Based on a play about a female dancer who finds her inspiration in the dirt markets of Delhi
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Based on a play about a female dancer who finds her inspiration in the dirt markets of Delhi
A certain Hawthorne approaches a young, talented, but not very famous actress Elda with an unusual request. He offers her, for an impressive sum, to play the role of Angotea, the wife of the dying Ferguson, who has disappeared and to whom Elda is extremely similar in appearance.
Anton and his girlfriend Marina recently moved from the provinces to a Moscow suburb. Because of financial difficulties, Anton almost immediately starts working as cladman. While Marina is busy packaging drugs, Anton figures out the hiding places and deals a little in clubs.
Each time he wakes up, a young man appears in a new reality in which he would have another life. Amnesiac, or something more, from his past, how will he get out of this nightmare? or how to get back to the day where he fall in love...
The young couple locked themselves in the apartment, drinking alcohol, drugs and each other. At one point, the line between reality and drug intoxication is erased.
1943. On the eve of the Red Army offensive, Captain Belov's group, which includes Ivan Rodin, accidentally discovers a disguised tank division near the village of Anino. The scouts understand that only they know about the ambush arranged by the Germans. The wounded Belov orders Ivan to reach the Soviet command and warn them of the danger. He reports to the headquarters about the tanks he saw and even reproduces the tactical number of the division, but the front command does not believe him. Suspecting Ivan of misinformation and working for the Germans, the military sends him under arrest. Colonel Alyoshin tries to save his friend: thanks to his perseverance, the command sends another group to Anino — Ivan becomes the guide, and Odintsovo leads the detachment.
Drama based on life and love of a famous Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.
Nadya grew up and became a figure skater. She dreams of the Ice Cup, just like her mother once dreamed of. Gorin objects to his daughter’s sports career - he protects her from any difficulties and one can understand him: he has lost too much. At a secret training session, Nadya meets a young and daring hockey player from Moscow, and first love breaks out between them. The father does not believe in the sincerity of the young man’s feelings and separates the couple. But obstacles only strengthen true love, and when you love, the most fabulous ending can become a reality.
A bizarre tale of a fictional experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger workforce.
The film is an attempt to recreate the world of Marc Chagall and his myth within the genre of a folklore ballad. We are not exploiting Chagall's images, but are attempting to create a dramatized projection of his creativity onto the movie screen, relying on both, facts and fantasy (as Chagall himself would).The story is based on real events which occurred at the time of Chagall's short-lived period in Vitebskin in 1917-18, during which time he creates the Academy of Modern Art, inspired by his dreams of a bright and beautiful future. Many pictures by Chagall and Malevich are used in the film.
Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.
This is the real story of the Soviet lieutenant, who, after being wounded in the head during the war, lost the opportunity to realize the world around him, and the outstanding neuropsychologist Alexander Luria, who helped the unfortunate patient return to normal life.
The film is divided into two distinct stories with the same setting: the back-stage of the Moscow Operetta theater with the Can-Can metaphor which is a high-energy and physically demanding dance. Human relationships, betrayals, and the relationship between parents and children are the same common denominator found in the two parts of the film.
The Lyceum of Arts is shocked by the news of the suicide of a high school student. Alisa, a classmate of the deceased, together with the class decides to remain silent about the possible causes of the incident. Alisa's mother, a professional lawyer, is trying her best to avert trouble.
A woman suspects her daughter is a drug addict. Short social ad for an Orthodox help service "Graciousness"
Vadim Uporov is desperate to escape from the Gulag. He tries and tries - again and again...
Aleksey and Katerina separated twenty years ago. He left for the West, she stayed in the East. They will meet again in Switzerland under troubling circumstances.
While a distinguished principal, Nina, dazzles the local TV crew with achievements that make her school the best in the entire district, outside the camera’s frame, young Maxim is coerced into participating in his peers' take on "proper socialization." These shattering school hall lessons continue to echo throughout society and beyond.
