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The history of Rus' since inviting of the Varangians, led by Rurik, to converting of Princess Olga to Christianity.

Legendary St. Petersburg composer Oleg Karavaichuk strolls through the Hermitage accompanied by his music. A seething genius among the masterpieces and interiors of the Winter Palace similar to himself.

Dasha, a young biologist, prepares to defend her Ph.D. on the Baikal seal. Her Ph.D. advisor is skeptical about Dasha’s love for animals, and her mother only cares about the girl not missing night prayers. A story about a conflict between science and religion, love and suffering, between what Dasha wants and what others push her to do.

Danila Poperechny's the half-hour stand-up program in four parts.

"Oleg Ptitsyn Died", "Oleg Ptitsyn In Jail" - headlines in all the newspapers and magazines about the famous rock musician. Actually he is undergoing treatment in one of city hospitals. Kate, a teenage girl from the same hospital, which neglects all the doctors and even her own mother becomes his companion in misfortune. Oleg decides to help the girl to get well and love life.

One day in the life of a modern six-year-old girl, painted by the clock. Ballet, singing, English, and finally a swimming pool. But for a child, all this "development stuff" pales before the natural process of tooth loss!

They live in the modern world and are afraid of being alone. They get to know each other quickly and talk a lot. They accidentally collide in the cycle of a big city. Will nine hours be enough for them to really get to know each other and talk about the main thing?

A short film by Sergei Zhukov, shot for the Action charity evening.

A film about one of the leaders of the second Russian avant-garde, an outstanding artist Dmitry Plavinsky, our brilliant contemporary.

The Tsar's Bride - an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov based on the drama by Lev Mey. This is a play about love - passionate, hot, searing and even burning everything around him. About the Russian soul, in the depths of which will always be a place for cleanliness, poetry, sacrifice and charity. At the same time, it is a play about the terrible years in the history of Russia, when the government was in a complete chaos, and the man became a helpless toy in its hands.

A young man accidentally turns out to be a witness of a crime. The police try to get him but the family of a poor man are not going to let them have him without a fight.

A romantic story unfolding in a beautiful village by the sea. The protagonists are 14-year-old Fedor and 18-year-old Nyurka. Fedor has long been interested in the girl, but was too shy to talk to her. He is an ordinary boy who enjoys riding his bike, while Nyurka is almost an actress. Her favorite book is 'Angelique and the King', a novel that defines the way she looks at life. She has often imagined being cast in the title role in a film. When she becomes close friends with Fedor, she assigns him a part from the novel as well. A film showing that love has no age. True feelings can change people and make them grow up. And love is a magical and pure feeling that can awaken courage in hearts.

18-year old girl, called Slavka, born in a small northern town, comes to Moscow - to become a singer or a real pop-star. She got no cash, but just the business card of one of the most famous music producer, called Larisa. But Slavka appears to be quite pushy, and gets herself on board Larisa. And suddenly psycho shock happens - 48-year old Larisa recognizes herself and her own youth in a teen age Slavka, who has the same fighter's nature...

Masha's son loses a tooth. Masha goes to pawn the ring to get cash and put a thousand rubles under her son’s pillow. Having learned why Masha needs money, the pawnbroker is ready to give the treasured thousand for a baby tooth.

A successful Moscow doctor, who has his own clinic, comes to his father in Minsk. His father was once one of the leading doctors of the city, and now he turned out to be unnecessary and forgotten. His son helps him start a new business. But it turns out that the father's worst enemy is his most reliable girlfriend.

Sitting under an umbrella on a sunny autumn day, a shy teenage vampire tries to strike up a conversation with a girl who is an artist.

The first solo stand-up special of Russian comedian Sergey Orlov. He had been preparing this concert for a whole year, running it all over the country, twice a night he performed with this at the Cinema House in Moscow, and for the next 7 months it edited, re-edited, laid back and finally got out!

The film is dedicated to the adventures and reflections of a small dog named Kashtanka.

