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“Cinema devoured me” said Lyudmila Kusakova, one of the first women art directors at “Mosfilm”. In her hands the panoply of items found at municipal dumps mutated into magical film sets which became a part the golden fund of our cinema. in her work she enjoyed the support of her husband and mentor mikhail kartashov. he helped lyudmila to find beauty in everyday articles and be ahead of time with her ideas. but dissimilar world views inevitably told on their marriage. can love withstand the tribulations in the family of two creative people for whom art and cinema became the meaning of life?

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Efim Chestnyakov.

Biography of a village boy who got into the city. Having settled down as a sex worker in a tavern, the hero falls in love with a dressmaker - and leaves her as soon as she becomes a mother. Then he meets with the owner of the tavern, robs her and after a series of revels goes to prison. Meanwhile, a woman abandoned by him decides to commit suicide. She is saved from death by a switchman, who soon marries her. Here, after a few years, the hero who returned from hard labor ends up and, for the sake of the happiness of his own daughter, decides to leave the owners of this quiet monastery alone.

In 2016, an HIV epidemic was announced in Russia, more than 1,000,000 cases, and more than half of them are women. This film tells the stories of three women who have been living with HIV + status for more than 10 years. They will openly tell about what it is like to be HIV-infected, and at the same time remain a woman, mother, wife, without ceasing to fight for themselves, their lives and family.

How the bear and the hunter told each other fairy tales.

After leaving prison, Oleg meets his overly sensitive little brother Pasha and tries to meet his father as soon as possible. On the way from the station to his house, Oleg begins to realize that Pasha hides something from him.

Documentary film: Mikhail Shemyakin. In pursuit of pure time. ZHZL. He will tell us the details about the life and work of this famous man.

In 2020 coronavirus broke out all over the world. Someone hid. The others ran. A city boy arrives at a village with his family – so as to wait, in a place totally unknown.

Mounting of the film by Dmitry Frolov on the basis of documentary frames of performances of Russian ballet dancers and lifeless margins of the Russian outback. Symbolizes the slowly naked and dying Russian world.

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.

Documentary film from the set of Igor Olshansky’s debut short film “Easter”. Igor Olshansky is a participant of Alexander Sokurov’s programme “Example of Intonation”, a non-commercial film support foundation.

A young man dumps his girlfriend without telling her directly, trying to steer the conversation to other topics so that things will end naturally. However, the inner feelings don't simply disappear. The film explores the girl's inner, psychological state during unrequited love.

The girl did not have time to prepare for the exams in music and made a wish – to successfully pass the exam. To fulfill her wish, her friends from the wish fulfillment factory come to her aid. But in their enthusiasm, they messed up everything and her wish did not come true, and she had to work hard and prepare for the exam in the usual way without magic.

This story is about a simple village boy and two capricious twin boys who, during the New Year holidays, find themselves in the disappearing icy world of old Chishaan. It would seem that fate itself gave them a chance to touch the magic and save the country of Odon, but what if you need to do the impossible-to love and believe…

The Chukchi reindeer breeders are peculiar people. They are nomads. Reindeers are their welfare, the purport of life. The mother-reindeer is the main divine being; it protects the Chukchi from misfortune and troubles. Nature is not friendly towards people here. Only Chukchi can survive in Tundra. A rush period for the Chukchi reindeer breeders comes in winter, when the temperature rises up to 50 degrees Celsius at night and in the sunlight of the day it doesn't exceed 40 degrees Celsius in tundra: they should separate young deers from the rest of the herd, the weak from the strong. And this, considering that the herds of the Chukchi reindeer breeders number some thousand heads...

The star of Russian cinema Dmitry Singers has earned a reputation as a strong guy and won a lot of women's hearts in his previous works. This time his hero is the owner of a magnificent collection of ancient books. Mafia structures are not averse to warm your hands on rare editions valued at millions of dollars. In the way of the bookseller appears beautiful Alice. Life and love would be beautiful if you do not know what the task was the beloved of the hero. The battle between good and evil develops into a Grand battle. Honor, friendship, love stands the hero, leaving at stake his own life.

A detective film with some serious depth. Called back from Moscow on a search for a missing person, this is a story of a man forced to plunge into the past, reminded at every turn of the previous life he led in Saint Petersburg. He must come to terms with the present to move forward - and on top of it all, he's not even sure he's awake. The over-arching presence of St Petersburg, sometimes benign, sometimes threatening, bears witness to his journey.

On the example of the history of the discovery of the "solar substance" Helium, the history of the most important discoveries in the field of physics and chemistry of the early XX century is given.

1945. Of all the men from the village of Maslyanino who went to the front, only five of Maria's sons return. Why did fate choose them and how did the mother survive the war years, to whom the women of the village, at the instigation of the village shop saleswoman Vera, had attributed black magic since before the war, calling her a witch?

An adaptation of 'The Travels of Babar' by Jean de Brunhoff.

Dasha, Zhenya and Vassa are friends. It’s Zhenya’s birthday, and they are preparing to celebrate it, but on this day Vassa’s boyfriend leaves him. The girls will have to forget about the holiday and help their close friend survive her grief.

When an unstable Gothic Princess wants to kill herself Prince Charming steals her rope, she must find him to get her rope back and commit suicide.

Boris Karadzhev's documentary "Portraits of the Epoch. Maya Plisetskaya" was released in 2002. It is dedicated to one of the most famous ballerinas of the twentieth century.

