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Year 2017 would be the 100th Anniversary of the revolution in Russia. Film researches the reasons of the “Russian revolution”, First World War, external and internal conspiracies, which led to the collapse of the monarchy and traditional world order. Narration is build of quotes, memoirs and inferences of eyewitnesses. The facts are told based on the views of the authors of the film.
Parallel to numerous celebrations all over the country, the care recipients of a Moscow social support center honorably execute President Putin's decree to ceremonially celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the WWII Victory Day. In simultaneous interviews they plain-heartedly explain their vision of the Great Victory: do Russians believe in a war? Do they want a war? What feeds their patriotism?
After some “stuff,” Dima steps onto the stage with a faint suspicion that he’s not quite the classmate everyone once bet on. Stories about the gym, nine eggs for breakfast, and peculiar male rituals. Observations on everyday struggles — with doors, with expectations, with himself.
A claymation cartoon based on the fairy tale of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. An old grandfather became very feeble, which began to irritate his son and his wife. However, the little grandson taught the adults a lesson that made them change their attitude towards old age.
There is a belief that world had started from duck's egg and human was created from silt collected at the bottom of the great ocean. In eastern european part of Russia Mari nation is living. Their mindset and culture had formed centuries ago. They are called last and only pagans of europe whos prays are heard by one lite god "Kygy Yomo" — ОНАЕН.
With songs like This World Is Sick and Sad Bitch, IC3PEAK had acquired a reputation for laying bare the malaise of many Russian millennials. By the time they reached Voronezh, the group already had been briefly detained in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk for unclear reasons and had seen a string of performances canceled. Now, a December 6, 2018 police investigation into alleged food poisoning at the Voronezh billiards club where IC3PEAK was scheduled to perform looked like it might lead to the same. In Let It All Burn, Russian filmmaker and TV journalist Andrey Loshak went behind the scenes to document the club and band’s struggle with local police and officials over the right to perform.
An animator named Luka lives with his grandmother in the center of St. Petersburg. He huddles in a tiny but cozy attic and tries not to lose heart, making ends meet with earnings from roles in crowd scenes and performances at children's parties. Luka dreams of acting in TV series or big movies, so he periodically goes to auditions, which are rarely successful. Alexey Molchanov is a rich entrepreneur who lives at a crazy pace. He finds no time for himself or his loved ones, moving from one business meeting to another. However, time stops when, on the eve of his birthday, Alexey learns of his fatal diagnosis. The lives of both men take a different turn after their meeting.
Old age knows no national boundaries or geographical limits. She can be peaceful and happy in the circle of loved ones and become a disaster if you are abandoned by people dear to you. Man is the only living creature in the world who knows that he will die.
Life as run. I’ll give you a few minutes to stop and see. I’ll help you catch the moment. Carpe diem.
Olga Barkovskaya helps investigator Kartashova in the case of the kidnapping of lawyer Gennady Sinitsyn, combined with the murder of Gennady's wife Natalia. The criminal sends strange messages consisting of sequences of perfect numbers to the kidnapped man's brother, Judge Semyon Sinitsyn. Each message gives Olga a new clue and brings her closer to catching the criminal, and at the same time reveals terrible secrets from Gennady's past. Kartashova finds it suspicious that the kidnapper is helping to find himself. He is clearly playing a game with the police, the purpose of which only Olga can understand.
Every year Kamchatka hosts the Beringia, the longest dog sledding race in Russia. Participants overcome more than 1000-kilometer route in more than three weeks. For Kamchatka, the race is an event of the greatest importance.
In fairy tales, the wolf has always been the main antihero, but the new version of the fairy tale "The Wolf and the Seven Goats", takes you to a new reality, where the wolf is a vegan. And among the characters there is a goat Finik - he has special features in development and a talent for music. The wolf becomes his teacher.
Nadia Kuznetsova is 28 years old, she lives in Veliky Novgorod, graduated from school and University here, and dreams of going to the sea - and getting her fingers back. Nadia has a rare genetic disease-epidermolysis bullosa, which is called "butterfly syndrome". The patient's skin is injured by any touch. The disease is incurable: as Nadia herself says, "I don't fight it – I live with it." She is fighting for something else - to lead the life of an ordinary person.
A fictional adaptation of the history of the movement, which began in Ukraine and has spread around the world.
