Aleksandr Metelkin

By the middle of the 12th century, the borders of the Mongolian Empire stretched from the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas in the west to the southern lands of China in the east. The Mongolian army, under Khan Batu’s command, was known for its invisibility, destroying anyone who dared to challenge them. Yet, even within their central territories, some areas refused to bow to the Genghisids. Kozelsk was one of them. The Mongolian armies bypassed the high walls of this small town, considering that "the skin of the wolf was not worth the risk of encountering its teeth".However, one of the Khan’s commanders harbored a grudge against the town's citizens. Now, the people of Kozelsk must face a battle against the strongest army in the world, with no hope of victory. This is a story about people facing their death. Some try to escape, others are willing to do anything to survive, but most are prepared to protect their city from the relentless storms of the Mongolian hordes.

The films follows a Syrian War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by ISIS militants while they prepare the recently liberated historic site of Palmyra to hold a symbolic concert of the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra. The peacekeeping event can only be held in Palmyra that has been severely damaged by the terrorists only if the ancient city and the roads leading to it are defused. The EOD team clears the way one kilometer at a time. But the closer they get to the center of Palmyra, the more destructive the explosives. Tension grows between the young team Captain and the most experienced of the EOD experts. And yet, despite their differences, when the team falls into an ambush and the Captain goes missing, it’s the experienced sapper that sets out to search for him.

When a golf ball strikes a frog residing in a city park, the creature transforms into a beautiful woman Vasilisa. Ivan, pressured by his wealthy father to get married, seizes the opportunity and presents Vasilisa as his girlfriend. Vasilisa revels in her newfound human life, but as twilight descends, she reverts to her frog form. It is revealed that Vasilisa was cursed by an evil magician. To break the spell and become human once more, she must receive a kiss of genuine love.

Continuation of the fairy tale "The Frog Princess" with Valentina Lyapina and Nikita Kologriv.

Petya is almost 40 years old, he works as a chef in a restaurant and by his age he had achieved little in life. Petya has a wife and two children, but he is not respected by them. One day, he goes to his parents cottage, where he finds a box of old toys. Among them, he finds his favorite toy, Petrushka, because his name is the same as his own. Petya puts Petrushka on his arm, and a miracle happens - the toy comes to life. Now Petya has a difficult struggle with his alter ego, which will make him a real man.

Against the background of the war of 1812 and the conflicts preceding it, the fate of the Russian aristocracy unfolds.

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.

World War II — a brutal, high-stakes survival story. While exploring abandoned battle sites, two modern-day friends are suddenly trapped in the past, inside the very conflict they once studied from a distance. Knowing they may never make it back alive, they are forced to confront a time trap where survival itself is at stake. As the war closes in around them, they must make a moral choice between saving themselves or risking everything for others, decisions that will define their lives forever.

The Tsar is having his daughter Zabava marry a charmingly handsome and a handsomely charming Paul, a rich heir and a foreign fancy pants. However, it's a bit of a challenge, since Zabava wants a marriage of love, not of calculation. Her unexpected encounter with sailor Ivan, a simpleton yet an honest and endearing guy, messes up Paul's plans of snatching the crown. Deeply in love with the princess, Ivan enlists help from the residents of an enchanted forest to build a Flying Ship which would then take him and his beloved away. The brave sailor is in for serious confrontation with the sneaky Paul, who's using dark magic to bring his unwanted opponent down. However, true love is going to win this battle: with the evil mastermind punished, Ivan and Zabava step aboard the magic Flying Ship and set sail towards a new common dream of theirs.

In 1960 a secret rocket launch occurred, preceding the first manned flight into space. The spacecraft is damaged before it enters the orbit and crashes in the remote, frozen part of the world. After he comes to his senses, he realizes that it is the year 2023, and he remembers almost nothing about his life before flying into space. His only memory is the image of a girl from the past. He knows her, but she doesn't know him...

To save the theater he inherited, Andrei decides to gather talented children around him to stage a grand musical. However, not everyone in town supports his plan, and on the path to his dream, the protagonist encounters an unexpected helper: the cheeky and charming Puss in Boots.

The year is 1941. Nazi Germany has declared war on the USSR and begins launching air assaults on Moscow and St. Petersburg. Stalin immediately orders a retaliatory air campaign under the code name “Wings over Berlin.” The closest entry point to Berlin from the USSR border was an airfield on the Estonian island Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea. It would be a 7-hour flight over enemy territory in outdated aircraft leaving no chance of survival for the tail crew members in case of attack. Despite overwhelming odds, the first units completed the mission and made it back to base safely, unlike many others that followed.

Three friends, who were fans of Ivanushki International in their youth, meet and decide that they have never done a single crazy thing in their entire lives. They decide to fulfill their old dream and go on a fan tour for "Ivanushki" in the south of Russia, hoping to escape from their problems for a while. But the 15-year-old daughter of one of them ends up traveling with them.

Student Artem falls in love with a young beauty from the Black Sea. Having lost his head, he drops everything and goes for his beloved to the Russian South, about which he knows nothing. At sea it turns out that the beautiful Ksyusha is already being looked after by two serious local competitors - a handsome sailor and a daring policeman. It seems that the naive student simply has no chance. Even the help of his new friends seems to only get in the way. But our hero is not going to give up: it means war!

It is the story of seven days in the life of the 70-year-old Peter who learns that he has lung sarcoma and that there is a faint hope that in a week the diagnosis may be ruled out by a medical luminary from Moscow. Peter spends the seven days summing up the results of his life which he considers worthless, in which he could not start a family, earn money, save his reputation. But time and again the events in which he becomes involved and which are filled with smiles, sadness, human destinies, let the viewer realize that the protagonist’s life is far from worthless.

Modern-day geopolitical tension — a high-stakes spy thriller. Andrey Romanov joins a covert GRU mission led by Maksim Kolosov to investigate a secret border laboratory developing a new biological weapon. Driven by revenge against his father’s killer — who leads the enemy operation — Andrey falls under suspicion when signs of a traitor emerge. Kolosov faces a moral choice between duty and loyalty, making a decision on which the fate of millions depends.

The story of four friends, former fellow soldiers from Afghanistan, who meet on the eve of Victory Day to see off a comrade on his last journey.

The son of an oligarch goes to a village to revive a dying sausage factory to prove to his father that he is not just a rich kid.

What if Konstantin Gavrilovich, from Anton Chekkov's famous play, did not commit suicide and was murdered instead? And who did it? Boris Akunin's take on The Seagull unfolds as a comedic murder mystery.

A short film by Ivan Dobronravov, shot for the Action charity evening.