The film Maria's House talks about people with intellectual and mental disabilities. Children and youth who would otherwise be totally deprived of any future, live a normal life here with their everyday joys and sorrows. The village inhabitants have nowhere to hurry, they enjoy doing work they are capable of doing, they selflessly help each other, and they are always glad to welcome new guests. Happiness dwells here

An exploration of human desires and possibilities in the age of digital sublimity.

The first stars have lit up over Moscow, the breath of the coming night has already touched the White Capital, and Tverskaya Boulevard has come to life. The Zubov family lives peacefully, consisting of an old man-father, a factory worker, a young daughter, Katya, and two sons: the elder Pavel, who also works at the factory, and little Kolya.

Escaping from the dark reality, the office clerk creates a world inside his head where he is the last man on Earth. He enjoys his imaginary life until he meets a girl similar to him. What will win - reality or fantasy?

Ksenia Rappoport’s shrill monologue about the horror of a beautiful woman growing old, which turns into a lyrical and light story about love.

A girl and a strange guy are looking for a phone lost in the woods.

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.

Vera is left in the hospital to look after her sick grandmother. Vera is not ready for such responsibility. She is looking for support in a new acquaintance.

Infantile, carried away, gushing with ideas and designs, Ivan is an animator and a center of attraction for very different people. This evening, his friends will gather in the apartment of Ivan's ex-wife, Marina, to tell him for now: Ivan will emigrate to Canada forever, believing that he will find funding there for his main project. But what does the hero of Toma Selivanova really run from and with what feelings do those who remain?

Inna is the lady of the house. Oleg is the young man who thoughtlessly agreed to drop by. It was a chance meeting, their conversations are idle, but a strange urge makes her open the door and forces him to step over the threshold.

Arian has been living in the city for so long that he is no longer used to the country lifestyle. But the homesickness takes its toll. Our hero, along with his best friend Timur, goes to the forest to hunt. They arrive at a remote, wild place - an ancient hunting ground owned by Ariane's grandfather. There is a threat hanging over this land - the modern world with its mercantile values has reached this forest. But the friends don't know anything about it yet and are having a great time. And then a misfortune occurred. Ariane and Timur are left alone with the forest, in which, as it turned out, they are completely strangers. Our heroes find themselves in the thick of things, surrounded by enemies and unexpected friends. Will they be able to protect their grandfather's legacy and save their ancestral lands from alien, greedy hands?

On a rainy July night, two men are driving along a remote provincial road. And suddenly they witness a small miracle. The graduate girls arrange an impromptu concert, ignoring the rain and puddles.

«Over the dream» is a documentary by Ivan Demkin. It tells us about adventures of CIS representatives at The International tournament. In this movie we will talk about one team and some of the tournament broadcasters – a commentator and an analyst.

The story of the Buryat actor Valery Inkizhinov, who achieved outstanding success in European cinema in exile.

Artem Vinokur about childhood and school, hypochondria and marriage, voice assistants, Duda, Dzhigan and Dzyuba.

At the end of 2018, I was asked to make a short film for a small almanac. The task was to comment on some of the important events of the past year. I, as an active citizen, of course, did not waste time on trifles.

Through the story of the traumas and scars of seven heroines, the film deals with the psychological model that people today live in. Each of us sooner or later found ourselves in the triangle: victim-aggressor-savior, and we did not always manage to see it and stop playing the role of the function in the destructive schema.

About the snail and something bigger.

Baba Yaga finds a smartphone in the forest, but does not know what it is and how it works. She pesters forest dwellers with a request to teach her how to use it. But the animals have no time to teach Baba Yaga. And then she, in frustrated feelings, begins to conjure. And everyone who refused her help suddenly turns into someone else. The forest dwellers understand that they were not kind to Baba Yaga, they fly to her to ask for forgiveness. And in the end, they explain to her how to use smartphones and even teach Baba Yaga to take selfies.

