Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

The film takes place today in a small settlement in Kolyma. A few years ago, the authorities decided that state gold mining was no longer profitable. Those who try to act on their own are persecuted.

A former prisoner and his friend, a retired military man, are carrying an unknown cargo in an ambulance to earn money and finally start a normal life. But for the customer, they are just waste waste, because a lot of money is at stake.

Three young guys are spending their days and nights trying to pick up as many girls as possible.

Everyone considers the world a hopeless old maid. Yes, and the Light itself has long given up on itself: no makeup, no hairstyles, no outfits. Her sister’s husband introduces her to his assistant Cyril, a shy old bachelor who liked Sveta very much. However, he did not arouse sympathy with Sveta, but she is silent about this so as not to offend Cyril. At this time, the former beloved of Sveta returns to the city from abroad. He is the new owner of the restaurant, in which the heroine works as a waitress. Now this is one of the most enviable suitors.

The amazing story of sports commentator Stepan Vershinin, which loses its prestigious place on television. In search of a new job, he becomes part of unusual competitions.

Tamara becomes a victim of circumstances. Her lover left her. She nearly lost her best friend. Even in her own apartment Tamara does not feel safe - there she finds the corpse of a neighbor. In a panic, the heroine goes to the country, but there she becomes a prisoner of the bandits.

Pyatigorsk. The foot of Mount Mashuk. Morning of July 15, 1841. Two days ago – friends, overnight – irreconcilable enemies. A few hours remain until the duel between Lermontov and his friend Martynov. Relatives, friends, acquaintances of the duelists are trying to prevent the duel.

Kostya and Olya are university teachers. On vacation at a sanatorium, Olya found a more respectable partner for herself - Sergey. He is a wealthy man obsessed with a healthy lifestyle and active sports. Upon arrival, Olya leaves a note for her husband and leaves the house, blocking all contact with Kostya. Sergey has a daughter, Sonya. Kostya finds nothing better than to try to start an affair with her in order to gain access to Sergey and his new lover. Sonya does not find Kostya very attractive. However, the opportunity to irritate her father at a dinner with her potential stepmother seems tempting. After all, her father recently kicked out her boyfriend Maks for "not being serious."

38-year-old Dmitry organizes a candlelit dinner in his apartment, where he invites a pretty girl Eva. Dmitry gives the impression of a religious person, he is neat, polite, but at the same time, from Eve's behavior it is noticeable how she doubts his serious attitude towards her. Eve gives Dmitry an old Icon, such an unexpected gift shocks Dmitry.

The Spanish "comedy of cloak and sword", in which there is both all-consuming love, and withering jealousy, and sophisticated cunning.

This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of Russian cinema.

Four best friends. They've been to war, they've seen life, but they are still passionate, young and willing to serve their country. They found their place at OMON - Russian Special Police Squad. They can count only on each other, and their real family is themselves. After working hours they become simple guys with ordinary dreams like family and comfort. But life changes when once in a night club the friends incidentally get in a fight with the local mafia. It turns out that they have no fear and they are ready to stand for each other whatever happens.

When with the last stroke of the clock the desire of friends suddenly comes true, three friends get an incredible chance to do what they dreamed of all their lives…

Passengers of a fixed-route taxi are in the power of one person, who intends to solve their problems with their help.

Vika is twenty years old. She has black fingernail polish, wears pink dresses, and is constantly depressed. While working at a pizza place, she gets an order for a pizza delivery from Venya, a strange twenty year old boy who lives all alone in a deserted apartment in the middle of Moscow. Venya suffers from agarophobia, the fear of open space. When Vika arrives Venya lets her in and locks the door behind her.

A story about a simple school literature teacher, Fedorov, who thought his life couldn't become more boring and pointless until he met a strange girl, who stormed into his very ordinary day, accused him of bringing her girl-friend to suicide and turned his life completely.

Russian Lessons sees its two filmmaker-protagonists, Olga Konskaya and Andrei Nekrasov, report from different posts on the frontline of the 2008 Russian-Georgian war.

A married man needs a lot of money and he is trying to get them form a huge bet on horse-riding.

Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on Bald Mountain" — one of the most mysterious films in the history of animation and the inventor of a unique device — a needle screen . He did the first color commercials and the prologue to the Orson Welles film "The Trial". He made dreams come true and subordinated reality to his own imagination.

