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Follows the pattern of the 1980's films of this series: 2 animal-related short films packaged together, with a sequel of 2 more short films a year later. Semaphore has a problem: Nikita has brought new "tenants" to the house — Varkhat the shepherd and Dick the mongrel. Episode 5 - Semafor the Cat, Episode 6 - Strangers.

A meeting with a Georgian guy distracts a hopelessly ill girl from her worries. With the help of his parents, they go to Israel for a medical consultation.

By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, fame and love. He is the rising star of Soviet football. The whole country, with bated breath, expects victory from the national team at the upcoming World Cup where Streltsov is to face the great Brazilian football player Pelé. However, two days before the departure of the team, the sportsman’s enemies manage to destroy his career. When the door to big sport seems to be closed for good, Streltsov has to re-enter the field and prove that he is a true champion who is worth everybody’s love.

Anya is spending the evening in her loved one’s company when her husband suddenly appears.

There are two heroes in the film: militia captain Zabrodin, who is striving to become a deputy at any cost and by any means, and the confused intellectual Shaludkin, who is trying to decently support his own family...

In the complicated case of a maniac terrorizing the city, there is another victim, miraculously not a victim.

After his long-lost son is suddenly thrust back into his life, a charismatic con artist takes to the road with his two wives, swindling everyone they encounter along their path.

A once famous writer’s wife went missing. Their passionate and gentle - love, with time grew into an incurable disease that destroyed everything great that ever united them. She couldn’t take it and left him, and he is trying to fight his guilt, break free, let go of his wife and forgive her for disappearing, for betraying, for cheating, of which she confessed right before she left.

The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French resistance, a French collaborator and a high-ranking German SS officer.

A girl, convinced that all men are red flags, meets her Mr. Right at a hotel, but soon realises that something is wrong with him too...

A desperate Russian tourist goes to the Monastery of Temptation in Israel to find an elder healer called Amun to hopefully save his dying son s life. His search leads him to the Judaean desert. Thirst and scalding sun bring the traveler to complete exhaustion but his son s life is at stake and there s no way back. Even though the protagonist does not believe in miracles he completes his journey and receives salvation.

Nails is the story of an assassin (his name is Hitman) who has a terrible headache and the only solution to cure it is drastic, that is, sticking a series of nails into his skull! This is only the first step towards a form of self-destruction that in the final part of the film gives us some truly unhealthy and disturbing images, obviously accompanied by blood and offal. A true visual delirium studied in the smallest details starting from the use of color in the three phases that punctuate this debut on acid.

The events in this Altai epic take place in the 19th century. It is a story about greed and desire for revenge which can ruin the life of a person as well as entire families and generations. A common lad Tokna is in love with beautiful Kymyskai. But a well-to-do 40-year-old bachelor Kutus has set his eyes on her. Relying on his standing and traditions he kidnaps the girl. Naturally, she does not want to live with him and one day runs away to Tokna. The lovers hide in the mountains. After some time Kymyskai, who harbors a grudge against them, finds Tokna and Kykuskai and starts taking revenge. He kills the cow, family’s breadwinner. In response Tokna and his nephew eliminate half of the Kutus family sheep. Thus hostility turns into hatred and misunderstanding develops into a war of extermination.

An American director is coming to Russia to implement his project dedicated to Pushkin here. In St. Petersburg, Ray meets a charming girl Natalia, who is surprisingly similar to Natalia Goncharova. Young people are brought together by the poetry of the great Pushkin and love for this city. The film is based on historical parallels. And, as before, honor fights dishonor, talent fights mediocrity, and good fights evil...

Zhenya is a repairman for washing machines in a provincial town. On a call-out, he meets his ex-girlfriend who has come from Moscow to sell the old apartment. Zhenya wants to rekindle the affair.

The naïve Maris joins the Wehrmacht during the Nazi occupation of the Baltic states, together with his brother and several others from the village. The barracks are in a monastery, and Maris – whom everyone views as a fool – seems to consider his fate a religious calling. Until his eyes are opened by the soldiers’ misbehaviour, and he takes it upon himself to save a young woman.

Improvisation on the topic of modern politicized television with elements of banditry.

Interlocking narratives, told out of chronological order, about partisans in the Second World War who are a band of nihilistic marauders, roaming the countryside and dispensing what they see as justice to those they consider collaborators with the enemy.

The last day of the year ends. At the Christmas market, where a lot of people were still bustling during the day, in the evening there were only three snow-covered graces, three beautiful women. They have nowhere to hurry, no one is waiting for them at home. And here, at the Christmas market...

The young man Vasya arrives to a village to find his relatives, but he meets the old man who thinks that Vasya is him son, who is misssing.

