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"That imbecile grandiose who does not know Lourie!" – Vladimir Mayakovsky once proclaimed. At the beginning of the century, the name of this composer and musician thundered no less than the names of Prokofiev or Stravinsky. The star of the Stray Dog Cafe, a colleague of Khlebnikov, Miturich, Annenkov and Mandelstam, after the revolution he headed the music department of the People's Commissariat for Education, becoming the main one in the country "for music". At the same time, his affair with Anna Akhmatova took place. They lived together for only a few years, until Arthur Lourie decided to leave for the West. They were able to write to each other again almost half a century later... People's Artist of Russia Svetlana Kryuchkova and People's Artist of Russia Valery Kukhareshin were filmed in the film. Artur Lurie's music was performed by the "XX century" ensemble under the direction of Maria Khodina, grand pianos Sergei Oskolkov and Daniil Yekimovsky, soprano Victoria Evtodyeva.

Sergey was 6 years old when he was trampled by a horse and became blind. Today he is a professional football player.

Over a 2-year period, “DIY Country” captures the origins and evolution of the Donetsk People’s Republic in East Ukraine from hopeful and naive beginnings, to hate, destruction and infighting. In the first part we follow the sinister and at times comical mechanics of how our heroes make a Revolution that will immediately eat them up. In the second part we will see them trying to find a role to play in the new State, as power is once again taken away from the people.

A film-metaphor about dreams, flight and freedom.

A little mouse lives in a circus and dreams of becoming a great artist.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov has played many roles in films. But one of them had a huge impact on him and on our society as a whole. What is the attitude towards this work today? The actor, finding himself at the turn of different social eras, reflects on time, about himself, and about his almost fatal hero...

Moscow. Relations 2018.

Producer Aleksey Pivovarov and director Alexander Rastorguev started working on a documentary film dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Norilsk Nickel, moving away from the traditional form and choosing the web-doc genre. As a result, the project team created an interactive website, norilskfilm.com, filled with many short stories, archival materials and virtual panoramas.

These are love stories of people lawlessly separated by prison. Most of the characters in the film, which was shot for 4 years, suffered from imperfect laws or due to failures of the judicial system. The movie is about how difficult it is to wait and fight when there is nothing to hope for. About salvation by love. "After all, not only those who are in prison are sitting-their loved ones are sitting with them!" - says one of the heroines of the film, journalist Olga Romanova.

The life of the heroes flows on its own until they receive the message: "Attention! Volunteers are required!". Wherever the Lisa Alert volunteers are, they go on a search, especially when the life of a lost child depends on it. The film, created by students of the Moscow School of Cinema in 360 format, takes the viewer to the center of the events of the search operation, showing the path that each of the characters takes to achieve one important task — so that everyone else receives the message "Found. Alive!".

The most ordinary guy who grew up in the far northern tundra among the deer comes to the city of Yakutsk. It was then that his ordeal began. It would be fine, urbanization and other delights of urban life, but also the society of modern "schoolboys" who have never seen people in reindeer sheepskin coats! How will he get out of this situation? Or run back to the tundra, or become one of them?

Oleg Kirillov - coach of the intuitive football team. It's hard to believe, but his wards are members of the national football team of the Republic of Belarus among the blind. Each of them appeared on the field for various reasons, but today they face a common task - to maintain their champion status in the national competition. Kirillov himself grew up in a disabled family and knows well how to communicate with his wards. He is not only a mentor, but also a friend of each of the athletes. An important element of the film is work with sound, it completely restored the sound environment that is natural for players, in which they focus on the noise made by the ball and the clear instructions of the coach.

Masha goes to personal growth trainings. Every minute of life is subject to a routine, every step on the road to success is planned. The main thing is to be productive. Masha has a serious purpose.

Music resists oblivion and death. Yiddish songs help Holocaust victims return to their past after a half-century-long silence. The mother is terminally ill. The daughter is trying to write down the family history while the disease has not yet prevailed over her mother, and she recognizes the people in the photos in the family album.

Lyudmila Vaulina is a pediatrician. I have worked in the village all my life. This is the first time she has encountered such a child.

