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The history of the creation of a single piece of music.

A black comedy rhyming harsh allusions to the "Russian spring" with a private wedding story.

This short about a clumsy valet is considered the very first Russian film comedy.

The fox tried to steal a little girl named Zhiharka to eat her. She stole the girl, but she couldn't eat her.

Cinematically austere yet emotionally developed, this film combines a physical and spiritual metaphor for the confrontation with the unexpected.

The film reveals the importance of accepting reality, even the most hopeless one, because everything in this world, if you try hard enough, can be changed for the better.

Doga, 29, works in the family restaurant in Argoun, Chechnya. When his secret lover, Ruslan, is suddenly arrested, Doga knows it's only a matter of days for him too.

Among schoolchildren there is a legend about the so-called lost place, according to which everyone who buys a movie ticket to this place is waiting for death. None of the guys believe in it, but a series of brutal murders makes young people think, as a result of which they begin their own investigation.

In one of the American States committed a major Bank robbery, which killed two guards. Jim Conley, a Bank employee, is charged with the murder. With irrefutable evidence, attorney General Ted Talbot is seeking a death sentence for Conley. A day later, one of the witnesses confesses to the murder, a little later they find his corpse. Bolbat's career comes to an end. His friend and assistant, Leo Harman, knowing that Talbot cleverly framed, begins a full investigation into unthinkable intrigue.

Mom and Dad have just moved into a new house and are preparing for their Baby daughter's first birthday. Balancing between work and family, Dad buys a gift in an unusual store without even looking into the box. And there are small animated toys — Malyshariki. While the parents are preparing for the holiday, the little ones get out of the box and go in search of their own house.

Andrei, a failed artist, lived quietly in the shadow of his twin brother, a successful businessman, as long as he was alive. After the contract killing has taken place, he hides Ksenia, his brother’s distraught widow, and his children in a country house. However, the crime boss nicknamed the Poet continues to terrorize the unfortunate family here. At some point, Andrei begins to realize that he is absolutely helpless in front of the mafia, and only the children continue to believe that their father is alive and somewhere very close. An extremely difficult situation is resolved, in fact, by Ksenia herself...

It is a story about the Soviet worker Pyotr and the German engineer Hans, who came to the USSR before the war on a business trip. At a Soviet plant the German team works in cooperation with Russian specialists. Once Hans makes a mistake which causes the explosion of the furnace and human losses. Hans finds himself at the mercy of Pyotr, the only witness to his actions near the furnace. Pyotr also depends on Hans, because Pyotr’s very presence near the furnace entails accusation of subversive actions and a death sentence. Mutual suspicion gives way to silent sympathy and later friendship. They even look like each other, both have small children. Pyotr secretly leaves the town with his family but Hans feels loss rather that relief at the disappearance of the embarrassing witness.

It is winter in Saint Petersburg and the streets of the former capital are teeming. Half naked sunbathers stand in the snow; fledgeling dancers watched by throngs of teens are an explosion of underground fashion; a therapist who cannot afford an office sees clients in his car; immigrant street cleaners wander estates in orange vests, hoping they won’t be mistaken for terrorists. Saint Petersburg makes do with what it has.

Slava is a girl who is used to living with emotions, her actions are impulsive and unpredictable. On New Year's Eve, she makes a wish that her husband Valya will become a cool startup in Silicon Valley, and she is "just" a superwoman who will save the world. But time passes, and the miracle does not happen, and Slava, having collected things, leaves her husband. However, the wish made becomes fatal: everything starts to work out for Valya, and Slava continues to live with the expectation that the world will revolve around her.

Sultan Beketovich learned from his wife that in the distant Russian lands of Prince Vladimir and his wife Apraxia born hero Volga. This news excited the great Sultan - by prophecy, his wife, is from the hand of Volga Beketovich was destined to die. Will Volga overcome the power of evil spells of the Sultan's wife and his loyal soldiers?

A young Estonian goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to find his true self far from civilisation. The natives he meets introduce him to the myths of the north. The first is a young village teacher who wants to be a good wife to him. The second is a wild and untameable native who becomes his mythical bear-woman. When he accidentally kills a great black bear, his own shadow-creature, he burdens himself with guilt. However, he is given a chance of finding his inner balance. A romantic drama with mythical elements and breathtaking landscapes.

