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18-year old girl, called Slavka, born in a small northern town, comes to Moscow - to become a singer or a real pop-star. She got no cash, but just the business card of one of the most famous music producer, called Larisa. But Slavka appears to be quite pushy, and gets herself on board Larisa. And suddenly psycho shock happens - 48-year old Larisa recognizes herself and her own youth in a teen age Slavka, who has the same fighter's nature...

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...?

Who among us hasn't been stuck in an elevator? This is what happened to Evgeniy, who did not reach his mistress’s floor by some meter. The rescue service, fire crews, ambulance, police and neighbors called are unable to repair the elevator. The unexpected salvation of the would-be lover, drunk from the cognac and champagne he had stored up, comes in the person of the heroine’s husband.

The whole universe of characters Maximov, showing in this case the skills and talents they possess in their snouts.

The seasoned vampire Count Darlak returns to his castle after a century-long absence. He has a wonderful appetite, and soon people start disappearing and dying. And only the count's servant, a man named Adam, remains alive and well. Although his only desire... is to become a vampire himself. Adam is a shipwreck victim. At one time, the count picked him up on the seashore, cured him and made him his “day representative.” Adam is an obedient tool in the hands of evil, but any tool can one day get out of control.

A psychological thriller. One quite ordinary summer morning five different and unacquainted people leave their apartments at different floors and enter the lift. The doors close behind the last passenger and the lift starts descending. The moments pass, but the lift is not going to stop, the impression of endless moving appears and grows. Panic transforms into fear with every passing minute, situation is getting out of control. The lift cage transforms into closed space, into moving rattrap from which there is no escape. How would the five people behave in such hopeless situation? Their souls are assaulted by doubts and fear, they are filled with overwhelming feeling of inevitability and despair as around them the ordinary is turning into the unreal. Have you ever wondered what your companions in the lift are? Are they really what they claim to be? Or maybe you should fear them?

A beauty in the clutches of a monster. When there are only weaklings and scumbags around, there is nothing to hope for. But there must be a normal person somewhere! A savior who will help your dreams come true.

A teenage girl Vika and a successful but single middle-aged woman get closer in an attempt to take revenge on Zoya’s former lover. They develop a taste for it. They steal and crush his car, burn down his house, and plan to destroy his family.

The test of feelings, a love triangle, strikes and labor unrest at his native plant are increasingly captivating the protagonist and lead to separation from his wife. Each foray into the factory barricades turns into misfortune, but neither persuasion, nor the arrival of his wife's sister from Moscow, nor the discord with a close friend can stop Valery. But now the passions at the factory have subsided, and our hero is left with nothing: only fragments - no friends, no wife. Instead of his wife there is another woman who saved him from death...

Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide. Born and raised in the Ukraine in the period between Stalin and Gorbatschow he left the country in the 80s. In his Installations and his numerous paintings Kabakov creates a world of its own, which leaves the heaviness of socialist and post-socialist life far behind. The film links Ilya Kabakovs artistic spaces with insights into Russian everyday life, which itself sometimes appears like an installation by the artist.

A young driver fascinated by cars suddenly meets a young girl who owns a Ford truck.

In the center of the lyrical and dramatic narrative is the frontline fate of one of the millions of ordinary soldiers of the Great Patriotic War - sapper Fedor Chaklun and his four-legged assistant - a specially trained sheepdog named Rumba. With the help of Rumba Fedor discovers a mined section of the road and warns about it senior in rank - junior lieutenant Svetlana. But the girl, carried away by flirtation with the lieutenant colonel, forgets to block the road, and a Soviet tank explodes on the mine. Fyodor, in love with Svetlana, takes the blame...

After her foreign husband returns home to Germany, a young Russian woman finds true love with a doctor in Moscow.

Stories of children and their cares, joys, fears and whims that are taking place in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century.

They were once a special unit of the FSB, carrying out particularly important missions. But after one unsuccessful operation - a portable nuclear charge was stolen - they were dismissed from service and narrowly avoided prison. However, all unfinished business sooner or later begins to create big problems - the "lost" charge turns out to be in the hands of bandits. And now a successful businessman, a private bodyguard and a drunken unemployed again unite in one team to return the old "debt". From the very beginning, events unfold contrary to the plan. Heroes are under the tight control of criminals, and it can only be due to betrayal...

