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The amazing story of sports commentator Stepan Vershinin, which loses its prestigious place on television. In search of a new job, he becomes part of unusual competitions.

The year is 1941. Nazi Germany has declared war on the USSR and begins launching air assaults on Moscow and St. Petersburg. Stalin immediately orders a retaliatory air campaign under the code name “Wings over Berlin.” The closest entry point to Berlin from the USSR border was an airfield on the Estonian island Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea. It would be a 7-hour flight over enemy territory in outdated aircraft leaving no chance of survival for the tail crew members in case of attack. Despite overwhelming odds, the first units completed the mission and made it back to base safely, unlike many others that followed.

Kostya and Olya are university teachers. On vacation at a sanatorium, Olya found a more respectable partner for herself - Sergey. He is a wealthy man obsessed with a healthy lifestyle and active sports. Upon arrival, Olya leaves a note for her husband and leaves the house, blocking all contact with Kostya. Sergey has a daughter, Sonya. Kostya finds nothing better than to try to start an affair with her in order to gain access to Sergey and his new lover. Sonya does not find Kostya very attractive. However, the opportunity to irritate her father at a dinner with her potential stepmother seems tempting. After all, her father recently kicked out her boyfriend Maks for "not being serious."

Artyom, a regular butchery worker, gets confused with his life circumstances. Suddenly he comes up with an unusual way out of his crisis.

A young man who is filming porn gets acquainted with another heroine of his new video. She urgently needs money for a ticket to go home. He is ready to give them to her on the condition that the girl will make him “nice”, and he will take it on camera. She agrees. However, this time everything goes according to plan. It looks like the girl has another script for his new video.

In a small town everything is visible. However much you try to hide something, some disturbing signals will reach the family sooner or later. And then you have to make a choice: start a new life in the same place with your new “half” or confess to the old half and return to the usual flow of life. The film’s heroes stand before such a choice.

They are FEMEN and their decision to fight for feminism topless has made them famous far beyond their native Ukraine. After being forced to move their HQ in Kiev, FEMEN take their struggle to Paris, France where they continue to challenge gender inequality, patriarchal institutions, religion and the sex industry. This report is produced by RT - former Russia Today - send a clear message how Kremlin view this type of activity.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Streetcar collision / Arms manufacturing plant resumes operation / Assembling an automobile / Bicycle and motorcycle races / A parade of Red Army armored units and an attack exercise.

A bedridden old man is left alone with his fears and dark memories of his childhood, where he never learned to ride a bike. Nightmares pull him into a terrifying reality, and soon it turns out that the old man is not alone in the room.

Armenia, 1979. Mountains, sun, beautiful green meadows and a holiday feeling. After a funny episode at school, the girls Narine and Manyunya become best friends. Very quickly, funny relatives of the main characters appear in the frame. Ba, the grandmother of Manyuni, stands out in particular. Narine was very afraid of a strict woman, but during their acquaintance it turned out that Ba bakes cookies that melt in your mouth and a delicious apple pie. Fidget girls are waiting for a lot of funny adventures.

Legendary boxer Valery Popenchenko died on February 15, 1975. A decade of his victories went down in the history of Soviet sports as a time of international triumph for our boxing school.

An actress is recording a screen-test for Federico Fellini who, as she's heard, is looking for a Russian actress for his new film. For an hour she's reflecting on the nature of art, the fate of artists, the destiny of Russian people, history of her country and its present day.

A little tightrope walker boy named Axel crashed in a circus, but an oriental psychic brings his body back to life. Karl, obsessed with the idea of creating an ideal order in the world, the master of the psychic, buried the corpse of an orphan instead of Axel, and began to teach the boy's body Russian and train for espionage in the service of the Wehrmacht. Axel became a German intelligence officer, a professional of the highest class and soon appeared in his "native" village under the guise of the grandson of the recently deceased Pelagia...

The late Ivan gets out of the grave and goes home. A black comedy showing that there is no peace in the other world.

This is a story about distorted ideas, forgiveness and humanity, our desire to be better.

A modern take on the classic novel by Alexander Pushkin. Vladimir is a successful banker and a regular at trendy night clubs. Masha is a diligent graduate of a British college and a loving daughter. It looks like they have bright future ahead. However, an unexpected quarrel between two eccentric fathers forces their offspring to live through the conflict of Pushkin's novel.

Konservy (2007) (Tins, Russian: Консервы) is a film about a journalist who possesses information on uranium sales and is set up by his enemies and sent to prison. Initially the film was planned as a political thriller, but along the way it gained features of action with elements of mysticism and surrealism.The film is full of vivid pictures of spy and terrorist games in Moscow, modern Gulag in the Far North, gold mines, escape with elite spetsnaz in the pursuit, underground community of permanently high punks, and other quite unusual settings.

