USSR, 1941. She is a famous actress, he is a well known journalist. But their meeting point is already set to GULAG.
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USSR, 1941. She is a famous actress, he is a well known journalist. But their meeting point is already set to GULAG.
Fedya is 20 years old. He works as a projectionist in a provincial cinema called "Rodina" (Motherland), and tries in vain to pull in spectators. When the local authorities decide to transform the "Rodina" into a shop, there is only one way out: to make a successful film and thus rescue the cinema! But what is required to get a good box office? Of course, a star! Desperate times demand desperate measures, so the children kidnap a celebrity from a passing train. And this is not just any star, but Dmitri Diuzhev! Well, maybe he does not exactly burn with the desire to be filmed here, but it doesn't matter as long as they have enough ropes, gags and sleeping tablets. Then here is a desperate producer who has just been demobbed, a philosophizing wedding photographer and the karate-practicing actress Zhenya, with whom Fedya is secretly in love.
Newlyweds purchase a small house in a countryside area and gradually settle into their new surroundings. Each morning, the husband leaves for work, leaving his young wife alone with the unfamiliar house. Step by step, she finds herself uncovering the secrets hidden within the old home.
When three 18-year-old students at a prestigious University - Mika, Kit, and Swift - dig up dirt on their crazy college principal, the hunt for the would-be blackmailers begins. Fleeing from their pursuers, the three amigos find themselves on the women's snowboarding team bus. They have no choice but to put on the team's brightly colored jackets and blend in with the crowd of snowboarding girls. But the clothes alone won't cut it: as diehard practitioners of extreme sports, they are not about to miss their chance to show off their snowboarding skills. The National Women's Snowboarding Team's trainer Svetlana Nikolayevna spots the new talent and invites the "girls" to join the team for the trials in Sochi. The friends jump at the chance of free rides on Olympic-grade tracks and once and for all evading the college principal's goons.
Vadim Krylov is the owner of a major retail chain. He's the best at what he does, and he is used to getting what he wants at any cost. He reaches his goal, 3000 stores all over the country, but that costs him dearly. Now, to avoid financial ruin Krylov has to make a deal to partner with a large Chinese retail chain. The Chinese company is ready to purchase a 50% stake in Vadim's company which officially - or on paper at least - belongs to his Mother. Vadim is once again on top of the world. But his Mother, who lived her whole life in his home town died a half a year ago and it turns out, she left a last will and testament. So Vadim will have to go back to his home town where there's an unexpected surprise waiting for him. His Mother bequeathed the company not to him, but to her granddaughter, his daughter, with whom he has had no contact with since he abandoned her at the age of two.
A doctor from the regional clinic finds a guy with a rare disease in the village, and takes him to the city hospital to write a doctoral dissertation.
11-year old Sashka is spending his summer at his grandma's together with his elder brother, and they both happen to fall for the same girl.
The film tells the story of the Russian Paralympic Blind Football team which is preparing for the most important event in their lives - the European Championship. The team has only one goal - to win the gold medal at any cost!
In the late 17th century Russia, a dark magician arrives at the capital in search of the ultimate power hidden within the Magic Worlds, the entrance to which is located inside the Sukharev Tower and is tightly guarded by Jacob Bruce, the Wizard of Balance. When Jacob's apprentice Petya and daughter Margarita accidentally rip apart the ancient manuscript that is the source of his powers, they must venture into the Magic Worlds to restore it.
On Saturday morning, her mother comes to Nadya to take her with her to the cemetery. Nadia has her own plans, but her mother authoritatively pulls her out of the usual schedule. They need to visit the grave of Nadya’s father, whom his mother divorced long before his death. On the way, the mother swears and in every possible way manifests her irreconcilable nature. Nadia suffers, but on the way back, women quarrel violently. Mother slams the door in the middle of the road and leaves, and Nadia pierces the wheel and has to stop.
Strange and scary things start to happen after three young people spend a night on abandoned ship.
Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to get away from his oppressive father, Viktor, who still supports him financially. Victor Ginzburg is a famous conductor. His work is his life. He never cared about Mark's feelings and tried to mold his son in his own image. Their highs and lows turned long ago into a love-hate relationship. More hate than love. Father calls his son by his childhood nickname Birdie, which infuriates the son. Son calls his father Your Majesty, which infuriates the father. After Viktor is diagnosed with a fatal illness, the father and son set off on a difficult journey that leads from hate to love.
The reopening show of the historical stage of the Bolshoi Theatre by Jurowski and Tcherniakov. "Ruslan and Lyudmila", opera by Mikhail Glinka, has particular relation with the Bolshoï Theater, it held more than 700 representations throughout the history and nine different productions. Logically the fable of Mikhail Glinka (from a poem of Pushkin), symbol of the Russian opera, opened the season 2011-2012 of the majestic Moscow s opera, after its long renovation. This reopening inspired the director Dmitri Tcherniakov, who signed the direction of this new production. The new devices of the Bolshoi Theatre and its two giant screens are fully exploited in a spectacular staging. Tcherniakov transposes Glinka s opera at the 21th century with contemporary ambitions because of the "modernity of the subject", trying there to put forward "the deep feelings of the characters , exposing the protagonists to very modern temptations: a "harem" for Ruslan, a Thai massage for Lyudmila.
