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The characters of the film live without worries and in pursuit of entertainment. But when crimes are happening around you, and you are used to turning a blind eye to it, remember that one day you can close them forever. Will any of the heroes be able to break out of the darkness of despair and make their way to the light? Or will they get entangled in a maze of passions and drown in a torrent of despondency?
A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
Eccentric post-apocalyptic take on gangster cinema.
After viewing random cellphone videos, a young woman confronts her friend about recent emotional distance.
Recorded play based on "Run" by Mikhail Bulgakov, Moscow Chekhov Art Theater.
A drama unfolds in the endless snow-covered expanses of Yakutia. The elderly man Khaby, together with two companions, must give the young Kiluk as a bride to the old prince. Taken from her parents' yurt in exchange for a rich dowry, she dreams of escaping home, but Khabyi is harsh and unforgiving. Only young Nykus tries to alleviate her difficult situation. During the journey, feelings develop between them. During the long and difficult journey, Khabiy begins to feel a growing threat. Nykus, driven by feelings for Kiluk, is ready to take extreme measures. Fate leads them to a long-abandoned hut that holds a secret from Khabiy's past.
A once famous elderly director escapes from the hospital to lay flowers at his portrait on his teacher's birthday. Suddenly, he gets to the anniversary of his own film, but the director is not recognized at the entrance.
Country cottage. Bosom school friends — an investigator, a doctor, a rich housewife, a businessman, a drunkard and an actor, people of different professions and lifestyles, gathered to celebrate a modest date — 15 years since graduation. Suddenly, near the house, on a holiday, there appears ... a terrible crank bear. A shot rings out. The dangerous beast is dead.
A blind woman is cured by a doctor, but when her sight is restored she accidently mistakes her kind lover for his wayward younger brother and no one deems to correct her ‘fearing for her psyche’.
Paris, 1930s. There is ferment among the Russian emigration: part of it is accumulating strength to overthrow the Bolsheviks, others are illegally, but actively working for the Soviet government.
The animated corpse of Moscow goes on after its inhabitants left. Filled with weeps and whispers of the mourning ghosts, torn apart with phone calls from distant countries and unfamiliar sounds, emotionally devastated and deserted, the city attempts to reconcile with its own voice.
Twenty-year-old Lera Meshcherikova has a difficult relationship with her mother. Father, grandmother and aunt Olga love Lera, but because of their indecision and lack of will, the girl has to defend her choice on her own. Tatiana cannot accept that her daughter is marrying a guy from a poor family, Denis, and in her heart tells Lera that she is the adopted daughter of the Meshcherikovs. Lera goes to live with Denis, and gradually her life gets better.: she puts up with her father, who gets Denis a job, the guy happily accepts the news that he will soon have a child, and Tatiana has to come to terms with her daughter's marriage. But Leroux is gnawing at the thought that she must find her own mother — only then will she be able to sort herself out. If the girl had known that she would have to pay very dearly for this...
Kostya and his friends are young and love playing street football. Kostya dreams of playing professionally, but cannot bring himself to approach the coach. His girlfriend, Nastya, shares his dream, but street football is Kostya’s life, and the outdoor pitch is akin to a second home, a place for friends to meet and play.
The action of the famous play about the inhabitants of the flophouse has been transferred to our days. The heroes live in a landfill, look for something to sell in the mountains of garbage, steal and drink. One day, Luka appears at the dump, who tries to comfort these people who have sunk to the bottom of their lives.
Contemporary Russia. A humiliated bank executive takes revenge on his adulterous wife and corrupt employers.
There is a rhythm in the nursing home: routine rounds, meals, endless lotto games and watching TV. The days of the nurse are sluggish and monotonous, he is indifferent to work and indifferent to others, almost all of his actions are already on the machine. But suddenly one random event pulls him out of his usual state.
