The adventurer named Sadko sets sail in search of a mythical bird of happiness...
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The adventurer named Sadko sets sail in search of a mythical bird of happiness...
Egor, a successful thirty-year-old engineer falls in love with Lucy, a flamboyant artist and amateur actress. He clashes with her brother Alex, an “evil genius” photographer, who has dedicated his new exhibition “Sunless City" to St. Petersburg. Egor can't understand the values of the “sunless city”, the fringe world inhabited by Lucy and Alex. After Egor realizes that Lucy is a drug addict, he desperately tries to save her...
These are the stories of the three guys,three friends, living in a city in the south of Russia. In the course of a year they recorded their everyday lives with a small HDcam. This record is what comprises the movie and to what it is dedicated. Our heroes are eighteen years old and they live average lives: work, have parties and, fall in love. But finally they will have to make those most important of personal choices which will define their future.
The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for missing films and bringing them back to life. It is a documentary about the work of Dziga Vertov, a prominent soviet director, and the restoration of the director’s original concept of the films Anniversary of the Revolution (1918), The History of the Civil War (1921), Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.
Russian pop stars are flying to Baku for the "Heat" festival. Among them is Dasha Steklova, a talented debutante whose fame began with a victory in a popular musical TV show. Dasha doesn't want to play by the rules and craves creative freedom. In Baku, having quarreled with her producer (and also a young man), the girl runs away. In a fabulous city breathing music and sunshine, she is waiting for a lot of adventures and romantic encounters that will help Dasha fulfill her dream and become truly happy.
Spring 1941. The peaceful life of three friends, two Sergeys and Ekaterina, from a small village in Kuban is interrupted by a sudden declaration of war and the landing of fascists in the Caucasus. The guys in love with Ekaterina volunteer to join the partisans, and she stays in the village and asks them to return quickly. Not far from these places, the Germans organize a warehouse with ammunition. The commander of the partisan detachment receives an order to destroy the enemy and blow up the warehouse. Two Sergeys are sent on a dangerous mission.
A modern couple is struggling with a crisis in their relationship. During the four years of marriage, a lot of reproaches have accumulated. The wife invites her husband to an expensive hotel to spend a night of love. But the accumulated questions make the spouses talk, and not indulge in passion.
The first big concert in several years.
Vitalik is an ordinary modern young man, raised by ordinary parents, friends with an ordinary guy Igor and in love with the ordinary first beauty of the area Vika. As usual - unrequited. And so this ordinary life of Vitalik would have continued, if not for a fight, as a result of which his friend Igor received serious injuries. A fight in which Vitalik did not help his friend, did not stand up for him, although he saw everything perfectly well. Moreover, the fight broke out because Igor stood up for Vika in front of the marginalized people. Vitalik's parents, realizing that their son was simply scared, send their son (against his will) to their friend Gusein in the Caucasus for the purpose of re-education.
Free adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "Fatal Eggs", also referencing many science fiction books of the early 20th century.
A common shoemaker lives in a small town, he mends boots and writes memoirs about his childhood, which he wants to leave for his son. On new year’s eve he learns about a magic sea. the shoemaker wants to see this amazing place, but it costs a lot and there are not enough boots in need of mending to pay for the trip. he finds a decision promising to solve his problem…
A young guy named Philip is preparing for the wedding with his girlfriend, but he learns that the love he has for her is a consequence of a brain tumor that affects his emotions. An unexpected diagnosis puts the feelings of young people in a serious test.
An offended old lady curses a sleazy official so that he can't be bribed. The curse comes true... Now dirty money just burn in his hands. And that's right before the biggest bribe of his life! If the official doesn't get rid of the curse during the next 24 hours, he will face a serious punishment.
The unsuccessful actor Sasha, finally, was going to make an offer to his girlfriend Marina. He bought a ring and pre-booked a table in a restaurant and, it seems, almost does not doubt the correctness of his decision. But on the right day, Sasha didn’t voluntarily linger on the set and was therefore forced to hurry terribly. In his car, he drives to the chosen one and rehearses the speech of the sentence, reflects on how to present the ring more correctly and what to say. During the rehearsal of the speech, Sasha suddenly realizes that she does not want to get married and must leave Marina.
The story of an unusual friendship between a tiger and a goat in a seaside zoo. About how a spontaneous goat helped a bored tiger find freedom.
Documentary about director's father
Russia has a surfeit of overqualified graduates. Nastya Sokolova is one of them. Her career, if you can call it that, gave her a plethora of unexpected work experiences: from desk slave in banking to head bookkeeper of an illegal brothel. The film’s eight tableaus detail the various workplaces, colleagues and situations. To finish it off: deadpan commentary.
Twelve-year-old Serafima and Fyodor are trying to save the holy places of the monastery of St. Seraphim of Sarov from destruction by construction. The boys are opposed by one of the leaders of the local defense enterprise - Shmelev, who is also the cousin of the early orphaned Fyodor. Thanks to love, friendship and the power of faith, the boys manage to enlist the support of the new head of the nuclear center under construction and defend the holy places.
