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Three heroines go to the westernmost point of Russia - the Baltic Spit. Pines, sand, dogs, girlish dances, summer carefree. Girls stay overnight on the shore in a tent. During the night, summer is replaced by winter. In the morning, for an unknown reason, the heroines part.
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...
Deniska, a little boy, went to the park for the New Year's party. He expected to meet some happy fairytale animals there, but he came across a werewolf bear.
“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’."
The Atomic Bomb Reflector is a fantastic invention developed by Sergei Kalmykov to convert destructive force into creative energy. The theatre director Rustem Begenov will ask the audience to fall asleep, sing a song of praise to themselves and switch on a Soviet-era light bulb – anything to make Kalmykov’s invention work. What is Rustem preaching, and to what extent is it comprehensible and necessary for mankind today?
Train from Moscow to Vladivostok and back to cope with the task. Freshmen of the Moscow Art Theater School are looking for travel companions to be played upon returning in a new performance. And you feel us - say fellow travelers. Harmonists, ZEKs, whalers, sappers, directors of vegetable bases ... Feel! Drink tea and moonshine with us, listen to our truth and bullshit. All the same, there is no edge. There is only an opportunity to find something important. Over these 14 days. For this road.
A documentary about the Kerch shooter Vladislav Roslyakov.
The rhythm of the life of the heroine, a young girl named Margarita, is completely in tune with the rhythm of the city road: three colors - green, yellow and red - three senses - three persons of one person - three stages of one life. Margarita lives a turning point in the history: a stage of choice. Fifteen minutes that will become key in her life: she abruptly changes her life - she breaks the habitual relationship for the sake of obscurity. He risks everything for the sake of a dubious jackpot. The margarita loses love and finds it again, but will it escape from loneliness and emptiness? And what is the meaning in a world that denies any meaning?
In Kyrgyzstan village school old teacher of Russian language was change to a young teacher of Turkish language. But old man doesn't give up, he is completely in love with Russian culture and he desperately wants children to learn the language. A lot of funny and sad at the same time situations happens to him on the way fighting for his love.
The simplest Russian woman unexpectedly gets in the way of a violent criminal. She must at all costs give them the required (and for her just incredible) amount of money, otherwise her daughter is in danger. How to find a way out? Tormented by this question, she makes a difficult decision.
Journey into the world of poetic images of Sergey Yesenin, his deep contradictions and spiritual searches. The poet meets eight hypostases of himself on the way of understanding his work, talent and era.
The first training work of Nastasya Marsakova, the first course of VGIK (workshop directing the feature films of Vladimir and Alexandr Kott).
A few summer days of three ordinary Moscow girls on the threshold of adulthood. Farewell to childhood in schoolyards and entrances of sleeping areas, where everything is for the first time and the world is just beginning - from secretly purchased cigarettes and cans with gin and tonic to an adult passport, first love and almost real tragedies.
A lyrical serene drama dedicated to love and loneliness
The film tells about the famous monument to the Soviet soldier-liberator "Alyosha" in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv. The idea to build a monument on Bunardzhik Hill in honor of Soviet soldiers-liberators was born among the residents of Plovdiv back in 1948. The initiative came entirely from "below", from the people, without any recommendation from "above". On May 9, 1948, the Citywide Initiative Committee for the construction of a monument to Soviet soldiers was established, which included public figures, architects, artists, writers and teachers. It was headed by the head of the Plovdiv military garrison, General Asen Grekov. On the same day, the symbolic laying of the base of the monument was made.
Two animated shorts, "Waiting for the Balloon" and "The Perfect Hole".
Artyom is 15 years old. This is the same age when you are not an adult, but also not small. It was in this, the last summer of childhood, that everything fell on Artyom at once: the betrayal of his father, who remained abroad after the tour, first love, friendship forever and quarrel forever. Artyom has only a skateboard - this is how in the 80s in the USSR they called skate, which Soviet teenagers had just begun to learn about. Now Artyom needs only one thing: by all means to win in street competitions.
The main character of the film is a captain from the special services of Russia. He was forced to engage in a private carriage. But when an extreme situation arises - it is the threat of a terrorist attack, the command immediately remembers Captain Stychkin - an unsurpassed specialist who is truly capable of ensuring poverty. Stychkin pushes his grievances and ambitions into the background. The bill is on electricity from the Paveletsky railway station at Domodedovo Airport.
Pavlensky/Pawlenski, artist and activist, is leading the way in forging social change in Russia. Through an multiple courageous performances, he acts as society's conscience in the face of an increasingly totalitarian state. From lying naked in a coil of barbed wire, to nailing his scrotum to the floor of Red Square, his acts of defiance aim to spark debate and catalyse reform. This documentary follows his mission to challenge the state.
With this publication experience the mysterious mythology of Egypt and be up close during an excavation "live" there. Uncover together with the research team an untouched for centuries tomb and fumble your way bit by bit through her secret with unique 3D shooting.
Misha Kostretsov collects interesting sounds and is fond of muppets, talks about dog tea, the bathhouse and his father's friends.
A mother creates an account on behalf of her daughter to arrange her personal life, but ends up falling in love herself.
A short based on Krapivin’s story “A Plane Named Seryozhka,” or simply in the same genre. Part of the 'Hospital Tales' series.
We follow 15-year-old and 9-months-pregnant Zhenya as she tries to navigate her difficult situation and is faced with ever increasing rejection from her community, friends and family.
