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The poet Roald Mandelstam lived in postwar Leningrad. He was seriously ill from childhood, rarely left his house, and knew his life would be short. His visitors included the composer Isaac Schwartz and a painters that would come to be known as the "Arafiev circle," a group of independent artists working outside of official oversight. After 50 years, a fresco was discovered under the wallpaper in his communal apartment...
Andrei Tarkovsky is the most famous Russian director, often called a genius during his lifetime. He made relatively few films, but each has become a classic of world cinema, including "Andrei Rublev," "Solaris," "Mirror," and "Stalker." His films seem to be crafted from air, water, fire, deep emotions, and even his own dreams. This art is profoundly sincere and confessional, but what about the creator behind it? What was this god-like figure like, living a mortal life filled with weaknesses, fears, and doubts?
A police sergeant of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” comes to Moscow to receive the Donbass Volunteer badge as a reward for participating in the hostilities in eastern Ukraine on the side of pro-Russian separatists.
About the legendary tour of the Soviet football club Dynamo (Moscow) in Great Britain in 1945.
Russian photographer Maksim Dmitriev liked reality, and in the beginning of the 20 century, he photographed bums, workers, farmers, bankers, and monks. Hundred yours later we showed these photographs to nowadays heroes. And they recognized each other.
One day the host of the cultural review program, Leonid Platonov, comes to his workplace, unaware that thanks to Internet trolls, he became the star of Russian Youtube. The channel's management decides to take advantage of the situation and offers Leonid a new concept of his evening program. Now the protagonist will have to confront the new television trends.
Coming back home Max is drawn into the kaleidoscope of events that leads him to the controversial solution.
Office employee Vasily is forced to spend the Friday evening before the New Year not in a bar with friends and not at home with his family, but at work with his boss, who during a Skype call instructs the hero to urgently make another presentation. The hated boss drives Vasily so much that for the first time in his life he decides to tell him everything he thinks about him — more precisely, write to him in a messenger. The sweet feeling of liberation from office slavery is replaced by anxiety for the future, own and family, especially since the boss immediately starts typing something in response…
A "Happy Paradise" set with a driving licence as a bonus - this is all 'Mr. Average' needs to make his cherished dream come true and to feel a real human being. An absurdist tragicomedy based on a play 'Apprenez á conduire par correspondance' by Claude Fortuno.
The film is a journey through the amazing life of Alekseyev. He drank tea with Tarkovsky, got into the KGB because of Gagarin, competed with Kalashnikov and Vysotsky. One day, he will learn more about himself than he knew and could have imagined: about his talent, about the mark that he left in the destinies of other people. You can live your life again if someone loves you.
A magical path leads children to an old man who lives in a neighboring village.
Near the walls of the Kremlin, a real duel unfolds between two former friends over a girl of exceptional beauty and supernatural powers named Olesya.... But who is Olesya?... a 16-year-old feeble-minded girl, the week-long wife, a blessed fool with superpowers, able to light up lamps and electrocute in the bedroom. She is a literary character living in 21st century Moscow, unaware of her own beauty and power. For the two young and rich playboys, Olesya's 'spicy make-up' takes on a whole new meaning. But what can this pretentious duel change in an iPhone-world full of infidelity, vanity, and cruelty?
Mikhail Ugarov and Elena Gremina, the founders of the Theater.Doc, died in 2018 with a difference of 45 days. Now their student Zarema Zaudinova puts on performances, comes up with new projects so that the theater, which has suffered so much persecution from the authorities, will survive and live a new life.
Misha is a quiet, dreamy boy. His dearest wish is to one day meet a real elk. He is always out and about in the countryside with his father where such magnificent animals seem within his grasp. And yet, years go by without Misha’s dream ever once having been fulfilled. A chubby dance teacher unsuccessfully tries to cheer up Misha, who has long since given up hope. But then, all of a sudden, an unexpected encounter occurs. But whether this is a stroke of good or bad luck will be food for thought for a long time to come. Reflecting the boy’s quirky fantasy world in a mixture of playful and surreal motifs, and making use of images which are as melancholic as they are endearing, the film conjures up the power of the imagination, loneliness and the passing of time.
