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When you are 19 years old, you want to fall in love, walk, spend nights in frivolous conversations. All this is done by our heroine Lisa. But that's not the main thing. The main thing is that she has to earn her own living and take care of two paralyzed old men. And there is not a single person nearby to lean on. And Lisa lives in the world-famous town of Karabash, in an ecological disaster zone.
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.
The events begin in 1922 in the Volga region, where famine is raging. A mother donates the last piece of bread to her son, dreaming that he would stay alive and grow up brave and strong. Two decades later, he is already fighting the enemy on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. The platoon is being transferred to the front line. There, in a fierce battle with the enemy, the hero shows unparalleled courage, performs a feat and dies. Nowadays, the great-grandson Sergey, a young cadet of a military school, learns from the Internet about the feat of his ancestor and decides to find the descendants of other soldiers of the unit in order to visit a memorable place and learn more about the events of the war years..
Animated film based on the tale of the creation of the sun and moon. The world is immersed in twilight, there is no light or shadow in it. The twins, brother and sister, grow a tree, and one day the first leaf appears on it.
Jane was born in Petersburg, lives in Moscow, works as a model. Her father moved to Russia from Ghana when he was 20 years old. Listening to the stories of her father, Jane always wanted to go back home. She had never been to Africa, had not seen her relatives, including her grandmother and aunt ... Suddenly, Jane finds out that her aunt will become the leader of the region in Ghana and decides to go on a trip to Accra to attend the inauguration of the leader and meet her relatives ...
The first Chechen war broke Russia in the mid-nineties. The war was lost, the country and the army was damaged. The recovery turned out to be incredibly difficult. Former soldiers - veterans of the famous "Wild Brigade" - cope with this trauma as best they can. For example, with their own hands and at their own expense, they decide to build a monument to fallen comrades at the gates of their long-abandoned military unit. Over and over again, they remind themselves of what they have experienced, not understanding how to break out of this vicious circle of war memories that still determine their whole life. A vicious circle in which not only a person can get lost, but the whole country can get lost by repeating the history and unleashing senseless wars.
At New Year's evening Dasha, a young girl, breakes in to the country home which belong to a very serious guy - Alexander.
The introvert Russian girl Nadia goes on holiday to Belgrade, inhabited by extrovert Serbians. She lives according to a plan, while the Belgraders live for joy. At first, Nadia is involved with the local guy Nesha, and then with his relaxed, semi-vagrant way of life. She takes the impulsive decision to give up her dull job and Moscow for the sake of love, freedom and Belgrade. Both this love, and this freedom must undergo the test of reality, which is always more difficult than our expectations.
The film was shot in the intensive care unit of the 71st hospital in Moscow
Nikolay Kozlov, honored coach of the sambo school "Uralmash", brings up not only athletes from street boys, but also real men with a strong, strong-willed character.
Misha Kostretsov collects interesting sounds and is fond of muppets, talks about dog tea, the bathhouse and his father's friends.
5 members of a 3rd rate marching band goes off for a gig. They are driving along a rough road in the Moscow region, in a hopelessly tattered old minibus. They exchange glances with one another, each musician clearly battered by life. Not one of them suspects that this mundane trip for some extra cash will unexpectedly force each and everyone one of them to reconnect with their essence.
Ivan Komendantov is only 16 years old. But he is already the secretary for ideology of the Stalingrad district committee of the Komsomol of Moscow. Vanya wants to quickly become an adult, so he enthusiastically takes up any business: whether it be the rise of the world economy or a special task to seduce a girl.
A poor but happy life in anticipation of the first-born can end forever. Anis, Ian’s beloved wife, was taken for debts, which the main character couldn’t recover. And then he chooses the path of revenge. But he will take revenge on God himself, who committed such injustice. In search of a higher power, Ayan discovers a new world full of magic and mythical characters. Here, tales and tales cease to be fiction.
A story about the fate of several generations of an old Moscow family. The life of these people, full of drama, fatally intersects with the historical fate of Russia. The plot focuses on the love of a young officer and a girl against the background of Stalinist socialism.
"Krusenstern" is a story of real dramatic events that took place on the famous barge during the regatta in 2000.
In September 2022, when mobilization was announced in Russia, residents of the Chukchi village of Egvekinot Maxim Teyunaut and Sergey Nechaev decided to escape so that they would not be sent to war in Ukraine.
Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound version of one famous Soviet cartoon. It's "The Post" made by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky in 1929 and based on a poem by Samuil Marshak. At first "The Post" has been released in a silent form and later Tsekhanovsky remade it with experimental music and narration by Daniil Kharms. At that moment it was the first Soviet sound cartoon and it was a success all over the world. Russian film studies consider "The Post" to be of great importance and artistic value but unfortunately it's still lost. Only the silent version and the 1964 remake are still known and available.
The protagonist in "Bastards" is a young resident of some Russian city. He unsuccessfully tries to adapt to the modern Russian savage life. The world around him lives by rules dictated by the black market and Chechen wars. It is a cruel and unjust world, where you can survive only with a bunch of stolen dollars instead of brains. For a young Russian, money is a symbol of power and strength. Even the new state ideology feeds on blood oil dollars. In Russia there is no more room for dreams. This is the era of anti-utopia.
Alexandra, descended from an Illuminati member, leads a measured way of life until she meets Roger, from this moment begins to happen supernatural things. The boy turns out to be the son of the Devil himself. Now our heroes have to understand their pedigrees and save the world from the Apocalypse.
It's about two boys figuring out who hurt whom first.
"How thin is the human skin? What does it hide behind? The leather bag of apocalypse." Bile is an introspective essay on the notion of the human body as a political metaphor. Layer-by-layer the film digs down in order to reach answers to the proposed questions: what is body, what is illness and finally what is death. A journey through the history of medical imaging and a reflection on the recent death of the director's mother in the decorations of post-Soviet Russia. Getting under the skin of the viewer, the film attempts to comprehend the complex subject of corporeality. The title Bile refers to the physical and mental conditions of the human being. In fact, black bile comes from the old Greek for melancholy: melas cholè.
The main character of the film is DJ Morze, a philologist by training, the creator and ideological inspirer of the OBERWAVE project - a community and a series of parties dedicated to sensual neo-decadent music and the aesthetics of a feast during the plague.
What makes people so attractive? With its beauty, unknownness, immense distance from the earth? Some have made this interest their profession and have become scientists - astronomers and astrophysicists, others have turned it into a hobby and all the free time from the roofs of houses and even in private observatories watch the starry sky, opening new stars, giving them names. About astronomy, astronomers - professionals and amateurs, tells this film.
Four stories about Saint Petersburg through the eyes of ordinary guys who have seen a lot on their path, but have not betrayed themselves. The film casts famous Russian hip-hop band KASTA.
Начинающий кинорежиссер снял короткометражку по мало известному автобиографическому рассказу русского писателя-эмигранта Алексея Зыкова, покинувшего родину с первой эмигрантской волной. Приехав в Париж, режиссер решает показать фильм писателю в расчете на его поддержку в съемках полнометражной картины по новелле писателя. Однако Алексей Зыков, уничтоживший этот рассказ перед отъездом из России, не проявил никакого энтузиазма по поводу увиденного на экране, да и сам режиссер понял, что он прикоснулся к личной драме писателя...
A film about a girl who was born and raised in the city and dreamed of becoming a veterinarian to treat pets. But in the process of studying, she realized that she wanted to work in the village, take care of large animals. A fragile girl learns to cope with hard work and make a difficult choice between life and death.
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.
The history of Levon and Armen, whose roads had diverged 16 years ago, but one casual encounter reveals the secrets of the past. Will they return the lost?
In the imagination of a small person, everyday life turns into a fairy tale. But, in this amazing country, the baby is often lonely. And only a mother - along a thin thread of love - can enter this wonderful world...
Three friends - Baaska, Sashok and Petka - gather in an old village club and learn that their childhood friend Vadim, who came from abroad, did not invite them to his wedding. Trying to cope with the bitterness of lost friendships, they immerse themselves in memories and fantasies about a better life.
Denis works as a bartender. Today, after closing the shift, he immediately goes home, because he has to meet his mother in the morning. But a friend's visit changes the plans for this night.
Five women collide at an anniversary celebration in the ladies' room. Each of them has its own secret and its own story. But they don't even know how closely their lives are intertwined...
Yuri Butusov, one of the most paradoxical Russian theater directors, presents his interpretation of the play "Son", which closes the trilogy of the French playwright Florian Zeller "Mother", "Father", "Son". Having found his key to Shakespeare, Brecht, Chekhov, Ibsen, Butusov searches for human content and depth, turning this time to modern material.
