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On December 31, 1979, five students come to a sanatorium lost in the Karelian forests to prepare for the New Year's performance. They are led by Associate Professor and the rector's daughter Mymra. Athlete Pasha is going to propose to his girlfriend Katya, but the Associate Professor, who is in love, kidnaps her. Mymra, who has long been jealous of the Associate Professor for young Katerina, arranges a romantic seduction for the Associate Professor. In the midst of a disco party by the pool, the local stoker Vitya intervenes in the fun of the students, an expelled student of the history department who considers himself the descendants of Karelian shamans. He performs a bloody rite, but is mistaken in choosing a victim.

A depressed guitarist spends all his time watching anime with his friend. Soon it turns out that he is hopeless for a reason.

A young family with a baby is visiting elderly parents living in a remote northern village. Suddenly, their child becomes sick with dysentery. There is no necessary medicine in the village, the telephone line was cut off, and the roads were washed out due to the spring flood. The young father Vanya decides to get to the regional center on his own in order to call a Sunrise to the village. But the road ahead is long and dangerous.

"Makarov" both a popular Russian name, and also slang for the word "gun," serves as a metaphor for the brutal reality of life in a post-totalitarian society. The story's protagonist, Makarov, embodies this struggle as he becomes more mechanical and less spiritual upon acquiring a gun.

Definitively proving that all the "B" Science Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s do not hold a candle to the 'real thing,' Pavel Medvedev's surreal 45 minute documentary Ascension is certainly one to look for. Composed entirely out of archival footage, much of it from the Soviet science and space archives, delicately scored and building to an undeniable mood of surreal (perhaps even ominous) energy, it charts (and re-purposed) the progress of man into to the unknown area of space exploration with a flair for creating art out film that was shot by scientists and engineers as a mundane record.

Fantastical story about an artist whose life changes after a ballerina from a film poster comes to life. Mostly lost.

Katya is an employee of the Sumarokovskaya Elk Farm; she has been delivering births to elk cows for 20 years and telling tourists about the benefits of elk milk. Katya’s duties sometimes include very cruel things, but she loves her job and her son, for whom she wants a better future like any mother.

Peer Gynt is a young Norwegian man who lives in fantasies and longs to become a king. Rejected by his village and scolded by his mother, he escapes into the forest – where his dreams begin to take shape when he meets the daughter of the mysterious Dovre King...

A group of former Russian nuclear scientist has settled on a small Greek island with about 60 inhabitants. These "Russians", as the locals call them, had a promising future in the USSR or in the West. But they decided differently. More than 20 years ago, they decided to take part in a lifelong experiment to explore the basic questions of human society on the basis of Pythagoras' philosophy.

In 1960 a secret rocket launch occurred, preceding the first manned flight into space. The spacecraft is damaged before it enters the orbit and crashes in the remote, frozen part of the world. After he comes to his senses, he realizes that it is the year 2023, and he remembers almost nothing about his life before flying into space. His only memory is the image of a girl from the past. He knows her, but she doesn't know him...

Twenty five years old Kolya starts to work as a cemetery night guard after moving to Moscow from province.

A documentary film made for the 50th birthday of Boris Nemtsov, shown in a small circle of friends during the holiday.

Valentina Karavayeva had her career ruined when her face was injured in a car crash. Weaving scenes from Russian war classics, Valentina’s personal soliloquies and contemporary footage, director Paradzhanov has created a wonderfully stylish portrait of a quintessential romantic artist.

A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a field. It transforms her heart into a stone and puts her under a queer curse. She is to be the evil Countess of Stones and live in a stone tower. If the greatest gem-cutter in the world brings the stone of Alatyr to life, though, she'll become the ruler of the world. The Stone Countess, now cruel and selfish, is fascinated with the idea. She starts searching for the best gem-cutters and forces them to work with Alatyr, so the magical stone would become a living thing. Neither of the gem-cutters succeeds, so she kills them. While being imprisoned in her tower, they work on a large book about the secrets of gem-cutting. Each of them edits the book, so it's later named "the Book of Masters".

Comedy vaudeville based on the play-joke by R. Chinarov "Dear Kiss".

Oskars cannot forget the woman who broke his heart several years ago, so he turns to a company that offers replica robots for sale. In attempting to create a perfect copy of his beloved, the man gradually realizes that his feelings may have nothing to do with love, and that his idea of the ideal woman is quite distorted.

Based on Aleksey Tolstoy's piece of the same name.

Revive the spirit of the times, fall in love with the characters, think through every detail, from coats to dances - and all this is not in vain. The result of the work brought dozens of awards, record views and sincere emotions of millions of viewers. It's time to return to the set and remember how the atmosphere of the late 80s came to life on screen. Screenwriter Andrei Zolotarev, director Zhora Kryzhovnikov, producer Fyodor Bondarchuk, new stars Leon Kemstach and Anna Peresild, together with experienced actors - from Ivan Yankovsky to Sergei Burunov - will reveal the main secrets of working on the event series. And they will honestly share their feelings about what happened after the premiere.

