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From the Barents Sea, a chill wind seems to blow constantly across a semi-deserted town at the edge of the world. Nevertheless, a little community holds out here. In a flawlessly filmed portrait of this extraordinary place, the theme linking the residents is their determination to chart their own course. Bardak was a marine, but his garrison broke up and his comrades sought a better life elsewhere. He stayed behind among the many empty buildings that are slowly but surely being consumed by the elements. Meanwhile, Dima, a young poacher​, flouts as many rules as he can, but gives friendly directions to lost tourists and reads lovingly to his little daughter. Ferryman Alexander is locked in a silent generational battle with his teenage daughter Masha; her eyes are on the outside world. Further along, a little team of ships from the Second World War turns up, and a woman steadfastly runs a weather station.

Primary school teacher Veronica returns to school from maternity leave and rethinks her life.

This is the story of the disobedient little girl Sasha, whose parents, for the New Year, thoughtlessly wish for a well behaved girl instead of Sasha. Even before the New Year chimes in, a different good little girl is on their doorstep, while Sasha is fantastically transported to the magical Land of Good Little Kids for re-education. In this land there rules a stern queen and her even tougher controlling emissary. To get back home to her parents, Sasha will have incredible adventures and must face many tests, while helped by her loyal friends, Baget the cat and Balbess the dog.

Ramaz sells toilets. Jokers persistently call him - asking him to exterminate cockroaches. Ramaz's friend treats him like a freak, and a colleague at work persistently forces him to eat "instant noodles made to the signature recipe." "It's time to change your life and reboot," says the neuro-voice.

An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: his memories, his vision of art and his reflections on the fate of the artist and the meaning of human existence; through extremely rare audio recordings that allow a complete understanding of his inner life and the mysterious world existing behind his complex cinematic imagery.

"Citizen poet. Run of the Year” is not a continuation of the satirical project of the same name, which became wildly popular in Russia in 2011-2012. And not even its result. This film is a memory of the most lively, powerful and interesting year in the political life of the country over the past 20 years. The film is a reflection on the reasons for the rapid awakening of the civic position of millions of people. The film is a message to our near future.

Tolya unexpectedly calls his father on Wednesday. He says they should see each other. The father is puzzled: why exactly today? So many years have passed since they split up after a big scandal.

After the death of her beloved pet ferret, Eva accidentally stumbles upon a popular science blog about space. Videos of astrophysicist Sundukov plunge her deeper into the abyss of obsessive thoughts about the death of the universe. Finding herself on the verge of insanity, Eva decides to meet with the professor in person.

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.

A young pianist and a countryside girl fall in love in a village on a Baltic sea shore just days before the beginning of WWII.

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.

The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis led to the nuclear exchange between major superpowers. As a result, instead of further development of technology, humankind invested all the resources in genetic engineering. Newborns got improved genes, and in the late 80's the first generation of people with various improvements entered the picture. But there were still those whose genes for some reasons were not improved. In a genetically engineered society, such people became outcasts, placed in clearly marked ghetto areas. The protagonist is an outcast, whose body did not accept genetic improvements. From the very childhood, he tries to fix this using various design tools of his own making. Once he is wrongly accused and enters the fight to clear his name. But it turns out that his home, the entire area of "genetic outcasts" is out on a limb. The protagonist directs his abilities to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Suddenly, on New Year Eve, Yuri becomes invisible. And very surprised after discovering that there is a lot of invisible people like him in Moscow.

There is a COVID-19 epidemic in the country, a lockdown is being introduced in the regions, people are being urged to get vaccinated on TV, against this background, a simple entrepreneur, the owner of a small business and his employees, are faced with the problem of restrictions and the lack of customers, which leads to a halt in activities. Different ways of maintaining the business do not lead to a positive result, and he makes a cardinal decision that will change his future.

Fourteen-year-old Ivan runs away from an orphanage to pursue his dream at a pioneer camp he learned about on the news. Arriving there incognito, he creates an entire media organization within an already entrenched system, without which internal order cannot exist. Ivan's following is so large that government officials responsible for public opinion listen to him. He creates an entire news empire that tells only the truth. However, he has no idea that he is the heir to a huge media corporation, one that he thought was being coveted by people very close to him.

Contemporary Moscow. Svyatoslav, a poor boy, falls in love with Asya, a rich girl, and wants to marry her. To support her in the manner in which she is accustomed, he opens an upscale restaurant. But he soon discovers he has a unseen enemy.