Joe Sokoloff, a sergeant with the Canadian police, travels to the remote country to carry out his beloved grandmother's last wishes, but all his plans fail almost immediately on arriving in his historic homeland when he is robbed while traveling on the train. Ready to embrace his traveling experience, he misses his train and finds himself in a small village region. Viewed by the villagers as 'an eccentric in a white Stetson', he finds himself settling into an unfamiliar world of very strange people. Here the people really do drown newly-born puppies, eat the fish they catch in the river and even smack their children. But it only takes a few days before Joe begins to understand the villagers and, after accepting them into his heart, he falls in love with Liza, a beautiful local girl.
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.
Once, in search of creative freedom, jazz musician Yitzhak Gutman went to Germany, where he became a famous impresario. When changes took place in the USSR, the hero decided to help talented musicians-losers who remained in Russia. Returning to his homeland, Yitzhak found composer Amir Dzhunusov performing his jazz improvisations for the flute on the roofs of houses. Together with his Russian friends, the hero, in the interests of advertising, starts a risky game, which leads to a tragic development of events. In the role of Amir Dzhunusov is a professional trumpeter, composer, jazz musician Andrey Solovyov.
During a nationwide moral panic caused by a recent spike in teenage suicides two federal investigators are sent to a small Russian town to review a cold case involving a suspicious death of a schoolgirl. Initially seeing their task as a mere PR stunt both gradually start to loose their focus as they venture deeper into the paranoid world of conspiracy theories surrounding the case.
Four dozen of our contemporaries - and ten simple questions. And each of the forty is so different from the other that it is impossible to make a general portrait of our time from the mosaic of their answers! So what brings us together, what makes us a society and a people? Are we ready to accept others as they are?
A 7-year-old boy named Tema notices ominous metamorphoses in his father: a man working at a chemical plant is gradually becoming a reptile, a transformation that is incompatible with life. The father wants to give his son a future outside the cursed city, but the boy's mother sees his life under the care of the family. After losing her daughter Olya, she is not ready to let her son go.
Deprived of their familiar context, the heroes of ancient Greek myths find themselves in a Moscow park.
The sought-after and spoiled actor Slava loses everything at once - contracts, popularity, good relations with his family. However, the protagonist does not give up and, together with his agent, comes up with a dangerous adventure - to bury himself alive in order to resurrect his career and start from scratch.
«SLOVE» means Soldier of Love. This is how two brothers fighting corruption and crime are calling themselves...
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.
Based on Pushkin's short story: When his friends play faro, Germann always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying nearby is said to possess a secret for winning a fortune at the game. Germann is determined to learn this secret from her, and he initiates a romance with her grand-daughter Liza, in order to improve his chances.
Orphans Dimka and Yaroslav live independent lives. Each of them received a one-room apartment from the state, but the guys decided to live together in order to rent out free living space. They record their reckless life on an amateur camera. However, when the work that the state offers doesn't suit them, one of their acquaintances offers his help - he kicks out the non-paying tenant, draws up papers for himself so that the guys can get a loan for a private business, and then ... deceives and sells their apartment. The first test of adulthood turns out to be cruel, but even more severe trials await Dima and Yaroslav ahead...
Dog Mountain, the guardian of a mountain village, falls in love with a visiting girl. When she leaves, he goes into town to look for her. Faceless houses high to the sky, crowds of people, cars. All this turns out to be so much stronger than the hero that he even forgets who he is and why he is here. However, a flock of sheep from a mountain village comes to his aid.
A historical drama about the tragic fate of Nadezhda Alliluyeva, a woman who remained in the shadow of her husband Joseph Stalin. In 1918, 16-year-old Nadezhda married 38-year-old Joseph Stalin, a close friend of the Alliluyev family. The love of Nadezhda and Joseph develops against the backdrop of important historical events - revolutions, wars, arrests, and every year Stalin seizes more and more power. Realizing the terrible essence of her beloved husband, Nadezhda still remains faithful to him. But how long can she withstand this struggle with herself?
Sasha is a school leaver from a small town. He pretends to be an ordinary bully in the company of his classmates not to be bullied himself and to have the opportunity to see Lisa. At home Sasha is a greedy for knowledge guy. He dreams of leaving his small town but several barriers stand in his way.
Andrey Kulikov goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, Andrey Dolmatov, who had been an officer in the White Army during the Russian Revolution. On the headstone of the grave next to his great-grandfather's, he notices the face of a young woman. Later, while walking through Paris, Andrey sees a woman, Vera, who looks just like the young woman he had seen on the headstone. And so begins the telling of two love stories, separated by three generations and one hundred years.