A young guy Sasha runs into a second-class car of a long-distance train with a guitar in a case. He, like many other musicians, tried to conquer Moscow, but failed. Sasha settles in a compartment to an adult shift officer Ivan returning home. For a long time on the way, the heroes manage to make friends, write songs, create their own musical group and perform on the platforms in several cities. But what will happen to their group when Ivan leaves at his station?
A girl comes to the beach to bury the things of her beloved and forget about him. But things, like memories, just don't give up!
On a frozen dark night in remote Siberia, a group of strangers travel home together in a van. When the driver refuses to stop for an elder, a darkening shadow looms over what could possibly be the most tragic night of their lives.
The film was shot in the genre of a Christian parable and focuses on the history of ancient Russia. It is in it that the author seeks an explanation and solution to today's problems.
The first solo stand-up concert where Bogdanchik plays a song from Fight Club on the guitar at the end. And, of course, he also makes funny jokes about parents and all sorts of nonsense.
The author of the work in a grotesque form tries to convey to the viewer that school education can not only make people better, but also, with an inappropriate approach to training, turn them into notorious monsters. We follow one lesson in school of fantastic, but such recognizable monsters.
A single man spends a night with a married woman at a resort. She leaves around morning, and he is left with a hair crab she has left behind and an unclear sense of new experience.
A pupil of the orphanage - Natasha - goes out of the window on a dare, having managed to make a cherished wish. She miraculously survives and begins to believe that her dream is about to come true, and now Natasha is ready to go to great lengths to make this very dream come true. She is ready to go for almost everything...
Pablo Picasso, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yasha Heifetz: all of them along with a series of outstanding figures of the 20th Century were captured for the film by a man who was an outstanding person himself. Leonid Kogan was a great violinist. He was perhaps one of the hundred in the USSR who had a chance to experience the taste of freedom. This is a true story about the price of freedom for an artist. When the government suspected his intention to emigrate, they strictly limited his concerts abroad and banned him from leaving the country. A year later the violinist died because freedom was his oxygen.
Young film director in the shooting period of his first feature film doesn’t even guess how much will cost realization of his artistic conception. Shooting of bedroom scene will be the real disaster for all the crew, takes all director’s nerves and almost destroy his private life.
The film is a modern adaptation of Alexander Ostrovsky's unforgettable play "Profitable Place".
A devout Christian refuses to fulfill his dead son's last wish – to scatter his ashes over the Volga. He is going through a crisis of faith that causes him to question it.
Anna Grigoryevna, an ordinary Soviet woman, dreamed of a trip to Paris for thirty years. And in 1986, during perestroika, she finally finds herself in the city of her dreams. Her husband and son give her a camera, but because of an excess of emotions, she forgets all the instructions and brings the film, which, when developed, turned out to be a marriage. Recently, the adult son of Anna Grigoryevna found a film. And I decided that this is modern art! He walks around the studios, exhibition curators, they laugh at him, this story is incomprehensible to his mother, his girlfriend is not interested in it. And between these walks, a life passes in which each of these women claims her rights to him.
Delicately securing their lavalier microphones, and frequently glancing back at the camera as if it were a living being demanding warmth and engagement, Sasha, Misha, and Lyosha, who have Down syndrome, reflect on television – on how they see it and in a way we will never be able to. They are playing at television: giving interviews, conducting interviews, and reporting from the protected, pristine country of their own souls.
An attempt to conquer Elbrus in bad weather cost the lives of five tourists. A poignant doc on the causes of the tragedy.
A dialogue film with Russian entrepreneurs during the spread of the coronavirus. This is the personal experience of those who had to take great responsibility for themselves, their families, employees and clients during this difficult time. The leaders and representatives of VKontakte, Citymobil, hh.ru, Delivery Club, British American Tobacco, Pyaterochka, Dodo Pizza, Gett and many others shared their stories.
A documentary about the late age of motherhood. The director of the film tells his own story - the doctor warns her about the possible difficulties with pregnancy due to endometriosis and insists on urgent IVF. However, in vitro fertilization is a process that needs to be prepared. Both financially and morally. And also you need to have a permanent partner and family support. What if one of the items is missing? What if a few are missing?
