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Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.
Valya supported her lover, denied herself everything, devotedly and sincerely loved him. He answered her with black ingratitude. Struck in the very heart, Valya decides to commit suicide with him.
The performance features shadow scene performers and the "Sirin" ensemble under the direction of Andrei Krotov.
Alice follows the white rabbit, falls down a deep hole and discovers a strange Wonderland at the bottom.
An adaptation of the play by Ukrainian playwright Mykola Gogol, set in Tsarist Russia during the 19th century. A provincial town plagued by bribery, abuse of power, embezzlement, and other corrupt practices. One day, Mayor Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky summons the town officials and announces that an inspector is on their way.
Elena Mihailovna, having worked all her life in the only school of a provincial town, lives modestly in retirement. Unexpectedly she learns of a fatal diagnosis, which can at any moment end her life. Instead of an unbearable anticipation, she resolutely begins the preparation for her own death, in order to simplify the procedure for her son. She has not seen her only son for over five years because he worrks in the capital. Oleg is constantly busy, and he does not have time for his lonely mother. At the same time with all the new problems, the heroine receives as a gift a huge carp, which changes her life.
Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the film is a puppeteer who lives in a poor and gray world. He composes a fairy tale in which he himself, in the guise of a brave soldier, finds a flint and is helped by a kind wizard. The soldier falls in love with a spoiled, capricious princess who, as befits a princess, poses riddles to her numerous suitors. Her father, the king, is eager to see the soldier as her husband, as he believes the soldier has a great deal of gold. In the fairy tale, everything ends well, but in real life, not so much. "But life is not a fairy tale," his beloved girl says to him as she bids him farewell.
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The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.
Based on Boris Akunin's novel 'Azazel' (English title 'The Winter Queen') set in Moscow in 1876. The novel started a long series quite popular in Russia. In 'Azazel' a young police officer - Erast Fandorin - investigates an odd suicide of some rich young man and finds a complex conspiracy, trying to take over most European countries - from Britain to Ottoman Empire - with the best intentions, of course.
A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer.
The lack of spirituality and the limitations of the “respectable” bourgeois turn the values of art into a means of profit, into an object of vanity.
The story of a man surrounded by four woman, Faratyev, he is madly in love with on, Aleksandra, compassionately take care of another, her aunt, and is indifferent to the other two, Aleksandra's mother, and her sister, Lyuba. The world of these characters are that of dreams, each one's dream in interconnected to that of other, and each respond differently to it. Faratyev is a man who dreams, he live in the world of fantasies. Aleksandra and her mother listen to him, but do not take him seriously, his aunt listen to him, believe him, but do not encourage him, only Lyuba understand him, but to him, she is a mere child, he is madly in love with her sister, Aleksandra, she is a realist, she does not love him, but for sake of her own prosperity and that of her mother and sister, she agree to marry him, only to run away with the mysterious Bedhudov...
French aeronaut Jules Ardan, traveling in a hot air balloon, accidentally finds himself in Reval. Here he meets Dr. Peterson and his daughter Leida. The gendarmes are hunting for Leida's fiance. The banker's son is being murdered in the city. Suspicion falls on Peterson. Jules Ardan takes over the investigation of the crime.
The famous musician is selfish and proud towards ex-wife, son, partner, colleagues and relatives. One day, the plane on which he was supposed to fly on vacation crashes. He's late for that and alive, but for his loved ones he isn't...
Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna on her birthday and ask her to return them their graduate works on mathematics in order to change them before the marks. Yelena Sergeyevna strongly objects...
A poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
Based on the story of the same name by I. Turgenev. A story about the romantic feeling of falling in love with a young man for whom everything is for the first time.
A young guy decides to try himself in a northern region of USSR after being honorably discharged from Soviet Army.
Struggling with financial loss, a poet receives a shagreen leather from an antiquities shop, fulfilling his wishes
Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. He raises his granddaughter, feeling a great affection for her.
Thirties. Fyodor Bazyrin, who had built up a strong household, fell in love with a village girl, so much so that he almost stole her from under the crown and took her to his farm, where he married the girl he loved. They were happy. But time passed and the young woman was drawn to a new life. She was no longer satisfied with working for the benefit of her personal life in isolation from the common village festivities and everyday life and decided to leave the farm.
Based on the early stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky. A jealous husband is trying to track down his wife, whom he suspects of cheating. He is persistent and purposeful — it seems that a little more, and the cheat will be brought to light! But men will never surpass women's cunning and resourcefulness.
