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A general's daughter lives in Tambov, in love with a street artist, whom her father disapproves of. The general has a twin brother who heads a criminal gang. Two unsuccessful robbers fail the task, which triggers a string of events that will change lives and destroy families.
Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. No one to remember their last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies. Daily, the kangaroo court, the executions, the loading of bodies onto wagons. Srubov is cold, distant, sexually dysfunctional, and a deep thinker, hated by former friends and his family. As he tries to reason the nature of revolution and the purpose of CHEKA, he slowly goes mad.
In 1889, mounted on a small gray horse named Serko, Dimitri leaves his garrison on the Asian borders of the Russian Empire on the banks of the Amur River. After extraordinary adventures, they both arrive in St. Petersburg, at the court of the Tsar. Having covered more than 9000 kilometers in less than 200 days, this young rider has achieved the most fantastic equestrian feat of all time.
A woman admits that she is 300 years old, and yet, she looks incredibly young and attractive. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s play “The Makropulos Affair” for Faberlic.
why cannes is a gulag, zvyagintsev is an electron, and anton dolin listens to bach on the croisette promenade
Chinese businessman Weihong comes to Russia to visit his business partner Victor, who is in debt to him. Weihong tries to put things in order: fire ineffective employees, improve sales. But it soon becomes clear that he cannot overcome the great Russian melancholy, and Victor is unable to help him. Then Weihong decides to take Victor's house to pay off the debt. Victor is ready to part with the house, but he faces desperate resistance from his adult daughters - Olga, Lena and Toma. The conflict escalates into a catastrophe that can destroy the family and even kill.
A mother and her six-year-old daughter come to her ex-husband's birthday party, with whom she broke up several months ago. Their former mutual friends are there, as well as Dad's new woman, whom Mom sees for the first time. The adults skillfully pretend to celebrate, trying in different ways to hide their feelings and not talk about the main thing. Mom feels uncomfortable, drinks wine that she doesn't like, with people she doesn't like, in a place she hates. Dad's new woman takes the floor and announces news to everyone, after which Mom can no longer control herself. Everyone is ready for a performance... And the child turns out to be the most adult person at this table.
Satirical, shocking and radically stripped back, Measure for Measure from Britain’s Cheek by Jowl and Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre is a gripping, compelling production of one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays. Indulgent Duke Vincentio leaves Vienna in the hands of his puritanical deputy Angelo, to secretly observe the virtues and vices of his unruly state. When the saintly Isabella pleads with Angelo to release her brother Claudio, sentenced to death for fornication, he agrees on one condition: that Isabella sacrifice her virginity to him.
A group Russian soldiers is send to an outpost to guard the area. They pass the day patroulling the area, while being shot at from the forest. They never know if the civillions are hostile or friendly to them.
An older film critic's life is interrupted by an unexpected visitor.
Over the past year, the anonymous segment of Telegram has been hit by a wave of arrests of deanonymized authors and owners of anonymous channels. Most of the cases involved extortion of money in return for non-publication of information discrediting honor and dignity. In the research film, famous victims of fakes, representatives of major publications, administrators of popular Telegram channels and people involved in the search and de-anonymization of authors who have violated the law, spoke about the importance of freedom on the web, the price of anonymity, fakes and other threats hidden in the anonymous "cart".
A film about the backstage life of an ordinary Moscow bar, where relationships between the owner, the racketeer and the employees are pretty reminiscent of the ones in a family. However, unlike a family, they are connected by a mutual cause, the role in which are far from equal. Submission and humiliation weave through the characters' entire lives.
New circumstances in the life of Alexander Nikolaevich Beletsky and Ani, who have already got married and return with little Sasha to Moscow.
Good and Kind People Are Living in the World... Despite all the strange thing which are happening to you.
Ivan is the youngest son in the family, and everyone considers him a fool. When his old father died, Ivan, the only one of his three sons, fulfilled his request and visited his father's grave for three days. For this, the secret of the magic horse Sivka-Burka was revealed to him, which can make Ivan a wonderful young man. Meanwhile, the king decided to marry his princess daughter to the one who would kiss her, jumping to a high tower.
Once upon a time there was a house that did not bother anyone, but there were always residents to complain.
End of days is already here - you just didn't notice...
The most famous person on the planet which no one has seen, suddenly decides to open up before the world.
The rat lives in a cage that stands in the room of a large communal apartment in which the poet lives. The apartment is in the house; House - in the yard-well; The courtyard is in the city; And in the courtyard - 1939 ...In the film there are many newsreel frames of those times, the sound series contains both popular and propagandist songs, both Soviet and German. The plot is divided into many unrelated episodes, which are colorized in different colors. The author claims that everything shown should be understood outside of symbolism: everything in the film means only itself.