Unremarkable at first glance, the murders in different parts of the city lead a young investigator named Sergei into a maze of dirty old secrets. For a long time, Sergei can't understand the motives or thought process of the criminal. But one detainee gives him a good hint: the scenario of the killer's actions inexplicably resembles the plot of the cartoon "About the Silly Winky-String", which is shown on TV in the city of N. The intrigue grows, and as the murders continue, the events take on an increasingly sinister tinge.
Masha is a kept woman. She lives in Moscow with a support of her rich married lover. One day she begins to make her own video-blog on YouTube, advising other women how to behave with men. This blog starts very quickly to gain unpredictable popularity. The film follows the vicissitudes of Masha\'s life, her attempt to become independent, her travel to motherland (Ukraine) and her fails to find love without price.
The story of a singer who, at the peak of her fame, was in a car accident and ended up chained to a hospital bed. For 12 days, the rising star Anna Herman did not regain consciousness. In those days, she had to relive the tragic events of her childhood - the arrest of her father, accused of espionage, the wanderings of their orphaned family in Central Asia, the death of her little brother, the war and escape to Poland in the hope of hiding from her pursuers from the NKVD ... First love and first success ... None of the doctors believed that she would survive. And even if this happens, she was predicted to be completely immobile for the rest of her life. However, after 12 days in a coma, heaven gave her a chance to start life anew. And she did the impossible, becoming the "white angel" of the Soviet stage ...
Based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, Kama Ginkas’ astounding reimagining highlights and builds off of the Chekhovian tension between the beauty of life and the tragedy of how it is lived. The story tells the the tale of philosophy student Andrey Vasil'ich Kovrin. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Kovrin decides to visit his childhood friend Tanya Pesotsky at the estate of her father. As he and Tanya develop a relationship and eventually marry, a black monk of legend begins appearing to Kovrin in visions. Though these hallucinations at first imbue the young man with joy and energy, they eventually lead to his ruin.
The young woman gets the last chance to please her mom. She just has not to spoil her funeral.
A short reflection on lonely dog walking.
Fifteen-year-old Julia runs away from home and embarks on an amazing journey, during which she meets a variety of bright personalities: a young photographer, an aspiring pickpocket and a talented girl named Chaika. All these meetings give the heroine food for thought, help her sort herself out and understand what is important in life.
The film is about the adventures of a charming and cunning Fox. He helps a blacksmith in love who dreams of making the girl Amy laugh, who never laughs or smiles. For the sake of his beloved, the blacksmith is ready to kill the dragon and overcome the giant. Animals from the Magical Forest, talking flowers and trees, kind angels, elves come to his aid.
A woman suspects her daughter is a drug addict. Short social ad for an Orthodox help service "Graciousness"
40 km of dirt road. 35 villages. 12 residents. Soon there will be no one left.
Approximately 20,000 Russian houses, businesses and private land have been victims of hostile seizures annually by an organized corporation of criminal bosses, politicians, oligarchs and men of law - the 'Raiders'
Julia is young, beautiful and successful in her career, but there is no personal happiness in her life for a long time. Three years ago, she refused to go to the province with her fiancé Vadim, preferring a lucrative job in the capital, but could not find a worthy replacement for him.
A day in the life of a young woman, which is full of pleasant engagements and ends with a small personal disaster.
Vova is a young man. He is unable to find a common language with his family, because he believes that the whole world around him is just a fuss and a flurry. Being late for his younger brother's birthday, he finally quarrels with his family. Coming to the girl's aid in a street fight, Vova receives a blow that sends him into the world that Vladimir has been building so hard around himself. Are beliefs worth living?
The phone rang at Katie's house. Through the sobs it was difficult to understand what it was about, but the voice was so familiar... Based on Stephen King's story of the same name.
An employee of the insurance company, Oleg Kogy along with his wife Olga, decide to use his official position and swindle an insurance policy. They insure the Oleg's life for a large amount, simultaneously taking out loans in several banks where 'Oleg Kogiya' is known as a representative of the insurance company. But something goes wrong, each of the participants start to get entangled in the sins and merits of crime...
