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The cold summer of 1953. Escaped prisoners wander into a sayylyk (summer homestead), where only one family lives. The village is far away, other summerers are even further away, there is no one to wait for help. The appearance of escaped prisoners turns into a tragedy for the family.
Ivan Savonsky, popular society artist, meets Olga Kartoff, a young woman high in social circles, and while she is instantly attracted by him, he sees in her only the perfect model for his picture, "The Dagger Woman." Studying her, and by carefully playing on her emotions he gains her confidence, and afterward she consents to pose for him. The picture completed, she is grieved and then angered to discover that Ivan's interest rests solely in it, and how it will fare at the exhibition. She pleads with him in vain. The picture is pronounced a masterpiece, and Ivan is in his triumph as he returns to his studio. Here Olga has secreted herself. Humiliated by the reports circulated regarding herself and the artist, and unable longer to bear his disinterest she plunges a dagger to his heart and kills him.
Sokurov directed and filmed Mozart’s Requiem for the Rossica Choir in the wonderful hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
Dasha is conducting a seemingly complex scientific experiment. Just as Kostya visits, the experiment suddenly accelerates. An explosion occurs, opening a portal, and at that moment, something unknown takes over Kostya's hand.
The film "Translation" is a monument to all Russian translators, who, each in his place, contributed and are contributing to the much-needed dialogue of cultures now, helping to convey to the planet the image of Russia as a world cultural power.
Alexey Kvashonkin's new solo concert "I don't think so".
A film about young people living without moral guidelines, guided by emotions and instincts. Anya and Olya, recent school graduates, seek fun and excitement. Anya works as a sales assistant, while Olya attends university. Their lives change when Igor enters, creating a love triangle.
Little Red Riding Hood is tired of selling pies, she leaves the family business and goes on a big journey. All in the name of her dream - to become a pop star. On the way to success, she will meet new friends and overcome the machinations of enemies - the wolf and the evil stepmother.
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.
The film takes place in the late 90s. The main character undertakes to organize a competition for young musicians. Who should become the winner of the competition, decided in advance. The performances are attended by unknown musicians representing a variety of musical genres and trends. They have different views on both life and music. Of course, the competition does not go as planned.
The film is a comedy about wonderful neighbors, a full-length version of the popular comedy series.
In the late 1980s, a now infamous squat appeared on Moscow’s Furmanny Lane, which quickly became a gathering point for the most promising young artists of the time (Mukhomory, Vadim Zakharov, Yury Albert, and Andrey Filippov, among others) and just daring, high-spirited individuals. The inhabitants of “Furmanny” recall life in Moscow’s first squat and the opportunities created by this unique site.
An almanac of three different stories, united by a single New Year's Eve, Christmas theme.
Diana Arbenina is a unique rock star and an idol for many generations. She became popular back in the 90s and still does not leave the stage, filling stadiums. However, her story is not only a series of rock concerts, but also tragic turns in fate, the bitterness of losing loved ones, the joy of motherhood and an endless flow of emotions and love of life, which allows her to overcome herself, create, write music and make people happy. Together with Diana, the viewer will live one day in the life of a rock star: meetings, rehearsals, training, caring for children, communication with her mother, the premiere of a series with her participation. How does a person who is constantly in sight live?
Ilya, a blind pensioner, plans to run a marathon in the average time for sighted athletes — four and a half hours. Dima's young coach helps him approach the matter correctly: maintain the pace, calculate the load, and hold out until the finish line. In the 15 minutes that the film lasts, we will see the entire range of emotions between them, from irritation to sincere support, and also learn a lot about Ilya: what he strives for when he stopped seeing what he considers important in life and what is nonsense. The director shoots the characters on grainy black-and-white film, interspersing jogging and conversations with surreal, fantasy portrait shots, separates the dialogue from the picture and stitches the film with a pulsating soundtrack, reassembles the material as a collage, creating an unusual and surprisingly integral aesthetic.
Shots of forgotten songs, rural and urban landscapes of the hinterland. Young people..
