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There are many versions about which tank was the best in World War II. The T-34 was not a perfect and high-tech machine, it became a legend because it formed the backbone of the Red Army from the autumn of 1941 to May 1945. This tank was the main support of infantry and mechanized formations.

Focuses on documenting one day in the life of Boris Bezotechestvo, a murderer serving his entire sentence in solitary confinement in a prison situated on a small Island on Lake Novozero in central Russia.

Filming of the collection of donations during the cinematic film week "To a Soldier in the trenches" in Moscow at the A. Khanzhonkov Theater on November 30, 1915.

Each historical period is accompanied by the emergence of some kind of cultural heritage in architecture, music and visual arts. The most numerous series of panel houses P-44 is a legacy of late Soviet postmodernism.

Lech is 26 years old. He lives in a flophouse in Kostroma, where people spend years (and sometimes they die right there, because it's easier to die well-fed and with a roof over your head). His wife left Lehi. Or rather, she offered to be friends, and he did not understand the joke. Lech is going through a hard breakup, so he decides to record a rap: suddenly his ex-wife will hear and understand who she has lost.

By the beginning of the war in Chechnya, the legendary Major Izmailov worked in the military registration and enlistment office of the city of Zhukovsky. Having buried the first conscript who died during the storming of Grozny, he refused to send 18-year-old children to death and went to Chechnya himself to take out the prisoners. And he freed at least 174 people. The film uses a rare chronicle of the Chechen wars from the private archives of mothers who were looking for their sons in Chechnya, as well as negotiating officers from the working group on the exchange of prisoners. For the first time, the heroes of the film tell in detail what they had to go to to free people from captivity on both sides.

Minsk Komarovsky market is the main food market in Belarus. People call it “Komarovka”. It organically coexists people of all ages, backgrounds and characters. While for some the market has become a second home, others continue to dream of more.

Pseudo-scientific film about the nature and properties of mold.

According to experts, over the past year in Russia, panic attacks have been registered in 3-11% of people. Misha Marvin, Bianca and other characters of the documentary will come face to face with their fears and share their experiences, while cognitive therapist Marat Aginyan and clinical psychologist Yakov Kochetkov will tell you how to recognize a panic attack and cope with sudden attacking anxiety.

70 years have passed since the Great Patriotic War, the smoke of cruelty and hatred between the warring parties has cleared. A film about German and Soviet cameramen who worked on the Eastern Front. The war was, as it were, turned upside down in the cameras' lenses and reflected the interests and feelings not of the people filming, but the interests of officials and ideologists of the warring parties. The film is about how important it was to remain human on both sides of the front, even in the unbearable conditions of the war. And German, and Soviet, and, especially, a man with a camera in his hands.

The film's heroes live in a closed box. Chasing each other is the only meaning of their existence.

A documentary about people who are engaged in sport dancing in wheelchairs. In the centre of the film are two important personalities; Lena Lozko who founded the Russian Federation of Wheelchair Dance Sport and opened the first Russian club and Alex Berdnikova a member who has over seven years of experience dancing in a wheelchair.

Among the Indian elephants, the German service, calendars with kittens and Stalin - hundreds of little things. The true story is difficult to discern. Life, told over a cup of tea, is like a mosaic coming together in the terrible history of the country. A country saturated with a cult of personality and rejection of memory. Volunteers of the Gulag History Museum go to witnesses and victims of the Stalinist repressions in order to reassemble the evidence of the time and understand something about themselves.

Shortly after the war, Kaliningrad is populated by Russian newcomers and becomes a bleak home to heroes whose inevitable slide towards a tragedy is somewhat similar to the fates of protagonists of classical Russian literature. The film portraying their story had been shot over a period of more than 10 years and doesn't falter eye to eye with physical pain.

A factory director gives an interview, and he does not like it very much. Therefore his answers are extremely short. He says mainly "No" or "I do not know." But nevertheless one can understand his attitude to work, war and salvation.

