Fyodor Lavrov

On the eve of the big concert "Hands up!" an attempt is made on the lead singer of the legendary band Sergei Zhukov. He manages to avoid a bullet, but what if this is not a miracle, but a cold calculation, and the purpose of the shooter is to intimidate the artist?

A story of a legendary battle, where seventeen fearless warriors defend their land against an army of thousands well-trained soldiers. In 13th-century Mongol warrior hordes and their leader, Batu Khan, control most of the known world. As the Mongols move towards Europe they invade the last Russian principality standing in their way. Little do they know, their plans are about to be ruined by a small detachment of heroic strong men led by a mysterious brave warrior. This is a story about courage, endurance and self-sacrifice for the sake of one's country. This is the story of Evpaty the Furious.

About the life of a major guy who ends up in the army, rethinks his life and helps his grandfather save his house.

1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized infantry division's long awaited return home gets put on hold for one last mission: bring the General's son back. Based on true events the previously untold story of the courageous and tragic withdrawal campaign (through the Salang pass) reveals the danger the horror and the complexity of human nature during wartime.

One dark winter evening, the young tsar Saltan was lucky enough to find himself a tsarina from a simple Russian family. He was so impressed by the speech of the young charmer that he married her the same evening, and took her two sisters with him to the palace as servants. However, the treacherous girls do not share the happiness of their luckier sister and begin to plot. Saltan leaves for a long military campaign, during which the young queen gives birth to his son. The evil sisters write a dispatch to the tsar, where they brazenly lie about the child: they say, the queen gave birth to someone unknown, "neither a son nor a daughter." Saltan is upset, but orders to wait until his return. The sisters substitute the letter, and as a result, the girl and her son are sealed in a wooden barrel and thrown into the ocean in the best sadistic traditions.

The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...

If you go fishing, be prepared to draw the fish of your dreams, the magical Pike, which can grant any three wishes. Only Emelya let two wishes down the drain, and decided to save the third. Therefore, in order to achieve the hand of the royal daughter Anfisa, he will have to act without magical power, on his own. And Pike will help him, who without her skin will appear as an ordinary girl Vasilisa.

Sergei and Kira were considered the most beautiful bohemian couple among cinema lovers of Saint Petersburg in the early 90’s. Their fantastic love affair ended with Kira leaving town, fleeing for new life, new relationship. Sergei has died shortly after. Only after a few years does Kira realize that she never stopped loving Sergei. And that she’s doomed to stay in a neverending dialogue with a dead lover.

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.

977 is a coded number relating the attempt to “test the harmony with algebra”, to figure out the mathematical regularities of emotional and spiritual realms of human being. The characters have volunteered for the experiment to be put through not only scientific researching, but also through the everyday trials of friendship, love, attractions, envy and “the strongest of affects” – the curiosity. Thus, the scientific experience turns into human one, and a result is unpredictable…

About the Soviet railway workers who heroically kept watch on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.

Maksim is so busy at work, trying to do everything and not let his boss down, that he does not notice the most important things in his life. On the anniversary of meeting his beloved girl Sasha, after an accidental quarrel with an unusual taxi driver Tamara Petrovna, completely inexplicable events begin to happen to Maksim - he will have to live his life on rewind.

Underground dancers — Alice, Arseny, Stepan, Timur, Kirill, Lyosha and Kristina — are engaged in free creativity. They dream of getting recognition, but staying true to themselves. One day they get a chance to turn the game around: take part in a big documentary project and a TV show. Everyone will have to answer the question of why they dance — for the sake of popularity or at the call of their hearts.

A ten-year-old orphan gets adopted by a man pursued by the Mob. After surviving a hit man's attack, by a strange twist of circumstances the new foster father now has the would-be-killer's appearance, that of his son's biological dad.

Petersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story about love and loneliness, luck and hope.

Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.

The film follows two student cinematographers who, as the war approaches Moscow, refuse to be evacuated and instead volunteer to be front-line cameramen capturing the horrors of war and heroism of the soviet soldiers. At the same time, we witness another storyline taking place in the US. After the premiere screening of the already completed documentary “Moscow Strikes Back”, one of the members of the Academy Awards selection committee is trying to persuade his fellow colleagues to establish a new category of Best Documentary in the upcoming Oscars event.

