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A few summer days of three ordinary Moscow girls on the threshold of adulthood. Farewell to childhood in schoolyards and entrances of sleeping areas, where everything is for the first time and the world is just beginning - from secretly purchased cigarettes and cans with gin and tonic to an adult passport, first love and almost real tragedies.

What should I do if life has failed? What should I do if my daughter's happiness depends on the future visit of the groom — the heir of the Spanish grandee? What should I do if the groom's father is obsessed with titles and wealth? The only way out is to turn into a rich lady for the day. Street vendor Ani, with the help of her many friends and acquaintances, cannot help but cope with this task. A brothel owner and a young conman, a judge and the mayor of New York himself are involved in an incredible cycle of events. They play out a whole performance in front of the groom and his father against the backdrop of skyscrapers, cars with horns, women's lace umbrellas and incendiary jazz melodies, and in this gala performance Anya plays the role of a real socialite…

Set in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, Summer journeys nostalgically through the warm middle-Ural summer with eight-year-old Vadim and his half-sister Christina. They enjoy evening festivities with their older teenage friends by the fire, go on mellow skateboard rides, and have a quiet daytime nap in the garden house. Caressed by the sun and the warmth of his relatives, hidden in the quiet tranquillity of the garden and far away from the cruelty of the outside world, Vadim enjoys his childhood days. Acting as a serene lullaby that mimics the movements of a gentle breeze, Summer provides warmth, joy and solace, offering hope and strength for the future.

Not so lucky scam artist Jesse hides from the police in a travelling circus. He learns that the circus performers have real superpowers, and makes with them a deal to pull a series of incredible schemes. However, it turns out that the circus troupe is cursed. The actors are threatened not just by death, but also by eternal confinement in a lost dimension for wayward souls. Jesse decides to risk his life and save friends from the circus.

The beginning musician Kostya Potekhin, in order to win the favor of a beautiful girl, agrees to participate in a musical television contest. But you only need to participate with your musical group, which he does not have. Within a few days, he will have to assemble his group, find reliable friends and meet real love.

This film is about Oleg Karavaichuk, eccentric musical genius and famous St. Petersburg composer, who takes his final stroll through Komarovo, a bay-side summer community just outside St. Petersburg where he spent his whole life and wrote most of his works. His final piece, “The Komarovo Waltz”, unveiled here for the very first time, was written as a tribute to the place. The film is the reclusive composer’s eulogy to the community. It also serves as Karavoichuk’s farewell to audience as well as his last address and reminder of things that are truly important – love for your fellow man and virgin nature.

Childhood memories play on the mind of the central character, Garry. Many years on, he returns to his native town. Everything feels alien and strange. Our hero comes back to recover his memories, the good ones and the bad ones, the pleasant ones and the painful ones. Will the old fortune-teller Nina, a well-known dream gatherer in the city, be able to set an already grownup man free of the chains of the past which had become unbearable by that time? Or will our hero, Garry alleviate her life by discovering his freedom?

Our days. Seventeen-year-old schoolgirl Zhenya comes from the "northern capital" to a border village in the Belgorod region to see her brother, a volunteer, before he leaves for the invasion of Ukraine. There she meets a local informal leader, call sign "Timur", and his team, also teenage “volunteers“, who not only help Zhenya see her brother, a tanker, while helping the Russian "security forces" eliminate Ukrainian civilians, but also completely change her outlook on life. And as it happens, the personal relationship between Zhenya and "Timur" goes beyond "just friendship".

A television one-man show based on the works of N.V.Gogol.

War leaves an indelible scary mark on people's lives, but at the same time there is an illusion, and maybe war is beautiful? The honored artist of Ukraine, Alexander Vasyakin, who had passed the blockade of Leningrad and the fronts of the Second World War, who lived a long creative life, talks on this topic. (Two monuments of work by A. Vasyakin were installed in Moscow: a monument to the Defenders of Moscow, and a sculpture of John Paul II).

The first year of the war. Two sisters work at the plant. One of them arrested her husband for escaping from captivity. The other is in the hands of a list with the names of those who should be fired from the factory. In it and surname of the sister. The woman has to make a choice.

The story of street children and the dog who penetrate into the fast food restaurants at night and catching terrorists in spare time.

Ivan Tsarevich and his friends go to an exhibition of wonders from the entire fairy-tale world.

Cactus works as a janitor at the Christmas tree school. He watches their training and dreams of becoming the main symbol of the holiday himself.

A film about the Russian writer Anatoly Gavrilov.

