This film is of interest primarily because it contains within it the entire surviving footage of an unfinished 1974 film by the same director, Slave of Love, which was successfully remade shortly thereafter by another director, Nikita Mikhalkov.The "cover" story is about a woman (Jeanne Moreau) newly released from prison camps in the 1940s back into Russian society, who finds that there is no place for her in the world she has come back to. However, this painterly film is so filled with striking and surreal imagery that it would be misleading to say that the story is of any great importance in relation to that.
The world is going absolutely crazy when the giant meteor is approaching Earth...
A mystery around a search for a lost skull of Nikolay Gogol.
This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. One day he meets Anna, the love of his life and the wife of his best friend. The revolution in his heart faces the revolution in his own country His destiny is to become the Supreme Ruler of Russia.
As the new year celebrations approach, a bunch of characters throughout Russia experience diverse situations that eventually get interconnected towards a joyous finale.
"The Last Six Degrees of Celebration" will be the most touching, kind and magical of all, because your favorite characters will say goodbye to the audience. The film almanac will include five New Year stories. In the novel "Pines" millenial will help his brutal stepfather, Uncle Yura, to make a marriage proposal. In "The Brothers", the inseparable friends, Borya and Zhenya, will once again be on the verge of breaking up, because Zhenya is going to return to Yakutsk. The skier and snowboarder turned the whole city over for the sake of the smile of one beauty in the short story “Restaurant of quick acquaintance”. “The Station for Three” will tell the story of a simple girl from Voronezh who went in pursuit of her happiness - the capital actor Komarovsky, and in the novel “Bad Grandpa” the Snow Maiden will go to save a lonely, but very grumbling grandpa.
Peace and tranquility have set in Belogorie. The evil was defeated and Ivan is now enjoying his well-deserved fame. He is surrounded by his family, friends and small wonders from the modern world that help him lead a comfortable life. Luckily, he has his Magic Sword to cut a gap between the worlds to get some supplies quite regularly. But when an ancient evil rises and the existence of the magic world is put to danger, Ivan has to team up with his old friends and his new rivals. They will set out on a long journey beyond the known world to find a way to defeat the enemies and to return peace to Belogorie.
Now that Ivan is about to turn 21, he is now grown up and finally old enough to marry the beautiful Vasilisa. But when Vasilisa is kidnapped and trapped in modern Moscow, Ivan and his friends must travel to the present day to rescue her.
A story of love and betrayal which is going through Perestroika and modern times.
The Chernomorsk city is preparing to hold a holiday of laughter. Come here popular actors of theatre and cinema. Local cultural activist Alex Muromtsev brings guests into a luxurious country house that was once the dacha of Stalin, and has no idea that Stalin was already waiting in the chambers…
Анна и Никита воспитывают чужого ребенка, но теперь у них появился шанс на рождение собственного: беременность Анны подтверждается. Женщину кладут на сохранение. Однако их счастье омрачается попытками некой доброжелательницы убедить Анну и ее мужа, что в ее возрасте опасно рожать. По ее мнению, Анне следует прибегнуть к помощи суррогатной матери. А пока Анна находится в роддоме, Никита берет на себя заботу о матери-одиночке с новорожденным ребенком, отец которого трагически погиб...
Andrey Kulikov goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, Andrey Dolmatov, who had been an officer in the White Army during the Russian Revolution. On the headstone of the grave next to his great-grandfather's, he notices the face of a young woman. Later, while walking through Paris, Andrey sees a woman, Vera, who looks just like the young woman he had seen on the headstone. And so begins the telling of two love stories, separated by three generations and one hundred years.
The main characters, or rather the heroines, were 13-year-old girls. Different in character, in social status, they are in love with the same guy - a musician by profession, a rising star of local importance. After one of the concerts, his car is stolen. From this moment, dramatic events develop in the life of our heroes.
A young man from a religious family is in love with his best friend, and her birthday falls on Easter. Instead of an Easter service with his family, he chooses a girlfriend's party and sets off on a journey through the night capital.
A musical battle mystery with a cheerful war and pure love, with circus attractions and a real Lyuboffyorlova, as well as the recorded phenomenon of the Blessed Virgin Mary and strategic night flights of an absolutely naked pioneer!
Marina is over 40, she works as a dressmaker in an atelier, lives with her adult daughter Leroy, whom she raised and brought up alone. Mentally "giving up on herself," Marina does not notice that a client falls in love with her - a solid businessman Veligorov, only very shy...
After suffering a shipwreck during a meteor shower, the clumsy and comical alien Snorp finds himself in a predicament. His home planet is five light-years away from Earth, and waiting for help could take an eternity. Along with that, a greedy swindler is intent on stealing his advanced technology. Only curious boy Nikita and his family can save the stranded and help him return home.
