Sex, alcohol and violence define the people of a city in defeat in this downbeat drama from writer and director Katya Shagalova. As a teenager, Nastia (Yulia Peresild) was the star of a popular television series, but now her career is in decline and her father, an officer in the Russian army, has kicked her out of the house.
A cyberstranger, a deaf baker, hipsters and Crimea, all in the first part of Sergei Loban's dilogy. Love. This is a performance not to be missed! A love story between a fragile girl who daydreamed of becoming a princess and Cyberstranger, a mysterious young man hiding behind a nickname. A sea of tears and an abyss of despair! Can Cinderella and the Invisible Man be together? Step right up, step right up! Friendship. Light the lights! There is a show in town today! Here is a story of a deaf young man with a flaming heart and a boy with an ice shard in his eye. Witness insidious betrayal and unbending courage! Danko and Kai – fire and ice collide! Will the universe survive the battle of the elements? A spectacle you have never seen before and will never see again!
A film is set in the Chekhov’s country estate near Moscow in the mid 80's of the 19th century. It was one summer day... Self-sacrificing 26-year-old Anton takes all possible efforts to support his large and unfortunate family, his broke father, sickly mother, sister and brothers. He spends his day writing short comic stories for cheap magazines. The future great writer Anton Chekhov is just about to recognize his own gift.
A father decides to make amends with his son, while Victor Tsoy 's double goes on a tour of Crimea. Sergei Loban's dilogy continued. Respect. Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages! Prepare yourselves to witness a death-defying feat! A wise man, lost in the darkness, and his disciple, desperately striving for the light. They balance on the edge of the abyss while volcanic flames burn their faces. King Lear and the Star Child, their train of fate speeds through a tunnel in the mountain. Will there be light at the end of the tunnel? Cooperation. A world premiere! The circus proudly brings to you a surprising discovery in show business! The one, the only Ersatz Star! A creature capable of destroying any competitors! Its creator will fly up to the very top of Mount Olympus and leap into the depths of the waters. Engineer Garin and the Elephant Man will either save or destroy each other! Wait and see!
A group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.
The year is 1994. One year, from spring to spring, from the life of the courtyard of an ordinary five–storey building of pre-war Grozny is the last peaceful year on the eve of a terrible war, during which the life of every resident will change forever.
It is a story about the Soviet worker Pyotr and the German engineer Hans, who came to the USSR before the war on a business trip. At a Soviet plant the German team works in cooperation with Russian specialists. Once Hans makes a mistake which causes the explosion of the furnace and human losses. Hans finds himself at the mercy of Pyotr, the only witness to his actions near the furnace. Pyotr also depends on Hans, because Pyotr’s very presence near the furnace entails accusation of subversive actions and a death sentence. Mutual suspicion gives way to silent sympathy and later friendship. They even look like each other, both have small children. Pyotr secretly leaves the town with his family but Hans feels loss rather that relief at the disappearance of the embarrassing witness.
Having lost his wife in a plane crash, a man tries to find out the real reason for the disaster. Forced to sift through all the lies amassing around him, he temporarily foggets about his grief. He finds a flight crew who survived a crash and celebrates his rebirth with them. Suddenly moments of grief turn into a never-before-experienced flash of freedom for him. This illusion becomes a lulling trap in which he can relive the happiest moments of his life. What we can see on the screen is an ordinary life where simple things become rare and unusual, and where grief turns to joy. Daily routine to which he finally comes back after all shade in a contrast way the brightness of the recent events.
A story of two brothers - two young hockey players.
The creators of the legendary tango à trois reunite for an encore performance 25 years after breaking up. Determined to take on the night as if they had never aged they face the realities when their families arrive to join the audience.
Lyudmila is a successful realtor in the capital. Pictures from the past pop up in her memory, and the viewer learns at what cost a single mother from the province managed to cherish Moscow's well-being. Lyudmila's story is typical, it reflects, like in a mirror, the pain points of modern life, forcing us to make our hourly choices. Is it worth a deal with the conscience of material comfort? Is it possible to achieve success in a megalopolis today and remain an honest person? Won't a "bright future" built on betrayal of one's own ideals lead to the decline of genuine human values?
American psychologist of Russian descent Alex comes to Tuva to open his third eye and learn shamanic practices. Chochagar Kes-Kam becomes his “teacher of shamanism”. Together, the master and the student visit the famous Tuvan shamans and travel around Tuva. But their relationship is being seriously tested.
Young journalist Sergey gets from his friend a present - ankle boots which suppose to lead him into a right direction.
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?
Anatoly Grebnev is one of the iconic screenwriters of our cinema. In 2023 he would have turned one hundred years old. He died before reaching eighty. His screenwriting works include “July Rain” by Marlen Khutsiev and “St. Petersburg Secrets,” one of the first Russian television series; “Success” with Leonid Filatov, “Prokhindiada, or Running in Place” with Alexander Kalyagin, “Diary of a School Principal” with Oleg Borisov. He worked with Yuliy Raizman and Anatoly Efros, and left our time with a living and relevant “Diary of the Last Screenwriter.” The peculiarity of Grebnev’s fate is that he came to cinema only in the middle of his life - as an adult, mature person. His childhood, youth and youth were full of hopes and failures, love and loss. The film will tell not only about Grebnev’s film biography, but also about that first life that he left for the sake of cinema.
Gena Chudnenko was born in prison. He also returned there as a teenager-an orphanage worker. And the guy would have had a typical fate for an orphanage: "He stole, drank, went to prison..." if he hadn't started building a temple in the Gene colony. And a miracle happened: a guy with no secondary education built a huge temple according to all the canons of ancient Russian architecture! Since then, Hieromonk Gerontius has built two wooden monasteries of rare beauty and several amazing wooden temples. And most importantly, he brought dozens of ex-cons to God. The author of the film tries to answer the question "how is this possible?", revealing the character of the hero.
From the permafrost of the North to the thirty-degree heat of Adler, a train carries residents of the polar Urengoy to the Black Sea through 4,500 kilometers of Russian expanses. In the cramped space of a reserved carriage, in six days, fellow passengers - either by the will of the highest authority, or by chance of dropped tickets — will become the closest people in this tiny space for some time.
People believe in God. But sometimes there are rulers who dream of taking his place. For these purposes their press secretaries and PR managers come up with absurd and very expensive projects.
Spitak. Thirty years ago a terrible earthquake happened here. Tens of thousands died, and the survivors seemed forever frozen in time. The father and son of Manukyan live in front of the huge Spitak cemetery - and it seems that some unknown force does not allow them to escape from hopelessness and poverty.
