Nikolai Karachentsov

Genius

He is overly intelligent... He is genius... And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia.

Kindergarten

The movie reminiscence of the Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko about the military childhood when he one reached the Siberian Winter station where he was waited by the grandmother. The way was unusually long, cold, hungry and angry.

The Long Road to Self

The family idyll collapsed when the husband, who was far from art, got tired of his wife's creative self-denial. Not believing in her talent, he does not show her work to an art critic, but tells his wife that her work has not been accepted for the competition. This is followed by rehabilitation as a creative person, but it is no longer possible to establish family relations.…

The Magic Lantern

A musical program about the history of the development of the art of cinema.

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №1. Testament Emperor

Russia, January 25, 1725. "Give it all...". The emperor's weakening hand was able to write in his will only these two short incomprehensible words that kept Russia in a bloody struggle for the crown for a century.

The House That Swift Built

An immaculate, vivid and breathtaking implementation of Swift's romanticism.

The Dog in the Manger

The rich and noble Signora Diana is tormented by doubts: she has to choose between suitors worthy of her hand and her handsome and seductive personal secretary. And the latter, in turn, can not decide who is more to his heart - his charming mistress or her maid...

The Adventures of the Electronic

Professor Gromov constructs a robot called Electronic, which looks exactly like Sergey Syroezhkibn, a 6-grader from one of Odessa (USSR) schools. The robot also acts a lot like a human, and its dream is to become a real man. Electronic escapes from the professor's lab and accidentally meets Sergey, his prototype. Meanwhile, a gang lead by Stump is trying to kidnap Electronic to make him steal pictures from museums. For this purpose they send their hitman Urrie.

Crazies

A romantic and funny fantasy about the events occurred during the building of a first railroad in Russia.

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines

Mr. Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.

The Elder Son

Two students are late for the last commuter train and have to spend a night in a strange town. They rack their brains about where to find shelter and quite by chance they overhear a talk between father and son. The son is an adolescent who is head over heels in love with a girl several years his senior. He is living through the first drama of his life though his love is just puppy love. Then, being resourceful fellows, they think of a plan to pass one of them for the elder son of this family. The reason they give for his unexpected arrival is that he is a child of the father's long-forsaken love. They presume this cock-and-bull story will come off, and right they are!

Marta the Pious Woman

Two poor Spanish students set off in search of happiness in Madrid. Here they decide to make their fortune by marrying girls from noble families. But one of them, Marta, is promised by her father to a rich elderly nobleman.

The Trust That Has Burst

A witty comedy, that has fun and philosophy in one. Inspired by short stories of O`Henry.

Murder at Sunshine-Manor

Professor Ian Drummond, whose new invention was of interest to the Russians and Americans, is murdered at his Sunshine Menor mansion in full attendance. The writer Joe Alex, who arrived on the eve of the murder together with actress Sarah, and detective Ben Parker, before figuring out the true killer, will suspect in the crime each of those present, because each had a reason for it and there was evidence against each of them.

Pa: Sovremennaya Gorodskaya Skazka

Оксана Чернова живет в маленьком провинциальном городке и мечтает о танцах. Учеба в экономическом техникуме не клеится, отношения с отцом и мачехой не складываются. Она убегает из дома в Москву к деду. А Москва, как известно, слезам не верит, она испытывает: любовью, предательством, болезнью. Друг деда Глеб, «новый русский», в исполнении Николая Караченцова, со сложным отношением к жизни и массой недостатков, помогает девушке. Все в жизни Глеба пошло наперекосяк. Но судьба улыбается ему, и он влюбляется.

Cabbages and Kings

Everything would have gone on as usual in the island of Anchuria, if not for a small suitcase filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars that suddenly turned up at the local barber's, and the mysterious stranger who one day was washed ashore by the waves on the coast of Anchuria...

Miss Millionersha

At the beginning of "perestroyka", city authorities are getting ready for another event in keeping with the spirit of stagnant times. A director with a rather "unyielding" character is assigned to make a film about the birth of the one millionth inhabitant. However, when he finds the heroine of his story, there is no much "positive" to show as this family hardly suits for advertising happy life...

The Circus Burned Down and the Clowns Scattered

A film director Nikolai Khudokormov is on the brink of his 50th anniversary. He has the whole life rich in events under his belt: creative quests, several marriages and children. Now he has to live with an old insane Mother and seems to be indifferent to what is going on around. But at the same time he is obsessed by the idea to make a film which will be his best one. Nikolai makes every effort to raise the money for this project. And all the time he is followed by a mysterious stranger. She is a beautiful young creature who speaks to him about the vanity of the world and the meaningless of a human life. Finally, Nikolai realizes that he is speaking to the Death herself.

