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Night. In the hut Glasha rocking his little sister Dunechka. There is a black cat on the stove, who has lost all his teeth due to his old age, which is why the mice are bothering him. Suddenly strange shadows crawl along the walls, and an old woman appears in the hut. She asks to spend the night, but Glasha says that her parents, when they left for the fair, were severely asked her: do not let strangers into the house. But the old woman persuades Glasha to leave her, and when Glasha goes to bed, the old woman kidnaps little Dunechka and takes her to the forest. The animated film is based on the tales of Aleksey Nikolaevich Tolstoy "Kikimora" and "Vas'ka the Cat" (both written in 1910).

The story of the creation of Philip Kirkorov's most ambitious show.

Second stand-up concert by Denis Chuzhoy was called “Jokes about Death” for a long time, but closer to the shooting it became clear that it was more about family. So it ended up with a less offensive title. But more truthful. After all, stand-up is when truth and harshness, as they say in the project "Women's stand-up". Our childhood traumas remain with us forever. And you can live with them. Even write almost 50 minutes of jokes about them."

And the invisible battle began! It was necessary to act swiftly. Menshikov tries to snatch Peter II from the clutches of the conspirators, but they arrange an escape for the emperor under the nose of the prince's agents. Menshikov is chasing the kidnappers! Remembering that Menshikov is terrible in anger — he chopped the heads of the archers with his own hands — the conspirators hurry Peter II to sign the papers prepared in advance and, seizing them, hide together with the tsar.

Extended short film from the five minute video clip titled "Ich hasse Kinder" by Till Lindemann.

A young woman lavishes the last care on her mother's lifeless body. At his side, a woman watch, a babouhcka , as they say among the Russians. The young groped, the day before with a sure hand, wash this body, prepare it. They accompany him, rock him and console him by the last goodbye.

Forty-year old Alya has been abandoned by her husband and son. Her mother does her best to distract the heroine from her loneliness. However, her clumsy efforts do not help — Alya prefers top escape into the world of her dreams, fantasies and childhood memories.

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.

Summer. During the admission to the acting school, Lisa gets acquainted with one of the entrants and leads him to the sculpture workshop of her father, where they spend several days together. In a closed space, their relationship becomes a game. Without borders, without time, without skin. An intimate depiction of a passionate, and sometimes violent, relationship between two young actors at an acting school in St Petersburg.

Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson’s production of Violetta Valéry’s tragic fate is his first work at the State Theater of Linz, Austria, one of the most modern operatic stages in Europe by architect Terry Pawson. After the run in Linz, the production was transferred to the Opera House in Perm, Russia, where the production was conducted by Teodor Currentzis. In 2017, the work received a “Golden Mask”, the most prestigious Russian theater award, in three categories (Teodor Currentzis, Best Conductor; Nadezhda Pavlova, Best Female Singer; Robert Wilson, Best Lighting Design).

A story about two very different sisters who are forced to trade places.

An orphan named Nikolay Najdenov went through the hell of the war in Afghanistan and the horrors of captivity. From now on he is a US citizen and his name is Nick McCann. In the US he has a family and new life, but in his country of birth, Ukraine, there are still some unpaid bills remaining, so the tough American boy goes back to his home country, where he learns about the death of his best friend, and soon after that his friend's wife got killed, too. Naydenov decides to revenge their death...

A story of teenager who's trying to find himself

A scientific expedition sets off to the area of ​​a nuclear power plant, closed after the disaster. Strange events begin to occur in the zone, a scientist dies. The remains found indicate that he died from an attack by a giant animal. Scientists are trying to unravel the mystery of these phenomena, while the number of victims increases...

This documentary by director Maxim Rys'kin and producer Alexander Uchevatkin tells the story of Ivan Gusev, a legendary native of the village of Sabancheevo in the Atyashevsky District of the Republic of Mordovia who carried out a tank ramming attack during the Battle of Kursk in July 1943.

One day in a VR club that helps clients re-immerse themselves in the most important moments of their lives. In the center of the plot is a young actor, an employee of the club. He sincerely tries to help visitors deal with their past, but he himself could not deal with his own.

A candid monologue by Anastasia Reshetova in short film format. Memories of a difficult childhood. The story of an ordinary girl from a residential area. Great love and a tragic breakup. Motherhood. Through pain and disappointment to new heights.