Faced with the relentless demise of the factory they work at, Mikhail, Andrey, Nina, Vladimir, Nadia and Luda – bosses, foremen, engineers and workers at the giant Moscow automobile plant ZIL – cling to their established routines and professional pride to stay upright in a world which is crumbling around them. When an order comes in to produce three of the factory’s legendary hand-made limousines, once the centerpiece of Soviet military parades on Moscow’s Red Square, Mikhail’s team of hand-picked specialists throws itself at the opportunity to show what they are worth.

The film tells the story of Robert Schuman, his life and creative work. He could have been a talented pianist. But he invented the device to prop up his fingers while practicing. The idea was to strengthen them and develop independence, but instead, two fingers on his right hand were permanently injured. As a result Schuman became a great composer and publisher of a music magazine. He fell in love with a talented pianist Clara Wiek - the daughter of his professor - and married her against his will. The film is a romantic story based on the composer's personal notes and his drawings on the margins of sheet music.

Ten women frankly tell that they had to go through lives. Trusting, they talk about love, passion, despair, sadness, hope. They open the most secret corners of the soul, trying to get rid of memories, phantoms, peering with a secret feeling at the interlocutor on the other side of the screen.

A musical film based on the Russian folk tale of the same name. The story is about an arrogant but agile bread kid who managed to get around everyone except the treacherous Fox.

The relationship between Sasha and Vadim has reached a crisis and it seems that the spouses are connected only by discontent, embitterment and irritation. The never- ending quarrels are not even soothed by great trouble: from the summer house their son Grisha, who has overheard how grandmother and grandfather discussed the future divorce of the parents, has run away. The search for the boy leads the protagonists into the forest.

The film takes place in a pioneer camp during Khrushchev's "thaw." It's the story of a boy's entry into life. The hero's first love, for a beautiful girl named Sonya, is not so much love as a premonition of love—a premonition of something important that the world around him reveals to him.

A quantum physicist teaches students at the university summer camp.

Mischa, a mute boy, sets out on a surrealistic journey together with his father and two men. Their means of transportation is an old Soviet locomotive, loaded with stolen coal. The travellers intend to sell off the loot on their way through the borderless steppes of inner Russia. As a parallel to the main plot, sequences of a mysterious travelling circus keep reappearing in a very suggestive way. Many of the odd artists at the circus are people that the four protagonists encounter in the wilderness along the overgrown railway. All through the movie there is a sensation of magic crossed with pure realism, stressed by the crackling communistic infrastructure and a twisted sense of humor. The border between reality and fantasy is very subtle here. The Railway is a story about strong family ties, but also an ambitious interpretation of the clash between the Russia of old and new. One could call it the rebirth of a long forgotten genre: the Russian wonder story.

Architect Alya is going through a difficult time: her personal life is failing, and her professional plans are falling apart. Trying to start over, she takes on a competition project for a country house for a young couple—blogger Inna and IT director Sasha. Unexpectedly, she discovers that Sasha is the creator of her favorite city podcast, "Piter, My Love". A series of coincidences sets in motion a romantic plot in which the city itself becomes a participant.

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

The film "Who left the Light ..." is dedicated to the memory of theater director, theater and film actor Vladimir Ageev. He has been called "the main alchemist of modern filmmaking." A student of Anatoly Vasiliev, Vladimir Ageev paved his own path in art. His search and research led him to create his own creative style, to the "Theater of Mystery and Joy". The film uses archival recordings of the director's rehearsals, fragments from performances.

It was in ancient times when people still did not know mirrors!

A story about the end of relationships. How close people, who do not want to talk things over, become absolutely estranged from one another. A story about lack of understanding, about the unwillingness to understand a close person.

Lusha is suffering from her drunken husband. One day her father-in-law rapes her. Of course, she doesn’t dare admit it to her husband. So, unable to move this incident, Lusha commits suicide...

Four colleagues went on a business trip to conclude an important agreement, curry favor with their superiors and earn a promotion, but on the way back everything did not go according to plan - the heroes find themselves without money and connections in a mysterious small town... More and more obstacles arise between them and returning home. What is keeping them there - an unfortunate combination of circumstances or the city itself?