A drama based on a classic short story by Anton Chekhov.
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A drama based on a classic short story by Anton Chekhov.
A practical joke ends up very wrong in Nigina Sayfullaevas curious youth drama. Two seventeen year old Moscow girls, Olya and Sasha, are visiting Olya's long lost father who lives in Crimea, when they decide to switch places and pretend to be the other person to the father. Little do they know that their joke comes with consequenses that will change their lives forever.
The story takes place in 18th century russia. empress elizabeth’s confessor, monk named Lavr, is exiled to a monastery in a haunted mountainous region, taking his secret ancient knowledge with him. Years later, the empress sends her godson Andrey to bring the monk back. Andrey travels to the ill-famed place and meets with Lavr, but before they can return to St. Petersburg they must face evil forces and creatures of the dark side.
1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized infantry division's long awaited return home gets put on hold for one last mission: bring the General's son back. Based on true events the previously untold story of the courageous and tragic withdrawal campaign (through the Salang pass) reveals the danger the horror and the complexity of human nature during wartime.
Zhanel is trapped in a life devoid of purpose. Unable to face the real world, she finds safe harbor in her wild and beautiful dreams. With the help of a psychiatrist she meets in her dreamscape, Zhanel tackles her problems and discovers her deeper self.
Sparta is a new kind of martial arts and also the only way for Nikolay to return to sport.
On the edge of Dushanbe, in the Republic of Tajikistan, a quiet border checkpoint under Russian control is attacked by Afghans and Tajiks who want it under their control.
The young man experiences a breakup with his beloved girl and remembers the main fear in his life inspired by the first teacher. A distant school and recent events sweep through his head at the moment when he thinks he is about to die.
A restaurant in Moscow is forced to shut shop after they end up ruining a crucial political dinner involving the president. The entire team then decides to relocate to Paris to redeem themselves.
A cyberstranger, a deaf baker, hipsters and Crimea, all in the first part of Sergei Loban's dilogy. - Love. This is a performance not to be missed! A love story between a fragile girl who daydreamed of becoming a princess and Cyberstranger, a mysterious young man hiding behind a nickname. A sea of tears and an abyss of despair! Can Cinderella and the Invisible Man be together? Step right up, step right up! - Friendship. Light the lights! There is a show in town today! Here is a story of a deaf young man with a flaming heart and a boy with an ice shard in his eye. Witness insidious betrayal and unbending courage! Danko and Kai – fire and ice collide! Will the universe survive the battle of the elements? A spectacle you have never seen before and will never see again!
A young girl is involved in an accident with the car of a migrant worker. Nothing serious. The situation could be resolved quite simply. But the police officers who arrive on the scene have their own ideas.
In the name of his first love for a beautiful Turkish woman, the young German renounces his past by burning family photos. He is no longer Thomas. Now, he is called Hamza. And he is enlisted. Alexey Basargin is a captain in the Russian army, a scout, a loving husband, and father. They keep video diaries of their lives. Two destinies. Two worlds. The collision is inevitable.
A powerful life takeoff. A career breakthrough. A renewed passion in a relationship with a wonderful, smart, beautiful wife. Moving to the elite quarter, to the "thickets" of the local provincial paradise. Victor is showered with gifts of fate, he is happy to an incredible extent. Why is it so difficult for him to accept these gifts?
Set in the ground zero of gangster globalism and driven by a truly manic energy, Generation P is at once a comedy, a tragedy and a fantasy about the rise of a poet-turned-adman through Russia’s nascent advertising business during the Moscow roaring 1990s.
A group of young treasure hunters are trying to find a powerful artefact buried by Nazis during WWII.
Based on a story of Countess Bathory, a serial killer in 16th century Transylvania who supposedly killed hundreds of children.
Igor Uspensky's popularity is growing faster than he can find time for social events, parties, photo shoots, and interacting with the public. At the same time, in one of the small beauty salons, a local masseur named Seva, who looks exactly like Uspensky, is filming a commercial. Igor finds a solution to his problem and offers Seva a partnership.
Vasya - an adventurer and a fraudster - gets to the hospital. His roommate Gena dies, and Vasya becomes the only person who knows about the meeting of Gena with his son, whom he never saw. Vasya decides on his biggest scam - he goes to a meeting and impersonates Gena. How far is Vasya ready to go this time?
Tapeur, who introduced himself as a composer invites the young lady into the Movie Theatre of Baron Schmitt. Suddenly the seance turns into a tragedy — Baron presents to the audience a brand new miracle - the mechanical Pianola which replaced the Tapeur, and thus the young lady falls in love with the Baron.
After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, choreographer Souliman.
October 1941. German forces have penetrated deep into Russia and are laying waste to everything they see. The Soviet high command takes every chance they get to secure the rear and take anything of historic importance out of harm's way.
Young Russian Prince Yaroslav fights the robbers, tribes and the invaders. He is the first to unite Russian lands and to create the original Russian state.
Based on Yuri Yakovlev's short story "The Devil which is cut short" (Стриженый чёрт). It is a story about a boy who saves the old soldier dog from being putting to sleep because of its age.
