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A 1993 Russian comedy film directed by Valeri Bychenkov, based on Vadim Shefner's poetry.

This delightful ballet tells the story of Dr Coppelius, an eccentric toymaker, who attempts to bring life to his beautiful doll Coppélia. He is foiled by the mischevious Swanilda, who masquerades as Coppélia and saves her love, Franz, from the Doctor's magic. Performed by the Kirov Ballet.

Vladimir Putin is the first President of Russia in the new century. The first attempt of Russian documentary filmmakers to create a real portrait of the head of state. The first person of the country, as his relatives see him. The authors recorded the life of the hero from the first days in the Kremlin as acting President until May 7, 2001, the anniversary of his official inauguration, after winning the presidential election on March 26, 2000.

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.

The film depicts the story of a once-famous artist who devoted her entire life to work. After losing job and authority, she looks back at her life and faces overwhelming loneliness. On her way home the artist notices a thieving boy with unusual works. In order to find a company, she takes several lessons where the boy shows her his way of painting.

Based on the plot of L. Mey's play "The Pskovite Woman". A poetic legend about the arrival of Tsar Ivan the Terrible and his oprichniki in Pskov. Having destroyed Novgorod, the tsar moved to free Pskov, the city was waiting for the same fate. But the city was not ruined - the Terrible met in Pskov his illegitimate daughter Olga, whose existence he did not even suspect.

Andrey, the owner of a construction company, has to turn to an official he knows for help in order to win a government tender and avoid bankruptcy. Everything is ready to meet the "dear" guest, but as soon as he crosses the threshold, everything goes awry from the very first minute.

Having accidentally committed a crime, Victor tries to evade responsibility and flees. He meets Nika and falls in love with her. The young people are trying to arrange Victor's illegal escape abroad, but events take an unexpected turn.

An ordinary beer saleswoman Lyubasha accidentally became an advertising star and became famous throughout the country. Advertising agency manager Zhora is proud and happy, her parents are happy, her aunt and uncle are happy, only Lyubasha’s boyfriend Lesha is deeply unhappy, who is jealous of Lyuba for everyone and even for advertising.

In a snowed-under village lives the shepherd Ivan Sergeyevich. Every morning he cleans up the manure and feeds the cows. Day after day goes by in this way. One winter morning a stranger arrives in the village in an expensive car and offers Ivan Sergeyevich good work in the city. Ivan Sergeyevich agrees with pleasure. The stranger takes Ivan Sergeyevich away from the village to the city...

Maxim dreams of going to London and finally gets a visa. But a simple request of the mother to throw out the old refrigerator can put a cross not to his dream!

A huge house, a coffin house becomes a symbol of a wasted life, a repository of the secrets and mysteries of its inhabitants, a place of unfulfilled hopes and aspirations...

Two young boys must decide what is more important for them - duty or friendship.

Viktor, a successful businessman and former doctor, illegally returns to the hospital to help his mother who is sick with COVID-19. Risking his life and freedom trying to figure out what it is, he, along with the medical team, helps the hospital to better prepare for the impact of the pandemic.

A boy receives a long-awaited puppy as a gift from his parents.

Sasha is a young actor who tries in vain to build a career. His agent is rapidly losing faith in his ward, but still gives Sasha one last chance. Having suffered another fiasco, the young man will be disappointed both in himself and in his profession, but a chance meeting will change everything.

Once a large bootlegger factory went bankrupt and turned into a small artel. But people did not become smaller. Valenki for them - not just shoes, it's the meaning and way of life. They understand their need. And they work in difficult physical conditions of work in a collapsing building on old equipment. And they do not regret their life, they rejoice to it ...

Masha is coming from the city to help hold a village wedding. During the celebration for her rude stick host club and the local rich semen. Girl rescues Sasha, working on Seeds. Sasha accompanies Masha home, and soon their tender friendship grows into a real strong feeling. But semen does not leave the desire to take revenge on an opponent for a story on the wedding. He is stalking the younger sister Sasha Vika and kills her, leaving the corpse near the cell phone, which Sasha gave to Mary. All the evidence against Masha! The court gives her a cruel sentence…

A young German, Werner Müller, turns out to be a volunteer in the neurological department of an ordinary St. Petersburg hospital. A foreigner, overwhelmed by the impulse to help all the sick and needy, has a long and eventful day ahead of him. Every now and then, finding himself in comical situations and making his way through misunderstandings, the volunteer discovers all the facets of the Russian national character.

