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Anton, a successful Russian director in his late thirties, feels hollow despite his career, relationship, and friends. Obsessed with casting the perfect actress for his deeply personal film, he flees to foreign lands, trapped in an exhausting, relentless routine. As weeks pass, the producer makes decisions without him. Alone and spiraling, Anton's self-destruction deepens - until an unexpected, wordless connection offers a faint hope of salvation.
Ilia, a 20-year-old promising rapper, arrives in a big city to win in a battle. And immediately he becomes one of the top battlers, having captured the public with his sincerity and desire to win. Everybody assures him of a great future. But Ilia meets his first love, a common girl who becomes involved in the criminal business of the city moguls.
The drama of a former noblewoman who became the wife of an NKVD officer in the 1930s, and the almost anecdotal story of how a spirited stallion was prepared for Marshal Budyonny's parade and, in the end, a reliable mare was "slipped in" instead. The realities of life at the top of the State Security Service are shown, their ordinary and "sweet" life with its joys, intrigues, betrayals, and tragedies. Russia is like a whirlpool that sucks in and destroys.
A huge housing complex called "Сronos" is being built next to the orphanage. Irina, the orphanage's teacher, is worried that Cronos is getting closer and closer to the house and taking over more and more land. She will do everything possible to protect her charges.
Eight men, eight stories about the morning after party...
A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid Gurov. A work of great honesty and piercing psychology.
A Russian war propaganda film about a virtuoso violinist from Belgium witnessing war crimes.
Eighteen-year-old Vasya Tikhonova is travelling with her parents to a medical resort near Moscow, seeking treatment. She has a congenital heart defect, and her mother has always been overprotective. But when the Tikhonov family arrives, a murder is committed at the resort. And within seven days, Vasya’s life will change dramatically. She will meet her first love, she will take a big risk fighting for it, and she will make a discovery that is scary, but grants her freedom.
Choreographic school, young talents are collected here. Behind eight years of study - three months remain before the final performance. And finally, “Giselle” is appointed, roles are distributed, girls are worried - they are afraid of the wording “professionally unsuitable”, but Yulya’s thoughts are different. She fell in love for the first time. And she has to choose between her beloved and the stage.
Olya, a straight-A middle school student, is experiencing her parents' break-up and her first love at the same time, all while struggling to maintain the image of a perfect child. One day she stays at her mom's house for a sleepover; the next day, she goes to her dad's. Neither parent is happy about the arrangement, nor is Olya. This is a coming-of-age story set in a small, bleak Russian town.
Events are unfolding in one of the hot spots of the Russia. The heroes of the film returned from the war. They are winners and losers, because they have forgotten how to live in peace. The war is over, but it is close and still kills. And they want to live so passionately. But how?
Some weekdays in the life of literature teacher Tamara, which hold nothing surprising for her. It is the story about the narrowness of the space of life with insufficient choice.
Elizaveta Petrovna had just buried her husband, with whom she had lived all her life. The only daughter and the only grandson - that's the whole family, whose life was largely determined by the deceased. In the process of parsing her husband's things, she discovers a letter from her husband. It contains a secret that the head of the family kept from Elizabeth Petrovna for several decades, the story of his French love and a child born out of wedlock. The woman is trying to tell her daughter Valeria about this, but she has her own problems and interests, "not up to it." What to say about the grandson who lives in a separate, separate reality. It seems that in this family it is simply not customary to listen, let alone hear each other. But gradually, family members, each experiencing grief in their own way, find common ground.
A summer youth camp by the sea. Tonya, a quiet, reserved, and gullible girl, becomes neighbors with Lyudka, who is vibrant, assertive, and calculating. They both fall in love with the same boy. Suddenly, it turns out that Tonya possesses supernatural abilities she cannot control.
An elderly man comes for an interview at a large corporation, but in order to work there, you need to sacrifice your memories.
It is 1956. Dau is a distinguished Soviet scientist who meets up with the love of his youth – Maria, a Greek actress – during her three day visit to Moscow. They haven’t seen each other for 25 years. Dau is a successful and prosperous scientist, but feels excruciatingly dissatisfied with his family life. Through Maria he hopes to regain lost harmony and beauty, but reality intrudes when Nora, Dau’s wife, returns home.
Student short film by Pavel Korolko, shot during the second year of Sergei Solovyov’s workshop at VGIK.
The film tells about the last days of the defense of Sevastopol.
A mental health doctor goes off on a journey to Thailand with his girlfriend. They live with her friends. She enjoys the vacation and he works at his dissertation in psychiatry. People around seem to him no less sick than in the nuthouse, until he falls in strange circumstances...
Maria, a wife of a deputy commander of a military base, begins a relationship with another officer, Their affair quickly spirals out of control, fatally and irreversibly changing the course of Maria's and her family's life.