Here, among the scorched by hot steppe and salty sea winds, on the fragments of a lost life of a forgotten coastal village, mother Era and son Andrey settle in a small house. And also a love that resists the indifference of the rest of the world, and in this love there is everything - hope and despair, strength and weakness, truth and lies, freedom and slavery.

The love story of the son of Imam Shamil Jamalutdin and Lisa Olenina against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the military history of Russia in the first half of the 19th century. Jamalutdin went down in history as a "great hostage", and the film is an attempt to answer the question: a hostage of big politics or big love. The historical context of the decline of the Nikolaev era, against which the story of love and betrayal, honor and duty, service to the motherland and loyalty to this word unfolds, will become the key to the film.

The film’s heroine is the gynaecologist Masha, whose husband leaves her. When a man leaves his wife, he carries away all her hopes for a future. Of course, it would be noble to let the husband go, but Masha is a strong woman and begins a desperate struggle for her infidel husband Misha. The power is unequal. Masha is already well in her thirties, while the fitness-trainer Oksana is just over twenty. But behind Masha stand a great experience of life and two small children. In this situation she is ready to use the entire arsenal available, including extraterrestrial forces. The young Oksana relies only on feelings. And on her fine figure, her magnificent hair and irrepressible temperament. Who will win this fight and get the prize? And what happens when the dream of one of them will become true?

In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.

A young and reckless father decides to take to his own hands his son's education.

Garpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate about the matches they play on the streets. They hatch a scheme to buy a playing field. But World War I has already begun and soon their lives and dreams will be shattered.

Sasha is a young girl living in a block flat with her family in Moscow. Once she falls in love with Antonin, a bohemian artist and hard drinker. Their short love affair is pulling her down, to the bottom of her subconscious. Overwhelmed with beautiful and frightening visions, she starts to paint - violently, until she can stand on her feet.

Three friends - a police officer from the traffic police Nika, a family man and a marketer Stas and a seller of children's toys Tyomich - decide to arrange a gift for themselves for the New Year: to deal with their bosses, who got them incredibly. They only have 24 hours to plan three perfect murders.

The young actress Sveta graduated from the theater academy, lives in St. Petersburg and dreams of starring not in casual TV series, but in serious films and playing serious roles. She is lucky, she ends up in a Bollywood project, which brings together movie stars, the best DJs and choreographers of the country. But everything turns out to be not very simple. Nobody knows the script, the actors live in a small hotel for months and do not understand what is happening. It turns out that in addition to the main filming, the actors, DJ and choreographers are involved in a strange game.

What happens if Vasily Ivanovich, Teshcha, Chukcha and Novyi Russkiy end up in modern Moscow? The naive provincial Petya learned the answer to this question by accidentally reviving the characters from his favorite collection of jokes. Now he will have to figure out how to bring them back to their world. After all, if Petya doesn’t make it in time, the jokes will disappear from people’s memories forever…

They are very different, but they have one dream - to reach heaven. The famous Moscow stand-up comedian Ilya Pogorelov was publicly accused of lying by his ex, and now he needs to "just" survive. And the shy provincial Sanyok wants to break out of his cocoon and live for real at least a little. By chance (or providence), Sanyok and Ilya set off together on a journey to the sea to find themselves, make their dreams come true and find love. The duet "Pogorelov and Sanyok" formed along the way will travel across the floor of Russia, blow up TikTok, make millions laugh and move - make hearts beat faster and remind you how to enjoy life.

Law student Oleg, who lives with his mother and stepfather, learns that his father has been released from prison and wants to see him. Having met his dad, Oleg discovers that he is a passionate lover of gambling. So the young man plunges into the world of big poker, underground casinos and research laboratories. Having become part of this shadow reality, Oleg becomes infected with a gaming addiction.