The second film in a series of documentary and journalistic films about Russia. This is an impartial and friendly story about how the capital of Russia lives, works, studies and relaxes, seen through the eyes of a foreigner. The film's host, American actor Jed Allan, familiar to many Russians for his role as CC Capwell in the TV series Santa Barbara, travels around the multimillion-dollar metropolis, accompanied by the Russian actor and athlete Alexander Nevsky. The presenters of the film are equally interested in the opinions of representatives of the modern elite and ordinary citizens. The daily life of the city is the main interest of the film's authors; the faces snatched by the cameraman from the Moscow crowd are his main characters. The idea of the film is to show modern Moscow as one of the brightest, most beautiful and most dynamically developing cities in the world.

This is a story about a man and about a woman. Or rather, about male and about female. Two halves that search for each other and don’t coincide. He is an ordinary guy from a small mining town. She is a diva from the capital’s art world. Their meeting is accidental. Their relationship is doomed.

Eugene is a teenage nerd who lives in a small Russian town. He sits in front of his computer all day long, playing games and surfing the Internet. He decides to run a small porn website and soon as he earns his first money from e-commerce. His life now will never be the same - he is no longer a school nerd. From now on every school boy wants to become his friends and the girls are dreaming of dating him. Developing business Eugene was caught in a dilemma: to live up to the corrupted world standards and find his place in the unideal reality or to rebel against the powerful organization risking his and his family lives.

The major of special forces Ilya is young, beautiful and, we can say, happy! He marries, and for him it is a profitable party — his wife is not beautiful, but the daughter of rich parents. However, on the wedding day begins a nightmare. Yana Yanovskaya — the former mistress of Ilya who came to congratulate him is killed, and he is suspected of murder. The investigation begins, during which it turns out that Ilya is innocent. However, the shadow of suspicion still hanging over him, and, wishing to prove that he is innocent, Ilya begins his own investigation. He finds the real killer — and this discovery will stun him…

The hero of the film, the investigator of the UK, appears to the viewer as a cynical, calm person, ready to do anything to achieve his goals. But a series of events forces him to take a fresh look at himself. The hero is faced with a difficult choice, where on the one hand – a career and prosperity, and on the other – an act by which he can lose everything, even his life.… And here comes that very day - One real day that gives the hero the opportunity for moral rebirth and spiritual takeoff!

Aliaksiej Ščadroŭ used to work as a paramedic in an ambulance emergency service in Belarus. His ambulance was often called to collect homeless people from the streets, but after a few kilometres the crew would throw them away. Once in prison, Aliaksiej found himself unwanted too. The time behind bars changed the former paramedic’s outlook on life. Following his release, Aliaksiej led a vagrant’s life and lived in church buildings. After that he settled in the Aliaksandraŭka village where he organised unofficial asylum —he started to admit poor, disabled people, take care of them, help them obtain reissued passports, and enable them to return to a normal way of life. Unfortunately, the local authorities have not been appreciative of Aliaksiej’s initiative...

In 2020, director Andrei Natotsinsky arrived in Sukhum, and the city greeted him with darkness: no lanterns were lit on the central square or around it. After learning that rolling blackouts are associated with cryptominers, who were attracted to Abkhazia by cheap electricity, Natotsinsky returned with a film crew. To figure out how the contrast between the active mining of cryptocurrency and the general devastation framed by wild landscapes works, he conducted four filming expeditions in three years. However, "Edge of the Night" is not a film about miners, or rather, not so much about them, as in general about a region that has not yet recovered from the war of 92-93, the subsequent conflicts and economic disaster. Immersing himself in local history, talking to a variety of people, watching the arrival and departure of miners, Natotsinsky tries to create an objective — as far as possible — picture of life in Abkhazia.

Dismissed clown presents the unique amusement, which let people feel themselves powerful for low price.

Two babies are in dire need of pacification.

Twenty-five years after she moved away, Canadian filmmaker Kristina Wagenbauer (a participant in the 2019 Talent Lab) returns to her native Russia to visit her grandmother – her Babushka – with whom she spent part of her childhood, in this film brimming with tenderness and humour. The two women reflected in the mirror bear an undeniable resemblance, and each seeks to recognize herself in the other. Plumbing her memories, Wagenbauer hopes to re-establish a lost bond of intimacy and to confront the wounds of the past. Babushka has survived the Second World War, the break-up of the Soviet Union, the void that her daughter and granddaughter left behind when they moved abroad, and, more recently, the death of the love of her life. Despite all of this, she holds to life with a strong spirit of resilience.

An actress is given a telegram in her theater bathroom in the presence of a fan: she has won the trial and can receive one hundred thousand rubles. The actress and a fan drive around Moscow in a troika, entering and exiting the entrances of luxury restaurants.

The movie is based on the events in South Ossetia in August 2008, and portraying a brutal Georgian army engaging in ethnic cleansing at the behest of its omnipresent American masters.

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.