A team of mathematicians is working together on a big project. Excitement of discovery, hope and disappointment, competition and recognition are shown from an infinitely close distance. Scientists united by the idea of discretization, which, in short, means: constructing continuous objects from basic building blocks. Akin to the scientists' search for the right discretization of continuum, this film itself is composed of fragments - individual characters of different ages, temperaments and scientific approaches - which form a single continuous melody. The question of where the boundaries lie between mathematics and the lives of those who are involved in it and how much they are willing to sacrifice is as important as the search for precise scientific answers. A unique and unprecedented dive into the unknown world of mathematicians.
Short movie by Masha Koshina and Yasha Klassen.
ACA 157: Frolov vs. Abdulaev was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, May 19, 2023 at the TatNeft Arena in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.
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.
A fairy tale about how my Grandfather accidentally caught a Mermaid, warmed her on his stove, and what it led to.
Two brothers wait for their father to come back from the front. When they saw the effect that black letters which were then called death notices had on the recipients they talked the postman into hiding those letters until the end of the war.
The forty-year-old actor, who is going through a difficult divorce, is gaining a course in a theater workshop. Gradually, acting trainings become similar to psychotherapy sessions. One day everything gets out of hand.
Three friends, winter, village, night. An ordinary booze turns into a crusade, where everyone carries their own banner of sorrow and pain. In order to forgive all insults in the morning, cuddle up to each other, and, finally, warm up and melt like snowflakes.
Little novels from the life of the Leningrad poet Oleg Grigoriev. His fate, like his poems, is a flip-flop, where good and evil exist under the masks of each other.
A growing up drama based on the stories of Fazil Iskander. The film is set in Abkhazia at the end of the Stalin era, in the late 40s - early 50s of the 20th century. 13-year-old Chik, a mischievous and contemplative person, lives the usual life of a Soviet schoolboy in the sunny town of Mukhus on the seashore. The sudden arrest of his father makes Chika more acutely experiencing his growing up, but cannot change his cheerful character and kind heart. A heightened sense of justice becomes the source of his both dangerous and comic adventures.
“I want to show things how they are.” Meet Maria (Masha) Alyokhina of the Russian activist movement Pussy Riot, who has been protesting against the regime of Vladimir Putin through public, colourful and non-violent actions for over a decade. “The system pretends to have a serious face. That’s how they want the fear to go inside you and paralyse you. And we believe that the smile and humour break this fear.” Maria Alyokhina describes today’s Russia as a totalitarian regime and the development since 2012 as “the road to hell”, reaching a low point with the attack against Ukraine in 2022.
The story of an honest miner who confesses to cheating on his wife, after which he remains perfectly clean working in the mine. Because of this, his whole life goes downhill.
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.
Lost Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel
A former neo-Buddhist who has become an ardent defender of Orthodox values, Dmitry Enteo riveted public attention after performing several eccentric actions on himself. He calls himself an orthodox ‘actionist’ and gathered a movement of Orthodox activists around himself called ’God’s Will’.
The authors are unknown. The movie is not fully preserved, without inscriptions.
The evil demon Skin has been reborn from the abyss of time, as four powerful wizards become aware. With the help of the magic stone of knowledge, they learn that Knight Tyrone can defeat the evil Skin, for this he will have to go through the maze and enter the cave of Radiance. Only Princess Vesta can help Tyrone find his way to the cave.
A musical Christmas story, told by little five-year-old girl and her fellows. This magnificent musical film is based on old Russian Christmas fairy tales, nativity scenes and authentic melodies that have accompanied this holiday for many centuries.
Talented actress Maria, who lives in a provincial town, receives an outlandish offer. For a substantial sum, the heroine will have to undergo plastic surgery in order to transform into a woman who recently died in real life. Considering the offer to be an extreme degree of insanity, Maria is forced to accept this “role” because she desperately needs a large sum for her brother's urgent surgery. As Masha embroils herself in a strange adventure, a series of dark events ensues in her life, escalating the atmosphere around the environment of the main character...
During an unplanned journey, a young woman calls at an unusual café where she meets a strange man. Following him, she sees herself in the past.
A fairy tale about how the guardian angels conspired to shame a thief and not to bring shame on people.
The history of mankind is also the history of wars. The film contains military footage of the twentieth century, never included in the official chronicles. The so-called "cuts" are, as a rule, of a "household" nature. The film is an image of a huge and hopeless war, where men wander through the twentieth century, where there is no front line, where the war turns into a mass sexual perversion that destroys the very logic of human existence.