Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Sasha fights for his classmate's girlfriend. His sister Marina works as a teacher in the daytime and dances on the raves at nights. Their existence in modern Russia seems to be a trap.

The stories of four young people who seek to learn more about their relatives, who were repressed during Stalin's times. Young Berliners and Muscovites are trying to break the family silence, looking for answers to their questions and revealing the most unexpected secrets.

New cartoon by Polina Fedorova (A-Film Studio).

Patient Gromov is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, and his attending physician is Dr. Ragin. Contact is established between the doctor and the patient. The hospital's chief physician, Khobotov, sees that the tandem of the doctor and the patient is disrupting the work of the entire hospital.

The film was shot in Venice, where two poet friends, Joseph Brodsky and Evgeny Rein, meet to walk along the embankments, sit in cafes, talking about poetry, language, Venice, Russia, the future, cats, and read their poems.

A fairy tale about how a village boy, stubborn Vanya, married Princess Mary, helped three old men to divide things, and Tsarevich Vasily to marry Elena the Beautiful.

Snow is a form of precipitation of crystalline form, referring to precipitation. For the heroine of the film, the word “snow” has a completely different meaning.

Masha and Kyril meet in the train. They are distantly familiar: once they were in the same company. They do not immediately tell each other where they are going: everyone has something to hide from a barely familiar person. He participates in illegal battles without rules. She dances a striptease, and because of the conflict with one of the visitors to the strip club she had problems. In the regional center, Masha should meet with a person who, she thinks, can help. But things do not go as expected, and instead of solving the problem, Masha has new ones. But now Kyril is next to her ...

During the war in Chechnya, when aviation was actively used, many wild animals left the forests and mountains of the republic and went to Georgia, to Dagestan. Now everyone is talking about a sharp increase in the number of animals. They are returning to their native land. The population is rapidly recovering, not without the help of dedicated people.

The film tells a real story about the last two years of the life of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and about the national mourning over his death.

A 1998 production staring Anna Netrebko, Larissa Diadkova, Nikolai Gassiev, Aleksander Gergalov in this Kirov Opera & Ballet production of the Prokofiev opera, with Valery Gergiev conducting.

"There will be no winters" - a film consisting of 14 short novels, each with its own plot and a musical theme. In fact, this is a screen version of the same album of Russian avant-garde singer Leonid Fedorov.

The main hero of the film suddenly turns out to be a hostage. Gradually, he realizes that he fell into this situation because of the ambiguous consequences of his good intentions.

A touching story of the relationship between two teenagers who accidentally met in besieged Leningrad. Masha and Sergey are fighting hunger and death. She reads the book about the Nutcracker and the Mouse King over and over again, and the words of this story help her to be stronger, and he plays his favorite piano. The film is filled with soft sadness. The unique technique of combining animation and staged filming with the participation of actors gives the theme of war and the blockade amazing notes of authenticity of memories.

Inna Sorokina is unlucky in her personal life. And getting married now is the "last car". Inna comes to a sanatorium. Her goal is not to get cured, but to find a husband. Based on the story by Victoria Tokareva "Old Dog".

A cinematographer is a person who is most often not particularly visible, but what he is doing is always visible. The Director of Photography is a rare opportunity to talk to filmmakers about filmmakers. This is not a conversation about their life, but about the profession that is the meaning of their life, an attempt, through their personal statements, to form an understanding of what is the modern concept of camera art, what is the literacy of the craft and what is the real content of camera work in practical concepts and categories. This is a mention of several main names in the profession of cinematographer, who today are associated with the most important events in national and world cinema.

A heinous crime is committed in a small remote Russian village. Police officer Afonya is a prime suspect. The locals are ready to take matters into their own hands. Investigator Sirditov faces a difficult task: he must find out all of the facts of this case before the villagers decide to execute their own justice. This Yakuti film was made in the Republic of Sakha.

The history of Levon and Armen, whose roads had diverged 16 years ago, but one casual encounter reveals the secrets of the past. Will they return the lost?

Even after death, Nick’s abusive boyfriend Godfrey goes on pursuing him. But is it reality or a terrible nightmare awakened by murder?

