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Revive the spirit of the times, fall in love with the characters, think through every detail, from coats to dances - and all this is not in vain. The result of the work brought dozens of awards, record views and sincere emotions of millions of viewers. It's time to return to the set and remember how the atmosphere of the late 80s came to life on screen. Screenwriter Andrei Zolotarev, director Zhora Kryzhovnikov, producer Fyodor Bondarchuk, new stars Leon Kemstach and Anna Peresild, together with experienced actors - from Ivan Yankovsky to Sergei Burunov - will reveal the main secrets of working on the event series. And they will honestly share their feelings about what happened after the premiere.
Jul 2024
Nine-year-old Mitya lives with his grandmother in the village. Everything in the boy's life is familiar and understandable until his grandmother falls ill and sends him to the pharmacy in the district center. Along the way, Mitya meets manga fan Kira, and this meeting changes everything for Mitya. Meanwhile, his grandmother waits for her medicine.
Nov 2025
During a long journey, Grisha and his stepmother, Vika, spend more time together than ever before. The further they travel, the closer they come to confronting their most difficult emotions—and the person they haven't spoken about in a long time.
Dec 2025
An ideal sports career is an Olympic champion, two-time world champion, three-time champion of Russia and Europe in ice dancing. But in January last year, a sudden illness almost took Roman Kostomarov's life. He was in a coma, doctors performed several operations on him and had to amputate his limbs. Forecasts for recovery were less than a percent. But he survived. Thanks to the love and support of his family and loved ones, he did not lose faith and embarked on the path of recovery. And 11 months later, Roman went back on the ice with his partner Tatyana Navka to perform their famous program "Carmen", which brought them an Olympic gold medal. He, like his hero bullfighter, was able to tame the disease and regain a full life.
Mar 2024
The heart of the tundra. The life of his partner depends on the young geologist Artyom. The situation is complicated by the fact that the partner is the fiancé of the girl with whom Artyom is in love.
Oct 2025
Moscow, 2020. The media warn that a dangerous meteorite will soon sweep near the Earth at great speed. But the wealthy restaurateur Vadim does not care, so he does not change his plans and hurries to celebrate the purchase of a new establishment. On the way to the restaurant, Vadim calls his friend Nina to invite her to a banquet. But due to a time anomaly associated with a meteorite, another Nina, a thirteen-year-old girl who is dying of starvation in cold Moscow in 1942, picks up the phone on the other end.
Jul 2022
The film's protagonist, a hearing-impaired high school student named Styopa, is in love with Yulia, with whom he studies at the same school. At graduation, he will have to make an important choice for his fate: to confess his feelings to her or not. The film presents two parallel plot developments, demonstrating alternative outcomes of their relationship depending on Styopa's decision: a long-term relationship leading to the creation of a family, or a breakup. The voice-over in poetic form reveals the inner world of the characters and the peculiarities of communication with people with hearing impairments.
Aug 2025
Events unfold on the eve of the New Year: a play is being prepared, children are waiting for gifts, adults are fussing. But a mysterious incident threatens to ruin the holiday for everyone at once. Varvara and her faithful friend Vasya immediately get down to business. Santa Claus himself helps them in the investigation, although he is not real. While everyone is talking about miracles, Varvara prefers to look for answers with the help of logic, because for her the New Year is a great reason to reveal another mystery.
Having received yet another chemotherapy treatment, Kirill, for the first time in his life, was unable to join the tradition once started by his uncle - gathering in an abandoned village. How will warm memories of family and home help him cope with his illness?
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The nature of the Crimean peninsula is beautiful and diverse - here you can find numerous caves, grottoes, bays with cozy beaches, as well as unique salt lakes - azure blue and pink reservoirs with salt water. They are a source of cosmetic and food salt, as well as medicinal mud.
Feb 2023
Thousands of kilometers of snowy silence, severe frosts and piercing winds, the deceptive fragile beauty of the ice. It’s the Arctic, the end of the world, where, in the words of one of the characters, the human soul means the universe. Perhaps that is why for ages these disturbing expenses have lured the fearless and the romantic. This is where the history of the great country was made – the Northern Sea Route was laid. In this film the past meets the present and the heroes of today – captains and crews of the superpowerful atomic icebreakers – just like their predecessors set off on voyages unaware of what lies ahead for them, what trials await them on their long arctic route…
Apr 2025
Since March 2022, a resident of Donetsk has been filming everything he saw himself.: the shelling, the great grief of his family, mutual help, love and friendship. A documentary about how ordinary people became participants in the historical process.
The girl Nadya wants to marry her beloved boyfriend and for this purpose she plunges into the marathons of info-fraudsters.
Developer Alina presents an AI-based voice assistant model called "Joe". Meanwhile, her husband is trapped in a burning room with his mistress. Will their feelings be able to fix the problem?
Jan 2024
Friends decided to travel from the capital to the Far East by train to see the ocean. On the way, they were waiting for road adventures, stories of fellow travelers, the beauty of an immense homeland and the search for their own "I".
Mar 2023
Mountain road movie: the hero's journey to his small homeland, which became an opportunity for him to improve relations with his son and restore the once lost connection with his father.
Oct 2024
Today the weather was warm. I dressed warmly. At three o’clock, I made a candle at Anya’s—and then drowned it. I’ll chat with you, and then I’ll have some nuts. You were right about Anton wanting to kiss me. He and Natasha had a fight, but they made up. We didn’t have any porridge, so we ate cottage cheese with jam instead. If you were here, you’d cook, remember? Yura’s back is sore because he’s always hunched over. There was fog today. At the street near the Circle. The foggy dew. For lunch, we had pasta and cheese. I helped Oksana cut it. She called me clumsy after I ran to the barn in a dress, slipped, and—bang!—landed in the mud. The moment I pick up Dasha in my arms, Masha wants to be held too. No bingo tomorrow; we’re taking a break. Time to rest. Goodnight. Talk to you sometime; not today.
An unlucky father is trying to restore his relationship with his seven-year-old son after a divorce. He takes his son to the final match of his favorite hockey team, but it suddenly turns out that the tickets are fake. Hoping to rectify the situation and introduce the boy to his idol, the father hijacks a bus with hockey players and takes them to his son.
Nov 2024
A study of the life and work of Andrei Rublev and his influence on Orthodox culture, as well as the spiritual phenomenon behind Russian icons.
The film's heroes, children of Russian emigrants and witnesses of history, Professor Egor Reznikov of the University of Paris and Professor Alexei Sossinsky of the Independent University of Moscow (IUM), lead the viewer along the traces of the Resistance on the French island of Oléron after 77 years.