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The history of the formation of Russian television in faces and memories.

A dangerous patient escapes from a specialized psychiatric clinic — a former Soviet intelligence officer and traitor named Tsventukh. Once free, he begins to take revenge on Matveev, the man who put him behind bars. After losing first his wife, then his friends, Matveev realizes that from now on, he can rely only on himself.

One day in the life of a modern St. Petersburg woman, a woman of post-Balzac age, with whom something is happening. Either a spiritual crisis or a momentary obsession...

An absurd parody of advertising marketing.

"Good Night, Little Ones!" is a Russian-language children's show created by Alexander Tatarsky & Eduard Uspensky that was first aired in 1964. This listing in particular is for Yuri Norstein's sequence that he created to air before/after each episode (which only ran for a year from 2000-2001 before it was discontinued due to being "too dark" for child audiences). Norstein stated that it took 1.5 years to hand-draw and animate this sequence

How often children do not find understanding on the part of adults, and older parents become a burden for their grown, busy children. The story of the trials that fell to the lot of the four young "truth seekers", who decided to solve their own problems, and at the same time help their grandmother, whom her own children want to take to a nursing home.

The film is about the activities of Anna Politkovskaya in the last seven years of her life.

One day a young man named Gleb decides one day to abandon ... his gay orientation. With the help of ex-boyfriend Vladik, he tries to establish his new “male” life, but everywhere he stumbles on his own kind, or on primordially Russian homophobia, which ultimately leads him to a tragic and paradoxical ending in the form of death from above.

Tamara becomes a victim of circumstances. Her lover left her. She nearly lost her best friend. Even in her own apartment Tamara does not feel safe - there she finds the corpse of a neighbor. In a panic, the heroine goes to the country, but there she becomes a prisoner of the bandits.

Legendary boxer Valery Popenchenko died on February 15, 1975. A decade of his victories went down in the history of Soviet sports as a time of international triumph for our boxing school.

A musical retro drama. The story of the heroes of the film "Everyone is Dancing!" is inspired by the poetry of Leningrad lyricists of the 50s and 60s and partly by the motives of Fazil Iskander's story "Retribution". The film tells about the Ligovka district of St. Petersburg, known to every resident of St. Petersburg as a place where punks live.

The documentary is based on 2 parallel lines: one is Valery Gergiev's trip to Tskhinvali after the Georgian-Ossetian conflict and the history of preparing and holding a concert in the destroyed city.The second line is the Maestro's concert activity, rehearsal and staging in London of Wagner's famous tetralogy "The Ring of the Nibelung", the final part of which is the opera Twilight of the Gods

A little piglet living on a farm talks about his life.

Successful businessman Anton is a single father. Things take so much time that he had no time to engage in the education of a small Dany. The poor boy is suffering from loneliness. Dad is almost never home, and my mother has long left the family and is not interested in the fate of the child. All abandoned, left to myself baby the entire soul is bound to Mashs, the leading television programs for children "Evening fairy tale".

Shortly after the war, Kaliningrad is populated by Russian newcomers and becomes a bleak home to heroes whose inevitable slide towards a tragedy is somewhat similar to the fates of protagonists of classical Russian literature. The film portraying their story had been shot over a period of more than 10 years and doesn't falter eye to eye with physical pain.

"Asymptomatic schizophrenia" is a disease that many people who did not like the regime in the USSR suffered from. Fortunately, it could be treated using "methods developed by the most eminent Soviet psychiatrists."

One day Nina lost her job and a close friend. Unexpectedly for herself, she meets a teenage girl Masha, who, like Nina, is experiencing a moment of universal loneliness.

The program "Generation 2000" was shown during the meeting of the press club of the Cinematography Service on February 21. The film almanacs include ten works by VGIK students, each of which was shot at one of the regional film studios.

Triumph and collapse of hope - the whole life of the Russian scientist Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay passes in an instant, at the last moment of earthly existence... Two worlds: the world of civilization and the world of nature exist simultaneously, next to one planet, but it seems that the distance between them is like from Earth to the moon. The film uses drawings and diaries of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, whom the Papuans called the "Man from the Moon" and revered as a deity.

As often happens, a relationship between a man and a woman, interrupted at the very takeoff, leaves the feeling that this was happiness itself.

“Time… Hours… Minutes… Seconds… Time does not exist, we invented it ourselves. This is a beautiful illusion that fills our life with mystical meaning. The whole of human history is a search for a loophole in time, a desire to use Him not against oneself, but for the good." The film shows the expectations of twelve people happening in parallel on a certain day at five o'clock in the evening. A subtle, thought-provoking film about the essence and meaning of time in life. For RADO Switzerland.

30 years is an eternity! Sometimes - a moment ... A lot of things change around - invariably only a real feeling! Life values are changing, we are changing, but the feeling of something real and important does not pass. Over the years, it becomes more meaningful and wiser - because love is so fragile and vulnerable.

Gora is a frail middle-aged woman who works as a janitor in one of the sleeping areas of Rostov-on-Don. She has neither a residence permit nor a medical policy, and in order to somehow save money, she lives with a friend in a barracks for 500 rubles. The two-storey densely populated hut survived only because it stood in the landfill for its entire history. People have been living here for more than forty years. They grow geese and goats in summer kitchens, boil themselves, drink, love, die. A nunnery is located a hundred meters from the barracks. There are 15 girls of all ages in it, in essence, this is the same barrack, only completely whitewashed and surrounded by a brick fence. They say the abbess is a former prison guard. Passion is no worse than in the cool Mexican series.

