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An absurd story about life behind the windows.

The film is based on the early works of Antosha Chehonte.

Based on real events, a short film-sketch about one day in the life of Professor Leonid Leonidovich Vasiliev and a psychedelic experiment on a Soviet student.

Once upon a time, photographer Yevgeny Burak was a photojournalist, published in large, "central" publications. And although most of his works were not published, he was a photo chronicler of the Smolensk region. Now all this is in the past, in the one that remained in the USSR. Now he is just a photographer. A photographer who decided to go back in time, to take a trip around his native region in search of the heroes of his old photographs of thirty or forty years ago. How are they now?

The adventures of Italians in the solar republic. What does modern Armenia offer to foreign tourists? From the legendary Lake Sevan to the only pagan temple in the country. From medieval ruins to the former Olympic base. Here you can buy national souvenirs and even an empty tin can.

He happened to work with such directors as Larisa Shepitko, Dinara Asanova, Andron Konchalovsky, Vitaly Melnikov. Films based on his scripts entered the golden fund of Russian cinema. And he continues to look for reasons to live. An outstanding screenwriter of our time, Yuri Klepikov, who is celebrating his 75th birthday this year, talks about his profession, about cinema. And not only.

The film attempts to comprehend the phenomenon of the Empire in a broad cultural context on the example of the great empires that have existed for centuries, experienced a rapid flourishing and sometimes mysterious death.

The film is about people who are already recognized in the world musical culture, about those contemporaries who are called "our new composers" in musical circles. Vladimir Martynov, Sergey Zagniy, Anton Batagov and Pavel Karmanov, despite their creative difference and difference in attitude, communicate closely and, one might say, are friends. These are four completely different people, who, nevertheless, are called “composers of the same blood” by critics.

Tobacco companies make millions on the bad habit of mankind. Ways to quit smoking are also someone's income. We will prove that there are no safe cigarettes, and we will find the most harmful ones on the counter. We will dispel the myth that the consequences of smoking occur only after many years of experience, you can get poisoned at any time. We will reveal all the tricks of manufacturers who deliberately put us on tobacco.

The Chernobyl disaster dealt a blow not only to the environment, economy and human health, but also to the country's nuclear energy. The construction of nuclear power plants is frozen, the territories are in decline and devastation. And the devastation, as you know, begins in the minds. What is "Chernobyl"? And where is this "Chernobyl"? And whose?

Almost like a lab experiment. A 2nd year student decided to live for a month on a scholarship of 2200 rubles.

For a month, Uncle Misha has been guarding a barge arrested for debts. Nothing seems to happen to him here. For days on end, he moves around the ship following the shadow, escaping from the heat and a hangover, inventing activities for himself. Waiting for the owner. Uncle Misha is alone all the time, and only local children come to the barge to swim, fish, he allows.

On the evening of July 1, 1960, an American military aircraft was shot down over the Barents Sea, which violated the state border of the USSR. What did the RB-47 do in the Barents Sea near the borders of the USSR? How did the events of July 1, 1960 develop on the northern borders of the Soviet state and in Moscow? What was the fate of the surviving crew members of the American reconnaissance aircraft? What happened to the pilot Vasily Polyakov, who shot down the RB-47? The film includes an interview with a crew member of a reconnaissance aircraft, Vasily Polyakov, some materials from the still unclassified criminal case No. 45, film materials from the US State Archives.

Ghulja is a city in the west of China, the Chinese and Uighurs live here, but few people know that only 80 years ago it was called the Russian Ghulja. Here the Russian people, who fled from Russia at that time, sought shelter in search of a better life. This is where bayans, accordions, harmonicas and sad Russian melodies came from in these places. How did the fate of the exiles, who endured all the hardships of the twentieth century, but preserved the faith, language and memory of their distant homeland for future generations.

In the village of Pervomaisky near Tula, a local businesswoman decided to ennoble the space near her stall. The young artist painted Christ and the Sistine Madonna for her. Everyone turned on the artist and businesswoman, from the administration and the police to participants in Orthodox Internet forums. As a result, on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, the entrepreneur destroyed the images of Christ and the Virgin with her own hand. But something remains of the naive fresco. Although not on the wall.

The queen of Russian silent cinema, Vera Kholodnaya, was only 26 years old. Of these, she starred only 4 years. Of her more than 50 films, only 5 have survived, but she is not only remembered, she is revered. Vera Kholodnaya was a real star of Russian cinema. There were no others like her. To be smart, and beautiful, and pure, and talented, and happy, and loved by everyone. The film is built on the memoirs of Vera Kholodnaya and people who knew her well, as well as on materials from newspapers and magazines of the 10s and 20s. The film features A. Vertinsky's songs dedicated to Vera Kholodnaya.

In the age of total earning or extraction of money, such concepts as a favorite profession or dream are less and less common in our lives. How can you love a man who has long since died?

Here they sleep with a gun under the mattress, dream about Chameleon glasses, read Yesenin, sing in a 20-degree frost, and after "hello" they promise to rape.

Sergei is seven years old. He believes in Batman. Not wanting to discuss the tragedy that happened in the family, Sergei's older brother, Misha, starts playing superhero in real life. The brothers create their own world, incomprehensible to others. But can the game last forever?