The hydrographic expedition of the Arctic Ocean (or GESLO, 1910-1915) made the last great geographical discovery – the Northern Land (then the Land of Emperor Nicholas II) and was the first to pass the Northern Sea Route from east to west, from Vladivostok to Arkhangelsk, overwintering at Cape Chelyuskin. According to Amudsen, "if this expedition had happened at a different time, it would have caused the admiration of the whole world." But in Soviet times, the most productive and successful Arctic expedition of the early twentieth century was "erased" from history. The reason is the participation of Admiral Kolchak in its organization. Unique archival materials immerse the viewer in a gripping dramatic story.

No matter how far the war retreats, its traces are imprinted on the torn earth and the memory of generations for tens, hundreds of years with bloody traces. The body of the earth is burned by shells, torn apart by mines - and we are its Parts. The heroes of the film are young Caucasian guys-children of the war that destroyed their childhood and youth. In this black-and-white movie, the past, present and future alike merge into the color of the tragedy of all times and peoples – the color of war.

The capital city of Salo-Nyam-Landia is preparing for a great knight's tournament. Prince Radiant has announced that he will give his daughter Rodinka to the best of the best. Overseas suitors: Mai-Son nicknamed Tusha, Master Fu Zhek Kachan and Baron Shkvarkonigero prepare for battle with the brave bogatyr Pyatibor, son of Chernomor, who is in love with Rodinka. At the same time, the terrible alien Trinog arrives in Salo-Nyam-Landia from the planet Mutan, and the underground king Patogen the 12th is looking for a way to the surface. It is not hard to guess that incredible adventures await the inhabitants of Salo-Nyam-Landia....

A musical number based on Schubert's music.

The visit of uninvited guests ruins the lovers' plans for a romantic evening.

The slang word "Psevdezh" is a free translation of the philosophical term "simulacrum" and means a sign that does not have a signified object in reality. The heroes of the film are trying to understand whether the activity of others is this very pseudo-death. A team of young actors begins to work on a performance that is dedicated to conceptual artists, heroes of the 90s. In the course of work, the two creative groups constantly collide, and with each meeting, both in actors and in artists, mutual irritation will grow.

Mother is eighty, Seva - sixty.That's the whole family right there. Seva spent his life looking after his mother. While he was at her beck and call, he barely had any time for himself and ended up childless with no soul to turn to. The inevitable happens - mother dies. Without her life loses its meaning. On top of this he finds out the story about his birth. The unbearable truth turns his life upside-down. Questions keep piling on. How to forgive? How to find humility and the strength to carry on?

An inventor tries to impress the woman he loves. Will she love him back?

The happy Nikitin family, expecting their first child, suddenly finds itself at the center of a real nightmare. Neither Sveta nor Alexey can put an end to the chain of mysterious events surrounding them — a plane explosion, the kidnapping of Alexey’s sister, and the poisoning of horses. The police begin to suspect everyone who has ever visited the estate or worked for its hospitable owner. A letter secretly delivered to Alexey sheds no light on the situation — the kidnapper demands no ransom for Katya. Alexey’s father sets out first to search for her, followed a day later by Sveta and Karpych… But all three disappear in the forest…

Continuation of Chardynin's drama By the Fireplace. Lost film.

A crime has been committed. Thanks to the determination and perseverance of a young police criminal investigation officer, it is possible to get on the trail of a seasoned repeat offender and solve a long-standing crime related to the disappearance of diamonds of the famous Siberian merchant Kukhterin in February 1917.

Shot in and around Yakutsk, in a remote region of Siberia, this film wrestles with the complex realities of a people and place facing continual, rapid transformation under Russia’s drive for resource extraction.

Every year Kamchatka hosts the Beringia, the longest dog sledding race in Russia. Participants overcome more than 1000-kilometer route in more than three weeks. For Kamchatka, the race is an event of the greatest importance.

A three-part documentary film (Russian Roulette, Lords of the Kremlin, and The Last Battle) directed by Alexander Gentelev based on the events that took place in Russia in 1991-2000.