A scientific expedition sets off to the area of ​​a nuclear power plant, closed after the disaster. Strange events begin to occur in the zone, a scientist dies. The remains found indicate that he died from an attack by a giant animal. Scientists are trying to unravel the mystery of these phenomena, while the number of victims increases...

Prima ballerina is preparing for the premier, but because of the jealousy of her husband, a choreographer, find herself involved in a violent clash with the troupe.

Nadia Kuznetsova is 28 years old, she lives in Veliky Novgorod, graduated from school and University here, and dreams of going to the sea - and getting her fingers back. Nadia has a rare genetic disease-epidermolysis bullosa, which is called "butterfly syndrome". The patient's skin is injured by any touch. The disease is incurable: as Nadia herself says, "I don't fight it – I live with it." She is fighting for something else - to lead the life of an ordinary person.

It is a portrait film of Boris Mirkin, one of the pioneers of Soviet programming. In the film, Mirkine does not speak so much of the artificial intelligence as the chapka (fur cap) he bought in London, the collection of horse figurines or his children scattered in different countries. In fact, it is not really a gay story because it is the portrait of a whole generation of Soviet scientists. He started working in cybernetics in a country where artificial intelligence was used to study the daily behavior of villagers. He left because his family dreaded the pogroms against the Jews. He made a career in the West. He came back because in Russia, we think in Russian.

A Humble Life is certainly true to its title, a documentary study of the day-to-day world of Umeno Mathuyoshi, an old woman who lives in an isolated mountain house in the Nara prefecture in Japan.

The story happened in ancient times with an old shaman named Granny, who turned out to be no longer needed by her tribe. While working on the film, I really wanted to create a portrait of a shaman grandmother, to look into her inner world

A young girl, having buried her mother, comes to another city to find her biological father, knowing only his address, where he lived 20 years ago.

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...

Vasily Sigarev about the film: "After the well-known events, my mother suddenly decided that now I can finally go to Crimea. She sincerely believed that it was impossible to get there earlier. As a result, it had to be urgently evacuated to Moscow, as it turned out that they did not take cards anywhere. And she, spit on a good tradition to carry money, sewing in panties, went, like a white man, with a card. Actually, all that she had time to do was go on some crazy excursion, where they were constantly filmed on the camera, then to sell the discs. From this disk and mounted a movie. I laughed so much when I watched that I decided to do something of this".

Gagarin's surname is known all over the world. The name Titov is not familiar to everyone today. But it could have been the other way around. Herman Titov could become the first cosmonaut of the planet! But just two days before the start, he was appointed Yuri Gagarin's understudy. Before that, they were on a par and, according to experts, Titov was ready to fly better than Gagarin. We will learn about why the world fame did not go to Titov, but Gagarin from the person closest to Titov — his widow Tamara. We also learn from her about the Titov family drama — the death of the firstborn, which could influence the decision of which of the two worthy ones to fly.

An affair which starts as a bet between a three girls suddenly become a big love story...

A short film about a team of young esports players who enter a real World War II battlefield during a computer game championship. They decide to participate in the battle, because history is being made here and now.

An apocryphal tale from the Book of Genesis. Jacob, the son of Isaac, sees in a dream a staircase, the base of which rests on the earth, and the top reaches heaven; angels ascend and descend on it. Every step of the ladder and every movement along it in this vision has its own meaning. Marc Chagall, using a metaphorical image from Scripture, presented in his paintings the interweaving and intertwining of the lives of the inhabitants of the hinterland, each of whom has his own Jacob's ladder, along which angels move — the arbiters of their destinies.

Following a mass emigration from Russia, a poignant love letter emerges in the abandoned home spaces of friends and family.

A short movie based on the story of the same name by Stephen King.

Shy and reserved, Aidana grew up in a conservative Kazakh family. The transition to a new school gradually changes her life: she understands more and more who she is and what she wants. And friendship with a classmate Zhenya opens up feelings previously unknown to them in both of them.

