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Two people play out a story of love and desperation that's enacted through music in this drama from writer and director Ivan Vyrypaev. Sasha (Alexei Filimonov) is a man in his twenties who lives in the small town of Serpukhov and has fallen in love with a woman who is also named Sasha (Karolina Gruszka).
A film about an act of nature in the mountains, caused by a strong downpour.
Two men begin courting the girl Nadia. Being excellent storytellers, they do everything to win her over. They are completely different: one is a simple man with a criminal past, the other an intellectual who has spent time in China. The intensity of passion rises. Whom will Nadia choose? Where is truth and where is fiction? Which of them, if either, is telling the truth? What lies ahead?
The film’s protagonist, Ahmet, was tending sheep high in the mountains when a merciless mudflow destroyed his house, taking with it all his family and friends. And Ahmet leaves his home, for the first time in his 30-year-long life, for faraway Moscow in search of his only surviving cousin. On his way he meets different people… The train conductor takes him under her wardship, instructing him about life in the city of which he has no idea whatsoever. Though he’s lost his bearing in this world, Ahmet is charging people who more fortunate than himself with his kindness and joi de vivre. The shooting took place in Alagir Canyon, next to Karmadon Canyon where Sergey Bodrov’s production group had perished. Yaropolk Lapshin had completed shooting two days before the Karmadon tragedy.
Novella from the almanac "Crush" (2009)
A drama about a group of criminals who are targeting rich and successful...
This is a story about the tragedy of an entire nation, which was almost destroyed during the Great Patriotic War. The "Children from the Abyss" are people who miraculously survived among the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people. The film contains their memories, documents, and photographs.
About how a fox, cunning and greedy, got into a friendly team of animals.
Musical comedy
On Valentine's Day, the holiday of all lovers, a "model" husband, having accompanied his wife on a business trip, decides to take a break from family life in the company of a long-legged beauty and invites her to his home. However, in the midst of their lovemaking, his wife unexpectedly returns...
The family decides to dig a well in the courtyard of their house. After several days of work, it turns out that there is a huge stone lying at a depth of several meters... The director was a volunteer at the VKSR.
The story of a famous actress who had an incomprehensible attack on the set somewhere in the countryside and was urgently sent to a rural hospital. There she spends a sleepless night in complete obscurity and decides that she is leaving this world. The actress calls all the close people with whom she talks very openly, believing that they should find out the truth.
How the film was made, how the events described in the film actually happened, about Nikolai Ostrovsky and much more.
On Belgian territory, a unique emitter is being developed under the supervision of a Russian scientist. The lives of many are at risk, as the device can disable any mechanism running on liquid fuel. Matveev must track down the international terrorists to prevent a catastrophe...
On the forest lake the person "from nothing to do" killed a Seagull. The symbolism of this story allowed Chekhov to Express the psychologically complex "inextricably unconnected" relationships of the characters living near a beautiful lake, suffering, hoping, searching, but unable to find themselves and their place in life.The most difficult in the fate of Anton Chekhov, but also the most famous and popular play in theaters in the world. Its simplicity, unique theatricality and stage longevity attract Directors and actors who, with each new production, offer the audience to unravel the mystery of the play, in which the author presented the drama of people in the Comedy genre. Famous film Director Andrey Konchalovsky offers a new version of the play, insisting that the stage action he staged is exactly the version of "the Seagull" that Chekhov intended it to be.
Film-portrait of a village self-taught artist Polikarp Sudomoikin. He lives in a surpassingly beautiful place, a village Bichura in Zabaikalie and paints his quaint pictures on a hunch. Former carpenter Sudomoikin started painting only after the retirement. Naked beauties filled with love and bliss surrounded by wild animals, birds and clean pure waters are looking down from his canvases. The connoisseurs compare Polikarp Sudomoikin with Pirosmani, one of the best artists of naive panting.
A Russian man Sergey Matveev is sent on a business trip to New York to deliver an important package to a local businessman. As soon as he arrives in a hotel, he finds himself entrapped by the FBI. They know he used to be a GRU agent and threaten to imprison him if he would not reveal the secret information regarding "the mole". But Matveev escapes right from the hotel room and finds himself on the streets of an unknown city and enters New York city subway to hide away from the FBI. On his way home, he would have to face greedy federal agents and local criminal gangs.
