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A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid Gurov. A work of great honesty and piercing psychology.
Journalist Zhenya works on St. Petersburg television and one day meets a kind, honest and decent parachutist. But his virtues tire the heroine, and she marries a famous “black journalist” who does dirty tricks to her friend. Having seen the light, Zhenya turns to his senior comrade, the director of the shipping company, for help. He first helps the parachutist leave the country, and then find a groom for Zhenya in Hamburg…
Two sisters are separated as infants after their father leaves their mother. One grows up with her father in privilege and the other grows up in hardship with her mother.
Family history. About how the Grandmother taught the boy to save. Saving another creature, the boy begins to live. Personality formation is taking place (and the boy may not even know about it). Grandma did it all right, but she was tired.
Three parts of the cycle - three films: "Never Say Never", "Fraer of Muddy Water", "The Last Mohicans". Zhzhenov's activity in cinema began before the age of 22. Then there was an arrest with interrogations and prisons, then camps... The artist tells about his life in Russian prisons and the places where he was imprisoned: in Kresty, in Vladivostok, in Magadan. Excerpts from the films in which Georgy Zhzhenov starred surprisingly reveal his own life.
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.
An ordinary official Lopatin is ready to do anything for a promotion. And now there is only one step left to the cherished place: He just needs to play hockey with the president. But the official has never played hockey, so he urgently hires a coach. During training, Lopatin falls and hits his head hard on the ice, and all people look the same to him.
When with the last stroke of the clock the desire of friends suddenly comes true, three friends get an incredible chance to do what they dreamed of all their lives…
The story of the miraculous appearance of St. Savva Storozhevsky to the French general Eugène de Beauharnais, stepson of Napoleon.
Senya is a student, a well-known Weiner, confident in his irresistibility. To impress his beloved, he makes her a gorgeous marriage proposal. But unexpectedly, Julia refuses, accusing him of irresponsibility and frivolity. Senya decides to prove his feelings and goes on an archaeological expedition, where they are waiting for incredible adventures, fateful meetings and unique discoveries...
The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after intensive compulsory treatment. Has a documentary film maker he gets involved in the Chechen conflict, where he meets his own apparent death. He recalls his life and realizes it mirrors that of his whole generation.
Having won a lucky ticket to life, a provincial girl thinks that she has solved all her problems, but they are just beginning...
Five passengers - the Bandit, his friend Matvei, Matvei's old father, the Musician, and a young woman - race along an empty road in a big black jeep, searching for the Belfry of Happiness which, according to hearsay, lies somewhere between St. Petersburg and the town of Uglich, near a deserted nuclear power station. The Belfry takes people, but it does not take everyone. Each of the five passengers believes that he or she will be chosen.
More recently, in the middle of the last century, a group of enthusiasts began to develop a sport unique to Russia: water skiing. Very quickly, riding on the water behind the boat became popular: tricks became more complicated, new champions appeared. And a few decades later, water skiing was replaced by modern wakeboarding — with its own unique path and bright characters.
An inspector from the capital arrives in a village in the Arctic Circle to investigate a case of theft. However, not everyone is interested in seeing the investigation through to the end.
The incredible life story of a Soviet soldier of Tatar descent who was captured by the Nazis during WWII. Today, his daughter Sana is tracing the path of her silent father, trying to understand what made him the man she knew as a child, through his diaries, as well as various personal and public archives and registries. As she accompanies Sana in her journey, filmmaker Aliona van der Horst excavates film archives, to find traces of those millions of Soviet soldiers who were caught in the crossfire of fighting between dictators, who were there but were easily left out of the narrative of the global war.
A sequel of the story about a little girl raised in a magical forest by fairy-tale characters: Baba-Yaga, Koschei the Immortal, Lesch, Vodyaniy and Kikimora.
The people's favorite, the country's best football player Fyodor Cherenkov, is not going through the best period in his life. The only thing that keeps him from despair is his dream of playing at the World Cup. But the head coach of the national team removes him from the team at the last moment. Fyodor is seriously thinking about retiring, but for the sake of his family and fans, he returns to lead his club to the championship and become the best again.
Although the British Empire collapsed in the mid-20th century, many still believe that British imperialism is alive and well. Around fifteen countries — including Canada and Australia — continue to recognize the British monarch as their nominal head of state. In recent years, as relations between Russia and the West have sharply deteriorated, Britain has been portrayed as Russia’s principal arch-enemy, with imperialist thinking often cited as the root cause. In our new in-depth episode, we explore the history of the British Empire and ask whether it truly belongs to the past. We travel to London, to India — once the “jewel in the crown” — and to other countries that still have unresolved questions for the Empire and are demanding the repayment of historical debts.