A video that encourages people to be careful during a pandemic. One day a man came out of the house and sneezed.
Anna is studying in Moscow for a few years now. She lives in a dorm. Since a long time she hasn't visited her home town, where her family lives. She learned to live in a big city. She has a boyfriend and they are planning to move in together in his Moscow apartment. It seems that she has erased the past from her life. One day a man comes into her life and disrupts all her plans. A man she remembers too well.
Portrait of the artist Anatoly Belkin, a legend of the Soviet underground, who continues to subtly capture the spirit of the times.
How long do feelings last? To find the answer, the director of the film organizes a meeting of his divorced parents in the city of their youth, Ishim, where they broke up 16 years ago.
Year 2020. The world is fragmented after the war, and families, friends and even enemies are divided. Large cities ceased to exist. And soon echoes of war will come to our small town.
A young creative couple, who had long postponed their wedding in search of an original solution, ultimately found themselves at the registry office, but in an unexpected way.
A tired clerk jumps out the window and flies away on an umbrella to a desert island. There he builds a new life, but the serenity ends when new clerks begin to fly to the island.
Using the patriotic military celebrations of May 9 as an ongoing and disquieting motif, St. Petersburg–based documentary filmmaker Rudnitskaya introduces several ordinary gay and lesbian couples whose legal rights are increasingly invalidated, and whose very lives are in constant danger in a cultural and political climate that’s turned blatantly, unapologetically homophobic.
1080 meters - the depth of the mine "Komsomolskaya", where the heroes of the film descend daily. Around - tundra and abandoned villages. Around Vorkuta there are five mines. After the explosion on the "North" - four. The city lives. Pasha and Roma drive cars around the city, telling us about their lives and finding themselves in various places.
The dramatic story of two Chechens, father and son, living in a remote northern village. During the Chechen war, the Sultan's wife was killed, his house was destroyed. Now he and his son Apti are trying to build a new peaceful life. They are completely disconnected from their usual environment and are forced to work hard without any hope of getting used to a strange and extremely unattractive world for them.
Lyrical film news about the youth of the 90s. Capitalist Russia, modern Moscow, a modern hero, one day of whose life is full of funny and sad incidents. A young guy got a job as a "housekeeper" to a wealthy woman…
The main character of the film is Viktor Bershadsky, a Russian director who emigrated to the United States. His fate and career did not work out either in Russia or abroad. He used to be famous, but now no one remembers him, he hasn't directed a film in 10 years and most likely will never receive a production order again. But fate smiles on him, too, though only for one day. In New York, patrons at the Hilton Hotel organized a charity evening dedicated to immigrants from Russia. Viktor Bershadsky becomes the star of the evening, and in his elegant tuxedo, he is the center of attention. However, this is only for one evening, and in the morning, the fairy tale will come to an end.
The famous English science fiction writer H. G. Wells came to our country three times. The first time was 100 years ago, in 1914. Then in 1920 and 1934... And each time a different Russia opened up before him, completely different from the one he had seen during his previous trip...
In a small Ural village live only simple ordinary people except for the local hearing-impaired “fool” lyosha. he lives in a makeshift house made of garbage, weekly draws strange circles on the fields and tries to catch radio waves 24 hours a day in hope to contact representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. the villagers laugh at lyosha and his strange hobbies, but everything changes when the one he has been calling for so long finally visits him.
A documentary melodrama about the birth of twins, conceived with the help of IVF. For several months, the film crew led the heroine to childbirth, facing the problems of late motherhood along the way. The film immerses us in the experiences of a woman and shows the true synergy of doctors and patients, united by a single goal – the birth of a new life.
20 years after Mironov's departure, his wife, actress Larisa Golubkina and his closest friends, for the first time with their participation, will reveal little-known pages of his theatrical and private life.
Two women are in love with the same man. After his death, some kind of friendship comes into being.
