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Vasya is an elderly cloakroom attendant who has worked at the Moscow Art Theatre for many years. Posing as an actor, he tries to help two teenagers who love the theatre as much as he does get into the Moscow Art Theatre School. However, everything changes when a new female ticket collector learns of his secret.
After the deaths of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis the Queen Anna of Austria has to ask for help of the heroes' sons. They, however, cannot fulfill her request on their own. The original musketeers have to literally return to live and embark on a new adventure.
In the film Battle for Ukraine Andrei Konchalovsky, the famous Russian director, analyzes how Ukraine, a former part of the Soviet Empire and present big European country, struggles to escape from the close embrace of the former big brother, Russia, and not to become one of the American satellites. This extensive study lasted for almost three years. Many Ukrainian, Russian and American historians, politicians and journalists took part in this study, as well as the ex-President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski, the ex-President of Slovakia Rudolf Schuster, the ex-President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, the ex-Prime Minister of Russia Viktor Chernomyrdin, and the businessman Boris Berezovsky.
A young student suddenly must to make a choice between love and career..
When gold is discovered in a remote location, a variety of different groups descend on the spot to stake their claims, resulting in a spate of brutal violence.
A police major accidentally gets into the world of strange young people.
Based on the stories by Arkady Averchenko. Short stories: "Morning," "Ninochka," "Service," "The Exhibition," "The Ichneumon," "Bless You!", "Iron Memory," "The Lady in Black," "A Man’s Fate," "Before Sleep."
Where did the stereotypes come from that the "clock is ticking" and a woman must necessarily give birth to children under the pressure of social opinion before the age of 30? Forced pregnancy, reproductive violence and its victims — in the documentary "Fem.doc ".
What is to be a child to whom parents ask the same question every day: whom does he love more? Mom or dad? What should mom do if she madly loves her son, but circumstances force him to take the child away from his father? What should be done to dad if his son is taken to America forever, and he cannot imagine his life without him? This is a story of choice. When deciding for a child, a parent often does as he is comfortable with. The child agrees, afraid to hurt the parent, but time will pass, he will mature and at some point he will decide for himself. Only the parent from this will be much more painful.
They play tough, masculine games, when the passion of hunting turns into a thirst for profit, paint into blood, fidelity into betrayal, when betting is friendship, and winning is life. One of the three old institute shareholding partners "orders" the fourth - the head of the Bank of Daniel. But even the hired killer did not know about the explosives in the house. And so, after the explosion in the basement, there are three - the killer, the victim and his daughter. When there is almost no air left, and the search engines have already stopped working, Daniel’s mind starts a dangerous game: which of the worlds is fictional, and which one is the real one, the one in which you save your friends, or the one in which friends kill you ... Daniel solves the problem with three unknown ...
Three young women, who each have a sought-after commodity - their virginity. Kristina, Karina and Katya each try to make their way in a world ruled by fame, popularity and money.
Vika is the heiress of her mother's criminal business, the tough and domineering Margarita Vitalievna. Vika owns a closed cabaret club, Libido, located on the territory of an ancient estate far from the city and prying eyes, whose clients include the entire urban elite of Penza. At some point, Vika's future becomes uncertain, as her mother takes a young lover and makes him her partner. In the fight for the club, Vika goes on the warpath, and the Moscow crime boss Analgin helps her in this. Pretending to take care of Vika, he wants to squeeze out the club himself, as well as take control of the entire criminal life of the city.
The waiter of the seaside restaurant decides to become an honest man. He stops short-counting visitors, refuses to take a tip, trying to shame his own leadership. The results do not take long to wait — a respected member of society becomes an outcast, the Director of the restaurant expels him from work, and his wife from home…
This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...
I was reminded of people who were not exactly "healthy" according to everyday logic, but were nevertheless genius: Vrubel, Fedotov, Van Gogh. And always—Dostoevsky. Who would have benefited if all these great artists had been healthy? Illness caused them a great deal of suffering, but, when expressed through their creativity, it still brought about such stunning results. So, here it is entirely appropriate to ask: is it necessary to cure them? - Valeriy Fokin.
A high school student becomes convinced that the world is lost to evil and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults surrounding him.
The film tells the story of Kamal, a skilled engineer who, in the eyes of his director friend, is nothing less than God himself. However, Kamal has a different opinion about himself.
Terrorist Jaffad Ben Zayidi steals four nuclear bombs from a sunken American submarine and hides them in four major cities throughout the world. The charges can be activated by an 11-digit code. Zayidi dies and his accomplice, nicknamed "The Executioner," is about to blow up the bombs. The Executioner is chased by FSB, whose agent Marie has previously infiltrated Zayidi's team.