How an insignificant event becomes an important link in the chain of life.

A post-apocalyptic story about a girl named Dana who sets on a journey to save her kidnapped father, a scientist who created a machine that could restore the drinking water reserves on the planet.

A huge housing complex called "Сronos" is being built next to the orphanage. Irina, the orphanage's teacher, is worried that Cronos is getting closer and closer to the house and taking over more and more land. She will do everything possible to protect her charges.

"In Short" is an entertaining show in the genre of storytelling, in which complex stories are told in simple language. In it, the actors analyze, explain and retell famous books and films in the format of an author's review, while preserving the original idea of the work, but with as many spoilers and assumptions as possible.

In the center of the film is a love story of a modest graduate of the St. Petersburg law faculty evasively answering a question about a job, and a flight attendant from Kaliningrad. The picture is based on the biography of Vladimir Putin.

A hockey player who traded friendships for a career in the United States returns home with an incurable disease. He has little time left to atone for his former friends and find peace of mind before the medication that sustains his fight against death runs out. However, a conflict with local gangsters disrupts his plans.

A free film adaptation of the director's memoirs. In form, this is the "stream of consciousness" that attracted Sergei Eisenstein after getting acquainted with the experiments of James Joyce. The outer outline of the film is a long foreign trip of the director, which began in 1929, during which he recalls his past life and considers creative ideas. The film is constructed as a free alternation of reality, dreams, and fantasies. The material for it is fragments from the films of Sergei Eisenstein and his fellow contemporaries, documentary footage depicting the director and his time. The wide coverage of the faces and events reflected in the film shows the special role of Sergei Eisenstein in the culture of the twentieth century…

While trying fortune-telling young student Olga suddenly saw the face of her future husband and learned his name - Sasha.

Miron Alekseevich, director of a paper and pulp mill, goes to bury his wife Tanya in the place where they once spent their honeymoon. He goes not alone, but with a photographer named Stork, to whom he tells touching details of his life with Tanya. The narrative weaves together the memories of the characters, as well as the rituals and beliefs of the Meri people, a small Finnish tribe that once lived in the Northern Volga region and dissolved among the Russians.

A provincial war vet arrives in Moscow and subsequently takes on a gang of bad cops.

A.P. Clauseverz is an ordinary person with an ordinary life. There is work by which he fills the void inside, there is a rented room and there is a dream. But one tiny event destroys his entire tiny world in the bud - a house grows on his head.

Broom refuses the Alligator's offer to fly the whole family to the Maldives and takes his daughters, Tamara, Masha and neighbor Borya to a complex near Moscow with a five-star hotel, a swimming pool and a ski slope. However, on the spot, the company realizes that everything is not as luxurious as the Broom promised them.

A space pirate from the distant Barracuda galaxy, possessing amazing superpowers, comes to Earth. To escape the punishment of harsh cosmic law, the alien takes on the guise of a quiet schoolboy, Mitya, and begins searching for a repeater left on Earth in time immemorial to send a distress signal to his team. He accidentally saves the girl Kristina, who is being bullied by her classmates, and finds himself in the same company with the young hooligan and bully Kolya. Now their common task is not only to escape from their alien snake-people pursuers, but also to defuse a bomb that could destroy the entire solar system. But in order to save the Earth, you first have to understand that only friendship and self-sacrifice can resolve problems on a galactic scale.

On the eve of the World Cup in Russian football, it becomes one more club. Beginners immediately want to become champions - champions of the last division. Russian football underground - documentary portrait.

A story of a schoolgirl Alina who is lost in time while looking for her brother.

On December 27, 2019, the Parliament of Montenegro adopted a bill to seize all church property from the Serbian Orthodox Church. Hundreds of thousands of people in Montenegro stood up for the conciliar prayer led by Metropolitan Amfilohiy (Radovic). During his ministry, the Metropolitan, together with his people, built and restored 700 churches and monasteries. Through the life line of Metropolitan Amfilochiy, we want to tell about the long-suffering Serbian land. About life and monasticism in Montenegro. Unexpectedly for everyone, a national shepherd dies from the coronavirus. But his prayers have been answered. On the fortieth day after the death of Vladyka, the government changes and introduces amendments to the bill on the Church. This means that there will be no split.

For two months a serial killer has been terrorizing the city of St. Petersburg. Every Wednesday a girl between 9 and 12 years old is the victim. The brutality of the maniac plunges city residents into horror. Parents are afraid of leaving their children alone on the street. The press reinforces the atmosphere of fear and hysteria.

A parents struggling with their children suddenly get an advise for psychologist - to exchange the kids...

Failing to complete an important assignment without casualties, fearless crime fighters from an elite special service agency, masters of disguise and simply fun guys "Velik" and "Koshka" were demoted to serve in a department of a Drug Enforcement Agency...

A man returns from his wife's funeral and from the balcony notices a young woman in the house opposite. Fascinated by this image, he begins to stare intently into her life — with routine, passions and the light that does not fade in the night. What does this observation become — an unhealthy obsession, an opportunity to open the soul to new perspectives, or just an escape from loneliness and a ghostly substitute for the meaning of life?

