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This is a chronicle of several days in the lives of people who made a huge contribution to the main event of 2014 with their own hands. Ice pouring specialists, Olympic medal makers, builders, engineers, border guards, metallurgists, doctors, volunteers — they will all talk about how the Sochi Olympics came to be a reality.
In the summer of 2014, a group of actors of the Gogol Center (Moscow) and the State Academic Drama Theater named after Fedor Volkov (Yaroslavl), headed by Kirill Serebrennikov, went on an expedition to the Yaroslavl region. The purpose of the expedition is to prepare a play based on the poem by N.A. Nekrasov "Who is to live well in Russia". The theater studied life, read a Nekrasov poem together with residents of villages and cities, wrote down documentary monologues of people, asked each person one of the main questions of the poem and today's life: “Who should live well in Russia?” The artist of "The Seventh Studio" Alexander Gorchilin and cameraman Ksenia Sereda recorded every second of this amazing research trip.
Good and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative and post narrative collide in a mortal battle for fun to public.
When the war began, graduates of the choreographic school decided to make their way to the front. Young ballerinas Alka and Nadia also dreamed of exploits, but instead they were waiting for routine work as nurses in the hospital. The girls still achieved their goal and got to the front line, where Nadia died at the first shelling. After recovering from a severe concussion, Alka again went to the front line, to the Marine reconnaissance platoon. She received her first task – to get a "tongue"…
Somewhere near the line of contact. There's fighting, bullets fly, shells explode, the cannonade never stops. But he moves forward, he has a mission. He's a soldier in one of those wars humanity tirelessly wages. The soldier encounters drones, is attacked by sabotage and reconnaissance groups, and has no choice but to join the fight. His life here is just one link in a vast, merciless chain.
The stone jungle of the gloomy city does not leave a single sprout of greenery. But nature is bursting out from under the slabs, bursting with the greenery of sprouts. And no matter how much the city tries to cope with unwanted vegetation, nature takes its course and greens it.
It turns out that Santa Claus has a wife, and she fulfills the wishes of adults. But they stopped believing in miracles, and the sorceress turned into an ordinary housewife. However, this year everything will change.
Shy "straight-A" Anya gets drawn into a fatal game, as a result of unhappy love to high school music star Pavel and complicated relationship with her controlling mother.
The story of two schoolboys who found a man by a forest, lying on the ground inanimate.
Apatity, a far-north industrial town in Russia, first came into being as a USSR concentration camp. Although its environment is at the brink of ecological disaster, the people here still believe in the state’s promise of immortality that can be gained through sacrificial service to the fatherland. This is how the elite in a totalitarian state buy a person’s will, strength, talent and, indeed, life, turning the human being into another resource that is as faceless as a grey lump of ore. ‘I cannot fight big corporations or state structures with a film. But I hope that there is someone in the darkness of the cinema whose heart will get a bit warmer after seeing it,’ says the director. The larger part of the film was shot during the polar night.
The Kuril Islands still remain a mystery to the rest of the world. The popular science film "Land of the People" rediscovers the unique territory of the Kuril Islands, with their unique human and natural wealth. Repeating the route of the first colonists, the viewer will get acquainted not only with the extraordinary beauty of this distant land, but also with the modern inhabitants of the islands, people of outstanding professions, somewhere adventurers, somewhere simply strong and strong in spirit, who live in places far from modern civilization, where there is neither the Internet, nor cellular communication, nor other items of everyday life most familiar to the continent.
The love story of a Red Army girl and a captured White Guard lieutenant who survive on a desert island in the middle of the Aral Sea.
The story about 40-year-old Vasily, who has been trying to find for more than 20 years happiness in the city. When coming back home to the village, he understands that his already nobody waits and nobody wants it already.
A handful of farmers protect their farm from bandits.
Igor Zhdanov is a popular actor. For many years he has played the same role — a clever detective in the popular series. He was the hero of all fails, he defends the downtrodden and save the doomed. One day, returning from filming in his native St. Petersburg, Igor is in a compartment with a strange companion — Savichev. He is clearly scared about something. Igor, putting on the table a bottle of vodka, Savichev offers to get rid of fear in the traditional way.