Tiny Soviet village by the sea, in the years before the Second World War... A very young girl, Vera, falls madly in love with an older military officer who is visiting from out of town. She leaves her home and family to live with him in various military posts where he serves with the army. Through the difficulties of army life, and years of war, her love for this older man survives, and she gives herself completely without reservation. This film is about friendship, loss, survival, loyalty, and the wonderful gift of unconditional love, which is only given to a few.

Characters of the series "Ostorozhno, modern. 2 " together with new eccentric characters performed by show business stars celebrate the New Year in a 19th century estate near St. Petersburg.

Three young people find themselves stranded in the taiga without any means of subsistence and, most importantly, without "vint"—a drug without which they cannot imagine their lives. This forced journey through the taiga becomes for each of them a struggle to overcome the terrible power of "vint," to overcome their hatred of life, their past, and themselves... Only one of the heroes manages to emerge from this ordeal. The taiga took away from him the most precious things – his friends and his faith in his father – but gave him something else in return: a new life. Without vint.

'Sometimes people ask me how I can still be alive. It is a miracle', Anna Politskovkaya says to filmmaker Eric Bergkraut. For Letter to Anna he has used images from a film he had planned to make; a film about the human rights journalist who put her life on the line through her critical writings of the Russian government. The material that Bergkraut collected has been used in this film to reconstruct the events which led to the murder of Politskovkaya. As well as a reconstruction, the film is a portrait of a tireless fighter for justice, and a sketch of corrupt and merciless Russian politics. Interviews with Politskovkaya are intertwined with archival footage and conversations with family members, colleagues and other political activists.

Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on Bald Mountain" — one of the most mysterious films in the history of animation and the inventor of a unique device — a needle screen . He did the first color commercials and the prologue to the Orson Welles film "The Trial". He made dreams come true and subordinated reality to his own imagination.

The author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original. Festive mess in the same House of Culture, where they celebrated the New Year 50 years ago. Now the institution is named after Ogurtsov and is headed by Mr. Kabachkov. A young enthusiast Alyona Krylatova and a young man Denis Kolechkin work in the recreation center. Alyona, as she can, opposes the "arts" of the bureaucrat and opportunist Kabachkov, and Denis helps her.

The film shows Shiva in a very traditional representation--in bronze and standing within a circle of bronze flames. Suddenly, a fly lands on Shiva's arm--one of many arms to be exact. Slowly, the bronze statue comes alive and swats the fly--missing again and again and eventually smashing the bronze circle.

The wedding of Buryat shepherd boy Batyr turns into a nightmare - the bride has her head chopped off. The village policeman Zhadadyr detains Batyr. In prison he gets to know the Swedish porn king Sven, who is still in jail for perverse sex acts during the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The Swede tells Batyr a terrible secret about alien robots. After the end of his prison term. Batyr returns to his village and becomes a policeman. He is still haunted by the question of the murder of his bride and does not refrain from murdering the suspects himself. And suddenly the alien terminator robots attack, but Batyr is not afraid of anything!

Oleg and Vasya used to be very close school friends. Then they lost sight of each other for a long time and met by chance. Oleg had a brilliant career. In fact, he had achieved what he wanted in life, and now he was somewhat bored. To his wife, faded for fifteen years, he is quite indifferent. Oleg falls in love (perhaps it seems to him - it is necessary to dispel boredom). And our hero decides to start a second family. The first family he does not want to destroy: there is no reason to offend his wife Galya. After all, with his "everyday cynicism" in his soul he is a sensitive kindly man...

Born in the USSR: 21 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life today, aged 21.

"The Institute of Conscious Dreams" - the so-called clinic is a mysterious place. True miracles happen here. It is here, during psychedelic sessions, that a door opens into a different reality, into the depths of a person's consciousness and his genetic memory.

A cartoon based on drawings and a comic song by Sofia Milkina about how an old woman and her cats went fishing.

Anna - an ordinary woman 35 years old. She works in a small office, she is divorced, single mother with a son. Repeated attempts to arrange a personal life and find a good father to the boy came to nothing. One day, returning home, the main character accidentally witnesses a politician's assassination.

