Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Nathaniel, a reclusive network administrator immersed in the digital world, falls in love with a girl he only knows online. To meet her in person, he does a series of crazy things. He flies to Novosibirsk, to the middle of nowhere, where he discovers a third world—a world of absolute silence at night, where the nearest power outlet is two hours away. It's a world of unhurried conversations and tall pine trees, a world of grass and skies that doesn't exist in the city.

A German codist is ambushed and taken prisoner by a Russian partisan. The Russian single-handed has to take the German to the headquarters. They have to travel on foot in the frozen wilderness. They are pursued by two German soldiers who intend to free their compatriot. Gradually the survival tasks and curiosity bring the enemies closer together.

A mother is informed that her only son, who is serving in a military combat zone, has gone missing in action. A soldier who served alongside her son soon arrives to confirm that he has probably been killed. Nothing interrupts the everyday course of events. After a short while, the mother notices a homeless boy - an immigrant worker with an injured hand. She takes him in, but doesn’t realize that in some way she has decided the fate of her son, who is actually about to return home.

Inna lives with her dad and little brother in a small town. Her life changes when a new girl, Masha, comes to her school. They become friends. But Masha is murdered by a maniac serial killer, who kills teenage girls in the town. Inna goes to church for the funeral service. There she meets the priest's son Ilya, whose sister was also murdered.

A television version of the award-winning stage adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's tragic farce, mounted in 1994 for Moscow's School of Contemporary Plays Theatre and revived for television in 2009.

Yura Platonov - famous poet and just lucky. He has everything: he owns the largest Moscow publishing house, has long and happily married, his father is a billionaire and a criminal authority, his beautiful mistress is completely satisfied with their relationship. It is precisely this problem-free that at some point begins to alarm Jura, because everything is so good in life! Realizing that his whole life is artificially modeled, Yura wonders: maybe the fictional life, self-deception, unwillingness to know the truth about those around you, sometimes better than understanding what is really happening?

Fedor is a famous MMA champion who lost not only his reputation in the sports world, but also his family due to uncontrolled aggression. To change, he decides to go to Altai, but is accidentally transported to the primitive world 10,000 years before BC. The local aborigines mistake him for a warrior who will help them defeat their sworn enemy. Fedor understands that he is a weakling among the aborigines, so in the struggle it is necessary to use not force, but cunning and the ability to negotiate. Together with the shaman's daughter Reba, he goes to his main goal – to return home.

The action will take place in the same camp, though, children have become older, and therefore in the film we will talk not only about the harmful effects of gadgets and the need for communication, but also about the first sympathy.

Roadside motel. Adjoining rooms. Four guests. A writer. A monk. A whore. A thug. Dispute. Sex. Quarrel. Murder. Who beats who?

Alexandrina lives with her mother in a small provincial town and dreams of becoming a musician, like her father, Gena, who has not lived with his family for a long time: the difficulties of family life scared him away and he “ran away” to devote himself to music, but success passed him by, as well as family happiness. Gena wanders alone through the coastal towns, playing the guitar and singing on the streets, selling coffee on his food truck. Alexandrina is invited to audition at the Moscow Academy of Music. To do this, she needs to get from her coastal town to the capital. Unexpectedly, Gena offers his help - he has his own reasons to urgently leave the city ...

Is there a life without a bottle? The director of the film decides to put an experiment on himself: completely give up alcohol for a year and show the audience what the first 365 days of sober life look like.

The film is about the complicated and even paradoxical relationships in the world of academic music. The character of Aleksandr Maslaev represents the Maestro, a kind of modern Mozart, wallowing in corruption, plagiarism, and envy. Once a talented composer, he's totally lost his gift and cynically buys new music from young composers, then plays it under his own name. Yet, the Maestro does not close this chain, for everyone pays his debts...

This film's hero could have been an ordinary man. He shares the same dream as the rest of us—to live a happy life with the one he loves. But there's a problem: he doesn't know how to love. Actually, that's not the only problem: he can travel in time, and this doesn't make his life any easier. In fact, it complicates it immensely, making him sink in a series of terrible mistakes and preventing him from escaping the vicious cycle. But even that's not the end of his troubles, as his best friend is an unstable psychopath with gangster tendencies who's living off him. Because of him, the hero finds himself in one terrible situation after another... This "friend" will never let him go. But this time, the hero intends to break their bond once and for all.

