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The film is based on historical events that took place in the 6th century at the junction of three great powers: The Turkish Khagan, The Byzantine Empire and The Sasanian Empire.

Two twenty-year-olds meet each other in the sanatorium and fall in love. Ksenia is an alchoholic, Maxim is suicidal. Gradually it becomes clear that the characters, betrayed by their relatives, kept inside the sanatorium, constrained by regimes and the cult of work therapy, are healthier and freer than many of those who live outside.

A grandfather tells his grandson about the events of 1942 that he experienced as a child.

Young clerk Jonathan travels to Transylvania in order to meet with a mysterious count.

Mongun-Taiga is the highest peak of Tyva and all of Eastern Siberia. In the harsh climate of the Mongun-Taiga ridge, only yaks... and people survive. Rare travelers get here, and those who do find themselves on another planet, where shamans, yaks, people, spirits of ancestors, mountains and taiga live in amazing harmony and unity... How to protect this fragile world from destruction?

Yaroslav Oktiabrev is a simple guy who works as a freelancer. But then fate presents him with a gift — it is necessary to consult online a former military man with the call sign "Brother", so that he takes old documents from an abandoned building, and you can forget about money problems in life. However, the military turns out to be an uncontrollable schizophrenic, and only a former colleague, crazy blogger Gennady Gorin, knows how to settle him down. On top of that, the customer begins to threaten Yaroslav with violence if he does not have time to do everything in a couple of hours. A seemingly trivial task suddenly turns into a real disaster, because of which the Person is already at risk of losing not only his job, but also his own life.

In the summer of 1999, in one of the cities in southern Russia, a terrorist act took place - the explosion of a residential building. The investigation into this case is led by an FSB operative, Captain Andrei Vereshchagin, nicknamed Captain Hollywood.

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

The second installment of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism, The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun, looks at the poetic dimension of the solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky. Shot in Kazakhstan, where Chizhevsky was imprisoned and later exiled, the film introduces Сhizhevsky’s research into the impact of solar emissions on human sociology, psychology, politics, and economics in the form of wars, revolutions, epidemics, and other upheavals. It aligns the life of post-Soviet rural residents and the futurological projects of Russian cosmism to emphasize that the goal of the early Soviet breakthroughs aimed at the conquest of outer space was not so much technical acceleration, but the common cause of humankind in their struggle against the limitations of earthly life.

Prosecutor Azhogin, who sent many criminals to prison, by the will of fate himself ends up behind bars. He is placed in a cell with juvenile lawbreakers. The situation is far from the worst one. So thinks the Azhogin, who eventually becomes a true friend and mentor of his fourteen-year-old inmates...

Irina Gorokhova is a true expert in her field. Thanks to her perseverance and extraordinary intelligence, at the age of thirty-two, she already holds a high position in a large company. On behalf of the management, she goes to her hometown, where she accidentally runs into Igor, her ex–fiance, with whom she broke up before leaving for Moscow. A minute of communication with him completely destroys all her ideas about a happy life, Ira realizes that in her life there is no most important thing for any woman – true love. After learning that he was widowed several years ago, she leaves her career and returns to her hometown in order to return her lover and find real female happiness…

In order to allow another servant to go home to be with her children, Nastya agrees to serve in her place, as a maid in the household in which Nastya's grandfather is a porter. Soon afterwards, the woman who owns the house goes on a trip, leaving her son Pavel at home. Pavel is engaged to Ellen, but Ellen flirts openly with other men. Nastya and the servants quickly realize that Ellen is having an ongoing romantic affair with Baron von Rehren. This puts the servants, and especially the sensitive Nastya, in a painfully uncomfortable position.

The film begins on New Year’s Eve with the preps for the anniversary of a local deputy. Amid the celebration, a rep of the prosecutor’s office comes to the jubilee and hands him a summons. Together with neighbors, relatives, and his beautiful wife, who all felt that the affairs of the local king are now weak, the dishonest regional official finds himself in a whirlpool of events.