The film is about the life of Russian paramedics in rural areas.

The film Broken Ties, by independent Russian filmmaker Andrei Loshak, is an unflinching portrayal of families divided by war. It features seven different pairings, whose members speak periodically with Loshak, one-to-one, to explain their points of view. Their conversations extend over the war's first three months, during which time their opinions evidence no change. The film makes no attempt at dialogue -- on the contrary, it is a testimony to the absence of dialogue amidst an unfolding war, and an unsentimental diagnosis of the sickness of a society in which official propaganda proves stronger than even the most intimate family ties.

This film is a unique historical document, a cast of the tragedy. This film is about the disaster that happened to Russia and filmed in real time. Chronicle of a diving country.

Young geographers Kirill Puzanov and Maria Pisareva embark on a journey through unexplored places in the Moscow region. Travelers learn about the characteristics of various animals, walk through the swamps, observe the habits of birds, discover amazing cities, walk through the stunning reserves of the Moscow region. Moreover, the heroes study nature not only on earth, for the most part Cyril and Maria observe nature from a bird's eye view, from a small two-seater plane. It is thanks to small aircraft that a new look at the Moscow region appears.

Bringing order to a village is a task with an asterisk. Rafimir has just taken up the post of head of a rural settlement in Bashkortostan, and is already forced to answer a hundred calls a minute from worried citizens. Literally everything needs to be fixed, but the budget is not enough. What to do? Rafimir decides to participate in the "Sober Village" competition, which has been held in the republic since 2011.

Life as run. I’ll give you a few minutes to stop and see. I’ll help you catch the moment. Carpe diem.

Three regulars at a village store seek love and understanding in conversations with a dog.

The hero of the film has not only the talent to reveal secrets. He himself is a big mystery. Leonid Parshin is the son of a Russian intelligence officer, an illegal immigrant from the age of two. In the 80s, his investigation of Bulgakov's riddles aroused particular interest among the KGB. And then surveillance, an attempt to escape from the Soviet Union, to swim across the Gulf of Finland, in the 86th there was an arrest and a prison. In 2001, his report "Computer study of the psychology of M. Bulgakov and his literary heroes" was a success at an international symposium in Bucharest. In the course of the film, Parshin talks about his unusual adventures, and sometimes severe misadventures in the 70s and 80s of the twentieth century.

Documentary comedy. A community of Old Believers settled in the upper reaches of Biryusa. They have fenced themselves off from the world with a wall of alienation. The film crew is trying to break through it. Open Documentary Film Festival "Russia" - 2014, Grand Prix.

Composer Alexander Knaifel’s work A Silly Horse consists of 15 stories for a singer and piano. Each story has its title, and these titles were used to find newsreel clips from the 20th century, which have nothing in common except that they are archive material. The music and the image magically combine to create the story of a boy who hears and sees only the words “Why dreams”, which gave this film its name.

A film about the Moscow Open Student Theater.

The brilliant and dramatic fate of the great Russian actor Ivan Mozzhukhin, who became a star of French cinema, against the background of the life of the European Bohemians of the 1920s and 30s. Love and business correspondence, photographs, notebooks, documents of the actor are presented on the screen for the first time.

Kamchatka and the Kuriles are a place at the edge of the world, where the sunrise is first met, where there are countless volcanoes and an endless ocean. Researchers, seekers and pioneers have always aspired here. An incredible story about enthusiasts whose efforts have made snowboarding in Kamchatka iconic and united thousands of young people, giving them a start in life. Self-taught athletes who grew up among volcanoes were considered the strongest in Russia for many years. They were the ones who made the first Russian snowboarding film. Thanks to the pioneers of snowboarding in Kamchatka, the whole world started talking about local spots and athletes.

A wreath of movie sets dedicated to the love of music and composer Mikael Tariverdiev.

Moscow. Relations 2018.