A divorced Professor of gynaecology leads a quiet life preferring his work and his own company to other people. However, his solitude comes to an abrupt end when a neighbour knocks on his door one day asking for help. A young girl in his office is pregnant. Alone and confused, Anna feels that an abortion is her only option, but her doctor has advised her that, if she goes ahead with the operation, it is unlikely she will be able to have children. The Professor reluctantly agrees to examine her, but when he confirms his colleague's diagnosis, Anna is distraught.
England, London, May 1899. The death of the old lord Robert Andestend collects under one roof, in a family estate, his three nephews: bachelor bachelors who do not grieve too much for the deceased. Nephews learn that after the death of their rich uncle, they receive a huge inheritance - one million pounds sterling. But nephews will receive this sum only if they take three girls who live in the mansion of the old lord. If the nephews do not fulfill the condition, the whole legacy will pass to the old friend of the lord, the Russian general in retirement. The uncle complicated the task by saying that it is necessary to get married before a certain period - within two days. And nephews rush all the truths and crooks to get three "golden" brides.
The letter, which arrived in a village buried in the sand, is addressed to an elderly fisherman and invites him to come to the city for the wedding of his son, whom he has never seen. The redemptive journey ends unexpectedly.
Anna is a common office girl in a relationship with her married chief. One day Anna meets another man but what will it take her to escape from the iterative life cycle?
A film about the eternal human desire for beauty, to the point of complete rejection of terrestrial existence.
In November 2001, Chechen schoolchildren came to Moscow for a vacation. For them, this is the first peaceful city in their life. A war without a single frame of war.
Six minutes of dancing and trances, a spontaneous orgiastic performance slowed down and drowned in digital effects and overlays. The music heard off screen is written by Sid Iandovka and is as rhythmic as it is viscous. The movements of bodies and costumes hint at both playful carnivals and mysterious rituals.
The adventures of post-Soviet Russia's favorite son, Captain Pronin.
In 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their experiences. While unnamed tribal forces occasionally engaged the troops in skirmishes, Sokurov’s haunting documentary chronicles the downtime between activity.
The story of the two wrestler girls in and out of the ring. Mephisto, the champion of the NFR and the champion of India, is a the sales manager in everyday life, while Casey, or the Queen of the Scream, is a recent graduate of the University.
Learning that Albrecht, her beloved, is in fact a nobleman engaged to be married to a princess, the naive peasant girl Giselle dies. The Queen of the Wilis—the spirits of deceased young virgins—decides that Albrecht should follow Giselle to the grave, and condemns him to dance until he dies of exhaustion. But Giselle’s spirit dances with him and saves him. With music by Adolphe Adam and a libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, the ballet touches on the great romantic themes: local colour, a pastoral love affair doomed to end in tragedy, a plunge into fantasy and redemption through the power of love.
The young librarian Ksenia, who until recently was solving her numerous family and financial problems, one day becomes the owner of an inheritance - a huge apartment, a bank account and a new Mercedes, and with it many secrets and mysteries. Ksenia understands that in this life nothing happens just like that... Step by step she is approaching the solution, not realizing that a threat is already hanging over her...
Director Vladimir Mirzoev presented the Russian theater with a series of wild spectacles in which Maxim Sukhanov is a carnival substance that explodes all the canons.
The life of a middle-aged, lonely businessman is filled with children’s dreams about outer space. The only opportunity for him to go to stars is an MRT device, only there the hero feels zero gravity. In the attempt to find as effective a remedy for his “flights”, the man ends up in a deadlock.
This is an inspiring story about willpower and perseverance, demonstrating that no obstacles can stop a person on the path to achieving their goals, especially if they are surrounded by the support of friends and a mentor. Based on real events of 1976, the film "Triumph" tells the story of the ascent to Olympus of Yakut wrestlers - Roman Dmitriev, Pavel Pinigin and Alexander Ivanov, whose names thundered throughout the world. Their path to success is inextricably linked with the personality of the outstanding coach Dmitry Korkin - a legendary man, a born teacher, innovator and educator. Korkin's name is forever inscribed in the history of the origin and triumphant development of freestyle wrestling in Yakutia.
The film tells the story of the formation of Irkutsk street artist ViZiO. Over the course of five years, amidst global cataclysms and personal dramas, ViZiO created a series of paintings titled "City i," depicting a post-apocalyptic Irkutsk. Unexpectedly for the artist himself, his works found resonance in the nerve of a new reality, and now he must reconsider his art.
Ivan lives in Yekaterinburg, writes bold poems, loves sandwiches with squash caviar and his fiancee Dasha. The wedding was decided to be played in Sochi, where Vanina's beloved grandfather lives, who is seriously ill. But after a bold publication in social networks, Ivan, instead of flying to his wedding, is forced to stay at home with an electronic bracelet on his leg. In order for the planned celebration to take place, Ivan will have to take an unexpected step.
One Kuleshov film that might be of great interest to scholars is The Breakthrough (Proryv, 1930). It was made in 48 hours. Naturally, such an unusual work did not stay in cinemas for a long time.
Part of almanac "There's No Hurry".
Yevgeny Grishkovets, who “changed ideas about the one-man show genre and even himself became a certain“ genre ”, calls“ Whisper of the Heart ”as his most unusual and most sacred work. “This is my sixth monologue in seventeen years of work, on the plan of which I have been thinking for more than five years, but I have never been given it. Three and a half years ago, I even thought about abandoning him and did Farewell to Paper. However, again and again I returned to “Whisper of the heart” ... It was a time of extremely careful and unhurried selection of words and meanings. ”
A new version of "Romeo and Juliet", only the events of the film are developing in modern Moscow, and the main characters are a carefree motorcyclist named Flame and the daughter of a billionaire Lena.
The film is about why Fedor Chalyapin was actually expelled from his native country and left Russia forever.