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Let's Play!

Misha, a cheerful and inexhaustible six-year-old prodigy, blows up a kindergarten as a result of another experiment. He is truly upset only by the lack of attention of his parents, who are on the verge of divorce. Right on New Year's Eve, Misha suddenly becomes the hero of a fantastic story: he is kidnapped. The hapless kidnappers expect to get a ransom for the boy, but they do not even suspect what kind of child fell into their hands. The tragicomic nature of the situation is complicated by the fact that another "mysterious force" enters the struggle for the boy, trying to "outsmart" and take advantage of his unusual abilities...

Let's Play!

NR 2007
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

Journalist Shurik arrives in the Caucasus in order to study local culture and folklore, the ancient customs and traditions of the people in this region. Per chance he meets and befriends a girl in a mountainous town, the beauty Nina, which the gouvernor, wealthy and powerful local Saakhov, is planning to marry — if not willingly then by force. Using the gullible journalist as a strawman, Saakhov and his henchmen (the "Coward", the "Fool", and the "Pro", a trio of comic antiheros) are able to kidnap Nina, all seems to work according to plan. But realizing that he had been deceived, Shurik, who fell for Nina, rushes to rescue his beloved one, for a happy ending.

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

1.7 2014
1210

'1210' is a shrilly story of a 'small person' seeking justice from the state. All his attempts are bound to fail. He's a superfluous nasty old spot, rejected even by his own family. Going mad is probably the only way out for a totally forgotten war veteran, burgled and miserable. It still remains a question, however, whether the 'crazy' man is really so in our 'normal' world, or it's the world itself which turned crazy from its own indifference. Knocked down by despair, the man resorts to committing a horrible deed. A deed unlikely to be pardoned...

1210

5.8 2012
Dreams of the Past

A film about peace, love and war. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the end of the Civil War in Russia. The film takes place at the end of the summer of 1917, when Russia and the whole world were at a crossroads between two eras. None of the people could even imagine how much his life would change in the very near future. In a strange way, the atmosphere of the film echoes our current reality and what is happening in Russia today. According to the form of visualization, the film belongs to experimental mockumentary cinema. To give greater authenticity to what is happening on the screen, the shooting was carried out on black-and-white negatives of 16 and 35 mm, hand-operated cameras were used and the material was developed in manual spiral tanks. The documentary chronicle of the Kolchak army of 1919 and the White army in the Far East of 1922 is embedded in the finale of the film.

Dreams of the Past

10.0 2022
About a Wife, a Dream and Another...

The film has two story-lines or "realities". The main characters are lovers, Maria and Vasin who discover they have access to an alternate reality wherein missed opportunities have become realities. In the film's first act, subtitled "The Pilot", Maria finds that she is in love with Vasin again after rejecting his marriage proposal twenty years earlier, when he was a lieutenant in the Russian Air Force. Vasin also lives a life of regrets, and wishes he was able to pursue his unfulfilled dream of becoming a film director. In the second act, "A Film Director", Maria is transported into a different reality. In this reality, she marries Vasin, and he becomes a film director. The plot questions whether they are truly happy with each other, despite having their wishes granted.

About a Wife, a Dream and Another...

4.3 2013
The Edge of the Broken Moon

Fourteen-year-old Sonya unexpectedly learns that her mother lied to her about her father's death for many years, and forbade him to communicate with her daughters. Unable to forgive such a betrayal, she runs away from home. Mother and older sister Sasha find Sonya at their old dacha, where no one has visited for many years. Three women are forced to finally talk through all the problems, grievances and fears that have been so carefully hushed up for years. This begins the long journey of restoring family ties.

The Edge of the Broken Moon

7.0 2023
Clean Thursday

Not far from Grozny, on an alternate railroad track, there is an old steam locomotive with several wagons attached to it. The steam engine gives steam — hot water is in the boilers, and a bathhouse is equipped in the cars, where soldiers and officers wash, laundry is washed ... A washing on wheels — at the same time a soldier’s bivouac, a piece of peaceful life, and the beginning of a new road. To this locomotive, these cars come - platooned, in batches and one at a time - tired, tired, unshaven, angry Russian guys. They scrape dirt off themselves. Soak from stubborn soot, warm with souls. They put on clean underwear. They drink vodka. They smoke. They talk about love, remember loved ones and native places. Cry. They sing. And around - the landscape after the battle. It's not over yet ... An accidental explosion. Stray bullet. And our guys washed into the unknown. Clean. Hoping to survive.

