A grandfather tells his grandson a bedtime story about the ancient Narts.
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A grandfather tells his grandson a bedtime story about the ancient Narts.
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.
Today is Masha's birthday. She finally decides to meet her father, whom she has never seen. It is separated from him by only one door. She hears a childish voice for her and does not dare to call. She can't take the last step.
A chain of mysterious murders of hunters is being investigated in a forest village. In the light of the full moon, a killer dressed in a wolf's skin strikes another victim with terrible claws. A young huntsman, a former resident of the area, takes over the investigation.
A man and a woman living in the same hotel suddenly are getting involved in various events.
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 ..
In Moscow, in a modest apartment, live Boris, Sonya, and their son Denis. Denis is eighteen, but he still hasn’t gotten serious about life—he spends his days strumming his guitar and writing songs. Sonya teaches Russian language and literature at school, runs a theater club, and even tutors on the side. Meanwhile, in the town of Vyazov lives the family of Gleb Dorokhov. Gleb is married to Sonya’s sister, Raisa. Our story begins when Marina arrives in Moscow, while Denis goes to Vyazov. There are many reasons for this: Marina needs to enter university and study, while Denis badly needs to get on the right track—Sonya hopes that Gleb will give him some real work. Everything would seem fine, but the audience already knows there is a secret that has bound these two families together for many years…
Based on the Armenian ‘Sharakan’, a nine-part song that brings us gradually closer to meaning, Maria Saakyan’s new film further develops the poetic invention apparent in her first feature, The Lighthouse. Focusing on the world of a 14-year-old girl, Evridika, who is experiencing the first extremes of adolescent emotion, it makes effective and imaginative use of her private world centred on internet chat rooms and mobile phone recordings.
A nurse apprentice, who had a bad day at work, meets a computer programmer at a car garage. The man is urged to go somewhere, but his car is not ready yet, so the nurse offers him a ride. Before leaving the man, they pick up the nurse's baby nephew. Once on the street, they almost run over a young man. Not knowing if he is hurt, they pick up the man too. But the worst luck begins when the car brakes break down
A solo concert from the creator of the program "Women's Stand Up" Irina Myagkova. Irina recently turned 39. The comedian decided to publicly announce that she loves and appreciates her age, and Irina is not going to get younger. She makes fun jokes about the midlife crisis, shares her innermost feelings, recalls awkward and ridiculous incidents from her life. The audience in the hall rejoices, because the images are recognizable, and stupid situations have happened to everyone. Even with her appearance, Irina makes it clear to the viewer that now she prefers comfort in everything: on the occasion of the solo show, the artist dressed up in a cozy cardigan and comfortable sneakers.
A beautiful portrait of a woman living in a small Russian village after World War II. A piercing meditation on family unity.
Morozov is picked up on the road by Zvezda and his comrades. A new acquaintance is carefully interrogated whether he belongs to a criminal group that has seized power in the city. Soon, the bus is stopped by modern robbers led by the Chieftain. Everyone could have been killed if it hadn't been for the Star. In the past, he led corporate events in Tyumen and offers bandits to organize a performance. The chieftain agrees. Morozov gets the role of Santa Claus.
Victor Barinov at the personal request of the Russian President will go to Sochi at the world championship for professional chefs and to prove that he and his team are the best in the world! The hard struggle for the title of winner of Operations will help "dark horse" - his own son Ivan, which he suddenly found out on the eve of the championship.
Day of the Full Moon, a series of vignettes from Russia past and present, summons the spirit of Ophuls’ La Ronde, Altman’s Nashville and Short Cuts, and the time-shifting strategies of Resnais (Mon Oncle d’Amérique) to tell provocative, connected stories illustrating the waltz of years and whim of memory. In 1948, a young man, a boy, and a waiter are captivated during the full moon by a mysterious woman in a lilac dress. The effects of this event ripple across the years, washing over more than 80 characters, including a disc jockey, a fairy princess, a gangster, Alexander Pushkin, and a nostalgic dog. But which of these are dreams, and which reality? Director Shakhnazarov continues his career-long focus on the intersection of past and present with this mysterious, exhilarating mosaic of humankind, which in the end both seduces and satisfies.
The famous artist Vladimir Beletsky stole two valuable paintings from the museum, replacing them with his copies. He was forced to take this step by the extreme circumstances in which his son found himself. Having contacted a suspicious company, the son was deceived and is now forced to pay a large sum of money to scammers. Beletsky invents a reciprocal fraud in order to avenge his son’s offenders.
Based on the works of Victor Pelevin.
