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren, who, however, have no desire to reckon with the interests of their elderly relatives. But one day there comes a time when old people have to leave home. An accidental acquaintance in a bistro - and instead of despondently complaining about each other's fate, they leave to live at Yegor Ilyich’s dacha. The children of both, joining forces, are trying to put their "romantic" pensioners in their place ...
At 30, Oleg and Seryoga still dream of becoming rock stars. They play in a little-known band, live in a communal apartment, and are preparing for an important performance at a local festival. On the eve of the concert, they are unexpectedly approached by Oleg's uncle, a 50-year-old man with mental disabilities, whom the boys cannot leave unattended, not even for a minute.
In the early 90s, a father introduces his 7-year-old daughter to chess and notices champion talent in her. For the sake of his daughter’s future title, the father leaves his career and develops a unique training system. Father and daughter will not only have to overcome financial difficulties, but also learn to understand each other and unite for the sake of a dream.
Nikita Dmitrievich Golovlev, a successful businessman, while celebrating his granddaughter’s birthday, receives a strange telegram: “I’m coming with my daughter Victoria. Your greatest love." A stormy showdown begins between Nikita Dmitrievich and his wife. Then the son quarrels with his daughter-in-law, and as a result, the granddaughter, whom everyone has forgotten about, leaves the house wherever she goes. Never before has she wanted to die so much... She is saved by a random acquaintance who explains what the Gift of God is.
A young Georgian man named Lado is involved in smuggling antique furniture from Georgia to Russia. Medea, Lado’s girlfriend, buys herself an apartment in St. Peterburg’s historic center. At the time of the unlawful deportation of thousands of Georgians from Russia, Lado is caught and deported.
A search for a lamb missing in the mountains leads a shepherdess to a strange girl exploring the acoustics of a local cave. The tale of sound waves and invisible connections unfolds like the dream of a lonely woman returning home after a long day at work.
Based on "In a Grove" by Akutagawa Rynoske. One shiny summer day the investigation group comes at former quarry check of indications of accused, witnesses and victims of the murder and the rape took place there half a year ago.
They can't see, but they really must... Because they love each other!
A woman admits that she is 300 years old, and yet, she looks incredibly young and attractive. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s play “The Makropulos Affair” for Faberlic.
The production designer Kostya’s workday snowballed since the early morning. The studio’s Accounting Department informed him that he was fined. Shocked by the fact, Kostya goes to see the producer, to sort it all out.
A story of love and hatred set during the Civil War in Russia.
We live to find our destination. Or our destination gives us life? Are 3 minutes enough to discuss this?
The Osipovs are a very ordinary family from Ulyanovsk. Father, mother and son. They are no different from thousands and thousands of other families, except that they are happy. They love each other. The sudden illness of the son drives through them with an asphalt roller. Parents are ready for anything, they lose their home, and sometimes their human form, trying to save their child. At some point, even the mother breaks down. But not the father. The most ordinary person. A provincial carpenter.
A film director Nikolai Khudokormov is on the brink of his 50th anniversary. He has the whole life rich in events under his belt: creative quests, several marriages and children. Now he has to live with an old insane Mother and seems to be indifferent to what is going on around. But at the same time he is obsessed by the idea to make a film which will be his best one. Nikolai makes every effort to raise the money for this project. And all the time he is followed by a mysterious stranger. She is a beautiful young creature who speaks to him about the vanity of the world and the meaningless of a human life. Finally, Nikolai realizes that he is speaking to the Death herself.
Writer and artist Jeff, who lives in Siberia, cannot integrate into the digital life of the modern show industry, where everything is tied to money. Dreaming of making a film based on the book "12 floors later" written by him in his youth, he shares excerpts of creativity with everyone who is ready to listen to him, and because of this gets into ridiculous situations. Wandering between the worlds, like between the floors of a high-rise building, he is looking for a way out. Russian film and music stars Evgeny Tkachuk, Ilya Del, Oleg Garkusha are trying to help Jeff. Tkachuk and Del, in search of a producer and money, hardly promote the author's idea. Osman Delibash empathizes with Jeff and is sincerely glad that he will star in a non-existent film. One way or another, Jeff makes you think about the deep spiritual needs of each of the participants in the events – both the stars and the simplest people.
A young man Ivan finds himself in his hometown, leaving this place 17 years ago. He looks around incredulously, trying to see in the surrounding fragments of his childhood. In this city lived his first love - little Anya. Now she is no longer 12, and he, too. But thoughts about the feelings of the past days still do not give him rest ... Vanya specifically changed his ticket to see Anna, but is she here? Does she remember him? But what if her life was too much shabby? 3 hours to plunge into the abyss of first love ...
Love. Old age. Death. Youth. Two stories about the strange feelings. One tells how a mother's immense love can destroy her son’s fate. The second one shows that the love of a sick old man can give new life to a young girl.
Russia. The near future. The country’s authorities have passed a law about the rental of men for a certain period, after which they should be returned to the spouse... In order to keep her husband, Anna decides to try a trick, but the plan is spoiled by her husband, who is perfectly happy with the new law...
In a devastated post-apocalyptic world, two travelers set out in search of their last chance for salvation. Their journey takes them through icy wastelands and mortal dangers, but every step brings them closer to a fateful choice, one that will determine not only their own destiny but also that of something they no longer remember.
The story of the adventures of a young man – overly ambitious and cynical, who wanted to make a career but ended up failing.
Based on the play by Nikolai Klimontovich. A television performance by the Sovremennik Theatre. Despite the outward freedom of the composition, it forms something resembling a mystery, where a person's earthly life unfolds in direct connection with Higher Powers, represented here by the elder Zosima, and with the forces of Hell.
Lida, a student, Olga, a lawyer, and Shura, a gynecologist, are faced with the choice of giving birth or having an abortion. Each of them is going through a life-changing crisis. What should I do if a woman is not allowed to give birth for medical reasons? Will your loved ones support you if you become pregnant as a result of rape? How does a doctor who performs dozens of abortions every day feel?
One day in the life of three non-mainstream Moscow guys from different walks of life.
The last day of Ivan Bulkin’s life has come. Death is at his front door and wants him to confirm with his signature that he was satisfied with his life. But Bulkin thinks he can trick the grim reaper and cheat death.
Two bosom friends - Martyn and Zhenka decide to "share" - steal wheels from cars to earn easy money. But due to lack of experience, the heroes make a number of mistakes that almost lead to, perhaps, the main mistake of their lives.