"Poetic documentary about the prominent Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky (1907/1989), father of director Andrei Tarkovsky. Arseny Tarkovsky translated countless poems from Georgian, Arabic, Armenian, Kyrghyz, Polish etc., but many of his own poems were also translated into other languages. The maker of the documentary, Viatcheslav Amirchanian, cared for Arseny Tarkovsky in the last years of the poet's life, shot many hours of film in that period, took countless photographs and, years later, he combined this with other material to form this documentary. Tarkovsky Sr, who was admired by colleagues such as Joseph Brodsky, Anna Achmatova and Marina Cvetaeva, was never published during the Stalin era, even though he had lost a leg as a soldier at the front. His first book (Before the Snow) only appeared in 1962 during the thaw under Khrushchev." - IFFR

In the not distant future, flights beyond the solar system are becoming a reality. At the same time, the secret Human Planning Institute is engaged in personality modeling. But on one of their "pupils" the system malfunctioned. The special services were powerless to return it under their control and were forced to turn to the help of an old scientist-inventor who had long avoided society ...

The tale of Yegoriy the Brave based on Russian folk spiritual tales.

A film based on an autobiographical prose of the famous Russian poet - Marina Cvetaeva.

In the film by Sergei Miroshnichenko, the classic of Russian and world literature Alexander Solzhenitsyn reflects on his human and writer's fate: "... well, a lot has already been done in life. Maybe I'm on the last stretch, and the river doesn't promise me any elbow ahead yet… But the heart does not submit to the last mold." The writer appears before the audience as a husband and father - the head of a large and friendly family.

A mother and her son Egor live in a certain city. They have a Secret: Egor's father is an alien. Egor inherited strange, literally inhuman abilities from his father. They manifest themselves only when the boy is next to the person he truly loves. No one, except his Mother, knew about these abilities until the grown-up Egor met Angela..

A funny story about the relationship between a beloved cat and a newly bought bird.

Based on a Dagestan fairy tale. About the sloppy Shadulla, and about how his wife sent him to the Great Sage.

Henrikh Ivanitsky, the creator of the gas-transport blood substitute, better known as "blue blood", experienced one of the most dramatic stories in Russian science of the XX century. The film is the first part of the "Testament" cycle.

A sequel of the story about a little girl raised in a magical forest by fairy-tale characters: Baba-Yaga, Koschei the Immortal, Lesch, Vodyaniy and Kikimora.

The mother of a young girl Nina exhausted herself and her daughter talking about marriage. At work, too, talk about it — about finding a rich groom, a successful marriage. But Nina herself believes that everything has its time…

We are now such, how carefully we keep ourselves from childhood. A film dedicated to the memory of Luis Bunuel.

The film tells about the outstanding actor Georgy Zhzhenov, his life in Leningrad, the beginning of film activity, arrest, investigation, detention in prisons "Shpalerki" and "Kresty". The hero, as it were, leads a tour of the historical places of his biography. Viewers together with him visit the very cell where Zhzhenov spent two and a half years, his communal apartment. Georgy Stepanovich meets people with whom he was once familiar, long-forgotten names, surnames, poetic lines arise in his memory...

From the Magic lantern almanac. A small Sparrow that cannot learn to fly, to the amazement of its parents, instead of taking off, begins to dance Irish dances.

The happy Nikitin family, expecting their first child, suddenly finds itself at the center of a real nightmare. Neither Sveta nor Alexey can put an end to the chain of mysterious events surrounding them — a plane explosion, the kidnapping of Alexey’s sister, and the poisoning of horses. The police begin to suspect everyone who has ever visited the estate or worked for its hospitable owner. A letter secretly delivered to Alexey sheds no light on the situation — the kidnapper demands no ransom for Katya. Alexey’s father sets out first to search for her, followed a day later by Sveta and Karpych… But all three disappear in the forest…

In 1992, during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, the famous Sukhumi Monkey Nursery found itself in the epicenter of military events. The fighting took place not only on the neighboring streets of Sukhumi, but also directly on the territory of the nursery. Some of the monkeys were transported by the staff to Russia to the institute's branch in Adler. Unfortunately, it was not possible to save all the primates. Hundreds of monkeys died, unable to endure cold, hunger, stress... The story of the monkey nursery from Sukhumi is not only another drama of the collision of the human world and the natural world. This is a fairly accurate reflection of what is happening to the human community itself in the so-called "hot spots".

There are places in which space is turned inside out, and time is flowing backwards.

Four characters sing while on an animated odyssey in a yellow spaceship. Through their adventures they explore the idea of how western culture and media had begun to permeate Armenia in the 90's and 00's. While romanticizing classic Armenian folklore and, to an extent, the Soveit era in Armenia. The era in which director Robert Sahakyants lived most of his life.

In the documentary, the official version of the outbreak of war is questioned and hypotheses are put forward about the preparation of an attack on Great Britain...

Fate brought two people together: little Bulat, a disabled man and an orphan, who must go to America, where he is waiting for an operation, a possible recovery and an American family, and Karim, who lost his wife and son in the disaster and served 6 years in prison.

A famous Russian documentarist Leonid Parfyonov with deep investigation into the life of Leonid Brezhnev.

A Lyudmila Koshkina cartoon

Romantic fantasy based on "two songs" Marina Tsvetaeva riddled melancholy fleeting meetings and partings long -. A favorite theme times late Silver Age, which came at the beginning of the Great War.