Single dad Nick trolls the parking lots of New Jersey, looking for the next victim for his dent repair scam. But with his fed-up teenage daughter along for the ride, his day goes off the rails.

1947. The first hungry years after the war: fragments of lost death notices still arrive, the Doctors' Case is fabricated, the fight against rootless cosmopolitanism and a new wave of persecution of the clergy are gaining momentum - in one of the remote villages, a little five-year-old girl is being bullied, called a fascist, because her mother returned from a concentration camp with a child, which means she had him with a German. Avdotya, a mother of many children, tries to take care of the girl, but she herself has seven children to feed. Only when the village priest, Father Alexander, appears in the path of the persecuted child does a new story begin - a story of taming and love.

A little-known page in the history of the great Patriotic war. Hard days of the occupation of Soviet Karelia by the Finns. The war was the hardest test for everyone, but especially for children. The story is based on the memories of young prisoners of Finnish migrant camps.

The film was shot about one of the most dramatic operations of the Alpha group. The plot is based on a real story, described in detail in one of the chapters of Alexey Filatov’s book “People A”. The story of Colonel Anatoly Savelyev. 1997. Winter. Moscow. Swedish Embassy. One terrorist and one hostage. This is not a movie about good or bad guys. Rather, this is a story about a hard fatum.

1940. Leningrad. In sixth grader Mickey Polyakov light-hearted and happy life: the father-director, beautiful mother, a large apartment in the city center and many friends. And everything in this life before the war is well until one day he did not suffer at the hands of seniors. Physician ambulance that brought Mick into intensive care, noted strong concussion. But the terrible injury gave Mick a mysterious gift - he can now kill any of his abuser Lashes. So for Miki begins a completely different life, which are closely intertwined reality and mysticism.

The philosophical parable of the spiritual rebirths of man. The plot is based on the life of a small drug dealer Ilya Krakowski, who sells drugs in a cell phone sales office. Krakow knows exactly how to carry goods through the entire city without risking jailing, and sells drugs to everyone.

An elderly man suffering from dementia has long forgotten how to remember simple things; time has erased names, routes, and faces. But only one memory has remained with him forever — a winter evening in St. Petersburg, a tram, and a girl whose meeting was imprinted in his heart. The film was shot in support of the Dementia.net foundation on the initiative of the Action charity auction.

A new father could not be more happy about the birth of his first son...until he learns that the baby is not biologically his. In spite of everything, he raises the child as his own.

Yesterday's Leningrad schoolgirl Masha Yablochkina, after a fierce blockade winter of 1941-1942, comes to the railway courses hoping to survive and gain strength. From there, the girl is sent to the construction of the Shlisselburg highway, which connects the city with the mainland and is in direct sight of German artillery. So the heroine gets into the 48th locomotive column of the special reserve NKPS, which, at the cost of the deadly risk, will have to deliver 75% of all cargo and military equipment to Leningrad.

The film "118 seconds, before ... and after" is based on the biography of one of the most prominent athletes in the world and the pride of Russian sports, Svetlana Masterkova, a two–time Olympic and world champion. The film tells about the athlete's childhood in her hometown of Achinsk, about how her sports career developed in the difficult 90s, about the path that the former Soviet and now Russian sports had to go through after the collapse of the Soviet system. About how, thanks to her own will and desire to raise the sporting prestige of her homeland, the famous runner, after giving birth to a child and emigrating, returns to training and sets 2 world records, making the biggest dream of her youth come true.

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

Max Andreev thought the best place to start a new life would be at the other end of the world. What he didn't know, is that you can't outrun your past.

In the fall of 1938, the NKVD arrested Sergei Korolyov. Under torture, the investigators are trying to extract from him a confession of anti-Soviet activities, each time citing incriminating facts from the biography of the young scientist. Plunging into Korolev's memories, the viewer sees what an extraordinary and enthusiastic person he was, how much creative energy and vitality Sergei Pavlovich gave to the development of world cosmonautics.

Rimas Tuminas' adaptation of two novels by Grigory Kanovich, is a dreamy, ruminative, comedic road trip, centering around the parlous fortunes of Eastern European Jews at the start of the 20th century. A period piece that carries a modern conscious, Smile Upon Us, is a Becket-like "Waiting for Jehovah" featuring three towering figures from the Russian stage, Viktor Sukhorukov, Aleksei Guskov and Vladimir Simonov.

Brother and sister meet at the home of their childhood. Plunging into the past, they rethink the present, and let go of each other.

Over the course of a late-summer's day in Moscow, Veronika, a charming if naive woman in her thirties, unwittingly embarks on a journey of self discovery as what starts out as a quest for romance leads her to some unexpected places.

