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A historical judicial drama based on one of the most famous and resonant cases of the Russian Empire.

A Father Christmas ornament climbs down from a decorated tree, and goes to the forest. There he creates and decorates a Christmas tree for the forest creatures. He then invites all the insects, along with a friendly frog, to come and enjoy the gifts he has prepared, and to celebrate Christmas.

Olga travels to her native village to visit her mother, with whom she hasn’t spoken in years. Her mother, the village’s “whisperer,” is sought out by those in need of help when all else fails.

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.

This story occurred in an ordinary Moscow family, in one of the streets, in one of the houses on the New Year night...

Yekaterinburg of the 90s. A company of young poets, including the most talented — a junior researcher at the Institute of Geophysics Boris Ryzhy, wanders through the cold and dangerous streets of the city from party to party. Ironic and friendly, he can negotiate with local brothers with equal ease, drive to Moscow for the "Anti-Booker" award, fight at the stall and crash into the department.

He is forty years old. He left his wife and children in order to care for his mother, who is under seventy. She has Alzheimer's disease. She begins to forget who she is, and ceases to recognize her son. The hero has one goal in life - by all means keep her mother’s memory of herself. He takes her from village to town to start a new life with her.

The mad day of the successful citizen — the electrician Vasily Ivanovich began with visit of the Commission on check of the complaint to the waste proceeding from the furnace. According to the findings of the Commission had to change the photo on the documents to a more similar one. And to invite lady in theater, had to turn off there light.

The film is based on a true story that happened in Alaska in summer, 1943. Soviet pilot crew is flying new American bomber from the USA to the USSR under lend-lease& The pilot lands at an air base in the town of Nome for refueling only to find out that his partner has disappeared in the middle of the flight. Navigator cockpit is open, and the navigator himself has vanished into the thin air. Soviet and American intelligence do not believe in supernatural power, especially since the solder's missing parachute pack has valuable intelligence data. Recon teams of the two rival countries set out to search it in the depth of Alaska forest, however, soon another mysterious player joins the game, an aleut deity called Bansu.

To earn money, nineteen-year-old Lyosha must lose a Zhiguli race to blogger Shkurny live. But even the younger brother does not know that according to the agreement in the finale, Lyosha must set fire to his grandfather's car. Having penetrated the vibrant world of drifters and learned the story of his grandfather-designer, Lyosha faces a choice whether to succumb to the blogger and destroy the car or defend the honor of his family.

The film describes the life of homeless people who form a community in the center of modern-day Moscow. It relates the story of six couples who love each other and try to remain together despite the poverty and despair of their existence.

A docudrama, timed to coincide with the centenary of Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin", attempts to answer various questions regarding the phenomenon of this celebrated film.

At a high school reunion, Liza decides to film her best friend Alena so that this recording "would go down in history." However, Alena's ex-boyfriend unexpectedly shows up with a child, and instead of a fun get-together in front of the camera, a drama between the former lovers unfolds.

Short movie by Sasha Khobs.

Katya and her husband Maxim live in Miami. One day, they meet a compatriot named Volodya. He becomes a friend of the family and Katya's lover...

Russia in the early 18th century: Naval officer Plakhov has fallen in love with a young woman. When she is threatened by a stranger, he kills him and is thereby sentenced to death. However, the head of the secret service decides to send Plakhov on a mission instead.

The film is about ordinary, everyday actions that gradually become catastrophic. Seasoned by the intense compositions of Camille Saint-Saëns, it is a reflection on symbols, emancipation, and freedom of expression.

Elder auntie is visiting her relatives in order to find a perfect family and leave all her money to those ideal people.

The film tells about Ioannis Kapodistrias, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire under Alexander I, and later the first ruler of Independent Greece.

The tale about a man, who is going to kill his best friend because his wife has had an affair with him. A chance encounter with a fellow traveler allows the protagonist to see his own personal drama in a different light.

During an unplanned journey, a young woman calls at an unusual café where she meets a strange man. Following him, she sees herself in the past.

August 1980. The Soviet authorities are preparing Moscow for the Olympic Games and expelling unreliable citizens from the city. One such citizen is the talented cellist Arseny Chaika, who ends up in the village of Protasovo with his rabbit. Meanwhile, in Moscow, foreign journalist William Smith is looking for him for an interview.

The adventures of the people living in a small village on a border between Russia and Belarus.

In the not-so-distant future the black market makes it possible to feel the emotions of long-forgotten strengths once again. A high-ranking official buys the emotional collection of a unique teenage girl. But virtual emotions might be much worse than his own gloomy reality.

A son appeared in a rural family – a boy with a finger. The restless kid is trying to help everywhere. But this leads to the opposite results.

While trying fortune-telling young student Olga suddenly saw the face of her future husband and learned his name - Sasha.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel. The first themed issue of Kino-Pravda, devoted to the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution in 1922.

Memories of childhood hold indescribable feelings of freedom, stunning experiments, carefree happiness and eternal love. The past tends to be forgotten, and only the ruined walls of the pioneer camp remain, preserving the secrets of the past Soviet era.

Criminal drama based on the materials of the sensational trial of the adventurous engineer Gilevich. The second series was released at the end of 1917. The 2nd and 4th parts have not survived.

Parents ask their daughter to pretend to be her dead sister for her grandmother, who refuses to believe her younger sister is dead. This request becomes a test for the entire family.

