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The everyday life of a Monkey is interrupted by a randomly seen advertisement on TV, in which someone named Mister Success invites the audience to become successful and cool by trying to win a talisman toy from the UFO catcher. On the way to success, the Monkey will have to face the guy from the advertisement, and only a dance battle will show which of the two of them is truly successful
Impending trouble in the form of a cat descends upon a mouse settlement
Hurry, work, career, time, forgotten dreams. Someday the Faith will be different. How to find time in the cycle of life for loved ones? For yourself this? Stay!
Ivan is the only man in his family. He's constantly surrounded by the attention of his mother, grandmother, and two sisters. The women don’t give him a moment of peace, bombarding him with advice about his personal life. One day, he strikes a deal with a wild and reckless young woman, introducing her to his family as his wife. Ivan does this on purpose — so that when he eventually brings home the woman he truly loves, his family will welcome her with open arms.
Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A bet is placed on the outcome of the Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / The verdict / People in streetcars and on the street / A crashed aircraft / Reconstruction of streetcar line 13 / Peacetime use of tanks – airport construction work.
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?
In the contemporary metropolis (megapolis), there lives a common incomplete family - Tima, a 5-year-old "man", and his mother, Anna, "a lady in search". They are quite happy together, if it were not gnawing in Anna's heart - she's always seeking for a candidate to marry to. That is why, being at a street fire-show one night, she loses her son in the crowd. Tima falls into hands of juvenile homeless offenders who are making their living by dashing under cars or by blackmail. He becomes a member of their band-family and "a source of income". All that had seemed important to Anna before her son's loss now fades into the background. The only Anna's dream now is to find money for ransom.
Romashov, an officer, receives an invitation from Nicolayeff, whose wife's birthday is coming up. At the birthday party, it turns out that his wife is very charmed by Romashov. During the picnic in the forest, they seclude themselves from the rest of the party and on a bench they kiss each other. Another, jealous officer, who also has a crush on her, sneaks up on the couple. Sensing this, they flee, but the woman leaves behind her fan, on which Romashov has written a declaration of love. The jealous officer gives the fan to Nicolayeff, who then challenges Romashov to a duel. During the duel, the lover deliberately fires into the air and is shot. Based on the novel by Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin.
"Bania" is an exploration Russian society through its bath-houses in the city, the countryside, in a monastery, a factory or a prison. The film plays with the boundaries between personal and social space in scenes where naked bodies, marked by tattoos, suffering, labour or war, tell a tale. This film was made by a photographer who, confronted by these naked bodies bathed in steam, invents an unique and timeless plastic world, in the style of classical painting.
There are roads that can change your life. Such was the road through the Don Steppe, which clashed two fates: a KAMAZ driver named Tikhon, who, in pursuit of easy earnings, agreed to deliver drugs hidden in boxes of oranges, and Deacon George, who was carrying a new bell for the stanitsa church on the eve of Epiphany. Where will this dangerous road lead them? Who will emerge victorious from this insidious and very dangerous game?
By cheating, you can go on an unplanned trip... in a suitcase.
Based on the famous novel "Michael" by Heinrich Bang.
Oleg Nazarov is a captain of a special forces unit, a sniper. But his family and friends don't know about it. Oleg carefully hides his true profession from his wife and daughter, and every time he returns from a mission, he puts on the mask of an ordinary person. Meanwhile, the city where Oleg lives is in a state of panic. The reason for this was a series of murders - every day one person is killed by an unknown gunman.
Concert-film about the work of Russian musician Viktor Tsoy.
Petya’s dream is to become a tram driver, and the boy has explored every corner of the tram depot located near his house. The lad is well acquainted with the “residents” of the depot: the old trams, which long ago served out their term and are now laid up forever in its furthest, emptiest reaches. One day Petya decides to show his classmate Katya his secret place, and the excursion turns into an adventure.
Six years ago he desperately escaped from here, suffocating within the narrow walls of a provincial theater. All he took from his acting past into the new commercial world was the nickname "Daredevil". But the coveted personal freedom turns out to be even more elusive. He must become a played pawn in someone else's game, where at stake is a huge amount of money, and the bet - life. A lost man is destined to make a circle. Lycedei has to survive here - in the walls of the once abandoned theater, with the help of people, easily forgotten by him once ...
Ave Maria is the story of choice as an act. Recognizing your path and being ready to walk this painful path to the light.
Professional burnout plays a cruel joke on the author of fortune cookies. Instead of vanilla slogans, he sends harsh threats from his script "Bloody Massacre in Mytishchi" to production. It turns out that the cookies are intended for a corporate party of a mafia group.
After failing to commit his first murder, an aspiring serial killer decides that the most rational way to get started is to kill a friend who totally trusts you. This is how a lonely mentally unstable guy meets a naive next-door boy.
A long time ago, Prometheus was cursed by the God's for bringing fire to mankind. Today, Fedor finds himself in Moscow for the first time and falls in love with Masha.
Mikhail Kulakov, the protagonist of the film, is a prominent figure of the Russian unofficial art scene of the 50s-60s. He was an abstractionist, a tachiste, a participant in the first underground expositions. He lived and worked at great extremes, advocating the idea of freedom as the supreme value.