Moonsund

Captain of a Russian battleship "Novik" Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady Klara who is a German spy. They cannot be together because of the war and their professions. But they are in such love that all the war battles and battleships do not stop them, only their duties do.

Tartarin of Tarascon

Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. But one day he becomes a real hero...

Déjà vu

The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odesa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, Pollack, arrives in Odesa, and realizes how hard it is to make the hit here, as compared to a civilized country like USA.

White Dew

A funny story about Fyodor - the oldest person in the village - and his three sons.

Errors of Youth

A young guy decides to try himself in a northern region of USSR after being honorably discharged from Soviet Army.

Photo

About the fates of two friends who got carried away with photography: one became a successful businessman and buys a steamer, the other, after serving his sentence on an unfair charge, does not expect good from the future, does not believe the present.

A Trap for Lonely Man

Daniel Corban reports his wife Elizabeth missing to the police. A priest arrives and says he has found her. When he brings her in, Corban insists she is not his wife. When several other people arrive and verify she is Elizabeth, Daniel feels he is losing his grip on reality.

The Nick Of Time

A wealthy American businessman, Mr. Clarke, forces his dissolute but charming nephew James to go with him to Russia, where he buys a Faberge watch that belonged to Nicholas II himself. He is received by Mr. Borsch, who dreams of becoming a minister by signing a lucrative contract. A representative of a Japanese company, nicknamed the Samurai during the auction, is hunting for the same watch. Borshch's wife also "laid eyes" on an antique watch, and a talented thief leaves the prison. All the participants of the future adventures met at the restaurant, where James met the beautiful niece of Borsch's wife. Mr. Clark flies to Namibia, instructing his nephew to put the watch in the hotel safe. Naturally, on the same evening, the watch is stolen...

A Long, Long Case...

A murder just happened and it seems the answer is simple on who and how did it. But a casual talk between suspect's mother and prosecutor sets a different point of view on a just opened case.

The Criminal Quartet

Mafia kidnaps an investigator's little son after he discovers massive thefts on a local shoe factory. With the help of his three old friends, two cops and a newspaper reporter he struggles to rescue his son and close the case at the same time.

Treasure Island

Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Two Arrows. Stone Age Detective

A parable in the manner of a tragedian based on the play by A. Volodin "On the tribes of the Bison and Scorpions, who lived many thousands of years ago on a small island." The events that the film tells about take place in ancient times, in the Stone Age. In the forest, where a large tribe lives, two shots in the back killed one of the clan, nicknamed Long. His widow demands that the killer become her husband. The head of the clan is trying to find out who the killer is.

Bright Personality

By chance the main character of the picture becomes invisible. This curiosity causes a chain of eccentric events that allow the authors to ridicule in a grotesque form such enduring vices as bureaucratism, swagger, careerism and familialism. Based on satirical works by I. Ilf and E. Petrov.

Ladies Invite Gentlemen

Anna Pozdnyakova is already over 30 years old and, despite the fact that she is kind and pretty, she cannot find herself a man with whom she could find family happiness. Already it seems like a suitable candidate in the person of a prominent military man, Viktor, has taken a liking, but at first sight he falls in love with Anna's friend Raisa and marries her. Then Anya takes out a vacation at her own expense and goes south to Sochi.

Lost and Found: Film 3

About how the Lost and Found Bureau staff found the items that had gone missing from the Bureau and discovered the culprit behind these disappearances—a thieving magpie.

Batallions Ask for Fire

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

Space Visitors

Several scientists create drama around a mysterious black ball.

Juno and Avos

The story how he will never see her and she will never forget him.

In the Footsteps of the Bambr

Bambr, Hermit, Bird, Cat and Mouse - already familiar from the film Ferocious Bambre, are faced with the insidious Hunter, who planned to turn Bambre into a hunting dog. But friendship and mutual assistance win this time as well.

Before We Part

Stuck due to bad weather at a tiny Far Eastern airport, several random travel companions become witnesses of an amazing meeting. As it turns out, one of the passengers was brought here not by chance. He is the son of an American pilot who ended up at the airfield during the war years, which was built to transfer planes from Alaska to Russia. And here he meets a woman who saved his father's life forty years ago.

The Witches Cave

An interstellar expedition is sent to study a strange planet. Despite the fact that creatures from various Earth time periods inhabit the world, the natives possess metal swords, even though they should have no knowledge of such weaponry.

Touches on the V. I. Lenin's Portrait

Life and works of V.I. Lenin during the difficult period for the country of 1918.

How to Become Happy

Once, on New Year's Eve, photojournalist Gosha met a strange old man who called himself an inventor. He kept his last invention in a suitcase and willingly determined with the help of this device the area and degree of giftedness of each person. Gaucher, the old man predicted the career of a clown, but he did not believe it and, contrary to the recommendations, became a journalist ...

