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There is a seven-year war, Russian soldiers are forced to fight for the interests of France and Austria against Prussia. The midshipmen continue to selflessly serve the Motherland. One is on an expedition, the other is at court, and the third is sent to Venice to hand over a jewelry box. In fact, there is a message in the box, on which the future fate of Europe and Russia depends!
The heroic crew of the fighter jet reunites a quarter of a century later. Fate has separated these comrades-in-arms, significantly altering their characters and worldviews. One became a radical communist, another became the chairman of the Veterans Fund, and the third lived in exile for many years. At first, the former comrades-in-arms find it difficult to understand each other, but when one of them gets into trouble, the others devise a plan to rescue him.
The story is about a tank regiment commander who did not go against his people and did not follow the command's order to disperse the rebellion of the working masses. However, he went against the system, which means he must be punished.
Old Jordan Gerak, the head of a large peasant family, still strives to maintain a close-knit family, good relations and mutual love in the house. He is a hardworking, warm—hearted and cheerful man. But unbeknownst to himself, he is drawn into the whirlpool of hoarding: he keeps a tavern, saves and hides money, exploits the labor of workers. The passion for profit, like a terrible disease, infects the souls of his sons and family relationships crumble...
Improvisation on the topic of modern politicized television with elements of banditry.
"Makarov" both a popular Russian name, and also slang for the word "gun," serves as a metaphor for the brutal reality of life in a post-totalitarian society. The story's protagonist, Makarov, embodies this struggle as he becomes more mechanical and less spiritual upon acquiring a gun.
The alien Luri, almost a teenager, fell to Earth on a special mission. The neighbors in the Galaxy were terribly offended by earthlings for their attitude towards their planet and Luri was sent to us in order to inform us that in a few hours time on Earth would turn back - a century ago, and all this so that people could re-live the 20th century "ecologically right and safe." However, for the heroes of the film, this can simply mean death, because there will be no place for the living in the world of great-grandparents and great-grandparents. Luri's meeting with peers, the girl Masha and her friends from around the world can interfere with what was planned and save all those living today.
A ship with doubles sails from the pier on the Moscow River, heading with a show program to one of the provincial Russian cities. The murder of Thatcher's look-alike that happened on board is being investigated by police captain Zharov.
“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.
A student is trying to build a career in theater using not his talent but looks and sexuality.
The story of a young, beautiful woman who suddenly finds out that she is terminally ill. After leaving a prestigious job in Moscow, she leaves for a small provincial town, where she finds herself on the verge of despair and meets true love.
A romantic parable based on real events. He and She are lovers who want to unite their fate by marriage. But by the will of fate, the lovers get into an accident and find themselves on an island washed by the sea of Uncertainty.
Peter, who killed his beloved out of jealousy, twenty years later meets a girl, into whose soul the spirit of the mother - the hero's victim - has infiltrated. Having bewitched Peter, the young witch forces him to commit violence and murder.
An anthology of four 1980's short films from Sweden, Denmark and the former Soviet Union.
Well what is this can someone explain? The Bada is real and kind, there is grass, he is alive and saying hello. Black water in the house, floor and pond. Honey from the jar of the soul you'll throw away. A false horned beast and four little homunculuses drink juices and belittle a crater.
A young night watchman at the Anton Chekhov museum in Yalta encounters a mysterious, weary intruder who appears to be the playwright himself, returned from the dead. Over the course of a single night, the two share a series of quiet, existential interactions within the preserved rooms of the estate.
A small provincial town. The inhabitants are bored, apathetic and bitter... Peredonov, a modest high school teacher, dreams about a promotion and moving to the capital. Gradually his dream becomes an obsession. Varvara, his second cousin who dreams about marrying him, writes a promising letter about an invitation to Saint-Petersburg on behalf of the capital's princess. But the teacher's dreams aren't meant to come true: he becomes a victim of his own insanity and kills his friend and the hateful Varvara...
A rich, smart, charming philanthropist from Saint-Petersburg Andrei Rokshin is found dead at home. The culprit is a woman wearing a black veil. Investigator Sinev takes the case.
An orphan named Nikolay Najdenov went through the hell of the war in Afghanistan and the horrors of captivity. From now on he is a US citizen and his name is Nick McCann. In the US he has a family and new life, but in his country of birth, Ukraine, there are still some unpaid bills remaining, so the tough American boy goes back to his home country, where he learns about the death of his best friend, and soon after that his friend's wife got killed, too. Naydenov decides to revenge their death...
A modern adaptation of a famous classis Ivan Turgenev novel.
At the house on Golden Pond, where an elderly couple lives, their daughter Chelsea arrives with her fiancé and his son Billy. This changes the couple's life. The boy brings joy and chaos into the home of the elderly couple.
The year is 1949. One of the last outbreaks of Stalinist terror was a bloody buffoonery under the auspices of the fight against cosmopolitanism. In the Writers' House near Moscow, where a young writer finishes her story about her husband's arrest and death, there is a painful atmosphere of fear, suspicion, suspiciousness and foreboding that can drive you crazy...
A movie producer tries to find a double for a diva with drug problems.
Young Elli is taken away from her mother and left in a magical land. On her quest to find her way back she meets a scarecrow, a lion and a woodsman.
Great Britain at the beginning of the XVIII century. His daughter Hilaret runs away from the house of a rich merchant to secretly marry her lover. The lives of young people are in danger. But despite the intrigues of dishonest law enforcement officers, vice is punished, and justice prevails...
One of the first films about the flight of Russians from the former Soviet republics, and in many ways anticipated the situation on the southern borders of Russia in the mid-90s. The characters of the film engage in an unequal battle with a gang of criminals. Dedicated to the special Forces of the Don division...
