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Young film director in the shooting period of his first feature film doesn’t even guess how much will cost realization of his artistic conception. Shooting of bedroom scene will be the real disaster for all the crew, takes all director’s nerves and almost destroy his private life.
A young man askes the neighbour to water the onion during his absence. The neighbour at first refuses to take the keys. Eventually, she agrees, however. When she's left, the young man takes out a rope and climbs up on the table ... The film based on the play by Ludmila Petrushevskaya, famous russian writer.
A long-time guest of a respectable hotel, an elderly lonely playwright, famous in the past, now left without a job and without funds, is ready to pass away. He signs a contract with a young hotel porter, who, for a large sum within a week, unexpectedly for the customer, has to help him with this.
Overall, the idea is to make ethnicities, politics, races, nations - to make all of them turn into non-existent objects... ...akin to ovals, boxes, blobs, wardrobes! You might think he's really "someone", really a "representative of the people", but really just a representative of skirting boards, of coffee rings, nothing more. Overall, political invective's that should be perceived solely as poetic invective's. Overall, spreading geopolitics across geology and poetics. Like a question-Eskimo, dancing and waving his ribbons in the air, turns and changes on a pillar, becomes a question-Holocaust. In fact, "geopoetics" is a kind of a Holocaust seen as a choir, as an ensemblement, as an Eskimo.
In the capital of Ingushetia, at the memorial, there is a carriage. This is a carriage from the 40s, a carriage of memory. One of those in which the Ingush were transported back in 1944 to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. February 23 is the day when the whole country celebrates Defender of the Fatherland Day; mourning takes place in Ingushetia. And on this day, the old people gathered in this carriage to remember and tell each other how it was.
A Russian, a Jew and an Armenian came to Margarita to help her with some household repairs. But then came another surprise - a Black American who was determined on proposing to her. A Russian member of the State Duma, a Jewish teacher and an Armenian restaurateur decided they cannot possibly let her leave for the United States. It might be hard to persuade her to stay, but it’s not in the nature of people in Russia to give up easily. That day turned into night, which turned into morning and divided Margarita’s life into ‘before’ and ‘after’. After her guests almost crashed the apartment that they were supposed to help fix, Margarita understood that men are interested in many things - sex, politics, nationalism, internationalism, anarchy, family values, philosophical questions about the meaning of the world - but not in home repairs. And it is only in the end that she sees: men who are special do exist - but you have to look carefully…
Stolid Fisherman is going to fish in calm, but his fastened on him friend forces his company and accidently kills a mushroomer in a forest.
The film is a farewell. Farewell to the native land, the primordial banks of the river and the people who have lived on the Hangar for centuries. History repeats itself. And again, as it was 40 years ago at the Bratskaya HPP, the life and fate of entire generations will be under the water of another man-made sea. We see all this through the eyes of three heroes - the writer Valentin Rasputin, the publisher Gennady Sapronov and the critic Valentin Kurbatov. The film was awarded the Award of the Academy of Russian Television TEFI-2011 in the categories "Television documentary" and "Director of a television documentary / series".
Ivory harvesting under the extreme conditions of the Russian Far North is slowly but surely turning into a sort of a «mammoth rush». However, as the demand grows, so does social tension in the area.
In September 2016, the St. Petersburg artist Sergey Dreyden turns 75 years old. He rehearses new plays, is shot by young directors. It is not assigned to any theater, it does not belong to any group. It exists by itself, suddenly appearing on one or another scene. The film is a unique experience of documentary observation of an actor for several years. The basis of the plot is rehearsals of one role in the performance of the St. Petersburg Youth Theater "Wine from dandelions, or Zamri." The process of the birth of a character is no less exciting and interesting than the performance itself. Around the main "rehearsal" story - episodes from life, stories about childhood against the background of their own drawings, paintings.
One day you'll wake up on the grass in the park to hear: 'Hello!' from an unknown girl, and your world will be turned upside-down. Glorious future of a pianist will seem boring. Clever, attentive girlfriend - too ordinary. And the slogan of your new life will be: 'Crash the taboos!'
Katya and her fiancé Andrey - successful young banker fly to Malta on holiday. At the diving center they accidentally meet Max - professional diver, secretly engaged in black archaeology and Katya's ex boyfriend so the adventures start...