In an old Soviet music hall, an orchestra is recording a composition based on Pushkin's "Feast During the Plague". An invisible and frightening force is interfering with the musicians - whether it is the spirits of the past or the echo of war, but no one notices what is happening around them until the terrible end comes.
Katya is organizing her mother's funeral, while the rest of the relatives are trying to divide the deceased's property as soon as possible. Everyone pursues their own goals and hopes for their share of the inheritance, but events do not turn out as they expected.
Beaver, Badger, and Mouse go to the forest to pick mushrooms.
В центре сюжета — классический любовный треугольник: супруги Андрей и Анна и ухажер Анны Егор. В результате драматических перипетий, происходящих с героями, один из них погибает…
Five star players, five world-class pros with fabulous fees. They are 20 years old, they already know what it means to win. This is the NaVi esports team. The filmmakers talk about a difficult time in their life associated with a major defeat and loss of champion status. Ahead of the guys is the final of the 2020 championship in Poland, which can once again raise them to the top.
Based on the works of Victor Pelevin.
Nikolay Fomich Ferapontov is a muralist and "classic of socialist realism", who lived a life far from sinless. However, all success has remained in the distant past, and in his old age he has to make ends meet, interrupting by random orders. Everything changes when a young art critic Myasoedov appears on his doorstep and finds paintings in the back room, in which he unexpectedly recognizes masterpieces of fine art. Not really imagining the real origin of the paintings, Nikolay Fomich calls himself their author, and from that moment the hunt for money and fame begins.
“Like the right and left hand Your soul is close to my soul We are sealed shut, blissfully and warmly, Like the right and left wing…” The life and art of Pavel Kogan and Lyudmila Stanukinas, two famous Leningrad documentary filmmakers, can best be expressed by the Tsvetaeva stanza cited above. They are the main characters of this film, which their student Viktor Kossakovsky shot during Pavel Kogan’s final months. For Lyudmila Stanukinas, Lyalya, as those close to her called her, her husband was her only reason for existence. She was with him until the end and held onto his extinguishing life as much as she could.
Aleksey and Katerina separated twenty years ago. He left for the West, she stayed in the East. They will meet again in Switzerland under troubling circumstances.
Ten years ago, the famous Russian actor Konstantin Khabensky organized children's development studios in several cities of Russia. A feature of such studios was complete freedom of expression for children and improvisation instead of staging standard plays. In the studio, everyone has the right to invention and protest - this is how children heal emotional wounds, probe the adult world, and, on the stage, fantastic performances appear on the stage. Every year, young talents gather in one of the cities for the Feathers festival, where Konstantin Yuryevich works with them. The guys show everything they learned and do it to the fullest
The film tells about Mikhail Bulgakov's work in the early twenties of the last century as a journalist in Moscow newspapers and magazines. These were difficult and hungry years. The Moscow of those years comes to life on the screen.
Everyone's favorite story about first love based on the drama of the same name by Timofey Smetanin. They want to marry Nyurguhun to the son of the prince, the girl is in love with the poor Lookuut, and for the sake of love for the young man she is even ready to die.
Sixteen-year-old Eva, who suffers from a genetic condition, wants to go abroad through an inclusive program, but her father is unwilling to let her go. Consequently, Eva decides to forge a pregnancy certificate in order to gain full legal capacity before reaching the age of majority. She sets off into the woods with her older sister and her friends to arrange the certificate with a doctor friend—unaware that this journey is about to turn into a terrifying nightmare.
To bring together her divorcing parents, eleven-year-old Polina makes them come across each other by deceit. Nevertheless, their conflict increases with a vengeance as it is Polina who is the main cause of the dispute.
The story of a young Chechen and his Russian captor during a war between Russia and Chechnya.
Arseny brings a girl on a first date to the cinema, to his favorite movie, but everything is not going according to plan.
Based on the works of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. The plot of the new comedy is based on the famous miniatures “Odessa Steamboat”, “Two Apples”, “Meeting at the Distillery” and other works by one of the country's most famous humor writers Mikhail Zhvanetsky. In total - 13 miniatures. The fates of the heroes of each story are intertwined, and the viewer will see a panorama of life in which the head of the transport department could not be heard, the plane’s crew wonders if passengers can land the plane, the barmaid stands at the helm of the ship, and the father teaches his son arithmetic, destroying all the apples in the house...
The film is based on a unique, fundamentally new source of information about the Great Patriotic War. This is an interview with 17 thousand fighters, recorded right during the fighting. These sometimes incredible stories allow you to reveal the course of the entire war in a new way: to tell about the feelings and experiences of the fighters; about facts that contradict official history; about how war has suddenly become part of the daily lives of millions of people. The most unexpected, vivid and revealing stories from this unique archive will be voiced by popular artists. Also, the few veterans who have survived to this day will take part in the film, the protocols of conversations with which have been preserved in the archive.
A bright and independent lawyer in her thirties suffers from amnesia and is told that now she's twenty years old.