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n Belgium he was called Jean, in Russia - Ivan Sergeevich. A world sports star, a Formula 1 hero, returns from exile to become the owner of Empire, a large trading company. He doesn’t understand much about modern Russian life.
The end of the 19th century. A tiny colony of lepers in the isolated Yakut taiga. A healthy girl, brought there by chance, falls in love with one of the young male lepers. Soon she is bearing his child. His wife suddenly arrives from the outside world and tragedy ensues within this strange love triangle.
A story about a school friends, their adventures, fantasies and first love...
The libretto is by Mussorgsky himself and takes the eponymous “romantic tragedy” by the celebrated Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as its starting point. Boris Godunov is Mussorgsky’s masterpiece and his only complete opera. It’s a vast sprawling tapestry of Russian life, which centres on the Russian people – represented in the opera by a large and powerful chorus – rather than on the title figure. The staging was produced at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and is based on the original version of the score.
Pyotr's jester Ivan Balakirev is caught up in complicated family relations of Russian emperor and palace intrigues of his court.
Merchant Samson Silych Bolshov borrowed a large sum of money. And, not wanting to return it, declared bankruptcy. He transferred all his property to the name of the clerk Lazar Podkhalyuzin, for whom - for his own peace of mind - he marries his daughter Lipochka. But Podkhalyuzin has a secret plan...
Crooks steal a painting by Aivazovsky from the museum and decide to wash a successful operation. However, upon arriving at the place, at the boss's house, the company finds the leader's mistress with one of the companions. A night of drinking turns into a mess with the participation of actors in disguise. In this mess, no one notices how the stolen painting disappears…
A film about the backstage life of an ordinary Moscow bar, where relationships between the owner, the racketeer and the employees are pretty reminiscent of the ones in a family. However, unlike a family, they are connected by a mutual cause, the role in which are far from equal. Submission and humiliation weave through the characters' entire lives.
A mining town in Russia at the end of the nineties. A miners' strike has paralysed the place, corruption and fraud are flourishing in the transitional period from a socialist economy to a market economy. In this world of lost souls lives Yekaterina Artemovna (Katya). This unconspicuous woman has, in the words of her future lover, a "heart of gold". The only bright spots in her lonely life in a meagre communal apartment are literature and her work in the town library. The only bright ray flashed in the life of the heroine is a visiting sailor. But he turns out to be a gigolo and leaves the poor woman. The tense string inside the heroine bursts, the iron nerves lose, and restrained Yekaterina at this point loses all patience with life and ready for the most desperate and cruel revenge...
A funny adventures of two fifth-graders.
Russian TV miniseries of Boris Pasternak's classic novel.
Three friends actors, tired of wasting their time in a small city, decided to try their luck in Moscow. After a show, a mafia leader dies of laughing. Now, they have to run to save their lives.
They play tough, masculine games, when the passion of hunting turns into a thirst for profit, paint into blood, fidelity into betrayal, when betting is friendship, and winning is life. One of the three old institute shareholding partners "orders" the fourth - the head of the Bank of Daniel. But even the hired killer did not know about the explosives in the house. And so, after the explosion in the basement, there are three - the killer, the victim and his daughter. When there is almost no air left, and the search engines have already stopped working, Daniel’s mind starts a dangerous game: which of the worlds is fictional, and which one is the real one, the one in which you save your friends, or the one in which friends kill you ... Daniel solves the problem with three unknown ...
One day the boy met a friend who understood him without words.
In the life of the famous radio presenter Evgeny Maksimov, a tragedy occurs – his son from his first marriage dies. In the same way that dominoes fall in turn, a man's prosperous family life collapses.
Ivan, a cynical journalist, is assigned to investigate mysterious events in a small town. During his first night, he is seduced by a strange and mysterious girl. As they embrace, she transforms into a hideous demon. Ivan fights the creature, managing to strangle it. But it is too late, Evil has been unleashed. When Ivan is charged for the brutal murder, he feels his last hope disappear. As he is overcome by the dark forces trying to pose as his soul, Ivan comes to realize that his only hope lies in his power to find the faith that he once lost
An almost detective story that could lead to terrible injustice. But good is strong, although sometimes naive. Wise Cricket will not allow "to go out of focus." Do not forget that Christmas is about to enter. And on Christmas night, what miracles do not happen!
A drunk couple spend their summer-holiday at sea. Their life is not everything they hoped for, and abuse is part of their relationship. At sea they dream about love and understanding, and we observe their fellow countrymen spending their holidays on the same beach. Tragedy, comedy, love, hate, sex : it is all there.
Historical period melodrama.
What's going to happen if you meet your soul mate but she's not ready even to hear about sex?..
Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.