After the death of the head of the family, allegedly due to the end of his powers, his family leaves the state cottage. The last hours before departure - packing, chores, confusion... And in this force majeure situation, a stress situation, through the prism of attitudes towards the fact of departure, the very fact of the existence of the house, the relationships in the family itself manifest themselves and it turns out that the relatives do not know each other, that they have completely different values in life, that their closest friends evict them from the cottage, and that the most loyal there are those that we usually don't notice....

Adapted from a novel from sci-fi series by Kyr Bulychev about a little girl Alice. It's Alice's birthday and as a present she is invited by an old alien friend archaeologist Gromozeka to join him on an expedition to an alien planet Coleida which population was destroyed by a space plague a hundred years ago. Arriving at the planet they decide that Alice, using a time-traveling device, will go back in time to the day when the plague was brought in by their space expedition to try and save the planet from destruction by spraying the astronauts with a vaccine. To achieve that, she and another alien scientist professor Rrrr, who looks just like a cat, must make a long and perilous journey to the planet's spaceport.

Three people live in a cottage near Moscow: Steven, the owner of the house, an American millionaire of Russian origin; Egor, a young postgraduate doctor and Dasha, Stephen's next nurse. Steven, trying to get rid of everyday boredom, turns Dasha's life into an everyday nightmare. Dasha, having a strong and independent character, but being in a difficult financial situation, is forced to fulfill his whims and whims. Egor finds himself unwittingly drawn into their relationship...

Special people are living among us. Emers: a superhuman species with unusual powers. They can control human emotions but are not able to love or feel physical pain. With the Emer community on the brink of collapse, a young half-breed Denis, sets out to search for the chosen one who can save them all. He finds Kate, a girl who never experienced true feelings. Step by step, Denis deliberately reveals all the emotions in Katya: joy, surprise, jealousy, anger, despair... and, ultimately, love! After a journey filled with danger and adventure, Katya will have to decide her fate as well as the fate of the whole world.

18-year old girl, called Slavka, born in a small northern town, comes to Moscow - to become a singer or a real pop-star. She got no cash, but just the business card of one of the most famous music producer, called Larisa. But Slavka appears to be quite pushy, and gets herself on board Larisa. And suddenly psycho shock happens - 48-year old Larisa recognizes herself and her own youth in a teen age Slavka, who has the same fighter's nature...

Coffee machine repairman Roma decides to become a hospital clown at the age of 40. Now he has to joke about terrible diseases, look positively into the eyes of death and cheerfully amuse those who are not laughing at all. A few days in the life of hospital clowns.

An exploration of human desires and possibilities in the age of digital sublimity.

Lost film.

Pasha has just come back from the army. Misha is evading mobilization. akin in their loneliness they have no luck meeting each other.

Mass protests across Belarus erupted following the widely disputed election that put President Lukashenko in office for a sixth term. Three Belarusian filmmakers document personal stories of people caught up in the political turmoil. Filmmaker Maksim Shved was arrested, imprisoned and then released while the protests around him swelled. Meanwhile, Ekaterina Markavets observes the psychological burden of her fellow citizens and worked with professional psychologists to set up a volunteer support service for people affected by current events. Andrei Kutsila followed a celebrated Belarusian broadcast journalist who worked for State TV for nearly 40 years, now in hospital recovering from injuries she sustained while at a protest. All three filmmakers wonder what the future holds for their country and fellow citizens.

Millionaire Gornostayev and ballet dancer in Ilona are always arguing about what is more important - youth and beauty or wealth. Ilona thought that youth and beauty are more important, but Gornostayew disagreed with her. He intended to prove Ilona that she in wrong. Gornostayew signed a contract with young worker Alexey. They moved abroad. Year later. Alexey changed into a real aristocrat and returned to Russia. Gornostayew introduced Alexey to Ilona and she falls in love with him.

Alexey Kromov, a former Russian army colonel, is stuck in Paris with a huge sum of money which belong to the former Russian government.

It’s a magical story about the incredible adventures of the young warrior called Koshi. There is only one goal in his life – to defeat the White Shadow, a monster who made him an outcast. But everything changes when Koshi meets a young dryad and circus actress May. By chance the destiny of all fairy creatures ends up in their hands, and now they have to make a tough choice between their own lives and saving the world from Ancient Evil.

Brother and son, it was only yesterday that he came back from the army. Only his sister is at home, his mother is wandering somewhere as usual. But the man, who has come back, has changed completely.

A heroes from the first movie now are involved in high politics.

Martian Spies tells a love story between a boy who pretends to be a terrorist and a young girl, who is the wife of a KGB agent. The boy tells her that he has been hired to shoot the president – Yeltsin. The end is poetic yet addressing the politics of revenge and corruption in Russia. Miners stand in front of their mine, singing a song, which tells the story of contemporary Russian politics.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Demonstrators carrying banners.