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Young Oksana puts her newly born Denis in a baby box. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children's home, intent on making amends for her maternal neglect, and to exploit him to earn money in a corrupt legal system.

Russian Russian journey from Moscow to Russky Island on the Trans-Siberian railway, which explores the mysterious Russian soul, as well as the question "who in Russia to live well".

The career of revered Russian filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov is explored in this documentary film comprised of rare behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with French director Claude Lelouch, and conversations with some of the biggest names in contemporary Russian cinema. Kalatozov's grandson Mikhail Kalatozishvili pays tribute to the director of such timeless classics as I Am Cuba, Salt for Svanetia, and The Cranes are Flying as such notable fans as Andrei Konchalovsky, Sergei Solovyov, and Alexei Batalov discuss the remarkable influence Kalatozov had on their own film careers.

One day a completely ordinary man finds out that is fatally ill. Reflecting upon his last will, he understands that he has nobody. And here he decides to place an advert in a newspaper.

The Buryat returns to his homeland to his father to sign his renunciation of the inheritance of his late mother. But the father has other plans for his son. Aldar is Buryat, but grew up with his mother in Moscow. After his mother's death, he learns that he cannot receive the inheritance because his parents were not officially divorced. He flies to Buryatia. The father agrees to sign the documents, but on the condition that the son spends one day with his father, during which they will have to go to the datsan, perform a shamanic ritual and visit the family tree.

The picture is about the inexplicable property of a person to fill with energy and life even the most frightening and abandoned places. This is a portrait of the abandoned city of New Idrija and the last years of the lives of those who spent their youth in believing in an alternative version of the “American Dream”.

Six girlfriends, gathered around a festive table, unexpectedly discover they are all in love with the same man, who goes by different names and changes his personality and image to suit each of them. Who is he and what does he want from them? The friends band together and devise a plan to expose and punish him. A perfect date night movie for all lovers, with an engaging drama where the antihero becomes the hero, and true love conquers all obstacles and prejudices.

Eight months after the Chernobyl disaster, a Chernobylite woman that stayed behind to care for her sick mother gives birth to a mutated daughter. She wakes up after giving birth to find her mother gone. Masha, isolated and suffering from cataracts from the radiation exposure, becomes fearful that soldiers will take her contaminated baby. While attempting to reunite with her family in Kiev, the blinding mother and infant become lost in a forest. Masha sees a figure chasing her and believes it's a soldier that wants her child.

The life of the former actress Nelly Evgenievna and her neighbor Klim Efremovich passed by the sea. Now they live old age in a small resort town, spending days in memory of past youth, quarreling, reconciling, philosophizing ... But suddenly the granddaughter of Nelly Evgenievna comes to their humble abode ..

After an accident at a compressor station in Kazakhstan kills her husband, Ainur, a young Kazakh woman, travels to Russia to find Andrei Artamonov, her husband's former university classmate and best friend. Together with Ainur and the head of the station Lykov, Andrei has to find a solution to a problem that failed his university project many years ago and make what might be the hardest choice of his life.

Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.

Yesterday's victorious soldier cannot stay with the woman he loves because of the ban on marriages with foreigners imposed by politicians.

1995, Russian Federation. Lyubov Ivanovna is a teacher in a public school for troubled youth. One day a new boy appears in her class - Kolya, the silent orphan with a permanent scowl, who reminds Lyubov Ivanovna of her dead son, who brings back memories of her dead son.

Uncle Yura, serves as a security guard in an elite village, raises a mini-pig Kostya and does not like New Year at all.

Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in between concert tours with the “No Smoking Orchestra” band. At these little pinpoints of time he gets “Palms d’Or” at Cannes, “Golden Lions” in Venice, builds his own villages, a power plant and a piste and regrets not becoming a professional football player. Kusturica’s own living is very much similar to his movies, where shoes are polished with cats, death is treated like a story from tabloid press, and life is a miracle...

Michael is a general manager of a large company, living in a small apartment in a rundown area of the city of the future. He can't get rid of the hatred for his boss Rudolf. The need to let off steam leads Michael to the office of the company 'New Life', implanting in their clients' memories fantasies that they can realize without the risk of experiencing the events in reality.

The film tells about a difficult period in the fate of the legendary ancestor of the Hangalass clan Tygyn Darkhan. At the turn of the century before the advent of the Russian Cossacks, he waged a difficult struggle to unite the tribes and clans that lived on the territory of modern Yakutia. The film is based on the eponymous work of Vasily Yakovlev-Dalan.

The plot is based on a story about the difficult life in a forgotten village that suffered from the Chernobyl accident. But people work, joke, live without fear, hope and wait. Yanka Kaganets, a conscientious man that loves his land, is one of them. He knows that for him and for his beloved Mary, there will come a spiritual balance one day...

