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Prosecutor Azhogin, who sent many criminals to prison, by the will of fate himself ends up behind bars. He is placed in a cell with juvenile lawbreakers. The situation is far from the worst one. So thinks the Azhogin, who eventually becomes a true friend and mentor of his fourteen-year-old inmates...
A conceptual drama, a story with no past and no future.
A look at Lenin's Mausoleum as a symbol of Russia's enduring and divided legacy.
The picture is about the outstanding Russian artist of the late XIX - early XX century, a representative of Russian impressionism Konstantin Korovin. The main motif of the film is the hero's monologue, memories of events and people of the past life: about childhood, about friends and teachers, artists V. Serov, M. Vrubel, A. Savrasov, I. Levitan, S. Mamontov. The film uses both unique old photographs and original shooting material, which allows you to feel the complex inner world of the hero, his impressions and associations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An adaptation of 'The Travels of Babar' by Jean de Brunhoff.
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.
A historical and philosophical film about issues that have always worried the minds and hearts of people: the meaning of life and the search for happiness.
A documentary about Arsha Ovanesova, documentary filmmaker and screenwriter who created the first Soviet newsreel series for chidren.
Extended nature and landscape shots. Shot on 16mm film.
Part of the Operavox series.
A tragic story of love and betrayal during WWII.
Events in the film take place in 19 century when adyghean people increasingly realised the need for combining their forces. This theme is reflected in conflict of Dzhambot, wise tutor of young adyghean nobles, and prince Yedidzh, who upholds the idea of independent specific princedoms. Film recreates the atmosphere of adyghean life. Scenario is based on first adyghean books, etnographical drawings and tales of old.
About the ruinous indefatigable thirst and the merciless seductive specter of freedom. About how people fall because they fly. About the epicenter of the explosion and the fatal inevitability of the end... When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you...
A young guy constantly sees a vision in the form of a beautiful girl. Thanks to this, he remains a "pure" and incorrigible romantic.
Petersburg Diary - Opening of the monument to Dostoevsky
The author's understanding of the causal mechanism of self-destruction of ideological Bolshevism and the country as a whole.
A man, alone and contemplative, sits in his room until a woman enters.
A reconstruction of the uncut prologue of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, the scene with the gunners Foma and Erema and a fragment from the unfinished part 3 featuring the German knight Heinrich von Staden. In between stills and newsreel footage. Over a commentary written and spoken by Naum Kleiman. The Criterion DVD extra ends at 33 min, the longer version has added fragments of parts 1 and 2 at the end.
Late-Soviet screen adaptation of the novel "A Pale Horse" by Boris Savinkov. A group of anti-tsarist revolutionary terrorists plot to assassinate the governor of a provincial town.
A concert film taken from concert album of the same name by russian rock band DDT.
The painting tells the story of young people from St. Petersburg whose lives have been disrupted by the economic and political upheavals of our time.
The film is about Zhou Enlai, a revolutionary, diplomat, and prime minister of the new China.
A wealthy and elderly husband hires two people to watch over a young and windy wife who is sailing with her friends on a Mediterranean cruise. A sea voyage brings together by no means accidental passengers who find themselves in unpredictable - difficult and comic - situations.
An unexploded shell with a mysterious elixir of love and a test in Greek was found in the forest. While the local garrison is indulging in passion under the influence of the drug, an elite special group arrives from Moscow to clarify the circumstances.
The village doctor who works in an X-ray lab in a hospital paints the portraits of the local inhabitants. He literally can see them through. His paintings are very good, he loves those people. Just like other artists Turin in his creative work turns to nude. This is normal, but... Somebody cruelly injures him, breaks his arm, and destroys his mental perception: Turin is not able to protect himself. He is an invalid since he was born.
An adult tries to get a child to submit to his two-dimensional worldview.
New forces are coming to St. Petersburg, where the events of the film are unfolding. They are nouveau riche, businessmen, and creators capable of restoring St. Petersburg to its former splendor. The easily vulnerable, intelligent inhabitants of the old town, who have become accustomed to their former troubles, enter into difficult relations with them...
The famous detective Leato and his faithful friend and assistant Theophan the cat are fighting a brave battle against criminals, witches, and werewolves. They always manage to emerge victorious from the most dangerous and confusing situations.
Some animals rise, overcoming difficulties, to the heights. And other animals do not conquer any peaks, but, remaining in place, they also enjoy themselves.
Minsk in our days. Lokh is its main character, similar to the character from O. Henry's short story "Pig Ethics". Only in the movie instead of gentlemen, the states of Kentucky and North Carolina, constables and pig stealing there are car thieves, Minsk roads, "new Belarusians".
Envoy Yulia flies to the planet and meets Rex, who said that at first everything went well, and then, as a result of the absorption of local silicon organisms, mutations caused by silicon viruses began. As a result, Harper received a lethal dose of radiation. Rex separated his head, connected it to an autonomous life support system, and created several Harper clones so that earth scientists would attach Harper's head to the body of one of them. Harper said that the project's name has a second meaning: The end of technological civilization.
The Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra is the heart of Orthodox Russia. Its founder, the greatest ascetic of piety, St. Sergius of Radonezh, was famous not only for his transformation of monasticism, construction of monasteries, and miracles, but also for his gracious public service to the state and its "Christ-bearing" people. Called by the chroniclers "the abbot of the Russian land," he reconciled the warring princes and blessed the army for its battle against Mamai's hordes.
The story is about how Ivar Kareno tries to publish his philosophical work, refusing to remove radical passages at the professor's request, and fails, being left without a publication, a doctorate, money and a wife.
Authors of the film make the journey both real and mystical through the Buryatia. They are following their character lama Danzan — the spiritual leader and member of parliament of his mysterious country called Little Tibet. Lama Danzan is modern incarnation of the Agvan Dorzhiev, who was the teacher of Dalai-lama XIII and played an important role in the struggle between Britain, China and Russia for the dominance in Tibet at the beginning of XX century. Today lama Danzan is doing everything possible overcoming natural and mystic obstacles to build magic spokes, suburgans, which are believed by him and his followers to change the life of the country for the better .
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 group of university students goes on an archaeological expedition into the mountains, where they find a rare gold mask.
A portrait of people who live on the margins of life and exist outside normal society.
Part 2 of the duology, a continuation of the film God's Gift. The thirst for power is the root of much evil. It may seem that money can buy everything—but not happiness or faith in God. Goodness and love must prevail, and they do, no matter how powerful evil may be.
The film is a memoir dedicated to the world-famous violinist Oleg Kagan.
Every day, an old woman goes by train alone to the woods to collect wood. A minimal gesture, seemingly insignificant, becomes an extraordinary admission of Russian society in which archival images erupt telling a universal story.
A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era fishing village. Guided by a series of faintly illuminated rooms, the wandering spirit comes upon ancient souls who take on physical forms as they recount their personal stories of daily existence, loss, and tragedy in the peasant community. Intrigued by his initial visit to a curiously distracted elderly woman, the spirit returns to her home in order to ask a fundamental question - "What is happiness?" - an existential query that is innocently answered with innate humility and accepted unknowingness.