This Fantastic World 1

Based on the following works: Jules Verne “From a Gun to the Moon”, H.G. Wells “The Man Who Could Work Miracles”, Stanislav Lem “The Fourteenth Voyage”.

My Destiny

Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...

Kolkhoz Entertainment

Summer 1989. A people of kolkhoz are forced to produce a show in order to get additional financing.

Space for Maneuver

A new manager comes to the design bureau, he thinks outside the box, rejects routine...

The Dog in Boots

The story about an enamored singing dog who isn't thoroughbred - that's a minus, but honorable - that's a plus.

Lisa Patrikeevna

The fox takes advantage of the kindness of the animals. Cartoon in verse, voiced by Harry Bardin and Nikolai Karachentsov.

Yaroslavna, Queen of France

Early XI century. Envoys of Henry, King of France, arrive to Kiev and ask Prince Yaroslav for the hand of his youngest daughter Anna. Rich, young and beautiful Anna Yaroslavna, accompanied by the envoys and warriors, sets off to Paris to meet her groom the King of France. But the Byzantine diplomats would do anything to prevent the alliance from happening.

Quiet Flows The Don

With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.

One Times One

Having lived for his pleasure most of his life, floor polisher Ivan Karetnikov, on the threshold of his 60th birthday, did not for the first time leave his next wife himself, but she abandoned him, moreover, in public. In addition to these troubles, he was fired from his job, replaced by a mechanical polisher. In this difficult moment, Karetnikov remembered the first wife, and then the second and third. But turning to each of them, he seems to begin to lose hope of seeing compassion for himself.

While the Dream is Mad

Yura Otvertkin, a romantic from Tsarevo-Kokshaisk, is obsessively in love with aeronautics. In St. Petersburg, disguised, he pretends to be the ace Ivan Piramida. He has to perform at the festival, but he only knows how to fly "according to the books", but he manages not to lose face. After a lot of ups and downs associated with his similarity in makeup with a famous criminal, Yura confesses everything to his beloved and flies already under his real name.

And It's May Again

A group of Bolsheviks in 1908 attempts to establish the publication of underground literature under police terror.

One, two - woe, never mind

Defeating the terrible dragon, the soldier Ivan returns from the war. The Far Far Away rejoices. The king, also Ivan, is very pleased. He awards the namesake with an order with pearls, appoints a field marshal and offers his wife his own daughter Maria Louise. But the soldier suddenly refuses everything.

A Small Favor

Once a famous singer Valentin Ozernikov, returning from another tour, thinks about his fast flowing life and tried to formulate his criteria for figs further existence.

Contract of the Century

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 Nightingale

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes.

The Environment

Rare materials go missing from the archive. A conflict arises between two researchers—Ozerov and Rozhkin—over these missing materials.

The Confrontation

In the apartment of Anna, who, judging by her testimony to the investigation, was on a business trip, a fire broke out at night. The son was saved, but as a result of a nervous shock he was speechless. The investigation, the mother and father of the child will find out the true cause of the tragedy.

Balakirev the Jester

Pyotr's jester Ivan Balakirev is caught up in complicated family relations of Russian emperor and palace intrigues of his court.

White Dew. The Return

After living in the city, Andrei Khodas returns to the land and settles on a farm. However, the rapidly growing city catches up with him here. A couple of young and energetic businessmen intend to buy a picturesque area for new construction and are trying to evict its few inhabitants.

Who Will Enter the Last Carriage?..

The lover of nurse Inna Sorokina must go on a long business trip abroad. The heroine, experiencing a severe mental crisis, goes to a sanatorium, hoping to make a serious acquaintance there and get rid of the impending loneliness. A holiday romance with Adam (Vadim) does not lead to the desired marriage, but helps the heroine find inner freedom.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Acquaintance

Dr. Watson, who served in the English armed forces and was in the Afghan war, retires and returns to his homeland, in England. Since the financial situation of the doctor is very precarious, his long-time friend Mr. Stamford offers him to rent a room in the house at 221-B Baker Street, which is rented by an elderly lady - Mrs. Hudson. The second rented room is already occupied by another gentleman - the mysterious Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Holmes makes an ambiguous impression on Watson. He conducts complex chemical experiments with blood, plays the violin, has the deepest knowledge about cigar ash, London dirt and criminal law, but at the same time demonstrates complete ignorance of well-known truths (for example, the fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun), does not read fiction, as well as books on history and philosophy. At the same time, very strange visitors constantly come to Holmes, and on the table he has portraits of personalities of a disgusting appearance.

Cat and Clown

A clown adopts a talking stray cat who is also a shapeshifter. The cat assists the clown on stage, where he loves the public's ovations.