Our film portrays the precarious destiny of a former employee of the Soviet customs service. Sent into 'forced' immigration on an assignment in the 1980s, he is forgotten after the regime changes that take place in Russia in the early 1990s. Supported by neither Russian nor American governments, he is forced into a struggle against the international drug mafia. Alone, he will have to find a way out of a labyrinth of highly complex and unforeseen difficulties.
Before the New Year holidays, students of the Higher School of Music Tuyara, Nyurgun and Aital involuntarily stay for all the holidays in the boarding school. Accidentally discovering a magical, old violin, they awaken an ancient evil in the form of Aikha – a sinister, but at the same time charming sorcerer who wants to steal the new year and enslave the world. And now the children will have to fight for the future of the entire planet.
The mongrel Lyolik becomes a witness to the arguments between his young owners, and attempts to reconcile them. Lyolik is a very unusual dog: he talks (ruminates, to be more precise) offscreen, in the tones of a street hoodlum to boot, which is no surprise since he spent his early childhood on the streets. Lyolik is not indifferent to his owners, and tries with all his power to help them with their problems. But alas, all that people hear is a dog’s barking…
A short movie based on the story of the same name by Stephen King.
The film tells about the dramatic fate of Lydia Nikolaevna Delectorskaya, muse, model, love of the great French artist Henri Matisse.
New film by Anton Mamykin
With his arrest in early June 2019, investigative journalist Ivan Golunov became a symbol in Russia of resistance to police misconduct. His case was perhaps the first time in the country’s modern history that civil society forced the law-enforcement system to retreat. Over the five difficult days it took to free Ivan, no one was closer to him, his family, and Meduza’s editorial staff than documentary filmmaker Sergey Erzhenkov and the camera crew who assisted him. In this new film from the “Black Flag,” we bring you the Golunov case through the eyes of those who were at the epicenter of these events.
They didn't know each other existed. But the meeting in the rural backwoods to lake forest turned the rest of their lives. Now they can't live without each other. Clean and clear water of the lake and purified the body and soul... And what could be nicer to a hot summer day to swim in the refreshing waters of the natural lake
A whole ethnographic study on the topic of who are the fans of "Leningrad", performed against all the laws of the genre. The musicians themselves act as accomplices in the filming process here — one of the cameras, for example, is fixed on Shnurov's stomach. Other cameras follow the fans of the band, quite funny and accurately recording their emotions and actions from hugs to fights and transmitting the atmosphere of unbridled fun and off-scale adrenaline, which is famous for "Leningrad". Terribly funny, tearfully cute, sometimes scary - the effect of a full-length presence.
An inquiry into the nature of identity, the inevitability of death, and the human condition in the twenty-first century.
A 7-year-old girl doesn’t want to know what death is; she learns what kissing is instead. But it is impossible to replace a grandpa who passed away with any kind of kissing.
The novice stand-up comic finds very unusual listeners of his program. With the help of sex workers on the phone, he tries to overcome insecurity in himself and in his jokes.
A comics about superhero philosophers, who get involved in various predicaments and try to utter God's name.The movie is made up of eight episodes, each in its own genre. There are detective stories, a Western, a thriller, a conspiracy movie, horrors, and comedies - It is a fantastic voyage through the jungle of reason.
Audiovisual performance becomes a space for dialogue between composer Vladimir Martynov and young electronic musicians.
Misha finally decided to confess his love to Lena. But the girl's father interrupts him. He decided to take revenge in the old game with his friend. At stake is a huge jackpot, which can reach Lena, and all changes instantly.
In Almaty, a sheltered and chaste woman named Din sees her life intertwined with the experiences of a prostitute who looks like her.
Home 1. Residential building, building. 2. People living together; a family. 3. The place of permanent residence of a person, characterized by a certain relationship and way of life. 4. In children's games based on the persecution (spots, hide and seek, etc.) - a place where the rules of the game can not be pursued.
This story is based on an ancient northern legend according to which the souls of the drowned people turn into sea animals. The Hunter steals a seal-girl’s skin, so she can’t turn back into an animal. She becomes his wife, but often she glances at the sea.
There is a rhythm in the nursing home: routine rounds, meals, endless lotto games and watching TV. The days of the nurse are sluggish and monotonous, he is indifferent to work and indifferent to others, almost all of his actions are already on the machine. But suddenly one random event pulls him out of his usual state.