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Several days from the life of a landowner's estate on the eve of Christmas are shown through the perception of a boy. The action takes place in Russia in the second half of the 19th century.

Based on the short story of the same name by Yuri Kazakov.

The movie is a game. Here the fiction and fantasy of children participating in the competition for the best monument to Pushkin enters into a dialogue with the creative imagination of the poet.

Two Russian craftsmen, slightly warmed up by a game of chess, where instead of pieces there are glasses with "strong drink", invent a perpetual motion machine... for a ballerina.

A tragic accident happens during the shooting of a movie about Jesus Christ. An actor who plays Jesus is killed. The director of the movie believes that he is guilty of this death.

Based on an act of vandalism by artist Alexander Brener, the film tells the story of an event that shocked the conscience of enlightened Europe: Brener painted a green dollar sign on Kazimir Malevich’s "White Cross." While Brener’s action sparked fierce debates among art critics and legal experts, the filmmakers declare the “joint” symbol of Brener and Malevich a cult icon of 1998.

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.

A terrorist act - an explosion in a subway train, after which everyone considers the hero dead, allows him to start life "from scratch". A rich lady from the "new Russians" falls in love with him. But soon he begins to write anonymous love letters to his wife, who is sure that after the tragic explosion in the subway she is a widow.

The remake of the original 1939 "Tractor Drivers"... Same heroes, but totally different times.

Born in the USSR:14 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life.

Genka is a schoolboy from Moscow. Having seen enough American action movies, he longs for adventure and the opportunity to try himself in a real man's business. His imagination is filled with visions of his idols - Schwarzenegger, Stallone, star humanoids - who offer Genka to leave the earth. However, the hero chooses the "region of heaven“ with true idols who restore the concepts of friendship, honor, and love to their noble meaning, which have been devalued today.

The author's view of the events of the history and modernity of Russia is a continuation of the journalistic cycle, which began with the film "You can't live like that".

During the collectivization of the 1930s a red army soldier is troubled by the affection he feels for the young wife of a "class enemy."

When you are over 30 years old, it's time to think about starting a family. The heroes of this film are trying to solve this problem in their own way. A tractor driver falls in love with a milkmaid and, with the help of his friend, tries to woo her, getting into curious situations along the way. In such vicissitudes, the second pair also turns out to be.

The movie is an absurdly ironic narrative that reflects the anti-science and anti-American tendencies of recent times.

The first film by Boris Khlebnikov and Alexey Popogrebsky, shot while studying at VGIK.

A classic detective story devoid of a backstory and ending, consisting almost exclusively of sinister and inexplicable (at first glance) events. The world of the St. Petersburg outskirts, inhabited by violent morons and bloodthirsty maniacs. All this is obtained using the arbitrary perpendicular method.

The film tells about the fate of a teenager, nicknamed "Riffraff" in boarding school, about his difficult relationship with his mother, who is trying to arrange her personal life, and about how unexpectedly lucky he was in life when he won a big prize in the Sprint lottery - a Volga car.

The plot of the famous painting, where a schoolboy receives severe punishment from his father.

A wild ironization and deconstruction of the old Soviet pathos of the victory of technical progress – like the accelerated pulse just before a heart attack. The film is made in the technique of applying an image on a 35mm film. As a source material used some footage from the film by Evgeny Yufit "Silver Heads". In 1999, the film "Cola" took part in the Berlinale. Plot: nature cannot stop science, which creates a hybrid of man and tree.

A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer uses this bizarre situation to change his life and take revenge.

The film consists of five short stories that reflect five stages (1947 — 1950 — 1957 — 1967 — 1982) the action programs of the heroine of the film, from the age of fifteen, rushed to a typical goal for that time — to smile from the front page of a central newspaper. Her fate is not simple: unhappy love, life with the unloved, a labor colony, love again, then love in return, earthquakes, fires, devastation. The heroine is getting closer to the goal and nothing can stop her..

A secret unit to combat aliens has been operating since the Second World War, as we learn from newsreels. The action is transferred to New Year's Eve, 1998, to the Gorky Film Studio, where the New Year's program is being filmed. Among the filmmakers, in addition to the mummers, there was also one real Santa Claus, who has been fulfilling one wish once a year for 2 million years. Three guards, a girl from a variety show, a revived dummy and a mischievous boy fought off the international anti-alien forces and tried to come up with this one desire, but they could not. And when Santa Claus disappeared (his time was up) everyone found a gift in the bag that perfectly matched their wishes.

One day, the hero comes to the firm conviction that everything in a person's life is decided by chance. According to this logic, he is trying to fix his life.