Two lovers spend their days in a rented apartment, ignoring the world around them, contemplating the future, their place in society and the talents they were born with. They have no idea that reality around them has long since ceased to exist.

The drama of a former noblewoman who became the wife of an NKVD officer in the 1930s, and the almost anecdotal story of how a spirited stallion was prepared for Marshal Budyonny's parade and, in the end, a reliable mare was "slipped in" instead. The realities of life at the top of the State Security Service are shown, their ordinary and "sweet" life with its joys, intrigues, betrayals, and tragedies. Russia is like a whirlpool that sucks in and destroys.

An ordinary Rakhmatullin family with many children, finally bogged down in loans and debts, drives an old minibus to the “Family of the Year” competition. They are sure that the main prize of the competition is the last chance to save the family from ruin.

A glance across the border in northern Russia, where the small town of Montegorsk suffers under the heavy metal from industry. Nature is transformed into a poisonous desert: in long shots the camera probes the pale, skeleton-like branches of the dead trees. The small family, whose everyday life Helke and Suutari follow, lives in a state of waiting: waiting for the next German car, the next medical examination, the next holidays. White Sky exemplifies the artists‘ approach with currents of time flowing together: no one can say how long it will take for nature to regenerate itself here; yet people live here in their own time, with their own individual wishes and expectations.

Evgeny is a specialist in lockpicking and safe-cracking. For the last ten years he has spent his spare time trying to pick one stubborn lock that hasn’t surrendered to him yet. Andrei works at a bank and seizes real estate from people to cover their debts. In his spare time he reflects on whether or not he lives according to God’s law. Every once in a while the men are brought together by joint work, where each diligently performs his duties.But with every new mission the work grows more personal, and the self-doubt grows ever greater…

A film about the famous jazzman Igor Butman. How did a boy from Soviet Leningrad manage to step into the big world of jazz music? And what role did Sergei Kuryokhin, Dave Brubeck, Winton Marsalis and Bill Clinton play in his life? The details of rehearsals and concerts, the secrets of family traditions, the frank stories of the musician's friends create an interesting picture of the being of a person striving for his dream. Multiple world champion Vyacheslav Fetisov, prominent jazzmen David Goloshchekin and Nikolai Levinovsky, singer Sergei Mazayev and many other public figures and art masters take part in the film.

In every corner of our vast country there are talented people worthy of recognition and glory. They flock to the capital and take part in popular television shows. But the spotlights go out, and life goes on. And not as they saw it ... Each of the heroes - young and adults, ambitious and modest, lonely and in love - will have to go through many trials. They are waiting for ups and downs, meetings and partings, friendship and betrayal. But in the end they will become one big team, a family that unites different people from the most remote towns of our big country, in the name of music, talent and, of course, love!

Often, we, without knowing it, commit actions, which leads to unexpected and, at times, catastrophic consequences. Chaos theory assumes that the bifurcation point is a state of the system where the smallest impact can lead to a drastic changes in the steady-state mode of operation. In our life, this is a moment or a point of fracture, which radically changes our destiny. The prank became for the main characters of the movie - twenty-year-old Artem and the wise experience police officer - their personal "bifurcation point".

Tenth-grade Tanya, being in a difficult life situation, is torn between love for mother and hatred of her stepfather. A decision matures in her mind that can fatally affect not only her life, but also the lives of her closest people.

Farewell history. The story of multi-layered memories that develops like a detective from the past. The guy on the verge of growing up is trying to establish milestones for himself, which made the child a young man, and realize what it is inherent in the ancestors.

The court horse Gaius Julius Caesar to his misfortune overhears boyars and learns about a conspiracy against the prince. What to do? Protect a prince no one! Heroes away - catch a robber Potanyu, Dragon on vacation, the army on maneuvers ... But if the bad guys are going to take over the world, to someone it is necessary to save him? Who is he, a hero who will come to the rescue? Of course, the horse Julius! This Strategy and the "grand strategist". He would save all, but if you do not save, then at least try. Most importantly, to the rescue of the world did not turn a complete disaster.

ACA 153: Dzhanaev vs. Pessoa was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Thursday, March 9, 2023 at the Basket Hall in Moscow, Russia.

Independent documentary created by group of enthusiast from Russia. It covers the topic of Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico and struggle of Mexican indigenous peoples for justice, liberty and democracy.

A look at the story through the prism of the present. Artists in front of the audience reincarnate in the heroes of the film (the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky; the women he loved and left him; the friends who admired him and backed away from him; the ruthless “Knights of the Revolution” who proclaimed him his banner) and lead the viewer “to” Mayakovsky, forcing him to live his love, creative, and human drama as his own.