The legendary cultural critic, author of books about M. Babanova, B. Brecht, A. Tarkovsky, Maya Turovskaya tells us a novel. Childhood, in people, my universities… She tells it like a writer. Only her novel is not written, but shot on camera and supplemented with photos and newsreel footage. In other words, it's a movie monologue about time. About a communal apartment in Maly Kozikhinsky Lane in Moscow. About my parents and my father's arrest. About kindergarten and school. About friends and girlfriends. About teachers. About the beginning of the war and the evacuation to Sverdlovsk. About her husband, critic Boris Medvedev, who met the war on the border, and ended it in Stalingrad. About parallel studies at Moscow State University and at GITIS. About the fight against rootless cosmopolitans.

About the events of 1998-2023 affecting the ways and achievements of Gazprom-Media Holding companies.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov puts on the play "Thugs" with his students. But who would have thought that the action of the play would spill over to the Moscow streets and the purely stage events would be enriched with reality? Will reality come out on stage?

This film tells about the relationship between the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin and his wife Naina. There is a minimum of politics in the tape, and historical events are present exactly to the extent that they relate to the relationship between a man and a woman who met at the age of 18 and lived together for more than half a century.

Denis Bokuradze, director of the Gran chamber theatre from the provincial Volga city of Novokuibyshevsk, is eagerly awaiting the opening of the new stage. For the city of chemists and oil workers, this will be the first real city theatre in its history – Novokuibyshevsk has never had its own theatre building before. Construction takes up all the director’s free time from work on performances, distracting him from rehearsals, taking away his health and attention. Not everything is going smoothly: the builders are missing deadlines and at some point it seems that the construction may stop altogether. The director is trying with all his might to prevent this. At the same time, he is releasing a premiere, preparing for new productions and solving a host of everyday, organizational and creative problems that arise daily in the team and make up the life of a chamber theatre…

A film about simple human love in a large family. The head of the family, Grigory Babanin, went through the Chechen war and managed to keep the warmth that he gives to his children, and there are 16 of them, and all are adopted.

A story about the pioneers of Kamchatka snowboarding, about the first wakeboarder who conquered the coastal waters of the Kuril Islands, and about the founder of the first Russian surfing school. These people accepted the challenge of nature, went beyond the usual and discovered new facets of their sport.

"4 precise monologues" about the city where Duchamp, Churchill, Flaubert, Jung, Freud, Mustafa Mond and Sabine Spielrein intersect. Experimental mockumentary by Rostov director Alexey Zakhar is a vital example of how you can, being in the Russian industrial expanses, furnish yourself with antique columns, surround yourself with French geniuses and make a rap for the guys from the district from Lautreamont.

Lisa Rosowsky and Ute Gfrerer are two Boston-based middle-aged women. Both women share their love for art and their sad family histories. Ute’s father was a German soldier and a member of the Nazi Youth, and Lisa’s father of Jewish descent survived Auschwitz. At one point, Lisa and Ute decide to turn their tragic memories into something beautiful and organize an arts evening dedicated to their fathers. Lisa is an artist - she creates pieces that explore her relationship with the Holocaust. Ute is an opera singer, who chooses to perform works of Jewish composers that were once banned. Together they host several events in Boston.

Danya is a young guy who wants to ensure his family by all means. On the way to this goal, he goes through financial pyramids, misunderstanding of his parents, quarrels with his wife but nothing can stop him.

The film tells the story of a veteran of military operations in Chechnya. The main character of the film is a two-time recipient of the Order of Courage. A retired colonel. Friends habitually call him "Combat", although he has not commanded anyone for a long time. He has three wars, seven wounds and two concussions behind him. The usual statistics of a simple officer's fate.

