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Retired General Pelevin has nothing left but a small piece of ancestral land, granted to his forefathers by the royal family long ago. But now even this last possession is under threat — targeted for the construction of an ultra-modern shopping center. Mafia networks, in collusion with a corrupt local prefect, trick the general into going on an overseas tourist trip, and in his absence, they move a city landfill onto his property.
Provincial town near Moscow. Here in a large communal apartment several families live. Each has its own concerns, its interests, its troubles and joys. A communal apartment is not just a habitat. This is a kind of section of society. They are all very different, members of this "communal dormitory": the intelligent Vera and the philistine Larisa, old-age pensioners who live their lives, and the invalid Lyra, who dreams of a happy life in faraway Australia, the soulless clerk Bozhok and the young scientist Victor, forced to look for tutoring . However, their fates are inextricably linked with events and difficult collisions taking place in the country, with a sense of instability, fear, anxious expectation: something must happen.
A company of swindlers is creating a school of nannies and teachers to provide “educational” services to the population. The company's employees are exclusively homeless people from the area of three stations, subordinate to the foreman. The people chosen are very diverse, and a decent legend with recommendations is composed for each one. Thus, the scammers not only deceived gullible citizens who fell for the advertisement, but also quite realistically solved the problem of the homeless by providing them with food and a roof over their heads.
The detective Nadezhda Postnikova appeared, as in a sight of a sniper rifle, in the crosshairs of all vital problems at once. It all started with the fact that her friend, businessman Miroslavsky left the city on urgent business, not answering the main question of their relationship — whether they be together.
Europe and Russia are shocked by the unexpected death of the young Emperor Peter II. He died at the age of 14, leaving behind neither an heir nor a will. Who will get the crown of the Russian Empire? A fierce struggle for power begins. Having chosen Anna Ioannovna, the Privy Council hoped to use her as a puppet and a screen for the implementation of their own selfish plans. But the nobles were mistaken - the people do not like eight tyrants. Let there be a tyrant, but only ONE!
This movie is a collection of portraits of residents of Russian countryside. Not a single word. Only long look into the camera. Landscape. Flow of time.
Sergey and Igor are awol. They came to Moscow with a video camera to prepare a birthday present for Sergei's mother, a video tour of the capital, because his mother had never been to Moscow. Sergei meets a girl named Katya at the Tretyakov Gallery...
The life of a brilliant scientist who managed to live in the era of “developed” socialism in accordance with his own ideas about freedom and morality did not leave indifferent either his colleagues or the authorities.
Muscovite Andrey Kotelnikov works as a security guard in a jewelry salon and is going to resume his interrupted studies at a medical school. Unexpectedly, an army friend comes to visit him from Siberia. Having found out from Andrey information about his work schedule and the collection system of the jewelry salon, the Siberian organizes a robbery, provides himself with an alibi and arranges everything so that Andrey becomes the main suspect in this case. Cornered, Andrei escapes from custody and, in the company of the thief Yana, goes to Siberia in the hope of regaining his honest name…
Against the background of Moscow of the new Millennium with its concrete and glass business centers and picturesque garbage seller Shoe store — "shoemaker" Gorokhov — gets out of the most incredible stories. Once Gorokhov falls in love with a young beauty Alice, the wife of crime boss named "Pukhliy"…
A Russian billionaire is brutally killed on the outskirts of Moscow. Vasily, a simple school teacher becomes an unwilling witness to this murder during his routine morning bike ride. The police, unable to find the criminals, begin to suspect Vasily and he quickly becomes the prime suspect. At the advice of his daughter, who also happens to be his attorney, Vasily allows himself to be placed in a psychiatric ward to avoid being incarcerated for the false accusation. It is believed that a fictitious diagnosis will help her father's case, but Irina doesn't realize that she has handed her father into the hands of a psychiatrist, Dr. Korzunov, who is conducting inhumane experiments that no medical professional would ever accept.
A huge house, a coffin house becomes a symbol of a wasted life, a repository of the secrets and mysteries of its inhabitants, a place of unfulfilled hopes and aspirations...
After a young actress finds herself in a love triangle, she has to choose between a hapless writer and a successful playwright.
The documentary recreates the full picture of the disaster of the Kursk nuclear submarine missile cruiser on August 12, 2000.
Veterans are selected for filming an “artistic provocation” dedicated to the image of an unprotected human body during a war. Only one agrees. In the pavilion, when he is painted in gold and removed, he tells what he was thinking when he went to the front in 1944, assigning to himself one extra year.
Pasha (an avid mountaineer at heart) and Lisa, who lived together for twenty years and raised two children, suddenly realize that their ardent love is almost gone, and they understand each other badly. It happens in any family. But in some families, these crises are somehow resolved, and everything rolls on the usual track. Our heroes are quite unexpectedly tightened in such a cycle of events that takes your breath away! In the year of the twentieth anniversary wife puts an ultimatum — either I or mountains. And that's just when my husband is going to go to the mountains for the last time....