A teenage girl from a dysfunctional family, whose parents keep an inexpensive roadside cafe, runs away from home. "It's not I who left them, they left me," - so the girl explains her flight.
The main character Sasha is obsessed with a desire: to find love. He and his father go to Yakutsk for the anniversary of Darya Semyonovna, who in her youth was his father's lover. Darya Semyonovna is a domineering, charismatic tyrant. Her daughter – Masha is cunning, educated, who dreams of marrying a prince on a white horse. It is to them that a young guy Sasha gets with his father. Sasha knows his own worth, but he is very naive, simple and kind. The lack of life experience and excessive desire to please everyone plunge Sasha into a series of collisions, which he will have to overcome on the path of true love.
This thrilling story will involve you in a whirlwind of incredible mystical events. Mysterious disappearances, chases, and ancient evil. Who is hiding in the woods? Will anyone find salvation? Based on Stephen King's "Pet Sematary".
The paths of two childhood friends cross many years later. Now one deals drugs, the other works as a precinct officer. Their interests collide in Apartment 29.
Viktor Tikhomirov made the only female portrait film about the virtuoso pianist Polina Osetinskaya. She started playing the piano at the age of five, and at six she already gave her first solo concert at the Vilnius Philharmonic. Every day, the young pianist rehearsed for 14-16 hours, taught 10 poems and ran 10 kilometers. In the film, she talks about her childhood, strict discipline and vivid images that she came up with to visualize music. The film uses recordings from the pianist's personal archive, footage from Yevgeny Yufit's film "Killed by Lightning" and video chronicles of the 1980s — the first interviews of the Ossetian.
Vanya is engaged in website design and makes good money on it. But money does not make him happy; his teddy bear Toto does. One morning Vanya notices a plush squirrel in a passing car. It seems to him that she is crying, apparently due to the fact that others do not notice that there is consciousness inside the squirrel. The squirrel could be a great couple for Totoshka and add a lot of joy to the life of Vanya and Totoshka. They find out that the squirrel was taken away from Minsk, and they set off in pursuit.
The story of a hipster who has reached power, who has become the prefect of the fictional metropolitan area of Vostochnoe Medvedkovo. Finally, talking about tile, cycle paths and the rescue of old estates can be supported by real deeds! Or not?
The film is a means of understanding the personal, political and economic reasons that resulted in the creation of a system of forced restraint to work GULAG. Authors use the experience of the writer Varlam Shalamov and a number of new works on the history of Russia.
Лента рассказывает о реальных событиях конца февраля 2000 года, произошедших в Аргунском ущелье в Чечне. Бойцы 6-й роты 104 парашютно-десантного полка Псковской дивизии ВДВ вступили в жестокий бой с двадцатикратно превосходящими силами террористов. Десантники не дрогнули, не отступили и выполнили задание, ценой своей жизни преградив путь бандитам, прорывающимся из окружения.
Anton, a young Ukrainian man, walks through Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He arrives outside Brooklyn Banya, a bathhouse, matching it to the image on a postcard he has been carrying. He asks her if she has seen his father, Andrei. She invites him to pay the entrance fee to look for himself.
In the 90s, Stasya and his dad were spending their summer holidays in Odesa with their grandmother. Their relatives from different cities of Russia were also coming there to enjoy the warm sea. 30 years later they meet again. This time in Moscow.
This film is an adaptation from Aleksandr Kuprin's book.
A Film about Anna Akhmatova is not a biopic. Rather, it is a live process of recreating a story akin to ancient tragedy. Before the viewer's eyes it emerges from archival and modern footage, unique sound recordings of Akhmatova's voice, her poems and photographs, and the many paintings and portraits of her, with the commentary of the poet Anatoly Naiman, who knew Akhmatova in her last years.
World War 2 - Eastern Front: A new batch of raw, inexperienced female Soviet snipers arrive at the front. To bolster them a commander picks a Tungus medic whose people are known for their hunting skills and marksmanship to lead them in battle. Soon a merciless duel with an elite German sniper develops. The main character is based on the top Soviet sniper SEMYON NOMOKONOV who had 367 kills to his credit.
