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The action takes place in the boarding house of the Red Cross Landscaping Society.

Based on the poems of G. Kruchkov and A. Usachev.

A film portrait of the artist Viktor Tuzov (1954 - 1995), one of the founders of the New Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.

The film tells us how it is possible to make a holiday without anything.

Short film by Igor Levinsky and Pyotr Tochilin

A woman forced into criminality. The conflicting motives for the characters' existence are reconciled in the finale in a human-hating feminine reality.

The film, which has a paradoxically ironic author's commentary, echoes the classic film production of Dziga Vertov "Three Songs about Lenin".

Trying to cure a patient, a psychiatrist falls into the fictional world of his patient.

“Communalka” tells the story of people living in a communal flat in Saint Petersburg, whose characters and destinies have been shaped by shared living.

"Three Interviews." This is from my archives, a TV shoot with Dima Frolov, 1994. Part one: my interview with Vlad for St. Petersburg TV. This interview is listed first because it's being published online for the first time. Part two: Vlad interviews Viktor Tuzov, and part three: Vlad interviews Timur Novikov (we filmed these two interviews for Tatyana Didenko's program "Silence 9"). I've already published the last two interviews online, but I decided to combine all three now—for friends, a chance to mentally transport myself back to those wonderful times when it seemed nothing could foreshadow disaster (at that point, Viktor was already terminally ill, but it was perceived as something extraordinary—an accident, an evil fate, the fate of one man).

Stop motion movie made in Russia.

A group of amateur climbers is searching in the mountains for a figurine of a golden goddess, the location of which is encrypted in a map. One of the groups disappears, and with it the diaries, which may contain a decoding of the location of the treasure. After some time, the climbing friends meet again at the mountain hotel where they once began their search. As it turned out, someone really doesn’t want the search for the map and the missing climbers to continue...

The film is a confession about the inhabitants of the island of Fire, near Vologda. The pardoned murderers — one hundred and fifty "suicide bombers" for whom the death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment by Presidential Decree — are asking for execution...

A surreal film with a Freudian theme.

A tragic comedy of the era of stagnation, a time of prosperity of "blat" and telephone law. The main character of the picture is put in charge of the warehouse and they want to make him their own person in order to use him for selfish interests: to give someone something for the gang, to arrange someone, to allocate someone a car, all on acquaintance, all to "their" people. After all, it is not for nothing that people say: we will count our own people.

Cartoon about the skillful fisherman Vova and the cunning perch Leva.

A film about the early chamber music ensemble "Kurant." Based on filming from 1986-1988. A concert featuring the ensemble was filmed in Leningrad, at the S. P. von Derviz mansion at 33 Galernaya Street, (then the Mayak club of the Admiralty Plant, 33 Krasnaya Street). Part of the filming took place inside the Rotunda at 57 Gorokhovaya Street. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the Rotunda regularly hosted informal gatherings of Leningrad youth. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Rotunda gained fame as a cult venue, attracting representatives of various subcultures—rockers, hippies, and punks.

Documentary on the interdependence of the world of the living and the dead, and 'the infernal influence on the thoughts and actions of living people.

A small seaside town. In the long wait for a sailor who has gone on a voyage, the way of life of his whole family is gradually changing. A candle burns out, a rose loses its petals, time passes... will everything ever be the same as before?

NATO has attacked bridges in Yugoslavia. Capitalism against communism has not stood the test of history. War remains the unchangeable law of the world. People against people, continent against continent.

Historical and biographical narration about A. And Solzhenitsyn in 3 films: The first film is "The Embedded Goal"; the second film is "The Mathematician"; the third film is "Autumn of the Patriarch". The film is set for the 80th anniversary of the writer. At the request of the Solzhenitsyn Foundation and the wife of the writer Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna, the film is prohibited from demonstration.

The brothers woke up in the morning in the city of Berdichev and began to prepare breakfast, without looking up from their usual business and cheerful conversations.

A brownie has settled in a shopkeeper's large house. He especially liked the porridge that his rich owner treated him to.