The short film is based on the ballad of the same name by Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky. The plot is based on Gottfried Bürger's ballad "Lenora."
Many many words have been written and a few ingenious TV documentaries have been filmed about the great Russian rock band Auktyon, which recently celebrated 30 years of playing music. Everything is completely different in the case of the film Encore: it took seven years for the director, Dmitry Lavrinenko, to make it; he needed just that amount of time to capture the wayward grace still preserved by Fyodorov, Garkusha, Ozersky and their associates. If you look behind the powerful music facade, you find not a story of a band but chronicles of a voyage aimed at incredible, incomparable music. Encore shows how the songs which are now known by heart were composed; it also shows things generally left aside: pieces of everyday life, tour diaries, conversations, including the key phrase: "You should not look at the liberty too much, you might feel dizzy.
A traditional ritual for policemen of one town is the illegal entry into the house of their abuser. The intern, who came to his first practice, must undergo this baptism of fire.
Rebellious schoolgirl Dana grieves for her younger sister, a once-happy kid who suddenly stepped in front of a train. Desperate to learn what happened, she explores her sister's online history, discovering a sinister social-media game.
Accidentally, Alyona finds herself alone in her lover's country-house on Christmas Eve. All she can see from the window is a snow-covered desert, and a cat is the only living creature who is near. The heating is turned off, her mobile phone battery is low. Alyona tries to get out of the country-house, but the more external circumstances she overcomes the deeper she sinks into her inner hell. At the end of the day her desire to escape suddenly evolves into desire to die. There are three layers in the film: physical, symbolical and metaphysical. All Alyona's activity is a surface that hides her struggle with her inner demons, her existential solitude and her inability to cope with it. Trying to escape the swamp of unsolved issues Alyona sinks only deeper and deeper to reach the bottom, then push off and start her way to inner resurrection. The only thing we are never given enough is love. The only thing we never give enough is love.
The northern military town on the eve of the New Year is filled with snow, fear and hope: one of the submarines has an accident, it is being towed to the base without moving, there are victims. This is all that is known from the short report. On New Year's Eve, Warrant Officer Seryogin, appointed by Santa Claus, comes to the house where little Bear is waiting for his dad from the campaign ...
Egorka Kalach is a guy from a Cossack family. When suddenly it turns out that Egorka is the only one who has not received a summons to the army, it becomes a blow to the whole family.
The mother and daughter face the question of whether to keep the pregnancy or terminate it. Both are under pressure from relatives, friends, and doctors. Both are going through a difficult decision-making process. Each episode of the artistic part shows the life circumstances and the path that a woman in a crisis situation goes through. In documentary inserts, representatives of various professions (psychologists, lawyers, gynecologists, clergymen) tell how they face the problem of abortion in their lives.
Returning from another day of work at the vivarium, laboratory assistant Julia finds out that her husband wants to get a divorce, because the only thread that sealed their marriage is the mortgage paid. For Julia, her husband's decision is a surprise. She was sure that everything was fine with them, just like everyone else. Yulia wants to glue their relationship together by taking care of Oleg as her wards in the vivarium. Her goal is to form conditioned reflexes in her husband.
In one depot, two trams lived together. All day long, they traveled around the city, filling the streets with cheerful clatter, and they were happy. But in life, nothing lasts forever.
The film depicts the events of 1964 when Nikita Khrushchyov was forcibly replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as a head of USSR.
Antonina, an artist from Saint Petersburg, follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north province of Russia. As she starts teaching art in a local school, she finds herself opposed by a twelve-year-old boy, Misha, whose brother is a feared local gang leader.
Веселая история о том, как уберечь отношения и жениться на любимой девушке. Не дать брачному аферисту разрушить союз и увести свою невесту. Иногда для этого нужно приложить много усилий, а иногда нужно просто... просто проснуться. А пирожки? Просто хорошо, когда твоя девушка вкусно готовит.
This film is dedicated to all medical professionals who tirelessly fight for our lives! We sincerely thank all those who hourly help us to live a healthy and fulfilling life.
A sensitive and intimate portrait of Ivanna, a nomadic reindeer herder in the Russian Arctic and mother of five small kids. Ivanna is forced to leave the traditional way of life and emigrate to the city, following her own dreams, due to the quickly deteriorating conditions of life in the tundra. We follow her life for several years.
He was called the Champion of Champions. The strength and strong-willed character Poddubniy composed legends. And 50 great fighter effortlessly overcame young athletes, and questions of honor and justice did not know compromises. And only love could put Russian Heroes on both blades
Frank accounts from eyewitnesses — a former police officer who worked with “night butterflies,” a Soviet prostitute, and a catering worker with over a hundred romantic stories behind her — are intertwined with analysis from experts such as historian Lev Lurye, sociologist Elena Zdravomyslova, and sex blogger Arina Kholina. They help the viewer better understand how the legacy of the Soviet era is reflected in the intimate lives of people today.