The whole life of the recent provincials, and now Muscovite Katie - one continuous selfie with a series of celebrities. Any intrigues for the sake of likes, any exploits in the name of “star instagram” status. But, the number of subscribers is still not enough and for the sake of the cherished goal, she goes to St. Petersburg to take a selfie with a mysterious artist who hides her identity, and thereby blow up the Internet. And at this time at the airport, a respectable stranger asks Katya to hand over the usual envelope to an unknown recipient ...
Low key documentary recording the daily life of an elderly blind man in Russia.
The coming of Jesus Christ to earth, the unknown Tolstoy, the damned Rasputin, the love of King Richard, and the terrible secrets of the Holy Inquisition. All this in a historical film that intertwines entire eras, plunging the viewer into an unimaginable whirlwind of adventure, the eternal struggle for souls, and the all-conquering magic of love. "Crucified" is a feature film based on Leo Tolstoy's notes, which were banned at various times. Religious beliefs and inquisitorial persecution, fear in the eyes of people and their faith in justice, love and hate, nature and humanity—all these themes are reflected in this phantasmagoric film.
Anvar is a 72-year-old third-generation wild honey farmer. He makes the trip into the forest for the wild honey that his grandchildren love so much. Anvar would never have thought that the most delicious honey on earth could one day become bitter.
New funny and vivid stories of Turbosaurs, their friends Katya and Petya, as well as a new member of the team — Sirens.
A conductor is haunted by hallucinations during a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre.
Young and enthusiastic Alexander Aduev comes to St. Petersburg from the province, ready to conquer the whole world. Very soon all his ideals were crushed, and he himself repeated the fate of his practical and impassive uncle Peter.
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?
Nina lives with a seriously ill father and works on the psychological helpline. She has a little time between visits of doctors and conversations with unstable teens to watch the boys who are chasing the ball in the yard. Their liveliness is the complete opposite of her routine existence. She tries to escape from the darkness with the help of one of them.
Kirill Selegey about scientific articles, drugdealers, meetings, female masturbation and conversations with grandmother.
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.
Based on the Udmurt myths, legends and legends. Shamans and knights, sorceresses and artisans of the past centuries are the characters of this ancient legend about love, hatred,and loyalty to the land of their ancestors. The plot is based on the legend of Danube, the son of White Swan, who once came to the ancient Udmurts from the skies in order to understand those living on Earth.
The star of Russian cinema Dmitry Singers has earned a reputation as a strong guy and won a lot of women's hearts in his previous works. This time his hero is the owner of a magnificent collection of ancient books. Mafia structures are not averse to warm your hands on rare editions valued at millions of dollars. In the way of the bookseller appears beautiful Alice. Life and love would be beautiful if you do not know what the task was the beloved of the hero. The battle between good and evil develops into a Grand battle. Honor, friendship, love stands the hero, leaving at stake his own life.
This short film is a non-commercial project of a young Russian director, Dmitriy Moiseyev. Made by creative group’s own efforts, without any investments, it became the most successful fiction movie ever made on Sakhalin Island (east of Russia). The protagonists are a small family which just lost their dear one. They try to live a normal life, but shadows of the past haunt them all the time. Their only salvation is to break all connections with their past and start a new life faraway from everything which was so dear to them.
Born in 1949 in Leningrad. In 1968 he graduated from the Art College.Serova. In 1977, an exhibition of film engineers was held in the Recreation Center. Until 1981, he participated in numerous "apartment" exhibitions. In 1981– an exhibition at the Kirov Recreation Center (Experimental Art Association); In 1987 – Montreal, Paris; In 1992– Finland, and in 1999— an exhibition at the Luxembourg Consulate. Thematic solo exhibitions of the artist are constantly held in St. Petersburg. Participant of exhibitions since 1977. Member of the Board (1981), TSPH (2002). He worked as a decorative artist at the V. F. Komissarzhevskaya Theater (1974-1976); as a locksmith in the Emergency Recovery Service of the Technical Technical University (1976-1980); as a production designer at the Experiment Theater (1983). Lives and works in Saint Petersburg‑St. Petersburg.
A group of youngsters are having a carefree summer vacation. To make money, they steal phones from wealthy schoolkids, but bitter payback for these happy-go-lucky days is inevitable.