St. Petersburg. Early nineties. The KGB is throwing all its forces into the search for Peter Hoffman, the legendary assassin who arrived in the northern capital to eliminate the bishop. Jim, a photographer, comes to the attention of Colonel Suvorov, who is responsible for catching a dangerous criminal. He looks like an ordinary foreigner, but if you look closely, the first impression will melt away like a haze. Why did he have a unique Faberge creation in his hands, for which he is being persecuted by people with the obvious intention of killing him? To clarify the situation, an irresistible security officer is sent to Jim. The beautiful woman falls in love with the photographer, follows him on his heels, helps solve the problems on which Jimmy's life depends, and, in the end, makes it clear to her superiors that this young man is not at all who he pretends to be...

Max had never looked forward to the New Year like that in his life. Cosplay festival for gamers! Best Player Prize! But suddenly a daring girl Venus and her stern police mother appear on his way. However, Max cannot be stopped. He will do everything to be on the Cosplay. Win the Super Drone Race. Disarms a mysterious villain. Will turn a robbery and save his father from bankruptcy. And none of this would have happened if not for the invention of his dad - a fantastic and fantastically smart drone with the habits of a cute animal.

The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniya Godunova. She has married a Polish military leader who wants to claim the Russian throne in her name so he can rule all of Russia. As the Poles move in on Moscow in an attempt to install the czarina on the throne, Andrei, a serf with a life-long infatuation of the czarina attempts to save her from her brutal Polish husband.

The film is about the life and work of the famous TV director Ildus Kurmaleev-the chief director of the television holding "Red Square".

One night experiment.

Your habitual life can end at any time if your habits are more important to you than your life.

A film about love and loneliness; about family ties and responsibility, hope and its illusoriness.

Girl Nika returns home after a volunteer mission in Africa. And at home, she is not at all happy to see Diana, a lover of parties and young guys, her mother.

As every summer, 12-year old Peter is spending the holidays at his grandmother's outside Moscow. But the happy days with the country house, the trees and the lake come to an abrupt end when his parents decide to emigrate to Germany. In the new, unfamiliar surroundings, Peter feels lost and he remains an outsider at school too. The result is that he withdraws increasingly into his own private world and imagines how he could get back to his grandmother's on his own initiative.

Residents of the city of Kirovsk have not been surprised by the beauty of the northern lights for a long time. Once, thanks to him, a simple girl Zoya receives a fantastic gift - a magical power that can change the fate of people.

Documentary about director's mother.

Malik is one of many Russian immigrants who moved to Paris with his family. He begins to climb the hierarchy of the criminal ladder, covering shops, car services, nightclubs. However, a major drug dealer Jean-Michel, who has crushed Albanians, Turks, Nigerians and Moroccans, wants to distribute drugs at his points as well. Because of the threats to the family, Malik declares war on Jean-Michel.

An ordinary Moscow girl is looking for "the one", but she constantly finds herself in strange situations. Three novels, three perspectives on relationships, three guys and one girl who is constantly changing.

Military journalist Igor Vladimirov turns to his longtime friend — intelligence colonel Sergey Matveev — for help. Fifteen years have passed since they last met. A quarrel over a woman named Zhenya, whom Igor eventually married, drove them apart. Reluctantly, Matveev agrees to let go of past grievances and visit Vladimirov at his country house.

Near the Black Sea, a rich scoundrel hired a gang of local hooligans, who killed two young men and a girl for fun, hiding the bodies in an ancient cave. The spirit dwelling in the cave resurrected the young men and endowed them with magical powers and the fire of justice. After that, the boys joined the fight against evil...

Based on Vasil Bykov’s story of the same name. During the Second World War a Soviet prisoner of war returns home, but everybody treats him with suspicion. In the course of the questioning it becomes clear that his story differs from what the words of the woman, whom he calls his wife. Only a face-to-face confrontation can unearth the truth.

Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.

Inhabitants of the territories annexed to the ancient city of Moscow get used to their new condition. It is not too distant of a future, but another large-scale expansion of the city will create and/or ruin some more fates. Will the "Myth-Module," an experimental device made by G.T. Podmyshkin, the professor of urban anthropology and the captain of a pirate spaceship, save him and his crew?

Kazakh womanizer Erzhan persuades Yakut friend Michil to organize a safari on a rare mammoth ram in the permafrost mountains to entertain potential German investor Gernot. But things don't go according to plan when a local reindeer herder starts hunting them. And now, in order to return home alive, they have to overcome thousands of kilometers of the forest-tundra and escape from the chase...

Based on the novel and play by W. Notari. The movie is not fully preserved, without inscriptions.

As a child, Dmitry got lost in the forest, and since then has avoided going there. Now an adult, the guy graduated from YSU and has not yet decided what to do next. The height of July, Dmitry’s friends are calling to the forest to drink vodka and eat barbecue. Already being in a fair amount of drinking, they begin to stray and stumble upon a shaman tree. There is a quarrel. The guys, warmed up by vapors of alcohol, pluck evil on a tree, and someone is already watching them from the forest.

