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Eclipse

Alex is a charming adventurer who substitutes for a contestant shaman who dropped out at the shooting of a high-rated television show, popular among psychics. He repeats a prophecy on the air that he overheard backstage. He foretells that someone in the audience is doomed to everlasting solitude and that her nearest and dearest will turn their backs on her. Alex has no idea that what's been going on is no coincidence: he has become involved in a long-standing rivalry between two powerful wizards. These psychics have drawn him into a dangerous, mystical game with no rules. Strange events start to take place in the life of Tanya, the girl Alex "cursed" at the show. Alex tries to assure her there is no "curse" at all, and slowly falls in love with her. Still more signs manifest showing the prophecy is true, and it begins to threaten Tanya's life. To save himself and Tanya, Alex is forced to find a way out of this mystical mess.

Eclipse

4.2 2016
Antikiller

Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Fox is released from prison. He has been detained there as a result of planted incriminating evidence of unlawful investigation techniques. Setting accounts with Shaman - a big criminal boss, who ordered the evidence planted and also with his former colleagues was not a part of Korenev's agenda. As he returns to Moscow he finds a new world ruled by underworld bosses, criminal clans fighting each other and utter chaos on the desperately keeping appearances streets of Russian capital. Facing death of his friends, Major Korenev decides to re-install law and order using some unorthodox methods that are only relevant in 21st century Russia.

Antikiller

4.8 2002
Вовка

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!

Вовка

NR 2023
Teli and Toli

This down-to-earth story that takes place in the mountains of North Caucasus, between two adjacent villages – Ossetian Toli and Georgian Teli – tells us about simple and naïve people that governments try to divide today by an official state border. These people wish to live in peace and harmony, in spite of ethnic differences, as their ancestors lived for hundreds of years. They are accustomed to solve all the conflicts peacefully, following Caucasian customs – around a great table, with wine and songs…

Teli and Toli

2.5 2016
Cinema: A Public Affair

A cineastic journey into the world of Naum Kleiman, one of the most important intellectuals in Russia today. Naum Kleiman, an internationally acclaimed Eisenstein specialist, is the director of the „Musey Kino“, Moscow’s museum of cinema. Since 1989, the „Musey Kino“, has shown previously banned classics of world cinema and Soviet films. Many saw the „Musey Kino“, as Moscow ́s most important intellectual forum. In 2005, the Moscow municipality sold the „Musey Kino’s“ building and it became homeless. In October 2014, the Russian Minister of Culture fired Naum Kleiman as director. In protest, his entire team handed in their resignations. Scenes from iconic movies and interviews with Muscovites of different ages and social backgrounds form a documentary film collage which mirrors Russian reality today.

Cinema: A Public Affair

NR 2015
First Oscar

The film follows two student cinematographers who, as the war approaches Moscow, refuse to be evacuated and instead volunteer to be front-line cameramen capturing the horrors of war and heroism of the soviet soldiers. At the same time, we witness another storyline taking place in the US. After the premiere screening of the already completed documentary “Moscow Strikes Back”, one of the members of the Academy Awards selection committee is trying to persuade his fellow colleagues to establish a new category of Best Documentary in the upcoming Oscars event.

First Oscar

6.4 2022
Boyfriend for hire

Twenty-five-year-old bank employee Nina returns to work from holiday with some surprising news. She has fallen in love with a young man and is soon to be married. Her parents and friends are shocked and naturally concerned - their suspicions are soon justified. One evening Nina returns home to find her flat burgled, and her beloved Gosha has disappeared. Nina confides to her neighbour, Valentina, a former actress, that she has promised to introduce Gosha to her parents at her birthday party and does not want to let them down. So Valentina comes up with an interesting suggestion - to hire an actor for the evening to play the role of Gosha.

Boyfriend for hire

NR 2007
Once in the Caucasus

Kazbek Daglarov is the director of the boarding house "Lastochka". Yaramazov is busy drilling his well, and the minister is passing on unnecessary information about him to Fatima Khanum. Finally, Fatima Khanum sets a condition for Kazbek. If the girls' track and field team from Krasnodar come to stay at the boarding house, she will fire Kazbek. Kazbek, who is in such a difficult situation, calls on his friends for help. And Kazbek's loyal friends save him from this predicament.

Once in the Caucasus

7.5 2007
Painful Hold

Almost immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the era of "market relations"begins. Capitalism is re-emerging in the country. It is time for redistribution of property and spheres of influence between criminal groups. War breaks out between gangs, in the ranks of which are often former athletes. Especially appreciated are those who have the skills of martial arts. At this time, a group of children who profess a rare kind of hand-to-hand fighting, called "Russian style", comes to one provincial city. Their appearance greatly alarmed the leaders of the two rival gangs controlling the city. They are trying to get these valuable fighters into their ranks. In the course of going any means, and the guys are forced to defend themselves.

Painful Hold

4.6 1992
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3

An unofficial sequel to the movie "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession". The events take place on New Year's Eve 1997-1998, 24 years after the events of the movie. According to the plot, the main characters (Shurik, Bunsha, Zina and Ulyana Andreyevna) are going to celebrate New Year's Eve, and the engineer Alexander Sergeyevich Timofeev (Shurik) decides to present his recreated (and modernized) time machine to the guests. Having gone to the XVI century, they find there an aged Georges Miloslavsky, who has been sitting as regent for 25 years instead of Ivan the Terrible, who has run away; the Tsar was so inspired by the profession of Zina and Yakin that he decided to try his hand at filmmaking and went to "Mosfilm" instead of the Tsar's chambers. In an effort to correct the disruption of the course of history, the heroes re-engage the time machine and travel back to the 1970s in search of the Tsar, who dreams of becoming an actor.

Old Songs About the Main Thing 3

5.5 1998
Our Africa

1960. The USSR starts humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology in several newly independent African countries. For more than 35 years the Soviets expand their influence in Africa. Soviet filmmakers are sent along to document the glorious advance of socialism on the entire continent. After the fall of the Soviet empire Russia lost political interest in Africa, but thousands of kilometers of footage shot on African soil remain. With the help of filmmakers from back then, OUR AFRICA will recreate the time of the “Great Utopia” and expose the mechanisms behind the creation of propaganda films.

Our Africa

NR 2018