A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin (Mikhail Skryabin) spends his days stoking the fire in a giant coal furnace. When he isn’t tending the flames, he keeps busy with other activities. He works on a historical novel. His adult daughter Sasha (Aida Tumutova) comes to visit. Local kids come to gaze at the flames. Gangsters, including a former Army sergeant (Aleksandr Mosin) and a sniper known as Bison (Yuri Matveyev), drop by to add special kindling to the fire.

Far East. 70th years. A small garrison on the border with China. Here, as everywhere, there are men and women. Everyone has his own story, his own destiny, his own love. The common thing is that they all came here once on duty and stayed for a long time. Marina Goloshchekina is nice, kind, right. Galya The tourniquet is intelligent, passionate, determined. Albina Raven - extravagant, unpredictable, thin. Three friends, three sisters in happiness and misfortune, officers' wives. They help each other stand in this completely feminine world, where every man has a gun! And this means that love and danger go hand in hand. Marina quite unexpectedly meets her true love of the young officer Ivan Stolbov. Learn about this new secret love girlfriend. On the one hand, you can rejoice over Marina. But how can she rejoice herself, if behind five years of marriage with a strong, strong-willed and very unpredictable Nikita Goloshchekin?

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.

Petya and Vova are oceanographers in their class, and while Petya was taking an academic leave, Vova had already received an offer to work in China. Petya comes to say goodbye to his friend before leaving and meets many strangers at the party. For some reason, the only one missing is Vova's neighbor Zhenya.

In 1991, the Communist Empire of the USSR was destroyed. And one of the main symbols of Soviet power — Lenin's Mausoleum and Lenin's Body itself were left without an owner. The film tells about Lenin's body, its contents, its protection and different opinions about the future of this body — to sell, to revive ..., to bury. "Lenin's Body" is a film about a society that survived the collapse of the Empire.

The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.

A gifted 12-year-old pianist from a backwater village gets a chance to audition for a talent show and go to Moscow, but the prospect brings nothing but pain to his father, the boy's only relative.

A successful photographer is engaged in mystical experiments on pumping various types of energies, including sexual ones.

Five-year-old Alina has to go through the trials of loss, to realize early what death, and betrayal are and to learn the cruelty of the surrounding world in which everyone remains for himself.

Young artist Rustam is in love with the beautiful Madina. To get her attention, he decides to give her the gift of her dreams, a pair of wonderful Ochi-3000 glasses. Rustam sets off to Gigapolis in his old flying Volga taxi. He has to make 300 trips to collect the necessary amount of money and fulfill Madina's wish.

In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.

A man and a woman living in the same hotel suddenly are getting involved in various events.

Alla Demidova ranks among the greatest actresses to have graced the Russian-language stage over the past six decades, as well as screens big and small. She's famous for her tragic characters. Perhaps because she, above all, understands the world as a realm of worries and sorrow?

The Brothers Karamazov novel is the epitome of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s creative work, the acme of the philosophic investigation carried out by this colossal and restless mind throughout his life. World renowned choreographer Boris Eifman offers a remarkable vision of the core ideas within the novel, expanding upon them though body language as a way of exploring the origins of the moral devastation of the Karamazovs; creating through choreographic art an equivalent of what Dostoyevsky investigated so masterfully in his book, the excruciating burden of destructive passions and evil heredity. This ballet production is also known and performed as Beyond Sin.

Thirty years have passed since Zhenya and Nadya met—they broke up, and Nadya moved to Leningrad. The friends still go to the bathhouse, and now they are joined by Konstantin, Zhenya's son. Uncle Pasha and Uncle Sasha persuade Kostya to arrange a New Year's miracle for his father and send him to St. Petersburg. Nadya's daughter lives at that very address, and on the same day, her fiancé, Irakli, is planning to propose to her.

Yurka is a self—contained twelve-year-old schoolboy who is grieving the loss of his father. The ordinary course of his life changes when new students appear in the classroom — a brother and a sister. Together they will have to grow up and find out what true friendship is worth.

Julia works as a photographer. Being in a stream of endless hackwork, she dreams of a solo exhibition that will give her the opportunity to say a new word in art. On one of the hectic days, she receives a somewhat strange offer from seemingly the most ordinary customers.

Since the last events, time has passed. Father Andrei also preaches, sometimes comes to the bar to chat with the parishioners in an informal setting. Parishioners, by the way, gave him an old motorcycle, which he repairs in his free time. Helps him in this Grishka, son of Katya. In the city after Agafonov was arrested and imprisoned - quiet and grace. No, well, some incidents happen, but the head of the local police, Murov, is standing guard over the law. And sometimes father Andrei goes fishing with Simon and Grishka. He likes to sit by the water at dawn, think about his past life.