A few young men are planning a criminal operation based on the action movies they saw.
Two burglars enter a summer house. They should have checked to whom it belonged.
A very rare, unfortunately unfinished film based on the brilliant novel by Andrei Platonov. Shot partly in the style of a silent movie. with strange whispers and sounds. Fans of the unusual must watch.
Sergey Bodrov's film tells about the tour of the band "Tiger Lilies", which covers 5 countries, including Russia. We tried to show the band's impressions of our country, to tell about the musicians' love for visual effects, thanks to which cinematography and music come together. The film honestly and impartially tells about the band, about its work on stage and behind the stage, praises and recognizes the power of art.
An inquisitive and seemingly unremarkable young farmer boy named Vaska (Alexandr Markov), who totes a live bird in a wooden cage; and an enigmatic old man called The Bird Saviour (painter Robert Ovakimjan). Vaska, it seems, is journeying from his own village to another, where he plans to see a young woman with whom he has fallen deeply in love.
In five European cities: Helsinki, Rome, Budapest, Brussels and Moscow, five directors made a film about the place in which they live. The director of the Moscow series Vitaly Mansky lives in the house where the great documentary filmmaker Dziga Vertov used to live. What Vertov saw in his windows and what a modern director sees today.
Oleg is the owner of a construction company, he has everything - money, health, success, beautiful women. One of the directions of his business is the demolition of old houses and the construction of new elite housing in their place. One day, a meeting breaks down at Oleg ... gasoline runs out ... a mobile phone discharges. The evening ends with a classic scuffle in the bar. Wet, frozen, beaten Oleg, Dasha, a waitress, brings her home. Further, according to the "laws of the genre", LOVE arises between the heroes. But Dasha accidentally learns that 2 years ago Oleg’s company not only demolished the beautiful house where she lived with her grandmother, but also broke her entire destiny ....
If you are a provincial who wants to conquer a big city, then you should not look for easy ways to the heights of well-being - the bitter experience of the girl Lera is proof of this.
A desperate woman finds a hitman and orders her own murder.
As much about the people who work in Russia's renowned museum as it is about the glorious art works housed in this St. Petersburg institution. We meet with several "Hermitage-niks"—including Olga Bogdanova, the head of museum maintenance, icon curator Alexandra Kostsova, museum attendant Valentina Barbashova, and art handler Vadim Kuptsov, among others—each of whom explains their own very personal reasons for considering the palace of Catherine the Great their "home."
An artistic reconstruction of the life of one person, a poet. Although Marina Tsvetaeva is known not only for her work, but also for her difficult fate, the painting "Passion for Marina" deserves the interest of even those who believe that nothing new will be told about Tsvetaeva. The film uses memoir prose, letters and notebooks of M.I. Tsvetaeva, A.I. Tsvetaeva, A.S. Efron, G.S. Efron, diaries, memoirs and letters of their contemporaries; fragments of films from the collection of the Gosfilmofond of Russia and the Russian State Archive of Film and Photographic Documents.
A journalist from Moscow must go to mysterious island in order to find his wife who gone missing under versy suspicious and not clear circumstances.
March, 1943. The characters of the movie get a new moral experience, undergo another test of their humanity at the time of war.
The Collector is using his massive collection of curiosities and arts to provoke and manipulate people into a different state of mind. The Collector's daughter is building her own collection, she is having an affair with three guests of her father, and they are about to make some strange discoveries.
A fairy tale about a naughty boy and his parents.
A few Russian guys are trying to steal a new film by Quentin Tarantino, but not only to sell it, but to show the never-before seen film on a wedding of their friends. Certainly a lot of interesting stuff happens to them on their quest for the movie.
Deputy Dmitry Zemcov is working on a Law on State Support for Small Business. After coming home he finds his wife, Vera with their old friend Ivan.
A fairy tale about how an evil and greedy pan suffered misadventures and reformed.
She loved her sons more than anything in the world and did everything in her power to put them on their feet. Is it possible to understand why she kicked one of them out? Why did he leave, who knows? Because it was a shame, my heart was torn apart or because I was young? Then Sasha was 16. For twenty years, Alexander has achieved success, he is selflessly passionate about children's theater. His woman is a flamenco dancer. The money for the apartment has been collected, and life promises to get better...
A young artist named Victor arrives in the village to decorate the local club for the New Year. The club owner, Mishka, takes his guest to the house where he will be staying. Victor and the owner's daughter, Tatyana, develop feelings for each other, which Mishka, who is madly in love with the girl, senses.
Fairy tale love story of Ivan, king's son, and Mariya, the forest sorceress.
