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Their art and way of life are a mirage of elusive beauty. Here, the legendary past shares a roof with the everyday present. On the verandas of old dachas, samovars still emit their smoke, while through the mist rising from the ravines, it seems as if eyes from the past are peering into our world. And we will follow that gaze—into the workshop of toy-making master Viktor Nazariti, into the village house of artist Maria Dreznina, into the old home of Yuri Macheret and Marina Faidysh, once bought from the Polenovs, into the garden of Irina Starzhenetskaya and Anatoliy Komelin. The artistic dynasties of the Vatagins, Bragovskiys, and Birshteins will open their doors, pouring the energy of creativity onto their canvases, joining us in gazing into the mist rising from the ravines—wondering if, for a fleeting moment, eyes from the past will appear within it.

In the summer camp, a serious war broke out between a detachment of disabled children and hooligans who suddenly appeared. And only one thing can reconcile them - saving the camp from demolition, which was conceived by the local director and the mayor for the purpose of profit.

The Russian entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries

Ten-year-old Danya lives in the Russian hinterland with his alcoholic father, Vadim, and teenage sister, Nadya. His mother is in prison. The father is occasionally visited by Larisa, a coworker and lover. One day, a phone call reveals that Danya's mother is being released early on parole. Danya is the only one happy about the news; his father is lost in an alcoholic haze with Larisa, and his sister holds a grudge against their mother. Danya tries to arrange a celebration for her return, but soon realizes he is the only one waiting for her, turning the holiday into a tragedy.

The true story of a former chicken seeking to return to her past life.

The action of the short film takes place in the summer camp near the sea to relax the guys from the orphanage.

The documentary biopic gives an insight into the life and music of Anatoliy Krupnov, one of the brightest rock stars of the late- and post-Soviet era. This is the story of the talented musician who created the cult rock group Cherny Obelisk (The Black Obelisk), the portrait of an artist and at the same time an accurate depiction of the era and its generation, the music and the ideas that guided minds and rock music at the turn of the century.

Little novels from the life of the Leningrad poet Oleg Grigoriev. His fate, like his poems, is a flip-flop, where good and evil exist under the masks of each other.

Knowing that he will soon pass on, elderly Valentin Grack hires private detective Stanislav to follow him around for an entire day and write down everything that he does. It is a cold day and during Grack's travels he encounters a younger woman who addresses him as professor. He then meets a prostitute who turns out to be his daughter, and finally he meets an old woman, his worried wife who has been searching eight days for him. In between meeting the women, Grack finds himself in some almost surreal situations and having flashbacks about his youth.

Deep at night, a dedicated cyclist traverses the wintry forest. The challenge: make sure this new day gets off to a fresh and timely start.

Young Sasha receives a porcelain amulet as a gift from her grandfather. Accidentally dropping the ancient artifact, she makes a new friend—a kind spirit named Li Xiao. Li Xiao becomes enchanted by Sasha, and St. Petersburg becomes his new home. But soon the spirit is overcome by a mysterious illness. To save Li Xiao, Sasha embarks on a dangerous journey to China.

Andrei, a member of a group of Soviet troops in Germany, is ordered to return to Russia. It remains only to buy a car and, together with his beloved wife Marina, hit the road home by car. At one of the sections of the road, the spouses are stopped by police captain Malkov for checking documents. In the same second, bandits appear from nowhere and attack the passengers of a brand new foreign car. In an unequal battle, Marina dies, and Andrei is seriously injured. The hero still finds the strength to get to the nearest police station to report a crime. But the first who catches his eye is Malkov himself. Realizing that all efforts are in vain, Andrei leaves. However, the bandits are already aware of the surviving witness of the attack on the road, and they begin to hunt for the officer. Now he is alone against the whole gang.

20 short films about human rights.

The story of an alien who one day finds himself on an alien planet. Seeing that the entire surface of the Earth is polluted, the main character decides to save it by any means. However, local residents are dissatisfied with the initiative of the uninvited guest.

The play "Collected Works" is an immersion in the fate of one family and at the same time in the fate of humanity. An attempt to unravel the code of absolute happiness and understand whether it is possible at all.

A lone Fisherman catches a Woman with huge legs from the sea. Love and harmony instantly arise between them. The fisherman goes out in the morning to fish, The woman crushes the grapes with her huge legs. And in the evenings they dance tango together. But at some point everything goes awry. The huge legs of the Woman knock down the pillars of the house, smash the antique sculpture, and it is already impossible to stop this chaos.

