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The young singer and her producer, to collect money for the first CD, go on a cruise. The main ups and downs - not so much musicians as frank swindlers - occur on the ship.

Documentary film in memory of Sergey Timofeev (10.05.1959 — 5.06.1993), founder of the Beijing Row-Row group, participant of the Art or Death partnership

During the Russian war with Afghanistan in the 1980s, journalist Charlie Palmer and medic Victor Davis arrive at a P.O.W. camp near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in order to document the sub-human conditions which the prisoners are forced to endure. During their visit, the prisoners seize control of the camp and begin to enact a series of terrible and bloody punishments on their captors. Held as hostages, Palmer and Davis are forced to witness acts of barbarity unlike any they have ever seen before.

An underground short film from a “necrorealist” Russian filmmaker. The film is about sadomasochism, possessed by the idea of death and self-destruction. Evocative of the silent films from the beginning of the 20th century.

A modern frog comes up with an original way to travel and sets off abroad — to the place she's been dreaming of — together with some ducks.

Based on the short story “Natalie” by Ivan Bunin. The story has been adapted to a contemporary setting. In search of romantic adventure, a first-year university student visits a country house owned by acquaintances — and falls in love with two girlfriends at the same time.

A story about the childhood of ten years old boy Nikita set in 1922 Russia.

Sergey Dvortsevoy makes his international debut with this astonishingly intimate portrait of a nomadic family on the Kazakh plains. Several scenes in this slow, elegant film betray a certain dry humor -- a child devouring the last of a bowl of yogurt and then crying; a cow getting its head stuck in a pail; and a woman singing to herself, accompanied by her snoring husband. Other scenes capture the nomads' hardscrabble lives -- drunken herdsmen in the grips of existential despair, growling dogs, and a camel enduring a rather grim septum piercing. By the end of the film, the family pulls up stakes and herds its sundry four-legged beasts -- camels, cattle, goats, dogs, and horses -- to a more fertile plain. This film was screened at the 1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.

Historical drama based on the novel "Saint Iliya of the Mountain Tbau" by Vladimir Ikskul.

The Master of the Order of Unholy Power, who has ruled this order since the creation of the world, returns to his native hell after a long absence to be greatly surprised. The Grandmaster who has taken over the Order has drastically changed both foreign and domestic policy. In an effort to earn God's forgiveness, he has established an ironclad and virtuous order in Hell. He also intends to organize the same on Earth, so that people, like devils, began to walk in formation and eat semolina without salt and sugar. As a model for imitation Grandmaster chose the city of Perm, as the most law-abiding and obedient place on Earth. It is there, under the guise of a scientific conference, that a virtuous sabbath will take place, during which the future mother, chosen by astrologers, must marry one of the two candidates for the role of the father of the future messiah. Not the Antichrist, but exactly the messiah, with the kindest and most glorious tasks, to lead the pacified humanity.

Based on the story of the same name by I. Turgenev. A story about the romantic feeling of falling in love with a young man for whom everything is for the first time.

About how Little Fox, Father Fox and Crow helped the snowman not to melt.

Based on paintings by the artist Oleg Golosiy.

The bag with the money is being searched not only by Semaphore the cat, but also by riot police with dogs, local boys and, of course, the "locksmith" thief. But Nikita discovers the bag. The police catch him red-handed at the entrance of his house and imprison him. Four-legged friends are doing everything possible and impossible to free their beloved master.

Already twice a mysterious fireball descended into the deep taiga, forming a mysterious zone in the landing area. From distant Petersburg, a young scientist, an enthusiast Kairov, is going to the zone. Hearing that in the zone called "Devil's Ring", full of gold, his random companion Kuzmin, a thief and an adventurer, stole the looted jewelry together from his accomplices, sets off for Kairov. He is not afraid of the local claims that "damn gold" does not bring good to anyone.

Based on Chekhov's short stories "Revenge", "The Ram and the Young Lady", "The Chorus Girl", "The Princess".

When his cat proves too lazy to lift a paw, a man resorts to setting mousetraps in order to catch an elusive, annoying critter.

Mira returns home to Dushanbe from Russia to visit her father, a wastrel who is completely addicted to a game called "odds and evens," or Kosh ba Kosh. When another player comes to collect on gambling debts and finds nothing of value, he sets his sights on Mira.

Opening of the Exhibition Renaissance and Resistance. State Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St.Petersburg, June 1994

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

After the catastrophe in 1986, a 30-km restricted zone was erected around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and 116,000 persons were evacuated from this area. Pripyat is a portrait of the people who still live and work there, and of those who have moved back. What is life like for these people, a life with the invisible and incomprehensible danger of radioactivity? How do they deal with the aftereffects of an accident which is claimed to be statistically improbable? Four protagonists tell their stories and provide a look at everyday life in “their“ zone.

An employee of the Berlin Museum of Transport arrives on vacation with his son Peter in St. Petersburg, intending to make a video about the local museum of transport. Here, the heroes learn about the existence of a rare exhibit — an ancient steam locomotive and begin to search for it.

Tanya Smirnova performs in the television program "Quality Mark" in the guise of Alla Pugacheva and gets the opportunity to realize her dream - to go to Miami. But the sponsor sets a condition - to go across the ocean in Alla Borisovna's makeup.

In May 1991 Soviet cosmonauts Anatoly Artsebarksy and Sergey Krikalev visit space station Mir in space mission Ozon. Artsebarski, the commander, returns to Earth according to plan 5 months later. Krikalev has to stay in space for ten months because of the chaotic political situation in his home country. He left the USSR to return to Russia. The 1991 coup ends an important era.