Footage of the investigation documentary telling about the extermination of African elephants lasted almost three years. The film crew traveled throughout 30 countries to make a route of ivory smuggling and to find out the true culprit of these crimes against elephants.
The remote, abandoned, snow-swept Belarusian village of Lute. The last resident of this village, Valentina Kirillovna Shpakova, is celebrating the New Year.
Every year the Sakha people celebrate the festival of summer - Ysekh. This ethnic holiday celebrates the Aiyy deities and the revival of nature; it embraces ritual prayers, plenty of rich food and koumiss, dancing, folk games, and horse races. Jehegey Aiyy is a serene deity worshiped by people. Jehegey gave horses to humans, and now is the heavenly patron of horse raising. In the majority of recorded songs and legends Jehegey is a male creature, but in some of them it has feminine gender and is called sylgy aiyhyta. According to legends it sometimes appears to people as a loudly neighing light-colored stallion.
The stage embodiment of the legend in the ritual-epic context
Two very good friends struggle with having to share the intimacy they crave from each other with their boyfriends. Music video.
In this 10-minute study the fi lm crew tries to get to the secrets of one of the wildest branches of experimental medicine.
LIve performance of Rachmaninoff's opera from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy, 15 February 2015.
A Pacific liner, a beauty contest and gorgeous ladies in bikinis. Champagne and the blue ocean around... But suddenly a dream becomes a nightmare when an ex-TV star and three finalists find themselves on an uninhabited island. Feeling afraid of the girls' anger, the hero pretends that this was planned ahead making the girls believe that microphones and cameras are hidden in coconuts around the island. While the contestants are competing, the hero is looking for a way to escape from the island...
A mysterious teacher arrives in a provincial town to teach at the local school. The teacher is not like any other teacher: his views are pretentious and innovative. But the teacher is liked in the town. However, he does not know yet to what extent.
March of mothers on rainy Moscow in defense of girls from the "New Greatness" Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik and their transfer from a pre-trial detention center under house arrest.
Morok in Slavonic mythology, is a spirit of lies and illusions, a master of deceit and obfuscation. This demon of darkness causes dizziness in his victims, usually choosing them among people with some kind of a dark secret in their hearts.
Extremely nervous passenger calls a taxi at rush hour and soon discovers that his driver can disperse traffic jams by laying hands on the navigator, and also change the color of the traffic light depending on his own needs. In other words, at the wheel he, judging by everything, was caught by the Lord, who briefly went up to the cab drivers, and the passenger himself was to become part of an inscrutable plan.
"If we are silent, we participate in the evil that is happening in the world. I have to say what I think." George Edelstein has always adhered to this principle: both in his former secular life and during his years of church service. A man of an amazing fate, complex as the century in which he had to live. Not a Soviet person in Soviet society. A connoisseur of freedom, who does not like being called a dissident. A village priest, to whom Ronald Reagan returned the parish, and whose son became an Israeli politician. A man who always spoke the truth – about the state that persecuted for the faith, and about the church hierarchs who participated in it. "My duty is not to be silent. In silence, I am convinced, God is surrendered."
The story of a young guy, child of migrants from Central Asia. He is fond of rap and wants to go to the USA. On the other hand, his father wants to return him to traditions and love for his nationality.
A parliament member suddenly finds a dead body in his hotel room...
The Donetsk Airport, Ukraine. Rebuilt in 2012, but now a scene of utter devastation - shortly after Russian-backed separatists have taken it over. Weaving together the voices of fighters on both sides supported by battle video, we tell an unvarnished story of war through the eyes of those who were there. The desperate fight for an airport whose capture seems more symbolic than strategic, they also show how human nature can adapt - in sometimes disturbing ways - when one's life is on the line.
Two people are on the road. Everyday life, business calls, games, a curve of the highway, a swing and again business calls... During this year the father and the daughter have not seen much of each other and they have not been alone for a long time. Two cameras are looking face to face; different fears inhabit one and the same space. There is a question: should they come back or should they continue traveling together?
