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Marina visits her daughter for her birthday in St. Petersburg, but feels superfluous at the party. She meets a young man, Artyom, and together they escape from the party.

Zoya is 14 years old and hates her stepfather. Having run away from home, she wanders aimlessly through the streets of a small southern town on the seashore. But one day she meets Zakhar and sees how this blind man fights off a bandit. A bold and desperate plan is born in Zoya's head.

A provincial who has not found himself, who is over thirty, goes to work in Moscow, where every time he stays for several nights with a distant relative – a lonely middle-aged woman. Their relationship is practically devoid of it, as if the constant unconscious in the form of strange obsessions somehow connects these people, at first glance far from each other.

After the divorce Mariyana returns to his native village. With her no one communicates, except for a new neighbor - a mysterious woman in a Muslim scarf.

A twelve-year-old boy hands over his older brother to local hooligans. Struggling with guilt over his betrayal, he tries to make amends.

A thief while fleeing from the police becomes a witness to an accident.

A social drama. The period of the Second World War in Turkmenia. In Central Asia the deportation program of the Soviet citizens of German origin begins. All adults are taken to camps in Siberia and children are put in orphanages. The six-year old Georg hides from the Red soldiers and finds himself left almost alone in his, now abandoned, German village. The horrifying reality sets in. The daily routine of his life is shocking: What to eat? How to take care of his sick friend Yashka? How to bury Aunt Lisa? Under these inhuman circumstances, the soul of Georg remains miraculously uncorrupt – he still believes in Little Angel from a children’s song, and he makes a nest for it in a tree. A miracle takes place: sometimes a glass of milk is left for Georg in the nest; sometimes an ear of corn...

The conductor (Anna) suddenly leaves the city and silently lives alone in the northern forest on the seashore. Once a chorus girl (Aglaya) comes to her in the hope of returning Anna to her destiny, but remains with her outside of time and boundaries between reality and sleep. Gradually the voice of the chorus girl becomes the inner voice of the silent conductor.

Young journalist Sergey gets from his friend a present - ankle boots which suppose to lead him into a right direction.

In pursuit of the dream of finding their place in modern Moscow, the heroes of the film are desperately trying to become the best version of themselves. At the beginning of autumn, their lives will intertwine, and before the first snow, each of them will have to learn to be themselves.

In Soviet Union young Misha is dreaming to see USA, but it seems highly unlikely...

He was a young writer whose unique gift was vividly revealed in three genres at once. The Yakutians loved him as a talented poet, playwright and prose writer, the author of many works. However, by the will of fate in the fateful year 1941, the poet, who praised a peaceful life, became a fearless soldier who sacrificed his life in battles with the enemy for our salvation. His life flashed like a comet. But, being a warrior of light, he managed to leave behind something important. Waiting for you and me in our days.

A wanted thief buries his wife and takes his disabled son to an orphanage. He wants to escape the law in another country, but he can't run from his own past.

A.P. Clauseverz is an ordinary person with an ordinary life. There is work by which he fills the void inside, there is a rented room and there is a dream. But one tiny event destroys his entire tiny world in the bud - a house grows on his head.

Due to his father's work, Kolya and his parents move to Africa. Everything that surrounds him: the embassy where his father works, a villa behind a high fence, and a closed school. Kolya's only friend is the African gardener's daughter Loli. Despite the language barrier and the difference in traditions, they find means to understand each other without words.

Pavel has passionately fallen in love with 18-year-old Katya, a daughter of the horse stable owner, where he works as a vet. He constantly comes up with different ways to attract Katya's attention. However, his plans are shuttered by Alexei, whom Katya has found seriously wounded and in need of medical aid at the road side. Alexei's coming disrupts the usual course of life of the farm's inhabitants. Katya, a strange and extraordinary girl, falls in love with Alexei, who is seeking to escape from this queer place. Meanwhile, Katya's mother, Irina, is torn between her daughter and her love for Pavel. Passion, jealousy and hatred become intertwined in this love square.

The story is about Anton, who is looking for friends, but everything is not so simple, because he is sick with something.

A story about how Vitya overcomes his fear of intimacy.

Olga Barkovskaya comes to the defense of her friend, Daria Novikova, who is accused of murdering her husband Anton. But she will be able to find the real killer only by deciphering the message that Anton hid in the text of his book using the Caesar cipher. Olga finds the keys to solving the cipher in the Novikov family history. Revealing the unsightly secrets from Anton's past one by one, Olga gradually gets closer to the most terrible secret that caused Anton's death.

