Galina Bokashevskaya

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

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 fathers of two teenagers from wealthy families — on a bet who will break down first — send them to a secret camp where quests with a special forces theme are held. Faced with the first difficulties and imminent social conflicts, one of the guys asks to take him home. However, on the eve of leaving the camp, the youngest pupil disappears. All quests are canceled and the most prepared children are asked to help with the search. Children become unwitting witnesses of a crime and fall into the hands of bandits. With a series of adventures, mutual help and revenue, young people are trying to find their way home and escape from danger, because everything did not go according to plan.

A story of three teenagers who dream of entering a drama school.

Oleg Nazarov is a captain of a special forces unit, a sniper. But his family and friends don't know about it. Oleg carefully hides his true profession from his wife and daughter, and every time he returns from a mission, he puts on the mask of an ordinary person. Meanwhile, the city where Oleg lives is in a state of panic. The reason for this was a series of murders - every day one person is killed by an unknown gunman.

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".

The film is about a generation of brave and beautiful people who did not see the destruction of the revolution and the chaos of the civil war, who dreamed of building a new life in which there would be no place for death, but only incredible love that opens the way for them to great achievements and discoveries. About exploits and glory, betrayal and loyalty of those who were heroes in heaven and on earth. About the time of immense trials that fell on their short but bright lives. About a woman who was the dream and true love of the Soviet Union.

Denis Skvortsov, for whom football is not just a game, is seventeen years old, he is deeply in love, he is famous and respected among his peers, he is a leader. He has something to lose in a fight with a rich sponsor.

Vadim, a young script writer, is killed in Moscow. What's more, he had reached his height of popularity a long time ago. His friend, successful businessmen Maksim Krivoshein, begins his own investigation. Memories of their childhood and the chance discovery of Vadim's diary leads to some shocking discoveries.

Young Chechnya war veteran alienates himself from his friends and family because of his burned face. When he has to help find his war-time friend, he manages to get back to life again.

When the war, going somewhere far away, becomes ordinary, you begin to notice it only when it comes to the house, killing and mutilating the young and the best. The hero of the film, who has returned from the Chechen war as a cripple, rejects his former lover, who fiercely seeks his disposition, and it is not clear what motivates her - a sense of duty to the defenseless or a sincere love that suddenly flared up.

Jack Vosmyorkin, young American with Russian origins decides to return to Russia in order to watch October Revolution in action.

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.

The film takes place in 1951 in a large provincial city. The young wife returns from the resort, and after her comes the “spa card” from the man with whom she somehow walked along the shore, listening to the surf under the starry night sky. A husband receives a postcard ... He does not arrange a scene of jealousy and, experiencing pain inside himself, decides to write him an answer on behalf of Vera.

Autumn, 1968. Nadia, a young woman with strict views on life, a methodologist at the regional House of Culture, goes to the cinema with her friend Sasha. The premiere of the film "Three Poplars on Ivy" took place in their city. Suddenly it turns out that there are no tickets, and you can only buy one with your hands.

A documentary grotesque in which even the walls speak. Famous directors of St. Petersburg cinema recall their lives and work, and images of old films come to life to remind the viewer of themselves.

The head of the prison camp is friends with the manager, the head of a criminal gang. An evacuated woman with a child arrives in the city, and the manager falls in love with her.

When an American of Russian descent arrived at the dawn of perestroika in the Russian hinterland, in the town of Pavlovsky Posad, where old Russian shawls are made, a lover in love with these shawls, seen only in pictures, licked no one thought that drama would break out in the provincial silence ...

When a son from Chechnya calls his mother in Moscow and says that everything is fine with him, his mother abandons everything and rushes to find him. Svetlana feels that her Sasha is in trouble - you cannot fool her mother’s heart. Meanwhile, a forty-year-old woman who could not save her son from drugs was saved and warmed from the burning wounds of Chechen captivity by a runaway soldier ... Svetlana will do everything to hide her Sasha from this woman, someone else's misfortune and everyone who is next to him. But they will not give it to anyone - they have their own scores and their dreams with him ...

While the bride is late for the wedding, the guests tell various marriage stories, which confuse the groom.

Some time ago three total strangers participated in a cheesecake commercial. A mother, a father and a son were simply having tea at a dinner table, but for the boy from a dysfunctional family the shot where they were eating a cake together became an obsession; he dreams about another “family” gathering at the same table. Alyosha does not care that his “mom”, Natalia, has been married for a long time, and that his “dad”, Mikhail, has a girlfriend.

The film takes place on the day of the end of the Olympic Games, August 3, 1980. On the eve and during the Olympics, the Moscow authorities are "trapping" and expelling antisocial elements beyond the 101st kilometer. The avant-garde artist Boris falls into this category, he is taken to the police, from where he manages to escape. Boris hides in a village barn, where he is discovered by the 10-year–old son of the hostess, Anna.

A young Estonian goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to find his true self far from civilisation. The natives he meets introduce him to the myths of the north. The first is a young village teacher who wants to be a good wife to him. The second is a wild and untameable native who becomes his mythical bear-woman. When he accidentally kills a great black bear, his own shadow-creature, he burdens himself with guilt. However, he is given a chance of finding his inner balance. A romantic drama with mythical elements and breathtaking landscapes.

40-year-old provincial Natalya Nikitina has been living in St. Petersburg for the seventh year. She works as a nurse for ailing old people and endures their countless quirks and humiliations. Once in her life, a new friend appears - a masseuse named Love, who plunges Natalia into the abyss of bright and risky adventures in search of love and happiness.

After the death of the mother of twelve Kohl sent to an orphanage. Valentine is taking him from there. This lonely old woman is his dear aunt, with whom he had never been acquainted. Kohl is waiting for his older brother to come after him after his release from prison, and they will return home together.

When the mother and father of ten-year-old Lena and Marusya decide to get married, these two completely alien girls are forced to become sisters. Now they share one room, one class, friends, and most importantly, they are fighting for the attention of their parents. Each of them dreams of returning to their former life, and for this it is necessary to embroil adults.

Tatyana Prokofievna is an ageing woman with a diva’s behavior, but her life is uneventful, ordinary and dull. To escape the everyday slumber she seeks companionship of young men. She provides shelter and becomes involved in their problems. Her ex-boyfriend has married a younger woman. Tatyana is forced to keep her loneliness hidden because of her role as hostess.

The story unfolds in St. Petersburg during the season of White Nights, when night becomes curiously indistinguishable from day. Masha has struck it lucky: she is about to wed an American, Tim, eager to bring home a beautiful Russian wife. This marriage can take her light-years beyond her simple provincial roots, but for now Masha has a family to take care of, and she dutifully sends all the wages she earns to them. To save money she even dupes her fiancée by returning the expensive wedding dress he has bought for her to the boutique and sawing an identical one for herself. The night before the wedding Masha hastens to meet Tim, but fails to make it to the other side of the River Neva before the drawbridge is raised. The betrothed find themselves standing on the pavement with the mighty river between them...

Chronicle of the last days spent together

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