Hunting tour in the mountains of the Caucasus. Hellish vacation of a German couple in a Turkish hotel for Russians. Acquaintance with the native bride in the African savannah. Yes, this is our way! The summer season in the style of "Russo touristo" is declared open!
A young 15-years-old boy, Kid, has been looking up to his older brother, Valyok, as long as he remembers himself. He desires to become as brave, cocky and masculine as his brother is. Once Valyok and his best friend Ruble finally invite Kid to hang out with them. Everything seems to go on well until older guys decides to do barbecue from a dog. What would Kid do and how his attitude to his brother would change?
A father and son live alone in a cottage in the woods. They hardly ever go out. Each new day resembles the one before and is shaped by the son’s rituals, which the father tries to observe.
Two friends are looking for themselves in music, in the world.
Andrei Tarkovsky said, “I find it hard to imagine the inner world of women, but I think it must be connected with the world of men…”
Two men kidnap a man to get him to tell company secrets. The man firmly asserts that he is only a broker and does not know anything about anything. They use both violence and threats to get what they want. But what is true and who can you trust nowadays?
Rita loves her husband Alexei, but he decides to leave her for another woman named Alena. When nothing works, Rita seeks help from a sorcerer and ends up waking in Alena's body.
200 years ago, the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov was born. The young man with huge eyes: his portrait is known to everyone since school. Lermontov wrote poetry, fought, fell in love, and was killed in a duel. Short life of 27 years. But what do we know about the real Lermontov? Biographical documentary-feature film tells in detail about the life of an outstanding person and a great poet.
Even children know that in the new year the most unusual, most unbelievable events can happen. Only Masha does not believe in miracles. She has long been accustomed to rely only on her own strength. December 31, New Year's Eve, and meeting with your loved one - Sergey. The project on which her future career depends.
One day, Dutch film maker van der Horst was given her inheritance: 6 square meters, one sixth of a small, wooden house in the Russian countryside where her mother grew up. It was as if life had handed her a card she felt forced to play. She began a journey into the past, back into the childhood of her Russian mother and her five sisters, all of whom struggled with fear, famine and war in Stalin’s Russia; experiences that left them scarred to their very soul. Aliona’s quest into the lives and fate of her family becomes a loving, poignant, and poetic film with Chekhovian characters. Accompanied by the magical animation of acclaimed Italian artist Simone Massi, unimaginable events in the Soviet past are given an immediate charge. Along with the stories of ordinary people living in the small farmhouse, the film maker tells the tale of Soviet terror, immense bravery and a fear that has never left those four walls.
Favorite gave you a surprise and suddenly rushed into the city? What could be nicer? But when you have only twenty and a bunch of vague prospects in your pocket, the long-awaited meeting turns into a nightmare. What kind of medicine will your love need in order to restore relations after a long separation?
A music video made collaboratively for the strange 1994 song by French band Les Pirez, which had become a hit at one of the main Russian domestic animation festivals.
Igor, a senior manager at a furniture showroom, dreams of being promoted. One morning, after an office party, he finds the showroom completely trashed. The staff claim that when they left the night before, everything was in order. This is a disaster for Igor, whose career is now at stake. Trying to reconstruct the events of the fateful night, Igor learns some shocking details about his colleagues' nocturnal escapades...
A messenger of the special delivery service does their usual job: delivers orders to people's houses. It'd be an ordinary story, if it wasn't for the deliveries themselves- these are sheer emotions. Any person can send real joy or love or any flashbacks to their addressee - messenger will deliver everything at one's command. But will one feel better?
Family film about the adventures of a lost girl in Moscow. The world of the megalopolis is dangerous, but the five-year-old Natasha is so sincere and trusting about others that when meeting her, they change for the better. This is a story about a child and modern Moscow, told in the language of the current generation and continuing the traditions of good domestic cinema.
Eight-year-old Lyosha hides from the older children in a derelict building, where he finds a toy lorry locked behind a grid. Lyosha decides to get it.
Things are finally starting to look bright for Ilya, a relatively unknown actor. Starting tomorrow, he will be the voice of Men's Radio. So of course he celebrates the occasion. But the next morning, the newly-crowned radio host finds himself unable to utter a single word. After a wild night out on the town he has completely lost his voice. It's half an hour before he goes on air, prime-time, the contract has already been signed, Ilya is in a state of panic... The only solution is to get an injection in his voice box. According to the doctor on hand, this is the only thing that might save the day.
The students of 11th "A" grade will never forget their prom. And so their parents.
An affair which starts as a bet between a three girls suddenly become a big love story...
Julia works as a photographer. Being in a stream of endless hackwork, she dreams of a solo exhibition that will give her the opportunity to say a new word in art. On one of the hectic days, she receives a somewhat strange offer from seemingly the most ordinary customers.
The path of the three fellow travelers leaves a trail of blood… Who will survive in the harsh taiga in the struggle for life?