A small river separates Soviet lands from the territory of one of the capitalist powers. On the other side, the girl Pebble lives with her peasant father. One morning, after running after a cow across a river, the girl crossed to the Soviet side. She only spends one day in the kindergarten of the border post, but this day remains in her memory for the rest of her life. Seeing the bright, spacious rooms, the beautiful clothes of the children, delicious plentiful food, and many toys, the girl remembers with bitterness her dilapidated hut, where there is not always bread for dinner. Caressed by the Soviet people, in a new dress, with a bunch of donated toys, Pebble goes back home. A rude shout from a gendarme officer brings the girl back to bitter reality.
The story of an extraordinary adventure that a courier had to endure, who was entrusted with the delivery of a parcel with a designer dress.
A person loses something very important. A friend who was always there, who was ready to help and support in these difficult times. A friend who couldn't be saved. A friend who is being buried in tears, and then remembered over a drunken feast with kind words. This friend is a TV.
In a small town everything is visible. However much you try to hide something, some disturbing signals will reach the family sooner or later. And then you have to make a choice: start a new life in the same place with your new “half” or confess to the old half and return to the usual flow of life. The film’s heroes stand before such a choice.
The place where the great poet Pushkin crafted his works. The fascist forces occupied Mikhailovskoye. Each of the local residents “follows his own path”. Some join the partisans, some collaborate with the occupiers. Among them — Sergey. A professor of literature, Frau Shiller comes to Mikhailovskoe from Germany. The front line is getting closer, and soon an order comes from Berlin to transfer all historical values out of Mikhailovskoe. Neither the partisans, nor Sergey, who’s fallen into a relationship with Frau Shiller, can allow this to happen. Sergey decides to save the country’s heritage.
Sasha Ivanov is an ordinary man who committed suicide: on a gloomy day he fell out of the window of a high–rise building. Our nameless protagonist is an ordinary detective who is investigating this case. when he reveals the circumstances of Sasha's death, he has to interrogate neighbors, coworkers, ex-girlfriend and other people who knew him. to his surprise, the detective discovers that each witness describes Sasha as a completely different person…
For her birthday, Kira, a grey blur, tries to break free from the drabness of her provincial town and fit in with a group of trendy outsiders However, a series of sudden events and painful revelations force her to reconsider her values.
Agnia lives an ordinary student life with her boyfriend Marat. Everything changes with the arrival of a new teacher in psychology. She has an interest in him that reveals the sexual pathology of a girl.
Yakutia, the first half of the 19th century. Bishop Ambrose goes to the snowy steppe to the newly baptized Tungus, accompanied by the disgraced monk Cyriacus, who once refused to baptize "foreigners" en masse. On the way, they are overtaken by a blizzard. The pagan guide Harpoon saves the bishop's life, and the newly baptized Stepan throws Cyriacus to freeze. The death of the elder becomes a miracle of unity: unbaptized Tunguses themselves come to the faith of "Cyriacus", and Ambrose finally sees the truth — about the equality of all before God and love, which knows no difference between baptized and pagans.
The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and gets her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.
The soldier has lost his cap during the retreat and is ordered to return and find another. On the front line, the hero stumbles upon a surviving colleague and comes under sniper fire. The heroes will have to resolve an ideological conflict among themselves and survive the night behind enemy lines.
A modest programmer and an artist of tombstone portraits are looking for love at a speed dating night, where their inner voices are present and there are no adequate people to talk to.
The head coach of the Russian national rugby team returns to his hometown. He needs to start all over again - become an ordinary physical education teacher, assemble a team and make it a champion. But the team is too bright a definition for guys who can't stand each other. Yesterday's hooligans will have to unite to get the right to a better life and master the most gentlemanly sport.
The film is about a generation of brave and beautiful people who did not see the destruction of the revolution and the chaos of the civil war, who dreamed of building a new life in which there would be no place for death, but only incredible love that opens the way for them to great achievements and discoveries. About exploits and glory, betrayal and loyalty of those who were heroes in heaven and on earth. About the time of immense trials that fell on their short but bright lives. About a woman who was the dream and true love of the Soviet Union.
Contemporary Moscow. Ninth-grader Kolya falls in love with a beautiful young teacher at his high school. The most beautiful girl in the senior class falls in love with him. How will he make his way through this triangle?
Having decided to help a friend, the three friends set off to seek freedom and tranquility.