The dramatic chronicle of the Meshchersky family is a story about the post-revolutionary life of three representatives of the Russian intelligent family, the history of which reflected the fate of the whole generation. Life on the estate, holidays, youthful hobbies - and after the hell of a civil war, the bitterness of emigration. They held on and knew how to hide their confusion. But the pain destroyed the soul, manifesting itself in short novels that did not bring happiness and unfulfilled hopes ...

Frank accounts from eyewitnesses — a former police officer who worked with “night butterflies,” a Soviet prostitute, and a catering worker with over a hundred romantic stories behind her — are intertwined with analysis from experts such as historian Lev Lurye, sociologist Elena Zdravomyslova, and sex blogger Arina Kholina. They help the viewer better understand how the legacy of the Soviet era is reflected in the intimate lives of people today.

A documentary about the phenomenon of the Brother duology and its place in the country's cultural code. Directors Anna and Grigory Selyanov explore Balabanov's legacy, rare archives, and routes from Moscow to New York to understand how these films united several generations of Russians.

August 1980. The Soviet authorities are preparing Moscow for the Olympic Games and expelling unreliable citizens from the city. One such citizen is the talented cellist Arseny Chaika, who ends up in the village of Protasovo with his rabbit. Meanwhile, in Moscow, foreign journalist William Smith is looking for him for an interview.

Chinese businessman Weihong comes to Russia to visit his business partner Victor, who is in debt to him. Weihong tries to put things in order: fire ineffective employees, improve sales. But it soon becomes clear that he cannot overcome the great Russian melancholy, and Victor is unable to help him. Then Weihong decides to take Victor's house to pay off the debt. Victor is ready to part with the house, but he faces desperate resistance from his adult daughters - Olga, Lena and Toma. The conflict escalates into a catastrophe that can destroy the family and even kill.

After 8 years, 2 feature films, 1 album, the band is back together. Celebrate Ilya and his group of misfits as they perform a series of tracks in celebration of their history, from small beginnings to big time hotshot.

Sasha is a young and daring hockey player. After he was kicked out of the team, he and his mother, a doctor, move to another city. Here he and his mother will have to not only become part of their new team, but also build a personal life and find mutual understanding.

At the casting, there is a perfect match with the requirements, but there is a small nuance: the actor has Down syndrome. And while the director is trying to figure out how to fuse the uninvited candidate, he manages to change his life.

Today is Masha's birthday. She finally decides to meet her father, whom she has never seen. It is separated from him by only one door. She hears a childish voice for her and does not dare to call. She can't take the last step.

Almost cloudless family happiness of spouses Vadim and Lyuba, it seemed, nothing can threaten. A bolt from struck suddenly. The only and beloved eighteen-year-old son Ilya decided to marry. So in love, and bride, Anastasia, already in position. Being people of modern views, the couple were ready to give their blessing, but Vadim, from questioning in a conversation with Nastya, understands that she is his illegitimate daughter. The forgotten short-term novel returned in the form of a pretty, innocent, girl. Under the blow was all: family, work, relationships with his wife and son.

The first Russian female thriller to investigate the topic of persecution and psychological pressure on women by the so-called "incels."

When an alien crashes into their school, the principal and two teachers embark on a journey across time and space.

Zoe - athlete with a masculine character. Therefore, it is difficult for the stronger sex, and they run away from her. But Zoe wants to get married and have children.

A young accountant from a provincial settlement suffers from the tyranny of his mother and is looking for an answer to the reasons for his father's suicide. The desire to change the direction of his life pushes him to flee to Moscow, where by the will of fate he finds himself in the life of an underground casino.

At a dinner for two couples, unexpected secrets unravel when a cunning detective crashes the gathering. As tensions soar with the arrival of a strangely behaving wife, hidden truths emerge. Can love and loyalty withstand the strain of distrust?

Klim, illegally convicted of karate training, returns home after five years in prison. Finds shelter with a caring uncle Pasha. But the desire to find the one who sent him on a “five-year vacation”, and even killed a friend, makes Klim stir up the “rat corner” of corrupt cops and local bandits. But the truth is treacherously bitter.