The film is a parable about fear; it is a story about the attitudes of a mother and daughter deprived of love, who temporarily find mutual understanding, rallied by fear before the story invented by the mother about a cannibalistic wolf. On a philosophical level it is a reflection on the lost purity of thoughts, which is the main condition for the harmony of human life, and yet another illustration of the proverb: “The sleep of reason produces monsters”
On the same day that Stalin was buried, Sergei Prokofiev's funeral took place completely unnoticed. And if the farewell to the composer quietly went against the backdrop of the farewell to the dictator that swept the whole country, then in the play everything is the opposite - Prokofiev's music is in the center, and it is interrupted by the stories of those people who would probably ignore Stalin's funeral and went to say goodbye to the great composer.
A young woman from Russia travels to London to investigate the disappearance of her older sister, who vanished years ago.
The new adventures of the three heroes and, of course, the horse Yuliya!!!!. Where will the fate of the fairy tale heroes, who have fallen in love with them still go, what challenges do they have to overcome, that will help them defeat the dark forces? We will find out about this very soon.
Learn to forgive others, and get forgiveness to yourself. In the forgotten taiga village lives a gloomy and unsociable Trofim Rusanov, senior fishing inspector. He is used to the fact that each day is filled with routine. But one day, on his usual round through the wood, Trofim faces a shocking discovery. He finds a baby in an abandoned forest house. For several days he wanders around the severe uninhabited taiga, fighting both for his life and the life of the little child. Finally, Trofim finds the way home... He wants to find a woman who left a baby in the forest. It takes for him a superhuman effort to find the baby's mother. But this long quest leads him to another, completely different find
A well-known civil servant from the Mayor's Office in a provincial Russian town receives a note: You'll soon die. He takes no notice, and gets ready for his normal Sunday – family problems, his personal life, work, other matters… But this Sunday turns out very far from normal. From the very start things come crashing down, smiting everything in its path, including all plans, external composure, and even his own life.
Egor is a vet at a training facility for hunting dogs in a remote region of the country. Surrounded by foxes, deer, badgers, and dogs, he lives in a small building next to the house of the facility's master. He treats the dogs, cleans the kennels, oversees the workers, and meets with clients and their dogs. It's easier for him to get along with dogs than with people. Egor is willing to take on any job to get closer to the facility's master and his near and dear. He wants the impossible - to become a member of that family.
At Nuremberg the Soviet side demanded that the list of the accused should include financial and economic figures. And first of all Hjalmar Schacht, the chief banker of the Third Reich, the man who brought Hitler to power, the mastermind behind the German economic miracle of the 1930s. At the same time he took part in the attempted murder of the Führer, was a prisoner of the concentration camp. But can one make money on war and keep one’s hands clean? Kill millions and sleep serenely?
Sleeping area of the city. The body of a seven-year-old girl was found in the river, not far from the house. There are no witnesses to the incident, but there is a strange young man who says he tried to save the girl.
Romantic Anya Kadet is a video blogger and employee of the railway depot. One day she meets an eccentric Kulebyakin who damages her. All together - both a real fairy tale and a horror movie. The author was inspired by the prose of Yuri Mamleev, but removes like Hitchcock.
A fantasy world in which ordinary, unimposing characters live. Nothing unusual happens to them in this world. They walk, sit, stand, get bored in the wind, and sometimes they dance.
Anything can happen on New Year's Eve, even the most incredible. For example, your girlfriend can forget about her star career and return to her boyfriend. Or suddenly you can receive an SMS invitation from an unknown number to a party in the apartment of complete strangers...
Snow is a form of precipitation of crystalline form, referring to precipitation. For the heroine of the film, the word “snow” has a completely different meaning.
The grand constant flow of life
Returning to the city on a wet night highway, Sasha fails to control and makes a run over a lone pedestrian. Yielding to the entreaties of his wife Tamara, he leaves the wounded man near the village hospital and returns home.
An adventurer rents out someone else's house by the sea to several women with children at once. So, the truth-loving salesman Antonina, the modest translator Sonya and the wife of Dr. Ira find themselves under the same roof. The vacation promises to be difficult, especially since the owner of the house suddenly appears.
100 years ago, the Russian Empire ... Christmas Eve. December plugs, holiday celebrations, balls and modest luxury holidays, titled nobles and ordinary peasants, the royal family and the soldiers of the First World War, progressive poets and the first skaters - everything was different, except ... the holiday. People prepared, lived, believed dreaming and waiting for this miracle - Christmas!
In Los Angeles, one of the most romantic cities in the world, two unnromantic people meet. On the first date, she throws away the flowers he gives and he takes her to the cafe with the worst coffee in to wn. Despite the disaster of the first date she shows up to the second date wearing nothing but lingerie. Even then to find her a dress even failing to steal a dress from the local store. Despite these romantic disasters and confusions these are the best two days in both their lives. Will their romance go on, and the disasters and confusions continue despite the fact giving that they don’t even know each other names? In the city of Angels, on a beautiful beach, anything is possible. Even if it lasts for only couple of days.