He falls in love with her, and she reciprocates. But she disappears from his life forever, as if she never existed. This story repeats itself, albeit in reverse, with those involved in the film. And in the end, it's not she who disappears, but he. What remains as a lasting memory of this brief moment of happiness?

Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.

Three people live in a cottage near Moscow: Steven, the owner of the house, an American millionaire of Russian origin; Egor, a young postgraduate doctor and Dasha, Stephen's next nurse. Steven, trying to get rid of everyday boredom, turns Dasha's life into an everyday nightmare. Dasha, having a strong and independent character, but being in a difficult financial situation, is forced to fulfill his whims and whims. Egor finds himself unwittingly drawn into their relationship...

Once in a strange theater, the hero tries to understand the laws of his life...

Diplomat Volodin is going to work in the States for a responsible job. But, having crossed the ocean, he immediately went over to the Americans. And not empty-handed: he calls the American embassy from a pay phone and gives the appearance of a Soviet intelligence officer. The traitor is sure that he will not be identified “by the phone's strangled voice. There can be no such technology. But, on the instructions of the Chekists, such a technique was developed in Marfino's "sharashka" near Moscow by convict engineers and scientists.

People's drama. The movie has been preserved without inscriptions.

A movie almanac of five short stories about happy accidents.

This is the story of gray-haired Nikolai Borisovich, a teacher and mentor, who one day gives up his career and gets a job as an ordinary courier in a multi-profile company. From the very beginning of the film, we see a determined old man who fulfills orders and step by step climbs the career ladder. Nikolai Borisovich always has an old Polaroid camera around his neck, and he records each new success and sends the photo somewhere in an envelope... Overcoming obstacles, Nikolai Borisovich, a true teacher by vocation, will prove that in one summer you can build a happy life. The main thing is to do it honestly. Just live.

Just one day of psychological interrogation of R. Höss reveals his monstrous activities in the concentration camp, as well as the historical background to this terrifying, as he said - work.

A look at the story through the prism of the present. Artists in front of the audience reincarnate in the heroes of the film (the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky; the women he loved and left him; the friends who admired him and backed away from him; the ruthless “Knights of the Revolution” who proclaimed him his banner) and lead the viewer “to” Mayakovsky, forcing him to live his love, creative, and human drama as his own.

Polina is a vocal student and in love with a married man. This film explores the relationship to love, as a first and unknown love, lost entirely, silent.

Term paper by Alexander Belov, VGIK student.

A mysterious teacher arrives in a provincial town to teach at the local school. The teacher is not like any other teacher: his views are pretentious and innovative. But the teacher is liked in the town. However, he does not know yet to what extent.

Ira is Russian. Ivan Tashkov, too. She is 23 years old, lives in Geneva with her mother and knows very little about her homeland. Tashkov is a supposed gangster of the Russian mafia, and is in jail waiting to be judged. Ira, who is searching for her roots and her own path in life, happens to be the interpreter of Tashkov's defense lawyer, and gets instantly captivated by of this powerful, cultured and manipulative man.

The story about a difficult post-war time. About destiny of the young lieutenant and the young girl, whose love passes through the hardest vital and moral ordeals.

The young vlogger Maximka shares revelations about his life, death, women and capitalism before making the decision of sex change. Already as a woman, she shares her thoughts about the transformation and that life as a woman is not what she expected.

A sequel to the crime drama "Golovar," which has garnered over 19 million views on YouTube. Golovar's successful life collapsed overnight when his youngest son died and his bloody business was threatened with ruin. Now, the formerly influential businessman is forced into hiding, facing a federal manhunt. Meanwhile, in his hometown, a showdown erupts between Moscow youths and local crooks over a rare and expensive instrument—the guitar of the legendary Tsoi. Golovar finds himself once again caught in a chain of coincidences and patterns...

Vadim, a young script writer, is killed in Moscow. What's more, he had reached his height of popularity a long time ago. His friend, successful businessmen Maksim Krivoshein, begins his own investigation. Memories of their childhood and the chance discovery of Vadim's diary leads to some shocking discoveries.

Lyosha Pirogov arrives in Moscow and first of all is going to visit a childhood friend. On the way to the place of celebration, the taxi driver tells him a strange story about a multi-layered landfill on which, after reclamation, a residential complex for young families should be built. To buy at least some kind of gift, Lyosha goes to the local grocery store, but the only thing he finds on the counter is a pink cake.

