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Deprived of desperation by everyday problems, the hero comes to the pharmacy, where it is rumored to get poison, which can not be hidden by any means.
Aug 2012
Alexey, still a young man, found himself in an extremely difficult situation. He must devote most of his time to his mother, who is almost completely paralyzed after a stroke. His situation is aggravated by the fact that his mother, once an actress in a small provincial theater, no longer sees the point of living.
Jul 2021
A young talented experimental physicist Artem meets an orphanage pupil Misha. The teenager is obsessed with the idea of seeing his native village, memories of which are captured on a single videotape. A chain of random events leads the new acquaintances to a village house, where the boy meets his early childhood, and the scientist sees the prospects of his discoveries in science in a new way and gives the teenager a goal in life, infecting him with a love of science.
Jul 2025
Anvar is a 72-year-old third-generation wild honey farmer. He makes the trip into the forest for the wild honey that his grandchildren love so much. Anvar would never have thought that the most delicious honey on earth could one day become bitter.
Sep 2013
New cartoon by Elena Baranovskaya (SPbGIKIT).
Mar 2026
New cartoon by Alexander Yargunin (SPbGIKiT).
A mysterious teacher arrives in a provincial town to teach at the local school. The teacher is not like any other teacher: his views are pretentious and innovative. But the teacher is liked in the town. However, he does not know yet to what extent.
May 2019
The film is a portrait of a young writer Alexander Sarapov (literary pseudonym of Bronsky) from a small closed city of Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsky kray. His work had a great influence on people close to him and aroused interest among the leading figures of cinema and literature.
Dec 2012
Venus Transit is a rare astronomical phenomenon, when Venus obscures the edge of the solar disk, and almost seems to touch the Sun. She meets Him to leave for a new life.
Sep 2021
The end of the 19th century. The girl Varya cannot sleep because she has to lull a crying child to sleep. An icon looks at her from the corner opposite. The warm image of the infant Christ beckons and promises another life. But he never comes to the rescue. And the living baby in the cradle continues to cry.
Apr 2025
Asya is a successful police officer who deals with juvenile cases. The measured rhythm of her life is disrupted when, after many years, her flighty, eternally young 50-year-old mother Nadya suddenly reappears. She tries to restore her relationship with her daughter, but warm memories are quickly replaced by old grievances. Nadya has not changed…
Oct 2017
This story tells us about a 30 years old guy who still lives with his mother. Their relations are quite tough but she feels so lonely that she just can’t let him go. He suffers a lot but one day he gets the job offer on the North...
Nov 2017
Inna is the lady of the house. Oleg is the young man who thoughtlessly agreed to drop by. It was a chance meeting, their conversations are idle, but a strange urge makes her open the door and forces him to step over the threshold.
Nov 2020
In a small town there are no mysteries, lively events or attractions, apart from the smooth tracks of the railway, which hide real life and fairytale emotions beyond the horizon. The train to the capital, which passes through the town every day, seems to Katya and Oxana to be part of a different world, full of wonder. One day an unexpected message from the Moscow express alters the routine life of the two friends.
Dec 2003
During the Soviet-Afghan War, in the days when general secretary of the Communist Party Leonid Breznev, in a military hospital a young lieutenant wounded almost to death meets a young military nurse, tired almost to death. One meeting. One night. One candle. A short from Vladimir Koptsev, Alexander Sokurov’s pupil.
This is a story about an elderly woman, Nina Andreevna Cherkasskaya. She has devoted her whole life to training dogs in the circus and has been living alone for many years. On the eve of the anniversary, Nina comes to the city to perform at a creative evening. On the day of the performance, it turns out that her name is not on the guest list.
Nov 2021
An ordinary exam in literature suddenly turns into a clash of two life positions.
Jul 2022
After the collapse of the USSR, the fate of the former Soviet Republics and the people living in them developed in different ways. The protagonist of the film, a former citizen of the Soviet Union, and now a citizen of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, is trying to live with dignity, or rather, to survive in the new post-Soviet reality.
Dec 2015
Private Kornilov gets an order from his commanding officer to guard a military installation far away from base. They promise that he will be picked up in a week. When Kornilov arrives at the site he discovers that the only place he can sleep is the excavator that he is supposed to guard. A week passes, but nobody comes to pick him up…
Oct 2014
This is a story about the children’s instructor in hand-to-hand fighting who has fractured his pelvis and is now being cared for by his girl-friend. The strong and daring man, he is scared by this dependence on another person, while the protagonist is torn between the desire to help the man recover and the wish to tie him to herself forever. The protagonists live in a shared flat in St. Petersburg. The woman in the room next door listens to the song «Just Wait for Me» and keeps waiting for somebody all her life.
Apr 2021