Mariya Smolnikova

The year is 1915; World War I is underway. In Petrograd, the young Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky meets a married couple, Lilya and Osip Brik. He reads them his poem *A Cloud in Trousers*; Lilya and Osip fall instantly and forever in love with Mayakovsky’s poetry, recognizing an extraordinary talent—a poetic genius—before them. Vladimir, in turn, falls in love with Lilya—also instantly and forever.

The plot is reminiscent of a fairy tale, when the husband goes sailing, and as a farewell, the wife ties a thread to his button so that she knows where her beloved is.

About one of the most famous composers of the 20th century, Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich.

After a major scandal on air, popular TV host Mark Nikolaev tries to restore his reputation and sets out to find Natasha, an orphanage graduate whose victory on a music show sparks a public conflict. However, his attempt to "fix the situation" unexpectedly changes him, forcing him to confront real life for the first time outside the cameras and social media.

The stories of people's destinies, intertwined by genuine New Year's magic and sorcery in one grand story, are told through the serial number of the new installment, a symbol of change and transformation. The hero of one of the short stories, filming of which recently concluded in Moscow, is a wayward businessman named Igor, who finds himself caught in a whirlwind of adventures on New Year's Eve: a fortune teller places a curse on him that can only be lifted by reuniting with his daughter, whose existence Igor has long preferred to forget. He turns to the renowned and fashionable psychic Aleksandr Sheps for help. Furthermore, Igor must discover what truly matters most in life.

A Soviet intellectual is engaged in science and medicine, writing for himself. His only son decides to leave the country forever, breaking his heart and ruining his career and social standing. Having lost everything, he decides to write a novel about Dostoevsky, the subject he's been dreaming about his whole life. Like his beloved writer, he must lose completely in order to be reborn.

In a science town near Moscow, a cashier from Dikson is trying to win back his love—the cashier from Pyaterochka. His former classmate, who conveniently wandered into the late-night supermarket, helps him.

Ispoved Bar, a place where all the fates of the heroes intersect. There, a lone employee of the psychological help hotline meets a girl in a bar. Their conversation turns into a tragic confession of a man carrying a load of mistakes of the past.

Aleksey Temnikov is a renowned ballet dancer and an acknowledged genius whose career was abruptly cut short after sustaining an injury in the 1990s. Twenty years later, Aleksey discovers that his condition is degenerative and that he will soon lose the ability to walk. Aleksey sets out to choreograph a ballet he envisaged long before but never staged for fear of failure. “What will I leave behind after I am gone?” is a question Aleksey feels he must contend with. However, returning to the world of ballet will not be easy for a man who has made so many enemies over the course of his life.

Maya, a child prodigy with a magical voice, becomes a star of the country's main opera house at the age of 11. Two envious prima ballerinas, from whom Maya has taken all the main parts, decide to get rid of the miracle of nature. Right on stage, the girl drinks a magic elixir and turns into a ghost. Later in the theater, Maya meets another stuck person - Iosef, an old conductor from the 19th century, who helps the girl and teaches her to live in new circumstances.

Continuation of the New Year saga "Yolki". This time, all the stories in the film will be based on real events.

Yana lives in the northern sea town. She collects stamps and is waiting for her father, who has long abandoned his family. Yana does not hope that he will return, she just loves to wait and believes that this is the quality of real philatelists. Yana is a very strong person, the effects of cerebral palsy are almost invisible, and the slight claudication and a certain oddity, in her opinion, only give her an additional charm. True, Kolya, Yana's friend, does not think so. The girl is upset that he does not see a woman in her ... Once on the beach, Yana meets a sailor. Peter is a very attractive man and also a collector. Collector of women. A short-lived novel flares up, and Yana becomes part of his “album”. Peter, as befits a sailor, goes to the sea, but Yana is happy: fine, when there is someone to wait for, even if this person never appears in her life again. After all, our whole life is an expectation.