Little stories from the stone age to the middle ages made by Rinat Gazizov

The plot is the embodiment of everyday belief about the impact of a certain evil force on a person. The action develops in a peasant environment.

The year is 1985. In ten years, the Lebanese civil war has turned Beirut into a post-apocalyptic city. A resident who recently arrived at the USSR Embassy is facing an unprecedented threat. For the first time in history, Soviet diplomats have been kidnapped, two of whom are career intelligence officers.

Anna Azov is one of the most colorful and mysterious persons in the Russian MMA. At home she is a gentle mother, in the ring she is a hard, uncompromising coach of her sons. For battle as she prepares to secular Raut - selects the dress, the hair.Before going out son, here comes mom, she dances awesome Cossack sabre dance. The whole course of the match written on her face, Anna is going through doubly as a mom and as a coach.

The boy Styopochkin always obeyed his mother. He did not think about what he would become in the future - his mother will tell him, the boy thought. And so it turned out - he entered some prestigious university. But one day he saw paratroopers in the sky! From that moment the guy's path is one - to be in the army. Styopochkin escapes from the university and by all rights and wrongs gets into the paratroopers to realize his dream... However, Styopochkin's army entourage - San Sanych and Kuzya - are old brats who are just a little bit away from demobilization. Very quickly they realize that Styopochkin can‘t do anythinf himself himself can, but tries hard. Therefore, his coworkers even undertake to help him, including for reasons of their own safety. After all, as San Sanych says: "either he kills us, or we will make him a real paratrooper"....

Irina Boyarova is an Olympic running champion. She has no family or friends – the heroine's whole life is devoted to sports. One day at the resort, Irina begins an affair with doctor Dima. Both understand that their relationship is serious, but, by coincidence, the lovers separate without explaining themselves to each other ... Soon Irina realizes that she is pregnant. She comes to Dima's house to tell him the good news, but her rosy hopes are dashed overnight.…

Two young couples come to a family therapist to speak out about the anxieties and feelings that have accumulated during their marriage through a metaphorical story about the life of two elderly married couples.

The Belorussian Soviet Republic got their independence 25 years ago. The sovereign state is now home to a generation aged 25 – the same age as Belarus. People call 25 the "quiet crisis age"…

In rural Russia, children convicted of theft, murder and rape are sent to a home for delinquents. Without the outside world's pressures, they're finally allowed to act as children, but for some of them, this new life proves to be a challenge. This documentary tells the stories of several of these adolescents, who must endure separation from their families and who, upon release, are unlikely to be forgiven for their crimes.

A person is allowed a big dream while he is small, then this right disappears somewhere. You need to do serious, reasonable, mundane things. But even an adult without a big dream will not be able to be happy. The film is about how a small child returned his mother's dream.

In the 1980s a middle class German boy falls in love with a travelling circus woman named Carmen, only to have his heart broken when she disappears. Trying to mend his broken heart, Hanspeter set up an amateur circus school in the backyard of his home, which became a refuge for the struggling kids. Nearly 40 years later journalist Yulia Vishnevetskaya crosses Germany in search of this fleeting woman who unknowingly created a powerful impact of a lasting legacy. A road movie with a flair of comedy and drama, this film is a tender reflection on the circus of life, love and the dying trade.

After Detective David King's wife is inexplicably murdered in his own home, psychic medium Grace Lee gets caught-up in the aftermath. With no signs of a break-in, the evidence seemingly points to one man. Alliances are formed, enemies are made, and everything they believed they understood about their world is destroyed.

Marina comes to classmates' reunion and feels that her life hasn't changed: she is still divorced, lives with mom and works at school. After looking at her situation from classmates' view, Marina moves to Moscow from Petersburg to change her life radically...

Rukhele's parents make her marry rich Matteus, but she loves poor Shlomo. In two years Rukhele has a child but she can't forget Shlomo and so she leaves Matteus to be with her lover.

Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate affairs, followed by numerous abortions; Rudik the doctor enjoys an endless supply of women, thanks to his position, neglecting his paralyzed father who lives with him and hoping the old man will die soon; the local officer of the law has no qualms about committing murder; a magician from the local circus might actually be sawing women in half on stage... One day, a mysterious man appears in this quiet backwater town. He goes by the title of the Executor: at least that's what it says on his business card...

According to Elena Novikova, from birth, every woman hears this infernal mechanism: "the ticking clock." This ticking dictates when to get married, when to have children, how to look, and where to be. By 30, this sound becomes deafening, by 45, it becomes background noise, and by 56, Novikova claims, zen finally sets in. Elena dissects every stage of the female "obstacle course": from beauty standards, ageism, maternal exploits, to menopause.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Peasant People's Commissar for Agricultural Affairs, Vasilij Jakovenko / Health resort Soči / Sanatorium for children / Harness racing - The first Red Derby.

