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In the second part of our film about North Korea, we peeked into real life in one of the most closed countries in the world. What does the average person's day look like? What currency do they use? Who works the fields? What do local guides hide from tourists? To answer all these questions, we grabbed a hidden camera and went filming in North Korea.
About the life of two Russian village workers, farmers who have come a long way through the "dashing 90s" and are now building life anew.
The film is dedicated to our wonderful contemporary from Leningrad-St. Petersburg Valentin Elbek.
The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn is a two-part Russian television documentary by Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The documentary shot in Solzhenitsyn’s home shows his everyday life and covers his reflections on Russian history and literature.
In the mid-50s of the last century, at the dawn of the Khrushchev thaw, an unknown young director Grigory Chukhray, whose debut - the film "Forty - first" - became a bid for big cinema, quickly and boldly broke into the Soviet cinema. Then, one after another, followed "The Ballad of the Soldier", "Clear Sky", which became a real breakthrough to historical truth and an example of civic courage.
To the mental features of Mashenka, Anton Tut Ryadom's student, very low vision is added. And yet, overcoming all these restrictions, she lives. And this is already asceticism. “We have to live,” says the heroine of the film.
Collecting as an act of love and a way to tame time.
On August 14, the "Azov Brain Rot" documentary premiered. The film features exclusive footage and eyewitness accounts, as well as filmed testimonials by captured Azov militants and foreign mercenaries who surrendered in Mariupol. In addition, the film contains expert commentary and accounts of the civilians who were tortured and humiliated by neo-Nazis. The documentary elaborates on the ideology of nationalist battalions as well as their neo-pagan beliefs and the widespread use of Nazi symbols. The film’s creator, journalist, and television host Marina Kim visited the detention facilities where Azov members were being held captive in Yelenovka (DPR), days before the Ukrainian Army attack using a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher. The attack killed more than 50 prisoners of war.
The birth of a new era in the first years of perestroika with its enthusiasm for clairvoyance and the dying practice of shooting on film are both contained within a single minute of screen time, during which a mnemonist ‘recalls’ an infinitely large number displayed on a board behind him.
An Ural city of Nizhniy Tagil. Summer is over and a ten years old Vadim is moving to a new district and attends a new school. The last warm days of September. Vadim is making his way through the fading rays of the autumn sun.
An inspiring and sometimes sad story about the saving power of skateboarding.
The author's documentary film by film director, screenwriter, actor, Honored Artist of Russia Vitaly Maksimov is dedicated to the memory of the feat of ordinary artillery driver Stepan Perederia, who alone opposed a huge motorized infantry column of fascists on the outskirts of Krasnodar in August 1942.
The life of the heroes flows on its own until they receive the message: "Attention! Volunteers are required!". Wherever the Lisa Alert volunteers are, they go on a search, especially when the life of a lost child depends on it. The film, created by students of the Moscow School of Cinema in 360 format, takes the viewer to the center of the events of the search operation, showing the path that each of the characters takes to achieve one important task — so that everyone else receives the message "Found. Alive!".
Sex guru, feminist, an adherent of polyamoric relations and one of the organizers of the Kinki Academy Elena Rydkina is engaged in education in the field of sex culture - she lectures, conducts master classes and trainings.
The whole life of this village was concentrated in one shop. To the saleswoman Tatiana go for chicken, vodka and medicines; go to learn news, bask, ask for money, complain, celebrate holidays. All roads lead to the "Products".
Participation in the qualifying stage of the European Championship is the only chance for the visually impaired football players from the Belarusian national team to step out of the darkness and present themselves. However, the sportsmen meet considerable obstacles on their way, and only mutual support and inner light help them move towards their goal.
Windows to Europe With Sergei Shnurov is a 2017 documentary film.
When the ambitious dream of a guy from the province about an acting career collides with a cruel reality, most often there is a drama or tragedy. The plot of the film is based on the traditional conflict for the Russian provincial theater: everyone dreams of the role of Hamlet. But if a person is a comedian by nature? What kind of play will the dramaturgy of life push him into? In the credits, the film is designated as "a tragicomedy from the life of artists."