Flag (2010, in collaboration with Mikhail Maximov). Dreams of an ever-burning flag.

Powerwolf - Live @ Adrenaline Stadium, Moscow 29.03.2019

From early childhood, Julia studied Russian, and in her youth she was fascinated by Russian culture and history. After graduating from university in Paris, she went to Moscow to write a diploma on early Social Democrats. At this stage of life, our paths crossed. Because I was also fascinated by the French language and culture. She arrived from Paris to Moscow by train with a huge, very heavy suitcase. It turns out that there were books in it... Housing in Moscow in the mid-2000s. In felt boots, a Russian shawl and a mini skirt. French rap is in the headphones. Julia said that there is nothing worse than adolescence.

Two elderly men travel across the endless steppe in a single cart, heading to Orenburg to sue each other. Along the way, forced to talk, they begin to remember that they were once friends.

St. Petersburg streets. Cloudy day. The inflamed consciousness. The feeling of an invisible presence of somebody behind you. Who you want to be. your shadow... The shadow challenges you. All you have to do is figure out who really exists-you or your shadow.

This nonfiction film is devoted to two great Russian artists. Instead of focusing on the history of the mundane, everyday friendship between Chekhov and Levitan, the film emphasizes the affinity of their creative efforts and the interplay of their similar, yet so different, personalities. What the authors of the film offer to their viewer is no idyll: it is the world full of nuance and contradiction that reveals itself against the backdrop of the era, at the same time uncovering the most subtle peculiarities of the two great creators. The cross-pollination of two creative methods and the interconnection of the two geniuses represent the leading motif of the film.

How important it is to be able to see the beautiful in life, even if fate has brought into a remote village of Bamov ... A school librarian teaches children to dream, because that is what distinguishes a person from an animal. For the present, children chuckle at her quirks, but, perhaps, when they grow up, they will remember her lessons. Dreams and romance of Henrik opposes the immersion of society in bestiality. It seems that there is no other moral decay to stop ...

A mysterious monk with mystical powers issues a man a license to kill by imbuing him with the fighting skills necessary to avenge his brother’s death.

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson’s production of Violetta Valéry’s tragic fate is his first work at the State Theater of Linz, Austria, one of the most modern operatic stages in Europe by architect Terry Pawson. After the run in Linz, the production was transferred to the Opera House in Perm, Russia, where the production was conducted by Teodor Currentzis. In 2017, the work received a “Golden Mask”, the most prestigious Russian theater award, in three categories (Teodor Currentzis, Best Conductor; Nadezhda Pavlova, Best Female Singer; Robert Wilson, Best Lighting Design).

Filmed in April 2010, the film is based on real documents of Russian social and political life and on an analysis of the conflict that has developed around the planned Okhta Center development in Petersburg, where the Gazprom corporation intends to house the headquarters of its locally-based subsidiaries in a 403-meter-high skyscraper. The proposed skyscraper has provoked one of the fiercest confrontations between the authorities and society in recent Russian political history. Despite resistance on the part of various groups who believe that construction of the building would have a catastrophic impact on the appearance of the city, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Gazprom has so far managed to secure all the necessary permissions and has practically begun the first phase of construction.

She lives in plenty. A successful marriage, a comfortable routine, a cushy job, an office affair. Everyone’s alive and well. She is attractive and clever. But it’s not enough for her. Anna’s husband is offered a promotion with a transfer to Vladivostok. Being a romantic person, Anna willingly accepts it and... it is where her settled life starts to crack.

Yakut movie

A little dinosaur sees snow for the first time. And, it looks like he likes it.

An empty pot fell from a peasant's cart, and a Fly settled in that pot. After that, the Creeping Louse, the Flea, and the Long-Legged Mosquito pulled up, and then the larger guests arrived...

Appearing in the finale of the first part, Scorpio intends to raise an army against our heroes. In search of the lost part of his amulet, Scorpio arranges a tournament. Our heroes answer the challenge. Intensive training begins. Will the heroes be able to reach their enemy? Will they be able to win in the battle with Scorpio and his team?

About a young scientist from Syria who moves to Russia with his sister. The scientist suffers from a rare disease - "insensibility."