A group of amateur climbers is searching in the mountains for a figurine of a golden goddess, the location of which is encrypted in a map. One of the groups disappears, and with it the diaries, which may contain a decoding of the location of the treasure. After some time, the climbing friends meet again at the mountain hotel where they once began their search. As it turned out, someone really doesn’t want the search for the map and the missing climbers to continue...

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.

An elderly lady goes to the city center to get a gift for her daughter. Near the station square, an expensive-looking fur coat is being touted to her. A devious scam or a miracle?

The story of four criminals: a thief with the experience of Nimble, Alphonse the swindler Koshchei, an avid bully-a brawler with a Sledgehammer and a naive and stupid pet thief Sprat. They all met in prison and now, before they give up their criminal lives, they decide on a final grand robbery so that they have enough money for the rest of their lives. Former prisoners rent a restaurant next to the bank and intend to secretly dig into the vault, but suddenly their institution with a prison kitchen and boorish service becomes a hit with visitors. Now the guys have to decide whether to succumb to the romance of thieves and carry out a robbery or choose a quiet life with a new business for them.

Viktor Stepanovich is a Soviet-era grandfather who does not understand or share modern "hothouse" methods of raising children. He deceives his grandson away from home to go on an unforgettable adventure with him and finally make a real man out of the home boy. A worthy man of the Bogdanov family.

Second stand-up concert by Idrak in April 29, 2017.

Motygino is the smallest and most inaccessible settlement in Russia, which has a local drama theater. Recently, a young St. Petersburg director arrived there and decided to make him a fashionable place: he invited his friends-actors from the capital and began to develop a new theater. Do you think a warm welcome awaited him?

How and for what reason do our beloved children turn into difficult teens? At what point does maturity come to them and respect for their parents returns? To answer these questions, you have to live your life. Only cinema can make a simple conversation between father and son overcome time and turn into a dialogue between generations.

2015 is declared a year of literature in Russia. But what is it for a writer to live the year of literature? Neighbor informs the writer that his house will be demolished for the construction of the highway. The highway project is posted on the Internet. And you can see a schematically designated house, where the famous contemporary writers have gathered recently: Alisa Ganieva, Anna Kozlova, Pavel Sanaev, Sergei Shargunov, Anton Sekisov and others. Months of waiting are on. And the writer decides to live as if nothing happened. He's writing.

The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first sight a silly man, and takes him home. His wife is at first not very happy with this choice. Vova says and does nothing at all. Then he becomes an aggressive man, who terrorises the house and bashes everything to pieces. After she is raped by Vova, the wife gets sexually dependant on the Idiot. Vova isn't interested anymore, when she gets pregnant and doesn't keep the baby. The idiot goes now to the intellectual for his sexual needs. The wife can't take this anymore and forces her man to take a choice: Vova out, or she will go.

A film from the life of a provincial doctor. The peculiarity of the narrative is that the doctor is Azerbaijani by nationality, and he works in the Russian outback. This is a story of complicated relationships between different mentalities, cultures and traditions that are taking place at all levels of Russian society today.

GRU special forces have repeatedly thwarted the plans of a sect led by the charismatic emissary Omar, who attempted to steal the technology for producing miniature nuclear bombs, set up a secret explosives factory, and even kidnap a real duchess. Together with Major Ozolin, nicknamed “Dynamite,” and Captain Krestovtsev, known as “Krest,” the FSB agents are fighting Afghan terrorists, and inexplicably, a couple of amateur detectives who also want to save humanity show up at every operation.

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.

If it were necessary to describe the history of independent rock music in Russia in one word, then this word would be Gorbushka. It is a password that has not needed explanation for more than 30 years. This is the Feelee music company, a celebration of the open-air free industry and a true portal to world music, ranging from Nick Cave and Coil to Sonic Youth and Rage Against the Machine. The film, based on archival footage and eyewitness accounts, tells how Feelee has come a long way, changing with the country and changing the country, and as a result has taken its special place in Russian culture.

The inhabitants of the St. Petersburg communal apartment are not relatives, but just neighbors with their habits and dreams. They are given the opportunity to part, and then they understand how much they value each other.

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.

Seven interconnecting stories that take place in Russian bedrooms. These include a son visiting his complaining bedridden mother, a middle-aged couple bickering, one soldier bullying another in an army barracks, a rich childless housewife picking up the soldier for rough sex while her husband has a tryst with another man arranged by computer, and a wife who asks to be handcuffed to her bed while being videotaped by her lover.