At a lonely winter gas station, Zosya, a gas station attendant, dreams of a prince on a white horse, love, and adventure. Can she survive if all her dreams come true?

A brother and sister from a prosperous family lose their parents in a car accident and end up in an orphanage. Now they have to fight for a decent existence and defend their place in a new world for them.

One day, having entered the apartment, the thief runs into the landlady. After a moment, he realizes that the girl is blind. She walks past him and then goes into the kitchen without noticing his presence. The guy looks around and starts looking for what he came for. After some time, the hostess returns.

Sometimes the most ordinary life circumstances help to deal with your true desires and fears. But sometimes you need Marina.

Igor Semyonov, a successful entrepreneur, forty-year-old owner of a holding company and director of Beta Bank, who has been working abroad for the last ten years, arrives in Moscow. After a meeting with his subordinates, instead of going to a planned corporate meeting, he suddenly decides to go to a country villa. There he catches his wife Vika with her lover. This event knocks him out of his usual routine. Having entrusted the divorce process to his deputy, he gets drunk and, without knowing why, goes to the small Moscow suburb of Prigorsk. Once he grew up here, without a father, in utter poverty. He tried to forget his past.... But unexpectedly there are a series of meetings and events that will completely change his life.

A Donbass rebel fighter with a nom de guerre Cat is ordered to sit on phone duty, but it's not as easy as it may seem.

A young man wakes up in the morgue. He has no clothes on, he doesn't know how he got here, but most importantly, he doesn't remember who he is. In his mind, there are only incoherent flashes that do not add up to a complete picture, and his life in the real world resembles an incessant nightmare – a prison from which it is impossible to escape. But is this prison real or is it just a projection of his consciousness?

A story about a few men and the autumn of their lives...

Two escaped convicts pose as children's summer camp staff in order to evade capture and learn about caring for others in the process. Sumrak has been in prison since he was 16 years old but is pushing thirty now, is well acquainted with prison gang culture and covered with tattoos. Evgeni Koltsov is a former police officer unjustly imprisoned and destined for a death sentence from the other inmates if he stays in prison.

A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital.

This movie is about soccer hooligans, the most aggressive and violent soccer aficionados. They are an exclusive group, the elite of all soccer fans. Whoever they may be in their everyday lives—college students, bankers, musicians, or car mechanics—they are a “firm.” It’s easy to get into a firm, but once you’re in, it’s for life. There’s no going back. The movie is based on actual events

After the passing of her grandmother, a businessman's daughter goes back to her birthplace. After a little while, she receives the visit of her former classmates but their reunion take an unexpected turn. The guests tells her that they need some money to cover the murder they've committed.

The picture is dedicated to the exploits of the Soviet underground fighters and partisans who heroically fought against the German invaders during the Great Patriotic War. The image of the main character of the railway worker Ales Arlovich is collective, but it is based on the fate of the Soviet underground fighter Fyodor Krylovich, who committed the largest land sabotage of the Second World War at the Osipovichi railway station.

Once just a girl from the provinces, Nora is now married to a successful scientist and lives together with her family within the confines of a secret and privileged Moscow institute. Nora is visited by her mother for the first time since her wedding. Her mother closely observes the atmosphere within the couple's home, trying to work out whether her daughter is happy. During the course of their intimate conversations the complexity of their contradictory relationship is revealed.

Sasha Korolev has a congenital disorder. The boy’s father has chosen what seemed to him the only correct way to put the son on his feet: to treat him like a healthy person. “You’re not a patient, you have temporary difficulties”. Eating, getting dressed, going downstairs and walking up the front door steps — every day the child spends hours on such simple household tasks. At school he is mocked by his peers, and there is no help to expect. The boy has coped with the illness, but started hating the father. When he finished school, Sasha left home and stopped all contact with the father. Over the past 15 years he has become the best business consultant in the country, who has helped hundreds of businesses out of crisis. “You have no a crisis, you have temporary difficulties”, — Sasha would say to his clients, having gone along a difficult path himself. And one day, a new order unexpectedly gives him the opportunity to settle accounts with the father...

Contemporary Moscow. Sasha Titov is a successful executive, reveling in the single life. One day, a ten-year-old girl, Alya, shows up at his penthouse, claiming to be his daughter. Can this incorrigible bachelor learn to be a father?

Continuation of the adventure about a lynx named Kunak.

A short film about a breakup you still don't want to believe in. About a dance that happened to let go. About women who get tired of being strong. And men who are stuck in themselves. And also about Venus in Aries and meters. Because love, like a utility bill, always has debts. But despite this, you still want to love. Of course, like in a movie. And remember: after the end credits, there is always a sequel... A story about intimacy, a mature breakup, and those strange moments when the end suddenly becomes the beginning.