The film is set in the 50s in a town located on the 101st kilometer from Moscow, where in Soviet times were sent from the capital of the unreliable — political and criminal. The hero of the picture Lenka gets into the company of criminals. Local leader Kostya Konovalov offers him to participate in robberies. On the other hand, people from the police and the state security service persuade Lenka to write denunciations…

Following king Berendey's orders, his youngest son, Ivan is sent to find the wonderful Firebird. In his search he is accompanied by his loyal friend and helper - Sery Volk, who, through his wits is always there to help his lightheaded friend. Fascinating and dangerous adventures , the executions of Ivan's cruel brothers and his fated encounter with Elena Prekrasnaia, are awaiting our heroes. The young spectators would be absorbed by the magical world of russian tales, with their traditions and characteristical aesthetics wonderfully mixing up with modern cinema. As for the parents, they will most certainly appreciate the humor and music especially written by popular rock artists.

What terrifying and unpredictable things could possibly happen to a film crew if they bring on a casino owner — the tough guy Grisha — as a sponsor? As it turns out, quite a lot. Especially when Grisha has a “sweet” and overly affectionate girlfriend… who falls in love with the actor playing the film’s lead role. And to make matters worse, someone steals a suitcase full of sponsor money — right on the film set.

It was a time with a rise of artistic life in the former capital of Russia. But the rise ended quickly and tragically with arrests and executions. Modern St. Petersburg and Petrograd of 1921 strangely and intricately intertwine in the mind of the director. The cruel, bloody, but romantic world of the first years of the Revolution converge with the artistic and domestic life of contemporary filmmaking on the same ground, on the same streets and squares.

A documentary film- portrait about a former literature teacher from Tulskaya oblast, Russia who has now become a famous porn actress and video blogger Eva Berger, her way into porn industry and the price she pays for her choice.

Collective work of students Of the school-Studio "SHAR". In the summer of 2018, all of them were gathered by George Boguslavsky and sent around the city to observe Moscow life. And then I covered the Windows with a black cloth, and the students drew, smeared, and scratched on celluloid scenes from the life of summer Moscow.

Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a lurid tale of sex, murder, and corruption, premiered in 1934 and was a success until Stalin saw it two years later, resulting in a Pravda review that viciously condemned it. It was later replaced by an expurgated version, now called Katerina Ismailova after the work's principal character. The original version has now reclaimed its place on international stages. The heroine is the daughter-in-law of Boris, a greedy, lecherous merchant, and the frustrated wife of his impotent son. Katerina poisons Boris and when her husband returns she and her lover, Sergei, kill him too, burying him in the cellar. The body is discovered during their wedding party. Haunted by guilt, Katerina confesses and the newlyweds are consigned to Siberia. When Sergei takes up with another woman, Katerina pushes her into the river and then jumps in herself.

A few rich and glamorous people are flying to Nice, but instead of South France they land in the heart of the Sibir.

The film tells the story of modern slavery from the perspective of the only Russian organization carrying out mass rescue missions both within the country and abroad.

One of the most famous and significant works of Russian literature will be retold in the language of Dance, Music and Light.

The virtual world generated by the real world of the twentieth century is growing exponentially, like an organism in a Petri dish. Crossing its own borders in to new zones, it absorbs its founders and mutates in to something absolutely new. In this new world real wars look like a game on americasarmy.com. Prison torture appears more like the sadistic exercises of modern-day valkyries. Technologies and materials transform the artificial environment in to a fantasy landscape of a new epoch. This paradise is a mutated world where time is frozen and the past is neighbor to the future.

The main character is a participant in the first Chechen war. He reads a story dedicated to his comrade in arms. A vision comes to the hero during the reading of each letter. Now war, death, love take on peculiar images. After he finishes reading, he leaves the room and finds himself in a cemetery with unmarked graves. Next to him is a Chechen with a severed ear. Men have a short dialogue before they disappear.

The film almanac contains short stories from different countries about the First World War.

The film is about a psychologist and entertainment industry operator Sergei Knyazev, who organizes parties for rich people and various role-playing games where they can play beggars or take part in duels, for example.

Artist Alberto travels to a small Italian town to visit his ex-wife for a formal divorce in the local court. But suddenly an incredible phantasmagoria begins to happen. In a day, a bright flash of their other life reveals what they could not admit to each other for many years.

Lost film based on Leo Tolstoy's story from War and Peace novel.

Due to an accident, Dima has been confined to a wheelchair since childhood. Despite the restrictions, he is actively engaged in creativity, writes music and receives awards. But this realization and success does not make him a happy person. One day, his mother leaves on a business trip, and Dima is left to look after his aunt Tina, young and a little frivolous. Soon, Dima's old childhood friend, Aisen, unexpectedly appears, who invites him to arrange an unforgettable weekend and promises to show Dima a real "adult life".

Four young men in the secret school are getting trained to go back in time and prevent Ivan the Terrible from killing his son - which will change all the history of Russia.

A terminal diagnosis forces a career-obsessed advertising executive to rethink his priorities, relationships and outlook on life.

In the dead of night, Olya tries to find out: who is Sveta, whom her husband Kolya calls in his sleep? The search for Sveta will reveal many sore points in the shaky relationships of the young family, but the coming wise morning will put everything in its place.

A documentary dedicated to the Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov — the author of 'Master and Margarita' — and his story as a dramaturge.