From dozens of cities, you will always recognize your city – you will recognize it by its squares, by its streets, by its colors, by its breath, by its joys and troubles, and by its love. Four directors will tell four romantic love stories in our city: the love of spouses who have already begun to forget about it; the love of wayward parents for children; the love of life, beautiful and disturbing, and even the love of the very feeling of love. The characters of the film are worried and happy, work honestly, walk noisily and look for love without end. The beating of their hearts is the rhythm of the city. Recognize your city in every frame and look at Yakutsk, which you did not know.
The film is based on the life of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the most tragic and greatest poets of the 20th century. The authors follow her in Russia, then in immigration in Prague and Paris, and then her return to Russia where she committed a suicide a few month after her arrival.
Oskars cannot forget the woman who broke his heart several years ago, so he turns to a company that offers replica robots for sale. In attempting to create a perfect copy of his beloved, the man gradually realizes that his feelings may have nothing to do with love, and that his idea of the ideal woman is quite distorted.
This is cartoon parable. Despite the fact that mankind is killed, the war still continues. War continued with automated system left by people. One of the last surviving bomber and its pilot still performs its task. The city is dead for a long time. Dead people who built it. Dead people who gave the order to destroy the city. And war will continue until subside echo of humanity.But life will always find a way to survive. Cassette bomb submunitions became a fortress for the grass.
Several women unfamiliar with each other get acquainted on the way to the wedding.
The film shows several episodes from the lives of different people, which turn out to be connected by a single monetary bill.
In the small French town of Arles, the brilliant artist Vincent van Gogh lived through his star period – with yellow sunflowers, a red vineyard, Arlesian women and men, all transferred onto his magical canvases. Here, he, as lonely as anyone, called out to his fellow artists, dreaming of creating a Southern School, where artists could live and work in harmony with nature and with each other. No one responded. Only one came – the genius Paul Gauguin. However, their relationship resembled the famous bullfight in Arles in some ways. And then there was the mistral – the cold northwestern wind blowing along the Mediterranean coast of France from deep autumn to spring, bringing with it anxiety and unease…
Surviving a difficult period in the relationship, the Kuznetsovs go to an amusement park, where their daughter disappears in the "Cave of Fear", but when they report to the police, it turns out that there is no such attraction in the park ...
Police officer Anna jokingly makes up a sketch of the man of her dreams. This image accidentally got into the criminal search database, and now all the district employees are sure that this is what the mysterious thief looks like, who is feared in all jewelry stores in the city. Harmless programmer Sasha, strikingly similar to Anna's fantasy, comes to the store for wedding rings for his wedding and immediately finds himself in handcuffs. The police quickly find out the truth, but decide to hide it from Sasha for the time being. Anna is assigned to keep an eye on the guy in order to catch not only a real thief, but also dangerous bandits chasing him. But it's not easy to follow a professional duty in cold blood, being around the most desirable man for days at a time.
A problem family gets a visit from social service workers and a reporter who come to take a little girl to the orphanage from her mother in case she turns out to be drunk again.
A narcissistic man realizes that his devoted wife was the main person in his life only after her death. He goes to the past to repent to her, and also to find an answer to the question why, secretly from him, she wished to be buried by the old grave of a stranger...
Anna is a criminal journalist and is fully committed to her career. The editor-in-chief of the magazine Sergey, with whom Anna lives in a civil marriage, makes her an offer to marry him. Anna happily agrees. But life makes adjustments to these plans. Suddenly, Anna is responsible for the daughter of the deceased friend Ksyusha. Anna is looking for Maxim - the brother of the late Toma and her former love.
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.
A young man living in a big city visits the countryside and meets a girl living in the forest...
The police stop Anton Kuznetsov in the yard of his own house and here starts the journey of Antokha MC. One summer, one year or one friendship. Small stations from Vologda to Nizhny Novgorod, from a Russian EDM festival to an architecture exhibition in Kiev. Everything that made dozens, if not hundreds of thousands of people feel inspired with the art of this gawky, always smiling guy with a heavy backpack is not said out loud, but you can still feel it in each frame. Honesty, natural charisma, and kindness make Antokha MC not only the new hero of the music industry, but also a person, who is the main hero of this film.
West Belarus, October 1944. The German command is trying to prevent Soviet troops from entering East Prussia. In order to exclude the leakage of information about their plans, the Nazis use a new code, which is to be solved by Soviet radio operators. This is the task that Major-General Zharov and his subordinates receive. To protect the scouts ordered to a group of Captain Belov, which has already once saved the general from the attack of the German landing force.
