A young French woman comes to St. Petersburg to find material for her dissertation, but falls in love with a handsome lawyer...
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A young French woman comes to St. Petersburg to find material for her dissertation, but falls in love with a handsome lawyer...
A strange object falls to the ground from space. His fall is accompanied by a strong explosion, which creates chaos on Earth. KGB officer Rem Bezymyanny, the owner of a perfect physical and universal mental nature, intervenes in the case, who is transplanted with a device of extraterrestrial origin to the most incredible places in space and time. After wandering around the worlds, the superhero safely returns to his homeland in the 90s.
A chain of mysterious murders of hunters is being investigated in a forest village. In the light of the full moon, a killer dressed in a wolf's skin strikes another victim with terrible claws. A young huntsman, a former resident of the area, takes over the investigation.
A lonely Russian man is trying to see his daughter, who lives with her mother far away in the USA.
The film takes place in the attic of an abandoned house, where the photographer and his model climb three times. Experiencing another situation, the characters perceive it in a new way every time: tenderness and violence, sincerity and lies, fantasy and reality...
Sergei Govorukhin, son of well known Soviet and Russian film director Stanislav Govorukhin, was a Russian scriptwriter and war correspondent. This is his first and only documentary, dealing with his feelings about the first war he covered - the first Chechen war - as well as his very cynical view of Russian society during this time. These feelings and opinions were shared by many other war correspondents and cameramen at the time. The author used heavily contrasting footage and sound to illustrate his point of the indifference of 90's/early 2000's Russian society towards the conflicts it found itself in after the Second World War.
Once, before Christmas, Ivan was predicted to meet a foreign beauty. Forest sorceress for the kindness of a young man gave him a magical portrait of a Chinese girl named Xiao Qing. Her beauty struck Ivan in the heart, and he fell in love with no memory. Suddenly, the portrait came to life, the girl told the young man an amazing story. It turns out that the evil sorcerer took her from her parents against her will to make her his wife. The girl’s brother painted a portrait, where the soul of Xiao Qing moved, and the villain got only a barely living body, an insensitive doll. Now the sorcerer is looking for this portrait to regain the girl’s soul...
A grandfather tells his grandson a bedtime story about the ancient Narts.
A filmed version of Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers", transposed into modern-day Russia and performed by an all-star cast.
A simple guy, Styopa, without suspecting it, brought with his car to a small town a gang of gangsters looking for a unique diamond.
On the eve of the wedding Mother Nyurka heats up the sauna, and the household spirit makes sure that the whole wedding company get their long-deserved thrashing.
To earn money for married life, a young engaged man takes a job as an engineer on a privately operated oil drilling rig in the far North of Russia. A friend's letter brings the sad news that his fiancée has already married someone else and in desperation he quits his job and flies back to Moscow. There all his vast efforts to win her back seem in vain...
Mefody, a wise master, comes to a weird village one day to teach local men wisdom and life. The strange thing about the village is all the men living there are of different nationalities: German, Jewish, Ukrainian, Russian, Uzbek, Gypsy etc.. Mefodi teaches all them the way to understand each other, he speaks about music, cabala, fairy tales, sex etc. Finally all of them become even more friendly to each other and find success in life.
This half-hour film attempts to recreate the play "The Inspector General", one of the most perfect creations of the genius Vsevolod Meyerhold. Vidas Siliunas provides a captivating account of this production, interspersed with fantasies on the theme of Meyerhold's "The Inspector General", created by Valery Fokin and actors from the Oleg Tabakov Theatre, as well as short video clips miraculously preserved from the original 1926 production.
The popular pop show club “Odessa Gentlemen” took part in writing a script on the topic: how to leave the former USSR. Odessa became an arena where the interests of Soviet intelligence and the last Jew who had not yet left for their historical homeland collided...
In a car accident, the boy loses his parents and is confined to a wheelchair. Becoming the creator of his world and his destiny, the young hero overcomes personal tragedy.
An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a series of “the degraded and the humiliated,” including a holy prostitute and a Kafkaesque bureaucrat.
The portrait of the creator of the Kino group, consisting of the thoughts and memories of people who loved him, appears before the audience as a musical prophecy of a talented artist about his own life.
Little Fox found a bottle of fog in the forest. For his release from the magic vessel, the Fog from London promised to fulfill any wish of the Little Fox.
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.
A young girl wants to rob her mother's bank in order to have her to leave work and come home for a New Year Eve.
Captain Pronin finds himself in battle with a space conqueror over the fate of the galaxy.
Follows the pattern of the 1980's films of this series: 2 animal-related short films packaged together, with a sequel of 2 more short films a year later. Semaphore has a problem: Nikita has brought new "tenants" to the house — Varkhat the shepherd and Dick the mongrel. Episode 5 - Semafor the Cat, Episode 6 - Strangers.