Loosely based on tales by E. T. A. Hoffman. In a wonderland inhabited by fiery salamanders and winged spirits, good fights evil in search of a life-giving talisman whose finder will rule the world.

One of the five short stories of the movie almanac "There is no Hurry", directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk

Chained to a pipe in a dark room, a young woman must fight her way out and discover the dark secret to her imprisonment.

A live fantasy show, which took place in February 2019 in Moscow in the VTB Arena Hall. This show is in a new and unusual format for Russia at the junction of music, performance, cinema and heroic comics and is more reminiscent of a fantasy film played by the artist live on scene. Especially for this show, Dima Bilan is filming episodes of confessions about his life. The show, conceived as a fantastic biopic, is based on real feelings, where the main theme is finding yourself. There are no facts of biography, there are only sensations, experiences and emotions through which the inner world of the hero opens before the viewer.

Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.

One spring morning, during a breakup argument, Katya's boyfriend turns into a puddle of water on the floor. Katya decides to bury the memory of her ex in the most environmentally friendly way possible: by planting a pear tree. Unbeknownst to her, a whole crowd of townspeople comes to her aid.

The performance features shadow scene performers and the "Sirin" ensemble under the direction of Andrei Krotov.

The naive hero, having read clever books, marries a prostitute with the aim of re-educating her and collides with the famous Sergei Eisenstein, ending in the most unexpected and fatal way...

Concert-film about the work of Russian musician Viktor Tsoy.

The story is based on real events, a journey of a popular Moscow actor to shoot a film in Yakutia. Through his eyes, we see the mysterious worlds of "Olonkho" culture in the Sakha republic and of the contemporary Yakut film tradition, with all its national uniqueness. In this island of creativity very different people unite to create rather than destroy.

The old writer is sorting through the relics in his hands, reminding him of the events of bygone years. In the first novel, a girl betrays her love by having an affair with someone she doesn't love, and dies by his hand. In the second novel, the girl accompanies the groom to the front, he bequeaths her, if she is killed, to enjoy life here on earth, and then meet him there, in another life. He will be killed, she will outlive him by a lot, and she will try to arrange her life on earth. In the third novel (memory within memory), the hero tells his wife about the girl he loved, and she betrayed him by obeying her mother's will.

18-year-old orphan Lily has recently been studying at a provincial technical school. For the first time since graduating from the boarding school, she manages to make friends and even meet a handsome guy. But Lily's new life changes when a friend from her past shows up and threatens to tell everyone her biggest secret.

Igor Tsaplin wants to be elected for a third term and PR team already familiar to us will help him.

The USA, early 60s. The court is considering an unusual case -- the defendant is an invisible man. His confession will be the key to understanding some comical and dramatical events that unfolded in the city.

When forces in the capital Baba Yaga stepped on a tail more terrible and darker than herself, Baba Yaga decided to hide in her homeland, in the village of Mukhomonovka. In order to regain strength and “youth”, she needs to quarrel and separate Tanyushka from Ilyusha, two bright and joyful children living in this village. And thereby prove that there was no love, fidelity, or friendship left on Earth ...

The story of a Moscow based electronic musician Moa Pillar traveling to Nalchik, a small town located at Caucasus in the South of Russia, in order to meet Bulat Khalilov, a local music enthusiast who has started a field recording label that documents traditional Circassian music. Bulat connects Moa Pillar to the local music community, so that Moa can collaborate with folk musicians who represent the tradition deeply rooted in the history of the country and its inner struggles. The collaboration experiment reveals a clash between century-old traditions and modern culture of millennials and makes both heroes doubt the possibility of a dialogue between two worlds they represent.

It's early summer. A young couple with their eight-year-old son arrives at their dacha. Someone has broken Mom's favorite blue cup. The cup is broken, but no one broke it. So what happened? This mystery gives rise to a vague premonition of something irreparable. Father and son, hurt by the unfair accusations, decide to leave home—for good. A drama based on the story “The Blue Cup” by Arkady Gaydar.

A simple man Ivan Rostok, having reached the limit in his fall, repents and is spiritually reborn. He gains faith after the appearance of St. George to him and sets himself the task of restoring the village church destroyed in Soviet times.

Popular at the end of the Soviet Union and Russia's transformation to a new era was a sort of escapism into surreal animation like this one.

Discouraged after a series of unsuccessful relationships, young Muscovite Polina meets an unlikely match in a visiting foreign movie star and discovers that the recipe of her grandma's jam could be a key to her happiness.