Rafael - the minister of sports of an unrecognized country, and Natasha - a Russian opera singer, try living together in Abkhazia - a war-torn future-less country. Observing their difficult relations, we see life in a place marked by war and nationalism. The film portrays trapped people dreaming of peace, normality and happiness.
The film is based on the story "Diikti Saas" (The Wondrous Time) by the people's writer of Yakutia, winner of the State Prize named after P. A. Oyunsky Vasily Yakovlev-Dalan. Director of photography Nikita Arzhakov tried to most accurately reproduce exactly the state and the worldview that was inherent in the Soviet reality, deeply and touchingly depicts the inner world of the young generation, shows the awakening of the first youthful love. The film tells about the life of a simple high school graduate Kesha Popov, who lives in the village, about the wonderful time of youth, about the spring in the soul of the young, about life that is in full swing, about the confusion of feelings, problems, about love, friendship, self-affirmation, in a word, about everything that is inherent in the younger generation.
Anna is the daughter of a banker and grew up in a wealthy family with loving parents who have been waiting for grandchildren for a long time. Anna has never considered herself a beauty, but now she believes that luck has finally smiled on her. She marries Egor. But on the day of her wedding Anna learns that the groom has long been cheating on her with another, and decided to marry her only for the sake of her father's money. She runs away from the registry office and gets into the nearest cab. She has nowhere to go, so she offers a casual acquaintance, the cab driver Pasha, to take her in for a week. Pasha urgently needs money, so he agrees, not realizing what surprises await him ahead. It turns out that Anya is a "walking disaster", everything in her hands burns and breaks. And here also from the village come Pasha's parents, who take Anya for his long-awaited bride. In order not to traumatize his mother, who has a heart condition, Pasha asks Anya to play along.
A deal on assigning for property reveals more new rules and laws of the society in the nearest future. The rates haven’t been so high. Status is everything. Love is nothing.
Little girl Sveta Orlova dreams that her parents will improve their relationship. On New Year's Eve, she makes a wish to Santa Claus, whom she met completely by chance, although in fact it was a swindler dressed in a festive suit - the unlucky swindler Myshkin. Nevertheless, he gives his word of honor to a casual acquaintance that the girl will celebrate the New Year with her parents. Now she expects her wish to come true.
Katia and Gala, the students of Chelyabinsk Institute of Culture, are going to an international festival to present their choreographic performance. The girls are quite sure that their contemporary performance will win over the sophisticated audience, so fame, a tour and the world of top art are just around the corner... There's only one little thing left to do, win the Grand-Prix of the festival!
The film is based on the real story of the life of one strong person who, despite everything, was able to step beyond the horizon of his own capabilities. And we all have something to learn from him. Alexander Zhuravlev, a resident of Yekaterinburg, went blind at age 11 and has only 2% residual vision. A few years ago, he decided that in fact he did not sign the verdict and did not become disabled. Alexander began to travel independently, mastered mountain skiing and, finally, began to take pictures. An exhibition of the hero’s works was opened in Moscow, where everyone could look at the pictures of nature. So a blind photographer showed people what a beautiful world surrounds them. His photographs are a reason to ask yourself the question: “Why does a blind guy show me the world? Why didn't I see all this? ”This is a reason to see my opportunities. This is a reason to look beyond the horizon.
Arthur has everything he could wish for: a lovely girlfriend, work on the radio, an apartment in the center of Moscow. Trying to find himself, he goes to Turkey, the place where his journey starts. An array of accidental and crazy acquaintances interrupts his vacation, leading him illegally to Greece where his life changes forever. ‘Escape to Greece’ is an adventurous comedy about love, soul-searching, and how nothing happens by accident.
A quiet, intelligent, seemingly pleasant family lived their lives neither good nor bad. After death, they were sent to Purgatory - an intermediate state of souls. Here they are doomed to endless tea-drinking for small talk and solving the economic affairs of the office of Hell. To pass the recertification and determine their souls in Heaven or Hell, the family will have to complete the task of the more than cunning Lucifer: when the affairs of unallocated souls "accidentally" get at their table, how will each of them manifest themselves? Condemn? Have mercy? Or maybe he will return the papers that do not belong to him?