A young businessman believes that money and fortune are the most important things in the world. One day he loses all his money and faces the necessity to reconsider and change his life.

A fourth-grader is looking for her father with the help of a friend.

1917, Yakutia. 9-year-old Mikita is growing up beyond his years, as he, along with adults, learns the difficult life of a Yakut cattle breeder, where every day is a struggle for survival. New challenges await the boy, as the events of the revolutionary, rebellious time violently invade the traditional way of his family, violating the values and way of life that have been established for centuries.

Sailor, Tillage and Salazhonok. They met only once, in the summer of 1945, in the Far East, in arms and with serious intentions. Everything ended in a firefight, and each of the participants is sure that he killed the other two. However, fate gave them all a long, eventful life. It will take more than half a century and in one of the days in different parts of the Earth there will be events associated with that fateful meeting of the summer of 1945, and the viewer will learn how she has drastically changed the life of each hero and not only.

Sergey and Anya are on the verge of divorce. For several years of family life, they managed to get each other hard. Anya reasonably considers Sergei to be a jerk, unsuitable for family life. Sergey got fed up with his wife's constant irritability, he is sure that Anya had never behaved like that before and was funnier. The couple are going to go to the registry office to put an end to the relationship, but fate orders otherwise. Leaving the house, the couple miraculously return to the apartment every time. And this is not the only oddity. It's winter on the calendar, summer outside, and the eternal 8:45 on the clock. And in this new reality, they will have to get along somehow.

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The well-being of Stepan Sudakov’s family, which he himself believes in, turns out to be shaky. Practical, prudent, successful in business, Sudakov discovers that the family foundations he guarded in the walls of his apartment, in his nest, collapse one after another, and his own children are to blame.

After a failed marriage, Masha retreats to the sanctuary of her humble profession as a translator of serious literature. Financial difficulties force her to accept an offer to interpret during a seminar held by an English puppeteer.

La Esmeralda is a ballet in three acts and five scenes, inspired by the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, originally choreographed by Jules Perrot to music by Cesare Pugni, with sets by William Grieve and costumes by Mme. Copère.

A modern take on the classic novel by Alexander Pushkin. Vladimir is a successful banker and a regular at trendy night clubs. Masha is a diligent graduate of a British college and a loving daughter. It looks like they have bright future ahead. However, an unexpected quarrel between two eccentric fathers forces their offspring to live through the conflict of Pushkin's novel.

A movie producer tries to find a double for a diva with drug problems.

A student from St. Petersburg, Vasilisa, learns of a fatal diagnosis. She goes to Murmansk to look for her father, whom she has not seen for 20 years. It turns out that strangers have been living in her childhood home for a long time. The girl is ready to give up, but at that moment she begins to receive clues that can lead her to her father.

"Makarov" both a popular Russian name, and also slang for the word "gun," serves as a metaphor for the brutal reality of life in a post-totalitarian society. The story's protagonist, Makarov, embodies this struggle as he becomes more mechanical and less spiritual upon acquiring a gun.

The world is going absolutely crazy when the giant meteor is approaching Earth...

Alexander, a spiritual guru, treats life as a ongoing practice: he leads developmental trainings,specializes on Tensegrity, and being a life coach is eager to help his own daughter to deal with her illness - bouts of depression. He takes her to the sea. As the drama unfolds,we observe,how the world around Alexander begins to oppose his inner practice. Everything around him lives in compliance with a unfathomable law. He is infected with something subtle,something of tremendously erotic nature. Alexander has to make an inner choice: make an act of transgression to find his way out of sensual chaos and find himself. Even if the choice has to be painful. The goal of the film is to explore human nature, which often finds itself on the verge between spiritual-religious and sensual entity.

A beautiful Russian widow in San Francisco wishes to return to Russia after her American husband loses everything in a speculation and shoots his brains out. Along with her personal maid she is given passage to Hong Kong aboard a Russian naval vessel.

The end of the Soviet empire. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. "The power is only taken, it is never given away," he repeats. And it is convenient for both the elites and the secret services -- while the "body" is alive, various groups are scoring their political points. The General Secretary is "sentenced to life". A young nurse Sasha looks after him. Small, fragile and invisible, she bears a heavy burden of responsibility for the life of the country's top official. Meanwhile, the old man is waging a war in Afghanistan, has a nuclear button and can take the entire world to the grave with him.

A man finds himself inside a locked prison cell. How and why he got there is unknown. A study inspired by German Expressionist films.