If you throw a stone up, what happens if you throw a stone up? High, high? Far, far away? He'll probably fly off to the stars and maybe even get into the alien's head.

Andrei's ex-girlfriend Tania (Anzhela Belyanskaya) has been constantly in danger of going to jail since he knew her. Their breakup was not his doing, and he is determined to keep her out of jail. Andrei (Oleg Menshikov) has a notion that, if he can raise enough money, he can smuggle her out of Russia into New York, where all will be well. While Andrei's grasp on reality may be tenuous, his ability to maneuver and scheme is unimpaired. He is a student filmmaker, and the kind of money he needs to save Tania with doesn't grow on trees. He begins raising funds by mugging men at public toilets, and graduates to stealing the drug money accumulated by more serious gangsters. After he has raised the money to accomplish his goal, his girl, the light of his life, confesses that she despises him, and then goes out and gets arrested.

The film describes the effect of contraceptives for nulliparous women.

A short film with the participation of the leader of the "National Bolshevik Party" Eduard Limonov.

A parable about the fragility of relationships. Love is sought, found, tested, lost...

The film tells about the misadventures of an ordinary person who happened to have a suitcase with a lot of money... It turns out that it is not at all easy to find a worthy use for such money, and in the final it turns out a simple truth — “happiness is not in money ...”

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.

Homeless, all thrown Mephistopheles is suffering from idleness and boredom. In a market where you can buy everything - from gralic to books on Russian history, he manages to find the soul of a ballet dancer.

A contemporary tale about the ghost of a modern city.

A mixture of re-enactment, news reel footage, archival film and rare documents, including the diaries and intimate correspondence of Nicholas & Alexandra. Recreates the atmosphere at the time of their deportation to Siberia, life in exile, and brutal execution.

Little Fox sees a mysterious light far away on the other side of the river, and decides to row across to see who lives there.

Follows the life of the people of Saratov in the 19th and 20th centuries.

A man's thoughts of revenge turn to thoughts of reconciliation as he comes to know his intended victim a little better. The story is set in contemporary Russia following the destruction of the Communist regime.

A story about the all-conquering power of art, told by a former painter. A simple village guy paints buildings from a construction cradle. Through the windows, he watches people's lives and one day notices a couple of artists…

The characters of the film are a young married couple (he is a writer, she is an actress) and a family friend, an actor in love with her...

Starting 1970s. Marina Rodionova gives birth to a child from a donor. Grown up son Andrei she tells the legend of the deceased father. It takes many years. Son of a student accidentally discovers that his father is a professor Hlyuzdin who teaches at his institute. Andrew's friend can not get from Ladder strict professor and then Andrew decides to introduce his father and mother.

Shamans and knights, witches and artisans of the past centuries are the characters of an ancient legend about love, hate, and loyalty to the ancestral land. The plot is based on the legend of the Danube, the son of the White Swan, who once came to the ancient Udmurts from heaven in order to understand those who live on Earth.

An adaptation of John Cage's Lecture On Nothing.

Sasha is 16 years old, but he has already seen a lot: he worked in a canteen, a boiler room, swept the streets, and now he delivers correspondence and pensions to the elderly. He has a wonderful opportunity to communicate with different people, be an ignorant witness and sometimes take part in family dramas. This is how he meets his first love: it's complicated but he's happy...

A young student returns from Yerevan for a vacation to a remote mountain village. The audience will see magnificent pictures of the life of the Armenian village. The film is inspired by the prose of Hrant Matevosyan.

A version of the creation of one of the great monuments of ancient Russian literature "The Word about Igor's Regiment".

An American family stays overnight at a mansion run by a mysterious woman, but not all is as it seems and the eldest child uncovers the mystery behind the mansions hauntings.

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...

A young girl is dreaming to become a ballerina despite a difficult times she's going through...

A Soviet children's television film based on an Italian fairy tale, a fairy-tale play from the series of televised productions of folk tales from around the world.

The main character of the film is Viktor Bershadsky, a Russian director who emigrated to the United States. His fate and career did not work out either in Russia or abroad. He used to be famous, but now no one remembers him, he hasn't directed a film in 10 years and most likely will never receive a production order again. But fate smiles on him, too, though only for one day. In New York, patrons at the Hilton Hotel organized a charity evening dedicated to immigrants from Russia. Viktor Bershadsky becomes the star of the evening, and in his elegant tuxedo, he is the center of attention. However, this is only for one evening, and in the morning, the fairy tale will come to an end.

On a visit to the "new Russian", the father of a thirteen-year-old boy, guests come to the dacha on New Year's Eve. One of them is a killer.

Lumiere's The Arrival Of A Train in Russian.