The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after intensive compulsory treatment. Has a documentary film maker he gets involved in the Chechen conflict, where he meets his own apparent death. He recalls his life and realizes it mirrors that of his whole generation.
The young librarian Ksenia, who until recently was solving her numerous family and financial problems, one day becomes the owner of an inheritance - a huge apartment, a bank account and a new Mercedes, and with it many secrets and mysteries. Ksenia understands that in this life nothing happens just like that... Step by step she is approaching the solution, not realizing that a threat is already hanging over her...
18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...
The eleven-year boy lives in a usual family of a big city. As well as many modern young people he has got a loneliness problem. One day on his way there is an original man who reveals his vision life and shows the city from its roofs. It seems the secret ring of the city roofs lifts them to the sky and does them not such as all and the boy believes that he has found a true friend at last. But this man is unable to be friend; he's infantile and can't appreciate any relationships.
The radio air is a whole layer of the life of the night city. Radio helps to meet the lost in the night, brings comfort to the homes of people suffering from loneliness and insomnia. DJs become not just masters of the ether, they are the arbiters of fate.
In present-day Moscow ghosts of three little girls killed by their insane mother randomly pick a person to watch over for a three days. If during this "probation period" person's moral standards appear not to be high enough The Daughters then kill him using telekinesis.
“Time… Hours… Minutes… Seconds… Time does not exist, we invented it ourselves. This is a beautiful illusion that fills our life with mystical meaning. The whole of human history is a search for a loophole in time, a desire to use Him not against oneself, but for the good." The film shows the expectations of twelve people happening in parallel on a certain day at five o'clock in the evening. A subtle, thought-provoking film about the essence and meaning of time in life. For RADO Switzerland.
After experiencing a terrible tragedy, the hero leaves his former life. Everything that seemed important goes into the past — work, success, the usual rhythms of a big city. But the world of people refuses to let him go, bursts into his chosen solitude, beckons with new opportunities. Unexpectedly for himself, the hero finds a new home, where he seems to find peace, love and answers to his painful questions. But are these the right answers? And what price will you have to pay to survive and remain yourself?
Two orphans move from their native village to the house of their adoptive parents. But their hope for a happy life fades away, when they are challenged by an ancient otherworldly force.
Oleg learns the intricacies of working in a bank, and here he meets the manager Veta. They begin a romance that will change the lives of both. Veta dreams of being close to Oleg, but for this he needs to divorce Katya...
Soon after the father leaves for the front, the mother dies - and the children are left alone. And then fourteen-year-old Lyubasha takes care of her younger brothers and sisters.
A talented scientist Andrei Gusarov has been through difficult times - from the thirties in the Stalin's USSR and all the way to the launch of first Soviet satellite.
A drama about a psychological duel between a police detective and career criminal.
A junior employee of the Forest Research Institute is sent to collect mushrooms. In the forest, he meets a strange old woman, receives a silver horn and a magic club as a gift from her, and after some time ends up in prison as a counterfeiter. His connections with the mysterious old woman do not end there.
Moscow militia detectives are investigating a death of a young girl whose body was found in the construction site.
A teenage girl considered by everybody as "difficult" is sent to the village to live with her grandfather.
Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small provincial town and begins to proposition the local landowners. These landowners are revealed to be so petty and avaricious that not even Chichikov’s amazing offer can be worked to his advantage on them. Some stall, some refuse for no obvious reasons, some promise and then renege, and others want “in on the deal.” In the end, Chichikov, having concluded that the landowners are a hopeless lot, leaves for other regions.
In order to negotiate with West German financiers about the construction of the gas pipeline between Siberia and Western Europe, a delegation of Soviet foreign trade collaborators flies to Germany, where they immediately come under CIA surveillance: U.S. intelligence agencies are interested in disrupting the 'contract of the century.' ”...
The film reproduces the events of the summer of 1921, when Kotovsky, at the head of a separate cavalry brigade, completed the defeat of the Antonov counterrevolutionary rebellion in the Tambov region, destroying Matyukhin's gang.
2027. A medical corporation launches a TV show to promote its revolutionary invention - the human head transplant. A group of young thrill-seekers gather on an island to play a dangerous game. The rules are simple: win or perish.The prize is priceless - immortality.
Immediately after the prom, Olya Rusanova arrives in the city where her father worked and tragically died. Many years ago he dreamed of building a city, and now she is walking along the street bearing his name, a street without end. Having met her father’s friends, Olya learns him anew. They tell the girl how her father wanted to see large houses and wide streets on the site of the tent city. How he knew how to be friends and to love, and how longed for Olya when he broke up with his wife, who didn't agree to go with him.
About an oil exploration geologists exploring the northern regions of the country.
Inga is a single mother. She is raising her eight-year-old son Kostya and dreams of finding him a good father. Until a certain point, all her attempts end in failure, bringing only disappointment. But then one day, she meets cardiac surgeon Andrei and falls madly in love with him. After sending the boy to the countryside for a while, Inga prepares for the wedding. Meanwhile, Andrei not only cares for his bride, but also does everything he can to rightfully call her son his own. On the wedding day, he presents his beloved with an adoption certificate. The happy newlyweds drive to the village to pick up the baby from his aunt, but get into an accident. Inga dies on the spot, and Andrei is left alone with his grief. Now he must decide the fate of the child and become—or not become—his real father.
Young police detective Faina tries to experiment with herself in order to meet her dead love.
13-year-old boy Ivan loses all loved ones to World War II. His father was killed, and his mother died during the bombing. Ivan has to survive, relying only on his own strength. He is evacuated to the Urals, settles in a factory and even finds the opportunity to help strangers.
Фильм снят по повести Сергея Говорухина "Никто, кроме нас". Эта картина не столько о самой войне, сколько о взаимоотношениях кинооператора Евгения Левашова и Наташи - женщины, которую он искал всю жизнь, и нашел за несколько недель до своей очередной командировки на войну. И хотя он может отказаться от этой поездки, он этого не делает - потому что любовь и нравственный выбор неразрывно связаны между собой…
Matyora is a small village on an eponymous beautiful island; its existence is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam, leaving its citizens forced to bid farewell to their beloved home.
The year is 1949. One of the last outbreaks of Stalinist terror was a bloody buffoonery under the auspices of the fight against cosmopolitanism. In the Writers' House near Moscow, where a young writer finishes her story about her husband's arrest and death, there is a painful atmosphere of fear, suspicion, suspiciousness and foreboding that can drive you crazy...
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. In the first of three parts, we follow Luper through three distinct episodes: as a child during the First World War; as an explorer in Mormon Utah; and as a writer in Belgium during the rise of fascism.
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. In the final installment, Luper continues his adventures as a professional prisoner during the later years of the Second World War and the Cold War.
April 1944. From the special report of Captain Kovalenko: "...Among those enrolled in the echelon... at the station Zheltovka Kurgan... the cargo arrived without the designation of the departure station and paperwork, listed in the general escort invoice as a group of juvenile delinquents in the amount of 23 male and female units..." About this strange trailer and its inhabitants - 16-year-old homeless Anton, his friend, his peer Shaban, two sisters Zoya and Shurochka, interned German Fischer-Rybakov, their ordeal in the vast Siberia, far from the front.