Andrey is the coach of a children's hockey team in a small provincial town. The hero's measured life is disrupted by the news that the only ice palace in the city, where he trains children, is going to be demolished. The only way to save him is to win an amateur hockey tournament. Andrey has only a few months to assemble a team and prepare it for the games. Fathers of little hockey players decide to take to the ice themselves and fight for the future of their children.
On August 24, 1981, the newlyweds Larisa and Vladimir Savitsky stepped on board the plane following the flight Komsomolsk-on-Amur - Blagoveshchensk. 30 minutes before landing, the civilian aircraft AN-24 collided with another aircraft and broke into pieces at an altitude of more than 5 kilometers above the ground. No one was supposed to survive ... but a miracle happened. Larisa Savitskaya woke up in the middle of the wreckage of the plane in the impenetrable taiga. Now she herself had to create a real miracle, which only a strong-minded person is capable of.
Lovelace Petr arrives for a housewarming party in a new house with his parents, where he meets Polina and falls in love with her. The girl is not affected by the tricks of the young man, which he always used in relation to others. Peter is perplexed and uses all possible ways to achieve her location. Everything is complicated by the sudden arrival of a strange type, who claims to have come to his aunt and this house of their family. When good-natured tenants let him in to find out what is happening, he tells them that there is an old treasure in the wall of the house.
Milana and Gena are doing well: a child, a home, realization in creativity… However, Milana does not believe in herself and connects her musical career with the fact that she is the wife of the people's favorite "Uncle Gena", who constantly tours the country. After performing at a festival in one of the provincial cities, Milana's father Albert Plekhov comes backstage. He is a director at a local theater, a rather eccentric, out-of-date, but very perky man of age. For the last 20 years, he has been trying to stage his musical The Scarlet Flower.
On December 30, the whole country is already resting in anticipation of the New Year... and it's the hottest time in Santa Claus Corporation. It's good that the New Year is not only fireworks and salads, but also real magical transformations.
Twenty-year-old Elya is a student and a future ecologist. One day, Matvey, the head of a construction company, comes to her university to talk about a development plan on the site of an old forest park. Elya does not hesitate to smash his project to smithereens. Matvey is intrigued by the girl's self-confidence and uses his usual methods of influence - he simply tries to "buy" her. But Elya doesn't need a sponsor. Then Matvey, surprised by her impregnability, offers Elya a bet: seven romantic days according to his rules. If after that the girl still decides to leave, he will refuse to build a skyscraper in the forest park. She agrees when Matvey really suspends the design work. Elya sees herself as something like the heroine of the film Pretty Woman, but Matvey turns out to be not at all the person she imagined.
Katya is a landscape designer. On December 31, she delivers New Year's trees to customers. The last tree from the unfulfilled order could have become Katya's only guest for the New Year, but her mother is determined to introduce her daughter to a young man. To avoid this fate, the girl agrees to meet her uncle, her neighbor from Chicago. From this moment on, the longest day of the outgoing year begins for her: she will pick up the wrong uncle from the airport, meet a man, hide from bandits pursuing her... and on New Year's Eve she will again find herself at her tree, but will she be alone?
Viktor Ryzhakov takes charge of the Sovremennik theatre after the death of Galina Volchek, who led the troupe for almost half a century and enjoyed absolute authority. For the theatre’s first new production, the new artistic director chooses a play about a family whose members have ceased to understand each other. While working on the play, the director and actors become more and more like the characters in the future production, and find it increasingly difficult to find mutual understanding within their “theatrical family.”
For a successful Road Patrol Service officer time to start a family, but he lives with his mother. When Petia decides to propose Olya marriage, his official car crashes into drunken pop star.
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 of fireguards, have a chance to fulfill a dream – to go to Moscow to take part in their favorite TV show “Field of Miracles” (“Pole Chudes”), where they should make a life choice “trophy or money?” An inexperienced officer of Patrol-Guard Service and at the same time an experienced loser Sanya will have to not only survive his first day of service but also to accept his wife’s labors and to reanimate his partner. Four newly acquainted fellows must by any means fly to Moscow in non-flying weather, and a couple of young lovers must reconcile their irreconcilable parents by some mysterious way. Valera has to decide on a dilemma: to save mankind from the Deluge or just to fly with his karaoke-alien-friends in their old UFO? All these things can happen only once a year – on December, 31!
Following the tragic death of their parents 20 year old Kira has to look after her 11 yr old brother Danka who suffers from hysterical paralysis. Kira retreats into a world of illusion based on a happier past but suddenly she is faced with a dilemma should she save the life of a child in the street at the expense of her own? Danka has his own crisis and both make decisions which are final.
Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - position, wealth, love, life ... and the country itself.
Following her divorce, Marina thinks that she’ll never meet love again. Little does she know that one day, she’ll find the love of her life in freediving, one of the most extreme sports in existence, built on diving as deep as possible on a single breath. In the vast, mysterious realm of the sea, Marina not only regains her sense of peace and well being, but also redefines her existence.
