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He was a young writer whose unique gift was vividly revealed in three genres at once. The Yakutians loved him as a talented poet, playwright and prose writer, the author of many works. However, by the will of fate in the fateful year 1941, the poet, who praised a peaceful life, became a fearless soldier who sacrificed his life in battles with the enemy for our salvation. His life flashed like a comet. But, being a warrior of light, he managed to leave behind something important. Waiting for you and me in our days.

The Almanac of the Laboratory of Scientific Cinema. 16 directors selected the most interesting scientific developments and research at Skoltech and created 16 short films.

A long summer day of the 80th year in a provincial town begins with an equally long queue for sausage. The boy and his friend are walking around the city, watching a popular movie and after the session they encounter local hooligans. In the evening, the boy sits in the yard, mentally reliving the past day, not suspecting that today he has grown up.

When the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel - how many opportunities there are for a funny comedy...

The main character receives a large amount of money in the bank and decides to call a bodyguard for escort. However, instead of a large man comes a beautiful girl who does not know how to handle weapons. But there is no other way out, so the hero agrees to use her services. She fails to protect the hero from the attack, but he turns out to be more cunning, hiding all the money in the pocket of his coat. Happy and cheerful, they sit in a taxi together, where the bodyguard girl unnoticed contacts the robbers.

Facing sub-zero temperatures, with no protection from the elements, free-diver, Natalia Avseenko, swims naked with beluga whales in a bizarre experiment designed to tame the shy creatures.

The king struggles to find a wife for his son, who is solely interested in science. An astrologer advises the king to host a grand royal ball. Cinderella, eager to attend, is forced by her stepmother and stepsisters to make dresses for them. Once the dresses are ready, they leave her behind with additional chores. However, her fairy godmother appears and helps her get to the ball, with one condition: she must return by midnight. At the ball, Cinderella meets the prince, who instantly falls in love with her. They dance and enjoy the evening until the clock strikes twelve, and Cinderella flees, leaving behind a glass slipper.

About how a family goes to celebrate the New Year in a place where there is no Internet.

The young businessman Ilya is trying to start the production of inexpensive, but high-quality coffins and establish a legal client-oriented approach in his small ritual company in the Kaluga region, despite the corruption and criminalization of this market sector.

On December 30, the whole country is already resting in anticipation of the New Year... and it's the hottest time in Santa Claus Corporation. It's good that the New Year is not only fireworks and salads, but also real magical transformations.

In the small Yakut village of Krasnaya Zvezda, a grand event is planned-the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the village. The main character named Coca was assigned to design the event. As a responsible person, he took up his task with all diligence and diligence, but suddenly a nephew named Micheer is brought to him from the city. The little guest turns out to be a real disaster for the calm and measured life of Coca. Due to the fault of Michere, preparations for the anniversary are disrupted. Will the Cook be able to fix everything before the holiday and most importantly, make friends with his restless nephew.

An interview with a prominent Arab architect and philosopher.

A simple family lives in the Kalmyk village - Baira and her husband Congress. They love each other, they cut and sell sheep together, they keep house, they never part and they don't know any other life. And suddenly the Congress brings a second wife to the house - he promised a neighbor before his death to marry her granddaughter. The granddaughter is a young beauty, and even pregnant. Baira looks at herself in the mirror with despair - she is 40 years old...

A cruel drama about stray dogs, street children and a girl with AIDS.

With the assassination in 1948 of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, by the state security, new times begin in the relationship between the Soviet government and the Jews.

Trains travel through the night without stopping. The clatter of the carriages quickly disappears, along with the wail of the locomotive. The people at the station are all asleep. But why are they so exhausted ? And what are they waiting for? Set inside an isolated train depot, The Train Station is one of Sergei Loznitsa's most haunting films. It is also one of his most pointed social critiques. In this film, we are brought to a remote train station deep in the Russian woods. It's nighttime. In the distance, we hear the clatter of locomotives. The station, a small wooden building, sits silently, surrounded only by snow and train tracks.

