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The older of two brothers is a lawyer, a successful man who everyone is turning to with various problems. But he himself has to solve the main task of his life - to pull his younger brother out of trouble.

Short film from the series "Hospital Tales", part one. Sung by Maxim Praslov.

Late at night in Moscow, the girl Dana hurries home through the dark alleys. She's being chased by a stranger. He prepared a surprise for the girl, which she had dreamed of for many years. But it turns out that surprises are waiting for him.

The main character of the picture is the Labrador, and the viewer is immersed in his thoughts, desires, which are connected with the main person in his life - the owner.

Roma lives in a provincial town with his girlfriend Masha. After studying at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, he cannot find a job in his specialty. Constant problems in his personal life and professional disorder put more and more pressure on the guy every day, and in the end he faces a choice that will radically change his life.

Andrey wants to get into a travesty show and become a star. One day his family returns home at the wrong time and learns his secret.

Two families live on the same staircase. One fine day, the dads boycott the moms, and the moms confront the dads in response. The reason for this is the accumulated family troubles: computer games of one, iron drill of the second, female fatigue, and so on. The hostages of the situation are children who are forced to live in two opposing camps. In an attempt to reconcile their parents, they only aggravate the situation and find the only way out - to call and ask their grandfather, a general of tank troops, to come. With his arrival, a planned "rescue" operation begins, filled with very comical situations.

Based on Chekhov's short stories "Revenge", "The Ram and the Young Lady", "The Chorus Girl", "The Princess".

It's 1951. Klava Grachyova comes to take her husband home from a penal colony where he spent the last 9 years. He is not eager to come back home. Klava has only 3 days to sort everything out and take her husband back.

Darya Khrenova — a documentalist and the granddaughter of Ilya Trauberg, a successful apprentice of the great Sergey Eisenstein — is trying to solve the mystery of her grandfather’s death at DEFA studio, which he headed after WWII. During the process of the investigation she finds her family, gains more confidence, and takes up a challenge from her grandfather by directing feature films.

In a plane flying over Russia, there are people of different nationalities. Between the Dagestani Hasan and the Russian Kolya, a conflict erupts on a national basis, in which both, not embarrassed in expressions, become personal. Despite the passangers' best efforts, the conflict quickly escalates into a fight. With great difficulty, the fighters manage to be pulled apart, but it soon turns out that the plane is out of order and will have to be put on the water in an emergency. Anxiety in the cabin quickly turns into panic, and now those who recently fought each other are faced with a situation in which their disagreements are worth absolutely nothing.

The film “Andrey Konchalovsky’s Cinema Odyssey” is a tribute to the creative path of one of our outstanding contemporaries, Andrey Konchalovsky, spanning from his debut film, “The Boy and the Dove”, which was immediately invited to the Venice International Film Festival, to the present day. The documentary features notable figures who starred in the master’s films, from Sergei Shakurov to Tom Holtz, from Inna Churikova to Irina Kupchenko. Dividing his work into ‘periods’ — classical, American, and the perestroika era — Konchalovsky, with the help of the cinema, embarks on a cinematic journey akin to Odysseus, ultimately returning to his own ‘Penelope’: Moscow.

A story of a first love and a beautiful age of seventeen...

The condition of the show "Battle of the Chefs" - a report with parents - became an unpleasant surprise for Anatoly. Several years of conflict with his father alienated him from his family. Now, with the approaching filming, he will have to urgently restore relations with his family.

The shop of miracles of Yesenia and Shmyak the bear continues its magical work. The inhabitants of the magical land of Dreamville encounter various difficulties that are not so easy to solve alone. Yesenia and Shmyak rush to help the residents, who will never leave their friends in trouble - after all, their main dream is for all the residents of Dreamville to be happy.

A film about a unique woman, Zoya Borisovna Boguslavskaya - a writer, playwright, public figure and the wife of the Soviet poet Andrei Voznesensky, who celebrates her 100th birthday this year.

An unremarkable Russian town holds some terrible secrets. The simple working guy Lyokha gets acquainted with the beautiful Masha. She shows him photos that he cannot remember. Lyokha goes to see his father, but finds out that the latter died several days ago. The father left lots of mysterious notes, but a local gang and a mysterious visitor from Moscow are after them. You find out everything if you remember!

Ksyusha is thirteen, she is trying to figure out her relationship with her father and the world, but both her father and the world are changing rapidly.

The year is 1981. Manyunya has long dreamed of attending a concert of her favorite band "Earthlings", but she could not imagine what incredible events and unexpected acquaintances await her and friends on Red Square, in the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard and in the parks of the capital.

A major of little Russian town decides to build a brothel in order to fight female half of town population...