In this dreamlike film, a nameless father and his son, Aleksei, live together in an apartment in St. Petersburg. Aleksei's mother has died and consequently the two have a very close relationship. When Aleksei acquires a girlfriend, she refuses to take a back seat to his bond with his dad, and breaks up with him. Aleksei is also experiencing nightmares, dreading separation from his father to be a part of the military as his father was.

The film is a parable about fear; it is a story about the attitudes of a mother and daughter deprived of love, who temporarily find mutual understanding, rallied by fear before the story invented by the mother about a cannibalistic wolf. On a philosophical level it is a reflection on the lost purity of thoughts, which is the main condition for the harmony of human life, and yet another illustration of the proverb: “The sleep of reason produces monsters”

An ambitious personal growth coach, author of the Predator Psychology manual, unexpectedly finds himself drawn into a confrontation with a millionaire who wants to demolish the garage complex where he keeps his Jaguar. Now he has to prove in practice to the people who believe in him that he is capable of leading them into battle. Called a predator - be ready to show your teeth. A game without rules begins, where kidnapping, blackmail, forgery ... and a giant St. Bernard are used. Problems snowball into a cascade of comedic emergencies.

The life of foreman Ivan Plotnikov has been going downhill for a long time because of his invincible habit of enduring everything. But, by chance finding himself at the Russian bathhouse championship, he learns that this is not a curse at all, but a great talent. Now he will have to fully develop his ability to endure in order to finally believe in himself, regain the respect of his loved ones and compete for the solid cash prize that he so desperately needs.

A day from the life of the Muscovite Yuri, who is stuck in a remote, northern village. he should have been back in the city for a long time, and yet he wanders through sad, deserted, autumnal fields and forests. his wife and his best friend force him to return to his usual life. But it seems that Yuri is comprehending something very important. he abandons those he loves and remains one to one with nature. But the world of nature plays by its own rules.

Two charming but not very lucky brothers get involved in a risky business on behalf of the criminal authority Mikhalych. As often happens, everything does not go according to plan.

34-year-old physicist-astronomer Ignat Halley, fascinated by the stars and work at the mountain observatory, flies to the capital to file for a divorce. In Moscow, under unusual circumstances, Ignat meets a mysterious girl Taisia Artemyev and meets her whole family: mother Yulia, sister Dusya and intelligent, eccentric grandmother Yanga Lvovna. This meeting turns everything upside down in the life of an astronomer. And on New Year's Eve, Ignat will have to make an important decision that will change not only his life, but also his new acquaintances.

He works as a policeman and is engaged in raids on drug dealers. She is a preacher in a secret religious community. One day, he accidentally dials the wrong number and falls in love with the voice he hears. Thus begins this strange connection between two solitudes.

Tanya is about forty. Her assets include two children, a husband who ran off, and a third pregnancy. She’s in her twenty‑second week — no joke. And there’s the endless work, and the nannies for the children. Plus, there’s her perpetually discontented mother: she criticizes liberals and her ex‑son‑in‑law, and praises Stalin. Although... If it weren’t for Mom, there would be no one to take to the doctor, and all around — it’s winter, there’s ice on the roads, trolleybuses, and scary dogs are lurking dangerously close. It’s hard without men, and it’s no easier with them either. The good news is that there are no complications or pathologies. Another girl will be born in St. Petersburg soon.

Two years have passed since Sasha left the orphanage. It is difficult for her to adapt socially, she perceives the world as a hostile environment. Since childhood, the girl has been used to defending her right to life and solving problems through fights – she spends all her free time in the basement hall in the ring for fights without rules. Despite the fighting nature and hobbies, deep down Sasha dreams of exactly the opposite: not to cripple people, but to treat them. But there is no money for studying at a medical school, and they do not take people to a hospital without an education. Fate brings her together with a disabled teenager Kolya, whose mother is torn between her son, work at a fish factory and a policeman boyfriend, and tries to find a nurse for her son. This meeting radically changes the lives of all the heroes.

