Bandits kill Sergei in front of his wife and son. The son of the murdered man loses the power of speech. Nadezhda, Sergei's wife, is also unable to bear the blow. The murder of her husband literally stands before her eyes day and night. The militia, as it seems to Nadezhda, acts slowly and...
Sonia is a television editor, she is married to successful Soviet writer Sergey and they have a son in a high school. Their life was almost perfect... until the moment they meet Bernard from France and his translator André.
Based on the play by Oleg Perekalin “I Demand a Court.” The organizers of constant fraud and theft in the suburban village of Kantirovka are Metel and brigadier Sanin, members of a gangster group at the regional level. In order to somehow attract the attention of the public, the worker, known...
The action of the movie is set in the late 11th century Constantinople during the time of the 1st Crusade. The crusaders need the help of the emperor Alexius to get to Jerusalem while the latter tries to do his best to get rid of the unwelcome guests. At the same time Caesar Nicephorus plays his...
By chance the main character of the picture becomes invisible. This curiosity causes a chain of eccentric events that allow the authors to ridicule in a grotesque form such enduring vices as bureaucratism, swagger, careerism and familialism. Based on satirical works by I. Ilf and E. Petrov.
A atory about the legendary young actress of Soviet cinema Gulya Korolyova, who started acting in films at the age of four. In May 1942, having barely finished school, Gulya voluntarily went to the front and soon died heroically in a battle near Stalingrad.
Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. Victimized by their harassment, Master throws his manuscript into the fire, before he is locked up in a mental...
The movie is set on one of the northern construction sites. Two armed bandits seize a shuttle bus. Among the hostages is the director of the construction site - a courageous and brave man. He manages to organize a fight back against the bandits and save people.
On the surface, everything appears respectable in the Vanyushin family; life flows as it does in any merchant household. But a deep, insurmountable chasm separates the parents from their children—and just as wide a gulf lies between the children themselves. A candid conversation with the youngest...
The movie intertwines the plot lines of the stories "In the Bathhouse", "Tears Invisible to the World", "A Conversation between a Man and a Dog" and others. By the will of the film's creators, the viewer gets to the rehearsals of an unusual choir and gets acquainted with the stories of the singers...
Talented engineer does not promote the service and its project of trying to buy for next to nothing. To implement the project itself - we need a lot of money. There is an opportunity to get them: a friend in whom he doted, and who meets him in return gives a list of debtors of her brother ...
A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry for his father and sympathizes with his...
The task of the Chekists fighting the Turkestan counter-revolutionary gang is to eliminate the conspiracy of the TMO (Turkestan Military Organization), uniting former tsarist officers, Basmachi and British interventionists. The chekist Rasul Khusanbekov, disguised as the millionaire Kurbasov, who...
The wedding turns into a crime scene. The wedding is like the apotheosis of meaninglessness, a metaphor for society. The story of the generation of the eighties with a tragic ending. The film uses the true facts of the criminal case.
Based on the works of Nikolai Gogol - 'The Old World Landowners', 'The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich', 'Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt'.