A group of journalists working for German TV comes to Kazakhstan to shoot a documentary film about “the sleeping sickness”. At the same time, a group of Chinese scientists is working there, trying to find a scientific explanation for the phenomenon. Is it a mystique, or is there a rational explanation for what is happening? This mystery detective story is complemented by an unexpected romantic subject line between a Chinese researcher and a German journalist. Only the son of a local shaman knows “who will fall asleep, while someone grand wakes up”.

Russia, 1775. Count Orlov writes a letter to Empress Catherine II the Great in which he denounces Princess Tarakanova as a traitor and pretender to the throne.

A young student Irina comes to a small sea shore town to spend some time with her grandmother.

A fairy tale about how a village boy, stubborn Vanya, married Princess Mary, helped three old men to divide things, and Tsarevich Vasily to marry Elena the Beautiful.

During joint maneuvers, a team of our maverick soldiers accidentally meets a group of saboteurs - losers - at a secret facility. The unpredictable actions of Major Bardachny's unit puts the saboteurs in front of a difficult task...

Neither her, nor the last five, not one of them was Alyona. But he knew she was waiting for him. And he would find her. Based on Stephen King's short story of the same name.

About the love of a living man and a dead woman, in the truest sense. Victoria is not a corpse, but just a ghost. Before becoming a ghost, she was Stanislav's wife, and they went through the horrors of married life together. To fall in love with his own wife, Stasik had to kill her, and only then realized that he still had romantic feelings for her.

The story of an unusual friendship between the leader of Moscow gangsters and a famous jazz musician.

Fixies tell where books come from and how headphones help to write a dictation. Riki and Tyra hatch their dreams and have a carnivorous flower at home. Smeshariki will learn the secret of strong friendship and teach Pin to fly. And Bodo Borodo will go to conquer high waves and watch cartoons at the animation festival.

The heroes of the film are children born in Kosovo. The washing machine in their home was once comparable to a Rolls-Royce. Now they live in Germany: they study in local schools, speak German well and have plans to become German football stars.

The successful and beautiful Anna Kortsova has achieved everything in life that can only be dreamed of. But one day, she felt sick, went to the hospital, had a check-up, and something terrible happened: she was HIV positive. The woman was confused and scared, and she didn't know how to go any further.

The monologue of a grown-up woman, whose husband is leaving her for his young mistress. The viewer does not know until the final frames whether the heroine is actually speaking with her husband or simply rehearsing a future conversation, in which she thanks her husband for the time together, assures him that his decision is the right one, confirms his honest choice of heart, and remembers the touching moments of their past, releasing her husband and promising to cope with loneliness. And only the unexpected finale uncovers for the viewer the woman's true desire in this moment.

The average Moscow taxi driver starts suspecting that there is something wrong with his clients, who keep going about the city. Mysterious destinations, strange motions, hysterical laughter, puzzling placement of the black bundle. The protagonist is intrigued which leads to an unpleasant discovery. It turns out that the world has long been taken over by “psyons” – psychological operators controlling human mind.

Captain Rykov cracks the most complex dead-end cases. His reputation precedes him; his adamant logic, cynicism and experience contribute to his success. He's so good at what he does some say he's supernaturally gifted. Well, let's just say that his success keeps him howling at the moon...

Twelve-year-old Aglaya dreams of making a film based on her own novel about the magical land of Kolhandra. During her summer vacation in the village, she gathers the neighbors' children and turns them into an amateur film crew. Together they search for locations, come up with costumes and get into character. But soon Aglaya realizes that bringing a fairy tale to life is much more difficult than simply making it up.

A drama about a 15-year-old teenager Maxim, who obsessively watches his father's mistress. Maxim wants to kill her, not realizing that this only complicates the situation.

Two young women serendipitously meet at an abandoned building. They have different reasons for coming there, but both are united by a common memory with the space.

As film specialists write: "From the roles played by Ulyanov, one can study the history of the country". Through his roles in film and theater, he has reflected all the periods, all the historical collusions of the Soviet Union. He has interpreted more than three hundred roles, from the simple peasant to the leaders and emperors. Being laureate of all state awards, rewarded with orders and medals, cherished by power, being himself in power, he could not "be bronze". Our film is about an actor and a remarkable man: Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov.

This is the story that could be behind the famous photo of Alexander Rodchenko "Stairs". Moscow, 1929. The end of the era of constructivism in the USSR. A young woman comes to visit a middle-aged woman to resolve their complicated relationship.

The movie has been preserved without inscriptions.

Drunk major Anton Losev knocks down a schoolgirl at a pedestrian crossing, a girl in a coma. The case is led by investigator Olga Vishnevetskaya. The powerful Losev family hopes to easily hush up the case by "buying" the investigator. However, Vishnevetskaya does not make any compromises. Three years ago, the same drunk major knocked her husband to death. Now Olga is doing everything to make Anton Losev go to jail.

A "Happy Paradise" set with a driving licence as a bonus - this is all 'Mr. Average' needs to make his cherished dream come true and to feel a real human being. An absurdist tragicomedy based on a play 'Apprenez á conduire par correspondance' by Claude Fortuno.

A story about an immature romantic, an impulsive girl, an eccentric party-goer and a resourceful captain, who ended up on a yacht going to the Strait of Gibraltar. The captain is trying to help a romantic young man propose to his lover. Plans are shattered when a corpse appears on the boat.

This is a letter of hatred and love of a son to his father, where he talks about everything that he could not say before.

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.

A magical path leads children to an old man who lives in a neighboring village.