Ignat began to drink, for which he was expelled from the Institute. He returns to his native County town, where there is nothing to do, all die of boredom. There is only one unmarried man — a local military Commissar. Ignat once annoy him, and the military Commissar promised to send him to the army. First Ignat runs from the military Commissar, and then suddenly they struck up a friendship, the military Commissar becomes a guy instead of his father, whom Ignat did not have... Then Ignat decides to go to the army, because he has absolutely nothing to do, but at the last moment he becomes afraid, and he goes to recover to the Institute…
Lida, a student, Olga, a lawyer, and Shura, a gynecologist, are faced with the choice of giving birth or having an abortion. Each of them is going through a life-changing crisis. What should I do if a woman is not allowed to give birth for medical reasons? Will your loved ones support you if you become pregnant as a result of rape? How does a doctor who performs dozens of abortions every day feel?
At the beginning of the German occupation, the boy and his older teenage sister are left without adults with a museum collection of coins and orders in their hands. Germans and policemen are looking for treasure, chasing children literally on their heels. In order to find the missing mother and save the treasure, the sister and brother need to find protection and help from the partisans.
They have been abandoned in a world adorned with concepts such as family, friendship, love, and opportunities. In search of answers to their questions, they devour themselves like a chemical substance that corrodes the world around, in order to eventually learn not to listen but to hear, not to look but to see. And to find their way.
A successful lawyer drives recklessly and runs down a young man. He wants to escape punishment, so decides to drive the boy to a hospital and try to negotiate a deal. Their trip becomes a real test for the lawyer's consciousness.
The story begins with the young girl Katya arranging a nanny for Maxim Dremov’s family - the general education of his nephew Ilya, who remained an orphan. Relations within the family do not work out - Maxim is unable to find a common language with his nephew, Maxim's wife. Problems arise in their common business. After another scandal at the dacha, Dremovy find the body of the killed Irina.
Father calls his daughter, interfering with her work. He wants to find a recipe for pickling cucumbers, but the girl has no time. She decides to give him Yandex TV with voice assistant Alice.
A feature film based on the novella by Yuri Koval, recounting a whimsical and humorous journey aboard a homemade boat through the Vologda region. The picture consists of two parallel storylines. The first follows the adventures of the novella’s protagonist, whose absurd escapade unexpectedly transforms into a mystical experience amidst the rivers, marshes, and villages of the countryside. The second centers on a theatrical production based on Koval’s book — staged by a group of students — which reveals the backstory: how the book’s hero came to yearn to break free from Moscow and retreat far away from everyone — including his friends — deep into the heart of nature.
"Quarantine" is a story about chief accountant Irina, who, during a pandemic, goes to the office to transfer salaries to the company's employees. But a paranoid guard Boris will stand in her way, protecting the office not only from robbers, but also from the virus.
He is on the run... But the hunters are not so far behind...
Alexey Trantsev and Alexey Mutin lost their arms as a result of electrical injury. Years later, they have mastered bionic prostheses and currently handle the everyday tasks well. The only thing that is sorely lacking is the ability to feel with their hands - to feel warmth, cold, water, or to sense the beloved girl by touch. To address this need, scientists are developing a sensing system for prosthetic hands. Will they be able to create artificial sensations and what is behind the scientific discoveries?
A young and reckless father decides to take to his own hands his son's education.
A film dedicated to the work of doctors in extreme conditions, both revealing the everyday life of medical workers and emphasizing their dedication and willingness to go to any ordeal to save lives.
A singer with a divine, angelic voice. She lived a bright, but such a difficult life. And she sang in a way that the happiest people do not sing. She was born in Uzbekistan, years of life and audience love connected her with the Soviet Union, she considered Poland her home, and her fate was decided in Italy. On the way to Milan, the singer got into a car accident, which for many years deprived her not only of the stage, but also of a full life. The film was shot in the genre of docudrama and is based on real events. It is based on interviews with Anna's husband Zbigniew Tucholsky, as well as with her close friend Anna Kachalina, music editor at the Melodiya recording studio.
События развиваются вокруг лотерейного билета, выброшенного за ненадобностью археологами, которых интересует только их наука. Но оказывается, что билет сулит фантастический выигрыш, в миллион долларов. Стать обладателями огромной суммы хотят двое бомжей, члены племени айсоров, пара подростков и даже сам президент страны. Никто не желает уступать дорогу к осуществлению своей мечты. За счастливым билетом начинается охота.
"I love you" – every time reaches the ear of a lonely shuttle girl Nadia, when she is sledding down the hill with her beloved Hasid. But who is saying these soul-warming words to her? Two suspects are suspected: a Jew and a wind.
Shura finds out that her husband has escaped the mental institution he was in and no one knows where he is. Her days become plagued with paranoia and the presence of the man that follows her. Or is it just her imagination?
Fifteen years old Nikita Dzhukov (The Bug)- handsome and clever - he is a leader of the class. There is a newcomer in the class - Senya Ivanov. He's got oncology, but only the principal knows about it. Both Nikita and Senya like Lisa, a girl from their class. The Bug trip on Senya, showing his supremacy. Senya stops appearing in school. He is in hospital, doing chemical therapy. The Bug finds it out. Time passes and Senya comes back to school. He is bold because of the therapy, and he worries about how the classmates will receive him - wan, thin, and, most of all, bold. Senya comes to school, he's wearing a cap. The classmates with The Bug in charge meets him in front of the school. They all are wearing caps. They are standing in front of Senya. Senya is frightened. But the Bug and the rest put off their caps, they are all bold. They are smiling. Senya puts off his cap, smiling in response. They hug each other, laughing joyfully.