In the film Battle for Ukraine Andrei Konchalovsky, the famous Russian director, analyzes how Ukraine, a former part of the Soviet Empire and present big European country, struggles to escape from the close embrace of the former big brother, Russia, and not to become one of the American satellites. This extensive study lasted for almost three years. Many Ukrainian, Russian and American historians, politicians and journalists took part in this study, as well as the ex-President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski, the ex-President of Slovakia Rudolf Schuster, the ex-President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, the ex-Prime Minister of Russia Viktor Chernomyrdin, and the businessman Boris Berezovsky.

Funny New Year comedy for whole family.

After burying her father in the forest, twelve-year-old Sena realizes she's left alone, perhaps alone on the planet, after a virus has wiped out everyone. Her father left his daughter seven videotapes with important life advice and explanations about the virus. Her journey will be dangerous, as the virus has affected others more terribly than death, turning them into half-humans. Sena encounters them, fights, and tries to survive. Survivors find her, half-dead. Sena carries the antivirus, but it has a strange side effect: Sena periodically loses her memory. That's what her father's tapes are for. Because of her memory loss, Sena can't tell the survivors who she is and that she contains the antivirus. Therefore, humanity is at risk.

Concert and documentary celebrating the 1st Anniversary of Moscow’s Zaryadye Hall

The main character is a police major, single father Sergey Kochet. His wife died in childbirth, and the man is raising his daughter Veronica alone. The girl sees the ghost of her dead mother in the mirror, communicates with her. Sergey thinks that the baby just lacks maternal affection, and thus she is just trying to make up for the loss. However, he has to change his mind when Veronica has an unexplained seizure and falls into a coma. Rooster finds a notebook with his daughter's drawings: they depict strange scenes with people he doesn't know, which mysteriously begin to come true. It turns out that little Nika can predict the future?

This is the story that could be behind the famous photo of Alexander Rodchenko "Stairs". Moscow, 1929. The end of the era of constructivism in the USSR. A young woman comes to visit a middle-aged woman to resolve their complicated relationship.

An ancient demon head and a pair of demonic battle axes transforms a collector into a hideous and barbaric demon who slaughters any soul caught in his blood thirsty eyes.

Irina, a small-town nurse, has a heart defect. According to the doctors' prognosis, her heart has not much time left to beat, and there is no one to take care of her six-year-old daughter Anna. Irina feverishly tries to find a way out and she gets the idea that Anya could be brought up by her grandfather - the father of the young man who left Irina pregnant. All she knows about her daughter's grandfather, Igor Vasilyevich Kutepov, is that he is a rather successful businessman and 63 years old.

Taptal is the name of the main character, a middle-aged woman played by Tatyana Legantieva. She lives in a village with her parents and her brother's family. For the past 5 years, she has been dreaming of changing her life, but she doesn't know where to start... On her birthday, she makes a wish to get married. That same evening, she hears a horoscope that says she needs to act right now! And then she sees an ad for the reality show "The Bachelor" on NVK "Sakha". Love decides to go to Yakutsk and find her soulmate on the reality show. She is not stopped even by the fact that her vacation was suddenly cancelled...

A group of Russian students travel to Maryland to try and catch the Blair Witch.

They were young, their life was in bloom and their hearts were longing to love.

A woman admits that she is 300 years old, and yet, she looks incredibly young and attractive. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s play “The Makropulos Affair” for Faberlic.

Three friends actors, tired of wasting their time in a small city, decided to try their luck in Moscow. After a show, a mafia leader dies of laughing. Now, they have to run to save their lives.

About the incredible adventures of hallucinating teenagers from a children's colony, who, as a result of a scientific experiment by their teachers, end up in the "Wild West", among space monsters, in a world of fantastic nature and all sorts of political situations. Some become a cowboy, some become Hitler, some become Emperor Paul I, etc. Three colonists, with the assistance of one of the teachers, actively resist these experiments...

In the search for a single good person in the province of Sezuan, three gods finally find only poor street girl Shen Te, whom they reward with a large gift of money. Now wealthy, Shen Te is now so exploited by all men that she has no choice but to slip into the shoes of her hard-hearted cousin, Shui Ta. Accused of murdering the missing Shen Te, the supposed Shui Ta confesses his dual role and the gods avoid a conviction. But Shen Te aka Shui Ta is now abandoned by all humans and also by the gods – helpless in the world.

The story of Kasym Kaysenov, a Kazakh whom became a hero of the Soviet Union whilst fighting against the invading German army during World War Two .

