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After months of exhausting trench warfare, most of Major Belyaev's battalion was destroyed. The area is ruled by German aces snipers. Hope for replenishment collapses when the convoy, in which the Soviet snipers were traveling, falls under a German airstrike. A handful of soldiers and a young hunter from Yakutia, Yegor Cheerin, survive.
Mar 2021
Two friends unexpectedly become the new bosses after a tragic explosion in the gangster underworld, attempting to deceive everyone to obtain the deceased leader's inheritance. But their success is threatened when they learn that a surviving enemy is seeking revenge. In a decisive battle, they must protect their new friends.
Nov 2025
There is no escape from the war... 1942. While all the forces of the country are thrown into the fight against fascist Germany, in the southern part of Yakutia there are gangs robbing gold mines. The largest of them is the elusive and brutal Popov gang, which collects stolen gold to organize a military coup in the Far East. In their footsteps, a small detachment of the NKVD under the leadership of Senior Lieutenant Karasev is sent through the snow-covered endless taiga.
Nov 2021
Taptal is the name of the main character, a middle-aged woman played by Tatyana Legantieva. She lives in a village with her parents and her brother's family. For the past 5 years, she has been dreaming of changing her life, but she doesn't know where to start... On her birthday, she makes a wish to get married. That same evening, she hears a horoscope that says she needs to act right now! And then she sees an ad for the reality show "The Bachelor" on NVK "Sakha". Love decides to go to Yakutsk and find her soulmate on the reality show. She is not stopped even by the fact that her vacation was suddenly cancelled...
Feb 2025
1917, Yakutia. 9-year-old Mikita is growing up beyond his years, as he, along with adults, learns the difficult life of a Yakut cattle breeder, where every day is a struggle for survival. New challenges await the boy, as the events of the revolutionary, rebellious time violently invade the traditional way of his family, violating the values and way of life that have been established for centuries.
Apr 2017
The life of an ordinary guy was measured and monotonous, but everything changes in an instant, when he mysteriously enters the past...
Apr 2022
Yakut Stepan Beresekov periodically falls into a lethargic sleep. Only a Russian, the son of a priest, Ivan Popov, can distinguish his condition from real death. But Popov is going on a long ethnographic expedition. Stepan decides to follow his savior so as not to be buried alive.
Jan 2023
Yakutia in the 1960s. A boy named Vanya returns home after spending six years in hospitals following a spinal injury. However, the happiness of his reunited family is short-lived: his mother dies in childbirth. To comfort the children, their father tells them about a distant, magical land where Siberian cranes dance, explaining that their mother has transformed into one of those beautiful and sacred birds. From that moment, Vanya dreams of witnessing the rare dance of Siberian cranes and meeting his mother, reborn as a bird.
Apr 2024
He is forty years old. He left his wife and children in order to care for his mother, who is under seventy. She has Alzheimer's disease. She begins to forget who she is, and ceases to recognize her son. The hero has one goal in life - by all means keep her mother’s memory of herself. He takes her from village to town to start a new life with her.
Sep 2019
The cold summer of 1953. Escaped prisoners wander into a sayylyk (summer homestead), where only one family lives. The village is far away, other summerers are even further away, there is no one to wait for help. The appearance of escaped prisoners turns into a tragedy for the family.
Jan 1996
Yakutia, the 1930s. Old Mikipper and his wife Oppuos live their days in thick taiga. Cows, hunting, fishing make up the simple everyday life of the old people. Once early in the winter an eagle flies into their garden. The old people dare no drive it away because eagles are sacred. All through the winter they feed the bird so that it does no attack their cattle. Gradually they grow accustomed to each other. On a cold Christmas day the eagle makes its way into the house and occupies the honorary place in the corner on the shelf next to the icons. From then on the people and the bird start their life together in one house.
Apr 2018
Having quarreled with his father Altan goes to work in the North. He will have to spend a month alone on a deserted island. But soon a neighbor appears. He is old Baibal who has come to the island to spend the last days of his life there. He asks Altan to bury him next to his wife. But the guy finds out that long ago the old man’s daughter went missing. He talks the old man into publishing an entertainment blog to find his daughter and put of the man’s death. Every day Altan does his best to stimulate the old man to live another beautiful day.
Feb 2020
Two friends escape from the village to the city in search of a better life. However, finding your place in the city is not as easy as it seemed at first. After making several unsuccessful attempts to earn money and spending the last money on entertainment, the heroes begin to engage in petty crime, not realizing what this can lead to.
Oct 2017
This is an inspiring story about willpower and perseverance, demonstrating that no obstacles can stop a person on the path to achieving their goals, especially if they are surrounded by the support of friends and a mentor. Based on real events of 1976, the film "Triumph" tells the story of the ascent to Olympus of Yakut wrestlers - Roman Dmitriev, Pavel Pinigin and Alexander Ivanov, whose names thundered throughout the world. Their path to success is inextricably linked with the personality of the outstanding coach Dmitry Korkin - a legendary man, a born teacher, innovator and educator. Korkin's name is forever inscribed in the history of the origin and triumphant development of freestyle wrestling in Yakutia.
Oct 2024
When you are over 30 years old, it's time to think about starting a family. The heroes of this film are trying to solve this problem in their own way. A tractor driver falls in love with a milkmaid and, with the help of his friend, tries to woo her, getting into curious situations along the way. In such vicissitudes, the second pair also turns out to be.
Jan 1997
A young couple encounters supernatural terror in their new home.
Apr 1996
Yakut movie
May 2018
The film tells the gripping story of a millionaire merchant who hides his wealth in the taiga during the civil war. The legend of the lost gold is passed down from generation to generation until 1975, when geologist Boris Albertovich discovers a coin with the initials "TB." In the present day, his grandson Sasha and friend Vitaly, deeply in debt, decide to find the treasure to change their fate. Their journey is fraught with danger and conflict, culminating in the discovery of a letter from Toyon Baaya's servant, revealing the tragic history of the treasure. The film emphasizes that true treasure is family and love, and immerses viewers in the cultural richness and picturesque landscapes of Yakutia.
Apr 2026
A young guy constantly sees a vision in the form of a beautiful girl. Thanks to this, he remains a "pure" and incorrigible romantic.
Feb 1999