When a good person turns into a tyrant due to circumstances.
17,773 Matches Found
When a good person turns into a tyrant due to circumstances.
A Russian plane makes an emergency landing at an airport in the middle of the steppes. Shortly after, one of the passengers, carrying a valuable cargo in his cabin bag, is found dead.
One more year is likely to appear in the traditional Eastern horoscope- the Year of the Golden Fish. The film's protagonist, a singing red-haired beauty, Lada Rybka, had decided to fulfil at least three cherished wishes, written on a piece of paper. Everything in her life has gone well - concert tours, a TV recording and love. Lada gathers some ex-classmates for a women's reunion party before her marriage to Vadim. The young ladies talk about life, and Lada persuades teacher Asya, policewoman Masha and business lady Nina, that in life everything is possible - you simply have to know what you want. The friends write their desires on pieces of paper, and Lada promises them that they will come true -- for sure. Except that Fate has already made its own arrangements.
The history of Jewish people in Russia up until the 1917 revolution.
The story of two artists, endowed with love and talent, trying to live in personal and artistic freedom in a totalitarian regime.
Short feature film based on A.Vampilov's short story "Finnish knife, Persian lilac" 2015.
The story of a man whose life coincided with the 20th century.
Three fairy tales of three different peoples living in Russia. In the first – a story about why a hare has two teeth sticking out in front, in the second – why his tail is short, and about long ears it will become clear after the third tale. That, it turns out, is how much different peoples have in common – after all, everyone is curious to know about the hare.
"Music album" of three works: "Fleas" by Goethe and Mussorgsky performed by Chaliapin, and two fairy tales — "the King and the Lilliputians" by Yuri Koval and "Yesterday at the Queen's" by Yuna Moritz to the music of Andrey Semyonov.
A philosophical contemplation of the author about finding and losing yourself and the other in yourself. The film traces the opposition of photography and cinema.
An auteur essay on the fear of authorship.
Russia's most skilled streetball players unleash a whole arsenal of unique tricks, incredible dunks, and defenders-destroying dribbling moves. Spotlighting the burgeoning streetball culture of the largest country in the World, documents first streetball challenges and tournaments including performances from the biggest names in hip-hop industry.
The gloomy huntsman Ivan and the timid Alexandra live together on the farm. A blow of fate cut off their love. Alexandra thinks about freedom. At any cost.
Proskurina's personal homage to her friends and mentor Alexandr Sokurov. The intimate yet objective portrait comprises frank conversations with the master and footage of the shooting of Russian Ark,
A road movie, the story of a journey of the Holy Light from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem to small churches in remote northern Yakut villages. Here everything is different – the way of thinking, values; here Orthodoxy and paganism mix in unexpected ways. A man named Sergey is carrying the Light across the country, to the churches that he himself built...
Biography of Soviet/Russian dissident and liberal politician Valeriya Novodvorskaya, an attempt to rethink her heritage in the light of the historical events of recent years.
The heroes of the picture - poets, composers, sponsors and murderers - come together at the House of Culture. Some - to celebrate the New Year, a killer nicknamed Violinist - to remove the businessman Kishechnikov, and Kostya from the sanitary epidemiological station - to send to eternal rest the dog Moo-moo. Such an accumulation of people in one place inevitably leads to confusion ...
The name of Vladimir Ovchinnikov has become widely known in Russia over the last decade - particularly this period of time the street artist has lived in a town that seemed to bewitch him. The town of Borovsk is a strange place, which has been an island of memory for all innocent victims since the XIV century. Boyarynya Morozova died here, Archpriest Avvakum was also imprisoned here and numerous victims of political repression were shot here. Here Ovchinnikov suddenly began to paint on the walls of houses - contrary to the indignation of the authorities: the "naive" graffiti artist is not 19, but 80 years old. Real passions began to flare up in the town in 2015, when Vladimir Ovchinnikov painted on one of the fences his first "memorial to the victims of political repressions"…
The shadow of your smile, when you are gone. A teardrop kissed your lips and so did I.
The Chechen Ruslan Arsajev seizes every opportunity to fight against the Russians, including in Ukraine. A portrait of a displaced mercenary from the front line of the crisis.
ACA 197: Ibragimov vs. Magomedov was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, December 5, 2025 at the Irina Viner Usmanova Gymnastics Palace in Moscow, Russia.
The film is about traveling across 6 seas of the European part of Russia for one month. 8675 kilometers, 45 kilograms, 30 days, 28 commuter trains, 19 cities, 14 dogs, 12 T-shirts, 11 liters, 10 commandments, 7 sins, 2 people.
Diving diver Vlad Fokin, who is going through a career crisis, receives an unexpected offer. He will have to ingratiate himself with a group of cliff divers suspected of a string of robberies. Perhaps this gang is connected with Vlad's former best friend, whose relationship ended six years ago. New experiences, thirst for risk and extreme heights consume the guy with his head.
Spring comes every year and brings us hope for recovery and development. But time is inexorable and fleeting. Not for everyone will come next spring ...
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.
The story of the creation of Philip Kirkorov's most ambitious show.
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.
New cartoon by Anastasia Zhakulina (Soyuzmultfilm).