A group of journalists are traveling through the different places and different times trying to solve historical mystery.

A long time ago, Prometheus was cursed by the God's for bringing fire to mankind. Today, Fedor finds himself in Moscow for the first time and falls in love with Masha.

An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.

Recorded play by Dmitry Krymov in Moscow Chekhov Art Theater, based on "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy.

Exactly five stories from different parts of Russia - from Arkhangelsk to Sakhalin. The modern romantic comedy "Firefly" was filmed in Severodvinsk. The musical film “Not for the River” from Arkhangelsk is dedicated to the ability to establish strong, like sea knots, relationships. The Kazan traffic police officer on duty on the highway, opening the trunk of a stopped car, changes his life forever (“Lost Path”). The heroine of the novel "Tamara" from Krasnoyarsk, showing a hard character in her work, will be helpless in her personal life. The Sakhalin short film "In the arms of the sea" in a poetic manner tells the story of true friendship and farewell.

Based on the play Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin, Dmitry Krymov’s Boris is a metaphor about the fate of Russia, its rulers and eternal values, subverting its ideas behind the cover of Pushkin’s text to show a direct line of the current governance of Russia with its imperial past, as well as all the myths on which Russian identity now rests. A flying raven, a poet, a folk choir, saints and sinners, living and dead - all come to life in the twilight of the Provision Warehouses of the Moscow Museum in this new interpretation of a classic work by one of the world’s most renowned stage directors.

Sometimes we bind ourselves in a relationship in which we find ourselves in captivity. This happens for various reasons. But if you meet your true love, run! Run towards her as fast as you can! There is no need to tolerate a relationship in which you are unhappy! Three short stories of the film are devoted to this topic.

A fight en route to an airport leads an ordinary Moscow couple to split on a whim. With Nikita ending up in Thailand and Zhenya in Berlin, both find themselves in two separate love triangles, inadvertently causing chaos in others' relationships as they attempt to fix theirs. But even continents apart, their lives turn out to be more intricately connected than they realize.

Masha spent her entire 11 years of life with her cosmonaut father at the spaceport. She knows how to fly a plane, a boat, and take responsibility for herself, but she doesn't know how her peers live. To make friends and get used to life on Earth, she goes to a regular school in St. Petersburg, where her incredible adventures begin.

At the wedding day the beautiful bride Marusya is left alone by her fiancé. She decides to find him by any cost with her friends and they travel to motherland of the groom – Azerbaijan – where they get into the greatest adventure they ever experienced.

Lena has the happiest day today - she is getting married! But the mood in the limousine, in which the newlyweds rush to a banquet, is disturbed by an accident - a limo knocks a person down.

A group of young people take part in a unique AI experiment in an attempt to create an absolutely impartial court of law. However, the experiment soon turns into an uncontrollable trial of the participants, revealing their true selves and the secrets they desperately try to hide.

Inspired by a 1975 American touring production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” he visited as a young man, Dmitry Krymov’s “Everyone is Here” is a memory piece, a starting point for a flight of imagination and immersion into his own past. Wilder’s “Our Town” is superimposed on the personal memories of Krymov, his biography and events from his family life. The structure of the play gives rise to an interweaving of events, memories, reminiscences, fantasies, associations, dreams - a carefully planned, as if random confusion, which in the finale leads the viewer to a keen awareness of their own life.

Inna lives with her dad and little brother in a small town. Her life changes when a new girl, Masha, comes to her school. They become friends. But Masha is murdered by a maniac serial killer, who kills teenage girls in the town. Inna goes to church for the funeral service. There she meets the priest's son Ilya, whose sister was also murdered.

Anna and Misha, the parents of seventeen-year-old Ivan and his older sister Varya, recently separated. Misha, out of habit, sometimes comes to the old courtyard, secretly observes the life of his family. Ivan is watching his father.

In the fight against toxic male masculinity, an intelligent woman changes the course of her life for the better.

A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.