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The Tale of the White Cranes

This story began in the seventies. Then the American ornithologist George Archibald turned to Soviet scientists led by Vladimir Flint with a proposal to cooperate in the protection of the white Siberian crane. This species was little studied and was considered endangered. Since then, we know much more about white cranes. Now on Earth there are two disparate populations of Siberian Cranes. One is East Siberian. These birds nest in the north of Yakutia and migrate to China. There are more than three thousand of them, and in the near future they are not threatened with extinction. A few thousand kilometers away, another population of Siberian Cranes lives. They nest in the lower reaches of the Ob, and fly to India or Iran for the winter. There are only twenty of them left. This film is about how people are trying to save this West Siberian branch of white cranes.

The Tale of the White Cranes

NR 2013
Bomzhiha

Tatyana is a forty-five year old teacher from Moscow who borrows a large sum of money to pay for her sick mother's operation. Sadly her mother dies, and Tatyana soon finds herself plunged into debt. Her financial situation spirals further out of control when she is ill advised by her friends to set up a cake stall at the local market, a venture, which, not surprisingly, fails. Tatyana is forced to sell her apartment and, after an argument with her niece with whom she has been staying, Tatyana is left with no job and nowhere to live.

Bomzhiha

NR 2008
Where Has Time Gone?

A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relations conference held between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The collection—taking the concept of time as a unifying theme—depicts the economic, political, and social alienations and contradictions that create, compound, and structure issues as wide-ranging as poverty, class stratification, and homeless; familial distress; spousal abuse; and natural disaster.

Where Has Time Gone?

5.5 2017
Ulyanov about Ulyanov

As film specialists write: "From the roles played by Ulyanov, one can study the history of the country". Through his roles in film and theater, he has reflected all the periods, all the historical collusions of the Soviet Union. He has interpreted more than three hundred roles, from the simple peasant to the leaders and emperors. Being laureate of all state awards, rewarded with orders and medals, cherished by power, being himself in power, he could not "be bronze". Our film is about an actor and a remarkable man: Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov.

Ulyanov about Ulyanov

NR 2017
Gagarin's Smile

On April 12, 1961, the whole world learned the name of the man who became the most famous in the history of mankind: Yuri Gagarin. Overnight, he became the idol of millions, and his smile turned into a symbol. However, immediately after Gagarin's flight, a report appeared in Life magazine, in which it was written under the triumphant photo of the First cosmonaut: "This man has everything behind him!". When Gagarin became world famous, he was only 27 years old. The unprecedented fame that befell a simple guy born in a village in the Smolensk region became a much more serious test for Gagarin than his flight around the Earth. People who knew Gagarin well, all as one, repeated: "There was nothing special about him. He was ordinary." But the fact that it was Gagarin who became the First cosmonaut of the planet, if you look into his life, there is an iron logic…

Gagarin's Smile

NR 2009
Anew

They say whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. But how to start everything over and don’t lose taste to life? New home, new friends, new job, new family, new values… This is life story of one refugee from Donetsk city who was forced to leave her new dream house on one day and escaped from the war with little child in her hands. How does this story differ from 1,5 million similar dramas of other refugees from eastern Ukraine? Maybe, these are amazing vitality, positive philosophy of being and irresistible optimism in spite of the circumstances...

Anew

NR 2017
Shukshin's Stories

Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people “of the people”, contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life’s ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - the Soviet Union of the 60s-70s. The main thing that unites both the works themselves and the films made is a whole gallery of the brightest images and characters, a story about such different destinies and differently meaningful lives, a story in the center of which is invariably Man, with his love, quests, weaknesses and victories.

Shukshin's Stories

7.0 2002
Autumn Memories

After the death of the head of the family, allegedly due to the end of his powers, his family leaves the state cottage. The last hours before departure - packing, chores, confusion... And in this force majeure situation, a stress situation, through the prism of attitudes towards the fact of departure, the very fact of the existence of the house, the relationships in the family itself manifest themselves and it turns out that the relatives do not know each other, that they have completely different values in life, that their closest friends evict them from the cottage, and that the most loyal there are those that we usually don't notice....

Autumn Memories

NR 2016
The Golden Mean

Alex is a fashionable showbiz character. One day he comes across an article about a big win in a casino in colonial Cambodia in a French magazine with a vintage photograph. In the photo, Hero recognizes his grandfather, who everyone thought was dead. He asks his former lover, the French cultural attaché, to find out. It turns out that he has an inheritance waiting for him in Paris for many years. The guardian of the inheritance turns out to be a high-ranking Freemason who tells him the story of his grandfather, gives him the winnings and involves him in a Masonic conspiracy.

The Golden Mean

3.4 2010