Cuba is working on a large-scale construction site, where a large port is being built. After starting work on the riverbank, a mysterious note from a missing girl falls into her hands, which Cuba is going to return to her lover. However, it is not so easy to find him, and this very meeting makes her look at her life from a different angle.

One day the boy met a friend who understood him without words.

Dashing 90s. Jeff, a DJ at a small radio station, receives news of his father's sudden illness and accidentally falls into a series of unexpected events. He meets a mysterious nurse and witnesses the death of a reputable drug dealer.

At the funeral banquet, after the death of his beloved mother, Misha decides to run away from his relatives. Wandering around the city, he meets a sex worker who may be able to make up for his loss.

The stories of four young people who seek to learn more about their relatives, who were repressed during Stalin's times. Young Berliners and Muscovites are trying to break the family silence, looking for answers to their questions and revealing the most unexpected secrets.

The film tells about the former journalist of the Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers, adviser to the Roscosmos state corporation Ivan Safronov. On July 7, 2020, Safronov was arrested, charged with high treason and placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. So far, several months after Ivan's arrest, neither he, nor the defense, nor the public have been presented with a single piece of evidence of the journalist's guilt.

The story of the first love of two schoolgirls, pure and sincere, that destroys their entire world.

Ten girls are waiting for arrival of the train. We find out from the conductor that it is delayed indefinitely. We spy on the girls from the outside and they figure it out. While they are telling their stories, sharing their problems and concerns, we are all waiting for the train. Will the train arrive? Where are they going and what are they really waiting for?

Artem, a troublesome and difficult teenager, is sent to work as a volunteer at a recreation centre for disabled children. It is only when he forges an enduring friendship with a paralysed boy called Kostya that he is able to conquer his own demons.

The film adaptation of Yuri Olesha's fairy tale, a great fantasy with Good and Evil.

A teleplay about the exciting adventures of your favorite heroes of Soviet animation in the magical land of Multi-Pulti. One day, three Robbers (Doobie, Coward, Experienced) and the Wolf unite under the leadership of Shapoklyak and decide to avenge their past failures by kidnapping Cheburashka. Positive heroes of fairy tales go to his aid.

One's way to Phlegethon - a river of boiling blood in seventh circle of Inferno, where murderers of different ages serve time.

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Spartacus, the story of a Roman slave's fight for freedom, is one the great epic adventure stories. Grigorovich's choreography fills the huge Bolshoi stage with dynamic scenes of tension and conflict.

The film's characters are Pavel, a successful rake journalist who writes on acute Perestroika topics, and an intelligent but free woman (a doctor by profession) who is trying to escape from unnecessary love. A chance acquaintance becomes the beginning of their long difficult relationship on the way to love and mutual understanding.

In Los Angeles, a remarkable experiment is underway; the police are trying to predict crime, before it even happens. At the heart of the city of London, one trader believes that he has found the secret of making billions with math. In South Africa, astronomers are attempting to catalogue the entire cosmos. These very different worlds are united by one thing - an extraordinary explosion in data. Meet the people at the forefront of the data revolution, and reveals the possibilities and the promise of the age of big data.

Varya is sixteen. Varya doesn't go to school. Varya asks that she be called Sasha. Varya has a goal - to go to St. Petersburg. She plays the violin in the train, earning a trip. But the trip of a dream turns out to be a dangerous adventure, in which everything goes not according to plan...

The main character is a young Belarusian Nikita Mitskevich. He is about 20 years old, lives and studies in Minsk. He is a musician, a composer, plays in a fashionable Minsk band But here an event occurs that turns his whole life upside down.

In spring 1938 in the mountains in the north of Chile a fiery UFO, later named "Chilean Sphere ", fell down. The investigation of this episode, made by a film crew, has led to a sensational discovery. It appeared that before the Second World War (in the thirties) in the USSR a secret space program had been developed. The Soviet scientists and military authorities managed to launch the first spacecraft 23 years prior to Jury Gagarin's flight! "The First on the Moon" tells about everyday life, heroic deeds and tragedy of the first group of the Soviet cosmonauts. It is the first Russian film shot in a very rare genre 'mockumentary' or 'documentary fiction'.