Three days in bright May Moscow. Three days, when Senior Lieutenant Pechalin, who has long forgotten the smell of peaceful life, will again feel all its charm. Meet with an old friend Gaevsky, fall in love with a casual acquaintance Victoria, celebrate Victory Day with her and dance a romantic waltz on the Bolshoi Theater Square...

March 2022. A man and a woman try to understand what to choose, where to go and who to love, as the world they know collapses.

Aksenushka was pretty: good-looking, hardworking, friendly and affectionate with everyone. Sometimes people just noticed: if Aksenushka saw a new comb from a friend, he would praise how frequent and durable it was, what beautiful patterns on it, the comb would immediately break, or something else would happen to it...

After a decade apart, Maggie tracks down her elusive father. His fixation with UFOs has intensified over the years, which frustrates her attempts to communicate some big news.

Kir, Leya, Dasha and Max are student. Almost every experience is for a first time to them - first love, first disappointment, first betrayal...

A young man who has been blind since childhood underwent surgery and regained his eyesight, and with it faith, hope, and love. But it's not easy to see the world as it is.

In 1990s St. Petersburg, police major Konstantin Grom is trying to find and neutralize the new criminal boss, nicknamed Anubis, while his ten year old son Igor is trying to earn money by getting involved in dubious adventures.

Maxim Shugaley and Samer Sueifan are finally returning to Russia after a long captivity in the Libyan prison "Mitiga". A few months later, a former bank manager in Tripoli, Farid, comes to Shugalei and offers to meet in Egypt — he has new information about terrorists in Libya. But the meeting of friends in Cairo will not take place. To help Farid avoid his own fate, Maxim will have to postpone his plans for a while…

A terminal diagnosis forces a career-obsessed advertising executive to rethink his priorities, relationships and outlook on life.

Gosha (nicknamed Kukuruza) comes to the casting to try out for the role of a failed robber. Not the smoothest auditions are mixed with memories of today and the film in which Gosha wants to star. A prostitute, a dead Batman, shooting, a chase, a robbery. Where does reality end and fiction begin? And is there much of a difference between them?

Unlucky girl Lisa hates the New Year — every time on the eve of the holiday she has a variety of troubles. But one day a stranger appears who claims that he is Santa Claus's secretary. A young man who introduced himself as Timofey promises that he will fulfill any New Year's wish of Lisa, and she makes up her mind to celebrate the New Year with her beloved man. The problem is that Lisa does not have one, and the requirements for the future groom are very high. Tim is determined, because it is very important for him to fulfill Lisa's wish before the New Year. So, the selection of suitable candidates begins!

For a successful Road Patrol Service officer time to start a family, but he lives with his mother. When Petia decides to propose Olya marriage, his official car crashes into drunken pop star.

The film is about a psychologist and entertainment industry operator Sergei Knyazev, who organizes parties for rich people and various role-playing games where they can play beggars or take part in duels, for example.

Strana Glukhikh is about an unusual relationship between two women, one of them a deaf-mute dancer and the other on the run from the mafia. Yaya, the deaf girl, offers to hide Rita whose boyfriend, Alyosha owes gambling debts to the mafia, but in return she wants her to leave the young man and run off with her to an imaginary paradise where material values do not exist.

“Bolero” by Ravell is expressed in the mouvements of surrealistic paintings and in the rhythm of the film. This short animation won Golden Berlin Bear for Best Short Film.

Journey into the world of poetic images of Sergey Yesenin, his deep contradictions and spiritual searches. The poet meets eight hypostases of himself on the way of understanding his work, talent and era.

The director tells the story of Boris Grebenshchikov through the image of Leo Tolstoy. According to Viktor Tikhomirov, both heroes are similar "in their delusions and achievements". The film has a lot of chronicles and, of course, Grebenshchikov's songs sound, and George Gunitsky described the tape after its premiere at Pushkinskaya 10: "A completely untethered and insanely surreal film in a good way. And it is gratifying that all this postmodern film improvisation is involved on a cool aquarium basis. We need to look at the picture again once or twice, get a better understanding of it. And savor it. A very worthy work."

They say that the average Earthling spends about 10 years of his life at the TV screen. It is pointless to ask whether these are lost years - without television, it is impossible to imagine our civilization, although not 100 years have passed since its invention. "Iconoscope" is a chance to cover the entire vast history of television in 100 minutes of exciting and paradoxical spectacle.

Lesha Shultes, a pickpocket, leads the ordinary life of an average urban creature. The only extraordinary thing about Shultes is that he carries a little notebook with him and notes down everything. This minimalist drama of a 'small man' in a metropolis delivers an existential message with a distinct Russian flavour.

