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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.

Since early childhood Peter has been obsessed with the world of puppets, but his greater obsession is with a real girl, Lisa. He crafts his perfect woman out of her. But Lisa isn't a docile marionette. She's a living human being and she rebels against her creator. Based on the critically-acclaimed, brilliant and poignant novel by one of the best contemporary Russian writers, Dina Rubina, "Petrushka Syndrome" is a multidimensional metaphor, where a sense of duality pervades everything. People and dolls, life and art, the Creator and the creation depend on one another. And where does one draw the line between them?

The story of one fierce struggle between two giants of land and sea — the Elephant and the Whale. A minimalistic cartoon about the importance of being tolerant.

Having lost his wife in a plane crash, a man tries to find out the real reason for the disaster. Forced to sift through all the lies amassing around him, he temporarily foggets about his grief. He finds a flight crew who survived a crash and celebrates his rebirth with them. Suddenly moments of grief turn into a never-before-experienced flash of freedom for him. This illusion becomes a lulling trap in which he can relive the happiest moments of his life. What we can see on the screen is an ordinary life where simple things become rare and unusual, and where grief turns to joy. Daily routine to which he finally comes back after all shade in a contrast way the brightness of the recent events.

The frank conversation of two sisters about their mother against the background of the older sister's daily life.

A daring 14-year-old Glasha lives with her grandmother in Shuya and dreams of becoming a director. After the death of her grandmother, her older authoritarian aunt should take custody of the girl. However, the freedom-loving Glasha runs away from her to Moscow, to her younger aunt. By the will of circumstances, they go on a joint journey together, which will eventually change both of them.

Teenage courier Mitya Strekozkin, wanting to escape from the Martian slums to Earth, takes part in a deadly race. But a meeting with the daring racer Vasilisa, whose secret mission threatens his dream, turns his ideas about justice upside down. Soon Mitya will have to uncover a conspiracy, survive betrayal and make a choice between escaping to Earth and fighting for the freedom of Mars.

Temporal agent Delta Star, a legendary hero from the future, arrives in our time to fight Cavemanoid, who came from the past and is capable of destroying the entire galaxy. However, defeating such a powerful enemy will not be easy...

After moving to a new house, the hero meets an unknown girl-neighbor and immediately becomes a witness of inexplicable events. Trying to understand the mystical events, the hero enters into a confrontation with the girl's father, who keeps a shocking secret.

In a remote area of Siberia, the world’s largest sect lives under the teachings of Vissarion, a man who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus. Sveta has moved from away from St Petersburg and her ex-husband Magomed, and now lives in the community with her children, Danial, Mariam and Zaur, and her new husband, the Vissarionite bell ringer Dmitiri. Christ Lives in Siberia (Jeesus elab Siberis), by Estonian duo Jaak Kilmi and Arbo Tammiksaar, follows the daily lives of the children as they go to school and help out with community chores. As we go along, we discover more about them and what brought their mother to the community. Their lives are juxtaposed with that of Magomed, who writes letters to the Russian government in an attempt to get his children back.

Burnt-out Cupid Gennady accidentally chooses the wrong partner and, trying to complete a task for the sake of a vacation, ends up murdering someone, which unexpectedly opens up new career prospects for him.

Our days. Seventeen-year-old schoolgirl Zhenya comes from the "northern capital" to a border village in the Belgorod region to see her brother, a volunteer, before he leaves for the invasion of Ukraine. There she meets a local informal leader, call sign "Timur", and his team, also teenage “volunteers“, who not only help Zhenya see her brother, a tanker, while helping the Russian "security forces" eliminate Ukrainian civilians, but also completely change her outlook on life. And as it happens, the personal relationship between Zhenya and "Timur" goes beyond "just friendship".

The film shows the whole background of the new reality that the world faced in the spring of 2020. Paradoxically, the most severe ordeal in the last 20 years has brought people together, while dividing them. Loneliness became a catalyst for internal changes for the six Russian-speaking characters of the film from different countries. Distanced from the usual life, for a month they filmed video diaries and learned to interact with the world in the new conditions of strict restrictions. Everything that is shown on the screen is pure improvisation, non-stop life, sincere feelings without censorship. The truthfulness of what is happening is emphasized by one of the most innovative technological formats — screenlife.

Musical movie almanac of stories about the events of the past year, holiday miracles, new hopes, creativity and love.

Nadya is a talented pianist. She lives on an island and is in love with Misha, her neighbor, the owner of a motor boat. Music teacher Vera Sergeevna, having learned about Nadya’s talent, offers to give her music lessons. Nadya persuades Misha to take her to town for lessons on his boat.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: The opening of an electric generating station / Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries.