From the almanac "GREEN APPLE". A young mother is scared to death of rats. Will she be able to overcome her fear?

What threads can keep a person on earth? Only love, of course!

The Cowboys are lured from Mexico to Coney Island by their former manager who disappeared at the end of Leningrad Cowboys Go America. He believes he is the reincarnation of Moses, sent to lead them back to the promised land--Siberia.

About "detachment" and "distancing" as methods that allow a person to see the world as something more than himself.

After the death of his beloved Musayev, it is as if he dies with him: he is in deep depression, quits business, gets a job in security. Shortly before her death, her beloved sang a melody that stuck in her head. One day, the taxi driver who gives her a ride throws a phrase that it would not hurt for her to "come off." Desperate Musayeva decides to take his advice.

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An impostor posing as a prelate tricks his way into the church, only to celebrate nights of violent orgies and devour food supplies saved for the poor. Only God knows who is behind the mask, and one day his patience will come to an end...

When Alexander Romanov was a student at the Faculty of History at Saratov University and was fond of the works of Vladimir Lenin, he came to the conclusion that the idea of socialism was distorted in the Soviet Union. An attempt to convey this idea to others led him to the Mordovian camps.

Three young people who grew up in large cities come to the remote village of Glazok to work as teachers. Will the guys manage to change the traditional village way of life or will the new life force them to change themselves?

The protagonist of the film is a former member of a criminal group, has several convictions behind him. The criminal path began with a juvenile colony and eventually led him to the brink of death. Is there a chance to return to normal life if the point of no return is passed, and you yourself become a god for yourself. “I did not return by myself,” admits the hero of the film.

The film is about the problems and hope for the revival of the disappearing people - the Koryaks.

The film is about a young biker who uncontrollably dreams of getting back into the saddle of his steel horse. On May 28, 2011, Boris Vishnyakov was involved in an accident in which he lost his eyesight. Doctors do not give comforting forecasts for the young man, but nevertheless, Boris wants to get back on the road again. How long the path of return will be, he and we have yet to find out.

In the form of a fascinating popular science investigation, the author tells about the nature of one of the most insidious diseases, which is called social. What does the "Koch wand" look like? Why does Mantoux's reaction not suit doctors today? What methods do modern scientists and doctors use to fight the disease? What precautions are recommended to know and what moral lessons to remember?

The film combined folk legends about the cuckoo, the knowledge of scientists and observations of its life.

Shikotan Island is located in the South Kuril Ridge, and crows are permanent residents here. Unlike seagulls, crows cannot get their own food in the sea, therefore they steal everything that lies badly and are not at all afraid of humans.

Ilyich's light bulb was canceled by the law on energy conservation, and along with this law, people working at the manufacturing plant were "canceled". But the factory workers believe that Ilyich's lamp was buried early, and there are no better lamps for lighting houses, apartments.

Nenets children from the tundra enter the alien world of a boarding school to learn how to navigate the modern world. Urban comfort prevents them from preserving traditions, without which they will not survive after leaving school.

"All Udege people are animists. They see life all around. And there is no death." V. Arsenyev. From the manuscript "The Country of Udehe"

In the maternity hospital, Sergei Panteleev was classified as a "non-resident", his parents refused him, and it seemed that his biography ended before it began. But he survived, did not disappear either in an orphanage or in a neuropsychiatric boarding house. Moreover, at the age of 30, he became the master of his fate, the owner of a one-room apartment and a human rights activist ... He calls himself a "tenacious man".

Imagine Slovenia completely uninhabitable. Such is the territory of the Semipalatinsk test site. In these 18.5 thousand square kilometers, the atom was not peaceful. For 40 years, from 1949 to 1989, more than 500 nuclear and thermonuclear explosions thundered here, including the most powerful of the ground ones. How does this land live now, and will it ever be habitable? The film crew of the program "Aggressive Environment" visited one of the most radioactive places on the planet.

The hero of the film, a young guy, Vaska, was deprived of all human freedoms and locked up forever behind the fence of a disabled house. With the help of good sorceresses, he overcame the state dragon, conquered the life he dreamed of and was rewarded with the love of a beautiful girl, whom he had been seeking for many years.

The legendary Sedin plant was founded in 1911 in Russian Empire, in the city of Krasnodar (Ekaterinodar). The film shows the struggle of workers (rallies, pickets, strikes) for the future of the Sedin Plant and for their rights.

A hand-held camera guides the viewer through the droplets of the Abkhazian city, which stands on the seashore, all the way to the main character's room and bed. It's time for him to go to work and he goes out of town with a gun behind his back, to a small forester's hut. During the day he cares for peace and order in these wild lands, listens to the whispers of the river, wanders through the thickets of the forest, puts his face in the sun - One night his attention is drawn to the moan of a wolf trapped. Her husband saves her, she thanks him for his service. But suddenly human laws begin to conflict with the laws of nature.

A film-observation of the state of the atmosphere through the eyes of a lyrical hero - an ascetic meteorologist who lives and works surrounded by ice and snow at a meteorological station lost in the forests of the Valaam archipelago.

The young Moscow group "Patience!", led by Sergey Dmitriev, reveals the thoughts of a police officer who participates in the dispersal of a rally, and at this moment dreams of a completely different life.