From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer Serguei Rachmaninov. This film is based on the legend that Rachmaninoff received a bouquet of lilacs from an unknown admirer after every performance. He emigrated to the United States, and after an interval, began to receive the mysterious lilacs again.

Tim, a child living in a medieval world, has been chosen to be the most powerful wizard of his time. Under the protection of teacher Udo and muscular swordsman Bullrock, with a beautiful, mysterious blonde woman Anu along for the ride, Tim travels to the Southern Castle to train under the powerful wizard Martirus so that he can defeat the evil wizard Tor, allowing the forces of good to reign for the next 500 years. His journey is filled with magic and endangered by the dark spells of Tor, who is determined to end the journey before it has a chance to begin.

Even the most audacious dreams can become a reality.

Nikita, a former Russian Spetsnaz operative, is hired to neutralize the large private security force at a local factory so that his shady employer can extort the business from the factory owner. But Nikita and his group of highly trained fighters get more than they bargained for when it turns out the factory is actually owned by a dangerous warlord connected to the Russian military. By the time the 'hostile takeover' is complete, Nikita reveals that he has orchestrated his own secret mission to take personal revenge on the most dangerous man in Russia.

The film is based on the true story of Captain Marinesku and set in 1944 during WWII at the Russian Navy Base. Young and beautiful Tanka is in love with Aleksandr Marinin, the brave Captain of the Russian submarine. He is under the KGB surveillance, and his life is at risk. He takes his boat to fight the Nazi fleet, and he cannot come back home without a victory.

Zhenya is a repairman for washing machines in a provincial town. On a call-out, he meets his ex-girlfriend who has come from Moscow to sell the old apartment. Zhenya wants to rekindle the affair.

With the "Two Bedrooms" concert, Andrey decided to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his stand-up comedy career and his and his wife's marriage. He'll talk about the most important decisions in his life, and perhaps in the lives of all of us. There will be plenty to reflect on, plenty to mourn, and, of course, plenty to laugh about. This is Andrey's first solo concert in seven years of stand-up comedy on TNT, and since no one reads such texts on websites, let's also say that the concert will feature candy distribution, a dinosaur performance, and a spectacular foam party, the kind every concertgoer secretly dreams of.

The governor and his retinue, by ridiculous chance, fly into space on an uncontrolled spacecraft. From this moment begins their amazing journey to another "charming planet." There they meet people who live in harmony with nature. It would seem, live and rejoice. But the governor thinks only about how to take this “planet” into his hands, and he has a plan to seize power ...

In the new film, the Golubevs will swap bodies with robots and get the opportunity to rethink their attitude to modern technology and come to an understanding.

During his life, Franz Kafka was a modest closed clerk, literature was his secret passion. By his own admission, he felt Flaubert, Dostoevsky and Gogol as his "blood brothers", but he bequeathed to burn his manuscripts. However, friends violated the last will of the author. Kafka's works, filled with bizarre images and paradoxical plots, were published posthumously and brought him worldwide fame. Today, Kafka is perceived as a brilliant prophet of the madness of the 20th century, and his name has become synonymous with a special type of absurdity.

A knight wakes up from a long sleep in the forest. Time has stopped, nature is withering. He must remember who he was and what happened.

One day, having entered the apartment, the thief runs into the landlady. After a moment, he realizes that the girl is blind. She walks past him and then goes into the kitchen without noticing his presence. The guy looks around and starts looking for what he came for. After some time, the hostess returns.

Ethnobloggers from the peoples of Russia - a Yakut hunter, a Khanty reindeer herder and a Dagestan shepherd - share their daily lives on camera. Their stories become known around the world, showing how new technologies are changing traditional ways of life.

She's a funeral director, he's a real estate agent, both hostages to their obligations and at odds with their own consciences. And if it weren't for a bird that fell under their wheels, they would never have met and found their true selves.

Abstraction about love and search, oblivion and rebirth. The story unfolds in a conventional space that vaguely resembles our world - one scene smoothly changes into another, and with it the characters of the characters and their relationships, music and visual images change.

After his long-lost son is suddenly thrust back into his life, a charismatic con artist takes to the road with his two wives, swindling everyone they encounter along their path.

The plot takes place in the Altai Mountains, where snow leopards, rare and majestic predators, face the threat of extinction. The main character of the film is a baby snow leopard, who has just been born, whom the staff of the Sailyugemsky National Park name Tural, which means "immortal" in the Altai language. He got this name after all his fellow badgers died during the winter feeding season, and Tural turned out to be the only survivor. But when the threat to life has passed, the baby suddenly disappears from the field of view of the staff of the National Park. Will he be able to survive in the wild? And will he ever return to his native Sailugem?