This story takes place in Moscow during 2006. The film is about new generation of kids, called Indigo, who have more mental and spiritual abilities than others. A company of such kids gather together in hidden places. Each of them can do unbelievable things, such as : reading other people thoughts, communicating with animals, breaking computer codes. They are different from ordinary people and they are happy with each other. But some adults want to use their talents for old-time perverted purposes...

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.

An anthology of four 1980's short films from Sweden, Denmark and the former Soviet Union.

Lisa doesn’t manage to get to the Perinatal Centre in time, and gives birth in a provincial maternity clinic where conditions fail to provide her with a safe delivery. The child is born with complications. Lisa has only 24 hours to make the most important decision in her life.

Based on the motifs of M. Bulhakow's story with the same title. The thing about the scientist-zoologist Persikow, whose unique invention makes the rate of formation and development of organisms grow thousands of times. The experiment subjects eggs of the anaconda, which by mistake go to the mad director of the model chicken farm, dealing with rebuilding the hen population in the country. Irradiated reptiles, hatching from eggs, start to devour.

Sasha is a young girl living in a block flat with her family in Moscow. Once she falls in love with Antonin, a bohemian artist and hard drinker. Their short love affair is pulling her down, to the bottom of her subconscious. Overwhelmed with beautiful and frightening visions, she starts to paint - violently, until she can stand on her feet.

Ivan and Vasilisa had not a life, but a fairy tale. Literally. And they already knew this fairy tale, and they wanted to go there-I don’t-know-when. Here is just one butterfly with its effect waved its wing and arranged a magical reboot. Now, in the entire Far Far Away Kingdom, no one even remembers Ivan's name, including Vasilisa herself. So, in order to get the princess again, Ivan with the Gray Wolf needs to turn the whole cartoon universe over.

They were once a special unit of the FSB, carrying out particularly important missions. But after one unsuccessful operation - a portable nuclear charge was stolen - they were dismissed from service and narrowly avoided prison. However, all unfinished business sooner or later begins to create big problems - the "lost" charge turns out to be in the hands of bandits. And now a successful businessman, a private bodyguard and a drunken unemployed again unite in one team to return the old "debt". From the very beginning, events unfold contrary to the plan. Heroes are under the tight control of criminals, and it can only be due to betrayal...

Peter. An ordinary communal apartment . A young scientist from St. Petersburg deciphers the human genome – this is how he earns extra money. The subject of his genuine scientific and other interests and he is in his environment – the subject of the film.

The students of 11th "A" grade will never forget their prom. And so their parents.

TV version of stage play "California Suite" by Neil Simon, performed in Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre.

A fatal duel and a love triangle in the Caucasus. An episode from Lermontov's novel with Igor Petrenko as Pechorin

Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate affairs, followed by numerous abortions; Rudik the doctor enjoys an endless supply of women, thanks to his position, neglecting his paralyzed father who lives with him and hoping the old man will die soon; the local officer of the law has no qualms about committing murder; a magician from the local circus might actually be sawing women in half on stage... One day, a mysterious man appears in this quiet backwater town. He goes by the title of the Executor: at least that's what it says on his business card...

Nevalyashka is a young and very successful boxer who is dreaming about the winning against the famous champion...

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."

The world is going absolutely crazy when the giant meteor is approaching Earth...

Andrei, nicknamed Red, is a young drug dealer, trawling hotel corridors, selling little bags of hits to hookers and businessmen alike. Shrewd and tough, he has seen more than his fair share of life. But he has a problem - a rival gang, the Abreks, have moved into his territory and are forcing prices down. Andrei is a loner, attached to no one, but he is smart. He knows a member of a rival gang, Peaky, who runs with the X-Rays. Andrei manages to get them some "rods" - guns - and concocts his plan to run the Abreks out of his area.

The world famous pianist comes home, to the USSR, to participate in the Tchaikovsky Competition. But the commission does not allow him even to the final round. This event becomes fatal for the hero. The heroine of the second story, a young girl, becomes a widow some time after the wedding. Unable to let go of her husband, she asks him questions in her mind. The content of the long-awaited response is overwhelming.

Moldavia, 1944. An elite squad of Red Army scouts is sent to stop an equally elite squad of Germans soldiers committing war crimes behind Soviet lines.

Slava Kommisarenko's second solo concert.