Maria is young and beautiful. Her life resembles a fairy tale, in which the wishes come true if by magic. She has a smart, loving husband. And all that can be bought for money. Maria wants a child but could not bear it. She lives, but does not feel life. She is very unhappy.

In the center of the plot is a screenwriter hired to create a new film. He writes a script about his childhood in the post-war Moscow courtyard. About how the boys were at enmity with the firemen, how they tried to blow up the fire, and how the firemen took revenge on them ... And how the boys ate the earth, swearing allegiance to each other ... And about who passed the test and who did not .. In his memoirs the script writer seems to be walking around in circles, returning to his childhood, as the brightest part of his life, where he very much wants to return, like a prodigal son in his father's house...

Kim Bulatovich - the power and strength of the Sychov family, he spent most of his active life away from loved ones at the gold mines in Siberia. He sent all the money he earned to his relatives, giving them the opportunity to live comfortably, and therefore to live carefree for many years. Deciding to go on a well-deserved rest, settle down next to his relatives, he suddenly began to gasp in the mercantile philistine world of his family, saw an unacceptable falsity in his relationship between the limp son Artyom and the newly-made daughter-in-law Lily, sharply felt the loneliness of his beloved granddaughter Tatyana, who had lost her mother early ...

Oleg is forty. Larissa is over thirty. Twenty years he lived with his wife Tatiana, who knows from childhood (studied in the same class), he has a twelve-year-old daughter nick. Established way of life. Good job. The emptiness in my soul — from the dashed hopes. And to top it all — she, Larissa. Very welcome, but from the point of view of sound logic — it is made unnecessary. The affair lasts for a year. They love each other as passionately as it happens only in his youth. But his wife finds out about their affair. Learns and daughter. The girl really wants to help her mother. And to eliminate razluchnitsa of the lives of their families. But it comes out differently…

The series is based on the memories of children, participants and witnesses of various events in Russia in the 20th century. How children who grew up in Russia in different years of the 20th century perceived the world around them, and with it the everyday life of Russian history. Life, the behavior of parents, the behavior of friends and enemies of the family, the external environment, social upheavals, political events, all this is noticed by children, all this adds up to that picture of history that we will not find either in official reports or in historical research.

A young Lera witnessed a murder, so now she must escape the killers who're trying to kill her.

If you have called an unfamiliar electrician, and there is no one else in the house except you, a lonely, defenseless, weak woman, then it is better to take the advice of a friend...

The second World War echoes throughout the whole Khutsiyev's oeuvre. The director himself did not participate in the war: "The thing is, I didn't fight. I had been a sickly boy, so I was turned down because I still looked like a child. This is sort of like a debt I've been repaying ever since". In "People of 1941", Khutsiyev recites his favourite pieces by war poets and invokes documentary footage.

The world is split into two camps, Russia and China vs. the US. The US have lost the competition of political systems and are destroying the planet's climate. For 80 years Russia and China have been sunk into internal winter, while the US enjoy eternal summer. Young Russian scientist Andrey Khvorobaev disccovers that the climate can be controlled by means of the Perelman Axis, located in Buryatia. The US Imperialist sharks, led by the president and driven by greed, let loose a grim Nazi executioner, Professor Gubke, who conducts horrible, inhumane experiments that turn American boys into zombies to defend the Perelman Axis. An expedition of Russian scientists, sent to Buryatia to fix global injustice, is looking for the Russian end of the Perelman Axis. They battle the merciless creations of the Nazi criminal Gubke. The expedition fails, but Andrey lives and fights on, supported by his Orthodox faith and the love of his homeland, embodied by the Buryat girl Vera.

Old man Akhmat arrives in the city from a village to fulfill the last wish of a dying woman — to see her grandson Ruslan. However, Ruslan turns out to be a successful banker for whom career matters more than family values.

While people's artist of the USSR Sergey Cherkassky "fights" with the role of king Lear, trying to understand the psychology and actions of Shakespeare's character, his own large family presents him with one riddle after another. His daughter Elena, who broke off her unsuccessful marriage, falls in love with rock musician Dean Makarov. The grandfather does not know that the son of his late daughter - in-law Sonia is gay, who is madly in love with the same Dean. All Sonya's daughter, Lala, "twists" the love with a student Vakhtangov school, the future actor Misha, but dreams of a luxurious life abroad. Son of Sergei Andreevich, father of Vitya and Lyali - Andrey - General, Hero of Russia, serving in Chechnya.