In an exclusive interview, Russia's president Vladimir Putin discusses the biggest decisions he's faced as leader and where the country is headed.
A sharp and witty play on opposites. *Schastlivtsev – Neschastlivtsev* (2003) stages joy and despair as two sides of the same coin, balancing irony with a touch of melancholy. Short, but it lingers.
Leopard Marina had already despaired of finding her predator, until one day the frantic rhythm of the metro made its own adjustments. In the hustle and bustle it is easy to miss the main thing, but the theft of the bag by the thief Chameleon helped the main character see a real knight. The stern-looking hunter helped the lady and was rewarded with attention.
German and Lera are preparing for the wedding. The groom is going to give his beloved a car, but the car dealership insists on taking her for a test drive. The salon's salesman turns out to be Lera's ex-boyfriend, Maks, a reckless stuntman who is trying to make money on his stunt videos while working part-time at a car dealership.
On May 9, at the Immortal Regiment procession in the mountain village of Mizur in North Ossetia, local residents came out with portraits of their warring relatives. One of the posters featured a photograph of an officer who died in March in Ukraine. 33-year-old captain Aslan Dzantiev was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. On May 9, his family arranged a memorial ceremony, neighbors and relatives, according to the traditional Ossetian custom, prepared food and lit a candle on the grave of the deceased. In Caucasian families, men and women do not sit down together at the table and grieve differently, men make toasts and behave with restraint, and women cook food and do not hide their grief. Aslan Dzantiev grew up without a father and remained childless, his mother, grandmother and young widow mourn him at home.
A young forty-year-old surgeon Oleg Volkov has been appointed to the post of chief physician of the maternity hospital, who is trying to change the abortive consciousness of society at least at the level of his maternity hospital, where, in addition to childbirth, abortions are also performed - as elsewhere in Russia.
Tanya is 40 years old, has an adult daughter and a reliable husband, whose birthday it is today. That means, after work the whole family goes to a restaurant. Tanya’s plans are crossed by her first great love, Denis, who has suddenly arrived in Moscow for business. Tanya and Denis spend this day together, and for a while forget that they are no longer 20. This id different from all the other seldom meetings, because Denis puts Tanya before a choice: here is her stable life where there is a husband and a daughter, and there is a ticket to Berlin where they can go together and try to make up all the years they have missed out.
The idle life of a famous promoter named Arthur comes to an end when the cops launch a manhunt for him. Arthur is put under intense pressure at the worst possible moment: he has gotten himself involved in a major scam connected to the construction of a trendy nightclub called Clubare. His fate hangs between prison, death, and a chance to hit the real jackpot. Arthur’s problems keep escalating, and his plan leads to a most unexpected finale.
Solo concert of the patriarch of the Russian stand-up comedy Ruslan Belyy.
Diplomat Volodin is going to work in the States for a responsible job. But, having crossed the ocean, he immediately went over to the Americans. And not empty-handed: he calls the American embassy from a pay phone and gives the appearance of a Soviet intelligence officer. The traitor is sure that he will not be identified “by the phone's strangled voice. There can be no such technology. But, on the instructions of the Chekists, such a technique was developed in Marfino's "sharashka" near Moscow by convict engineers and scientists.
Vera is left in the hospital to look after her sick grandmother. Vera is not ready for such responsibility. She is looking for support in a new acquaintance.
Short film for the Action! 2020
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.
A story of adoption told without glamour and hypocrisy that usually accompanies this topic.Anna is a top model, who was adopted by a French couple as a child. She returns to her hometown with a charity mission from France.A story of an orphan turned princess becomes a legend in her native provincial town. Anna gets treated like royal person and everyone expects miracles from herAnna is confused and cannot understand what all these people want from her. She is used to a calm and logical western lifestyle. Her home is France, in Russia she is a guest. Horrified, she watches her photographer boyfriend Michelle, admire incomprehensible Russian mentality
The adult hero of the picture - the captain of the voyage - was captured by the African natives. At home, in a seaside town, he still had a pregnant wife. The boy was born without a father, and raised him in the belief that dad heroically died. And now, after nine years, he returns ... the leader of the African tribe. Father and son meet each other throughout history, and eventually find a common language.