Temu, a 12-year-old gamer, is brought on vacation to the remote village of Tsaplino, away from the Internet. However, contrary to expectations, life in the village is bustling around the old stable of the Saltykov boyars, where local boys are preparing for equestrian competitions. 12-year-old Phil and his faithful friend Orlyk really need to win these competitions, but a terrible threat looms over the stable — they want to demolish it. The boys accept the challenge. The search for treasure, the mysterious old ghost, the fire in the stable, dangerous caves and winning competitions - this summer will be the beginning of a strong friendship for the guys.

An ordinary day of an ordinary St. Petersburg guide: a smile on duty, the text bounces off the teeth, the route is scheduled by the minute – the main thing is that the bus with tourists is in time for lunch! It seemed that the life of the guide Marina finally turned into a series of identical, as if under a carbon copy, everyday life, gray as the asphalt of Nevsky Prospekt. And so it was, until the bus suddenly got stuck in traffic at the Anichkov Bridge, and Klodt's famous horses rebelled against Marina and her routine. What can you do, St. Petersburg is a city where miracles happen at every step. A guide can become a person, and the spirits of Nevsky Prospekt can breathe life even into an ordinary bus tour.

Farewell history. The story of multi-layered memories that develops like a detective from the past. The guy on the verge of growing up is trying to establish milestones for himself, which made the child a young man, and realize what it is inherent in the ancestors.

A drama about a musician who has to make a difficult choice between success and principles.

Kira is a teenager who is left disabled after a car accident. Her father is a boxing coach and he refuses to accept her situation. He believes that it could be overcome with a special training simulator to rehabilitate her. During this difficult period, Kira meets Andrey. With falling in love her life is changed in an unexpected way. They both face new and daunting challenges, and only the irrepressible desire to live and love can lead them to overcome the mistakes of their youth.

The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French resistance, a French collaborator and a high-ranking German SS officer.

The chief doctor of a psychiatric hospital entrusts a young intern with a medical experiment — he places two patients in the same room who suffer from completely opposite neuroses: one has pathological curiosity, while the other displays total indifference...

Praskovya continues working in the Bank despite hunger in the freezing siege of Leningrad. Her husband went to war. The only thing he left is the ink pot. This gift is the only item which makes Praskovya feel warm. In the most critical moment when no hopes or energy is left only the ink pot acts as a twist of destiny.

"This is a video for my generation. I'm Lucia Izmailova. And I can control time. See the future. I was eight years old when I dreamt of World War III. Even though my parents didn't believe me, I still love them very much. Their wedding anniversary is soon. And I'm preparing a surprise for them. Mom will cook a lot of tasty food. Dad, like always, will sing... And I will dance. They will see that I can..."

A television performance based on the works of Sergey Dovlatov. Recorded and edited performance by the Mossovet Theatre, initially directed by M. Sonnenstral, and completed after his sudden death by O. Anokhina.

She is 25 years old, lives with her father and does advertising for an online casino in her video blog. The father works as cashier in a grocery shop and irons the daughter’s socks. But half an hour ago he decided that it is time to stop that.

The third short film by Ilya Kazankov, this time about friendship

The cunning and wicked Urfin wants to become ruler of Magic Land. With an army of wooden soldiers, he captures the Emerald City and renames it ti Urfinville. He is all but ready to celebrate victory, when his plans are ruined by an ordinary girl named Dorothy, who arrives in Magic Land just at the right time. She must return home, but not before she helps her friends - the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and new-brave Lion - defeat Urfin. And in order to do that, they need to find out who he really is.

The story takes place in the nearest future. The main character, Georgiy, spends every night at the lake looking up at flying spacecrafts to Mars, Jupiter and Titan and other far away planets. One day he decides to spend all the family money to buy a spacecraft. When he finds out that the rocket is out of order and may cost him his life, Georgiy takes a chance and organizes a space journey with his children.

After the brutal murder of his friend, Russian detective Andrei finds himself in the midst of a Los Angeles diamond smuggling operation. Could Andrei's wife, tango dancer Rachel, be tied to the nefarious plot?

With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.

Alina and Ruslan live in Moscow, but their mother Alsu, a successful businesswoman, came from Tatarstan. When her father dies in the faraway village Achasary, the three of them go to visit their relatives. In the Tatar village, everything is new to the children accustomed to the life in a megalopolis: the village everyday life, chickens and cows, Muslim customs, a language they don’t know. Gradually, they become aware of a great conflict in their mother’s family: Alsu’s father chased her away from home, and she has been in quarrel with her own brother Timur for ten years. The conflict becomes worse, the ambience in the village home starts getting tense. Luckily, the kids form a wonderful relation with the beautiful Leysan, the new wife of Uncle Timur.

The only choice that we do not make ... is to be born or not. But this time everything turned out differently.

The film details the early years of the legendary Siberian Punk/Rock group 'Гражданская Оборона' (Grazhdanskaya Oborona), and its frontman, Egor Letov.