On 13th December 1974, Slava Kurilov jumped off a Soviet cruise ship in the Philippine Sea. People will consider his journey to the shore — over three days of swimming in complete solitude in the middle of the ocean — a betrayal, a defection, an act of bravery, a protest...but for Kurilov that jump was one thing only — a leap into total freedom.

It was a time with a rise of artistic life in the former capital of Russia. But the rise ended quickly and tragically with arrests and executions. Modern St. Petersburg and Petrograd of 1921 strangely and intricately intertwine in the mind of the director. The cruel, bloody, but romantic world of the first years of the Revolution converge with the artistic and domestic life of contemporary filmmaking on the same ground, on the same streets and squares.

In the pre-New Year bustle of Moscow, Galina accidentally meets her first love, former classmate Eduard. Remembering the past, they decide to celebrate the New Year together. But the festive night will bring many surprises, because old acquaintances are in no hurry to tell each other about the changes that have happened to them over all these years...

A CIA operative must rescue his former mentor from an insane asylum under siege by hired killers.

The last twelve months in the life of Dejan Stanić, a former general in the Balkan war. For ten years, he was forced to hide from justice, especially the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, on various undisclosed military bases. He finally found refuge with Slavko, an old man living in a small village in the mountains. Suffering from extreme isolation, Dejan will not only have to face a new environment and a new reality but won’t be able to escape his past.

A romantic story about a photographer Ivan from a small town, a girl Masha from Moscow and a magic camera...

Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna such questions as "What do you love the most?", "What scares you the most?", "What do you want above anything" and "What do you hate the most?"

World War 2 - Eastern Front: A new batch of raw, inexperienced female Soviet snipers arrive at the front. To bolster them a commander picks a Tungus medic whose people are known for their hunting skills and marksmanship to lead them in battle. Soon a merciless duel with an elite German sniper develops. The main character is based on the top Soviet sniper SEMYON NOMOKONOV who had 367 kills to his credit.

Twenty-five-year-old Taisia works for a women's magazine in the letters department. Her job is to give advice to female readers about their family problems. Which she does with success. But in her own personal life Taya can not put things in order. She just broke up with a married lover - tired of hiding. With her husband does not live a long time ago - tired to fight with his drunken absences. The truth, it would seem, is behind her. But when she saw the number of the "Helpline" in the newspaper, the girl called and started a long telephone conversation with a psychologist.

Akaky Akakievich is dying in his miserable apartment, and the ill-fated Overcoat itself is running around all over St. Petersburg, wandering in search of its unfortunate owner. He encounters stupid officials, ridiculous inhabitants of Nevsky Prospekt and its surroundings...

A funny comedy about the unemployed actor Pirozhkov who desperately tries to find the treasure hidden by Tsar's family.

Two families live on the same staircase. One fine day, the dads boycott the moms, and the moms confront the dads in response. The reason for this is the accumulated family troubles: computer games of one, iron drill of the second, female fatigue, and so on. The hostages of the situation are children who are forced to live in two opposing camps. In an attempt to reconcile their parents, they only aggravate the situation and find the only way out - to call and ask their grandfather, a general of tank troops, to come. With his arrival, a planned "rescue" operation begins, filled with very comical situations.

Mysterious and terrible events take place at the Russian Pearl beauty contest from year to year. The first winner of the contest tragically died, the second was splashed with boiling resin in her eyes. And now the participant who reached the semifinals, Natasha Titrova, who came from Tomsk, has disappeared without a trace and mysteriously.

Taxi driver and unsuccessful actor Seva Gorelov accidentally meets his first love Masha Sokolova, once a young and carefree girl, and now a thirty-year-old spoiled kept woman. Seva works part-time in a taxi, and Masha accidentally becomes his client. To go far, to Sochi, to their homeland with Seva teenage love. Masha has a wedding there in a few days, but not with Seva, of course, but with a rich patron. From the very beginning it becomes clear that this journey will not end with anything good. 1600 kilometers of adventure, well flavored with humor, ambition, tears, resentment, flirting, passion and a great feeling, which again is out of place.

An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed with the figure of a beautiful blond woman dressed in white that he sees there. but it appears that she may have died years before.

The young family did not stay in this status for long: Vitya and Ilona notice only flaws in each other, constantly swear and, in the end, get divorced. From their once happy family, only an apartment bought with a mortgage remained, which is difficult to sell due to redevelopment. In fact, the frivolous Vitya and Ilona did not have time to really study each other: they got married almost immediately after they met and then got an ill-fated apartment, and now they don’t know what to do. There is an apartment, there are no feelings ... it seems that the main intrigue is only what will happen first: the sale of a problem apartment, or the former spouses will finally finish each other within four walls.

