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A story about the all-conquering power of art, told by a former painter. A simple village guy paints buildings from a construction cradle. Through the windows, he watches people's lives and one day notices a couple of artists…
The film is set hundreds and hundreds of years ago. The viewer will be transported to distant Sakha, where brave warriors will go to the Lower World to save the beautiful Aikuo. What obstacles will our heroes face? Who is the truth behind — a human or a demon? Everything can turn out differently than they say in the legends. Everything is possible, because the boundless North is as unpredictable and mysterious as it is cold and harsh.
Single mother Maria lives with her son and daughter in a science city, which is being prepared for liquidation. She believes that her physicist husband, who disappeared six years ago during a scientific experiment, is somewhere nearby — just in another dimension. A former colleague of her husband arrives in the city in search of the missing person's records, and Maria has a boyfriend-trucker Stas, ready to take her away with her children and start a new life together. Faced with a choice, a woman can not decide to leave her invisible husband.
Max is a successful sculptor. He's a confirmed bachelor . He has no end of girls and profitable orders. The usual course of life is disrupted by Max's own right hand. She stops obeying him and behaves like the hand of a spoiled girl. Friends, clients, and fans think Max is crazy. But that's not the reason, the soul of a stranger has taken possession of his hand. Can the hero cope with one left hand?
During a long journey, Grisha and his stepmother, Vika, spend more time together than ever before. The further they travel, the closer they come to confronting their most difficult emotions—and the person they haven't spoken about in a long time.
This is not an interview, this is a confession. Revelations of the artist in the form of a monologue. Guf about Keti Topuria's betrayal, drugs and a new girl.
A famous director is making a film. The film is about a woman, about intimate desires, about sex, about what is not customary to say out loud... Uninhibited heroines of the picture, unexpected love for the most attractive of them, desires and the impossibility of the possible...
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.
Dreaming of a career for her child, the mother gives her soul to the devil, receiving the talent of a violinist for her son.
After a short lull, a quartet of folk favorites under the rather life-affirming name "Highlanders from Wit", once again delight us with the third part of their sketch show of the same name.
Two strange people are driving to the sea... Partially in the real world, partially in fantasy.
The hero of the film is a small puppy, who lives in the reserve together with his master. Curious and restless Chink often falls into a mess when confronted with the inhabitants of the reserve. His worst enemy is the coyote.
A seventeen-year-old girl wakes up in the hospital with a head injury. The last thing she remembers is trying to pick up a crush at prom. But as she tries to figure out what happened, she notices that each of her friends is lying to her for different reasons.
In a reality created by the Architect, events unfold which follow their own logic. However, everything changes when the Architect becomes a participant of the events. Now the Architect is in danger, and there is only one way to be saved, to control his own thoughts.
Mixture of documentary and fiction about the dictatorial 1930s, loosely based on the utopian fantasies of Fritz Lang and about the forbidden passionate love affair between a photographer and his model.
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.
DUEL is a psychological and spiritual indie-short horror film inspired by actual events that took place in the suburbs of Long Island, NY circa 1979. The film stars Jordan Isaiah White from the major motion picture TheBlackPhone and Mike Stanly from the series Ozark. DUEL is the first Production from actor John C. Martin and the 5th collaboration between John and award winning Director Nicholas Crocket.
The beautiful and self-confident Mila is trying to find a groom for the quiet and shy Lyuba. One evening they barely get away from the local punks and find themselves in the cozy house of the local guy Slava. Here they are found by the favorite of women Kolya, with whom Mila once had an affair. As a result, the inconspicuous and unlucky Lyuba takes her beloved away from the bright and successful Mila and leaves with him to Moscow. And Mila remains in the house by the sea and marries the humble Slava. Twenty years later, the heroes are waiting for a new meeting and a new turn in fate.
Contemporary Russia. A young couple finds a great deal on a used BMW. Unfortunately, it's haunted.
A criminal psychological drama. This film is presumed to be lost.
True Kazakh girls don’t marry Russians. This is what grandma Zeinegul believes in. But her beloved granddaughter disobeyed her will. Many years later the girl comes back to Kazakhstan. Her mother drinks, her grandma prays, her father got married again, but she wants to take a picture of her whole family, just like the one they took years ago when she was a child. The picture of the family she loves and hates so much.
