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A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin.

A surreal depiction of a man’s passion for film and his attempts to save his cinema.

The film tells about the time in which the characters of the movie "Leto" lived. Performer of the role of "Skeptic" Alexandr Kuznetsov interviews Natalya Naumenko, Artemy Troitsky, Igor Petrovsky, Seva Novgorodtsev and Andrey Tropillo about Russian rock, the 80s, Soviet youth, the Leningrad way of life and the spirit of that time. The conversations take place in the real locations of the movie "Leto", where the characters come to tell how everything was in reality, and plunge into nostalgia and praise or, on the contrary, criticize "artistic fiction".

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.

Hiding from the police captain, a prostitute ends up in the room of a quiet, modest pianist from the United States who takes part in a competition in the resort town by the sea. The naive young man gets carried away by a pretty and cheerful girl. In turn, she finds great, sincere love.

Dasha confessed to her mother, that she has been desperately trying to overcome romantic feelings for her best friend's fiancé. Little does she know her always-right-Mum is in a peculiar situation herself…

A tale of how a hermit stole Lenin's mummy in order to bury him and thus open a portal to Kitezh-grad.

Andrey, a middle-aged man, can't manage to establish contact with his young son after divorce from a wife. When Andrey's father comes in between father-son relationship, the story takes an unexpected turn.

Solo performance of one of the most musical stand-up comedians Ivan Abramov.

Professor of entomology Vakhtang Itrieli published several articles in which he sharply condemned Georgian nationalism. He calls for civil harmony in the name of universal ideals. For this, he is persecuted by nationalists who threaten to expel him from the university. Vakhtang meets a girl Nina. She is sympathetic to Vakhtang's problems. He, in turn, feels that danger is hanging over the girl...

Nine-year-old Mitya lives with his grandmother in the village. Everything in the boy's life is familiar and understandable until his grandmother falls ill and sends him to the pharmacy in the district center. Along the way, Mitya meets manga fan Kira, and this meeting changes everything for Mitya. Meanwhile, his grandmother waits for her medicine.

The Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships.

For her birthday, Kira, a grey blur, tries to break free from the drabness of her provincial town and fit in with a group of trendy outsiders However, a series of sudden events and painful revelations force her to reconsider her values.

September 28, 1991, at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, was described as "the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history" and had a crowd estimated between 150,000 and 500,000 people, with some unofficial estimates as high as 1,600,000.

New film by Andrey Bulatov

Once upon a time, two fine young men, Vladimir and Anatoly, met on the Moscow highway. They decided to veer off their path to behold the beauties of Russian countryside. There, they encountered two lovely maidens with a white dove in their hands. The girls invited them into their chamber, a wooden manor standing at the forest's edge in a deserted village called Pustoshka, where that very house was the only one left. They set the table and began to wine and dine their gallant guests. But before the young men could even brush off the road dust or take a sip of the magical nectar from their cups, there showed up a grandpa, the master of that house. And he asked the brave fellows to go and help him find a stone…

The story that tells about a loving couple of police officers of the patrol service. Once on duty, she learns that he cheated on her. This discovery becomes fatal, because she has a weapon in her hands.

It's early summer. A young couple with their eight-year-old son arrives at their dacha. Someone has broken Mom's favorite blue cup. The cup is broken, but no one broke it. So what happened? This mystery gives rise to a vague premonition of something irreparable. Father and son, hurt by the unfair accusations, decide to leave home—for good. A drama based on the story “The Blue Cup” by Arkady Gaydar.

There is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path. Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her choice, leaving her son Sergei to grow up struggling to understand why his mother took such a tragic and terrible path, and Count Vronsky haunted by the memory of the woman for whose death he still blames himself 30 years later. In 1904, in the aftermath of one of the battles of the Russo-Japanese war, Sergei Karenin and Alexei Vronsky find themselves thrown together in a remote Manchurian village, where fate offers them a chance to return to the events long past and, finally, to find the answers both have long been seeking.

The documentary film dedicated to the life of Nicholas II and his family was edited from chronicle of 1896-1916 from the funds of The Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive.

Alisa Freindlich is remembered by audiences for her unique performances in *“Office Romance,” “The Straw Hat,” “Stalker,”* and many other films. Not only her colleagues on set, but also her family will talk about the life, character, and career of the iconic actress.

The story of the usual hard worker Ivan, who is engaged in the improvement of the city, where SUMMIT will soon be held. One day he learns that to the forum the authorities decided to clear the streets of stray dogs. Vanya decides to help four-legged friends.

1936 Lubyakino; A perpetual motion generator has been invented but with one important catch: it only works when a true communist looks at it. Vasiliev does this job well and without fault, but when a committee from Moscow arrive in search of 'enemies of the people', Vasiliev's resolve will be tested to the limit.

Based on a true story, Arthur – a former military doctor – leads the quiet life of a widower in a mountain village in Dagestan. He then learns that his only daughter, Maryam, has been recruited by a terrorist organization and ran away to Syria. The father decides to follow her, willing to do what it takes to save her.

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

A portrait of a prison through whose walls a record number of politicians, revolutionaries, scientists, philosophers and soldiers passed. The heroes of the film are employees, prisoners and veterans of the Federal Penitentiary Service who once supervised Stalin's son Vasily, Lidia Ruslanova, the authorities of the criminal world.

A teacher and a student are at war about their differences. Thank God, they are of the opposite gender, so there's a chance for them to put the differences aside.

Alexandra meets her birthday with her family. Today, only the closest people are around. Why is it usually the most difficult with them?