Between 1918 and 1939 the Solovki archipelago was home to Russia's first "corrective labour camp". Hundreds of thousands of political prisoners were exiled to the camp. Tens of thousands never emerged. This is the Solovki's incomprehensibly brutal story, told through the letters of inmates, and the reactions of surviving relatives.
«Over the dream» is a documentary by Ivan Demkin. It tells us about adventures of CIS representatives at The International tournament. In this movie we will talk about one team and some of the tournament broadcasters – a commentator and an analyst.
The film explores the history of the giant quarry "Mir", the fates of people living on its edge, and its possible future. People seemed to have become participants in a great experiment, creating their own unique world in isolation from the rest of the world, proving that man can adapt to the most incredible living conditions.
Climbing the floors of the tower-workshop, the artist Igor Makarevich builds a path along the figurative tower - one of the most frequent and important motives of his work. The artist is followed by a character created by him, which appears in the film as a subjective view. Makarevich, through his works, speaks on such often taboo topics as death and madness, without leaving a subtle irony and lyrical outlook on things.
Kunashir, one of the biggest islands of the Kuril Archipelago, is situated 16 kilometers from Japan. It was occupied by the Soviet army in 1945. One year later, after a short period of cohabitation, 17.000 Japanese and Ainu people who were living in the Kurils and on Sakhalin were deported to the island of Hokkaido. Since that time Japan has been demanding the return of the Kuril Islands. A peace treaty between the two countries still has not been signed.
Victor Sosnora is one of the most mysterious figures in Russian poetry. Having known fame in the 60s – triumphant performances on stage, friendship with Lilya Brik, publications abroad – he chose the path of a hermit, a lonely wolf. Not a member of any associations, not at enmity with anyone, he turned out to be one of the most unread poets of our time... And now his name was again in the spotlight – Viktor Sosnora became a laureate of the “Poet” national prize. Writer Andrei Bitov, literary critic Vladimir Novikov, professor of the chemistry department Maria Khripun took part in shooting this film. Poems and prose of Sosnora are read by the Honored Artist of Russia Aleksey Devotchenko.
In a small village on the slopes of the former coal mines, Oleg Pavlov, the father of many children, screens the "Little Prince" of Exupery. The camera is the cheapest, bought for retirement. In the roles - Oleg and his four children. Two years of filming and editing - and journalists from all over Russia are on a visit to an amazing creative and friendly family. But the family never calls his father at the table. Children refuse to go to the premiere of the film. And Oleg himself does not go to spend the eldest daughter, when she leaves to live in another city. He just sleeps. And no one wakes him up.
At the Moscow suburbs cemetery for thirty years, a shovel for a shovel, the grave friends Sasha and Yura work. The first is a former athlete who undermined his health at the beginning of his career. The second - in the past, a physicist-graduate student, a failed scientist, who in the 90s threw science for quick and solid earnings. They feel free, provide families and see the meaning of their existence in this. Yura helps a divorced daughter of one to raise a child. Sasha has an adult daughter, and a former athlete finds an outlet in coaching - teaches teen martial arts. Bogatyr Yura, who even in winter digs naked to the waist, hopes that he will have enough health for another ten years, he will just have time to put his granddaughter on his feet. Although the former physicist is already 63 years old.
In Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan a city of the future is being built. Named Innopolis, it was officially opened in 2015 and is the first new town to be built in Russia since the collapse of the USSR. The best IT specialists travel there from all over the country to create a new community. But those who work in the town’s service industry are ordinary inhabitants of the neighbouring villages: Pustiye Morkvashi and Vostochnaya Zvezda. What is this juxtaposition like: the new world and the old world? Perhaps, despite the apparent differences, these worlds are identical in their essence?