A funny and sad story about a pack of stray dogs. Based on Sergiyenko's novella "Goodbye, Ravine".
Главный герой, которого все зовут просто Санечка, плывет по течению. Работы нет, жена ушла… Единственное, чего у него в избытке, — это верные друзья и природный дар относиться ко всем проблемам легко и беззаботно. Однажды Александр попадает в аварию — на своей машине он врезается в джип бизнесмена. Но надо же было такому случиться, что как раз в тот момент, когда это произошло, коммерсанта собирался застрелить киллер. Предприниматель был уже на мушке, и Санечка просто спас ему жизнь! А дальше закружило, понесло. Незадачливому актеру предлагают за большие деньги сыграть роль олигарха. По странному совпадению Санечка как две капли воды похож на человека, за которого должен себя выдавать. Вжившись в образ, Александр понимает, что существование «крутых» совсем не так безоблачно, как кажется со стороны. В конце концов он сам оказываеся под прицелом киллера. Но ему снова приходит на помощь его величество Случай!
The authors of the project tried to understand the transformations that the image of the ship underwent in the human mind: a pirate ship of threat was replaced by a romantic ship of love, and a heroic warship turned into a deadly ghost ship. The "lecture" by art historian Arkady Ippolitov is accompanied by fragments from one hundred and thirty films. The original footage of the film was shot by cameraman and documentary film director Pavel Kostomarov. The composer of the painting is Leonid Desyatnikov. The film opens a series of documentaries of the studio "Workshop Session".
Our hero finds himself pulled into a very unpleasant story that abruptly changes his life. Then Andrew meets his love.
Nastya, a rising "star" of television series and the theater scene, no longer believes in miracles. She and her fiance are invited to celebrate the new year abroad. But Nastya missed her flight and had to get to the place herself. Due to weather conditions, the plane lands in one of the cities of Ugra, and thanks to an incredible coincidence, Nastya ends up in Santa Claus's hut. Now the real fairy tale begins... Acquaintance with wizards, reassessment of life values, fulfillment of the fourth wish - all this awaits not only the main character, but also many viewers.
The pitfalls of youth sooner or later, but always come out sideways. In a terminally ill woman who finds a successful entrepreneur before her death, he with great difficulty recognizes his old love, whom he left pregnant twenty-four years ago, believing the slanderous denunciations of ill-wishers. The dying woman asks him only for one thing: to take care of her daughter, who is, after all, their child together. But the girl hates her father with all her soul, considering him to be the cause of her mother’s suffering.
A beautiful Russian widow in San Francisco wishes to return to Russia after her American husband loses everything in a speculation and shoots his brains out. Along with her personal maid she is given passage to Hong Kong aboard a Russian naval vessel.
The film is based on the memoirs of Klavdiya Shulzhenko and her songs: "The Blue Scarf", "Three Waltzes", "Silence", "Hands", "The Note". The film features archival footage, as well as scenes shot in Kharkiv and Paris.
Having lost his wife in a plane crash, a man tries to find out the real reason for the disaster. Forced to sift through all the lies amassing around him, he temporarily foggets about his grief. He finds a flight crew who survived a crash and celebrates his rebirth with them. Suddenly moments of grief turn into a never-before-experienced flash of freedom for him. This illusion becomes a lulling trap in which he can relive the happiest moments of his life. What we can see on the screen is an ordinary life where simple things become rare and unusual, and where grief turns to joy. Daily routine to which he finally comes back after all shade in a contrast way the brightness of the recent events.
How to become a star? Thorny path to Olympus. Young Zoya Misochkina in the backyard of the provincial town "Lokotki" meets two producers, Pridorozhnyy and Bolotov, from whom the prima donna Irma has just fled. Zoya passionately wants to sing, so she joins in with new acquaintances and finds herself in a large apartment with two seemingly serious gentlemen, and with close acquaintance, half-crazy touching clowns. Zoya's life turns upside down. Vocal lessons, beauty salons, gyms, presentations, all this should turn an unknown nondescript girl into a new pop star.
Somewhere in the Middle East, undercover agent Victor Bystroletov arrives in one of the oil kingdoms posing as an international journalist. His true goal is to contact a former terrorist named Javad. It has been several years since the holy warrior lay down his weapons and disappeared. Interpol is looking for him, as are his former jihad brothers, who have put a death sentence on his head for betrayal.
Aidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile couples children. As capitalist forces begin to encroach on tradition, the first casualty is any culture's most fundamental inheritance - land. The healer has to leave her land because the mob thinks the location is suitable for a filling station. A harsh battle between supernatural good and earthly evil ensues.
Famous actors and ordinary people from all walks of life read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.
