Two people in love will find a hut in the woods that they decide to sleep in. The cottage is located on the shore of a lake and beautiful views is just a shadow of an ax stuck in the executioner's block of wood near the house. When they wake up one morning, they see a peacock and the cottage has been transformed into a beautiful palace...
Before leaving for the USSR, a West German journalist meets his father, who was in Russia in 1922, where he met, fell in love with and lost forever a Russian translator. Sixty years later, the son follows his father's route...
TV film-monograph. Filmed for the centenary of Alexander Blok's birth.
By order of the ministry, an experiment was launched at one of the large factories, during which young specialists took leadership positions...
Miniseries on the life and work of the outstanding composer Hector Berlioz.
Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected...
Based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
About a family of metallurgical scientists, the head of which is Academician Cordin, having survived a difficult crisis, and ultimately agrees with the ideas of his two sons...
A film about the life of Mikhail Lermontov.
"Heart of a Dog" is a Soviet film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic novella. Set in 1920s Moscow, it tells the satirical and darkly humorous story of a stray dog named Sharik, who is transformed into a human by Professor Preobrazhensky through a daring medical experiment. The resulting man, Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, embodies the social and ideological tensions of early Soviet society. With its sharp critique of class struggle, human nature, and the perils of radical change, the film is celebrated for its faithful adaptation, brilliant performances, and rich allegorical depth.
During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them.
"Лавина" - рассказ о человеке у которого есть всё, о чём он всегда мечтал: талант, слава, семья. Но есть и скука, которая съедает его. Ему больше нечего желать - всё достигнуто. Наверное, его жизнь продолжалась бы в том же духе, если бы он не встретил молодую и красивую женщину. И он понимает, что единственное чего у него не было - любви. Все самые сильные чувства он отдавал музыке. Только её он любил. А что касается людей... Им он позволял любить себя. Ведь только он - солнце, все остальные - лишь планеты. И вот он узнаёт, что такое настоящая страсть, страсть, которая испепеляет его изнутри, сметает на своём пути всё, как лавина. Ради этой страсти он откажется от всего: от денег, семьи, славы. Но будет ли счастлив?
The story concerns the events in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War. Private detective Petya Chukhontsev, a law student who has not completed his studies, investigates the case of the murdered inventor Kuklin. He was murdered exactly as he predicted during a New Year's visit to Chukhontsev. While investigating the Kuklin case, Petya soon realizes that the central figure in this case is the German Scholz, the owner, who cheaply buys up the inventions of Russian craftsmen and hands them over to the spy Siegfried Gay, an advisor to the German embassy. . However, Petya will soon understand that it is better to mind his own business...
An almost detective story that could lead to terrible injustice. But good is strong, although sometimes naive. Wise Cricket will not allow "to go out of focus." Do not forget that Christmas is about to enter. And on Christmas night, what miracles do not happen!
A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends…
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.
Dulcinea seeks an eternal dream of justice, chivalry, protection of the wronged in real, everyday life but all her dreams fail to come true. All men to whom she turns for setting the out-of-joint time right fall short of her expectations because they are too small for the task. She is mocked, exposed and disappointed. So what to do? Somebody has to take Don Quixote's place.
Based on science fiction stories about the relationship between man and robot: A. Belyaev’s “Open Sesame” about how a robot servant robbed two old men; A. Azimova's "Liar" about a robot who can read minds and turns out to be the most humane among people; F. Chilander's "Court" about how robots tried the last person living in the city.
A huge house, a coffin house becomes a symbol of a wasted life, a repository of the secrets and mysteries of its inhabitants, a place of unfulfilled hopes and aspirations...
"Tale of the Star Child" is a two-part television film, based on the works of Oscar Wilde. Like the earlier film, The Star Boy (1958), The Tale of the Star Boy, was based on two tales from Wilde's collection "A House of Pomegranates" - The Star-Child (1891) and The Birthday of the Infanta (1888) . However, the plot, in contrast to the first screen version, made more significant changes: in particular, added science-fiction elements and completely eliminated magic.
The last days of the life of the Russian writer A.S. Griboedov. Romance and marriage to Nina Chavchavadze. Assignment to Tehran. Death.
A fisherman catches a talking fish and spares its life. After that, he meets a grotesque, evil monster in a state of constant change.
A painter lives with his wife and four children in a studio. Due to creative frustrations and the irritation of admirers and hangers-on he becomes increasingly reclusive, finally sealing himself away in the attic. Based on an Albert Camus story.
A young student and a rich banker make a bet for two million rubles. On the condition of the wager, the student was to spend 15 years in solitary confinement.