Tembot's dream is to be needed, and, finally, to take his place at least in someone's heart. But in the coveted maternal, there is not even a corner for him, because because of the resemblance to her father, she rejects him over and over again. He is also excluded from the heart of a close friend - he sets him up in a big way. There is no place for an insensitive father, whom he misses. This pain gives him a new beginning...

The film is dedicated to a unique artistic phenomenon—the work of musician Oleg Karavaichuk, who with great strength embodied the understanding of “The Spirit of St. Petersburg” in our time. About this film composer who wrote music for more than 100 movies, and the creator of virtuosic piano, improvisations, Dmitry Shostakovich said, “Karavaichuk is not a talent; he is a genius.” This is how he was discussed, as the last musical genius, in June 2016, when Oleg Karavaichuk passed away. The next year, 2017, he would have turned 90 years old.

The spicy story of a modest Russian guy drawn into the incessant sexual marathon by the will of rival intelligence agencies. The victims of such an incredible love contest are charming ladies - from an opera singer to an overseas prostitute - and even the wife of an intelligence general. However, the love that has happened violates the plans of the rival intelligence agencies.

Uncle Sasha lives on an island in a “dead” village, surrounded by water. He dreams of the restoration of the monarchy and reviving the true wisdom of the Russian way of life, forgotten and trampled by modernisation and European influence. Every spring he builds a bridge, and every winter it is destroyed by ice. Uncle Sasha is now building his thirteenth bridge.

On the fate of small businesses in Russia. Five completely different stories about entrepreneurs, their successes and failures, the joys and complexities of their business.

The touching love story of a deaf fisherman and singer from a coastal cafe.

A couple of filmmaking friends decide to work together and choose "walruses" - lovers of winter swimming and tempering — as the theme of their new work. And although it is not so difficult to establish contact with them, questions about how deeply a person can penetrate into the community from the outside arise again and again, as well as about which way of representation would be the most appropriate. One thing clings to the other, and now, thanks to the walrus clubs in Strogino and Shchukino, new arguments about why to make a movie are surfacing.

I often find photos of strangers… This film is a collage of frames shot on an old camera in different cities and countries over the last three years

At the turn of the millennium, Viktor Pelevin became perhaps the most fashionable, popular and commercially successful writer in Russia. At the same time, he does not appear in public, does not give interviews, wears dark glasses, and does not like to be recognized on the street. Who is this mysterious Mr. Pelevin? How did it happen that the most honorable title for a Russian writer – "the ruler of thoughts" - turned out to be applicable to him today? And how was he able to keep his "incognito" at the same time? All this is reflected in the film by people who knew our elusive hero well at different periods of his life – his classmates and teachers, friends of his youth and fellow writers, critics and publishers

The trucker Fyodor Mukhin is an inveterate bachelor. Women love him, and he does not even remember everyone with whom fate brought him together. He also does not remember the teacher Masha from a small Ural town, from whom one day he receives a telegram asking him to come urgently. Something makes Fedor respond.

Follow Murder Girl, a serial killer blogger while she wanders through the Russian flea market in search of a new knife.

Mikhail Ugarov and Elena Gremina, the founders of the Theater.Doc, died in 2018 with a difference of 45 days. Now their student Zarema Zaudinova puts on performances, comes up with new projects so that the theater, which has suffered so much persecution from the authorities, will survive and live a new life.

In the far eastern republic, there was a strange man. A wanderer, in a word. And he had nothing but a stack of photos from the past and some simple belongings that he carried with him. He wandered from village to village, and when he came to the next one, he laid out stones with numbers on the square around him, climbed on tall stilts, put a wooden lock on his head, and stood motionless all day, pretending to be a sundial. That's how he earned his living. And then one day, in one of the villages, he met a little girl who had no friends.

An impressing war drama, a story of life and heroism of Naum Balapan - an academic psychiatrist, Doctor of Medicine, a chief doctor of the Sevastopol psychiatric hospital since 1922. With the help of his wife he saved dozens of innocent people from Genocide during Nazi Occupation until his tragic death in 1942.

After a quarrel with her parents a troubled teenage girl stars to notice the presence of some unseen force in her house.

"Life is the Best Playwright..." is the third album of the famous Armenian chansonnier Garik Oganisyan, recorded during a period of deep depression from the comments of haters and the complex processes of personality formation.