Investigator Mukaev is found severely beaten in the park. He completely lost his memory. Back at work, Mukaev learns that he was hunting a serial killer before the attack. Shortly before this incident, Mukaev had suspended everyone from conducting the case and only he had all the information about the case. Resuming the search for the maniac, the investigator learns that all the victims were once his mistresses...It soon turns out that someone is deliberately setting him up, planting evidence confirming his guilt. The atmosphere in the investigation team is heating up... The circle narrows, and then the hero realizes that he is at the center of suspicion, and it is better not to return to his past life...
After seasoned swindler Anatoly Papik was taken into custody in the courtroom, his relatives and accomplices decide to flee to hot countries, away from sin. The wife goes to Greece, the boss goes to Spain, and the “sixes” Shiloh and Bubble go to Turkey. Imagine the surprise of the two scoundrels when, on the Mediterranean coast, they come face to face with Papik, who theoretically should be “steaming on a bunk.” After certain search activities, it turns out that this is not Papik, but his exact copy, the Englishman Michael Smith. The scammers come up with a cunning plan to replace the “twin” Smith with Papik, who is languishing in prison.
Definitively proving that all the "B" Science Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s do not hold a candle to the 'real thing,' Pavel Medvedev's surreal 45 minute documentary Ascension is certainly one to look for. Composed entirely out of archival footage, much of it from the Soviet science and space archives, delicately scored and building to an undeniable mood of surreal (perhaps even ominous) energy, it charts (and re-purposed) the progress of man into to the unknown area of space exploration with a flair for creating art out film that was shot by scientists and engineers as a mundane record.
Colonel Karas lives with his wife, Larisa, a gynaecologist and their son, Andrey in a large house in the city. Apart from his demanding job in the military, the colonel loves to hunt and fish, which takes him away from home for long periods of time. However, it is his love of other women that is the real cause of his absences and his marital problems. With this example to follow, it is no surprise that the children are also proving unlucky in love. Daughter Veronica has fallen in love with the wrong man while son Andrey is following in his father's footsteps and gaining a reputation as a ladies' man. When the colonel is told by his superiors that his family is to be relocated to a small flat, he decides the easiest solution would be to marry Andrey off.
Alexey German about himself and his work.
The film is based on real events that took place in Samara in 1956 and known as the "Standing Zoe." During the holiday girl, without waiting her betrothed, removes the icon from the wall and Nicholas begins to dance with her, but suddenly freezes in place. This state continues for many months. Residents of the provincial town are frightened by this extraordinary event, which is cluttered with rumors and speculation. To try to understand the situation, there goes metropolitan newspaper journalist ...
A young girl Kseniya becomes a nurse in the Russian Army during the WWI.
The small child’s world is wonderful and extremely complex. A seemingly unimportant event can lead to tragic disaster in child’s life. On the other hand kindness of the baby soul is capable to work a miracle. And it can even to animate the tiny fish.
Mixture of documentary and fiction about the dictatorial 1930s, loosely based on the utopian fantasies of Fritz Lang and about the forbidden passionate love affair between a photographer and his model.
A boy receives a long-awaited puppy as a gift from his parents.
The inhabitants of a village yard — a kitten, a dog, and a rabbit — are searching for the “villain” who stole their bone, milk, and carrot.
Mischa, a mute boy, sets out on a surrealistic journey together with his father and two men. Their means of transportation is an old Soviet locomotive, loaded with stolen coal. The travellers intend to sell off the loot on their way through the borderless steppes of inner Russia. As a parallel to the main plot, sequences of a mysterious travelling circus keep reappearing in a very suggestive way. Many of the odd artists at the circus are people that the four protagonists encounter in the wilderness along the overgrown railway. All through the movie there is a sensation of magic crossed with pure realism, stressed by the crackling communistic infrastructure and a twisted sense of humor. The border between reality and fantasy is very subtle here. The Railway is a story about strong family ties, but also an ambitious interpretation of the clash between the Russia of old and new. One could call it the rebirth of a long forgotten genre: the Russian wonder story.
Lesha Shultes, a pickpocket, leads the ordinary life of an average urban creature. The only extraordinary thing about Shultes is that he carries a little notebook with him and notes down everything. This minimalist drama of a 'small man' in a metropolis delivers an existential message with a distinct Russian flavour.
Max Pavlov - talented, confident and a little ... desperate. He does not like ordinary life and quiet work. Max is an extreme climber who single-handedly conquered the peaks of the Pamirs and the Himalayas. He is successful in business and in love, loyal to his girlfriend Marina. He has a best friend and partner - Lyokha.
Little Vovochka is not a hero of jokes, Little Vovochka is a real 10-year-old boy, direct and restless, an inventor and a mischievous person who unwittingly gives adults a lot of trouble. With the arrival of Vovochka on the eve of the New Year holidays to the country, the life of a quiet village near Moscow explodes in the literal and figurative sense ...
Crooks steal a painting by Aivazovsky from the museum and decide to wash a successful operation. However, upon arriving at the place, at the boss's house, the company finds the leader's mistress with one of the companions. A night of drinking turns into a mess with the participation of actors in disguise. In this mess, no one notices how the stolen painting disappears…