A documentary portrait of the leader of the Leningrad group, musician, poet and foul-mouthed Sergei Shnurov.

Tatyana is a forty-five year old teacher from Moscow who borrows a large sum of money to pay for her sick mother's operation. Sadly her mother dies, and Tatyana soon finds herself plunged into debt. Her financial situation spirals further out of control when she is ill advised by her friends to set up a cake stall at the local market, a venture, which, not surprisingly, fails. Tatyana is forced to sell her apartment and, after an argument with her niece with whom she has been staying, Tatyana is left with no job and nowhere to live.

Sergey works in a private security agency. One day he saves a stranger from a bullet and he gets wounded.

Twenty-five-year-old bank employee Nina returns to work from holiday with some surprising news. She has fallen in love with a young man and is soon to be married. Her parents and friends are shocked and naturally concerned - their suspicions are soon justified. One evening Nina returns home to find her flat burgled, and her beloved Gosha has disappeared. Nina confides to her neighbour, Valentina, a former actress, that she has promised to introduce Gosha to her parents at her birthday party and does not want to let them down. So Valentina comes up with an interesting suggestion - to hire an actor for the evening to play the role of Gosha.

"German. Lenfilm "was filmed as part of the project" Petersburg 300 " and is dedicated to Alexey Yuryevich Herman. The audience will see the Lenfilm film studio through the eyes of a great director, will be able to look into the studio where A. Herman's latest film "It's Hard to be a God" is being mounted, and will feel the difficult character of the hero of the tape.

A mystical detective story set in the realm of Moscow art scene. Psychedelic trip through different places, characters and strategies in the search for the Author, covering mythology of Moscow art from the period of 1980-2010. The movie is based on the 'Inspection Medical Hermeneutics' group's text of the same name and on the historical research performed by the authors of the film. Production was an experiment in collective film making experience.

Mysterious and terrible events take place at the Russian Pearl beauty contest from year to year. The first winner of the contest tragically died, the second was splashed with boiling resin in her eyes. And now the participant who reached the semifinals, Natasha Titrova, who came from Tomsk, has disappeared without a trace and mysteriously.

Pale, thin, cold-sweating Pik (Khugaev) teaches literature at the local university to students so indifferent they play cards and take phone calls while he lectures. "The hell with you,” he says, walking out mid-class. It’s unclear just why Pik seems so sickly, though by midpoint we realize he’s a heroin addict in withdrawal. Broke, alienated, shunned by his dealer, he searches for a fix or any other salvation, sharing his bleak thoughts in voiceover. Attractive lensing and spare piano/ambient sound score abet the feature’s melancholy, meditative aura.

The second film in a series of documentary and journalistic films about Russia. This is an impartial and friendly story about how the capital of Russia lives, works, studies and relaxes, seen through the eyes of a foreigner. The film's host, American actor Jed Allan, familiar to many Russians for his role as CC Capwell in the TV series Santa Barbara, travels around the multimillion-dollar metropolis, accompanied by the Russian actor and athlete Alexander Nevsky. The presenters of the film are equally interested in the opinions of representatives of the modern elite and ordinary citizens. The daily life of the city is the main interest of the film's authors; the faces snatched by the cameraman from the Moscow crowd are his main characters. The idea of the film is to show modern Moscow as one of the brightest, most beautiful and most dynamically developing cities in the world.

Charming young Olga marries a successful businessman. It is surrounded by luxury and well-being. A wealthy husband is ready to fulfill any whim of a beautiful wife. Olga is an airy woman who is fond of doing herbariums, sewing dolls, reciting poems to servants and loves her oligarch husband very much.

Relations between Vladimir Rusakov and Tatyana continue to develop, and on his birthday in the presence of guests, Vladimir presents Tatyana as his bride.

A science fiction take on the classic folk character Ivan the fool/idiot.

This story is about the fact that human happiness can not be bought for any money.

Russian remake of a famous French movie.