Three murders are committed in a sanatorium under the poetic name "Cherry Orchard". But the police inspector does not have to break his head for a long time in search of killers - he knows almost everything: who, when and how were killed, the killers - the only thing left to figure out are the reasons...
The movie has reveal the last days of the famous and popular Russian poet - Alexander Pushkin. After the poet faced scandalous rumors that his wife Natalya Pushkina had embarked a love affair, Pushkin then challenged her brother in law to a duel!
Don Cossack Emelyan Pugachev says goodbye to his wife and children and goes to run. The elder Filaret blesses him to lead a rebellion under the name of Peter III of Russia. The insurgents dealt with the feudal lords cruelly. Queen Catherine the Great directs troops against the rioters. Traitors betray Emelyan, and now he is being transported across Russia in an iron cage.
Gobsek the richest and most stragity usurer of Paris. The Countess by Anastasi lays will Gobseck family diamond my husband, for the sake of debt her beloved Maxim. This rash act she reveals to her husband her love affair.
The heroine of the film, Mrs. Gurmyzhskaya, is a former beauty who is living out her days in a remote province. Her nephew, a high school dropout, comes to visit her at her estate, and the hostess, out of boredom, decides to have an affair with him... He willingly responds to his rich aunt's advances. Based on a play by A. N. Ostrovsky.
In a car accident, the boy loses his parents and is confined to a wheelchair. Becoming the creator of his world and his destiny, the young hero overcomes personal tragedy.
The beginning of the 20th century. Everyone knows the pub "Gambrinus" in the southern seaside town. Here you can always get a mug of fresh beer, meet your friends, have a quick word with the hostess Madame Ivanova and, of course, listen to the inimitable playing of violinist Sasha.
Ancient English legend. The early Middle Ages: Lady Godiva was a noblewoman, who according to the legend, took pity on the people of Coventry, who were suffering grievously under her husband's oppressive taxation, and rode naked through the streets of Coventry, in England, in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants.
A long-distance Chaco driver once agrees to transport a passenger across the border under the guise of a partner for a decent amount of money. Miguel, the leader of the democratic movement, managed to escape from prison and hide abroad. And now he is returning to his homeland to continue the fight. Chaco is not interested in politics, and from the very beginning of the trip he makes it clear to his partner.
Berlin, the 1920s, a boarding house where Russian immigrants live. One of the characters in the film, waiting for his wife's arrival, shows her photo to a neighbor at the boarding house, who recognizes her as his first love, Masha.…
The film takes place in 1927 in Uzbekistan. A group of Central Investigation officers has been sent from Moscow to Tashkent to assist the local police in the fight against banditry. At the same time, they participate in the fight against the remnants of the Basmachi and the White Guard underground.
Vlad Voiku, a police captain and investigator for particularly important cases of the republic's Interior Ministry, is single-handedly fighting the local mafia. Vlad believes in the power of the law. But over time, it becomes clear that corruption has penetrated into the highest echelons of power. And then Vlad commits a desperate act...
On April 8, 1894, a young princess from the Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, to the great joy of the heir to the Russian throne, Nicholas, finally agrees to convert to Orthodoxy and become his wife. So begins the story of the family of the last Russian emperor. Their letters, diary entries, drawings, photographs and documentary films of the pre-revolutionary years create a kind of family chronicle.
A story of the hard and fateful journey of master glassblower Nikolai Batygin.
A car accident results in the death of the director of one of the region's leading car dealerships. Vasily Yarosh, an investigator in charge of particularly important cases, is tasked with uncovering the causes of the tragedy and determining its pattern...
Two Christmas-themed stories: about the night of Christ's birth, and about a good deed that is remembered many decades later. Adapted from texts by Sasha Chyornyy and Archpriest Dimitriy Gavrilovich Bulgakovskiy.
Our funny, difficult, and absurd life unfolds in front of the viewer as if in two layers: in the squabbles of a large, densely populated communal apartment, and Sergei Sovkov's quiet, detached dwelling. By chance, his neighbor Tanya appears in the apartment, who, on the contrary, is immersed in the battle for a place in the sun. And Sergei's former serene existence is no longer possible...
Based on the play of the same name by M. Saltykov-Shchedrin. A young liberal-minded official named Bobyrev arrives in St. Petersburg from the provinces. He hopes to build a career under the patronage of his former schoolmate Klaverov, who has become a general. The general gladly assigns Bobyrev to his office and is already making plans to use Bobyrev’s beautiful wife, Sofia, to wage a successful campaign against his opponents and influence the pleasure-seeking Minister Tarakanov...