How far will one go to preserve the world they are accustomed to… Olya is unshakable to the blows of fate, she always strikes first instead of being hit. Everyone who is not with her is against her. However one day the moment comes when she has to reconsider her view of life…
Mischa, a mute boy, sets out on a surrealistic journey together with his father and two men. Their means of transportation is an old Soviet locomotive, loaded with stolen coal. The travellers intend to sell off the loot on their way through the borderless steppes of inner Russia. As a parallel to the main plot, sequences of a mysterious travelling circus keep reappearing in a very suggestive way. Many of the odd artists at the circus are people that the four protagonists encounter in the wilderness along the overgrown railway. All through the movie there is a sensation of magic crossed with pure realism, stressed by the crackling communistic infrastructure and a twisted sense of humor. The border between reality and fantasy is very subtle here. The Railway is a story about strong family ties, but also an ambitious interpretation of the clash between the Russia of old and new. One could call it the rebirth of a long forgotten genre: the Russian wonder story.
Paula is a circus performer married to the alcoholic clown-acrobat Lorio. Lorio's heavy drinking leads to him being severely injured during a performance. This forces Paula and the now-crippled Lorio to become street musicians. This film formerly ran to 81 minutes – regrettably, the second half is considered lost.
Russian sociologist Maxim Shugaley and his translator colleague Samer Sueifan are still being held in a Libyan prison. For more than a year, they have been subjected to torture and psychological violence on a daily basis. While in custody, Maxim Shugaley encounters various people who turn out to be, sometimes unknowingly, sources of information about the situation in Tripoli. Listening to their stories, the sociologist literally collects valuable information bit by bit, which can be decisive for the entire world community.
Evgeny Sormatov, a veteran of the special forces detachment, goes to a picturesque lake in Karelia. He carries with him the last letter of comrade Andrei Egorov, who died several years ago, and the Order of the Hero of Russia, which he was awarded posthumously. There, in a quiet corner on one of the skerries, in a deserted fishing village, Andrei's father and sister live.
Near future. A military nurse is taking her wounded husband to safety. But a call from orbital command forces her to make some very tough choices...
Masha's son loses a tooth. Masha goes to pawn the ring to get cash and put a thousand rubles under her son’s pillow. Having learned why Masha needs money, the pawnbroker is ready to give the treasured thousand for a baby tooth.
After the ecological catastrophe, only a small population of people survived, who built the "sterile world" underground. Only renegades who have committed crimes against the system live on the surface. What happens if one of them is allowed to return?
Based on the novel "South of the Slot" by J. London. The movie didn't survive.
Mitya is a professional. He cries at funeral for money, piously believes in the importance of his mission. Mitya wants to be top in his profession, but he has a number of competitors, and there are also people who don’t understand him. Some twists in his life come rather unexpected
A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relations conference held between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The collection—taking the concept of time as a unifying theme—depicts the economic, political, and social alienations and contradictions that create, compound, and structure issues as wide-ranging as poverty, class stratification, and homeless; familial distress; spousal abuse; and natural disaster.
Danya and Natalya simultaneously lose their closest person - their childhood friend and son. Their reaction to this shock becomes the starting point for the misunderstanding that the boy feels.
This story focuses on an old taxi driver, who truly loves his job. Every day he meets lots of different people...
Ilya and his mother came to their father on the weekend. There the young man meets a village girl - Tanya. Ilya falls in love with her and hopes for reciprocity ... But the young man is disappointed.
A mockumentary about crab captain Eaton Drake, who arrives in a strange Russian town in search of a mythical creature. Eaton's new acquaintance, a local news cameraman, tries to capture every absurd step in his years-long hunt for the Tsar Crab.
A day in the life of a typical character of Russian history, "the little man": a school teacher of Russian language and literature. An intellectual and his problems at the beginning of the 21st century. A day in the life of the country which Yesenin loved. About a country that still has hope...
Cold autumn of 1942. Second year of war. Former Molotov city, which was renamed after the war to Perm. The Leningrad Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet after Kirov is evacuated here and in the process of tense preparations for the premiere of the Gayane ballet. In 8 hours Khachaturian writes the most performed creation…
Alexander Ostrovsky's textbook comedy in the modern interpretation of Kirill Serebrennikov: about the price of freedom and love in the same ruble equivalent.