In the second part of the cycle, Georgy Zhzhenov talks about himself and about his life in prisons and the zones in which he had to sit. The geography of the sorrowful path is extensive: Leningrad (Kresty prison), Vladivostok, Magadan - from his hometown to the Far East, where the first years of hard labor of Georgy Stepanovich took place.
Do you remember what you wanted when you were fifteen? Communication with the opposite sex, discos, forbidden joys... and most importantly freedom. The boys in the cadet corps want the same thing, but they are expected to behave correctly, to be precise in their marching steps and to obey completely. And freedom remains unattainable, like an impossible dream. And when officers just "let go of the leash" and give a small illusion of freedom, this state is alien to boys, and they don't know what to do with this freedom.
Voldya Sidorov, a high school student, is visited by his beloved grandfather, Yegor Kuzmich, who arrives from Nadym and brings a crystal the size of a baby’s head as a gift. The grandson and grandfather take the crystal to a pawn shop and ask for three hundred. And they’re offered three hundred... thousand dollars. The crystal turned out to be an uncut diamond...
A documentary about love, grief and survival in the shadow of the Chernobyl disaster. A mother and her son and the eternal struggle between memories and hope, between then and now.
A major politician and businessman was killed. His widow, with the help of a private detective and a photojournalist, begins her own murder investigation. She learns not to trust anyone, especially her friends. The only one she trusted is a strange young man with paranormal abilities who promises to protect her and find the killer. Now Nelya is in real danger...
A military drama about the fate of yesterday's schoolboy, a modest young man from a remote Yakut village, who became a fearless Soviet warrior in the year of trials. Not having time to experience the joys of family life with a young wife, the hero says goodbye to her and goes to the front. The film highlights the heroic fate of the Yakut soldiers during the Great Patriotic War, based on the true events that took place on Lake Ilmen in the Novgorod region, and the equally tragic fate of those who remained in the rear - Churapchinsky immigrants who were forced to leave their native places.
In the small town of Kandalaksha, Petya lives out a fantasy life as a traffic cop. He has a holster, a wooden gun, and the locals humor him by following his "orders." When a convict escapes from a nearby prison, Petya joins the manhunt as any good officer would.
The action of the picture takes place on the eve of the Second World War. A senior Soviet diplomat working in Germany was suddenly recalled to Moscow. On the train, he meets his only neighbor in the carriage - a beautiful young woman who is in the last months of her pregnancy. To pass the time on the road, she tells him her life. An experienced scout does not immediately understand that his charming companion did not accidentally find herself in this car...
The documentary play "Nikolina Gora", as well as A. P. Chekhov's play "The Cherry Orchard", represents a cross-section of Russian society at the breaking point of time. The characters of the film are heirs — owners of land in a pine forest on the banks of the Moskva River, allocated in 1924 to outstanding figures of science and art by the Soviet government.
The goat and the ram ran away from the owner in search of a better life.
Sokurov directed and filmed Mozart’s Requiem for the Rossica Choir in the wonderful hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
In rural Russia, children convicted of theft, murder and rape are sent to a home for delinquents. Without the outside world's pressures, they're finally allowed to act as children, but for some of them, this new life proves to be a challenge. This documentary tells the stories of several of these adolescents, who must endure separation from their families and who, upon release, are unlikely to be forgiven for their crimes.
"Shell" is the common name for a dismantling garage. But more than a third of the shells are used for other purposes. Pensioners Karasevs lived in a shell for 79 days, and almost died. What happened in Moscow in 2006?
As he did with his critically-acclaimed "Blockade," a documentary re-creation of the WWII siege of Leningrad, which received its NY theatrical premiere in March 2007, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa has once again scoured the Russian film archives for "Revue," selecting excerpts from newsreels, propaganda films, TV shows and feature films that present an evocative portrait of Soviet life during the 1950s and 1960s. With scenes taken from the length and breadth of the “Soviet Motherland,” "Revue" illustrates industry and agriculture, political life, popular culture, and technology. The film’s fascinating flow of disparate scenes representing typical Soviet life of the period is, seen from today’s perspective, alternately poignant, funny, and tragic
Sometimes you need to become somebody else in order to understand your own destiny...