Mitya Klimov is a student of Stroganovka. In his free time, he moonlights as an instant artist (portrait in a minute). He accidentally meets a lovely girl Lena, whose portrait he painted on the street. Their next meeting took place in the gallery of his father, the famous artist Yuri Shamanov, where the birthday of his sister Natalia was celebrated. At the time of the trip, Mitya, entering the utility room, saw the corpse of Jeanne, Natalya’s girlfriend, and then he himself received a blow to the head ...

Young film director in the shooting period of his first feature film doesn’t even guess how much will cost realization of his artistic conception. Shooting of bedroom scene will be the real disaster for all the crew, takes all director’s nerves and almost destroy his private life.

Once Olga was told that she would meet her betrothed on New Year's Eve. Disappointed in her affair with Edik, who showed up on her doorstep on New Year's Eve, she no longer trusts anyone, and decisively changes everything in her life - her style, her job, her apartment. While Olga is getting rid of unpleasant memories of the past, the angels are not idle, they decide the fates of their wards. On another New Year's Eve, an uninvited and rather persistent guest from the far North appears on Olga's doorstep. From that moment (not without the help of the angels), the New Year for Olga and other characters in the film turns into a series of incredible events...

ACA 177: Bagov vs. Shaikhaev 2 was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, June 28, 2024 the Bolshoy Ice Dome in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

A young man askes the neighbour to water the onion during his absence. The neighbour at first refuses to take the keys. Eventually, she agrees, however. When she's left, the young man takes out a rope and climbs up on the table ... The film based on the play by Ludmila Petrushevskaya, famous russian writer.

Young artist Philip unexpectedly finds himself in a true Land of Wonders—a secret, magical world hidden in the vast expanses of Siberia. A thrilling adventure awaits him, meeting the fantastical Imor people and their amazing animals. But due to human intervention, the Land of Wonders and its inhabitants are in danger of destruction. Philip must save this magical world and his new friends at any cost.

A long-time guest of a respectable hotel, an elderly lonely playwright, famous in the past, now left without a job and without funds, is ready to pass away. He signs a contract with a young hotel porter, who, for a large sum within a week, unexpectedly for the customer, has to help him with this.

Overall, the idea is to make ethnicities, politics, races, nations - to make all of them turn into non-existent objects... ...akin to ovals, boxes, blobs, wardrobes! You might think he's really "someone", really a "representative of the people", but really just a representative of skirting boards, of coffee rings, nothing more. Overall, political invective's that should be perceived solely as poetic invective's. Overall, spreading geopolitics across geology and poetics. Like a question-Eskimo, dancing and waving his ribbons in the air, turns and changes on a pillar, becomes a question-Holocaust. In fact, "geopoetics" is a kind of a Holocaust seen as a choir, as an ensemblement, as an Eskimo.

In the capital of Ingushetia, at the memorial, there is a carriage. This is a carriage from the 40s, a carriage of memory. One of those in which the Ingush were transported back in 1944 to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. February 23 is the day when the whole country celebrates Defender of the Fatherland Day; mourning takes place in Ingushetia. And on this day, the old people gathered in this carriage to remember and tell each other how it was.

An attempt to conquer Elbrus in bad weather cost the lives of five tourists. A poignant doc on the causes of the tragedy.

The violent actions of the authorities did not stop the protests. The film "War" by Daria Demur, Ekaterina Ignashevich, Daria Gerasimenko and Maksia Pakhomov is about the street confrontation between demonstrators and the police.

Home concert by Boris Grebenshchikov from London, where the musician was caught in quarantine. The audience will hear both time-tested favorite hits and new songs. Kvartirnik as a format of musical direction appeared in the period of the USSR, when musicians gathered in the apartments of friends and arranged improvised concerts, mainly in the rock style. Boris Grebenshchikov, one of the founders of the format, together with other then – beginning performers, and today – already legends of Russian rock-arranged apartment parties and sang his songs, which eventually became part of the "Golden Collection" of Russian music. Well! Again "Kvartirnik"– now on a different occasion, but with the same energy!

A Russian, a Jew and an Armenian came to Margarita to help her with some household repairs. But then came another surprise - a Black American who was determined on proposing to her. A Russian member of the State Duma, a Jewish teacher and an Armenian restaurateur decided they cannot possibly let her leave for the United States. It might be hard to persuade her to stay, but it’s not in the nature of people in Russia to give up easily. That day turned into night, which turned into morning and divided Margarita’s life into ‘before’ and ‘after’. After her guests almost crashed the apartment that they were supposed to help fix, Margarita understood that men are interested in many things - sex, politics, nationalism, internationalism, anarchy, family values, philosophical questions about the meaning of the world - but not in home repairs. And it is only in the end that she sees: men who are special do exist - but you have to look carefully…

Stolid Fisherman is going to fish in calm, but his fastened on him friend forces his company and accidently kills a mushroomer in a forest.

