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The film tells the story of a veteran of the Russian-Turkish War who returns to his village, where his son is accused of having connections with the devil. The story tells about the confrontation between different poles of faith in the struggle for the fate of a child.
Chronicles of the cultural life of Tashkent (2007 – 2015). From the murder of Mark Weil to the wedding of Alisher Usmanov. Tashkent Biennale, apartment buildings, video art festival, conversations about nothing, amateur performances and operational shooting, advertising and much more. Tashkent, which no longer exists, just as these people are no longer in it.
Sasha, a young janitor, notices a certain softness and kindness in an older janitor. In a small, secluded room, away from their colleagues, the two men waver between resisting and giving in to their feelings and desires, walking a tightrope between violent tendencies and a need for tenderness.
A hundred years ago, a mysterious outbreak of the Red Dawn occurred on Earth, after which people became immortal. This story begins with the banal and seemingly eternal coexistence of two married couples: young and old, and ends with the return of Adam and Eve.
The 90s were a twilight time for the Moscow industrial: no one understood what would happen next, whether this scene would remain in the underground or occupy its niche in the mainstream. The heroes of Alyona Mikhailova's film are fearless experimenters with an impressive set of instruments, from scrap iron found in a landfill and homemade sound machines to analog synthesizers. They were united by the desire to sound, and to sound loud. The echo of this rumble is in the memories of musicians and eyewitnesses, gathered together for the first time on the screen.
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.
A government servant learns that his business partner was killed. His daughter witnessed the murder but lost her long-term memory. The man tries to help the girl remember what happened before her life and his business were destroyed.
This 1999 program, broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura, features an introduction by filmmaker Elem Klimov and film critic Irina Rubanova to an interview with director Larisa Shepitko that was recorded just after the 1978 Berlin International Film Festival.
The film novel directed by Andrey Konchalovsky and written by Yuri Nagibin tells about the life and creative path of the brilliant Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. Love and torment of creativity, periods of hopelessness and triumphs, longing for the Motherland and faith in its future, reflected in the composer's music, are intertwined in the novel with the tragic events in Russia of the first half of the twentieth century, with the fate of people close to Rachmaninoff...
Action of the movie "Road to home" happens in the small village of Abkhazia, in which the local administration has decided to pave an asphalt road. On the way of construction there is a natural barrier - a free which, according to stories of old residents, has been here since the foundation of the village. Under a dense shadow of the tree, the inhabitants found salvation from the hot Abhazian sun, on the branches clawing more than one generation of boys and girls. It keeps the memory about love, about war and peace, about life and death. According to the legend, if to cut down this tree, the sun will become so bright that will burn everything - people, country, history.
The near future. A prolonged economic crisis has undermined the last remaining foundations of the world order. In this chaos, a night bank clerk is taken hostage, and the hostage-taker’s demand is to withdraw money from a client's account. Trying to prevent this, the clerk realizes that his family is in grave danger.
Hunting tour in the mountains of the Caucasus. Hellish vacation of a German couple in a Turkish hotel for Russians. Acquaintance with the native bride in the African savannah. Yes, this is our way! The summer season in the style of "Russo touristo" is declared open!
Eisenstein shot 50 hours of footage on location in Mexico in 1931 and 32 for what would have become ¡Que viva México!, but was not able to finish the film. Following two wildly different reconstruction attempts in 1939 (Marie Seton's 'Time in the Sun') and 1979 (Grigori Alexandrov's '¡Que viva México!') Kovalov has here compiled another hypothetical version of what Eisenstein's film might have been.
Impending trouble in the form of a cat descends upon a mouse settlement
A 40-year-old writer returns to his family house where he was raised and that he escaped after half a lifetime - to face his brother who stayed instead, inherited their family bakery and married the woman who they both loved.
The film tells about the most difficult period in the modern history of Russia - from the late 1980s and the "era of change" to the crisis end of the noughties - through the prism of people who made the most important economic decisions. But this is not a dry enumeration of facts, but an accurate and even unexpected portrait of economists who managed to keep an entire country from financial collapse, and in the center of this group portrait is Alexey Kudrin.
According to Egyptian mythology, Ka is a life force that exists separately from its “master”. These are not the people themselves, but their materialized souls. On the one hand, this is a story about how the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten transmits his Ka to the main character, the Poet. On the other - the love story of Leyli and Medlum, the heroes of the poem of the same name of Khlebnikov. Like the eastern and western stars, they are found in the sky.
A couple arrives unannounced to visit their adult son on his birthday, but upon arrival they find not him but a tied-up, exhausted hostage. They are faced with a dilemma: whom to save—the unknown victim or their beloved son, who turns out to be a maniac.
Vano is the son of a Georgian wine maker, but he lives in Moscow from early childhood, and therefore he has completely forgotten family traditions. When luck turns its back on him, and the bandits from the bank demand payment, Vano has to start making the wine in the bath of a rented apartment. Starting to press the grapes, he hears the voices of the ancestors and begins to relate to his work with all his heart. And the young wine begins to respond to him. Soon Vano realizes the wine is magical and it starts to affect his life.
Biographical film of Maxim Boev
Spoiled seven-year-old Vanka lives a carefree childhood. Going with his father to the Maslenitsa holiday, Vanka meets a runaway deserter in the forest, about whom he tells the adults. This act instantly deprives Vanka of his childhood, and the father of his child. The event opens his eyes to the adult world in which the child will have to live on.
