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Browse 49 movies from 29th February Film Company
Film about the life of a modern Siberian Tatar village on a forgotten stretch of the Silk Road.
Aug 2021
Miron Alekseevich, director of a paper and pulp mill, goes to bury his wife Tanya in the place where they once spent their honeymoon. He goes not alone, but with a photographer named Stork, to whom he tells touching details of his life with Tanya. The narrative weaves together the memories of the characters, as well as the rituals and beliefs of the Meri people, a small Finnish tribe that once lived in the Northern Volga region and dissolved among the Russians.
Jun 2010
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.
Sep 2013
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
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
The entire family of a 6-year-old Anna dies in the mass coordinated execution of Jews. The mother covers up Anna with her own body, and the girl miraculously survives. For the next few hundred days Anna hides in the disused chimney at the Nazi Commandant's office. From her shelter she watches as life passes her by until the village is liberated from the Nazi. In these inhuman conditions Anna not only survives but keeps her humanity. Many factors help her: memories from the life swept away by war, the cultural foundations laid by the parents and a friend who saves her from loneliness.
Mar 2018
The film is in the language of the Meadow Mari. It's about how the magical spring comes to the Mari village, about pagan priests - these are such Russian druids. We have received consent to remove them not only at home, but also at services where they are not allowed at all.
Jul 2006
The genius who invented the time machine is trying to hide from the present in the past. But the future is already knocking on the door.
Jul 2011
Four stories about people who have only one thing in common: they are all "invisible" to people – because of circumstances, profession or personal choice.
Jul 2016
Nazar and Zina live in a hut at the very bottom of an old abandoned quarry, oblivious to the surrounding world, its depth and rhythm. Their vain actions and words lead to a great tragedy. And the main thing is exposed — time may seem like a moment or an eternity, but it does not go away as long as there is love.
Jul 2017
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
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
Five friends – a poet, an actor, a painter, an architect and a primitivist film director – are five red avant-garde artists who try to find the embodiment of their hopes and dreams in the young Soviet state. The Revolution is boiling up like a bottle with apple cider: winged service dogs and heart-shaped potatoes, dead Semashko, the People’s Commissar for Health, and cheerful angels, love for the Tsar and love for the young secretary Annushka, executions and pregnancies – everything is interlaced and inseparable!
Nov 2014
The Forest Spirit brings a human dress to the magical world. This entails irreversible consequences for both worlds – human and fairy-tale.
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Hapless superheroes – defenders of the city – destroy every historical building, which is restored by the keeper of order and antiquity Foam. The old TV tower will be a new and, it seems, ideal place for a foam can… Will he be able to save the ancient urban dominant?
The film is about young scientists, how they come to science, conduct research, how they decide to stay or go into business, and how difficult it is to make a choice between Russian laboratories and the proposals of foreign research centers.
Jul 2014
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.
Mar 2026
Mitrofan Aksenov is a genius who anticipated the most important and influential scientific discovery of the twentieth century — the theory of relativity.
Gosha is a thirty–year-old child. He is an artist and his paintings are amazing.
Jul 2008
Those over 50 play football in any weather.
Jul 2015