Nadya was born with a pathology. She has a large red-burgundy hemangioma on her small face. In the native village Nadya faces the hostility and ridicule of others, furthermore her own family does not accept the girl as she is. Nadya grandmother tries to treat her illness with all religious methods she knows, while Nadya mother constantly dreams of a surgical operation in Moscow. Nadya just wants to be herself. Her only wish is to sing in the choir. After getting into another mess, she ends up in a Moscow hospital, where meets people like her. But even after the physical problem has been resolved nothing changes in her family life.
A youngster Andis, 21 offers a friend of his grandmother Mara, 80, who is dying, to fulfil her every wish in exchange for her apartment after her death. This agreement lets both of them rethink their attitude for what they actually want.
A funny family comedy about how big wealth can affect life.
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.
A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin.
Nina is a young woman of thirty years, who lives in St. Petersburg. She has to bury her mother in a winter day. The ceremony is an opportunity for her to meet her younger brother Andrei, who lives elsewhere.
Ilya Goryunov has spent seven years in prison on false charges of drug trafficking. When Ilya is free he realizes that the old life that he yearned for is no more. Although he did not intend to take revenge on the man who sent him to prison, now there is no other way out.
Is youth a burden or a gift? New stars of Russian cinema say goodbye to illusions
Sasha is an ordinary boy whose life is not much different from the everyday life of an average schoolboy. Sasha's parents are divorced, so they put their personal ambitions above the interests of their son. From lack of attention, Sasha begins to withdraw into himself. Everything changes when, after school, Sasha meets a new friend – a strange cleaner in a pilot's jumpsuit.
A very first adaptation of the black tales written by Ludmila Petrushevskaya, the living classic of Russian literature. Black Coat, a mid-length movie that tells about adventures of two suicided women between life and death, has been shooting in Norilsk, the most Northern industrial city of the world, in winter time when the normal temperature is below -50 Celcium degrees. A pilot for a feature film or/and series.
Kai and Gerda live in a cozy quiet town, but suddenly the Ice Spirits come there intending to freeze everyone. However, Ila, a little wizardess of Mirrorlands, comes to help the heroes. Together they go to the magic world of Mirrorlands to get the Spirits back.
A year after winning the Night Hockey League, the Hockey Dads returned to their usual lifestyle. Now their children, the Harsh Tigers team, together with coach Andrey, are showing excellent results in hockey at the new ice palace and are entering the top division of the youth hockey tournament. But everything changes when they find out that the new management of the club has other plans for the team. And now the only way to restore justice is to participate in the International tournament "Games of the Future". The dads of young hockey players are ready to put on their skates again and, together with their teenage children, compete with the best teams in the world.
The actor of the provincial puppet theater comes to try his luck in Leningrad. He stops at his longtime friend - an imitation actor and a big joker. Willingly leaving a friend in his apartment for the night, a friend invites a “call girl” for the guest.
There is no place for fantasies in the life of lawyer Pyotr Bezuglov. His life is nothing but rules, which he strictly observes. One day, his son Vanechka finds the letters that Pyotr wrote to Santa Claus as a child and puts them in the New Year's mailbox. In the morning, all of Bezuglov's childhood wishes begin to come true and not only Pyotr himself is in danger, but also his family and, possibly, the whole world.
Hoping to distract the boy from the loss of his mother, his father takes him to his grandfather for winter fishing. But the family falls into a blizzard and is lost on the ice of the largest lake in the world. Love and the mysterious powers of Baikal will help them overcome grief and find each other.
The loser Innocent wants to commit suicide by jumping from the roof. At the moment when he is almost taking a step, the main character appears on the roof. She convinces Innocent not to jump with a funny, daring, sometimes tough, but very logical and somewhat sincere conversation, because, among other things, he has not yet fulfilled his purpose…
The story of an emotionally detached backup dancer named Athena, who must return home to Florida to help care for her estranged father, Jack, after he gets diagnosed with cancer. There, she must contend with Jack’s irresponsible lifestyle, while looking after six year old Honey Bunny, who is only beginning to grasp the err in Jack’s ways.
Surreal New Year special TV musical.
In a large family, after a trip to the store, another child suddenly appears. He speaks an incomprehensible language and does not know where he came from. But in a family where there is love, this is not important. Gradually, from an undesirable burden, he turns into a beloved family member and returns peace and happiness to the main characters, Sena and Lida.