In Fatalist, a man tries in vain to escape from his fate, while a woman wrestles with the discovery of hers: she is looking for her double and realises that her fate is inextricably linked with that of her other self. In the end, both worlds come together and stare their fate in the eye.
"Andrey Bitov. The Green Suitcase" is the first portrait film in the work of Viktor Tikhomirov. Initially, the picture was supposed to reflect the process of writing the book "Chaos and Order", which was conceived by Andrey Bitov, and be called like a book. Later, due to objective reasons, the tape was transformed into a cinematic portrait of the writer, whose image is revealed through philosophical concepts: "chaos" and "order". The film features music by the groups "Volkovtrio" and "Auction". The film was awarded a special jury prize at the festival" Literature and Cinema " in Gatchina (2002).
Runaway prisoner goes searching for a treasure to the island populated with poachers and starover cult with his two companions, an intellectual and a prostitute
Saw and imagined in the children's fantasy the story of grandmother of Christ and the Apostles a little girl. Today few people remember that just a few decades ago in the village houses next to the icons you could still see the popular prints on religious themes. They finally disappeared from use only in the 60-ies of the last century. Of course, their creators were not professional painters or connoisseurs of theology. Drew, as best they could, she felt, not knowing neither rules nor laws. Simple uneducated people, nuggets, sought to glorify God with their creativity, that resonates in the hearts of those of peasants or artisans as they are.
In spring 1938 in the mountains in the north of Chile a fiery UFO, later named "Chilean Sphere ", fell down. The investigation of this episode, made by a film crew, has led to a sensational discovery. It appeared that before the Second World War (in the thirties) in the USSR a secret space program had been developed. The Soviet scientists and military authorities managed to launch the first spacecraft 23 years prior to Jury Gagarin's flight! "The First on the Moon" tells about everyday life, heroic deeds and tragedy of the first group of the Soviet cosmonauts. It is the first Russian film shot in a very rare genre 'mockumentary' or 'documentary fiction'.
Documentary about the making of Renata Litvinova's 2004 film: "The Goddess: How I Fell in Love."
They go out with slogans on streets, climb with flash-lights on the roofs, they want to be noticed. Why? They are 18-20 years old, they are in motion. What for?
Молодые люди, Оля и Женя, едут автостопом в Москву. У них одна цель: сделать загранпаспорта и уехать, куда подальше… Вероятно они были замешаны в криминальной истории, так как паспорта они делают нелегально.
Report on the nightmarish finds in our bread.
Play based on the novel "The White Army" by Mikhail Bulgakov.
The shooting of a prosperous and influential businessman leaves the residents of a small provincial town in a state of shock. While the initial investigation indicates that a woman may have been involved in the murder, the crime scene has been left clean, and detectives have very little evidence to go on. However, with the culprits still at large and the crime unsolved, the sudden death of this local celebrity is frightening the entire town. Fortunately, the investigator from the central prosecutor's office happens to be in town on vacation and steps in to head the murder investigation.
Failing to complete an important assignment without casualties, fearless crime fighters from an elite special service agency, masters of disguise and simply fun guys "Velik" and "Koshka" were demoted to serve in a department of a Drug Enforcement Agency...
Border guard Andrei discovers hiding places where drug dealers hide huge quantities of heroin while crossing the Afghan border. In revenge for their colossal losses, the bandits decide to execute Andrey. Miraculously escaping death, he not only settles accounts with his executioners and exposes a major drug mafia, but also wins his love.
This is a film about a choice made not by a child, but by an adult inside it. And about the land that this man lives on-perverted, turned inside out, sleeping an eternal sleep. But man is about to wake up from this eternal sleep.
Two young teachers In a home for deaf-mute and blind children decide to see if the children they are in charge of are capable of falling in love, but their experiments have unfortunate consequences.
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!
A man invites a call girl to his place. He pays in advance for 10 hours of her time. He tells her about his ex-wife and happiness he once had. Her story is very similar to his. Why couldn't they keep their love? Can they return to their previous lives?