The story that the film tells begins on New Year's Eve, but it's not a festive event at all. The main character of the film Lena and her husband Sergey are getting divorced. Emotional emptiness pushes Lena to a desperate act: she goes to Kamensk to return her first love, Kostya. On the train, Lena meets a random traveling companion, Maxim. After spending the journey in easy and pleasant conversations, they part at the train station, not thinking that they will ever have to see each other again.

The beginning of the 20th century. The recklessness of fanatics is pushing humanity towards the abyss. A revolution begins in Russia. Crazy Dr. Farkus induces an orgasm of inanimate matter. White Moroccan dwarfs are becoming active. A second Sun appears in the sky. In this difficult environment, captains selflessly confront the forces of chaos, maintaining the cosmic balance of history.

Beaver, Badger, and Mouse go to the forest to pick mushrooms.

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.

A film story about the vulnerability of human life to the elements of violence during the Civil War.

Two charming but not very lucky brothers get involved in a risky business on behalf of the criminal authority Mikhalych. As often happens, everything does not go according to plan.

One night experiment.

23-year-old student Alyona returns from Moscow to Yakutsk after a call from her mother's friend Svetlana, who says that her mother Anna has been missing for three days now. The girl goes to the police, and she is shown a printout, which contains the last date when Anna called the intercity taxi. The policeman adds that, according to the taxi driver, he took the described woman to a village called Symyr. Alyona immediately decides to go to Symyr and asks her stepfather to take her.

The life of a young single mom. Endless fuss and attempts to make money. Mom is so exhausted that she almost forgot about her daughter, for whom she does everything. But the baby’s world is full of miracles and love for mom. And then one day the usual attempt to feed the girl with porridge makes her mother change her attitude to life.

Vyacheslav Vorobyov is a soldier of the special division of the OMON. By coincidence, after one of the special missions, colleagues and commanders begin to suspect Vyacheslav of the death of a comrade. Wanting to rehabilitate himself in front of them and earn their trust again, the main character is called on an extraordinary dangerous business trip to the city of Nazran. There he meets a girl named Natasha, with whom he falls in love at first sight. Natasha accepts the young man's advances, and they form a relationship. But Slava hides his place of work and the purpose of his business trip. Natasha learns the truth only at the moment when Slava embarks on the most dangerous combat mission of his life.

The girl Masha lives in modern Moscow. One day she went on vacation to the village to her grandmother. When she went to the forest to pick mushrooms with her friends, she got lost and got into a fairy tale. Masha finds a house where three bears live, and their neighbors live next to the house - an unknown animal, a cat, a fox, a chicken and a parrot. She enters the house, tastes the honey. When she wants to sleep, she hears the music of the fox and looks out the window. At this time, the owners come to the house - the bear Mikhail Ivanovich, the bear Nastasya Petrovna and the bear cub Mishutka, and Masha is hiding...

A young 15-years-old boy, Kid, has been looking up to his older brother, Valyok, as long as he remembers himself. He desires to become as brave, cocky and masculine as his brother is. Once Valyok and his best friend Ruble finally invite Kid to hang out with them. Everything seems to go on well until older guys decides to do barbecue from a dog. What would Kid do and how his attitude to his brother would change?

Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.

Andrey, a detective and the world's most horrible father, brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment: his resentful actress daughter, an angry thug, and a cheated cop. Each one of them has a reason to want revenge..

Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, a journalist creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...

Young Elli is taken away from her mother and left in a magical land. On her quest to find her way back she meets a scarecrow, a lion and a woodsman.

It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price of the one-man mission as he is departing to this world to accomplish a feat. The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani-Beg's mother, from blindness, in 1357.

Three old Russian immigrants with criminal past try to convince young talented programmer to hack into bank of Miami.

Vera has the perfect marriage. She's a caring housewife and excels at her primary task—pleasing and providing a comfortable life for her husband, Boris, a musician and conservatory teacher. Vera might have lived a somewhat dull and stable life if not for her younger sister, Nika, who unexpectedly and unceremoniously intruded on their family idyll. Vera isn't happy about the unexpected visit, and for good reason. She and her sister became strangers after Nika "stole" Vera's happiness, stealing her sister's fiancé, her first "school love." Now Nika has separated from her husband and is once again "actively searching." And, as several years ago, Nika's choice once again falls on Vera's chosen one. It seems history is repeating itself. But this time, Vera isn't giving up. She will try to reclaim her "stolen happiness."

Outskirts of Moscow. A girl comes to an unfamiliar apartment to look after a dog. After a while, she realizes that the owner of the apartment has disappeared. She finds herself into a series of people that have been taking care of the dog for years in that same apartment, creating a weird community around this strange absence of the owner.

The story of friendship, help and the importance of maintaining family ties. We really want to give each of you a fairy tale. It's time to go home!

A gripping war drama that tells the story of Maria Petrova, in whose fate, as in a mirror, the fate of the country was reflected: the daughter of a priest, who renounced her father and the faith, she serves in the NKVD. On the eve of the battle for Moscow, Maria meets the clairvoyant eldress Matrona, and soon it is Maria who is tasked to deliver to Moscow the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, located behind the front line in the occupied territory...

Pathologist Abrikosov gets a phone call that a fly has taken a refuge inside Lenin's sarcophagus. No one knows how to get rid of it. Its Mayday 1936 and Stalin himself is about to come to inspect the body prior to Mayday festivities.

Two friends and their wise old buddy decided to go hunting. They were overwhelmed by incredible hunting excitement, the blood boiled with adrenaline. Nature exposed all their true feelings: anger and love, rage and repentance. One fatal mistake and bitter reckoning. It is here that the main character will find the answer to his puzzle and make a decisive choice.