This short film tells about the past, present and future of the capital's subway. It shows the labor of subway builders, new stations still under construction. Dmitry Gayev, the head of the Moscow Metro, shares his dreams and plans for the future.
At the end of the summer of 2011, by order of the administration of St. Petersburg and the city of Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo), Yuri Mamin made a short documentary film "Tsarskoye Selo Vernissage", dedicated to the problem of people with disabilities.
In January 1989, the Soviet army conducted its last military operation in Afghanistan and began the final withdrawal of troops from this country. Officially, the troops of the USSR completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan in mid-February. Over the ten years of the war, more than 15 thousand Soviet troops died in it. The film of the journalist Katerina Gordeeva “Afghanistan. Man (not) returned from the war ”- the story of those who managed to survive, but could not stop fighting - now in their own country.
Full-length documentary about the singers of the Cossack song ensemble Krugolet who are the only stars of the Siberian town of Dalnerechensk situated on the extreme border of China
Author's family history. We can say that this is a movie about my grandfather. It can be said that he is about a horse and about the relationship between a man and a horse. And you can do it like this: how the horse influenced the history of the country and the world. And everything will be true, because my grandfather Zavilgelsky Boris Dmitrievich was the director of the First Moscow Stud Farm, where the legendary stallion Kvadrat was born and the equally legendary groom Uncle Vasya worked.
Through her very real subject Edgar Figner, director Nathalie Alonso Casale offers us an intimate sense of the 21st-century Russian zeitgeist. A true alchemist, Mr. Figner has spent his life in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) as a sound-effects artist at Lenfilm Studios, where from the silent era to the present he has used commonplace objects (cabbages, old shoes) to create complex sound effects for films. Under the pressures of contemporary Russian life, Figner begins to retreat into a past comprising his own personal history and the history of Russian cinema. As reality and memory blend with stunning scenes from Soviet films, Figner’s art becomes a soundtrack for the muffled culture created by the repression of the Soviet era. This delicate mix of documentary, reality and cinematic imagination creates a deeply sensitive account of the silences at the heart of the Russian social, political and cinematic experience.
On the 11th of November 2018 the elections were held in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic. One of those who came to vote is a former locksmith Alexander Zaslavsky, a participant under the call sign "Old" in the battles in 2014 and 2015.
What happened from February to October 1917? How did the outstanding minds of Russia come to the idea of destroying the Monarchy and removing from the throne the legitimate head of state Nicholas II, under whom the development of democratic freedoms began, and the economy grew rapidly?
Upon retirement Alexander Malyavko created a museum of old memorabilia in the suburbs of Moscow. The museum is dear to his heart and he wants to perpetuate it by shooting a movie. He is in a hurry to finish the shooting, for he is already 85.
In Russia, the attitude to death is paradoxically irrational – we all seem to live forever. Entrepreneur Sergey Yakushin is the only reasonable "madman" who conducted a funeral "revolution" in his native Novosibirsk. Yakushin himself turned around to face death after being diagnosed with late-stage cancer 15 years ago. And they gave me a year of life.
The year 2006 was, perhaps, one of the most tragic in the recent history of the Russian theater. Two great theater artists - David Borovsky and Oleg Sheintsis - died at once. Both of them were the true creators of the theatrical space, who defined the style, trends and language of scenography of the second half of the XX - beginning of the XXI century. We would like to tell about the life, creative destiny and the main artistic discoveries of these outstanding masters in this film...
Zhenya is preparing for her wedding. Her friend is helping with her hair style, her relatives give her gifts before the ceremony. However, Zhenya is going not to the civil registry office, but to an investigative isolator. Her future husband Lenya is under arrest as one of the so-called Bolotnaya Square case, or as one of the accused in the 6th of May case. After the ceremony, Zhenya goes back home alone and starts to wait - for meetings, letters, a trial, a sentence.
2021 has been declared a year of great revenge in Belarus. During this time, a plane was forcibly landed there, incredible sentences were handed down to Lukashenka's rivals in the elections; the practice of forced public apologies was introduced. As a result, a huge number of people have left the country.