Thousands of kilometers of snowy silence, severe frosts and piercing winds, the deceptive fragile beauty of the ice. It’s the Arctic, the end of the world, where, in the words of one of the characters, the human soul means the universe. Perhaps that is why for ages these disturbing expenses have lured the fearless and the romantic. This is where the history of the great country was made – the Northern Sea Route was laid. In this film the past meets the present and the heroes of today – captains and crews of the superpowerful atomic icebreakers – just like their predecessors set off on voyages unaware of what lies ahead for them, what trials await them on their long arctic route…

Old miner is trying to start a new life after the deathly accident in the mine.

A successful landscape designer Marina is going to get married. Next Saturday, her high-ranking father will meet her fiancé Alexander. Just a day before the significant Saturday Alexander leaves the Marina.

The protagonist spent a significant part of his life burdened by painful memories of his grandfather, who died during Stalin's repressions. And now the time has come when he could avenge his grandfather. This is one storyline, presented in the form of a flashback. The second unfolds in our time, which the author also sees as nothing good.

The film “We Others Will Not” emerged as a direct continuation of numerous meetings and conversations with Sergei Bodrov Jr. and Alexei Balabanov. The idea to reflect again on the phenomenon of Sergei Bodrov Jr.’s identity belongs to Evgeniy Nikishov and Valeriy Fedorovich. Together we decided to go on this difficult journey. Close friends and colleagues talk about Sergei: the producer Sergei Selyanov, the designer Nadezhda Vasilyeva, the composer Vyacheslav Butusov, the cinematographer Sergei Astakhov, and also… Sergei Bodrov Jr. and the director Alexei Balabanov, whose films “Brother” and “Brother 2” acquired popular fame at the threshold of the 2000s.

Eighteen-year-old Dima is left alone with his younger brother Fedya, scurrying around everywhere. He demands endless attention from Dima, but the elder’s thoughts are completely different. Now he is more concerned about his bold fantasies about his classmate, Sveta. But is Dima really ready to take the first step, overcome teenage shyness and maybe even confess his feelings to Sveta? What will the characters have to go through to rethink their ideas about growing up? Fedya won't bother them? Or maybe even...

“Teenage Rain” is a film-moment, a film-mood. One ordinary morning, a lonely man suddenly experiences a draft in his apartment, which brings back a disturbing memory for the hero... This is a short, touching story about the relationship between family members.

Gold and money have been the foundation of prosperity for centuries. But nothing lasts forever...

A documentary film about Russian agriculture. This is an honest story about people who live by their own labor and love the land.

Valentin Afanasyev, an artist, musician and scientist, and his wife, Princess Vera Obolenskaya, talk about how you can meet by chance at the ball of the revived Noble Assembly and stay together for life, despite all the obstacles and difficulties. And also about how sound and color actually relate from a scientific point of view, in the light of Valentin Afanasyev's discovery, and what the artist, who started out as a representative of the Soviet underground, is doing now.

Four friends, by the time they were fifty, had achieved everything they dreamed of: good jobs, substantial savings, and one of them even had a seat in parliament. It turns out, however, that with age, money stops bringing joy, as do travel, expensive gifts, and even beautiful women. Suddenly, all four discover a new pastime that brings a storm of positive emotions—helping people. Thus, the friends become secret patrons of smart and talented people.

According to their author, these were two pilot shorts for a possible series that never aired.

Russia, the early 20th century. Smart underground revolutionaries invented an apparatus detecting sexual impulses. That would let them use the erotic energy for the cause of the revolution, instead of wasting it in carnal pleasures, as the unconscionable bourgeoisie does. The revolutionaries start working on building a sex bomb, a weapon of formidable destructive power.

The relations in the happy family of 15-year-old Sasha begin to crack: his father spends days and nights at work, in a battery store, his mother is preparing to move.The boy feels something goes wrong and tries to sort out the situation, but do not know how... Another world means life after childhood, in which there is discord, despair and hope.

An ordinary working night in the life of a Moscow taxi driver, during which he comes into contact with the experiences, thoughts and stories of his passengers.