The one act performance by choreographer Yuri Possokhov pays homage to the celebrated founder of the fashion house that bears her name and features a stunning display of Chanel costumes specially created for the ballet. Created specifically for Zakharova, the ballet "Gabrielle Chanel" recounts the most memorable moments of the work and life of the French fashion designer, who died in 1971 aged 87.

To a man who has never made mistakes, suddenly comes the conscience in the guise of his illegitimate blind son, and now in the life of the hero one mistake follows another. Conscience is an ill-mannered and insolent boy who comes when you do not expect him at all.

Antonina, an artist from Saint Petersburg, follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north province of Russia. As she starts teaching art in a local school, she finds herself opposed by a twelve-year-old boy, Misha, whose brother is a feared local gang leader.

Nina is slightly over 30. So without meeting real love, she decides to "give birth to herself." Just finding a normal candidate for the role of "dad" is not so easy. To help his sister comes resourceful Galina, who works in the center of reproductive medicine. She selects the best "gene pool" for her future nephew. Donor becomes a chic and ... unsuspecting customer center - businessman Valery Uvarov. ECO is successful, and Styopka appears ... Six years later, the life of the heroine is on the right track: her son is growing up, there is a highly paid job, but ... Suddenly she finds out that her boss, biscuit and tyrant, it turns out, is Styopka's father ...

The head of the American humanitarian organization has a serious problem. She is "narcotic" dependent on American dollars. The psychoanalyst advises her to leave the States. Hannah arrives in Moscow. And he heads the humanitarian fund. Her foundation imports chicken legs to Russia. When checking another large batch of chicken legs, Hannah discovers that the chicken legs are infected with a dangerous virus. Her Russian counterpart offers her $ 1,000,000 in cash so she can give permission to import chicken legs to Russia. Hannah physiologically cannot refuse such an amount. But she cannot live on, becoming a bribe taker. And then a mental transformation takes place with her...

Thirty-two years after his live reading of Alexander Pushkin’s novel on Leningrad Television, actor Sergei Yursky comes back for another close read in this eight-part television production celebrating the 200th anniversary of the poet’s birth.

A small town in Siberia is quarantined for several months. People are dying of a mysterious illness, the source of which lies hidden in the water. The survivors hide in their apartments, but the contaminated water flows through their homes. Self-defence groups and despondent loners hunting their own kind roam through the empty streets. In an attempt to save her mother’s life, the heroine ventures out into the unknown, so that she can overcome her fear and attempt to rekindle her relationship with the outside world, which is now humanity’s mortal enemy.

The businessman father did everything he could to set his son Savva on the right path. Nothing helped and would not have helped, perhaps, if it hadn't been for the glass. The glass in the window of a bank, broken by the Daddy in the heat of a quarrel with Savva, and as a consequence, an acquaintance with Svetlana, as well as a chain of further events...

Valya has always been dreaming about living in Venice. She sold her Moscow flat and left. The younger sister, Nadezhda, stayed alone in the country house. After a few years Valya became disenchanted with Venice and returned. Now, "in a Chekhovian way", both sisters live in a house with a mezzanine, this is what you call loneliness together. They became stuck between the past and the present. Behind the gates you find the frightening and incomprehensible everyday life, into which you "enter each time like into an Odyssey". One day Alexey appears, a mature man with an intelligent face. Nadia snatches him but Valya also likes him. A classic love triangle? No, our sisters have very different plans for Alexey…

The first screen adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's play of the same name.

The hero of the film is an ordinary Moscow teenager. And he lives a completely normal life. With one exception: he is a fan of the game "Dogy kayf", although for a long time it has not played. But today he will try to play again ...

The director films the street where he lives in St. Petersburg, for a whole year, documenting the changes caused by the celebration of its 300th anniversary.

A young student suddenly must to make a choice between love and career..

The famous unknown comedian from Kazan Viktor Kopanitsa has collected the best jokes of his entire career in stand-up. At the beginning, Viktor jokes a little about different cities, makes fun of his status as an eternal opening act comedian and talks about his experience with Slava Komissarenko, Nurlan Saburov, Ruslan Belyy and other Russian stand-up stars. Then he tells the most proven jokes about his relationship with his wife, the army and childhood in the 90s.