A careless mother is going on a date with another fan and, in order to brighten up her daughter's loneliness, leaves her alone with a pink doll - the same doll that "wanders around the city and why it is vain to destroy little children". The girl considers the doll to be very realistic, therefore she associates it with herself, and herself with her mother. So begin the serious experiences of a girl who understands that this doll bought off her. At night, the girl dreams a terrible dream in which the doll embodies all her fears... "Pink Doll" creates the illusion of a spellbound fall into the abyss of children's dreams, fantasies and nightmares. The sensual effect is achieved by the game of scale and angle, the nervous rhythm of intraframe movement and graphic thickening of reality.
Saw and imagined in the children's fantasy the story of grandmother of Christ and the Apostles a little girl. Today few people remember that just a few decades ago in the village houses next to the icons you could still see the popular prints on religious themes. They finally disappeared from use only in the 60-ies of the last century. Of course, their creators were not professional painters or connoisseurs of theology. Drew, as best they could, she felt, not knowing neither rules nor laws. Simple uneducated people, nuggets, sought to glorify God with their creativity, that resonates in the hearts of those of peasants or artisans as they are.
Set one evening in present-day Moscow, 16-year-old Pyotr is baited by an ultra-nationalist group known for their violent abductions and attacks bolstered by Russia's LGBT Propaganda Law, but Pyotr has a dangerous secret.
This movie is a collection of portraits of residents of Russian countryside. Not a single word. Only long look into the camera. Landscape. Flow of time.
Lenfilm's most recent major production spins a kind of historical fantasy based on real incidents that's full of ominous implications for today. One night, a patrol rushes into the chambers of the Russian prince Pavel, son of the Empress Catherine; the Empress has died, and Pavel is to be anointed the new Tsar. Thought to be feeble-minded at best and crazy at worst, Pavel soon lives up to his enemies' fears: he dismisses long-serving courtiers, demands that peasants only work three days a week, and declares that state officials should start their days at 5 am. Soon, it seems that everyone who can is trying to hatch some kind of plot against him - including his own sons. Sumptuously designed, POOR POOR PAVEL constrasts the imperial splendor of the court with the sordid atmosphere of conspiracies and backstabbing that comes to define these characters' lives.
The end of the 19th century. The girl Varya cannot sleep because she has to lull a crying child to sleep. An icon looks at her from the corner opposite. The warm image of the infant Christ beckons and promises another life. But he never comes to the rescue. And the living baby in the cradle continues to cry.
A propaganda film for the 1st anniversary of the Red Army. A Red Army soldier is captured by the White Guards. The sentry assigned to him turns out to be his father. The son convinces his father that he is serving his own enemies, and together they flee to the Reds. (the movie has not been preserved)
A film adaptation of A. Sukhovo-Kobylin’s work “The Case,” which reproduces the details of the author’s trial experience.
Yakutia, the 1930s. Old Mikipper and his wife Oppuos live their days in thick taiga. Cows, hunting, fishing make up the simple everyday life of the old people. Once early in the winter an eagle flies into their garden. The old people dare no drive it away because eagles are sacred. All through the winter they feed the bird so that it does no attack their cattle. Gradually they grow accustomed to each other. On a cold Christmas day the eagle makes its way into the house and occupies the honorary place in the corner on the shelf next to the icons. From then on the people and the bird start their life together in one house.
he action in Father and Son by Vladimir Svirsky is imprinted on the walls of an apartment on a megacity’s outskirts, where the two characters bound to each other are locked in.
War Pigeon invokes the use of trained pigeons as aerial photographers during World War II. In this phone call to the customer service department of a bank, the speaker describes an unnerving encounter with a suspicious bird, which has led him to question his trust in the bank’s very existence.
A young documentary filmmaker is shooting a film about a girl who got lost in the forest and stayed there. In order to find out how this happened, he interviews her neighbors: Leshy, Water and his mermaids and Sinister.
Brothers Mitya and Andrey want nothing more than to conquer the skies flying jets. To achieve this, they undergo Russian military pilot training. The twins watch out for each other - in every situation.
A strange envelope is delivered to an architect bureau by mistake. Igor, a driver, gets the task to bring it to the right address. From that moment his life becomes a string of paranormal events. The cursed letter invades Igor's life and leads him to a mysterious addressee.