Vladimir Pozner and Ivan Urgant's grand tour of France, which they traveled by car and bicycle, from Paris to provincial towns.
This is a candid and emotional project of Russian-Israeli writer and screenwriter Dina Rubina. Together with director and her close friend Stanislav Mitin she goes back to her childhood and youth spent in Tashkent, contemplates her creative early days in Moscow, and shares how she feels about immigration to Jerusalem. The film is full of excerpts from the writer’s famous works, episodes from films based on her writing, and sketches from her current life. It is dedicated to the anniversary of Dina Rubina - one of the most widely read contemporary authors and recipient of many international awards, whose books are translated into 38 languages.
During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arrogant "specialness" of genius. Dedicated scientist Lopatkin takes refuge in Moscow with the potty, brilliant old inventor Busko. Lopatkin works tirelessly on his invention, embarking on a roller-coaster of rejection and acceptance, his work vilified, plucked apart and plagiarized by colleagues, particularly by his nemesis Drozhdov. Drozhdov's wife Natasha, alienated from her cold, controlling husband, is increasingly drawn to Lopatkin, whom she knew when they both taught at the same school. Soon she runs away from her husband and happily keeps house for the two absent-minded ex-professors Lopatkin and Busko. Natasha is ready to give Lopatkin her own life, love and faith. Lopatkin is eager to sacrifice his life for the idea, doing the utmost for his motherland.
This is a story about an elderly woman, Nina Andreevna Cherkasskaya. She has devoted her whole life to training dogs in the circus and has been living alone for many years. On the eve of the anniversary, Nina comes to the city to perform at a creative evening. On the day of the performance, it turns out that her name is not on the guest list.
In the search for a single good person in the province of Sezuan, three gods finally find only poor street girl Shen Te, whom they reward with a large gift of money. Now wealthy, Shen Te is now so exploited by all men that she has no choice but to slip into the shoes of her hard-hearted cousin, Shui Ta. Accused of murdering the missing Shen Te, the supposed Shui Ta confesses his dual role and the gods avoid a conviction. But Shen Te aka Shui Ta is now abandoned by all humans and also by the gods – helpless in the world.
A school teacher wasn't expecting to find a dead man corpse in her apartment during a party.
A video comic based on a montage of old footage from a Ural factory using computer graphics and flash animation. If the first part is a bit reminiscent of crazy Soviet documentary propaganda, the second part takes us to an alternative reality, populated by revived phantoms of the magazine "Krokodil": freeloaders, alcoholics, abstract artists and other nonconformists. The main character, Barkhatov, is a superman on a mission to fight the enemies of the working class.
In 2016, Donald Trump became president of the United States, which came as a surprise to many voters. Public discontent with the outcome of the vote has given rise to many versions of what happened, one of which is the external interference of hackers from Russia. American intelligence agencies are entering into a real confrontation with the Russian "troll factory" — talented hackers who influence the global news agenda, shape public opinion and interfere in the internal affairs of the United States. But who is really hiding behind the resonant cyberattacks?
Verkhnekamsk. Lonely loser Sasha works as a security guard at an exchange office. His life "didn't happen," his dreams didn't come true, his family didn't work out. Sasha feels unnecessary and unhappy, and not being able to change anything, he gives up morally. But even here Sasha does not have the courage to complete the matter himself, he turns to an old friend - the husband of his ex-wife - for help.
Siberian bus driver Tamara sets about introducing her teenage son Max to the colleague she has been dating for a while. But when all three meet in a jolly karaoke bar, the rivalry between the two men she loves releases her from clutching at old hopes.
The poetic film essay on poems by Arseny Tarkovsky reveals the mystery of the fate and work of three prominent filmmakers - Sergey Parazhdanov, Andrey Tarkovsky, Alexandr Antipenko.
Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run. People, faces, conversations, protests, failures and triumphs come together to chronicle the campaign.
Crime drama at a Russian hotel
Vitya Kasatkin has an unusual hobby - he is engaged in Japanese sumo wrestling. His love for sumo was instilled in him by his father, who left the family 8 years ago and went to Japan. For many years, the boy has been living with one dream - to get to a youth tournament in Japan, in the hope that his father will see him, understand that he was wrong, and return to them.
The Bolshoi presents the famous star-crossed lovers from Shakespeare’s most tragic love story set to Prokofiev’s cinematic score.