It's time now just to live. Just love each other with the highest power of pure feelings. This movie started many years ago. When we began to shoot it we could hardly imagine how this drama would end. Back then, Lena, mother of three, living Russian soul, divorced the father of her kids Yura and married a murderer sentenced to life imprisonment. What was it? Now, after painful challenges, becoming husband and wife again, Lena and Yura, simple rural aristocrats of the spirit, once again amaze us with the depth of their introspection, delicacy of feelings, with humor and sadness about things that will never happen.
Five friends go to the village to celebrate a birthday party. Igor has to take his small sister with them. The friends are full of hormones, alcohol, cigarettes, intrigues and fun when they suddenly realize the terrible: they've lost their sister. Igor is sure the reason is the locals with whom they have recently had a fight. The story becomes a bridge for teens from the childhood to the adult life.
The world of the novel is fully and completely hanged around the unique instrument which got through all horrors of the war. The story begins in a violin shop in Nuremberg, where in the beginning of the XX century the violin was created. Hundred years later, through the hands of various owners, the violin finally ends up at the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem.
After the theater's commission rejected Andrey's directorial work, he left to work as a simple projectionist in a cinema. The director of the Vakhonin theater, having learned that Andrey has his own booth, immediately decided to use it, inviting the actress of his troupe Tatiana to watch the film. Under such banal and very piquant circumstances, Andrei's strong feeling for Tatiana is born...
В заброшенный поселок на берегу Волги приезжает молодой археолог Андрей, он занимается раскопками. В поселке остались только дед Роман, у которого Андрей останавливается, и семья Сергея, который живет тем, что тайком глушит рыбу и продает икру. Андрей сначала относится скептически к стараниям деда восстановить затопленную церковь. Он начинает ухаживать за женой Сергея — Людой, пытаясь легкой интрижкой скрасить свое времяпрепровождение. Но постепенно с Андреем начинают происходить изменения. Он начинает помогать деду восстанавливать церковь, и его ухаживания за Людой перерастают в серьезное чувство. Но Люда не одна, ее муж готов на все, чтобы расправиться с Андреем, да и сама Люда испытывает угрызения совести, ведь сын Сергея — Миша привязался к ней, как к родной матери…
Andrei Proskuryakov's documentary delves into a profound examination and contemplation of the events that transpired on January 31, 1945. On that day, the Nazis perpetrated a large-scale execution of approximately 3,000 prisoners from the Stutthof concentration camp on the shores of the Baltic Sea, near the village of Palmnicken in East Prussia. The film is meticulously structured around three pivotal individuals: Martin Bergau, a former Hitler Youth member who was connected to the tragedy; Gunther Nitsch, a German-American writer whose grandfather was involved in exhuming the victims» bodies; and Simcha Koplowicz, the son of Sheva Koplowicz, a survivor of the massacre. Through these characters, the documentary meticulously examines the historical silence that surrounded this tragedy and endeavors to reveal the unvarnished truth surrounding the event.
A visual work at the intersection of cinema and performance, game and documentary approach. The project refers to the corporeality of human nature, the teachings of Mikhail Bakhtin about the carnival culture of the Middle Ages, quantum physics and the theory of relativity. Filming took place in the summer and autumn of 2015 on the wild beaches of the Crimea, where there has long been a culture of seasonal nudist settlements. Residents of these settlements voluntarily became participants in the project.
What could be easier than proving your innocence by having a video of everything that happened? After all, the incredible that you saw can be seen by everyone. The main character will have to prove that he is innocent of the murder, and his victim was not a victim. She was not even a human. A psychiatrist sent by the police must be convinced of this. The outcome of the case will depend only on his decision.
The 1998 live tour promoting the new album
Once this place was one country, the Soviet Union, but now it is the border between the Kaliningrad region and Lithuania, Russia and the European Union. The Russians, whose ancestors were brought here from the east, still live in German houses, among German cemeteries. Across the border - Lithuania, which survived the Soviet occupation, the mass exile of Lithuanians to Siberia and regained independence 30 years ago with the collapse of the USSR. The life of the border regions on both sides of the two-meter fence may be different, but people are similar.
A sharp and witty play on opposites. *Schastlivtsev – Neschastlivtsev* (2003) stages joy and despair as two sides of the same coin, balancing irony with a touch of melancholy. Short, but it lingers.
About days of St. Petersburg art in the city of Graz, Austria, which was the cultural capital of Europe in 2003.
During one day in an old St. Petersburg apartment, there gathered a large group of moral and ethical freaks and perverts. However, these "thugs" had kind, bright souls...