Three gangsters-losers have kidnapped a millionaire’s son and, to get the ransom, have arranged direct transmission and set up a bomb. In order to appear like adults, they have even mixed up the wiring. But they forgot that the door does not open from the inside...
The film takes place a few years after the events shown in Bummer. Kostyan "Kot", who lost all his friends, the woman he loved and was nearly killed in the first installment of the film tries to begin a new, peaceful life. But is it possible to do? Has Russia changed and do "bratki" on black "bummers" no longer control business? Can he escape his past?
Historical facts, evidence from the Russian Orthodox Church, forensic and graphological examinations, as well as the opinions of specialists from various fields who have studied the life of Saint Theodore of Tomsk and Emperor Alexander I the Blessed.
A young couple Andrei and Nadya get lost in a deep Siberian forest. It’s where they start their thorny way of fighting inner fears and working on the mistakes they made in the past. The forest is a metaphor of life where this couple has gone astray. Or maybe it’s the garden of Eden to which the persecuted have finally found their way back.
Based on the short story by G.K. Chesterton "The Five Swords".
On the centenary of the birth of the athlete Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov, known for his versatility and scoring skills. He successfully competed in football and hockey and became the only athlete to participate in both the Summer (1952) and Winter (1956) Olympic Games as the captain of the national team.
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...
The story of a Moscow academic family, rapidly "falling apart" after the death of its head. Yet, the family members strive to preserve their inner nobility and find a foundation in their new life.
The film details the early years of the legendary Siberian Punk/Rock group 'Гражданская Оборона' (Grazhdanskaya Oborona), and its frontman, Egor Letov.
Two collectors go to addresses and shake the debtors. Once the heroes get into a creepy house from which they can not get out.
Belka, the amazing flying dog is unexpectedly hurdled into the streets of Moscow when the rocket she is in malfunctions during one of her circus routines. Fortunately the crash leads her to meet a streetwise dog named Strelka and her irredeemable rat friend Venya. Together with other amusing friends found along the way, the three find themselves in a space program-training center where they get sent away in a rocket, leaving planet Earth...
Even the most audacious dreams can become a reality.
The special squad "Black Berets" does not accept compromises. Even if twice as many enemies, they will fight to victory.
An oldster has been reading a book in a bookstore for several days. The staff react to it differently...
Nine-year-old Vovka lives in the glorious city of Vladimir with his father and grandfather. Pavel, a widower, is raising his son alone. Yes, and it’s not he who raises him, to be honest, but his grandfather. Pavel himself plunged into work “without days off,” either in order to drown out loneliness, or so that his son would not need anything. Only for Vova, what is more important is not material well-being, but communication with her father. Running away from after school and wandering around the ancient, wonderful city, every time he sees other boys playing chess, football with their dads, someone discussing going to the theater... And our Vovka came up with the right way to make his dream come true - to his father became a friend to him and gave him the most precious thing - time!
A man living in the past spends a night in his hometown.
A teenage girl makes a wish that shrinks her to the size of her childhood toys, which magically come to life.
After the passing of her grandmother, a businessman's daughter goes back to her birthplace. After a little while, she receives the visit of her former classmates but their reunion take an unexpected turn. The guests tells her that they need some money to cover the murder they've committed.
The film was shot about one of the most dramatic operations of the Alpha group. The plot is based on a real story, described in detail in one of the chapters of Alexey Filatov’s book “People A”. The story of Colonel Anatoly Savelyev. 1997. Winter. Moscow. Swedish Embassy. One terrorist and one hostage. This is not a movie about good or bad guys. Rather, this is a story about a hard fatum.
This film is about one of these stringers: Michael Schmidt. One of the main questions of the film: what makes a person exist in a situation of constant risk to life? Is it just a game, extreme entertainment or something more? Michael has been covering the Arab-Israeli conflict for many years, where periods of aggravation are replaced by calm. But even during a lull, when there is no front line, there are no thousands of victims, and a bullet will fly over your head, if you only look for it for a long time, the war remains a war...
Two lovers spend their days in a rented apartment, ignoring the world around them, contemplating the future, their place in society and the talents they were born with. They have no idea that reality around them has long since ceased to exist.
Young and extremely talented dancer Yulya Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a “happy ticket”: she is noticed by a former ballet dancer Pototsky and he promises her a future of great ballerina, worthy of the main stage of the country. However, in order to become a diamond, anyone, even the most outstanding brilliant, needs to be cut, and the way to the legendary stage of The Bolshoi Theatre for Yulya lies through the walls of the ballet school, where the more capricious teacher Galina Mikhailovna Beletskaya takes custody of the rebellious provincial. Turning into a prima will require incredible self-denial, and Yulya herself will have to make sure that the big ballet is not only the whiteness of the packs, the gold of the boxes and the slip of silk ribbons. But no obstacles will stop the one who has the big dream.
