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The first solo concert of the group "BI-2" in the club of the Moscow Aviation Institute, November 12, 2000. The history of the band, unknown pages, exclusive interviews with the members. How the famous soundtrack to the movie "Brother 2" was recorded.
The story is about two city boys who spent their summer holidays in a village where everything is so unusual and new. Here all the wildlife is at a glance: both large and small beetles, which can sometimes land right in the soup, and a real turtle that hides in its house from danger, and an apricot that gives ripe fruits similar to a small sun. And there is also an interesting place — the attic, where you can find a lot of old things. But soon the summer will end and mom will take the children back to the city...
The painting tells about the difficult process of rehearsals under the guidance of a conductor.
A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
The hero of the film has not only the talent to reveal secrets. He himself is a big mystery. Leonid Parshin is the son of a Russian intelligence officer, an illegal immigrant from the age of two. In the 80s, his investigation of Bulgakov's riddles aroused particular interest among the KGB. And then surveillance, an attempt to escape from the Soviet Union, to swim across the Gulf of Finland, in the 86th there was an arrest and a prison. In 2001, his report "Computer study of the psychology of M. Bulgakov and his literary heroes" was a success at an international symposium in Bucharest. In the course of the film, Parshin talks about his unusual adventures, and sometimes severe misadventures in the 70s and 80s of the twentieth century.
We all loved the movie about the Winter Storm. We liked how the Aurora shoots at the palace and paves the way with fire for the stormtroopers, who picturesquely climb the lattice gates. However, in fact, the Winter One did not need to be stormed at all. And anyway, the real events of October 17th looked much more prosaic. Meanwhile, the new government needed its own mythology of the "Great Coup", corresponding to its ideological dogmas and, at the same time, bright, impressive, capable of mobilizing the masses. All available cultural resources and, above all, the resources of cinema, which was not accidentally awarded the title of "the most important of the arts", were thrown into the creation of this mythology...
The hero of the film is a successful young man, in whose life His Majesty Chance intervenes. In just a few days, he loses his job, betrays his mistress, goes to war, not counting such trifles as participation in fights, races, endless hangouts.
About the impossibility of resisting the force that destroys everything.
Depicting the collision between past, present, and future in contemporary Russia, the film showcases the filmmaker's understanding, or perhaps her emotions, about Russia's convoluted history.
A Russian TV mini-series.
The tale of the blacksmith Stepan, who returned the Moon, the Stars and the Sun to people.
Начинающий кинорежиссер снял короткометражку по мало известному автобиографическому рассказу русского писателя-эмигранта Алексея Зыкова, покинувшего родину с первой эмигрантской волной. Приехав в Париж, режиссер решает показать фильм писателю в расчете на его поддержку в съемках полнометражной картины по новелле писателя. Однако Алексей Зыков, уничтоживший этот рассказ перед отъездом из России, не проявил никакого энтузиазма по поводу увиденного на экране, да и сам режиссер понял, что он прикоснулся к личной драме писателя...
The thirst for a miracle lives in every person. The hero of the film, Fedor, witnesses an accident, as a result of which people close to him die. He decides that he was not saved by chance and now must change his life. Fedor is trying to live the way Orthodox hermits lived, tormenting himself with prayers and fasts. In this new world, he finds a guide - Father Hilarion. The hermit finally has hope that he will soon become an eyewitness of Revelation. But Father Hilarion is being killed absurdly and senselessly. Having experienced deep despair, Fedor will return to the people, experience love and jealousy, hatred and fear. And only when he reaches the edge - having decided to kill - will he become a witness of a miracle...
War breaks out in the Caucasus. 75-year-old Maria loses her son in the war. She and her daughter-in-law Sofia have been living in the Caucasus for 12 years. When famine strikes, they want to move to Russia. The women decide that they must go to Moscow. Maria takes her little dog and Sofia her small suitcase, gets on the train and sets off. In the next compartment, photojournalist Alexander is also traveling. Sofia and Alexander love each other. Maria realizes at one of the stations near Volgograd that she cannot live without the Caucasus. She writes a letter to Sofia and leaves the train with her dog...
The documentary film "Marlen. Farewell to the Sixties" is an attempt to go back to the sixties. In addition to the main character of the film, Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev, his sixties friends will try to go back in time and evaluate their lives and films from the distance of the years they lived: Georgy Danelia, Pyotr Todorovsky, Sergei Shakurov, Yuri Rost, Pavel Finn and others.