Authors of the film make the journey both real and mystical through the Buryatia. They are following their character lama Danzan — the spiritual leader and member of parliament of his mysterious country called Little Tibet. Lama Danzan is modern incarnation of the Agvan Dorzhiev, who was the teacher of Dalai-lama XIII and played an important role in the struggle between Britain, China and Russia for the dominance in Tibet at the beginning of XX century. Today lama Danzan is doing everything possible overcoming natural and mystic obstacles to build magic spokes, suburgans, which are believed by him and his followers to change the life of the country for the better .

The graphic artist Sasha Galitsky almost 20 years ago resigned as art director of a well-known Israeli company to open mugs of wood carving in several elderly homes. This film is about the love of life and old age. And how to live loudly on all of their 90 and 100.

In the mountains of the Abakan ridge, in the remote Siberian taiga, there lives a unique hermit — Agafya Karpovna Lykova. She is the last of the Lykov family of Old Believers. Many people have heard about their history. Back in 1936, the Lykov family settled in the deep taiga, away from people.

Mikhail Bogdanov-Berezovsky, the young head of the family looks to the future with confidence. He lives in a small provincial town in the Sverdlovsk region, where he is going to open his own business and takes loans for this. His wife does not have a soul in him, friends call him the Hero of our time. The film crew comes to the hero half a year later and sees a completely opposite picture. The story takes a new turn.

The first feature-length Yakut film. A film that tells in a documentary and game form about the rituals, customs, beliefs, life and lifestyle of the Sakha people. The director recreated on the screen the ancient rituals of the life cycle, almost forgotten by the current Sakha.

There were many incredible turns in the life of the main character of the film, so surprising that it seems that the biography of one person simply cannot contain them. From Moscow State University to Baghdad University, from there to the Central Committee of the CPSU, and then to work as a watchman in an Orthodox church and a swift church career under the direct tutelage of Patriarch Alexy II. Now this man, remaining a priest, develops new talents of the writer, literary critic and propagandist of poetic creativity Vladimir Vysotsky. He is also an artistic musician and singer. In general, personality.

Documentary about the 1999 bombing of an apartment building in Moscow which sheds light on both terrorism and post-Soviet government operations.

The evacuation of the Russian Museum during the Great Patriotic War is a little–known and dramatic episode of Russian history. The echelon with paintings by Repin, Levitan, Serov, Shishkin, Rublev icons and other priceless treasures in August 1941 reached Gorky from Leningrad. There, the valuables were reloaded onto a barge, which went deep into Russia. The destinations were the city of Molotov, as Perm was then called, and the city of Solikamsk. The film tells about how they lived in the evacuation, how they worked and why after the war the participants of these events did not want to remember those difficult times.

Only a person who is ready to learn everything that our ancestors could do can live on a desert island: understand the sea, live by the ebb and flow, build a boat, catch a fish, find a “common language” with a bear, bake bread. The inhabitants of the hard-to-reach Cape Alevina in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk can do all this. There are only three of them on the island, and suddenly something went wrong.

"A hunter of secretive shares, I entered the forest of being ... " - with the poems of Velemir Khlebnikov, we enter the world of birds, where the flycatcher, orioles, remezes reveal their "secretive shares" to us. And we understand that birds are not our lesser brothers, they are other peoples who have fallen into the net of life together with us, into the net of time, they are the same as us, prisoners of earthly splendor and earthly suffering.

The story of one summer of several high school students from an average school of an average town in the heart of Russia. The heroes of the film are classmates of the very girls whose double suicide - a jump from the roof of a high-rise building - shocked the country a couple of years ago and provoked a wave of teenage suicides. Who are they? Which ones? Do you need someone other than yourself? What do we know about their loneliness? And what, in fact, lies behind the statistics of teenage suicides, according to which Russia ranks first in Europe. Six stories that happened in one summer: a house, a dacha, a camp and another amazing place that influenced the life of one of them. Who will be on the edge of that very roof, and who will decide never to climb it again? Why? Starting this movie, none of the crew knew how it would end. Part of the video footage was shot by the heroes of the film themselves.