Anna Pozdnyakova is already over 30 years old and, despite the fact that she is kind and pretty, she cannot find herself a man with whom she could find family happiness. Already it seems like a suitable candidate in the person of a prominent military man, Viktor, has taken a liking, but at first sight he falls in love with Anna's friend Raisa and marries her. Then Anya takes out a vacation at her own expense and goes south to Sochi.
The path to a new role for an actor is always a living dialogue with it, full of secrets and mysteries. At this stage, it is important for the actor to feel the primacy of life and the points of connection between the play and real life. For the audience, it's not only interesting to be present at the performance but also to learn about the journey their favorite actor took to this role. Renowned actresses Natalia Gundareva and Marina Neyelova will share their moments of happiness in their work.
The film tells the story of Olga Sergeevna, a renowned oceanographer. Throughout her life, Olga Sergeevna loved only one man, with whom she was never destined to find happiness.
The action of the movie takes place in a certain fairy-tale town. The main character - the scientist Christian-Theodore discovers a lot about the inhabitants of the city, about their oddities and peculiarities. The princess of the city has struck the imagination of Christian-Theodore, but he does not notice that he is not indifferent to the kind girl Annunziata. The scientist becomes a victim of palace intrigues and intrigues. His own shadow, which appeared to the hero, pushes him to a cowardly act - the rejection of the princess. The shadow wins the heart of the princess and wants to destroy Christian-Theodore. But, as it is supposed to be in a real fairy tale, everything ends happily. The hero is helped by Annunziata's love and the sympathy of the town's inhabitants for the scientist who wants to make everyone happy.
A film-play based on the play by Edward Albee (translated by Vitaly Vulf, Igor Kochnov).
A chance encounter between Anna, a sculptor, and Lev, a chemist, may well develop into a deep feeling. But with the speed of a spinning merry-go-round, comic situations replace each other, which both alienate and bring the heroes of the movie closer to each other.
Drama based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky.
The hero of the film is in prison, and they are trying to knock out a testimony from him where there is a lot of money - in which country, city, bank, bank account ... And the smart, handsome and courageous Abdulov brazenly and insultingly mocks the investigator and reads Onegin in his cell "a Vietnamese cellmate giving him a massage. Then the senior investigator, the wife of the Duma deputy, who does not feel love for her husband, personally undertakes for him.
The team elected a young worker Timur Gulyamov as a member of the Executive Committee. There were not very good reasons for this in the team — the guy inspired not so much trust as sympathy. However, he took the decision of his colleagues seriously and the assigned task helped him to rethink a lot and look at others in a new way...
A love story of two people which turns out into triangle... So the steady family walls do not seem so steady anymore...
The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a matter of national importance, because her husband will become the new king. But unlike many “suitors”, selfish thoughts are alien to Christian-Theodore. He is sincerely fascinated by her beauty and releases his Shadow, hoping to get a faithful helper in his quest to marry the Princess. But the Shadow is the embodiment of egoism, greed and meanness. Quickly betraying the scholar, he marries the Princess himself and takes the royal throne.
This is a film about a famous Bulgarian wrestler who is forced by the police authorities to work for them. We see a lonely man, tortured by his consciousness, who dies without single scratch.
Viktor Ryzhakov takes charge of the Sovremennik theatre after the death of Galina Volchek, who led the troupe for almost half a century and enjoyed absolute authority. For the theatre’s first new production, the new artistic director chooses a play about a family whose members have ceased to understand each other. While working on the play, the director and actors become more and more like the characters in the future production, and find it increasingly difficult to find mutual understanding within their “theatrical family.”
Journalist Lopatin always remembers those with whom his roads of war brought him together. Memories of them are an integral part of Lopatin’s thoughts about duty, honor, courage, and camaraderie.
A love story of two townspeople: a girl, who is a subway controller, and a student of an art school.
A story about a married man who suddenly decides to leave his wife and marry rich woman.
A troubled journalist is joining the club which promotes healthy lifestyle.
Based on the stories of the same cycle of Konstantin Simonov, who visited as a war correspondent almost on all fronts of the great Patriotic war.
The film-play tells about a teenage girl with a difficult fate, who by chance ended up in someone else's family, about difficult relationships with the people who sheltered her.
A tragic story of two lovers, Boris and Veronica, who were separated forever by the war, and at the same time a story of love that the war could not destroy. The war seen from the lovers' point of view.
A strange woman in a mysterious world out of time and out of geography…Eccentric, funny, poignant, she will not leave anyone alone…