In a small Cuban fishing village, Joel, the oldest brother in a traditional family, is heartbroken when his fiancée marries someone her family prefers. He moves to Havana, hoping to find a new life. Gorgeously photogenic, Havana and the Cuban countryside are exquisitely captured in director Kosyrev-Nesterov's elegiac feature debut.
The life of the old horse comes to end behind that - the death. But before the death, the fortune gives him the last fantastic vision which opens the world filled with an endless life and love.
Admittedly, it is not so often possible to see the birth, flowering and extinction of some creative direction in art during the life of one generation. Perhaps one of the rare examples of this kind gives us a creative direction that has gone down in history under the name "social art", which is regarded in the West as the most significant contribution of Soviet fine art to the world artistic process of the second half of the twentieth century. In our film, the fate of this creative direction is reflected by its brightest representatives – Vitaly Komar, Alexander Kosolapov, Leonid Sokov, Boris Orlov, Rostislav Lebedev and Mikhail Roshal. Their collective story about the fate of "social art" unfolds against the background of the chronicle of the political and artistic life of the 70-90s.
The main character of the film, yesterday's student, and now a doctor of the district clinic and part-time creator of the BEZ Promo promotion label, cannot choose what to associate his future with - medicine or organizing parties in Moscow clubs. Both seem to him to be an important mission. Both are service to people.
Berlinale DAAD Short film winning documentary.
The year 2006 was, perhaps, one of the most tragic in the recent history of the Russian theater. Two great theater artists - David Borovsky and Oleg Sheintsis - died at once. Both of them were the true creators of the theatrical space, who defined the style, trends and language of scenography of the second half of the XX - beginning of the XXI century. We would like to tell about the life, creative destiny and the main artistic discoveries of these outstanding masters in this film...
Это военно-морские байки, повествование о том, как на военно-морской флот прибыл гражданский штурман с обезьянкой на плече. В первый же вечер он обыграл своего командира на бильярде, не зная, что это его будущий командир. Штурмана ссылают на минный тральщик, который нужно отремонтировать, чтобы продать невероятному противнику «на иголки». Для ремонта с гауптвахты берут самых отчаянных матросов. Когда приходит время передачи корабля вероятному противнику, матросы топят его.
The 1970s. On May 9, a war veteran is going to a meeting with fellow soldiers. Before leaving, he has a difficult conversation with his son, a writer, who came with a little daughter to inform about the upcoming divorce. The father reproaches his son that he is going to get a divorce, remembers what an unfortunate name he gave his daughter, and also criticizes his story about the front-line soldiers "Station", in which the son, according to his father, instead of glorifying their feat, exposed them as losers.
There will be no winter - an interpretation of the Russian folk tale "Masha and the Bear", told under the composition "There will be no Winter" by the group "Auction". The idea of creating the tape was born in the process of working on films about Andrey Bitov and Boris Grebenshchikov. Then the director came up with and shot the frame "Outgoing Youth", which turned into a fairy tale about a man's dream: to gain additional freedom and ride a virgin. In 2002, the film participated in the program of the Film Festival "Literature and Cinema" in Gatchina and was awarded a special jury prize.
A sad mysterious story based on the legends of our ancestors.
Educational work.
In Soviet times, the songs "Soviet Easter", "Cigarette Butt", "Comrade Stalin" were sung by the whole country (and, according to rumors, members of the politburo also enjoyed it), but few people knew that these "folk" hits had an author – Yuz Aleshkovsky. Having traveled from East to West, he became a famous writer in a country that is still considered the most reading. The concepts of Freedom and Creativity for him are not so much philosophical categories, but a credo of life. The genre of Sergei Miroshnichenko's new film can be defined as "a lyrical post-Soviet comedy with a dramatic touch."
A small airport in the north of the Urals. One helicopter. For local residents, this is the only way to get to remote villages cut off by swamps.
A prisoner gets a new cellmate, one who is very eager to escape.
About how the boy Yumagul and the girl Galia defeated the evil Deva.
Russian puppet cartoon 2007, created at the studio "Pilot". Director Elena Chernova created it based on a Tatar folk tale. A similar story is found in the folklore of the Greeks, Kazakhs, Crimean Tatars, and Turkmens (among the Turkmens and Kazakhs, it is included in the cycle of jokes and fairy tales about Aldarkos, and among the Crimean Tatars, the main protagonist of the fairy tale in Mikhail Bulatov's retelling is Khoja Nasreddin.)