Victor Kossakovsky searched obsessively for inhabitants of St. Petersburg who were born on Wednesday 19 July 1961, his own birthday, in former Leningrad. Fifty-one women and fifty men fitted the profile. In the course of time a few of these 101 people had died, others had moved to another community or abroad. But in 1995 Kossakovsky managed to capture on film all seventy remaining residents, in the street, at work or simply at home. While doing so he spent time with doctors and patients, entertainers and businessmen, construction workers and homeless people. In his unorthodox style Kossakovsky has produced a beautiful profile of people in their thirties in St. Petersburg.
A young man is passing a series of psychological tests created by his girlfriend's mother.
The story of Ermak Timofeevich, whose campaign for the Ural mountains served to annex the Siberian lands to the Moscow kingdom, in the second half of the 16th century.
A story about a group of teenagers who are desperately fighting to keep alive their horse called Rogue.
The remake of the original 1939 "Tractor Drivers"... Same heroes, but totally different times.
Sergey Sergeyevich, a retired KGB colonel, has been enjoying his long-standing retirement. He remains fit and energetic, with little to complain about in life—he has everything he needs, even a mistress who dreams of marrying him. But one winter evening, two visitors arrive at his door.
A prosperous and calm life in an instant explodes into a monstrous event, and nothing will ever be the same again. A terrible bleeding scar remains in the soul forever. One fine day, a young and charming archaeologist Alexei, five minutes later a doctor of science, learns that his sibling was buried alive. And the brother’s killer is alive and left unpunished. Blinded by grief, Alex decides to kill ...
Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.
After the owner of an old castle places a newspaper ad for the purchase of a ghost, a gang of crooks decides to rob him.
Focuses on the lives of two married Polish couples (one Jewish, one Catholic) and the personal and social devastation wrought by the Holocaust and its aftermath.
Two people meet one another in a multi-million city...
Adventures of plumber Vova in a communal apartment inhabited by characters from different eras.
The special squad "Black Berets" does not accept compromises. Even if twice as many enemies, they will fight to victory.
In Venice, the famous film actress Anna Zakharova meets the artist Mario. The meeting makes a lasting impression on the young man - he is in love. On her return to Russia, Anna is met with failure: she is removed from the role, breaks up with her lover-colleague. Desperate, the actress gives up everything and goes to Mario dying of passion, but during the sea voyage falls in love with the captain of the ship. Learning about it, Mario fails to control the car, gets into an accident and goes blind. All that is left for Anna, who feels guilty, is to go with him to the wedding...
Maria, the wife of a successful official from St. Petersburg, met with a provincial engineer. A chance meeting of spiritually close people becomes the beginning of the history of Sizzling passion, which ended tragically.
Cute Roman, who enjoys an enviable interest in the female, has an obsessive dream in which a beautiful girl is to him. Roman's life has turned into an unimaginable nightmare, which he sincerely loving man helps to get rid of.
A comedy about family troubles on a poultry farm.
Life in art based on the plays of A. Ostrovsky: "Talents and Admirers", "Forest", etc.
Constantly flashing on the television screen in a variety of commercials, bachelor Valentin Ivanyuta becomes the victim of pills he advertised and becomes pregnant. And now the popular hero of the TV screen will have to talk with the woman he loved and to experience the whole range of feelings unusual for a man.
Little stories from the stone age to the middle ages made by Rinat Gazizov
“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.
The story of a Moscow academic family, rapidly "falling apart" after the death of its head. Yet, the family members strive to preserve their inner nobility and find a foundation in their new life.
A future president must have no secrets from the voters — not even in his personal life. Intimate details can become powerful weapons in the hands of political opponents. And so, the presidential candidate is forced to publicly introduce his first wife — a woman he once loved passionately… and then betrayed.
Roman Viktyuk is either hated or adored. But the eccentricity, the dissimilarity to everything of his work is recognized by everyone. The film by Alexei Uchitel - illustration for the life of the scandalous maestro. Unique shots from rehearsals, a trip to Lviv and New York, young actors, now stars - once opened by Viktyuk, scenes from the director's most striking and challenging performances. And Roman Viktyuk himself, ironic, funny, sincere .
Near the Black Sea, a rich scoundrel hired a gang of local hooligans, who killed two young men and a girl for fun, hiding the bodies in an ancient cave. The spirit dwelling in the cave resurrected the young men and endowed them with magical powers and the fire of justice. After that, the boys joined the fight against evil...
People continue to grow genetically modified plants using the brain of a dog and a man-octopus.
Documentary filmmaker Tatiana is working on a film about former European boxing champion Vadim Larin. As a director, she wants him to return to the ring, which would make her film more optimistic. Larin himself, touched by Tatiana's attention and in love with her, is ready to respond to this wish. However, a victorious return to the ring did not work out...