West Belarus, October 1944. The German command is trying to prevent Soviet troops from entering East Prussia. In order to exclude the leakage of information about their plans, the Nazis use a new code, which is to be solved by Soviet radio operators. This is the task that Major-General Zharov and his subordinates receive. To protect the scouts ordered to a group of Captain Belov, which has already once saved the general from the attack of the German landing force.

In a world where everything is too serious, people's heads explode.

MARUV fires up the iconic MTV Unplugged stage with an exclusive performance for MTV Россия. Setlist: 1. Intro 0:35 2. Siren Song 03:17 3. Drunk Groove 07:21 4. Black Water 12:40 5. ETL 16:19 6. Mon Amour 21:10 7. For You 25:40 8. Shame on You 30:30 9. Focus On Me 34:50 10. Между нами 38:20 11. Siren Song 43:02

Petr Vyazemsky decides to die. He is intelligent, but weak. He has had many trials. He was insulted and humiliated by a bully. A young man, but already strong and severe. What to do? To pass by with your tail between your legs? Or to commit an act at least once in life? And Peter Ivanovich dared: stole the boor, put him on a chain in his village house and began to re-educate, strongly trying to make this bully more human with the help of science, poetry, music. He made him a condition: if the prisoner passed the exam, he would be released. And if not, he would die... In a month of intensive studies, Vyazemsky makes the impossible: the bully becomes interested in studying! And the professor himself discovers a warm feeling for the object of his pedagogical experiment... And now he doesn't want to part with his new friend. For this he has to do the worst thing for an honest man - to break his word.

Miami, Valentine's Day. The main character, a womanizer, meets a girl he really likes in a store, and, overcome with desire, wants to spend the evening with her. But here's the catch: she is married and afraid of her Cuban husband.

A story about a few men and the autumn of their lives...

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Romance, in Russian language

The film tells the story of a little dog who prefers life on the streets to living in a luxurious palace.

Katya is a rebellious teenager. She thinks that her mother does not understand and does not accept her, and family relations can no longer be restored. Therefore, Katya decides to give up everything and go to another country, to Norway. On the way, she meets a boy who is also going to Norway, but for completely different reasons, he is going to meet his dream, before his life ends. A chance acquaintance of two teenagers combines two different paths and changes several broken lives forever.

Since the last events, time has passed. Father Andrei also preaches, sometimes comes to the bar to chat with the parishioners in an informal setting. Parishioners, by the way, gave him an old motorcycle, which he repairs in his free time. Helps him in this Grishka, son of Katya. In the city after Agafonov was arrested and imprisoned - quiet and grace. No, well, some incidents happen, but the head of the local police, Murov, is standing guard over the law. And sometimes father Andrei goes fishing with Simon and Grishka. He likes to sit by the water at dawn, think about his past life.

The question is, whether Katya Golubeva, an icon of the European underground cinema, determined her fate with the parts she played, or the fate of her characters affected her own fate?

The beloved wife and daughter-in-law Sabina faces new challenges.

A man who was betrayed by his wife confesses first to a hitch-hiker and then to a priest. Each of them helps him to survive the betrayal of his wife in their own way...

Every office employee who has lost his essence plunges into chaos and dissolves into it.

Strange things are happening in one quiet peasant hut. An old man and an old woman and their little granddaughter lived in it. The family had the hen Ryaba and once she laid down an egg, but not a simple, but the golden one. Grandfather and grandmother were watching, and the egg has turned into a turnip. They began, as usual, to drag and pull it, but the spouses did not have cats or dogs. There was a mouse, however, but she did not show any particular desire to take part in the common work.

A careless mother is going on a date with another fan and, in order to brighten up her daughter's loneliness, leaves her alone with a pink doll - the same doll that "wanders around the city and why it is vain to destroy little children". The girl considers the doll to be very realistic, therefore she associates it with herself, and herself with her mother. So begin the serious experiences of a girl who understands that this doll bought off her. At night, the girl dreams a terrible dream in which the doll embodies all her fears... "Pink Doll" creates the illusion of a spellbound fall into the abyss of children's dreams, fantasies and nightmares. The sensual effect is achieved by the game of scale and angle, the nervous rhythm of intraframe movement and graphic thickening of reality.

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

Screen adaptation of the novel by Alexey Ivanov

A specialist, who has lost his job back at his home, comes to another country in search of a better life. Here, there is still demand for his specialization, and the experience he gained at his previous job is quite a convincing argument during his interview with a new employer. However, the nature of the work, and even his love for it, creates a dilemma...

A meeting with a Georgian guy distracts a hopelessly ill girl from her worries. With the help of his parents, they go to Israel for a medical consultation.