Krasnodar's debut in the Champions League in 2020. Emotional doc film about the brightest season in the history of the club.
Vera is a famous TV personality who wakes up with Nikita in bed after a hard day of partying. The next day, when she wakes up, the same thing happens.
Lena gets mixed up in an adventure of her girlfriend and agrees to participate in an exhibition. Unexpectedly she becomes a living statue: before hundreds of long- ing eyes, deprived of the possibility to move or speak – everything that remains is to meet herself and her inner enemies.
The husband commits a cowardly act at the moment when some thugs take away his wife’s camera. After which he tries to regain respect from his family. The confused wife and her son want to leave and stay at a distance. To stop her, the husband comes into conflict with the taxi driver, reminiscent of one of the offenders.
Nadya is a talented pianist. She lives on an island and is in love with Misha, her neighbor, the owner of a motor boat. Music teacher Vera Sergeevna, having learned about Nadya’s talent, offers to give her music lessons. Nadya persuades Misha to take her to town for lessons on his boat.
A beauty in the clutches of a monster. When there are only weaklings and scumbags around, there is nothing to hope for. But there must be a normal person somewhere! A savior who will help your dreams come true.
Asya is a successful police officer who deals with juvenile cases. The measured rhythm of her life is disrupted when, after many years, her flighty, eternally young 50-year-old mother Nadya suddenly reappears. She tries to restore her relationship with her daughter, but warm memories are quickly replaced by old grievances. Nadya has not changed…
The story of correspondence between old couple.
Once upon a time there was a little girl, Vassilissa. One day Vassilissa, who was walking with her grandmother in the forest, did not want to walk home. But the grandmother had trouble wearing Vasilisa ... What to do? Make quirks and then it will work? Of course it will work but not quite as Vasilisa thought ...
A young specialist, Nikolai, compensates for the zero love experience with his knowledge of communicating with animals acquired in a foreign internship. It is important that Nastya does not find out about this, because she chose Nikolai, a non-drinker, for his decency and originality.
Based on Boris Akunin's novel 'Azazel' (English title 'The Winter Queen') set in Moscow in 1876. The novel started a long series quite popular in Russia. In 'Azazel' a young police officer - Erast Fandorin - investigates an odd suicide of some rich young man and finds a complex conspiracy, trying to take over most European countries - from Britain to Ottoman Empire - with the best intentions, of course.
A documentary-fiction hybrid film based on the works of Joseph Brodsky.
The movie tells about the young woman in modern Moscow which is compelled to survive in the conditions of the rigid competition not only at work, but also in private life. The heroine doesn't manage to hear the desires in continuous vanity and diligence to keep in the megalopolis. Hurrying on protection of the project on which its future career depends, it nearly doesn't force down the small child who oddly has appeared on the carriageway. In attempt to find his parents, the heroine encounters a number of mystical coincidence, which lead to irreparable consequences. She gets up before a choice to live further or to lose everything and to remain the human.
After boyfriend's disappearance Zhenia develops an uncanny power for prophetic dreams. Using this gift she decides to escape fate and save her true love from Moscow's criminal underworld
A group of young people journey to rural Russia, only to find themselves being mercilessly ground by monsters from Slavic myths.
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.
At the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, residents of Zemleyarsk are looking for a virus carrier in their hometown. They suspects the mayor, who has just returned from Thailand. Mayor Guskov urgently needs to avert the suspicions just before the mayor elections.
Moscow. The night on the Eve of 1947. The war veteran Victor is going to a girl that he loves. The day earlier he was unloading railroad cars to buy a nice present for Helya. Helya is from Poland, a student of the Moscow Conservatoire. Victor and Helya will see the New Year in at their friend’s. Only one night when all secrets are revealed, when the feelings are poured out, but circumstances dictate their own rules. Victor and Helya are made for each other, but they are facing a choice — of the country where to live, of love or career. All of us have to make a choice in our life. When the day breaks, the fate of the two heroes will be decided.
An anthropological study of a cargo cult in a fictitious self-marginalized commune, which existed next to the Moscow Ring Road - a highway that marks the boundaries of the Russian capital - and survived mainly on roadside trash. Although the road provided for their basic needs, the existence of the commune was extremely precarious and highly dependent on the roadway's fluctuations. This dependency led them to develop a cargo cult of the road.
While on tour in New York, a Soviet ballerina learns of her brother's plan to defect.
Chained to a pipe in a dark room, a young woman must fight her way out and discover the dark secret to her imprisonment.
Two lonely souls meet in a megapolis.
A continuation of a famous Russian comedy "Mamy" ("Mommies").
A new party - "Party of Rabbits" - is organized in Russia during the elections.
Constantly flashing on the television screen in a variety of commercials, bachelor Valentin Ivanyuta becomes the victim of pills he advertised and becomes pregnant. And now the popular hero of the TV screen will have to talk with the woman he loved and to experience the whole range of feelings unusual for a man.
An unexpected look at the ancient Greek myth of Perseus. The musical and dramatic performance is staged both traditionally and innovatively. There are personalities and a choir here, which is the voice of the people. The live orchestra accompanying the entire performance gives an extraordinary expressiveness to the stage action. At the same time, the "rehearsal game" gives you the opportunity to feel additional emotional and semantic layers.
Continuation of the adventure about a lynx named Kunak.