Владелец элитного частного пансионата Сан Саныч, человек с сомнительным прошлым получает задание от представителей турецкой мафии, - встретить "курьера" с очень ценным товаром. На следующее утро всю страну облетела шокирующая новость - похищена картина Ильи Репина "Запорожцы пишут письмо турецкому султану". В отель к Сан Санычу приезжает группа постояльцев, каждый из которых обладает признаками "курьера" и каждый из которых ведет себя подозрительно...

Three generations of the family lived all together. But then everything changed. The grandma remained alone, her granddaughter visits her less and less and her daughter doesn’t see her at all. A moth appears in the flat of the old woman and it is impossible to get rid of her. Because the moth is the loneliness.

Yegor is in trouble. He borrowed money to produce young talents, but those young talents, after using him, left for another music producer. Now Yegor must either return the money to the glamorous gangster Maximilian by the end of the week or present him with a new talented star — otherwise, he’s finished. Realizing that in such a short time he will find neither the money nor a star, Yegor flees Moscow “wherever his eyes lead him” and ends up in a backwater town called Glukhomanye. There, through deception, he gains access to a floating pier belonging to a fishery inspection officer named Stepanych, where he plans to lie low while he figures out what to do next.

Youth, power and thirst of love connect three characters. Each of them loves his own and his own way. They are ready to do anything for love so their love is holy.

Southwestern Sahara. The North Hotel, where Karbofos is hiding. He waits impatiently for a phone call, gets furious at the conditions of the hotel (flies, an idle fan) and goes crazy from the heat, as a result of which he refreshes himself in the refrigerator, from where a dazed penguin runs out due to sweaty fumes.

Yura, a maximalist by nature, who served in the special forces, successfully tried on the role of a hip-hop artist, convinced that the world can be changed with lyrics in his tracks. But just at the moment when we begin to believe in the correctness and invulnerability of the hero, real tests begin for him. Yura learns that his grandfather is in the hospital because he saw his enemy during the Great Patriotic War in a report from Latvia about the parade in honor of the SS. Now the hero does not doubt for a moment that it is he who must restore justice and arrange a meeting between his grandfather and SS Untersturmführer Alfred Weber. To do this, he again has to move from words to deeds. Broken fists, cars and the hero's heart - and that's not all that he will have to face on the way to Europe.

The main character, Lubov, is always in the spotlight — even at a holiday dedicated to medical workers. The md Terentyev, a very shy man, decides to hit on her. Among its competitors and surgeon Kochetkov. All Lyuba seems lucky, but no one knows the reverse side of this "happiness»…

Moscow, 1977. Scientists are studying paranormal phenomena in a full secrecy. A professor-physicist, an expert in telekinesis and hypnosis, encounters an inexplicable force, the existence of which is impossible to believe in. Сonsequently, his daughter Anna finds out she is gifted with a horrifying deathful power.

A group of young people take part in a unique AI experiment in an attempt to create an absolutely impartial court of law. However, the experiment soon turns into an uncontrollable trial of the participants, revealing their true selves and the secrets they desperately try to hide.

A funny adventures of two fifth-graders.

For Vasilisa Kulebyaka, from a small old Russian town, everything collapses one day: work, dreams, personal life... A neighbor tells her a proven way to survive the shock - to go to St. Petersburg during the White Nights. Vasilisa finds a travel companion via the Internet so that she can share the cost of living in a mini-hotel. As a result of confusion, her neighbor from Moscow turns out to be... a neighbor. Moreover, with a character that Vasilisa cannot stand. But this is only the beginning of the surprises that await Vasilisa during the White Nights...

A visiting German entrepreneur, Hugo Pectoralis, discovers the secrets of the Russian character and the absurdities of Russian life. This proves to be precisely the case when calculation, confronted with naive stupidity, proves powerless against it. As usual, three intellectuals at a table, whether today or in Leskov's time, signify the same thing: an eternal and never-ending debate about the mysteries of the Russian soul and the twists and turns of the national character.

One day, a Wanderer appears on the doorstep of a young teacher Anya, who lives in a small seaside town. He calls himself her husband Artyom, who has gone missing. How does this man know everything that only Artyom knew?

Today Sergei may be killed. Only a sincere confession can save him, but will he be believed?

The Kreutzer Sonata is a 1911 Russian silent film directed by Pyotr Chardynin. The film is considered lost.