In the future, a team of astronauts are sent on a ten year journey to a distant planet to find new life. On their way, they encounter a large, abandoned spaceship that is drifting in the orbit of a mysterious planet. They board the ship with anticipation of the great discoveries to uncover inside. However, they do not know what terrible secret this spacecraft keeps -- a nightmarish threat which is far bigger and scarier than anything they could have imagined.

Fantasy on the theme of a poem by Vladislav Krapivin.

Video for the song "Чемодания" by IUN. The story of a man's journey in search of himself and his purpose.

The Voices project was created on the basis of thousands of drawings sent from all over the world by people with special needs. The film reflects the generalized stages of mental illness based on the experience of people with mental disorders. The plot is based on the stories of the authors of Radio Through the Looking Glass about their psychiatric experience. The film was shot in the framework of the activities of the NGO Club of Psychiatrists with the support of the Good Century charity foundation.

A two-part documentary film about the state of Russia’s prisons today. In-depth interviews with former inmates of all stripes, including those convicted of political, economic, and violent crimes.

It is a portrait film of Boris Mirkin, one of the pioneers of Soviet programming. In the film, Mirkine does not speak so much of the artificial intelligence as the chapka (fur cap) he bought in London, the collection of horse figurines or his children scattered in different countries. In fact, it is not really a gay story because it is the portrait of a whole generation of Soviet scientists. He started working in cybernetics in a country where artificial intelligence was used to study the daily behavior of villagers. He left because his family dreaded the pogroms against the Jews. He made a career in the West. He came back because in Russia, we think in Russian.

A TV play in two acts based on the play "The Lion in Winter" by James Goldman. King Henry II, in his declining years, must announce the name of the heir to the throne. For the sake of this event, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves her prison for a while. On Christmas Day 1183, three royal sons gather. The atmosphere of conspiracies, intrigues, insidious alliances between family members explodes with open hostility...

Grand Prix of the 2013 Cannes film festival

A dystopian comedy with a utopian ending.

The one act performance by choreographer Yuri Possokhov pays homage to the celebrated founder of the fashion house that bears her name and features a stunning display of Chanel costumes specially created for the ballet. Created specifically for Zakharova, the ballet "Gabrielle Chanel" recounts the most memorable moments of the work and life of the French fashion designer, who died in 1971 aged 87.

A deaf-mute girl, a wheelchair user, does not walk. He cannot speak either Russian or the language of the deaf and dumb. On vacation in Italy, this does not prevent her from easily and cheerfully communicating with hotel employees and guests from different countries. The film is about her and her friend, a little boy who knows why some children are born healthy and others sick.

A unique documentary about an inheritance of communism. An hidden world: the world of Kommunalki. In Saint Petersburg a lot of different people of different ages, culture and background live together in rooms inside big flats where they share common areas as the kitchen and the bathroom. This happens for 100 years... Since the October Revolution.

Chronicle of the last day of the life of Alena. Once in winter, she was kicked out of the house ... Memories of her daughter, events of the day, farewell words - everything was mixed in her head.

Film dance. A young dancer and a mysterious youth. She laughs a lot, and he watches her. It is impossible to predict what the last movement in this dance will be.

Recently, the beautiful Sasha lost her husband. She is going through his tragic death very hard...

At the Moscow suburbs cemetery for thirty years, a shovel for a shovel, the grave friends Sasha and Yura work. The first is a former athlete who undermined his health at the beginning of his career. The second - in the past, a physicist-graduate student, a failed scientist, who in the 90s threw science for quick and solid earnings. They feel free, provide families and see the meaning of their existence in this. Yura helps a divorced daughter of one to raise a child. Sasha has an adult daughter, and a former athlete finds an outlet in coaching - teaches teen martial arts. Bogatyr Yura, who even in winter digs naked to the waist, hopes that he will have enough health for another ten years, he will just have time to put his granddaughter on his feet. Although the former physicist is already 63 years old.

The first year of the war. Two sisters work at the plant. One of them arrested her husband for escaping from captivity. The other is in the hands of a list with the names of those who should be fired from the factory. In it and surname of the sister. The woman has to make a choice.