It is a time when Rome rules the world with the power of life and death in their hands. The province of Roman Palestine is a bubbling cauldron of rebellion and control. And on this greater canvas Luke, narrates a story of wonder, amazement and impact... The world is anticipating this moment in history but no one can imagine God touching His creation in the form of a little baby named Jesus. Much is recorded in the Gospels about Jesus' miraculous birth, to a young virgin named Mary, in Bethlehem, but little is known about his quiet growing up in Nazareth. Joseph, his adopted father, seems to have died well before Jesus turns 30 and begins his ministry.
The life of the ordinary teenager Vania changes when he makes the acquaintance of three strange guys. Sportsmen, hooligans, dreamers – they call themselves “Rag Union” and believe that they can change the world. Enchanted by his new friendship, Vania puts them up at his dacha and tries to become part of their grand organization. But the neighbour girl Sasha has her own plans with this company.
1947 ... The Savchenko family returns to Moscow from evacuation - husband and wife with Kostya's little son. They settle with Grandma Kostya in a huge communal apartment. Street meets the boy with a flock of local boys. Then there were: the division of the territory with the "Sretensky"; trophy movie “Girl of my dreams”; a school with separate education, camp discipline and essays about the border guard Karatsyup. And the monetary reform of 1947, when all of their savings depreciated in an instant, and the boys let out boats from banknotes in puddles.
It’s a magical story about the incredible adventures of the young warrior called Koshi. There is only one goal in his life – to defeat the White Shadow, a monster who made him an outcast. But everything changes when Koshi meets a young dryad and circus actress May. By chance the destiny of all fairy creatures ends up in their hands, and now they have to make a tough choice between their own lives and saving the world from Ancient Evil.
Parfenov's documentary is about a brilliant scientist and engineer, born in Russia, but only known on the other side of the ocean. The invention of modern television changed the history of mankind. The invention has an author, who is almost unknown in his homeland. Vladimir Zworykin, born in Murom, a Russian American, was the person who created distant wireless transmission of images.
Marfa returns with her son to the Pacific island where she grew up and where her father worked as a lighthouse keeper. At the same time, her half-brother Ilya appears on the island, whom Marfa has not seen for many years. Marfa and Ilya are connected by a dark secret. But no matter how much they try to escape from the past, it overtakes them in the form of a mysterious whale cruising off the coast of the island and as if trying to convey something to Marfa.
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
The routine life of the eleventh "B" of the capital's school ends abruptly with the arrival of the new girl Sonya, who turns out to be completely different from her classmates. They will fight for her attention, they will be afraid of her sincerity, and with her... they will not want to be on the same side?
The film focuses on the relationship between Casimir and the monk Justin. If the former is looking for answers to the questions of existence, the latter is sure that he has already comprehended all the mysteries. Ambitious and domineering, Justin believes that people should be kept in constant fear. Kazimir, on the other hand, strives for freedom of the spirit and comes to the conclusion that people pray to the wrong God and are therefore unhappy. These antipodes value each other in their own way. Justin, sending Casimir to the stake, loses the only person close to him. In his last moments, Kazimir does not hate Justin.
1945. Of all the men from the village of Maslyanino who went to the front, only five of Maria's sons return. Why did fate choose them and how did the mother survive the war years, to whom the women of the village, at the instigation of the village shop saleswoman Vera, had attributed black magic since before the war, calling her a witch?
Continuation of the adventures of the alien, sequel to the film "Zhdun".
Successful but lonely Maria and her adult son are already sharing the common space of their apartment with irritation. Having accepted a marriage proposal from Mikhail, who is courting her, the woman hopes to build personal happiness for the first time in many years and moves in with her lover. Her hopes for a family idyll are destroyed by the man's adult son, who has returned to settle scores with his father. And Mikhail turns out to be not at all the person he wants to seem to be. Taking a forced step into conscious solitude, Maria for the first time makes a choice in favor of the most important person in her life - herself.
Present day. Artist Natasha is preparing for an exhibition of her paintings. At the gallery, before the opening, she recognizes one of the employees as her former classmate and first love, the musician Igor, and she plunges into memories. The beginning of the 2000s. Young Natasha is torn between the pressure of her rational parents, determined to send their daughter to study law, and her dreams of entering the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. A new classmate, the talented musician Igor, helps her believe in herself and take a risk. The young people fall in love with each other, but their happiness is interrupted by a family tragedy. Natasha, not ready to sacrifice her dream for Igor, leaves for St. Petersburg and begins to build her life. The choice made in youth often turns out to be decisive. And the adult Natasha wonders what she should have done if she had the opportunity to turn back time.
The estate of young Count Mikhail Razumovskiy is mercilessly plundered by French foragers. And the young man is saved from death by the Ghost, a lone partisan returning home and protecting civilians from marauders along the way. Dreaming of revenge, Mikhail sets off with the Ghost. He will have to learn the difference between heroism and duty from his own experience, become the Ghost's student, and then independently end his fight, preventing a French counterattack and saving many lives on both sides.