The new part will pay tribute to the very first film in the series: New Year's stories will again be connected by the theory of six handshakes, but in a new way. On New Year's Eve there is always a place for a miracle, even if you suddenly stopped believing in it. Gennadyich, who spends his life in a nursing home near St. Petersburg, will find his real family. Novice blogger Larisa from Tyumen will have to find out what her husband is ready to do for the sake of her loved ones. Marina from Tatarstan - to learn to love what is really important for her husband. And a gamer girl named Tanya from Nizhny Novgorod will understand that true love is not a game at all. Indeed, on the most magical night of the year, everyone has a chance to find their personal happiness.

A 12-year-old girl, Tasia, from the village of Tomsino in the Pskov Region wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin asking her to help her mother, a nurse in a local hospital. The villagers didn’t like this, where Tasya and her mother had moved shortly before that - they say, you need to "work, not ask." Tasha began to be poisoned, and an ex-girlfriend met her online under the guise of a young man and lured naked photographs.

The main characters are a woman and her son who live happily till the moment when strange things begin to occur with the boy.

Based on Kafka's story of the same name, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.

Katya is an employee of the Sumarokovskaya Elk Farm; she has been delivering births to elk cows for 20 years and telling tourists about the benefits of elk milk. Katya’s duties sometimes include very cruel things, but she loves her job and her son, for whom she wants a better future like any mother.

The plot is built on the external similarity of the characters - a millionaire and an apache killer.

The novice stand-up comic finds very unusual listeners of his program. With the help of sex workers on the phone, he tries to overcome insecurity in himself and in his jokes.

Sanya is a trucker who combines his main job with stealing cars. He and his wife Anya are expecting the birth of a child any day now. Suddenly, Sanya receives an urgent order: the hijacking of a "Gelendwagen" (or simply "Gelya"). And for the sake of a comfortable future for his family, he agrees, promising his wife to be in time for childbirth. But everything is not going according to plan, and the case turns into a conflict with a criminal gang of premium car thieves. Now Sanya faces a task of increased complexity: not only to deal with criminals, but also not to be late to the hospital.

Rimsky-Korsakov lavished a gorgeous score on this rustic tale of love and the supernatural. This acclaimed 2008 production by the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre marks the opera’s first appearance on DVD. The company’s brilliant staging is modern in its dramatic intensity yet firmly rooted in the traditional heart of the work.

They are the experts of their job. Over a hundred thousand professionals. They are brave, courageous yet simple Russian men. Their families await them but for their country they simply do not exist. In their homeland they are unemployed.

A visiting German entrepreneur, Hugo Pectoralis, discovers the secrets of the Russian character and the absurdities of Russian life. This proves to be precisely the case when calculation, confronted with naive stupidity, proves powerless against it. As usual, three intellectuals at a table, whether today or in Leskov's time, signify the same thing: an eternal and never-ending debate about the mysteries of the Russian soul and the twists and turns of the national character.

Musical fantasy featuring popular Soviet cartoon characters from Soyuzmultfilm Studio.

A disturbing documentary about true murders and real death.

The animated film is based on a poem by the Ossetian poet Kosta Khetagurova. In a joking form, it tells how the hero of the film outwitted his very bad habit and life in the village improved.

Many years after a deadly terrorist siege in a Moscow theatre, survivor Natalya returns to the crime scene to hold a memorial evening, finally able to confront her survivor's guilt and her estranged daughter and husband.

Two girls, who used to be in love with the same man, are starting to get texts and other mysterious messages after his death, and the only person, who could’ve possibly sent them, is him. The messages from the gone man send two rivals to the south of the country, when they have two unravel the mystery of their mutual loved one, understand themselves and deal with their own past.

The life of a simple worker begins to change dramatically when he receives love letters with confessions from a certain man. The plot is based on the play of the same name by Igor Stam at the Teatr.doc based on the play by Dmitry Karapuzov.

The film shows the whole background of the new reality that the world faced in the spring of 2020. Paradoxically, the most severe ordeal in the last 20 years has brought people together, while dividing them. Loneliness became a catalyst for internal changes for the six Russian-speaking characters of the film from different countries. Distanced from the usual life, for a month they filmed video diaries and learned to interact with the world in the new conditions of strict restrictions. Everything that is shown on the screen is pure improvisation, non-stop life, sincere feelings without censorship. The truthfulness of what is happening is emphasized by one of the most innovative technological formats — screenlife.