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The film is about the life and death of the outstanding playwright Alexander Vampilov. Life and death, which reflected the era. The two most important meanings are connected in this story. The fate of a simple provincial man who chooses the path of the artist and the love of their native places.
Nov 2018
Childless spouses writer Andrei and artist Olga adopt the eight-year-old Ksyusha. The director of the orphanage where the girl was brought up is Andrei Iren's ex-girlfriend. She still passionately loves Andrei and intends to return him at all costs, even if for this he will have to destroy his family happiness. Meanwhile, Andrei is writing a science fiction novel about the dark side of Petersburg. On the pages of his book, the city on the Neva turns into a phantasmagoric world, where time itself has stopped, and the streets are inhabited by soulless creatures. Suddenly, Ksenia enters the world of "dark Petersburg" from the novel by Andrey, where he meets a mysterious friend Paramon. Heroes are waiting for many dangerous adventures...
Aug 2020
Poetic portrait of a filmmaker. The famous director reflects on creativity and love. His friends and associates take part in the film: artist Vladimir Shinkarev, engineer Vladimir Nikolaev, actress Elena Kramer (Spiridonova), director, film critic Oleg Kovalov, necrorealist directors Yevgeny Yufit, Igor Bezrukov.
Nov 2006
What makes men and women lie to others or to themselves? A dramatic movie almanac about the bitter side of love.
May 2017
The documentary film dedicated to the life of Nicholas II and his family was edited from chronicle of 1896-1916 from the funds of The Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive.
Jan 1992
The picture tells about the feat of Russian scientists who are sent to Svalbard as part of the Russian-Swedish expedition in order to measure the actual size and shape of the globe.
Jun 2021
The first attempt in the history of Russian documentalism to understand what was the historical moment in which Anatoly Sobchak appeared in the political arena what his role in the history of the country was and, finally, why he suffered as a politician collapse. Perhaps his ideas were too advanced for his time?
Aug 2018
Shy and sometimes naive schoolboy Sashka lives with his grandmother and confides his secrets to a smart speaker because he has no friends. But Sashka has a special power - faith in miracles, thanks to which he gets into a whirlpool of extraordinary events.
Apr 2027
Retired border guard Sergei Markov, searching for his missing daughter, returns to the border where he served in his youth. To get his daughter back, he must unravel a tangled web of questions and confront the ghosts of the past: crime, revenge, and his own mistakes, which can only be corrected by returning to the beginning—the mountains.
Dec 2025
The youth troupe of the Kirov Theater under the direction of Andrei Bosov staged an intermission opera by Yuri Khanin - from the ballet “Shagreen Bone”... The opera is even more eccentric - if that is possible - than the composer wandering around the frame and climbing around the back of the stage...
1960. The USSR starts humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology in several newly independent African countries. For more than 35 years the Soviets expand their influence in Africa. Soviet filmmakers are sent along to document the glorious advance of socialism on the entire continent. After the fall of the Soviet empire Russia lost political interest in Africa, but thousands of kilometers of footage shot on African soil remain. With the help of filmmakers from back then, OUR AFRICA will recreate the time of the “Great Utopia” and expose the mechanisms behind the creation of propaganda films.
Apr 2018
Documentary about the events of self-coup by president Boris Yeltsin in September and October of 1993 which led to military attack on parliament building and deaths of civilians in street fights. Fim is based on raw and uncut material shot by crew from St. Petersburg, who originally came to Moscow to cover concert by cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
Oct 1994
Year after year, a simple farmer from Pskov, François Toulikounkiko, tries to find his original way to succeed in a Russian village and find an answer to the question: "What prevents us from living better?". This is the ironic story of a dreamer of the campaign and true patriot on the struggle against the difficulties of everyday life, big ideas and big projects, "success" that happens where you do not expect it .
Sep 2017
The picture is about the outstanding Russian artist of the late XIX - early XX century, a representative of Russian impressionism Konstantin Korovin. The main motif of the film is the hero's monologue, memories of events and people of the past life: about childhood, about friends and teachers, artists V. Serov, M. Vrubel, A. Savrasov, I. Levitan, S. Mamontov. The film uses both unique old photographs and original shooting material, which allows you to feel the complex inner world of the hero, his impressions and associations.
Portrait of a troubled peasant family. The film tells the story of two times widow Anna Belova who lives together with her brother Mikhail. Blending the two personalities, Kosakovsky characterizes the true Russian soul: she is the rational worker, honest and strong - he is the drunken poet, the idealist, his philosophy fades into radical nonsense time after time.
Dec 1992
Year 2017 would be the 100th Anniversary of the revolution in Russia. Film researches the reasons of the “Russian revolution”, First World War, external and internal conspiracies, which led to the collapse of the monarchy and traditional world order. Narration is build of quotes, memoirs and inferences of eyewitnesses. The facts are told based on the views of the authors of the film.
Jun 2017
The poet Roald Mandelstam lived in postwar Leningrad. He was seriously ill from childhood, rarely left his house, and knew his life would be short. His visitors included the composer Isaac Schwartz and a painters that would come to be known as the "Arafiev circle," a group of independent artists working outside of official oversight. After 50 years, a fresco was discovered under the wallpaper in his communal apartment...
Sep 2012
The painting has the subtitle "Princess M. Tenisheva", and tells about what it was like for Maria Klavdievna to create an art center in Talashkino, Smolensk province, the main goal of which was both the revival of national applied art and the formation of the "Russian Art Nouveau" style. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Center brought together many prominent Russian artists, musicians, and sculptors. The names of Roerich, Serov, Malyutin, Vrubel, Repin, Trubetskoy, Korovin, Prakhov and many others are associated with Talashkino.
Jan 1995
A confessional documentary about the thoughts of a woman just before her abortion.
Aug 2010
Sep 2025