The youth troupe of the Kirov Theater under the direction of Andrei Bosov staged an intermission opera by Yuri Khanin - from the ballet “Shagreen Bone”... The opera is even more eccentric - if that is possible - than the composer wandering around the frame and climbing around the back of the stage...
In a remote Russian village, young paramedic Alisa has just married and dreams of the life ahead. But everything changes when her husband Anton is suddenly called up
Young father agrees to fulfill three criminal boss's wishes in order to get money for his son's surgery abroad.
Gena and Cheburashka have a day off. But each of them wants to spend it in their own way: Gena dreams of relaxing with a newspaper and a cup of tea, and Cheburashka cannot sit still for a minute. Will the friends be able to find a solution and spend the day together?
A historical and philosophical film about issues that have always worried the minds and hearts of people: the meaning of life and the search for happiness.
"Illegal" is an action-packed drama about a young migrant from Central Asia who comes to Yakutia to solve his problem.
Talented but failed playwright Mitya discovers uninvited guests in his apartment — wayward 13-year-old Nika and her older sister, actress Dasha. Trying to evict the new tenants, Mitya realizes that he has become a ghost, and Nika is the only one who sees him. Will he be able to fulfill his idea, return to life and find his love?
In pursuit of his dreams, Igor faces a truth he struggles to accept and wrestles with the temptation to take drastic action in his grief, realizing the profound consequences it could have on his path and identity.
Journalist Zhenya works on St. Petersburg television and one day meets a kind, honest and decent parachutist. But his virtues tire the heroine, and she marries a famous “black journalist” who does dirty tricks to her friend. Having seen the light, Zhenya turns to his senior comrade, the director of the shipping company, for help. He first helps the parachutist leave the country, and then find a groom for Zhenya in Hamburg…
Romantic stories of three friends...
Ten perspectives on St. Petersburg at the beginning of 2024. Where does the “spirit of the city” still reside, here and now? Has it become nothing more than an empty tourist brand? Has it dissipated amid the bustle of the new century? Ten very different styles, methods, and genres combine in a cinematic suite that captures the pulse of Russia’s most deliberate city.
A modern adaptation of a famous classis Ivan Turgenev novel.
After his wife's death, Valera lives alone in his parents' old house. Suddenly, his brother Tolya returns from Germany, where he left his wife and daughter in Russia. The two hurriedly paint the fence before winter comes, while trying to solve the mystery of the Git cigarettes found in the closet. These memories make them re-evaluate their current lives.
The grand constant flow of life
A great stage performer falls ill and loses her voice and beauty, and she and her admirer's lives crumble because of it.
After the death of Count Chambery his wife and daughter were left without means of subsistence. Seeing no other way out, a young woman settles maid in the house of Baroness Angers.
The film tells about the fate of a teenager, nicknamed "Riffraff" in boarding school, about his difficult relationship with his mother, who is trying to arrange her personal life, and about how unexpectedly lucky he was in life when he won a big prize in the Sprint lottery - a Volga car.
Lost film.
Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.
Based on a play by Aleksandr Kaminskiĭ.
Aidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile couples children. As capitalist forces begin to encroach on tradition, the first casualty is any culture's most fundamental inheritance - land. The healer has to leave her land because the mob thinks the location is suitable for a filling station. A harsh battle between supernatural good and earthly evil ensues.
Vera lives solely on the problems of her family: her eternally ill husband Kostya and her fifteen-year-old son Romka. In fact, Vera is happy with everything, until her husband's first love suddenly appears on the horizon - the beautiful Lyudmila and her daughter Yulya. There is nothing special about the latter, but, as luck would have it, it is this girl that Romka is interested in. Now she is seriously thinking about divorce and exchanging an apartment, trying to force her son to move away from Yulka.
The word "rok" in Russian means both rock music and fate. The film's heroes, who want to conquer the musical Olympus of Moscow, are accompanied by both. This troika is not even a group yet, not a team, and probably not even friends. But that's at the beginning. The further the heroes leave home, the more dangerous their adventures and the people they met on the way become, and the more strongly the children change inside. The film is a journey, a search of the self, where the road to the dream is the greatest, most dangerous and unforgettable adventure in the life of the young provincial musicians.
The last surviving fiction film from Wladyslaw Starewicz's wartime associtation with the Skobelev Committee
A woman is waiting for a man from prison. He comes back to others.
The fading art form and ‘language’ of Russian criminal tattoos, formerly a forbidden topic in Russia. The now vanishing practice is seen as reflecting the transition of the broader Russian society. Filmed in some of Russia’s most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the interviews with prisoners, guards, and criminologists reveal the secret language of “The Zone” and “The Code of Thieves” (Vor v zakone).
Valentina is over seventy, and she plans to live forever. And when he does die, make a comfortable transition to a new body according to Hindu laws, for which cremation is mandatory. But her daughter does not agree with her, Marina thinks that her mother should be buried according to normal traditions.
The story of a bride and groom who were engaged in childhood, met by chance at a resort and fell in love. The film has not survived.