Rock is music for young people. Nick Rock-n-Roll, the protagonist of the film, doesn’t agree with it all. He’s 48 years old and as during his youth he still feels music deeply and looking for something special, unusual, which is out of stereotypes and mainstream. This film is about immersion in a world of new independent rock-music in Russia. Dipping into it Nick Rock-n-Roll remembers his own life, analyzing the nature of his passionate love to rock. His eternal search allows Nick not to feel his age that’s why it is necessary for him always to slake his thirst. Features four independent bands: Bosch's With You, Last Tanks in Paris (П.Т.В.П.), Deti Picasso, Salvador
"Victory March" is a very accurate and touching recognition to the Veterans of the Great Victory. This is an amazing and unusual portrait not of "unfortunate war veterans", but of Winners, people who have gone through something like this, after which you begin to truly understand the price of Victory and Life. Shahverdiyev's film shows bright and cheerful people from whom you can learn not only to celebrate Victory Day, but also to Live.
The film is based on the story of the same name by Dmitry Kononovich Sivtsev – Suorun Omolloon about love and the destiny of a girl who humbly accepts her sad fate.
They hit the camera lens almost four decades ago. Successful workers, winners of social competitions, students, scientists are ordinary residents of the city on the Neva. Today they came to the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio to meet with the footage of the chronicle that captured them. What will this meeting bring?
Two people live in a small Siberian town: one is cheerful and cheerful, pleases his fellow countrymen with virtuoso accordion playing, the other is gloomy and withdrawn – builds a church in the middle of the town and talks about the imperfection of man.
A story about Soviet director Alexander Askoldov and his first and only feature film, The Commissar.
A story about a radiogram, an abandoned house, and a flax mill.
A poetic story about the unrequited love of an ill-fortuned janitor.
As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoyevsky casts a critical eye on both the radical idealists, portraying their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences.
After 20 years of wandering taiga weather stations searching for a suitable place for having a life, Nataliya and Yuri Usovy settled on Olkhon island, on a remote weather station. They thought to find happiness here.
A kind and beautiful story is a collective image of many well-known Russian folk fairy tales. The production part is based on the patchwork technique — "petchwork".
Oskus-Ool is one of the most beloved heroes in the homeland of the Tuvan epic. This tale is about happiness. Shamanic chants and real old Tuvan songs create a special flavor of this story and make it look like an ancient legend.
love breaks into the lives of pilot Mario and cameraman Giuseppe. An inspiring cartoon about dreams and friendship
A documentary about the work of the outstanding American modern dance choreographer Bill T. Jones with Natalia Balakhnicheva, leading ballerina of the Kremlin Ballet Theater.
Using several historical images, the film narrates three love stories by Vladimir Maiakovsky, one of the most acclaimed Russian poets from the 20th century.
A truly remarkable New Year’s Eve in St Petersburg’s fabled Mariinsky Theatre, with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky (ex-Kirov) Ballet. It was at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg that the ballet The Sleeping Beauty premiered in 1890, with a score by Tchaikovsky and choreography by Marius Petipa. This New Year’s Eve programme revolves around Act III, in which Princess Aurora is brought out of her long sleep by the prince of her dreams and marries him. In addition, prima ballerina Uliana Lopatkina dances Camille Saint-Saëns’ famous Dying Swan, first performed by Anna Pavlova. In conclusion the soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre’s Young Singers’ Academy perform the finale of Rossini’s Journey to Rheims in a joyous celebration of the coming of the New Year.
Masha, a naive 18-year-old creature from the Moscow region, gets into the world of dreams - on television. Her chance to become famous is the reality show "Maiden's Room", a project of foreign producers, in whose work such concepts as morality and decency are not key. They place hidden TV cameras in Masha's apartment, but the girl herself does not know about it...
Between 1918 and 1939 the Solovki archipelago was home to Russia's first "corrective labour camp". Hundreds of thousands of political prisoners were exiled to the camp. Tens of thousands never emerged. This is the Solovki's incomprehensibly brutal story, told through the letters of inmates, and the reactions of surviving relatives.
The Cartoon Almanac
Based on the fairy tale by the English writer Donald Bisset "About a tiger cub whose stripes disappeared". The story is about a tiger cub who was born without stripes, but because of this did not become a stranger either to his own mother or to the world around him.