Bill Razor, a retired "Counter Terrestrial" operative, lives a quiet life in the middle of nowhere. That life ends when a mysterious package arrives, unleashing a lethal alien parasite. Now, Razor must fight his way through a web of betrayal and government corruption to stop the creature. He is the world’s last line of defense: if the worm gets out, humanity falls.
Russia. The near future. The country’s authorities have passed a law about the rental of men for a certain period, after which they should be returned to the spouse... In order to keep her husband, Anna decides to try a trick, but the plan is spoiled by her husband, who is perfectly happy with the new law...
Yakut Stepan Beresekov periodically falls into a lethargic sleep. Only a Russian, the son of a priest, Ivan Popov, can distinguish his condition from real death. But Popov is going on a long ethnographic expedition. Stepan decides to follow his savior so as not to be buried alive.
All means are good in order to earn a new happy life. Sergey is engaged in excavations on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War in the wilderness near Moscow: He finds the remains of dead German soldiers, and then shakes money out of their relatives. He dreams of finally getting rich, moving from his mother to a separate apartment, or even "going to the Boches." But the war, once started, never ends.
From Istanbul, feminist Anastasia Polozkova probes Russia's post-2022 assault on reproductive rights. In calls with activists, doctors and researchers in Russia/exile, Turkish and Kurdish feminists, she asks: ban in law, or in practice?
Evgeny Chebatkov's touching story about his father, who was in prison for 25 years, studying English in the small Kazakh town of Ust-Kamenogorsk, alcohol and Muslim friends.
Конец 1943 года. Подразделение советских солдат во главе с молодым, ещё не нюхавшим войны, младшим лейтенантом останавливается в глухой деревеньке, стоящей в стороне от главных дорог. Её жители за всё время войны ни разу не видели немцев, поэтому внезапное появление здесь отборных диверсантов СС стало для всех полной неожиданностью.
The video clip for the Synecdoche Montauk song "Wherever You Are" from the album MMXIII. A film about death and its acceptance.
When Yulya learns of her beloved husband's betrayal, she decides to poison both him and his mistress. Now, to get the antidote, the cheaters must prove that they truly love each other, otherwise death is inevitable.
Extraordinary and mysterious events begin very ordinarily: journalist Larsen arrives at the home of the famous writer, Nobel laureate Znorco, to conduct an interview. The writer lives alone on an island in the Norwegian Sea. During the interview, details of Znorco’s life and work are revealed. The writer's new novel is a genuine correspondence between Znorco and his lover, who later became Larsen's wife. Several years ago, she passed away, yet letters from her continued to arrive.
Dasha is 10 years old, her mother Lera drags her to castings in advertising agencies in the hope that they will be able to earn a better life. Dasha manages to get into the advertising business, but she is afraid of disappointing Lera and is ready to do anything to earn her mother's love, even the most desperate step...
After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, choreographer Souliman.
Zhanel is trapped in a life devoid of purpose. Unable to face the real world, she finds safe harbor in her wild and beautiful dreams. With the help of a psychiatrist she meets in her dreamscape, Zhanel tackles her problems and discovers her deeper self.
Baikal is the oldest, the deepest and the purest lake on the planet. But it's not only that - Baikal is an ideal model of our world, as it shall be. Everything is possible here: to walk on water, to touch the sky, to talk with the universe. Baikal is our hope and our future. It's a film about the thirst, about the eternity and about all of us. The genre is epic documentary. The aim is to change the world.
In Gleb's life everything was perfect - both at work and at home until one day the trusted partner betrayed him and as a result Gleb lost his business. The family was left without a livelihood. From now on, Gleb's wife Lena has to take care of herself, her husband and a child. She literally knocks down in search of earnings. Serious quarrels constantly occur between Lena and Gleb. The man feeling himself a useless loser starts drinking. Lena continues to work, hiding her pain from strangers. But once her boss Stas learns about Lena's situation and offers his help. Having heard about it, Gleb becomes furious. He decides that his wife cheated on him, and forbids her to see her son.
Sofichka returns to her native Abkhaz village in Georgia after twenty years of absence. Seeing again home and meeting with villagers take her to memory lane and all Sofichka’s life passes before her eyes: her wedding with Rufus, betrayal of the neighbour Nuri, difficult years of war, exile in Siberia. But in spite of everything, in spite of all the tough experiences, Sofichka continues to believe in people and in life, staying true to the memory of her husband who died young.
Pathologist Abrikosov gets a phone call that a fly has taken a refuge inside Lenin's sarcophagus. No one knows how to get rid of it. Its Mayday 1936 and Stalin himself is about to come to inspect the body prior to Mayday festivities.
They met in court. A successful businessman Alexander, who turned out to be a calculating businessman, was taking a room from the sanatorium for the elderly, in which the pretty girl Vera worked.
Short experimental film by Andrey Pershin (Zhora Kryzhovnikov)