Ilya works as a trauma surgeon in a hospital. In the transition, he saves the life of a man who is trying to get compensation from a surgeon for broken…
Yesterday’s Leningrad schoolgirl Masha Yablochkina, after a fierce blockade winter of 1941-1942, comes to the railway courses hoping to survive and gain strength. From there, the girl is sent to…
Female protagonist’s brother dies under mysterious circumstances. Extremely vivid nightmares begin to haunt her and she decides to turn to the Institute of somnology for help. Along with other patients,…
The main characters of the film are residents of different places of this country, most common people, with whom most uncommon things, pure wonders, happen. Semyon and Lyuba, a family…
According to Egyptian mythology, Ka is a life force that exists separately from its “master”. These are not the people themselves, but their materialized souls. On the one hand, this…
Maria, a wife of a deputy commander of a military base, begins a relationship with another officer, Their affair quickly spirals out of control, fatally and irreversibly changing the course…
During WW2, in 1942 and 1943, a series of not-so-well known yet bloody battles occurred near the town of Rzhev. Those battles received the name of ‘Rzhev Meat Grinder’. The…
Ivan Demarin, a young officer of Peter the First’s new guards, follows the Tsar’s order and goes to the frontier town of Tobolsk, deep in the Siberian forest. There Ivan…
Andrey, a detective and the world’s most horrible father, brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment: his resentful actress daughter, an angry thug, and a cheated cop….
No meteorites hit Earth, no terrorists put the world in danger, no atomic war was started, but something did go wrong. Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed….
During World War II, a special unit formed of ex-athletes is sent to rescue a secret Soviet rocket launcher nicknamed “Katyusha” that the Germans can never find—no matter what it…
“Sekskazka” – Soviet mystical melodrama directed by Elena Nikolaeva, based on the story of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Fairy Tale” [1]. The film was released in 1991. [https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Сексказка]
“Belovy (the Belovs)” is a breathtaking portrait of a troubled peasant family. It’s poetry in the form of a documentary that won many prizes. Beautifully shot in vintage black and…
An animated short film based on the 1877 short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing to live for…
Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry…
Emissary of the former “party mafia”, nicknamed “Jafar” prepares and implements a series of provocations and terrorist acts on the outskirts of the country to create the preconditions for a…
A young Russian store clerk has a drab existence in times of shortages and is berated by her ailing mother for not seeing men. So she brings home an unknown…
The protagonist finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme…
A young caterpillar yearns to fly like the butterflies and birds, but cannot launch himself high enough to do so … until a couple start playing badminton nearby.
Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. Victimized by…
A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle. It was Giselle who immortalized her name in 1924. It was “Giselle”…
A Russian soldier who spent ten years in captivity in Afghanistan, returns to his home village and shocks all its inhabitants because of his conversion to Islam. During his absence,…
A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting party. His flamboyant…
The story starts in a Siberia where world’s biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may not only pay off the enormous national debt, but also allow…
Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a…
They are neither adults nor kids – somewhere in between, living in their separate boys and girls cozy dorms and doing whatever they love to do – inventors, artists, poets,…
Wedding in a provincial seaside town. In the midst of the fun criminal authority Tourist begins to molest the bride, which infuriates the groom — merchant seaman. The bandits and…
A Christmas story, almost a fairy tale. An ordinary Russian girl brought up without a father could not even think that one fine day she would find him. And who…
An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past – just as his young successor appears to be encountering…
Provincial story, beautifully played out in the spirit of the sinister detective. Dina, the student of Pedagogical Institute, comes to the practice to the little town paralyzed with fear. A…