To save his classmate Lisa, the fragile, dreamy Lesha commits a crime - he steals her mother’s talisman, a brooch in the shape of a dragonfly, in order to sell it and buy Lisa a ticket to her mother, who married abroad, after which Lisa stopped growing altogether. Lesha goes through all the torments of punishment, changes, and as a result, both he and all his friends who participated in Operation Mukhadrakon have their most cherished dreams come true.

Alexey has got it all: a well-paid job, a nice car, and a woman he is in love with (Sonya). Sonya also happens to be a daughter of an oligarch and is to become his wife in 10 days. Urged by Sonya's dad, Alexey sets out on a business trip to a village of Kurkioki to acquire timber.

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.

The autistic postman had been diligently delivering mail since childhood. The whole town knew and loved him, and a few families held a special place in his heart. One day, he couldn’t bring himself to deliver a death notice. Instead, he wrote a “letter from the front”. From then on, he replaced death notices with letters, and no one ever suspected the deception because the postman was a talented man – his letters seemed to be written by different people. But this didn’t last long, because during wartime, the military authorities closely monitored the mail.

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Five-year-old Alina has to go through the trials of loss, to realize early what death, and betrayal are and to learn the cruelty of the surrounding world in which everyone remains for himself.

The heroes of the film are scientists who endowed the girl with the ability to distribute Wi-Fi. However, no one is happy about this discovery: according to the terms of the state tender, they had to create a person who moves stones with the power of thought. Now they have two days to find a way out of this situation.

“Great Poetry” is about two guys who live on the outskirts of Moscow and work as cash collectors. They’re young, lonely, and all they have in the world is each other. They spend their lives moving money for other people. They attend a poetry class at the local cultural center and watch cockfights at a dorm for migrant workers. Their attempts at finding poetry in the prosaic world around lead them to the conclusion that the only poetic move they can make is to rob a bank. The film isn’t about words or rhymes. It’s about friendship and betrayal, and about our vicious and alien world in which anyone who tries to be honest and consistent ends up looking naïve and cruel. It’s about the everpresent and incomprehensible force that — in spite of everything — makes our life so frantic, strange, and lonely

Musical movie almanac of stories about the events of the past year, holiday miracles, new hopes, creativity and love.

Mexico. 1940. The agent of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) Ramon Merkader comes to the house of Leon Trotsky. Under a long leather raincoat he hides an ice pick. He is here to kill the unsuspecting Russian revolutionary. Moscow. 2019. The modest honours pupil Yura helps his schoolmate Masha in history. They just study Merkader’s murder of Trotsky. The uninhibited Masha decides to tempt nerdy Yura. The director of studies comes into the classroom in the most intense moment. Afterwards the school principal calls in the class teacher of Masha and Yura for a talk. He considers that such an irresponsible teacher has no place at the school and is set to dismiss her. The school bell rings. As if by magic, the endings of these three stories intertwine, giving rise to a new surprising reading of the known events.

The film was shot about one of the most dramatic operations of the Alpha group. The plot is based on a real story, described in detail in one of the chapters of Alexey Filatov’s book “People A”. The story of Colonel Anatoly Savelyev. 1997. Winter. Moscow. Swedish Embassy. One terrorist and one hostage. This is not a movie about good or bad guys. Rather, this is a story about a hard fatum.

An experimental drama about a boy and his illness, a wife looking for a site for her husband’s construction company and a beautiful girl who works on a phone sex-line.

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.

This is the story of two lonely and somewhat similar humans, although one young and one old. First is a thief loser who breaks into the dark and, as he thinks, abandoned apartment on New Year's Eve. And the second one exactly at this time tries to hung himself because of his feelings of loneliness and uselessness.

A story about a love between two teenagers set in the small Russian town during sixties.

Two women meet by happenstance traveling from Moscow to Perm. After their flight is delayed, Aleksandra and Zhenia spend a night in Moscow that turns out to be full of unforeseeable adventures.

A short story about love and how a man literally from scratch can bring the brain to his beloved woman ... Anna Melikyan's short film for Action!