A teenage girl Vika and a successful but single middle-aged woman get closer in an attempt to take revenge on Zoya’s former lover. They develop a taste for it. They steal and crush his car, burn down his house, and plan to destroy his family.
Mechanic Stepanych goes on a tourist trip to Thailand while his wife and daughter are expecting his return and don't even know what kind of events are waiting for them.
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.
While trying fortune-telling young student Olga suddenly saw the face of her future husband and learned his name - Sasha.
A young captain demobilized from the army, in search of a better life, comes to Moscow. All attempts to earn money honestly for housing and food end in failure. In addition, he owes a large sum to his comrade in the military school, who has long abandoned the army and is successfully dancing striptease in one of the capital's clubs. To pay back the debt, the hero agrees to work in a striptease and from that moment becomes a professional gigolo.
The film novel directed by Andrey Konchalovsky and written by Yuri Nagibin tells about the life and creative path of the brilliant Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. Love and torment of creativity, periods of hopelessness and triumphs, longing for the Motherland and faith in its future, reflected in the composer's music, are intertwined in the novel with the tragic events in Russia of the first half of the twentieth century, with the fate of people close to Rachmaninoff...
The businessman father did everything he could to set his son Savva on the right path. Nothing helped and would not have helped, perhaps, if it hadn't been for the glass. The glass in the window of a bank, broken by the Daddy in the heat of a quarrel with Savva, and as a consequence, an acquaintance with Svetlana, as well as a chain of further events...
A little girl got lost in a dense forest by accident, where she was found by Baba Yaga. She, along with other fairy-tale characters - Kikimora, Leschyi, Koschei the Deathless and Vodyanoy - decides to adopt the girl, giving her the name of Babka Ezhka. That's how the incredible adventures of Babka Ezhka and her friends begin.
Vadim Golikov, a successful boxing promoter, travels to the taiga to visit his old friend Platoshin, a former boxing champion of the Soviet Union. There, due to a misunderstanding, he is knocked down by Platoshin’s granddaughter, Sasha. Immediately recognizing her fighting talent, Golikov invites her to Moscow, but Sasha initially refuses. After some thought, she decides to make the trip to the capital. Ahead of her lies a tough road to success and fame as Russia’s very own "Million Dollar Baby".
This story is about the fact that human happiness can not be bought for any money.
Not far from Grozny, on an alternate railroad track, there is an old steam locomotive with several wagons attached to it. The steam engine gives steam — hot water is in the boilers, and a bathhouse is equipped in the cars, where soldiers and officers wash, laundry is washed ... A washing on wheels — at the same time a soldier’s bivouac, a piece of peaceful life, and the beginning of a new road. To this locomotive, these cars come - platooned, in batches and one at a time - tired, tired, unshaven, angry Russian guys. They scrape dirt off themselves. Soak from stubborn soot, warm with souls. They put on clean underwear. They drink vodka. They smoke. They talk about love, remember loved ones and native places. Cry. They sing. And around - the landscape after the battle. It's not over yet ... An accidental explosion. Stray bullet. And our guys washed into the unknown. Clean. Hoping to survive.
"Лавина" - рассказ о человеке у которого есть всё, о чём он всегда мечтал: талант, слава, семья. Но есть и скука, которая съедает его. Ему больше нечего желать - всё достигнуто. Наверное, его жизнь продолжалась бы в том же духе, если бы он не встретил молодую и красивую женщину. И он понимает, что единственное чего у него не было - любви. Все самые сильные чувства он отдавал музыке. Только её он любил. А что касается людей... Им он позволял любить себя. Ведь только он - солнце, все остальные - лишь планеты. И вот он узнаёт, что такое настоящая страсть, страсть, которая испепеляет его изнутри, сметает на своём пути всё, как лавина. Ради этой страсти он откажется от всего: от денег, семьи, славы. Но будет ли счастлив?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious country and wanted to visit it. This film gives him the possibility to do so after all. However, Nietzsche doesn’t arrive in 19th century Russia, but in a modern country which has been trying for years to create the civilization described by Nietzsche 150 years ago.
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.
As a result of a successful conspiracy against Menshikov, Peter II is prematurely recognized as an adult and is in a hurry to be crowned in Moscow. The Dolgoruky brothers gather for this celebration. There were eight of them - all-powerful and influential representatives of the ancient Rurikovich family - and among them the beautiful Ekaterina, the daughter of the huntsman Alexei.
When her parents are gone for their jobs, a little girl goes everywhere around the house to find her teddy bear, instead of playing the piano she was supposed to.
A young girl's godmother uses magic to find her a husband, but the girl is dismayed at his suspiciously catlike features. Based on Antony Pogorelsky's 1825 short story "The Lafertovo Poppycake Seller".