Every year on the International Women’s Day telephone networks transfer millions of phone calls and SMS messages. The vast majority of phone calls are addressed to the most important women in lives of everyone - to our mothers. But what would it be if because of enormous number of calls telephone network breaks down? What would we do? Someone would wait until network is rebuilt and would congratulate his mom in the evening or even the next day. But others, like the heroes of our movie, would change their plans to congratulate their moms just today ... personally ... as a kid!..
Four old friends - Kamil, Lesha, Sasha and Slava - all well-to-do professionals in their late 30s embarking on a two days road trip from Moscow to Odessa. They wish to escape the metropolis and the everyday routine of work, family and girlfriends to relax in a nightclub run by Slava's friend and to see the popular band B-2 show.
A six year old Kohl Pihtin, arrives at the musical contest in the capital. But his main goal is not to win, but to find his father, whom he never saw. A discovery of a basement has a passage leading to another reality: on the deserted coastline. The boy has a choice; to stay permanently in the country of fiction or to meet his real parents
When a 7-year-old son of the well-known businessman is kidnapped, he has no idea what awaits him! It turns out that the mysterious kidnapper does not need any ransom, but has only one claim: during the next day father must decide who will die of the two: his child or himself...
Everything goes wrong for several people based in different Russian cities on New Year's eve. To fix their problems, they have to do a lot within just a few hours. Find rent money for an apartment. Win 8-years-old daughter’s confidence. Recover from amnesia. Find a way to be with a boyfriend against Dad’s will. Climb the city's main New Year's tree in a dragon costume to prove your love for your fiancé. Conquer a pop diva`s heart. Save a plane from a crash. And even find your youth sweetheart 40 years later.
They don't really know each other. She lives in penury. He holds a pawnshop. Poverty makes her marry him, despite she doesn't love him and even despises. After the marriage takes place, the family war begins. Based on a novel 'A Gentle Creature' by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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.
The wife of a young man finds out that he betrays her. Trying to win her back, the man develops a plot during which he must convince his wife that she saw an completely different man. A man who looks like him, as two peas in a pod.
One day in the life of three non-mainstream Moscow guys from different walks of life.
A new production of Gogol by Lenkom. This is an absolutely incredible event and an endlessly funny and touching story about unsuccessful suitors and a young woman who has stayed too long in the role of a bride-to-be.
Yuri, a 35 year old business man, suddenly one day finds his life is going nowhere and decides to become a professional cosmonaut. But the complexity and length of the training prove frustrating, and Yuri questions if he will ever reach his goal, until the accidental death of a fellow trainee suddenly brings him tantalizingly close to realizing his dream, but also close to losing everything.
In the absence of sex education in school and at home in a Russian province in the early 90's, the boy Serezja discovers his sexuality in a strange and comical way in which an accordion plays a crucial role.
Remarkable footage of a Barcelona anti-austerity demonstration – and its quelling – shaped into a lyrical tribute to the spirit of protest by Victor Kossakovsky ( ¡Vivan las Antipodas!) and 32 Spanish film students.
Katya is a workaholic with no personal life, a strict boss and the most principled notary in the city. But the New Year, as you know, is a time of miracles. A simple joke from a disgruntled subordinate turns into an incredible New Year's Eve adventure for Katya.
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...
Napoleon has decided to declare war to the world. When he approaches Moscow, the Russian military tries to outfox him: they send a beautiful woman to Napoleon who is supposed to seduce him, so he will think about making love, not war.
A group of teenagers riding in a car for a picnic. On the way, one of the guys accidentally shoots a kidnapped girl from a car overtaken on the phone. The guy decides not to tell anyone anything, and soon terrible things start happening to him.
One day two people turn up at the office of the advertisement company "FIGA.RO". They are a beautiful girl and a young man, quoting Montaigne. In a short time the couple take hostage the businessman Ivan. He is the owner of the company and its windows face the building housing special services.
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.
A young truck driver from a small, nameless Russian town sets off on a spiritual journey that has no actual purpose and no verifiable destination, encountering lonely women and small time crooks along the way.
Sveta, her two children and stepfather Semen solemnly celebrate the birthday of the hero-submariner Victor - the first husband of Sveta, who went missing five years ago. Right during a toast to the birthday boy, he unexpectedly returns home and claims that all this time he was fulfilling the task of the Motherland.
Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and ’80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family friend. Written by nitorch.
A story about how different men can be.
Russian exchange student Alya struggles to fit into what it means to be an American teenage girl in 1994 when she realizes her host father has a crush on her.
With a cheeky wolf as a travel companion, a prince from a faraway kingdom embarks on a quest to win a princess's heart.
Judas, a seasoned thief, finds himself in the market square where Christ is giving a sermon and his apostles are collecting alms. He follows them and steals their money, only to be caught red-handed. Nevertheless, the Teacher forgives him. What is more, He invites the thief to become one of His followers and offers him a position as the group’s treasurer. Shocked by Christ’s unexpected offer, Judas decides to join the apostles, if only to figure out what is going on. He gradually starts to comprehend Christ’s message, but feels that the apostles are blindly following their teacher. Judas argues with them, and tries to defend his right to divine the truth of God. But when he fails to make them understand, he realizes that Christ’s teachings may sink into oblivion without benefiting humanity. His solution is to betray Christ. “By killing a man, have I not saved a God?”
A swindler on the lam uses his impersonating skills to pose as a grandmother in a nursing home, where his disguise complicates his love life.
A funny story about the Moscow policemen travel to a small town.