Aliya goes into the forest every day with three flutes, each imitating the sounds of three animals: an owl, a moose, and a bear. Until today, she had never used the latter.
A young businessman Andrey Grekov has to pay his debts but the problem is that he no longer has any money and private property. The only way for him is to accept an offer to transfer oil on an old tanker from Poland to Germany. But is everything that easy? On the way Andrey gets involved in a terrorist conspiracy and life of his family is in danger, his life is in danger...
Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people “of the people”, contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life’s ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - the Soviet Union of the 60s-70s. The main thing that unites both the works themselves and the films made is a whole gallery of the brightest images and characters, a story about such different destinies and differently meaningful lives, a story in the center of which is invariably Man, with his love, quests, weaknesses and victories.
A young girl Kseniya becomes a nurse in the Russian Army during the WWI.
After the death of the head of the family, allegedly due to the end of his powers, his family leaves the state cottage. The last hours before departure - packing, chores, confusion... And in this force majeure situation, a stress situation, through the prism of attitudes towards the fact of departure, the very fact of the existence of the house, the relationships in the family itself manifest themselves and it turns out that the relatives do not know each other, that they have completely different values in life, that their closest friends evict them from the cottage, and that the most loyal there are those that we usually don't notice....
After the daughter’s death, Galina stays completely alone and loses the meaning of life. Suddenly she notices the incarnation of her daughter in a prostitute met in the elevator.
Art film by Renata Litvinova, in which she played the main and only role. One night, the heroine of the short film has an amazing, but at the same time frightening dream. A dream that turns her worldview!
A Jewish brothel owner attempts to become respectable by commissioning a Torah scroll and marrying off his daughter to a yeshiva student.
Young business lady Anna unexpectedly learns that her father, whom she last saw when she was 2 years old, is living out his days in a hospice. Anna will have to make a difficult decision for herself: to enter her father’s room or stay on the sidelines and never think about him again. Will the heroine be able to forgive her own father and find harmony within herself? Or is the wound too deep? Our movie will tell about this.
The film-spectacle “UFO” is the story told by people from the different countries around the world about their contact with an extra-terrestrial civilization. The play is some kind of therapy, as it touches on the basic structures of human mentality, such as egoism, safety, belief in god, gratitude, the spiritual path, etc. According to statistical research, 6 million people claim that they have had contact with aliens; 2 million of them say that they have been hijacked and spent some time in an unknown space. Only 9 tell about something absolutely unbelievable.
A popular silent action-adventure film in 8 episodes released from 1914-1916. Directed by Aleksandr Chargonin et al., the series is only partially preserved.
It is the story of seven days in the life of the 70-year-old Peter who learns that he has lung sarcoma and that there is a faint hope that in a week the diagnosis may be ruled out by a medical luminary from Moscow. Peter spends the seven days summing up the results of his life which he considers worthless, in which he could not start a family, earn money, save his reputation. But time and again the events in which he becomes involved and which are filled with smiles, sadness, human destinies, let the viewer realize that the protagonist’s life is far from worthless.
Sisters Olga and Tatyana have long been living away from each other. Olga is in Moscow, and Tatyana remained at home - in a provincial town, but each tries to prove her case. And until the characters understand that the past is a bad adviser, the war in a single family will continue.
Lena and Rita are friends but they act like it’s something more. What do they want from each other and what do they really feel? The lack of clarity between them will have its consequences.
Passengers of a fixed-route taxi are in the power of one person, who intends to solve their problems with their help.
Nine scenes based on the stories about Dmitry Donskoy, the hero of the Battle of Kulikovo. The content of the painting is uncomplicated: several Tatars attack the house of a peasant near Moscow, kill his son and take his daughter away with them, and the old man father goes on foot to the Grand Duke to ask for help. Without wasting time, Dmitry and his soldiers rush to avenge the offended.