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.

This is a poetic film set in the times of Lenin's NEP. A ballet dancer steals a brooch and gives it as a present to another dancer. This is a crime of passion. A mysterious black ball is after the heroine. She runs away from it and manages to give the brooch in an exquisite pirouette movement, as shiny as diamond facets. What gives a stone its dazzling luster are its polished facets. But the real gem is love, and it's much harder to get than any diamond in the world.

In every corner of our vast country there are talented people worthy of recognition and glory. They flock to the capital and take part in popular television shows. But the spotlights go out, and life goes on. And not as they saw it ... Each of the heroes - young and adults, ambitious and modest, lonely and in love - will have to go through many trials. They are waiting for ups and downs, meetings and partings, friendship and betrayal. But in the end they will become one big team, a family that unites different people from the most remote towns of our big country, in the name of music, talent and, of course, love!

In the early 90s, a company of young artists discovered the possibilities of video. Unlike film, which was expensive and required complex development, the video could be viewed immediately. Before that, in the history of mankind, it was impossible to get your copy (media copy) so quickly. They filmed everything in a row: their art events, parties, just life. Sometimes they became the heroes of TV reports, so that their lives and destinies are intertwined in the media space with what is happening in the country and the world, creating an endless meta film. This is the story of the Great Digital Revolution of the 90s, which forever changed our heroes and the whole world.

When two spoiled hipsters embark on the rusty trawler for a summer internship, they get much more than what they bargained for. This shabby boat is the floating home of a dozen weary and irritable sailors, whose only priority is making money and not getting killed in the process. Ice-cold waves, incredibly beautiful but severe seascapes, hard labour and tons of stinking fish is the daily menu. The sea is unpredictable, and the upcoming storm is not the main test that awaits the ship’s crew. Their trip to sea, however, turns out to be more serious and more tragic than either of them could have imagined.

The story of Andrei Borzenko, a Soviet boxer who passed through the Buchenwald concentration camp, is a real confirmation that the fortitude of the human spirit can work wonders. Borzenko spent more than 80 fights and was never defeated, even though he was in terrible conditions, almost incompatible with life. The film shows the resilience and patriotism of specific people during the Great Patriotic War. The documentary film includes scenes from the life of the characters, played by the artists as a reconstruction of real events and supplemented with stories from relatives and friends of the main character.

A Russian journalist Sergey is hiding in one of the Balkan countries from police detectives who suspect him in a double murder.

Moscow banker Denis receives a mysterious call from his old friend Charles, an employee of the Unclaimed Deposits Department at the world's oldest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, where an unclaimed 18th-century deposit of 20,000 gold louis d'or, made by the Maltese knight Blaise Marie de Aydi, was discovered. Today, this sum is worth over 10 million euros, and according to the will, the heirs of the princes Cherkassky can receive it. Denis and Charles decide to find the descendants and receive two million euros for their services, but soon discover they are not the only ones hunting for this deposit.

Ufa tattoo artist covers traces of violence with flowers.

With the money of the gangsters, the director made a film that received prizes at four festivals, but did not raise money. Now he is forced to shoot porn on video.

An animated film about an instructive story that happened to two brothers on New Year's Eve.

Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion.

In the winter of 1939, during the Soviet-Finnish war, a soldier named Zarif from Tatarstan found himself in the crosshairs of a Finnish sniper. Zarif sings a sad Tatar song, which he sang with his beloved Kashifa in peacetime. The Finnish sniper Ziyatdin turned out to be a Tatar, to whom his mother sang this song as a child. This is how the Soviet soldier Zarif and the Finnish sniper Ziyatdin met and became friends. Who are they - enemies or brothers? These are eternal questions to which there is only one answer: the most important thing in your life is love. Everything in your life has meaning only when there is Love in it.

Travel to Copenhagen

Strange and scary things start to happen after three young people spend a night on abandoned ship.

Once in his life, retired intelligence officer and respectable family man Nikolai Nikitin decided to go "left" ... What was his shock when in the girl he was offered in a brothel, he recognized ... his own granddaughter Varya, whom the pimps do not want to let go of their clutches. What to do? Run! Hiding from persecution, the heroes go straight from the brothel to Paris. If only I knew ... If only it were all!

A compilation of shamefully bad skits.