Young business lady Anna unexpectedly learns that her father, whom she last saw when she was 2 years old, is living out his days in a hospice. Anna will have to make a difficult decision for herself: to enter her father’s room or stay on the sidelines and never think about him again. Will the heroine be able to forgive her own father and find harmony within herself? Or is the wound too deep? Our movie will tell about this.
Animated film from the almanac of classical music for children “Children’s Album”.
An underground short film from a “necrorealist” Russian filmmaker. The film is about sadomasochism, possessed by the idea of death and self-destruction. Evocative of the silent films from the beginning of the 20th century.
The film is centered on young people who live in a moral vacuum, with no aspirations or goals in life. The main character, 18 year old Valera, was once a promising footballer, playing under the most sought-after number 10. But an injury eliminated his chances of a professional career. After several years at a major football academy, he returned to his home town. While waiting to enter compulsory military service, Valera is dating Sveta, a girl of seemingly no ambition, who works a dead-end job as a supermarket cashier. But their relations are nearly limited to sex. Valera's only friends in the neighborhood are a couple of hoodlums he once went to secondary school with. Hanging out with them, he eventually slips into crime...
A woman wakes up alone in a clearing in the middle of a dense forest. Where she found herself, and how to get out of the thicket is unknown. In order not to die, a woman has to remember everything that she knew about survival. But the forest is not a warm island in the ocean, and therefore the health and psyche of a female robinson are at risk. The situation becomes even more complicated and dangerous when she discovers a hut with a related girl, and saving the “Friday” only complicates the life of the heroine.
A film about friendship, about the search for happiness in a peaceful life, based on images of Russian folk art.
"Your husband is sleeping with your student" – Olga finds such a note in one of the bouquets that were presented to her in honor of her triumphant speech at the scientific forum. Olga is a mathematician. She can easily figure out who sent this anonymous letter. Except this man is found dead. This is how a dangerous game begins, each move of which is associated with one of the Fibonacci numbers. What do they mean and how are they related to Olga's life? The answer is far in the past. Every mistake will cost the life of someone close to the heroine.
Two young couples are camping at the river side and horrible and mystical things are about to happen after one of the women drowns.
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?
Susanna, a sixty-four year old actress, lives with her mother and for a long time hasn’t played in the theatre; only occasionally she appears at small venues with poetic concert programs. But she is haunted by the play, which she rehearsed more than twenty years ago, and which was never staged. She finds a partner; the only thing that remains is to find a theatre that will agree to produce the play.
The documentary follows the life of Farroukh, a young Tajik immigrant who lives in Moscow outskirts with his family and does odd jobs in dreams of becoming an actor.
Eryoma is marrying Alyonushka, and Shah is marrying Tsarevna Vseslava. Having gained access to oil fountains, Tsarevna builds a "parollet". The treacherous Knight steals Tsarevna's new flying machine, and Shah as well. Having landed in Africa, the Knight and Shah are captured by cannibals... Vseslava, Alyonushka, Eryoma and the Tsar go in search of them on the "winglet". But who will save the heroes at the last minute...?
Having received yet another chemotherapy treatment, Kirill, for the first time in his life, was unable to join the tradition once started by his uncle - gathering in an abandoned village. How will warm memories of family and home help him cope with his illness?
A documentary about the Soviet rock group Kino which mixes music video sequences, footage from the band members' day to day lives, interviews and concert footage.
In To My Women Friends, revealing interviews with six Russian lesbians convey the joys and hardships of being a lesbian in the former Soviet Union. The six women are interviewed separately, but splices of party/meeting scenes show a vital and strong community. While Tatjana speaks hesitantly about her sexuality, believing it to be a private matter, Muchabat charmingly flirts with the filmmaker. This fascinating documentary touches on a range of issues including women's prisons, transsexuality, lesbian and gay community organizing (the Wings Association, a lesbian group), coming out and homophobia. Under article 121 (which criminalizes homosexuality) lesbians and gay men in the former Soviet Union faced the threat of imprisonment, blackmail, government harassment and family rejection.
Passengers of a fixed-route taxi are in the power of one person, who intends to solve their problems with their help.