Clean Thursday

5.7 2003
After You're Gone

Aleksey Temnikov is a renowned ballet dancer and an acknowledged genius whose career was abruptly cut short after sustaining an injury in the 1990s. Twenty years later, Aleksey discovers that his condition is degenerative and that he will soon lose the ability to walk. Aleksey sets out to choreograph a ballet he envisaged long before but never staged for fear of failure. “What will I leave behind after I am gone?” is a question Aleksey feels he must contend with. However, returning to the world of ballet will not be easy for a man who has made so many enemies over the course of his life.

After You're Gone

6.4 2016
Graveyard of Dreams

When the republic of Georgia declared war on the rebellious province of Abkhazia, many of the country's young artists and intellectuals responded to their government's call to fight. Every culture, it seems, needs to discover for itself that war is hell. Khaindrava's version of this aperçu is in every sense a front-line bulletin: it's a black-and-white docudrama about Georgia's attempts to subdue the rebellion in Abkhazia, made with real young soldiers and partly shot in the thick of battle. It starts with the eagerness of students and intellectuals to volunteer for the Georgian army and ends with the deaths of many. Khaindrava, several times imprisoned for dissidence in USSR days, knows all about the conflict: he helped launch it when he was made Minister for Abkhazian Affairs - a post he soon quit. He should have watched Hell Is for Heroes before he took the job.

Graveyard of Dreams

NR 1997
Buses Don't Run Here

Caught in the middle of the road God knows where and trying to leave, Asya finds a bus stop on the outskirts of the forest. But there are no buses running here, the stop is fake, the route was canceled a long time ago, and the stop itself remained here so that elderly people with Alzheimer's from a local nursing home did not go somewhere by accident. They will sit for a while and forget that they wanted to go somewhere. While Asya is waiting for a taxi, an old man appears at the bus stop. An optional conversation ensues between them, which in the most unexpected way will forever change the lives of both.

Buses Don't Run Here

NR 2020
The Day Before

Since the morning, the entire population of the planet has been concerned about one news: a red comet is approaching the Earth. A year ago, scientists only assumed this collision, a month ago they tried to establish the exact date - and finally, it was just announced by all communication sources: the end cannot be avoided. Moreover, it will happen tomorrow. There is one day left until... People of different classes, nationalities and faiths in different parts of a large country - each in their own way - are trying to spend this last day of their lives.

The Day Before

4.5 2016
Oscar

Oscar is the story of the life of the famous artist Oscar Rabin against the background of three decades of Soviet history; it is a story about a successful experience of standing up against a regime with the help of paint and brushes. It is the story of non-violent resistance against evil, of the boundaries of compromise, about how people try to maintain their inner freedom when they are living in a country that is not very free. The film uses many unique newsreels and other archival materials being shown for the first time. Along with Oscar Rabin, featured in the fim are Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Vladimir Sorokin, Evgeny Kisin, Boris Akunin, Maya Turovskaya, Vladimir Paperny, Erik Bulatov, Oleg Tselkov, Vitaly Komar, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Mihail Chemiakin, Igor Guberman, Donald Rayfield, and Adam Michnik.

Oscar

NR 2018
Vice

The film follows Denis, a young aspiring DJ who, although poor, has everything else in his favor: a calling in life as a musician, good friends and a faithful companion. Denis's fall from grace begins with a drug deal, which he agrees to out of the need for money. The decision leads to deadly consequences for almost everyone else around him, as Denis is subsequently forced to work as a drug dealer for a mafia boss and as an informer for the police chief of his city. Despite his attempts to “work off his sins”, Denis cannot escape the world of drugs and violence...

Vice

3.7 2007
Secrets of Love

Love is spontaneous, illogical, and immaterial. Modern science, studying the nature of this phenomenon, has discovered fantastic changes in the brains of people in love - love suppresses the feeling of fear, negative emotions, and criticism. Why does a person in love have an increased pulse and breathing rate? Biologists' research indicates that love is like drug intoxication. Chemists claim that we feel love due to the release of certain hormones into the blood. However, both admit that Love cannot be explained only by science.

Secrets of Love

7.0 2010
Рыжик в Зазеркалье

In the fairy-tale kingdom of Nedalia, twin princes fell in love with a beautiful girl Mona, the daughter of a mirror seller. The beautiful girl gave her heart to the cheerful romantic Sebastian. The rejected brother turned into the cruel wizard Mortis and enchanted all the mirrors of Nedalia. But even this was not enough for him. Evil began to penetrate from the fairytale kingdom into the real world. Only the hereditary princess can break the spell: she turns out to be a kind and cheerful girl Carrot-top, who lives in a modern city and does not suspect about her "fairy-tale" origin... Dangerous adventures and comic situations, dwarves and wizards, an insidious mirror and a magic nut, mysterious Silkworms, Sandman, Chooch - a restless virus of mischief...

Рыжик в Зазеркалье

5.0 2014