A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson.

Ivan, the police captain, on his day off, which, incidentally, doesn’t often happen to him, went with his wife Sveta to the cinema. Khan, Anna and Sergey also decided to spend the day together. Only they are not going to the movies or just taking a walk. Their time is scheduled in minutes, each step is verified - they intend to rob the collectors. It all started well for the robbers, and everything would have gone as planned if Ivan had not met in the way of the robbers. Khan and Sergey are arrested. But moving away from the persecution, Khan shot Ivan's wife, Sveta. Anna manages to leave.

The story of a love affair. Based on a poem by Edward Lear about the antipodes.

Their trains were parked on opposite sides of the platform, preparing to move in opposite directions. The heroes had only ten minutes at their disposal, which played a crucial role in their fate.… The plot is based on the Chernobyl accident in 1986.

One of the guests shot to death during a meeting of former classmates in a luxurious country house. Investigator Oleg Koshkin arrives at the crime scene. All who were present at the party are under suspicion.

To thwart the manipulative habits of his flirtatious young wife, an old man reads the invaluable book, 'One Thousand and One Feminine Ruses - Practical Directions for Elderly Husbands.' Thanks to the book, the husband manages to foil many of his fickle partner's plans, but she's determined to have the last word.

Brother and sister, teenagers Savva and Aglaya, live in the city and do what they like most. Savva is a fan of computer games and an eternal fidget. Aglaya is a young genius of science who dreams of making an important discovery. Each has plans for the summer holidays: Savva is going to a games festival, and Aglaya is working on a project at a science camp. But one day, their plans fall apart. Since the guys are always teasing each other, arguing about everything and can't agree on anything, one day a disaster occurs, as a result of which their apartment is simultaneously flooded with water and engulfed in fire. As punishment, the parents send the children to the village to their grandparents. For Savva and Aglaya, this is a nightmare: they are used to food delivery, entertainment, games and the Internet, and in the village they have to get up early, work in the garden, feed for slaughter, go to the bathhouse and a bunch of other village "delights".

About the female generation of one family: their love, faith and a promise of a lifetime.

Vanya Ilyin tells a cult joke on a non-cult hall, educates the audience; inside: vanlines, paradoxes, improvisations, unexpected moves.

An unremarkable Russian town holds some terrible secrets. The simple working guy Lyokha gets acquainted with the beautiful Masha. She shows him photos that he cannot remember. Lyokha goes to see his father, but finds out that the latter died several days ago. The father left lots of mysterious notes, but a local gang and a mysterious visitor from Moscow are after them. You find out everything if you remember!

Stepanych is depressed; he's lost the meaning of life. But suddenly, fate itself shows him a way out.

This is a fractured tale of Kiwi (Iaroslav Zhalnin), a teen thief with a penchant for driving his motorcycle into traffic, playing video games and turning invisible; Alisa (Vasilisa Petina), a young model whose face is splashed all over city billboards and ads, with whom Kiwi grows fixated; and Alik (Khazizov), a metrosexual writer who roller-skates in his cavernous hard-wood-floored apartment and plucks a drunken Alisa after her fateful encounter with Kiwi. Alik, responding to Alisa’s pleas, eventually confronts the pestering Kiwi; a misunderstanding (did he rape her? did he not?) erupts into violence.

The film is about the long-term relationship between the director and the character of her first film, the French indie artist, musician and director Siegfried, known as Sig. The story is dedicated to the experience of growing up, emancipation and finding their own identity in life and in art. The film raises questions about the nature of the student-teacher relationship, which inevitably involves submission and conflict, and the nature of the director and hero relationship, which is based on love and a little manipulation.

Sonya has no luck in the morning. She almost gets hit by Kostya's car, who also has bad luck that day. By mistake, she takes away his folder with documents and jeopardizes the signing of an important contract. The problems of young people do not end here. From Kostya leaves his fiancée, and Sonya is fired from the theater. And she is ready to give up the dream of becoming an actress. Will the heroes manage to find their happiness this year, if there is only one day left before the New Year?

