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Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...
Due to heavy snowfall that hit the city, aircraft flights were stopped for a day. Thousands of passengers crowded into the waiting room. Working together during this difficult shift, the previously conflicting bosses of the two shifts will evaluate each other, act in concert, and each will reconsider their professional and moral positions...
The movie takes place in the first post-war winter in the Ussuri taiga, one of the protected areas of the Far East, where there are still tigers. Young biologist Vasily Belov attracts local residents to his side and defeats poachers.
There is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path. Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her choice, leaving her son Sergei to grow up struggling to understand why his mother took such a tragic and terrible path, and Count Vronsky haunted by the memory of the woman for whose death he still blames himself 30 years later. In 1904, in the aftermath of one of the battles of the Russo-Japanese war, Sergei Karenin and Alexei Vronsky find themselves thrown together in a remote Manchurian village, where fate offers them a chance to return to the events long past and, finally, to find the answers both have long been seeking.
Russian Empire, 1812. While Napoleon gathers his troops, a French spy infiltrates Admiral Fyodor Ushakov's estate. The great naval commander is ready to rejoin the fray, and his weapons will be his faith and love for his homeland.
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.
Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.
VXII century. The Old Believer family lives in the sleepy Siberian taiga. They keep an ancient miraculous icon that has saved them from trouble more than once. The icon used to belong to the boyar Morozov and came to them after his arrest. In the 1970s, a group of researchers assembled an expedition to Siberia, to the place where Old Believers live. The icon seems to be in the skete of Karp and his daughter Agafia. Historians want to make sure that the rumors are true, they do not know that several more interested groups are also sent there - students, foreign agents and treasure-seeker criminals.
A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...
The legitimate heir to the throne in exile and the son of a murdered rebel — what do they have in common? Everyone has their own goal: one dreams of taking the throne and restoring his family to its former glory, the other - to take revenge on the murderer of his father, who serves the usurpers. Young men enter into a large-scale struggle for power and honor, in which those who seemed to be friends can betray, and former enemies can turn into allies. In order to achieve the goal, both the prince and the rebel's son will have to risk the most valuable and make the main choice in their lives — to go the preordained way or to oppose fate itself.
A folk performance in two acts with pantomime, buffoonery, and shooting, performed by the troupe of the Drama and Comedy Theater on Taganka.
Based on the eponymous drama by A.S. Pushkin. TV version of the performance by the Drama and Comedy Theatre on Taganka (director Yuri Lyubimov).
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An intelligent businessman from former engineers realizes that he is unlikely to be able to "turn around" in his homeland, and decides to emigrate. But for his beloved wife the question "to go or not to go?" is not so rhetorical. That's why the journey to the Sheremetyevo airport turns out to be unexpectedly long and difficult for both spouses...
When intoxicated by alcohol, Dasha inexplicably finds herself in the bed of a wealthy foreigner from a luxurious restaurant, where she and her friends visited the day before. The man offers the girl a marriage proposal. It seems that everything is set for a happy family life - a lot of money, a beautiful, intelligent and loving spouse, expensive clothes. However, for life this is not all that is needed.
At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon they will fire their last shot, and after that the defense of the city will be doomed. The film is based on a true event: a small group of fearless soldiers transported a large supply of gunpowder through enemy lines to Leningrad.
Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.
At the beginning of the last century, young Lillian, engineer Carter and policeman Simmons meet on an ocean liner, tracking Carter down to arrest him on murder charges. Suddenly , all three find themselves on lifebuoys in the open ocean...
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.
In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.
A man's thoughts of revenge turn to thoughts of reconciliation as he comes to know his intended victim a little better. The story is set in contemporary Russia following the destruction of the Communist regime.
The main character of the film is a captain from the special services of Russia. He was forced to engage in a private carriage. But when an extreme situation arises - it is the threat of a terrorist attack, the command immediately remembers Captain Stychkin - an unsurpassed specialist who is truly capable of ensuring poverty. Stychkin pushes his grievances and ambitions into the background. The bill is on electricity from the Paveletsky railway station at Domodedovo Airport.
Story of Sergio Rodriguez, commissar of an International Battalion in the Spanish Civil War
Multiple-value and tangled relationships between servant and boss... Imperceptible displacement of recognizable reality... Metaphysical dimension of our lives...
A juggler Valerian from a circus does not recognize his classmate, but she still loves him, and his son named Valerian ...
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.
This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.
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...
Young police lieutenant Kozrev investigates robbery from fish kolhoz. Suspect is criminal Chuma who hiding himself in the forest.
A docudrama about the escape of Russian pilots after being taken hostage by the Taliban in 1996.
The series is dedicated to the tax police, and to the employees of the elite secret division “COBRA” (Quick Response Team).
Vadim Golikov, a successful boxing promoter, travels to the taiga to visit his old friend Platoshin, a former boxing champion of the Soviet Union. There, due to a misunderstanding, he is knocked down by Platoshin’s granddaughter, Sasha. Immediately recognizing her fighting talent, Golikov invites her to Moscow, but Sasha initially refuses. After some thought, she decides to make the trip to the capital. Ahead of her lies a tough road to success and fame as Russia’s very own "Million Dollar Baby".
Tatyana is a forty-five year old teacher from Moscow who borrows a large sum of money to pay for her sick mother's operation. Sadly her mother dies, and Tatyana soon finds herself plunged into debt. Her financial situation spirals further out of control when she is ill advised by her friends to set up a cake stall at the local market, a venture, which, not surprisingly, fails. Tatyana is forced to sell her apartment and, after an argument with her niece with whom she has been staying, Tatyana is left with no job and nowhere to live.
