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Browse 47 movies from 29th February Film Company
They emigrated to Australia to start a new – wonderful – life. Their optimistic video letters to Russia, parents, grandparents, indicate that the goal is almost achieved. Almost.
Jul 2011
In spring 1938 in the mountains in the north of Chile a fiery UFO, later named "Chilean Sphere ", fell down. The investigation of this episode, made by a film crew, has led to a sensational discovery. It appeared that before the Second World War (in the thirties) in the USSR a secret space program had been developed. The Soviet scientists and military authorities managed to launch the first spacecraft 23 years prior to Jury Gagarin's flight! "The First on the Moon" tells about everyday life, heroic deeds and tragedy of the first group of the Soviet cosmonauts. It is the first Russian film shot in a very rare genre 'mockumentary' or 'documentary fiction'.
Sep 2005
Mischa, a mute boy, sets out on a surrealistic journey together with his father and two men. Their means of transportation is an old Soviet locomotive, loaded with stolen coal. The travellers intend to sell off the loot on their way through the borderless steppes of inner Russia. As a parallel to the main plot, sequences of a mysterious travelling circus keep reappearing in a very suggestive way. Many of the odd artists at the circus are people that the four protagonists encounter in the wilderness along the overgrown railway. All through the movie there is a sensation of magic crossed with pure realism, stressed by the crackling communistic infrastructure and a twisted sense of humor. The border between reality and fantasy is very subtle here. The Railway is a story about strong family ties, but also an ambitious interpretation of the clash between the Russia of old and new. One could call it the rebirth of a long forgotten genre: the Russian wonder story.
Aug 2007
The story of a small Russian town and the people who live there. The film’s protagonists range in age from nine to 90 years old, and each has their own experience of survival in challenging conditions. They are united by their desire to see good in the world, their hope for a miracle – and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel “A Hundred Years of Solitude”.
Sep 2024
This is a collection of portraits: 23 short stories about the Mari women, a sort of Decameron suspended between magic and realism, in which the Autonomous Republic of the Marij El serves as a backdrop for the collective history of a people of ancient tradition. A journey into a mysterious and unknown part of the world.
Nov 2012
Film about the life of a modern Siberian Tatar village on a forgotten stretch of the Silk Road.
Aug 2021
Gosha is a thirty–year-old child. He is an artist and his paintings are amazing.
Jul 2008
Mother's love helps a young khan with a golden breast and a silver ass to be reborn, return his father and ascend to the throne
Jul 2022
1943 year. Alma-Ata. The hero of the film is a young Michurin fruit grower who revives a medicinal apple variety and investigates a strange crime. The script was written based on the book by Mikhail Zoshchenko "Before the Sunrise".
May 2021
The Cartoon Almanac
Jul 2009
The film is about the relations between the inhabitants of Russia and the Caucasus, and about their influence on each other. Young Georgian Georgi Iobadze tells the audience the story of the Vainakhs (a group of peoples of the North Caucasus and Georgia) in the period from 1813 to 1913.
Oct 2022
For some, "Both Two" is the flagship of modern pop-rock music, while others will say that these five are not much different from millions of the same young fashionable bands. Talented guys were born in a distant Siberian city, and in the heart of the Urals they met a beautiful red-haired girl. They had a band. The group has its own unique character.
Mar 2014
A documentary comedy about how a movie was shot at a provincial studio in the mid-nineties. The film is about the Sverdlovsk film Studio, where sports goods and underwear are sold on the site of pavilions and workshops.
Sep 2019
Director Viktor Schaufler, a student of Marina Razbezhkina's Documentary Film School, comes to Colombia to solve the mystery of the disappearance of his older sister Bertha. The film consists of two seemingly independent parts — "The Mystery of Five hundred missing Virgins" and "Raccoon City".
Oct 2023
Young skier Aglaya rides a tram to the competition, falls asleep, and in a dream, urban sculptures and buildings help the first to reach the finish line
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Bath Saturday. All actions are polished to automatism to choose a broom, apply water, chop wood, heat a small bathhouse. There were many hundreds of such days in the life of our heroes, because they lived together for 75 years.. .Konstantin and Maria are Heroes of our country, who had to pay for the mistakes of the state with the lives of their children.
Nastya lives in Yekaterinburg and dreams of becoming the most famous comics in the world. But so far she has only one spectator - her mother, on whom Nastya checks her jokes every day. Anarbek quit his job in the market and moved to Moscow to become a successful stand-up comedian, and lives in a rented apartment on the outskirts of the city. Tired parents advise dreamers to find work, while ambitious children continue to build rickety castles in the air.
Nov 2020
The world – full of sensitivity – lies far away. Changeable as the northern sky. Monotonous – like a prayer. Wonderful as stones. At the same time familiar and mysterious. We are advancing by a big river. It's autumn on the river. Somewhat empty – but it is a sensitive void: filled with vital meanings. Downstream and downstream…
Jul 2006
The story of a man whose life coincided with the 20th century.
Apr 2025
French writer Marcel Proust moves into a new apartment in order to retire to his work, but he is prevented by a terribly noisy neighbor. However, it is this noise that causes the acquaintance with the neighbor from above - Madame Williams. Alternating in correspondence delicate requests to moderate the noise and romantic admiration for a new acquaintance, the characters build their own way to understand each other.