As a result of another outrage by fans of the England national team, which escalated into multi-day clashes, the leadership of European football disqualifies the English from the European Football Cup. Instead, the Russian team enters the final stage. The Russian Football Federation has only two weeks to assemble a team. Head coach Sorokin and his assistant Mikhalych invite to the team the football players who have today become "downed pilots": forwards Matveev and Sanaev are under investigation for a fight, defender Bushagov, after a loud scandal, is divorcing his wife, who demands huge alimony, young forward Kizyakov because of of his character sits on a bench and so on. They all lost the opportunity to play, earn big money, be idols and real stars. But Sorokin's plan - to give them a chance to return to their former life - does not work: the new team cannot work together, each player pursues his own goals, and therefore they do not form a team.
The action takes place in the Leningrad Region on the territory of a naval camp located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, where young men from all over the country came to take entrance exams and undergo a young fighter course to fulfill their dream of becoming naval sailors. Fate will test their friendship with first love and unexpected betrayal. But despite everything, the heroes will always make decisions guided by humanity, self-esteem and nobility.
In a cruel turn of fate, Mac, a high-end necktie, is thrown in the trash. There he meets others in a similar predicament: a broken vase, an air freshener bottle, a boot with gum stuck on its sole, and a spool of thread down to her last bit of thread. Mac believes that he is better than this riff-raff and dreams of regaining his former life. The others want to reach a place called Paradise, thinking that's where they can make their wishes come true-and if you're stuck in a dumpster, you probably have something to wish for.
The 90s only keep getting worse for Volk and Zayats.
When you are eleven years old, it seems that anything can happen to you. Especially when your grandmother comes to visit you, who knows how to do magic. You can even learn magic yourself, and then your life will become like a dream: sometimes scary, sometimes intoxicating, then completely unlike anything else. But in order to find a talent in yourself, or save a friend, or just make sure that at least someone really loves you, then you have to try yourself. And no magic will help here.
One of the first films about the flight of Russians from the former Soviet republics, and in many ways anticipated the situation on the southern borders of Russia in the mid-90s. The characters of the film engage in an unequal battle with a gang of criminals. Dedicated to the special Forces of the Don division...
The story takes place in 18th century russia. empress elizabeth’s confessor, monk named Lavr, is exiled to a monastery in a haunted mountainous region, taking his secret ancient knowledge with him. Years later, the empress sends her godson Andrey to bring the monk back. Andrey travels to the ill-famed place and meets with Lavr, but before they can return to St. Petersburg they must face evil forces and creatures of the dark side.
The story is about a doctor who found himself on the front line during COVID-19, but fell victim to the virus himself. The image of the hero consists of real memories of doctors and patients whose voices are heard off-screen.
Suffering from insomnia, Arta develops a hobby of collecting pictures of other people sleeping. One night the girl accidentally locks herself out of the house and is forced to spend the night in the streets, dressed in pyjamas.
A film about the famous jazzman Igor Butman. How did a boy from Soviet Leningrad manage to step into the big world of jazz music? And what role did Sergei Kuryokhin, Dave Brubeck, Winton Marsalis and Bill Clinton play in his life? The details of rehearsals and concerts, the secrets of family traditions, the frank stories of the musician's friends create an interesting picture of the being of a person striving for his dream. Multiple world champion Vyacheslav Fetisov, prominent jazzmen David Goloshchekin and Nikolai Levinovsky, singer Sergei Mazayev and many other public figures and art masters take part in the film.
The main character Alexander, the large businessman and the influential person in the city, after the intense working day is lucky the friend and the assistant Dmitry in restaurant. But to Dmitry's surprise, there they are waited by neither business partners, nor friends - indoors at all there are no visitors. Men should spend time in the company of silent waiters and numerous bottles with content of various fortress. When the door is locked from within, two heroes on a showdown have whole night.
The plot of this documentary is dedicated to the tragic fate of Joseph Stalin's grandchildren.
In terms of language concentration and the number of ethnic groups per unit of area, Dagestan ranks first in the world. It is the only place on Earth where, within an area of 50,000 km², around 120 nationalities live, speaking 60 languages. For centuries, representatives of different religions and ethnic groups have lived here, and despite their close proximity, all have preserved their national identity, hold their traditions in sacred regard, and carefully preserve their cultural heritage.
The company of young people falls into the forest outback on a mysterious lake and is faced with mystical horror. Based on the Belarusian legend that with the advent of night, everyone who died in the water turns into monsters that take the living with them.