The main character is a giant girl who likes ships a lot. One day a strong storm broke out in the port. One of the ships could not enter the port due to strong wind. The girl helps to moor the ship. One of the rescued sailors falls in love with her and tries to get her attention.
Alexey Kvashonkin's new solo concert "I don't think so".
An unknown person kidnaps Maxim and takes him away in an unknown direction. The motives of the abduction are unclear. The kidnapper turns out to be his double and asks to be called a ghost, claiming that now they are the same person.
"When I pray morning and evening, I always ask: I want to die first, and then finish singing!" - this is how Elena Obraztsova said in her last interview. She gave it to our film crew on November 28, 2014. That evening there was a Big Ball at the Bolshoi Theater in honor of Elena Obraztsova's 75th birthday. And for the first time, the best voices of the world sounded on the same stage - Anna Netrebko, Dmitry Hvorostovsky, Maria Gulegina, Jose Cura. They came to congratulate dear Elena Vasilyevna. And later, behind the scenes, we agreed to meet here, exactly a year later, to celebrate her 76th birthday. Obraztsova herself only smiled silently. No one knew about her terminal illness at that time, except the closest ones. A few days after the anniversary ball, Elena Obraztsova flew to Germany for treatment. We were going to continue shooting a big movie in the new year, when all the holidays are over. And they ended. Suddenly.
People believe in God. But sometimes there are rulers who dream of taking his place. For these purposes their press secretaries and PR managers come up with absurd and very expensive projects.
On a remote island, Mavrina lives and works as a lighthouse keeper. She is very lonely, but one day, Mavrina finds herself with a son who brings meaning to her life. However, just as fate can be unpredictable, it can also take away our gifts. Our film explores themes of loneliness, love, the twists of fate, and the sacrifices made by mothers.
16-year-old Fedya, who has been studying at an Orthodox boarding school since first grade, moves to his mother in St. Petersburg and goes to study at a regular lyceum. There he meets Pasha and Tanya, who open up a world full of unknown emotions, actions and places to him. Fedya falls in love with Tanya and cannot resist any of her desires. He is completely delighted with his new life and the possibility of teenage boundary violations until he learns that Tanya is in love with Pasha and they are planning to run away from their parents to Moscow. He is overcome with anger and envy, but a series of actions corresponding to the description in Christian theological books of the seven deadly sins make Fedor understand that it is the values instilled in the Orthodox boarding school that will save him.
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.
BORN TO BE FREE is a revelatory investigation by three intrepid free-diving journalists, Gaya, Tanya and Julia, into the global trade in wild sea mammals. Their journey takes us to the most remote corners of Russia and witnesses, for the very first time, the shocking treatment that whales, dolphins and walruses are subjected to and discovers the corruption at the heart of this cruel international business.
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...
Journalist Andrey Loshak went to the Velikoretsky procession, one of the main solemn church processions in Russia. Together with the pilgrims, he traveled almost 150 kilometers along the Velikaya River (Kirov region).
A detective investigates the sudden suicide of his father who was one of a responsible for hiding Communist Party money persons.
A cartoon for adults about how a chicken and a penguin accidentally met in a barnyard. And everything was fine with them and they had chickens, but evil tongues prevented their happiness. One day, when the penguin was playing blind man's buff with the chickens, he accidentally kissed the cow, and the neighbors saw this as treason and whispered to the chicken, and she drove the penguin away.
It is difficult to imagine to what might lead a shooting of harmless porno film clip, when elementary oblivion, insidious calculation and His Majesty Occurrence joins the game.
Sveta arrives to the Caucasus to visit a friend but is left on her own. When she sees Alik, and actor at the local theater, her journey takes on a new meaning.
The politically minded director transcends the headlines to highlight the many atrocities committed by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenka on the businessmen and journalists who dare voice dissent, and the political figures and presidential hopefuls who would seek to wrestle away control of the Republic of Belarus.
March of mothers on rainy Moscow in defense of girls from the "New Greatness" Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik and their transfer from a pre-trial detention center under house arrest.
A trainee detective arrives at the home of a strange family to investigate a case of suspected suicide. As he prepares to leave, the weather suddenly worsens, and he finds himself in the eye of the storm.
Legends are created over centuries. They tell about the structure of the world, the origin of rivers and mountains. The film is based on one of the legends - about the beautiful Katun and her beloved Biy. The heroes of the film are our young contemporaries who travel around Altai. Their fantasies are either a dream or the truth. Their story is full of mysteries...
ACA 176: Ramos vs. Abdulkhalikov was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, May 31, 2024 the Ufa Arena in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.
A TV play in two acts based on the play "The Lion in Winter" by James Goldman. King Henry II, in his declining years, must announce the name of the heir to the throne. For the sake of this event, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves her prison for a while. On Christmas Day 1183, three royal sons gather. The atmosphere of conspiracies, intrigues, insidious alliances between family members explodes with open hostility...
Animated film from the almanac of classical music for children “Children’s Album”.
A person is allowed a big dream while he is small, then this right disappears somewhere. You need to do serious, reasonable, mundane things. But even an adult without a big dream will not be able to be happy. The film is about how a small child returned his mother's dream.