The main qualities of 45-year-old businessman Yevgeny Vasin are the brilliant mind, thanks to which he became rich, and the disgusting character, which turns the life of the businessman's relatives and subordinates into a real hell. On New Year's Eve, Vasin knocks down Santa Claus in a car and, instead of providing help, steals a Christmas tree and leaves. Punishment is inevitable. Santa Claus transmits Evgeny's soul into the body of his Snow Maiden. Now, in the image of his grandfather's helper, Vasin will have to deliver gifts to all those whom he has offended, humiliated or insulted, to look at himself from the outside and check whether his life and the life of his family are similar to the fairy tale that Yevgeny drew for himself.

The film is a farewell. Farewell to the native land, the primordial banks of the river and the people who have lived on the Hangar for centuries. History repeats itself. And again, as it was 40 years ago at the Bratskaya HPP, the life and fate of entire generations will be under the water of another man-made sea. We see all this through the eyes of three heroes - the writer Valentin Rasputin, the publisher Gennady Sapronov and the critic Valentin Kurbatov. The film was awarded the Award of the Academy of Russian Television TEFI-2011 in the categories "Television documentary" and "Director of a television documentary / series".

Ivory harvesting under the extreme conditions of the Russian Far North is slowly but surely turning into a sort of a «mammoth rush». However, as the demand grows, so does social tension in the area.

In September 2016, the St. Petersburg artist Sergey Dreyden turns 75 years old. He rehearses new plays, is shot by young directors. It is not assigned to any theater, it does not belong to any group. It exists by itself, suddenly appearing on one or another scene. The film is a unique experience of documentary observation of an actor for several years. The basis of the plot is rehearsals of one role in the performance of the St. Petersburg Youth Theater "Wine from dandelions, or Zamri." The process of the birth of a character is no less exciting and interesting than the performance itself. Around the main "rehearsal" story - episodes from life, stories about childhood against the background of their own drawings, paintings.

One day you'll wake up on the grass in the park to hear: 'Hello!' from an unknown girl, and your world will be turned upside-down. Glorious future of a pianist will seem boring. Clever, attentive girlfriend - too ordinary. And the slogan of your new life will be: 'Crash the taboos!'

Tiny Soviet village by the sea, in the years before the Second World War... A very young girl, Vera, falls madly in love with an older military officer who is visiting from out of town. She leaves her home and family to live with him in various military posts where he serves with the army. Through the difficulties of army life, and years of war, her love for this older man survives, and she gives herself completely without reservation. This film is about friendship, loss, survival, loyalty, and the wonderful gift of unconditional love, which is only given to a few.

Anya and Dima had nothing in common between their young neighbors. Anya ran away from her domineering parents in order to "conquer Moscow" and prove that she could become successful without their support. Dima, on the other hand, is stuck in the care of his parents with no chance of establishing a personal life, because no normal girl can live in the same apartment with the quirks of his dad and mom. But one random night and the famous phrase "You're having a baby!" turn their usual life upside down. And this is just the beginning of an unpredictable 9-month-long race that new parents will have to overcome.

For the first time in her life Virineya is an ethnic Moksha woman who grew up in Moscow, meets Vasily, a man of her own nationality. She is an aspiring model who appears in cheap advertisements, he works at a garbage processing facility. On her days-off she likes to have a glass of cold beer, he enjoys playing tennis. They are very different, but they have a common land of their ancestors, where they have never been, as well as the endangered language of their people, which they speak but poorly…

The three heroes have a feat according to the schedule every day. You will have to investigate the theft of the princely crown, then rescue friends from the magical world of dreams, then the Horse Julius and Alyosha will clash in an epic battle of wits. There are no small adventures, and our heroes are not small.

One day, Anna was betrayed by everyone she sincerely loved and considered her loved ones. Her husband, colleagues, and friends turned away from the unhappy woman overnight. Desperate, the heroine wrote a suicide note, indicating in it the names of all those who brought her to this state, and decided to commit suicide. However, the doctors managed to save the patient...

On the evening of August 9, they celebrated and thought that this was happening all over the country, but then it turned out that Alyaksandr Lukashenka was declared the winner of the Belarusian elections. Now the inhabitants of Borovlyan are pondering what to do, and jokingly propose to create the Borovlyany People's Republic.

Katya and her fiancé Andrey - successful young banker fly to Malta on holiday. At the diving center they accidentally meet Max - professional diver, secretly engaged in black archaeology and Katya's ex boyfriend so the adventures start...