Russian countess in 1893 has strange dreams about herself living a life as a dishwasher in 1993' Moscow after dissolution of the USSR.
This documentary was created for the 130th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas II and the 80th anniversary of the execution of the royal family.
Follows the deportation of Karachays, which took place at the end of World War II. The film's director, himself a Karachay, tried to convey the experiences of people, life and culture, considering it important to make people realize what that did to him and his people.
Professor of entomology Vakhtang Itrieli published several articles in which he sharply condemned Georgian nationalism. He calls for civil harmony in the name of universal ideals. For this, he is persecuted by nationalists who threaten to expel him from the university. Vakhtang meets a girl Nina. She is sympathetic to Vakhtang's problems. He, in turn, feels that danger is hanging over the girl...
In the old house, but in the heart of the big city lives a Russian intellectual Chekhov's tailoring Ilyin. He lives a quiet-peaceful and for the time being do not know what in the old closet is the entrance to a mysterious cave and magic the room from which you can easily get to any capital in the world…
A Christmas story, almost a fairy tale. An ordinary Russian girl brought up without a father could not even think that one fine day she would find him. And who could suppose that three "fathers" at once would pretend to the role?
A crime has been committed. Thanks to the determination and perseverance of a young police criminal investigation officer, it is possible to get on the trail of a seasoned repeat offender and solve a long-standing crime related to the disappearance of diamonds of the famous Siberian merchant Kukhterin in February 1917.
People from all over the area and even from all over the country come to Maximilian, who lives in a quiet rural area, for advice. Maximilian is known as a prophet and sorcerer. For example, he is able to give out the methodology for the election campaign. This is why a candidate for deputy named Kutergin comes to him. Here he organizes proper work to receive the population. Disappointed with such a life, Maximilian climbs onto an iron cage in a field and waits for a revelation, a conversation with the Lord. He is declared a stylite; Hare Krishnas, communists, democrats and other crazy people come from all over. And Maximilian suddenly realizes that he must return to the city to his wife, to whom he promised five years ago that he would quit drinking, and leaves his “pillar”. Maximilian left, and his place was taken by Kutergin, who believed in the miracle.
The fabulous story of the girl Hannah and the young man from the depths of the sea in the film is intertwined with the pictures of the life of a provincial German town during World War II that arise in the heroine's memory, about her first love.
The folktale of Masha and the Bear.
The film is set in 1890s London. Sarah lived happily in India with her father, but when he was drafted into military service he placed Sarah in a boarding school in London. Sarah was lonely, but she made some good friends at school. Suddenly her father was announced dead in a mine accident and Sarah became an orphan. Now she goes on a long and dangerous journey to find her father, who loved her and called her a "little princess".
A surreal depiction of a man’s passion for film and his attempts to save his cinema.
A screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play about three sisters yearning for a better life.
Based on the story by M. Gorky 'On a Raft'.
After Polina, a mother of six, loses her husband, who went to jail for stealing charcoal and was killed when he tried to escape, she stays behind without any support. To be able to survive, Polina and her family start a folk group. But soon she understands that her children deserve a better fate, and she takes the desperate decision to steal a plane and go abroad... Fifteen years later, Polina is released from prison and finds out that fate has scattered her children all over the country: one is in the army, another is a miner in the Donbass, and the oldest, Lyonchik, who used to be in a mental institution, now pretends to be insane. Polina gathers all of her sons to free their older brother from the psychiatric hospital...
A school teacher wasn't expecting to find a dead man corpse in her apartment during a party.
A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...
Ira wanders around the streets of Moscow. She's pregnant with the child of Adrissa, an african student.
Tragic circumstances brought the Spirit, a former "Afghan", to a prison cell, where he found himself alone with the German baron Maximilian von Stoltz. The spirit once lived by the sea, in a house where there were a woman and a child. Served as a paratrooper in Afghanistan. Unknown paths led him into the criminal world, he has 11 murders to his name, the prospect of capital punishment.
Hiding from the police captain, a prostitute ends up in the room of a quiet, modest pianist from the United States who takes part in a competition in the resort town by the sea. The naive young man gets carried away by a pretty and cheerful girl. In turn, she finds great, sincere love.
Gera, a respected director of TV commercials, thinks he's capable of creating a fiction movie masterpiece. Predictably, he ends up with owning money to a mafia and no film to show for. To make his life even crazier he falls in love with a girl who belongs to the boss of mafia.
A meeting with a Georgian guy distracts a hopelessly ill girl from her worries. With the help of his parents, they go to Israel for a medical consultation.
A film-play based on the play by Edward Albee (translated by Vitaly Vulf, Igor Kochnov).
A tragic love story set during WWII.
According to ancient legend, the artist found a mineral that can revive any inanimate thing. To hide the mineral, he inserts it into a doll named Hagi. A century later, Hagi falls into the hands of a puppeteer, and he with horror discovers that the old doll is alive. Moreover, she also has a nasty character. Criminals try to take possession of it in order to use it for mercenary purposes. But they do not know the secrets of this doll - no one can take possession of it, but it has a destructive effect on any person who falls within its influence.
Iwan Rabcynski, born in St. Petersburg (Florida), writes Russian melodramas under the pseudonym "John F. Romanoff. He gets his inspiration in Brooklyn, his chosen home. His new novel, which is meant to be autobiographical, begins with his Russian great grandfather in St. Petersburg in 1882 and follows three generations as they survive the country's political upheavals.
A sudden hero dressed in all black (including underwear) emerges in the small Russian town to fight for justice.