30 years after the end of World War II, a Soviet and an American journalist meet again for realizing post war paths of their countries.
In Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" there is a character - the daughter of the Turkish Sultan Gaide, whose parents were killed and she herself was sold into slavery. However, this is not an invention of Dumas. The Turkish woman Gayde is a real historical person. A woman whose beauty was admired by Voltaire, Abbé Prevost and Alexandre Dumas... A woman who became a classic of French literature...
The end of the XVIII century. The reign of Catherine II. In the deep Russian provinces, among the vast steppes of the Ural escaped convict Yemelyan Pugachev proclaimed himself Emperor Peter III of Russia. Under the banner of the Pretender embarked detachments of Cossacks, fugitive serfs, and many spirited people. In these troubled times in the God-forsaken Belogorsk young officer Pyotr Grinyov meets his first love - Masha, the daughter of Captain Mironov. Recklessly passionate love with each other did not want to notice the signs of impending trouble. They did not know that soon they will be an ordeal. They could not imagine how bizarre way their fates intertwined with the fate of the self-proclaimed king, and what an incredible effort will be worth it to save their lives and feelings in the bloody chaos of Russian riot.
A man owes money to a local businessman, so in order to pay off his debt, he agrees to persuade his sister to spend the night with the mayor.
Фильм снят по повести Сергея Говорухина "Никто, кроме нас". Эта картина не столько о самой войне, сколько о взаимоотношениях кинооператора Евгения Левашова и Наташи - женщины, которую он искал всю жизнь, и нашел за несколько недель до своей очередной командировки на войну. И хотя он может отказаться от этой поездки, он этого не делает - потому что любовь и нравственный выбор неразрывно связаны между собой…
Set in the Soviet Union, the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.
A woman and a young girl in different cities are struggling to find their way in this world. Will their paths intersect and will that change their destinies?
Adaptation of three short stories by Ray Bradbury. An atmosphere of hostility forms inside an unnamed city, and the citizens are unsettled by the materialization of ghosts and the memories of their loved ones.
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…
Just yesterday Evgeni Vetrov had a completely different life. He had money, perfect reputation, was respected by his colleagues and most of all - he had love; but apparently he had enemies as well. One day Vetrov's wife was killed, being the only suspect he was soon found guilty. Now the only thing he can do is run, run, in order to find the real killer.
Two lovers, Sergei and Masha, have to face their losses several years after the war has ended.
The film is about the complex, passionate and at the same time deeply respectful relationship between two genius directors, a teacher (Meyerhold) and a student (Eisenstein). In the most difficult conditions of the totalitarian regime, adherence to eternal values helped both defend their art and themselves in it, preserve honor and dignity. Their relationship, creative and everyday actions are not only an artistic, but also a moral testament to future generations.
Once in his life, retired intelligence officer and respectable family man Nikolai Nikitin decided to go "left" ... What was his shock when in the girl he was offered in a brothel, he recognized ... his own granddaughter Varya, whom the pimps do not want to let go of their clutches. What to do? Run! Hiding from persecution, the heroes go straight from the brothel to Paris. If only I knew ... If only it were all!
Mixture of documentary and fiction about the dictatorial 1930s, loosely based on the utopian fantasies of Fritz Lang and about the forbidden passionate love affair between a photographer and his model.
A story about the fate of several generations of an old Moscow family. The life of these people, full of drama, fatally intersects with the historical fate of Russia. The plot focuses on the love of a young officer and a girl against the background of Stalinist socialism.
Sergei Govorukhin, son of well known Soviet and Russian film director Stanislav Govorukhin, was a Russian scriptwriter and war correspondent. This is his first and only documentary, dealing with his feelings about the first war he covered - the first Chechen war - as well as his very cynical view of Russian society during this time. These feelings and opinions were shared by many other war correspondents and cameramen at the time. The author used heavily contrasting footage and sound to illustrate his point of the indifference of 90's/early 2000's Russian society towards the conflicts it found itself in after the Second World War.
Mitya Klimov is a student of Stroganovka. In his free time, he moonlights as an instant artist (portrait in a minute). He accidentally meets a lovely girl Lena, whose portrait he painted on the street. Their next meeting took place in the gallery of his father, the famous artist Yuri Shamanov, where the birthday of his sister Natalia was celebrated. At the time of the trip, Mitya, entering the utility room, saw the corpse of Jeanne, Natalya’s girlfriend, and then he himself received a blow to the head ...
The tragic story of a Russian family forced to make life and death decisions during the Stalinist purges.
Dimitry only has a few days to live. In the private clinic where he is staying, he meets Denis, with whom he quickly becomes good friends. Dimitry asks him to keep an eye on his girlfriend, Maria after his death.
1918, Petrograd. The young historian Vladimir meets Olga, the daughter of the wealthy parents who have emigrated from the country after the first decrees of the Soviet power. Olga both hates revolution, and is fascinated by her.
Relations between Vladimir Rusakov and Tatyana continue to develop, and on his birthday in the presence of guests, Vladimir presents Tatyana as his bride.
In 1948, a young director, Viktor Kostrov, is arrested after being denounced by his lover’s father. Beria’s inquisition, the horrors of camp life, and the vengeance of criminals form the grim backdrop for the story’s characters: a sadistic warden, a camp boss, Viktor’s terrified fiancée, and her father, an NKVD officer. Based on the autobiographical story by Gennady Beglov.