Devoted to the last days of Soviet writer, poet, and Gulag survivor Varlam Shalamov, this film follows the efforts of two of Shalamov’s most devoted admirers to preserve the author’s legacy. Having lost his sight and hearing and living in a retirement home, he carried on doing the only thing that mattered to him — writing — until his final breath. This film is a testament to the value of writings that tell the unpalatable truths of the 20th century. To evoke the gritty texture of the Soviet world, Sententia is shot on 16mm black and white film.

Somewhere in the Urals, between the European and the Asian parts of Russia, there is a stele called "Europe-Asia". Professional swindlers have taken a liking to this place. For several days in a row a wedding is taking place by the roadside. They hide under the veil of the bride, in the costumes of the groom and witnesses, cynically taking in turn every traveler. Fraudsters "spin" the travelers for cash gifts to the newlyweds, generously feeding the guests with diluted alcohol. Under the guidance of the "mother of the bride" the group plays out incredibly funny criminal plays, and their spectators, accomplices and victims are PR people and political technologists, Chinese and Hungarians, policemen and bandits, beggar nomad children and, of course, foreign tourists nostalgic for the once abandoned Russia....

A technological race of emotionless aliens arrives on Earth. For the mission to find a source of energy and save their kind, the best representatives of the male and female sexes, Alpha 1 and Alpha 2, were chosen, and for the most successful contact with people, the wayward "human scientist" Beta set off with them. Thanks to their gadget bracelets, all three take on human form and receive the names Alexander, Igor and Larisa.

A story about the life of Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer.

One morning, the criminal authority Dad convenes three "sons" and tells the latest news. Everyone remembers how three years ago, the keeper of the regional communal Mule ran away, taking the money. Also, everyone remembers how he was found, punished and buried. And the news is like this. Yesterday Mulya, alive and well, was seen in three cities at once: St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Rostov. Dad sends "sons" to these cities to scout out what's what. For each of them, the journey will not be the easiest.

Evgeny Sormatov, a veteran of the special forces detachment, goes to a picturesque lake in Karelia. He carries with him the last letter of comrade Andrei Egorov, who died several years ago, and the Order of the Hero of Russia, which he was awarded posthumously. There, in a quiet corner on one of the skerries, in a deserted fishing village, Andrei's father and sister live.

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A young artist named Victor arrives in the village to decorate the local club for the New Year. The club owner, Mishka, takes his guest to the house where he will be staying. Victor and the owner's daughter, Tatyana, develop feelings for each other, which Mishka, who is madly in love with the girl, senses.

Это военно-морские байки, повествование о том, как на военно-морской флот прибыл гражданский штурман с обезьянкой на плече. В первый же вечер он обыграл своего командира на бильярде, не зная, что это его будущий командир. Штурмана ссылают на минный тральщик, который нужно отремонтировать, чтобы продать невероятному противнику «на иголки». Для ремонта с гауптвахты берут самых отчаянных матросов. Когда приходит время передачи корабля вероятному противнику, матросы топят его.

Teenager Ruslan takes care of the dying old man Tikhon, the village sorcerer who has been healing people all his life. Tikhon dies, and the local priest refuses to conduct the funeral service. Ruslan decides to fix it himself.

The brother and sister, Pyotr and Olga Ivanov, are absorbed in the routine of everyday life. Pyotr has a family, unruly children, and a job he doesn’t love, while Olga is having an affair with a man who is completely unsuitable for her. Suddenly, their father, with whom they haven’t communicated for many years, bursts into the Ivanovs’ dull everyday routine. Ivan Ivanovich likes to repeat the family motto: “We are the Ivanovs! Everything depends on us!”, but the family is far from being called ideal. The large family will have to go through many comical and dramatic situations in order to restore their relationships.

The story takes place in 2011 against the backdrop of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in the Far East. Ex-gangster Igor Khlebnikov works in a burger shop. Once, due to the ATM glitch, he receives 2.5 million rubles in cash, which starts a series of terrible and funny events.

In the "Little Tragedies", the main universal, eternal conflicts receive a specific interpretation: things, ideas and people collide. This is a "shifted" world, everything is at a breaking point here: the immobile moves, love triumphs on coffins, a subtle aesthetic sense leads to murder, and feasts turn out to be feasts of death.