A story about the fate of several generations of an old Moscow family. The life of these people, full of drama, fatally intersects with the historical fate of Russia. The plot focuses on the love of a young officer and a girl against the background of Stalinist socialism.

The film was shot in Venice, where two poet friends, Joseph Brodsky and Evgeny Rein, meet to walk along the embankments, sit in cafes, talking about poetry, language, Venice, Russia, the future, cats, and read their poems.

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

The dramatic chronicle of the Meshchersky family is a story about the post-revolutionary life of three representatives of the Russian intelligent family, the history of which reflected the fate of the whole generation. Life on the estate, holidays, youthful hobbies - and after the hell of a civil war, the bitterness of emigration. They held on and knew how to hide their confusion. But the pain destroyed the soul, manifesting itself in short novels that did not bring happiness and unfulfilled hopes ...

1015 year. Prince Vladimir of Kiev is left alone with the approaching death. Memory brings him back to the past, visions of the past arise.

A woman's view of the generation of thirty-year-old men, who fell to the lot of Afghanistan, and the "criminal revolution", and the drug wave, and AIDS...

An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself.

Once in a strange theater, the hero tries to understand the laws of his life...

A musical Christmas story, told by little five-year-old girl and her fellows. This magnificent musical film is based on old Russian Christmas fairy tales, nativity scenes and authentic melodies that have accompanied this holiday for many centuries.

A successful Moscow doctor, who has his own clinic, comes to his father in Minsk. His father was once one of the leading doctors of the city, and now he turned out to be unnecessary and forgotten. His son helps him start a new business. But it turns out that the father's worst enemy is his most reliable girlfriend.

Playwright and poet Aleksandr Volodin looks back at his life and career.

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.

After a painful break up a journalist is traveling to the Elbrus mountains where he meets another woman.

The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn is a two-part Russian television documentary by Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The documentary shot in Solzhenitsyn’s home shows his everyday life and covers his reflections on Russian history and literature.

A modern pirates attack Russian ship and imprison the sailors on the inhabited island.

About a girl who chewed gum all the time.

At twenty-two years, the heroine was left alone with the child. Will she not lose the desire to remain faithful to her husband and wait for his return from prison? Can the temptation of loneliness be overcome after a failed marriage and struggle with myself, with my natural desires to love and be loved?

A little tightrope walker boy named Axel crashed in a circus, but an oriental psychic brings his body back to life. Karl, obsessed with the idea of creating an ideal order in the world, the master of the psychic, buried the corpse of an orphan instead of Axel, and began to teach the boy's body Russian and train for espionage in the service of the Wehrmacht. Axel became a German intelligence officer, a professional of the highest class and soon appeared in his "native" village under the guise of the grandson of the recently deceased Pelagia...

The Island of the Dead is a film about the demise of the Russian Epocha Modern. The symbol of this culture was the legendary Russian film star Vera Kholodnaya, who evoked a poetic image of the young urban woman on the silver screen. Her death in 1919, shrouded in tragedy and mystery, put a symbolic end to the pre-Revolutionary period. The Island of the Dead is composed of fragments from numerous films from this period, juxtaposed with other contemporary artistic expressions such as music and painting. Kovalov shows convincingly how the fragile beauty of the Russian Epocha Modern had to make way for the pressure of Futurism, Constructivism and other 'progressive trends', and how these '-isms' were then also relegated to the melting pot to be remoulded by totalitarian norms.

The painting is about the metaphysical "train of Russian history" that departed from the tsarist era, went through revolutionary cataclysms, three wars, the times of Stalinism and the "thaw" and finally arrived on the platform of our time. It is a platform of wild primordial capitalism, and its geographic location is the Russian-Chinese border.

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large serial killers in the world particularly concentrated in Rostov, the same city that witnessed Andrei Chikatilo's infamous killing spree. In response, law enforcement has turned to Dr. Alexander Bukhanovsky, a prominent psychiatrist and criminal profiler, who is implementing radical measures to understand the root causes of this phenomenon and develop effective solutions. Within Dr. Bukhanovsky's clinic, we encounter three of his young patients: Edward and Igor, whose families express deep concerns about their disturbing fantasies, and 'Mischa', who has perpetrated acts of torture and sexual assault. Dr. Bukhanovsky's approach is groundbreaking, offering treatment to potential serial offenders. However, critics argue that by keeping individuals like 'Mischa' anonymous, he may inadvertently shield them from public awareness and accountability, prompting debate over the ethics of his methods.

A soldier returns from the army with his young wife. A local heartbreaker and a drunkard, an imposing man who does not care about anything, takes a fancy to her. He draws the young man into his company, and one evening the wife finds her spouse drowned in a puddle. After some time, she offers the heartbreaker to drink champagne together (and he has previously made her very explicit offers) and tries to kill him, but instead gets a fatal stabbing herself.

New Year’s Eve is filled with emotion in a communal Moscow apartment block.

The film was shot in the genre of a Christian parable and focuses on the history of ancient Russia. It is in it that the author seeks an explanation and solution to today's problems.

“Drawing on archival footage, fragments of interviews, and scenes from his films, this newly constructed portrait of Sergey Paradjanov was composed by the highly accomplished Armenian director Don Askarian (Komitas, Avetik). According to the director's synopsis: "The year is 1989. The place is the film festival in Rotterdam. Farewell at the Hilton Hotel. And Paradjanov says, ‘Help me make Confession’. I answer, ‘As a child of two fathers, the film will be born a bastard’."

Two animated shorts, "Waiting for the Balloon" and "The Perfect Hole".

The seventh story in the "Monkeys" series