Andrey Kulikov goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, Andrey Dolmatov, who had been an officer in the White Army during the Russian Revolution. On the headstone of the grave next to his great-grandfather's, he notices the face of a young woman. Later, while walking through Paris, Andrey sees a woman, Vera, who looks just like the young woman he had seen on the headstone. And so begins the telling of two love stories, separated by three generations and one hundred years.

The middle-aged Valya is waiting for the arrival of her groom, whom she met through correspondence. Valya prepares for the meeting: she bakes pies, buys linen, quarrels with her old mother, and argues with the neighbours from the village. The villagers sceptically look on her marriage to a man who has been released from prison...

Russian Poet Boris Ryzhy was handsome, talented and famous. So why did he end his own life at the age of 26? A quest to find the answer takes the filmmaker to the notorious neighbourhood in the cold industrial city of Yekaterinenburg where Boris grew up...

The story of Mary, the wife of a photographer from a small seaside town. After her husband, Arseny, loses his sight, Maria creates the conditions of complete darkness in their home in order to share his new world with Arseny. But this is preceded by a misunderstanding of others, who believe that it is stupid - and even insane - to associate their lives with the blind.

Tatiana and her daughter Valentina live in the boring, provincial town of Zhigulyovsk 1000 kilometres south-east of Moscow. Valentina, 22, works in a vodka factory, while Tatiana, 50, is a bus conductor. Valentina, whose dream is to be a TV star in Moscow, has to overcome her own limitations as well as the irony and malice of her comrades at the vodka factory. Tatiana has to adapt her expectations to reality when her potential life partner turns out to be a part-time drunkard and a deadbeat. And on top of all this, both women have to think about Valentina’s son Danilo’s future. One of them has to give up the dream.

The professor gives his student a lesson, during which the relationship between them gradually changes.

A story about Russian aerospace engineer and scientist, creator of well-known Soviet helicopter Mi-1 and the founder of Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant

The girl Nadya wants to marry her beloved boyfriend and for this purpose she plunges into the marathons of info-fraudsters.

The volatile intersections of contemporary Moscow and the intimate lives of five people.

The water flows on the surface of the Earth and in the underworld, this substance connects both sides of the river as margins of life. The narration is holding out the silhouette from the sketch of an artist to the symbolism of the ancient world reading small gestures. This film accommodates artist’s works by giving them a role of an oracle.

Sasha Korolev has a congenital disorder. The boy’s father has chosen what seemed to him the only correct way to put the son on his feet: to treat him like a healthy person. “You’re not a patient, you have temporary difficulties”. Eating, getting dressed, going downstairs and walking up the front door steps — every day the child spends hours on such simple household tasks. At school he is mocked by his peers, and there is no help to expect. The boy has coped with the illness, but started hating the father. When he finished school, Sasha left home and stopped all contact with the father. Over the past 15 years he has become the best business consultant in the country, who has helped hundreds of businesses out of crisis. “You have no a crisis, you have temporary difficulties”, — Sasha would say to his clients, having gone along a difficult path himself. And one day, a new order unexpectedly gives him the opportunity to settle accounts with the father...

An animated short film where Foma and Erema compete in a canoe-kayak race. "Olympiad-80" is a series of animated films created by the Ekran creative association specifically for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. They humorously explore summer sports, and their characters—the funny and cheerful clowns Foma and Erema—take part in athletic and not-so-athletic competitions.

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.

Moving to a new place of residence, to an old apartment in the slums of St. Petersburg, Olga and her daughter Natasha accidentally discover a letter from the distant blockade of the forty-second year. A letter from the boy Yura for the girl Martha, whom he unwittingly offended before he had time to confess his love… The search for Marta becomes Olga and Natasha's salvation from pain and true self-discovery...

This is a love story of two people who for ... Life experience does not allow them to fully believe each other, they are afraid of something, they can not step over something. Autumn of life, as well as autumn of the year… It is no coincidence that the film takes place in autumn, early autumn-this corresponds to the life stage of the main characters.

At a high school reunion, Liza decides to film her best friend Alena so that this recording "would go down in history." However, Alena's ex-boyfriend unexpectedly shows up with a child, and instead of a fun get-together in front of the camera, a drama between the former lovers unfolds.

Eisenstein shot 50 hours of footage on location in Mexico in 1931 and 32 for what would have become ¡Que viva México!, but was not able to finish the film. Following two wildly different reconstruction attempts in 1939 (Marie Seton's 'Time in the Sun') and 1979 (Grigori Alexandrov's '¡Que viva México!') Kovalov has here compiled another hypothetical version of what Eisenstein's film might have been.

A movie about looking for the main substance.