This is the story of Vasiliy Ilyin, a retired farmer from the village of Ryshkovo, on a first time journey to see the world, New York, the ocean, and a cover photoshoot for Esquire Russia

Yakutia, the first half of the 19th century. Bishop Ambrose goes to the snowy steppe to the newly baptized Tungus, accompanied by the disgraced monk Cyriacus, who once refused to baptize "foreigners" en masse. On the way, they are overtaken by a blizzard. The pagan guide Harpoon saves the bishop's life, and the newly baptized Stepan throws Cyriacus to freeze. The death of the elder becomes a miracle of unity: unbaptized Tunguses themselves come to the faith of "Cyriacus", and Ambrose finally sees the truth — about the equality of all before God and love, which knows no difference between baptized and pagans.

An incomplete family. A house without a man. A daughter without a father. Twenty years of waiting, full of a child's pure love for a man she has never met. The desire to understand the reason for her father's indifference to her becomes obsessive. She resolves to find him by all means. Express train "Northern Lights" St. Petersburg - Moscow. A long-awaited meeting that will turn her life upside down...

In 1991, Russia discovered big money. In 2011, money is everything… Present-day Moscow. A bag with a million euros in cash is stolen form the car of a successful business man “with connections.” Going from one happy owner to the next, the moolah changes hands quickly… And it all began when the millionaire Grigory refused to declare his taxes.

A lone trumpeter does not know how to deal with life's routine, except with a pipe. But one day his life changes dramatically ... He acquires a friend. What adventures are waiting for new friends?

Deprived of desperation by everyday problems, the hero comes to the pharmacy, where it is rumored to get poison, which can not be hidden by any means.

Knowing that he will soon pass on, elderly Valentin Grack hires private detective Stanislav to follow him around for an entire day and write down everything that he does. It is a cold day and during Grack's travels he encounters a younger woman who addresses him as professor. He then meets a prostitute who turns out to be his daughter, and finally he meets an old woman, his worried wife who has been searching eight days for him. In between meeting the women, Grack finds himself in some almost surreal situations and having flashbacks about his youth.

This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his personal life. Although it's all in the film: a dramatic fate, unknown pages of biography. Like any great actor, he possessed a secret - he did not tell both in the movies and in life. But his main gift was not even acting. Yankovsky was talented at making people fall in love with him. I wanted to look at him again and again: that's why they loved him and still love him.

At Nuremberg the Soviet side demanded that the list of the accused should include financial and economic figures. And first of all Hjalmar Schacht, the chief banker of the Third Reich, the man who brought Hitler to power, the mastermind behind the German economic miracle of the 1930s. At the same time he took part in the attempted murder of the Führer, was a prisoner of the concentration camp. But can one make money on war and keep one’s hands clean? Kill millions and sleep serenely?

В жизни 40-летнего следователя городской прокуратуры Олега Борина наступила черная полоса. Все началось с дела, возбужденного против студента, изнасиловавшего девушку. Подозреваемый оказался сыном влиятельного чиновника. Тот воспользовался своими связями, и Борина сначала просто отстранили, а после и вовсе выгнали со службы. Жена ушла, забрав ребенка. Вскоре раздался звонок, и старый приятель Гена предложил работу охранника. Борин согласился, собрал сумку и уехал. Только на месте большого оптового рынка его ждала полная разруха и запустение. Друга он так и не нашел, а местные алкаши рассказали, что рынок давно закрыт. Той же ночью Олег тайно проник на территорию и… оказался в настоящем подземном городе, где протекала бурная жизнь. Удастся ли опальному следователю спасти своего друга, выйти на след хозяев порочного «Черного города» и восстановить справедливость?

Little Sash is afraid to get old. Sasha heard many times from her grandmother about her transient life that seemed to go by in a flash. In her words, you can close your eyes as a little girl and wake up as an elderly woman. One day Sasha desides to try this out. To close her eyes and see what happens in time.

When love gives way to burning resentment and painful suspicions, even an innocent prank can have irreparable consequences...

The film tells about the founding of the city of Koktebel a real secret adviser Eduard Jung, who in 1890 left the service in Moscow and moved to the arid lands of the future Koktebel. Maximilian Voloshin in 1903 in Koktebel began to build his own house, which later became the center of the spiritual life of Russia.

XIII century. The villain seized power in the Murom principality. Only the brave warrior Peter goes out to fight the villain and defeats him. But the poisonous blood of the sorcerer poisons the savior of the principality. Healer Fevronia is ready to use her gift to save Peter. A real pure feeling breaks out between the young people, which they have to preserve despite many obstacles.

What happens if you force a child to live the life the way should be? Egor grew up a stranger to himself. His wife’s death makes him wake up and take a step towards himself for the first time.

“To settle for the martyrdom and death for faith, a man must feel the reality of God being and the reality of the other world.” The film is about the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia who martyred for Orthodox faith in the middle of the 20th century.