"The Living Corpse" - Fedor Protasov is tormented by the thought that his wife Liza never really made a clear choice between him and Victor Karenin, a more conventional rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer Mascha. Meanwhile, his wife Liza, presuming him dead, marries the other man, Victor.

A closed schoolboy, Miron, has no friends, his parents constantly quarrel, and his grandfather is completely immersed in his own affairs. At school they make fun of him and don't want to play basketball because of his hearing aid.

Rita loves her husband Alexei, but he decides to leave her for another woman named Alena. When nothing works, Rita seeks help from a sorcerer and ends up waking in Alena's body.

A young artist gets into a scuffle with bikers after dabbling in graffiti on the subway. This altercation costs him a trip to Italy, and he is sent to rural Russia instead. However, his journey takes an unexpected turn.

A few days from the life of the neurosurgeon working in the big hospital.

Four friends come to Istanbul to see their friend Vadim, but they learn the sad news: their friend died suddenly. Thus, one day in Istanbul turns into an evening in memory of Vadim. The characters recall funny incidents from life, share memories and are sad about the inevitable.

An unremarkable episode from the life of a Russian aristocrat.

The seasoned vampire Count Darlak returns to his castle after a century-long absence. He has a wonderful appetite, and soon people start disappearing and dying. And only the count's servant, a man named Adam, remains alive and well. Although his only desire... is to become a vampire himself. Adam is a shipwreck victim. At one time, the count picked him up on the seashore, cured him and made him his “day representative.” Adam is an obedient tool in the hands of evil, but any tool can one day get out of control.

Two Russian craftsmen, slightly warmed up by a game of chess, where instead of pieces there are glasses with "strong drink", invent a perpetual motion machine... for a ballerina.

A touching story about a Muscovite who decided that the spirit of the famous Soviet Far Eastern captain Yurev had entered his body. The main character, in company with a young Ryazan gopstopnik, travels across Russia to Vladivostok to finish the Captain's unfinished business - to discover his "undiscovered" island.

Two Muscovites go on a trip to Karelia and disappear without a trace in an endless, dense forest. Each attempt to get out turns into a new threat. The forest seems to breathe, watch and does not want to let go... It becomes clear: the Forest lives by its own rules, which there is no time to understand - without food and water, the girls will not last long. In the meantime, one strange family moves into an abandoned village house. Strangers are not welcome here. After all, they used to live in the Forest.

Pique Dame (or "The Queen of Spades") inspired by Alexander Pushkin, set to a music by Tchaikovsky; Passacaglia (or "Passacaille") set to a music by Anton Webern: two Roland Petit masterpieces brought together on one memorable evening at the Bolshoi Theater of Moscow. Recorded live, 19th of May 2005.

Saw and imagined in the children's fantasy the story of grandmother of Christ and the Apostles a little girl. Today few people remember that just a few decades ago in the village houses next to the icons you could still see the popular prints on religious themes. They finally disappeared from use only in the 60-ies of the last century. Of course, their creators were not professional painters or connoisseurs of theology. Drew, as best they could, she felt, not knowing neither rules nor laws. Simple uneducated people, nuggets, sought to glorify God with their creativity, that resonates in the hearts of those of peasants or artisans as they are.

Gosha Kutsenko in a comedy about the fight against drunkenness and stereotypes. A popular actor decides to change his life and, for starters, tie up with alcohol. Change is for the better. But the German director, who does not tolerate falsehood, wants to remove him in the role of a drinking ranger. Who will win?

The leading actress of a youth theater is forced to perform an openly erotic scene on stage. Trying to protest against the permissiveness and licentiousness that is happening in front of hundreds of young spectators, she tragically dies. The son of an influential businessman in the city, who loves the actress, decides to restore justice and take revenge for the death of his beloved...

Nikita Nekrasov is a scientist, a theoretical physicist who studies our world and other possible worlds. He refuses to make a choice between mathematics and physics, between one woman and another, as he ponders the existence of the multi-universe. At scientific conferences, attended by eminent foreign scientists and a rising younger generation of physicists alike, Nekrasov gets carried away debating the beauty of string theory. He attempts to explain to all of his women – Katya, the librarian, Zoya, the scientific secretary, Svetalana, the head of department – about the theory of his own polygamy, and the possibility of having enough feelings to satisfy everyone.