After a contract fight somewhere in the open spaces of Russia between St. Petersburg and Moscow, the top Moscow football hooligans return home to the capital with a victory. On the way, their minibus breaks down, which has to be brought into service in the nearest unknown town called Popadaysk. They are forced to stay in this city for the night. At first glance, the usual provincial town, but it was not there. Its criminal authorities, its laws of the street, corrupt cops, its own fashion and style, and its secrets.
In a large house in the middle of the steppes, the Shamanovs meet for a family gathering. When suddenly the eldest brother Victor appears after a 25 year absence, unspoken family conflicts come to light. Nobody suspects that Victor is escaping his dark past and that killers are looking for his hiding place.
After boyfriend's disappearance Zhenia develops an uncanny power for prophetic dreams. Using this gift she decides to escape fate and save her true love from Moscow's criminal underworld
The «Eye of God» is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. It shows how progressive and pro-West Russians can be, when it comes to comprehending the essence of beauty. Ivan Tsvetayev, a village priest's son, the founder of the museum, wanted the new generation of "Ivans" to understand that we are Europe, while Antiquity is our mutual cradle.
Max is a famous bodybuilder who dreams of becoming a planet champion; for health reasons, he is forced to retire from sports. His life is going downhill. By chance, he meets with an ambulance doctor Viktor, who once commissioned by the Ministry of Defense developed a unique medicine that allows not only to treat the worst diseases, but also to strengthen all the capabilities of the human body. However, the project was frozen. Victor wants to finish the job. He needs a test subject, and Max is perfect for completing the experiment.
Police inspector Peter Glebski arrives at a small mountain hotel, "At the Dead Mountaineer's", after receiving an anonymous letter - the letter warns that a murder will be committed in the hotel. An avalanche that occurs in the evening blocks the only exit from the gorge, and at night Glebski discovers the body of one of the guests...
Three friends, winter, village, night. An ordinary booze turns into a crusade, where everyone carries their own banner of sorrow and pain. In order to forgive all insults in the morning, cuddle up to each other, and, finally, warm up and melt like snowflakes.
A short story about the transformative power of lipstick for L’Oréal Paris.
Two young students - Sonya and Ippolit - are spending their holiday time in sunny Greece. But not everything is going as planned.
Near future, 2040. Eugene and Alexandra have been married for 20 years, their relationship is like a dried apricot. Divorce from them also does not work, because in the future, divorce is a very expensive service. But fate gives them a chance: Eugene and Alexandra fall into the past, on the very day 20 years ago, when the lover and young Zhenya proposed to the lovely Sasha. Now a couple from the future wants to separate themselves in their youth, but it won't be easy. The young will fight for their love.
Experimental short film by Valery Pereverzev.
In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.
Three different persons, three different lives are connected in a mysterious way. 15 year old teenager suffering of misunderstanding, his glamorous and arrogant stepmother and the young untalented but full of optimism actress. Their destinies aren’t predetermined and their lives are very fragile.
The creator of the best virtual reality games is convinced that in reality everyone and everything is controlled, but a chance meeting with a young activist opens his eyes to the fact that the world is much wider and more complicated than anything that he knows and understands about it.
The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital’s lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progressive ideas — does his service. A military tribunal and execution await the soldier charged with the offence. Kolokoltsev asks Count Tolstoy for help — and he decides to protect the innocent man. The pointed history about the complexity of choice and fidelity to one’s ideals is based on real events.
Law student Oleg, who lives with his mother and stepfather, learns that his father has been released from prison and wants to see him. Having met his dad, Oleg discovers that he is a passionate lover of gambling. So the young man plunges into the world of big poker, underground casinos and research laboratories. Having become part of this shadow reality, Oleg becomes infected with a gaming addiction.
Due to a violent misunderstanding a young member of a criminal syndicate is torn away from familiar grounds of urban underworld and thrown into unwelcoming wilderness of Siberian taiga. Vast and virtually uninhabited, it provides little distinction between past and present, reality and myth. He must face the ghosts of the past and shadows of the present, and rediscover himself and his destiny, however shattering and unwanted it may be.
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.