A brief study of the unusual history of one old film frame.
Depicting the collision between past, present, and future in contemporary Russia, the film showcases the filmmaker's understanding, or perhaps her emotions, about Russia's convoluted history.
Life consists of worries, household chores, talk at dinner, study, fatigue and the desire to sleep. But you are still happy if your family is strong, and there are thousands of favorite things around you - from Christmas toys from my mother's childhood to Scarlatti's music, which my grandfather ordered you to listen to. Katya in the last months of pregnancy and in the process of completing the thesis - and not simple, but man-made. Katya is an illustrator and makes a children's book. Tale. About Ersh Ershovich. Stephanie will be born soon, this tale and this film are the first gifts from her parents.
Politics broke the Voronin family. Nina Yegorovna loves Lenin and votes for the Communists. Evgeni Yegorovich does not tolerate the leader of the world proletariat and votes for the party of power.
Two families from Russia and the US are preparing to adopt a child from an orphanage in Russia. A Russian family brings home two children and experiences the first difficulties and joys of a new life. And on the path of an American family to adopt a 5-year-old girl with disabilities, there is a new law signed by President Putin that prohibits Americans from adopting Russian children. Will little Polina's dream of her own family come true?
Several people decided to go by boat along the waterways for almost 3000 km, as their ancestors, merchants and entrepreneurs, walked along these paths a thousand years ago in the times of Ancient Russia. We have been watching them for a month and a half and what happened to them during this journey.
At first glance, charity is easy: gather things, spend time, help with money. But it turns out, it's not easy when you are 17 and you are not ready to see lonely old age, poverty and disease. And when you realize that now you are there - in a nursing home - waiting, it becomes even more difficult.
The film "Artyom Tomilov" tells the story of a modern-day Odysseus with an ironic and elegiac tone. Theater director Artyom Tomilov, who grew up in the marginalized outskirts of Omsk, returns to his hometown after 15 years to stage an autofictional play about himself. The events unfolding during the production become part of the play, alongside the myths, spirits, and memories of the hero's past and the people of Omsk.
Petroglyphs reflect the intellectual world of ancient man more vividly than anything else from the archaeological field - his views and ideas about the world around him and himself, his thinking and consciousness. And we can stop for a while, freeze, and literally touch Eternity.
Zhenya is the head of the weather station, Vanya is a junior meteorologist and household assistant. The ship "Mikhail Somov" comes to the Kanin Peninsula once a year, delivers food - and then the heroes are left alone until next spring. One day a storm comes to them - and the heroes are left without communication, alone, alone with bad weather and each other for 3 long days.
An accountant from the Ural city comes to St. Petersburg in search of acting happiness.
It's time now just to live. Just love each other with the highest power of pure feelings. This movie started many years ago. When we began to shoot it we could hardly imagine how this drama would end. Back then, Lena, mother of three, living Russian soul, divorced the father of her kids Yura and married a murderer sentenced to life imprisonment. What was it? Now, after painful challenges, becoming husband and wife again, Lena and Yura, simple rural aristocrats of the spirit, once again amaze us with the depth of their introspection, delicacy of feelings, with humor and sadness about things that will never happen.
Two different worlds. On the one hand - porters, who bear pianos. On the other hand - people, who the porters visit – musicians, new Russian “middle class”. What is the dialog between them? How does it clear for each of them - what is the musical instrument for?
With the assassination in 1948 of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, by the state security, new times begin in the relationship between the Soviet government and the Jews.
The director, who is of Tartar descent, believes her family has been struck by an ancient curse. A shaman, very popular on Instagram, agrees to help her.
"I am very scared that there was an explosion in the metro, people were killed. I will not forget this day," says a children's note at the St. Petersburg metro station, lying among the flowers on an impromptu memorial.
A Russian boy gets a heart transplant in Italy. A lot of people were by his side on his long journey full of hardships, except for his mother.