Television version of the solo performance by the Saint Petersburg Academic Theatre named after Lensovet. The play features two main characters: a boy, Oscar, who is terminally ill, and the Pink Lady, one of the caregivers dressed in pink, who looks after sick children. The Pink Lady, or as Oscar calls her, Pink Mama, offers the boy a game — every day he "lives" 10 years of his life. In the 10 days remaining before the boy's death, his entire life unfolds: from childhood, youth, and marriage, to old age and death. Additionally, on the Pink Lady's advice, Oscar turns to God and writes Him letters.
The trouble with businesswomen is that they have “business” in the first place and only “wumen” in the second. The heroine of this story in business concerns does not notice how she loses the closest person - her beloved husband. But fortunately, there is New Year's Eve with its miracles and the ability to correct any mistakes, even mistakes of love ...
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…
Funny adventures of a young computers genius Romka and his two friends in a virtual world.
Kostya is 23. He is an underground railway driver’s assistant. One day the doctor says that Kostya has the heart disease: he can die any moment… Kostya decides not to tell anybody about his disease. He tries to live the same way as he lived before his illness was diagnosed. But he keeps thinking about the meaning of life.
The group studies and performs karachay-balkarian folklore. Gollu is a traditional dance for vernal equinox. The band's name is a metaphor because just like spring is the time for revival, Gollu revive, reinterpret and develop traditional culture of their nation. The connecting thread of this film is legend about debate of person and devil. Fragments of the legend are followed by live performances and footages from archive shooting and all of that create a difficult metaphorical drama about journey from darkness to the light.
Everything that happens could have happened differently. And that's the beauty of life. This is what the film is about. This is a story in which a series of absurd, random events leads the heroine to a romantic meeting. Or not?
The feelings of Phil and Pyotr are really mixed. Whatever one of them feels - the second experiences the same feelings immediately.
The opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics took place at the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia, on 7 February 2014. It began at 20:14 MSK (UTC+4) and finished at 23:02 MSK (UTC+4) This was the first Winter Olympics and first Olympic Games opening ceremony under the IOC presidency of Thomas Bach. The Games were officially opened by President Vladimir Putin. An audience of 40,000 were in attendance at the stadium with an estimated 2,000 performers. The ceremony touched upon various aspects of Russian history, and included tributes to famous Russians, such as Peter Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), Ukrainian-born Russian humourist, dramatist, and novelist Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1889–1950), and patron of arts, and founder of Ballet Russes, Sergei Diaghilev (1872–1929).
Eldar Ryazanov in conversation with Boris Yeltsin.
After leaving the authorities, Captain Krasnov opens his own detective agency. And the first large client is the wife of a very prominent person in business circles, the beautiful Anna Frain, who suffers from partial memory loss. Anna turns to Krasnov with a non-standard request — to film her life on a video camera and show the footage the next day, which, according to her doctor, will help restore her memory. In this case, it is necessary to observe all confidentiality measures. By agreeing to take on this business, Krasnov falls into a masterfully placed trap.
A plane is preparing for departure. The captain’s co-pilot has fallen ill, and replacing a partner right before takeoff is considered a bad omen. Passengers are already seated, and a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar is playing in the cabin. The captain wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a pleasant flight. But soon after takeoff, a flight attendant informs the captain: the plane has been hijacked.
The concept of the project is to show what a Kino performance can be like in the 21st century, with good modern sound and stage production. Most of the material will be performed as close to the original as possible, but there will also be improvisations and new interpretations. The basis of the program is the real voice of Viktor Tsoi, digitized from the original multi-channel recordings of Kino. The group includes two original bass players of the group from different years, Alexander Titov and Igor Tikhomirov, and the permanent guitarist Yuri Kasparyan.
Rita, a figure skating coach, wants to prevent her school bankruptcy and closing by trying to push the famous millionaire to fall in love with her.
A film about love, one day in the life of the heroine, a love triangle.
The plot of the film is based on the second stage of the expedition "North is nearby." In the spring of 2019, daredevils on three all-terrain vehicles over 29 days covered more than 6,000 km along the northeastern coast of Russia from Novy Urengoy to Anadyr. They chose directions, and powerful Arctic vehicles carried them directly.