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Two up-and-coming friends, seeing themselves as the future elite of the new world, oligarchs, they sign up for a major deal, but it turns out that they have been drawn into a massive embezzlement scheme involving billions from the treasury. After his arrest, Andrei ends up in an overcrowded communal cell, a purgatory where he must transform himself into a different person in order to survive and return back to the real world, to his family.
Apr 2026
Six various novels united in a one movie.
Jun 2015
Lena was betrayed by her lover when he sold her abroad to a brothel. She miraculously managed to escape, and comes back for revenge.
Jan 1994
About the vanishing, unique culture of Pinega, often carried by a single person for tens of kilometers. Seven chapters—seven stories about a world quietly disappearing, taking with it the voices, customs, and memories of an entire era.
Nov 2025
Office clerk Maxim witnesses a car accident. The affected girl is experiencing clinical death, which lasted 4 minutes. After her “return”, Maxim’s life changes dramatically: all his dreams are realized with the help of a girl’s mysterious gift. How far will Maxim lead his desires?
Feb 2022
An old teacher suffers from loneliness and insomnia. Long days are passing by, and there is no one who could support and help him. Incidentally, in an online advert of a brothel, he sees a girl's face, that makes his heart beat faster... A lost young woman and a lonely old man meet to change the course of their difficult destinies forever...
Sep 2015
The story of the boy Sana, a pupil of a boarding school in the Far North. His father drowned in the White Sea, and one day the child's intransigence and thirst for justice lead the child to a small island. Sanya will have to face the local "hermit" and even the police, but, most importantly, the teenager will challenge the very elements.
Aug 2022
An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.
While visiting the old pub Andrey suddenly gets an opportunity to try to live somebody's else life. Available for rent is a life of famous chef and restaurants owner...
Dec 2015
Four weird guys from Russia seriously believe they are very important Freemasons. But one day they find out their Lodge should no longer exist. They don't agree and want to fight for their rights, they set out for a long journey to Siberia to find a mysterious Grand Master.
Jul 2014
"This is a video for my generation. I'm Lucia Izmailova. And I can control time. See the future. I was eight years old when I dreamt of World War III. Even though my parents didn't believe me, I still love them very much. Their wedding anniversary is soon. And I'm preparing a surprise for them. Mom will cook a lot of tasty food. Dad, like always, will sing... And I will dance. They will see that I can..."
Sep 2019
One day the boy met a friend who understood him without words.
Jan 2000
A mental health doctor goes off on a journey to Thailand with his girlfriend. They live with her friends. She enjoys the vacation and he works at his dissertation in psychiatry. People around seem to him no less sick than in the nuthouse, until he falls in strange circumstances...
Apr 2015
A young 15-years-old boy, Kid, has been looking up to his older brother, Valyok, as long as he remembers himself. He desires to become as brave, cocky and masculine as his brother is. Once Valyok and his best friend Ruble finally invite Kid to hang out with them. Everything seems to go on well until older guys decides to do barbecue from a dog. What would Kid do and how his attitude to his brother would change?
Apr 2017
The only choice that we do not make ... is to be born or not. But this time everything turned out differently.
Apr 2013
Love is blind. In the literal and figurative sense. A middle-aged man falls in love with a young girl and loses his head. As a result of an accident the man becomes completely blind. After surgery, they rent a summer house at the countryside to relax. The girl becomes his only companion and guide in this new strange blind world. But the man feels that there is someone else in the house.
Jun 2011
Based on real events, a short film-sketch about one day in the life of Professor Leonid Leonidovich Vasiliev and a psychedelic experiment on a Soviet student.
A beauty in the clutches of a monster. When there are only weaklings and scumbags around, there is nothing to hope for. But there must be a normal person somewhere! A savior who will help your dreams come true.
Jan 2009
The story takes place in the nearest future. The main character, Georgiy, spends every night at the lake looking up at flying spacecrafts to Mars, Jupiter and Titan and other far away planets. One day he decides to spend all the family money to buy a spacecraft. When he finds out that the rocket is out of order and may cost him his life, Georgiy takes a chance and organizes a space journey with his children.
Nov 2019