The godfather of the provincial mafia is concerned about a series of attacks and terrorist attacks. Suspecting that someone from his former environment is behind this, the boss gives the command to attract a "cleaner". They find a nice woman Vera,

Ordinary rural residents of the Vologda region — an engineer, a locomotive driver, a poet, emigrants from Argentina, and a former soldier of the Vlasov army — speak about what unites them. They share their vision of Russia and its fate. They talk about Russian people and Russian towns, about struggles and hopes. And they speak of love — boundless and all-powerful.

The pop opera "Eugene Onegin" is an attempt by the authors to "kill two birds with one stone" - A.S. Pushkin and P.I. Tchaikovsky, making their works accessible to the widest audience.

An originally staged film based on a seemingly familiar scenario. A young handsome stranger suddenly bursts into the life of a simple Sakha family of a hunter and his young wife. And then the action develops in the form of a classic love triangle. The denouement is a duel between two men: who will win in this fight? Love or passion?

Film by Dmitry Lurye.

People grow genetically modified plants using the brain of a dog and a man-octopus.

A startling documentary about the world’s most brutal serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, a former Russian school teacher who was sentenced to death last October after a dramatic trial in which he was convicted of killing, mutilating, and cannibalising 52 women and children. Chikatilo is currently held in a bare provincial prison cell in the south of Russia awaiting a date with his executioner, giving exclusive interviews before and after the trial and plenty of astonishing footage captured by the police and KGB. We hear from relatives of his victims, former work colleagues, and experts on serial killers with the Moscow psychiatrist who proclaimed him sane. Highlights of the dramatic trial included the judges summing up and the sentencing which brought cheers and spontaneous applause from a packed courtroom in Rostov.

An art film by Timur Novikov and Sergey Shustov.

The night subway is fraught with many secrets and events.

Marilyn Monroe is undoubtedly a sex symbol. In the vast territory of Russia, no woman was born in the 20th century who could claim this title. However, there were many male heroes. Vladimir Mayakovsky is undoubtedly the most prominent figure.

Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Brest, Volgograd, Murmansk, and a remote Siberian village where the writer V. Astafyev lives.

Bloody cartoons, hallucinogenic images of technotronic wars, the impersonal reality of the flesh open to the outside, a new awareness of the secret life of iron mechanisms.

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.

Reflections of the brilliant film composer Oleg Karavaichuk on life and art.

Having abandoned her child at birth, Zinaida, after many years of living in prosperity and joy, decided to find her own child and thereby find a true heir to her property, which her lover had set his eyes on.

Having failed the entrance exams to the theater institute, and having fully tasted the "delights" of metropolitan life, the provincial girl went hand in hand... Soon she managed to get a major official, Valentin Felixovich, as a boyfriend.

Why have we forgotten our history? This is the question that Fyodor Vikulov, a sculptor who has dedicated his life to creating images of Russian heroes, is pondering. The Patriotic War of 1812 is one of the central themes of his work. Margarita Tuchkova's spiritual feat opens a new chapter in the history of the Battle of Borodino.

1992, the time of the Perestroika. Inspired by Vsevolod Pudovkin’s “The End of St. Petersburg” (1927), the artist chooses the Greek mythological figure of Icarus as a person falling apart from the diversity of temptations and creates a romantic performance-self-portrait.

Without touching on the social problems of the Siberian village, the picture tells about the love of the beautiful Nadka and the eccentric Semyon. The image of the village is impressively shown, condemning lovers and provoking Ivan, Nadezhda's husband, to commit a crime.

The film is about the outstanding actor and director Leonid Obolensky, who passed the Stalin camps, and about a young woman who was with him in the last years of his life.

The film delves into the remarkable artistic legacy of Leo Tolstoy.

A harrowing and brave response to dictatorship.

What can you do in a sauna, in a huge bed in a luxury mansion, on a carpet in front of a blazing fireplace, in the back seat of a car?.. What can a policeman dream of while on duty?.. Can a pool attendant give swimming lessons?..