The Northerners is a cycle of film essays with a focus on northern individualism. Each one of the three parts plays out in different places around the Kola Peninsula over one day. The story revolves around the everyday life of three people who share no formal ties. Igor, who belongs to a dynasty of pilots, is a polar aviation squad commander; Vasily is a tug master at Murmansk’s commercial port; Volodya is a woodcutter, leader of a logging guild. Like most of those living in the north of Russia, they came here for work, and though they weren’t initially planning on staying, they ended up staying forever.
Vera had remained silent for many years, but now circumstances forced her to burst into the life of the successful composer Andrei. This meeting would forever divide their destinies into "before" and "after."
About how the Hedgehog, the Little Fox and the Crow went to the Land of Happiness. But it turned out that happiness is nearby, in everyday life, and you don't have to go far for it.
This city is no longer on the map. In the 30-40s of the twentieth century, during the construction of the Rybinsk reservoir, seven hundred villages, one hundred and forty churches and monasteries, the ancient Russian city of Mologa went under water. An area of 4,600 kilometers was flooded. The deceased city carried away a secret that has not been solved so far.
There are two heroes in the film: militia captain Zabrodin, who is striving to become a deputy at any cost and by any means, and the confused intellectual Shaludkin, who is trying to decently support his own family...
As a result of an unsuccessful experiment conducted in the laboratory of a chemical institute, a young woman gets a severe burn on her face.
La Esmeralda is a ballet in three acts and five scenes, inspired by the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, originally choreographed by Jules Perrot to music by Cesare Pugni, with sets by William Grieve and costumes by Mme. Copère.
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Evgeny Sormatov, a veteran of the special forces detachment, goes to a picturesque lake in Karelia. He carries with him the last letter of comrade Andrei Egorov, who died several years ago, and the Order of the Hero of Russia, which he was awarded posthumously. There, in a quiet corner on one of the skerries, in a deserted fishing village, Andrei's father and sister live.
5 members of a 3rd rate marching band goes off for a gig. They are driving along a rough road in the Moscow region, in a hopelessly tattered old minibus. They exchange glances with one another, each musician clearly battered by life. Not one of them suspects that this mundane trip for some extra cash will unexpectedly force each and everyone one of them to reconnect with their essence.
Life circumstances, curiosity, corruption, ignorance. Four sinister stories based on folk legends. A bunch of friends gathers around an Ouija board. Two hunters wake up in a hut in the middle of woods. A young guy arrives at a rural community on a business trip. A stranger in a stolen car is trying to leave the area. None of them has an idea that during the mysterious Tankha season THEY come to our world...
Spending his days in a cheap hotel, medical student Klochkov entertains himself by mistreating his meek roommate Anyuta.
short film
An actor by vocation and a moving mannequin by profession, having said goodbye to his wife, who is leaving for America, he himself decides to leave this country, where, in order to somehow preserve his Self, he has long ago become a “foreigner” for everyone. But the adventure in which the hero gets involved before leaving returns him the ability to speak his native language and gives him a chance for love...
Zhenya is 15. Besides being a quiet and sensible boy, he is a promising violinist. Behind the door of Zhenya’s bedroom he daily hears his tyrannical stepfather being violent with the boy’s mother, but cannot find the courage to intervene. One sunny morning Zhenya comes to a decision to radically change his family’s life.
The final "canonical" episode of the series is a New Year Special.
A video essay about a conversation the director had with a friend about a particular picture of a cat sitting in front of a plate of blins.
About Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant General Ivan Rosly - a commander who went from an ordinary Red Army soldier to a military leader, a participant in two wars: the Soviet-Finnish war and the Great Patriotic War.
New Year's adventure of a little Christmas tree girl.
A story about first love...
A mysterious monk with mystical powers issues a man a license to kill by imbuing him with the fighting skills necessary to avenge his brother’s death.
The genre of the film DUST could be called fantastic realism or existential drama with elements of the fantastic. Dust means the haste in which people live. Dust is a common misconception, the natural clogging up of the brain. Specks of dust how scientists perceive people, scientists who think they know more than anyone else about the universe.
Grigory Smirnov is the head of the lending department at a large bank. Naturally, this successful man has everything he needs outside the office as well—a cozy apartment, a prestigious car, and a beautiful wife. Given his strong position in society, Grigory does not even entertain the thought that his beloved could betray him. Therefore, returning from a business trip earlier than planned, he cannot even imagine that an unpleasant surprise awaits him at home...
Strange things happen in city N. People massively fall into a state similar to a coma. Doctors are at a loss. Investigate the incident entrusted to the best investigator of the city. He, a follower of the materialist position, is faced with inexplicable and mystical events that change not only his worldview, but also his life...
Two families from different social strata happen to be neighbors in a hotel in Sri Lanka. Adults are not very happy about this coincidence. But their twenty-year-old "children" fell in love with each other. In order to spend less time with annoying dads and moms, young people embark on their romantic journey through an exotic country, losing track of time. Fathers of families, concerned about this development, set off in search of their adult children, but suddenly they themselves are captured by the aborigines.