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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
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
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, 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
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
In hustle and bustle of urban life, we sometimes don't know our neighbors next door. And in the village, everyone knows each other and lives with the joys, troubles, and worries of a neighbor, like one big family. That's why a person is pulled to their small homeland, to their roots. The one who forgets their roots experiences a burdensome emptiness and dissatisfaction with their achievements in life.
Feb 2002
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
Kazakh womanizer Erzhan persuades Yakut friend Michil to organize a safari on a rare mammoth ram in the permafrost mountains to entertain potential German investor Gernot. But things don't go according to plan when a local reindeer herder starts hunting them. And now, in order to return home alive, they have to overcome thousands of kilometers of the forest-tundra and escape from the chase...
Jun 2022
Nastya, a 13-year-old girl from Yakutia, lost both her arms in a tragic accident, but found solace in swimming. Her mother, Lyudmila, had long protected her daughter from the cruelty of the world, but she knew that sooner or later Nastya would have to come out into society. What path in life will she choose? Will Nastya be able to overcome her fears and become who she always dreamed of being?
Apr 2025
A young couple encounters supernatural terror in their new home.
Apr 1996
The story unfolds in an alternate reality. Chee-Ke works for the "dance police". By the will of fate, he has to quit. For three years there is no news about the hero. But suddenly the singer Kunnei is kidnapped by the villain Bachata, and Chee-Ke is forced to go on the warpath. The policeman and his assistant must defeat the kidnappers in dance battles.
Nov 2017
Three friends - Baaska, Sashok and Petka - gather in an old village club and learn that their childhood friend Vadim, who came from abroad, did not invite them to his wedding. Trying to cope with the bitterness of lost friendships, they immerse themselves in memories and fantasies about a better life.
Jul 2025
After a car accident, the parents died in the family. The younger brother miraculously survived and is now confined to a wheelchair. The elder feels guilty, but to no avail. He does not want to put up with the fact that the younger brother will remain disabled. He decides to help him in an unusual way. The elder brother steals the car from his grandfather, and leaves with his brother to the river.
Oct 2019
Everyone's favorite story about first love based on the drama of the same name by Timofey Smetanin. They want to marry Nyurguhun to the son of the prince, the girl is in love with the poor Lookuut, and for the sake of love for the young man she is even ready to die.
Sep 2023
By the will of fate, the twin boys were separated in the hospital. Guys grow up with different outlooks and principles of life, unaware of each other's existence. But one feature unites them - it is obstinacy. The orphanage resident Motor Leha contacts the Ytyr company, famous for its criminal machinations. Өttүk Leha, who grew up in a family, works as a physical education teacher in the village. His half-brother Rodion, who is the head of the construction company "Dio5ur", also lives there. These two firms collide with each other, not sharing a large prize for the further implementation and development of their companies. "Ytyr" and ko starts a war with the "Dio5ur" company. And then he comes to the defense of his brother Өttүk Lyokh in order to restore justice in a peaceful way, But Motor, decides to go to the end...
Sep 2021
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
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
A couple, on the eve of their wedding, faces a major problem: the refusal of a best man at the last minute. In desperation, the guy turns to his eccentric friend Ilya. Together they decide to throw an unforgettable bachelor party, but plans go awry when they rent a country house for the party. Real madness begins and they find themselves in serious trouble.
Mar 2024
Two Yakutian fathers who lost their sons become locked in a tormenting cycle of revenge against a pristine snowy landscape.
Oct 2016
An originally staged film based on a seemingly familiar scenario. A young handsome stranger suddenly bursts into the life of a simple Sakha family of a hunter and his young wife. And then the action develops in the form of a classic love triangle. The denouement is a duel between two men: who will win in this fight? Love or passion?
Jan 1996