An animated film based on the famous song about the brown button. A true "spy story" tells about the inviolability of the Soviet border and a country where even children stand guard over its safety.

Seaside town, month of May. Alexander goes to boring lectures on economics and does not lose hope of getting a diploma to please his girlfriend Anya. Although in fact he likes to play football with friends and ride a car more. And when he picks up another girlfriend on the street, he does not suspect that this is his true love.

Trying to cure a patient, a psychiatrist falls into the fictional world of his patient.

A young girl psychologist is laid off at work. Now a neural network will work instead of her and her colleagues. Frustrated, the girl catches a taxi and drives home. She has no idea that she is being driven by a very unusual driver.

The heroine's son is admitted to the hospital in critical condition. A mother in distraught, pleads to the doctors to save her child, but is met with harsh reality of medical incompetence.

About a young scientist from Syria who moves to Russia with his sister. The scientist suffers from a rare disease - "insensibility."

Based on the poems of G. Kruchkov and A. Usachev.

Set in Tbilisi, the film’s protagonist walks through the city’s streets as he contemplates whether to accept a job abroad or to stay at home with his family and girlfriend.

The whole universe of characters Maximov, showing in this case the skills and talents they possess in their snouts.

The film tells about the dramatic fate of Lydia Nikolaevna Delectorskaya, muse, model, love of the great French artist Henri Matisse.

Bestiary is an animated collection of poems-pies by the poet Igor Melnikov. The main idea runs through all the poems: people are a bit of animals in both good and bad senses. The leitmotif of this can serve as a pie: I walk with a monster in my arms and my monsters are waiting for me at home and look out the window and breathe on the glass

The story of Nikolai Ptukhin through the prism of knowledge of ancient philosophy, struggle with the inner menagerie and communication with his friend, linguist Alexei.

In the middle of a night forest, two bandits in a black car are forced to get rid of an unnecessary witness in the trunk. But a few minutes before the bloodshed, it turns out that neither of them knows how to kill.

A desperate lover is rescued from a scrape by his friend. And it doesn’t matter that it’s plush.

Anna and Misha, the parents of seventeen-year-old Ivan and his older sister Varya, recently separated. Misha, out of habit, sometimes comes to the old courtyard, secretly observes the life of his family. Ivan is watching his father.

Kazbek Daglarov is the director of the boarding house "Lastochka". Yaramazov is busy drilling his well, and the minister is passing on unnecessary information about him to Fatima Khanum. Finally, Fatima Khanum sets a condition for Kazbek. If the girls' track and field team from Krasnodar come to stay at the boarding house, she will fire Kazbek. Kazbek, who is in such a difficult situation, calls on his friends for help. And Kazbek's loyal friends save him from this predicament.

A story about people who put themselves above others and by accident may fall way below.Maria is a young actress living on the money of her producer Boris. Kirill, her assistant, dreams of becoming a great director. An accident disrupts their evening. Unexpectedly and cruelly.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's dazzling opera by-line in seven tableaux. The epic journey of Sadko a sea-faring minstrel from Novgorod, his wife Libava and their encounters with Volkhova, a sea Princess and the court of her parents the Tsar and Tsarina of the Sea. Sadko traveling on his ship "Falcon" also meets visiting foreign merchants from India (a Hindu), Scandinavia (a Varangian) and Italy (a Venetian) singing of the magic of their own lands to try and lure him. In the seventh tableaux Sadko is reunited with his wife, thinking his journey a dream, until he sees his fleet of ships coming up the newly created river Volkhova and realizes his sea Princess has transformed herself into the river in order to create the gateway to the ocean for Novgorod. In conclusion Sadko leads the hymn of praise and everyone rejoices their good fortune.

An insurance agent, an accountant, a digital gravedigger, a homeless accordion player, a typography designer and seven other completely different people meet at a cooking class. Father and son are driving a car through a monotonous, endless, cold autumn landscape. Their paths will all cross and life will never be the same again. Ultimately, each of them will understand what it means to be an angel on this cruel, dry, gray earth.

This movie marks the understanding of cinema as an extra-human effort and finds cinema beyond the human, somewhere on the territory of its non-existence.