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

Larisa is a young woman in her early thirties with a successful career in a travel agency. She has enough money but leads a monotonous lonely life. One day Gera, a man from her past, reappears, tells her that he had divorced his wife and wants them to get back together. Larisa though doesn't want to plunge back into the relationship that hurt her so badly in the past and therefore escapes on a spontaneous business trip to Crimea. There she nearly gets into an accident on water but is fortunately saved by a mysterious handsome Stranger...

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.

Based on Franz Kafka's The Castle. A certain K. appears in a snow-covered godforsaken village as if out of nowhere. All the power in the village belongs to the mysterious Castle that strangers are barred from accessing. K. presents himself to the locals as the Land Surveyor "summoned by the Governor himself." But he is denied work and a place to stay. The only person that doesn't turn her back on him is barmaid Frieda, lover of the powerful official Klamm. K. seeks a meeting with Klamm thinking that is the only way to get something out of the soulless bureaucratic machine. But without realizing it, he soon begins to play by its rules, setting himself up for inevitable defeat.

Anna is the daughter of a banker and grew up in a wealthy family with loving parents who have been waiting for grandchildren for a long time. Anna has never considered herself a beauty, but now she believes that luck has finally smiled on her. She marries Egor. But on the day of her wedding Anna learns that the groom has long been cheating on her with another, and decided to marry her only for the sake of her father's money. She runs away from the registry office and gets into the nearest cab. She has nowhere to go, so she offers a casual acquaintance, the cab driver Pasha, to take her in for a week. Pasha urgently needs money, so he agrees, not realizing what surprises await him ahead. It turns out that Anya is a "walking disaster", everything in her hands burns and breaks. And here also from the village come Pasha's parents, who take Anya for his long-awaited bride. In order not to traumatize his mother, who has a heart condition, Pasha asks Anya to play along.

Caught in the middle of the road God knows where and trying to leave, Asya finds a bus stop on the outskirts of the forest. But there are no buses running here, the stop is fake, the route was canceled a long time ago, and the stop itself remained here so that elderly people with Alzheimer's from a local nursing home did not go somewhere by accident. They will sit for a while and forget that they wanted to go somewhere. While Asya is waiting for a taxi, an old man appears at the bus stop. An optional conversation ensues between them, which in the most unexpected way will forever change the lives of both.

Brave police officer Pronin picks up the trail of the American mafia. Pretending to be a Russian criminal willing to smuggle rare earth metals across the border, Pronin flies to the US, where he begins to fight the mafia.

The wife of a young man finds out that he betrays her. Trying to win her back, the man develops a plot during which he must convince his wife that she saw an completely different man. A man who looks like him, as two peas in a pod.

The famous artist Vladimir Beletsky stole two valuable paintings from the museum, replacing them with his copies. He was forced to take this step by the extreme circumstances in which his son found himself. Having contacted a suspicious company, the son was deceived and is now forced to pay a large sum of money to scammers. Beletsky invents a reciprocal fraud in order to avenge his son’s offenders.

Learning that Albrecht, her beloved, is in fact a nobleman engaged to be married to a princess, the naive peasant girl Giselle dies. The Queen of the Wilis—the spirits of deceased young virgins—decides that Albrecht should follow Giselle to the grave, and condemns him to dance until he dies of exhaustion. But Giselle’s spirit dances with him and saves him. With music by Adolphe Adam and a libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, the ballet touches on the great romantic themes: local colour, a pastoral love affair doomed to end in tragedy, a plunge into fantasy and redemption through the power of love.

A strange woman in a mysterious world out of time and out of geography…Eccentric, funny, poignant, she will not leave anyone alone…

The dream of Panama is to qualify for the World Cup. Jamel, a big fan of the national team, is depressed after a 4-0 loss to the United States. When making a promise to the Black Christ of Portobelo, Jamel goes towards Russia. On his arrival, he meets a compatriot who helps him in the adaptation of the new culture and thus fulfills the promise made to the saint.