Alice Through the Looking Glass

The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.

The Idiot

A free-spirited, guileless and amoral young woman, who works as a maid in the home of one of the most prominent and influential families in France was discovered in her bedroom, naked and unconscious, with the body of her Spanish lover Miguel across the room and the gun that killed him by her side. As the movie begins, she is being brought before the Examining Magistrate to determine if there is enough evidence to take her to trial where, under the French legal system she will be considered guilty unless proven innocent...

And to Hell with Us!

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…

The 32 of December

When with the last stroke of the clock the desire of friends suddenly comes true, three friends get an incredible chance to do what they dreamed of all their lives…

Woman for Everyone

Maria is a single mother of two children. When Maria dies unexpectedly, the children are looked after by Anna, who lives next door. Meanwhile, Nikolai, who wanted to marry Maria, decides to stay with Anna to help raise Maria's kids.

A Sentimental Romance

The film is set in the 1920s. Shura Sevastyanov is an aspiring journalist in a small newspaper, with two-classes of a parochial school behind him. In the spirit of building communism, he is an ardent fighter against philistinism in all its forms. He denies the phenomenon of love, believing that it does not exist and that there is only friendship and sexual desire of man to woman.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Bloody Inscription

Holmes receives a message from Inspector Gregson about a strange case in an abandoned house on Brixton Road: the body of an elderly American was found there, and the word "Revenge" is written in blood on the wall.

Trap for Bambr

The insidious and angry Hunter Stump kidnaps the Cat in order to exchange it for Bambra. Bambre agrees to the exchange and surrenders to the hunter. But loyal friends - Hermit, Mouse and Bird - do not abandon a friend in trouble and save the Cat.

Animal Wars

In a galaxy far, far away, a tiny planet is ravaged by a long war between two animal tribes: Biters and Slashers. Both tribes decide to settle their dispute by playing the Game of Animal Football. You are in for a treat if you like major hits, unnecessary roughness, and illegal use of claws and other body parts.

The Lion's Share

They were once a special unit of the FSB, carrying out particularly important missions. But after one unsuccessful operation - a portable nuclear charge was stolen - they were dismissed from service and narrowly avoided prison. However, all unfinished business sooner or later begins to create big problems - the "lost" charge turns out to be in the hands of bandits. And now a successful businessman, a private bodyguard and a drunken unemployed again unite in one team to return the old "debt". From the very beginning, events unfold contrary to the plan. Heroes are under the tight control of criminals, and it can only be due to betrayal...

The Hobbit: Treasures under the Mountain

Unrealized animated film based on Tolkien's works. The project was launched in 1991 and suspended due to the collapse of the Soviet Union. As for today only six minutes of prologue has been found and preserved.

Porridge Made from an Axe

A soldier was returning from the war. On the way, he stopped by a certain old woman Melanya and her little old man. The old woman turned out to be greedy and, citing a complete lack of food, refused to feed the soldier. Then the experienced soldier offered to cook porridge from an axe.

How Old Man Became a Brood-Hen

The wife tells her husband to hatch the chickens, but the cheerful soldier is ready to save him. Puppet cartoon based on a folk tale.

Three on an Island

Boy Borya reads a book about pirates instead of doing homework. He tears off the handkerchief from the parrot's cage, flaps it and exclaims: "I would like to be on an uninhabited island!" The mirror on the wall grows and opens directly to a tropical island, Borya's desire is fulfilled. Quite quickly, Borya discovers the magic properties of the scarf and calls friends to him: Yura and Mila.

Ferocious Bambr

The cartoon tells the story of a fabulous creature named Bambre. He lived completely alone and frightened everyone who was approaching him, and his tail was kind and prevented him from doing dirty tricks. Once Bambre found friends and became kind.

Fairy-Tale About a Stupid Husband

Eternally dissatisfied with his wife, a man goes in search of a new one.

Pussycat

A cool superman with a bag of money rents the most luxurious room in a seaside hotel. He can buy everything, but he only needs one thing - her...

What is Yeralash?

A musical and television performance film dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the children's film magazine Yeralash.

Comrade Innokenti

About the initial period of the revolutionary activity of the Russian revolutionary Joseph Dubrovinsky (1877-1913, Innokenty is one of the underground nicknames of the Bolshevik), about the years of active propaganda work, a duel with the "king of the Okhrana" Zubatov, exile and the resumption of work underground.

The Music of Life

Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.

My Sweet Dream

A young woman, who has lost faith in life and love, comes to see a psychiatrist with the intention of changing her gender. However, this meeting radically changes both her plans and her perception of life.

Juno and Avos

The year is 1806. He is 45, she is 15. He is from Russia, she is from America. He is Orthodox, she is Catholic. They love each other… But fate has prepared a harsh trial for them…